Chapter 2: Question and Admission
Gon took care of the various hunters who were, except for two others, victims of seasickness that inspired them the particularly violent storm they had been going through since the beginning of the afternoon.
He had just taken care of another aspirant who was beginning to regret his choice when a strange light illuminated the corner of the room for about half a second. Except for Gon and another hunter, who was not seasick, he had noticed the light that had disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. The 12-year-old boy approached and noticed that where the light had appeared was a young boy who must be about the same age as him.
Gohan awoke with difficulty, the glass hole that had sucked him had rather knocked him out, he wondered if he was still alive, he had the answer to this question relatively quickly when he opened his eyes and saw, only a few inches from his face, two hazel eyes that looked at him with curiosity and anxiety.
Gohan, with his reflexes of warrior, retreated quickly to realize that this pair of eyes which fixed him always belonged to a boy of his age. The two looked at each other with questioning until Gon decided to break the silence due to this strange meeting.
" Who are you? How did you come here?" He asked in a direct way.
Gohan, reinforced by his training in the desert to survive, wondered immediately whether he should hide his identity from the boy who spoke to him. After observation, he saw that this boy did not seem at all hostile but gave him the same curious look that his father sometimes threw on what he did not know.
"My ... my name is Gohan, Son Gohan. But before I tell you where I come from, I'd like to know who you are and where we are right now, "Gohan replied in a polite yet authoritative voice.
"My name is Gon, pleased to meet you," said Gon, who did not feel threatened in the least. "And right now, we're on the boat taking the hunters to the place of the exam. "
At the end "hunter" Gohan guessed that he was a warrior and remembered that he had to be in another dimension, so he took the precaution of scanning the power of ki of the inhabitants of this world.
After only a few minutes, Gohan shuddered as if, as he had expected a little, the inhabitants of this world were stronger than the earthlings of his world, he even felt several ki who could compete with his friends and who were mostly bad . Not extremely evil like Frieza or Cell but dark and brutal, a bit like Vegeta when they were on Namek.
"Hey ho, you look a little pale, you have seasickness too?" Gon asked.
Gohan jumped and looked more closely at his whereabouts because he had not paid much attention to it before. Gon's phrase combined with the appearance and general humidity of the play made Gohan understand that he was on a boat. Scanning the ki lying here, he was surprised to realize that Gon was pretty much the strongest of the boat's occupants (apart from him of course). There were two others too, who were rather sturdy but otherwise nobody (luckily) seemed stronger than him in his basic form on this boat.
"Hello?!" Gon shouted into Gohan's sensitive ear.
" Excuse me. You understand, no? Appear like that, in a place that we do not know, it makes a little suspicious." Gohan replied on your all the same very friendly because Gon's ki was very benevolent but rubbing his ear all the same. "Otherwise, you used the term" hunter "just now. Who are these hunters, Gon? "
"Huh? You do not know the hunters?é Gon surprised, staring wide in amazement. Gohan, meanwhile, noticed a glance from one of the other two strong beings on the boat in his direction, a look astonished but also a little suspicious.
"Sorry but no, I'm coming ... from far enough actually and I've never heard of these hunters." Gohan replied, turning to Gon.
"Well, I'll try to explain it to you: when we talk about dangerous monsters, rare animal species, lost wealth, buried treasures or inhospitable and unexplored land, we also talk about these people. extraordinary people who are attracted to the unknown. This is the description usually given of hunters." Gon explained, not without difficulty.
Gohan shivered again. But to his amazement, he did not shudder with fear, but with excitement, he wanted to see what these hunters were capable of, to believe that his father rubbed a little on him.
"Okay, I think I pretty much understood what the hunters were and you said this boat is taking the hunters to their exams?" Gohan asked in a voice that had greatly gained enthusiasm.
" Yes that's it." Gon replied to the half-saiyan.
"Um, I see. After what you said, I would like to meet these hunters, it does not bother you that I accompany you to this exam, Gon?" Gohan asked in an extremely polite tone.
"Ok, no problem, Gohan. But do you think you can pass the exam? ". Gon replied
"Yes, I think I should get by, do not worry." Gohan answered very confidently.
"Oi, you four!" Called a rather gruff voice that Gohan had already associated with the captain of the boat "Come to the command post I have to talk to you. "
Just after that sentence, Gohan realized that apart from him, Gon, a young man who wore a traditional dress and who was rather strong (without being unbelievable either) as well as another man probably in his early thirties who wore a suit and tie, and even though he was far from being as strong as Gon or the other young man was beyond the level of everyone on the boat, these others were all nailed to the ground by sea sickness.
A few minutes later, the four people were in the control post of the small sailboat that took them to the exam hunter face the captain who despite his appearance that he was pushing a little too much on the alcohol gave off the aura of the one who controls his subject, in this case navigation.
"All right, I'd like to know your names for all four." The captain told the four aspiring hunters who were facing him.
"I'm Gon." Gon replied in the same bouncy and innocent tone with which he had addressed Gohan.
"My name is Gohan, pleased to meet you." Gohan said in the polite and reserved tone with which he usually spoke to strangers
"My name is Kurapika." Says the young man in traditional dress
"Me, it's Leolio." Replied the man in his suit and tie.
"All right, now I want to know why you want to become hunters?" Said the captain.
"I just think the exam is stiff and I would like to put my strength to the test." Gohan replied.
"I want to follow in the footsteps of my father who became a hunter at the same age as me today." Gon said.
'Follow in the footsteps of his father and he comes from the island of the whale. There is no doubt now that this is Ging's son, ' thought the captain.
'Gon does not seem to know his father, I wonder what kind of person it is,' wondered Gohan.
"Hey, you two, why are you answering him on that one, a little team spirit no?" Said Leolio, somewhat angry.
"Well, why do not we answer him?" Gon replied in a slightly naive tone.
"Your point of view is understandable, but it is the captain who is the master on board, and it does not look like a dirty guy." Gohan said calmly but firmly.
"I totally agree with you, Gohan." Kurapika added in the back of the half-saiyan. "But despite everything I rather agree with Léolio. "
"Oh, I'm your elder, a little respect, it's Mister Leolio for you." Said Leolio in the same tone he had used with Gon.
"Lying is contrary to my principles." Kurapika continued without paying attention to Leolio's remark "However, to reveal my reasons for becoming a hunter would reveal my deepest secrets. Therefore, I refuse to reveal it."
"Very good, I see." Replied Captain Katso! "
"Yes, captain," said a sailor who was keeping a list according to Gohan.
"Let's warn the hunters that we have two more abandoned," said the captain.
"Eh?!" Exclaimed the four hunters at the same time.
"You may not realize it, but there are as many hunter hunters as there are stars in the sky." Says the captain, addressing the four interested parties now. "Since the examining boards have neither the time nor the patience to get everyone through, they are using auxiliaries like me to skim the candidates and keep only those who deserve to pass the exam. "
"So, the exam has already started," Gohan murmured.
"Also know that I have already failed all the candidates on board except you four." The captain went on, making the four aspirants jump again. "If they cannot stand a small storm like that, the hunter exam is dead for them. So, I think you now understand that you can only continue your way to the exam if I so decide. "
Gon, Gohan, Kurapika and Léolio held their breath during the captain's tirade. The first to speak after this was Kurapika.
"I am the last member of the Kuruta clan," said the latter. "My clan has been completely decimated by a thieving group called the Phantom Troup. Since then I have only one desire: to avenge my clan and send these thieves to where their place is, in hell. "
'How many times have I felt this feeling of having lost everything, I do not even remember anymore,' said Gohan to himself.
"So you want to become a blacklist hunter. I heard about the Ghost Troup and even the best hunters are reluctant to attack them. So, you're not afraid to die?" Asked the captain at Kuruta.
"To die does not scare me." Kurapika replied directly "My only fear is that my hate will diminish over time. "
"I see, I understand better why you did not want to talk about it. "The captain concludes before turning to Léolio" And you, why do you want to become a hunter? ".
"Well, my goal is much more concrete," said Léolio
"And what is it?" Asked Gon curiously.
"Well, do not worry, I'll say it," said Léolio while Gohan was already beginning to suspect the answer "It's money! ".
'Bingo', Gohan said to himself, releasing a half-smile in the wind while Leolio praised the merits of the money by saying that everything was achieved by that.
"However, a brain cannot be bought from Léolio." Kurapika said curtly
"I already told you no? For you, it's Mister Léolio." Said Leolio, trembling with anger as she walked towards the door. "Come on, come on, I'll finish with the Kuruta clan. "
"Leave Léolio behind." Kurapika shouted to Léolio, who was starting to leave the room.
"It's Mister Léolio for you." Said Leolio, coming out.
Kurapika followed him instantly. While Gohan would do the same to try to ease the tension, Gon held him back by telling him.
"Do not worry, Aunt Mito once said to me," If you want to know someone, start by knowing what makes you angry. " ".
Gohan admitted, willy-nilly, that Gon was right and no threat was serious from Léolio and Kurapika.
Suddenly the storm in which the boat pitched redoubled violence and all the crew was mobilized to prevent the boat from sinking, Gon and Gohan joined the sailors to help them while Léolio and Kurapika looked at each other as a dog of faience.
At the end of a short moment, the sailor Katso was carried away by a violent wave which made him go overboard, Léolio and Kurapika who, despite the fact that they were about to settle their differences, they did not They did not hesitate for a moment to help Katso, but they did not arrive in time to help the poor sailor ... who was caught by Gohan who was going to get him and settled quietly on the ground.
A little later after the storm calmed down and received Katso's thanks. Gohan and Gon, Léolio and Kurapika, both of whom were reconciled, were informed by the captain that they were all four qualified for further examination. As a result, Gon went to Gohan with stars in his eyes.
"I saw you earlier, you flown no?" You could teach me to do the same thing. The young boy asked the half-caste.
Gohan was surprised by Gon's request but he understood it after all, he was once fascinated by ki and its applications.
"Uh, I think I should be able to help you with that but it will not be easy, hang on. ".
"What?! Cannot you bring my son back?" Chichi, Gohan's mother, asked Shenron, the Dragon Dragon's sacred dragon.
"Alas, no, the place where they are is out of my power, so I cannot bring him back here he will have to fend for himself." Replied the dragon
The news was tough for the Z-warriors. A week earlier, Gohan disappeared into a glass hole to another dimension, and a year earlier, Goku was dead and asked to stay in the realm of the dead.
They had no choice but to wait and believe in Gohan.
A week later, the boat docked at the nearest port of Zaban, the city in which the hunter examination was to take place. Our four aspirants got off the boat and started heading for the bus stop that would take them to town.
"Oi, little!" Cried the captain to Gon, who was floating above him, he could not fly like Gohan yet, but he was making rapid progress and could already float a little a few feet above the ground.
"Yes, what is captain?" Asked the boy.
"Well, as you like me, I'll give you a little advice. Take the time to see the big cedar tree on the top of the mountain, it's a shortcut to the exam. "
"All right, I'll remember it, thank you captain." Gon replied, joining his friends.
A little later, the four aspiring hunters were facing a map of the area near the bus stop.
"Um, that's not logical, Gon." Said Léolio, looking at the plan "Look, this large cedar is the opposite of Zaban, the city in which is supposed to take place the hunter exam. "
"I heard a conversation earlier; it is said that aspirants who go to Zaban by bus never reach the exam." Gohan said, "Maybe the exact place of the exam is an absolute secret and the only way to get to the exam is to find someone who is in the secret. And such a person lives under cedar"
"It's standing. I propose to follow this track." Kurapika offered.
"You convinced me I follow you on the way. "Concludes Léolio.
After about an hour's walk, the four friends had arrived in what looked like a ghost town.
"Rather sinister as a place, where have all the inhabitants gone?" Asked Léolio
"They're still here, I feel their presence," Gohan said, reassuring the group.
But he had hardly said that a kind of huge fanfare appeared before them.
"If you want to continue your route to the exam, you will have to give the correct answer to my question." Says the old woman who was at the center of the assembly
"A new pre-exam eh?" Said Leolio, obviously suspicious.
"Um, that's kind of quizzes no? This can be very simple as it can be extremely hard." Kurapika said as much to others as to himself.
"Well, how long do you wait before answering his question if it's like that?" A voice said behind them.
" Who are you?" Leolio asked in a semi-aggressive tone to the man who had just appeared behind their backs.
"He's certainly an aspiring hunter like us." Gohan said, "He's been following us for a long time already. "
"So, you had noticed me, little one." Said the aspirant.
"Let him go first, so we'll know what kind of question we're dealing with." Gon said on your innocent as naive.
The other three nodded and the aspirant, happy to be able to pass first and potentially trapped the road after, walked to the old woman.
"Are you not with them? Well, here's your question:
Your mother and your lover have been kidnapped, you can only save one. Answer 1: Your mother.
Answer 2: Your lover.
Which one will you save?"
Our four heroes stood speechless at the question of the old woman. The fifth midshipman did not hesitate.
"Answer 1." he declared confidently.
"Oh, and why?" Asked the old lady.
"We only have one mom, but we can always find another girlfriend." Said the aspiring hunter.
"What is this logic?" Gohan asked aloud on your rebel.
" Past." Said the old woman, stepping aside to let the fifth midshipman go by.
"No, but what is this delirium!?" Asked Leolio, who was really beginning to fizzle.
"It's your turn now," said the old woman. "Your son and your daughter have been kidnapped; you can only save one.
Answer 1: Your son.
Answer 2: Your daughter.
Which one will you save? "
"But shut up old fool, there is no good answer," shouted Leolio out of him.
Gohan understood at that moment, thanks to the phrase of Léolio, the true meaning of this quiz. He must now just prevent the man in a suit and tie from doing something stupid. Like hitting the old lady with a stick, for example.
"Léolio, stop!" Gohan said blocking the movement of Léolio.
"What are you doing, Gohan? There is no good answer to this damn quiz!" Said Léolio, still so angry.
"Exactly, we won." Gohan replied on your call to calm. "The right answer is silence. "
"Well answered, young man." Said the old woman behind Gohan.
The latter moved to a door behind which was the path leading to the big cedar, the other aspiring hunter will never find it.
The four friends went to the big cedar where they should meet someone who could lead them to the exam.
Very, very loooooonnnnnng chapter to fill the gap, I hope I did not make you wait too much here are the answers to the reviews or rather the big review of the first chapter:
NickD494: Thank you for all this valuable advice, it is true that I am a maniac dialogue and I have a little trouble to do without it, if it bothers, I'm sorry, I do not see too much current way of writing change.
Regarding Gohan's power levels vis-à-vis Hunter X Hunter characters, I think I know how to get out of it even if I had a little trouble when I imagined this story.
Finally power levels encrypted, I always had the habit of putting a figure on a power (and not only in Dragon Ball), it helps me to clarify the balance of power between the characters but as you've seen I removed the power levels I introduced in the first chapter.
Finally, and also to answer the linkyss review, the toxic critics amuse me more than anything, if something stops me from writing, I do not think it's here.