Gourry and the Talking Stone
Part Four
By Relm
Once Gourry had finished eating his breakfast Lina and Amelia dragged him kicking and screaming to see a doctor.
"What are you two doing? I'm fine I don't wanna see a doctor!" Gourry yelled protesting loudly. Everyone on the streets of the town was staring at the three of them strangely.
"Now, now Mister Gourry, don't make a scene this is for your own good." Amelia tried to reassure him.
"Own good? I'm fine I don't need to see a doctor!"
"Yes you do you've been acting stranger then anything ever since we were in that supposed cursed forest. There's something wrong with you and I want to get to the bottom of it quick. And anyways, you're twice more annoying when you're nuts." Lina gave Gourry one shove.
"I told you, I'm not nuts!" Gourry yelled.
"Mommy what's wrong with that man?" A little boy asked his mother while pointing at Gourry.
"Only the gods knows Jimmy."
The doctor's office was very crowded. There were many people waiting to see him whom had been waiting a long time. And it would be a longer wait to anyone just coming in. Seeing how you're not allowed to cut ahead. Everyone had to wait their turn.
"Miss you can't go in there! You have to wait!" The secretary yelled after Lina as she and Amelia pushed Gourry into see the doctor.
"Miss Lina we're not supposed to just go ahead of everyone. This isn't right." Amelia said while looking back at the other waiting patients. They weren't looking too happy at that moment.
"Don't you want to get this done quick? And besides it's not like we're going to take long. We just need to find out what's wrong and then we can leave." Lina continued pushing Gourry.
"I don't want to go!" Gourry screamed grabbing onto the doorframe.
"Mister Gourry it's for your own good. Please just co-operate."
"Yeah you stupid jellyfish come on! Stop being such a baby!" Lina ordered while she and Amelia now pulled Gourry.
"No I don't wanna!"
With all their might, Amelia and Lina pulled and eventually like a rubber band he lost his grip was sent recoiling forward and crashed into the doctor's desk.
"Oh my what do we have here?" The doctor, a small aging man with white hair and a beard asked while trying to get a better focus on Gourry by adjusting his glasses.
"What we have is a very stubborn patient. Can you help us?"
The doctor hummed slightly in thought. "Put him on my examining table and I'll take a look. What seems to be the problem?"
"Well normally Gourry is a thick sculled idiot who can't remember anything and who is dense as a brick. Only now he seems to have gone crazy." Lina threw Gourry onto the table.
"Gone crazy? How so?"
"He keeps claiming that there is this stone that talks to him. And he says that the stone is special but really it's just a normal little gray stone. Also we found him eating invisible food which he says was real and we found him lost in his room this morning saying he was stuck in a maze which we couldn't see but apparently was there." Lina's voice dripped with sarcasm.
"I see. And where is this stone now?" The doctor said while looking at Gourry with a magnifying glass.
"Right here." Gourry held up the stone for the doctor to see. What Gourry saw was a very strangely color stone, but to the doctor it looked like a normal gray stone.
"Now Gourry what does your stone say when it talks to you?"
"It grants me wishes."
"Anything you want?"
Anything Master Gourry wishes. The stone's voice rang clear through Gourry's head.
"See? He just said so." Gourry said defiantly.
"The stone just talked? I didn't hear anything."
"It said 'Anything Master Gourry wishes.' You heard it talking didn't you?"
"I'm sorry son but I didn't hear anything."
Gourry frowned. "Maybe it's broken."
"So doctor what should we do? Do you have some sort of medicine that we could give him to stop him from being crazy? Or should we exorcise him? Yeah he might be possessed by something! Is he possessed by something?"
The doctor shook his head. "I'm sorry but there isn't anything I can do. I am a doctor of medicine not of magic. Physically there is nothing wrong with him expect that really he shouldn't be conscious after he got hit in the head like that. This is more likely a problem with his mind. And unfortunately there is no medicine I could prescribe that could help him with that. The only thing I can suggest is perhaps taking his stone away. If the object of his delusion is taken away from him then perhaps he'll stop acting the way he is."
"Thanks doctor!" Amelia smiled. "Should we go now Miss Lina?"
Lina grumbled something under her breath but complied.
Outside the examining room many of the waiting patients glared daggers at Lina, Amelia and Gourry as they came out and into the front office.
"Um Miss Lina they don't look too happy with us."
"Oh come on what could they do?" Lina rolled her eyes.
The waiting patients eyes started to glow red and they brandished farming utensils that appeared out of nowhere.
"Let's get out of here, now!" Lina yelled as the three of them were chased out of the doctor's office.
Once they were outside the door the patients retreated back into the office to wait their turns.
"That's the last time I go to that place. Alright Gourry hand me the stone." Lina demanded while holding out her hand.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"You heard what the doctor said. If we get rid of the stone you'll stop acting nuts."
"I'm not acting crazy!" Gourry protested.
"Yes you are, so give me the damn stone!" Lina snatched it from Gourry's hand and threw it very far well outside the town. "There, all done."
Gourry sighed. Though that stone hadn't exactly granted him any really good wishes he still wished he had it. He looked down and noticed that the stone was still in his hand!
"Alright let's go eat- huh? What the heck where did that come from?" Lina exclaimed pointing at the stone in Gourry's hand. "How many of these are you hording?"
"I'm not hording any stones! It just reappeared."
"So you mean to tell me that the very same stone that I just threw miles away just appeared out of nowhere and onto your hand?"
"Yeah I guess so."
Veins started to pop out of Lina's forehead. "Give me that!" Lina snatched the stone yet again from Gourry's palm and threw it very far away. She was gong to sigh in relief when she noticed that the very same stone was still in the palm of Gourry's hand. "What the hell is going on here?" She took the stone again and this time used magic on it to turn it into ashes. And yet again the stone reappeared in Gourry's hand. "AHHHHH!"
