Chapter 5 - 4: The End

Cascade was covered with sweat as he ran down the corridors looking for a way out of the building. "God dammit this place is like a maze. For fuck sakes who ask the architects to design a labyrinth. I have to get out of here and call for help quick. I'm not sure if Michael is gonna make it at this rate" thought Cascade to himself. "Yes, I have to, for Michael!" Cascade resolved. As he was running down a flight of stairs he heard a girl scream. "Nope not my problem. I don't even know if I'll make it out of here plus even if I had time what could I do? I'm no hero and this isn't a comic. I can't be distracted Michael needs me." he thought to himself so as to not feel guilty about abandoning a little girl.

"No leave my daddy alone!" shouted the little girl as grunts and struggling could be heard from the hallway she was in. "You're a big mean-" ,the little girl was silenced by the sound of a slap. "No I can't leave her, what would father say, Michaels going to be okay, he promised." Cascade thought as he ran towards the hallway the girls voice came from.

When he arrived he found a man bleeding on the floor and a girl covering him. The girl was pretty but a thick red line that ran across her face seemed to ruin the symmetry of her face. "Leave me alone! Don't touch him." ,she shouted as a man wearing a skimask tried to pull her of the dead corpse. "Listen little girl you come with me" ,said the mysterious man with a wild grin on his face.

Seeing the little girl not give up on her father even though he was already dead made Cascade feel even more terrible. "If a little girl can put up this much of a fight that what's stopping me" he thought to himself. He snuck behind the man gesturing the little girl to keep quiet. When cascade was about to jump on the mysterious man the man turned around and kicked him, "Stupid boy! You think you are hero?" said the man in a poor English accent as he pointed an AK-47 at Cascade. "Say hello to your god for me boy if you get to see him" said the man. As he was about to pull the trigger the girl pushed him and his shot missed.

"Cyka, you are not worth the trouble bitch. You are too young anyway. The man pointed the gun at the little girl and pulled the trigger.

Before Cascade could even think he ran in front of the gun and got shot in the left lung. The mysterious man was flabbergasted, Cascade used that time to pull the gun from him and shot the mysterious man multiple times in the head. Cascade then fell to the floor. The little girl came running towards him. "Thank you mister. When my father wakes up he will make your wound go away. He is a doctor" , said the little girl. "I'm sure he will." said Cascade as he coughed out blood. "Mister are you sick, why are you coughing out blood?" asked the little girl.

"No I'm okay. I'm just a bit tired. Go to your father he might wake up any second." , Cascade lied. "Oh yes, daddy" said the little girl happily as she ran towards her father's dead corpse and sat beside it trying to wake him up.

"I guess in the end I was not even good enough to save myself huh dad? Well at least Michael will survive. That bastard is the strongest person I know." Cascade thought to himself. "Well life wasn't even worth living. Now that I think back on it I was a disgraceful son to both my parents. I let down my father and instead of consoling my mother when her husband died all I did was sulk like a jerk. Now mom's all alone. I'm sorry mom please don't hate me" Cascade thought. "At this rate I doubt I'm going to the same place Dad went." he thought. "I wonder how things would have turned out if I just listened that day"

As the life seeped out of his body he woke up in an abyss. Its walls seemed to be displaying Cascade's whole life up till the second he died. All his thoughts and memories were laid bare in front of him. And many of his memories made him flinch back and cringe. "What is this place? Is this heaven?" he though but for some reason it came out as words. He began to walk around. He avoided looking at the walls as he wasn't proud of his life.

After walking around the abyss for what seemed like hours he found a giant being about 30 m tall glowing with power. The being was chained by dark binds which seemed to be continuously absorbing the light the being radiated. It could've looked beautiful if not for the black spots all over its body which seemingly ate away at its body.

Despite all this, the being seemed at peace looking far into the nothingness of the abyss.

As Cascade approached it turned its head to look at him. Although the being was on it knees Cascade still looked like an ant when compared to it. As it looked at him Cascade felt as if his soul was being stared at which made him feel uncomfortable. "Are you God?" asked Cascade.

The being ignored him and the entire abyss grumbled as he spoke ''This will do". In that moment Cascade felt as if his soul was thrown into the nothingness of the abyss.

A few moments later he opened his eyes and saw a dirty and poorly dressed women holding him and looking into his eyes. "Neel give your boy a name" ,said the woman.

"His name is Arya" said the man.

"Naniiiiiiiii" ,thought Cascade.