Hey guys, Lunamon810 here. This is a story I've been working on probably a couple of months now. I have a few chapters written, but I'm probably only going to post them ever-so-often, so I can go back and re-read them and stuff before I post them. I'd just like to note, this is kind of rushed right now. That's because the Hunter Exam, for the most part, isn't the main part of the story. So I just wanted to get through it so I could get to the main parts of her story.

And I know there is going to probably be a rampage over the fact I made ANOTHER Zoldyck-sister OC. You know what I have to say to that? Come at me.

And just in case I screwed up at any part (I don't THINK I did, I tried to read through and check) Ellilou is eight at the very beginning of the story.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN HUNTER X HUNTER!

I was eight years old, standing in front of my father. I knew the entire family was watching, but I didn't care. I clenched my fists, growling. "I won't do it! I'm done, no more assassination missions! I'd rather die homeless on the street than assassinate for you, I'm done taking people's lives! No more!" I shook my white haired head hard, my shoulder blade length hair flinging around then settling back down. My father, Silva Zoldyck, crossed his arms, giving me an oh-so-disapproving look.

"You would, would you? Why don't we let you then, since that's what you want." I blinked hard. Did that mean what I think it meant? I heard my younger brother Killua gasp as my older brother Illumi picked me up by the back of my neck and carried me to the front door, which was in the room we were in anyways, and threw me out, slamming me onto the concrete steps outside. The door shut, and I glared viciously at it. I stood up and stomped away, glad to finally be free of that prison.

"You'll see... I'll make it. And I won't have to kill anyone." I said, passing the butler's quarters, and Kanary. I even passed Mike. I didn't care. I slammed the two doors to the gates I could open open, and never looked back. I headed down the hill by foot, not slipping on the muddy ground from where it had just rained. I wasn't going back. Ever.

I made it to civilization below, but that wasn't enough. Using my quiet, quick assassin skills, I snuck onto a boat. I snuck food into a vacant room, after picking it's lock. Nobody ever saw me, and I soon escaped onto a place called Whale Island. There I was found by a lady named Mito, or her nephew rather, He was seven, like Killua was. He found me on the dirt path, where I was just walking. He kept asking questions about how he hadn't seen me, asking who I was. Eventually I told him I had no family, and had ended up here by accident. So he then dragged me to his house, and told his Aunt Mito. Ever since, I lived with them.

When Mito told me what Gon was planning to do, I became the defensive older sister I am. Even though Gon technically wasn't my brother. "If he's going, I am too. Come on, you already said it yourself, you don't want him getting hurt. So I'll go with him." I had already lived with them for a while, and I'd watched Gon catch the big swamp fish that she'd required for him to go to a place called the Hunter Exam.

Aunt Mito sighed. "That was never part of the agreement Gon and I made. But I guess you're right, I'll feel better if Gon has someone with him. And legally I can't keep you, I have no rights to you." I grinned and high-fived Gon, and we headed off.

A lot of stuff happened between me and Gon getting to the Hunter Exam, but I won't bore you with those details, there are plenty of other places you can find what happened. You're here to read my story, and that doesn't get too good until we got to the Exam. So that's where we'll continue from here on. Got it? Good. Because I honestly don't want you breathing down my throat for details already told; they don't change now that you know I'm here.

#406. That was me. We entered the tunnel, it was pretty dark. Some guy named Tompa started offering advice and such, and I pretty much ignored him, and the Nicholas guy that taunted him. I was too busy looking at the other applicants to worry about those two, they posed no threat. I was getting a bad feeling from some other applicants though, such as one in a joker costume, and one with pins in his head. Something was eerie about that guy. And I felt like a stone had formed and grown in my stomach when I saw #99. It was unmistakable, the messy white hair the same color as my own mid-back length hair, which wasn't quite as messy, but still was. I had the black-brown eyes most of us Zoldycks had too.

So Killua and I's paths crossed again. I knew it, but did he? I had to make sure he didn't. I moved behind Gon, Leorio, and Kurapika, the two who'd joined us on our way. I hardly paid attention to them. I knew Leorio was a loud idiot On our way, there were a bunch of people repeating something like 'bu-bum' or something, I don't remember. There was an old lady, and we had to answer her question, giving the same answer. We were asked who we would save if our mother and our true love were captured by kidnappers, if we could only save one. I remained silent, not trusting the question. How would I answer that anyway? Leorio, however, blurted out a bunch of crap. Eventually someone got him to understand, and we moved ahead.

I really hoped none of this exam would depend on him making decisions for us.

Soon we started running, and running. And running. Killua skateboarded, and soon skateboarded past us. Leorio started ranting at him, and I had to admit I agreed. "Killu- I mean I'm gonna kill you you little, how come you can just ride that thing when-" Kurapika interrupted us and pointed out we were allowed to bring whatever we wanted. Killua got off his skateboard and kept going, but kept eying me. I was pretty mad at myself for slipping up, and I think I had already made him suspicious. Not that looking so much like I belonged from our family helped.

We ran for a long time, and soon enough Leorio started collapsing. So Tompa dragged him off somewhere, and surprise surprise he deceived us. Killua came in to save the day, and helped me up when we got through the final blast of bombs he threw at the walls to return to the normal group, Leorio back to normal after hallucinating from some sap on the walls, which Kurapika had also fell victim too. Both were fine though.

"You alright, Celeste? You seem pretty out of it." Before you ask, not that is not my real name. I couldn't just tell them my real name though, could I? I looked at Gon and nodded.

"I'm fine."

"You don't look fine, look at your arm," Leorio pointed out, and so I did. A good bit of skin was missing, it bleeding heavily. I shrugged, and his eyes widened. "How can you just shrug that off!? You're losing blood too fast, you're gonna pass out soon!"

"Celeste has always been pretty good at shrugging off pain," Gon explained. "But Leorio's right, We should get that patched up soon." Leorio pulled some medical bandages out of his suitcase, still running. He tossed them to me, after a bit of arguing with him that I could do it myself, along with some stuff to clean it with. After cleaning it I tossed the trash to the side and the remainder of the stuff to Leorio, then wrapped it up with my unhurt hand. I threw the roll of bandages at Leorio, then sped back up, since we were just slightly behind the rest of the applicants now.

"Hmph. Ungrateful little..."

"Thanks, Leorio." I said sighing. Sue me man, for the first eight years of my life I was taught nothing of manners, just training and assassination. Mito had tried, but she wasn't getting very far. We still ran for quite a while, but thank all that is good there was a light at the end of the tunnel. And the light led to confusion, of course. Because some guy came in and told us Satotz, the examiner we'd followed this whole time, for the most part anyways, was a fake examiner. And that he was the real one.

What a liar. His heartbeat totally gave him away.

The guy in the joker suit, who Tompa had told us was named Hisoka, one of the few bits of information I paid attention to, threw cards at either 'examiner'. Satotz caught the card, the other guy was killed by them. Idiot, it was such a simple attack, how could he not dodge it? Hisoka pointed this out, and was congratulated, but told another attack to an examiner would earn him a one way ticket out the door, until next year of course. We went running through the swamps, and the fog got thick. I stuck with Gon, and unfortunately Killua. I didn't quite catch the memo when Gon turned back, and kept going.

Eventually everyone made it to the site of the second phase, which was good, I guess. Could have gone without Killua being there though. We waited for a while, then eventually some girl and some really big guy told us to catch this boar-thing and kill it, so the big guy could eat it. So we each did. I easily killed it, and it's weight was no problem for me to drag back, though the fact I could do it so easily on my own seemed to be a problem for Gon and Leorio. I told them mine must not have eaten in a while and moved on.

So then we were told to make sushi. I knew what it was, knew how it tasted, but I had absolutely no clue how to make it. So of course I failed, even after baldy blurted out what it was and such. Good news was, so did everyone else, and we were all going to fail until the chairman guy stepped in and fixed the situation. I walked on the thin thread-like things we had to to get the eggs we need, then cooked it easily alongside forty-one other people. I passed, and ate my egg. Not too bad I guess.

Then we were on an airship, and we had until eight am the next morning of free time. So I stuck with Gon and once again Killua. Damn, would I ever get rid of him? We went exploring the airship, though Kurapika and Leorio stayed behind from exhaustion. As we were headed towards the cockpit, Killua and I stopped, one right after the other. I was a few feet ahead of him, but we both looked over our shoulder almost at the exact same time. We both dismissed it when Gon asked if something was wrong, but I waited a second before running after them. We're being watched. You idiot, we should have taken care of it. Whoever it is could become an annoyance.

Killua and I apparently had the same attitude towards the sign on the door that said 'Do Not Enter', though Gon didn't seem to like just walking in like we did. I think all three of us were amazed by the controls and such though. Apparently the guy steering thought we were part of the staff, and he asked for coffee, though my butt-head of a brother replied smartly, telling him to get his own coffee, unless he let him steer the ship. Which of course got us thrown out like yesterday's trash. Killua yelled at the guy from the outside, and Gon mentioned how he hated getting in trouble. So we decided to go somewhere else.

And by somewhere else of course I mean everywhere else. Down to where they had some vehicles, some storage rooms, some bathroom that smelt like the fat guy had emptied the boars back into the world in. We ran along the hallways, not really caring who caught us. Well, at least me and Killua didn't. Most people just lounged around the airship though, and we eventually sat down on a bench, around other exhausted people, though I wasn't quite feeling it.

Gon seemed a little shocked when Killua said nothing we found seemed cool to him, and I guess I was too. I guess when you quit being a Zoldyck, you quit seeing the exciting things they do. Wouldn't go back for all the excitement in the world though.

Then Gon was amazed by the view from the airship. When Killua questioned Gon about not seeing the world below from the air before, I already knew the answer. No, he'd never left Whale Island. Or the ground, unless you count trees and crap like that, or the foxbear's back.

"What about you, Celeste?" Gon asked looking at me. I looked at him, having forgotten for a second Gon still had no clue about what happened before he found me besides the bits and pieces of lies I'd had told him, only because I had to.

"Meh, once or twice." I said, and he gave up, knowing I wouldn't give him any more information than that. Killua responded saying his family owned private jets, so he'd seen it plenty of times. He talked about the mountain we lived on, or they did. And how they had about two hundred servants. When Gon asked about what his parents did, he told them the truth. They're assassins. Not were. Are. And I was fully aware of this, and that's why I lived on Whale Island with Gon ever since I was eight.

Killua laughed when Gon reacted so surprised, saying no one else had taken him seriously. When Gon said he believed Killua, that he could just feel it, Killua admitted most people didn't know when he was telling the truth. Which I knew, because he was good at disguising his heartbeat. I sighed and pretended I wasn't listening. "Every member of my family is a professional assassin. Pay them enough and they'll kill anyone you want." I closed my eyes. So even he didn't consider me family anymore, and we used to have an alright relationship. "They all look at me as if I'm some kind of exceptional prospect. My whole life up until this point has been all about preparing to enter the family business, but I don't see that I have to live up to their expectations, you know? My sister didn't either, and she got kicked out because of it. I had to go a different route, so they didn't do the same to me. She pretty much invited them to."

I felt tears entering my eyes, so I closed them more shut than I already had them. So he thought I deserved it then. "And when I told them I was going to decide my own future, my parents and brothers totally freaked out on me! You should have seen it, my mom actually had tears in her eyes as she was trying to convince me I was going to be a great assassin one day. They're the worst! Who wouldn't wanna get out of there." I sighed.

"I know I would. Your sister may have gotten thrown out, but by the sounds of it, and what I've heard about how assassins are trained, your sister got the better deal." I said , laying my forearms on the windowsill, not looking at either of them as I opened my tearless eyes.

"She's probably dead. She was only eight, and she was too stubborn, probably wouldn't even accept someone's help." I shrugged before he continued with his story. "So eventually we got into a big fight. I slashed my mom in the face, stabbed my older brother, and ran away. I bet they're scouring the country looking for me. But if they find me, I'll have to finish the job I started! I can't wait to get my hunter's license. I'm gonna hunt them down to the last one. And once I collect the bounties on their heads, I'm gonna be set for life!"

"What about your sister? Did they look for her? When you go on your little assassination spree, are you going to?"

Killua twitched for a second, and I realized I used one of my previously common phrases, 'assassination spree'. He brushed it off though. "They did. Now anyone who finds her gets twenty billion jenny. But if she's dead, I doubt they'll pay that. And my mom had to convince my dad to let her put that much up, he's the one who had my older brother toss her out. And I'm not sure. If I do, I probably won't kill her. There's no bounty for her dead. No one really knows about her."

Gon apparently hadn't paid the slightest bit of attention to our conversation. "Killua, you're amazing."

"Huh?"

"I said you're amazing. I'm doing all this to find my dad but I never even thought of trying to be a better hunter than he is."

Something in Killua's expression changed a little bit. "I suppose you're right. I guess I never really thought about what it means to capture my own dad."

"You'll get yourself killed, stupid..." I mumbled under my breath, though if either of the other two noticed, they didn't respond.

"You can do it!" Gon reassured. "I know you can!"

"Oh yeah? Well that's easy for you to say, you don't know anything at all about my dad, now do you?" He sounded mad now, and I sighed, wishing he wouldn't get so mad, since he was being an idiot a minute ago and talking just like Gon was.

"Well I know you, and he's your dad right? So I sort of feel like I know him."

"Is that your answer for everything? Saying you sort of feel something won't cut it in the real world."

"Leave him alone Killua. You don't know that. Some people sort of feel something and are right, and make a job out of it. Gamblers. Fortune tellers. It's a different kind of feeling then his right now, but who knows how it'll devel-" I stopped at the same time Killua stood up and started running in the same direction.

"Killua! Celeste!" Gon called. I was next to him as he stopped, and pulled something off the plant.

Damn it. She got away again. Or at least I think it's a she, it's a feminine walk and breath.

"Are you guys okay?" Gon asked, coming up behind us. We smiled and turned to him.

"It's nothing." We said in unison, and we looked at each other for a second, realizing it. Then Killua shrugged it off and looked at Gon again, smiling.

"Come on, lets get something to drink, okay?" He turned to walk away. I stood, not sure if he wanted me to come or not, also not sure if I wanted to. He turned to look at me. "Come on, you too E- Celeste." I paused for a second, blinking at what he started to call me. "Sorry, you remind me of my sister, Ellilou. The one who got thrown out. She looked a lot like you, and had the same attitude."

I narrowed my eyes, then nodded. "It's alright. I think I like your sister, by the sounds of it." I said, walking past him. And I meant it. I liked who I was after I left the estate. When we made it to the cafe and got something to drink, I could tell Killua kept looking at what he took off the plant under the table, but ignored it. I realized this could have something to do with the family on the way to the cafe, realizing the anger that was in the heartbeat. I wanted nothing to do with them, and whoever it was didn't know about me. Or shouldn't. No one knew about me yet, before I left.

Killua told Gon he wasn't acting weird, and in my opinion he wasn't. He was being observant like he'd been trained to. His response to Gon's innocent question was cold, and worried him, but I sighed and looked at Gon with a look that said 'don't worry about it, he'll get over it.'

A girl came over, black pigtails, blue eyes. "You mind if I sit here?" I immediately sat up, much more alert. Her heartbeat. It was one of a liars, something being hidden. Something relevant to us. I think Killua noticed it too. Gon was nice to her though, and I couldn't object without reason. So of course she sat with us. Her named turned out to be Anita, and I only paid attention for our safety, mind you.

"My name's Gon, this is Celeste, and this is Killua." He looked at Killua, who was looking at no one. The girl offered information as to why she was here, apparently she wanted to be a blacklist hunter. The only thing you're going to be is dead if you try to hurt my brother, I thought. Then I stopped myself. I didn't mean Killua would kill her. I meant I would, no matter how much I tried to convince myself I didn't. Why did I care so much? He abandoned me too, after all. She told us she wanted revenge against who killed her father. He was apparently a businessman, in spice trade.

Gon looked at me. "Was that what your parents were business people for, Celeste?" I shrugged, focusing on something too much to answer. I sat to the right of the girl, closer to Killua. I looked at the thing in his hand, then at the girl's earring. They matched. I looked away from everyone too now. "Sorry," Gon apologized, and I absentmindedly shrugged. She continued to talk about her father, but I was paying more attention to her heartbeat, which I knew would alert me a few seconds before she attacked, she hadn't trained her heartbeat, probably didn't know how.

She then brought up that at the height of her father's success, a competitor to him got jealous, and hired a professional assassin. She didn't even have to research, it was the Zoldycks who killed her father. Gon finally put it together, and Killua smiled, different than a happy smile, and looked over. Then Leorio started hitting on her. Go figure. Idiot. I had to give the girl props, she rejected him as coldly as the cheap bastard deserved. Kurapika admitted he was in the same boat as her, and Killua admitted she was here for him.

She reached for her weapon and froze. Killua was the idiot I expected he was and brought up if someone was assassinated, they probably did something to deserve it. The girl started slicing at him, and I eventually stepped in his way, but the chairman stopped them both dead. Killua voiced his dismay. The girl was panting, and the chairman said normally a fight between the two wouldn't have mattered, had the girl passed the previous phase. She was walked away in handcuffs.

"So why'd you step in my way, Celeste? There was no way you could have beaten her. Why did you care?"

I took a deep breath and started walking away. "Don't underestimate me, Zoldyck." I spat my previous last name like it was poison, and didn't bother to answer the second question. I didn't interact with them for the rest of the night, to mad at myself to care, and some part of me wished Killua would try to confront me. I almost wanted my secret to be out. But I heard those two tried to help her with a game somehow, but I didn't care. I wanted to avoid them for the rest of the exam, though I knew at least Gon wouldn't let that happen.

When I said my last name, I spat it out as easily as I could have any other poison. And I could only do that thanks to my worthless family. And they wanted me back? Fat chance. I wasn't ever going back. The first eight years of my life, all I remembered was the pain and torture. Hanging in chains, wishing my heart would give out to the electricity, or I could lose enough blood to pass out from the whippings. Wishing I could stop screaming so they would stop. But they never did, even once I finally did close my mouth.

So that was fun. Except not. But anyways, hope you enjoyed it/didn't hate it with every essence of your being and uh... Thanks for reading. I'll try to read through the second chapter soon and get it up.