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"You mean to tell me you didn't see that little girl?" Murdoc asked as he looked up at the singer in front of him.

2D furrowed his eyebrows and looked around. "What little girl?"

Murdoc sighed. "Never mind. It was all in my head." He got up and approached the first door he was supposed to go through.

"We're supposed to go through all of these doors in order to get out of here." He announced.

"How do you know?" 2D asked as he walked towards Murdoc.

"The girl told me…"

"The one you dreamed about?"

"It wasn't a dream. It was- Whatever just get your arse through this door or you'll be stuck here by yourself." The bassist said through clenched teeth.

They went through the door and it creaked as it closed behind them. It disappeared into the wall, ensuring they wouldn't be able to get out.

The pair took in their surroundings. They were in a pub backstage. There was a line of children who looked to be between 5 and 13. Murdoc, no more than 7, was at the front on the line, waiting to be called onto the stage. He was dressed up as Pinocchio.

"Murdoc, is that you?" 2D asked as he pointed towards the young Niccals boy.

He led the way to the audience. No one paid them any mind. "Yeah." Murdoc answered.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a warm-hearted welcome to little Murdoc Niccals as the small wooden boy Pinocchio, singing..."I've Got No Strings"!"

2D felt something drip onto his head. He ignored it at first, until he felt another drop, then another. The blunette looked up, just as another drop of water fell onto his face.

At least, he thought it was water…

Water isn't supposed to be this thick… He thought to himself. He rubbed the drop onto his hand to look at it and shrieked when he saw what it was.

Blood was dripping onto the singer.

His shriek traveled throughout the room, but no one seemed to hear.

"What's wrong?" Murdoc turned to his bandmate.

"Th-there's blood dripping onto me!" 2D looked up in horror to see where the blood was coming from.

The audience started whispering to each other. Murdoc's younger self hadn't come onto the stage yet.

Jacob came storming towards Murdoc.

"What the fuck are you doing in the audience you little annoying rut?!"

Murdoc looked at his father in bewilderment. "What? You can see me?"

"Yes I can see you, you incompetent excuse for a human being!" He snatched Murdoc's arm and dragged him towards the stage.

"OW! Let go of me!" Murdoc said. He noticed his voice wasn't the same. He looked down to see he was dressed up as Pinocchio, and he was about seven years old.

His father threw him onto the stage, Murdoc almost falling flat on his face.

"You better win." He rasped.

Murdoc looked out in the crowd to see 2D with a horrified look on his face. The music started, deeper and more demented sounding, and Murdoc began singing and dancing.

He wasn't in control of his actions, though. Despite how he tried his best to stop from dancing and singing, his body wasn't listening to his brain.

"2D… HELP…ME…" He managed to scream in between belting out the lyrics.

2D dashed to aid his friend, but as soon as he neared the stage the room got darker and blood soon began to drip down the walls. The singer was doused in it. Murdoc struggled against himself and looked up to see that he was connected to strings. He followed the strings to see his father controlling his every move.

Murdoc was his personal marionette.

He looked up to see some of the audience and contestants approaching his singer. He couldn't make out any features to tell them apart. They all were dark shadows with darker eyes and a creepy smile.

Demons… Murdoc thought to himself.

Murdoc fought harder against the strings. He finally managed broke free of them and ran as fast as he could towards 2D, who was cornered. He grabbed his arm and pulled him onto the stage and they ran as fast as they could to the back in search of an exit.

"Get back here you little useless piece of shit!" Jacob hissed as he chased after the pair.

They reached backstage and, to their dismay, there was no door. Sebastian eventually caught up with them.

"Where you goin' off to so quickly, Murdoc?" He advanced towards them.

"Leave me alone you bastard!" Murdoc snapped, having turned back into an adult.

"Aw," His father cooed. "Look who finally grew a pair." He snickered and attacked the bassist.

Murdoc tried his best to fight off his father.

"Ever since I died you've gotten difficult, haven't you?" He yanked Murdoc's hair and slammed his head into the wall.

"You seemed to have forgotten who controls you here." Jacob said through clenched teeth as he bashed Murdoc's head into the wall repeatedly. "I DO! I'VE CONTROLLED YOU'RE LIFE FROM THE MISERABLE DAY YOU WERE LEFT OF MY DOORSTEP TO THE DAY I DIED!"

2D jumped up and grabbed a low hanging pipe from the ceiling, ignoring the blood that began to spray from it onto him and ran up towards the bassist's father and hit him on the side of his head with it.

Jacobs head made a 360 degree turn on his shoulders and made a sickening crack sound. He twisted his head back to it's proper position.

"And you've got your faggot boyfriend to protect you?" He seemingly teleported from hovering over Murdoc to the singer and punched him in the stomach with his hooked hand. The hook went straight through his stomach. 2D could feel blood seeping out of the wound. He fell to the ground.

Just barely holding onto the string of life he had left in him, he managed to look up to see a tiny pair of feet. They belong to the same little Murdoc saw. She crouched down so he could see her.

"You idiot," She started. "You're hallucinating."

That's the same word Murdoc used… 2D thought to himself.

"I know." She responded, having read his mind. "Now snap out of it and all the blood and the wound will go away. And hurry, before it becomes a reality." She sunk back into floor.

2D did as he was told and shook his head and came back into his senses to see Murdoc throwing his father onto the ground and grabbing his arm. They took off running, but the blunette collapsed on the floor. His torso hurt.

"Sweet Satan 2D!" Murdoc grabbed his bandmate and slung him over his shoulders and proceeded to running to look for another exit.

The audience saw them and immediately erupted in inhuman laugher.

The bassist spotted the door in the location it was in before and quickly ran to it, threw it open, and ran through it before slamming it shut.

"You'll never escape Murdoc." His father said through the door.