once calm waters began to rage to the monsters in held.
Then everything stopped.
Only for a sudden blast of light to blind them all. The world trembled around them as the nen circle began to shrink.
NO!
Lance put the child down - not to gentle almost dropping the child - as he shakily took some steps forward, following the shirking circle. He stubbled as the ground vanished below his feet. He started with a slow walk, before pacing up fast as the circled rapiding grew smaller and smaller. Their was to much nen in the air for him to see who was still alive as he ran to the centre of the cirle, the bottom of the pit that had been create.
Emotions whiring about his mind. The dead weight growing in his stomach, "please be alive please be alive"
He felt the tears weld in his eyes as the last of the dollhouse vanished. He stumbled, dropping to his knees as he let the water works flow.
Blood dipping onto the floor. A growing pool of red liquid staining the ground around the still figures.
"Thank god…." He muttered.
Mari stood, her wounds dipping with blood, the dark patches having spread further along her scared body. Holding a bloody Arthur by the throat, with her still attached arm. The terror still lingered on his face – like his was screaming in pain even in death. Cloths in shreds as the blood ran steadily down his legs.
"let's give you a burial fit for a king" he heard her mutter as the skin under her hand, turned to a crisp the hot fire spreading underneath his skin as he turned into ashes to be carried on the wind. Her weight shifted towards lance, her face blank as blood dribbled down a nasty gash on her cheek.
"why are you crying? My battle isn't over yet" she asked light confusion lining her voice.
"I thought… I thought…"
She gave a tried chuckled, "didn't anyone tell you? you can't kill monsters. We have a habit of respawning if not dealt with properly"
Lance gave her a grim smile, before getting to his feet. He flung herself at the women. wrapping his arms around her injured form in a hug. "It's checkmate" she whispered into his ear.
Lance walked back towards the troupes; its member having stayed behind while lance ran off. He held up her cross to Kalluto, as in the distance a fire roared.
Mari stood before the burning building, watching the fire slowly eat away at the walls. Watching to make sure no one escape its burning hell. She had done it, finally destroy J.A. genetics… The scientific genetics experimental company. Wiped from the face of the earth, it felt like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders. The smile spread across her bloodied lips. A true happy smile.
A laugh escaped, as she looked towards the darkening sky, the stars glittering at her joy.
No doubt she was a sight to see, bloodied and black. Missing an arm… she looked down at the stump contracting on re-growing the missing limp, it took more energy then she would have like to push pass the nen preventing her from speedy growing it, but she kicked started the healing process.
Slowly as the building before her crumbed to the ground, the new arm slowly began to reform, at first the bones. Then the muscles, ligaments. Skin slowly forming as the building ambers grew cold.
She held her new arm up to the sky, clear skin looked back at her as she tested out the movement in her fingers. Stiff, the joints were stiff but the movement was still there.
"Mari-Nee-Chan" a small voice called from behind her.
"yes sweetie? ~" she questioned turning to face the young boy and lance.
"here" kalluto held out her necklace.
She gave the boy a small smile, as she knelt before him giving the cute child a kiss on the check before her necklace. Her seal was replaced around her neck. Lance was already waiting to catch her as eyes closed and her body slumped.
Lance carried the women bridle style though the wreckage. She was still bloodied and battered but her demon features had been replaced by her usual red hoddie that seemed to dip with her still flowing blood.
A frown donning his features as he began to pick up speed, leaving the troupe and metero city behind.
-time skip-
Leorio was surprised, very surprised to find a panicking lance caring a bloodied Mari into the hospital he had been training in. Even more so to discovered that the pair only wanted him to deal with the situation – in fact lance had already injured and scared any other doctor from even breathing in the same room.
"What the hell happened?!" Leorio yelled at lance before going into doctor mode.
It was only a few days later that Gon was placed into the critical care after a terrible battle with an ant.
Leorio swore his friends were trying to give him grey hairs.
Mari awoke to a strange sensations, an incredible power. Such intense nen – reminding her so much as her own in a released form. She blinked wearily, as she struggled to move. She took a deep breath, as another bush of intense nen came into life. But this one she knew.
Illumi.
His nen felt pitch black and thick, very thick. She felt the sensations crawl along her skin, as the adrenaline kick started her system. What was going on?
Pushing the covered off, she sluggishly stood on wobbly legs. Blue eyes scanning the move as she took in the information. Realistically she shouldn't be standing, she knew that as a doctor. And the information at the end of the bed confirmed it, though her body had mostly recovered from the injuries from Arthur. She hadn't fully recovered… in fact, some of the deeper cuts were threatening to reopen.
Yeah, she had forcefully regrew her arm, but the other cuts... she didn't have enough energy for.
She glances at her arm, the one that had been ripped off moving the fingers one by one. Stiff, still stiff, like a new born learning how to move again. Sighing she slowly dragged herself towards the room's doors, her whole body felt stiff. It thob with a dull pain for every step.
Suddenly, the intense nen stopped, no longer could she feel it. Yet something else caught her attention something very similar. A smile crawled along her face as she vanished into air, despite her screaming body.
Gon had made a magically recovery thanks to the help of killua and his younger sibling alluka, the pair now dealing with his family. He had just cornered his father, Ging. The man informing him about meeting him at the world tree when a hooded figure with a staff approach the pair. "erm excuse me" The hooded male, spoke earning the attention. Ging instantly going on guard after on sensing the man's approach, "all the hunter where just down the hall correct?"
The pair nodded, gon looking at him curiously there was something about him…
"I was wondering if anyone had seen my daughter? I know she's a hunter and I was going to surprise her but I can't fine her" the man's head dropped in defeat. Ging frowned, a deadpanned expression growing on his face as the man continued to ramble.
Gon sniffed the air, taking in the man's scent, it was similar too… Gon's eyes widen in realisation as another figure suddenly jumped onto the hooded stranger. "daddy!" Mari screamed in joy.
"Mari!" gon grinned in surprised, he hadn't known what had become of her while he was unconscious.
"hey, sweetheart" the hooded figure detached himself but held her hands as he seemed to studied her face. "you're looking so much like your mother everyday"
She smiled like a child, before turning her attention to the other people in the corridor. "Gon! And I'm guessing your Ging" she hugged the kid before giving the male a pointed look as he tried to sneak away.
"yup, that's me" he stated sheepishly.
"ah! I can show you my other kids daddy! Here gon, I told you about him and killua in those letters! Let me grab the others ones I know there are somewhere" Mari chuckled before running off.
"so, your gon," the hooded man crouched before the spiky haired boy. "I'm Mari father, I'm not sure if she's told you about me"
"she told us everything! well mostly everything. Is it true you're a demon from beyond the wall?"
The hooded man chuckled, scratching his cheek in the shadows of the hood. "you can say something like that."
Ging blinked returning his attention to the hooded figure, in surprised, beyond the barrier? "I bet you got a tale or two" the older feece stated.
He dipped his head, "I have many, though strangely enough only one romance on this side with her mother"
"daddy I got them!"
"Mari, what the hell! oi gon save me!"
"Mari-nee-chan how did you find me?"
"haha this is fun!"
The group turned towards the voices. Mari was running towards them full pelt, gon grinned at the sight of his friend. Killua was tutted under one arm growling at her. kalluto sat on her shoulders in confusion while another girl, appeared to be alluka cheered, station on her hip.
"these are mine kids; I'm taken them under my wing" Mari grinned a Cheshire grin before glancing at the alluka. "apart from you I have never meet you before"
"I'm alluka nee-chan!" the figure grinned.
"Mari let me go!" killua struggled in her grip, actually managing to escape her usual iron hold.
"why! Your sooo cute~" she cooed, as killua stepped beside his bf giving Mari a worried look, "don't you think so"
"yup he's the cutest!" alluka grinned, "I think I like you" Mari muttered still holding the child.
"Daddy, that's killua," pointed to the slivernett, "you meet gon, this cutie here is kalluto" she patted the male on her shoulders heads "and this ray of sunshine is alluka. This boys, is my daddy!" she grinned pointing towards the hooded figure.
"Mari-nee-chan father?" kalluto muttered glaring at the hooded man with suspicion.
The man crutched before them, his hand slipping down the shaft as he stared. "you picked a usual brunch haven't you"
"yup!" she grinned, "plus I got some other folks I have my eye on!" her blue eyes tinkled with mischief. "I see..."
The man stood before nodded in a small bow, "thank you for looking after her, I know she can be a hand full"
Killua and gon grinned and nodded, "no problem! She's like a sister to us!" gon cheered trying to look into the depths of the hood. Kalluto nodded in agreement.
"Mari-Nee-Chan!" killua turned sly as he faced her, "me and alluka need to go and deal with something"
She pouted before nodding handing over the kid to the slivernette, "if you need anything and i mean anything give us a shout" she winked. As killua swished his sibling away. Kalluto glanced over his shoulder before taping Mari and whispering something into her ear. Mari nodded and kalluto jumping from the women shoulder to follow his siblings.
Mari glanced towards the leftover group. Her father watching with a hidden bemused smile, as he stepped forward. Gon and Gin glancing at each other. "let's go home" the man stated, picking the female up with one arm, "your too drained to be standing. If you were tried you should have stayed in bed"
Mari yawned snugging into the man's cloak, "but then I would have missed you..." she mumbled seeming to turn back into a child she once was.
Gon watched in awe at the scene, he had never seen Mari look soo.. Soo innocent. He blinked seeing the pair standing they are on a moment then gone the next. The young spiky haired glanced towards ging who also worn a confused expression – though for different reasons. He hadn't sensed a signal use of nen for the man... he turned towards his son.
"you have some weird friends"
Gon chuckled, "yeah, but their good friends! Hopefully I will see Mari again, it won't be the end I'm sure of the craziness"
The end or is it?