Chapter 4:
Disaster
Ripples of water trailed behind the boat. It was still a dark cloudy day, and the water was green and murky. Elly was behind the wheel. Taylor volunteered to be in one of the backseats and be their main gun man. Klonoa looked away, his arm lifting up his head. Some water sprayed on his face. He jumped up startled, as he was not a big fan of being wet. Although he didn't show it, he was terrified of being on the boat, thinking that it flip over or crash and he'd have to go in the water. This thought made him nauseous, for if that happened, he'd probably sink because he was not a very good swimmer. "So, Curien was framed, right?", she asked. "More like brainwashed, Goldman kept telling him that humans were linked to all the wars and other obscure things in the world.", replied Klonoa.
"Well, he's right in a way."
"Yeah, but billions of people shouldn't suffer for the actions of the other possible thousands that are criminals."
Elly looked on ahead. "Here they come Taylor, brace yourself.". Seaweed zombies paddled out of the water attempting to grab the boat. Taylor's marksman accuracy blew their heads off. Klonoa started to see zombies on the bridges, one of them was hanging from it. "Taylor! Behind you!", the cabbit warned. The fox quickly turned around and shot the zombie which plopped down to river in front of the boat. A red stain appeared on the boat's trail. "Bastard must've gotten chopped up by the propellers.", Elly pointed out. Then they heard another boat approaching. It was a man who was escaping from the city. All of the sudden, a seaweed zombie, sprouted out and landed on the boat. The water craft, skidded across the canal. Klonoa wasted no time disposing the zombie. Although he sat back down immediately for he didn't want to risk falling off. Elly slowed the boat down and the man did the same. "You all right, man?", she asked.
"I'm fine! Thanks!", he replied.
"What's the fastest way to get to Goldman Building?"
"Oh, just follow the canal and then at the first intersection turn to your right! It'll be straight ahead!"
"Thanks!"
The man turned his boat on again and sped off.
"Come on you guys.", Elly ordered. The trio went to what looked like a plaza. The place was smothered with zombies. Mainly the ax ones. Taylor made quick work of them. They saw citizens run away from a group executioner zombies, and some muscular zombies. One leaped to the boat and grabbed Elly, who turned the wheel in panic. She could smell it's breath. Taylor shot the zombies head off, spraying blood over her face. Next thing they knew, there were in the air. The boat launched itself on the centerpiece of the plaza. It landed roughly and almost knocked the cabbit off.
Elly regained control of the boat and continued forward. They went under more bridges, with more seaweed zombies. A voice rang out for help. A person was swimming away from two seaweed monsters. Then Klonoa saw another poor soul in the water barely staying afloat, about to be slain by another one of those creatures. But by that time it was too late, the person disappeared under a splash of waves. Taylor quickly took care of the monsters attacking. The cabbit looked back and saw more fish hop out of the water. He tried to kill them as quickly as possible, but one of them was able to nick him in the chest. The fish drew blood and now it was running down his shirt. An ax then clanged on the front of the boat. One of the long haired ax zombies was fling axes at them. "You guys are freaking fags", she growled, shooting the creature in the chest until she could see right through. Finally they made it to the intersection. The echidna took a sharp turn right. However, a group of seaweed zombies tried to flip the boat over, but due to their limited strength, the boat just tipped…knocking the cabbit into the water. "Hey, HEY! Klonoa went overboard!", Taylor shouted. The cabbit was panicking, desperately trying to stay afloat. Elly made a quick U-turn, but then she saw in horror that one of the zombies grabbed him in the face and dragged him down. "Klonoa!!", she screamed. "Argh! Forget about him!", Taylor shouted. Elly gave him an angry look. "One casualty should not stop us from saving thousands of other people.", he stated. Elly nodded and looked down, continuing down the river.
Everything happened to quickly for the cabbit. He saw nothing but a mass of green blurs and blue blurs. Klonoa fired madly around him hoping that he could brush the zombies off. Red stains floated up to the surface as he fired. His breath was about to give away. Things went from bad to worse when the killer fish started nipping on his fur. Klonoa desperately tried to brush them off, but they clinged to his skin. Finally he was able to reach the surface. The fish were still stuck on his body. He ripped them off, and threw on the ground, whipping out his gun and shooting the fish. "Not one of my best ideas.", he said to himself seeing the chunks of fur that scarred his arms and legs, from ripping the fish off. Klonoa felt like just dropping on the floor. He realized that his medical bag was lost and that the red stains didn't just come from the zombies. Weakness came over him and wearily headed down the sewer path, which didn't look like sewers at all, but ancient ruins. Ruins that were filled with moss and filth. All of the sudden he heard a ground-shaking bellow. This knocked the weakness out of the cabbit. He dashed to the source. The path led him to an empty hall ruin, green moss spewing from the walls, which were dirty and brown. It was getting darker too. The cabbit turned around and saw what was making the yells. A serpent looking monster lifted its long, rough green body. It had no eyes, but had an enormous mouth, with razor sharp teeth.. Then he saw not one, but four other serpents rise from the ground, these were slightly shorter and were brown in color. The green one in the center sniffed the air, and then growled in anger. Klonoa knew that it was sensing him. The serpent snapped at the cabbit, who barely dodged it. He sat behind the wall and quickly took out the book. Klonoa flipped through the pages and spotted the illustration. "Tower, Type: 8000", was on the top of the page. Thick black circles were drawn around each of the serpents' mouths. There were a total of five of them. The cabbit took out the empty clip from his gun and reloaded it.
Elly and Taylor sped down the canal with Goldman Building. They both sat quietly in the boat, mourning the cabbit's presumed death. The agents didn't see however a fishing boat, full of zombies going at a blistering speed. In a split second, Taylor and Elly flew off the speed boat that was toppled by the zombie boat. The zombies docked and started crawling out of the boat. The duo fired at them, without hesitation. "Crap…", cursed Elly, "…How do we get to Goldman Building now?". Taylor spotted some stairs. They went up the stairs from the sewer dock. The place was…empty. There was nothing in sight. Not a house or a car or anything. It was just them and the dirty brown concrete, at their feet. Suddenly the ground began to shake. Walls came from the ground that circled around them. Within a minute a huge coliseum, surrounded them. A monitor was at one of the walls. The screen crackled to life. The picture then shaped to a man who was just sitting there in his desk. He was slightly tan and had tinted glasses on. He had a stern and serious face and his hands were folded in front of him. "Do you like it?", he exclaimed. "Just a little side job I completed during my spare time. For those who do not know, I am Goldman…". The duo was taken aback. "That's the guy who caused all of this? He looks like nothing but a businessman!", the echidna exclaimed. Goldman continued his message, "I am sure you now know about my experiments now. As you see I will continue Dr. Curien's experimental legacy, and if any of you try to get in my way…well…you'll just have to face him". Goldman then panned the camera to a silver pod, glowing blue and having many wires sticking out. "The Emperor will reign down on humanity, and will become the ruler of nature.", he explained. Then the camera turned to him. "But for now you'll just have to face another of my creations, look to your left.". Elly and Taylor craned their heads left, and saw a cage spawn from the ground. "What the hell is it with zombies and chainsaws!?", shouted Elly.
Klonoa rolled out from his hiding spot and rapidly fired at the Tower's five serpent heads. He saw one to the left open it's mouth ready to strike. This was an opening Klonoa was looking for. He fired at its mouth. The serpent screeched in disturbance when it felt the sharp pains in its mouth. Then the cabbit knew. The only time they would open there mouths was when they were ready to strike, and he could cancel their attacks by shooting in there. Suddenly both the green one and the one to the left opened their mouths to attack. Klonoa was able to the brown one, but the green one attacked quicker. He head-butted the cabbit, and pinned him with by laying down on him. He was straining, trying to break free, spitting the blood out that was knocked out of him. The other serpents took advantage and began to open their mouths. Klonoa fired at them, one of them fell dead, landing with a loud crash. The others hesitated for a second, and began warming up for their next attack. Klonoa fired back, with another falling to its demise. Now only three serpents remained. The green one in the center lifted itself up. Then in one sequence, the far left serpent opened its mouth, then the next one, and the center one was charging up what could be one of its most powerful attacks. The cabbit fired at the brown ones. They crashed down the floor in defeat. Klonoa saw the green one hurled down, baring its teeth at him. In one placed shot, he cancelled the green serpent's attack. With its options running low, the creature who was attached to the wall, broke free. It dismantled the wall it in, and then slithered to another opening to the left. The cabbit followed the being and almost tripped over himself when he saw that the location that it escaped to. It was another hall, this one half sunk in the murky sewer water. He spotted the last serpent that was made up the Tower, swim around the dirty pool of the water. It was as though it was waiting for him. The cabbit felt his stomach churn. It was bad enough for him to get dragged down in the water by the zombies. But know, in ordered to defeat this thing, he would have to get in the one thing he feared the most. For he didn't know how to swim. The serpent continued circling the area. Klonoa closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. He ran down the water and tried to calm himself down. He realized that the water wasn't too deep, that he could stand. But the water was up to his neck, and in this case, swimming would be faster than walking. The serpent rose and opened his mouth and splashed down. The cabbit got out of the way without thinking, and was engulfed by the waves that crashed down from the creature. This when he started panicking. The thought of being underwater traumatized as before. He floated back up to the surface. The serpent repeated its attack. This time, Klonoa was prepared and fired at the mouth. This knocked the creature back. Growling in anger, the serpent dove in the water. Klonoa tried see if he could spot him, but had no luck seeing through the filthy, murky water. Without warning, the creature sprang up and slammed down. The cabbit, unfortunately didn't react fast enough and was caught under the serpent. He was tumbling down under the water again. Bubbles from the splash fogged up his vision, and wasn't able to see anything.
Then he felt a rough surface slam into him. Why, it was a platform that was on the other side of the hall! He stumbled up gasping for breath. Klonoa looked for his shoulder and saw the serpent sine-waving towards him. With a steady aim, he shot the creature in the mouth. The monster lifted its upper body in agony and with its mouth still open, Klonoa continued shooting at it, even piercing holes through its jaw just to kill it. The green serpent swayed for a little bit and finally crashed down the pool. The water stained with its blood seeping from its mouth. Klonoa, who was still panting hard from being in water for so long, lowered his gun. He now had some time to wine down. But then it hit him, he remembered about Elly and Taylor. He didn't know where they were at, and why they abandoned him in the first place. It seemed like the only possible route was the one right in front of him. It was a tunnel that dim and humid. As he started walking down, he noticed something different about this place. The cabbit finally realized what was different. After a short while, the tunnel lost light. The pale dimness was now complete darkness.
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Well after a staggering four days, I finally completed this chapter.
The next chapter I will try to make as suspenseful as possible. If you have a hard time reading this because of some grammar mistakes, feel free to just go on YouTube and go see what I'm talking about.
