SH3 picks up right where the GOOD ending left off with Silent Hill.

 

While the writers at Konami make Silent Hill 3 pretty self-explanitory as far as the back story, some of you may still be thinking, "What the f@$k?" Being someone who has played all three games SEVERAL (perhaps too many for my own sanity?) TIMES, allow me to explain what happened here:

 

One such child was Alessa. Her mother, Dahlia Gallespie, was a prominent figure in the religious community. A strange and dark religion, its followers called themselves The Order. They worshiped a female GOD and taught their rituals to the children, especially about the coming of Paradise.

Alessa was an unhappy child, blessed and cursed by strong magical powers. She could move and kill with her mind...her powers were fueled by her longing for acceptance by her mother. Dahlia, it seemed, only wanted Alessa for her powers and to make herself feel important...as Alessa was destined to be the mother of God.

Alessa's teachers, especially, K. Gordon, were concerned about bruises and Alessa's negative outlook on life. The child didn't want to play with the other children and lived a seeminly sad existence. The only things that made Alessa happy were inside her small bedroom...her moth collection, dolls and a deck of cards, which she played with young Claudia from time to time.

When Alessa was seven years old, in order to please God, Dahlia set her own house on fire, young Alessa inside and offered as a sacrifice. The fire was put out and Alessa miraculously survived...but she was badly burned. The young girl was secretly wisked away to Alchemilla Hospital, where she was intrusted to the care of Lisa Garland. Dahlia placed a spell on Alessa, keeping her alive and in a state of painful limbo, trapped inside her burned and infected body.

But Alessa's powers remained. Her pain only fueled Sammael's resurrected fetus inside her...and Alessa's dark fantasies of monsters materialized...transforming the town into a living nightmare. In order to escape her torment, Alessa outsmarted her mother...by creating a baby to contain her soul...and a young child appeared abandoned on the side of the highway.

Dahlia and the others were horrified to find that Alessa's souls was incomplete. Their evil attempts to bring about Sammael's rebirth were indefinately postponed...

Meanwhile, while visiting the town, Harry Mason and his wife came across the baby lying helplessly alone. Unable to have children of their own, and Mrs. Mason dying of cancer, they decided to adopt the girl, naming her Cheryl.

Years passed...and The Order was still unable to bring about the rebirth of their God, and they desperately searched for Alessa.

Mrs. Mason finally passed away and it was just Cheryl and her father now. Harry was a writer and times were tough for the duo, but they loved each other and somehow made it through. In remembrance of his late wife, Harry decided to take Cheryl on vacation to Silent Hill.

While driving toward their exit, a girl appeared in the street...Harry veered off the road to avoid hitting her...and awoke in his jeep...to find Cheryl missing.

 

This is where you begin your adventure with the original Silent Hill game. I highly recommend that you pick it up and get the GOOD ending if you've never played it. But I digress...

 

Harry wandered into the deserted town of Silent Hill in desperate search for his daughter. Unbenounced to him, it was Alessa on the road and Cheryl's return had made Alessa whole again...and now strong, Alessa escaped the hospital. Dahlia was horrified at her daughter's insolence once more. She set off to "help" Harry find his lost daughter, with alterior motives of her own. Once Harry discovered Alessa and trapped her with the Flauros, Dahlia showed up and took Alessa away to complete the rebirthing process.

 

Harry, still determined to find the truth, returned to the hospital. There, he found Alessa and Dahlia ready for their ritual. Alessa was still fighting it, but the power grew inside of her. Dr. Kaufman, the director of the hospital who was double crossed by Dahlia, threw an antidote onto Alessa that drew the devil out of her...Sammael. The devil killed Dahlia, despite her loyalty to him.

 

Harry defeated Sammael but Alessa was dying...she once again drew out her soul and a baby appeared in her arms. Alessa then opened up a porthole as the room began to collapse. Harry took the baby from Alessa and ran to safety. He escaped certain death, but who was this child...and would she one day be taken from him again?

 

Harry tried his best to raise the child by himself again. He named her Heather and her powers once again became eviident. The children at school called her a witch. Young Heather had a mind of her own, that's for sure, and a strong love for her father. Harry loved Heather as his own child, but the nightmares reminded him of what she was to become...and he didn't want that to happen again. He wrote in a journal how he thought about stranging Heather while she was a helpless baby...to save her from the demons inside of her. He could not bare to think of returning to Silent Hill and reliving that ordeal again. But his love for Heather grew and Harry never told her where she came from. He wanted her to have a normal life...

 

The Order hadn't forgotten Alessa, though...and one day a member of the cult took it upon himself to locate the lost child. He attacked them and Harry killed him, protecting his adopted daughter. Harry was acquitted for the crime, as it was clearly self-defense...but to avoid further recognition, Harry changed their name to Morris and moved away.

 

The Order didn't give up that quickly, however, and Claudia, Alessa's childhood friend, took it upon herself to find the mother of god. She hired a private investigator, Douglas to track her down. And he did...in the mall as she as talking to Harry on the phone.

 

This is where your adventure begins in Silent Hill 3. See? It just picks right back up! ^_^

 

Claudia longed for acceptance and the return of Paradise. She wasn't the kind to just sit back and wait for it. She set out to make it happen. Her father, Leonard, was abusive and Claudia was an unhappy child as well. She and Alessa certainly had something in common. When Claudia was of age, she became somewhat powerful herself. She transformed the world around her into a living nightmare, drawing Heather into it and banishing her father, Leonard into the hospital basement.

 

In the life of Heather, Alessa lived a much happier life. She didn't believe that her future was already determined. She didn't believe that hatred could bring about any kind of paradise. After figuring out where she really came from, Heather confronted Claudia about her evil doings. Harry had given her a necklace for her birthday one year and inside of it was the same kind of antidote from the first rebirth. Swallowing it caused her to throw up the unborn fetus of Sammael and she was about to stomp out its life when Claudia saved it, swallowing it whole. The devil killed Claudia and returned to life, where Heather killed it once and for all.

 

Heather learned a lot about herself in the journey to the truth, and how much her father really loved her. In honor of his memory, Heather decided to take the name Harry gave her..Cheryl.

 

THE END!!....or is it? Until Silent Hill 4! bwaaahaaahaaaaww!!!