"Uh...why am I here?" Soos blinked, "I, um...I just told ya, Father Smith. I'm looking for my...Oh! Wait, are you, uh...are you, like, being super deep with me right now or...?"
Now Vincent blinked, "Uh..." silent for a second, he shook his head to clear it, saying, "Um, well, wh-what I meant by that, is...I mean, yes, you have told me why you're here, but I was saying...uh…" the priest looked bothered as he looked to his right for a moment until looking back at Soos, "I'm...sorry, I, um, I really don't think I can help you beyond this point."
"Wha...What do you mean?" Soos was thoroughly confused, "I-I just want to know where my daughter is. And maybe call the...police, here, to find my-oh my-gosh, I'm so stupid!" he smacked his forehead, "Why haven't I thought of that!?" he then reached for his cell phone that was in his pocket, "It would've saved me a lot more time finding her!" he dialed 9-1-1 on his cell. Once he pushed the 'call' button, he put it to his ear to hear it start ringing.
...However, all he could hear was...nothing...no ring, no...anything...
Soos blinked as he frowned, "Um...hello?"
...Still nothing...
"...Uh..." Soos looked at his phone's screen to see if anything was working, as well as seeing if anything was different. Putting it back to his ear, he still hears pure silence on his phone. "...Hello?" Scratching his head he mumbled, "I would think 911 would answer immediately..."
Vincent frowned in sympathy. He then began to say, "I think you should..." pausing for a moment, he continued, "I think you should probably look for your daughter right now."
"Huh?" Soos glanced at Vincent while the phone is next to his ear, "What do you-..." he narrowed his eyes at the priest in suspicion. "...Wait. Do you happen to know what's going on with the phone service here?"
"Um...no, I don't...I...I don't think you'll get any reception here...in this town...from hereon in."
"From hereon in? What do you...What do you mean? I mean, Silent Hill can't be that remote...is it?" Soos asked as he drifted the phone away from his ear.
Vincent just stood there, not replying...until he said, "Just...don't get lost in this fog...it's...it is that time of year whenever...it-it rolls in..."
"..." Soos looked at Vincent peculiarly. He glanced down at his phone screen to see that the call was still trying to reach 911...putting it to his ear, he still hasn't heard anything from them, not even a ring. Seeing that nothing is happening, he hung up. When he did, he looked at Vincent again...and asked, "Uh, Father Dude...are you okay?"
"...I ask myself that question every time," Vincent mumbled to himself. He shook his head, and told Soos, "I'm sorry, but...you really should go and look for your daughter...it...it can be dangerous around here."
"...Um...okay..."
Soos felt...a little odd...like he overstayed his welcome here...
...He had to ask one thing, though, to Vincent before he leaves.
"Um...Father Smith...do you, like, happen to know more than you let on?"
Vincent blinked...frowning, he just replied, "All I can tell you, is...that whatever is troubling you...don't let it take you."
"...Uh..." Soos didn't know what to say to that, "...A-Alright then..."
Standing there for a couple of seconds, Vincent nodded and said, "Right...well, you should probably go find your daughter..."
"...Uh...is there anyone else that will help me?" Soos asked hopefully.
"..." Vincent looked to his right, almost contemplating that question, "...You can try to ask anyone for help."
"...Um...okay then..."
Soos then went down the stairs away from the pulpit and walked past the pews. As soon as he was about to pass Vincent, the priest put a hand on Soos's shoulder to stop him. Seeing the hand on his shoulder, Soos looked over at Vincent with a confused look.
Vincent looked straight at Soos's face and said, "I meant it...be careful..."
"...Uh...sure thing..."
Nodding to the bigger man, Vincent let go of Soos's shoulder to let him go. Soos stood there for a second, looking down at his shoulder where Vincent's hand was.
"...Um, okay then...uh...thanks..."
...With that, Soos walked ahead through the lobby of the church and to the main doors.
…It was then Vincent called out to him, "You and...you and your daughter can always come for sanctuary."
"Oh, uh..." Soos turned around to glance at the priest, "Um, t-thanks..." Looking at the doors in front of him for a moment, he looked back and said, "Uh, yeah, t-thanks for...uh, t-trying to help…I mean...uh, yeah, thank you."
And with that, Soos opened the doors to leave the church...
...Vincent sighed...
"...Lord...watch over that man...and his daughter..." he turned to the depiction of Jesus above the pulpit. "..."
...
"...Why am I here, indeed," Vincent muttered...
...And then it was silent...
Soos walked down the stairs of the church and stopped when he was at the bottom of the stairs. It was still foggy outside...
"...Well that didn't help a lick," Soos muttered.
...Still...I wonder what that priest guy's problem was? He acted a little...suspicious? Hesitant? ...Disturbed? ...Hmm...
"..." Soos sighed, "Well, either way, I'm back to square one..."
As he began to take the next step forward...
RIIIING! RIIIING! RIIIING!
"Wh-What?" Soos looked down at the phone that was still in his hand.
It was...ringing.
"Wha...I thought...the service here...?" Soos looked at the screen.
...His eyes widened by a large fraction.
The number...the name…
"It...no, it..." Soos looked at the number and name in bafflement.
The phone said...
MELODY
"..." Soos lifted his finger from his other hand and hovered it to the 'accept call' button.
...Is this...Is this a...
...The phone kept ringing...
...Ringing...
...Ringing...
...Ringing...
...Soos accepted the call.
Putting it up to his ear, he said into the receiver cautiously, "He-...Hello?"
...
...
"...Soos?"
Soos's eyes widened in shock.
"M-...Melody?"
"...Find our daughter..."
...
"...I'll be waiting at the hotel..."
Then, she hung up.
"I-..." Soos looked down at the screen of his phone.
...
...He put his phone back in his pocket.
"...What is going on?" Soos asked himself.
...He turned to his right to the road ahead of him.
...Soos then continued down the road...looking for his daughter...
...He hopes he can find her...
...He needs to find her...
...Find...her.
...Soos walked back into the dense fog.
Dipper, Pacifica, and Wendy
10:00 AM
UUUUUUUUGGGGHH!
The screaming Brain Balls were closing in on them.
Dipper frantically looked around in both directions where the monsters were coming from to see if he can quickly study any attack patterns from them. So far, they were just dragging their feet and drunkenly walking up to them while swinging their heads around with their round wrecking-ball brains hanging and twirling in a circle.
It would make avoiding them a little hard, so Dipper had to shoot one of them on his side. The ones behind him wouldn't matter in the long run, they would just slow him and the girls down.
Taking a deep breath, Dipper held his gun in his hands, aimed for the left Brain Ball...and fired.
BANG!
Surprised by the sound of the gunshot, Pacifica yelped, while Wendy gasped and turned around quickly to see where the shot came from.
The shot hit the Brain Ball in its right leg.
Dipper fired more shots.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
The shots hit the monster in the torso, chest, shoulder, and finally, the head, killing it.
That last shot made the Brain Ball fall to the ground instantly, plopping onto the ground face-first with its wrecking-ball brain landing next to it as it rolled slightly on the pavement with the flap-rope skin still connected to it.
Quickly standing up, Dipper called the girls, "Come on! Follow me!"
Not questioning him, Pacifica and Wendy ran and followed Dipper as they ran past the living two Brain Balls, who were coming up to them and trying to grab one of them.
They ran away from the group of monsters, running like their life depends on it.
As they ran, they see more silhouettes in the thick fog. More Brain Balls.
Dipper growled in frustration.
Shit! They just keep coming!
"Watch out, there's more!" Dipper hollered out to the girls behind him.
As one came close to him when he was running, Dipper got his gun out and fired a shot at one Brain Ball. The bullet hit it straight in the head, knocking it down, surely dead.
The others were coming at them, not once flinching at the gunshot sound or coming over to their supposed fallen comrade. Dipper and the girls kept running.
However, one of them was fortunate enough to grab the bottom of Pacifica's trenchcoat.
"AAAH!" Pacifica screamed out, feeling a tug from the back of her coat.
Dipper and Wendy turned around to see that Pacifica was caught by one of the Brain Balls.
"Pacifica!" Dipper exclaimed as he rushed over to her. Wendy followed suit.
"AAAH! DIPPER! DIPPER, HELP!" Pacifica cried out as she struggled to go forward with her coat being grabbed by the monster.
"Hold on!" Dipper hollered out as he stopped and tried to point the gun at the Brain Ball.
The Brain Ball looked like it was about to rear its head back and swing it in an arch to hit Pacifica, so Dipper frantically tried to aim his gun at the monster. But it was better said than done when the monster and the blonde are a bit close to each other.
Oh shit! I don't want to accidentally shoot Pacifica! What do I-
"PACIFICA, DUCK!" yelled out...Wendy!
Pacifica did just that and Wendy passed Dipper to jump and deliver a right side-kick to the head of the Brain Ball.
WHAM!
The monster screamed out as the heel of Wendy's boot hit the side of its face, thus bringing it and Wendy down on her feet as she crushed the face of the monster with her heeled boot.
But Wendy wasn't done as she lifted up her right-booted foot and proceeded to stomp on the Brain Ball's head at least five times, letting there be blood splattered on the ground and onto her boot. Once she was finished, got off the monster and turned to where Pacifica was. It seemed she was out of the trenchcoat, wearing a long-sleeved purple sweater, and was on the ground, staring in horror at the massacre that Wendy inflicted on the creature.
Dipper...basically blinked, dumbfounded.
...Okay, that works too.
"Dipper, watch out!" Wendy exclaimed to him.
Dipper turned around and saw that another Brain Ball was staggering towards him, his brain wrecking-ball swinging around in a circle, getting closer.
But he wasn't gonna let it have the upper hand.
He aimed the gun and started shooting.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
The shots hit it in the chest, two times, and two times in the face. It plopped down on the ground, dead.
Wendy then went over to the stunned Pacifica and picked her up. "Come on, we need to get moving!"
"U-Uh, r-r-right!" Pacifica said with a stutter, almost in shock that she just had a brush with death.
As soon as the two women came running, Dipper was running with them, going through the fog as there seemed to be more Brain Balls coming through it.
They ran for what felt like a minute, which they reached a two-way intersection. Dipper stopped for a moment to read the street name sign.
King Street
Dipper turned to Wendy, who she and Pacifica were now next to him, and said, "Wendy! You said the street name was King Street!? The place you need to go!?"
"Huh!?" Wendy turned to the sign and back at Dipper as she answered, "Yeah! Rosewater Park!"
"Does that really matter right now!?" Pacifica asked incredulously.
"Well, we should probably go somewhere so we can avoid these things!" Dipper reasoned, "Come on!"
Not arguing with that, Pacifica and Wendy followed Dipper as they ran up the street.
They passed two blocks, running for a good while...
...until there was a roadblock up ahead at the third block.
"Whoa!" Dipper exclaimed as he skid to a stop...right at the edge of the road. He balanced himself as he looked like he almost was about to fall into the deep gap of the torn road.
"Dipper!" Pacifica and Wendy exclaimed as they ran over to him and grabbed him by each of his arms and pulled him back to get his footing back on the ground and not to fall into the ditch.
"Ah! Wha...What the?" Dipper said, his eyes looking down in surprise.
The girls also looked down in shock, unable to comprehend what they were looking at.
In front of them, there was...a hole. Or maybe to put it in better terms, the road was all torn up, not letting them proceed to continue their route. It was just a bottomless ditch in front of them.
They all stared down at the roadblock, down at the hole...
"...Well, I guess Floyd was right," Wendy muttered.
"Um...okay then," Dipper said with a wince, "We obviously can't go through here."
UUUUUUGGGHHH!
Hearing the screams of the Brain Balls, they turned around to see that there were some coming through the fog. They staggered quickly to the three, a total of six of them, their wrecking-ball brains swinging around, some like a pendulum, while some were swinging it around in a loping circle.
Dipper and Wendy prepared themselves, both getting into battle stances, while Pacifica was just trying to get herself ready to run.
As they were coming a little closer, Dipper then spoke, "Do either one of you want to use one of my knives?"
Both girls looked at him oddly.
Dipper simply shrugged, "I mean, I got more. Three more, to be exact. Four in total. Besides, I may run out of bullets soon, so we need to try and dodge them and fight them off as best as we can."
"...Perfect," Pacifica muttered sardonically.
"Well...I could use a weapon to fight some of these things off," Wendy offered.
"Okay then," Dipper quickly got out two hunting knives with sheathes around their blades from his trenchcoat. He tossed the one to his right to Pacifica, and the other to Wendy at his left. They both caught them (Pacifica almost fumbled hers) and got them ready to be used. Once the Brain Balls came closer, the girls unsheathed their knives, and Dipper said the word.
"Go!"
He pointed his gun at one of the Brain Balls, and fired a shot at it, right in the face of it. It collapsed with its knees on the ground, obviously in pain as the brain ball landed on the pavement, making a heavy thud!
I got eight bullets left. Gotta use them wisely.
Meanwhile, Wendy went toward a Brain Ball and delivered a kick to it before it can swing its flesh rope and wrecking-ball brain at her. Not waiting for it to get back up, Wendy ran past it and ran to another one with her knife swiping at it in a horizontal way. The blade hit, cut, and deflect the coming brain ball that was swinging its way toward her, making it actually stagger around awkwardly, the blood seeping out of the cut wound on the ball connected to its head. Not wasting any time, Wendy started slashing the Brain Ball, to its face and neck. Blood was coming out of the wounds, and it got a little weaker from the blood loss. It finally collapsed as the knife struck and sliced its face, letting the blood coat the blade as the red liquid flung off from the metal.
The Brain Ball behind her was trying to get back up, when-
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Dipper shot the monster down with three shots to the head.
Pacifica, while not a fighter, was just going to run past them, but she stopped when she sees that the three Brain Balls were coming at her all at once.
"ACK!" Pacifica exclaimed.
Hearing the yell, Dipper turned to where the monsters and Pacifica are. He aimed his gun and fired three shots at the middle Brain Ball.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
It went down on the ground, critically injured.
Pacifica, snapping out of her shock, suddenly felt...adrenalized, as she let out an irritated and somewhat fierce yell at one of the monsters, swiping the Brain Ball profusely with her knife.
The walking wrecking ball got slashed multiple times by her, letting it scream in pain, but none of this fazed Pacifica. However, it did grab her wrist of her knife-hand.
"AH!" she screamed, and then lifted one of her Ugg boots and kicked the thing's leg, breaking it.
UUUUUGGGHHH!
It yelled in extreme agony, letting its grip lessen on her wrist.
Then, Pacifica inwardly swung the knife's blade into the Brain Ball's side of its neck. The screams turned gurgled as blood came out of its mouth. She tugged the knife out of the neck of the monster and it collapsed to the ground.
Panting for just a moment, she realized she wasn't out of the woods yet, as she noticed the last of the Brain Balls was rearing up its whole body to swing down the ball attached to its head onto Pacifica.
But then, a side-kick from Wendy hit it in the stomach! The monster doubled over as it wheezed in pain. Then, Wendy brought her knife down at the back of its head. It screamed in agony until its scream died down into a dull groan. The redhead got the knife out of the back of its head and it plopped to the ground, dead.
The one that was still living was the one that was on its knees, the head wound it had bleeding down its body.
Dipper looked at the slumping figure. He could just end it now, but that would be heartless. Sure, it's a monster, but he gave some mercy to certain monsters…
"Come on, I think that's all of them. Let's get going before there's any more of-"
But then...the monster began calling...a name...
"UUUUGHHH...LANA! LANA! LAAAAANAAAAA!"
...Dipper froze.
Wendy raised a brow as she caught her breath. "What? Lana?"
Pacifica, also letting the adrenaline subside from her, blinked, "Lana?"
"LAAAAANAAAAA! LANA, COME BACK! COME BACK LANA! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! COME BAAAACK!"
Wendy and Pacifica just looked at the Brain Ball...a little disturbed.
"Is...Is it calling someone?" Pacifica asked anyone.
"I...I don't know. I mean, who is even Lana?" Wendy asked with a shrug. "Dipper, do you have any...idea...?"
Pacifica looked at Dipper as well...to see something troubling.
Dipper stood there...in shock.
"LAAAAAANAAAAAAAAA!"
"...How do you know that name?" Dipper asked the monster.
"LANA! LANA! LAAAANAAAA!"
"Stop calling that name."
"LAAAAANAAAAA! LAAAAANAAAA! LAAAAAANAAAAA!"
"I SAID STOP CALLING THAT NAME!" Dipper seethed unnaturally.
"LAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"STOP IT!"
"LAAAAAANAAAAAAAA! LAAAAAAAAAAANAAAAAAA!"
"STOP MOCKING ME, YOU DAMN FUCKING ATROCITY!" Dipper yelled at it. He raised his gun at its head, and then-
BANG! BANG!
...The Brain Ball fell to the ground, bullets in his head as it flopped to its side, dead.
...And just like that, he ran out of bullets.
...All was quiet...
...Pacifica and Wendy just stood there, staring at Dipper in shock...
...Dipper himself just stood there, his stature shaking as he lifted his free hand and grasped his face, his hand under his glasses...
...It was then Pacifica decided to say something. "Dipper?"
...He just sighed.
"...Let's just find a way around this obstacle," he said, his tone sounding dead and...maybe unsure.
He put his gun away and began to walk back to the intersection of the road, about to pass Wendy and Pacifica, when Wendy went out and grabbed him by the arm.
"Whoa there, Dipper. What just happened? Who's Lana?" she asked.
"...Not now, Wendy," Dipper said miserably.
"Not now? Dude, you went ballistic on that monster over a name. Who's Lana?"
...Dipper turned his head to face Wendy with a deadpan stare.
"...It's just someone I failed to save, okay?"
Wendy's eyes widened as she gasped.
Pacifica's eyes also widened in surprise.
"I don't want to go into any further details about it...but...I'm sorry I went off back there..." Dipper turned his face back at the road ahead. "...Come on. We got to go."
Dipper walked ahead, letting Wendy's hand drop from his arm.
Pacifica watched him as he went over to the street that was next to them on their left.
"...Dipper?" Pacifica called out to him.
The detective stopped for a moment.
"...Do you think...whoever is doing this...knows you? Like...really well?" Pacifica asked him. The question sounded simple enough, but it was a serious question.
"...I don't know," Dipper muttered. "...But whoever is behind this...I'll make them pay."
He then continued down the street.
Pacifica and Wendy took glances at each other, a little worried for the detective...they also wondered what else Dipper could be hiding...
Either way, the two women followed him...
10:20 AM
They kept walking, thankfully not encountering any more of these Brain Balls...
As they went forward, no one said anything, silent as their footsteps echoed down the road.
...Beside their right, they came up to an apartment complex. A sign next to the building said "Woodside Apartments".
They continued on, passing the apartment complex...to see another roadblock.
Dipper stopped and blinked, as well as Pacifica and Wendy.
The way of the road...was all covered up with a large metal-structured square that had a large wall of tarp on it. It blocked the whole street, making it impossible to move forward.
But that's not what also caught their eye...
On the surface of the tarp...there was a message written in red paint...maybe blood? Either way, it said:
The darkness of one's mind can only see what is there.
"...Okay, that meant nothing," Dipper mumbled in irritation.
"Another roadblock? Ugh, great..." Pacifica leaned over to put her hands on her knees as she sighed in exhaustion, "First I left my coat back there, which is probably stained with blood from that thing, and now we have nowhere else to go from here."
Wendy turned to the blonde with a raised eyebrow. "Hey, better the coat being left behind than you. Which, by the way, I saved your life."
"...Yeah..." Pacifica winced, "Sorry, I was gonna...I was gonna say 'thank you' soon."
Staring at the young woman, Wendy shrugged with a smirk, "Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I didn't want to mess up these boots. Now I got...well, monster blood, I guess, on one of them."
Pacifica looked down at her heeled boots. "Hm...they do look like nice boots."
Wendy smiled, "Thanks. I'm not one known for fashion, but I do like shoes."
"Doesn't every woman?" Pacifica smirked knowingly.
Chuckling at that, Wendy said, "Speaking of shoes, you can still work those Ugg boots after all these years. I always see them on you."
"Oh, well, they just...I wear them because they remind me of better days..." Pacifica faltered after that sentence.
"Oh..." rubbing the back of her head a little awkwardly, Wendy then said, "Well...you were pretty good at fighting those monsters back there."
"Oh, that?" Pacifica blinked, "I mean...you guys were fighting them, so I thought now was the time I got a little serious, I...guess."
"Sorry to interrupt," Dipper spoke.
The girls looked back at Dipper, who was reading his map.
"...But I feel like we might need to improvise here," Dipper explained.
"Improvise? What do you mean?" Pacifica asked.
"This street won't let us get past the next block, and up ahead over there," he pointed at the apartment complex. "Gets us up a block to where we need to probably go. Which means, we have to take a shortcut."
"Wait, through this apartment complex?" Wendy asked him.
"It's the only way through where we need to go. I don't know if the other streets are blocked as well, but we can only walk so far to them," Dipper put away the map in his trenchcoat, "Besides, we can't waste any more time."
The girls feel like he made up his mind, as they glanced at each other and back at Dipper.
Pacifica, however, decided to ask, "So, we're going through a building to get to our way faster? That seems...a little complicated. And what if this complex is all locked up?"
"..." Dipper walked up to the complex's entrance to test the doors. He reached the handle of one of the double doors...and opened it.
The complex was opened.
Pacifica and Wendy just looked on dumbfounded.
"..." Dipper turned his head to the girls, "Well, that answers one question."
"...Okay then," Pacifica muttered, "I still think this is a little overboard, but…" sighing, she said, "I don't know, maybe we'll find help in this complex."
"Uh, yeah. At least someone has to be here...that's, uh, alive?" Wendy looked back at the road, wondering what that moment at the bar meant, and thought back to Floyd.
What happened back there...was Floyd like a ghost or something?
"Let's hope so. Then we can have some answers," Dipper said with a frown.
Mabel...I will find you.
"Come on," he said to the women.
He opened the door to the complex, with the girls followed suit...
...They entered the Woodside Apartment Complex...
Gideon
10:30 AM
Once away from the cemetery and getting off the walking trail, Gideon finally came up to a road that led him into town.
It was still foggy outside. Walking on the side of the road, he kept trekking through the foggy path, until coming up to a sign that said he was in the town's vicinity.
"...Well, despite the detour, I reckon I need to memorize this area when I get back to my car...or hitch a ride to my car, or..."
...Actually, why was the road even blocked off back there? I mean, that was the way to Silent Hill, right? There wasn't any other way to get into this town, not even a backroad or anything nearby...I mean, I haven't even been told there were any shortcuts from the GPS system on my way here. It was just this one road I had to follow...
...Feeling a little confused by that, but not wanting to stop, he kept going...
As he kept walking, Gideon can only see fog and more fog in front of him...
"Gracious, this town is foggy..." Gideon mumbled as he went through the road.
Soon, he finally entered Silent Hill, passing by a few businesses, shops, and restaurants as he walked through that same road.
However, Gideon noticed something else about this town…
...I wonder why no one is out here? I mean...yeah, the road was closed, but...where are the residents of this town?
As he kept going, Gideon realized something else...
No cars were passing by...
In fact...he hasn't encountered anyone here while entering this Silent Hill...
...Well, the only person I met so far was that Angela girl...
He kept walking through the fog...
...Still, where is everyone?
Gideon kept walking...
...and paused for a moment.
Gideon looked around the street he was on, seeing nothing but fog and mist around him...
"...This is gettin' kind of creepy..." he admitted to himself.
...Everything was silent on the road he was on...
"...Hello?" called out Gideon.
...Nothing indicated that there was any life in this town...
...A shiver ran down Gideon's spine.
...Is...Mabel really here?
"...I don't even think she...said that she lived here..." Gideon looked confused for a moment...and then he shook his head to erase any doubts, "Oh, come on, she wouldn't have written the letter to just let me go on a wild goose chase! That's...That's not like her..."
...He reached his hand into his breast pocket and got the letter out. Unfolding it, he read the letter again in his mind...
"...Yeah..." Gideon muttered.
...Folding up the note and putting it into his breast pocket again, he looked up at the road ahead of him...and kept walking...
11:00 AM
Once Gideon walked a few more miles, he came across an intersection.
"Okay, now, where to go..." He got his map out and looked through it. "Let's see here...ah, okay. Rosewater Park is about...I would say exactly six miles from here...okay then. So, I should probably take a left on this road to get there faster."
Gideon then took a left on the road, which was named Alex Street.
He kept walking up the street, until ten minutes later, he soon reached an intersection. The street addresses came up, and he read the one that would lead him to Rosewater Park.
"Hm...King Street. Sounds simple enough to remember," Gideon muttered to himself.
So he took a right and walked up north on King Street.
He kept going...
...It still bothered him that there was nobody here...
Well...maybe it's the fog? Like a fog curfew or something? I mean...this stuff is pretty thick here...
He walked up the street some more until coming up to an intersection...
...he sees that the road looked like it was ripped up, creating a huge hole.
Gideon blinked at that.
"Huh? ...Uuuh...okay then..." he approached the hole and looked down through the abyss... "...Well, this is a hazard," he turned to his left as he glanced back at the street that was closest next to him. "...Maybe...I can go this way?"
He walked up the street...
He walked...and kept walking...the quiet still unnerving...
...
...He stopped just for a moment.
"...Okay. So far, no one is making themselves known in this town...the streets are empty, and...not even an animal is scurrying...something ain't right here," Gideon looked around his surroundings, "...I...think I should keep going..."
He kept trekking through the street...
...This really ain't natural...just...what am I doing here? Am I really going this far for Mabel?
...
...Yes. Yes, I am.
...Gideon walked past the 'Woodside Apartments'...and found the tarp wall...
His eyes widened at the message that was displayed on the tarp wall.
"...What...?"
…It said:
If a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, is it still the same inside?
"...Okay, that...this is getting a little...no, this is actually really freaky..." Gideon stood there for a second until he turned his attention to the entrance of the apartment complex. "...I...feel better if I go inside...away from..." he felt a shiver down his spine, "I-I need to get inside."
Gideon rushed through to the double doors, grabbed one of the door handles, and opened the door.
As he entered the building, he started to pant out of anxiety...putting a hand to his chest, he took deep breaths to calm himself down.
...The complex was dark inside. The only light it could muster was the outside light from the glass double doors and some flickering lights that were high above the building.
...The young albino didn't like this one bit.
"...This is not comforting," Gideon muttered, "Just what is going on with this town?"
He looked at his surroundings, wondering if he can find anyone, at the reception desk, some tenants, anything.
"...Maybe I should..." Gideon grunted, shaking his head, "No, you need to go to Rosewater Park! You need to...You need to get to Mabel..."
Maybe I can find the back exit around here somewhere.
"Yeah..."
And so he walked through the complex's lobby and searched for any door that would lead to the back of the building.
He went through a door to his far right and grabbed the handle...
...It didn't budge.
"...Perfect," Gideon mumbled, "Now what do I do?"
He stood there to think as the lights kept flickering above him...
...He turned to his left...
On the left side of the lobby, there was a door...seeing where this door leads, Gideon walked up to it.
Upon being a little dark in the lobby, he had to squint his eyes to read the plaque next to the door.
Stairway
"..." Gideon sighed, "I mean...maybe someone is here? Maybe someone can help me out? Anyone?"
He waited for an answer...and none came.
"...I didn't even try to open this door."
He reached for the handle...and pulled it...it was opened.
"...Alrighty then," Gideon walked inside the stairway, letting the door close behind him. He looked up the stairs, the stairs going up in a block spiral.
"...Well...let's see where this takes me."
And so, Gideon walked up and climbed the stairs...
...From here, he doesn't know where to go...
...and maybe...
...he prefers it that way.
And that's the chapter! ...I hope it's okay! XP But yeah, mysteries abound! I wonder what else we'll find out? ;) And just so you know, Dipper, Pacifica, and Wendy are in the complex as well! :)
Tell me what you all think so far! And I'm also thinking of maybe putting this story's rating into an M now since I did push the violence a little bit. Either way, I hope you're all enjoying the story! :D
By the way, what is the significance of the Brain Balls? What do you think they mean? Try to guess! X)
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