Hello peoples!! I've updated a day earlier today, cos tomorrow I might not be able to update and I promised to update every week! hehe... I was thinking after chapter 15, I should update every fortnight, since I would have school by then... school... *gloom*

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I sat down in the yellow skied dimension thinking hard and trying to gather my argument again. Jeb had absolutely shattered my objection to jokes being good. Who knew he would be good at debating? But then, he was about a million years older than me... (I think). As I mused over my points (I want to wipe that smug face off!), I faintly heard the air-ship leaving and mentally shrugged. I knew it would happen anyway.

I was talking to Jeb about jokes, as you might have noticed. He told me he didn't know the point of saying things that weren't the truth. I was trying to explain sarcasm as well (he didn't understand exaggerating either) when I got woken up. I opened my eyes and saw a blurry face. I rubbed my eyes and smiled at her.

'Hi Dusky.'

She creased her forehead in annoyance.

'I've been shaking you for like, five minutes! Anyway, the blimp –'

'Air-ship.'

' the air-ship as you call it has left.'

I frowned this time.

'So?' She sighed.

'You're supposed to react you know! Like, for example: What? The blimp left? Oh no! We're stranded on a deserted island! We might die of thrist and need to eat shoes to survive!'

I chuckled at her.

'And we won't die. We know it. And it's an air-ship. '

'Whatever! They're the same anyway.' Dusky sniffed. I just laughed at her and pushed her towards the door.

'Let me sleep now k?'

'But I still have something to say!'

I slammed the door into her face and locked the door. I felt a bit mean, but the main priority is sleep. How did she know what my room number was anyway? I yawned and dragged my feet towards the bed and flopped onto it. Waking up in the middle of the night wasn't one of the things I liked. In fact, I hated it, since I loved sleeping.

And so I closed my eyes and got ready my counter-argument to Jeb's reasoning on un-truths. It was what he called them. Don't ask me why, I didn't know either. Maybe I'll ask him.

In Killua's view for a bit...

I looked at the departing air-ship in confusion. Was this part of the hunter test? I looked around to see that all the people who had ran up to see the ships departure were staying on the deck. I looked around. Leorio and Kurapika were here, as well as that pink-capped girl. She was standing next to a guy who had arrows slung across his back, who was next to...

What was that bald ninja wearing?? I quickly averted my eyes and counted. There was one missing.

'Where's Wind, Gon?'

Gon looked around.

'I don't know! Oh look, Dusk's going back into the ship. Maybe she's telling Wind the news! I want to talk to Kurapika for awhile. Come with me?' He looked at me smiling.

'Oh. I want to check on Wind. I'll come back later. When I come back, tell me anything that is useful ok?'

'Ok!'

I nodded and smiled at him and followed Dusk.

I followed as silently as I could, though I didn't know why. I knew something was off in those two, though I know they didn't mean anyone harm. I was certain they were lying about something. And I wanted to know what it was.

I crept silently across the hallway. I heard Dusk's and Wind's voice. I was surprised. I could understand them! Was this the secret they had been hiding? Did they pretend not to know our language? I frowned a little and crept closer. Their weirdly girly voices were talking. I tried to eavesdrop.

'...need to eat shoes to survive!' Dusk's voice came out.

That was weird. I definitely know now that they don't mean anyone harm. Most people who were in underground sociates and spies would grab a chance to talk in private about their missions. Not eating shoes. I heard Wind chuckle. I leaned a bit closer.

'And we won't die. We know it. And it's an air-ship. '

I stiffened. They knew? What does that mean? Were they seers? They can't be. Seers mature about when they are 15. Then, can they make accurate predictions. So they wouldn't say they knew. Although I couldn't strike out that as impossible, since that would explain the cloak, but not the language...

I heard footsteps coming up with Wind's voice saying something. I immediately ran into the next room and gently slid behind the door. I cursed myself. I shouldn't have let my guard down! If they really were seers, then they would be strong political figures. And they would also be strong. I heard Wind's door lock click. Then I heard footsteps circling. I extended my hearing a bit.

'I swear I thought there was someone outside...'

It was Dusk's voice. I stood stock still.

I slowly heard the footsteps fade away, and I let myself pad down slowly down the corridor to join Gon. My mind was whirring.

What were they hiding?

Dusky's point of view…

Gon was swinging his legs looking confused. Killua sat beside, looking disgruntled. Nearly everyone was on deck; it was very early in the morning. Tompa yawned, and the two muscle men were doing sit-ups and push-ups. For the lack of anything to do I guess.

Leorio suddenly stopped pacing (he had been standing and pacing since the air-ship left.)

'It's already been five hours. Really. Leaving thirty-six people on an island where only birds live. Even if you search the whole world, you wouldn't find a hotel manager like that!'

'Heh,' Tompa said, 'you are absolutely right. They first take so much money from us, I guess they took it and left.' Kurapika looked down on him.

'The hotel manager didn't want to trick money from us.' Tompa looked at him, disagreeing.

'They first get so much money from us, they are practically stealing money!'

'I absolutely agree. Tompa, it's funny to think that our two opinions would be the same.' Leorio smied at him. More like smirked.

Haha, of course, you two were practically killing each other in the tower.

I was standing slightly behind Kurapika.

'What's the point of our opinions being the same now?' Tompa said gloomily. I looked up from my Kurapika reverie. I had been staring at the back of his head see. Hanzo had stepped up.

'I know what happened to the treasure that we found. A while ago, I had gone to the manager's cabin to investigate. All the treasure was still in there.'

Gon's voice came floating down from the top.

'Maybe they forgot to take it with them?'

'I don't think that's quite possible. I mean, I think that they wouldn't just leave the treasure there to collect dust.' Killua told him.

'Is it that the treasure is part of the hunter test?' Hanzo asked.

Kurapika mused.

'I think the chance of that happening is really small. With only so much information, it is hard to make a hypothesis.'

Silence met that phrase. The seagulls kept wheeling and screeching, and the two muscle men kept doing sit-ups and push-ups. Then the youngest of the Armoli brothers piped up with a question.

'Hey big brother, who would make meals for us to eat now?' The oldest answered him. I couldn't hear, the sea-gulls were so loud. But still, in a life threatening (although they don't know it was life-threatening situation yet…) situation, they thought about food? That kind of reminded me of Wind. Wherever and whenever she was hungry, she would think of pineapple. I mean pineapple wasn't that tasty was it? Why would she be obsessed with pineapple?

I would never understand my best friend. That was what made me friends with her in the first place. She was way deep. In chess, she would play with you for awhile, and then you would find that you had gotten into a trap. Then you come out of it, and then you realised that there was a trap within that trap. The end? She wins. I had never won a game off her. ANd then a few minutes later, she would act like a kid, jumping up and down whining about pineapple sherbet, etc. She was weird... A nice type of weird...

I got jolted out of my reverie by the stern tone of Hanzo.

'That's enough.' he said to the three brothers, slightly glaring at them. 'You need to first relax a bit. If you want to eat, just catch fish.' He said, still glaring. 'The biggest question is what we will do now…'

The pink-capped girl with the green hair ran out from the main cabin of the ship.

'Hey! You all come here for a bit!'

I looked at her and followed Kurapika. What was her name again? Err… Maybe I should ask Wind…

We walked climbed up the steps and walked into the cabin and into some gloomy metal corridors. There, we saw the purple capped guy (Gaah, I can't remember their names…) twisting an old looking machine.

'Is it broken?' Gon asked, staring at the antique looking object.

'No,' he said 'at least, this machine hasn't broken yet.' Then the girl piped up.

'For some reason, even if you twist it both ways, you still can't hear anything.'

Leorio leaned forward. 'What? What do you mean by that?'

The purple capped guy turned his chair to face us.

'That means that we cannot communicate with the world outside this ship. This means, us 36 people are the same as marooned people.'

Silence. There was a pause as the information set in. Footsteps sounded as a person walked out into the hallway. I looked. Was there a person behind me? Oops, I had let down my guard. I should have learnt my lesson last night. Though when I was near Kurapika, I just naturally relax. Gon suddenly looked up at Killua.

'Did you hear a weird noise?'

'No, I didn't hear.'

'Oh.' Gon looked a bit down. I patted Gon on the shoulder consolingly.

Hanzo turned.

'Even if we stay here, we won't exactly help the situation. Let's all split up and search a bit. There might be something that might help us leave here.'

'I agree. Let's do it then.' I nodded with Kurapika. If Kurapika agreed when he was calm, I agreed too.

Hanzo looked at the purple cap guy.

'Can you stay here and see if there is any change?'

'Yes, of course.'

Everyone then left the room. I tagged along behind Kurapika, trying not to be conspicuous. I heard Gon saying to Killua, 'Let's call Wind to join too!' I think Killua nodded, as their footsteps slowly faded in the direction of Wind's room.

I shrugged. She would probably be sleeping.

Back in Wind's mind…

I woke up from the sliver of light that leaked onto right into my eyes. That was one of the disadvantages that came with living in an anime world. You had the special effects with it. Like sweat-drops, throb marks and random gusts of wind that blows on your hair when you're attacking a random person to make you look cooler. And of course, the random slivers of light that only hits your eyes and nothing else. When you're sleeping too.

I groaned and sat up. The sliver of light moved too. I sighed. Then I swung my legs off the bed and hobbled towards the door, leaning on my staff. My back ached.

Gaah, I feel like an old woman. I only need a basket to look like a nice old granny, since I have white hair anyway. Sigh… I swear my joints are arranging a rebellion against me…

I got reverie got interrupted when Gon and Killua burst into my room. Didn't I lock that door? And how did they know where my room is? I glared at them, annoyed. Gon then broke into a happy chatter.

'Let's explore the ship together Wind! I guess Dusky told you all about the air-ship! We should try to find something useful as well to contribute!'

I suddenly felt guilty that I had been annoyed with him. A person just can't stay annoyed at Gon. And if you yell at him, you just feel guilty at yourself. Counter-effect. Sigh. I should learn that trick. Then Dusky would never yell at me again.

I signed that I wanted to get my pack first. And so, I slowly hobbled to the pack, which was situated on the other side of the room. Why did I put my pack in such a faraway place last night? I must have been crazy. I heard footsteps, and Gon's face was suddenly blocking my whole vision.

'Are you ok Wind? Dusk wrote to us that you had a sickness.'

Gaah, Dusky and her big mouth. I hate saying un-truths. Oh gosh, Jeb has gotten me saying un-truths now too.

I smiled at Gon and abandoned my attempt at getting my pack. I just waved my hand. A breeze rushed in from the corridor as the air rushed to lift the bag into my hand. I rummaged in the pack, and got my sketch-book and papers out. I wrote and showed them.

Don't worry. It troubles me sometimes, and after I finished the hunter test, I'm going back home to get the cure for the sickness. So don't worry, these bouts don't last for long.

I hated lying. Why did Dusky open her big mouth? I smiled at Gon, who was staring at the pack, who to him, had seemed to fly to my hand. I took his hand, hobbled to Killua, took Killua's hand and dragged them out of my room. Gon took the hint and skipped ahead.

'Let's go!'

And so we explored. I mean, I knew we were supposed to find something useful to get us out of this stressful situation, but I knew I would live through this test even if I stayed on the ship and did nothing, since in the anime, they obviously didn't have me or Dusky and they still survived.

We climbed the whole ship, Killua and Gon trying to find clues, while I just hobbled after them enjoying the view. And so, after climbing through pipes, trapdoors and random air-vents, we finally got out of the boiler room. We jumped out of an air-vent five meters from the floor, and I landed on my feet. A plume of dust floated up to our noses. I sneezed and scribbled in my book, with a dead-panned face on. Then I showed them.

I hate dust.

Killua nodded in agreement. Gon just cheerfully said

'It adds to the excitement of adventuring Wind! You two are enjoying this aren't you?' Then he thrust his face at us, his eyes sparkling. They were wavering in hope. They were actually wavering. Gon had made his eyes so big that I could see my reflection and Killua's reflection in them.

The legendary puppy eyes. Never experienced them, but no wonder people can't resist… If I said no, I would be feeling guilty for the rest of the day. Now that I know what it's like, I hate puppy eyes.

I smiled brightly. Then I wrote in my book with Gon and Killua reading over my shoulder.

Of course I like this! Although I still don't like dust. Why don't we go on the deck and meet up Kurapika and Dusky? I want some fresh air. I've breathed enough stale air for the rest of my life!

Gon's eyes lit up.

'Ok!'

And then he ran up metal rungs that led to the deck with Killua close behind. I smiled and started slowly climbing up the ladder and hobbling towards the main deck. Gon and Killua were already there.

'Wind, are you really ok?' Gon asked worriedly. Killua stood a little behind him, staring at me in concern. And was that suspicion?

I nodded at them and looked around. Kurapika and Dusky weren't here yet. I hobbled up to the stairs. They could talk to Kurapika without me. I knew about the maps and compasses already anyway. I wrote a sign and put it in my arms so when someone tried to wake me up, they would read it first.

Wake me up when you all finished talking and started to explore again.

Then I just hunkered down, got comfortable and slept. The sun was warming, not burning for once. This was perfect. So I slept. So warm…

I was sleeping while I was sleeping. How? I slept then went to the yellow-skied dimension. And seeing Jeb wasn't here, I slept in there as well. Sleep was wonderful… Life was wonderful. No dust and stale air here!

Then I felt someone violently shaking my shoulder and my eyes were met with a serious faced Gon.

'Wind! We're going to where we went before!' Gon said to me impatiently. I slowly stood up. Where we went before? We went to lots of places. Gon saw me up and started running. Killua followed him and I (with no choice) started running to follow them.

Ah, my poor aching back…

'Wow! It's so cool!' Gon was staring at an olden day swim suit with awe. Killua stood behind him a bit impatient.

We were in the depths of the ship again. I hate dust. And stale air. This was a fact I realised after coming into this ship for two minutes. It was horrible. Dust and stale air I mean.

'Even if we found this, it's useless. We can't just wear this and walk to the island.' Killua said matter-of-factly.

Gon smiled at him.

'Yeah, you're right!'

'Let's go and find something else.' And then he walked away, his hands in his pockets.

'Ok!' Gon happily skipped after him. I just followed them. I was puzzling over my brain. Normal people don't puzzle over their brain I think, but I suddenly felt as if I knew another language. Sure, I could talk the 'Avril' language and but this new language which popped in my brain sounded like Japanese. Does it mean that I could talk to them now?

Maybe Jeb finally got that program working…

Gon and Killua were climbing up. I quickly followed them. Fresh air!

We reached the deck, but we were still climbing up. Not that I minded. The higher the more breezes!

When I finally hobbled up to them, Gon was leaning out a bit. He was staring at the horizon.

'That noise! It's that weird noise again. It's coming from the sea! Killua, Wind, can't you hear it?' Killua looked out towards the ocean.

'No, I can't hear it. I can only hear the sound of waves.'

He looked at me. I shook my head, saying I couldn't hear anything either. Gon looked towards the sea.

'But I really did hear it…' Gon shook his head and we left quietly, climbing up to check the rooms in the top part of the ship.

As we kept climbing and checking random rooms, Gon quickly regained his happy optimistic self. A little bit too happy.

'Look Killua! It's a skeleton! It looks so cool!'

'…'

'Hey Wind! Look at this log book! Maybe it's something useful!'

I took it and shook my head. They were shopping records. I read a bit.

~On Tuesday, we ran out of pork. We must land at port to buy some good meat and some nice ale. We are quite thirsty, and wish for something more than water. Maybe I could get the captain's permission to also buy some fresh biscuit as well…~ etc.

Yup. It would totally help out our situation.

I just put it back onto the desk and hobbled to catch up with Gon, who was climbing the ladder. I climbed up too, and was surprised to find that we were on the level where the captain's logbook would be. We were really high up. I breathed in the fresh air and slowly started to climb the ladder. Killua broke the door down and walked in with Gon.

I walked in a bit later, and I almost immediately started coughing.

'What's with all the dust?' I muttered to myself.

Gon smiled at me.

'Maybe this ship had been here for a long time!'

I nodded and stopped as what Gon did sank in. 'Wait. You understood me?'

Killua suddenly stopped too.

'What?'

Gon pointed to himself confusedly. Killua shook his head and looked at me.

'Why can we understand you suddenly?' He seemed eager for some reason.

I shrugged. I couldn't exactly say that a computer program had helped my language skills right now can I? Or that the program was worked by stars which had all the dimensions of the universe and all our lives in micro-chips and high-tech computers, and that I came from another world. Yup, they would believe me. Actually, maybe Gon will...

'Dunno.'

Killua looked at me strangely. But Gon, oblivious to these things, just commented on my voice.

'Your voice sounds so girly Wind!' Gon grinned at me. The atmosphere dispelled, Killua grinned at me too. Maybe he wasn't so cautious at me because I had been his friend for a few days?

'Yeah. You sound just like a girl Wind.' He looked at me straight in the eyes.

My face turned red. I wish Killua wouldn't grin like that. It was making my heart thump a bit too much. Gon and Killua thought my blush was from embarrassment. They grinned Cheshire cat grins at each other.

'Err… my voice hasn't broken yet! Gon's voice hasn't broken either, and yours too Killua! And I'm younger than you; of course I sound a bit girly!'

I looked around for a distraction. Gon and Killua chuckled to each other.

'Look! A log book!' I pointed. Killua and Gon instantly got up and got serious.

Gon walked over and picked it up. Then he flipped through it.

'Killua look.' Killua took it and leafed through it.

'Oh good Gon, Wind. This seems to be this ship's logbook. This is a good find you two!'

Killua patted Gon's and my head. Well, technically, my cloak. I looked down and pulled the cap of my cloak a bit more down. I was blushing furiously. Stupid heart, it was racing too fast! I started lecturing my heart when Killua stopped patting and shut the logbook. Then he raced towards the door.

'First one down is the winner Gon!'

'NO FAIR KILLUA! YOU GOT A HEADSTART!'

I blocked my ears and started hobbling towards the ladder. Then I slowly climbed down, in contrast to the two boys racing each other. I looked down. They were already half-way down. I sighed and started on another ladder. Why had they put so many ladders here anyway?

Now that I thought about it, I hate ladders. Like I hate dust. And stale air. And puppy eyes.

This was so tiring. My energy was wasting away. The last time I got this feeling was when I had my first fainting fit. Not good.

I climbed the last ladder, staggered to the main cabin where Kurapika should be. And where Kurapika was should be with Dusky. My back ached a little more, and my arms were starting to hurt too. I stumbled into the hallway. Dusky knew what to do when my cancer suddenly fluctuated. The door was closed, to my disappointment. I was too tired. I leaned on my staff, which had appeared in my hand. Am I feeling this because of too much physical exertion? Either way, I kind of fainted into the door. Face first.

Ouch. My cheeks are complaining of their rough treatment. Not that I could help them. My arms feel like huge iron cannon balls.

The door kind of opened since it wasn't locked and the last thing I heard was Dusky's worried scream as I face-planted on the floor.

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