Strong Medicine?
-Guys, something's gone wrong!-
My second BR fic since the last time I wrote. I got the inspiration when I played Bloody Roar 4 at my cousin's place (I don't own a Playstation 2, just Playstation 1) and talked about it with my little brother when we got a bit sugar high. :-) I thought it sounded good and a bit on the crazy side, then decided to type it down for the site.
NOTES ABOUT THE STORY YOU SHOULD KNOW;
-I'm not really sure as to how many years after Bloody Roar 2 is Bloody Roar 3 and 4, so I decided to set it at 5 years.
-I'm purposely leaving Uranus out of the fic because I haven't unlocked her yet and I have absolutely no idea what kind of a person... erm... zoanthrope she is. (Apologizes profusely to Uranus fans)
-All the zoanthropes live under one roof in a mansion that belongs to none other than Yugo Ohgami. (It's gotta be HUGE if it can accommodate everyone! ;-P)
-My older sister Lunarkry Antares and I have been playing Bloody Roar 2 forever and we never really knew if Stun could talk or otherwise so we decided that he couldn't talk and that he will just buzz for the whole of this fic. Only a few of the zoanthropes can't understand him, so no worries here. (Even if he IS buzzing, I'll kindly leave a translation for you. ;-) )
-Bakuryu(Yugo's little brother) will be called Kenji. (Gets bricked by readers for stating the obvious)
-Every bit of info on Bloody Roar 3 and 4 that I have is based off what I've heard from my best pals, so don't sue me if there is any OOC-ness.
-Finally, I heard somewhere that Shenlong was just born in Bloody Roar 2 and that the gap between Bloody Roar 2 and Bloody Roar 3 (what's the difference between Bloody Roar 3 and 4 anyway?) is his age. Whatever it is, I'm using that idea here. :-)
END NOTES
So with my comeback in writing Bloody Roar stories, I present to you 'Strong Medicine'. (Please don't sue me for stealing the title of a TV show... I didn't have a good title for this story!)
Please read and review!
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-ZOANTHROPE MANSION-
Having so many people living under the same roof is fun, but waking everyone up was a chore, especially if you have to use different approaches for each one of them. Alice, being the dutiful nurse, was given the task of doing this tiring chore and she was just climbing up the stairs to the third floor, where Xion, Reiji, Cronos(he shares his room with Ganesha for some odd reasons...), Nagi and Jenny's rooms were when Cronos waddled towards her, in his penguin form. Alice stopped in her tracks. It still surprises her as to how Cronos could still sleepwalk so early in the morning, when he's turning 20 the following year!
The bunny sighed and turned the penguin around so he'd be waddling back to his room. When she peeked into his chambers, as expected, Ganesha was turning the room upside-down, acting as if Cronos had just disappeared into thin air. Didn't he bother looking out the door first? ...Probably not.
Alice gave the tubby little penguin a gentle push on the shoulders and said, "Ganesha, maybe you'd want to REALLY think about putting him on a leash before he kills himself by sleep-walking down the stairs. It's dangerous!"
As usual, the elephant man looked as if he hadn't heard a word Alice said. As a matter of fact, he was acting like Alice never came to the door in the first place and started telling a half-asleep Cronos how worried he was and that he couldn't find him anywhere.
'Sicko...' Alice thought to herself and was going to knock on Reiji's door when it opened.
WHAP!
Reiji keeled over in pain, rubbing his nose, "Oops... Sorry Reiji! Hang on; I'll get the first air kit!" Alice then proceeded to run around in circles, babbling something about where the nearest first-aid kit was while Reiji sighed. How well were the nurses trained, anyhow? The crow grabbed her wrist and said,
"I'm fine. Look, let me ask you something. Is it that you don't know that I wake up at this time everyday, or is it that you don't want to know and is just taking the pleasure out of hitting my nose every single morning?"
"I can't help it if it's my routine work and that your room so happens to be the one that I visit every morning at this hour!" Alice cried, wrenching her hand out of Reiji's grip. She inspected him a bit more before deciding that he was alright and moved on to Xion's room, which was right next to Reiji's.
Before she even got to knock, Xion's voice drawled groggily from behind it, "Go away, Alice..."
If the aforementioned nurse was in her bunny form, everyone could have seen her ears droop. She straightened up however, and continued waking up everyone else.
Soon, everyone was up and about and the huge mansion was entering the first phase of the day; making breakfast. Since there was more than ten of them and that the kitchen was only big enough to let 5 or 6 people to work in it, there was much arguing as to who gets waffles, pancakes, etc. There was an even bigger scuffle where they were deciding who gets to cook for everyone by playing a seemingly endless game of rock-paper-scissors. (Busuzima lost and was supposed to cook, but everyone insisted that someone else cooks...)
When everyone finally got settled with their breakfasts, Uriko and Kenji were talking about what they were going to do on that day, since it was the first day of their school holidays and there was so much to do for the two teenagers. Cronos, being interested in whatever it was that they were going to do, decided that he wanted to join them, though Ganesha didn't really like that idea.
Cronos raised an eyebrow at the elephant man, "If you don't want to come, you don't have to Ganesha. You can just stay home and watch TV."
Of course, Ganesha wasn't very pleased with that option either. When Gado stood up and was going to get ready for work, it was a signal for everyone to start getting busy too. Soon, only the younger zoanthropes and the jobless ones were left at home, almost bored half to death. (Uriko and Kenji weren't allowed out of the house till its noon.)
The hyperactive cat-girl, who was hanging upside-down from the metal bars in the indoor gym, looked at Kenji practicing his kicks on the punching bag and said, "Ne, Kenji-chan, do you have anything fun to do? We've done almost everything we can think of..."
Kenji gave the punching bag one last kick and shrugged, wiping a few beads of sweat off his brow, "I don't know. I thought you had a lot more things in mind."
She pouted, "But most of those things require us to be outside! Yugo's just no fun... Not letting us out till noon! How old does he think we are? I'm turning 16 really soon, and so are you! We should be able to do whatever we want now!" with a practiced flip, Uriko landed gracefully on her feet from the uneven bars, and then sat down on the floor, obviously bored.
The ninja scratched the back of his head, "Well, maybe we can ask Long-san if he'd spend some time with us."
Uriko feigned throwing a tantrum on the floor, "No way! He'd probably tell us to study, even when there's nothing to study! Either that or he'll tell us to grab a book and start reading. Long's great and all, but his idea of fun circulates around books and the Chinese checkers board!"
As if defeated by her own thoughts, the cat lay on the floor, almost motionless as she wracked her brains trying to find something to do. Suddenly, something hit her, "Hey, wait a sec! Ken-chan, did you notice that someone was missing at the table just now? Can you remember who it was?"
The aforementioned boy pondered for a moment. Well, since there were so many of them, it's pretty hard to notice when one of them goes missing. "Let's see... Aniki (that's Yugo, to those who don't really understand Japanese) and Alice were there, Gado and Jenny, Long and Shina, Nagi and Reiji, you and me, Cronos and Ganesha, Busuzima, Xion... Am I forgetting anyone?"
Uriko then helpfully added, "You forgot Stun."
"Oh right. Stun and... Shenlong."
"That's it! Shenlong wasn't there! I bet he's still in his room. Let's go tick him off!" with that said, Uriko didn't even wait for a reply from Kenji. She just pulled him along with her towards the said tiger's room.
-FIRST FLOOR, OUTSIDE SHENLONG'S ROOM-
"Okay Kenji, go ahead and knock!" Uriko chirped, taking cover behind the ninja, as if the door would explode if she touched it. Kenji sweatdropped,
"Uriko-chan, wasn't this your idea? Don't you think you should knock first?"
"No, no! I insist! After all, you're my partner in crime, right?" the cat-girl smiled cutely at him, to which Kenji blushed and scratched the back of his neck, not really sure whether he should give in to cuteness and kill himself or save himself and risk getting Uriko hurt from Shenlong's temper. The latter didn't sound very inviting, so Kenji gathered up all his courage and slowly extended his hand to knock on the door.
He knocked. Once, twice, three times and braced himself. After waiting for about half a minute, he was quite surprised that Shenlong, who was never in a good mood in the morning, didn't slam the door open and rip his throat right out for disturbing his sleep. In fact, the only sound that they heard coming from the room was the sound of someone coughing.
"What do we do now?" Uriko asked, peeking from behind Kenji.
Kenji raised an eyebrow, "You dragged me into this. Shouldn't I be asking you that?"
"Well, I always have a plan up my sleeve, but never a back-up. So instead of starting with my idea, why don't we start with yours?"
"Hm... Good point. I do have a back-up plan."
"What?"
"Easy. Open his window, jump outside and run as if a whole pride of lions with rabies are after me if he tries to bite my head off for waking him up."
Uriko pondered about their 'Plan B' for a moment and shrugged, "Works well enough for me, I guess," she then stepped up to the door and called, "Uh... Shen? You alive in there? We're coming in if you don't mind!" She pressed her ear to the door and heard the aforementioned man say something, but even her sharp hearing couldn't make heads or tails of his mumblings. Turning to face Kenji, she motioned him to follow her and opened the door.
The room was dark, courtesy of the heavy curtains over the windows and it was kind of in disarray, as if the owner didn't have the time to clean it. Something moved under the covers of the bed in one corner of the room and Uriko recognized it as Shenlong, trying to get some sleep. Oh well, he DID come home late the previous night. Always have been, in fact.
"Hey, aren't you gonna get up? It's gonna be noon soon," the cat girl pulled up a chair from near Shenlong's (neglected) desk and attempted to poke him awake. No response.
Kenji scoffed, "Yeah... in 3 more hours..."
A few more pokes and Shenlong finally removed the covers from his face, "What do you two miserable punks want?" he growled, looking more than just a little tired. As a matter of fact, he looked... weak.
"Woww... you look like hell, Shen," Uriko didn't really mean it, but Shenlong DID look somewhat unwell.
The red-eyed man sighed and turned over in bed, attempting to suppress a cough, "Go away and close the door while you're at it," When he expected the two to leave, Uriko's hand made its way to his forehead. On normal occasions, he'd swat her hand away, but he felt too tired to do just that.
The bright-eyed girl raised an eyebrow, "I bet I can cook an egg on your head... I'll go get you some medicine to put the fever down!"
"No need... Just get outta my room."
"I'll be right back!"
"Uriko-chan! What about me?"
She skidded to a halt at the doorway, "I dunno! Read him a bedtime story?" with that, she zoomed off in search of some paracetamol.
-GROUND FLOOR, STORAGE CABINET-
Uriko looked at the TALL cabinet and scratched her head, "Great... How the heck am I gonna get to the medicine without breaking my neck when I fall?"
"You don't! You're a cat, for goodness' sake!" cried a cheery voice from behind her. Uriko nearly jumped out of her skin and did the first thing that crossed her mind; hit the person behind her.
Her punch landed square in the middle of the person's face and the newcomer fell back, rolling into a few crates of drinks and having the top crates fall on top of him.
-Shortly after that-
Busuzima was nursing a few cuts on his face in front of a mirror in his lab, carefully hidden away behind the medicine cabinet, "Tell me again what I did to deserve this abuse?" he muttered, not really feeling in the mood to experiment on anything after getting a whooping like that.
"Well, uh... Sorry? I mean, you were the one who snuck up to me! I was just trying to get some medicine for Shenlong. He's got himself a fever and Alice-nee-chan isn't around AND the medicine cabinet's too tall for me to climb... Can you help me grab the paracetamol?"
The chameleon's ears perked up at the mention of Shenlong getting a fever, "That's a surprising discovery! Shenlong, getting a fever! Maybe I should..."
"BUSU!"
"Alright, alright! I won't take him down to the lab... Well then, Uriko! Because I 'like' you, I'll let you give Shenlong the new medicine I just made!" Busuzima stood up and walked over to his table, pulling out a vial from one of the drawers that contained a few pills.
Uriko eyed it carefully, "YOU make MEDICINE?"
The Japanese scientist grinned stupidly and said, "Well, if there's one thing I can't fight, it's a disease. Anyway! As I was saying, these pills are some of the few miracle cures I've concocted! It's supposed to cure you of any diseases by speeding up the immunization system in the body..." Busuzima trailed off when Uriko's eyes started to go swirly. Obviously, Biology didn't look like her favorite subject...
He cleared his throat, "Well, to put it simply, it'll put you to sleep for a whole day and you'll be cured when you wake up. Bla-bla-bla, we skip, we dance, we rejoice... yeah. Just give him two and he'll be just fine!" Busuzima handed the small glass vial to Uriko and patted her on the head whilst grabbing a suitcase and stuffing some clothes and some random items into it.
The cat raised an eyebrow, "Where're you going?"
"Hmm?" The chameleon looked at her as if he was going to eat her and just grinned in that stupid way of his, "Well, it's the school holidays, isn't it? I thought I'd go for a vacation myself. Hawaii is just where I'm going! I'll be there till next month! Bwahahaha..." Uriko stared at him as if he wasn't crazy enough as he was, "...Ahem. Well, I gave you medicine, so shoo, shoo! I've been nice enough, time to be evil again, good day!" He shoved Uriko all the way out of his lab and closed the door behind her.
Uriko blinked, the vial containing the medicine still in her hands. Where did Busuzima get the money to buy a ticket to Hawaii from? Oh well, it didn't matter for now. All she had to do then is to grab some water and stuff two of the pills down Shenlong's throat.
-BACK AT SHENLONG'S ROOM-
Uriko came back just in time to see Kenji sleeping in a sitting position while Shenlong kept on flicking paper balls on his head to see how many it would take before the teenager falls over.
"I got you some medicine and some water!" Uriko chimed, waking Kenji up and getting Shenlong's attention. He eyed the vial she was holding and looked at her,
"...Where'd you get that?"
The cat-girl shrugged, "Who cares? Open up!" she had two pills in her hands now and Shenlong protested,
"Now wait just a- -!" too late. Uriko already fed them to him and made him swallow the glass of water she had in her other hand. Shenlong growled at Uriko and was going to make a swipe at her, but the sudden drowsy feeling that overcame him wouldn't let him stay awake very long.
The tiger shook his head in an attempt to fight the sleeping sensation but could stay awake only long enough to see Uriko smiling and saying, "Good night!" before everything went blank.
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-THE NEXT DAY-
Stun woke up a bit too early the next morning and looked out his window. It was still dark and it wasn't much of a surprise, since it was only 5 in the morning. He grumbled something about going to bed too early the day before and got out of bed to get a drink downstairs. (His room's on the second floor, right above Shenlong's.)
He made himself some coffee and thought about watching some TV. He was afraid he'd wake everyone up, but if he turned the volume down fast enough, no one would notice. With a grin, he scuttled over to the couch and grabbed the remote control on the coffee table. He switched on the TV, making sure the volume went down to zero and flipped to a movie channel before sitting down.
"OW!"
"..." Did he just hear something? Stun looked around. No one was in sight. Then the voice came again,
"Get off of me...! I can't breathe..." It sounded like a child, so Stun stood up and looked at where he previously sat. A small child, about 4 or 5 sat up, scratching his head and raking back his jet-black hair. When the child looked at Stun in the eye, the bug-man shrieked.
The room suddenly flooded with light and almost every zoanthrope in the household cam down, wondering what the whole commotion was about.
"What's the matter? Did some thief break in?" Shina asked, looking around to see if any of the property was missing just to find out that everything were in their proper places.
Stun, still shocked and wide-eyed, buzzed something in what could have been meant as a stammer in human language whilst pointing at something on the couch. Long raised an eyebrow. If something so small could scare Stun, maybe they wouldn't want to know whatever it was that was there.
Long walked over to the couch and saw a small boy, rubbing his eyes. The sudden flood of light must have hurt his eyes. Otherwise, the child looked harmless. The oriental man smiled and picked the boy up easily, "Well now, where did you come... from...?" his voice trailed off when the boy looked at him with wide, crimson eyes.
The boy blinked at him a couple of times, as if trying to remember where he'd seen him and finally said, "...Father?"
It was Long's turn to scream.
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Chapter 1 done:-)
Anyway, I don't have much to say about this except for the fact that I'm sort-of re-making a fic that my sister once started. But in this case, I have a different plotline to it and that I'm merging two stories in this one. I had ideas for two fics, but I didn't want to write too many stories, so I ended up wanting to just merge them.
Anyway, hopefully I'll have more than 2 reviews... otherwise I won't have much drive to write on, will I?
Please Read and Review! (the 'Go' button at the bottom is just ITCHING to be pressed/clicked on!)