Chapter Seven: Disobeying Peace

Josh went into the building which was smaller than the rest. It led up some stairs as Amel told him where to go from behind and then into a strip bar. "Whoa, you had a key for this place?" Josh asked with astonishment.

"Yes, I own this bar," Amel said walking around a little and rubbing a table. Her fingers caught dust on them.

Josh looked around while he could. The place looked more like a bar with just some random pole sticking out at the far back of the bar. Drinks were still in their glass containers in the back. Seat imprints seemed to be made in the seats leaving dust around the area where people had sat before.

"So did you just own the place?" Josh asked looking around more before looking back at Amel.

"I served drinks, but otherwise I wasn't here at all," Amel said touching the side of a wall.

"Well we need to move and save us a brat," Josh said moving out the front door with Amel. They walked a way from the outside and saw her open the door to a larger building and run inside. Josh walked to the doors and let out a small sigh. "And like I said before, I hate buildings."

Josh and Amel entered the building and were astonished by the inside. "I've never noticed this place. Where are we?" Amel said taking a few steps around in the darkness, only lit by Josh's flashlight.

Picking up a small map off of a board Josh looked it over. It was a map of the place. "This place is called Brookhaven Hospital," Josh said looking it over. "Guess they had a large amount of sick patients with these types of rooms and such a small town."

"Who knows, maybe the girl is here because she knows other people that are here," Amel said looking at Josh with a smile.

They moved on down the hallway a little and noticed that the first door they reached was unlocked. Josh went into the first room and found it empty. He looked at Amel and told her to wait in this room as he moved on to the next that was connected to this one. Inside this room it sounded like a machine was running but there was no machine present. Josh picked up a key on the desk and read a note.

"This belonged to one of the patients, his name was Henry. He kept complaining and scratching the walls screaming that they were coming after his Bertha, the one that is locked with this Purple Bull key. I took it so that he may not open her again for it's one step to recovery for his psychological state."

Josh put the key away and looked on a chalk board also present in the room looking at the numbers written on it and also a note.

"This is that number Henry kept muttering to open Bertha. So I memorized it and put it here for them to find. This is the numbers is this the numbers is this the numbers is this the numbers…"

Josh made an odd expression thinking to himself, 'Damn these doctors need some psychologist or something from what this looks like.'

He stepped back out and motioned for Amel to follow him once more. They moved back out into the hallway which seemed to be as dark and normal as it could be. Josh was happy that this wasn't like that damned apartment building. It's beating walls seemed to give him the chills for some odd reason but he couldn't put his finger on the reason why.

The two moved deeper into the hallway and all of the doors appeared as though they were locked. They even tried to get through some door to a patients ward but the doors were locked. Josh turned and looked at the map seeing that this was a door leading to the stairwell and the only way to go was up he supposed.

Josh and Amel went into the stairwell and moved up the stairs. They went up to the second floor and went into the area, which proved empty since the radio Josh had was silent. They walked into a hallway and moved into another room that that the map labeled as the shower room. Inside here was a shower. Josh walked into the shower part and was amazed when he saw something shiny in the drain.

"What is it?" Amel asked Josh when he seemed to look astonished.

"There's something glittering in the drain here, but my hands to big to reach in there. I think it's a key but we'll need something to fish it out with," Josh explained looking at Amel.

When back in the hallway the radio started to make a sound again. This time it sounded like muffled screaming, like a demon from the movies you watched. Josh turned the flashlight down the hall and the appearance came into view. In the hallway was a violently shaking woman with a nurse's outfit on. Her face was normal, but her eyes were of a white color. Blood draped her face, and in her hands was a large steel pipe.

"Um, hello," Amel called out to the violently shaking woman.

"Amel stand back," Josh pushed Amel behind him and pulled out his steel pipe into his hands ready for combat. "This is the hospitals staff and I have to say they aren't normal."

This thing was known as a nurse, which isn't as hard to notice due to it's outfit. Josh swung his steel pipe at the nurse and watched as she lifted hers to block his. Josh pushed down hard on his steel pipe but the nurse seemed to be able to handle herself. The nurse pushed Josh backwards and onto the ground with the steel pipe. As it was about to slam it's pipe into Josh Amel came from behind the nurse and started beating it with her board of wood until it didn't move anymore.

"Thanks, you almost came a moment too late," Josh said standing himself and looking at the steel pipe her had and the one the nurse had. Something was odd because the one the nurse had and his were exactly the same; in shape and appearance.

"Well at least I came," Amel said with a small giggle and looked at the board of wood covered in blood now.

They moved back to where they came out from the stairwell and went into the doctors clothing room. Inside this new area Josh looked around and found a small teddy bear. He picked it up but then quickly released it.

"Ow," Josh said before sucking his thumb a little.

"What happened? Are you alright?" Amel asked walking toward Josh and looking at his hand.

"Yeah I just pricked my finger on something in that damn bear," Josh said. His picked up the bear but this time carefully and pulled out a fishing needle. It might come in handy was all that he thought of at the moment.

Inside the room as they were about to leave Amel bumped against a locker and it opened revealing a shotgun inside. Josh looked at the shotgun and picked it up from inside the closet along with fourteen rounds. "Good job, you found us a great gun for this place," Josh said, making Amel smile and giggle.

The two moved out of the room and went to the stairwell once more. They moved up to the third story which left only the roof left for them to get on. The two moved out of the stairwell onto the third floor and into the patients ward here. They walked into one of the rooms and stopped.

"I'm really tired Josh," Amel said looking around the room before setting herself on a bed and digging through her pockets. She pulled out a pill vial and set it next to the bed on its end table.

Josh looked around seeing the room was small and empty. "It's alright if you stay here I suppose then. I'll be back for you when I get the little girl," Josh said.

"Thanks," Amel boosted before lying back on the beds mattress and not even touching the pills.

Josh nodded and looked on the end table that Amel used for her pills and picked up a key that was labeled for the rooftop. Josh opened the door and looked back at Amel seeing she had fallen asleep. He guessed it was stressful for someone in her shape.

Outside in the hallway Josh moved out and back to the stairwell. In here he moved to the top of the stairs and pulled out the rooftop key unlocking the rooftop door. Out on the rooftop Josh looked at the darkened sky. It was only daylight not long ago which made no sense to him. Josh moved down the rooftop until he found a small journal. He picked it up and read it,

"They told me not too long ago that'd I'd be able to finally leave since I stuck with my medication. I was happy about this and for a long time I believed that were true. They kept telling me and telling me. I took my chance to escape today though because the nurse came with a steel pipe. I was afraid that I'd be killed before I could get my revenge on those bastards f this town,

S…my"

"It has a name but I can't read it," Josh said looking at the last part that seemed to be smeared but ignored it.

Josh started to move and then turned at a fence near the entrance to the stairwell. Josh walked toward it and looked to see that it looked as though it were going to fall over. Turning in time to see the monster Pyramid Head Swung his giant knife at Josh and shot him through the fence knocking him down. Pyramid Head walked to the edge where Josh fell through and looked down unto where Josh went, as if to mock him.

Josh woke up in some room and pulled out his map. He figured he was in a place called special treatment rooms. There were four directly before him, and he was located on the third floor. He walked to one of the rooms seeing as the others were all boarded up. In here Josh found blood, and lots of it. There were four numbers written in blood which was something Josh thought of remembering. He went back out and down the corridor Amel was in.

Instead of going back to Amel, Josh moved down the corridor to the last patients room. The first thing Josh picked up was a key on an end table and looked at it. A label was on the end saying "Minds Eye". Josh looked over and there was a small box. He pulled out the other key and looked at the locks. Two were for keys and two were for numbered codes. He used the purple bull key and the minds eye key to open the keyed locks. Afterwards he used the two numbered codes he learned for the locks and then opened the chest. Inside was his grand prize, a strand of hair. "The hell," Josh looked at the hair and then to his right where a memo was written in blood.

"I'll keep you locked up here in this box Bertha, and I'll let no one else see you because we are best friends and we'll stay that way forever and ever and ever and ev…"

It just ended with the ev which probably meant someone found this guy writing in blood.

Josh went back to the shower room and looked at the shiny key in the drain. "Alright maybe I'll be able to get you now," Josh said pulling out his fish hook and the strand of hair making a fishing line with the two. He used them and pulled up the key from inside the drain. On the top of the key the words "ELEVATOR" were etched in. Josh moved out and into the patients ward. Then he moved down more and found and elevator which he got to work with his key. The elevator came up and Josh rode it down to the first floor ward.

Josh reached the downstairs and walked a little ways feeling that something was not right about this place. He opened a door and could hear someone playing around. Shining his flashlight Josh called out, "Alright Sophia, the chase is over. You can come out of there."

The little girl rose from behind some stretchers in the room. "Oh, so you did follow me," Sophia said with a cute tone.

"Yeah yeah, now what is a little girl like you doing in a place like this?" Josh asked.

"Well I was looking for a woman. She was supposed to be my sister or something. Her name is Lina," Sophia said, "That's why I'm all the way out here."

"Lina? I swear I've heard that name before," Josh said starting to ponder to himself.

"She told me in this letter that she was married to a man named Jacob," Sophia started, "And that even though he was a very bad man I should forgive him for what he did to her."

"Jacob, he's not a bad man. He's a guy walking around here with two guns and was formally my boss," Josh explained.

"But Lina said so in her letter, Jacob is a bad man but please forgive him," Sophia said.

"Here let me see the letter," Josh said walking over toward Sophia.

"If you can catch me," Sophia said running past Josh and opening the door, leaving it open behind her.

"Oh god come back here," Josh ran out of the room and then down the hallway to see another open door. He ran inside and looked around.

The door suddenly slammed shut behind Josh. "Ha ha, I got you," Sophia said from the other side of the door.

"Ok kid you got me," Josh started until he heard something like a squeal. "Now you can let me out ya'know."

"Gimmie gimmie doesn't mean you get," Sophia's voice came.

"Come on I'm not joking around," Josh said banging on the door.

The monster swung itself down but there seemed to be two more of them squealing in the room. It hung from the ceiling in some cage like structure. It seemed to have a human body but its face only had a mouth present which seemed to be in a round shape. It legs hung a little outside the cage and the thing seemed to be able to still move them. This was called a hanging demon.

"Sophia I'm not kidding let me out," Josh yelled.

"Say the magic words," Sophia's voice said.

"Ah forget it I'm gonna kick some monster ass," Josh said holding up his shotgun. He walked toward the monster and shot it once with the shotgun seeing it get pushed back. Another one came down right above Josh and grabbed his neck with its legs pulling him upward off the ground. Josh choked a little and pointed his shotgun upward pulling the trigger. The hanging demon let go with haste and shriveled up falling to the ground. Josh caught his breath and held up the shotgun and shot down the other one in the room. The last hanging demon came from behind Josh and kicked him across the room, which showed how powerful it was. Josh regained his balance after the kick and shot the demon as it came close to him killing it instantly. Josh watched as it fell to the floor.

"Alright Sophia, let me out already," Josh said but heard no response for awhile. "Sophia?"

Then the terrible thing began. The loud, blaring siren went off and Josh grabbed for his ears. Voices were in the siren, it sounded like a woman. The voice was so similar to Amel's that Josh could barely tell the difference. It kept chanting his name with that sweet tone until he fell to the ground, without movement.