colours of the world
the artist sees what others only catches a glimpse of...
chapter 2
Shishishishishishi~
A ringing noise, she frowned but never the less looked up from her drawing. Just to see man stood before them, she let her hand wander across the page as she took in his image. He was tall had long legs. He was wearing a suit and had purple hair and a weird moustache that seem to cover up his mouth. Or maybe he didn't have a mouth?
That notion was tosh aside as the man started to speak. "The time for the reception is over. Now the exam can begin. This way please"
"it's starting lets go" Leorio called walking after the man.
"May I join you?" she asked standing and walking beside kurapika.
"Sure!" called Gon with a big smile.
As the kept sped up, herself and the group sped up, she ran beside kurapika, oblivious to the world around her as she ran, instead she drew in her little book. Not missing a step. She didn't even look up when Leorio shouted, "Hey kid! That's not allowed! That's cheating!"
"Why?" a white haired kid responded with a mask of indifference.
"You should be running, RUN-ing!" Leorio yelled getting annoyed with the boy's cocky attitude.
"Actually Leorio," Gon started, gaining the other kids attention. "He just said we had to follow. Never that we had to run"
"Gon, whose side are you on?" Leorio moaned in defeat, Gon smiled weakly.
"Hey, how old are you?" asked the white haired kid.
"12!"
"Same as me" the boy jumped off his skateboard and started running beside the spiky haired kid.
"I'm killua"
"Gon" gon smiled broadly before pointing to his friends, "the shouty man is Leorio, that kurapika and sinea..." his voice drifted off as he noticed that sinea wasn't paying attention to the world around her. "Ah, I introduce you to her later, she's not paying attention"
"Right…" killua stated watching the girl with a weird look.
Sinea stayed beside kurapika and Leorio as they ran, till the group hit the stairs were she started to pull ahead, she easily ran up the steps hopping over burn out contestants as she drew, every now and then she looked up, on one occasion she spotted gon and another boy race ahead up the stairs and jumping though the open doors.
She smiled, lovely sight shame she couldn't get her colours out.
It would be something to paint.
She jumped onto a limp body in front and hopped gaining a few more steps in height before running normally again. Passing thought the open doors into the fresh air. She looked about spotting gon and the other boy she knelt down beside the white kid's haired kid and watched him quietly, eyes wide and head titled like a cat.
"Made a new friend?" she asked, watching the boys jump slightly.
"Yeah!" exclaimed gon, causing the white haired kid to blush slightly, "this is killua. He's the same age as me!"
"it's a pleasure to meet you killua, I'm sinea" she nodded still knelt down, "you have a nice shade of eye colour, very pure" she told him, staring at the sapphire blue hue of his eyes she could see a lot in them. Gon leaped to his feet and appeared beside her,
"Can I have a look at some of your drawing?" he asked pointing toward the book in her hand.
"Erm... Sure" she stated nervously, opening it and holding up for gon and killua to look at.
"That's awesome!" gon yelled pointing towards a detail profile of himself, kurapika and Leorio spread over the pages.
She flicked a page, a greyscale drawing of the entrance into the tunnel, other page of the participant 44 turning a man arms into petals. Then finally a drawing of two boys jumping over the thresholds of the doorway into the unknown. "Not bad" killua muttered looking at the last drawing, "what does p mean?" he asked pointing towards the small P located in the corner.
"To paint, after I finish this"
There was the sound of heavy breathing as Leorio stumbled out of the tunnel, followed by kurapika. She stood and turned making room for the pair. While she turned she bumped into someone, again. This time bumping her nose, into the man shoulder. "I'm sorry, didn't notice you there" she responded automatically, rubbing her nose.
The group around her paled slightly, when they noticed who she had jumped in to fearing the worse. "That's the second time little kitten~ that you have manged to bump into me, are you attracted to me?~" a voice purred at her.
Unfazed by the man in front of her, she looked at him with her glazed eyes and cocked her head. "What do you mean by attracted? As an artist I do find you're appeared and aura enthralling but another than that I don't have any emotional attachments to you yet"
The red head smirked at her respond, "lovely~ the names Hisoka by the way, I don't think we've been introduce"
"It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is sinea"
Hisoka smiled before tapping her on the nose, he moved away giving her a sly smile.
She turned, as the people around her release a breath they were holding, "I-D-I-O-T!" hissed Leorio, "don't attract that creeps attention, I thought we would have to say goodbye to soo soon"
She gave him a confused look, did she really look that weak?
"Sinea, I have been wondering this since the start of the run, is there something wrong with your eyes?" kurapika asked, catching her off guard.
"You are correct, there is" she reply with a nod,
"Mind me asking what?"
"No, go ahead" she waited for the question, which never came. She realised that he had already the question. "Well," she started "I do not see the world in the same way as normal people do. I was told that I should be blind but considering how I see perfectly is strange. Then the pigments in my eyes cause more confusion. I have baffled doctors since I was young. There's not much more I can say on the matter really"
"Interesting, ah the fog is lifting" kurapika commented spotting the fog lift around them, putting the previous topic to the back of his mind.
Dazed eyes wandering over the view, it was mixture between a jungle and a swamp, she could sense life but also death coming for the depts. of the place.
"The Numere wetlands..." the judge spoke to them, she zoned out her glazy glaze wandering over the crowd. More people then she accepted had survived the first part of the exam. She got an uneasy feeling in her gut, eyes flickering towards the source. Hisoka.
He gave her sly grin, as she stared blankly at him, while the judge concluded, "...we have to passed through to get to stage two"
"DONT LET HIM FOOL YOU!" shouted a torn up stranger that staggered around the corner holding a strange creature in his hand.
Unbeknown to her, sinea hand started to stretch in her book, as soon as she spotted the figure. Pencil to paper. It moved soundlessly as she listened absentmindedly to the stranger speak. "He's lying to you! He's an impostor, I'm the real examiner!"
People around her gasped but she didn't notice, "Look at this" the man stared lifting the creature up but glazed didn't move. "It's a man-faced ape, one of the creatures that dwell in the Numere wetlands!"
She didn't notice as the people around her shifted uncomfortably as doubt clouded their thoughts and the air grew tense.
"Man-faced apes loves the taste of fresh human flesh. However their weak that why they disguise themselves as humans!"
She didn't notice as Hisoka appeared besides her, his head dropping in font of hers as he watched with amusement.
"They trick humans into following them into these wetlands where they team up with other creatures and kill them before devouring them"
She didn't notice the sick smile on the man's faces as he spotted the now finished drawing in her hand nor the widening of eyes as he spotted her own.
A sick thud brought her back to reality, the stranger had Playing cards embedded in his chest and head, blood dripping to the ground as he fell. Dead.
She blinked and looked down towards the book. A drawing of the stranger mid fall with playing cards stuck out of his chest. She frowned slightly, at the drawing before quickly closing the book appearing it back to her thigh. Nen. It was one of her Nen abilities, artist prediction.
The ability to predict the Future by forms of artwork, problem was she couldn't control it, it came and went as it pleases, lucky for her it hadn't happened in any awkward situations yet. And there was always a few days between each prediction.
Sinea just hoped that no one had seen her drawing.
"i see i see~" a voice purred form besides her.
She hitched slightly at the sound, Hisoka supressed a chuckle as he spoke eyes gleaming. "There you have it, examiners are hunters here without pay they wouldn't be beaten let alone robbed so easily"
"Very true" commented the examiner throwing some playing cards to the ground. She put at a guess that Hisoka had thrown those too, "though attack me again and you will be disqualified. Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal~" Hisoka hummed before turning to her, his hum changing to a whisper "I wasn't excepting a little kitten to be a Nen user"
She pouted slightly head tilting as she looked up at him.
"Nor did I know that its eyes changed colour" the red head continue.
Sinea froze eyes narrowing, oh darn it. That wasn't good.
"It's not like I was keeping it a secret nor was I telling" she spoke quietly.
"Follow me if you please" the voice of the examiner cut though whatever Hisoka was about to say. Instead he gave her a Cheshire grin before running off.
She also moved always to run instep beside kurapika and Leorio, Gon and killua having already moved ahead in the pack.
to be continued...