Are we there yet?" Valeria blew a bubble from the bubblegum she was head was leaned back and her hair was dipped within the water. The girl didn't care at all...she just wanted to lie down and do nothing but as expected, the Hunter exam wouldn't allow her to easily do so.
"Almost...and sit up. You're hair is getting wet." Kurapika leaned over and scooped up her floating her and patted them dry with a towel that he had stuffed in his bag. It was from Valeria when she had smuggled some off of the blimp, mainly because it was labelled free and the girl was drawn towards free items.
The female gorilla waved her hand, dismissively as she groaned an inhumanly noise that dragged on for a while. "My least favourite place is the ocean. No goddamn, freaking plants."
Leorio scoffed at the girl as Gon and Killua chuckled. "Look at this gorilla carelessly thinking about other things beside the exam. Read the atmosphere." Valeria raised her head slightly to see the tense and dark atmosphere that surrounded everyone and leaned back down.
"What are they? Moody teenagers in their emo phase?" The girl grumped as she yawned loudly before propping herself up properly. "At these kind of situations, it's best if you relax. If you don't, you're all going to grow old with white hair and wrinkles. Like him." Valeria pointed at a thin figure who had white hair and was dressed in a thick bundle of cloaks. He had numerous amulets and bracelets worn on him and from underneath his hood, you could see his baggy, red eyes. The man turned and glared at her, with his sharp canines showing. He pulled out a talisman and began muttering.
"You crude, brutish brat! I'll show you the powers of my curse, hahahaha. For I am a shaman! The ultimate master of the Spirit Realm!" He cackled evilly and Valeria scoffed, picking her nose as she looked to the side, disinterested. His number was 119, her target. She barely noticed the man's presence and perhaps it was when she retrieved her card, did she acknowledge his existence. He seemed like a shabby, cult scammer but if only he was. Otherwise there's no way the creep would have made it this far. She clicked her tongue in annoyance as she had no intel at him but she, however,had idiotically not bothering hiding her physical characteristics. Valeria then sighed and shrugged. It was a pain to fret about these kind of things so she decided that she'll just deal with everything later. She also has her weapon hidden as a trump card.
"I'm not crude and brutish, you self-proclaimed shaman. I'm a delicate angel in her extremely delicate blooming years. You on the other hand, seem extremely shady. Are those even proper talismans?" Valeria decided to provoke him while her group of friends seem to pale at her definition of herself because Valeria was anything but "a delicate angel".
"What?! These were specifically gifted upon me by the most well known spiritualists! Only 300 Jennies and an additional 500 jennies for the spiritual ink!" The shaman waved his talisman around whereas Valeria and her group gave the same stare: "What. The. Fuck?"
"I'm not even going to…" She trailed off as she raised both of her hands, too tired to deal with another eccentric. She already has four teenagers she needs to babysit. A naive cinnamon roll, a satanic troublemaker, a smartass who is a little too thirsty for the blood of spiders, and an immature rude brat.
"His number is 119. I checked earlier when I couldn't find my target. Anyone of you have him?" Killua informed them with a low voice. Valeria groaned as she clutched her head. Great. She completely forget she will have to eventually deal with his spiritual talks and tricks.
"Me." She cursed. Killua's face immediately became cat like as he was obviously enjoying this situation. Even Leorio felt the need to laugh while Gon and Kurapika's face was filled with pity.
"Well...it's not as bad as Gon. He has…" Killua trailed off as he looked at a certain someone. Valeria immediately grabbed Gon protectively as a low growl escaped from her mouth.
"The pedophile? Are you joking? Gon, do you need me to stall time for you to steal his card or what? I'm going to kill that bastard if he goes near you." Valeria began to emit a murderous stare at Hisoka and before he could sense her hostility, Killua slapped her eyes. The girl screamed as she pried off the child's hands with bloodshot and teary eyes.
"My eyes were open you bastard!" Valeria yelled at the kid who just mischievously whistled. Kurapika chuckled nervously as she stood up and took off her bag with a evil and ticked off smile. "V-Valeria? What are you going to do? Everyone's staring."
"What am I going to do? I'm going to murder that child." She shouted as she ripped off the ledge of the boat and raised it over her head as tears still continued to flow from eyes.
"Oi, oi. It's just a slap. Calm down. Besides, you're only three years older than me, you're technically a child too." Killua stifled his laughter, but at the same time was staring warily at the large broken piece of wood in her hand.
"A slap to my naked eye! Hope about I pry your eyes open and slap them hard?" Valeria rotated and cracked her shoulder. The people on the boat looked at them, some with amusement and others with mockery. They didn't take the two children seriously but the two were going to prove the people wrong. Valeria shouted as she threw the wooden board at Killua who leapt up and stood on the ledge.
Valeria pulled out the wooden board with ease as she twirled it in her right hand before firmly grabbing it. THen she spun it around, trying to windmill smack Killua. The white haired assassin ducked as he went to where the other contestants were and Valeria began to play "Whack-the-Killua" which began to create holes in certain parts of the ships and broke off the ledge. Tonpa and Hisoka were coincidentally somehow in the worst position of the entire boat. They soon found themselves in an area with no ledge and holes around them.
"Oi! Valeria! Killua! Stop! You're going to sink the boat." Leorio shouted. Kurapika narrowed his eyes. "There's something wrong." The two children were panting but smiling at the same time. It was as if they weren't even fighting in the first place, but merely playing a game. His eyes widened as he watched the next scene play out in slow motion.
Valeria and Killua slowly turned towards Tonpa and Hisoka with a devilish grin and raised their legs, kicking them both off the deck with their middle fingers raised.
Tonpa landed into the water while Hisoka decided to let them kick him into the water, with amusement. THough he immediately with ease pulled himself up and threw the two over.
"An eye for an eye." He purred as he slicked back his wet hair and the two children stared at him with unamused eyes.
"Well that backfired." As the two both grabbed Kurapika's hands. Tonpa on the other hand, was struggling to swim and keep up with the boat.
"I didn't expect that to happen. Was everything planned, including the slap to Valeria's eyes?" Kurapika sighed as the two began to struggle and attempt to kick each other off the boat so they could get on first.
"Nope. Which is why I'm going to get on the boat first." Valeria swung a kick at Killua who lets go of Kurapika's arm but instead grabbed onto Valeria's legs.
"Why you-" She tried pushing him off but the brat had the nerve to pick his nose and stick his tongue at her. The two began to bicker while Kurapika told them to calm their asses down because he was going to get dragged down. After what seemed like a while, the two both got on and Kurapika began to pat the girl dry again while Gon was helping out with Killua. Leorio laughed at Valeria as he began to call Killua, Valeria 2.0.
"Shut up Luigi!" Valeria hissed but obediently didn't move because Kurapika was drying her off. THe boy had grown on her to be a precious cinnamon roll, next to Gon and her younger brother. She labelled her other two friends as precious punching bags. That's how Valeria divided her friends.
"Gosh Valeria and Killua...I didn't expect you two to take your jokes too far...because the boat is close to sinking. Thankfully, we're already here." Gon laughed as Kurapika sighed and nodded in agreement. They all stepped off of the boat as someone threw a floating rescue tube at Tonpa and dragged him back onto the island. He glared at the pair of devils who returned his hostility and then he whimpered. Hisoka on the other hand, merely chuckled as he slicked back his hair.
"Gon, this is a good chance for you to become stronger. But…" Valeria trailed off. It was a common practice in her clan to always aim to kill someone stronger but Gon may have never experienced being constant danger and living on the age. So it might not be a good idea to encourage such a practice onto him. But to her surprise, Gond was quivering with a smile on his face. "I know."
Valeria opened her mouth then closed it. She then shrugged in response with her mouth slightly pouted as she muttered: "Whatever, go for it."
Everyone began to disembark slowly and Valeria sighed deeply as she was the last person to leave and picked her ears. Well then she has to be extra careful of her predator. There's no possible way for her to know so...she might as well as to enjoy the nature! Finally disembarking, the girl whistled as she casually and had her arms crossed behind her head, acting as a pillow. Her eyes wandered off side to side, on the lookout for people and at the same time: food. She stopped and bent down, looking at a golden, rounded leaf that seemed to glitter underneath the patch of sunlight leaking through. She carefully teared off the edge of the leaf and a golden liquid flowed out. From the corner of her eye, an identical plant grew except it was hidden deep within the trunk of a tree. Valeria got up and teared the edge of the other plant, which confirmed her suspicion. She grinned and began to harvest the plants while humming. She's going to earn herself quite the meal on this island. And so will her sun began to set as Valeria spent her entire time scouting and harvesting the plants she had found earlier and stored them in her bag.
The girl straightened her back as she heard a rustle behind her and kicked the air in front of her, sending back a blast of wind. The blades of grass bent back and revealed a certain man with white hair and a thick bulk of purple fabric. He was holding a purple crystal ball in one hand and a handmade voodoo doll of a girl with twintails and a cheongsam.
"Is that supposed to be me?" Valeria pointed at the voodoo doll. The man giggled, not cackled, but giggled. He attempted to sound very evil but his voice ended up being extraordinarily airy. When he was about to say yes, only to pronounce the sound of "y", Valeria kicked the doll out of his hand and stood on it. She spat on the ground and cracked her knuckles. "Oi. If you're going to curse me with a doll look alike, make it look like me. What if there's someone out there who actually looks like this, huh? They'll get hurt, you piece of shit."
The shaman shrieked as Valeria ripped the doll's head off and showed him. "I'm a friggin cutie. Not a goddamn doll with button eyes and creepy smile. Got it?" She clenched her fist and the stuffings exploded out of her hands and the shaman nodded.
"Good." Valeria dropped it as she slipped her hands into his pocket and pulled out his badge. "Thanks for the easy hunt~"
The shaman began to giggle and Valeria turned around, arching an eyebrow. "You're done for...my spirits are angry that you've messed with us." He picked up the doll that Valeria had stomped on and tossed it into the air. Out of nowhere, the doll was shredded into pieces and suddenly, scented candles lit up around her. It was now nighttime and the candles added a eery flicker to the shadows around them. Valeria glanced around before giving the shaman a crooked smile.
"Hey...what's your number?" The girl shivered as she flipped the fake badge in her hands to reveal a skull with the words "bad luck" in it's mouth.
"Not you. But we have a score to settle and...it doesn't matter as long as I get three numbers, additional to mine, correct?" He grinned wildly and Valeria crouched down, only to feel pain within her hand. Like darkness expanding and planning to engulf her, thousands of baby spiders came out of the badge and began to cover her hand, then her arm, and gradually closer to her face.
"Oh for Lavine's sake." Valeria paled as she was swallowed whole by the army of black spiders.