Bloody Theater
Jake slowly opens his eyes and sees that he was inside a giant theater where actual plays were performed, like MJ's little performance about something about Romeo and Juliet but set in the wild west and with a lot more guns.
Looking around, Jake saw the strange man was sitting back with popcorn, soda, and a bunch of other snacks on the seat next to him as he propped his feet up on the chairs in front of him and seemed to be laughing even before the play began.
But Jake didn't have time to worry or really care about him, as he needed to get out of here since he didn't desire having to fight whatever this was or possess its symbiote like he did for the others.
As Jake ran all over the place, he tried to find any sort of exit, but no matter where he looked, the doors and curtains all over the place seemed to just reveal a solid brick wall behind them or, for some reason, the bathrooms and nothing else.
Having no other choice but to join the man, Jake sat down in the theater seats far away from the man only for him to suddenly appear right next to him and seemingly locked or frozen in place as he couldn't get out no matter how hard he struggled.
???: "Shhh... the show's about to start."
The man snapped his fingers as the lights began to dim while the sounds of giant ceremonial drums began rumbling, then the curtains suddenly began opening with a spotlight shining straight at the center as a child slowly began to appear.
Once the random child was there, the drums suddenly stopped as another version of the man appeared behind the kid, slitting their throat with no hesitation as he even kicked the poor kid's body to the side of the stage.
???: "I LOVE BEING BAD, BABY!"
A/n: Song starts here:
"As a kid I was always a little strange, as the others preferred playing with dolls, books, or even each other, but me... I love killing things!🎵"
The man walks through a boy and girl playing house, a couple of kids reading their favorite books and then stops at a little house where kids seemed to be playing a different version of house before the man blasted them all away with a rifle.
"The feeling of taking a life is like nothing I've ever felt before! The sight of the light leaving their bodies, the feeling of their bodies slowly losing the warmth that was life as they struggle to survive before eventually being forced to accept that they are nothing!"
The man jumps on the floor as he starts strangling some big fat man who was trying to choke him back, but unlike the man, he had given up and accepted his death as he seemed afraid of the man more than death.
"There's no greater feeling than knowing I'm the man who ruined the lives of others! From taking a mother, a father, an uncle, and even someone's daughter for my own twisted pleasure, there is no greater feeling than KILLING!"
The man suddenly appears wearing a top hat and tuxedo as well as a katana that he's only seen in his parents bedroom, but instead of it being more ceremonial, the katana the man was using was purely for killing.
He sliced the mothers throat as he child was forced to watch, cut off the fathers legs forcing him into a chair as a monitor slowly stops peeping, but... but for the uncle it was a scene Jake was all to familar with as he was there the night it had happened...
The man, instead of using his katana, used a six-shooter and shot the uncle straight in the head with no hesitation before finishing it all off by cutting the daughter's head while her body kept moving around as the head just kept crying.
"Seeing the lives I ruin makes me feel better than if I were to try and live normally! Heck, I don't even care if I get paid or not, as I'll kill just about anyone for any reason, as it just feels oh, so good!"
The man cuts through someone holding a bag of cash, a woman seeming to plead on her knees, and just some random bagboy putting his things in his bag from whatever shop the poor kid was working in.
"Every single death sends a jolt down ma spine, and the feeling only seems to get stronger the more they try and fight! I will never stop and can never stop, as this is the only thing worth doing, as this is the dream and the life I've always dreamt about!"
A/n: Song stops here
The man on the stage tap dances between increasingly horrific little houses before eventually stopping at one that blows up for real as the theater even begins to rumble from the show as the man in the seat next to Jake begins clapping.
???: "Bravo, bravo! Fantastic, truly the greatest show in the world! (Turns towards Jake) Especially when you have someone to watch it with for the first time."
The man looked at Jake with pure bloodlust as the creepiest smile in the world slowly began to appear on his face, sending chills down Jake's spine and seeming to freeze him in place as he stopped trying to get out of the seat he was forced into.
After but a blink, the man appeared on the stage, and the force field or whatever that was forcing him to stay in the chair transferred to the borderline where the lights meet on the stage and trapped him inside.
???: "Don't worry, little boy, this is just a special stage to see if you're any fun!"
Without waiting a second more, the strange man seemed to materialize a great sword from pure air and thrust it at Jake, who just barely managed to dodge the attack as white tentacles shot from under his arms and the back of his head and back that dragged him lower than the sword could currently reach.
???: "It seems like you're more skilled than I thought!"
The smile on the man's face seemed to grow even more as the great sword transformed into two katanas that seemed to make him even faster than he was before as he seemed to teleport right at Jake, but thanks to Ekaj/his symbiote, even if Jake couldn't see it, his body was managing to dodge all the attacks.
No matter how much Jake managed to dodge the man's attacks, the smile on the man's face didn't seem to shrink or even lessen the man's attacks; in fact, it honestly seemed like his attacks were getting stronger and faster every passing second.
Jake could tell that before long he was eventually going to fail at dodging his attacks and possibly lose his life or lose his limbs, making him weaker in the battle. Having nothing to lose, Jake tackled the man and rammed him through the theater's floor as they began falling straight down a giant hole into Hell?
Jake: "(Panting) Okay, what the heck is going on?"
???: "HAHAHA! What, boyo, have you never seen the final resting place for men like us? Well, let me get up close and (jumps towards Jake) SHOW YOU!"
The man's swords disappeared and were replaced with a sledgehammer as he started swinging all around the place and managed to hit Jake's hand, which hurt more than he thought it would have felt.
Fearing to get hit even more, Jake ran even deeper into the place but immediately stopped once he realized that the sight he was seeing wasn't from the man but was instead from himself and had all the lives he took.
???: "You can't hide from the holy land; you can't hide from yourself. Trust me, kid (the man coughs up blood, but his smile doesn't leave his face), we were meant for this life, and nothing can ever take that from us!"
The man slowly begins walking towards Jake and bites his hand as hard as he possibly could before dissolving into a bloody mist, with the sights around him getting engulfed in fire as the screams, the screams he heard, would haunt him for years to come.
As Jake watches everything crumble and break around him, revealing that there really wasn't anything that different between Jake and the man other than Jake had some friends and a loving family... but what if he didn't?
What if he would just become the same as that beast of a man and begin enjoying killing others for the sake of killing? What if he started feeling as the man did about death... what... what if he kills the people he cares about?
As Jake looked in a suddenly appearing mirror, he saw the man staring right back at him, smiling the same sadistic smile he showed their entire fight! Wait... he could only see the man smiling at him...
Jake smashes the mirror with his fist, breaking it into pieces along with the entire world crumbling in the process, with the man slowly clapping his hands as Jake saw him in the center of the stage looking at a mirror, panting heavily.
???: "Fantastico! You are the first person who's been able to break out of mine take over. So I must ask, how have you been the first and only one to live?"
Jake: "I'm not your toy."
Jake just stares at the man with cold-blooded eyes and begins walking away as the man seems frantic to make him stay or pay attention to him.
???: "YOU CAN'T LEAVE! THIS IS MY WORLD! AND HERE I AM, THE KING! I AM THE DADDY!"
The strange man seems to fragment into different versions of himself between a child, teen, and adult as they all dress in different ways, with the kid wearing all formal like a little CEO, the teen wearing a crown and cape, while the man wore a business suit known to be used by hitmen.
Jake: "No, you're just some poor murderer who couldn't get a single valentine as a kid and became a sick and twisted killer who was really just an attention whore who desired everyone's attention."
Not wanting to play the man's game anymore, Jake opened the stage exit, and for a brief moment he saw his other half smile at his choice as Jake left, leaving the man screaming for Jake to pay attention to him!
And that is all for now hope you all enjoyed and until next time stay safe and peace!