1-on-1 Tournament(Part 2)

Second Match: Kurapika vs Hisoka.

"Begin!" Masta commences the match.

"Good luck, kurapika." Wendy wishes.

"Wonder how this will go, especially against that clown." Happy wonders.

"He'll be fine." Leorio believes.

(Kurapika and Hisoka fight on for quiet awhile, until Hisoka gets close and whispers something in his ear.)

"Wha-" Kurapika is stunned at what he hears.

Hisoka then turns and walks away, "I surrender."

"Huh?" Wendy is confused at the outcome.

"I didn't expect him to surrender just like that, voluntarily." Happy says.

"It looked like he whispered something..." Wendy noticed.

Third match: Happy vs Pokkle.

On the platform, "Well, here goes nothing." Happy prepare himself.

"I'll make this quick so don't worry." Pokkle assures and gets ready.

"I'm mentioning this now, but a cat that can fly and talk is rare." Bippo states.

"It sure is. I'm interested to see how this will go." Menchi is curious.

"It honestly would be funny if the cat were to win." Buhara chuckles a little.

"Be careful, happy." Wendy thought and cheers.

"I wonder what plan the cat has up his sleeve." Leorio wonders.

"Who knows, but let's see if it works." Kurapika replies.

"Begin!" Masta commences the match.

"Alright!" Pokkle charges at happy.

"Uh-oh." Happy quickly activities his wings and dodges an incoming punch from pokkle. Happy is now in the air, keeping distance.

"What are you doing? Get back down here and fight!" Pokkle demands.

"Nope, I don't wanna. I'm not dumb enough to engage in a close up fight, cause I'd easily lose and we both know it." Happy states, "So..." He sticks his tongue out at Pokkle.

"Why you little...?!" Pokkle is annoyed.

"There you have it. Surrendering is your only option cause you can't fly while I can by just staying up here and stall for time." Happy crosses his arms, proud of himself.

"So that's his plan?!" Leorio exclaims dramatically.

"Well, we'll just see if it works, even if we do have to wait awhile again." Kurapika sighs.

"It's a fight between the "not so strong" ones anyway." Killua ain't impressed.

"Oh, come on. It wouldn't hurt to see this goes." Wendy tries to lighten him up.

"Not happening." Pokkle refuses.

"Fine, you got 5 minutes to do so, otherwise I'd be force to do... that." Happy says, meaning he has another plan.

"What does he mean by "that"?" Wendy wonders.

"Well, never mind. He might have a plan B." Leorio says.

"Just throw in the towel. You can't reach me up here and I'm not trynna fight another match either." Happy crosses his arms.

"Hold on... I actually don't have to reach you."Pokkle thinks of something.

"Huh?" Happy questions and is confused by the statement.

"If I recall, during the end of the 3rd phase, you deactivated your wings out of exhaustion." Pokkle noticed back then, "Meaning you have a limit to those wings."

"Ah shoot, he noticed." Happy thought, "Guess it's time for plan B."

"He noticed happy's weakness." Kurapika states.

"Tsk, so what's that other plan he's got now that his limit if exposed." Leorio wonders.

"All I have to do is, what till that expires and then I'll force you to surrender." Pokkle states, too confident.

"Fine. Now that it's come to this..." Happy then flies at Pokkle, full speed, "Here goes!"

"Oh now you decide to come at me?!" Pokkle gets ready to punch him.

"Now!" Happy fly ducks under pokkle's punch and then quickly grabs him by the left leg and into the air.

"Wha-what are you doing?!" Pokkle exclaims as he's lifted in the are by the leg.

"In the air?!" Leorio exclaims

"What is he up to?" Wendy wonders.

In the air, "Now that you my limit... I'm just gonna make you fall a long way down." Happy states.

"W-wait! Let's not do something we'd regret!" Pokkle tries to halt him, "You know you'll get disqualified if you drop me down to death."

"That's his plan?!" Wendy exclaims.

"Yeah, happy! Think of another way!" Leorio exclaims.

"Is that so? Well, actually..." Happy then smirks, "I'm fine with that. It's better getting disqualified then having to fight another match." Happy marks smirking dark face.

"Hold on!" Pokkle begs.

"Now off you go!" Happy drops him, which he yells while falling.

While falling, "Okay! I surrender!" He shouts in defeat and before he hits the floor, happy catches him just in time.

"Heheh, it worked!" Happy bragged before setting Pokkle down.

"Worked? So that was your plan?!" Leorio exclaims dramatically.

"I thought he was really gonna do it." Wendy says.

"By the moment they were in the air, I knew happy was bluffing about dropping him." Kurapika revealed.

"So did I." Killua agreed with hands in pocket as usual.

"So... you letting me hit the ground was actually a bluff?!" Pokkle exclaims at the being tricked, being dramatically being down, "I should've known..."

"Aye. I was definitely lying." Happy revealed with a paw raised, "I knew you'd surrender by the time I dropped you. Even if you didn't surrender, I was gonna catch you, but then I'd be out of options."

"Tsk, losing to a cat is embarrassing." Pokkle is still down.

"I bet it is." Killua isn't impressed.

"Either way, whatever works, happy. You got him." Wendy congratulates.

"The cat winning that was impressive." Bippo comments.

"Hahahaha." Buhara laughs, "Didn't expect to be right, the cat actually won."

"Just goes to show that being small doesn't mean you can't pull a victory." Menchi states.

"Good luck against that Hanzo guy." Happy looks at him while flying back to the sidelines.

"Good job winning, you totally me and wendy fooled." Leorio states to the cat.

"I did what I had to do in order to win that." Happy replied.

"If that didn't work, you would of had to face hanzo." Wendy says.

"I know, and I definitely would of been screwed." Happy replied, "Taking that victory saved my fur and it's totally worth it."

Wendy vs Gittrackar

"Well, I'm next." Wendy tries being confident.

"You got this." Killua encourages.

"Yeah, just think of something to make him surrender." Happy raises a paw.

Wendy nods at the two before heading to the platform.

While on, Gittarackar just stares at her with a smile blank expression.

"Ugh... creepy." Wendy thought before getting focused, "I gotta use my sky dragon magic, It's probably the only way to make him surrender. Even though I'm not the fighting type." She gets in a defensive stance.

"Begin!" Masta commences the match.

"Here it goes!" Wendy thought, waiting for gittarakar to make the first move.

Instead, gittarackar does nothing.

"?" Wendy is confused to why.

Gittarackar than raises his hand, "I surrender."

"Huh?" Wendy is confused.

"Already?" Leorio is surprised.

"I'll try my luck on the next round, since I know probably know we'll make it." Gittarackar smirks weirdly and walks away.

"Hmm?" Killua doesn't get him.

"Know who'll make it?" Leorio questions.

"What does he mean by that?" Kurapika wonders.

"Who knows, but wendy took the victory!" Happy raises a paw.

Wendy is still a little confused about gittarackur and walks back, "He just suddenly gave up. Even mentioning someone in the next round. What is he up to?"

Hanzo vs Pokkle:

During the fight, Hanzo easily pins Pokkle to the ground, completely at his mercy.

"I won't go easy on you." Hanzo swears with dark look.

"Okay, I surrender!" Pokkle exclaims in defeat.

Hanzo release him and walks away with a proud expression and arm up in victory.

"Well, that was expected." Happy wasn't surprised, crossing his arms while nodding.

Hisoka vs Bordoro:

During the match, it was completed one-sided as Hisoka was easily beating bordoro in close combat, despite the latter's best effort at not surrendering.

After that, bordoro was on the the ground in defeat. Hisoka then kneels down and whispers something to bordoro, which makes him admit defeat.

Killua vs Pokkle:

As the two were in the platform, Killua just turns and walks away, hands in pocket, and not even caring, which surprises masta, and Pokkle.

"Huh? What's he doing?" Wendy says in surprise at killua walking from the platform.

Killua raises a hand, "Sorry, but I'm not interested in fighting you." He states as he walks back.

"You could of easily won that!" Happy exclaimed dramatically.

"Cat, I had my reasons." Killua shrugged.

"Something tells me your gonna regret it later on." Happy mutters quietly, "Cause that was a perfect chance to get a win."

A few minute break:

Leorio asks the committee to postpone his match with bordoro, to give him time to recover.

Wendy decided to go and check on Gon while this happens.

Next match(Killua vs Gittarackur)

The two were on the platform. Killua was getting ready until gittarackur spoke up.

"Long time no see, kil." He speaks.

Killua is confused at how he knows him.

Gittarackur then starts taking the needles out of him and his face begins morphing.

"Ugh... what's with this guy?" Happy states in disgust while on kurapika's shoulder.

Gittarackur's face changes back to his true form. Killua sees who he's looking at and is suddenly shocked at who he sees.

"Hey." Illumi greets, "I knew you, we'd eventually have a match. That's why I forfeited against that girl."

"Brother... illumi." Killua trembled in shocked.

"Killua's brother?" Leorio is surprised

"Him?" Happy is surprised as well.

"He used those needles to change the shape of his face?!" Kurapika states in surprise.

"I heard you cut up mom and milluki." Illumi recalled.

"I guess so." Killua replied slowly.

"She was crying." Illumi bents his head.

"Wow, he did that?!" Happy exclaims in surprise.

"Well of course a mother would cry if their son did that to them. Who would blame her?" Leorio gets it.

"She was crying tears of joy." Illumi states, which cause leorio to dramatically drop and happy making a dramatic face, "She was so happy to see that her son grown up." Illumi continues, "But you leaving home was what worried her, so she asked me to keep an eye on you. Well what coincidence, I didn't know being a hunter was what you wanted. I'm trying to get a license for my next job.

Wendy then walks in through the door and sees killua and illumi on the platform.

"Oh, Killua's match has already started." She stated to herself, but notices something different illumi, "Who is he?" She then notices the clothes, "Wait! Is he the from..." she then immediately thinks of gittarackur, "But he looks so different,... is that what he really looks without those needles he had on earlier?" she was surprised.

"I don't really care about being a hunter. I just took the exam because I felt like it." Killua replied to illumi.

"I see, then that's a relief. Then I have some advice for you." Illumi starts, with aura rolling in his eyes at Killua, "Your not cut out to be a hunter."

Killua trembles and sweats as he looks into illumi's eyes, making him shiver.

"You were only born to be a killer." Illumi tells him, "You're a puppet of darkness, without passion. You don't want anything or wish anything. You can only feel pleasure as you live in the shadows, when people die. That's how dad and I raised you." He reminds, "What do you expect to accomplish by becoming a hunter?"

"Dad and I? So does that mean gittarackur is... killua's brother?!" Wendy thought and didn't believe it.

"I may not want to become a hunter. But I do have something I want..." Killua sweats.

"You don't." Illumi doesn't believe that.

"I do!" Killua shouts at him, "There's someone I really want!"

"Hmmm, okay, then enlighten me and tell me what you really want." Illumi challenges, to which Killua looks down and doesn't answer, "What's wrong? There's nothing you really want, is there?"

"There is!" Killua hesitates.

"What's wrong with Killua...? He doesn't look like himself right now." Wendy thought and a little worried. Still standing near the door.

"I want to become friends with gon and wendy..." Killua confesses, "I'm tired of killing people all the time. I want to become friends with them and live a normal life."

"Oh, Killua..." Wendy mutters.

"That's impossible." Illumi rebukes that, "You'll never be able to make friends. Your only concern is whether you kill them when you meet them. That's how you were trained. You just don't know what to classify both gon and wendy, because they're too dazzling in your eyes. You actually don't want to be friends with them."

"Your wrong..." Killua argues back.

"You'll end up wanting to kill them one day if you stay with them." Illumi continues, "You'll get the urge to see if you can kill them or not. Because you have the soul of a killer."

Wendy has a mad look and had enough, "Killua! Your fine the way you are, don't listen to him!

"Oh?" Illumi rolls his eyes back her.

"And be friends? We were already friends since the beginning of this exam!" Wendy exclaims to him, "Gon feels the same way!"

Leorio also had enough of this and steps up, but a guard gets in his way, "As we've mentioned before..."

"Yeah, yeah, I get it already!" Leorio replied before looking over him at the killua, "Killua! I don't give a damn if he's your brother."

"So he is his brother!" Wendy thought, "Was this why he forfeited against me? Cause he knew Killua was gonna make it... And just so he can say these mean things to killua?"

"He's nothing, but a worthless piece of crap! So beat him up like usual and win!" Leorio exclaims, "And wendy's right! You three were already friends, how'd you not know that?!"

"Is that true?" Illumi questions them.

"You bet it is, jerk!" Happy exclaims as well.

Illumi then wonders, "If those two consider kil a friend then that's not good." He then got an idea, "Alright, then I'll just kill both wendy and gon."

"!" Wendy is shocked at the sound of that, and so is leorio, kurapika, and happy.

Hisoka and netero are also alerted by that.

Illumi then takes out some needles, "A killer doesn't need friends. They'll only slow you down." He then turns and sets his sites on wendy, walking towards her. Which wendy steps back a little, stunned.

"While your at it, tell me where gon is." Illumi demands at wendy.

She hesitates a little before rebuking back with a mad look, "I'll... never tell you where he is!"

"Oh?" Illumi continues walking toward her.

Masta runs up to him and tries to stop him, "P-please wait! the match is still-" Illumi then throws 3 needles at masta's face and starts dismembering it, making him shake in pain.

"Perhaps you'll tell me." Illumi demands Masta.

"Oh no!" Wendy thought, not liking this.

"He's over there in the waiting room..." Masta breaks his location, as he wants the pain to stop.

"Thank you." Illumi a continues on while Masta kneels to the ground after the pain seizes.

Illumi then halts as leorio, kurapika, happy(who's flying) and even hanzo stand in his way, protecting wendy and making sure he doesn't get to Gon.

"Guys..." Wendy is surprise to see them in front of her.

"Oh darn, this won't do. I need a license to do my job..." Illumi states at seeing them in his way, "But I'll fail if I end up killing them, and kil will automatically pass. Darn, the same will happen if I kill wendy and gon." He then starts thinking with his finger to his head.

"Good! So he can't do anything." Happy states in relief as floats in front of wendy.

Illumi then got an idea, "I know! I'll pass the exam before killing those two."

Killua is frozen in shock at the sound of that.

"Bastard..." Leorio curses.

"Doesn't he ever stop babbling..." Happy gets mad, a little.

"If I first pass automatically, I can kill everyone here and still keep my license, right?" Illumi asks netero.

"Yes, according to the rules." Netero calmly replies.

"Why he'd tell him that?!" Happy mutters.

"Did you hear here that, kil?" Illumi turns back at his frozen younger brother, "You have to beat me in order to save those two." He then starts to slowly walk towards Killua, "Will you fight me for their sake? There's no way you'll do it because what's on your mind is worry, on whether or not you can defeat me."

"*Gasp*..." Killua shakes in shock and is sweating.

Illumi gets closer, "And you already have your answer. "I'm not strong enough to beat my older brother. Never fight someone who's stronger than you." I drilled that into you..."

Killua starts panicking and takes a step back. But...

"Don't move." Illumi warns him with his hand out at killua's head, "If you move even an inch, then I'll assume that the fight has begun. The same goes for if our bodies come in contact. There's only one way to stop me. You know what that is." Illumi continues rambling on as he almost touches killua, "If you don't fight me, those two will die."

Wendy then speaks up, "Killua! Don't worry about me and gon! Just focus now on taking him down!" She encourages, "Don't let him get to you!"

"Yeah! We won't let him kill you either." Leorio shouts and encourages him as well.

"He's nothing but all talk, so hurry up and crush him!" Happy adds and exclaims as well.

"We'll do whatever it takes to stop him!" Leorio declares, "Let him have it!"

Killua can do nothing, but shake and panic in fear as illumi comes closer. He then drops his face down and says, "I lose... I surrender." He admits defeat, which shocks wendy, leorio, happy, and kurapika. Hanzo only watches with his arms crossed.

"Not, again..." Happy trailed.

"Killua, no..." Wendy couldn't believe it.

"That's good." Illumi is happy and claps his hands, "Then the battles over." He chuckles and pats Killua on the shoulder, "I lied, kil. I was lying about killing wendy, and gon. That was just a little test. But now I have my answer." He then says something to killua's ear, "You don't have the right to make friends."

Wendy hear what he said and is mad, "Why you..."

"You should just listen to dad and me, and do your job as you always have." Illumi reminds him, as killua's eyes start turning blank.

Wendy can only stare at illumi, angry with him.

(After that was over, everyone went back to the sidelines and waited for the next match.)

Kilia still had a blank expression on his face, and Wendy notices as she stood next to him, "Killua, please get a ahold of yourself and snap out of it." But he doesn't answer.

Leorio and bordoro's match then starts to get up way.

Wendy turns to see if killua is alright, but, "!" She sees that he's gone, "Killua?" She looks around.

"Wendy... look." Happy points at the platform with a stunned expression.

Wendy looks and sees killua behind bordoro, "Killua! What are you-" She notices his blank expression and sees his claws stick out, "Oh no! Killua don't do it!" She tries to call, but it was too late. Killua impales bordoro though his back, killing the old man before he drops dead on the floor, and blood splatters on killua's blank-less face.

Wendy reacts to the expression on killua, shocked at this, hands over her mouth.

"He killed him..." Happy trailed, "So this means he's..."

With that said, the committee disqualifies killua and the latter walks to the front, opening it and leaving it.

Wendy doesn't like this and starts chasing after him.

"Wait, wendy!" Happy tries to halt her.

"I'll be right back!" Wendy replies, still running and leaves out the front door as well. Which everyone looks on and illumi looks as well, not evening caring.

Outside the exam room:

Wendy catches up with killua before he leaves through the hotel entrance.

"Killua!" Wendy stops and pants, "You don't have to leave. I can tell you weren't yourself at all. We'll try to work something out with the committee."

"It's too late... sorry." Killua turns around to her and only says that before vanishing off, leaving her alone.

"Killua!" She tries to call him back, but he's already out of sight.

Tears form around her eye, cries a little, having failed to stop him from.

Once she wipes the tears, turns around and has an angry look, mad at illumi.

A few minutes later:

(Everyone is heading in the orientation room and begin taking seats.)

Before illumi walked down stairs,

"Gittarackur." Wendy stands behind him, mad at him,

"What?" Illumi turns around.

"This is all your fault...!" Wendy glares at him.

"My fault? For what?" Illumi doesn't get it.

"You don't know? If it wasn't for you, Killua wouldn't have left!" Wendy replied, looking illumi in the eye.

Everyone(except Hisoka, who just turns back) stood up from their seats and sees the two glaring at each other.

"Killua walking out of here has nothing to do with me." Illini replied, "It was by his own choice."

"No! it has everything to do with you." Wendy rebukes, "You did something to him in order to make him do what he did."

"Wendy..." Happy and leorio both muttered.

Illumi is silent for a moment, "Are you mad because of what I said to him? It's a fact that he doesn't need friends."

Upon hearing that, Wendy forms sky magic around her right hand.

"!" Illumi is surprised at that.

Wendy then punches illumi in the face with her sky magic fist, staggering him back a little, but he doesn't fall.

Everyone else is stunned at what wendy did.

"Woah, wendy..." Happy trailed, not seeing her like this.

"It's not up to you decide whether he can or can't make friends." Wendy states, still mad, "You don't control his life!"

Illumi looks back at her and isn't bothered by the punch he received.

"Ahem." Netero speaks up, "Can we all go on and take a seat? We'll discuss it before the orientation."

20 minutes later:

"Wait, gon-kun!" Satoz tries to call out.

"Where is everyone?" Gon speed walks down the hall.

"You need more rest, gon-kun..." Satoz follows him and tries to say.

Gon doesn't listen and barges into the orientation room by kicking the door open.

Everyone turn in surprise to see gon in the room.

Gon looks around and spots Illumi down at the bottom row and walks down the stares toward him.

"Gon..." Leorio and happy muttered as he walked by.

Wendy can tell that gon is angry with illumi as well, "Gon..."

He stands in front of illumi as the latter is still staring straight ahead.

Gon glares at him before saying, "Apologize to killua!"

Uh-oh. Looks like Illumi ain't off the hook yet. Wendy was angry with him at first and now Gon? Oh boy...

Also, it's about time to get some reviews as it would be appreciated.