Chapter 1

Jeremy and Zack kept their voices down as they kept watch in another room. Jeremy, trying to get his focus on as he glanced out the window every thirty seconds. But Zack, on the other hand, was playing his zigzag guitar that could possibly snap someone's ear drums out like a light. But Jeremy didn't mind. Zack played the same thing everyday when they got home and into their room, but no wonder Jeremy started to loose his hearing. Jeremy sighed, finally taking a rest to lay onto his own bed. He twiddled with his blue hair before he yelled out something, hoping Zack would hear and take his eyes off his guitar.

"Zack!" Jeremy shouted, looking at him. But Zack kept playing. "Zack, stop playing! For a moment!" Jeremy saw that Zack kept playing, and even if he didn't care. Jeremy took a deep breath and exhaled, shouting at the top of his lungs in an instant. "ZACK!"

Zack heard a slight voice from the room that was blocked out from his guitar, then unplugging it and placing it down onto the wooden table. "Hm?" Jeremy looked at him for a second and shook his head in annoyance. "What? Didn't you call me name?"

"No, I was talking to the wall!" Jeremy said sarcastically, flailing his arms in the air.

"Oh alright... Different.." Zack shrugged, grasping his guitar by the neck piece and was about to plug it in again.

"No!" Jeremy stopped him, getting up and squeezing his arm. "Put it down.." Jeremy demanded, watching Zack as he put it down carefully once again. Jeremy sighed, pulling one of the wooden chairs over to him and sitting in front of Zack, face to face. "Listen.. I was kidding.. We've been checking out the window for hours for John! He's been gone for three days Zack, three days! I don't know what to do.." Jeremy looked over to the door slowly, feeling bits of tears starting to form into his eyes. "We couldn't do the shows, nor the parade or even meet n' greets because of him! We have to-" Jeremy paused for a moment, then thinking of something that flickered in his mind. "What happens if he ran away? He ran away, didn't he? Oh god, he did.." Jeremy started to panic, standing up and trying to think of a solution. "We have to tell the Doctor.. We have to.. If he did, what are we going to do? Oh god, no no no.."

Zack watched him panic in curiosity and shook his head. He smiled at Jeremy's reactions of his thoughts and stood up, wrapping his arms around him. "Calm. Down... Geez, you're never like this.." Zack chuckled, waiting for Jeremy to stop twitching and jerking. He unwrapped his arms and turned Jeremy around to face him. "It's gonna be alright.. We'll find him, even if he ran away or not.. If he's lost in the forest or in another section, it'll be easier.." Zack then felt Jeremy's arms wrap around him in surprise. He smiled, letting Jeremy hug him until he hugged him back. He then pushed him off gently, holding his hands. "And since when are you worried about John?"

Jeremy shrugged. "He may be pretty annoying to me, but he's a good ghoul brother to us.. Especially to Rob. He's been freaking out since the second day John's been missing.." He shook his head, leaning against Zack.

Zack held him close, sighing. He did feel pretty horrible for Jeremy's depression of John's disappearance. "We'll find him.." Zack whispered.

On the other hand, Johnathan was unknowingly stuck in a large steel building, but finding himself in a cell cage. As well as others, laughing and going insane. Johnathan stood up, still dizzy from when he woke up. He lightly walked to the door as he tried not to make a sound. He just didn't want to gather attention. He locked his hands around the bars, looking around at the insane people. His eyes widened as he remembered something. Pain, depression, and slavery that ran through the family of the building.

"The.. The-"

"The Asylum!" One interrupted Johnathan, but he recognized his vice very well. Johnathan backed up a bit, but failed by tripping on his own two feet. He landed onto his back, groaning in pain as the sharp cement ground beneath him scratched his clothes and back.

A shadow figure looked over him. "Oh yes, I forgot! Our old friend, Johnathan Teeling! Glad you made it with us.." He winked, looking at Johnathan. "You remember me right..? The one who tortured you, gave you all those scars? Acsu Lemms!" Acsu showed himself in the light to the teen, smirking at Johnathan's pain. His hair was a blonde color that hung all the way to the middle of his back, and a white leather jacket that was splattered in blood and bits of intestines. A cut smile was carved on each side of his lips and dry blood that has already trickled from his eyes. He didn't have any pupils, just a blue circular ring. The craziest part that there was three needles that were stabbed into each side of his neck.

John looked up at him weakly, trying to get up, but fell during his progress. He sat back against the caged wall, slowly turning to look at Acsu. "You monster.." Acsu glared at him and growled deeply, walking over to the cage.

"You call this a monster?" Acsu grabbed onto the cage's door and flung it open, startling Johnathan. He looked up to see Acsu walking towards him, so he tried to scoot back but he already grabbed the collar of his suit. "I'm no monster, Mr. Teeling.. I'm normal.. Not like you freaks. I'm a leader, and you're a Psychopathy Crazed. And you know it.." Acsu threw him back to the ground, turning around to close the cage door as he exited. He shut the cage door forcefully and locked it shut. "You're never leaving here.. And you're Doctor won't be able to help you this time.." Acsu started to begin his trip back to his lab, but he turned his head to get a small look at Johnathan. "And don't think of calling for your friends outside or in.." He smiled weakly. "The others are dead.." Acsu turned away back to his lab as Johnathan sat there in shock and now sadness.

"D-Dead..? Braddy and Timmy.. Kira and.. And Shawn.. N-No.." Johnathan looked down at the blooded floor, shutting his eyes tightly. He felt tears already starting to drip down his cheeks and onto the ground. He leaned up against the cage as he begun to cry softly. He clenched his fists together and punched the ground, then to the cage wall. "Why would you.. Why would you do such a thing?!" Johnathan shouted, tears running down his eyes and to the floor as he screamed. "You are a monster, you're a freak! Not us!" He gave up trying to escape, but his cries weren't muffled yet. "Braddy.. Tim.. W-Why.. Why did you go.. You didn't have to go.. You could have ran, you could have.." Johnathan looked at the cage next to him, seeing the same cloth that covered the same cage Kira was in. They used to talk to each other all the time, singing and playing together. He crawled over to the spot, moving the cloth over but to only see blood stains from the same girl he had met. Kira.. She already died from the mad man, Acsu. He leaned his head against the caged wall and whimpered, tears continuing to run down his cheeks.

He tried to comfort himself by remembering the whole group he had with him. Braddy, Timmy, Kira, Shawn, Eric, and Smiley Riley.. He kept thought of the little dance and song Kira made up for him if he was frustrated or in pain. He sang softly, trying to keep his voice down.

"I've learned to loose, I've learned to win.. I've turned my fate, from fast to slow. You take me there, and where I'd go.. You'd fall right down, and I help you up, but we only leaved behind the little cuts.. But I can't stay, you've gotta save space. And when I go, you'd run.. Instantly. But I hold you close, and we've won the race. I've learned to loose, and I've learned to win, because I love you.. And no one can stop that.."