Ging followed the directions Netero's assistant gave him. Soon he found himself aboard a blimp.
He was escorted to the Chairman's Office by one of the employees on board. "Right this way, Ging-sama." The friendly woman said to him. Eventually he was in front of the Chairman's Office.
"Netero-sama will see you now." The secretary motioned for him to enter. He nodded at her and opened the door.
"Hey, Old Man. You wanted to see me?" Ging asked after he shut the door behind him.
Netero looked up from his desk. "Ah, Ging. Yes please sit." He pointed to one of the cushions in front of his low, Japanese style desk. Ging did as directed. "So I hear you have an apprentice, and that you entered him in this years exam." Netero simply told him. "How'd you find this one?" He asked the younger man.
"Well, that a kinda long and embarrassing story." Ging laughed a bit at the memory.
"Great! Those are the best kinds. Let's get comfortable, shall we?" Netero moved around until he was perfectly comfy.
"Fine." Ging sighed. "It started out with my expedition for the Translatio Mundorum. I had finally found it after many months of trying to find where it rested. To my surprise, however, there was more than one of them. Just as I was trying to decipher some of the writing on it, Jethro and his Band of Thieves barged in." Ging took a break.
"Sounds like you were being followed. You and Jethro have bad blood between you, correct?" Netero chimed in. "You and him were both in love with the same woman, but she loved you and not him, if I remember correctly." He added.
"Yeah. Well he had grabbed one of the other relics. I fought them off. I had them outmatched by a lot, but then Jethro used the Translatio Mundorum and took us to another world. He apparently made a wish on the relic to take us to a world with no nen in it. So..." Ging was interrupted.
"So when you got there your were outmatched."Netero said.
"Yeah. The only way you can take more than one person is to be touching them. The whole room was filled with Jethro and his men, so we were already touching. I was able to fend of and kill a few, but there were too many of them. One of them managed to get me good on my rib, so I was at very bad disadvantage." Ging continued.
"I sense a 'but' coming in soon." Netero smiled a knowing smile.
"Correct. But before they could get any more damage on me, Skylar showed up. Who is now my apprentice. She showed excellent fighting skills and was simply amazing. She caused Jethro and his men to run back to our world tails between their legs." Ging laughed, remembering it all too well.
Netero laughed too. To impress Ging was a serious thing, so this Skylar must be amazing. "So what happened after that?" Netero asked after he had finally calmed a bit from his earlier bout of laughter.
"She helped me to her small home. Skylar had to help carry me though. I could barely walk from the pain in my side where my rib was. After setting me on the couch and tending my wounds, she had made some food for the two of us and we ate in silence. We got to talking, and then I found out that she was really a girl. When I had first saw her, I had thought she was a he. I was in for a very rude awakening." Ging rubbed his head in embarrassment.
"Wait, your apprentice is a girl? This is too much fun!" Netero started laughing hysterically once again.
"It's not that funny!" Ging yelled as a blush crept up on his face.
"Oh yes it is!" Netero said in between laughs.
"No it isn't!"
"Yes it is!"
"No it isn't!"
"Yes it is!"
Soon the two where arguing so much, they didn't notice the entrance of Beans.
"Excuse me, Netero-sama, Ging-sama, but the Exam has started." Beans told the bickering duo.
"This ain't over, Old Man." Ging folded his arms and pouted.
Netero just laughed at his antics. "Would you care to watch? I hear your boy is in it this year." Netero gave him a knowing smile.
Ging sighed and nodded his head.
Soon the two, being escorted by Beans, made their way to a room with a huge TV in it.
"This must have cost a pretty penny."Ging said while taking a closer look at it.
"Yep! Oh look!" Netero pointed to the screen. "There's your apprentice and your boy. Appears they're friends." Netero told him.
Ging took a closer look at the screen and smiled.
They all watched as Skylar broke ahead of the group, and laughed their heads off as she asked Hisoka about his trick. They were very engrossed by the exam.
Ging got a little nervous when Gon asked Skylar about why she wanted to be a Hunter. However that nervousness turned to pride as he heard her answer.
Soon Skylar, Gon, and that other boy Killua were racing to see who finished first. And soon everyone in the room laughed their asses of as Skylar showed them up. Even more laughter erupted when the two boys tried running away from Skylar and Satotz grabbed them to keep them there.
But that laughter ended when the Gon and Skylar confronted Hisoka. Ging was worried for his pupil and son, but miraculously the two made it out ok, and with their friend alive and well.
When the second phase started, Ging was scared to see Menchi, even more when he saw how ticked she was getting. But once again he was proud of how well his pupil was doing. She had passed when no one else did! Netero then had to leave to solve the little Menchi problem, so he watched by himself.
The retest was done and he saw how well Skylar was getting along with everyone. He had thought she would have tried to kill someone by now. She sweat dropped at that thought. He decided to stay and watch the exam from inside this room. He wanted to see how far his son and his apprentice could go.
He was excited.
