Disclaimer:
I do not own Klonoa or any other of his series' characters for they belong to their respective owners but the little guy and a few characters who'll be vaguely debuting in this chapter belongs to me an you might recall them from another fanfic of mine that didn't go too well.
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Chapter 3
"Good night now!"
Hearing the sudden bang of a door from upstairs the two were startled as Popka made his way back to them. To Klonoa's relief his little brother's fever has already gone and he's back to his old self. "It's too early, try and get some more sleep."
"Do I have to??"
"… Fine then, if you can stay awake then you don't have to." Popka was just in the background closing the front door which was neglected to be closed earlier. There were two of them awake right now in that house that knows something is up and a serious eye contact was all that was needed for the two to understand each other. In a few moments there wasn't actually anything much to do in that time of day and Konwil soon fell asleep by his brother with a thud.
"So Popka, have any ideas on why I was sent back here?" Klonoa asked as he made sure Konwil was not capable of hearing their conversation.
"Just one, a dangerous plague has been spreading and it's freaking everyone out. It's freaky and it involves your specialty."
The cabbit thought for awhile before answering that theory. "Adventure or Air Boarding?"
"Yes… I mean no, you're joking about that part right? Uhh… how can those things lead to a plague? Dreams Klonoa! DREAMS!! You dream of being turned to stone and the next thing you know you're in some kind of unstoppable hibernation sickness!!"
Klonoa turned his head and twitched an eye brow feeling both confusion and worried "How'd you know what they dreamt about?"
"The Lunatean clergy helped some of the victims out of whatever it is. That's how we know."
"Then why do you need me??"
"Probably because whatever this plague is, it began to target priests one by one, it already got the High Priestess and sooner or later… Lolo will be next. Look, they managed to ward off the main cities of every Kingdom so the people there are safe but…"
"But what?" the suspense was something he didn't like when it came to that conversation.
"The High Priestess said the day it got her that it's just getting stronger, in a while the wards will break sooner or later, someone is behind this Klonoa."
"And how are we safe here?"
There was a proud air around him once he said "Because Lolo warded this place."
"Really?" at least the tension in the room lessened with the change of subject.
"A few months after you left, she began to work herself to the point of exhaustion. She'd have had forgotten to eat if we weren't there, she did all she could to reach where she is now. You know?" he changed his expression and talked in a sly teasing way before continuing. "That's what happens when you're motivated to a max point. Know what I mean?"
Blushing a bit he, attempted to scratch the back of his head before he was suddenly shaken due to a sudden outburst by Popka, "And don't get any romantic ideas! You're going to have to make up for making Lolo wait for you." One that wasn't loud enough to wake Konwil up. His protective instincts came to a 100 when it was about Lolo, but then it always was ever since he was taken in by the priestess during his puppy days.
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In a high snowy mountain in the Kingdom of Indecision, Mira-Mira was a hidden medieval style palace seemingly frozen to clear white, the flags it bear on its walls that blow with the freezing hale and snow were black bearing the symbol of ying and yang. Enter the large throne room where a crowd of shady figures had gathered.
A fully hooded one was sitting on the frozen throne and on its handles was two scaly hands exposed from the bearer's dark cloth, and how he cold sit there comfortably even I do not know… yet. Standing his ground a few feet away from him was a clearly larger male though the shadows hid his form. A ridiculously large frozen door made of ancient wood which served as the main entrance to that room suddenly opened with a creaky sound.
"Let me out, let me out!! Where's Leorina!?"
The female who entered was a bird dressed in a red color-schemed kimono, somewhat of a hawk her feathers were orange brown and a thin metallic fan was straddled by her wait, carrying a special glass cage with a captive half ghost mammal creature some might recall, the avian smirked. "Shut it cat!! We threw her off the cliff."
Of course the captive was Tat, sidekick to Leorina the infamous sky pirate. Loosing her fury from what her female captor said she collapsed in her cage and seemingly lost all her hope. "You're lying… you're lying…" this sudden mood change was short-lived for she suddenly blew up into a fit. "YOU'RE LYING! YOU'RE LYING! YOU'RE LYING! YOU'RE LYING!"
Conveniently, the glass cage where she was kept had a special feature; pressing a red switch below the handle the ear-breaking sounds that Tat produced was muted, freeing the people who captured her from the curse of being deaf.
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They braked down one of the biggest doors in the castle revealing a vast archive of books and scrolls, if one looks above you'd see countless of stars but for some reason, one lone chandelier stood suspended above seemingly that the chains supporting it was as if held by nothingness. Whoever was the one that built the ancient library was surely praised for his talent.
In the middle was a wide table adorned with strange knick and knacks populated with maps, books, tomes both opened in complicated pages and the unread, this was the center room of the Moon Castle, Kingdom of Cress one level below the throne room. This was where Huepow, prince of the Kingdom took his last stand against the invaders. Behind the prince was the diva Lephise, hiding behind him in fear. Readying his sword Huepow countered every move dealt by the invading army of armored goons, all wearing midnight black, their features were entirely covered.
His last stand from preventing them in gaining who they came for was proven to be going well if he wasn't suddenly trapped inside a circle of blue flames cutting him from his foes and the one he was protecting. Where were the knights of his castle?? They were probably already fallen by the earlier attacks. The attackers made way as two figures walked closer to the prince, one was a blue cat dressed in purple old dynasty clothes and the other was an old turtle bearing tribal markings on his shell and visage.
"We shall be taking the Diva now." said the shelled reptile as he smoked on a pipe, his free arm held his cane with a blue orb on its end; it was glowing in an eerie light. The cat grabbed Lephise by the arm, she was too shocked to speak as a dark void suddenly opened behind the turtle, everyone entered an left the prince to his kness as the flames around him diminished.
"No…"
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It's currently afternoon in the capital of La-Lakoosha, Kingdom of Tranquility which name I do not know, the busy commercial district was swarming with citizens of the city on their ways in and out of stores. The biggest mall there was known by all the women of Lunatea to sell the best top of the line clothes.
In one of the outside tables of an old style restaurants located there was where HE sat. A gun strapped behind him and he was staring at a snapshot picture of a cabbit. He was hired last night by a cloaked figure to take the boy out and though it's against most people's code of ethnics to do such a deed, to Gantz it's just a warm up in when he'll be shooting for vengeance the poison clawed tomcat that wronged his family back in Volk.
"Why do I have to come??" says Konwil, younger brother of the Dream Traveler. He had his furry arms crossed, a huge frown on his young face and boredom on his entire body as he was walking along the said mall. Beside him, both holding their own mountain of wearables were his older brother and Popka, the yellowish canine and companion of Lolo the priestess who happened to be happily strolling along in front of them, she was wearing the same clothes from earlier as it seems she might have had a wardrobe full of identical clothing.
His brother Klonoa was the one to answer his complaint and question. "Because she was the one that bought you some clothes. And it's not like I can leave you alone in a lone house by the sea." As a matter of fact, his old set of clothes were ruined and the concentration in the waters where he almost drowned sullied the markings and printing on it, not to mention there was a salty scent that they just couldn't get rid off. Now, he's been walking in a dark blue schemed camouflage pants, a black marksman's cap with the pacman symbol just like his older brother's hat, white sleeveless undershirt with a huge smiley at the front and a silver chain around his neck. His black fur was a bit lighter than his brother's.
"I think she enjoyed overdressing me a little too much."
He chuckled at what his younger brother said. "She couldn't help herself, you look to adorable in that." His reply was proven to a very clear point when the people they walked across with stopped in whatever they were doing to take a quick look at Konwil.
He blushed in embarrassment at their actions towards him, at least he didn't had to carry anything but then he was getting too much attention and clearly he didn't like it one bit. "Let's just get this over with."
Coincidentally, they just walked across where Gantz was just sitting there. He looked at the crowd and the picture matched Konwil perfectly, save for the clothing looking at them and back at the picture again and again. His target's fur was a bit lighter though but he ditched that thought thinking it was just a trick by the lights from the ceiling and stores around the vicinity.
The picture he held was unknowingly taken the last time Klonoa was in this dream world, his younger brother resembled him and the little guy was around the age as his brother when he was collecting the elements, added the fact that Gantz couldn't see Klonoa for he was blocked by the mountain of items he was holding, It was a false accusations but no one knew that yet.
"That was easy." He thought to himself as he stood up and readied his gun for the kill, aiming right at the head of the young cabbit.
"Gotcha."
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Think of it as an alternate chain of events wherein the Dream Champ Tournament didn't occur hence they had never met Gantz. Chapter 3 done, R&R if you like. In my part of the world, school starts in 4 days so I'll probably post Chapter 4 before that.