This chapter is meant to be a little more comedic and ridiculous than the last one, so some of the characters might be a little OOC depending on how I view them as. For example, I plan on making Sonic a little more snarkier and irritable than usual, and Amy is definitely more lovey dovey, but in a somewhat adorable way at some times, satirical in other times. You'll see what I mean as you read the story more. For now, enjoy!
"So tell me, Amy Rose. What kindled this fiery passion that you have for Sonic?"
Amy was distracted from the question, observing and inspecting the whole room. It actually creeped her out in a way, how it resembled so much like a witch doctor's hut. The shrunken heads, the skills impaled through wooden sticks, the several different wooden and bronze idols of various skewed shapes and sizes. The small bowls of fire were some of the few sources of light in this dim hut, filling the atmosphere with a rather eerie presence. She knew that witch doctors were more than capable of helping out with love, and she herself was intrigued by the magical arts, but she felt that the ad she found back then was misleading if it was something like this. She had imagined the room to be more like a professional doctor's room, or at least that of a therapist. Even more, Dr. Nagmeg had the attire of an actual doctor, with the white coat and pants, the shoes, and the scethoscope around his neck. For some odd reason, though he wore an enlarged bacteria mask with an abnormally large bulge, as if he were an elephant pretending to be human and attempting to hide the fact that he was an elephant. It made his beady eyes look pathetically small in comparison. He was a rather tall man with a wider upper body and incredibly skinny legs. he looked like he came out of some child's video game.
The sight was almost laughable at how ridiculous everything was, the setting and the man behind it. She wouldn't have taken him seriously at all if she wasn't so determined to find a way to get Sonic to be with her.
The doctor's right eye scrunched up a bit in irritation as he spoke up again, with his obnoxious and disorientating accent. Was it Russian or something? "Uh...Miss Rose?" She could have sworn he sounded like some middle aged villain that ordered yellow little people to do his bidding.
"Oh!" Amy quickly snapped out of her trance when she heard his voice once more. "Sorry. Anyways, I've always had this love for Sonic. When I was a small child, I used tarot cards to determine who would be the love of my life, and it was none other than my darling Sonic!" She clasped her hands together as she seemed to look upwards, daydreaming once more as she let out a lovesick sigh. "Ah, it's like fate had chosen us to be together..."
Nagmeg looked slightly bewildered at this...spectacle, to put it politely. He wondered what exactly was going on in her head for her to be so delusional. "Err...right. Anyways, has he shown any signs of mutual feelings towards you?" If she acted towards Sonic the way she fantasized about him when he was around, he could safely say that it was not the case.
"Well..." Amy's confidence started to fade a bit as she smiled sadly. "He hasn't shown any direct signs of it yet, but if he's been able to put up with me for this long, then I guess that's something, right? And besides, he's saved me countless times!" Her upbeat self started to return with the hope that he at least fancied her in some way. The doctor gave her a bit of a skeptical glance, but did his best to keep his neutrality.
"I see. Well, you called me saying that you had a bit of a problem with expressing your feelings towards him. Could you elaborate on that?"
"Well, every time I see him, I just can't help but get excited over him. I mean, he's the love of my life! What else is a girl to do when they are near the guy they're destined to be with for their life?" As Amy vented towards him, the doctor seemed to be taking notes, both physically and mentally. She went on. "But recently, I've been starting to notice that he's spending less time trying to hang out with me and more time trying to run from me whenever I run after him. He even snapped at me yesterday, telling me that I needed to calm down and maybe seek some help..." She seemed rather hurt, recalling the event and hearing his irritated voice play in her mind. But he wouldn't say something like that for the sake of hurting her. He cared about her at least to some degree, right?
"So that's why I came to you, hoping you'd help me...control myself." She seemed a little embarrassed to admit it as she poked her index fingers together, similar to an anime girl when she was quite troubled or on the spot. She waited for a response as Nagmeg nodded to himself, humming a bit in thought.
"I see. Well, since you have a hard time controlling your excitement, and since you're most likely not mentally stable enough to do so anytime soon-"
"Hey!" Did he just call me a straight up psycho?!
"-I'm going to try something special, just for you." The doctor then got up and walked over to a large chest with a skull and crossbones logo, made of gold, attached to the lid, then opening the chest and rummaging through what was inside.
"Let's see...Cupid's Arrow, Love Potion #9...aha!" He pulled out a watch attached to a golden chain, then closing the chest and walking back to his patient. "Hypnosis is an old and basic trick, this shall work perfectly. It'll help you keep under control and speak reasonably with Sonic."
However, Amy gave a look of concern as she eyed the watch. "Are you sure about this? I don't know if I should..."
"Trust me. I'm the doctor." If his mask were not in the way, he would probably be grinning to his cheeks from his own reply. "Now, I want you to watch very closely..." He let the watch tick as it swayed side to side in an entrancing manner. Amy was a bit reluctant to obey, but she eventually found the resolve to do it. For Sonic. She watched it go tick tock as it went back and forth, back and forth...
Her vision started to blur a bit, her eyes feeling rather heavy as she could barely make out the words Dr. Nagmeg was uttering...she felt rather sleepy, her senses dulling by the second...
Everything went black.
Nagmeg watched as Amy Rose dozed off, her head hanging low as her chest slowly rose and fell, a sure sign that she was unconscious. Did the hypnosis actually work?
"Now, when you hear the snap of my fingers, you will wake up from your trance and do exactly what I say."
A snap of the fingers. Amy woke up, her expression lifeless, her shining emerald eyes now a bland and murky green mess, as if she were no longer itself.
Now to test if this really works. "Now, you hate Sonic the Hedgehog. You want to absolutely tear him apart. Tell me how much you hate him."
Another snap of the fingers.
Amy's lifeless face slowly grew to one full of malice and unbridled wrath, almost bloodthirsty in a way. Her fingers grew jagged, forming the shape of claws. "That Sonic...I hate that jerk! Always running away from me, pushing me aside and treating me like a child! Oh, when I get my hands on him...I"M GONNA MAUL HIS LEGS SO BAD THAT HE'LL NEVER RUN AGAIN!"
As she breathed heavily through gritting her teeth, the doctor let out a rather menacing chuckle, rubbing his hands together in mischievous delight. "This is delicious! Having the one who loves her dear Sonic so much to ironically be the death of him! Oh, this can most definitely work well. Or..."
An even more twisted idea popped into his crafty mind. Light bulb.
"Now, you are insanely obsessed with Sonic. You love him so much that just the thought of not being next to him, not feeling his warmth, not breathing the same air as him, is enough to make you lie awake at night in agony. You haven't been acting bold enough, he wants you to be even bolder for him. Whenever you see him, you will do everything you can to be with your darling Sonic! All other times, you will be your normal self, but when you see him, only he will be on your mind. Now go! Pursue your love!"
At the snap of his fingers, Amy quickly changed her expression from a vicious beast to a driven love-crazy girl, dashing out of the hut to find where Sonic would be.
"Ehehehehe..." The mere thought of it all left the doctor amused, he couldn't help but laugh from his master plan. He finally took off his mask, which also had a voice modulator, to reveal a large pink nose with two hickory brown bushes of a mustache sticking out. He then arched his back and stretched out his belly, spreading out his arms as he began his iconic laugh. "Oh ho ho ho ho ho! This is genius! Sheer genius! With that pesky girl constantly on his tail, he will be too distraught and occupied to stop me from my master plans! I should have thought of something like this much sooner! Now, Eggmanland will finally come to be!"
Dr. Eggman once again roared with laughter for what seemed like minutes before calming down and observing his surroundings, reflecting on his surroundings and the effort he had put into this convoluted plan. If he weren't such an evil mastermind, perhaps he would have also done extremely well as an actor, maybe even a politician...