Disclaimer:
Yay, the next chapter of Return to Lunatea is here at last so please evaluate and no flames, there will be a lot of switching to places in this chapter so... Read and review if you wish oh readers. I do not own Klonoa and others from his exceptionally faved game series but Konwil and others are obviously properties of mine.
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Enter the throne room of the hidden medieval style frozen palace seemingly bearing the symbol of ying and yang on the mountain peeks of Mira-Mira once more. Strangely enough, the hooded figure remained on his seated position as if in a phase of suspended animation, beside him was the century old turtle once again blowing a pipe. Outside in front of the huge door, a void of swirling purple and black appeared. Out from it came three creatures, one carried by a larger creature that was next to a smaller and after that was a line of armored soldiers.
Giving off a proud smug the largest arrival, the black bear dropped his load Professor Triant to the seemingly frozen carpet. Accompanying his thud with a squirm of pain, Triant rose up with an attempt to get his composition on the baffling events that he just went through, feeling a high sense of danger emanating from the figure in front of him he stared through the pair of glowing eyes enwrapped by the hood and darkness.
The bear suddenly spoke in a manner similar to that of a common thug. "Well, we got him boss. Now what?"
The mysterious aura around the frozen quarters diminished and all of a sudden a battle cry was heard from a part of the said room and Tat who was supposedly encaged came rushing like a predator to her prey, using all her speed, and ability to defy gravity just to tackle and damage her target which was the female hawk in Japanese attire. However, as if on cue the avian feme grabbed her fan and swung it at her assailant, forming some kind of golf club strike, Tat was flung to the high ceiling barely missing the chandelier's spiky grooves. Tat unconsciously fell down like a rock but then some for of speeding blur jumped high and grabbed her from the air. The blur landed on its feet and revealed it to be another young feline holding Tat's cage in his free hand who was half responsible for kidnapping the diva Lephise.
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An eerie silence echoed through out the dark and dismal space. In the center was a lone chair being highlighted from above by a strong spotlight, making the large armored brute that was tied up helplessly and trying to squirm his own self free. Suddenly from the dismal darkness two beings slowly made their way to the light, one was walking while the other was hopping.
"Alright, where did your friends take my dad?" asked the blood-red fox in a stern voice yet the goon kept silent.
In most cases the roles they are in now should be inversed as in the goon was the one who should be interrogating and the teens should have been the ones tied up helplessly but this is my fanfic.
"Not talking huh?" Owen suddenly walked back to the darkness and the sound of rummaging and banging metal could be heard. The other teen Chipple had a look of confusion on his hidden eyes. Rubbing his head fur he looked into the darkness where Owen has supposedly gone to and left the goon unattended from view whom at that point already stopped trying to loose himself free also had a feeling of curiosity in him.
"Ah, here we go." Said Owen's seemingly disembodied voice.
The noises stop and from the darkness, Owen's outline slowly became visible from the view of the other two. Owen's silhouette-like figure held something and after a few echoing steps his head reached the arced end of the light giving it color, another step and his getup revealed and soon after the object was exposed to be metallic and the light caused it to spark luminously. Chipple stepped back in fear at the object.
He nervously asked his friend. "Hey, isn't that a little too drastic!?"
Owen replied to that too quickly. "No."
After a few more steps from the fox's feet and he was face to face with bided armor. He raised his arm and then made a stabbing motion directly at the restrained one. Chipple closed his eyes and braced himself expecting a yell but instead he heard the sound of ripping metal. He opened his eyes and he fell to the ground in a comical fashion at the sight of Owen piercing to the full head metal helmet with an exceptional can opener. A sweat dropped appeared on the goon.
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"Hey, Klonoa?? …What's wrong?" asked the reflection of sorrow manifested.
Konwil remained in complete and utter silence as his frightened brain attempted to make sense of what supernatural entity appeared before him during his time of regret. Suddenly the King of Sorrow grabbed the left side of the mirror and used it as support to pull himself closer to the young cabbit. His head phased out of the mirror complete with the zing sound and ripple effect as if it was just a hole to an identical room and they were pitted together, both cabbits in mournful face to soaking face.
He exhaled out a long breath and talked once more to the frightened boy he mistook for an acquaintance of him. "You're not Klonoa… but you're just like him… in presence and in appearance… interesting…" he gave off a sweet and solemn smile before he stared intently at Konwil's golden eyes, the child blinked and the King of Sorrow vanished. Bewildered as if he just woke up from a dream, Konwil just continued to wash his face once again before grabbing his gloves then dashing out only to reconcile with the group during an unexpected reunion unaware that a keychain designed to appear like a ribbon type bookmark in the image of a familiar yellow scarf was hooked to the right dangling fabric of his pants purposely made for a belt's support.
His wardrobe once rivaled a toddler's getup in silliness long ditched, now replaced by one fitted for that of a valiant warrior, a child's snow cap sort of hat no longer worn revealing his yellowish hair in its spiky demeanor, his large round eyes now shaped like pointed oblongs though it appeared he had no such white or an iris in them but all a sea of starry blue. Complete with silver blue upper body armor bearing the crest of the Moon kingdom and a height half a foot taller than that of the Dream Traveler he looked gallant in every way physical. How it was possible that Klonoa could have diminished him as Huepow when a clear difference was visible between the two versions is a mystery even for me. Maybe it's an instinctual sense between the two or by scent or something I'll think off later.
An expression of seriousness remained in his teenage visage, no other emotion like confusion or rage or any other could be seen. His attention was taken by a sudden opening of another door.
Huepow talked with an emotionless tone, his once high pitched voice of equal gibberish turned more mature. "I didn't know you had a little brother Klonoa."
Detective Rolf butted in after that reply. "So you know each other, good. Would you mind to sit Sir Huepow?"
The priestess and Konwil remained in the dark for they had no idea who the prince was. Just who is this man? Are there even humans in Lunatea? A lot more questions popped in their heads on cases between the past of the Dream Traveler and the prince but for now they would have to keep quiet and continue with the topic at hand. Klonoa couldn't think what to do in that instance whether if he should be overjoyed, enraged or whatever. He clenched both his fists and tried to sit back to his chair once more. Huepow walked in a proud pace next to the detective and took a mental note on the strange patient by the bed, no other emotion seen in his face he stopped and remained standing, his arms suddenly crossed.
"No, I'm fine right here." Was Huepow's late reply to the detective who was yet again reaching for an item hidden in the eyes of others from his case file.
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The hawk gave of a sermon to the feline arrival. "And just how did she get out!?" pointing her now closed fan to the once again caged Tat by the bear's side.
"Well…" the blue cat in Chinese clothes had his paws gripping each other behind his back and one of his feet was dancing, an innocent smile appeared on his face. Strangely enough his voice was pure childish and seemed as if he doesn't even have anything in him to be a part of their organization.
"… you see I was…"
Let's go back to the Rainbow Domes where the teens are laughing their hearts out, almost bursting into tears. The helmet of the tied up goon had a noticeable zigzag lined rectangle shaped opening revealing the face within. The goon although huge in body was a raccoon-like creature and had a face that was ironically childish and more so girlish. The eyes made puppy dogs look like killers compared to those gleaming pearls of orange hue which wasn't good news for a guy with a build like him.
Owen for a moment controlled his laughter and began to continue the interrogation. "Alright then, I'll change the question… -chuckle-… who was the bird lady?"
He spoke in a high voice that matched with his visage. "Oh shut up, you're just a bunch of kids." Which evidently made the two laugh out louder.
"Yeah, we're just kids. I'm just trying to get my dad back so maybe this will help." Grabbing a remote control from his pocket, Owen pushed the noticeable red button and a sound of shifting gears was heard.
Now back to the hospital again where the priestess was looking at a picture of the feline, the sibling cabbits turned their heads for a view of the image, Huepow already saw it when the detective took it from somewhere hence he didn't mind coming for a closer view.
The detective spoke. "That's Sifel Arkhman, age 12 and younger brother of our snitch. Apparently, they give their higher-ups a codename."
Klonoa made a hasty reply. "Wait, so this kid's one of our enemies?"
Disappointingly the detective continued as he took out another pair of pictures. "Sadly, yes. He's referred as the Azure Flame, he has no previous records of anything crime related, not even stealing candy. No more information can be found on the boy but then, there's not much information on any of them."
Back to the hidden base where the female hawk was about to give out a violent reaction from what she just heard. "What do you mean she was going to give you candy!! She doesn't even have any pockets!! And how in Lunatea could you have heard her voice through the sound proof cage!!??"
"Oh, a funny story actually…" said Sifel with a huge grin.
Returning to the room with an injured Popka in it, the priestess was holding two new pictures, the pics of the two felines on the hands of a now playful Konwil treating them like cards and switching them back and fort. The first picture on Lolo's sight was that of the hawk. And the detective began to make a speech.
"That woman is Meikella Harenui, she belonged to nobility until they went bankrupt five years ago, age unknown. Referred as the Amber Gale though she prefers to be mentioned as the beautiful glamorous luminous eye popping radiant…" the detective continued this.
Back to the castle again ). Meikella slapped her palm on her face as she heard the youngster's reply. She sighed and then answered annoyingly. "So you wanted to test if you remembered the pass code correctly. So you tested it on her cage??" Enlarging his grin, Owen answered back by nodding playfully. Meikella continued. "Why didn't you just try it out on one of our hi-tech doors!?"
"Oh… I can do that can't I??" the blue cat said as if he just made a life-changing realization.
Suddenly the bear spoke. "Hey, I just remembered something…"
Switching back to the Rainbow Domes the tied up goon was talking in a very fast pace "…exhilarating charming kind loyal harmonizing tranquil illustrious divine wind goddess!!" A cone-like contraption attached to the ceiling was pointed right at him, a small flame spewed out of the tip. The nervous goon gasped for breath as the machine slowly went away with a strange mechanical sound.
Chipple made a side comment to that. "Talk about being vain."
"Moving ON!! And the bear?" Owen asked the goon as we switch yet again back to the hospital.
"… wind goddess. She disappeared a long time ago in an unsure date." The detective finally finished his explanation and continued on about the bear. Coincidence huh? "The black bear on the other picture is Barzette Growly, a total mystery so we assume he's either using a fake name or he's an unregistered Lunatean. They call him the Sable Earth."
The brothers were facing each other and trying to correctly state the long version title of the Amber Gale. Huepow had his attention on the dog like thing on the bed who was mumbling in his sleep before looking at his old friend and then mumbling something under his breath.
Back to the Rainbow Domes where the goon has finished talking about the bear. "Is that all?" Owen asked and the raccoon nodded. "Where's your base?"
The raccoon remained silent at that question for he knew he would get killed for letting out that itty bit of information to others. A moment of silence followed that and after a bit he snapped his fingers and a light bulb materialized on top of his head.
With a devious grin Owen said "Let's be a little creative, shall we?"
Back to the castle… again. The bear continued his statement. "Isn't the diva locked up in the same place the cat's cage was placed?"
"Well, she was just singing there by the side…"
Meikella looked at the cat with stern eyes before saying "You did lock the prison cell right?"
"Of course I did! … wait…" Sifel cupped his chin with his hand and went into a phase of deep thinking. The bear looked at the floor where the professor should have been on and noticed there was only empty space there. Before anything else could happen Meikella and Growly had already dashed their way out of the room in search of the Diva and the professor.
In the sidelines the turtle finally spoke. "Children…"
Last but not least let's return to the Rainbow Domes. Owen looked once more at the goon, somehow sitting on a different chair that seemed to be fit for two. Owen raised his arm and clutched on an object. He pulled it down and it braced around the raccoon. Pressing his button more lights suddenly turned on and it was revealed that the goon was going to test out a new prototype roller coaster made by the fox himself. The raccoon was carried in more or less around the speed of sound in swirly loops.
TO BE CONTINUED
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How was that? People please Read and Review oh and the next chapter would include Guntz and a few others. To tell viewers in advance, Gantz will now be referred as Guntz because his name looks much better that way.