A/N: Okay, this is the chapter before the last one. After this one, I'm gonna do a sequel! Yay! Now, Sherman knows why Adrian wants revenge against Grunion, and Suki died by falling down a hole in the floor to her death. And Pyramid Head saved Sherman from the psychotic mental patients of the Asylum. Now it all has lead to this. Enjoy!
The darkness was still out, and Sherman walked into Lakeside Amusement Park. He saw rusty shut down old rides, as well as dolls based on the bloodied pink rabbit from his dream.
"Where are you?" Sherman growled hoarsely. He looked around and saw no sign of Grunion, his family, or any of the Order's members. But then right next to the carousel, there was a shed.
"Down the stairs in that shed leads to the Hell they've created their selves" Dark Adrian whispered in Sherman's head. He nodded and slowly walked towards the shed.
Meanwhile, underneath the carousel, there was a large square metal room. In the center was a large red circle. Near the top curves of the circle were four stone poles. Peabody, Penny, Heather, and Patty had their wrists chained and arms raised against each one. Two members of the Order had Dahlia and Alessa trapped tightly in their grips, holding onto their arms outside the circle.
"Did you find the boy yet?" Grunion asked one of the Order's members as she entered the circle.
"No, we can't seem to find him" said the member. Grunion began growling and in rage she took out a knife and lashed it across the masked Order member's head, causing it to fall to the ground.
"Why is it so hard to find the boy!? Can't any of you do a single thing right!? I need that boy! Without him this whole operation was a waste of time, planning, and effort!" Grunion screamed, her captives flinched at all she shouted.
"We're sorry, my lady" one member said standing up from his kneeling position. Grunion slapped the member in the face and knocked them to the floor.
"Sorry doesn't bring me Sherman! He's the only one with the likeness of Adrian! I want that child!" Grunion shouted.
"Well here he is!" a voice exclaimed. Everyone looked to the corner of the room to see Sherman looking angry.
"Oh thank God, you're okay" Heather whispered in relief.
"Sherman, listen to me. You have to leave now, you have no idea what these people are capable of!" Peabody cried out to his son. Sherman didn't listen, he kept on walking straight towards the center of the circle. Grunion gave off a wicked smile, snapped her fingers and a ring of flames surrounded the circle, preventing Sherman from escaping.
"I know what you did. You murdered an innocent child all because of your stupid beliefs. And then you tried to take me from my mother and put me in Adrian's place after you killed him" Sherman snarled angrily at Grunion who just chuckled at what the redhead told her.
"Sherman, listen to your father and get out of here now" Patty said to the child.
"How right you are, boy. As soon as I found out Heather used the Seal to send you to the human world, I followed you. I disguised myself as a mere social worker in an attempt to take you from your family. But I needed the right reason to do so, when you bit Penny Peterson on your first day of school, I saw my opportunity had come at last. But Agamemnon captured me and brought me back to his time. I had used my magic to bring my 'husband' and I back to Silent Hill and attempt to lure you here. We used dreams of your past mother to lure you here and it worked" Grunion said. Sherman's face became a look of heartbreak now that he knew that he had been a target of this horrible woman his whole life.
"Why? WHY ME!?" Sherman shouted.
"It is your destiny, Sherman. You were chosen seven years ago to the vessel. The deity can only be born through your flesh and blood. And then we will be free from the darkness of this Hell, to cleanse Earth of it's sins and begin a new era..." Grunion then walked up behind Sherman and placed her hands on his shoulders.
"...And all we need. Is your body" she whispered into Sherman's ear. A feeling of pain went through Sherman's body and he groaned loudly in pain and got down to his knees.
"SHERMAN!" Penny and Heather screamed at the same time, struggling at the chains that bound them to the stone poles.
"Leave him alone!" Peabody screamed at her. Grunion then got in front of him.
"You have the Seal of Metatron, with it I can summon the deity, and open the portal to the human world" she said now extending her arm to Sherman.
"Don't do anything she says!" Patty screamed. Sherman didn't listen and pulled the Seal of Metatron out of his bag and held it out.
"Take it. I want to see the truth about what you really are. Just take it" Sherman whispered. Grunion let out a smile of pure evil pleasure and the Seal started to glow a bright orange glow. Once she put her hand on the Seal, her body turned to chips of ashes and paint that flew up into the sky.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Grunion screamed in pain when she let go of the Seal. When she did, Sherman raised the Seal into the air and black smoke came out, releasing Dark Adrian from his body. Dark Adrian landed outside the circle and levitated himself in the air, and raised his arms. Barbed wires came out of the ceiling and floors, and like tentacles, they killed off every last member of the Order in the building. Even the ones who held Alessa and Dahlia.
"Adrian, oh dear God... what have you become?" Alessa whispered. Sherman smiled at what had just happened and turned his head back to face Grunion who had now turned into the monster from his dreams, the one with swords for arms. She was that monster all along.
"Missionary!" Heather shouted in terror. The Missionary raised the sword on it's arm that was welded and tried to lunge it down at Sherman's head with a shrill battle cry, but a larger sword blocked it.
"What the?" Sherman asked him. He then looked to his left to see Pyramid Head holding the sword, defending him from the Missionary's attack. When Pyramid Head pushed the Missionary back, Sherman saw this as his chance to run over to his captive friends and family.
"Mr. Peabody! Mom!" Sherman shouted as he ran over to them. He began to free them of their chains by the set of keys Grunion had left on a hook attached to Peabody's pole.
Pyramid Head and the Missionary had clashed their blades against one another's creating sparks at the metal touched. Hissing, growling, and snarling at each other as they fought.
"You guys okay?" Sherman asked Penny.
"Yeah, we're fine" Peabody, Patty, Penny, and Heather hugged Sherman together, happy he was safe but then began focusing on the fight that was taking place between Pyramid Head and the Missionary.
"Come on. Come on" Heather whispered, hoping Pyramid Head would win against the Missionary and they could be left in peace at last. The Missionary knocked Pyramid Head away and tried to attack the humans that were in the circle with them, but Pyramid Head dropped his sword down in front of her and made her trip to the ground.
"HISSSSSSS!" This Missionary hissed at Pyramid Head about to attack him again. This time, when she was about to attack Pyramid Head, she tried charging at him full speed ahead, but didn't notice Pyramid Head's blade swinging towards her head. The blade went right through her neck and throat, decapitating her and ending her life for good.
"I-I can't believe it. It's all over" Peabody said relieved a little bit. Pyramid Head them saw at the body of it's fallen foe turn to ashes and lift into the sky as well. Then, he began walking away, dragging his giant blade across the metal ground.
"Thank you" Sherman whispered to Pyramid Head. But he didn't hear Sherman's grateful words, he just walked back to wherever his domain was. Sherman had now felt himself getting tired from all he had just faced. He collapsed to the floor in exhaustion.
After a while, Sherman had been woken up by Mr. Peabody, and Heather who were standing over him.
"Are you alright?" Heather asked.
"Yeah, I was just tired after all that" Sherman said tiredly as he got up. He looked around to see that the room wasn't metal anymore, and that the floor was concrete, the walls were dark green and plastered, and tool racks with old tools hung from the walls.
"You okay? You want me to carry you?" Peabody asked.
"I'm alright, let's just go home and get some rest" Sherman said. Everyone began walking towards the stairs but then heard a female voice.
"Why?" it asked. They saw Alessa on her knees with Dahlia's arms wrapped around her.
"Why didn't she kill me with the others?" Alessa asked.
"Because you were his mother. And mother is God in the eyes of a child" Heather said. And with that, they left the structure and went outside where it was no longer dark and ashes were falling like snow from the sky and began walking towards the entrance/exit to Silent Hill. They were all ready to go home.
A/N: And there you have it! Grunion was the Missionary all this time and Sherman rescued his family! And Pyramid Head killed Grunion/Missionary. Hooray! There aren't any specific references in this chapter, but I will say that the epilogue is coming up and the sequel might be posted the day after this epilogue is posted, so be on the lookout. More to come in the epilogue. Please review, thanks!