Chapter Twelve: 302

Josh sat in the boat. It was a small wooden boat with two wooden paddles on the sides. Josh saw a light off in the distance and thought it might've been something weird. Something made him want to look at the back of the paper he found:

"But before I go, head for heaven. That'll be my last clue for you."

The light must've been the way to go then. Josh started to paddle like crazy heading for the last place before him. It was it, or at least that guy had said. Josh believed him though, he had been leading him this whole time and was killed for helping him. Josh was not going to let these deaths be in vain.

Josh's boat finally another dock with the light, which this place looked a little familiar. Josh jumped out of the boat and pulled out the picture from the prison. "This hotel here… it looks the same as the one from the picture," Josh said looking up at the building. The sign read "Lakeside Hotel".

Josh walked up some stone stairs on the outside of the hotel and went a little to the left to find a fountain and a music box on top. Josh picked it up and on there was the Little Mermaid from the Disney movie. What it was doing here, he could care less. Josh ran into the hotel since the rest of the place he was on was an island.

Inside it was red rugs and grand walls, which showed that this hotel was probably a five star, or if even a four star. Josh walked forward and found one grand staircase leading downward and two large doors. Ignoring then Josh moved to the right and picked up a map on the wall of the hotel. Then he moved to the sea-side restaurant in the Lakeside Hotel.

Josh walked in and picked up a key on a plate. It looked like a fish on the handle so Josh called it the fish key. When he was about to leave the piano near the door went off. The tables in the restaurant shook at the sound but the white clothes that covered the table soon settled.

"Scared you huh?" Sophia said popping up from behind the piano with a grin.

Josh shook his head, "No but you came pretty close. So have you found Lina yet?" Josh asked her, even though he knew the truth was that the woman was dead.

"No, but I'm sure she's here. In her letter she said she was near somewhere with water. So I went to the park but we met at the apartments before that. Then I came here because this was the last place by water other than the park," Sophia said with a smile.

"Hey Sophia," Josh said kneeling down next to her, "Can I see that letter you got?"

"Sure," Sophia dug in her pockets before she pulled out the letter and handed it to Josh. Josh then began to read:

"To my dear sister, Sophia

I know that we aren't really sisters but because of… Jacob we are. I was put into a new hospital after Jacob left, he played some odd and stupid game with me like he was pretending to kill me with a pillow. Well he might've not been playing though… anyways I want you to come and meet me at the new place, Silent Hill. I'll meet you by the water. Ask Jacob what it means, he should know. But be nice to him. Even though he's a bad man he has a good heart."

"Sophia," Josh said pulling out the tape and remembering a date on it from when it was recorded. "When did you get this letter?"

"I got it about two years ago. But I do find it weird how empty this place is," Sophia said with her childish giggle.

Josh shook his head. The tape must've played the trick the letter had described in it's words. Then Josh had almost killed Jacob for no apparent reason. Why would that man that has been guiding him ask him to watch that if Josh almost killed a man.

"Say Sophia, let's find Lina some other day and leave here," Josh said with a smile trying to seem nice, he stood up.

Sophia was by the window now after he read the letter. She was drawing pictures on the window sense water had now formed from the fog. "Well she sent me another letter after that saying it was urgent that I come here."

"Can I see that letter?" Josh asked looking at Sophia.

"Sure," Sophia said with a smile before she started to walk over and dig inside her pockets. She paused and frantically searched before screaming out, "Oh no I lost it!"

"Sophia," Josh said with a sigh and a little laugh.

"I have to go find it," Sophia opened the door to the hotel and exited the restaurant with haste.

"Great, I'm hunting her down again I guess," Josh ran out of the restaurant and into the hotel hallway.

Josh walked down the hallway and then to ad open elevator. Inside was a can of paint remover. Josh thought it might've come in handy and then tried to make the elevator move, which didn't seem to show much luck.

Josh walked through one of the two large doors which led to the lobby of the hotel. Inside here Josh went behind the counter and found a key on the desk. There was a note under it:

"Accept your destiny. When you are ready open the room with this key. The last people will grant you a prize."

Josh dropped the letter and looked at the key, Room 302. Josh sighed seeing that his adventurous journey would be over soon and it would be a relief. He then moved out from behind the counter and went upstairs. The stairs to the third floor were blocked by some kind of gate, so now he had to find a key to open that also he assumed. On the lock it read, "To the victor".

Josh went through the second floor to the room hallway there. Inside this was a place called the drawing room. Josh walked inside and found a suitcase with a fish imprint on the top. He pulled out his fish key and looked at the lock that kept it shut. With the key he unlocked the suitcase and opened it. Inside was a key to room 207.

With this key Josh walked to room 207 and entered it. Inside was a bed with another suitcase on it and a bunch of photographs lying about. Josh say that the suitcase needed a code to be opened so he looked down at the pictures. There was one of the lock of the suitcase, but some black paint blocked the view of the letters. Josh pulled out his paint remover and removed the pain on the photo to find the code now. With that he opened the suitcase and the prize was… A Cinderella Music box.

"What's up with all the happy Disney crap here?" Josh asked himself before walking out of the room. Josh moved more around the second floor and went into the executives elevator room.

Inside this room was an elevator and some lockers. Josh walked into the elevator and an alarm went off. He started to press random buttons but nothing worked. Josh stepped out and looked at the warning sign next to the elevator. The weight limit was one person and all these items were making him weigh more. He put everything in the lockers, his rifle, pistol, Great Knife, Flashlight, Radio, just everything was in there except the clothes he wore and himself. He got on the elevator and the alarm wasn't going off. He pushed some buttons which didn't work, but when he pressed the basement button on accident the elevator doors shut and it started to descend.

Josh stopped on the basement level which was empty. Some sound like someone was moving around was heard but Josh ignored it. He walked on until he entered the kitchen part of a bar. In here there were cans of apples everywhere, but one was opened. Josh looked inside the can and found… A Snow White Music box.

"I'm really getting tired of this," Josh told himself walking through to the bar and into the basement hallway. This way he unlocked the door to the bar from the inside. Now he moved from that hallway to the first story using the grand staircase. Then he went in the lobby doors. This was about all he needed.

Inside Jacob was at some clock thing in the middle with music boxes on it. The Little Mermaid and Cinderella music boxes in some empty slots that were in the clock object. Jacob turned as he heard Josh come in and he smiled. "Let's hope this time we have a peaceful run in," Jacob said.

Josh took two steps forward. "I'm sorry about that. I read a letter from Lina that disproved what this videotape told me. But look I'm not going to try and kill you. I'm unarmed."

"I know that," Jacob said with a blank look. "I only took the music boxes you left behind… Will you give me the one that you have?"

"Um, sure," Josh walked over and handed Jacob the box before backing off toward the second story stairs.

"You know even though we went here for an anniversary, we also got married here to…" Jacob placed in the last music box.

"You don't say huh?" Josh asked laughing a little nervously.

"Yes… They played this very tune at our wedding," Jacob pressed a button on the clock object making it start a musical tune, a little classical but it sounded like chimes. "Oh this brings me back to those days."

"Yeah well I'm just going to get go get my stuff now," Josh said back walking up the steps.

"I should just let you go but…" Jacob turned to Josh. "Something is just telling me that you'll kill me if I let you go. Seeing as though you did try to do that once before." Jacob held up his two sawn-off's at Josh. "I think I'll kill you before I let anything like that happen." Josh shot and the stair before Josh shattered into millions of pieces of wood. Josh took off.

Running into the second floor hallway he looked left and right trying to remember where he went. He turned left just as Jacob shot the door open and walked in. Jacob turned his head and saw Josh at a dead end. "I won't let my time end here," Jacob said holding up his two sawn off's and took a shot.

Josh ducked before Jacob pulled the trigger and the vase on a table behind Josh shattered. The flowers landed behind Josh and the glass shattered everywhere. "You missed," Josh said charging into him and then running further past him.

Josh made it to the executives elevator room and opened the locker which was clean of anything that was inside. Josh turned and ran out the door and down the hallway. Jacob wasn't where he was before. The wall beside Josh then shattered into pieces of wood and Jacob burst out from the wall holding his sawn-off's. "One…" Jacob started.

Josh turned and ran out the hallway through the busted open door and up toward the third floor. The gate was open somehow and he ran to room 302. Inside he found his weapons lying on the bed. He picked them up and took out his great knife. He shoved the knife through the door thinking Jacob would be on the other side, and he was right. Josh opened the door and Found Jacob with a large hole in his belly area.

"Looks like I lost," Jacob smiled, blood dripping from his mouth, and fell to the floor. "I'm sure I'll be fine. You go on ahead and do what you need." Jacob then breathed in hard feeling the pain.

Josh just kind of smiled and then went back into room 302 before closing it behind him. There was a television with a video tape player and a chair in front of it. Instead of the video-tape player flashing twelve o'clock, it flashed the words "Play me". Josh looked at the movie and put it in the video-tape player.

"I'm here in Silent Hill for reasons I don't think I know," Josh then appeared on the television. Josh was a little amazed but hey he watched more. "It's about time that I accepted the fact of my crimes. I beat people up, but soon it got the best of me. Murder become a part of my routine." Josh was confused at first but then he started to remember some things about his past. "I stole also, because I didn't want money from the scum that I killed. That's right I became a murderer. And I didn't realize that my victim would me Lina Burke, wife of the man that became the boss of the store I worked at. I somehow forgot after that death, and I was brought here to face the truth."

"No I… I didn't do it," Josh said trying to flush out the memory but it was there. Him holding the gun to her head. Now he killed her husband. What a shame this was.

Sophia ran inside saying, "Hey why you all alone in here?" She asked.

"Wasn't Jacob out there?" Josh asked Sophia. She just shook her head. "Alright. Sophia I have to tell you something."

"What's that?" Sophia asked.

"I… I killed… Lina," Josh said with his face looking down.

Sophia hesitated before punching his arm. "Killer, you cold blooded killer! How could you kill her! She was such a nice person! Killer, Killer Killer," Sophia ran off into the hall.

The radio began to go off, and that voice that was so much similar to Amel's came on. "Josh… I forgive you for what you did now. Hurry and meet me, and Amel will be yours."

Josh stood and looked at the radio. "That must have been… that was Lina's voice!"