Author's Note: An alternate title for this chapter would be "The Final Battle". This wasn't the title because it sounded a bit too cliché.
This chapter has been extended till the battle is over.
I hope you enjoy the chapter.
Time – Unknown
As I entered the room, The static coming from my radio slowly faded away. The room I just entered was shaped like a huge, round dome. In the very center of the room, there was a huge ball of ice. Inside the ball, I saw a strange silhouette. I slowly approached it.
I knocked on the ball of ice. It was completely frozen solid. Then, in the ball of ice, I saw two eyes that started to glow. The ball of ice started to crack. As the ice started to break, I heard the sound of a growl coming from the ice.
I take out my shotgun and loaded it with slugs. I also attached my lantern to my belt, I have a feeling that I won't be holding it for awhile. Then, the ball of ice breaks into a thousand pieces that goes flying everywhere revealing the monster that I had fought just a few moments ago out in the hall. The monster looked overall the same. The only difference that it had was that it had more blood on his body this time around (probably from our last encounter).
The monster had his giant knife with him. I also saw that it had a necklace that had lots of keys chained to it dangling around it's neck. The monster came towards me with it's weapon, dragging it on the floor which made a loud, screeching sound. As he came towards me, I fired both of my bullets at him. With each bullet hitting him, He would flinch and a small cloud of blood would appear where the bullet had hit him.
As I reloaded my shotgun, he was getting closer and closer. After I finished reloading, He was a mere feet in front of me. I quickly fired both the slug bullets, that I just put in, at him. These wave of bullets caused him to stumble back and lean on his knife. I took this time to reload again and to back away from the monster a little.
In just a few seconds, the monster recovers and starts coming towards me again. I fired my bullets again at him. I'm running out of slugs. I have only half the amount of slugs left. I hope this guy goes down soon.
Then as I was reloading, I felt his grip around my neck. His grip tightened, squeezing the air out of me. I tried my best to free myself, nothing I did worked. Then, an idea came to me. I took out my knife, exposed the blade, and stabbed the knife into his arm.
Right when the monster releases his grip on my neck, I felt something sharp cut into my arm. The pain was horrible; It was indescribable. I put my hand on my arm and felt some blood. The monster, meanwhile, was trying to get the knife out of his arm. But, it couldn't remove the knife because it couldn't get a good grip on it...how ironic.
The cut was on my upper right arm. Then, I noticed that the monster had dropped his weapon. I walked over to it and picked it up (which was quite a task since I felt more pain coming from my arm). Right when the monster managed to remove my knife, It drops the knife onto the ground. Then, it saw me coming at it with it's own knife.
I got to the monster and stabbed the monster in the chest. The monster lets out a loud roar. Then, the monster went limb; Falling onto the floor with the giant knife coming out of it's chest. After the fight, I walked over to a wall in the dome-shaped room and sat down.
I have to attend to my wound. I take out my one and only first-aid kit and opened it. The kit had lots of medical supplies. Gauze, Ointment, bandages, a very small ampoule, and a wet towelette, the mother-load. With all these medical supplies, I managed to heal and cover the cut wound that the monster had inflicted on me.
After I was done, I discarded the left-overs; They were useless now. I got back up on my feet, retrieved my knife, and went to the center of the dome-shaped room. I noticed something different about the room. The body of the monster I just fought mere moments ago was gone. In his place was a blood-stained envelope. I picked it up*.
Right when I was gonna open it, I hear the sound of metal scraping against stone. I looked up and saw another monster. This monster looked a bit different then the other monsters that I had encountered. This monster was a humanoid figure in the middle of a large, spinning wheel. On the wheel, there were many strange symbols.
I couldn't see the symbols clearly because the wheel itself was spinning. But I knew there were symbols on the surface of the wheel. I take out my shotgun and loaded it with a slug and a buck. The wheel monster comes down lower towards me and the humanoid figure in the center of the wheel started looking down at me with glowing red eyes. The humanoid figure's head kept on throbbing and convulsing violently. Something tells me that this battle will be a tough one.
I fired both of my rounds at the monster and with each bullet that hit it, it recoiled a little. After the shots were fired, The wheel stops spinning and two of the symbols on the wheel starts glowing red. The symbols that glowed vaguely resembled a tree sapling and two clouds. What did they mean?
The wheel starts spinning again and almost instantaneously, the room becomes shrouded in a thick fog. I hear the sounds of the one-armed monsters a few feet in front of me. I switched to my steel pipe. Soon, the one-armed monsters appears in my field of view. But I easily took care of them.
After beating the monsters, the fog disappears and the wheel monster comes into my view. I switched to my eagle and fired a whole mag. at the monster. After firing the whole mag., the monster recoils back again. The monster's wheel stops spinning and this time, a symbol that vaguely resembled a syringe started to glow. The symbol of the tree sapling was still glowing. I also noticed that the symbol of the two clouds was cracked.
Then, out of nowhere, Two nurse monsters appeared. And as for the wheel monster, it disappeared. I reloaded my eagle and disposed of the nurses (which took about two bullets each). I stomped on their corpses just to make sure they were dead. I quickly reloaded my gun and the wheel monster reappeared.
I switched to my shotgun and fired at the monster. The monster recoiled after just one hit. The wheel stops spinning once again. This time, the symbols that looked like a tree (the tree sapling symbol was cracked) and a dog started glowing. Then, The wheel monster disappeared in it's place was a single dog monster that attacked me back at "Gonzales' Mexican Restaurant".
The dog growls and pounces me, knocking me down to the cold, stone-like ground. The only thing that was stopping the fangs from burrowing into my skin was my shotgun that I had used to block it. As I was struggling, I pull out my knife (with my free hand) and stabbed the beast. The beast whimpers and went limb. Then, I kicked it's corpse off of me.
The wheel reappears. I fired out him with the leftover slug which once again causes the monster to recoil. The wheel spins once more. This time, the symbol was a cage. The cage-like monster from the frozen library?
Then, like as I had predicted the monster appeared. I had killed it like I killed it the first time. Smashing it's head with my steel pipe. This fight didn't take long, This version of the monster seemed a bit weakened. The wheel monster reappears, I fired at it with a mag. from my eagle, and the wheel spins again. This time, stopping at a feminine figure.
The creature that I had fought at City hall appears. But this time, the creature just faded away as soon as it appeared. What the hell? I guess it didn't want to fight...After the monster disappeared, The wheel monster took it's place. This time, a symbol that looked like red eyes started to glow.
Then, the monster with the great knife appeared. I killed it like I did the first time. By simply shooting at it repeatedly with my slugs. This time after every two shots, I would back away from the monster. The monster fell after I used up all my slugs. All I had left was 4 bucks (which didn't include the bucks already in the shotgun) and one whole mag. in my eagle.
After the monster with the great knife disappeared, the wheel monster appeared before me. This time, it appeared before me without the wheel spinning. It would always appear before me with the wheel spinning. I noticed that almost all the symbols on the wheel were all cracked except for one. This symbol looked like a tree that had lost all of it's leaves, this symbol started to glow.
The humanoid figure in the center of the wheel lets out a loud groan and starts coming at me. I turned around and ran. The monster lets out a loud roar. As I was running, I fired the rest of my bullets from my eagle over my shoulder. Soon, the eagle was empty and the monster was still coming at me. Something tells me that if I stopped running, I will be dead.
I take out my shotgun and fired four bucks at the monster. The monster once again roars and stops in it's tracks. The wheel drops down with the monster still in mid-air. I had one more bullet left in my shotgun. I fired it at the monster. Monster starts to shriek and roar, then he falls to the ground.
When the monster hit the ground, There was a blinding light. An air raid siren rings out in the distance. Then, I saw nothing but darkness...
Author's Note: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. This will be the last "main" chapter. Next week will be the ending and the epilogue. It might be a little short (the ending anyway).
The Wheel monster was inspired by the "Wheel of Fate" from House of the Dead 3 (my favorite arcade game).
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Nick's Inventory
Weapons
Butterfly Knife: A rare knife that isn't sold in retail stores. I had to order it online. Can't stress enough about how sharp it is. I had previously lent it to Lana Pendanski until I found it on the corpse of a monster and got it back.
.50 AE Desert Eagle (Pistol) - 0 / 0: Exchanged for the Beretta; Found in the police department. Better then the Beretta in terms of stopping power. But it has three less bullets and a slower firing rate. But it is still worth taking.
Steel Pipe: Found in the tunnel. A pipe like this is usually used in plumbing. But it makes for a nice melee weapon. About three and a half feet long.
Sawed-Off Shotgun - 0 / 0 (Bucks), 0 (Slugs): Given to me by Herman as he died; Exchanged for the pump-action shotgun. It has five less bullets then the Pump shotgun. But with this shotgun, I can shoot and reload faster. It is also stronger then the pump. Totally-worth taking.
Health Supplies
Health Drink x03: A drink with limited healing properties. Comes in grape or strawberry flavors. Yum.
First-Aid Kit x00: A medical kit that comes with many healing supplies inside. Takes time to use it, but it is worth it...usually.
Important Items
Lantern: Given to me by Lenny Skye. A replacement for my flashlight since it stopped working. Its hooked up to my belt. Runs on oil.
Flashlight: Always handy whenever I have a blackout in my house (which happens often). It had stopped working since I dropped down "that hole". I still have it in my chest pocket though.
Radio: Found in Goods N' Sales. Emits static whenever there is a monster nearby. Can be turned on/off (though it's not very helpful when it's off). Unlike my flashlight, this thing still works...sort of.
Silent Hill Map: Found in the Town. Pretty self-explanatory.
Lighter: Found in the Library. Just an ordinary lighter. Can melt small pieces of ice and provide small illumination. I decided to keep it with me, might come in handy in the near future.
Herman's Audio Diary: Given to me by Herman as he died. These are his last words. Totally-worth a listen to.
"The Brooks Case 2": Retrieved after killing that monster. It's a continuation of Herman's Audio diary.
Unlabeled Audio Diary: Found in the "Intensive Care Unit". It's a recording of Lenny doing something. I should hold on to it.
Herman's Flashlight: Retrieved after killing that monster. It doesn't work. I found an unlabeled key where the batteries are suppose to go though.
Blood-stained Envelope: Found after killing that monster. The contents are unknown at this point.
Important Items used in this chapter
Battery Key: Found in Herman's flashlight. I just used on a door that led me to an otherworld version of my bedroom.
Rusted Key: Taken from that monster. This was the key that I just used on the center door.
Discarded Items
White Rose: Found at the entrance to the library. Beautifully crafted. Belongs to Lana Pendanski. Given back to her in "Fred's Cafe".
Savior's Note: Found in my pocket. A note from the one that saved me from the tunnel. It's the same note about the valves from the same tunnel. Turns out that Lana Pendanski was the one that saved me.
Petal Fragments: Found on the streets of the town. The fragments had originally come from Lana's white rose. I had left them with Lana back at the mini-mart.
City Hall Map: Found in the guest room. Discarded because I won't be needing it anymore.
Alchemilla Hospital Map: Found in the waiting room. Discarded because it's pretty useless now that I'm not in the hospital anymore.
Urban Apartments Map: Found at the entrance to the apartments. Discarded because I won't be needing it anymore.
Silent Hill Library Map: Found on a library chair. Like the town map, it's self-explanatory. Discarded because I won't be needing it anymore.
Hope you enjoyed Chasing Spirits. Come back next week for the ending, the epilogue, and the contents of the letter (you know which letter I'm referring to).