Chapter 3: Klonoa vs Namvel: Lolo's Promise

The two stood still, waiting as if they were looking for a cue to begin their battle. The wind had suddendly picked up and a cool breeze had brushed past the two making their fur move gracefully in the wind.

In almost an instant Namvel had fired another blast of energy from his gun. But Klonoa had been ready for it this time.

"Wind Bullet!" He had used this technique to create a powerful flow of wind in the form of a circle and had shot the blast right back at Namvel. He had dodged it suprisingly easily even not expecting it himself. Namvel couldn't help but laugh at Klonoa's cleverness.

"I will say that I admire your ability to think quick and on your feet in battle. A true warrior is prepared for anything no matter the situation. It's a shame that I have to kill you now, You'd make a great assasin." Klonoa simply shrugged him off.

"Thanks for the suggestion, But I'd be much happier with the people I love then some group of guys who's sole purpose is to kill people." Klonoa had looked back at Lolo again. "Besides, I have people depending on me. So I can't leave them anyway."

Namvel looked confused. "How is protecting that girl so important that you'd give up wealth, fame, and power for her?" Klonoa smiled. "You wouldn't have the paitence to sit through the full explanation, So let's just say she's someone I care about a lot. Even willing to die for if I had to"

Namvel laughed. "I guess love really is blind." With that he drew another shot at Klonoa. This time however the blast was colored red. Klonoa had prepared for it this time, But to his surprise, Instead of shooting dead at him Namvel shot it straight up into the air. He had looked up to see what would happen.

"But let's see where love gets you now." He said as he dashed into the woods.

Klonoa didn't even have time to catch him it was so sudden. The blast had seperated into 100s of tiny energy blasts. All firing down at quick speeds. Klonoa had saw at least 4 coming straight for him. He managed to dodge them all but one coming straight for his shoulder.

Barely even dodging in time it had scraped it a bit and he could feel slight burns from the heat of the blast. He looked up once more to see if one blast in particular heading straight for Lolo. even thinking he dashed towards her unconcious body as fast as he could.

There was no way Lolo would be able to survive one of those in her current state. He jumped right over her as the blast pelted him being nearly feet away from her body. Klonoa felt his body surge in pain with electricity as he began screaming in pain.

He fell to the ground as the electricity continued to surge throughout his body. He winced in pain as he tried to stand back up on his feet. He could only manage to kneel as trying anymore his body would've gave out on him.

"Heh. It looks like I've found your weakness." Klonoa could hear Namvel out in the distance. He lept out of the forest standing condescendingly over Klonoa in his current state.

Klonoa looked at Namvel angrily wincing in pain. "That was a pretty cheap shot you know." Namvel smiled. "In a battle you do whatever it takes to win, no matter how low down you have to go. I had a feeling that if I put that girl in danger you'd rush over to save her."

Klonoa pondered it for a moment. "So I guess you were just using that technique of yours as bait, Huh?" Namvel nodded. "This is why real warriors fight alone. Partners and allies will only end up getting in the way and being extra weight to carry. If you had left that girl at home she would be fine right now."

Klonoa began to stand up as he heard Namvel speaking.

"You may be right about one thing. I never should have walked into this forest with her. But that doesn't mean she's just some extra person to worry about. Lolo would never abandon me in a fight and I wouldn't do it to her either. I wouldn't just abandon her here even if I had to risk my own life to keep her safe." Klonoa said angrily.

Namvel looked in shock as he managed to see Klonoa slowly start to stand up on his own. "What!? How are you even standing? The electricity should be surging through your entire body as we speak!" Klonoa had finally managed to stand on his front legs as if the electricity hadn't been bothering him at all.

"So there's more to you then meets the eye. No matter, You'll still find yourself falling at my feet. Let's see how far protecting your "Lolo" will get you now!" Klonoa bared his fangs angrily.

"Everything you've done here is something I can't accept. I will never forgive you for hurting Lolo!" Klonoa growled at him.

"Well, Then let's see just what you plan to do to someone who's crossed the line!"

It was finally time to end this for good. As if on cue Namvel drew his gun and fired another red blast into the air. Klonoa was ready for it this time however.

"Here it comes again. I'm not falling for that trick twice." With quick haste he drew his wind ring and created a giant vortex of wind to catch the blasts firing downwards. Namvel had taken a huge leap away from the radius of the attack.

Then they came crashing down again. With all of his might Klonoa had managed to catch all of them inside the wind vortex. Namvel looked in suprise as he saw Klonoa holding them in the vortex.

Klonoa then used the wind currents of the vortex to push the blasts back into each other to create one giant ball-like. Without a word he shot it back at Namvel with all of his might.

Namvel had quickly caught the huge energy ball into his hands struggling with all of his might to keep it from hitting his body. While he was distracted with it Klonoa was planning his next move. He drew a green energy made dagger out of the wind ring's center orb and dashed towards Namvel.

He ran right where he was standing and stood to his side. Namvel could only look in disgust as he saw Klonoa had clearly gotten the best of him this time. "I told you I would never forgive you." He stabbed Namvel right in the arm with the blade. He grunted in pain and had began to lose his grip on the ball.

In almost no time he had gotten pushed back by the force un able to hold it back any longer. All of a sudden the ball could no longer contain the massive amounts of energy stored in it and exploded. The force was so strong that even the trees were close to being out rooted from the ground.

Winds blowing so strong that the ponds were getting pushed around. Klonoa had to cling himself and Lolo to a tree with how strong it was to keep from them getting blown away.

Then in an instant there was silence. Everything had went back to it's normal states and everything seemed to be normal. Klonoa was able to sigh with relief knowing that it was over. He sat himself on the ground smiling and exhausted.

Klonoa turned around at the sound of faint mumbles that his rather large ears had picked up. He ran over to Lolo and knelt down to see if he was really hearing her or not.

"Mph..." He could see Lolo's eyes squinting as she struggled to open them. "Lolo?" She opened her eyes at the call to see him standing over her. Klonoa felt his eyes getting watery again as he smiled at her.

"Klonoa?" She faintly called.

Klonoa slowly helped her sit up and quickly noticed his shoulder and saw how it looked like something had stuck into it. Her concern for Klonoa's injuries had made her snap back to normal so fast Klonoa had gotten a bit scared.

"What happened to your shoulder? Why do you look so beat up? Why am I covered in bruises? What's wrong with your-" Klonoa couldn't stop himself anymore. Before she could even finish talking he had hugged her as tight as he could in his arms.

"I'm... I'm just glad your ok." Tears flowing down his face endlessly. Klonoa was extremely relieved to see Lolo awoke and concious again. He was overwhelmed with joy and couldn't help stop his emotions from taking over.

"You kept your promise, didn't you?" She asked him curiously. Klonoa nodded. "It's over Lolo. We can go back home now to see Popka, he must be worried sick about us." Lolo smiled out of relief hugged him back as well.

"So what exactly happened while I was unconcious?" She rubbed his shoulder a bit. "Looks like whoever attacked us wanted to finish what he started?" Klonoa nodded as he looked up at her.

"It's a pretty long story though. I can tell you on the way back. Can you stand up?" Lolo looked down at her legs. Then she looked back at Klonoa and wiped the tears from his face gently with her hand.

"I think so." Lolo began trying to stand up on her own but she just ended up wincing in pain and getting sat back down. "I guess not." she said sadly. Klonoa smiled.

"Well I guess that means we gotta leave the way we came in." He knelt down with his back turned to Lolo to motion her to get on. She smiled as she began to climb on his shoulders. He stood up without a hint of pain in him.

"Alright, let's get going before someone else shows up unwanted." Klonoa nodded as he walked them out of the forest headed towards their home.

Deep in the ruins of the Slavosky Jungle there was a base with two mysterious figures.

"So it seems that pesky Wind Ring weilder has gotten the best of one of my top henchmen, Namvel. He was foolish to underestimate him."

The two had been watching the fight from a camera implanted in Namvel's fur. They had been viewing the battle the entire time from their base of operations in the jungle ruins.

"That fool had it coming to him. His overconfidence had ultimately led to his eventual downfall as the boy is no mere apprentice with that ring. He was an idiot to take him lightly." The figure sighed.

"No matter, we have all the information we need for our next task. This will be more then enough to suffy the needs of our reasearch." The other figure laughed.

"I hope you keep that ring of yours in sight young hero. For next time, there won't be any survivors when you see what we have in store for you."

Phew. My longest chapter yet and for good reason too. Got a little bit of plot revealed and Klonoa reigns victorious over the clever yet overconfident Namvel. Also Popka is alive yes I just needed to find somewhere to squeeze him in because I had kinda forgot about him for a while until just now lul. What's up with those mysterious figures? That's gonna be kept a secret for a while. Welp I apologize for keeping you guys waiting so long. I recently just got un motivated to write until today. Oh well hopefully that won't happen again. Also REVIEW PLS! I want to know what you guys want me to improve on and how to make it more enjoyable for you all so pls let me know what your thoughts are so far. With all that said stick around for:

Chapter 4: Preistess In-Training