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Mystery Skulls: The Snow Fox and The Green Virus Chapter 13: Bloody Headaches

Two in the morning, and Arthur was still awake from his bed. All he kept thinking about was that photo Vivi had found in the abandoned house. A lot of questions still went through his head, those that kept scaring him. Just looking at the picture gave him PTSD about their deaths in his head. The gunshots he heard as a child when he was running in the forest, sitting behind the tree crying. It all felt so real to him, and it was. He wished that it was all a dream and he could wake up as that child, still in his childhood bedroom and seeing his loving parents. But this wasn’t a dream, it’s a nightmare into reality.

If he couldn’t go to sleep, he might as well stay up. Though Galahad might yap at him when he finds out in the morning. But at least he had a good reason for it besides working, which he might do too to buy time. He slowly sat on his bed, staring at his drawer with his mechanical arm on the charger. WIth his other arm, he rubs his eyes which were in a need of stretching. On the other side of the bed was Galahad in his Tanuki form, sleeping on the floor. It all seemed like something was telling him something. It couldn’t be a conscience that Vivi had somehow found a picture of his family without knowing, along with going to an abandoned house that used to be the one he lived in as a baby.

He stands up from the bed and takes his mechanical arm, quietly exiting the room so he wouldn’t wake up Galahad. Next, he walks to the living room where he sits on the couch, still thinking about what to do. He knows that by the time he gets to that basement, Galahad is just going to go right into his kitsune form and drags him right back to his room. What the kitsune does next is beyond Arthur, which scared him the most since Galahad has been aggressive lately.

He sighs quietly, starting to feel bored, but yet active. He could tell the two that he couldn’t sleep. No, that wouldn’t work either way. Uncle Lance is grouchy when he’s woken up early and Galahad is much worse. How does he know that? He’s seen Galahad as a hamster growling at him when woken up early. So waking them up is a risk taker. So he decides to start his day off very early, no matter how pissed Galahad will be. Arthur stands up from the couch and heads into the bathroom where he plans to brush his teeth as if he didn’t do that before he had gone right to bed. In the mirror, he could see how tired he was, with the bags under his eyes. His life started to spiral downwards, went up a little, then back down as if being happy didn’t matter anymore to him, which it didn’t.

After he cleaned his teeth, he opened the medicine cabinet and took out some medication. There was a bottle of antidepressants Arthur’s been taking ever since he learned the truth about Lewis’s death. It was the guilt that haunted him from the time going on. The bottle was white with a colorful label that had the words antidepressants with warnings on the bottom. Those warnings are what he didn’t care about. It’s not like they were going to harm him if he didn’t take a few, or that’s what he thought at first. Arthur opens the cap and takes a few out right before swallowing them down without any water. Then he puts the bottle back up in the cabinet and takes some deep breaths to calm himself. Even if he did take them, he thought that they never worked right, like they were placebos. Because being depressed is one of the worst problems he had for weeks now, including other things that could connect to it.

Then the sudden pain into the head had made it even worse for him. It was sharp and painful like he had hit himself with a glass bottle that never broke. It could’ve been a side effect to the pills he took, but it was quick. The pain was getting stronger by the second, making him weaker. “God, this headache.” He groans. What was going on with him at 2 AM?

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Back in the lab of SynthCorp, Commander Kyle was with a group of scientists in a lab where they were working on Arthur’s brain. It turns out that they did found a way to reconnect his brain and just like Arron Richards said, it was giving him headaches painful enough to make it torture. “Increase the voltage.” Kyle said as an order.

“Yes sir.” Aaron listens, turning up the voltage. The max is at ten, a dangerous scale to be at for Arthur. The volume was at three, a highly mild headache that had tension all around his sides.

“Keep increasing the volume each minute until we reach a signal.” Kyle says, watching the other scientists at work. “It has to be there somewhere.”

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“Why won’t it go away?” It was more painful than the last, like it was a bomb detonating. He got out of the bathroom, walking back into the living room. “It hurts so much.” He whispers so he wouldn’t wake up the others. Yet the pain was too much for him to handle. Once it became a killer, he shouts in pain. Arthur fell to the floor, grunting to the headaches that were trying to kill him. “Make it stop!” He cries in pain. It was too much for him to handle, tears going to down his face.

His screaming of pain had woken up Lance who rushed in to find his nephew on the floor in pain. “Arthur!? Are you okay!?” Lance got to his knees, putting a hand on Arthur’s back. “Speak to me!” The uncle was worried about him, trying to keep Arthur calm with whatever was going on.

The pain in Arthur’s head wasn’t getting better. He wanted to lash out to whatever was doing this to him. “It hurts!” He keeps shouting in pain. “My head!”

“Stay calm Arthur. I’ll go get some medication.” Lance quickly rushes to the medicine cabinet to find medicine that can help with his headache. “Galahad! I need help here!” He shouts, needing assistance from the Tanuki.

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“It’s not working. Keep increasing it more.” Kyle still orders.

“Sir, won’t that kill him?” Arron was starting to doubt if this was a good idea to do this. They’re up to level five and at the possible change of sudden bleeding. “Right now, he’s experiencing killer headaches.”

“I need you to find that signal and transmit it to his body. Understand?” He starts getting aggressive, still on the goal. “Arthur Kingsmen is our last hope to completing the mission. Without him, we have to go through the whole experiment again.”

“I understand sir.” So Arron proceeds to increase the voltage in Arthur’s brain up to level six. It wasn’t his job to torture the poor guy, but to make sure that they had him in their control.

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Galahad jerked his head up after hearing Lance’s panickey tone. “Lance?” He gets up and rushes to the room. The first thing he saw was Arthur on the ground in pain and screaming. “Arthur!?” He immediately went into his kitsune form before rushing over to Arthur. “Arthur, hold on!” He checks around him to see if he had any wounds on him, which he didn’t. “What’s going on with him!?” He shouts to Lance who rushes into the room.

“I’m not sure! He said that his head was hurting!” He got the medications for Arthur. “Here take these!”

“It hurts! Make it stop!” He was in absolute pain, couldn’t even think straight as he slapped the bottles out of Lance’s hand. “Ahhhh!”

“Arthur, please stay with us!” Galahad said, doing what he can to help him. “I….I don’t think we can do anything!” He quickly wraps himself around Arthur, using his tails to put ease at his head while restraining him. “Please don’t die, please don’t die.” He fears for Arthur’s life, trying to hold it together.

“You need medicine!” Lance grabs the bottles again and fearfully opens them, forcing Arthur to swallow them down. Although the pills were supposed to give effects minutes later, the pain wasn’t getting better. His screams and struggling were good enough for the two of them to panic. “Please settle, the pills should help you.” Lance picked up the bottles and put them back into the medicine cabinet.

Galahad was terrified with what Arthur is going through right now and as someone who’s supposed to save him, he doesn’t know how to stop it. His heart had stopped when he saw blood coming out of his eyes. “Lance! His eyes are bleeding!” Lance froze in place after hearing what Galahad just said to him. He runs back to the two, seeing the blood coming from his eyes and going down his face. “Oh god! We need to get you to the hospital!” He got Arthur to stand up, putting one arm over Galahad’s back while Lance opened the door. “I’ll drive the van!” The three went to the van and Lance opened the back door for Arthur and Galahad. The kitsune coils around Arhur, still restraining him while licking the blood off of his face. Lance then quickly gets in the driver’s seat and starts the car, slamming on the gas hardly to get the van going fast.

Galahad uses a tail to cover his mouth to muffle his screaming, letting his blood stain it. “Hold on Arthur, we’re going to the hospital.” This was the first time that he’s seen Arthur in pain, not a story that they had told him. He then starts to cry a little, whining while nuzzling his neck.

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They were at level seven, ascending to level eight next. “Sir, it’s not working.” Arron said, now being even more worried. “We need to stop or he’ll die.”

“No, there’s a way. We need to make it to level nine next.” He refuses to give up, not when he’s this close to getting to his brain. “We’re so close. I can feel it.”

Arron sighs and increases the volume, not to eight, but to nine. There were still no signs of a connection to his brain. “It’s not working, we got to shut it down.” He tells the commander, hoping that he could stop this.

Commander Kyle takes the time to think about it. In anger, he slams on the desk. “Fine! Shut it all down everyone!” He said to every scientist in the room who turns off their activators. “Arron, if you mess this up again, I’m gonna kill you.” He storms out of the room with the scientist huff in relief. Arron looks back at the screen to see how much damage he had done to the poor guy's brain. It’s active level was at a high dangerous level and could’ve died if he hadn’t had second thoughts. He still wonders why he does this.

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He didn’t know if it was the medication or something else, but the pain was going down. “Holy crap, I….” Arthur tried to speak, but with Galahad shushing him while crying, he remained silent. He wiped his eyes, which were bloody. Everything hurted him in his head, both inside and outside.

“Arthur, we are getting you to the hospital. If you start saying that you're fine, I’m gonna scratch and bite you.” Galahad warns him, whining and nuzzles his chest.

“Of course I’m not fine! I just had the worst headache of my life!” He said angrily at Galahad who was startled by Arthur’s immediate reaction. “It still hurts.”

“You don’t need to yell Arthur, he’s just helping you.” Lance was still worried about what just happened. Luckily, he just made it to the hospital and parked the van. “Come on, we are going to get you to a doctor.” He gets out of the driver’s side and goes around to the back to open the doors. “Galahad, change into your dog form again.”

Galahad nods and transforms, wiping his tears. “Just please don’t let them kick me out.” He wants to stay with Arthur for tonight at the hospital.

“I’ll ask. Hopefully they will.” Lance grabbed Arthur’s hand and walked him to the hospital. Whatever Arthur was experiencing right now, Lance thought that it had something to do with Grandma Yukino’s visions she told him. But the vision wasn’t him in physical pain which made him have second thoughts. So he plans to call the others once Arthur gets checked in and have a meeting with them.

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It felt like deja vu for Arthur as he woke up in the hospital at nine in the morning. His head was still hurting from before, but his eyes stopped bleeding. He was back into the hospital gown he once wore when he was in the hospital last year after losing his arm. Speaking of his arm, his mechanical one wasn’t there. How could things get any better if they kept getting worse? He looks around the room to find that he is alone again. His uncle and guardian must’ve been very worried sick about him. Arthur wonders where they are at.

A knock on the door was heard next to him. “It’s Dr. Winters.” Arthur recognized the name and voice from anywhere. He was his doctor from last year.

“Come in.” Arthur said as Dr. Winters opens the door. The man never changed at all with his outfit and facial appearances.

“Glad to see you alive again. You’re a natural born survivor.” He puts down his clipboard on the table like last time. “I guess you already know why you are here, so I’m going to ask if you have felt anything like this before.”

“No, never in my life. I’m not even sure how it happened.” Arthur, now confused, wanted to ask some questions about his own body system. What could cause him to have the most torturous headache and make his eyes bleed?

“Can you tell me what you did before it happened?” He questions.

“I couldn’t sleep at first so I decided to stay up late. Then I took some antidepressants and that was it. But it was only one pill, just one.” He very doubts that the antidepressants had given him this, he took them numerous times without any problems.

“I see. Are you sure they were antidepressants? Sometimes, people can’t think straight when you're tired.” He suggests thinking that Arthur took a different medication.

“No, they were antidepressants. I know it.” He saw the label, the name, and the shape and color of the pill. He exactly knows that he did take the antidepressants.

“No need to get angry, Mr. Kingsmen.” He eases Arthur down.

“Sorry, I just don’t know what could have done this to me.” With a defeated sigh, he stopped what he was talking about. “Is my uncle here?”

“Yes, and your friends too. They’re in the waiting room waiting for you.” He picks up his clipboard. “Do you want me to tell you what you're dealing with right now or tell them too?”

“I want them to hear. Maybe they can help.” He answers, being very hopeful that they do help.

“I’ll get them right away then.” He leaves the room, closing the door behind him. It still feels like deja vu to him. Though with a different situation at hand.

A few minutes later, the door opens. Vivi, Lewis, Mystery, Galahad, and finally Lance all came to see him. “Oh my god, Arthur.” Vivi says, going over to him to hug. “Lance told us what had happened. Are you feeling okay?”

“My head still hurts, badly.” He stood up from his bed, hugging Lewis and giving Mystery, who whines, a head pat. “Thank you all for coming.” He pets Galahad’s head and finally a hug for Lance.

“We all quickly came in as soon as we heard the news. Your eyes look messed up.” Lewis says, making Arthur a bit worried.

“Wait….how bad are they?”

“Bloodshot.” Mystery answers. “It’s all red.”

Arthur groans in misery. “You gotta be kidding me.” He sat on the edge of his bed. Galahad hopped on and nuzzled his leg. “I don’t know how this happened. I took an antidepressant and-”

“You take antidepressants?” Vivi asks. She never knew that he had taken medications before, along with Lewis. Mystery knew from the start when he sensed false happiness from the young adult. “You never told us about that.”

Arthur stared at her in sadness. “I just didn’t feel happy from when I found out that Lewis died. Not to forget the other things that happened too. I also didn’t want you guys to watch me drown in depression so I prescribed some antidepressants and have been taking some.”

“For how long?” Lewis asks.

“Weeks ago. Right after Mystery told me everything.” He didn’t want to make it look like it was Mystery’s fault. It was his decision to take antidepressants even if Mystery felt a little disappointed about it. “I’m sorry that I didn’t tell you guys. I just didn’t know how you would’ve felt if I did.”

“It’s okay Arthur, we understand.” Vivi sat by him, patting his back. “We’re just glad that you’re still alive.”

Doctor Winters came back into the room with the clipboard again. “I’ve got the results. Are you sure you want me to tell them?”

“Yes, we need to know what is going on with him.” Lance spoke up. “It’s best if you tell all of us.”

“As you wish.” He then turns to Arthur. “We don’t know what caused it, but it seems like you have terminal brain damage.”

Arthur lowers his head and then back up. “Just tell me everything.”

“The test results showed us that your brain had somehow been actively high. A sign of use of drugs like cocaine in the system, which you didn’t have. If it went on for any longer, you would have had a stroke or brain failure which leads to death. I suggest you stay here for a bit longer for today before you go home.”

“Any medicine that he might use?” Vivi asks.

“Not that I can think of, but I’ll check with the pharmacal doctors and see if they have any medications for this. I’ll leave you guys be.” He said, leaving the room once again.

“Brain damage? What is going on here?” Arthur said, getting scared. “First my arm and now my brain? It’s like the whole world is against me.”

“No it’s not...I think.” Vivi says, “But we are here with you and get you through this.”

“Well, I’ve been thinking.” Lance says, walking to them. “It’s best if Arthur stays out of this.”

“What, why?” Arthur asks, standing up.

“I, er us don’t want you to get hurt anymore. And I’m not the only one that agrees with this.” Lance then turns to the others who looked a bit ashamed, but yet was also agreeing with him.

“I’m sorry Arthur, but I’m on board with Lance. It’s best if you let us deal with this.” Mystery says, hopping onto the bed. “I’m sure we can figure something out.”

“So what then? I’m just going to stay home while you guys go out on a suicide run?”

“It’s not a suicide run, we are trying to keep you safe.” The dog argues. “But we can be safe too. Galahad and Lance will stay with you in case your headaches happen again.”

“I didn’t say I wasn’t coming with you.” Lance said, now arguing with Mystery. “I’m coming with you guys.”

“Me too.” Galahad agrees.

“Lance, I know that you want to help, but it’s best if you let us do this.”

“I’ve handled many things, Mystery, and I’m not just going to let Arthur suffer with all of this. I’m coming, no matter what.”

Mystery sighs, thinking that there’s no choice. “Fine, just don’t get yourself killed.” He walks to the door, ready to go home.

“We’ll...see you later Arthur. Just feel better.” Vivi said with one last hug before going with Lewis and Mystery.

“Thanks.” Arthur says, laying back down in his bed. The three left out of the door until it was just him, Lance and Galahad. “That was really brave what you said uncle.”

“I’m just doing whatever I can to help. Now how come Mystery thinks a middle aged man can’t help his own nephew?” He huffs with a smirk. “Did he forget that I came with him when we were fighting Shiromori?”

“He’s just looking out for you just like everyone else.” Arthur assures him.

“If anything, I’m gonna make sure that he actually helps out instead of just sitting there.” Galahad said, laying right on Arthur. “Now, promise us that you’ll stay home like Mystery says.”

“I promise Galahad, I’ll make sure that I stay at home.” He rubs the dog’s head. “Just don’t start a fight with Mystery, he’s my friend too.”

“Say friend again and I might throw up.” Galahad says in disgust, making Arthur laugh. “Anyway, we should get you out of here, right Lance?” He turns to him.

“That’s the plan. I’ll pay the bill again.” He crosses his arms, feeling a bit disappointed that he has to pay another hospital bill.

“I can pay for it.” Arthur insists.

“No, it’s fine. I’ve done this before and I can do it again. I’ll go check in with Dr. Winters and check you out.” He said leaving the room.

“Do you think that he’s mad?” Arthur asks Galahad who looks at him in surprise.

“Of course not! Why would he be mad?”

“Well from all the times I got myself in danger, I feel like he just can’t handle it anymore with me.” He pets his head again. “Say that I pissed you off, what’s the first thing you do?”

“Is that even a question? I’ve made a step by step process of how my aggressiveness increases. Starting with snarling, that’s the first thing I do. Then if it involves a stranger who has harmed you.” He takes this deep breath as if he was angry enough. “Just wish that you weren’t the stranger.”

“Okay then.” He was indeed wishing that he wasn’t.

“I’m going to parent you once we get home. I’ll comfort you, get you fed, make sure you get all the snuggles I can give you, wrapped in tails and everything.” He nuzzles on Arthur’s face, licking it too.

“Thanks Galahad. But I think Lance does all of that, well except the snuggling.” Arthur hugs Galahad. It felt good for him to have Galahad as a talking kitsune/tanuki who loves to overprotect his owner. But he still didn’t feel right with the others doing his problems, like he should be the one doing this. But would he break that promise? If he does, then he knows that he just gave himself a death sentence if they know.

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