Mira moved through the forest at an astounding pace, she occasionally looked at the map on her phone, checking to see where she was heading.
As she ran she spotted a large tree, deeming that it would serve her viewing needs. She quickly climbed up the tree and sat on a large tree limb near the very top, gazing upon the lush green scenery.
With with her unique eyes and sharp hearing she could see further and in greater detail than others could. She saw and heard the animals and insects move about, the rustling of the trees as the wind blew through, to others this might seem normal but to her it was an amazing sight.
" Ahh it is nice to be out of the palace, the outside is wonderful, there's so much to see and enjoy. " Mira thought, admiring the sight.
"It's a shame Pitou couldn't come, she did say that guarding the place was important though."
But still, brother has Pouf and Youpi, so couldn't they guard him just as well? " Mira pondered from her tree perch, missing the feline royal guard.
" Oh well, I'll just have to remember to bring back something for Pitou. Now time to find this hunter, I'm looking forward to seeing a human for the first time. " Mira thought, pulling out her phone and calling Flutter.
" Hey Flutter, am I still heading to the target or have they changed directions? " Mira asked, getting the hang of using a touchscreen.
" Yes your heading straight for them, wait hold on they've spotted me and changed course."
" They've just jumped off a cliff and are entering a large forest, their using Zetsu to hide their presence. " Flutter informed the young queen, watching Killua through his Satellite Dragonflies.
" Can you still track them? " Mira asked, hoping her chance to have fun wasn't lost.
" Yes Mira-sama, my ability Satellite dragonflies can't be easily avoided. I have their location already. There currently hiding under some brush near a tree, I'm sending you the location now. " Flutter said, using his phone to pin the location as accurately as the phone would allow, sending a photo of it to Mira's phone.
" Flutter, you said they went off a cliff to get to a forest right? " Mira asked, sounding happy.
"Yes Mira-sama, the forest was right below it, may I ask why though?" Flutter asked, a little confused by the question.
"Because, I think I see that cliff and you hovering in the air, which means that the forest where they are is right there! " Mira exclaimed happily, using her extreme vision and Nen ability, she spotted the Dragonfly chimera in the sky.
" Oh your right I've spotted you Mira-sama, and your right they are indeed in this very forest below me. The soldiers of Leol-sama are ready to act on my signal . " Flutter said, spotting the human chimera queen on a tree in the distance.
" I'm on my way, don't start till I get there! " Mira yelled excitedly into the phone.
She was looking forward to her first encounter with a human, and was excited to finally have some fun.
She quickly pocketing the phone and shot off of the tree and ran to the forest in a blur, becoming impossible for Flutter track.
As she made her way to the pinged area, she looked around but saw nothing that told her of the human's location.
" Huh, Flutter said this was the area, either I'm in the wrong place or their good at using Zetsu."
"Hold on what's that sound, it sounds like...breathing? " Mira wondered, focusing on the sound, confirming it indeed was the sound of heavy breathing.
" Where is that coming from, oh it's coming from that tree. Wait is that... the hunter we're tracking, wow their smaller than me, I can see why the others compare me to a human so much. " Mira thought, locating the source of the sound, she finally laid her eyes on the hunter.
" I wanted to play with them and learn a bit about them, but Pitou said they can use Nen and can be difficult. "
"So I'll let Flutter do his thing, could be fun to watch, I might even learn something from this. " Mira thought, as she watched the pale white haired human from high up on her tree perch from a far, completely hidden by her Void presence.
Seeing Mira had taken a seat on a large branch in a tree off in the distance, hiding her from the hunter's sight, but still giving her a clear view of them. She sat in the tree in a relaxed manner, waiting for something as she observed the human.
"It seems that Mira-sama is in position, good now we can begin." Flutter thought, seeing the young queen waiting.
" Go soldiers of Leol-sama, begin the hunt for the target! " Flutter telepathically said to the squad of chimera soldiers he brought.
" Come on already, I don't have time to wait. " Killua thought feeling more frustrated as he waited for dragonfly chimera to come looking for him.
Suddenly he felt the earth around him rumbling, something big was heading his way, and fast.
Out of nowhere a large round boulder of dirt came rolling and ran into the tree where Killua was hiding. Riding on top of it was a beetle like humanoid directing it's moment.
" Where is he?! " The beetle humanoid telepathically asked.
" Captain above you! " a chimera said telepathically.
Mira watched on as the pale human out maneuvered and killed the Chimeras in the trees from her perch.
" Oh their better than I thought and they've got a decent amount of Nen. By the looks of things I might get to play with them after all." Mira thought, watching Killua with interest as he massacred the chimera foot soldiers.
"I don't know why they don't try something else, clearly they don't have a chance in close combat. " Mira thought as she watched Killua kill an Insect chimera after it sliced a tree in half.
" This is, kind of boring actually, all their doing is getting killed. " Mira thought as she moved from tree to tree unseen, observing the chimera soldiers getting slaughtered without a care.
She saw Killua flying through the trees towards the beetle humanoid chimera from behind, he had a piece of a weapon from one of the chimera soldiers held high.
Just before he could swing it and take the chimera's head off, an unexpected thing happened, surprising both Mira and Killua.
*Boom!*
Suddenly a big explosion went off right behind the beetle chimera, leaving a portion of the forest destroyed.
" Hahaha, how did you like that?! " the beetle chimera captain smugly yelled as he rolled away.
" Hahahah oh that's hilarious, he has explosive farts! " Mira said, laughing loudly as she hunched over from laughing so hard.
Her giggling fit of laughter was inaudible to others, and she was hidden from sight by others that her Void presence.
Otherwise Killua would have heard and seen her laughing and dangling from a tree close by.
While Mira was finding the whole thing hilarious, Killua was feeling quite the opposite, as he glared at the fleeing chimera with murderous rage.
" I wonder what the human will do next, so far they've been fun to watch. But I'd like to have some fun with them soon." Mira thought, wiping away a tear as she recomposed herself, while still smiling.
*Bang!*
Thanks to her incredibly sharp hearing and perception, she heard what sounded like a gun shot, but she could tell it sounded different from the guns she had played with before.
It was not as loud as the guns she played around with when she was figuring out how they worked back at the palace. There was a sharper tone to it, sounded slightly like whistling wind.
As she was contemplating this, her eyes caught something small flying through the air, heading right for Killua.
" Hmm, is that a... a flea? " Mira thought, using her keen eyes and vision, she saw the object in question was indeed a giant flea. She watched as the flea projectile flew through the air, hitting Killua right in the temple.
" So this was Flutters plan all along, well it doesn't seem to be doing much. " Mira thought, as she saw Killua get hit again and again.
Then he swiftly dodged another incoming bullet, only getting grazed, then he stood still and enveloped himself in his aura.
" Oh, his aura spiked, maybe he has an ability he going to use, this is becoming interesting. " Mira thought, watching Killua intently.
*Bang!*
Killua remained still as he focused on maintaining his Ten shroud, purposefully not dodging the next flea bullet.
" Why didn't he dodge this time, oh wait is he trying to to determine where the shots are coming from, that's pretty neat. Huha, that gives me an idea for later. " Mira thought smiling, seeing the ripple in Killua 's aura.
Suddenly Killua ran off in the direction that Mira had already determined the bullets were coming from. As Killua made his way to the sniper's location, he was coming unaware of Mira tailing him not far behind.
As she was running behind Killua about 20 yards away, they shortly came upon a rocky area with numerous rock pillars outside the forest. Even before she was near the edge of the forest, she had already spotted the sniper from a far.
" There's the sniper, are they a human type Chimera too, no there's a mass of Nen and heat inside the human. That must be where their true body is, and the human must be a puppet, which makes sense since their a manipulator. " Mira thought, automatically using Peering gaze on them.
She saw a human standing on a rock pillar with a gun made of flesh mounted on the right shoulder. The chimera sniper saw Killua approaching him, but because of Mira's Void presence, he didn't notice and couldn't see her trailing behind Killua.
The chimera sniper quickly jumped from his perch and ran off, with Killua hot on his tail, along with Mira tagging along with Killua none the wiser.
Their chase after the sniper was cut short as they found the chimera sniper standing right outside a cave entrance, like he had been waiting.
" It's a trap, come on in, if you wanna ~! " The chimera sniper sang as he jumped into the cave entrance.
" Well obviously if you tell someone it's a trap, of course they won't run right into it." Mira thought, only for Killua to prove her wrong, jumping down the hole as well.
"Or maybe they will, completely discarding about thinking about a plan at all. " Mira thought, watching Killua run right after the sniper.
She looked at the white haired boy with a look that said, " Are you kidding me, what are you thinking!?"
Quickly Mira jumped into the cave after Killua, since she didn't want to miss out on the fun, and technically was suppose to kill him since he was an enemy.
But she had long forgotten about the killing part, and was just having fun watching what they could did.
As soon as she jumped past the cave entrance, she saw Killua already on the sniper. She watched with amazement as his hand transformed into claw like fingers, piercing the chimera sniper's head with his index and middle finger.
" Don't care, die. " Killua said coldly, processing to snap the sniper's neck with a quick twist of their neck with a sickening crack.
Then less than a second later, several long red tentacles shot out of the sniper's mouth and head, wrapping around Killua.
" Oh cool, he turned his fingers into claws, maybe I can learn to do that, oh neat it's an underground lake. " Mira thought.
Seeing a big underground lake as they fell further down the tunnel, Mira then realized something important.
" Oh wait, I don't think I can swim. " Mira thought, as she saw the full view of the lake.
" Crap what do I do, I don't have suction cups like the chimera sniper does, wait I remember something Pitou said. " Mira thought, recalling her Nen training.
" All right nyow, let's move on to the transmuter Nen category. " Pitou said as she pointed to a blackboard with writing and drawings related to Nen.
" Right, you said that tansmuters can change their Nen aura, how so? " Mira asked as she listened intently.
" Well, they can change their aura by giving it properties of other things. Like for example steel, rubber, or anything they put their minds too, if they have the Nen power and skills." Pitou said as she went about the subject.
In the span of less than a second , Mira's aura responded to her will and desire, crafting the abilities she imagined.
Just as she was out of the tunnel of the cave, she stretched out her right arm instinctively. Her arm extended and stretched like super elastic rubber, similar to a cartoon character.
She touched a nearby stone pillar, as soon as her hand touched the pillar, her hand stuck firmly to the slippery smooth stone.
She quickly pulled herself to the pillar, placing her left hand and both her feet on the pillar. Just like before, her hand and feet stuck firmly to the smooth stone.
" It worked, this is amazing! " Mira thought, smiling at how her new abilities worked the way she wanted.
Mira had developed two Nen abilities in the span of less than a second. One was Elastic flesh, this ability gave her body the properties of super elastic rubber, making her able to stretch her body and be ridiculously flexible.
The other was Adhesive touch, this made any part of her body she wanted to stick to any surface she desired. While active it also negated her weight, though she was pretty light to begin with.
*Splash!*
" Hmm, did they both fall into the water, oh no what if the human can't swim either?! That means my mission well be over if they die, I better check on them. " Mira thought, using her new abilities to easily maneuver between the pillars.
It didn't take her long to locate were she heard the splash come from. She quickly spotted splashing on the water's surface as numerous fish like creatures, as well as many more shadowy figures swarmed the spot.
" Oh no did they get eaten by those creatures when they fell in the water? " Mira thought, looking at the water, feeling a little sad for the human.
" How dare you cut off my legs, I Ikalgo will make you pay form that! " yelled a octopus chimera angrily.
" Well it would be bad if I fell into the water, these suction cups really saved me." Killua said as he hung to a stalactite, using the severed octopus tentacles to grip the smooth surface.
" So you're an octopus huha? " Killua said, seeing his enemy's true form for the first time.
"Oh good their still alive, I was afraid my time outside was over. So that's what the sniper really looked like, they really do look like-
" Don't call me an octopus! " Ikalgo yelled angrily.
" But you are an one, aren't you?" Mira thought, feeling confused.
"Bye!" Ikalgo said, as he pointed his flesh air gun at Killua, then was propelled by a burst of air from his air gun.
" Pwua?! " Ikalgo exclaimed as Killua caught up to him while still in mid air. Making Mira laughed at seeing his shocked face, finding it hilarious.
"Yo, we meet again. " Killua said causally.
" Hehe yeah long time no see, just kidding ~" Ikalgo said nervously as he started to sweat.
As they chatted Mira watched and listened to them talk, hanging from a stalactite nearby.
"No, we're still fighting!" Ikalgo suddenly blurted out in the middle of a sentence.
"Huha?" Killua said wondering why the octopus shouted that out suddenly.
" Who is he talking too, oh right the other chimeras can use telepathy. I guess his nerves were getting to him to let that slip out, nothing you can about it now. " Mira thought as she watched on.
"Let's make a deal, you tell me what's the dragonfly guy's ability is and I'll spare your life, you have ten seconds. " Killua said, casually making a death threat.
"...! " Ikalgo nervously sweated even more at hearing Killua's words.
" eight seconds. " Killua said.
" Huha, I wanted to be born squid, the form of a squid is beautiful work of nature. If you think octopi and squids are the same your wrong. The difference between them is like night and day. " Ikalgo said, steeling his resolve.
" Three seconds. " Killua stated.
"I wouldn't turn on a comrade! " Ikalgo declared as he chopped off the barrel of his gun arm, falling towards the water below.
But before he hit the water, Killua pulled out a yoyo and stopped Ikalgo's by wrapping the yoyo's string around him.
" What, why? " Ikalgo asked, completely confused as to why his opponent would save him.
" Because, your cool. If we'd meet under different circumstances, maybe could have been friends. " Killua said smiling to the stunned octopus chimera.
" Hmm friends, that sounds interesting, I don't think I have any friends. " Mira thought, thinking over Killua's words.
" Huh? " Mira saw a shadowy silhouette of smoothing big coming to the surface of water near the pillar where Killua and Ikalgo were hanging from.
Suddenly, Killua flung Ikalgo across the cave ad over the lake, throwing him to the stone shore.
A moment later a large bluish gray fish like chimera jumped from the water, pining Killua between its jaws and the pillar.
" Hahaha I got you, I bet you didn't think fish could jump, hah?" The big fish chimera asked smugly.
"Beg for your life, or do you want me to crush you between my teeth, hah? Or are you in so much pain you can't speak, hah? " The fish chimera asked mockingly.
" How annoying, I should step in and kill them before they kill the human. " Mira thought, preparing to end the annoying fish.
" Huha, this is better, I can kill scum like you with no problem. " Killua said casually.
Using his claws fingers, Killua pierced through the roof the fish chimera's mouth an straight into its brain.
" Well look at that, I didn't need to step in after all. " Mira thought, then she spotted a small fish chimera land on Killua's back.
The little fish chimera placed what looked like a bottle cap on the back of Killua's shirt.
" Odd, why did it do that, it must be related to meeting a condition or activating a Nen ability. I wonder what it does? " Mira thought curiously, following Killua from a distance.
As they landed on stone shore of the underground lake, Killua stop waking after taking a few steps.
" Odd why did he stop, could he have found out about I've been following him? Guess not, since he hasn't turned around or say anything" Mira thought, watching Killua standing still.
Then with her extraordinary sight, kinetic vision, and perception, Mira saw in slow motion small mass of Nen appear near Killua's right foot. It formed into a large needle nose fish and pierced his right foot.
" I was right, it was a related to a Nen ability, that little thing didn't have any aura, so this ability must be one of the two Nen users down at the bottom of the lake. " Mira thought, recalling the two Nen silhouettes she saw under the water.
Another needle nose fish appeared, this time hitting him in the gut. Then a series of colors appeared on Killua's body, forming a circular pattern.
" This is an interesting Nen ability, and that strange pattern on his body, is there some meaning behind it? " Mira thought, trying to figure out how the ability worked.
" Your power is related to the game darts! "Killua said, running over to the lakes edge, seeing the pattern on his body.
" Darts, what kind of game is that, if this is what it's like, it doesn't look very fun. " Mira thought, sitting down on the stone floor a short distance away as she watched on.
"He's getting more and more wounds, and he's bleeding pretty bad. At this rate he will pass out and die, sooner rather than later. " Mira thought, seeing all the blood Killua was losing.
After getting hit several times, Killua held his left hand up to his forehead and closed his eyes.
" What is he doing, has he figured out how to predict where the fish well appear, I wonder if he'll get it right. " Mira thought, watching with anticipation.
It was fast, so fast only someone with eyes and perception similar to Mira's could see the whole thing happen.
In less than a second, the needle nose fish formed right in front of Killua's forehead. As soon as his aura registered it's presence, his hand moved on its own.
His fingers grabbed the needle shape mouth of the fish, stopping it momentum completely.
" Wow I'm impressed, he really pulled it off, but he's lost to much blood already. He won't have the strength to move for much longer, let alone fight." Mira thought, seeing Killua labored breathing, and the pool of blood forming around his feet.
Then suddenly, Killua lost his balance and collapsed on the ground, having lost his balance.
" This is bad, I've lost to much blood, I'm starting to get dizzy, and my body feels so heavy, is this the end for me?" Killua thought feeling his body going cold and numb.
" Your in a bit of a tough spot, aren't you." A soft sweet sounding voice said nearby.
" Huh? " Killua thought, weakly turning his head to the source of the voice.
Though his vision was blurry, he could see a silhouette of a person with a pale bone white completion, wearing an amethyst colored dress squatting near him.
" Don't worry I'm here to help you'd better save your strength and not talk, the ones attacking you with those fish earlier are coming this way." Mira said, picking up a fish dar.
*Snap!*
" But I've got a plan to take them out, all you've got to do is stay still, be quiet, and you know, not die." Mira said causally, snapping the tip of the fish dart and placed a octopus suction cup on it and placed it on Killua's forehead.
" Finished, now just lay still and don't make a sound, I'll be laying in wait for the enemy to show up. " Mira said before standing up and skipping over to a nearby pillar.
" Who, is that? " Killua thought, as he closed his eyes and passed out.
" Here they come." Mira thought, seeing the two Nen silhouettes swimming up to the surface.
"Yay!" The two humanoid fish chimera said as they got on land and saw the dart in Killua's forehead, high fiving each other.
* Bang! *
As the two humanoid fish chimeras high fived, a small dense Nen projectile flew at them without a sound. The Nen projectile was the size of a bullet, shooting threw both their heads and turning them into bloody paste.
" Whoa, that was easier than I thought." Mira thought, coming out from behind the pillar.
Mira was not very good at doing emitter attacks, it was the Nen category she had the lowest proficiency in.
But despite her shortcoming in this, she was still the sister of the ant King, and possessed an extraordinary amount of Nen and natural talent. Making the task of firing a Nen bullet simple and easy for her to do.
" Hey did you see that, I got them both in one shot, hey you listing, oh your passed out." Mira said, noticing that Killua was not responding.
" Hmm, what to do, my original reason for tracking this human down was to see the outside world, have some fun, and and help Pitou while I was at it." Mira thought, squatting down next to Killua
" I could kill him but what's the point, this human is no longer a threat to Pitou's puppets anymore. Well I said I'd help them, helping them some more won't hurt. " Mira thought, examining Killua's wounds.
" Wow, so humans bleed red blood, it smells familiar, and delicious" Mira thought, licking her lips as she stared at the injured Killua.
With every breath, she breathed in the smell of the sweet smelling blood permeating the air, and the sight of the helpless human laying before her.
It all stirred a strong hunger in her, she could practically taste the raw bloody meat on her tongue.
She felt the instinctive primal urge to rip and tear into the human, to gorge on the sweet rich meat, organs, and bones with no restraint.
" Maybe we could have been friends."
" Huh, what was I thinking, I'm trying to save this human and make a friend, not eat them." Mira thought, snapping out of her trance, resuming her examination on Killua's injuries.
" What do I do to stop the bleeding, Pitou never taught me how to use my Nen to heal others, what do I do!? " Mira thought, not sure how to treat the wounds.
"Ugh! I can't think clearly with the smell of all this blood making me so hungry, why do humans have to smell so tasty!?' Mira thought, getting frustrated with her hunger, and not knowing what to do about Killua's injuries.
" H-hey who are you, are you his friend? " a familiar voice asked nervously from behind her
" Hmm, oh it's the octopus from earlier. " Mira thought, turning to see Ikalgo standing near by, looking nervous and concerned.
Thanks to Mira wanting to hide her Chimera traits, her Void Presence prevented anyone from seeing her eyes and teeth, to Ikalgo he only saw a young human girl.
" No I'm not, I hardly know him, though I am trying to save his life. He's badly injured and bleeding a lot though, I'm not to sure what I can do for him." Mira said a little sadly, not sure what to do.
" Hold on, I know a place that can save him, I'll take you both there, hop on! " Ikalgo said, as he picked up Killua with his remaining octopus legs, inflating this head like a balloon.
" That sounds great, let's get moving, onward Mr. Octopus! " Mira exclaimed happily as she hopped on Ikalgo, her mood improving instantly.
"DON'T CALL ME AN OCTOPUS!" Ikalgo screamed in anger.
As he went down an underground river, with the injured Killua and the young chimera queen ridding on top of his inflated head.
" This is becoming more and more fun, this is like one of those adventure novels I read back in the castle!" Mira thought, enjoying the ride with a big smile as she went on an adventure.
Now that Mira has decided to save Killua and ventures of to seek aid, the young queen has grown more curious about humans and the outside world.
What will the young queen do next on her adventure, only time will tell.