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Waking up Phoenix blearily opens her eyes bringing a hand to her face to rub the sleep from her eyes. Once she was able to see clearly she looked around. She was still leaning on Kurapika, who was also waking up. Leorio was on Kurapika's other side snoring away but on her left side she felt the warmth of someone else.
Looking over she saw a head full of fluffy white hair that could only belong to Killua. He seemed to be asleep. 'He must have come in after I fell asleep' Phoenix thought to herself pushing off of Kurapika slightly.
The blonde looked down at his closest friend and gave her a tired smile as a good morning not fully awake yet.
Phoenix returned the smile before using small, slow movements to stand up so she didn't wake Killua up.
Once standing Phoenix stretched her arms above her head and lent back slightly, listening with satisfaction to the series of cracks that her back made from sleeping in an upright position all night.
Finishing her stretching she looked over at her friends, Kurapika was now fully awake and putting the blanket back into his bag, Leorio was starting to wake up now and Killua was also wide awake and watching her.
"Good morning" Phoenix said brightly to Leorio and Killua.
"Morning" Killua replied as he stood up and Leorio just mumble gibberish not awake enough to form words that made sense.
Before Phoenix could say anything a chiming noise echoed throughout the airship from the speakers around the ship, "I apologize for the long wait. The airship will soon arrive at its destination" The announcer informed the applicants.
The brunette sighed before looking at Leorio who was still having trouble waking up. Growing a thoughtful expression Phoenix walked up to the oldest teen in their little group as Kurapika and Killua, both of whom were ready to go, watched her curiously.
Bending down so she was eye level, Leorio only stared at her blankly through sleep hazy eyes. They quickly snapped wide open as Phoenix slapped both of his cheeks simultaneously before pulling his cheeks apart.
Killua was snickering at Leorio's stretched, outraged face while the blonde next to him was smirking finding it amusing.
The glasses wearing teen managed to finally slap the younger girls hand away before jumping up, Phoenix only gave a small innocent smile as she stood up in a slower, calmer pace, "WHAT THE HELL?" Leorio yelled at the girl.
Amused Toxic green eyes were the only answer he got before the owner of said eyes turned away and left the room with Killua. Kurapika taking pity on the elder boy waited for him to collect his belongings before the duo followed the younger two.
The airship had landed by the time the group of four made it to the exit the airship where they had ran into Gon who happily greeted them, getting a curious and expecting look from Killua. Gon just gave him a wide smile and peace sign. That seemed to satisfy the white haired teen as he smirked at the boy before the five teens continued to the exit. Phoenix exchanged confused with the older two teens walking slightly behind her but they only shrugged their shoulder not knowing what the two were doing either.
Making their way off of the airship the group of five gathered in front of Chairman Netero and his secretary Beans.
"What is this place?" Someone asked in the crowd.
"There's nothing here" Another said.
"Ahem" Beans cleared his throat to grab everyone's attention, which he succeed in "Everyone, the exam's Third Phase will begin here, at the top of Trick Tower"
"Trick Tower?" A man close to them asked Beans curiously.
"To pass this phase," Beans continued without answering the man "You must reach the towers base alive. The time limit is seventy-two hours. With that, we will now begin the Third Phase. I pray for your success" Beans announced before the Chairman and himself retreated back into the airship before it took off and left the applicants on top of Trick Tower. "Best of luck to everyone" Beans spoke to everyone over a speaker on the airship as it took off.
Looking around Phoenix moved to the side of the tower with the boys followed her. Seeing how tall the tower really was from the top make Phoenix quite nervous as she took a few steps away from the edge and closer to Kurapika.
"Are we supposed to climb down?" Leorio asked his nervousness coming through his voice.
Phoenix felt her muscles tense slightly but not enough to be noticeable as Kurapika answered the older teen, "That would be suicide"
There was a slightly chuckle from behind them making all five turn to the man standing behind him with his arms crossed arrogantly, "Maybe for a normal person"
The man was average looking, there wasn't anything special about him. He wore his badge on the right side of his chest with the number 86 printed on it.
He walked over to the side before sitting down. He started sliding off the edge slowly as he turned himself so he was facing the wall. Once he has his grip steady he stared to climb down with more swiftness then Phoenix expected of the man.
"But a top-class rock climber can handle this, no problem" Number 86 conceitedly.
"Wow…" Killua commented slightly impressed.
"He's going down pretty fast" Gon added as the man started to utter under his breath to himself.
Before anyone else could add a comment their heard distanced noise similar to a bird squawking. Looking around they watched as a bunch of creatures that looked a cross between a giant ugly baby and a bird, flying around the side of the Tower, going straight for number 86. The man didn't even have much time to yell out for help when one of the creatures swallowed him whole cutting him off.
The five watched the creatures leave through wide disturbed eyes, "G-Guess we can't climb down the side" Leorio stuttered out as the other nodded in agreement.
After agreeing to split up to look for a way down to the bottom of the tower the five made their way around the area on their own.
Standing closer to the middle Phoenix looked around at the applicants and noticed the decrease of people loitering around. Spinning around in a slow circle while mentally counting the remaining applicants her eyes locked with a pair of mischievous golden eyes.
Hisoka gave her an amused smile as he pointed down in front of him before he stepped on the tile he pointed on. The next moment he was gone, the tile had flipped around taking him inside the tower.
Phoenix's toxic green eyes widened before she whirled around and taking a step to go over to Kurapika. She was about the call out to him when the feeling of falling was quick to take over her senses causing a small yelp to escape her mouth.
Surprised Phoenix was able to snap out of it just in time to land safely on her feet in a crouch, her hands in front of her so her body's position slightly resembled a cat. Doing a quick sweep of the room she had landed in, it was empty apart from a sign over a little stone pedestal with a single watch resting on it.
Seeing and sensing no one in the room with her the young teen stood up straight before making her way to the stone pedestal.
Phoenix put the watch on her left wrist over her black arm warmer. The watch had a small screen that had the time left to finish the Phase. 71:45:38 hours was the amount of time she had to get to the bottom of the Tower to complete the Phase. Beneath the screen with the time left was two buttons, an X and an O.
"The path you have chosen is one that is full of all kinds of unknown surprises. You have chosen the Path of Random" Phoenix read out loud to herself with her head tilted to the right slightly with a confused look on her face. "Path of Random?" She asked herself under her breath.
The room suddenly filled with the sound of a microphone being turned on, making Phoenix jump and scout the room for anyone but all she found was a speaker in the corner to her left, "That is correct! My name is Lippo. I am the prison warden here, as well as the Third Phase examiner" Lippo explained to her.
Phoenix sucked in a sharp breath, "Prison warder?" The young girl probed him slightly concerned.
Lippo either didn't hear her question or chose to ignore it, "Multiple routes through this tower have been prepared. You have chosen the Path of Random. Luck and instinct will be the key, if you wish to clear this phase of the exam. You will have to do anything from answering questions to escaping traps to fighting. You can't start until you have pressed O to move on or X to stay in the room. Best of luck young lady" Lippo finished before turning off his microphone leaving Phoenix in silence.
The toxic green eyed girl stared at the speaker with a deadpanned expression for a few extra seconds before rolling her eyes and sighing. Bringing her wrist up, she quickly pressed O making a door in the wall slide across opening the path for the young teen.
Two hours later Phoenix had answered a few simple questions like: 'What's the number of this Hunter Exam?' Of course she chose the correct answer, 287th, she also had to get past a couple of traps like a pit fall with sharp spikes at the bottom, and she just jumped from wall to wall in a zig-zag pattern till she got to the other side.
Starting to get annoyed she walked into next room. It was completely empty, there wasn't anything on the ceiling either. Sigh Phoenix took a steady step in but making sure to keep a leery eye out just in case something popped out of nowhere.
She had barely put her foot flat on the ground before the tile gave way and landed with a splash. Jumping back to the doorway quickly Phoenix peered down at where the tile was before only to sweat drop at what she saw.
Down below was a good deal of water but that isn't what bothered the young teen. No it was the eels that gave off small jolts of electricity as they swam around aggravated by the fallen tile.
'How am I going to get across if the tiles just fall as soon I put my weight on them? There must be a trick to this, but what is it?" Phoenix thought to herself as she carefully looked around the room for any kind of clue. Unfortunately there wasn't even a whisper of a clue. Frowning she thought back to what Lippo had told her about this phase.
'Luck and instinct will be the key, if you wish to clear this phase of the exam.' As his words drifted through her mind Phoenix gasp as she understood what she needed to do for this trap.
"Luck and instinct are the key to this path, before it's all be about luck now I can't just rely on luck but also my instinct" Phoenix thought out loud to herself.
Lippo who was watching the young girl from the security room had to admit that he was impressed that the toxic green eyed girl had been doing so well alone. 'I wonder how she'll do against the floor and eel trap' Lippo thought to himself.
His eyes widened in shock though when Phoenix pulled her scarf off her around her neck and tied it around the top half of her face. Now all that was visible was her plumb pink lips that were pursed in concertation before smoothing out as she took a deep breath.
The purple hair man chocked on the chips he was munching on as the young girl seemed to dance around the room with no hesitation, she leaped from one tile to another before spinning around one so she didn't step on it. This continued for a good minute before she was on the other side safe and none of the trap tiles touched.
Lippo who was on the edge of his seat deflated back against his chair as he watch through dumbfounded eyes as the girl untied her scarf before wrapping it around her neck again before she clicked O on her watch to get to the next room.
Looking at his assistant who was standing next to him was just as stunned as he was, "Have-have you ever seen anything like that?" Lippo demanded once he finally found his voice again.
His assistant only shook his head not being able to find his voice.
Lippo looked back at the screen to see she had finally made it to the room with one of the prisoners inside, "The key to the Path of Random is luck and instinct yes, but to so blindly trust them while have her eyes closed is just remarkable and she did it perfectly. She doesn't even know Nen and she could determine the safest route, I could only imagine what she would be capable of once she's master it" Lippo ranted to himself.
One this was for sure though, if this girl past the Hunter Exams she could become one of the most powerful Hunters the world has seen.
A/N: Hey guys, I know I haven't been posting for a while I wasn't sure what to do for this chapter so I was getting inspiration from watching some different shows and i finally got it as you can see :)
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