Alright, here we go. Last chapter and that's that.

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Ending Four – New Life

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Waters looked at the newspapers in his hands. The article talked about how Tyler's parents had just vanished. He'd gone into the police office one day, mumbling something about going home. His parents had just vanished without a trace. In fact, the only fact that his parents existed was their son. Tyler was placed in the care of his grandparents.

"This is impossible."

Waters looked up at Gale. "What's impossible?"

"This blood…it's not human!" She said, gawking at the screen. It read, in big bold letters: SPECIES NOT RECOGNIZED! "In fact, it's not even animal, either!"

Waters looked at nothing for a moment. "I gotta go." He said, rushing out of the room.

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"Let's get this over with." Nurse Defoe said. "Obviously, you aren't going to get any better."

Tyler looked at her weakly and smiled very lightly.

"This is really going to hurt." Defoe said.

"I know." Tyler answered.

The red liquid was injected right in his neck, and Tyler stood up from the bed. Blood came from seemingly nowhere all over his body and he clenched. His entire body started convulsing and he let out a long, painful grunt of effort. His eyes started to roll back.

His mouth stretched open and open and open utill his mouth literally was open so far his teeth were in a ring. Blood came from every other orifice and splashed onto the white floor. Something gray could be seen coming from his mouth and horrid gargling noises came from him.

Just then, everything stopped. Tyler stopped shaking, and the noises stopped. Then his skin fell. His entire body just sort of deflated along with the clothes he was wearing.

"There we go." Said a warbling voice. "So much better."

"Tyler - -" Waters barged into the room. He looked around, completely floored. "What the FUCK!?" He screamed as his vision was blinded by a bright white light.

The light faded, and Dr. Waters was aware of a cold hard floor beneath him. He could hear beeping and blurred voices.

"…ello? You with us…?"

Waters slowly sat up and tried to look around, but there were so many reflective surfaces, he could hardly make anthing out.

"He's coming around." Said an odd, warbling voice like it was underwater.

"He must have fainted." Said a decidedly male voice that sounded very familiar. "Are you okay, doc?"

Roger heard his title. "What…what happened…?"

"Looks like we have another Earth man!" Said another voice that was rather high and kind of crackled. Like an older person.

"Where…?" Roger looked around and nearly fainted again.

He was in a huge, circular room made entirely of metal. Half of the room was screens and control panels with bright flashing lights. In one corner was a huge table with what looked like some sort of drinks. Sitting at this table was a man in a green jacket with blonde hair, and a brown-haired man with a strong, square face and a brown jacket. The blonde one had a slightly swollen belly. Sitting under the table was a shiba inu with a set of headphones on its head and a red scarf.

But the most amazing thing – and whether or not that was good was yet to be seen – was the non-earth looking creatures in the room. They were tall, thin, and had heads of varying sizes. They had gray skin that was shiny like latex. Their eyes were all black and had different expressions. They also had small black lines where their mouths should have been.

One of them carded its hand through his brown hair. "He looks okay." Something was held to his mouth. "Here. Drink." He tried to resist, but the stuff was absolutely divine! It tasted like cheesecake with fresh raspberries and chocolate, but liquid. He took a large gulp of the offered drink. "There we go. Good as new." Said the creature.

Roger looked around again, not sure of what was going on. He had calmed down now, but his mind was so confused that it had partially shut down. "Where am I?"

"Our ship!" Said the creature excitedly. "Welcome aboard!"

"Sh-Ship?"

"Yep." The creature closed its eyes in a happy expression. "Sorry I had to lie to you, doc."

Roger stared at the creature…now that he really thought about it…it did look like…like Tyler's shadow. If Tyler didn't have any hair or clothes, then this would be the shape of his body.

"…Tyler?" Roger asked carefully.

"That's me." He smiled. "Let me introduce you!" He helped the doctor up, who saw an additional two more grays in the room.

"This is…" Roger trailed off. There was no way to describe what was going on in his mind.

"The one at the controls is Desi, and that's Defoe. You already know each other."

"Nurse…?" Roger said, staring at the other creature ext to Tyler who had two mounds on her chest where her breasts should have been, giving her a decidedly female appearance.

"That's me." Defoe said. "Sorry I had to lie to you, too. I had to look after Tyler. His costume was starting to break down."

"Costume…?" Roger asked, feeling like a broken record.

"Yeah. That's what was wrong with me. My pores were sweating blood, my arm started breaking down, and then my bones started to break apart." Tyler said. "Again, I want to apologize for lying to you."

"So…you…were an alien this whole time…" Roger asked. He felt disgusted with himself. He'd been infatuated with a creature from another planet!

"Oh, don't worry about it." Tyler said. "I liked you too." He said, wrapping a skinny arm around his shoulders.

Roger stared at him. "Did you just…?"

"Read your mind? Yeah. All of us can do it. We don't need ears or mouths to talk, just eat. That's how we tell each other apart; our minds are all different." Tyler explained.

"Are there other people who are aliens?" Roger couldn't help but ask.

"More than you'd probably like to know the number of." Tyler answered. "Plenty of us have taken some aliens, but we have our reasons." He said. Roger realized that to Tyler, HE was the alien here. "We can't let you tell anyone. Can you imagine what the reaction of your people if you realized that there were aliens among them every day of their lives?"

"Actually, I can…" Roger said, and that was a very frightening thought. "So…what are you going to do to me? And how do you even speak English?"

"I'm just putting my thoughts into your head, and then your brain translates them into your language. You're doing the same when you talk." Tyler said. "Well, we can't let you go back to Earth, so you'll just have to come home with us!"

"WHAT!?" Roger got himself out of Tyler's hold on his shoulders and backed away.

"Oh, come on!" Defoe said. "It'll be fun! We have plenty of aliens from all over the galaxy, so you'll fit right in. Everyone's pretty accepting of others. You kind of have to be. Just ask them!" She said, gesturing to the two men who were watching this whole thing with a sense of fond amusement.

"OH! I didn't introduce you to them! Roger, this one is Harry." Tyler said, pointing at the man in brown. "And the pregnant guy is James." He said, pointing to the blonde.

"Pregnant!?" Roger asked. As both a doctor, and a guy, he was appalled, and yet amazed at this.

"Yeah." Tyler said. "What, you've never seen a pregnant guy before?" He asked, looking between James and Roger. "Oh! Right! I forgot! Your males can't get pregnant! Well, we're a bit different. We can mostly impregnate anyone of any gender. It's mostly a matter of whoever's on the receiving end of the copulation."

Roger just stared at James's belly, amazed. Tyler kept talking, but he only half-heard him.

"The doggy is Mira. He's really nice, loves everyone. And - - Pavlov. What are you doing here?" Tyler asked a man with white hair and a rather fluffy beard.

With a thick Russian accent, he said, "Vell, I've been trying to do things vith the dog, but uh…" he started mumbling.

Tyler seemed to roll his black eyes. He picked up a bell. DING-DING-DING.

"Oh! I'm hungry now!" Pavlov said, leaving the room through a pair of slidey-doors.

Tyler shrugged. "Well, anyway," He went back to Roger. "You'll be coming home with us, and I can let you meet my folks." He said happily. Roger thought that he'd lied about his species, why not his family. But he was one hell of an actor.

"Thanks. I try." Tyler said.

"Will you stop that?" Roger asked.

"Well, your thoughts are so loud, and I can't ignore you if I tried." Tyler said. "You're just that hypnotic." He said, hugging him.

Roger knew that this was Tyler, the same young man from the hospital, but with his gray-like body, all of this affection was extremely uncomforting.

"I can put the costume back on if you want." Tyler said. "Whatever makes you comfortable."

Roger looked around. "No…I should probably get used to it."

"You sure? It's really no problem."

"If I'm gonna be around you people, then I should get used to it…" Roger said.

"Okay." Tyler said. "Hey, Desi? How long till we get back home?"

Desi very subtly looked over his/her shoulder and said, "Twenty Earth minutes."

Roger realized that they must have been outside of the solar system. No sun meant no sense of time.

"Well, sit down." Tyler said, pushing Roger into a sofa around the table. "Here." He gave him a mug of something viscous and dark.

"What is this?" Roger asked.

"The stuff you woke up and drank." Tyler said, knowing that the name of the stuff wouldn't mean anything to him.

Roger gingerly took a sip, and his taste buds were assaulted by that amazing taste from before. He quickly gulped the stuff down.

Tyler laughed and took a mug for himself, but instead of bringing it to his mouth, a long, black, tongue-like appendage came from what one could only assume to his mouth. It went into the mug and Roger heard slurping noises, like he was drinking through a straw.

Roger stared for a moment, but shook it off. Just another oddity.

"You like it?" Defoe asked.

"It's delicious." Roger answered.

"That's the best thing about you Earthlings. Your food." Defoe laughed. "Without you guys, we couldn't make this stuff. All of our food is liquid, so we're looking for new stuff all the time. Your planet has so much better food than ours."

"I'm glad we have enough to make stuff like this all of the time; no scarcity." Tyler said. "Our natural food is…okay…but it's nothing like this."

"What's it made out of?" Roger had to ask.

"Mostly stuff like berries and cocoa beans from earth, but we have some stuff of our own, of course." Defoe answered.

Roger looked at his mug. With this kind of food, and what seemed to be relatively friendly people, and other people from Earth, he felt like it would be easier to adjust to this. He had been thrown into it without much say, but these aliens were surprisingly accommodating.

Mira looked at him and whined. Roger put his mug down and patted his head. The dog jumped into his lap and immediately started licking his face, its tail wagging wildly. Roger laughed.

Tyler looked at this, hearing his thoughts. He hoped that this would be a good experience for Waters. And if not, there was always memory wiping technology. Tyler looked in another direction, and couldn't help but look at James and wonder how cute his Roger would look with a swollen baby belly.

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Not quite as "WTF?" as a usual UFO ending in Silent Hill, but I think this is pretty good.

So, tell me. What ending was your favorite?

I liked the UFO and Good ending, but only because my inner romance nut decrees that the two main characters who are love interests must be together. Oh, well. EXTRAS:

Nurse Defoe – Again, technically not a monster, Nurse Defoe does attempt to kill Tyler. She is an Angel of Death who feels it is her duty to put patients beyond help out of their misery. Whether or not she ends up killing Tyler is up to the reader.

Ondine – This monster is named after a water nymph who cursed her unfaithful husband to stop breathing in his sleep and die. It is an androgynous, emaciated creature in a metal, rectangular frame that acts like a cage, with its arms and legs suspended above and below it with barbed wire. It has a short mass of black tentacles where its mouth should be. It attacks with a singular, large black tentacle that comes from its mouth. The frame represents a bed, and the monster itself represents the helpless patients Defoe has already killed.

Not much else for me to put here, except that I'm trying to brainstorm with a possible new story for Silent Hill. That's it. It's over now.

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