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Riddle of the day:

My dog did everything I asked. Follow my orders. Never broke anything. Never barked or growled at anyone. My dog doesn't chase squirrels or other creatures. Never hurt anything. Never chew on anything that it wasn't suppose to chew on. Yet my dog is not a good boy. Why is that?

Answer with be on the next chapter. Leave your answer in a review below.

-Start-

My name's Neko. And this is my story.

My mom is a crazy lady. She wanted to do research on a specific species. I'm the first of that species. And I'm surely the last. I'm half cat. That means I have these cursed ears on my head that I have to hide from the rest of the world. I shall have no more suffering. I am no one's little guinea pig. My dad feels guilty and he helped me escape. My three other siblings are unfortunate, they're cats and our mother calls them Complete Failure. They didn't make it out. My dad lead me, since I was her research. He got me onto this boat. Not the friendliest I'll say, but I don't care. I'm away from her and that's all that matters.

Not much seems to be happening on this boat. Crap! I forgot! I quickly put my hood on my head and looked around. Good. No one saw. Everyone is too busy doing...nothing. I stood up, a walk would be nice. There was a lot commotions but I ignored it. All my life been a pain. All the suffering. Why had my mom done this? What was her past? I wish to know. I want to know. So much mysteries. So little time. I am half-cat. I can only live for so long. As these thoughts roam in my head, I realized that it started to rain. Like most cat stereotypes, I hate rain. I went inside and look inside my bag for something to eat. All I found was just a wad of cash, well, he is a cat after all. Guess I'll have to wait until we get there and buy food.

Most of the guys on the boat is now seasick. The captain was also in the room, scanning it as if he's looking for something or someone.

"You four. Come with me." He finally spoken, gesturing toward me and three others.

We all got into the room and he proceed to ask us questions.

"What are your names?"

"I'm Gon!" a boy about my age exclaimed. He was dressed head to toe in green.

"I'm Kurapika" a older blonde male said. He wore these weird traditional skirts. Strange. I think I've seen them before.

"I'm Leorio" another older male said. He wore a suit and a tie.

The captain then turned to me and I knew that I had seconds to make up a name.

"Uhh- I'm err ummm" I stuttered.

"Well someone looks nervous." Leorio said.

I glared at him before giving the captain my fake name.

"I'm Kateena" Oh my god, that sounds so stupid!

He nodded and moved on to the next question.

Why do you want to be a hunter?

What the heck is a hunter?! Is that a common thing? I haven't been outside much! How would I know! Cmon think, think THINK!

My thoughts distracted me until I realized that the were all staring at me, waiting for me to answer. Out of panic, I just shook my head. Wow, that was easy. Too easy.

"Get off of my ship immediately if you can't answer my question." The captain said. He had everyone's attention now. Wait? Into the ocean? I''l drown! I'll just have to use what time is left to think of an answer. Hmm. How about... I got it!

I waited for my turn as Kurapika and Leorio argued. The step outside to fight. I want to see this! I walked after them.

"Just a moment Kateena." the captain commanded.

I shivered. Oh how I hate that name. I looked back at him and said clearly, "I'm here because I want to know what a hunter is." Hey, I didn't lie, did I?

The captain looks surprised that I don't know what a hunter is but before he can say anything else, I went outside. It was dark and gloomy outside plus it was raining. Ugh. Water. I held onto my hood so that none of them will see my ears as it blows. I hate these long hair. I looked around and found a knife just lying by. I went over and held it for a second. Then I cut my hair until it was short enough so that the wind doesn't blow onto it and I can see. The darkness is no trouble for me. I had cat vision and can see quite well. As I did all of this, the battle was over and the two guys were holding onto Gon who went overboard to save a guy from becoming fish food. No pun intended. Welp. My short hair is going to be very questionable. The sky finally cleared up.

A few hours later, the ship finally hit land. As I got off, Gon came running over to me.

"Hi Kateena. Why don't you join us?" he asked.

"Huh?" I muttered, looking over and saw that Kurapika and Leorio was waiting for Gon.

They'll see my ears eventually! I can't take that risk.

"Actually I'm fine on my own" I said, a bit to quietly.

"Cmon!" Gon said and basically dragged me to the huge map of the city.

Great. Speak up next time!

I stared at the map. My mom had done a test about maps and I've past it. This shouldn't be hard. I realized that I was lost in thoughts again and there was another argument.

"But the captain said to go to this tree here." Gon said.

"The city holding the exam is here! That tree is on the other side of the map!" Leorio debated.

"Okay. You can go there but I'm following the captain's tip." Gon said and headed to the direction of the tree.

"You two agree with me right?" Leorio asked.

"I'm more curios about Gon's behavior than the captain's tip. I'm following Gon." Kurapika said and followed after him.

Leorio then turned to me. I just shrugged and went after them.

A few minutes later, Leorio came running after us. He said how we would be "lonely" without him. As we walked, I noticed something. My ear twitched. There was someone following us. The other two seems to noticed as well and turned around. I did the same to see a guy who was probably on the same ship as us right behind us. Leorio screams at him while Gon just let him join us. We all got to this so called "deserted" town.

"There's no one here." Leorio complained.

"There are people here. I smell them" Gon said to Leorio.

He was right. I can smell the scent of people. And I can hear them too. Suddenly, a bunch of people in masks came out of hiding and set up a stage where an old lady was on it.

"Here's a heart stopping quiz!" she yelled.

"Here are the rules. You only have five seconds to answer. If you're wrong, you'll get disqualified. Your answer can only be one or two." She explained.

"Wait we five gets the same quiz?" Leorio asked.

"That is right" She said.

"Nah. I'll pass." the stranger said. "I can't risk failing because of you guys."

"Here's is your question. Your girlfriend and your mom is captured. You can only save one. Please select 1 for your mom and 2 for your girlfriend."

What?! This is the quiz? No way!

"One."

"What make you think that?"

"Because you only have one mother but you can always find any other lover."

She nodded. "You may pass."

Leorio started to complain again. Man, what is it with this guy and complaining?

"I'm finding a different route!" He yelled.

"It's too late. If you do, you'll be disqualified. Now answer me. 1, you'll take the quiz. 2, you won't take the quiz." She said.

"One!" Kurapika shouted. "The quiz-"

"No more talking! Now answer this. Your son and your daughter is kidnapped. You can only save one. 1 for your son and 2 for your daughter."

I didn't care if we failed so I remained quiet. Hey, if no one is speaking, why should it be me to break the silence? Wait. Was that Matthew's scream?

"Time is up." the lady said.

Leorio already had a wooden stick in his hand and was about to hit the lady until Kurapika defended her.

"You'll cost us our correct answer!" He yelled at him.

Wait. Correct answer? Ohh! I get it now!

"Silence was the answer. You were right about the quiz not having a correct answer. The rule was to answer either one or two. If we stayed silent then we pass."

"But Matthew passed." Leorio said.

"He didn't. All she said was you may pass not correct. A minute ago I heard his scream. He was probably attacked my a mythical beast or something."

That explains it.

"Correct," said the old lady, "this is the right path."

The people in weird masks moved back some stoned doors which revealed a dark path.

We walked through the passage and saw a river. There was a boat nearby so we rowed for a while. At the moment, Leorio bragged about not being afraid with anything and a huge monster appeared behind him. Leorio freaked out and rowed our boat to its destination. There, we saw a cottage. There was a disaster there! A mythical beast was kidnapping a women and injuring her husband. The beast ran off. Gon and Kurapika chased after it and I followed. Leorio stayed back to heal the man.

The beast jumped from tree to tree. He was quick but my eyes followed him well. Gon eventually hit him on the head with his fishing rod. Kurapika caught the falling woman and Gon chased after the beast. I'm not sure what to do so I followed. I lost him through these trees and met Leorio.

"Neko. What are you doing here, Gon and Kurapika was back there." he said as he pointed to the direction where the sun was rising.

I hissed at him and attacked. The beast blocked my attack and turned to its original form

"How did you know?" it asked.

I had cat sense of smell but I didn't want to tell anyone that so I ignore his question.

"Answer me!" he demanded as he lunged towards me. I dodged to my right and bumped into someone. What?! Another one?!

A moment later, Gon popped out besides him. I lower my guard and relaxed a little.

A while later, everyone was gathered. The beasts explained how they can shape shift and their kids were playing roles. At the end, we were all qualified to become a hunter. I still don't know what a hunter is but now that things got exciting, I don't want to quit!

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Hi! Thanks for reading this far. Sorry if that's a bit long. The next one should come soon, like a few weeks at most. Please leave a review! I'll be writing more stories on the way and Neko is going to be in some of it. Well, bye for now! Sorry for how short it is :/ I've somehow reduced 5 episode to this little story.