Author's Note: Before writing this chapter, I had to decide to either bring back one character or bring in a new one. You'll see which one I chose.
An alternate title for this chapter would be Silent Dreams.
And also, the reason this was released early is because I finished this early. Enjoy.
Current Time – Unknown
I awake in a nice soft bed. This bed felt familiar...too familiar. I looked down at the sheets and saw that it was the bed from my home. The room I was in was completely empty and bare. There wasn't a single window or any other furniture.
In front of the bed was a single door that looked like it was made out of rusted, burnt metal. I got up and opened the door. On the other side was a man. I take a few steps towards the figure and the man turns around and I saw that it was my best friend, Wario.
I called out his name, but Wario just stood there, staring at me. He wore a mask that had the likeness of his favorite mythical Greek creature, Cerberus, concealing his face. Sincerely, his body started to burn! He was like a walking candle. I couldn't do anything but watch him burn in horror! Soon, he was nothing but a pile of ashes on the floor, sitting on top of the ashes was his Cerberus mask which, for some reason, remained untouched by the flames.
After watching him burn, the room completely changed to look like the "Otherworld" that was in my other nightmare except there wasn't a siren. Behind the ashes, I saw a tall silhouette running away and soon, it disappears behind another door that just appeared out of nowhere. I yelled, "Hey, wait!" and started to chase after the figure that just left. I went through the door and found myself in a room that was completely frozen solid! There was a frozen desk, a frozen chair, anything that you would find in an everyday office.
In the middle of the room was another figure, but this one had feminine features like curves, long hair, etc. This figure vaguely reminded me of my last girlfriend. This figure was looking out a large window that showed a city that was completely frozen too like this very room I was in. Then, out of thin air, the figure that I saw earlier appears and ran towards the feminine figure and pushed her out the window. I heard the figure let out a scream that was so loud, it could probably shatter windows. I ran towards the window and yelled out her name, but when I tried to say it, nothing came out, not even a squeak.
I turned around and saw that the figure that pushed her had a gun out (a revolver). The gun was pointed at me. He pulls the trigger and I hear a BANG!
I screamed, "NOOOOOOO!", hyperventilating, sweating bullets, Then, I stopped and looked around. I was in some sort of restaurant. Then, I heard the cocking of some sort of Shotgun. I turned around with my Pistol in hand and saw that someone was pointing a shotgun at me from the shadows of one of the restaurant booths.
The person pointing the shotgun at me chuckled and lowered his barrels. I heard him say, "Relax pardner, I ain't gonna waste a fucking bullet on ya." Instantly, I relaxed, I reached for my flashlight, and pointed it towards him. The man covers his face with his gun and says, "Ahhh, you bastard! Watch where you point that thing! Your gonna fucking blind me." He gets up from his booth and I see his features and face.
He looked about 10 years older then me. He reminded me of this one character from this game I once played when I was in high school. He had dark hair that stopped at his shoulders, wore a hat, and he wore a navy blue vest. On top of the vest rested a Gilet, a fancy sleeve-less jacket. Around his neck was a red bandana that had odd designs on it.
Then, he started talking.
"The name's Herman, Herman Fucking Marks. What's up, motherfucker?"
Wow, Just the way he introduced himself probably summed up the way he talked. He's about as subtle as my alarm clock going off in the morning.
"My name is Nicholas Brooks, but everybody just calls me Nick. So, Herman, what brings you to town?"
"Well, I've heard a lot of strange things going on in this town. So I wanted to investigate. You?" What he said conjures up the thought of the man that disappeared several months ago when he was last seen entering this town.
"I...I felt like I had something to do in this town." I didn't feel like explaining the nightmare to him, mostly because I've told it so much times that I'm bored of telling the same thing over and over again.
"I had to bring my shotgun with me, felt like I needed to bring it along. Have a pouch fulled with bucks and slugs for it." His shotgun looked like a Benelli M3 (Super 90), judging from the looks of it.
"So, Herman...Were you the one that took me out of the tunnel?"
He replies, "Tunnel? What fucking tunnel? I just got here and found you sleeping like shit in that booth."
"Really?" If it wasn't Herman, then who could it have been that took me out of the tunnel?
"Yeah, anyways...I'm gonna head out and..."have a look around", see ya around, pardner." And just like that, he left the restaurant. Several minutes later, I hear his shotgun go off about four times in the distance.
After Herman left, I decided to see what I have in my possession. I still had my Pipe, my pistol, My flashlight (of course), the first aid kit and the health drink I got from the tunnel, and the note about the valves. Except, there was something different about the note. On the bottom right hand side was an arrow pointing towards the edge. I turned the note around and found a message written in a neat, girlish-like handwriting. The message reads: "Thanks for writing down the note about the valves, if you didn't we both would have been stuck in the tunnel."
Under that message was another. This one reads: "P.S: Good job leaving your flashlight on. Wouldn't have found you if it wasn't on." Whoever wrote this deserves my thanks. The mystery writer is probably in town somewhere. But, where? And, of course, who?
Before I left the Restaurant, I wanted to look around. Most of the restaurant was pretty much trashed. It was so trashed, it looked like a hurricane had hit the premises. I found a map of the town that was covering an empty cash register (probably looted). I also found two boxes of ammunition for my Beretta; each box contained about 10 rounds.
Right when I was gonna leave, a dog-like creature comes crashing through a window on the opposite side of the restaurant. I said, "What the-?" and before I could finish what I was saying, the creature had pushed me to the ground and started biting my arm. I felt it's teeth piecing my skin as it just stared at me with red-glowing eyes. I tried my best to release his hold on me. Eventually, I pulled out my gun and fired a bullet right between it's eyes. It lets out a whimper as it died on me.
I pushed the creature off of me. Then, I finally got a good look at it. It looked like a zombified version of a one-headed Cerberus. Parts of the body was either infected and/or peeling off. And it looked like it was burned because it had third-degree burns all over it's decomposing body.
After attending to my wounds I got from the dog-like creature (with the first-aid kit I got from tunnel), I left the restaurant. And almost instantly, the fog and the frigid weather hits me right in the face like a punch to the gut. Quickly, I zip up my jacket and reloaded my pistol. Since I didn't know where to go, I consulted my recently acquired map.
I had just left "Gonzales' Mexican restaurant". I thought I might as well go to the apartments since I had nowhere else to go and besides after looking though the map, There wasn't anywhere else of interest to go that was on my map. It took me awhile to find the apartments on the map. The apartments was basically on the edge of the map. I could go to the apartments if I go though "Brown St." Soon, I arrived at the street but I stopped walking and found a giant chasm in front of me.
I guess going to the apartments won't a simple task as easy as crossing the street...
Author's Note: And that's Chapter four. Hope you enjoyed it.
And thus, we come across a common occurrence in the town of Silent Hill. Hell, I bet you can't walk more then ten feet without coming across a chasm.
And also, Nick is in a previously unexplored part of the town.
And from now on, I will include a list of Nick's inventory in these notes at the end of each chapter. And for guns, it will be "bullets in gun / reserved ammo". So, Here it is:
Weapons
Beretta (pistol): 10 / 24
Iron Pipe
Butterfly Knife
Health Supplies
Health Drink x 01
Important Items
Flashlight
Silent Hill Map
Valve Note + Savior's Note
And also, whenever Nick gets a new item, the text will be like this. Underlined and Bolded.
The next chapter will be out on the usual update day, Saturday. See ya then.