AN: well, I posted all 64 chapters on ao3 so imma do that here too cause I feel like they should match. here we go! Let's see how much ffnet decides to hate me as I throw all this up haha
"So, what's it… feel like?"
Gon smiled at the Valkyrie, "Uhhhhhh, kinda like… when you're going to the bathroom, but hold number two in cause you wanna wait till you're at the home bowl."
Killua burst out laughing.
Why's he laughing? It's true!
"So you're telling me: that stopping the flow of the toxin feels like holding in a shit?"
"Well, yeah.. Why're you laughing, Killua?" Gon said, cheeks turning pink.
I sure have been blushing a lot today.
Killua flopped onto his side in hysterics on the bed. The two boys had returned to their room after the spa session was complete so they could "recharge." Whatever that meant. Gon suspected that they were gonna be forced into some activity again. They had already done so much today! What else could possibly be left?
"Well," Killua choked out, "I'm glad you've figured it out, at least!" The pale boy sat up and flicked Gon in the forehead, "You're really weird, ya know that?"
Gon pouted and puffed out his cheeks.
He had washed off the salve of herbs Rhea had slathered over his neck once he had gotten a handle on the feeling. Now Gon could hold the toxin in all on his own. It really was just like learning to use the bathroom, Killua could shut it cause that was the best analogy for the feeling!
"Now that you know how to keep it in, how about you try to push it out?" Killua said… and then dissolved into another laughing fit. "I-I really can't take myself seriously talking like this!"
Gon crossed his arms and hunched his shoulders up and over his burning ears.
"Sorry, sorry, okay, I'm done now! But seriously, try to secrete the toxin at will."
Gon turned back to Killua and crossed his legs in front of him. "Hmmmmm…"
My brain is hurting…
Killua slapped Gon upside the head. "Hey, don't overthink it!"
The tan boy fixed his friend with an annoyed glare while rubbing his head, then closed his eyes and focused. This is such a weird ability to have unlocked. Whatever my blood consists of, it must be super wacky! Anyways, gotta focus now.
Gon honed in on the glands in his neck, and pretended like he was going to the bathroom… but with neurotoxins instead. And sure enough, Gon felt the toxin secreting from his neck again. It felt thick and slimy, he could sense that it was more potent than before.
"Hell yeah! You did it!" Killua exclaimed victoriously.
Gon opened his eyes with a grin, and swiped his fingers across his neck to inspect the toxin he had just created. Rhea had informed Gon that he was immune to his own toxin, so it was fine for him to touch. That really helped with cleaning it up.
The horned boy tapped his fingers together and held the toxin up for Killua to see. The Valkyrie leaned in and smelled the poison, being well versed in all kinds of weapons as he was, Killua was the perfect person to help Gon master controlling the potency of his toxin.
"Oh, shit!" Killua exclaimed. "That definitely isn't just a plain old muscle relaxant! Based on the aroma, I'd say this batch is strong enough to knock out a Goblin." An image of Morel flashed behind Gon's eyes.
"A whole Goblin?"
"Yup. So I definitely shouldn't touch it, huh?"
"Yeah that would be super bad- KILLUA!"
Gon watched in horror as Killua reached forward and collected some of the poison on his fingers, and then rubbed it up his arm! "Killua, what are you doing!?" Gon said in a high pitched voice as he scrambled to stop his friend, but realized that he would only make it worse cause his hands were covered in the neurotoxin as well.
Killua looked at Gon with a cat-like expression.
"Wait, why aren't you knocked out yet?"
"Poisons don't work on me," Killua said with a cat-faced smirk.
Gon gasped and glared at Killua, a look of utter betrayal on his face.
"Asshole! You scared me!" Gon exclaimed and then flung all the toxin off his hands and onto Killua's face.
The Valkyrie only laughed, and wiped the clear colored poison out of his eyes. "Yeah, I'm immune to most poisons. Especially anything used to knock you out. The funny thing is that while your toxin isn't knocking me out, it is making any skin it touches all tingly. If it's strong enough to eat away at my immune system, that you've got a seriously powerful biological weapon on your hands."
Gon listened to Killua with wide eyes, "Woah."
"Woah is right," The Valkyrie looked at the poison coating his skin, and watched it slowly drip down towards the blankets. "This is the first time you've summoned the poison at will, so it's safe to assume that this is still your toxin in its weakest form. I'd have to guess that once you've fully developed your ability, it'll work on me no matter what, so I should really stop touching it. You must have some badass blood running through your veins to be able to produce a toxin this strong."
The two boys sat and looked at the toxin all over their hands in wonder.
This felt like a huge hint as to what exactly Gon was, however it was veiled with a thick curtain of secrecy. Rhea, a master on the subject, hadn't known a thing about what species the toxin could have stemmed from. Clearly, whatever Gon's species was was a powerful one, if they had a bodily weapon this strong and managed to keep it entirely on the down low.
"Well, I'm gonna go wash this stuff off. The tingling is getting worse," Killua then got up and walked off to the bathroom sink. Gon followed him, wanting to get this dangerous chemical weapon off of his skin. He knew Killua had a little bit of protection against it, but he didn't want to take any chances.
Once the two boys flushed all the thick liquid down the drain, they had barely returned to where they'd been lounging on the bed when their four personal handmaids exploded into the room with their usual rushed air.
"Master's Gon and Killua!" Eirisse, one of Killua's handmaids, exclaimed. "We are delighted to inform you that you have been invited to dine with the High Priestess tonight!"
The two boys shared a glance of confusion.
"The High Priestess is the leader of our village, a Queen per-say," Eirisse explained. "It is an honor of honors to be invited to her dining table! For your heroic actions last night she wishes to thank you in person! Come now, we must hurry and dress you up! You must look stunning to show respect to the High Priestess."
Gon and Killua were then rushed into their dressing rooms.
Gon laughed as Killua made a hand motion of shooting himself in the head.
The tan boy's handmaids were named Desdemona and Radella. Desdemona had olive colored skin with curly copper hair and hazel eyes. Her ears and tail were gray. Radella had skin tanned to a beautiful bronze, with thick, straight black hair and eyes so brown they appeared to be black. Her ears and tail were brown.
"Today we will dress you in the loveliest of clothes!" Desdemona exclaimed happily as she pulled Gon's shirt off.
"We were thinking black and gold, to bring out your eyes, does that sound pleasing, Master Gon?" Radella as she pulled down Gon's pants.
"Sounds good to me!"
"Excellent!" the two Neko-Girls said in unison.
From there the two were a blur of motion and fast fingers, slipping overlapping layers onto Gon's body and deftly tightening and tying the laces. The hybrid made sure to keep his limbs relaxed so that they would have an easier time at dressing him. He thought it was weird to be dressed like this, but it was just their way of showing their gratitude, so Gon made sure not to make it hard or be grumpy about it.
The dressing was over in a mere minute, and before Gon knew it the two Neko-Girls were standing on either side of him before the floor length mirror. "What do you think?" Radella asked.
"I love it!" Gon exclaimed with sparkling eyes.
Desdemona and Radella had dressed Gon up in a black dress shirt with a golden tie. Over that was a black cashmere vest, topped by a trench coat style suit jacket with golden buttons and lined with black fur. He wore silky black slacks and a pair of elegant black boots with golden buckles. He had golden cufflinks, and the two Neko-Girls had even gone so far as to line his upper eyelids in black and his lower eyelids in gold.
"I look so fancy!" Gon exclaimed, playing with the lapels of the coat and turning from side to side, watching the glittery eyeliner sparkle in the candlelight.
"We're touched that you find our choices pleasing," Desdemona said with a smile.
"You look truly stunning, Master Gon," Radella complimented.
Gon exited the dressing room, reveling in the satisfying clicks of his boots against the floor. He entered the room at the same time as Killua. The Valkyrie was wearing the exact same thing as Gon, just with white instead of black and silver instead of gold. He even had the eyeliner on! To top it all off his tail had little silver rings decorating it. His tattoos just barely peeked out above the collar of his suit, the black popping drastically against his white and silver ensemble.
"Killua! We match!"
The boy in question snapped his gaze to Gon's, his eyes trickled down and over Gon's body, and then he snapped them back to the floor. "Yeah, they must have done it on purpose," Killua commented with a slight pink tint to his cheeks.
Killua looks so formal, Eirisse and Circe even slicked his hair back a little. All the white and silver makes him look like some sort of snow faerie…
"Masters Gon and Killua!"
The two boys jumped as Isolde made herself known, flanked by Nix and Zephyr. The three head-handmaids were dressed in a formal spinoff of their usual attire. "Follow us, Masters Gon and Killua, the High Priestess awaits!"
The two boys followed after the three feline women, and after a trip through the maze of a building (Gon still did not know his way around) the exited the front door to find a carriage led by a team of four horses (two pitch black with golden bridles and two icy white with silver bridles).
"I'm beginning to sense a pattern," Killua mumbled to Gon.
Gon swallowed a laugh, not wanting to upset Isolde, Nix, and Zephyr.
A new Neko-Girl stood beside the carriage, and bowed as the two boys approached. She had pale skin splattered with freckles, wavy red-pink hair, light purple eyes, and ears and tail in light gray. "Greetings, Masters Gon and Killua, my name is Nerezza, and I will be your coach," she said, introducing herself. Nerezza wore a double buttoned suit jacket with matching slacks and boots. She had a neat little cap on her head, and everything was lined in fur. The colors of her clothing, well. The entire left side was in black and gold while the entire right side was in white and silver.
So the pattern continues.
"Nice to meet you, Miss Nerezza," Gon said with a light hearted smile. Killua waved nonchalantly in greeting. Nerezza continued to open the carriage door for them, and the two boys climbed in. Isolde, Nix, Zephyr, and Nerezza all sat in the driver's seat at the front of the carriage, leaving the two boys to themselves within.
"Gon," Killua voiced as the carriage leapt into motion as Nerezza snapped the reins.
"Yeah?"
"We've established that something is not quite right here."
"Yes."
Killua placed his hand on his chin in contemplation, "The Neko-Girls have been incredibly secretive thus far. Now that we are being brought before their High Priestess, I get the feeling that the waters will be cleared up a little bit. This will be the perfect time to needle them for information about that monster."
"Do you think they'll tell us about it?"
"I sincerely doubt it."
Gon sighed in disappointment. "Who all do you think will be at the dinner?"
"That's a great question, I hadn't thought of that. Hm… I see two likely scenarios." The Valkyrie held out one finger, "Number one, it is only us two and the Queen, and she speaks to us privately." He held up another finger, "And two, it will be three of us along with a group of other Neko-Girls, and she'll turn it into a public event. Since we have no idea what their culture is like aside from this aggressive servitude, the guests in option two could be anyone from a royal court to citizens drawn from a raffle."
Gon considered the two possibilities. "What do you think the High Priestess wants from us?"
"I do not have a surefire guess, considering how little the Neko-Girls have revealed about their way of life. However, I suspect that the Queen will thank us for our service, hopefully explain a bit of their culture, and likely will ask us about what we are doing here."
"In that case," Gon voiced, "Do we tell her the truth? Or only part of the truth?"
"Hm. Well, what do you think? You've been around the world a whole lot more than I have."
"Actually," Gon said with a hand behind his head, "This is the first time I've been in a situation like this. None of my adventures have been this exciting or fun before. For some reason, everything got so much better now that you're with me."
Killua's cheeks turned red. "I-idiot!" He released a shuddering sigh, "I suppose there's no use in complaining about how embarrassing you're sounding… not like it'll stop you."
Gon grinned cheekily. "Yup!"
"But anyways," Killua deftly changed the subject, "I say we just tell the truth. These Neko-Girls are so uptight, I get the feeling that lying would only get us into a lot of trouble."
"So we tell them that we're on a quest to find out my species? Or just that we are passing through to Yorknew City?"
"I say we just give them the whole spiel. We'll flash your mystery blood and my Valkyrie blood, and hopefully that'll give us an even higher regard in their eyes. Anything we can hold over their heads will be invaluable. Also, getting on the High Priestess's good side is crucial. If we are gonna solve this mystery, she's the one who is most likely to divulge information. We'll butter her up real good." Killua placed his chin on his hand and glanced out the window. "Though we'll have to figure out what this mystery even is first." The two of them fell into a comfortable silence for a couple of minutes.
"Do you think she'll… ask us to do something crazy?" Gon inquired with a furrowed brow.
"What do you mean by 'crazy?'" Killua asked with a suspicious look.
"I mean… there are only females in this village… and there are no children… and they REALLY like undressing us-"
"-I'm just gonna stop you right there-"
"-But seriously!"
"NO NO NO! Get that image out of my head right now!"
"But just think about it-"
"-STOP IT!"
"What if they ask us to-"
"-DON'T YOU DARE SAY IT!"
"Just how far will we go in buttering her up-"
"GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER THIS INSTANT-"
"-What if she asks us to-"
"-GON FREECSS YOU SHUT THAT MOUTH-"
"We're not gonna sleep with her or anything, right?"
"SSHGEFOJWDSLVNGIHOWEJPFS-"
Killua completely short circuited.
Gon poked him in the forehead to hit the reset button.
"No! No, we're not doing anything like that! What the hell, man, where did this even COME from?"
"Okay so there was this one time-"
"NEVERMINDNEVRMINDNEVERMIND, I DON'T WANNA KNOW!"
"But-"
"SHUSH!" Killua said as he pressed his finger into Gon's lips.
"-But-"
"SHUSH!" The Valkyrie commanded while smooshing his finger across Gon's mouth.
Gon grinned.
Killua glared, "Are you done now?"
"Yes~~~~."
Killua slapped Gon upside the head with an annoyed, cat-like expression on his face.
"Idiot."
Gon stuck out his tongue with a smile.
AN: i put a clue to Gon's species in here :3 it is VERY vague, but if you can find it than you're a badass
also, Nerezza is Kite's reincarnated form