As the elevator descended Zak sat at the inner back corner, head in hands. Thus far the mission had not tested him physically, only mentally. He had found the prison a trying area, the mere thought of the people waiting to be executed made Zak want to finish this job and leave; but he was unsure why. He had faced off his demons so many years ago and so there was no reason why new ones should emerge. He closed his eyes and listened to the steady whirring of the elevator mechanism in the background. That old man who had been on the surface still bugged Zak; he had looked familiar but Zak could not pin down from where. The elevator whirred to a sluggish stop and the doors opened. Slowly Zak got to his feet and picked up his bag before leaving into a small square room. There was a single door and so he had no other direction to go in.
Zak walked through the door into an area which seemed to be the inside of a home. Zak walked through the wooden-panelled hallways passing bodies of monsters which had already been killed. As he walked through the maze-like house Zak came to a hallway which was like a T-Junction. To both his left and right there were ladders leading down and behind him was the hall from which he had come. Zak walked over to the right hand ladder and descended it swiftly. Zak dropped and landed on a concrete floor, He was at another T-Junction. Zak decided to go left and walked along, making sure he was cautious. The floor changed to a chain-link rather than concrete which made his footsteps clatter loudly. He paused and was sure he had heard footsteps on the floor somewhere in the circular track-like room. From what he could gather the path he was on was a great circle which surrounded a central area, no doubt a room. He continued to walk forwards until he rounded a corner and came into view of another Pyramid-Head. This one was not like the one he had encountered upstairs. This one was smaller and was armed with a spear; the one from the hospital? Zak thought. Slowly the executioner began to walk forwards. Zak was taller than this one and so he was not worried about a fight with it, he hoped that it would not fight as it had no chance. Unfortunately it did seem to want a tussle with Zak. It tried stabbing him but Zak stepped aside and caught the spear. Zak jumped and kicked Pyramid Head knocking it backwards. The spear was pulled from Zak's hands and so Zak removed a combat knife from his bag before he tucked the knife into his belt and threw the bag behind him. Pyramid Head straightened up facing Zak before it raised its spear in one hand. Zak raised his fists for combat; this should be interesting Zak thought.
The Pyramid Head was well built; for the monsters anyway and, no doubt, had a good sense of weak points and fatal areas. Pyramid Head attacked; the spear being thrust forwards towards Zak's abdomen. Zak twirled, deflecting the spear with his palm. As Zak twirled again he withdrew his knife before ramming it home just beneath the steel headdress. Quickly ripping the knife away Zak kicked the executioner knocking it backwards. The executioner straightened up before attacking again.
Zak had never had such a fight it was man against beast, although it is up to you to decide which is which. Zak stabbed the executioner again and again before backflipping out of reach, but to be fair the executioner gave as good as it got. Zak was slammed against the ground but managed to roll himself before being turned into a prodding post. Zak managed to get to his feet but the executioner managed to knock his knife from his hands. Before Zak could catch his knife it fell through the steel chain-link floor and out of sight. Whilst Zak was looking at the floor Pyramid Head came running forwards and attempted to stab Zak in the side of the head. As quick as a flash Zak grabbed the spear and snapped it in half before running the half he had into the underside of the helmet with a sickly crunch. Black blood spread across Zak's hands; I must have hit an artery or something Zak thought as he watched Pyramid Head thrash around before falling dead.
Zak fell backwards landing on the steel floor.
"I guess that was the physical part of the mission" he joked aloud. By now he knew that James must have got quite far ahead of him. Zak looked at his bloody hand which he had cut open when he accidentally struck the headdress. He grabbed his bag and retrieved some bandages to cover his wound until he left Silent Hill and got some decent treatment.
Slowly Zak got to his feet before returning to the ladder he had come down on. He swiftly scaled the ladder before searching the rest of the building he was in. He managed to find another ladder, which led somewhere else. The wound on his hand was irritating but Zak ignored it as he searched the underground tunnels. He quickly scaled another ladder but he stopped before the top; there was a loud clicking sound. He stuck his head over the top of the ladder; there was a large steel head in the centre of the room and another door past it. Once he had climbed up he quickly found out what the clicking noise had been; it was a fuse box which someone had cut through. Zak walked through the door into a steel room, directly ahead of him there was another path leading downwards and so Zak began to walk down it. He emerged in a room which seemed to be a visitors area in a prison; which it turned to be.
"Well hello" a young woman in the cell said to Zak. The woman seemed to be in her middle ages and had yellow bleached hair and pale skin.
"I hadn't expected anyone to be left in the prison" Zak told her as he sat down on one of the chairs. The woman merely smiled
"Well here I am" she smiled "The name's Maria"
"Zak" Zak told her "Why are you in there anyway?" Maria smiled
"I can't say" She informed him. Zak merely nodded; he did not really care about why the woman was there.
"Well I have to get going" he told her as he got to his feet
"Goodbye, Zak" Maria said waving slightly as Zak got to his feet and left the cell.
Zak went back through the building; there had been a door earlier but Zak had cared more about exploring the area. When he returned to the door he found that wires had blocked it off at one point but someone had cut through them. There was yet another ladder; Zak was getting rather sick of holes, ladders and secret passages, Silent Hill just seemed to continuously throw new things at him and it was getting rather tedious. But he continued onwards anyway, into a brand new unknown, he was getting rather sick of unknowns too…