Chapter Six is up!
As the door swung open, it revealed the backyard of this house. Up ahead was a fence with a steel gate. Statues of dogs stood on posts on the sides of the gate. It was night, just like in the real world. Maybe this wasn't a different world afterall and we were just taken to a different part of the real world. " Well, come on, let's go!" Eric said. He began walking towards the gate. The rest of us followed This was our only way out. The gate opened easily. The garden was actually more of a hedge maze than a real garden. Thorns were growing over the tall hedges. " This place is terrible," Maria explained. " Whoever's doing this is sick and twisted. Who would take innocent people and lock them up in a horrible place for no reason?" " I don't know," I said. " But I think we're running out of time. We came from a hotel. A hole appeared in the bathroom. That's how we got here." The four of us walked slowly into the hedge maze. Several bats flew by, but didn't harm us. What was ahead of us was unkown. It was either a way out or a dead end.
This maze seemed to just go in one direction. There didn't seem to be any turns or other ways to go. That was fine by me because I didn't want to get lost in a place like this. There was a fog forming. Tim noticed. " Guys, this fog is really interfering," he said. " Do you really think we should keep going?" " Yes!" Maria said. " Henry said that it was the only hope we had." " What if Henry was lying to you?" Eric asked. " We may be heading to the worst place yet." " Just keep going" Maria urged us on. " We can always turn back." Suddenly, out of the fog, a wooden sign appeared. The four of us approached it. " Silent Hill Crypt," Tim read. " Silent Hill? I've heard about that place. About eleven years ago, there were a whole bunch of people dying in this city called Sout Ashfield. There was a forest right outside of Silent Hill. An old orphanage burned down or something. It was really weird. This apartment building was cursed or something. There were only two survivors." " When did you hear about that?" I asked. " Not too long ago, I looked at some newspapers from ten years ago. It said there was a murderer named Walter Sullivan." " Walter Sullivan?" " Yeah, but he killed himself while he was in prison. It was a total gross out what they did in that prison. There were rumors saying that when people were bad there, they took them in this room behind the kitchen and killed them. They used the meat from the people to feed the rest of the prisoners."
" Oh, please don't go on!" Eric begged. " That was disgusting! Can we just find a way out of here?" We didn't have to walk much further. There was a door in a small brick structure. A sign on the door read, " Silen Hill Crypt," like the sign we had seen earlier. " I guess it's a crypt," Tim said. " After hearing about Silen Hill, I really don't want to imagine what's down in there." " There's no other way, though," Maria explained. " I think this is where Henry wanted us to go." We all approached the door. Something was telling me not to go in there, but another part of me said that this was the only way out of here. " Come on," eric said. " Let's go." He reached out and opened the door. With a creek, the door opened. To our surprise, it was light inside. There were candles set up everywhere as a stone stairwell that seemed to be crumbling went down deep into a crypt. " It all starts here," Tim said. " Let's go." The four of us began walking down the stairs to the crypt.
Our footsteps echoed against the stone walls as we came to the bottom of the stairs and into the crypt. The crypt seemed empty and safe to our surprise, but it wasn't for long. We proceeded forward to a coffin on top of a stone ledge. The four of us continued walking forward until we heard that sound like something was eating something again. We all froze in our places. We looked back at the stairs we came from. A steel gate had come down, locking us in the crypt. That wasn't on our mind for long. A voice suddenly was heard. " Why do you disturb my sleep?" a voice said from somewhere in the crypt. " Why do you wake me while I'm busy? Oh, never mind. I can take care of buisiness while you're here." Suddenly, a figure droppped down from the ceiling. It looked just like what that man in the bedroom looked like when he transformed. Maria shrieked. The rest of us were in shock. " You are trapped!" the creature said, laughing an evil laugh. " Come to me, mortals, I will take your souls!"
We all ran out of the way as the creature charged at us, bashing into his own coffin. Maria and I ran in the corner, behind a standing candleabra while Tim and Eric did the same on the other side of the room. The creature flew up to the ceiling and started floating around, laughing. We all starred at the living dead man as he came zooming down toward Maria and I. We both ran out of the way as it landed on the ground, growling at al of us. Maria and I ran over to Tim and Eric. The four of us huddled against the wall together as the creature walked toward us. It laughed again, showing sharp fangs with blood dripping from them. " Come to me," it said. " I just want to make friends with you." We were trapped. There was no way out of this now. A horrible creature had us backed up against the wall. There was no telling of what it was going to do to us now. Suddenly, there was a bang. The creature jolted backwards. Tim had shot the creature in the chest. All was silent as the creature bled dark red blood. It growled in pain as it reached out its arm and scratched Maria. Maria screamed and the creature roared.
The creature suddenly grew tentices and was wrapping Maria in the tenticles. " Help!" she shouted. " Help me!" Tim fired the gun at the creature again. The creature screamed and made ascreeching sound as it let Maria go. The creature ran off and went right through the grate that had closed off the stairs. It was gone. Tim, Eric, and I ran over to Maria who was laying on the ground, motionless. She was was shaking and she was bleeding. When the creature had scratched her, her arm had gotten infected. Her arm was swollen and blood was still draining from the wound. " Oh," she said in a weak voice. " It got me. I knew that I wasn't going to make it." " No, no," I said. " You're going to be fine. Just hang in there, we'll get you out of here" " Just let me go," Maria said. " I'm not going to be here much longer. Just get out, get out of here while you still have time. When you get out of here, tell my family that I'm okay. I don't want them to worry about me." " We will," Tim said. " We will." Maria suddenly stopped moving and she died. " Maria?" I said. She didn't respond. The evil had won the battle with her like they had with David. I reached over and closed her eyes. I wanted to make sure that she looked peaceful. The wound on her arm had stopped growing, but it looked really terrible.
Tim, Eric, and I were left in the crypt alone. Tim wiped a tear from his eye. " Now what?" he asked. " This is a dead end. We came down here for nothing." " No, we didn't," I said, pointing up to the empty coffin. " I noticed it while Maria and I were hiding over there. There's one of those portals under the coffin. It's hidden." Tim and Eric helped me pull the coffin away and drag it down the stairs. There was a much smaller portal under the coffin, but we could all jump into it and see where it took us. There was a sound like howling wind coming from inside the hole. " Come on," Eric said. " Let's get out of here." Each of us jumped into the hole.