Aaaaaaaaaand here's chapter six. I'm very grateful that you guys are reading this (even though I've only received reviews from one person), anyway, I shouldn't bitch. I'm grateful that my writings are being seen by the world. So I hope that you guys are happy with that previous shocker.
Alena sat there in shock, "She said what?"
Edd nodded, "Yes, I think something is really wrong. That Christabella is trouble and I think we should get out of this church, now." he crossed his arms.
Eddy shook his head, "That's impossible, how in the hell can we? There are at least a hundred cultists out there."
"And what do they mean by 'Chosen One'?" Ed stood protectively near Alena.
"I don't want to stay long enough to know." She rubbed her forehead.
By then, Silent Hill had returned to it's fogged world. Alena never thought that she'd feel this way, but she was glad that it returned to some twisted form of normality. At least Pyramid Head wasn't strolling around with the large knife he nearly killed them with, that was for sure.
Eddy walked around the West Wing, silent with thought. He wasn't the smartest man on the planet, but he knew what would happen if they stayed long enough. He searched the walls of the church, wondering if breaking the stain-glass windows was a good idea. He wasn't a very religious person, but he wasn't really sure that breaking a window would be the most quiet way to escape. He sighed, perhaps if he found a fire exit... He looked to the right, seeing a large door with the word 'EXIT' above it.
"Edd, doesn't a fire exit usually have an alarm if you open it?" he asked.
"Well, by the looks of the church, I'd say no. It seems that this building was built almost fifty years ago and they didn't have alarm systems. I don't think that it was updated..." Edd's voice trailed off, understanding where Eddy was going with this. "Do you think it's blocked off?"
"Why would it be blocked off?" Ed asked.
"They're afraid of the monsters outside. The likelihood of getting out may be a little slim, but it's worth a shot." Edd suggested.
Alena stood and gently opened the door, to her surprise, nothing on the other side prevented it from swinging open, freely. She silently motioned for them to follow, but by the time the last Ed was out, the large door leading to the hallway within the church swung open, revealing Christabella and a few of her followers. Cowering beside her, Rowena was there and she frantically screamed, "Emily, get out of here!"
That was all Alena needed to hear.
She slammed the emergency exit door in hopes to slow them down, "Ed! Find something!"
Ed quickly scowered the alleyway, looking for something to keep the door from opening.
"Ed, the chair!" Edd called from where Alena was standing, trying to hold the door, closed.
Ed looked in front of him and saw an old wooden chair. Without wasting any time, he grabbed it and brought it back to them, "What do we do with it?"
Edd told him to take his place and motioned for Eddy to come there. "Eddy, I need you to kick the chair as hard as you can." he said after placing the top pf the chair directly under the doorknob.
Eddy brought his boot to the edge of the seat and kicked as hard as he could, "Alena, Ed, let go." Edd looked to them.
Alena and Ed moved away from the door, seeing that the chair was holding them off.
"Okay, so where do we go now?" Ed asked, panting after holding off that many people.
"Brookhaven Hospital." Edd said instantly.
"Why?" Alena asked.
"A friend of mine was working there when she disappeared." he answered.
Eddy sighed, knowing that his friend was thinking of Mellie Watson, the girl he had been in love with since they started med school.
He wondered if maybe he had valued his education a little more, he could be of use. He felt a little confused with this idea, being concerned for his future. It wasn't until he entered this town that he thought of what life would be like the next day. Perhaps if he had thought a little more clearly during high school, rather than chasing his silly dream that his brother would let him work with him, he could be like Edd. He sort of envied his friend because he was so intelligent and had opportunities.
Guess I could always join the Marines...
Alena rubbed her arms, wishing she had remembered to grab her vest, even thought it wouldn't have done much. The fog would, much unlike the Otherworld, was pretty cold. Whether it was because of the fog, or because they had spent most of their time in the Otherworld running, it was cold.
Ed shrugged off his jacket and handed it to her, "Here." he said. Alena was about to protest when he shook his head, "No. You need it more than I do."
She nodded and slid her slender arms into the sleeves. The jacket was quite large compared to her small frame, but it was warm.
"So, what direction are we taking?" Eddy asked his friend, who was studying a map intensely.
Edd took a deep breath breath before speaking, "We need to take a right on Munson St."
And so they went on their path, avoiding the lying bodies by quietly walking.
Alena sighed and stopped. They had been walking for almost twenty minutes now, and the asphalt changed to grass. "Guys, we're lost."
Edd sighed as well, "I know."
"How in the hell did you get us lost?" Eddy demanded.
"It's a little difficult to not get lost when we can't see more then four feet in front of us." Edd retorted, unable to see where they are.
Alena looked ahead of her, having an odd feeling as she walked a little further. Ed noticed this and followed her, afraid that she would get lost. She gulped and extended her arm out at the outline of a large sign until she could clearly see it.
"Rosewater Park." she said to the two bickering men, who looked up from the map, attempting to make out her figure within the fog.
"Rosewater- Double D! How did we end up all the way up here?" Eddy complained, wondering what black magic fuckery lead them to their location.
As they continued to bicker, Alena sighed. She'd much rather endure the park alone than hear another argument between the two. "I think I should check this area out..." she said quietly to herself.
"I'll go with you." Ed suggested.
She looked up and smiled, "No, you should go with Double D and Eddy to the hospital."
He bit his lip, and then nodded, still unsure if he should let her go alone. "But how will you find your way back after checking?"
Edd, who had been listening to their conversation rather than the ranting of Eddy, grabbed the map from him and pulled out his phone. He began taking pictures of the map and then handed it to Alena, "Here."
She nodded, "Thank you."
"Let's get to the hospital. Good luck." Eddy waved and dragged his friends off. Ed gave her a glance of slight worry before nodding a quick 'goodbye' and walked with his friends.
Alena felt a chill run down her spine, even though she had confidence in herself to not get killed. After a moment of thinking and self-encouraging, she turned on her heel and walked into the endless blanket of fog before her, and into the unknown.
The three friends stood before the heavy doors of Brookhaven Hospital, debating whether or not it was condemned. It sure appeared that way, but when Eddy kicked the door open, it didn't disintegrate into a pile of dust, like he expected it to. Instead, it violently swung open to reveal a long dark and dingy tiled hallway that resembled the haunted hospital from another one of Ed's video games, the Haunted Bloody Scalpel. Edd, however, recognized it as the same hospital he visited Mellie in when she broke her leg in high school, but old and deteriorated.
Eddy surely didn't want to see this place when the Otherworld rolled in.
Edd slowly entered the building first, almost calling out her name before Eddy stopped him, "Hold on, Sockhead. something doesn't feel right about this place."
"What do you mean, Eddy?" he asked.
"Look at this place, I mean, the blood... the handprints..." Eddy waved his arm around to finish his statement.
Edd hadn't noticed the amount of it before, he had been so worried about Mellie that he almost raided a bloodied condemned building. "It's worth it." he said quietly.
Eddy sighed and turned around, "Hey, Monobrow-" he stopped himself when he saw that Ed was no longer standing there. "Ed?" he called.
Edd turned around as well, "Ed?" he called as well, feeling his stomach drop. "Ed?" his voice rose, indicating a high level of anxiety.
The two were then silent, waiting for a reply from their friend, but heard nothing. This immediately triggered the reaction to dash back outside into the thick fog, calling for their friend.
As a reply, Edd heard a loud feminine shriek. Where had he heard that voice before?
"Mellie!" Edd was suddenly torn between the decision of either finding his friend, or helping his love.
"You go get her, I'll find Ed!"
He needn't be told twice. After watching his friend go back inside the hospital, Eddy ran through the fog to find the other.
Alena slowly and quietly walked along a trail, closely following the map. Something made her desire checking the docks and to Toluca Lake. It was most likely the dream she'd once had when she was younger. She would be standing there on the dock, staring out into the lake. At first, it would look normal, as if Silent Hill was a normal resort town. but then, it would make an odd transition. The skies would darken, the temperature would drop, and the fog would cover the land. Alena was all too familiar with the thought of it, now. But then, the Otherworld would come. It was another nightmare that would turn violent and would cause her to wake up and scream in horror. Alena didn't know what the dock had to do with her, but she knew that something was there that she needed to discover.
Ahead of her, she finally saw the familiar etching of the docks. She heard the wood beneath her boots as she walked.
It took her a moment to navogate around the solid objects and find the dock itself. No memories came to her, but she felt a familiar feeling within her.
It was so sudden, the Alena didn't even realize it was happening until it was too late. She had gotten too close to the edge and felt absolutely nothing beneath her right foot, falling quickly to the icy waters of Toluca Lake. The first thing Alena attempted to do, was calm down. But that was just a little difficult when Alena had no idea how to swim, whatsoever. Whilst thrashing, gasping for air, she felt a wooden beam connect with the back of her head.
Where am I? Alena stood to see herself exactly where she was, but something was odd. For one, she was in a white dress with sleeves that were slightly too long, and the skirt of the dress itself touched the ground. She looked around, seeing nothing of interest.
"Find her!" she heard Christabella's voice echo through the park. Alena gasped, thinking that she was definitely going to die, be tortured, or some form of terrible fate.
She saw a young woman running with a small bundle, gasping for breath as she dashed to the docks where Alena was standing.
At first, Alena thought that the woman was in fact, herself with a baby in her arms. However, she saw that it wasn't the case.
"Hey..." Alena called to the woman, who was now knealing down on the dock, leaning over the edge, fumbling with something.
"My dearest, I hope you have a bright future..."
Alena was shocked, recognizing the voice, clearly.
Rowena!
Rowena stood, revealing the small baby girl in a hand-woven basket with a sapphire blue necklace, and a small note. As if upon instinct, Alena reached up to her chest and stroked the necklace. That baby in the basket was her, nineteen, almost twenty years ago.
"Rowena! Where is she?"
Alena spun around on her heel to see Christabella and her followers, deeply angered by her actions.
"Christabella, oh so tragic, Emily is dead!" Rowena sobbed.
"Liar!" A group of large men approached her mother, but Alena wouldn't have that.
She attempted to stand in front of her mother, but felt herself being yanked out of her dream.
"Alena..."
"Alena..."
"Alena!"
She awoke with a start, her heart beating rapidly and her hair matted to her forehead.
Ed helped her sit up, wrapping an arm around her, "Alena, are you alright?" he asked.
She looked up to the man who held her in his lap, trying to bring her back to the world, whatever world it may be. "I know how I got out of Silent Hill..." she said, but it sounded more like a whisper to him.
"When you were a baby?"
She nodded, "My mother set me in a basket and into the lake." She instinctively moved her hand to the sapphire necklace that rested around her neck. It was originally her mother's, but was given to her when she was just a baby.
Ed nodded, "Listen, Edd and Eddy are at the hospital, should we-"
To the misfortune of the young adults, a loud siren sounded throughout Silent Hill.
The Otherworld was coming yet again.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Hooray, Chapter Six is finished. We have now learned more about our main female protagonist and it is ended with a bit of a cliffhanger.
So I've been watching a lot of Foamy the Squirrel lately because, you know, he's all knowing. Foamy be with you.
This is PhilosophicalZombie, signing off!
