Chapter Three: Green Key

Josh looked at the radio in disbelief and wanted to drop it but it seemed so precious like gold. Hearing that voice was keeping him sane for the moment, the patient had stayed on the ground lifeless and motionless. The fog was his only threat back on the path before but this city had those things, so how was that one woman talking to him from home. "I… I need to get out of here," Josh said backing away from the patient and running back up the path.

Josh reached the gate he had entered and found the chain locked this time. He pulled up the board of wood and began to smack the lock with it, making it break. Josh became happy but with the blink of an eye the lock had become on the chain again.

Not even trying to comprehend what happened Josh turned and looked at the streets of Silent Hill, all around it was filled with patients walking around. "Where'd… where did they come from?" Josh asked walking onto the street and looking around.

The patients stumbled about seeming to ignore him, which Josh did not really have a problem with. Every now and then Josh had to knock one to the ground but that was about it. "I got to find some shelter…"

Josh ran down the street not even paying attention to where he was and stopped where he was seeing the road completely stop, and it looked as though something had ripped up the road. All that was left was a giant hole that you couldn't see the bottom to, and fog covering the area that the road was supposed to lead to.

Instinct had hit Josh here. He turned and looked back at the area where he had come from and without hesitation he moved, still feeling fear drape his body. This place, its presence was not right. Josh had to find what he came for.

The place had such an evil feeling about it, the place seemed to shake with each movement. Patients lined down the streets struggling forward without their arms, and no face for them to see. Josh held the board close to him and hit the patients down as they came near him and backed off as they crawled away. This was the only way fro him to move across the streets.

Josh now entered a bar from the back door and closed it behind him letting his body relax on the wall behind him. This place looked like a homeless person had been sleeping there, nothing was clean and newspapers were scattered around. Oddly enough there was also a dumpster in there, and it had something on it.

"What's this?" Jacob said walking over to the dumpster and picking up the paper map. It looked like his with a couple of places marked out. Josh circled a place that was at the end of an alleyway, and also circled the apartment complex seeing as how this person had done so.

Josh soon looked on the wall that said there was a hole here but now it is gone. "The hell?" Josh questioned finding that this place was a little too weird for his tastes. It was only after reading that that Josh decided to move back out onto the streets.

The map lead him left and right on the roads which seemed to belong to these patients now. They wobbled about everywhere without stopping, giving Josh no break. The patients always followed him relentlessly, even with the fog blinding him he could tell they were after him because the radio he had seemed to act up as he came near them for some odd reason.

The alleyway finally came up and Josh turned down it to the next area which was a small drive, but he had to run down it which made it seem longer than normal. All throughout Silent Hill cars were parked everywhere, and people seemed no where. It was the one thing this place was missing, true life.

The alleyway led to a dead corpse at the end which was against a wall. It seemed odd though, its face was changing, probably turning into a patient but it looked too dead to even be changed. Its face was ripped off for some reason, and yet this one looked like someone familiar. "Kind of looks like Jacob," Josh said to himself walking over to the corpse. This is where the map had led, and this had to be where he needed to go.

Joshes hand searched the mans coat until he pulled out a key that was the color of green. The key had said "apartment" on it. Must have opened some apartment or something.

Shaking, now the coat was shaking. Josh looked at the coat as it shook more and more until the radio went berserk again, but this time it sounded like loud, and when I say loud it's pretty loud, rain. The coat shook more violently until it opened to reveal a large gap in the chest, which some hug bugs crawled out looking like a foot long beetle. Actually that's what they had been named, beetles.

Josh raised his foot high enough to bring it down and squash one of the beetles making it cry out in pain somehow, but there were about three more from the mans chest, which seemed empty and bare. Josh pulled up the board of wood and slammed it down on one, as the other two jumped on his arms and started to bite down. Josh bit his lip and hit the beetles off before squashing them down with his foot, and he started to back away. "God damn those things can bite," Josh said looking at his arm which had a rather large cut now and bleeding.

Josh started walking back to the street and the patients had blocked the exit to the alleyway like a wall and head for Josh. This time Josh moved up close to one as it started rushing past the other. Now Josh stood in front of the others as the patient chased him, and the patient faced the too, spraying its acid. Josh moved out of the way and they started to scream of pain before they fell, the acid burning their skin. Josh killed the one that was still alive with his board and looked around to see if there were anymore, but there happened to not be.

The road finally came to Josh which was a relief to be out of the alleyway, but now he needed to get to somewhere. Josh pulled out his map and looked for the park, Rosewater. Josh nodded as he found it and came down to the street he needed to turn into. There he turned and found that the road was gone here. Josh just shook his head and turned back around and tried to other road toward it, but it seemed to be blocked off also. The radio began to static again, and that always meant no good.

Running to the gate Josh stopped at it seeing that there was no where to go. It had barbed wire on the top so it wouldn't have been safe to climb up. Josh ran around the gate until he found where it opened, but it had a lock on it. Josh fumbled for the key he had and looked at the map, where the apartments were circled; he happened to be there. The green key opened the gate and Josh walked into it, and then closed it. The static began to grow, but Josh hurried on and into a doorway which led into the apartment complex.