Jojo's Bizarre Adventures: Star Ocean
The Thing in the Lake 2
Previous ChapterNext ChapterSweetie Belle and Applebloom enter the hospital. It was busy as the paramedics rush out of the hospital to take the lake monster victims in. The entire staff was talking about it, extremely worried about the victims and the lake monster. They see the two fillies and Jolyne enter and they all go silent. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom walk up to the receptionist desk.
"Um, 'scuse me miss, but we have a patient here for you." said Applebloom. The receptionist slowly looks up to see Jolyne floating in the air, with a broken leg, a bleeding arm, and several third degree bruns. Her mouth opens agape.
"How's it going?" said Jolyne with a nervous smile. "So can the doc fix me up?"
"S-s-s-sure." said the nervous receptionist. She was visibly shaking. She looks through some papers then, with a pen in her mouth, she circles a number at the very end of the paper, though it was more of some squiggly lines rather than a circle. "R-r-right this way...." The receptionist leaves the front desk to lead the three into Jolyne's hospital room. They had to walk really deep into the hospital, practically the last room right next to the far wall oposite from the exit. The mare leads them into the room. It was a little bit bigger than the other hospital rooms. There was the bed, with all the hospital doohickeys right next to it. There was a big rectangular mirror on the wall that the bed was facing. "O-okay, slowly place the patient down on the bed." Sweetie Belle did as she was told, she gingerly placed Jolyne on the bed, then she dropped on the floor, sweating, trying to catch her breath.
"Phew.... that was a workout." said Sweetie Belle.
"I'm sorry, little fillies, but you have to leave for now. The doctor will be checking on the patient shortly. Run along now, don't forget to grab a lollipop at the front desk." said the receptionist to the two girl. Her voiced sounded hushed and worried. She practically pushed the two out of the room. After having an exchanged looks of confusion at eachother, they leave. As they left, the receptionist closes the room door behind her, then locks it. A nurse walks up to her.
"Call for Princess Twilight," she whispered to the nurse.
Jolyne was pretty happy that she finally made to to a hospital. She would've been fine with any sign of civilization. But a hospital was the best place possible. At least she was gonna get fixed up. Her stomach still rumbled however.
"Huh, I wonder when lunchtime happens. I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
"Oh, are you now?" interrupted a doctor, wearing surgeon scrubs, a facemask, and a cap. "That's pretty interesting."
"Oh, I-I didn't really mean it like that, it's just an expression people use in my world."
"Your world huh? You're not from here?" asked the doctor.
"Uh, no. I don’t how I got here, but I'm here now."
"Interesting. Interesting. So, what's seems to be the problem here?"
"Well, doc, I got some cuts on my arm, my leg's broken, and I got burns in a bunch of places."
"Oh, and where would one get such injuries?"
"Well, an accident happened."
"What kind of accident?"
"Look, I know you're a doctor and all, but you're asking too many questions for my liking."
"Alright, alright. I'll fix you up. Though I'm not familiar with your anatomy, I'll try to make this work." The doctor places her horn onto Jolyne's belly. It started glowing magenta. It took a few minutes, then the glowing stopped. A big ball of light came out of Jolyne's belly, and the doctor places it into a jar.
"What's that for?" asked Jolyne.
"It's just something for the books. That's just how it works around here." Anyways, now I can begin to fix you." The doctor places her horn o Jolyne's leg this time, and it glows magenta again. Jolyne felt her bones shifting in her leg. She yelps in pain. "Sorry, again, I'm not used to your anatomy." Jolyne felt like the doctor was solving a jigsaw puzzle in her leg. Suddenly, bones start to click in place, and it started to feel like they were mending themselves back together. The glowing stops. "Right, now for you arm." Again, she places her horn on Jolyne's arm, and the crystal shards get pulled out, the wounds close, and the blood disappears. "Now for the burns." A ball forms at the tip of the doctor's horn. It floats above Jolyne, then it falls onto her chest. She gets clocked with purple magic, then disappears, the burns going along with it. Jolyne suddenly felt good as new.
"Woah! Thanks doc! I feel like a million bucks!"
"Is that so? Good." Suddenly, ropes start to snake around d Jolyne as it ties her up then tightens.
"Argh! What the hell is this. What are you doing?!" said Jolyne, as she struggles in her binds. The doctor then removes her doctor's attire, and beneath it reveals a purple pony with wings and a horn.
"I am Princess Twilight. And you have a lot to answer for."
"What? What questions? Whatever it is, I've got nothing to do with it!"
"Oh yes you do. I suspect you have something to do with the monster from the lake."
"Oh, jeez, here we go again. Look, pal, I'm no lake monster. Hell, I even don't like the water a too much. What do expect to find about the monster from me?"
"For the past week, I've been trying to study about the thing that lurks in the shadows at night. I've tried my best to find out what it is and it always seems to elude me. Even when I teleport. All I got was that it never stays too far away from the water, and that it lives in the lake near Sweet Apple Acres. At first, I thought it wouldn't do anything but slink around and scare ponies at night. But today, it doesn't seem like it wants to wait until night time anymore because just moments ago, two victims were seen near the lake, knocked out, and foaming from the mouths. I've been patient with this thing this entire week, but now it's gone too far!" The Princess started to get really heated, the more she talked about the monster. She then caught herself in her rage, then did a little breathing technique. "I also saw its silhouette in the darkness, and I know for sure that you have the same bodily structure as the monster.
"What are you talking about?"
"Both of you are bipedal, both of you were around the same size, and both of you appeared in relatively the same time. I have reason to believe you have something to do with this creature."
"Alright, so what if I do have something to do with this thing, huh? What are you gonna do about it, huh? Lock me up? You know that I wasn't involved with that attack, and if I was, you have no solid evidence!" The Princess got quiet, as her ears point downwards.
"Fine, you're right. You can leave now. I guess we'll have to deal with this ourselves." The Princess started to walk away. Jolyne suddenly felt bad.
"Hey, wait, I'm sorry. If you want, I can go deal with this monster for you." The Princess stops, then turns around.
"Really?" she says.
"Yes really. Those three that brought me here today did a real big favor for me. I can't let this thing walk around knowing that they could get harmed at anytime." Twilight smiled a bit, then frowned again.
"So, how are you exactly going to deal with it?"
"I'll confront it. You see, I have this power," Jolyne says as she picks up the flower vase on the end table with Stone Free. Twilight doesn't see the Stand, she only sees the vase floating.
"Oh! So you have magic too?"
"Well, it's not exactly magic, but it can fix your monster problem. And since you fixed me up, I can go back into action."
"Well.... ok, you can help us. But if you try anything that could harm my friends, I will personally deal with you. Now, let me reverse the snake rope spell."
"No need." Jolyne unravels into a bundle of strings, then crawls out of the rope, then returns to her normal self beside the bed. Twilight nodded slowly, interested in Jolyne's ability. "So, mind if you point me to the right direction?"
"Follow me." Jolyne and Twilight exit the room. They walk towards the exit, with ponies in their way quickly getting out of it, generally nervous. Jolyne sees a room were a bunch of staff were rushing in and out of it.
"I'm guessing that's where the victims are?" asked Jolyne.
"Yes. After I point to you where the lake is, I shall attend to them." They exit the hospital and rushed towards Sweet Apple Acres. When. They got to a hill where they could see the lake, Twilight then pointed out the lake, there were ponies in armor and spears, posted up next to the lake.
"Let’s go," said Twilight. They walk up to the guards. They then bowed towards Twilight but kept a dirty look towards Jolyne. "At ease guys. She's with us. She'll try to confront the monster." The guards nod. "Alright Jolyne. You can take care of the monster. I'll head back to the hospital and tend to those patients. Good luck." And with that, Twilight teleports away. Jolyne looks towards the lake. She slowly walks up to it. One of the guards say something.
"You gonna deal with it or what? Hurry up, I'm supposed to be on break today." said the grumpy guard. Another guard steps in.
"Hey, let her do her thing. If she really does know how to beat this thing, let her," the other guard said. Jolyne nods. Jolyne slowly walks into the water. What the hell am I doing, she thought, how am I supposed to catch this thing? Suddenly, Jolyne is grabbed by the feet and is dragged into the water. The guard who stood up for Jolyne tried to follow her in concern, but was stopped by the grumpy guard.
"Let her do her thing, remember?" said the guard as he wears a grin with missing teeth.
Jolyne was being pulled in the water so fast, she couldn't see a thing. She was already running out of breath, as she wasn't prepared for the sudden attack, and didn't get a chance to breath in some air. Jolyne was slowly blacking out. This all happened way too fast. That was when the monster suddenly shot upwards, and threw Jolyne up. She was flung out of the water, and into solid ground nearby. Jolyne gasped for air. Jolyne then quickly looked around to find the monster. It seemed that Jolyne was in some sort of underwater cave. She saw the pool of water that would act as her exit nearby. She wondered how deep in the lake she was. The cave was illuminated by blue glowing fungus. Jolyne stands up and calls out Stone Free. She assumes her battle stance as she looks around the cave. There was no sight of the monster. Suddenly, this black mass of slime form behind Jolyne, and hastily grows into some creature. Jolyne turns around then gasps. She saw the monster. And she cried.
"Foo Fighters!"
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