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Chapter two: Keeping Secrets Are We?
Leorio looked exspectantly at the blacked clothed boy.
"No, I am fine for now thanks"
"WHAT?! You call that-" he pointed to the boys side "FINE!?"
The boy looked annoyed and grumbled that he would fix it later.
"No I will fix it Now!" Leorio looked at the boy like he was a baby saying he could drive.
With out warning Leorio made a grab for the boys shirt on the side that he was cut, balling it into his fist.
Screaming in pain the boy ripped away from him and jumped inhumanly high, then his raven wings opened wide and it took up at lease a forth of the roof starting from the corner he had climbed in. He looked like a spider with wings keeping a good 5 feet away from the shocked and enraged doctor. The boys face had a stubborn and steely expression, as his teeth were bared and we could clearly see that they were long and very sharp. They seemed almost cat like with the viciousness of a wolf backed into a corner.
" . .you" as the rest of the people in the room looked at the boy they swear they saw a flash of red in his hazel gaze.
"Fine then...-" Grumbled the flustered doctor as he backed away from the boy who was still in the corner.
The boys wings shifted as he slowly crept back to the ground stoping in a crouch. He looked back at his bag and started to look threw it.
"...-We play my game!" With a lurch the doctor grabbed the boy from behind to keep him from flying out of his grasp.
The boy struggled fiercely and it was clear that he had a good reason to put up a fight.
"Leorio, I don't think that's a good idea..." Kurapika tried to reason with Leorio when he saw the look on the boys face. The boy was a great deal smaller than Leorio, closer to gon and Killua's height.
"But kurapika! He-" a sudden ripping was heard and a black flash blinded everyone.
"MY EYES!" Tonpa cried.
In a few seconds everyone recovered and when they let there eyes search for the boy they were met with something they didn't exspect in the slightest.
Staring back at them with a crazed expression was a girl with knee length hair and her well built (or a girl her size) body with legs comparable to a wolf in muscle, were covered with black clothing that was torn at mid-thigh (they must have been pants before) and a tang-top cut all the way around her, showing the bloody wound from the sword-mans' blade. She was still bandaged like a mummy but in a few areas there was bare skin showing threw. Looking at her face, the first thing we saw were the black and silver cat-like ears that matched her tail that helped keep her steady on her tired feet. She was panting and glaring at Leorio, clearly not happy with her current position.
"What? " she said in a harsh but high-pitched boyish voice. "Never seen a girl hybrid before?" She clearly didn't like the attention. She stepped froward and ripped her cloak out of the confused doctors hands and walked over to her bag, stuffing the garment inside. She pulled out a golden anklet and strapped it on to her left leg. She sat criss-cross on the floor and pulled at the bandages wrapped around her leg, loosening them. She unwrapped it until it was just wrapped around her calf. She did it again with the other leg but left her arms bandaged.
Everyone was silent and watched her do this. Now that the bandages were partly removed we could see the built up muscle in her thighs and calves. Her skin was a golden color, well tanned from being out in the sun.
She stood then on the tips of her feet, not letting her heels touch the floor. She took the bandages and took off the quickly made one from her wounded abdomen. It was still gushing blood and was very deep, not only in depth but in color too.
Gon was the first of the five boys/men to speak.
"Are you alright? Is there anyway I can help?" He asked in a timid voice witch was very unusual for his character.
The girl stoped to look him in the eyes. She expertly kept her expression consitrated and her eyes were shielded, making them all wonder what else she was hiding.
"I will survive, I have had worse. Thank you but I can handle it."
She went back to her work finishing unwrapping the bloody bandage but kept her hand covering the left side closer to her back. But quickly started to wrap her waist, tightly at first but loosened up a bit when it started to run out. However she wasn't completely able to hide what was under her palm. Kurapika got a good look at the revealed part and it puzzled his so much that he got a headache.
He saw the top of it, of both of them. One looked like a burned on tattoo with a very familiar shape he just couldn't place with out making his headache worse. The other looked like a serial number with a circle placed around it, and inside the circle was two snakes, winding around each other then facing as if they were going to fight. He had seen this before but he wasn't about to make it known, she had a secret like himself and one he knew he would figure out.
When she had finished she stood with her back to them. She spread her wings as well as her arms and a mist-like smoke billowed around her. The smoke got so thick it covered her completely from view, then suddenly the fog disappeared and there stood the girl clothed in what Gon identified as silver wolf fur. It was also decorated with teeth much too big to be wild cat or wolf, but too small to be anything bigger.
She turned around to look each one of them in the eyes.
"Well, I guess I have some explaining to do?" She said it almost like a statement but ended it like a question.
" that would be very nice , wolf demon" Tonpa said with a sneer and clear disgust in his voice.
She narrowed her eyes to slits and her expression changed to that of authority and anger. "Let's get one thing straight fat man I offered to explain but maybe you need a timeout little boy and don't try my patience." She spat with venom.
"LITTLE BOY?!" He exclaimed angerly "I know for sure that I am at least 15 years older than you and you dare call me little boy?! I think it's time for little doggies to have a nap!"
He got on his feet and rolled up his sleeves as if he could fight. He took two steps and was swept of his feet and landed on his back. Hard.
"Like I said before," she took a intimidating step forward and her tail seemed to get longer and thicker. "Little boys need to behave or they get put in timeout."
Standing directly over the scared fat man she made a grab for his shirt collar and pulled him up to her face, scaring him further.
Not knowing quite what she was capable of but not daring to move, the rest of the boys watched and even though they didn't like Tonpa hoped him the best.
Staring hard into her hazel eyes, he broke out in a cold sweat when he saw her tail creep around her side and wrap around his fat middle and legs. She let go of his shirt and stepped back a few steps. The grip on his belly tightened and the rest began to worry. With out much warning her tail unwrapped quickly causing him to spin like a top. She made a quick grab for a pillow and threw it to the wall behind the fat man. She lightly pushed him to the wall and he slowed down the closer he got until he stopped spinning and collapsed to the well placed pillow sound asleep.
"Well, now that that's taken care of," she walked over to a pillow covered side of the floor and sat on her knees and folded her wings neatly making them look half the size they previously were. " I can explain myself."
Gon eagerly sat in front of her killua trailing behind. Kurapika sat in a chair diagonal from her and Leorio sat across from her on the couch.
"Well it is already clear to you that I am not completely human, but I would like to clarify that I am half human. No more, no less." She looked each one of them in the eye before continuing. " I am half... Shifter." Her face had a hint of worry and fear as she looked at there expressions but it quickly faded when she saw that none looked at her with disgust.
"Really!? That so cool! How many things can you shift into?! " Gon exclaimed excitedly.
Killua looked shocked but amazed with a hint of curiosity. Kurapika looked thoughtful thinking about the tattoo that he glimpsed at.
"So that's why you didn't want me to help you? You didn't want your secret to be found out by too many people?" Leorio asked with a look of understanding.
"Yes, but I had no choice but to rip away from your grasp when you grabbed me from behind, my animal instincts kicked in and had I not you may have lost an arm or leg. You also, without realizing, it had grabbed my seconded pair of wings and it was quite painful but I couldn't move very well so... Yeah." She nodded her head in a way to show an apology. " thank you though for wanting to help me, even though you had no idea what I am capable of. You put your own health at risk to help me, I can't help but feel bad for almost hurting you..." She looked down then bowed in apology once more.
"No really it was nothing, I still shouldn't have grabbed you but I didn't know if by you moving so much it would open the wound more."
Smiling she straightened.
"Still," kurapika started," I can understand why you ripped away from him but why were you hiding to begin with? There are a lot of oddballs in this exam." He looked at her thoughtfully awaiting her answer.
She bit her lip and seemed to be departing how to explain herself, she glanced over to make sure Tonpa was still sleeping and sighed. "To be completely honest, I have been hiding all my life... I have no where else to go anyhow. I am running from the black market and the world. My clan was killed when I was 3 years old, I was young but I still to this day remember every little detail. Being part shifter gives you a better memory than most but it can be choosier than the normal mind." She sighed and had a far away look in her eyes. Everyone couldn't help but pity the young girl.
" but anyways, as I was saying, I am already the last of my kind so if tat didn't cause me enough trouble, I also have the same eyes as the kurta clan, I don't remember every detail but I know enough to know how I acquired them..."
At the mention of his clan Kurapika listened closer with his eyes slightly changing in color when she said "acquired". Curiosity tugged at his chest and a flash of the familiar tattoo went threw his mind.
"How did you 'acquire' these eyes?" He asked with a hoarse voice and far away look.
"Before you go making assumptions, I would like you to know that I was well informed of your clans death and was present when it happened." She stared at him hard waiting for his reaction. "And I am truly sorry..." Her eyes searched for his but he had looked down his expression dark.
With out much warning he stood and grabbed the surprised girls' neck taking her with him. He wiped around and forced her against the wall, pining her and trapping her wings. She was lifted to his height and was a foot off the ground. He looked at her in the eyes with his eerily scarlet ones. He lifted his hand to the bandage on her left side where her hand hid the tattoo. He griped it in his fist and a sharp gasp left her lungs and her eyes narrowed.
"Just what are you trying to do?!" He voice was barely a whisper but everyone heard it.
Kurapika's eyes narrowed and he pulled at the bandage ripping it off her soar waist. A gasp was heard from the onlookers "this is what I though I saw" he stated with venom in his voice.
Her side had the mark of the spider and it was exactly as it was on the real members. Her number was 2 and it was burned into her tan skin. It was right next to the other tattoo of the snakes wrapping around each other just to face each other and fight. Also inside the snakes circle was a series of numbers.
"And just what were you trying to prove?" She said in an irritated voice but still a whisper.
Her hands rose up and wrapped around the blondes pulling them away from her neck. She shoved the boy away from her pushing him back to the chairs 4 feet away.
"You!" He pointed an accusing finger at the animal skinned girl. "You were one of the people- not not people- monsters who killed my clan! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!YOU DIDNT EVEN SPARE THE CHILDREN! But you know what you missed one and I am gonna make you pay for what you did!" He made a grab for his wooden swords and took a fighting stance.
"Please calm down! " the girl rushed to say "it's not what you think! Kura-"
"Don't use my name you beast "
With a surge he came at her and threw her against the adjacent wall, knocking the wind out of her. He camed at her again but this time the girl knocked him down and straddled him tightly pining his arms and legs.
"Listen to me! I wasn't with them ever! I was there pet-there slave! They didn't tattoo me they burned the bloody thing on me! I WOULD NEVER KILL THE PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICED ONE OF THERE OWN TO GIVE ME SIGHT AGAIN! I loved them too!" She held him down with her body weight giving him a hard stare waiting for him to calm down.
"Gave you sight?" He asked still angered but calmer.
" yes I lost my sight when my clan was murdered due to acid getting in my eyes. I was running as fast and as long as I could with my dwindling eye sight using only my other senses. However I, with out my sight, didn't know where I was going and fell into the lake. I almost drowned but someone pulled me out. When I woke up I could see again but I was scared for everything was new and I didn't know anyone but they took me in. I felt safe with them because they sacrificed the most important thing about them, for a strange girl they didn't even know!" The wild girl looked at him willing the blonde to meet her hazel gaze. Begging for him to understand she continued.
"They treated me like I was family and were so peaceful and kind to me as if I belonged. But I was cruelly ripped away from my family once again when they came..."her eyes turned a freighting scarlet and her expression darkened like a cloud in a thunderstorm. " they took me away and forced me to do their bidding, treating that many more would die if I didn't obey. They treated me like there pet and to prove and shame me for ever they game me this god forsaken tattoo, but they didn't tattoo it on me because they new I could get it removed, oh no, they burned the damned thing on me! However I had to keep my temper in check for if I didn't my eyes would change in color and I would have been killed with out any mercy..."
She trailed off of the saddening subject and went on to answer some of their questions. Gon was eagerly asking the most some weren't very important but that might be for the better knowing that Tonpa wouldn't sleep forever.
"So how old are you? And when was your birthday?" Gon went on to ask.
"I was born July 18,2001" she answered.
Leorio jumped in realizing that they didn't get her name. "Wait, what's your name?"
"Oh" she said with a surprised expression. " sorry I usually don't tell people my name. So I am not used to it,"she chuckled a little bit before continuing. "My name is Azriel."
