Chapter 2
A/N: Sorry for the delay in updating, but now we move forward!
A wind picked up and blew stronger outside the city of Carmen. The villagers held onto their hats, (Or held down their dresses), crying out in confusion. Suddenly, a brilliant white light burst forth from the Dragon Shrine, and then faded, and then 7, count them, 7 people walked out!
"What are you looking at?" Bleu asked them. "It's Warp magic. I use it all the time." As if it all suddenly made sense, the villagers nodded and returned to their daily lives.
"So where's this doctor that the man talked about?" Ryu wondered.
"Hey friend," Karn said to a passing stranger, "We're looking for the doctor that lives here. Do you know him?"
"Oh sure!" said the man in a salty voice. "Everybody here knows the Doc. He lives way up north, in the house with the windmill on it there."
Karn smiled brightly. "Thanks, man." As the man walked away, Karn admired a shiny gold pocket watch he had just obtained. "I bet I could make a few thousand Zenny off of this, huh?" He grinned.
"I'll buy it from you for 600 Zenny?" Gobi offered.
Karn scoffed. "Better luck next time, pal."
"How about the 650?"
"I don't think so, buddy."
"You drive a hard bargain. How about 800?"
"You got a deal." Karn said, and he licked his thumb and counted the Zenny notes that Gobi handed him.
By this time, the group had made it to the doctor's house, and they went in.
"Uh, do we need an appointment?" Ryu asked the turquoise-haired youth by the entrance.
"Nah." he replied. "Just go talk to him. He's famous, you know. He was able to save Emperor Zog from East Bog Virus when he had only 1 hour left to live!"
"What a pity." Ox murmured.
Ryu approached the doctor. "Excuse me, Doctor?"
The doctor seemed to be staring off into space, and didn't answer.
Ryu looked over at the group. "Maybe we caught him at a bad time…"
"Sir? Sir are you okay?" Mogu piped up, tugging on the man's tunic. The doctor's head snapped to attention and he rubbed his eyes, as if to clear them of fog.
"Oh… oh? Hello there little man. My you're tiny! Oh! And there's more people to see me! How nice!" He strode over to the group and gave each of them a hardy handshake. Except for Bleu, whose hand he tenderly kissed. She blushed furiously. "I'm Doc. Doc Michaels. I'm famous, you know!"
"Yes… we heard." Karn said, looking back at the doorman.
"So what can I do for such fine people as yourselves?"
"Well you see, Doc, one of our companions… she has amnesia. And we don't know what to do for it."
The doctor laughed. "Hah! You came to me, the world famous doctor, for something as trivial as that? Ha!"
"Can it be cured, Doc?"
"Absolutely! I can make a simple tonic that would clear it up in two swings of a LancerX's lance."
"Wait!" Gobi cried. "Before you make the tonic… Ryu, I can sell you an over the counter tonic for amnesia for 100,000 Zenny. How about it?"
Ryu looked up at Ox. "Ox… would you, please?"
Ox nodded massively. Then he picked up Gobi and tucked him under his shoulder. "Come on, Gobi. Let's take a walk."
"Nooo!"
"So what would we need to bring you to make this tonic?" Bo asked.
"Well that's simple! Poison Fish, Coconut, a root, and a white antler is all I need."
"We'll go and get them." Ryu said.
"Hurry back!"
"So where are we off to?" Bleu asked when they got outside.
Ryu smiled. "Why…"
To Tunlan Island!
"All the finest coconuts grow on trees!" Ryu said, standing on Ox's shoulders. "I'd be worried if one grew somewhere else. Ok, Got it!"
"Now where to?" Mogu asked. Ryu patted him on the head.
"Someplace very familiar to you."
To above Gramor!
"All kinds of roots grow in the ground," Mogu explained, sniffing at the parched soil. "I just have to find a loose one, and I'll dig under the ground and get it for you. Ah, here we go!" Mogu buried himself under the ground and came back up with a long, pointed white root.
"Great work, Mogu!" Ryu said. "Now, it's time to go to the cursed red sea."
They warped to Carmen and walked along the south road to the border of the cursed red water. Ryu dug out his trusty Rod5 and dropped a line in the water.
"I feel a bite!" he exclaimed, jerking the rod forward. It was a struggle, but then a bright red fish came flying onto the ground at their feet.
"Don't touch it!" Ryu warned. "Let me put it in the bag." He did so, and then Bleu returned them to Carmen.
"We've got all the ingredients, Doc!" Ryu said, holding up the bag where he gathered them.
"Wait!" Karn said. "We forgot the White Antler!"
"Uh oh!" The doctor scoffed. "Can't make the tonic without the White Antler, now can I?"
"We won't find one." Bo said firmly. "All the white deer were hunted down to extinction years ago. It's impossible to find one now."
"Hmm…" the doctor scratched his chin. "Now that I think about it, I used to do quite a bit of huntin'. I think I got some trophies upstairs in a big barrel, if you want to take a look-see.
Ryu and his friends broke open the barrel, and among the stale meats and antlers, they found a gleaming White Antler!
"What luck!" Gobi cried. "Why that could sell for anywhere between 20,000 and…" He shut up when he saw Karn glaring at him.
"Ok, so… that's all the ingredients then!" Ryu exclaimed. They took them all back downstairs to the doctor.
"Ok, it'll take me about ten minutes to make the potion." he said. "So just wait here."
It never seemed like ten minutes could take so long, but it did. But finally, the tonic was at last ready!
"Thank you so much, Doc! I can't thank you enough!" Ryu said, shaking the doctor's hand vigorously. "How much do I owe you?"
The doctor laughed. "Ha! For a silly thing like that? Save your money, boy. Maybe you can use it to buy a new sword, or whatever it is kids these days spend their money on. Now you take care!"
"Same to you, Doc!" They all said, and they rushed out of town, and Bleu opened a portal for them. They all jumped inside and were en route back to Tunlan.