My Adventures in Silent Hill

Chapter 4

We finally entered Rosewater Park until we reached an area that looked out onto the water. We saw a woman and approached her.

"Mary?" James asks.

The woman turned around and smiled.

"No…..you're not." He said quietly.

"Do I look like your girlfriend?" the woman asks. She had a bit of an attitude.

"No…my late wife. I can't believe it…..you could be her twin. Your face, your voice….just your hair and clothes are different." He replied.

I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms over my chest.

"My name….is Maria." The woman says. "I don't look like a ghost. Do I? See? Feel how warm I am." She took his hand and pressed it to her chest.

James took his hand away and backed away. "You're really not Mary!"

"I told you…..I'm Maria." Maria said and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Sorry…..I was confused." He said and turned around, walking towards the direction we came from.

"H-hey!" I shouted and went after him. "I thought you wanted to come to Rosewater Park."

"Mary isn't here. I'm going to go look somewhere else."

Maria caught up with us. "Where are you going?"

"I'm looking for Mary. Have you seen her?"

"Didn't you say she died?"

"Oh yeah….three years ago. But I got a letter from her. She said she was waiting at our 'special place'."

"And that's here? Anyway, I haven't seen her. Is this your only 'special place'?" Maria asks.

I watched as James thought to himself. "Well…there's the hotel, too. I guess. The one on the lake….I wonder if its still there."

"The Lakeview Hotel? Yeah, its still there. So this hotel was your 'special place' huh? I bet it was." Maria said.

James turned around to walk away, but Maria grabbed his arm. "Don't get so mad. I was only joking. Anyway, you're going the wrong way. It's this way."

"God, can we just go already?" I said impatiently.

…

We walked back into the town and stopped at a Pete's Bowl-O-Rama. "Should we go in?" I ask.

"Yeah." James began to open the door.

"I'll wait here. I hate bowling." Maria leaned against the wall. "Hurry up, okay."

We walked into the bowling ally and found the same obese man from earlier, sitting at one of the tables eating pizza.

We reached around to talk to him. "Oh…yous again." The man said, still eating pizza.

"We never got your name." I say.

"Eddie."

"I'm Shell and this is James. So uh…why are you here?"

"Came here lookin' for someone." Eddie answered through a mouthful of pizza.

"Yeah…well….best be seeing ya." I said and left the bowling ally along with James.

…

We made our way up to the second floor of Brookhaven Hospital. I sighed and shoved my hands into my jacket's pockets. What a vacation. Hmm?

I suddenly felt something in my jacket and pulled it out to revel a hand-held camera. "Uh guys…"

James and Maria turned to me. "Where'd you get that?" she asks.

"…My pocket…" I turned the camera on and looked through the memory. There was one video on it. "There's a video." I pressed play.

The video began with someone taping the sidewalk with trees around them. "Shh! She's coming!" a female voice said.

I watched as a girl came into the camera. "Grab her!" the female voice shouted and two boys shot out of the trees and grabbed the girl, dragging her into the trees. The camera was turned around to see the boys dragging the girl along the ground and the camera followed.

"What are you doing? Let me go!" the girl cried. The boys kept dragging the girl until they came to a clearing and threw her to the ground. One boy kicked her in the back and she cried out in pain. The camera was recording everything.

"What….in the hell?" Maria whispered.

The camera moved so we could get a good look at the girl's face. And my eyes widened.

The girl was…..

Me.

"Hey, I found a pipe!" the other boy said and the camera moved so the pipe was seen. "You wanna take a hit Morgan?"

"No, you guys go first." The female voice said and the camera moved back to the girl.

The pipe came down onto her arm and she cried out in pain, tears appearing in her eyes. "What the hell did I do to you?"

"You humiliated me you stupid emo bitch!" the female voice said angrily. "And now we're gonna kill you."

"Please! I'm sorry!"

"Well…..if you say sorry a thousand times, maybe we'll stop. Continue boys."

The girl started saying sorry over and over until the pipe came down, this time on her side. She cried out once again and the beating continued.

"Hey, let me take a hit." The female voice said and the camera was handed to the empty-handed boy. The pipe was tossed to her and she hit the girl a couple times with the pipe until there was a scraping sound.

"What the hell is that sound?" the camera moved just a little.

Suddenly, both the girl (the one with the pipe) and the boy screamed and ran off. The camera moved to see the two running out of the woods. "Hey! Where are you two going?"

The camera moved again to see a dark figure appear. It had a large knife in its hand. The boy screamed the camera started backing away. "No! No!"

There was a slice and the camera, still recording, fell to the ground, the beaten up girl in its view. The dark figure knelt down and picked up the girl, walking away. The camera was then picked up and turned off.

I was completely frozen and the camera slipped from my hands. "N-no…" I grabbed my head and screamed. "Why? Why did you bring me here?"

"It's okay. Calm down." James said, approaching me.

"No! It's not okay! I wanna go home! I don't wanna be here!" I ran into the nearest room and looked around for something sharp. I found a knife and grabbed it, aiming it towards my heart.

"Stop it!" a hand wrapped around my wrist and with tear-stained eyes, I looked up at James. "Killing yourself….is not the answer."

I looked at the knife and let it slip out of my fingers. I collapsed to my knees with him still holding my wrist.

"What's the point of living?" I whispered to myself. "I never felt so…..worthless in my entire life."

He knelt down in front of me and released my wrist just as Maria walked into the room. "Don't call yourself worthless. You have your entire life ahead of you. Don't throw it away now."

I knew I was being sort of a crybaby, but I'm very emotional and without thinking, I wrapped my arms around his waist and buried my face in his shoulder. I closed my eyes, letting silent tears trickle down my face.

…

Maria closed the camera up and set it down on the small stand, looking over at James and Shell. She was on his lap with her head against his chest, sleeping.

Maria chuckled a little. "She likes you."

He shrugged. "I feel kinda bad for her."

"How so?"

"Those kids nearly killed her on that camera. If it wasn't for whatever that killed them….who would know where she would be right now?"

"She….would be dead." Maria sighed and sat on the couch. "I don't get it though. Whatever killed those kids and saved her….was that how she came to Silent Hill?"

"You know…that scraping noise on the camera did sound familiar." James said thoughtfully. "Have you encountered a monster wearing a triangular helmet?"

Maria shook her head. "No."

He sighed. "We should wait here until morning. Get some sleep."

She coughed a couple times. "Yeah." She took out a bottle from her pocket, opened it and took out a couple pills, swallowing them. She stretched on the couch and was asleep in a manner of minutes.

Shell whimpered slightly in her sleep. "James….."

He sighed and let his head hit the wall. His eyes closed and he fell into a dreamless sleep.