Chapter 1-The Mystery

It was a warm, sunny day in New York. The Ghostbusters were trying to bust a couple of valkyries at a theatre. But it was hard since valkyries could shriek loudly. VERY loudly.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" one of the valkyries shrieked. The guys quickly covered their ears.

"Damn, that's loud!" Dr. Peter Venkman exclaimed.

"Yes, but we got to trap it man!" Winston Zeddemore shouted.

"Another valkyrie at 12:00!" Dr. Ray Stantz yelled.

"I got 2:15 pm!" Peter shouted back looking at his watch.

"Not that time Peter!" Dr. Egon Spengler yelled in frustration, "Ray meant the direction 12:00!"

"Oh, well why didn't he say so?!" Peter yelled back.

Egon rolled his eyes at his colleague. Peter was not exactly the smartest person in the world. After about half an hour of screeching valkyries, they were finally caught.

"That was quite a chore now was it?" Winston asked.

"What?" Peter asked.

"Winston said that was quite a chore now was it." Ray replied.

"What?" Peter asked again.

"I think Peter's ears are ringing from all the screeching." Egon said.

"I can't hear you guys! My ears are ringing from those stupid valkyries' wailing!" Peter exclaimed.

"Exactly." Egon said as he and Ray snickered a little.

After making sure there were no more wailing valkyries, which there weren't, thank goodness, the manager then paid the four for their services, and they headed back to the firehall. The ringing in Peter's ears stopped, but he was staring to get a massive headache.

"Oh man. I got a massive headache." Peter said while rubbing his forehead.

"There's some aspirin back at the firehall you can take Pete." Winston said.

"I've got something Peter can take now." Ray said as he reached into is jumpsuit pocket and pulled out a pill bottle, "Try one of these Peter. They work pretty good."

"What are these?" Peter asked.

"Some pain pills I take when I need them." Ray replied.

"When did you get them?" Egon asked.

"After my accident." Ray replied. The accident he was talking about was a few months ago when Ray got stuck in a building fire. The fire caused a couple of burns across his body, a twisted ankle, a slight concussion, and caused Ray to suffer smoke inhalation. And Egon had blamed himself for the accident, and he secretly still did, but the guys didn't know.

"Ray, your accident was about 4 months ago. Are you still in pain?" Winston asked

"It comes and goes." Ray replied shrugging his shoulders, "Normally when the weather is overcast and cloudy like today. And right now, my ankle and head are killing me a little."

"Thanks for the offer, but I'll take the aspirin when we get back." Peter said handing the pill bottle back to Ray.

After getting back to the firehall, Peter went to go take the aspirin, but not before giving Winston a hand with the packs, while Ray and Egon took the ghosts down to the containment unit.

As they took care of the traps, Egon asked Ray: "Ray, how many of those pills do you actually take."

"Like I said, I only take them when I need them." Ray said sounding a little agitated.

"How many bottles of them do you have?" Egon asked.

"What's with the third degree questioning?!" Ray snapped.

"Ray, I know Dr. Madison gave you pills for the pain after your were released from the hospital, but that was about 4 months ago since the accident." Egon said, trying to remain calm as well, "Plus, I highly doubt Dr. Maadison gave you multiple prescriptions."

"Egon, I had a few first-degree burns, one second-degree, a twisted ankle, a minor concussion, and I had smoke inhalation, and a bunch of bruises. And I was out for 2 days!" Ray said almost yelling, "I'm still in pain and I'm most likely going to be in pain for the rest of my life!"

Ok, ok, I'm sorry Ray." Egon said, trying to get Ray to calm down, as well as himself, "I shouldn't have gotten up in your business. I'm just concerned for you that's all."

Ray had calmed down and said: "It's fine Spengs. I appreciate you, Peter, and Winston for looking out for me, but I'm a grown man, and I can take care of myself."

"Ok then." Egon said. Once the lat trap had been emptied, Ray headed upstairs, but Egon remained downstairs. He thought about what Ray had said about the pills. Even though he was bad at reading people and their emotions, Egon could actually tell when someone was lying. And the conversation hadn't been very honest.

Egon decided he was gonna get to the bottom of the situation.

To be continued...