Disclaimer:
I do not own Klonoa or any other of his series' characters for they belong to their respective owners but Konwil, Owen and a few others which include another character debuting in this chapter belong to me. A fighting scene or two might occur in this chapter.
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Chapter 5
A gunshot heard, her instincts told her that something was clearly wrong, dropping the footwear she was examining, she ran to the direction where she knew she should be right now. The sight that she saw there was her companion Popka, fallen to the floor, laying on his stomach and a pool of blood growing bigger and bigger under him... he was barely breathing. "Popka!!" Tears coming out from her eyes, she sat next to his fallen body and tried to turn him over, not minding the blood she placed her right ear by his heart and listened before saying an incantation of some sort, making a white glow envelope her hands and she then placed them on Popka's gunshot wound.
"Please no…."
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"Wait up, Owen!!" Chipple said as he tried to follow his friend. The professor also known as Owen's father was being attempted to be rescued by the local enforcers deployed there which for some reason makes perfect sense that they were dressed like clowns, which were easily fended off by the enemies' goons…
"Dad!!"
Reaching a clearing, finally it happened that in between him and his father was one of the armored soldiers, the others seem to be busy with their own business. The soldier a few feet in front of him as if on cue, Owen prepared for a kick and the metallic Moo that clutched on his soldier jumped and curled into a ball landing right in front of Owen, it was treated like a soccer ball and literally made a shocking impact on the guard, making him fall unconscious. He stepped over the big one's body and tried to go to his captive father who was still held suspended by the bear, his invention following from behind.
"Let go of him you bully!!" Owen yelled as he pulled out a large wrench from his pocket and swung it around 360 degrees, he treated it as a baseball bat as his mechanical moo made an encore on what it did to one of their lackeys only this time on the bear who he presumed to be a superior. "Take this!!"
The hawk intercepted the electrical sphere by fending it off with her fan, before Owen could do anything else the hawk waved her metallic fan and blew the young fox away who luckily impacted on Chipple's belly whom at right timing at least made it there to aid his friend before falling to the ground.
Chipple was still standing as he asked his friend "You Ok Owen?" before the guard that was knocked out via electrocution rose up with a growl, anger evident in his eyes and then pain as he discovered that the kangaroo jabbed him in the stomach and although it was covered by a metal plating, when Chipple pulled his punching glove back a huge dent remained at where his fist impacted. The soldier fainted into the ground with a loud thud and a writhing moan.
The hawk smirked as a void appeared from behind the bear. "Everyone fall back!!" and all invaders rushed to the void, ignoring the local chaos they made. Owen tried to follow them but the hawk once more blew him off with her fan. She was the last to enter and before the void completely closed she looked back at the fallen fox. Owen's father was lost and he sat himself up as he was in turmoil both in the inside and outside.
From behind him, Chipple was trying to cheer him up. "Owen? We can still save him you know."
The fox snapped. "Shut UP! And how can we huh?"
"Simple, the big guy can lead us." The kangaroo reassuringly said as he pointed at the unconscious soldier he just knocked out earlier.
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He ran as far as he could looking for any signs of his older sibling, but multitasking running in random directions and turning around his head in search was to no avail due to the countless people and footwear merchandise blocking his view.
Of course he was worried about Popka when he heard the gunshot and all; before taking another step, a gunshot was once again heard and a newly formed hole appeared on the ground where his foot would have supposedly been placed in his next step making him stumble back and land on his behind. Before Konwil could stand or even register anything, the bounty hunter grabbed him from behind by the fur on his neck. "Ok kid, now where were we?"
Again, Gantz would have succeeded in the assassination if there wasn't an intrusion once more, this time was a sudden wind bullet to his side; on impact gantz dropped Konwil on the ground as he was blown away a few feet and knock over a shoe stand, partially burying him in foot wear. He stood up not caring for the falling shoes around him and looked back at his target with a frown. Beside Konwil was his older brother reaching his hand to help him stand up. Gantz pulled a picture from his pocket and stared at it before looking at the older cabbit and placing the picture back where it was.
"My mistake. You're my target." Gantz pointed his gun right at Klonoa and pulled the trigger, this time there was no mob or condensed wind to interrupt him. He aimed right at Klonoa but it was deflected when the cabbit used his Wind Ring as a shield by making the bullet impact on the metal and ricochet on the wooden floor. "Konwil, don't move." Klonoa said to his younger brother as he dashed off towards Gantz, a strange sphere shaped wind enveloping him as he went for the Bounty Hunter. Gantz went Shinigami Rush but the wind around Klonoa somehow made the bullets safely hit the objects around the store. Air was gathering around Klonoa's clenched fist.
"Wind Strike!!" pow, right at the kisser!! Gantz could swear he could taste blood and he really did swear after that, before he could counter attack anything at Klonoa he was met with a foot to the face and he fell on the ground, the moment he opened his eyes the wind ring was 3 inches away from his line of vision.
"Oh… Cru"
"Wind Bullet!!"
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"How's Popka?" a worried Konwil asked his older brother. They were in a room located in the hospital, Popka was lying in the bed not sure just what kind of wound or the treatment he had for that matter as the blanket covered his body. Klonoa was just as clueless in what was happening now, not really knowing how to answer he brought the question to Lolo. "umm… Lolo?"
The priestess sighed as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "He'll be Ok, that bounty hunter managed to evade his heart, he was loosing a lot of blood but at least I was able to stop that. We'll find out if he's Ok the moment he wakes up."
The door suddenly opened and a bulldog dressed like Sherlock Holmes complete with the magnifying glass entered. "Priestess, sorry to disturb you in such a time but we have lead."
The priestess stood up from the side of the bed and introduced the visitor to the Dream Traveler. "Klonoa, Konwil, this is Detective Rolf, Detective Rolf this is Klonoa and Konwil."
"Yes, yes, please to meet the lot of ya. Pristess, would you mind coming with me for a while?"
The priestess changed her tone to a serious one. "It's Ok for them to hear. Just go on."
"As you wish milady."
They sat around Popka's bed and treated the unused part of it as a table. Soon the detective began to state his discovery and founding on a certain case. Taking out a picture of blue cat in prison uniform the detective spoke. "This person is Felix Arkhman age 21 wanted for several crimes involving the underground, he was part of the group he confessed to be responsible for this plague. A few weeks ago he gained a conscience and turned himself in."
Konwil suddenly stood up, something heavy burdening his chest. "May I be excused?" he asked as he made his way to the private bathroom in that hospital's room.
"Sure, go ahead." Said Klonoa.
Taking some kind of badge, a dark sun with an eclipse in the center he continued. "This is their symbol. A shady organization composed of elementals and influentials as the higher-ups."
"Elementals? Those that can control water or something?" Klonoa stated in confusion.
"Yes, we have a witness with us that proves it." The detective looked at the door and spoke once more. "You can enter." The rest of the people in the room stared at the same direction as it opened and a yellow haired human in his teens dressed in a knight's uniform entered. Klonoa was shocked at whom he saw, he knew that person so well. The two looked at each other and the cabbit rose up, nervously but sternly asking the new comer one word.
"Huepow??"
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The moment he entered, he locked the door and clasped his hands at the sink, staring at the mirror he could see tears rush out from his golden cat-like eyes. After removing his gloves he lowered his head and turned on the faucet, rigorously washing his face with the cold rushing water.
"I'm useless… It's my fault Poka's hurt... It's my fault we were in the mall in the first place… if I didn't fell in the sea…" he clenched his fist tighter and tighter as his tears just couldn't stop gushing. "It's my fault we're here in the first place…" he remembered it clearly, if they weren't on the roof of their house that night then they wouldn't have been sucked in this place. Suddenly, his fur stood on end, some kind of ghastly presence entered the bathroom, and he heard a voice.
"Klooooonnoa…"
In shock, forgetting his grief a bit he lifted his head, his eyes widened to full capacity as he speechlessly stared at the mirror. His reflection was replaced by a pale cabbit with white-green color schemed fur, his eyes were sad but his smile was happy, a golden scarf was around his neck.
"…. Klon… oa? I missed you…."
TO BE CONTINUED
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Bet you didn't see that coming!! Klonoa IS The KoS's first true friend. Coming in the next chapter will involve a look through the elemental organization presented in this fic.
For those Gantz/Guntz fans he will appear once more after about two chapters as an ally and I have a reason why I made him do irrational and somewhat impractical actions in his work. How did that happen? I have a plot so there!!
----Is this considered a preview?-----
"I made a mistake back then… and I'm going to correct it. Be it with another mistake or not!!!"
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"I'm just a boy who'll do anything to get his father back. I can't do anything to convince you… but maybe this flame thrower and a few others of my inventions would…" ((eyes turn to yellow Xs))
--- For those who don't know, there is a Klonoa topic board so let's help keep it alive, ---umm… that is all, oh… and please review...
((makes Konwil do the puppy dog stare))