16th installment of the VGNU.
Published Oct 19th 2022-- Nov 12th 2022
THE NIGHTMARE BEGAN HERE
Silent Hill Origins acts as a prequel to the popular horror series, and follows troubled truck driver, Travis Grady, who gets stuck in the terrifying...
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Just because he'd fixed his own issues with this town, didn't mean he could just leave. The streets were still so badly torn up it was a task all on it's own to get around. This wasn't even the whole of Silent Hill, just a section of the town. The lower half of Central Silent Hill. The roads around what little he had access to were so completely destroyed he didn't stand a chance of getting out at this point.
But he still had questions, and he had a feeling he knew where to go.
Back to where this nightmare started. Not the nightmares of the past, but the nightmare of today. When he first woke in Silent Hill, he was in Alchemilla Hospital, and now it was time to return. All this time he'd been wandering from point to point driven by directions given to him by strange feelings and the notes left behind by the dead. But if anyone had answers, it would be Alessa, and he had a feeling she never really left Alchemilla. It didn't matter anymore if she was an apparition or a figment of his imagination, whoever that girl was, whether she was the one who died or someone else, she had the answers.
This time, he was going to make her talk.
But something felt different as he passed through the doors into Alchemilla. There was the usual chill down his spine that told him he was heading in the right direction, but he felt something else in the back of his mind. Something clawing it's way out.
Travis shook his head. But I already dealt with my past... What's left?
There was a sound like metal scrapping down the hall, and Travis followed it around the corner. It was coming from deeper in the hospital, and Travis felt he knew where. Upstairs, in the Operating Room, where he first went through the looking glass, and into the Other World. He heard the growlings of monsters, but knew he was only sensing their echoes. They weren't here, the were on the other side. As he walked up the steps to the second floor, and down the hall to the OR, he could feel their eyes watching him, mouths watering as they waited for him. All the while, the horribly grating sound of sharpened metal dragging across broken tiles reverberated in his head.
Then, as he reached the door of the OR, before he'd even opened it, he heard that rhyme that haunted him so long ago, and he remembered.
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed..."
Travis froze, eyes wide. No... No I've dealt with my past, I don't need to fight this monster!
"Here comes the Butcher to chop off your head..."
Yet something compelled him to open that door. In the large mirror of the OR room, the mirror that first showed him this nightmare, he could see him. The Butcher. Waiting... pressing his palm against the glass.
"What are you?" Travis stood in the middle of the room, refusing to meet this demon halfway. "Mom, Dad, that stranger... I've already fought those demons. So what are you?"
The Butcher clenched his fingers, then formed a fist and pressed into the glass with his knuckles. But he was still trapped on the other side.
"You've been haunting me since mom was taken away..." Travis narrowed his eyes. "But you're not her demon."
