Summary: After escaping from her home after her people turned against her, Kai a former fairy queen decided that her new goal would be to pass the hunters exam and figure out what she wanted to do with her life. Killua X OC
Warnings: Slight crossover, don't need to read Taizai to understand. Violence and killing, because assassins ad knights and sins.
Chapter Eight:
Upon the airship, the old man introduced himself and his assistance once again. Apparently, he hadn't planned on showing himself until the final stages of the exam. Seeing as how he liked the tension in the air, the old man wanted to stay and watch them for a bit. The weird green being told them what time they were going to arrive, and eventually people started to trickle out.
Kai was pretty exhausted to be perfectly honest.
Usually she never went so long without rest; it was part of the reason behind her Sin if you thought about it.
Grizzly Sin of Sloth, Fairy Queen Harlequin.
At least, she used to be, at least half of that was untrue now. Not that it mattered much, it still proved her point. She was slothful; she liked being that way for the most part as long as it didn't put the people she cared about at risk.
Yawning, covering her mouth as she moved out of the room and into a small corner. Ignoring everyone else as she lay on her pillow like it was a bed and bundled up to herself. It wasn't long before she was asleep, ignoring the rest of the world. A good feeling, something she had missed in the past few days of fighting, thinking, strategizing, and above all;
No sleep.
This peaceful and restful moment lasted about half an hour before someone found her little corner of the airship. Most people would have ignored her, maybe killed her in her sleep to get rid of the competition, but this person did something far crueler. They woke Kai up.
"Kaiiii~ Me and Killua are exploring the ship. Come with us."
The former queen's eyes blinked open, looking at the two figures that were over her. Gon and Killua, expectant expressions on their faces and a piece of meat in their hands – Most likely having just come from the kitchens.
Sitting up with a yawn she studied the two.
Gon's innocent eyes were too much for her, she couldn't say no when it was him that asked. In that moment though, Kai realized why that was. Gon's eyes reminded Kai of her sister. Elaine was such an innocent girl, even as old as she was. Her eyes always reflected the best intentions in their wide depths.
If nothing else it certainly explained why she got so attached to Gon so fast.
"… I guess I can." Kai floated upward, snuggled up to Chastiefol as she did so. Perhaps she could fall asleep like this, it wasn't nearly as restful but it was definitely her most useful skill.
The Sin would never allow anyone to convince her otherwise.
Killua watched Kai out of the corner of his eye, she was so weird. That floating thing, sleeping curled up on that weird pillow, always trying to hug him or something like that. Not only that, but she was suspicious, and from what he'd briefly seen, very strong. Probably even stronger than him, and there was nothing that set him on edge like someone being stronger than him.
Once those suspicious thoughts were in his head they were usually hard to get rid of. Yet seeing her so tired, yawning like that, her danger level in his head was non-existent. Even Gon pinged louder in some ways. Killua couldn't figure out what it was…
"Hey Killua, Kai look at this!" Gon pointed out the window at the lights, "It's like the ground is covered in pretty gems!"
Killua nodded enthusiastically, completely forgetting about his earlier thoughts.
Even Kai was spell bound by the sight before them. On her continent the technology was far less then it was here, they didn't want to advance in some ways so they didn't really try. Sure technology took away some of the amazing things in nature, but this was nearly as amazing.
Her thoughts were broken a moment later, "Killua, Kai, I've been wondering… Where are your mother and father?"
It had been so long since Kai had thought about that.
"Hmm… They're alive, probably." Killua answered before Kai could even formulate something to say.
"What do they do?" Gon asked in his typical childish naivety.
"They're assassins."
"Huh, both of them?" Gon looked pretty shocked.
Kai on the other hand was the complete opposite of that. It made a lot of sense really, the way that Killua moved. The senses that he had, and the way that he just looked at some people at times all seemed to have bled over from hardcore training. Instead she just let out a quite, "Thought so…"
Killua was relieved, he actually let out a startled laugh, "You two are too much, usually people hate me after I say something like that. Well, that or they don't believe me…" Killua sat himself down, and started to laugh even harder. "You two are definitely the first people to ever take it seriously."
"You're telling the truth though, right?" Gon asked, but there wasn't any worry in his tone because of his friends past profession, maybe even current profession.
Kai didn't have to worry about it; Kil-kun couldn't really hurt her even if he wanted to. He could hurt Gon if he tried though, which made her wonder how her spiky haired friend possibly became so trusting. Too trusting would be a better way to put it.
"What about you Kai, how do you know?" Killua asked her, she wasn't the same trusting type as Gon, so there had to be a different reason.
Kai tilted her head in thought before answering, "The way Kil-kun moves is so silent and purposeful, plus Kil-kun has very high ability even higher than Gon possibly. It's not easy to get that without training, and Kil-kun had that ability to sense Hisoka's killing intent. It fit all together once you mentioned assassination."
All she got was a wide eyed stare from her white haired friend, "Eh… And you're okay with it?"
Kai hugged Kil, who seemed a bit shocked still, before answering. "Kil-kun is Kil-kun, who his family is and what his abilities are don't matter. Not even what Kil-kun has done in his past matters. Now is what matters and now Kil-kun is one of my only friends."
Kai nuzzled at Killua, feeling him swallow nervously for some reason or another before she heard a soft, "Thank you."
Then was promptly pushed off so hard she hit the wall behind her, "Don't call me Kil."
Instead of teasing him again, she only got up and sat back down next to the two with a smile.
Gon was watching their interaction with intense eyes, "You two really get along together well don't you? Killua should tell us more about his family though."
Kai blushed at what Gon said at first, before turning toward Killua. The former queen was pretty curious about the family now and also wondered if Killua was still an assassin. It wouldn't matter to her; she'd still be his friend. It would be hypocritical to do otherwise, considering her sin.
The hand that was holding Chastiefol allowed the pillow to drop to the floor. Kai pulled her let up, lightly touching the tattoo that embodied her Sin, her worst mistakes.
The brooding was broken after a few moments, "When I told them I wanted to make my own future, they all snapped! My mother had tears in her eyes, screaming about my potential. They were horrible, and we ended up fighting. So I stabbed my mother in the face, my brother in the side, and ran out of there."
Kai was rather amazed, not so much at Killua's words, but Gon's reaction to them. Gon just laughed, even when hearing his friend had stabbed his mother and brother before hightailing it. It was a dark humour, but the former queen knew that Gon didn't really have that in him. It was in that moment Kai knew just how dangerous Gon could be, because he was simply too innocent to really know all that much about right and wrong.
It was worse than knowing and doing the wrong thing when you thought about it.
"Killua told us about his parents, Kai could too!" Gon suddenly interrupted her thoughts of her most innocent friend's morality.
How did she answer this without giving away things that she didn't feel comfortable telling them about just yet…?
"My mother and father are both dead. Where I come from, I guess they would have what would be the equivalent to something like a Hunter job. Hmmm… Maybe my dad would be a bit different than that, but it's the main idea. They died fighting against someone who was trying to destroy our home, and died in the process."
Gon opened his mouth to ask another question, the moment he did however something stopped him dead in his tracks.
A blast of killing intent from someone not even Kai had felt come up to them, before whoever it was quickly cut it and hid themselves before the former queen could sense who they were. At the same time, another presents appeared almost immediately on the other side of the hallway.
The old chairman was walking down asking, "Something wrong?"
Looking at her companions, Kai knew she wasn't the only one that had felt that. Considering that the old man appeared right after the killing intent disappeared, and the killing intent was so strong, it was something she would have expected from someone with the old man's strength… It matched.
Killua seemed to think so as well, and the atmosphere was tense.
Gon was definitely the innocent one in the situation once again, "Hey Netero-san, did you see someone coming from that direction?"
"You're pretty fast for an old man." Killua cut the chairman off before he got the chance to answer Gon's question.
"Ehh? That little trick?" The old man said, leaning forward slightly. "I barely moved."
"Tch, I always hated freakishly strong old men." Normally Kai would keep that kind of though internal, especially in front of the man himself. This was different though, he was purposely testing them right now, and the last thing she wanted to do was be considered a failure.
The old man went on to basically tease them, asking them questions about the exam and what they thought about it. This time Kai kept her mouth shut, just watching the man, and resisting the urge to summon Chastiefol out of its pillow form just in case. Killua was being far too confrontational with the strong old man, it was making her shiver.
Eventually an even more suspicious offer came in, "I wanted to ask you three, if you wanted to play a little game with me."
The twelve year olds were unable to resist. Even Kai wanted to see what the whole 'game' thing was about. Moments later, they were lead into a gym like room with padded walls and a wooden waxed floor. The old man had gotten changed a little bit into something more comfortable for the 'game' and had gotten a ball, balancing it on his finger.
"Now for the rules…"
The applicants needed to get the ball from the man, it was pretty simple.
Killua was the one that went first, and Kai took this time to watch Gon and Killua fight more closely.
Personally she wasn't interested in this little game. What she really wanted was more information on the examiner that was before them. He was strong, Escanor strong. It was freaky, standing in front of someone that was strong like that, even if slightly weaker, without it being dependent on the Phases of the Day. If she was honest, it made her shake slightly. Her abilities might be greater, but without her immortality and the small portion of power she lost with it, the idea of facing someone like that was too daunting to even think about.
It also was a thought that took her off of the goal that she was trying to think about originally - Watching Gon and Killua.
Killua actually did something she hadn't ever seen before, the way that he was walking, however it was, made clones of himself. Interesting, of course Kai could sense which one actually held the power, but most people could fall for something like that without her level of sensing ability.
It was different to think about; when you were strong it's actually really hard to put into perspective how much strength the other people around you have - Especially if they have less than you. Killua lost the battle not to her surprise, but the abilities he had shown were satisfying enough.
Gon was next, but it wasn't anything surprising.
Compared to Killua she already knew most of what Gon would do…
Kai had no intentions of participating herself, but Gon came over to her after that and held out his hand for a tag in. The eyes that looked so much like her sister, and before she knew it she was standing right in front of the old man putting up a fighting stance.
"God what am I doing…" Kai muttered, all the others in the room picking it up because of their good hearing.
At least there wasn't anything to trip on.
Taking a deep breath, Kai pounced forward at full speed toward the ball.
Netero looked at the power in the girl before him and wasn't all that surprised. From what he gained from watching her do the Second Phase, and what he could sense, it wasn't all that surprising she was considerably faster than the two boys, even as fast as he himself was.
Still, he kept the ball from her pretty easy.
The movements resembled fighting too much. Fighting wasn't something Kai could do on the ground.
So she tripped, on her own two damn feet.
Gon and Killua had been watching in rapt attention, amazed at how fast their friend was. It was pretty disappointing to see her not able to do much more than run in a straight line. It wasn't really her fault; over 1000 years fighting in the air caused things like that. Dodging Kai was fine with, but constant movement was beyond her.
Netero was also pretty deadpan at the inability of the female before him, just staring at her incredulously.
"Hey, can I use whatever I want to help me?" Kai said, floating herself back onto her feet and a fighting position.
The old man before her only nodded, curious about what she would come up with.
Chastiefol which had been next to the boys suddenly floated over toward her, everyone in the room watching the progress with rapt attention. The second that the pillow was next to her, a smirk lit Kai's face, "Chastiefol Configuration Two: Guardian."
The pillow morphed its shape into a giant teddy bear form, and Kai controlled it's movements into attacking the Old Man, well attempting to get the ball from the back whenever the guardian attacked.
It was working too.
Each attack she got closer and closer to her goal and better with using this way to attack the old man, until suddenly it worked. The ball was out of the man's hand and she was behind his back, the ball was so close to getting caught that Gon and Killua were holding their breaths.
Kai collapsed taking deep breaths looking more than tired. The ball hit the floor, quickly picked back up by the old man as he looked down at the girl with a passive expression.
The girl could have had that, although the exhaustion that she was showing wasn't fake, the ball had been practically in her hands before she collapsed. Kai didn't get the ball on purpose; the old man was curious about why but didn't think it best to ask in front of her friends.
Killua was the first of her friends to speak up in a shout, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Man Kai you totally had that old man right were you wanted him with your weird pillow."
Gon was more interested in the pillow than Kai nearly beating the old man.
Kai was more interested in getting some air. All of her weaknesses were tested in that... What, five minute little right? It hit all her weak points, and neither of them were really serious, not using the majority of their magic power or abilities other than speed... But it did show her some interesting things.
That she would think about when she woke up.
She dragged herself over to the side of the room, forcing Chastiefol to float next to her in pillow form. Once she was pretty much out of the way of where the fighting would be happening, Kai collapsed into a deep sleep.
'Too much work… Should have never left when those two woke me up…' Was her last thought.
End Chapter:
Authour Note: Hello hello~ Another chapter out, which I am pretty proud of. It showed a lot of what Kai's weaknesses were, a few of which still haven't been run across and will have to wait until _ Arc. Didn't think I'd give spoils did you? ;o Also, apparently strategizing isn't a word. If it is google won't tell me how to spell it so thanks so much google. I thought we had something...
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