Trapped
Prologue
John shankman was absolutely shitting himself. Literally.
He had finally busted out of the burning warehouse and stumbled out into something much worse. The streets of Silent Hill. John stepped down onto the pavement that he realised wasn't pavement, but a metal grille over a yawning black abyss . The sky was burning, with bloody streaks of red cloud running through it like veins. Rusted machines jutted up from the blackness and hummed and whirred and did whatever they were built to do. John looked around for more monsters, then ran for his life.
The door of the warehouse burst open and two freakish children busted out into the street and ran towards john, crying and screaming. John tried to escape but the road just disappeared in front of him,fading away into blackness. He just managed not to slip off the side. The monsters were loping towards him. He pulled his pistol from his holster, it was out of ammo and he couldn't possibly take them out with such a short range weapon.
But he could stop what was happening to him.
It was a gruesome and painful way to commit suicide but he didn't think jumping into the abyss would kill him (jumping down those holes in the hospital didn't). The creatures were almost at him, reaching out their shrivelled arms. John had made his decision.
He lifted his pistol and beat his head until his blood and brains were all over the ground.
The case.
Thwap!
Tony DiNozo flinched as Gibbs threw a file down on his desk.
"What is it boss?" he said.
" Suspicious suicide, DiNozo, possibly murder." Gibbs said.
Ziva stood up and was edging cautiously towards the desk, unsure if this was her business or not. She decided to take a chance.
"What makes you think its murder?"She said.
Gibbs turned around.
"Was I… talking to you Agent Daviid?" he sneered.
"Um..No sir I was just…"
"You were just?"
"Curious sir."
DiNozo grinned.
"curiosity killed the cat, Ziva" He remarked.
Gibbs turned back to Tony.
"Stand up Agent DiNozo."
DiNozo cringed and got to his feet slowly. he shut his eyes, knowing what was coming. Gibbs raised his hand for a moment, ready to whack Tonys head but then turned around and whacked Ziva instead. She wasn't pleased.
"To answer your question, Agent Daviid- my gut. The man killed was Petty Officer John Shankman, a good marine,a nice man, with a good life. Not exactly Linsey streets most obvious suicide case."
Ziva looked startled "Linsey street… That's in Silent Hill!"
Gibbs walked out of the room.
DiNozo said in a low voice to Ziva "ahh, the famous Gibbs Gut!"
"Read the file Tony!" Gibbs said without looking back.
Ziva pulled a chair up to Tonys desk. Agent McGee walked in just as Gibbs was leaving.
"Read the file McGee" Gibbs said.
"What?"
"over here!" DiNozo said.
McGee looked over at Ziva and Tony reading through the file and went over himself, grabbing a chair and sitting next to them.
"Whats up?" He said.
"Something gross and strange" Ziva said.
"ah…"
DiNozo thought out loud. "so….. Man found after beating himself to death with a pistol,yuck… Suicide.. Or not, as Gibbs would have you believe.. Found outside warehouse, nobody around at time of death from what we can gather, no other weapons around to suggest armed assault… Goddamn… I hate that town…"
McGee looked up from the document.
"Silent Hill?" he said.
Tony shivered "That place gives me the creeps. My aunt lived there and I went to visit her when I was seven. The house…
It was haunted. I heard evil laughter and kids crying and saw faces in mirrors. But It felt like… the house itself wasn't haunted…. But the whole area was."
"Thats really weird" Mcgee said.
Ziva looked at McGee "You believe in ghosts McGee?"
"I don't not believe in them."
" I was in Silent Hill" Ziva said. " The place felt… Evil. Did you notice that it is always foggy DiNozo?"
"Yeah, and it snows a lot too."
" it says here that somehow Brookhaven staff misplaced the corpse" McGee said.
" Lost it?"
"Yeah… The nurses the FBI talked to said the body was there one minute, and was gone the other."
" I hear theres a cult in the town" Said Tony.
"You.. Think that has something to do with the murder?" Ziva asked.
"Maybe" he shrugged.
Just then the doors opened and Gibbs walked in.
" We have the gun now from the crimescene."
He handed Ziva a plastic evidence bag.
"Bring it down to Abby for testing"
" Yes boss"
Ziva walked off.
"McGee, Tony, you two are heading to Silent Hill to question the family/friends/neighbours of Petty officer Shankman and look for information on anyone who would have wanted to kill him-"
McGee interrupted him "Or evidence that he commited suicide yes?"
Gibbs stared at mcGee with that icy stare of his.
" I said get info on anyone who might want to kill Shankman… Got it?"
" Yeah."
DiNozo sighed.
"Shit…Looks like im going back to Silent Hill."
The highway just outside Silent Hill was, of course, thick with fog, but the fact that Tony saw it coming didn't make it any less annoying.
The car was gliding along the seemingly endless road when it began to snow.
"Here it comes…" said DiNozo.
McGee stared out the window at the snow.
"odd.." he exclaimed.
"What?"
"The snow isn't sticking, is just… disappearing when it hits the ground".
Tony slowed the car and stared at the road.
"I cant see it."
McGee sighed and sat back in his chair.
"Never mind"
Tony switched on the radio.
"Lets listen to some tunes eh?" he said, trying to sound cheerful.
McGee could tell he was uneasy about going to the town.
The radio crackled with static for a moment, then a soft, calming tune played on the radio.
"That's crap. change the channel!" Tony said.
McGee turned the dial on the radio. Each channel had the same song.
" What the hells going on with this thing?" he said.
DiNozo reached out to switch off the radio when McGee saw something in the road. It was Petty Officer Shankman.
"DiNozo MOVE THE CAR!" he screamed.
Dinozo shrieked as the car hit Shankman and flipped into the air, not knocking the "dead" man down or even affecting him in any way. McGee wasn't wearing a seatbelt so he was shot through the glass and out onto the road. DiNozo smashed his head against he steering wheel and was knocked unconscious. The last thing he heard was the car making a soft landing rightside up on the pavement.
Tony wakes up.
Tony woke up, slumped over sat up in the car. he looked around the car. Mcgee was gone, he went out the window. But there was no hole in the window or even a single crack. the steering wheel had no blood on it yet there was a bleeding lump on his head were he bashed it. The radio was on, spewing static. If you hadn't been there, you wouldn't even think the car had crashed.
" What the hell is going on here…."
He opened the door and got out.
"shit…"
he wasn't on the highway any more. he was standing in the middle of a street in Silent Hill.
"How the fuck did I get here?"
he walked up and down the street, getting a good look around. there was nobody around and the town was silent, the buzzing of the radio amplified in the quiet. The street looked like a normal housing estate. When Tony tried the doors they wouldn't open, and inside the windows he could see the houses had no furniture or any signs of someone living there.
Near the end of the road was a sign that said Tony street.
" Tony street? what the…."
Tony walked forward, towards the next street ( another sign pointed to neely St), but couldn't go any further.
The road ended in a gaping chasm in front of him.
" Fuck! Now what am I supposed to do?"
Something caught his eye. A letter was on the ground at the edge of the chasm. He walked forward and picked it up cautiously, not wanting to experience first hand how far that pit went down. One wrong move and he was pate.
Who the hell left this here? he thought.
The letter read-
Tony DiNozo!
You have now entered Silent Hill! Hooray for me! You see I have made you a tribute to your egomania! Tony Street! All the houses doors are locked and you will see that you cant break them down. So jump on ahead into the pit and end this. Or you can stay on this street forever, your own little kingdom! I have sent a sexy friend for you as well!
Enjoy my charity or die.
The last part was written in what looked like blood.
Am I dreaming!
There was a squishing noise behind him. He spun around but there was no one there. Suddenly the static on the radio of the car got louder, he could hear a garbled transmission coming through.
tony……….mcg………….
hill……..mon…………
hel…….s……..a……..
The static grew even louder and DiNozo stormed over to the car to switch off the radio. He reached through the broken windsheild and-
Broken?
The static stopped. Tony stumbled back. The car was wrecked. It was dented and dried blood coated the broken bits of glass.
Just a few seconds ago it was in perfect condition!
" Jesus Christ…."
There was another noise behind DiNozo.
He turned his head and glimpsed some moving fleshy thing then shrieked and jump on to the hood of the car and stepped up onto the roof. Tony turned and saw the monster.
It resembled a woman, and thats what DiNozo nicknamed it, a Lady. she had nice legs, that's the first thing Tony noticed. Then he saw the rest.
Her left arm,breasts and head were melted together into a twitching lump of grey flesh, the right arm flailed wildly. The Lady made a long rattling moaning noise, rapidly changing in pitch and tone.
DiNozo screamed in terror.
" Get away from me!" he called.
The Lady kept walking forwards. She stepped up onto the hood of the car and he kicked at her, hitting her but not affecting her in any way.
It feels like kicking a fucking wall!
pain shot through his leg and he fell backwards.The lady advanced on him, pinning him to the ground with one leg.
" Back off!"
Its no use,Monsters don't talk
The monster increased the pressure on his chest.
gonna die migod im gonnadie!
The Lady let out a long high pitched groan and leant back, sounding like someone recoiling from something disgusting.
It was just then that Tony remembered his pistol.
Dumbass!
He tried reaching to his holster but he was too paralysed in fear to move.
The Lady convulsed and a large toothless mouth opened up in the middle of her mutilated chest. it made a horrible sucking sound and her free arm groped blindly towards tonys neck.
He felt icy fingers wrap around his throat and the creature stepped off his chest.
Still cant move!
the monster lifted him, squeezing his throat. For a second, tony passed out and woke up again. The monster was pulling him towards its mouth! The horrible sucking noises were really loud now. He felt the mouth slurping at the top of his head and he was still being fed into it.
Please not like this! I cant die now!
NEEEEERRRRR-CRACK!
The cars roof gave out and Tony and the monster fell into the back seat. Tony got a sudden rush of adrenaline and burst out of the car.
Tony yelled over at the Lady " HAHAAAAAH! NO Monster eats Tony DiNozo! EAT THIS!"
He whipped out his pistol and shot it twice. The lady let out a long warbling screech and started crawling out of the car, dragging her body by her one arm.
" SHIT!"
Tony shot at the monster again and again, until his bullets ran out.
The creature let out a long sigh… and lay still.
" YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Tony sprinted over and kicked the hell out of its corpse.
" NO ONE MESSES WITH MEEE!"
Tony kicked at it and kicked until he was out of breath, then collapsed onto the ground, tired out. He lay there for a moment, and then stood up. It was time to jump down the hole.