Chapter 5

Xemnas continued,"You must go with us on a real raid"he paused for a moment,"and you will do anything to help us get the raid."

Riku and Klonoa glanced at each other for a second or two, and Xemnas walked away.

They ventured around the castle, it was huge, hallways and rooms everywhere.

Riku suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder, he whizzed around to see Axel standing there.

Axel grinned,"So you want to join us?"

Riku gulped,"Y-yes, we want to join."

Axel blankly replied,"Follow me, you two will need some weapons"he gestured his hand for them to follow.

Klonoa answered for Riku,"We don't need weapons, we already have our own."

"What a shame, I was going to take you to see Cloraxian, our blacksmith", Axel responded.

Axel walked away and left them.

Klonoa looked up at Riku and said,"Riku...Cloraxian, is the moogle who can make that potion for the King."

Riku looked disappointed,"Well, it's too late to ask Axel, let's just..explore."

They kept walking, and Xemnas came up to them.

"It is time for the raid, are you ready?Axel tells me you already have weapons."he asked them.

"We're ready to go.", Klonoa said.

In a few moments Xemnas led them onto a what looked like a sailboat.

"This is not a sailboat, but a ship that can fly through the air."he glanced at them,"Put on these cloaks".

He tossed them their own cloak like his.

"For the raid, Xigbar, Xaldin, Marluxia, and Larxene will come with us. And if anything were to happen, we will also be taking Cloraxian.", he continued.

"We will raid another ship, with many treasures. Once everyone is aboard, we will depart."Xemnas then left.

"Hey Klonoa, I know you heard that, maybe we can get a word or two to Cloraxian"Riku told Klonoa.

"A word or two about what exactly.KUPO.",Riku and Klonoa turned to see a moogle in a cloak of his own.

Riku and Klonoa quickly spilled out their story to him.

He nodded,"I will be more than happy to help, I've been trying so hard to escape from these theives, these pirates!".

"So when everyone else is gone to raid, and we are left to guard the ship, we will escape with the ship", Klonoa said.

They all jumped at the noise of a door opening, Xemnas walked in.

"Time to go"he said quickly.

Soon after, near the ship that was to be raided

"We will now all go to attack the ship you two will guard the ship, until we finish attacking",Xemnas ordered them.

Then they could pull out their plan, Riku ran to the wheel and Klonoa grabbed onto the sail's ropes to help manuever.

They started moving away, when Xigbar noticed them, he flew over towards them shouting, "Traitors!You won't get far!"

He pulled out two guns and started firing at the ship.

"Riku! You can manage for now, I'll go fight off Xigbar!",Klonoa shouted towards Riku.

Klonoa started flying towards the spew of bulllets, and transformed his ring into two large metal claws for his hands.

Xigbar shot at Klonoa, missing each shot by a few centimeters.

"Darn it!",Xigbar shouted feroicously.

Klonoa sped straight up to him, until he was right before Xigbar's face.

Klonoa grinned and slashed hard and deeply at Xigbar's left cheek, leaving a long cut.

Xigbar's wings collapsed and he plummeted downward.

Larxene turned and sawKlonoa not protecting the ship and saw the ship flying away.

"Get back here you little traitors!",she yelled angrily at them.

She pulled out her kunai knives and weld them in between her fingers and used them like claws.

She slashed feroicously at Klonoa, Klonoa dodged each blow but felt the wind from each blow she threw.

Suddenly Larxene had vanished, and Klonoa looked around desperately for her.

Then within seconds Xaldin had appeared and pulled out a single lance and stabbed.

Klonoa winced at the sharp pain he had recieved to his stomach from the blow.

Despite the pain he responded with a blow to Xaldin's chest.

Xaldin's wings collapsed too, and he plummeted.

Klonoa truned to see Larxene flying towards the ship.

She threw her kunai knives at the window, it smashed and she fired a blast of lightning afterward.

The blast sent Cloraxian flying out unconcious.

Klonoa quickly fired a chain out of a compartment in his claw, and pulled Cloraxian to him and flew from Larxene.

Now it was a whole new battle.