POPPIES!
I DO NOT PROMOTE DRUG USE IN ANY WAY. IN FACT I HATE THEM… BUT FOR HUMOR'S SAKE… I'LL LET THIS SLIDE… standard disclaimers apply
It was just another quiet day, until…
"WE HAVE TO HAVE A GARDEN!"
This blew everyone out of their stupor forcefully.
"Gah! Anna!" Yoh shrieked. (very un-manlylike)
She shoved a book in his face; she was breathless and practically ecstatic.
"It says here that one of the most important things to have that will calm people is a garden!" She calmed down abruptly. "We don't have one." The unspoken command was 'make one!'
Everyone was silent for a moment.
Then…
"You want us to make you a garden?" HoroHoro was extremely confused.
"How soon?" HoroHoro questioned, hoping they didn't have to do the whole job in an hour or something crazy like that.
"What will we plant in it?" Manta asked in confusion, but he was interrupted by Faust.
"POPPIES!"
Everyone stared at the doctor, who still had one fist raised triumphantly in the air.
"NO! The Poro Poro!" exclaimed HoroHoro.
Anna shook her head.
"They only grow in Australia you dolt."
"Oh…"
"Wait," started Ren, "Doesn't that mean that you were named after a flower? How queer."
HoroHoro jumped up.
"I'll show ya 'queer' you little-"
He was interrupted by Anna. (No one can finish much of anything can they?)
"Poppies are good… they'll grow here… They look nice… Faust, it's a deal. Poppies it is. You can plant them." She pointed at Faust, who smiled happily… Which was odd. Then Anna pointed to the others. "You can build the actual garden. NOW GET TO WORK!"
Everyone (except Faust) jumped up and started working feverishly, in fear of Anna's wrath. Meanwhile, Faust took his own sweet, leisurely time walking to the store to buy poppy seeds. His very slow, leisurely time… But then he started skipping, which weirded out everybody who lived there, Obo the Hobo, and the neighbors' cat… But it was really Obo's… Because they have no neighbors… Anyway, it was pretty weird.
Eventually he had left, but somehow, ten minutes later, came back with the seeds. Actually QUITE A LOT of seeds. No really, when I say a lot I mea-
Anyhoo… he came back... But it should take 48 minutes just to get into town… ((Haru: A mystery…. Me: You aren't in this anime! Haru: TT So? Me: --U)) However, no one questioned him. (They were too afraid of facing Anna's wrath to stop and talk.) Approximately four hours later the garden was finished. Except there was nothing planted in it… Faust immediately sprung up out of nowhere, shooing everyone away.
"I want the arrangement to be a secret… So SHOO!"
Everyone left in fear of being hacked into tiny bits, as Faust was prone to do…
Another few hours later, Faust had finished as well, and he had managed to fit all of the seeds into it too… ((Haru: TT Another mystery… Me: pushes Haru over OX tipping! XD)) Yet again, no one questioned Faust's odd behavior.
Except HoroHoro… Who was stupid enough to do so…stupidly…
"Why did you pick poppies anyway?"
Faust frowned.
"Do you not know? Can you honestly not know?" He smiled suddenly. "It's a cheap substitute for morphine!" He twitched.
"Morphine?"
Twitch.
"Yes, morphine." Another twitch.
"That's freaky man… Why the hell would you want to get hooked on morphine? It does some weird stuff to y- Oh…"
"What do you mean, 'Oh'? You think I'm," He paused, walking over to the unfortunate HoroHoro, close enough that HoroHoro could feel the doctor's breath on his face. "Strange do you?" He drew out the 'strange' part putting extra stress on it. HoroHoro swallowed nervously. Then Faust's face lit up. "No matter!" He went back to skipping around merrily, singing a weird song to the tune Daisy Bell.
"Eliza, Eliza, give me an answer do
I'm not crazy, just in love with you!"
Everyone stared at him in sheer, unadulterated confusion.
He stopped abruptly, walking back into the house.
Everyone stared after him.
SOMETIME DURING SUMMER
The flowers had been carefully watered and tended everyday, sprouting, growing shoots…stems… leaves… and now buds…. Which were just about to open. Everyone woke up the next morning to an odd smell.
"What is that?"
"Where's Faust? He's not where he usually is…"
"Don't tell me…"
Anna walked out. Stating simply:
"They bloomed."
Then she left.
Everyone blinked.
"They did? Sweet!" HoroHoro rushed outside, followed by the others.
They came upon what appeared to be thousands of flowers, all blooming in bright colors and all in different shades of red, orange, and yellow, arranged in a way that made it look as if it were a large flame. Faust sat in the very center of it, an odd expression on his face. The same look like he had after his daily morphine dose.
"Um… Faust?"
He turned his head slowly, taking note of the group but not really responding, just shouting…
"POPPIES!" Then passing out.
Odd…
"What the hell?"
"So that's where the smell came from!" Pirka shouted, leaning forward to take a whiff of a large red one. Anna jerked her back quickly.
"Don't." She hissed, "Look what happened to him, and he's a hardened drug addict! Think about it… You could end up dead."
"Don't be so hard on him Anna!" Yoh said disapprovingly.
"What? It's true."
"Well… Yeah, I guess you're right…" Yoh just gave in.
Pirka looked shocked.
"The flowers? Dead?"
Ren nodded, understanding.
"Yes. You would smell that one, get a small taste of the opium, crave more, then eventually have too much in your system and die. Either by heart or lung failure. And even if not you would have…Permanent brain damage." Ren cast a meaningful look at Faust.
Faust sat up quickly.
"I don't have- Whoa… My head…" He had apparently sat up too quickly. How that was possible if he was supposed to slow down… was a mystery.
Anna shook her head.
"Idiot…"
"Nein! You are!" He pointed at HoroHoro, who was… staring off into space. When he noticed everyone staring at him he snapped back into reality.
"What? Is there something on my face?"
"…."
"Nein… Ah… German… Deutschland ist das meister der welt!"
"Damn crazy German…"
"Ist nicht!"
"…..I'm going to guess at that and just say… ARE TOO!"
"NEIN!" Faust started to stand up, but flopped over right after he accomplished the task.
"Vheeeee!"
Ren just slapped a hand over his face.
"Argh! This is too annoying! I'm going inside!"
Anna stopped him.
"If you are… Take him with you."
"Um… Outside is nice though… Yeah, I think I'll stay… out here…"
Anna frowned at him, but did nothing.
Until Faust managed to get up, swaying uncertainly, taking tentative steps over to Ren.
"Ist nicht!"
"GAHHH! Just leave me alone!"
"Nie!" he proceeded to laugh creepily. Very creepily. Rea- Ahem…
In the end, Ren ended up dragging him inside and dumped him unceremoniously in his room to sober up.
"And stay there!"
"Alright!" He smiled happily, then fell over.
"I can't even stand watching this stupidity! It's. Driving. Me. INSANE!"
"You think you're insane? Look at him…" Yoh said, peering into the room. Ren turned around, looking in too.
Faust was trying to lift his large choppy-thingy, (LCT) ((Me: LSD! Lyserg: HEY! )) and failing miserably. It was quite comical really, I mean he could hold it in one hand easily, but now could only try to lift it off the floor with both arms and a lot of force. It got about an inch off the floor…
"NO! Frankie! Help me!"
"It seems to have messed up his power too…"
"Yeah… Just a little… Not…"
Frankie was now slightly fleshed out, looking even more like a zombie, he kept flickering between alive, rotting, and a skeleton. Rather creepy… Okay, scratch that. EXTREMELY FREAKY! But, like the loyal zombie dog he was, he helped the doctor pick it up and…
"VHEEEEEE!"
Swing it around.
"I'm going now…"
Yoh stayed however.
"I want to see if this works…"
Ren raised an eyebrow in question.
"MORPHINE!"
Faust looked up.
"What? Where?" There was no twitch, but his distracted state caused him to let go of his LCT, which made it hit the wall with a crunch… Right next to a shocked Yoh's face. Not what he wanted to happen… Obviously…
"Uh… I'm going to leave now…."
"Oopsie! I almost killed Yoh! Whatever! Nheeheehee!"
And so it was for…
ALL SUMMER.
END
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