In The End

~Narrator's P.O.V~

It was a quiet, winter afternoon in the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It was Friday the 24th of November, in the year of 2017, reaching after 3pm. Lethbridge was buzzing and very lively. People were walking all around the streets, trying to get to shopping centers and meeting each other as they passed. It was the Black Friday weekend, and the citizens of Lethbridge were getting their Christmas shopping done, before it got busy during the Christmas holiday.

All except one, of course. Sitting in the food court of Park Place Mall, sipping on a medium cup of Coca-Cola from AW, was a young, 25-year-old female, sitting on her own with a heavy sigh. Her short, dark brunette hair was slightly fluffy, due to the rain that was falling that day. Her hazel, nearly green eyes scanned the busy and crowded food court, looking for anyone that passed by that she knew. Listening for anything out of the ordinary.

A soft buzzing sound alerted the girl, as her left pocket vibrated. She dug her pale Caucasian hand into her coat pocket and pulled out a small Samsung Galaxy cell phone. The phone buzzed again. The girl swiped her finger across the screen and added her PIN number to unlock it. The phone automatically opened to the messages app and showed an unread message on the top of her list of contacts.

She pressed a thumb onto the message and the message read,

'Hey, Ellie. Bad news. I'm afraid I won't be able to come shopping with you.

I have babysitting this evening and the weekend.

Maybe next week?'

The girl, Ellie, looked over the message again and gave out a heavy and defeated sigh. With her thumbs, she typed back,

'That's okay... They need you more than I do...

See you later…'

With that, Ellie grabbed her ash grey coat, finished drinking her cup of Coca-Cola and started walking around the mall. She looked through the windows, entered a few of the shops and scanned her eyes over the merchandise within many of the stores, but she lacked the motivation to buy anything. Even the stuff that she needs...

With another defeated and heavy sigh, Ellie left the Park Place Mall and began making her way to the bus station. Once there, she sat on the sidewalk, waiting for the bus to show up and take her back home. Her mind raced with many thoughts of sadness and disappointment. The cold and rainy weather fit the mood of the lonely and depressed girl sitting on the sidewalk.

Everything around Ellie fell quiet and blurred altogether, until the buses arrived and Ellie picked herself up from where she sat and walked aboard the first bus. She paid the bus driver and took a seat at the back right corner of the bus, and looked out the window with a long sigh.

Given 15 minutes of driving around and out of the town, Ellie pulled the stop cord and the bus came to a stop just outside of a little bungalow a block away from the corner shop on the main road. Ellie exit the bus and made her way to the bungalow. She grabbed a pair of keys from her pocket and used the first key to unlock the door. Ellie opened the door and entered the bungalow.

"I'm home." She called, but no-one replied. The building was quiet and empty. No-one else was home. Ellie sighed once again and hung her head.

The interior was nicely decorated, with a mixture of colors in every room. Browns and neutral colors in the living room. Oranges and warm colors in the kitchen and dining room. Blues in the hallway, that lead to two opposite bedrooms and the bathroom.

Ellie hung her coat in the closet in the kitchen and sat down one a three-seated couch, in the living room. She grabbed the remote controller for the television, hung up on the wall, and searched through the channels for something to watch. Nothing seemed to get her interests.

Ellie looked out of her living room window and saw the rain hitting the main window and falling down the glass. It was quiet in the neighborhood. No one was outside or passing by the bungalow. Ellie took a breath, walked over to a portable CD player, selected a Linkin Park CD and inserted the disk into the player. She chose a song and let it play, as she rested on the couch and started reading her favorite manga book.

'I tried so hard,

And got so far.

But in the end,

It doesn't even matter...

I had to fall,

To lose it all.

But in the end,

It doesn't even matter...'

Ellie let out another heavy sigh and put her book down. Left alone in the silence of the bungalow, Ellie's mind raced with numerous thoughts at once. Why did her younger sister choose now to tell her she was babysitting? Why blow her over when she was waiting in the food court for over an hour to start shopping? Why has nothing been fair to her lately? Does she deserve this life she's living? Should she just end it all, before things get worse for her? Will anyone miss her if she took her life? Will anyone care?

No... Of course they won't. They never cared. They never called to check up on her. Never paid her a visit. Never came by for a cup of tea or supper, just to see if Ellie was doing well on her own.

Ellie looked at her reflection in the window. She didn't see a lonely girl who is struggling with life, she saw an empty husk that had nothing else to live for. Ellie nodded, her mind was made up. She stood up and made her way to the small, but comfortable bathroom. She opened the bathroom-mirror cabinet and grabbed a small orange bottle of small white pills, three-quarters full. She opened the bottle and tipped the white pills into her mouth until the bottle was empty.

She swallowed the pills with a small gulp of water, and looked into the mirror. Her vision started to blur, as her stomach churned from the contents inside and Ellie started to feel dizzy and nauseated. She fell to her knees and threw up into the toilet that was next to her. He heart began to ache and surge with pain with every movement. Her body began to grow cold and her pale complexion grew paler.

Trying to fight back the effects, Ellie picked herself up and wobbled over to the bedroom closest to the bathroom. She entered the bedroom and collapsed onto the bed, her head hitting the pillow as she fell. A numbing sensation washed over Ellie's body as she struggled to keep her eyes open. The last thing she saw was the scenery of the mountains out of the bedroom window...

Then… Darkness…

When she regained consciousness, Ellie found herself in a bright room, full of bright and pastel colors, standing before a very tall and slender horse with skeletal features. Black fur with a dark red hue. Light blue eyes and a feature of distortion, like the horse does exist, but doesn't at the same time.

"Hello, Miss. Eleanor May Carter." The horse greeted with a gentle tone in its voice, "I assume that you're wondering where you are and why you're here."

Ellie nodded her head. The last thing she remembers was letting her thoughts get the better of her and taking a huge mouthful of her medication, then everything falling to darkness. Then there was a bright light and here she was, wearing a white dress and no wounds or injuries whatsoever, and talking to a black horse that might be the Grim Reaper, come to claim Ellie's soul.

"Well, it appears that you have died from medication overdose and you're here so we can pass judgement upon you." The horse answered.

Ellie lowered her head with a small quiet sigh. She believed she wasn't going to pass judgement and go to Heaven. Or even returned to life. That's too good for her. Ellie believed that she's gonna spend an eternity in Hell and spend that eternity in flames, torture and darkness. She believed she deserved the worst. No more, no less. She believed she was a terrible person that her family and friends were happy to be rid of.

The horse walked over to a podium and opened the large black book, on top of the podium, and turned the page. The horse tilted its head slightly, "Well, well... This doesn't seem right..." The horse looked at the depressed spirit before it, "It says here that you've been a good soul. No crimes. No sins. Despite being Atheist with spiritual views, but we don't care about that. Why, on Earth, did you decide to take your own life? You're not meant to die until you're at least 55 years old, from heart attack."

Ellie said nothing and folded her arms. The horse looked over the book again, "Then again, it does say that you do suffer from the sin of Envy and Sorrow, due to your depression and social anxiety. That's very dangerous, young lady. But you seem to be unaffected by the resentment that Envy and Sorrow deliver to the soul." The book closed and the horse looked at Ellie, "And for that, you cannot go to Heaven with these sins weighing on your heart like this."

Ellie lowered her head and looked away with a small sigh. Typical. Commit suicide and you can't go to Heaven because of a sin you've been living with most of your life. Just typical...

With that said, Ellie noticed her dress turning black and then her vision was starting to get blurry and her eyelids fell heavy. Her body fell limp as she vanished through the cloud floor, falling to a dark skyscraper world of Hell. As she fell, her body was engulfed with an eerie green flame.

The green flame fell into an empty street on the south side of the skyscraper city. The crimson red moon shined its pentagram face onto the street. The flame vanished, as a tall figure rose from it.

It was a tall, female, anthropomorphic spider demon, standing 6 foot tall, with four arms and digitigrade feet. Slim build with a prominent fluffy chest. Pastel green markings on her snow white fur, like freckles, with tribal skull markings on her chest and hips. Her four hands and forearms were completely green with black nails. Her hair was short with long bangs. She wore the same black dress that Ellie wore, but it was burnt around the hem, making it look jagged. The demon opened her eyes and they were a sharp green with pastel green sclera.

A voice echoed into the spider demon's ears,

"Enjoy the rest of eternity. Young demon."

(A/N: Song is In The End by Linkin Park. One of my favorite songs.

Rest in Peace, Chester Bennington. You were awesome.)