Hello! Here's my newest chapter (obviously). Fanfiction didn't work yesterday, wouldn't let me upload my document, so I couldn't update. Sorry!

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12 minutes later…

I yawned. Why did I arrive at the tower second? If I had arrived later, then I could have slept for another ten or so minutes while waiting for other people to hide…

But being second did have its advantages. For one thing, I just realised that there were actually two extra people attending the fourth test. So the people who weren't supposed to be attending this hunter test had gone up to six: me, Dusky, blue long-haired guy, brown short-haired guy, short hooded guy, and a really pudgy squinty-eyed guy.

I sighed. Us being here really messed the story line up, huh? I bet we were all hunting each other around in a square-hexagonal thing… or not.

I glanced at the boat again as the next contestant came on to the island. Aha! The short-brown-haired guy! I thinkhe's the one I'm supposed to be 'hunting'. Now, where's his tag?

My eyes focused on his pack and I concentrated on what the air pockets in the gaps between his things were showing me.

Food, water, clothes… eww, is that underwear? Let's skip that bit… Weapons, cards, a circular white thing, gum, a…

Circular white thing!

I quickly checked the number on the card. Good, it's the right number. I forced the air out of the bag to unzip part of the zipper. Then I began to ease the tag out of the bag. Which wasn't as easy as it sounds as the damn guy had wrapped his tag in his clothing amidst all his junk at the very bottom of the pack. And he was still running.

Ease it out; ease it out, ease, ease, done!

The tag flew towards my hand and I snatched it out of the air. I frowned at it. I had been expecting more of a fight. This was too easy. No fun at all. Weren't the people in the hunter exam supposed to be strong?

I shrugged and put it under my shirt next to my own badge, which was under the dress, which was under my cloak. Then I quickly jumped out of the tree and ran towards the closest, largest water source which wasn't the sea.

Surprisingly, it was a lake. I'd been expecting a river. Was there even a lake on Zebiru's island? They never showed it in the anime. I noticed a river flowing into and out of it.

Oh. So the river that flows through the island collected here and continues on huh?

I took off my pack, rummaging through it for the canvas house piece that I had programmed during the sushi bit of the hunter exam. Extracting the square parcel from under some food, (dried mango unfortunately. Jeb didn't have any pineapple with him...) I flipped it around. There was a number lock on it. I sweat-dropped. I remember Jeb mentioning a lock number code, but I wasn't really listening to him and so just nodded it off. Shoot. I resisted the urge to bash my head against the nearest tree. That means I couldn't use it until I found Jeb.

I sighed. So I couldn't live in luxury while others fought for survival? I didn't exactly want to fight, but I didn't have any good disguises with me to protect myself with either.

I ran my hand through my hair in frustration, sweeping my hood off. I gasped.

Of course! No one knows I'm a girl! If I put my hood down and disguise my cloak a bit, no one would attack me, because they don't know the girl is me! They'll just think I'm a random little girl running around a pretty island!

And so, I kept my hood off and sat on the bank of the lake, calmly kicking water.

I mean, I don't have anything else to do, do I?

I sighed. This was going to be a long week.

To think I would be bored in my favourite anime.

Dusky's point of view! ^^

I was hacking through bushes.

I've been hacking for ages for what? I don't actually know. I recounted a bit while I lifted a small knife I found in my small sack (if wondering, I've always kept it under my cloak.) Well, I hacked for a day, hacked a bit more, and then slept a bit since I couldn't see what I was chopping up anymore. Then, when I woke up, I started hacking again, got attacked by someone, stole their tag, which also happened to be my target number (how lucky I am!), and, as a reward for getting my target number so quickly, I got to hack a bit more. I was still hacking. Obviously.

Argh! I wish I could somehow just magically find Kurapika in this damn forest. It's sunset, it's been two days and I still can't find them.

I hacked through the fifty-millionth clump of vines and stumbled into a clearing full of monkeys. I don't want to find monkeys right now! I want Kurapika! I wanted to scream at something.

It had started to become colder. Had I really been hacking for two entire days? I shivered a bit and kept on barging my way through the forest, ignoring the nuts being thrown at me by those annoying monkeys.

I mean, it's ok to be territorial, but why throw nuts? Throw some fruit and I might say a thank you…

I hacked through yet another clump of bushes and then saw two silhouettes run into a clearing in front of me. It looked as if they had been running fast, since they were panting hard. The tall one sheathed a knife he had been holding, and the other calmly dusted off his clothes.

I squinted. Was that them? Had I finally found Kurapika?

The tall one flopped down on the floor.

'I'm spent! Can we rest here, Kurapika? Hisoka did say he wouldn't move until we got far away.'

My eyes brightened. I had finally found them! I ran towards them, breaking and snapping every single twig and branch in my path, in my eagerness to reach them faster. There were a clump of thick bushes in my way, seemingly growing for another few meters.

I sighed and began to hack at it.

The minute I began running, Kurapika and Leorio had leapt up into their battle positions, holding their weapons out in my direction. I called out to them.

'Hey! Some help here? Oh, and do you have food? I'm starving.'

They laughed in relief and came over to the other side of the bushes, peering through them, trying to see my face.

'Is that you, Dusk?' Leorio asked. I sighed, irritated.

'Of course I am! I'm trying to reach you, but this stupid bush is in the way, and I'm too tired to hack at it anymore!'

Leorio laughed and started tugging away the branches. Kurapika joined him until there was finally enough space for me to tiredly step up to them.

'You don't know how hard I've been trying to find you,' I told them wearily. By this point, I was so tired that even opening my mouth was hard.

They just clapped me on the back in a manly way and sat down on two logs that were conveniently placed there. Another advantage of living in an anime world. I sat down with them and they started to talk a bit.

After a while, I joined their conversation, and told them that I had already gotten my target tag. Leorio seemed pissed. Easy to understand though. He was the only one who still didn't have his target card and I was so much younger than him.

Kurapika yawned, and we set up a roster for who was on look-out. Kurapika retired first. He was going to be on watch last, from around three o'clock to dawn. I was on from twelve to three, and Leorio would be on watch first.

Even though my watch was in three hours, I wasn't sleepy, just tired, so I sat there with Leorio for awhile. We could hear Kurapika's soft breathing, but apart from that... silence. I didn't know what to say to him actually. And Leorio seemed to be thinking…

Leorio's point of view! (first time~)

I was on first watch, so I tried to be observant. Although being too observant was bad, as I figured out the hard way. I kept jumping at rabbits and birds and bats and monkeys and snakes...

Since nothing out of the ordinary happened for around twenty minutes, I started to relax. Dusk was sitting next to me, and I tried to think of something to say. I've never really talked with him before, since he always seemed to be hanging around Kurapika and Wind. He seems really clingy with Wind. I remember the time he was resting his head on Wind's shoulder…

Something clicked in my head. Maybe? He was still young though, but I think a person would realise if they were or not… I looked over at his silhouette and cleared my throat.

'Hey, Dusk.'

He looked at me, his face a pale flicker against the shadows of the trees.

'Do you... like guys?' To my surprise, he didn't seem awkward or uncomfortable talking about it.

'Yeah I do. Why?' His voice was puzzled.

I looked away. So, Dusk was gay. I felt a bit embarrassed asking this. Maybe I should have used a bit more tact? But then, my mother always told me I failed at social manners…

'Umm… Is Wind, err, straight?' Dusk looked at me strangely.

'Yeah, of course Wind is straight.'

I looked straight at him at that. Wind was straight? I patted his back consolingly. Poor him…

'Don't worry, I'll always be here as an older brother figure. If you need any help, or you need to get something off your chest, you can come to me.' Dusk looked even more confused.

'Err… Sure. Ok. Thank you.'

I just shook my head and kept being on look out.

Ah, unrequited love…

Wind's view ^^

Two days had already come and gone by. It was a little boring, I must admit. I couldn't join Dusky, because she had strictly said that she wanted to join Kurapika's and Leorio's group, and I knew couldn't barge in on Gon's training, stalking, and his depressed period, because he needed to figure it out himself.

I didn't know where Killua went, and I couldn't be bothered to find him. I shouldn't fawn on him all the time, right?

My birthday was tomorrow. I didn't even know until I looked at the watch Jeb gave me. Where had all the time gone? The doctors said I wouldn't reach this birthday, but, thanks to Jeb, I am going to prove them wrong, and live until I'm a hundred years old. Even better, I'm living out my birthday in the HXH world! Even though it's kinda boring right now...

I looked up at the sky. Has it been three days already? My birthday starts in five hours…

I took off my cloak completely, lying on it on the shore of the lake, so that I could stare at the sky. It always amazes me, the number of stars I could actually see. And then I think how Jeb is one, and they have communication systems and technology far more superior than ours and I just stare even more.

They seemed so deceptively pretty and dead.

I stared for hours. Just staring. Could my family see this too? I snorted. I doubt it. It's so light-polluted that you can't even see the moon sometimes.

My watch beeped midnight.

So I'm eleven now, huh. It doesn't feel any different.

When I was still on Earth and I was still allowed out of the hospital, every time my birthday came, we would sing the birthday song, and I would skip around my family members in a circle. Then I would choose each one, and they would give me their presents for me…

Are they ok?

I sighed. No point in visiting the past, right? They would probably be celebrating with their new son. It wasn't in my parents' characters to celebrate with the dead. They've forgotten all about me anyway. I shook myself off and got up.

I'll do it; I'll skip around, singing, just for old time's sake. I looked around the dark shore. There was a full moon tonight, and the lake looked so much prettier than the grass I was lying on.

I stepped out onto the lake. If I skipped on the water, then I could practice my powers and celebrate my birthday at the same time! Two birds with one stone…

I walked to the middle of the lake, marvelling at how beautiful the lake looked, with just me on the water with the moon behind me, bathing everything with silver. Then I started to skip. I laughed. How many people get to skip on water? The moonlight dress, swayed with my movements, but it didn't billow. I pouted at it. I guess the dress is a bit heavy for it to billow out like those pretty dresses in movies, even though the fabric was as soft and nearly as thin as chiffon.

I stopped skipping and scanned around me. Jeb won't yell at me for what I was about to do, surely? I mean, today was my birthday. I looked around me one more time, then, satisfied I was alone, I started to stir up a wind, blowing it past around me until my dress started to billow. I laughed and began to skip, singing at the top of my lungs.

Killua's point of view for awhile…

I yawned and nearly stumbled over a thick root.

Damn. The not sleeping is getting to me, though I don't need to worry about being attacked. I could take those three brothers in my sleep. But the young one had good endurance, I must admit. Took me way longer than I thought I needed to shake him off.

I rubbed my eyes and scratched my head. I need water. I walked towards the nearest water source I could sense.

A lake? Was this island big enough to carry a lake? I shrugged and cupped some water in my hands to drink. As I was lifting it up, I saw a miraculous sight in front of me.

My sleepiness blurred my vision a bit, and I couldn't see the person's face because their back faced the moon, but I saw a girl skipping around and around in a circle singing a simple song.

I stared. I've never seen something so beautiful before. The water slipped from my fingers. The dress billowed around her as she skipped. It seemed to glow as strongly as the moon behind her. She had pale skin and long, silver-white hair. That was all I could see until my eyes blurred a bit too much.

I splashed my face a bit and stepped back.

I stepped on a twig.

Crack!

It seemed as loud as a gunshot, and the singing stopped. I looked at her, water trickling into my eyes. She was scanning the shore. Although she was now facing the moon, the water made it hard for me to see. I could only see her eyes clearly.

They were a brilliant green.

It made her seem like far more than a hallucination. I quietly melted back into the shadows. I walked farther away from the lake; my ears were still ringing from her clear, childish voice.

A few minutes later, I remembered that I forgot to drink some water.

Damn.

Wind's point of view (again!)

I scanned the shore anxiously. I couldn't be sure of what the figure was. A person? An animal?

I ran towards the shore and stepped back onto firm ground, throwing my cloak over me. The dress was shedding light of its own and cloaking it was the best way for remaining hidden.

Besides, I had celebrated my birthday already, so it was ok.

Then I remembered the special toilet.

Ah! Jeb said to stamp my right foot three times to go to the toilet! Which is connected to the rest of the house!

I cursed myself for not thinking of that before.

Leaving was easy. You just step out of the front door. Going in was a bit trickier, since I had to get the number lock first, and Jeb didn't come the last time I went to his weird yellow dimension.

I stamped my right foot three times, holding on to my staff and my pack tightly.

I materialised into the toilet, which also had a sink, shower and a large bathtub. So, technically it could also be called a bathroom, I guess…

I opened the door, my eyes squeezed shut. I hoped this was connected to the rest of the house, and I hoped I wasn't going to rematerialise next to the lake. What had Jeb said about the toilet? I opened my eyes slowly.

The bedroom! A bed!

I ran over to the bed and flopped onto it, flinging my pack and my staff onto the carpet.

I buried my head into the pillows. I had tonnes of pillows. I had loved pillows since I was young. One of the many reasons I hated the hospital was because they didn't have enough pillows.

I hugged a pineapple shaped one and fell asleep.

In Dusky's viewing point…

We've been going around the island for six days and we still can't find Ponzu!

I had learnt her name from Leorio, who, for some strange, obscure reason, had suddenly become nicer to me. I leant on a tree trunk as Leorio and Kurapika talked.

Then they started walking again.

'Come on, Dusk! We're going to the starting place to see if there are any people already finished!'

'Coming!' I quickly ran up to them.

In times like these, I really want a staff like Wind. Then I could lever myself and not worry about tripping over random tree roots…

'So, do you see anybody?' Leorio loudly whispered to us. I frowned in annoyance. What's the point of whispering if you're going to do it loudly?

'Nope.'

'No.'

'It was foreseeable that they wouldn't stand in obvious places.'

'Damn!'

I was still peering through the gap in the bushes. I heard Kurapika whispering. I knew what they were saying. Well, the gist of it at least.

'Even more with three, ne?'

I looked up.

'Gon!'

'Everyone is thinking the same thing…'

Blah blah blah…

I went back to peering through the bushes, ignoring the murmurs near me. In one day, we would board that ship again.

One more day…

'That's why I came here!' Gon said loudly. I looked at Gon. He didn't seem alright to me.

Maybe I noticed more than when I watched it because I know him in person?

Gon started to run and sniff the air around us.

'This way!' he pointed, and ran off.

I quickly followed him. I mean, I didn't want to hack through more bushes just to find them again!

We were soon standing in front of the cave.

And so, Dusky looks at the slithering trap full of snakes! Will she go in with them? (Even I don't know... if you want her to, just send me a message or review or something)

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