I'm here again… I'd like to thank everyone who reviews and yeah… Thank you again to RandomGothicNinjaNerd for being so supportive and beta-ing. So here's the new chapter, I hope you enjoy this chapter and tell me if it's confusing (I'm paranoid about it being confusing is because sometimes when I do work, there's a little message saying from the teacher telling me it's confusing so please tell me!)

Anyway, here it is, so please enjoy. *bows*


In the Biska Woods…

The doors slowly creaked open. Inside was Buhara sitting behind a couch. On the couch was Menchi. The tense atmosphere quickly faded, and with the back-ground noise of Buhara's stomach growling I swear I saw tumble weed like in the old western movies, the atmosphere changed so drastically.

'So you hungry?' Menchi suddenly said looking up at Buhara.

'You bet, I'm starving!' Buhara replied with a dead-panned look on his face.

'Therefore, the theme of the second trial will be cooking! We are both fine gourmet cooks! Thus your mission will be to satisfy our appetites by cooking us a meal!'

Everyone suddenly looked shocked.

'Cooking?!'

I knew that already so I didn't react at all. Everyone stopped muttering when Buhara started talking.

'You'll start by cooking the plates I ask you for…'

Menchi interrupted him.

'Then those who pass would have to satisfy me! You will qualify for the third round if you hear 'it's good'. The test will be over when we're no longer hungry.'

There was a general disquiet. Leorio broke the atmosphere with loud and noisy voice.

'Are they serious? I've never cooked!'

Way to go Leorio. Stop stating the obvious.

'I'd never thought that there would be such an exam.' Kurapika mused.

I didn't actually care about that right now. Although one of my favourite scenes was acting in front of me, (I've watched this part twelve times) I needed to go toilet. Unfortunately, there was a severe lack of toilets in a wild forest.

I hope there's a toilet in the warehouse… But I need to go now!

I hopped impatiently from one foot to the other. I wondered why in all those fantasy books where heroes go into the wild to rescue weird creatures, they don't mention their sanitary habits. It is one of the most important things that make us a human being and they don't mention the secret of going toilet in a dignified way in the bush! Or maybe they don't include it because there is not dignified way? I shook my head impatiently. I'll think about that later. I need to go toilet!

Quickly, quickly!! I hopped even more impatiently when Buhara paused for effect.

'LET THE SECOND ROUND BEGIN!'

Finally…

I ran with the other people, trying to find a bush. I put my staff back on my back. It had a holder, it just automatically just strapped onto my back. I ran into the forest frantically scanning.

Where's a good bush? Not there, there's a guy behind it. Is that a spear behind that tree? That bush looks good… Wait, I see a tusk. Better not go there… Those flowers look dangerous. Ah, that's a good spot.

I ran over to the bush and jumped over. I landed into a whole herd of Great Stump boars. I sweat-dropped.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. That phrase suddenly popped into my head. I finally understood the deep and meaningful meaning of the phrase.

Oh shit. Maybe if I greet them they would ignore me?

'Err…hi.'

It didn't matter if I spoke here. Pigs don't speak languages. Why did I just talk to them? I just attracted their attention. I saw Gon, Kurapika and Leorio on the other side of the clearing. They had three people and talking loudly, when I was only one person. The pigs registered them as a greater risk, so the pigs chased them instead. I thanked whatever thing that ruled up in the heavens and quickly knocked one of the pigs behind its horn before it could join the chase. It fell over and died. How wonderful. Do I need to gut pigs? Or does Buhara like to eat the intestines as well? I shrugged. Who cares? I gathered some fuel, started a fire and started roasting it.

So I should make some crosses on it first. There. Then I rotate it around and around until it's cooked.

I rotated and finished cooking it, put it on another strong stick and ran up to Buhara for presenting. I stood next to Gon.

He nodded and smiled at me with his arms straining to keep lifting the roasted pig.

He mouthed, He mouthed you go first. I smiled back, nodded a thank you and gave my boar to Buhara to eat. He declared his decision for my cooking skills. He took a breath through his full mouth. The moment of truth…

'Itsh good!' I nodded and went to the side. Then I stopped in my tracks. In the heat of the moment, I had forgotten to go toilet!

Ah, damn. I'm really busting now. Ah, the gong is so loud. Is there a toilet in there? I hope so. Wow, Buhara can sure eat… Come on Menchi, you can talk faster than that. It's obvious that you're cautious with taste… Yes, sushi, I know. Just get on with it…

'Look over here!'

Finally.

Everyone looked into the warehouse to see what was inside. I looked for a toilet. And at the very end, tucked into a corner was a small door with a tiny toilet sign on it. I immediately ran over. I opened the door, closed it and did the usual thing you do in toilets, flushed it and walked out again. When I was walking out, I passed another person who was going to the toilet with a cloak that looked exactly the same as mine. Which was impossible because Jeb had given it to me, and I had already noticed the cloth was different to anything I've seen before.

Huh, must be a coincidence.

I shrugged. I knew I needed to catch fish, so why waste time looking at the rice?

I walked out, noticing that Hanzo was doubled over laughing at the contestant's attempts at making sushi.

Heh, not much time left, I should start fishing. Oh look, a river and where's the fish? Ah, there's a fish. Should I catch it? Ummm… I'll start now then .I've never fished before though. Oops, that fish is slippery.


8 minutes later…

I caught the fish! I started walking back towards the warehouse. I was near the clearing talking to myself.

'Haha, you won't get away from me now!' I talked to the fish. It was nice talking out loud. The trees started to shake. I just talked aloud. Was it my fault?

'What the he…'

The rest of my sentence was drowned by the enthusiastic contestants of the Hunter exam.

'FISH!!!!'

There was a stampede heading my way. I did some calculations in my brain. I couldn't run fast enough to avoid it. So I talked to my staff, remembering the flying instructions.

'Here is your big time staff. I 'm going to use you for the first time. Be happy that I'm not afraid of heights.'

I imagined the miniature wings on my staff growing and starting to flap. I hid behind a tree as I imagined it growing bigger and bigger and bigger…

I started to feel a draught against my legs. The feathers brushed my legs. I started to have goose bumps. It felt like fingers touching my leg. Not a good feeling. I tolerated it until I thought the wings were big enough to fly. And so I whispered

'Fly'

I rose up into the air, with the staff still strapped onto my back. That meant I was flying horizontally like a bird, but by that time, I didn't care. This felt good. I flew higher so the people wouldn't suspect me and landed in the dust cloud that the people had left, which was near the building. I imagined the wings getting smaller again as I walked into the building and started gutting the fish.

Haha, this is fun. I wonder why they think girls must cringe away from guts. It's not that bad. Oh look, blood. How interesting. I guess it would be best to make my sushi when everyone else is still catching fish so that the other people don't know what sushi looks like and I really want to fly again…

I made my sushi but I ate it instead of giving it to Menchi. It tasted nice. I couldn't give it to Menchi, because Hanzo was supposed to blurt it out as the first person that knew what sushi was. If I made it first, it would change the whole story line, and that was bad. I continued to make sushi, stacked it onto a plate, got some soy sauce and went outside. Menchi was conferring with Buhara, so it was fine. I sat in a tree and started eating.

I wish I had some wasabi… or pineapple, since pineapple tastes good with anything…

I sat eating as I watched the other people go running back with weird shaped fish to make their 'sushi'. I considered going to watch the scene where Menchi goes mad, but decided against it. I could go later right? At least when she wasn't going ballistic over a certain bald ninja. I unstrapped my staff and got out the rock in my backpack. I had wished for special items, so I was puzzled about the rock. And all the common stuff in my bag. Do they have special properties? I had used the pencils and they still don't portray any special properties…

I poked it. It didn't react. I sat on it. It still didn't move. So then I stared, stomped, punched, hit, scraped, scratched, rubbed, soaked, burnt, and even bit it and it still didn't react.

Maybe it really is only a rock?

So I did the last thing I could think of. I twisted it. One half one way, the other half another way. It turned and grew bigger. I stared at it. What just happened? I tried again, this time the other way. It grew smaller. I twisted it the other way again and continued twisting. It grew bigger and bigger and bigger until was about the size of a laptop. Then it snapped into a circle shape with a 'click'. It even had a button that said – 'press to open'. I pressed it and it opened up slowly like a laptop.

Light poured out of the screen. Then it formed an image and Jeb's face showed up. I gaped. Guess what he said after my amazing discovery.

'Hi.'


With Jeb at the technician's platform on milky-way no. 97…
(This is a bit before Wind found the secret about the rock…)

Jeb sighed sorrowfully. His beloved new edition computer had crashed because of that program and he had visited the star's best available technician. He had told him that he would need another few minutes. Jeb had asked that question 7 hours ago. Jeb also had had problems in obtaining another program to let Windfarest be able to talk the HunterXHunter world language.

'How much longer?' he asked the technician hopefully.

'A few more minutes…'

Jeb sighed again. He started to look at the documents in his hands out of boredom. They were Wind's hobbies, likes and dislikes. He read them, since he had been going through her sixteen page wish for the last few hours.

Name: Windfarest Sani

Hobbies: Eating, sleeping, cooking, singing…

All pretty normal. Jeb nodded and continued reading.

Reading, playing the piano, listening to music, blackmailing, drawing…

Wait.

Jeb went back a bit. Blackmailing? That is not normal for a little earthling girl. Unless he was wrong? He didn't have his computer to check. Jeb got reminded about his computer. He sighed.

'How much longer?'

'A few more minutes…'

He got disinterested of Wind's hobbies.

Next, her likes.

Likes: pineapple, spicy foods, sweet foods, salty foods, sour foods, all foods, sleeping, reading, eating, resting, interesting things, music, air, people's reactions when they see something 'interesting', trees, bunnies, cemeteries...

Jeb knotted his eye-brows in confusion. She likes bunnies and cemeteries? Maybe all earth people were like that… he had no right to be confused… Maybe he could check when he got his computer back… his computer…

'How much longer?'

'A few more minutes…'

Jeb sighed and flipped the page. Then suddenly...

'There, all done. Don't crash your computer like that again, ok?' The technician stepped back from the worktable.

Jeb shot up from his seat. He quickly grabbed it and tucked it lovingly into his jacket.

'Thank you!' he said and quickly left the platform and started floating towards his office. He settled down at his desk, switched on his computer. It immediately gave him a message.

'F.R.O.G is activating, Mister Jeb.'

He groaned. He didn't want to face her right now. Not when he still didn't have the program. F.R.O.G was the rock shaped laptop that he had sent into Wind's back-pack. Don't ask him why it was called F.R.O.G. He didn't know either.

The screen of his computer was suddenly filled with Wind's face. He sighed and said the first thing that came to his mind.

'Hi.'

Back with Wind…

Jeb opened his mouth again.

'I see you've activated F.R.O.G'

I frowned. Huh? Frog?

'Frog? No, this was a rock before…'

'No, the laptop's called F.R.O.G. It stands for something. I forgot what.'

'Oh. Right. Why isn't it called R.O.C.K? Anyway, what's with all this weird stuff?' I asked. I had high suspicions they were all secretly disguised, but then, that was a hunch. Jeb massaged his temples. Or where his temples would be.

'Wait. I need to email you your list of wishes. And they aren't weird stuff. They are your special items.'

I received the papers. I widened my eyes.

Wow. What a long wish list. No wonder Jeb was kind of annoyed at me…

Then I looked at Jeb, having neatly stacked my papers away into the back-pack. I had a confused look on my face. I still didn't understand his special items comment, since the junk in my bag hardly seemed special. I had more than an hour here, so I had enough time to talk to Jeb. He sighed and said,

'For example, what you thought was a rock turned out to be a laptop right?'

I nodded.

'I disguised everything else as well, except for the pencils and sketchbook. I added them in because you won't be able to talk to them, so I added them in for you so you could communicate. Anyway, for example, you have a wallet right?'

I rummaged through the pack and found it. I nodded to him.

'You can get as much money as necessary from that. But you can only take $1000 bills out of it at any one time, and cannot buy stuff for other people. Got it?'

I nodded, looking at the wallet in fascination.

'And there also should be a brown canvas in your bag. That needs more planning. Now, go to your home-page…'

He basically described that when the canvas is activated, when you lay it on the ground and go under it (like a blanket) you would find yourself in a house. You had to design it yourself though. But the only catch was that once you went in, you had to stay in there for at least an hour. But the good thing was that, when you were still inside it, the canvas couldn't be moved from its spot when you were still inside it, although people could lift the edges…

For the next hour or so, I went through the designing process with Jeb. It ended up with a kitchen, two bedrooms (I don't know why), a living room, a study/library and an indoor garden.

I inputted it into the canvas's memory.

'You can choose a room where you can access at all times wherever you are. You don't even need to stay in there for an hour! So which is it?'

I immediately answered. 'The toilet with the shower and the bath.' There was no thought needed for that question, as I had realised how important toilets were earlier on in the day.

He raised his eyebrows at my fast answer.

'Alright then, input it so that whenever you stamp your right foot three times, you would appear in the room…'

And that took another ten minutes…

'Now you know how to go in and stuff…You need to know I sent your friend into the hunter world as well...'

I cocked my head. I faintly heard an air-ship. Ah, the hunter confederation ship.

'Oh, is it that late. Jeb, need to go now. Bye!'

I snapped F.R.O.G shut and started twisting it again. It became smaller and smaller. I stared in interest as it became looked like a rock again. Then I packed up and went to the ware-house. I went up to Killua and Gon who were standing outside. They looked like they wanted to ask me questions, (like where was I when they were testing sushi) when I pointed. President Netero's voice boomed out from the ship.

'That's one explanation. But does it justify such severity?' he said to Menchi's reason to why everyone failed.

It sounded like it came from a megaphone.

'The sign of the Hunter's Confederation! Is it the examination committee?' someone yelled out.

The air-ship was huge. I saw a little figure standing on the platform thing when it suddenly jumped . The dot went down and down, and it got bigger and bigger until it looked like an old guy. Then person landed gracefully on his clogs. I inwardly applauded. It was one amazing jump.

President Netero had come.


And here it is the fourth chapter of this story. I'm thinking of changing the story name. And summary. I suck at summaries... Any suggestions? OH, and do I need a disclaimer?

And thank you for everyone who reviewed (once again) and the people who enjoy this story. As usual, any ideas, comments, or general confusion and appreciation can be submitted through reviews. THANKYOU EVERYONE FOR THE GENEROUS COMMENTS! ^_^

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