Persona 5: Crusade – 420 Special
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Legal Disclaimer: Please check the laws on Marijuana use in your locality before enjoying a made-up holiday celebrating stoners.
Note: Drug use, possible minor OOC.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
After School
Fritz and Anne waited in the alley by the school for about half an hour before they started getting worried. They didn't have a lot of time before Kamoshida had the opportunity to expel Fritz, Akira, and Ryuji. As such, they had to finish mapping a route to the Treasure in order to destroy the Palace, destroying the coach's distorted desires and forcing him into confessing.
Fritz pulled out his phone. "I swear, if they don't show up soon, I'm going to explode."
"Calm down, Fritz." Anne said. "I'm sure Akira will be here soon."
"Yeah, yeah," Fritz decided to text their leader a reminder.
FY: Akira!
FY: Me and Anne are waiting to go into the Palace!
FY: Where are you and Ryuji?
There was no response for two to three minutes. In that time, Fritz began wondering if an emergency had occurred with Akira's caretaker, or Ryuji's mother. He wondered if, in fact, they had enough time to take a day off. He couldn't blame either of them.
Then, a reply came in.
AK: Me an Ryui r getin high bhind his apt
Then, Ryuji shot him a text.
RS: DON'T NARC ON US BRO!
Fritz took deep breaths, trying to calm down, while Anne looked at his phone's screen. Her eyes narrowed.
"Fritz, do you know where Ryuji's apartment is?"
He turned to look in a random direction. "For the purpose of this one-shot, yes."
Once the two blondes made it to Ryuji's apartment complex, it was simply a matter of going around back. They were helped when Morgana found them; the small black cat-thing had a weak cough, and his eyes looked a little redder than normal.
"Those *cough* idiots are over here! My apologies for not stopping them Anne *cough* Anne-dono!" Morgana led Fritz and Anne to a dumpster behind the building.
Ryuji and Akira were siting off to the side. A cloud of smoke, which reeked like a skunk bathing in decade old cheese, hung over the two, forcing their fellow phantom thieves to cover their mouths and noses. Ryuji had a lit blunt, which he passed over to Akira.
Fritz coughed, drawing the attention of his stoned classmate. "Oh, hey there buddy."
Akira snickered. "Heh, you said 'bud'!"
Fritz rolled his eyes, while Anne fumed. "Just what the hell do you shitheads think you're doing?!"
"Aw, c'mon, Anne!" Ryuji complained, pulling a handful of Doritos from his bag and shoving it into his piehole. "Ish fawr twanty, gorl!"
"Smoke 'em if you got 'em." Akira added, using a kitchen lighter to light up a new blunt.
Fritz cut off Anne before she could yell at them again. "So, let me get this straight: we have twelve or so days until we're getting expelled by Kamoshida, who is responsible for leaking your record, breaking your leg, and ruining Shiho's life; the only way we can both avert getting expelled and bring him to justice is by stealing his Treasure, which requires careful coordination and planning; and, today, you decided that getting high to celebrate some absolutely fucking moronic holiday is more important?!"
Akira waited a couple seconds to see if he had anything else to say before replying. "Fritz, I'm starting to think that you need to get high more than us."
"Gott im Himmel!"
"See, dude!" Ryuji said, then coughed. "You're all stressed out! I mean, yeah, your girlfriend's a potato because of Kamoshida—"
Anne growled.
"—Okay, that wasn't so good—but, seriously, taking a toke is probably the most relaxing thing you can do right now."
"The most relaxing thing I can think about doing is ripping a Shadow to fucking shreds." Fritz pinched his nose, then turned to Morgana. "Morgana-chan, how are you feeling?"
"I'm sorry, Fritz-dono," Morgana's head drooped, while Anne picked him up, "but I'm in no position to help you and Anne-dono with the Palace."
Suddenly, getting high didn't seem like such a bad idea after all. "Anne, take Morgana out of here; as soon as we've finished coming down, you and I are kicking their teeth in."
Anne glowered at her stoned classmate. "Can't we do it now?"
Fritz smirked, walked over to Akira, then plucked the blunt from his lips. "If we do it later, it'll be more painful."
"Sure thing, Fritz-kun~!"
A/N: Have a safe, yet high, 4/20 tomorrow! This chapter was inspired by a video I saw on YouTube about a mod that added weed to the game for 4/20.