Disclaimer:

I do not own Klonoa or any other of his series' characters for they belong to their respective owners but Konwil and a few others which include another character debuting in this chapter belong to me.

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Chapter 4

"Gotcha." Without restraint the Golden Death Gantz was about to pull the trigger and end the life of Konwil. Gantz is probably the only one brave enough to shoot a child in public without consent, he knew that after he pulled the trigger to his gun he could safely escape when everyone around would run in rampage and panic. A split second before he was going to shoot the sound speakers throughout the mall brought out an annoying chime which made him loose aim and concentration, and then there was a statement by the unknown female receptionist of the said mall.

"Attention shoppers; 40 percent off Sale at 'Joka Shoes Galore'… and watch out for the stampede unless you're part of it. That is all. –closing chime-"

As the female receptionist just said there was suddenly a stampede mostly composed of rushing women, the rest of the shoppers quickly made their way to the sides in hopes of evading risks of injury, obviously they were already used to such an event in that mall. Luckily enough, they blocked Gantz's view for a moment and his assassination attempt became flawed, once the path was cleared Konwil and the others were no longer there so just add roaming tumbleweed in the background and echoing wind.

Gantz spun his readied gun 360 degrees before placing it on its strap behind him, after grunting he thought to himself out loud "Maybe that would be too easy." Things happened to fast as Gantz was not able to even get the cabbit's scent. He looked at the direction of where the mob of stampeding buyers went and presumably where his target got dragged to as well, and he casually made his way to that location.

Now let's go onto the incredibly large shoe store with the sale where in fact yes; Konwil and the others did get dragged to by the stampeding shoppers. By the center of that shop which was decorated with finely crafted designs and had bits of soft furniture scattered around for shoe testing was the owner of the successful shop; A certain clown/jester-like character with disembodied arms and legs that some might know as Joka who presumably died back at the Sun Palace of Phantomile in the hands of Klonoa, Joka right now was wearing a golden vest and how it fitted on him is mystery and yes, most would have a hard time imagining how it would appear on him.

Somehow gaining an air of success in Lunatea, Joka sat on one of the shrilly seats stationed there for fitting purposes and mused at himself for his productive business. Suddenly someone behind him gave him a nudge on his supposedly where his shoulder would be… if he had any. He turned around and a sweat dropped formed on his visage, shocked came over him and although his throwing-star shaped eyes never changed expression it was clear by how his body moved. "Brat!!" he thought to himself, the one that nudged him was Klonoa or so he thought, he was actuall the younger brother Konwil.

"Excuse me; do you know where the bathroom is?" asked Konwil who seemed to be quite uneasy right now. Joka remained silent, a third voice heard behind Konwil after that.

"So Konwil, found the bathroom yet?" Konwil turned around to his brother Klonoa who was coming closer to him, for some reason he was free from the mountain of wearables he held earlier.

"I was just about to ask…" Pointing a finger to the air above the seat, he turned around again to where Joka was sitting before but then, now he's no longer sitting there. "He disappeared."

On the other side of the nearest display rack by the cabbit brothers was a hiding Joka, for some reason panting hard he pushed apart two of the many hanged clothing in the rack and took a peak. "Klonoa!? And his got a younger brother? What's he doing here? I'd better disguise myself." And Joka started doing that by spreading two floating gloves which was actually his left and right hands, one suddenly floated after the female salesperson behind the large wooden counter, a raccoon with long bushy hair, Joka's glove suddenly grabbed her by that and with a pull revealed that it was actually a wig "Aaah!!" the other glove disappointingly reached for a pair of sunglasses worn by a furry mammalian-build mannequin.

Joka wore them on himself the glasses on his eyes and fashioning the wig as a beard and mustache combo, the sunglasses miraculously stayed in front of his eyes even though there was nothing like an ear to even support it, it made him look like somewhat one of those blind beggars on the streets that play some sort of instrument but the vest he wore added with his disguise gave him an aura of superiority in that store.

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Enter a hidden part of the Kingdom of Joy, Joilant. The Rainbow Domes located somewhere in the capital of the amusement park kingdom is home to workers who are by in their terms and point of view are always having fun in their work which are the inventing of interesting gadgets, gizmos, and other metal-based inventions that both involves and doesn't involve what makes Joilant the Kingdom of Joy; who do you think made the ride contraptions of the Kingdom where party is dominant? Why, the hard working and cheerful people of the Rainbow Domes, which all looks more like groups of large circus tents made of metal.

One of the youngest residents of the Rainbow Domes was an Age 14 blood-red fox named Owenheim Triant, wiping the sweat around his crystal green eyes with his brown leather gloves he sighed and stood up straight, out of the engine's chamber of his invention and stretched his back at the same time stretching up his arms. He wore dark rubber boots, a dark blue jumper, to long for him so he folded the ends around his feet, with a plain white short-sleeved undershirt; a dirty gray bandana adorned his forehead which made his extra upper head fur stand in an almost spiky fashion, a golden ring was pierced on his right ear and his red bushy tail popped out from a hole behind his jumpers, he had a bit of a chubby belly but he managed to hide that by how he fashioned his jumper.

Closing the engine's metal covering, which was a big part of the front side of his invention, a metallic creature leapt out of it before it was fully closed. One of his inventions, it was a tiny robot modeled after a blue Moo, save that there was a big crank-up gear behind it, it was spherically 3 inches in diameter.

With one swift movement with a large cloth from the ground the fox covered his invention with it before placing the MOo on his left arm and then making his way to a gathering everyone in the city was waiting for. While walking along the not so normal streets outside the Rainbow Domes where all kinds off shaped balloons and confetti scattered; someone called from behind him a few distance back along the way. He turned around and saw one his closest friend coming to his direction, a smile across his marsupial face, he was non other than the boxing kangaroo Chipple.(In this world, the events of 'Dream Empire' never happened. Chipple's wardrobe remains the same only exception is that he has grown here. And male kangaroos grow quickly during puberty.)

"Owen!!" Chipple cheerfully hopped his way to his vulpine friend.

Owen stopped for a while on his tracks as he waved his right arm to him and smile back. Once Chipple finally reached a decent distance towards him he stopped hopping and greeted him a hearty "Good Afternoon!" before the two walked and hopped along together to wherever they were headed to.

As Owen and Chipple made their way, the street little by little became flooded individuals traveling on their own pace yet on the same direction; inevitably they were all headed to the Capital's Central Square where the citizens looked like ants in the sight and cluster they formed around it. Momett the Showman was in the center where most of everyone was eyeing on behind a brightly colored booth of some sort with a microphone poking from its top. He was saying something but most of it was never heard due to the murmuring crowd, the two friends managed to force themselves closer across the crowd for a better view. The speaking Momett left the stage before introducing the reason for this gathering.

"And now put your hands together for Professor Triant." And there was cheering by everyone big and small.

From Owen's side, Chipple told him. "You must be really proud of your dad huh?" There was a reply from Owen about this but the crowd's murmuring cheers and voices drowned it. In the center of the stage was a fox similar to Owen, save that he wore a scientist's outfit complete with the funny tie and there was a long mustache across his face.

Just when all was cheering, a black void appeared from behind him and out came a black bear, a chain around his neck and a blue crystal like charm was hanging from it and the other was a female hawk, the same woman from the last chapter who muted Tat's hi-tech imprisonment. The bear grabbed the professor by the waist; at the same time pinning his arms and making him struggle, two dozens of the armored soldiers from yes, the last chapter as well appeared from the void behind them. Panic raised from the crowd as Owen tried to go to his captured father, Chipple tried to follow them but the rampaging people was like being between countless wild rapids in an angry river.

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Throughout the day Joka wore that ridiculous yet highly effective getup, want proof? Well now, in some part of that day he was actually put face to face with the Dream Traveler, Klonoa and Lolo themselves and although the disguised Joka was completely stuttering when he was faced with answering the priestess's sudden question from his side about shoes or something, and he still managed to fool the cabbit.

"Hey, you look familiar. Do I know you?"

"What? No brat, I MEAN!!!… SIR, you must have me confused with someone else…-cough-… got to go bye!" before he attempted to silently sneak out of his own store which by the sweating shoe buyers' view looked more like acting the role of a vehicle out of control in a crazy speedway.

Konwil on the other hand was apart from the two older teens and sitting on one of the the benches of the store, Popka was right beside him and beside Popka was the mountain of whatever the priestess bought, Konwil and Popka seemed to be bonding… in some way or some sort before a gun was pointed behind Konwil's head.

"Sorry kid, you have to go."

"Wha.."

Bad move for the Golden Death as Popka pounced on him without hesitation before telling Konwil to "Go find you brother. Hurry!" As the stranger tried to struggle himself free from Popka's grasp, the kid didn't really knowing what was going on, Konwil just did what he was told; a gunshot was heard as he ran across the store and startled customers.

TO BE DEFININTELY CONTINUED

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Chapter 4 done. School starts in my part of the world so just feel free to R&R. Owen is my character and he will have a major role in this fic, just who are the strange people that I just made up whom obviously will be the enemies on this fic? Maybe I'll tell in the next chapter.