The Green: Illegal 5

I paced around Plague's living room and thought about everything that had happened. Looking at Plague I saw that his face was clear of all emotions. Well, all emotions but boredom.


Looking at me he said, "Matthias, just relax. Whatever the results will be won't be sped up by worrying."


"I just want to do something." I replied.


As Plague started to laugh there was a knocking at the door. He quickly got up to stop me from racing to the door. He gave me a small smile before going to the door. I stayed in the living room and only heard part of the conversation. After what seemed like forever, Plague came into the living room with a Police Officer.


The Officer was someone that I recognized from the Nuscon Police Station. This being the case, I wasn't surprised that he gave me an angry look. Feeling a little frightened, I quickly looked away and leaned against one of the walls.


"So you have the results?" Plague asked.


"Yes." The Officer said. "It seems Matthias was correct in what happened to Thomas Savan. Gralg is once again a problem."


"What kind of problem?" I asked.


"You saw what happened to Savan, so why don't you tell me? Imagine everyone going crazy like that. All the people fueled on their strongest rage. Sort of like zombies." He replied. "When Gralg was just in pill form it was easy to control. Control the pill supply and you'd control the danger. Now that there are bits of it growing out in the wild, it is much more dangerous."


"But wouldn't it be easy to stop it?"


"Savan found a random piece of it in the middle of nowhere. We don't know how long this has been going on or where to start looking."


"I am sure you have a plan." Plague said.


"Yes, but it isn't much." The Officer said and got up. "I'll leave you now. I have a lot of work to do."


After Plague escorted the Officer out, he turned to me and said, "I think we could both use a cup of coffee."


"Yeah." I replied and sat down at the table as Plague made coffee. The whole preparation was something I didn't consider important at all. Plus it involved waiting, which I wasn't in the mood for now.


"Just drink it." Plague said and put a cup of coffee in front of me. "You'll feel better."


"What do you know about Gralg?" I asked and pushed the cup away from me. Plague sighed and sat down beside me.


"When Gralg is ingested orally it makes people go into rage mode. Some people, though, it doesn't affect at all."


"What about it affecting a fetus?"


"Every woman that was tested was either on some type of birth control or a virgin." He paused. "We made sure that none of the virgins were pregnant."


"Why would you need to do that?"


"Because people have different ways of defining virginity. Anyways, Gralg was originally meant to treat people with mental disorders. A very wide range of them, too. However, the side effects made it ineffective as a form treatment and highly dangerous. Therefore it was made illegal and never heard about again."


"Then don't you want to find out what happened afterwards?" I asked. "Let's go now and maybe we'll be able to get information to help the Police."


"And get myself shot for your selfish reasons again? At least let's have a much better plan." Plague said and I nodded.


For a few hours we discussed plans and looked up information. It took around an hour to get ready to head out. This time it wasn't going to be quick, but well thought out in advance.


"That should do it." Plague said and smiled at me after we had finished loading the car.


Even though I was on the opposite side of the car, he walked over to me. He hugged me and he seemed to do it in a different way than usual. It was a hug but there was…more love in it. There was more love in it than usual and I liked that. Especially since it was coming from him. When he broke away from me he was smiling nervously. I smiled back at him and both our smiles became larger.