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"And then I told him 'Dude, are you sure you aren't hypnotized' and he was all huffy and proud! I mean, you just had to look at the guy. Kept walking into the gym like a zombie, lifting weights all glassy-eyed and stuff... And it wasn't only sweat that you'd find on the bench when he was gone, you know? The guy was drooling all over the place like his brain was leaking through his mouth. Do you know what I mean?"

Void nodded and suppressed a chuckle. The smaller of the two dragons watched as Drake took a sip from his shaker, stretching his back and then his neck, making the muscles pop with a sound that was very pleasing to Void.

"Man, it sounds like you really took a look at this guy," he implied.

"I mean, it freaked me out! Imagine being one of them. Big dumb jocks doing whatever a mysterious weirdo asks them to do... It's always weak little nerds that do this stuff, y'know? Like people who are constantly on the computer and couldn't lift even if their life depended on it."

"You seem to know a lot about this," Void noted.

"You only have to read the stories, there's plenty of them," Drake pointed out with a worried frown. "Anyway, all I'm saying is you have to be really weak to be controlled by a small random that has a crush on you. And then when people point it out you should totally believe them, right?"

"Right."

"I know I'd believe you if you told me I was hypnotized," the bigger dragon said, walking to the bench and sitting down. He cracked his knuckles and lay down, smirking at his friend. "But we both know if one of us has a chance of getting hypnotized, that's you."

"Huh, really? Why me?" Void asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, don't take this the wrong way, but you're probably more laid back than me. These people usually go for those who have a weak will and you know how stubborn I can be."

"Damn, you're right," Void admitted. "It's really fucking hard to convince you of... anything. Are you sure you'd believe me if I told you you were hypnotized?"

"I mean, if someone else told me I wouldn't, but you're my gym bro. And that's because I trust you, right?" the bigger dragon said, winking an eye. He felt his pocket for a second, found his earphones and placed them on his ears. "Be with you as soon as I finish my reps. You know I can't focus without music."

"No worries, dude."

Drake smiled and hit the play button.

His expression changed all of a sudden as a practiced trigger took grip of his mind, thoughts dissolving like protein powder. The dragon's eyelids lowered as his gaze lost focus completely, his tongue lolling out as a soft moan escaped his throat.

During a wonderful, endless second, Drake's body grew completely limp and slack. Then, without warning, it tensed suddenly. His arms picked up the weights that Void had carefully placed in front of him and began lifting, rhythmically and mechanically.

"I am gym meat," the dragon mumbled with each repetition, his soft voice a drowsy monotone. "Gym meat obeys. I am gym meat. Gym meat obeys. I am gym meat. Gym meat obeys. I am gym meat..."

Void, meanwhile, just glanced at his own claws disinterestedly. It hadn't been hard putting those files in Drake's phone. The bigger dragon was too gullible for his own good - and not all hypnotists were weak little nerds. He should have known that much.

"Oh, wow!" a cheetah nearby exclaimed, pointing at the droning dragon. "That's weird! Don't you think he's acting... hypnotized?"

Void turned to him, a knowing look on his face. By then, Drake was already drooling his brains all over the bench.

"Well, why don't you try to convince him of that when he snaps out of it?" he suggested, smirking.