The Medallion novel Chapter 24

After being criticized and punished by Mia, Rocky felt rather depressed. Since his training was suspended, he returned to his room. The moment he entered his room, he saw Uriah, his war beast, in bed kept kicking its left hind limb. All of a sudden, Rocky seemed to understand what Uriah was trying to do. Immediately, he picked up Uriah and helped it remove the strip of cloth and the two twigs that were used to cure the injured hamstring in its left hind limb. As soon as it felt that its hind limb was free, Uriah jumped out of Rocky's arms on to the ground. It landed steadily on the ground with its limbs. There seemed to be no pain anywhere. In an instant, it began to jump back and forth jubilantly. It was evident that its injured hamstring had been completely cured.

"Look at you! How happy you are!" Rocky said with a smile. Seeing Uriah jumping on the ground jubilantly, Rocky felt that his depression was all gone. It was replaced with the joy of seeing Uriah jumping around.

At that very moment, Flint, Rocky's roommate, came in. He saw Uriah jumping with ease. With a slightly startled and puzzled look on his face, Flint asked, "Wasn't your war beast born with a disability? How is it able to move normally now?"

"No, it wasn't born with any disability. It just had a hamstring injury in its limb. Now it has recovered," Rocky replied casually.

"But how did you know it was injured?" Flint was even more puzzled on knowing about Uriah's injury and healing.

"I happen to have gained some knowledge about medicine." Rocky made up a random excuse. The era in which he was living now, there were no professional veterinarians at all, so his war beast was commonly considered as a disabled beast since it was born. Modern medicine was a subject existing only in the era of his previous lifetime. He was lucky that he still had his memory from his previous lifetime. Thus, equipped with some common knowledge about modern medicine, he was able to find out that his war beast was not disabled but just injured.

"That's good! My war beast, Cloud Tiger, seems to have a poor appetite. It seldom eats anything. Can you help me with it?" Flint said, pointing to the tiger in his cage.

"Yes, but on one condition," Rocky said and winked at Flint with a wicked smile.

"What's the condition?" Flint asked at once.

"After your Cloud Tiger is cured, I want to borrow it for study purpose," Rocky told Flint. He had great interest in learning everything about Flint's tiger, so he had to make use of such a good opportunity.

Seeing Rocky's wicked smile, Flint hesitated for a while, but finally nodded in agreement. Other than relying on Rocky, Flint had no other good option now.

Rocky immediately walked near the tiger's cage. He saw Cloud Tiger lying inside in low spirits. Its face was listless. Its body was much fatter than it had been a few days ago, and from time to time it would open its mouth and spurt a bad smell. After the careful observation, he seemed to find out the reason why the tiger was not feeling well. He asked Flint at once, "For how many days have you keep it in the cage?"

"I've been busy training these days. And at nights, I need to have more practice. I had no time to take care of it, so I've been keeping it in the cage from the last few days," Flint explained carefully.

"No wonder it is not feeling well. I think it probably suffers from indigestion as it has eaten too much and lacks exercise. How much do you feed it every day?" Rocky asked after making his diagnosis.

"In addition to its own share, it also ate your war beast's share. I saw that your war beast wasn't eating, so…" Flint told with a little hesitation and embarrassment.

"I told you earlier also to stop feeding it so much raw meat. You just don't listen to me. From tomorrow, you should go to the kitchen and get some sweet potatoes and vegetables for it. Don't let it eat meat any more. Also, at lunch time, take it out for a walk and let it bask in the sun for some time. In this way, your time of training or practicing will not be affected and your war beast will be in good shape," Rocky suggested.

"But, is that enough?" Flint seemed unsure about Rocky's simple suggestion.

"You just take care of your tiger like I told you. After three days, your tiger will be energetic again!" Rocky said with great confidence.

At that point, they heard the drum, which indicated that it was dinner time.

"Don't forget what you have promised me," Rocky reminded. He quickly picked up Uriah who was jumping happily on the ground and walked out of the room for dinner.

At the dinner hall, Uriah didn't stop jumping. He behaved like a child with hyper-kinetic syndrome, which soon attracted the attention of the other young people dining in the hall. They all had known that Rocky's war beast was born with a disability. But after a few days, suddenly, it was bouncing so happily.

"Hey, wasn't your war beast supposed to be disabled since it was born? How is it able to move normally all of a sudden?" someone, who couldn't control his curiosity, asked Rocky.