CHAPPIE ELEVEN
Yay! I dunno what I'm 'yay'ing, but I'm content. *nods approvingly*
Kinda like if I had just taken a nap. Except I didn't, and I'm tired as we speak...
The truth or dare was reviewed with some... Interesting Dares (poor Killua and Leorio)
- Read the Truth or Dare mentioned last chapter (ITS OUT) and review! -
There were two more days left. My target had just been knocked out, though when I checked his pulse, it was slowing down as I listened. After a few minutes of sitting there, I checked again and there was none. He was dead.
Using Godspeed, I ran around looking for Sage.
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(A/N- hahaha. It tried to auto correct that to shadiness.)
After a whole hour, I found her.
I actually passed through her En multiple times apparently, but she has some flawless Zetsu. She had to poke me with a feather when I was still running around.
And judging by the articulate actions of said feather, I knew she was high on her emotions.
"What's up?" I asked, and then improvised when I saw her worried face, "What's wrong?"
"The person I'm watching is that boy. His name is Josh. That girl, his sister, is named Francis. Honoka is hunting Josh, and Francis is hunting Honoka."
"So? Is it cause Francis is a boy? Why does that matter?"
Sage shook her head at my assumption. "Actually Francis is a girl, but she's strong. And Honoka doesn't have Nen. Unless she's really careful, she's gonna die. Or if she has an unpredictable idea."
I looked over. Normally, I wouldn't care, but I had grown a liking to the girl, and-
Someone was in my En.
Speak of the devil. It was Honoka!
- Dun dun duuuun... -
I watched as the cheery girl saw them from a surprisingly far distance, and hid. She had an advantage- they hadn't noticed her yet, or were hiding it. I made a face at Sage, and she shook her head, reading my mind. They hadn't noticed.
I held one finger to her, and went off to grab Gon, who I had sensed. He joined us from our seat in the tree branch.
Honoka quietly crept forward, a leaf crunching under her. She winced, and Francis called, "who are you?"
"My name is Honoka," she called back.
"Why are you here?"
"Cause I'm not sure if you're my target," she replied, moving around. I couldn't see what she was doing from my angle, but from Gon's facial expression, I could tell it was something bizarre.
"What number are you?"
"I'll answer if you do."
"Okay, but you first," Francis insisted
"I'm 126."
"Josh and I are 63 and 74, respectively."
"I have one of you," Honoka admitted, now having climbed up the tree using a rope made of long plant leaves.
Climbing a tree... How pointless...
"One of us has you," Francis replied evenly.
"So what should we do about that?" Honoka asked, quickly grabbing the rope back, and tying it into a lasso.
"What do you mean? You can surrender, or die," Francis snarled as Honoka roped the lasso on a far away tree. She also had the other end tied onto her tree.
"Why don't we work something out? Cause I don't want to fight," The happy girl chirped, revealing a small, also woven circle that could slide down the lasso rope..
Did she make this in just a few days? And was this...
A zip line?
Wow, she must have planned this out.
"Let's hope this works. I very well may fall," she mumbled.
Gon, Sage, and I sweatdropped. Wow. Complete impulse.
"Okay, you asked for it," Francis said. She was walking towards the path of the zip line with Josh, and Honoka went on it, ripping Josh's pin from his shirt, and hopping back up to the other tree. She ran off, and had a good head start before they realized what had happened.
Gon ran after Honoka, and Killua and I chuckled.
What a unique was to take a pin. And she was taking a lot of chances there.
Kinda like Gon.
- Once Francis and Josh failed, and the section was over. -
A surprising 76 people passed, including Honoka.
"That reminds me!" I said, looking at Gon. "What's your exam part gonna be?"
"Oh! They all have to get across a very thin and high up tightrope. There's a net at the bottom, but you can't tell cause there's fog. It's in a really windy place, and there's a couple of deadly birds flying around. Why?"
Sage sweatdropped.
"They won't know there's a net?" I asked, thinking about how scary that could be if you're afraid of heights.
"Nope! But I already checked, and nobody is afraid of heights," he replied, laughing at my face.
"Why is it that everyone can read my mind?" I groaned, trying really hard not to laugh.
"I dunno- maybe it's because you're so predictable. Like a cat," Sage added, teasing me.
"If I'm a cat, then you're a little sparrow- small and all over the place. Or maybe you're a fly!"
"I like sparrow more," Sage noted, as she led us to the deck of the airship. There were only a few other pro hunters who had come along just to look at the examinees.
With this in mind, I watched as Sage let out her wings, and scooped me up like a kitten. She jumped over the edge, and flew side by side with the airship. I laughed, and she smiled affectionately at me.
"You should laugh more often," she told me.
"It's been kinda rough since you saved me from jumping off," I replied, thoughtful.
"Yeah. I just still have one fear myself. Where has my dad been?"
"Actually, he got sealed underground."
"How do you know?"
"We encountered him while you were dead- well the other three did. He's underground and trapped with a nen trap."
"Hmm. Anyways, what are you scared of- and don't deny that you're hiding something," she countered, flapping her wings a few more times.
"Illumi. When is he gonna come to me?" I admitted. "I mean, aren't they still searching?"
"You do know you have a tracking needle in your forehead, right?" She asked, and I let out a jolt of electricity in surprise. She winced, and a few feathers fell off her wings.
"WHAT!?"
"Well, I suppose you can't see your forehead when you're using gyo..."
"WHAT!?"
"It's been there for a while now.
"WHAT!?"
"Stop yelling, Kil. There is a nen coated needle in your forehead. I can barely see it, and even now, I'm using Gyo and my specialist ability. Your brother must have put it in," she explained, and before she could stop me, I took it out. Blood trailed down my face, and I examined said instrument of manipulation.
After we had landed back on board, and Leorio had put a bit of antiseptic on, we arrived at a very, very tall mountain with a very, very long and deep crack in the middle. It was more impressive then Mount Split In Half (where we got the eggs for Menchi).
I looked over the edge, and saw swirling, purple and blue fog deep down. And, connecting the mile away half of the mountain and this half was a thin, clear tightrope.
"To pass, you must cross this tightrope," Gon called out. "There may be animals you must dodge. I'm not saying if you'll be greeted by death if you fall. We will give three examples of ways to cross."
Gon literally jumped on the tightrope, and used the whip back to keep jumping forward. I simply rolled his eyes and ran across, laughing, as Sage, did a handstand and chased me on her hands. "When did you get that flexible?" I asked, after she had caught up to me.
"When I was floating around, I needed to learn how to to stop spinning around when I turned, and how to stop myself from moving once I've propelled myself forward."
I nodded, and we watched who was crossing the tightrope.
Ponzu went first, and her bees helped kill some demonic birds and stabilize her a bit, as she used Nen to help herself. Tonpa, along with all the Amori brothers, fell, and I did wish that there wasn't a net. A few other people fell, but it ended up being only around ten in total.
Lastly was Honoka. She grabbed a leaf rope, again, hooked it around, and zip lined across, squealing in delight.
"That girl..." I mumbled,
"Must be crazy," Sage agreed.
"Or really, really," Gon continued
"Crazy!" The girl screamed, having overheard us. I rolled my eyes, and she laughed at my facial expression.
"I'm already taken," I said, grinning, and she replied,
"I already have my eye on someone else!"
- Who? -
