Zak sped along through the darkness of Silent Hill until he reached the tunnel he had entered through. Skidding to a halt, Zak jumped out of his car and roared in anger when he saw that the tunnel had been closed. How? I came through here only hours earlier! he thought. After jumping back in his car Zak reversed and sped back into the town. His car screeched around corners and completely disregarded the posted speed limits; suddenly something rocketed out into the road ahead of him. Zak slammed onto the brakes and turned but he hit it with a loud crash.

Zak sat there in his car for a few seconds as he listened out for any movement. When he did not hear anything he drew one of his pistols and climbed out of his car; he was amazed to see that his car had sustained no damage. Slowly he walked around to the other side of his car. At first he was unsure of what he was seeing, then it sunk in. He had hit, what he could only describe, as two pairs of manikin legs stuck together at the waist. Blood oozed from them and Zak gathered that they were probably dead.

Zak sighed and leant against his car wondering what he should do. Finish what you came here to do he told himself. He was on a hill that was leading up to a historical society building and so he had a great view of the town on this side of the lake. As the hunter sat there, scanning the town, he picked out a moving figure near the bottom of the hill. After watching it for a few seconds, trying to identify if it was male of female, Zak jumped over his car and ignited the engine before speeding off down the hill.

Zak had a general idea of where the person had gone and so sped into the side street. The street ended a few meters away and so Zak pulled up and climbed out of his car. He stood by his silent car listening to the night. He heard someone breathing hard in a garden to his left. Drawing his pistol Zak jumped onto a bin so that he could see over the wooden fence. A young woman was cowering there

"Hello" Zak said. The young woman cried out in fright but then noticed that Zak was not one of the things that lurked around Silent Hill. The young woman was pale and had dark hair and eyes.

"Oh hello" she replied to Zak

"What are you doing here?" Zak enquired while looking for a way into the garden

"I'm looking for my mother" she told him. The young woman opened a side gate and came out into the alley. Zak dropped down from the bins to meet her

"I'm Zak" Zak introduced himself.

"Angela" she told him as she shook his hand "What are you doing here?"

"Looking for a friend of mine" Zak told her, he withdrew a picture of James Sunderland and his wife.

"I know him, he's the man from the graveyard" Angela said

"Graveyard?" Zak queried

"The one on the outskirts of the town, he's here looking for someone" Angela explained. Zak raised an eyebrow Who could he be looking for? An accomplice perhaps or someone to hide him?

"Did he mention where he was going?" Zak asked her. Angela shook her head

"No, I'm sorry, was it important?" Angelica asked him. Zak nodded

"Just a bit" he said. Far behind them, near the entrance to the alley, something crashed into some piled up bins, knocking them down. Zak whirled around, raising his pistol. Through the mist a figure walked, dragging its feet whilst groaning. Zak instantly recognised it as the old man from the hotel, to Zak the figure also looked like someone he had met in his past but he could not quite put his finger on who it was. The old man continued to stumble forwards, reaching out for Zak. When it got close enough Zak kicked it sending the old, disfigured man, crashing against the asphalt. Slowly the old man got back to his feet and turned to face Zak. This time the man attacked swiftly as it tried to bite Zak. Caught off guard by the speed Zak was knocked backwards and off balance. He fell backwards and his head hit the asphalt with a sickly crack. Zak groaned as he tried to shake the shadows from his vision. The old man stood over him, ready to attack. Zak never gave him the luxury, swiftly drawing his other pistol he aimed at the old man as he lunged. A low thud noise and a shower of blood followed Zak pulling the trigger. The old man flew backwards and landed on his own back a foot or two away.

Zak dragged himself back to his feet and retrieved his other silver pistol which had been knocked out of his hands in the first attack. Holstering the two guns Zak touched the back of his head gingerly; he was not bleeding which was a plus. The old man did not move when Zak kicked him, Zak turned to find that Angela had run off. Zak sighed and climbed into his car to continue the search.

Now that Zak knew that James was in the town he felt energized. He had decided to check the hospital and so sped towards it. When he reached the hospital he pulled the handbrake and skidded into a parking space. Zak climbed out and laughed, perfect parking. One thing that Zak liked about himself was that he was the person many young men yearned to be, he was handsome, a martial artist, an avid boxer, a good cook, he was a bounty hunter with all the skills needed to be the best and he was a very important person to the government, A regular renaissance man some of the people in the FBI had called him. After laughing at the memory Zak walked into the shadowy hospital.

After two encounters Zak had figured out that these disfigured things were everywhere.

"Excuse me" Zak called out. The disfigured nurse turned to face him. Zak fist came shooting up and cracked the nurse across the side of her disfigured head. When she was on the floor Zak struck her across the back of the neck, killing her. Zak wandered through the hospital waving an iron bar he had picked up.

"Oh James!" he called out in a sing-song voice "I know you are in here, after all I am a hunter" he walked past a corpse of a thing that he had not killed. He heard a door slam further down the corridor. When Zak reached it he found it locked. He sighed

"You can't hide from me" he reminded James. Stepping back Zak kicked the door open before walking through it. He heard a crash on the roof and so he sprinted up the stairs and out onto the roof.

The rooftop was empty and so Zak walked over to a large bit of fence that was missing. He looked over the edge and laughed; James had fallen off and was lying in the building a floor or so down. Zak turned and ran, jumping down six steps at a time. The door to the sanatorium was steel and locked so Zak could not kick the door down. Removing the silencer from his pistol Zak placed the small tip of the barrel into the keyhole and fired. The bang was incredible in the confined space but Zak ignored the ringing in his ears and pushed the door open. After re-attaching the silencer Zak holstered the pistol and picked up the iron bar and walked into the sanatorium to meet the man he was hunting.