Here it is, chapter two of my sequel. Read and enjoy (and review). Oh, and sorry I took so long, but the schoolwork just keeps on coming, and I hardly have a spare moment to write.

I don't own any of the characters except Rastik, Kopaska, Yudenno, Morval, and anyone I used in my last story.

Reyza's Island (Guest House), Lunatea

Klonoa woke up to a strange smell. It was refreshing, yet unfamiliar. He got up from his bed to see Reyza's team of students walking around the kitchen of the guest house, making a meal. Rastik looked into Klonoa's room. "Hey," he said to everyone, "big-ears is up. Klonoa, get in here! It's breakfast time!"

Klonoa walked into the kitchen to see a feast of strange fruits and even stranger cooked meats. He got a better look around the room. Flieber and Dark Death were setting up the table. Yudenno was advising Kopaska as he experimented with different combinations of sauces and spices on the food. Rastik tossed Klonoa an apron and chef hat. "Wha…?" Klonoa said, confused.

"Come over here, Klonoa," said Rastik, walking over to the tabletop near the stove. "You're gonna help me make Master Reyza's breakfast."

"Wait," said Klonoa, "we make breakfast for ourselves and Reyza?"

"Yeah," said Rastik, "he says that learning to cook together will teach teamwork. But don't worry, it ain't that hard. All you gotta remember is Reyza likes his fruits juicy and his meat hearty, covered in plenty of those blue spices Kopaska is using." He pointed over to the curious owl, who was carefully sprinkling the azure spices on his and Flieber's meal. "I'll take care of the fruits," said Rastik, "and you get the meat. All the meat is labeled. Get the Likuri meat down from the center shelf; it goes well with the fruit."

Klonoa nodded and went over to the meat shelves. He took out the meat labeled 'Likuri' and went over to the stove. He put it in a pan, and asked Rastik, "What temperature?"

"850 degrees," he said from the other end of the room, where he was slicing up fruits with a black-handled knife. He cut the fruit with the swiftest hand Klonoa had ever seen. It seemed that just as the knife went down, it went up again. It was as if his hand were a pumping piston with a razor on the end. Klonoa's eyes could barely follow Rastik's hand. As soon as he was done with the first fruit, which was about it three seconds, he moved on to the next.

Klonoa proceeded to turn the oven up to 850 degrees, and watched the meat cook. He ambled over to Kopaksa, who was just about finished sprinkling Flieber's meal. He handed the sprinkling can to Klonoa. Klonoa turned back to the meat, which looked cooked enough. "Should I take it off?" he asked Rastik, who was assorting the fruits in a tower.

Rastik looked in at it. "What's it been, three minutes? Yeah, take it off. Oh, and inject some of this fruit juice into it." He handed him a needle filled with green liquid. "It'll balance out the spice. After that, come with me and we can give Reyza his breakfast."

Klonoa did as Rastik instructed him, and soon, he and the mischievous hyena were on their way to the island at the center of Reyza's clearing. Along the way, they struck up a conversation. "So Rastik," said Klonoa, "I'm new to this whole student thing. What exactly do we do around here?"

"Well," said Rastik, "we pretty much do what we just did to start the day, and then Master Reyza teaches us physical skills. You know, combat, endurance, all that jazz. Then, we go hunting and fruit gathering. After that is recreational time. Then he teaches us mental skills."

"Mental skills?" asked Klonoa.

"Yeah," said Rastik. "It's pretty tough stuff. It takes memorization of incantations and stuff, plus a bunch of other mental exercises. When Master Reyza does the exercises, though, he makes it look like child's play. It's pretty impressive, but I'm more interested in physical combat. What's your specialty?"

"I've mostly used this in all my battles," replied Klonoa, holding up his ring. It shoots wind bullets, and does a bunch of other stuff, too."

"Really?" said Rastik. "From what I heard, all that thing can do is shoot wind bullets, and it can only do that with the help of a priestess."

"Well," said Klonoa, "back then that's all I could do. But I learned more. It was weird though…I didn't learn those things in my world, but I didn't learn them here either. It was like I was in this blank area, and it taught me what to do…"

Training Course, Blank Zone (two months ago)

"…First, I saw a Moo in front of me. I pointed my ring at it, but decided against it, since I was almost certain it would do nothing. But somehow, the Moo disappeared and reappeared on my ring. I kept working at this until I could call monsters from out of nowhere.

"Then there was the fighting course…it had a bunch of Armored Moos in it. I could see no armor-less Moos to throw and break the armor, so I just pointed my ring at one of them and shot. A piercing bullet came out and split the Moo's armor. A few more shots, and I had mastered that too.

"There were several other courses, and I learned lots of new stuff. I'm not even sure where that place was, but I felt something- or someone -that I knew before was there. It was strange."

Reyza's Island, Lunatea

"Well that's quite a story," said Rastik. He thought for a moment. "Hey, do you think it was that girl Lolo and that wacky contraption she cooked up?"

"Hmmm," said Klonoa. "Well, there's a high chance it was, now that I think about it…I'll ask her."

"So, you got the hots for Miss Lolo?" asked Rastik.

"What?" blurted out Klonoa, taken aback. "No, no, we're just friends."

Rastik laughed a little. "Whatever you say, hotshot." They approached the center island, where Reyza was waiting.

"Ah, Klonoa," said Reyza as they approached, "I see you helped today. Well, hurry back and eat, then come back here, and we can start training."

As Reyza sat down to eat, Klonoa and Rastik headed back to the guest house. When they stepped inside, Flieber called over to them. "Mister Klonoa!" he said. "I made your breakfast!"

Flieber was quite the cook, it seemed. He had made Klonoa an extravagant breakfast: a two-story tower of Moo meat, with diced fruit lining the edges, and shimmering in sauce. Klonoa and Rastik sat down and started eating. Klonoa struck up a conversation with Reyza's other students. "So Rastik tells me that after this, we get physical training. What's that like?"

"It's fairly challenging," replied Yudenno, cutting up a hunk of Erbil meat with diced fruit mixed in. "I myself prefer the mental training."

"How about you, Kopaska?" asked Klonoa.

"Um…" he said, unsure, "I don't know."

Rastik rolled his eyes. "You're never sure of anything."

Kopaska glared at Rastik. "I'm just trying things out, that's all," he said finally.

"Calm down, you two," said Yudenno. "You know Master Reyza hates it when you fight."

"You ain't the boss of me, lizard boy," said Rastik scornfully.

Flieber whacked Rastik in the head. "Quiet, all of you!" he said, in a voice less happy than normal.

Changing the subject, Klonoa asked, "What's your favorite, Flieber?"

"Well, Mister Klonoa," said Flieber, "I'm eager to learn everything, so I don't really think I have a favorite. I like 'em all!"

Klonoa looked over at Dark Death. "And what about you?" he asked.

Dark Death, who had been silently eating all this time, looked up from his food. He thought for a while. "I suppose I'd agree with Flieber," he said, returning to his food.

"Is he always this quiet?" Klonoa whispered to Rastik.

"All the time," Rastik whispered back. "But you get used to it after a while."

So they continued talking about the daily schedule, and soon, Klonoa was familiar with everything the students did (in extravagant detail thanks to Flieber). He followed the others outside after breakfast was finished. Reyza was waiting for them. "I see you are done with your breakfast," said Reyza, "so let's begin." He walked down the row of his students. "Today, we'll be working on elusive combat: dodging, sneaking, and all of the like. I've set up the training course so that each area you start in will be equipped the same. Are you all ready?" Everyone nodded. "Good. Then follow me." He walked over to a small trapdoor near the guest house. He opened it up and said, "Who wishes to go first?"

Rastik courageously stepped up, and, taking a small stick with strange carvings in it out of his pocket, descended the stairs. After about a minute, he motioned for the next person to go in. Flieber stepped forth, and went down into the trapdoor. Next to go down was Dark Death, brandishing his ring expertly. Yudenno went down as well, but not before taking a small leaf with symbols painted on out of his pocket. Finally, Klonoa stepped forth, and, taking a deep breath, ran down the stairs.

Physical Training Block (Elusive Tactics), Lunatea

The room Klonoa entered was extremely large, and surprisingly well lit. There were colorful blocks everywhere. He took a step forward. Suddenly, a razor-sharp pendulum swung at him. He dodged it just in time, so that it barely scraped the bottom of his shoe. He now realized that he needed to keep moving in order to succeed. He ran through the course, jumping and dodging every obstacle that came at him. Soon, he came to a large scoreboard on the wall. It showed all the students' names, and numbers beneath them. Klonoa hopped over spikes coming out of the floor, and the number under his name went up by one. He smiled, but was suddenly struck by something, which seemed to be a pair of bolas. Klonoa got up and looked behind him to see Kopaska's feet, scurrying behind a block. So this is what Reyza meant by sneak attacks, thought Klonoa observantly.

He continued to dodge obstacles, and soon found himself behind Kopaska. Payback time, he thought smugly. He charged up his ring, and whispered, "Metal Shot!" A large metal ball came out of his ring, and knocked Kopaska over like a bowling pin.

Kopaska got up and smiled back at Klonoa. "Nice one!" he said. He ran behind another block.

Klonoa proceeded to dodge and sneak up on the other students. He soon began to have fun. After a while, a buzzer sounded. Klonoa, who was about to fire a shot at Yudenno, soon realized his ring had stopped working. Yudenno, who had previously been carrying a staff, now had a leaf in his hand, the same leaf he had walked in with. "Time to go back out," he said to Klonoa. The room now had no blocks in it. He saw everyone going toward the exit. Klonoa followed them back toward the trapdoor.

Reyza's Island, Lunatea

Yudenno knocked on the trapdoor, and Reyza opened it. "You all did very well today," he said, "but as always, Rastik came out on top." Rastik smiled. "But," continued Reyza, "in a close second was Klonoa. And on his first day, too!" Reyza patted Klonoa on the back. "Well done."

Rastik glanced over at Klonoa and smiled. "Well, looks like I got some competition. Well done for your first day, pal, but I'm gonna be the record holder for this one always!"

Klonoa smiled back. "We'll see about that."

"Okay, students," said Reyza, "it's time to go hunting and gathering. Go to the guest house and have something to eat so you can get your energy back, and then come back here." Everyone nodded and went over to the guest house. After eating, they all went back outside. Rastik, Kopaska, and Yudenno pulled out their weapons. Flieber readied his fists. Klonoa and Dark Death prepared their rings. "Ready?" Reyza asked them. Everyone nodded again. "Good. Now go!"

Reyza's students ran off into the woods of La-Lakoosha, near the backside of the hills around Reyza's island. As they ran deeper and deeper into the woods, their hunting round began.

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So concludes chapter two. Review, and come back next time for chapter three, where the revelation of another dream begins!