This is it. This is the last chapter. I want to thank all of those who stuck with me throughout the story, and even those who might just be reading. No one, unfortunately, reviewed, but that's alright! As long as at least one person likes the story, I'll post this without hesitation! Enjoy the final chapter of ECT.

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Final Chapter: Convulsions of…

Ericka stepped outside into the darkness around her. A faint light from an unknown source lit up some of her surroundings, but the flashlight which she had grown to love did most of the work required for her to see. Ericka stepped onto the steel gates that would have been pavement. She was definitely still in the 'other' version of Silent Hill. The one that she could've never imagined in her darkest nightmares.

She laughed at herself for the stupid thought. She couldn't have imagined anything in Silent Hill, let alone the dark version of it. Ericka started to jog towards her destination. It was almost funny, really. Just a week ago, her biggest problem was finding a way to get tickets to a concert she wanted to go to. Just yesterday, she thought she was just going to spend some time with her family in Silent Hill while they sorted out the mess with Jack.

Now she was on her way to…to what, exactly? It wasn't like she could just rescue them without any problems and be the hero of the day. She was going to have to confront Jack. And it was more then likely that she'd run into Kelly again. Ericka shook her head. She'd worry about that when she got to her parents.

If they're even still alive. Ericka pushed the thought away as quickly as she could, but it didn't seem to leave her. Her pace had quickened. She started to sweat despite the cold rain that had started to fall from the void of a sky above her. They had to be alive. She didn't go through this hell just to have the people she was trying to rescue die. No. They were alive, and she was going to save them.

Ericka slipped a little every now and then on her trip to Brookhaven hospital. The rain was really coming down. Running on a fence that had been turned to its side to be passed off as a street that was soaking wet wasn't easy. Water dripped silently into the dark abyss below her.

She'd been running for what seemed like hours, although it was more like a few minutes, when she finally saw the Historical Society building to her left. She wasn't far now. Around her, several of the monsters she'd seen in her earlier travels shuffled awkwardly towards her. She'd have to make a quick jump to the side every now and then when one of the man-wolf creatures tried to attack her.

Ericka didn't waste time trying to kill ay of them. She had to hurry. Every second wasted there was a higher chance that her family might be in danger. At long last, she came to a large building and two doors that were at the end of a narrow walkway. Engraved on the smooth stone above them was the word Brookhaven.

Ericka felt a chill that had nothing to do with how cold it was. She pushed the front door open and prepared for the worst. She didn't expect to see a brightly lit hall. Florescent lights shone brightly in the ceiling above her. Ericka took a few steps forward before a door opened.

A nurse came out and she was shortly followed by a doctor (Ericka assumed so based on their uniforms). The nurse turned and stopped to look at the doctor and let him get a little ahead of her before she continued walking. The nurse started to speak.

"Really? His case is severe enough to need that?" asked the nurse.

"I checked his charts several times over the last few months and nothing else is working. We might as well try this," the doctor's voice faded towards the end of the sentence, as if he were reluctant to be doing whatever they were talking about too. What they were planning on doing was revealed shortly after when the nurse spoke again.

"But, Electroconvulsive Therapy? Is that really all that's left? He's a nice person, aside from the…" The Nurse stopped in her sentence and turned towards Ericka. She had a blank look on her face.

"Sorry," started Ericka. "I was just…" She didn't even get a chance to finish her sentence as the shock of what was happening took over. The nurse's face started to melt. It was like chocolate when it was left in direct sunlight. Her dark hair and pale skin dripped off of her face.

The nurse threw one hand up to her face and dug her nails into her forehead. She ripped off a strip of her dripping skin and dropped it onto the ground. Beneath, the would-be-exposed skull was covered with rotting patches of muscle. The nurse dug her nails into that and started to shred it before erupting into a high pitched scream.

Ericka screamed too, and then the lights went out. After recovering a little from what she'd just seen, Ericka flicked on the light she carried. Now the hospital looked like she'd expected. The same blood, rust, and steel cage scenery that had shown up every time she went to the dark version of the town was used to decorate the hospital. The nurse and the doctor were gone.

Ericka had no map of this place, and the board that could be used for such a purpose in front of her was covered with too much of blood to be read. This was just what she needed. To be walking around blindly in a place like this. Ericka started walking up the path to her right. She didn't go more then a few feet when she found there were two ways for her to go yet again.

The path to her left seemed to go to where the other trail in the beginning would lead. She decided to check that out first since it seemed to be just a circle. When she rounded the corner, she found an elevator and a note taped to it. Ericka took it to read.

Your father wants to meet you so badly! And what of your dear Haldins? Everyone is waiting for you, Ericka. Waiting for you on B3.

Jack

Ericka pushed the button to call the elevator with a feeling of excitement. It wasn't the joyful kind, but the thought that she could just go right to her parents energized her. The elevator door slid open. Ericka stepped into the cage and looked at the panel of buttons.

There was no B3.

There was no B-anything.

The panel of buttons had a one with a star next to it, a two, and a three. According to the elevator, there was no basement to the hospital. Beneath the three buttons was a panel that looked like it could be opened. The only problem was that it was locked. Ericka grumbled and pushed the door open button.

"Of course it wouldn't have been easy," she found herself thinking aloud. Wait. No building has just and elevator. There have to be stairs. Ericka went back to the last intersection she was at and this time went down the hall. A few yards down, a sign with a crude picture of a stick figure on steps started to become visible.

Ericka quickened her pace. She'd almost broken into a run when she saw she had to stop. There was a hole stretching across the hall. It was too far to jump but not far enough for her not to see the agonizingly close stairwell. Ericka backed up and remembered the elevator. She could just go to a higher floor and get to the stairs that way.

She turned around and started to walk when she heard a loud BANG come from the door to her left. Ericka stopped walking and looked at the door. Common sense told her to ignore it, but there was no sign to indicate this was a patient's room. Which meant it could very well be a room where employees might leave things. Things like keys.

Ericka cautiously pushed the door open to see a perfectly normal room. The lights were on in it and there were lockers lined up on a wall. One was open a little. Ericka pulled it open the rest of the way and immediately backed away with a hand over her mouth.

"Oh God," was all she could say. The locker had a metal grate blocking access to inside it. Or, more likely, to keep what was inside in. A human body was stuffed into a three and a half foot tall cage inside the locker. The limbs were wrapped around the body due to the lack of space. One of the poor bastard's legs was around his neck while the other was bent backwards. One arm was forced out of a hole that had been made from the inside and now hung lifelessly in the air. The hole in the cage had been made from the inside. That meant the person was put forced in their while they were still alive.

Atop the locker was a box of shotgun shells. Ericka looked at the body again. She swallowed, and then walked cautiously towards the box of shells. As her hand finally gripped the box, the lights went out. They were only out for a few seconds, so Ericka didn't get a chance to turn on her flashlight.

When she looked down Ericka saw the hand of the body was now around her ankle and looked like it was about to close. Ericka grabbed the box and backed into the wall behind her. The lights went out again. Ericka heard a scrapping noise, and then the lights came back on. The head of the body was now out of the hole with the arm.

Ericka ran out of the room. She slammed the door behind her and made it too the elevator. Once inside, she pushed two without thinking twice. The doors opened to another dark hall way. Ericka ran straight for the stairwell. She stopped when she saw a woman walk into a room. Because of the darkness, Ericka couldn't tell who it was, but she was walking like a normal human being.

"Wait!" called Ericka. She ran into the room that the woman had gone into without even noticing the door had closed behind her. Inside was a room that looked like it had been taken from a mansion. Oriental rugs that looked as comfortable as they did expensive were placed decoratively throughout the circular room. Two long couches were placed on the hardwood floor and were facing each other. A crystal chandelier hung above the entire scene.

On one couch lay Kelly, who was either dead or sleeping. On the other couch was Kelly too, and appeared to be in the same condition. Ericka was confused at there being two Kelly's until she looked further towards the back of the room. Kelly was sitting in a chair with her hands folded in her lap. She was wearing a sky-blue dress that stopped just above the ankles of her bare feet. Her once messy hair was now tied in a neat pony-tail. It wasn't too tight, and made her actually look kind of pretty.

"I won, Amy," Kelly said. The exhaustion in her voice was obvious. "They put up a fight, but I finally came out on top. I'm the dominant now," She chuckled softly to herself. "I'm the only now."

"Kelly," started a confused Ericka. "What's going on? Why are there three of you? What did you win?" The questions in her head all demanded answers, and so she babbled them all out.

"Amy," cooed Kelly. "Isn't it sad?" Ericka tried to calm down a little and just went along with her to try and get information.

"Isn't what sad?" asked Ericka.

"I've been trying this whole time," started Kelly. "They said I couldn't, because of what I was, but I wanted nothing more then to watch you grow up. To be with you as you got older. To celebrate your birthdays. To help you with your prom," Kelly stood after the last statement and spun lightly, to make the dress she was wearing move.

"I won, now. It can finally happen!" Kelly walked towards her and extended a hand. "Can we dance, Amy?" Ericka stared for a few seconds. Then her eyes narrowed in sorrow and confusion.

"I…" Ericka shook her head. "I don't know what you wanted, or what you had to battle. And I don't know what you mean," Kelly smiled, but her grief was obvious in her other facial features.

"He said you'd say that. He said you wouldn't understand what I was saying, because to you, you have her. But I didn't have you. You were the one thing that led me to fight. You were the one thing I wished I could actually have in my life, like a normal person. But if you really don't understand," Kelly turned her back to Ericka and started to walk to one of the three windows in the back of the room. "I guess its okay to give in to this hell. To give it what it wants, and just give up,"

Ericka couldn't even speak. She was confused. "I'm not going to be back, Amy. Sorry, the Haldins call you Ericka, Don't they? That's such a pretty name. I'm glad that ended up being what you had. Be happy, dear," Kelly crouched down so that she was hidden from view behind one of the couches. Ericka walked up to where she'd crouched down, and saw nothing but air. Ericka looked at the couches and saw she was the only one here. Stephanie Kelly Acton was gone.

Ericka left the room. She closed the door behind her. Ericka thought for a second, and then opened the door again to look for Kelly. Her eyes met a small, square concrete room with a single bed that missing the mattress. On the stand next to the bed was a hospital band.

Stephanie Kelly Acton

Admitted through Alchemilla Hospital

Brookhaven #

The rest was scratched out. Ericka left the room and walked towards the stairwell. The door opened easily and she saw the stairs heading down to her left. Ericka walked down the steps until she had gone down to levels. This was where the stairs ended and the wall was marked B1.

Well, it's a start, she thought. Ericka opened the door to the basement. A feeling of déjà vu passed through her as she saw the exact same setup as theatre thirteen from the movies. Ericka looked behind her to make sure se was still at the hospital, and then she walked into the room. She repeated the process from last time and turned on the projector.

Kelly sat in a wooden chair. Her hands were folded on her lap. Her white long sleeve shirt was buttoned and looked like it had been ironed. She had a skirt that stopped just above the ankles with white tights covering what would be exposed. Her long brown hair flowed down around her shoulders and her lips parted in a flashy smile.

Then a man was standing in an entirely different environment. It was a dark hallway. One could make out one or two doors before darkness covered everything. The man had short black hair and was wearing what a hospital would issue its patients. Only his mouth was visible and parts of the hair. The rest of the face couldn't be seen He was standing close to the light, and then was suddenly far away. He appeared in different places in that hallway without moving.

The image was gone and replaced with blackness. One blue word that had the picture quality of a classic soundless black and white movie appeared. It skipped and parts disappeared every now and then. It was like watching a movie with only one word. The word was "Brook".

That scenario was replaced with the woman from earlier still sitting in the chair, but she was shaking her head violently in every direction it could bend. Low growling sounds erupted from her voice every now and then. The image skipped and suddenly the woman was standing next to one of the four cement walls with green mold and slime that was her room. She was now moving her head back and forward to bang it on the cement.

The picture with the word "Brook" appeared again, but only for a few seconds.

The man from the hallway was now on a steel table. Only his mouth could be seen once again. Only this time the line of vision stopped just below the nose instead of the face being covered by shadows. He was shaking violently. A nurse whose eyes were cast in shadow moved a switch upward. The man stopped shaking. He suddenly smiled. The switch was thrown down again, and he started to shake.

Then the camera moved back to the room Kelly was in earlier. She was pulling her bangs back and using the camera that let Ericka see what was happening as a mirror. She had a large gash where she'd been hitting her head. On the wrist Ericka could see there was a hospital band that she could read clearly.

Alchemilla Hospital

Stephanie Kelly Acton

The film flickered again and this time Kelly was staring into an actual mirror. She moved her hands through her hair to tie it up in the elaborate fashion it had been in when she first met Ericka. The camera zoomed in onto a piece of paper on a desk. Ericka could only read a few words. The rest were blurred and out of focus.

Not in a state of mental well-

Transfer To

The word 'Brookhaven' appeared in bold blue letters on an otherwise black screen. They flickered for a short while before the scene moved back to the nurse who had been pulling the switch. Ericka recognized her now as the nurse she'd seen when she'd entered Brookhaven. The nurse was laughing hysterically and was sitting with her legs in an awkward position on the floor.

Now Kelly was holding a baby. She rocked it gently in her arms. Then two men came. One held Kelly while the other took the baby. Kelly screamed and cried. This melted away into the man whose face hadn't been visible throughout the whole movie. The camera slowly zoomed out to show his face, and as soon as it did, one of the most disgusting and grossest things she'd ever seen filled the screen.

It was a sick tan color and had large masses and bumps on its skin. Thick purple tentacles jutted out at random points. It opened its mouth and rows upon rows of razor sharp teeth dripping with black ooze rotated at changing speeds. The film flickered, and then the screen was blank again.

To her right, the walls slid apart like an elevator opening its doors and sure enough, there was the elevator behind them. Something dropped onto the ground from the projector just as the film stopped. Ericka picked it up and saw it was a key. She walked into the elevator with blank look that somehow carried determination. She opened the panel pushed the B3 button.

The doors to the elevator opened in a wide, open room with a stone floor that was lit by a flaming chandelier above her. In front of her was the man from the video and her parents in a cage a few yards above him. They were both standing and looked fine.

"Mom! Dad!" yelled Ericka. She ran towards the cage.

"Ericka!" shouted her dad while her mom just squealed with joy.

"Ericka," said the man. "They're not your parents," Ericka simply gave him the same blank look she had worn when getting on the elevator. "You have to know that. Your mother and I couldn't keep you because those God Damned idiots wouldn't let us! But it's okay, now. They're all dead. Now you and I can leave this town together."

"Mom, Dad, don't worry. I'll find a way to get you down!" Ericka hollered up at the cage.

"I just told you-," the man was cut off by Ericka.

"I know the truth," she said calmly. "I know what you just said is true, but I'm not leaving here with you. I'm leaving with my parents."

The man's face became red as he grew angry. "Stupid bitch! I wanted to meet my daughter and all you turn out to be is some bitch who chooses this…bastard over me!" He pointed up at Mr. Haldin. The next second happened so quickly Ericka didn't even register it at first.

The cage was ripped open by the monster she had seen in the video. Mr. Haldin stumbled backwards a few feet and unintentionally got a good part of his back ripped off by rows of razor sharp teeth. He fell onto the ground face first still struggling to live. Mrs. Haldin had screamed his name, but it seemed like a far off dream to Ericka.

The man violently grabbed Mr. Haldin's spinal cord and strained with all of his might to rip it out. The bones went flying to the floor. The entire mess was cleaned up by the monster and then it moved over to the man.

"I'll kill you all!" he screamed as the thing ripped him apart with its teeth before eating him. Then it charged at Ericka. Ericka's senses returned to her and she ran. While doing so, she pulled out the shotgun and shoved all the bullets she could into it. She turned for a quick second and shot the thing. The bullet tore through its mass, but seemed like it didn't hurt him.

Ericka ran a little more and shoved another shell into the shotgun. When she got far enough ahead of the thing, she blasted out as many shots as she could before it started to get to close to her. Ericka thought she could just do this and hope it dies. But there were two things she forgot about. She was going to run out of energy sooner or later, and she was out of shotgun ammo.

Ericka dropped the weapon and tried the handgun. In another five minutes of fighting, she'd run out of handgun ammo too. She was dead. There was no way to survive. She was out of ammo and out of energy. The last thing she wanted to do was have her mom watch her get eaten.

Realizing it was pointless to keep running; Ericka turned around and pulled out the pipe. She waited for it to come close enough, and then she swung at it using the stamina she had left. To her shock, she hit one of the bullet holes she'd made. The thing reared in pain and rolled over a few times before it stopped moving. It was dead.

Ending 1: A Mother's Revenge

Ericka walked over to where the thing had died. Her face held no expression as she stuck a hand in the pouch she'd used to carry ammo. A single bullet was left in it. She loaded it into the handgun.

"Dad," she whispered over the giant monster. Then she moved the handgun up to her head. Her eyes narrowed and she grinned evilly. "The three of us will be together soon, dear." Her finger pulled down on the trigger.

Ending 2: Genetic

Ericka closed her eyes and sat down on the ground. She was tired. It would feel good just to sit down and rest for a second or two. Especially after killing that thing. Then she found it difficult to move her arms. In fact, she couldn't move them at all.

Ericka opened her eyes. She was wearing a straight jacket and was sitting in a white room with padded walls. "What the…" she said. She tried to wriggle free. "Hey." She said. "Hey!" this time she yelled. "Somebody! Help me!" She'd only been screaming for a few seconds when a man in a white coat came into the room.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"There…what's…there was this monster, and…My mom! My mom's still in Silent Hill! What's going on?" Ericka found it difficult to put together a sentence.

"Jesus, this time about monsters?" He pulled out a shot full of a clear liquid and stuck it into her neck. Ericka wanted to scream, but she suddenly felt incredibly tired. "There now, just sleep. We'll talk about this episode when you wake up and you've calmed down."

"But…mom…" Ericka managed to say before she fell asleep in the white room.

Ending 3: Requiem

Ericka walked over to the cage her mom was still suspended from. She positioned herself to help with her landing, and the widowed Mrs. Haldin leapt from the cage. When they were both ready, and after a tight hug, they started to walk away.

Neither said anything on the entire trip back to the car. The mist covered town of Silent Hill had no more monsters in it. It was just a deserted town. A town so empty, even the slightest of noises could be heard on the other side of the town. A silent town.

Ericka went to go for the driver's seat, but her mom just put a hand on hers and nodded towards the back with a forced smile. Ericka nodded and opened the back door to the car. She sat in the same seat she did on the way down to Silent Hill.

With her head leaned against the cold window, she felt she could fall asleep rather easily. Once the car actually started, (not without trouble. It was, after all, hit by a truck) She started to drift asleep. Before she fell into the darkness of sleep, she could hear her mom crying, and whispering her husband's name over and over.

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They parked the car outside their house and her mom opened the door. Her mom moved over to the counter and just put her head into her arms. Ericka walked up the carpeted steps to her room. She opened her door to find a cool breeze. Her window was open.

On her bed was a picture. It was old and faded. In it, a man and Kelly held an infant. They were both smiling and looking at the camera. Ericka picked it up and positioned her hands to tear it. A small rip appeared in the middle of the top edge where her hands were, but she stopped.

Ericka pulled a box out from under her bed and took the lid off. Several pictures occupied it. Some of her and her friends, and one of her in her freshmen year with her step-parents. She placed the picture in the box next to the one of her current family.

Ericka Haldin placed the lid back on the box and just held it, and as her mother cried softly in the kitchen beneath her, and as she held two of her most treasured pictures, she never thought she'd be this depressed to be home from Silent Hill.

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Okay. There it is. The second-part in my Silent Hill stories. I am going to write a third story that actually connects the first, Dear Sister, and this one along with another new main character. So if you're interested, it'll be up in a couple of weeks. If you didn't read the first, then don't worry. Only parts of the first chapter will be a little confusing.

Anyway, sorry this took awhile. If you read the story, then thanks. Reviews will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading, see you next time.