colour of the world
the best way to predict the future is to create it...
chapter 7
The next morning.
She filed out of the airship with everyone else, while trying and failing to hold back a yawn. "Morning" she mutter to a wearily eyed Leorio who nodded back.
"Where did you disappear off to? Didn't see you after you got called away" kurapika asked stepping on the other side of the female.
She nodded to him before responding, "you were asleep when I came back, so I when to sleep in a different room"
"You could have stayed!" Leorio complained.
"The room was full, and I really needed some sleep" she yawned again.
"Sinea! Leorio! Kurapika!" a young voice called.
The three of them turned, facing a bight eye Gon and pouting Killua, "Gon..." Sinea started, "give me some of your energy will you"
"I agree with you on that! Gon share it around will ya!" Leorio laughed before the green man stepped in front of the group.
"Listen if you please!" the green thing called, sinea cocked her head he was an interesting figure, but she knew someone better. "This is trick tower, you start here. Within a 72 hour time period make your way to the bottom of the tower alive. Your time starts now"
She and the group walked towards the edge, it was a long way down. She debated on the holds. They looked to nice, too easy so she'd bet her gallery that there was a catch. She could -with her ability get down safety – she wasn't soo sure about anyone else. She shrugged to herself.
"Ah that's high!" Leorio whistled looking down beside her.
"That a death sentences..." kurapika muttered.
"I see you at the bottom or afterlife" she moved before anyone could stop her, taking a step off of the edge.
Before she could fully jump off, she felt the tug on the back of her jumper. Pulling her back onto the top of the tower, even forcing her to take another step back away from the edge. She glance over her shoulder, glazed eyes spotting the pink Nen linked up between herself and Hisoka.
He wouldn't let her moved closer to the edge.
She narrowed her eyes in annoyance, as he stook a figure at her.
Leorio snapped her out of her trance. As he gripped her shouldering shaking her. "What the hell do you think you're doing!?"
"Getting to the bottom..."
"YOU WERE GOING TO JUMP OFF THE EGDE! ARE YOU MAD!?" the group yelled at her.
A few feet away, Hisoka chuckled, watching the group as they scolded the only female. "ARE YOU SERIOUSLY CRAZY, YOU WOULD HAVE DIED" kurapika yelled, equally as angry.
"Baka!" killua muttered, while Gon laughed.
"Gon, this isn't a laughing matter" scolded kurapika, who rubbed his temples.
"Fools" a voice called from besides them. The group turned, Leorio and kurapika not letting go of the girl's shoulders in the fear that she would repeat the action. What he didn't know was that Hisoka still had his nen on her. "This is nothing for a professional climber"
The man was tall and well muscular. But other than that were wasn't anything that drew her to him, even when he started to climb down, she was uninterested preferring to glare occasional at Hisoka when he tugged at her jumper with his nen.
The climber was soon eaten.
Leorio dragged her away from the edge, looking around for another mode of getting down the tower, climbing down the outside not being an option.
"There's less people than before…" kurapika mutter, himself and leorio finally letting go of her.
She blinked, true to statement there was less people stood around, to her annoyance Hisoka had disappeared. Her glazed eyes just catching his firely red hair disappearing…down what seemed to be a trap door.
She frowned slightly as the floor clicked underfoot. She stopped, looking down.
Just as the floor gave way and she felt into the dark abyss of the tower.
She blinked, eyes adjusting to the darkest of room as the voice spoke overhead. "Congratulations! You have landed in the lucky path, this path will hold no death traps, just one path down to the bottom or I am no hunter"
She signed, thanking which god gave her luck. "Please make your way down to the bottom, there will be plenty of rooms for rest and entertainment along the way"
She looked up towards the speaker eyeing it as a down slid open. She walked thought. True to the speakers words they were no traps, just a number apon number of rooms in which to pass though, each filled with various thing…
I think... sinea thought to herself, this task is on temptation.
She had already passed, a gaming room full of different consoles and games, a gym filled to the brim of equipment. There were plenty of rooms with beds in, which to say she wasn't temped was an understatement. But she steeled herself to not sleep till the end of the task. She passed a room full of sweets and chocolate, but she wasn't interested and continued walking.
She had walked about half way down the tower before she couldn't resist temptation any longer. It was a room full of art supplies. In her deference she did need more, and art supplies cost a lot.
She paused surveying the room, she opened her sketchbook to the supplies and started placing equipment into it, three canvas, two sets of water colours and pencils. Some oils and inks got added to the mix as well as. She paused before picking up some charcoals in a sliver tin, choosing to take them with her but leave them out, for now.
She looked at the reminding supplies lying about the room, there was lot still left.
She eyed the time on the clock, then back to the supplies….
There was plenty of time.
She picked up the reminding canvases, paint brunches and some acrylics before moving to a table, clearing anything onto the floor before she began her work.
12 hours and 26 minutes later-
Sinea stepped across the threshold of the final door and stepped into the bottom of the tower. She would have been here sooner if not for stopping.
Hisoka watched as she stepped though, heading straight for the centre of the room, not saying a word. He noticed the rope making a makeshift backpack for what looked like two frames, some paints and a sliver box.
He smirked noticing that she didn't look tried what so ever nor did she seem fazed by who she was spending the room with. His smirk faltered slightly when the ninja, hanzo strolled up to the now sitting sinea.
"Hey, miss-I-know-sushi" Hanzo grinned, standing in front of her.
Sinea blinked, stopped sorting her load and looked up, "hello, MR-294" she responded automatically.
She could tell by his eyes and aura, that the man didn't know nen and had a lack of self-control when it came to talking…. She mused that he would become an enchanter.
"Haha, glad to know you know the competition!" the ninja crouched in-font of her, "you're pretty cute, kid"
Her eyes narrowed slight, "how old are you? Mr-294"
"I'm 18, older than you"
She cocked her head to one side, a smirk playing at her lips, "really now? I must say I'm not too interested in younger men"
Hanzo blinked, letting the information sink, "no way… you're older than me!"
"Of course"
"Damn…" he whined before changing subject, "how did you know how to make sushi?"
"It's my favourite takeaway"
"Really? Where you from? I didn't know they made it outside of my island" he looked interested and honest in the subject, so she answered.
"York new city, there have lots of sushi restaurants there"
"That's awesome! I gotta have to visit after this!" the man grinned.
She blinked and looked away, unsure how to proceed with the dying conversation. The man did have a nice aura about him but she would much rather continue her work that speak with the ninja, but she didn't want to be rude.
"The little princess~ is making new friends~" Hisoka purred form behind them.
Hanzo jumped away quickly putting distance between himself and the mad man. Hisoka chuckled, before looking at the girl. "What do you have here?" he asked pointing towards the frames and paints.
"Just work, I was doing on my lucky path." She said, looking down at the frames, her face going red slightly.
She was lucky that, the frames are facing the other way. She needed to hide it quick, she didn't want Hisoka seeing it. "May I see them?" he asked crouching down besides her, pointing towards the frames.
"No" she responded quickly, to quickly before adding. "They are incomplete"
She felt her cheeks redden with embarrassment. Hisoka caught the red tint and smirked, it was making him more Curious. "Soo~, I can still have a look can't I?" he asked, attaching his bungle gum to the closest painting.
Sinea eyes narrowed, noticing the pink nen. She moved quickly, arms in a blur as she used her pencil to cut though his nen. At the same time, moving the painting of her embarrassment out of harms ways- safety out of sight in her little sketchbook.
As the book close shut, she thrusted the other safer looking painting into hisoka face, almost making him fall back in surprise.
"See it's incomplete." She stated placing the picture back on the floor.
It was a painting of the chairman. More preciously, a painting of a dust cloud raising with only a pencil sketch on the chairman, due to the painting incompletion.
Hisoka chuckled, "what about the other one princess?"
"What other one?" she responded innocently.
His eyes gleamed, his cards out in his hands as he shuttled the deck. "I think you know which one I'm on about little kitten~"
"Whatever do you mean?" she said faking ignorance.
In a smooth arch Hisoka brought a card up to her throat. She eyed it before he spoke, "I think you should show it me..." he said the card digging further into her neck.
"And I think you should be more concern about your wellbeing than artwork that does not exist"
Golden eyes flicked downwards, towards the nen infused pencil digging into his already bleeding cut.
Hisoka grinned, with a flick of his wrist the card had disappeared. With the card gone she withdrew the pencil, "I will get you show it to me and all your little tricks~" the man purred before moving away.
-Time skip-
Time passed and more people sat around the room, all waiting for the 72 hours to be up.
Hisoka was bored. He wanted to play but he couldn't kill anyone yet. Sinea... she was an interesting subject, he could tell she would be fun to play with in the long run so he will let her live...for now.
Out of boredom, he attracted his bungle gum to the back of the girl in questions jumper, he tugged.
Sinea sat up straight before turning to the red head, eyes narrowed slightly. She cocked her head, what? She mouthed.
He waved her towards him. Sinea signed before getting to her feet.
She had taken two steps towards the red headed before stopping. She eyes locked onto the man sat beside the magician. Applicant 301, a grey skin man full of golden pins. She knew he was a nen user but something about his appearance confused her it didn't seem right...
She felt the shift in her nen, "artist prediction..." she mutter softly in a voice that wasn't her own.
Her grey eye draining into the other, riding it of any colour. Kneeling down, a hand took the charcoal out of the sliver box and she drew on the floor like a child in the streets.
Hisoka grinned noticing the changed.
The charcoal on the stone floor, her hand moved creating shapes and shading. Eyes completely unfocused to what she was actually doing her nen just taking over.
Hisoka moved closer, careful to avoid stepping onto the forming image – sensing it would be better that way. He moved just as another applicant finished the task, a strong looking male in tight fitting clothes stepped into the room, the male walked forward looking around. He glared at the knelt girl, "this is an art class, girly" he growled, stepping towards her.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you~" purred Hisoka.
"What?" growled the man taking another step forward onto the artwork.
He yelled out in pain, as she pulled the pencil out of the man's shin, blood dipped down. She dipped her finger into the droplets, mixing it with the black of the charcoal creating a menacing look around one of the figures in the image she was creating. Hisoka noticed with a grin that she hadn't even move her head while stabbing the man, the only thing that moved were her arms.
"Told you~" purred Hisoka, eyes gleaming scaring the now limping man away. He waited for her to finish her creation.
After 10 minutes waiting, her nen shifted back to normal. Sitting up, she yawned and blinked wearily. "Glad to see your back~" Hisoka spoke from his seat beside her.
She jumped, around turning towards the man. "How long was I out?"
"About 10 minutes, princess"
"Fuck..." she mutter quickly, looking at the creation on the floor. The back of a hand rubbing at her eyes, as not to get charcoal everywhere.
It looked like two figures stood in a large room surround by faceless figures, one small and childlike, the other tall with long hair and a menacing aura around him. She looked closer noticing the red mixed it with the black. She frowned before examining her pencil, the frown deepen as she noticed the blood strains on the lead.
Her head dropped forward, as her shoulders slump, hoping that she didn't just ruin her the pencil.
She yawn again, she was tried, VERY tried, meaning that whatever she just predicted would occur over a week's time. She signed, collecting her stuff and moving to the edge of the room. Hisoka stayed by the artwork, eyes following the blue haired women, as she lay her stuff down and drifted off to sleep.
He turned back towards the artwork, before gesturing for Gittarackur to have a look. Hisoka smirked, at the man covered in pin. He already knew who Gittarackur really was, and the tall figure with the dark aura around him looked very much like illumi without his pins.
to be continued...