Death

Chapter 8

I walked out of my house the next day, even though Jack, I mean, Insanity, hadn't been with me anymore, I thought I could still hear his voice echoing in my head. I couldn't sleep at all last night because of it. Hatred's effect worked on me, maybe this is J- err Insanity's?

I looked over at one of the building in the distance, I could have sworn it weren't there before. I had lived here for my past two lives, surely I would have seen this here. I rubbed my eyes, maybe it was just because I hadn't slept, the building was probably a hill or something like that. I looked at the spot again, it wasn't there anymore.

I started to walk to school, an appearing and disappearing building wasn't the craziest thing I've ever seen, from what I've seen so far this year, what just happened is what I'd consider normal. Jared, you can't ignore me forev-er! Insanity's voice rang in my head, I held my head, I suddenly had an extreme headache.

"You fool. You try to go against me? You are going to a start war, hell, you've started it already!" I heard Purgatory's voice say, he lifted up my head. "No one can beat Purgatory."

"What have I done to deserve this? When have I ever done one bad thing to you?! Name one thing I've done wrong!" I exclaimed.

"You created me." He responded. "Each time they wake up, I feel them ripping away at me. Each time they wake up, I have to keep them in. Each soul I take, it is harder for me to withstand it."

"Then why do you keep taking souls?" I asked.

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." He said. "What I find interesting..." His voice started to sound like Insanity's, and he started to look like him too. "Is that you are afraid of Purgs." He had transformed into Insanity right before my eyes. I stared at him, I rubbed my eyes again, I'd seen weird things before, but this? "What, cat got your tongue?"

"How did y- I mean y- You were Purgatory just a second ago!" I exclaimed.

"Not everything is what it seems, Jared, Hatred controlled your physical behaviour, I control your mental! Just imagine the two of us together! What an effect it'll have on you! Oh! I shouldn't forgot my other lil' friend, you haven't met him yet, though!" He said as he chuckled.

"Again with the laugh?" I sighed. "You're just a hallucination, you aren't real."

"Not real?" He asked. He raised his arm, and swung it towards my face. I fell on the ground. "Do you call that real?!" I stood up as I rubbed my cheek, I looked at my hand, he had hit me so hard that I started to bleed. I cursed under my breath.

"What the hell was th-" I started to say, but Insanity had been replaced by Hatred. "Insanity, I know it is you, stop playing games."

"I would kill myself if I were that sodding retard, I see the turd bitch slapped you. The guy's sensitive, I know. That shite-head." Hatred said. He took off his sunglasses, and winced at the light, his eyes were pure black.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" I asked.

"You don't get it, do you? Insanity said you were dumb, but you can't put this all together?" He said. "I make you hate people, so what do you think Insanity does?"

"He drives me insane?" I asked.

"Bingo! Dumb-arse wins Final Jeopardy!" He yelled. I rolled my eyes. "Jared, tell me another word for seeing things that aren't there."

"Hallucinating." I answered.

"Bingo!" Hatred exclaimed, he snapped his fingers and disappeared. Insanity's effects had only started now? A day after I had seen him? Insanity kept saying there was another, but who?