Possibilities
Disclaimer: Yoshihiro Togashi
Freya's POV
"It took you long enough."
Freya grinned widely. She hadn't been here long; in fact maybe it was just some mere milliseconds faster, if not at the same time after Alluka materialized through the door. She was lucky enough to saw him first and with her quick reflex, she composed herself in a relaxed manner, even bored, to give the impression of being here before him and greet him with a mocking tone.
Man, it felt good.
Alluka turned to her, wide eyed and mouth pursed. Eyes shone with regret, disappointment, and even remorse. Fists clenched and body rigid. After the moment of shock, he approached her. Freya was still in her happy mode, satisfied with the outcome of their competition. The pursed lips now turned into a pout. A childish pout, that made him look like a normal kid. Well, a normal kid with an exceptional talent of fighting. Freya giggled as she patted his head lightly, as if comforting him, but also taunting him. To her surprise, Alluka didn't object.
The first time their eyes met, she had some sort of attraction to him. Not in anything sexual, because that would be gross. It was like a sibling thing. She was the youngest in her small family. Constantly being under rated and compared with his older brother. So, it was so good to feel superior out of others. She knew better not to go overboard with the new built relationship, though. She still kept their distance and not to pester him much.
But, looking at him, a face filled with annoyance. He was too cute to be ignored! The gesture was automatic to her, to treat him like a kid and not as a fellow applicant. She didn't know what he thought of him, though. He didn't resist, so had he been thinking the same way she does? One thing for sure is that he was, in some way, also had some interest in her. If not, he wouldn't have approached her in the first place. She knew it was a good decision to let him stick around.
"This isn't over, Fre," Alluka said with a competitive tone. Oh, you hear that? He even had his own nickname for her.
He accepted that he was lost, neither complaints nor excuses. Rather, he would prove he is worthy. One more plus for him. Freya never did like people who complaint too much. She guessed he was raised well. She smiled at him and he snickered as a response. He turned around and walked away from her, claiming a spot on a big rock not far from Gin.
Come to think of it, she never really paid attention to her surroundings. The new environment she was in. So, she looked around. They were outdoors, in a clearing of a forest. The trees stood tall around the area, fencing it with woods and grasses. There was a path leading to a white building. The path divided the forest into two. The sky was clear without any traces of cloud and the sun was shining brightly. Freya noted there were approximately 100 people in this place. The exam would be even tougher from now on, since the weaklings had already been eliminated.
She sat and lay on the grass she was standing on, stretching her arms and legs as she closed her eyes. She was tired of the constant mental pressure this exam gave. The second round hadn't even started yet. The area was really relaxing and peaceful. The sound of the forest, the smell of fresh air and the touch of the grass. It calmed her; she took every moment to regain herself. Without her noticing, she fell to a deep slumber accompanied by strange looks from people there. Not that she care.
Alluka's POV
Alluka just giggled. It was weird; he had seen her sleep twice in a day. So relaxed and just doing whatever she wants. She must have been a heavy sleeper, or she just didn't have sufficient stamina. He was lost and determined to show her what he was capable of. One test is not enough to specify his ability. He was pondering what would the next round be, when Gin shouted from above the tree.
"Okay, time's up. Everyone gather!"
People gathered around him, even Freya, who was just asleep on the grass, woke up. Grumbling something incoherent as she got closer to her examiner.
"So, 116 applicants had made it through. Let's move on. Put these on your right arm."
He put a box filled with pieces of red ribbon in front of the applicants. One by one they took it and tied it around their right arm. After that was done, Gin took the remaining ribbon himself and tied it to his right arm. There were 3 ribbons in total. He continued the instruction.
"I'm going to walk to that building," he pointed the white building behind him, "and what you have to do is to have at least 3 ribbons before I reach the building. You also have to be at the building before me. You can also take my ribbons if you really got guts to do so. Is that clear?"
Some murmurs were heard, but no one questioned him.
"It's too late to back down now. Your fighting area is the entire forest, use the terrain well. We'll start as soon as I turn my back to face the building," he said as he walked backwards to the path. The applicants tensed and composed their stance, ready to attack and run. Alluka flexed his arms a little as he watched Gin closely. Freya, who was standing right beside him, was jumping a little, heating up her muscles.
"Do we work individually or cooperate?"
Hearing the question from her surely surprised him. Did she just offer him an alliance? Did she think he was pathetic? Or because she thought he was a great partner? He didn't really understand her way of thinking. Always doing something that contradicted with what he thought she would do.
"Nah, I'm good," he answered. Teaming up wasn't an option.
"Be careful, then," she answered. Alluka didn't know why, but he thought that was her way to show that she was concerned. Not the usual cockiness nor superiority and he appreciated it rather than feeling disturbed about it. Sometimes he felt like she was the older sister he had never had and it grew in just matter of hours.
He didn't realize that she changed him in some way, nor did she realize he changed her, too.
"Yeah, you too."
She nodded as she lightly cracked her neck, making awful sounds similar to several bone that broke. In silent, both of them seemed to agree not to take each other's ribbon. They watched Gin who was standing in front of the path, eyeing all the applicants before him with his black eyes. He then turned around and the massacre started.
Some applicants who were faster than the others managed to get some easy ribbons. Some groans and grunts were heard, several people had already injured due to some ambush. Alluka's and Freya's first reaction was to jump in to the woods. He took the woods on the right side of the path, while she took left. There was no time to relax. Game on.
Alluka ran in silence, the move silent steps which he mastered with ease, the assassin genes run thicker than he first expected. He saw a banyan tree in the heterogeneous forest, a perfect place to hide himself and search for preys. He quickly jumped from branch to branch until he was high enough and thought for some plans. He didn't know in what kind of pace Gin 'walk' would be. So, he just had to do this very quickly.
One of an effective way to track other people is to sense them. Alluka closed his eyes, trying to fetch any source of movement. He found one easily that it even surprised him. Approximately 100 meters at 5 o'clock, human movement was detected. It was loud and clear, his prey had nothing to hide, what magnificent power and strength. But that alone wouldn't guarantee your survival in this exam.
Alluka jumped from tree to tree, closing the distance between him and his target. He reached him, a large man with orange-ish long hair which was made into a pony tail. Both sides of his face were shaved, making his already round face even bigger. Alluka was standing before him, looking straight into his slanted eyes.
"You think you can handle me, kid?" he asked in his low, baritone voice. Alluka didn't answer, it was best for him not to. He didn't want to argue with some loser idiot.
"You're probably pretty good to reach this far. But, it ends now," and with that last words, he lunged to attack Alluka.
Alluka dodged to the right and casted a punch to the man's open side. The man quickly reacted by blocking it with his left hand. With his first attack failed, Alluka stepped back to give some space between them. The man snickered in arrogance.
"Yeah, kid. I'm not only packed with strength, no more. The brats I met in the 287th exam made me pissed. Not only that, one brat even became my examiner."
He was talking about Gon, so the other brat must've been his older brother. Alluka didn't feel discouraged, though. This man was all talk; he could beat him, no sweat. Still, he was thought not to go into unnecessary fights. This, Alluka saw, was one of it.
"Sorry, but I'm taking the ribbon." He dashed towards him, and unknown to the man, he was already behind him. Alluka hit his neck with one quick movement, but he miscalculated the thick layer of fat and muscles around the vital point, so he hit it once more, putting the man unconscious. He reached for the red ribbon and slipped it under his clothes.
But the fight wasn't over.
Alluka heard someone approaching them from 2 o'clock, quite fast, too. He rushed to a tall and lush tree and climbed it, concealing him from view and giving him good access to see who was coming. He felt that the nen he sensed is oddly familiar, but couldn't pinpoint exactly who it was. Less than a minute later, someone materialized from the bushes and his eyes went wide in shock. He couldn't believe who he saw. It was a boy, that looked too feminine to be mistaken as a girl, he knew in the past. The boy's shoulder length hair and purple eyes, with his typical kimono and slippers attire. He couldn't believe he missed him. The youngest son of the Zoldyk family, his own younger brother.
He got out from his hiding place with a sinister look, "What are you doing here, Kalluto?"
Freya's POV
She was being followed.
Freya picked up her pace as she stimulated a plan inside her head. There were many possibilities and many opportunities. The woods were the perfect place for a battle, where anything was possible. Running wouldn't make any difference; she just had to face her opponent and battled her enemy for the ribbon.
Once she found enough space to battle, she stopped and waited for her opponent to come to her. The girl emerged from the trees and immediately launched an attack to Freya. Freya rolled to dodge the attack and gave a good distance between them. She didn't have any time to relax as the girl pressured her by throwing knives at her. She caught all three at the tip of the knives with her fingers. Freya stood up from her position, releasing the knives in the process. They fell to the ground.
Freya and the enemy stared at each other, trying to asses one another. In front of Freya stood a girl with green eyes and black hair which was turned into two ponytails on each side of her head. She was wearing a purple turtleneck shirt and black trousers beneath the red overalls and had black wristbands attached on each hand. Freya didn't feel she was that strong, but certainly not to be underestimated.
Freya casted a smug grin to the green eyed as she said, "My turn."
She dashed to her and flew a kick with her right leg, aiming for the girl's head. Her enemy tried to dodge the quick attack, she barely made it by arching her back forward, but Freya was ready for another surprise. She kicked her open stomach with full force, a clean hit. The girl stumbled backwards and coughed, mumbling something. It was heard by Freya, though, too powerful. The girl held her stomach to ease the pain with one hand while the other went inside her overalls to fetch for a knife. With new weapon in hand, the girl charged for Freya.
Freya saw this as a desperate attempt; her enemy wasn't a challenge after all. She easily countered the attack by stepping to the left and grabbed her armed hand. Freya flipped the girl's body and slammed her. The girl screamed in pain as her body collided with the ground mercilessly. Freya knew it wasn't enough to knock her unconscious, so she quickly followed the slam with three hits on her stomach. Nice, clean, and powerful. The girl fainted because of the consecutive pain she was given.
"Thanks for the fight," Freya said as she slowly removed the red ribbon from her opponent and left the scene. Just one more ribbon to go. She wondered how Alluka was doing now.
A/N:So, here's the promised chapter 3! I hope it wasn't too disappointing or anything. I need to cut it here so it wouldn't be too long or anything, since I need to write 2 people experience which happened in the same time.
I won't be updating for some time now, since I'll busy until next month or so.
And also, I changed the title! What do you think? This story was just a random idea until I started writing it. I don't know what will happen next. I haven't even think about what will happen next chapter. Thus the new title, Possibilities. :p
Anyway, I'd like to give new shoutouts to everyone who had reviewed and alerted, here they are:
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