Chapter 14: The Guys' Murky Halloween Part 2

Chapter summary: Playing Ouija never felt so extreme for them.

Natsu: F…U…C…K Y…O…U. Y…O…U A…R…E S…C…R…E…W…E…D. GOOD BYE. Did you guys kept track of the letters?

Gray: Fuck you. You are screwed.

Natsu: What the fuck?

Gajeel: This is no good; we shouldn't have played this damn board game! The spirits are now mad at us! Haven't you seen Jumanji guys?!

Loke: Oh shit. I'm feeling super dizzy… Am I the only one here?

Lyon: I've also known better… dish… terrible.

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Gray woke up in the ER with his senses and perception completely distorted. He could recognize a paramedic injecting some stuff in a transparent bag that hung next to him. He could also recognize some of his friends. The paramedic talked to him but could barely understand what he said. He couldn't articulate any coherent reply to that young guy who looked at him bored and feeling pity. "Just rest here, don't move" he understood. He recovered conscience of what was happening to him, though he didn't know it for sure. He was hallucinating, like he was incredibly high and spaced out, like he had smoked a million joins. It was a living hell. He didn't felt pain, but waves of extreme angst flooded his mind, followed by intense crawling sensations. He was so dizzy that when closing the eyes he didn't know where up and down was.

After an indeterminate amount of time –which felt like too many hours- the extreme uneasiness and dizziness suddenly disappeared. He still was in a hospital and had Loke in the bed next to him. He tried to wake up and go to drink some water straight from the tap, but had a T-set in his hand, connected to a feeding bag. He figured out how to move without disconnecting the bag and was able to get up and get closer to Loke.

Gray: Loke, Loke. Can you hear me, man? Are you ok? You look terrible.

Loke: Who's there? Do I know you?

Gray: Open the eyes! Can't you see me? I'm Gray! What the hell did happen to us last night?

Loke: I'm so sick I wanna die… fuck it all man. I'm tired of this shit, make it stop.

Loke was clearly still having a bad trip, Gray thought. "We got intoxicated with something and the effect has mostly passed for me, he's still tripping. Anyway, I'm thirsty".

Gray went to the bathroom of the hospital room and drank plenty of tap water, then peed. While peeing he noticed the bathtub and decided it was a good idea to have a shower. But reclined because of the itchy IV in his hand. He had no idea how to remove that. He went back to his bed.

A couple of hours later a physician came to the room.

Doctor: Hello youngsters! Heavy partying yesterday? Are you feeling sick maybe?

Gray: Good morning doctor! Good afternoon?

D: I don't know what you did yesterday but you clearly crossed the line. One of your friends called the ambulance cause you were convulsing on the floor of a cemetery. You arrived with symptoms of a hard intoxication of a psychedelic drug. We administered you a sedative to calm you down, put you an IV to prevent dehydration and putted you under vigilance till the effects of the drugs stopped being apparent. Your bodies are debilitated and you may feel weakened for days or even weeks, but you'll probably recover from that. From now, you are free to go. Before I go, an obvious recommendation: Don't do drugs, kids. Every week teens with the brain melted arrive to the hospital and many leave it with brain damage. You only have one body, don't ruin it with some shit you bought in a dark alley…

Loke: Wait doctor! I don't remember doing drugs yesterday! We are not like that, we are legal. And a propos, do you know which drug did we consume?

D: Haha… well, the police may call you soon to ask you several questions… Maybe one of your friends wasn't really a great or desirable friend… And about the drug, we haven't tested it, but the police did it. You were positive for several drugs. Good luck.

G: What do you mind with that?!

The doctor leaved the room and left the two boys confused and totally suspicious of their friends.

G: Fuck! Someone drugged us! We just smoked some joints and drank beer!

L: Who was? Gajeel? Zeref?

G: I don't know, but we should go find the others. I bet they still are here.

L: It was Zeref! I'm sure of it. He brought that tasty cocktail, he was the only one to bring something weird!

When they leaved the room a nurse noticed them and asked them how they felt.

G: Still a bit dizzy, but the doctor told now we are good to go. Incidentally, do you know where our friends are?

Nurse: Your other friends are in this same corridor, doors number 214 and 217. Though the police brought the one who intoxicated you to the commissary.

Gray and Loke looked at each other… Zeref drugged them, for sure. They went to visit the rest. Lyon and Gajeel where in one room, Lyon was still nauseated, but Gajeel already felt better. Next they went to find Natsu. He was sharing room with hot girl whose appendix wanted to explode. He was good, Natsu was always good. The girl also was good and in train to recover.

Natsu: Thank god guys! What did happen yesterday? That's crazy, isn't it?!

Loke: We are not sure, but we ingested some psychedelic hard drugs yesterday, some of us called the ambulance cause we were convulsing on the floor and after a hell of convulsions and hallucinations we are here.

At that moment a nurse came to see Natsu.

Nurse: Are you feeling well Natsu? And your friends?

Natsu: I'm still a bit dazed, but I think I'm good now. By the way, won't you know what happened to us yesterday?

Nurse: Nobody told you? A boy -probably someone you know- called an ambulance because you were convulsing on the floor and almost having seizures –he told-. When the ambulance picked you up –you may not remember it-, he also had symptoms, but milder, and the paramedics also picked him up. When in the hospital, we called the police, since you may had been object of a crime against public health. The police talked to the boy who called, and since he was feeling better, he could leave the hospital and police took him. The police said they would call or visit you in the next hours. It turns out that that boy put something in your drink. You are lucky you are now safe and sound. You could have damaged your brain or died or been run over. Police took samples of saliva of you and detected very high amounts of LSD, THC and opioids. He probably bought or prepared himself the cocktail of drugs.

Loke: What? For real?!

Gray: Can't believe it. It just happened, like nothing. Yesterday we were having beers and drinking for Halloween night and hours later we could have mental sequels. Thanks for the explanation miss. Can Natsu and our other friends go now?

Nurse: If you mean Gajeel and Lyon, from the 217, they are also stable and the doctor said they can leave now. The cost of your medical aid shall be borne by the municipal police department, who will pass the bill to the responsible –if any- of this attempt against public health.

Loke: Geezuh Christ, this is serious!

Gray: Again, thanks a lot miss.

Gray and the others went to pick up Lyon and Gajeel in their room and all leaved the hospital.

Loke: Isn't it weird that our parents weren't called by the hospital and they didn't came to see us?

Gray: Hey guys, check your phones!

Loke: Many calls from my parents but they all ceased at 3.30am….

Natsu: Same for me… that's super weird…

Gajeel: I can explain it. When I recovered some consciousness, a nurse told me. Several of our parents came to visit us and freaked out. The docs told them that we were out of danger and we only had to wait until the drugs were washed out from our bodies. Zeref parents also came, but when they came, their son was already in commissary. Very likely all was Zeref's idea to drug us, and himself, and have a crazy fun night. But he ended up heavily intoxicating us with psychedelics. Since in fact was our fault to drink that without really knowing what it was, our parents accorded to leave us in the dark, go back home and leave us here, as a lesson.

Loke: Isn't it a bit too twisted? We could have brain damage the nurse said…

Natsu: Our parents probably have already given up with us…

Gray (preoccupied): And did my father come to see me?

Gajeel: I don't have the details, but I think he didn't. The hospital called him but he had his mobile phone turned off and didn't answered the landline. The nurse told me that you call him when you are able to.

Gray got a bit sad and confirmed one more time he lived in an unstructured home.

Lyon: Bizarre. Surrealist. We should go home now.

Gajeel: Yep.

The guys went back to their respective homes and stayed in touch via messaging app. They had to decide what to do. For example if they could go see Zeref in commissary and beat him.

/End of the chapter/