Chapter Two: " L"
John woke up the next morning feeling hazy. He needed coffee. As he made his was through the lab to the tiny kitchen he found Jade already there with a pot. They exchanged small talk about what they thought of the town until John had asked about a particular radio show with Jade, unfortunately, knowing next to nothing except that the host was named Dave Strider. After pressing for more information that was not there John went outside and was promptly hit in the head by a dead cat falling at high velocities. As John looked up he saw a cloud. A Glow Cloud. He wasn't sure why but it felt like the Cloud needed capitalization. As more dead animals fell John ran back inside running towards his fellow scientists only to see them already daring each other to go out there with an umbrella and stay out there for as long as possible. After one of the interns accepted the Cloud began pelting him with large animals such as Bernese Mountain dogs or Golden Retrievers or even the stray oversized German Shepard. Needless to say John had to run out to save the poor intern while also taking one of the animals in for study.
As the various tests ensued, all oversaw by either John or Jade the de facto leaders since the actual head scientist was abducted yesterday by the city council, they found out there was no real cause of death. In the words of one of their new subordinates "It just kinda died, you know. Things like this happen all the time". After checking a few more of the flying fauna the results were all the same. The scientists all muttered about what they thought was happening until the intern said "Man, it's raining cats and dogs out there!" to which all of the other swiftly said things like "Get the fuck out." or "That was terrible." and then all of them sans John and Jade formed a mob and threw intern outside into the storm and locked the doors. Jade simply nodded in agreement and John shrugged and muttered "Meh". After deciding to find the Dave Strider in the phone book John called him to inform them of their findings on the cloud so he could tell the listeners about them. John decided it was best not to talk to Dave too much.
Later in the day larger animals started to drop from the Glowing Cloud. The intern was still outside but thankfully was shrieking less. John could've sworn he saw a dragon fall from the sky being chased by police cars one time. Oddly enough, the Cloud was avoiding the dog park. John guessed that even Glowing Clouds of dead animals didn't want to go there. At about 9 at night, John received a call from none other than Dave who was excited about finding a cat that was in the mens restroom. After a while of listening to Dave so happy, John started to feel relaxed and said things like "Mmmhmmm." or "Neat" or even a "Great!" every now and again. The call was a very nice one and John fondly regarded it for whatever reason.
Later that night John turned on the radio to listen to the show but he missed it and only caught the "Good night, Nightvale". Even later that night John, our ever astute scientific science man went to sleep just to wake up the next day like any other day.
