Chapter Five: Pyramid Head

Josh woke up with what he had thought been minutes, yet his watch was broke and would not tell him the time. The place looked like it was living and breathing, the walls pumping like a hearts pulse. Josh felt them and backed up. "Ew," he muttered silently and looked at his hand which now had blood on it. Josh also noticed something; this didn't look like a new apartment complex.

"This place, it looks like the same damn apartment building," Josh said walking around the apartment room before walking out to find the hallway the same way.

The hallway served as a portal to the other rooms, although they were mostly locked. Josh pulled up a map he found and looked at it carefully and then at the map he had for the other apartment complex. They were exactly the same.

This led him to think that this place was just a little more crazy than he needed to imagine it to be. Josh walked to the stairwell to put that thought out, and went to the first floor to see if there was a way out. There wasn't.

On the first floor near the doorway there was a small memo that Josh decided to pick up and read. It'd give him from this over active imagination he thought he had.

"They were all mean so I ker-plowed their head. Red stuff splurged out and I clapped and smiled jumping up and down. I screamed 'Ha, can you say I'm crazy from the grave now!' Well I will ker-plow the rest of them for what they had put me threw. I'll kill'm all. I want a poll of blood."

"Crazy ass bitch," Josh said throwing the note to the ground not giving regards to whoever had written it. If someone around here was going to blow someone's head off, it'd be Josh.

Entering the closets to the stairwell which led to a nicely made apartment room that looked more like a houses living room. Josh opened another door leading to a bedroom. Here Kathy lay across the ground looking into a large glass door for a closet, a knife being held in a hand as the tip was on the ground.

"Hey, you alright Kathy?" Josh asked, seeing as though this was his second time seeing her in this demented town.

The woman looked at Josh through the glass mirror. "Oh, it's you."

"Did you find your mother?" Josh asked looking at Kathy.

"How do you know I was looking for them," Kathy asked standing herself with the knife in her hands. Josh didn't want to get stabbed by that.

"Well you, uh, told me in the graveyard. Remember?" Josh asked.

Kathy looked at him angrily for a second which was then replaced by puppy dog eyes. "Oh yes that is right. I'm sorry."

"Well, did you find your sister and your father at all?" Josh asked Kathy.

"No, they're dead," Kathy said looking at her knife and then to Josh. "But… but I didn't kill them!"

Josh made a weird expression before saying, "Eheheheheh, well then how do you know they're dead?"

Kathy stared at the knife. "They want me dead also."

Josh's eyes twitched and he held out his hand. "Hey why don't you give me that knife you have there."

Kathy took a glance at the knife and then at Josh. "Um, alright. I'll ask for it back at the right time." Kathy held out her hand along with the knife.

Josh went to grab it only to hear Kathy scream.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," Kathy screamed at an ear shattering scream. The room began to catch on fire and Kathy dropped the knife.

"You alright?" Josh said before looking at the fire around the room.

"Get away from me daddy," Kathy said swinging her hand at Josh and running out of the room.

"Crazy ass bitch," Josh muttered before kneeling down and grabbing the knife. Some writing was located on the blade, but that all seemed useless to Josh. He then moved back out of the room.

Now the apartment didn't look like a house, it was more nightmarish, with the beating and pulsing walls. The radio made static as a mannequin came out of another door in the apartment room. "Not this again," Josh said to himself holding up the handgun he had and shot the thing five times watching it die.

Josh checked his ammo for the gun and saw he only had one more clip left which was ten bullets. This wouldn't be good if another thing came out of no where. Josh pulled back out his plank of wood and was ready to defend himself once more. He started into the hall and looked around. This was time to get more ammo.

The halls were darker than normal even though the beat like a heart with red and rust painted on the walls. The flashlight Josh had made a perfect guiding light for moving around the area.

Inside another room Josh had found what he was looking for, bullets. The problem was that they were for some odd reason locked in a cage. "Fuck," Josh said looking around for something to help break it open seeing as how locks didn't like to break in this damn town. He turned and went back outside. Josh's goal was to find the key now.

The abstract design of this new twisted nightmare led Josh to the third floor where he went into a bedroom and found three coins inside. Each had some weird design. One with a woman, another with an old man, and the other with a snake. He went down stairs to the second floor and went into another room where there had been a chest and five coin slots. There was some writing on the chest like object.

"Inside you will find one thing desired for another. Death may be what one wants, but remember that this will come back to you."

"Stupid Karma," Josh said laughing before he started to read more.

"Place the objects as the story moves on. There once was a beautiful garden made for those that would follow god's wishes. First the woman came to earth, which she was the first slot of this place, as the garden was second."

Josh grabbed the woman coin and placed it in the first slot. He tried to pick it up afterwards, but it looked itself inside the chest.

"Bringing up man he was apart of the first slot with the woman. They lived in the garden as the second slot. Then came the third slot of god, the snake. The snake had a rotten spirit, the one that did belong to the man but he did not wish to have it."

Josh placed the snake coin in the third slot, apparently in the middle. This one also locked itself in place.

"The snake had a devious plan to bring back his spirit in the man, which in turn brought the fourth slot as the tree. The tree held the apple which god did not want man and woman to eat. The snake brought them an apple and asked of them to eat it. The man, clueless to the snake's evil, ate the apple along with the woman. They had then been exiled from paradise and aged, bring the old man with the evil spirit to the final slot."

Josh put the final coin in the fifth slot and heard the chest unlock. He opened the chest and looked inside to find a key, labeled as room 303.

Moving up to the third floor Josh opened room 303 with the key and looked inside. Moths flew around like crazy, and nothing seemed the way it should've been in a normal apartment. Josh looked around and found a folded paper with a key inside.

"This key opens the box to pandemonium. If you open the box, Josh, you will see the truth for yourself and have no choice to have to face this on your own. Please understand that this box is not to be opened. But if you wish to proceed, I will not stop you."

Josh kind of smiled and threw the note aside. Even though the note had his name in it, it seemed not to phase him. This place was already unordinary, which he was not going to defy that.

Josh walked back downstairs and opened the cage with the key of pandemonium seeing as how it worked. He quickly took the rounds of handgun ammo and saw there was probably enough to last him to the park and back. He quickly gathered them into his pockets and moved out of the room.

Now came his second objective, which was to get out of this damn apartment. He walked up to the second floor and opened a door into a room. Nothing was apparently inside so he walked back outside and into the hallway. He moved to a room that was labeled as the Lionel Room. The door wouldn't open, but a note on the door said to go back and search that room once more. Josh wasn't going to argue with a note and moved back to the room that he previously entered. Inside, on the bed inside here, was a video tape labeled "Me and Lina."

Josh picked up the video tape and looked it over. It'd been set to the beginning and it seemed to have a small picture on the front. There was Jacob on it, and some other chick. Josh shrugged it off and went back to the Lionel room.

This time, the door for the room had opened and let him inside this room which looked more like a one room hotel room instead of an apartment. The glass door leading outside was broken open, and the wind seemed to be strong from the outside here.

"Shame, probably a really nice room," Josh said walking onto the balcony.

From this balcony Josh saw it led to another room that was also called the Lionel room. Now it looked like a two bedroom apartment connected by a balcony. Josh picked up a key from here that was labeled as that Lionel Key, which was meant for opening the fire escape for this building. At least this is what the memo next to the key had read.

"Better not lead to another damn apartment complex," Josh said walking outside to the hallway. From here he only walked a little ways until he reached the fire escape door for this apartment, which led to an indoor fire escape that would lead to the first floor; there was more than that though.

The first floor was flooded in by water, and on the second floor which was what Josh had entered onto, there was Pyramid Head banging away at a patient with the giant knife. Josh turned to see the door closed behind him, which he tried to open but didn't work. Like before, he decided wasting a bullet on the lock would just be a waste of his time.

The Pyramid Head turned toward Josh before throwing the patient into the water, where it sank without stop. Josh backed against the door and held up his gun trying to shoot it down. When he shot a bullet the thing seemed not to phase, which led Josh to see this as a way to just try and live.

Josh moved quietly across the walkway watching the pyramid head closely. It started to swing its blade when it came close to Josh. Josh ran out of the way and watched as the blade went into the wall. Josh kicked the Pyramid Head into the blade, but watched as it turned to him and pulled out the blade once more.

The Pyramid Head came at Josh once more dragging the blade but this time tried to jab the knife downward. Josh jumped back and watched it enter the platform, then ran around the Pyramid Head and kicked him once more making him go over the hilt of the blade and land on his stomach. The Pyramid Head brung itself up and pulled the blade out of the platform, there was no stopping it.

The platform covered seventy-five percent of the room, which the other twenty-five was the very small stairwell so you could see how small the space to run was now. Josh could run around the Pyramid Head but that wasn't helping at all, only keeping him alive.

It was just then the Pyramid Head began to go berserk and went hastily for the stairs by-passing Josh completely and going down into the watered area. Josh watched it and then the water drained away and the Pyramid head was gone. Josh walked downward and the siren started to sound again.

"Ugh, get out of my head," Josh yelled keeling over into the fetal position and holding his knees close to him, the siren making his head started to scream in pain and agony.

The siren stopped a minute afterwards and Josh stood himself slowly. "Hope I never do that again…" he said to himself looking as he went into that awkward position. He opened the door into the foggy world of Silent Hill once more.