This is it, the final chapter to this story! I hope you've enjoyed it, and I'll be posting more stories soon!
I don't own any characters except Reyza, Flieber, and Dark Death.
Sea of Tears, Lunatea
Klonoa remembered this…the falling…the uncertainty…am I going to make it? He had felt it a year before, when he had first come to this world. But he was thinking now, about what Dark Death had said. Was this world really non-existent? No, he thought. It's too real. All of my friends…Lolo, Popka, Leorina, Tat, Reyza, the High Priestess, Flieber, the King of Sorrow…they have to be real. They can't all be a dream…
Reyza's Island, Lunatea
"Quickly!" commanded Reyza. "They don't have much time! We must revive them!" Klonoa's friends carried the stretcher that the trio was on to Reyza's island. "Please be okay…" Reyza murmured. He took some remedies out of his pocket and sprinkled them over the three friends. He waited, and he waited, and he prayed that they were okay.
Klonoa coughed up some water. He sat up quickly, hitting Tat, who was standing over him, in the face. "Ow!" she squealed.
"Oops!" said Klonoa. "Sorry, Tat!" He looked around. "What happened? Where am I?"
"You're back on my island," Reyza explained as Lolo and Popka woke up.
"But where's Dark Death?" asked Klonoa.
"Over there," said Flieber. He pointed to a small island near the one they were on. Dark Death was sitting on a rock, not moving. "He was there when we came back."
"What'ya think he's doin'?" asked Popka.
"I don't know yet, Mister Popka," said Flieber.
Klonoa got up, and began walking towards Dark Death. "Klonoa!" shouted Lolo. "Stop! He might be…"
"Relax, Lolo," said Klonoa reassuringly, "I know what I'm doing."
He continued walking toward the island Dark Death was on. He hopped over some rocks, and walked over to the hooded man. He had his head in his right hand. "I don't get it," he was saying. "I had everything planned out. There was no way I could've lost. And yet I did. Why?"
Klonoa sighed. "Dark Death," he said finally, "I'm no expert at this kind of stuff, but I think there's a reason you wanted to destroy this world. Now, I'm not sure what that reason is, but whatever it was, it wasn't as strong as my reason to protect it."
"But it's not real!" retorted Dark Death. "How can you care so much about something that's in your imagination?"
Klonoa thought about that for a moment. He wasn't quite sure himself. Then he had it. "These people may not exist to others, but as for as I know, they're real. They have feelings just like you and me. And as long as that's true, I'll do anything it takes to protect them."
"You're a fool," said Dark Death. "A fool if I've ever seen one."
"Look, Dark Death," said Klonoa, "you're part of me, right? The dark part. And there was a reason you wanted to destroy this world. Why?"
"I'll tell you why!" shouted Dark Death. "This world brought out too much good in you! That left me, the bad part, to be forsaken! I wanted you to acknowledge me!"
"That's why?" asked Klonoa. He thought about it for a moment. He wasn't a very evil person. His evil had been suppressed for a long time while he was in Lunatea. If balance was what he needed, then balance he would have. "Okay, Dark Death," he said, "I won't forget you."
"Really?" said Dark Death. "That's…I mean, I…" He looked at his ring. Its diamond was changing. It was now black and white, with a Yin-Yang symbol on the top. "Thank you, Klonoa," he said, smiling for the first time.
Klonoa smiled back. "No problem," he said. He turned to his friends, and shouted to them, "It's all okay."
New Kingdom of Sorrow, Lunatea
Klonoa walked through the memorial museum once again with his friends. There was much to be done now. Klonoa had saved Lunatea again. This event had to be put up in the museum. Leorina was already planning it. "I'll build an addition," she said, "and put the things from this adventure in it. Okay?"
"That sounds great, Leorina," said Klonoa, "but first, we need to do something with the present museum." He took the Elements out of his pocket, and set them at their appropriate place in the museum. "Back where they should be," Klonoa said happily.
"I suppose you should be getting back home, then," said Lolo sadly. "I'm really going to miss you."
"Don't worry, Lolo," said Reyza, walking up behind them. "He'll be back. I know he will."
Klonoa smiled. "Thank you all, for everything," he said. And with that, he walked off, into the rippling air, like in his last adventure, and he disappeared.
"See you in the future, Klonoa," said Rezya, "see you in the future."
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