Bratawali, Gudeg, Lemper… They are real, you know…?
Disclaimer: HunterXHunter and all its characters belong to Togashi Yoshihiro, so don't sue me coz I'm just trying to help him
Chapter 3
Shadow Readers X Sleep X The Rod of Honor
And again, Gon, Kurapika, Killua and Leorio have another trip in the desert. As soon as Killua bring a lot of water, they start. But this time, Leorio was wearing a T-shirt, and a large hat (like mexican's)… sombrero. Gon and Kurapika wear a cowboy hat, and Killua, leading the way, still love his cap.
"Do you think he have a house in the middle of this desert..?, a no-matter-who-answer question from Gon.
"I think it's more logical, that he have friends there… maybe friends from his tribe… maybe the only friends he have left", Kurapika replied.
"Yeah.. Maybe a family… the only family in the world who have blue eyes…" Killua, while drink his second bottle of water.
"Gon, what are you thinking", Kurapika ask Gon, that are staring the thief boy rod all the time since they start.
"This rod is just like mine….its shape, its flexibility, its weight, its ability… exactly the same…"
"So… maybe he bought it from the same dealer…"
"No Leorio… this rod is my father's rod. My aunt tells me he found this rod when he was digging up some ancient building… the building of Atlantean….."
"Building of Atlantean..? The building all Hunter believe is build by the Atlantean..??" Kurapika enlarges his eyes.
"Yes.. That one… so…"
"You think that the thief boy is from Atlantis..?", Leorio curious.
"Well, I think we'll soon know about that" Killua, staring at a large canyon in front of them. A narrow rock canyon.
Our four friends stand in the edge of the canyon. Staring down… nothing to stare actually, only dark gap.
"So… Killua…. Don't say we must go down this canyon…?", Leorio, hoping
"I detect my nen is on the bottom of this canyon. What you think… The boy failed to jump and now he is lying on the bottom… dead..?"
"No… with that speed..? no.. Maybe his base is on the bottom of this canyon… But I don't feel any living things below there, are you sure Killua..?" says Kurapika, trying to catch some nen energy from the bottom.
"Worth enough to try.."
"Nope… Not a chance… I'm not a nen user… I can't jump…. Nop… I won't jump!"
"O come on Leorio.. I'll hold you" , convinces Kurapika, preparing to jump…
"On three… one… "
"No.. Kurapika.. And don't chain me!!! Hei.."
"Two…."
"No.. this is an order.. Hands off me Kura.."
"Three… Jump!!!"
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo………………………."
A slow 'Blugh'………
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"Everybody all right?" Gon asks, as he stands up and pulls Leorio up.
"Yeah….waooo…!"Kurapika, as he stares a round, the canyon is only narrow about 200 meters from the top. After that until the bottom, it is wide. There a lot of caves. Not like prehistoric cave, those caves had lamp on each one.
"Wooaaa…. So this is where that thief lives..?" Leorio looks around, grasping his large hat that slowly comes down a few second after him.
"So ya find me!"
A childish voice, comes from the front of a large cave; makes our four friends turn their head.
"Do not scare, are not ya?, well we will see!!!!"
"What's he talking..?" Leorio ask Kurapika
"OOOiiiiii… wis Teka!!!! Metu kabeh!!!!" They boy yells.
And then, a lot off little men come out off the caves. Each of them is holding a fishing rod like Gon's. Each of them is exactly have the same height as the thief boy.
"I don't like this…!!!!", Leorio implied…
"Prepare your self..", Kurapika, as he spreads one of his chain….
"Wait… we come in peace" Gon, off course, trying to stop a fight
"We just want to turn this rod back to him!"
"Ya ca not lie me and me friend….. Ayooo majuuuuu!!!"
And together, all of those little men swing their rod
"Killua, Gon, Leorio, come close to me!" Kurapika, as he spread about eight chains vertically up. And as the chains go down, they make some kind like a cage. A powerfull cage. Not a single rod can reach them inside. 'Clang-clang-clang'
"Stop it; we will not fight you…. We come in peace!!!" Gon yell again,
"Shut ya Up!!! Nganggo nen!!"
The thief boy friend doesn't give up yet, some of them starts to glow, using their nen.
"It's Kyouka, and Sousa.. They use it to empower their rods!!"
"Don't worry Gon… I think their nens are not so strong yet, my chain can resist it"
"No.. They'll keep trying….", Gon looks around, "The one standing up there.. I think he is their leader… Kurapika. Open your cage a bit on this side…"
"Gon.. What are you…"
"Just open it…!"
Kurapika decreases his chain power on the side that Gon wants. And then Gon, using his nen, swings his own rod to the man he thought is the leader.
"What the..", The leader can't predict it. Gon's rod hooks his outwear as Gon jumps to him fast.
The leader try to release himself.. But it is no use. Gon act quicker. He Tie him up with his rod.
"Stop!!! All off you..!!" Gon yells. The little people freeze….
"Stop! Stop!", The man Gon capture yells… Looks like he's afraid off Gon's threatening. He is the leader o right, 'cause as he say it, all stop.
"We come in peace…. We jus't wan't to turn back that boy's rod", Gon pointing the boy, "And ask you something 'bout the Kurasan's Eye ball!"
"The rod of Honor!!!!!... deweke duwe the rod of Honor!!!!", The leader shouts out some word, pointing Gon's rods on his neck.
"What's he mean?" Kurapika wonder…
"I don't know.. But I think there's something about Gon's rod that is important for them. Look, all of them start staring Gon's rod.
Gon confused. He looks around and sees about a hundred eyes staring at his rod. And he decide to release the leader, that make Kurapika, Killua and Leorio set their self up.. Again.
The Leader, and so all of them, don't again attack Kurapika, Kilua and Leorio that they have under siege. They just froze, until the leader speaks,
"You are Kurasan also, don't you.. Or maybe one of your grand parents is Kurasan??" The leader's English is fine.. Not like the thief boy,
"What do you mean?" Gon very confused
"This is the Rod of Honor… The legendary Rod from Kurasu Tribe. The sacred rod… The rod of the God!!!, The rod of Vectro!!!"
Kurapika jumps to where Gon is standing, followed by Killua. While Leorio tries to get his way by walk.
"You and all of them are Kurasan… don't you?", Kurapika asks the leader…
"Yes.. Yes indeed… We are the shadow readers of Kurasan", the leader answers him without taking off his eyes on Gon's rod
"Pak Ketua… Bocah-bocah kuwi tuku matane dewe!!!!" The thief boy yells to the leader,
The leader slowly turn his head.. To Gon, Kurpika, Kilua and Leorio….
"Well, I don't see any bad intensions in your eyes… I think you are honest… don't you" He asks Gon.
Gon nodded. "We just want to turn this rod, and ask you some question"
"But you do have the Kurasan's Blue eyes… don't you?" The leader stares back at Gon's eyes.
"Y..yes…" Gon turns his head to Kurapika… asking for some help
"Yes we have" Kurapika quickly said.
"So would you mind to turn it back to us also… You do understand that we can't tolerate if you make our ancestors body parts to some business, don't you?" Now the leader stares at Kurapika's eyes.
"But what's the proof that you all are Kurasan?", not like Gon, Kurapika is used to have such conversation.
"Hmmm… we don't…. but maybe if you help us, you will se…"
"What do you mean? You just to give us a simple prove… just turn your eye into blue… That's enough"
"We can't, young lady…. We can't.. You know… Our turn Blue in the condition of very relax, where there is nothing to think about…. A condition with peace and happiness…"
"What do you mean…. Your eyes become blue if you…"
"Yes my girl… they turn blue, when we are sleeping…"
The fact that the leader thought Kurapika is a female doesn't destruct Gon, Kurapika, Killua and Leorio from making stupid-idiotic-faces.
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"So you are the last of the Kurutans… and you are absolutely a man…?" The leader invited our four friends to his cave. He is a small man, his height is the same as Gon's. Although the leader invites them.. the rest of the colony keep stare strangely.
"Yes Mr. Thora", Kurapika, still holding the blue eye he got. He still wants a prove… but he don't know how.
"But you still don't believe that we are the shadow readers of the Kurasu, do you?"
"Yes, Mr. Thora, we need some prove."
"Well, try this one… I'll answer your entire question about Kurasu. You can see and feel when I'm lying or maybe not sure about my question, right. But if I don't act like that.. If I answered with full confident and clearly.. Than you must believe… is that enough…?"
Kurapika stare at Mr. Thora's eyes….
"Ok… I think that will do it"
"Ok… Whenever you ready?"
"Ok… First off all… why do I never heard about Kurasu Tribe..?"
"We rather hide our self from the global world. We are known as the Atlantean. A Hunter gave us that name. But we call our self Kurasu."
"Where does your tribe live?"
"In a land of mystery. A lost land protected by the hand of Vectro. Nobody had found it for the last century."
"Why do you and your friends live separated from your tribe?"
"This is our job as the shadow readers. You know, Kurasues want to close their self from other civilizations, but still we need technology and not all of our need is provide in our land. For keeping aware of technologies that make life simpler, once in ten years, 60 shadow readers record all of the technologies and information, and bring them to our land. To provide other need, especially the need of textile and electronics, we build the City of Sahari."
"So why you aren't gathering information, why do you stick in here?"
"We've finished our mission. Each Shadow reader's head is full enough. But we can't find our way in."
"You're lost?"
"No… The gate to get back in is in the middle of this desert… The Grand Oasis… But we don't know its combination"
"The Grand Oasis?"
"Yes… A vast Oasis in the middle of this desert. It had a key combination to open the gate. Usually each time the tribe sent the shadow readers, they give them a combination… but they only gave us a riddle…"
"You can't break it yet?"
"Yes… yes indeed!!!"
"If the place is so closed.. Who's the supplier of your man's eyes?"
"We don't know… we don't know what's happening in our land. We keep trying to solve the riddle.. and trying to get all off our man's eyes… but day after day, it become harder… we can't keep robbing our eyes from the tourist in The city"
"Why don't you search the supplier.. He must know the way in…?"
"We did that. We sent ten people to catch the supplier from the seller. But they never come back… not one off them, we afraid of what we don't know…. And I don't want to take a risk"
"So you decide to try to break the riddle?"
"Yes, while man like Falkirie and Silvite, 'cause they have a very fast legs, keep robbing the eye balls from tourist. The boy that tried to rob you is Falkirie"
"What's about Gon's Rod?"
"Oh… It's the Rod of Honor! I had thought you noticed that all of we holding a rod as our weapon. We Kurasues are very familiar with rods. We use it as weapon, when the outer world uses it for fishing. When our ancestors build the secret land with favor of Vectro, They made a number-one rod, full with Vectro power. That rod is very important to our tribe… That rod is being held by the leader of our tribe. Handed over each time we have election. But about twenty years ago… A man came visited the land. Everyone were surprised… wondering how he got in. The leader invited him to his house…. To ask some question.
"He told he was a Hunter, searching for Atlantis, and he believed the land he found was Atlantis. Our leader decide to let him walked around, studied the tribe, before an act. But the man was smarter. Midnight he stole the leader's rod, the rod of honor, and ran away. Until now, nobody knows how he'd got in, and got out. The Rod of Honor had lost since. But know, your friend carry it. It's a faith I believed. Vectro wants his Rod back"
"What's the different… I can't see the different with other rods?"
"Kurasan have one more specialty, instead of Blue eye… We can see one color that the outer world can't see. We can see diame… The Vectro color… It's between Blue, silver and green, little bit red and orange… but your eyes can't precede it as we do. You'll only see it as red. And at The rod of Honor, we can see the label Vectro, and a symbol of the sea, printed on the rod's ball"
"Again, no prove?"
"No"
"Why do your people stop attacking us when you release that Gon is holding the Rod of Honor?"
"The owner of the Rod of Honor must be protected. The owner can't be any bad guy, because of Vectro. Vectro has his way… And it's he decision to let Gon have the rod, and it's his decision too to make Gon bring back the rod…"
"Why do you telling us this had-to-be-a-secret information?"
"'cause you need a prove.."
"So you can take back the eye ball?"
"Yes"
"Why don't you just take it… there just four of us?"
"Because the owner of the rod of honor must be respected"
"That's all ?"
Mr. Thora smiles a bit, "And I figure you can help us work on the puzzle…"
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