Author's Note: So, after nearly a half year of no updates I finally decide to finish the new chapter. I've been so blocked for this story that I couldn't find the drive to finish it, but now I've managed to do just that. Sorry it's taken so long, but thank you for your patience. Out of all my horror stories, I do believe this to be the weakest. I dabbled in things without really putting too much thought into it and it turned out not as good as my others. But thank you to everyone who supported and enjoyed it anyway. Next time I do anything with Silent Hill, it's going to stick to the games' rules more. When I started this, I'd only seen the movie. Now that I've played the first 3 games, I think I have a better grasp on it. Enjoy...

Xion's PoV:

I wheeled Sora through the town to the church. It was hard getting his wheelchair up the stairs, but I managed to get him through the door before having to collapse on one of the seats. "Break time," I said, catching my breath. I looked around and saw a bloody patch where Riku had been. "I wonder where Riku's body is?"

"I don't even want to think about it," Sora said darkly. Sora, Riku, and Kairi had been an inseparable trio all our lives. He loved those two more than anything and now, he'd lost both. "It doesn't even seem real!"

"I'm sorry you lost them, Sora," I said. I stood up and walked over to him to pat him on the back. "But wherever they are, they're probably cheering for us to win this fight!"

"Xion, you and Vanitas are all I have left," he said. He was starting to cry, but trying to hold it in.

"Just let it out, Sora," I said as I hugged him tightly. I felt his warm tears soak my shirt and his sobs on my neck. "Just let it out." I shed some tears of my own for the loss of all my friends…my sister. The pain of everything just wouldn't go away.

Sora and I were nearly scared to death when we heard the door fly open. I prepared to defend us until I found it to be Vanitas. "Told you I'd be back," he said weakly. He staggered toward us and fell into my arms. "So tired…from running…so long."

"Take it easy, Vani," I said as I ran my fingers through his spikey hair. He kissed me gently and tried to catch his breath.

"Glad to see you alive, bro," Sora said as he wheeled himself over to us.

"Barely," he said. "Kurami nearly found me, but I hid behind a bar. Look, we can't fight her so we'd best get out of here while we're still alive!"

"But how are we going to do that?" I asked.

Vanitas took a deep breath. "When Kurami had me, she let a little more of herself in me than she thought. I know a way out. It's a tricky way, but it's possible. Maybe not with Sora's wheelchair, but we can carry him."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Sora said. "Lead the way."

Vanitas led us through the back alleys of Silent Hill for what seemed like hours. We dodged monsters, maneuvered Sora's wheelchair over various obstacles, and even had to separate a few times because Sora couldn't go over certain things. Eventually, we made it to a little bit of land, just wide enough to walk on, that extended deep into the fog. "There it is. That connects back to the main road," Vanitas said.

"There's no way Sora's wheelchair can get across that," I said. "There has to be another way."

"Xion, I'm fine," Sora said. "I can crawl across it if I have to."

"If you're sure about this," I said. "Vanitas, you go first."

"Alright," he said. He started to walk across, but we were stopped by a maniacal laughter behind us.

"Leaving so soon?" Kurami cackled from behind. "Don't you all want to play with me a bit more?"

"Xion, get across as fast as you can!" Vanitas yelled to me.

"I'm not leaving without you and Sora!" I protested.

"Take Sora and go!" he demanded.

"No!" I yelled. Tears were streaming from my eyes. "You can't stay here and fight her alone! You'll die!"

"I can handle myself, Xion," Vanitas said, his eyes glowing a deep gold. "Trust me!"

I did as he said and picked Sora up out of his wheelchair bridal-style, surprised I was able to. The adrenaline coursing through my body must have been the reason. With one last glance at Vanitas, who had taken the fight straight to Kurami, I put my foot on the small path. Without looking down more than I had to, I slowly put one foot in front of the other. One false move and we'd both be dead. The sound of teeth gnashing and deep growls unsettled me, but I couldn't look back again. I knew Vanitas was still alive because I heard him shout every curse he knew at Kurami for all she'd done to us.

Once I was nearly halfway across, finally able to see the other side of the road, one of the noises behind me stopped and my heart sank. I didn't have time to turn my head around before something slammed the back of my skull, knocking me off balance and sending me and Sora tumbling into the abyss. I grabbed the ledge out of desperation and felt Sora's hands latch around my ankle. "Sora, don't let go!" I shouted. "I'm going to pull us both up!"

I tried as hard as I could, but lacked the upper-body strength to reach the ledge. "Xion, I'm letting go," Sora shouted from beneath me.

"No!" I screamed. "You're not dying on me, Sora! You can't!" Tears streamed from my eyes and blurring my vision.

"Xion, if I don't we'll both die!" he said. "Pull yourself up and run for the car! Don't look back, just keep running!"

"No!" I protested. But it seemed we wouldn't have a choice in the matter. I could feel my shoe slide off my foot, Sora's hands going along with it. "Sora!"

"Bye Xion," he said as the shoe left my foot completely. I looked down and saw as he tumbled down, being lost in the fog.

"Sora!" I screamed at the top of my lungs until my voice gave out. With the extra weight gone, I could pull myself back onto the ledge, but instead of running like he told me to, I could only wrap my arms and legs around it, crying into the pavement.

After lying there for a minute, I picked myself back up, but instead of running to the main road, I returned to Silent Hill. Vanitas' broken form was right in front of me. He was still breathing, but he was covered in blood. I ran to him, but Kurami appeared in front of me. "Only two left? What a shame," she said, her voice coated in false sadness. She grabbed my left wrist and squeezed hard, grinding every carpal bone to dust and taking my breath away. My eyes widened and I couldn't even scream. I reflexively lowered my head and vomited on the pavement and Kurami's feet. "Did that hurt? I'm sorry. That was supposed to make you pass out, but you're probably too keyed up to faint now. Watching as I slaughtered all the people you love, it must have done something to you; made you harder. If porcupine-head over here dies on me, then you would make a worthy vessel as well."

"Go...to...hell!" I spat through my deep breathes.

"Is that all you can say to me to express your distaste?" she mocked, peaking her eyebrow and chuckling. "'Go to hell' is the best comeback you have?" She twisted my nonexistent wrist once more, earning a dry heave from me as I had already emptied the contents of my stomach, and tossed me to the ground. The agony was unbearable. I landed next to Vanitas, able to see how truly hurt he was. Kurami knelt down next to me, her golden cat eyes focused into mine. "Don't you see, we're already in Hell. This town, the Otherworld, all the monsters you saw, it's all an extension of the inferno. This is just a place for the living to have a taste before we drag them to its depths!"

My heart nearly stopped beating. I knew I was going to die, and it terrified me to think of all the ways Kurami could kill me. I closed my eyes to brace for the inevitable, but her strike never came. I opened them to see Vanitas, standing and his wounds healing, toss Kurami to the ground by her hair. "You can break my body, you can do all kinds of twisted and perverted experiments on me, but as long as I'm alive I'll not let you harm a single hair on her head!" Vanitas pounced on her, slamming her head into the curb repeatedly until he managed to draw blood. He threw her head down once more and stood up. "Xion, that won't stun her for long! We have to get out of here!"

Vanitas didn't have to tell me twice. He picked me up and I managed to find the strength walk by myself. We went straight for the path and crossed it. I could hear Kurami's high-pitched, demonic wail coming ever closer. She was on the path and almost to us. "Leave this to me," he said. Using some kind of chant, his hands were covered in a black, cloudy force and he placed them on the ground. The bridge crumbled to dust and we heard Kurami scream as she fell into the infinite void beneath us. Vanitas and I collapsed onto the ground and curled up next to each other. He kissed my forehead and rubbed my hair back out of my face. "It's over. It's finally over!" He was so weak. I stood up and picked him up.

"Yeah, it is isn't it?" I said, still shaken up but calming down. I noticed his eyes were no longer gold. "Vanitas, your eyes..."

"That used up the last of the power Kurami gave me," he said. "I'm back to normal, hopefully..."

"Vanitas, let's go home," I said, pulling his arm over my shoulder and carrying us back to Sora's Jeep.

"Xion, where's Sora?" he asked as I put him in the passenger's seat.

I choked up. "Vanitas...I'm sorry," I said, crying once more. "He let go of me when Kurami knocked us off the path. He did it so I wouldn't die."

Vanitas' soul was broken, I could tell from the look in his eyes, but he wiped my tears away. "He sacrificed himself to save you...I'll never be as good as he was," he said.

"Vanitas, you're already my world," I said. "Come on, let's get to the hospital to get fixed up." I put the car in drive and turned around, keeping my left wrist on my lap so I wouldn't disturb it. Vanitas and I had finally escaped Silent Hill with our lives.