Insanity (Skillet Fanfiction)

Chapter 5: He's Back

The band members entered their Skillet bus to make it to the place where they have to practice. Korey noticed John's silence. He usually makes lots of noises everytime they ride on the bus. Korey took out their videocam to break the awkwardness in the atmosphere.

"What's up, panheads? We are once again on the road heading for our practice area, yeah!"

Korey pointed the camera at the quiet John. John looked at the camera expressionless and turned away after.

"Come on, John. Do something." Jen, who was watching them while eating chocolates by the counter, urged John.

"Ummm... I don't give a damn about this, okay?" John said coldly.

Korey turned off the camera with a groan. "Ugh! This will never work."

"What's wrong, Doggy? I've never seen you act like this before." Jen asked John.

John looked at her for a brief moment and once again said nothing. Jen rolled her eyes and stored the chocolates back in the cabinet.

"Whatever. If this is a joke, it isn't funny." Jen annoyed, left John alone.

*MOMENTS LATER*
They've finally arrived at the said place. All of them ran excitedly inside the building except for John who was just slowly walking. Korey and the others set the equipment while John just sat down. Seth approached him and put his hand on John's shoulder, but John didn't react and just avoided contact with his eyes.

"John, I don't know what's going on with you but you gotta make sense sometimes. Life isn't always about fooling and joking around." Seth said with an irritable tone.

"Fooling around? You don't know what I've been through, Seth." John muttered.

"All righty, guys! Equipment's settled. Let's practice." Jen announced and sat back down again on her drum kit.

John heard it and grabbed his bass guitar to join the others.

A few hours had gone by and they're still not done practicing due to John singing in a flat tone and his guitar going out of tune. They've been singing only a single song and yet, they're not making any progress. The three band members kept on telling John to stop messing around but John won't even listen.

Korey finally snapped and settled down her guitar to speak a word to John. "John, snap out of it! What's wrong with you?! If you're going to be foolish, we're leaving."

As the other band members hurried to the front door, John just sat there motionless.

Suddenly, a pyro (I don't really know if that's the right spelling. Correct me if I'm wrong :D) malfunctioned and hit Seth on the back. He fell face-first with a groan. He have never been hit by a pyro before and John said that it would really hurt or injure someone if they got hit. (I dunno if it's that bad but I heard that it would hurt. John said that to Jeremy.)

John came back to his senses when he heard Seth screamed. "John, help me!" he begged, tears forming in his eyes.

John stood up from his seat and hurried to Seth. Seth was completely still and unnerved. His right arm and left leg were somehow a bit twisted. Seth's condition was far worse than John's. John got hit by a pyro once on their concert but it wasn't too close but it still hurt.

"Seth, are you feeling okay?"John asked while touching Seth's left leg to look at it.

Seth screamed loudly. "Aaah! That hurt! It... feels like it's swelling!"

"Listen, I'm going to carry you to the bus, okay? We need to take you to a hospital."

Seth nodded and John carefully started lifting him up. It wasn't easy at first. Seth complained that every part of his body was aching everytime John starts lifting him. But John managed eventually.

When John reached the front door, still carrying poor Seth, Jen suddenly opened it before he could.

"Seth, what is going... Ha?!" she gasped at the sight of Seth in John's arms. She looked from John to Seth then Seth to John with an expression of shock on her face.

"What happened here?!" she panicked.

"Jen, Seth got hit by a pyro. Please hurry and start the vehicle! We're taking him to the hospital."

Without any other word, Jen rushed outside and told the others what happened. John reached their tour bus and laid Seth on one of the beds they have.

"Don't worry, Seth. You'll be fine." John comforted him.

John sat beside Seth to look after him while Scotty drove the bus. In John's peripheral vision, he saw the same figure he saw the other day at the mall. He turned his head to face it but it suddenly vanished.

"I'm back, John." a sinister whispering brushed his ears.

John turned his head one more time and came face to face with the dark shadow. It wasn't just an ordinary dark shadow it was-

"DJ?!" he screeched in terror.

His dark side that haunted his lonely and abusive youth years was back. Though he wasn't sure if he's mind was playing tricks with him again.

DJ's face have gone more maddening than evet before. His eyes were gone and his mouth has been stitched. All that was left were eye sockets pouring blood, but he still looked identical to John only more sickening and paler. He grinned from ear to ear showing his perfect set of razor sharped teeth.

"You didn't pay me with the 3 things I've asked, Johnny. And now, you and your family... MUST DIE!"

John cowered in fear and trembled on the ground. Tears streamed down his face. DJ hovered over him and vomitted never-ending crimson blood with lots of insects on his whole body. The blood stenched his clothes and his handsome face. More blood with unknown species of insects poured out and he can no longer breathe, so he decided to open his mouth to gasp for air. DJ laughed and the blood that was emmiting from his mouth went inside John's mouth.

John choked as the insects made their way inside his throat. He could feel them, gnawing every part of his insides. Clawing and sobbing on the ground, John couldn't do anything but scream.

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A/N: Decided not to delete it. I already made it until to Chapter 12. If I do reach Chapter 12 and there are no still improvements, I will delete this story.