Hunter orientation x and x Killua's location
"Apologize to killua!" Gon demands at illumi, as he's standing in front of him.
Illumi turns at gon, "Apologize? For what?"
"You have no idea what you did wrong?" Gon questions.
"Not at all." Illumi replies straight up.
Gon tightens his fist, "Your not qualified to be his big brother."
"I didn't know I had to qualify." Illumi doesn't care and ignores him.
Gon then grabs illumi by the arm and lifts him from his seat, which surprises everyone.
Illumi lands on both feet and doesn't look bothered.
"There's no rule saying he has to qualify to make friends. He gets to chose, not you!" Gon rebukes and then squeezes his arm with great force.
"!" Illumi feels the pressure in surprise, "This boy is..."
Gon takes a step down, still holding his arm, "Actually, don't bother apologizing. Just spill out where killua is."
"And what will you do then?" Illumi questions gon.
"It's obvious..." Wendy stands up from her seat, "We'll bring him back!"
"Exactly!" Gon agrees.
"You both make it sound like I kidnapped him..." Illumi tells them both, "Like I said before, killua walked out of his own free will."
"And like I said before, it wasn't by his own will." Wendy retorts.
"You guys were manipulating him." Gon added, "It's the same as kidnapping!"
It's then silent for a few seconds until netero steps up.
"We happened to be discussing this very subject, gon." Netero fills him in, "In fact, leorio, kurapika, and happy were barging complaints. Wendy was also defending him. The committee has been reviewing the fairness of killua's disqualification.
Wendy thinks back on what she tried explaining:
"He clearly had no idea what he was doing..." she explains to netero before looking down, "It was there, all over face that he wasn't himself and he wouldn't do that for no reason. So please, don't disqualify killua!"
After wendy finishes thinking back, kurapika stands up and begins explaining.
"You saw it yourself! Killua has been acting strangely during and since his fight with the man, gittarackur." Kurapika speaks up.
"Right! Before the match with gittaractur, he was perfectly calm and acting normal." Happy stands up on the table next to wendy and adds, "But, unitl after the match, there was nothing, but a blank expression on his face... like he suddenly had no emotions."
"Exactly, and the reason could be that he was hypnotized into committing murder." Kurapika adds, "It would normally be impossible to influence someone to kill, under normal conditions. However, as killing people was part of killua's daily life as he was raised in a family of assassins, it's natural that he would lack restraint in doing so!"
"Just think about it, if he was not himself at all, then he would of already tried killing someone as soon as the phase started. Happy adds, "He wasn't in the right mindset and we all know it!"
Leorio also stands up, "It's also worth noting that the attack happened during the match between me and bordoro. It's possible that he was trying to help me. Given that, the one who should be disqualified," He points at himself, "Is me."
"In any case, killua was not in control of his own actions." Kurapika states, "Thus, he should have not been disqualified!"
"That's all mere speculation. There is no proof of that." Netero walks to the desk, "There were no clear signs of manipulation. In fact, I would question the claim that he was hypnotized."
They didn't know how to respond to that.
"I agree that the incident occurred after the match between leorio and bordoro had begun. At that point, both fighters were evenly matched. Bordoro had more experience, but leorio had the edge in terms of raw combat ability. There was no need for killua to interfere."
"Tsk." Leorio scoffs and turns his head.
"There was some other funny business." Pokkle chimes in and turns back at kurapika, "Like during your match with hisoka, so why don't we talk about that."
Kurapika turns back at him.
"Mind telling us, what did he say to you?" Pokkle questions before leaning against his seat, "Neither of you looked tired... but hisoka whispered something to you and then surrendered."
Both of them glare at each other.
"Strange, isn't it?" Pokkle questions, "I understand if he whispered something and you surrendered. Like with hanzo and me, same with bordoro and hisoka. We were both under a lot of pressure. With wendy and gittrackur, he only forfeited against her because he predicted that killua be his opponent, so he had reason."
"Tsk, you would of easily surrender if you and killua actually fought." Happy thought while looking at him, "We all wouldn't be having this discussion."
"But with you, it makes me wonder if you struck some bargain with him." Pokkle continues, "If you wanna talk about strangle things, then your own victory fits the bill perfectly. If you don't have anything to hide, then enlighten us. Tell us what he said, and right now."
"I have no obligation to tell you anything." Kurapika retorts back.
"You may not think so, but I believe you owe it to us." Pokkle argues back.
"Not really." Kurapika retorts, "If you suspect my victory to be strange, then a victory by default would be equally strange."
"What?!" Pokkle leans up and gets angry with him while kurapika glares at him back.
"Great... now this just turned into a heated argument." Happy mutters with arms crossed while sitting on the table.
"Now we're just questioning each other's victories?" Wendy mutters, with her hair covering her eyes.
"Wendy?" Happy wonders what's up.
"None of that matters..." Gon mutters and illumi notices as well.
"Come on..." Hanzo stands up impatiently, "Let's get this lecture over with so we can all go home."
"Look here, pal..." Leorio was about to say to hanzo until...
"Enough!" Both Gon and Wendy shouted, stopping the argue before everyone eyes them.
"It's pointless arguing with each other." Wendy states.
"And why argue on whether or not someone should of passed." Gon adds, "If you're not satisfied on how you made it, then keep working hard until you are."
"Killua would definitely pass if he took the exam again." Wendy believes, "It's unfortunate that killua didn't pass, but we did all that we could."
"And it is what it is." Gon then squeezes illumi's arm again. "But what does matter, if you've been forcing killua to kill and do things against his will this whole time... then you're gonna pay!" He looks illumi dead in the eye.
"Pay for it?" Illumi questions before looking at wendy as well, "And just what will you two do?"
"We won't do anything for now." Wendy replied, "But after we save killua..."
"You'll never see him again!" Gon finished.
Illumi looks back down at gon and tries to touch him, but gon backs away in time and gets his distance.
"Ahem. Is everyone finished?" Netero coughs, "Gon and wendy are absolutly correct. You must decide for yourselves if you earned the right to pass. You may complain about the results as much as you like, but our minds are already made up and it's final. Killua has been disqualified. And the rest of you have passed the exam."
As everyone sits down back down, Netero signals bean to continue the orientation. Bean starts to explain what the hunter license card does.
"This card allows you to enter 90% of the countries that limit immigration, as well as 75% of the restricted areas in the world."
"Crazy..." Hanzo is amazed.
"Awesome..." Happy is amazed as well.
"This card also provides free access to 95% of public facilities, and a line of credit that rivals large corporations. If you sell the card, you'll have enough money to last seven lifetimes. And if you keep it, you'll still be living in comfort. So take extra care that your license doesn't get stolen or isn't lost. You won't receive a replacement. According to our estimates, one in five hunters lose their cards within a year of receiving it. As a hunter, your first challenge is to protect you card. The rest is up to you. Rise above challenges and believe in your own strength and fulfill your dreams." Bean finishes the orientation.
"We now declare the nine members here to be new hunters!" Netero announces.
With that said, the orientation ends and everyone walks out of the room.
Once outside:
"Gittarackur..." Illumi turns to gon and wendy's attention before they walked up to him.
"Tell us where killua is." Wendy demands.
"Are you two really gonna go after him?" Illumi questions, "I think that's a bad idea."
"Who cares what you think!" Gon ignores that, "Killua is our friend."
"We'll get him back for sure." Wendy adds, both having determined looks.
"Do they feel the same way?" Illumi looks up and sees happy, leorio, and kurapika come up behind the two.
"You bet we do." Leorio says.
"Aye." Happy flies.
The three nod in agreeing to go, which gon and wendy are happy to.
Illumi thinks for a second before finally deciding to tell them, "Fine. I doubt you'll be able to make it there anyway. Killua went home."
"Home?" Wendy questions.
"Kurkuroo Mountain." Illumi reveals, "Our family lives at the top."
"Kurkuroo mountain?" Happy questions and wonders, same with leorio.
"Got it. Thanks a lot." Gon replied before they started walking off.
Hisoka then appears from behind a pillar, having heard the conversation, "Is it really okay for an assassin to reveal his base of operation?" Hisoka questions, smirking with his arms crossed.
"Sure, it ain't like it was a secret or anything. The locals all know where we live." Illumi replies, "Well, I'm sure they'll see the light once they arrive. We live in completely different worlds..."
Hisoka looks at the bruise on illumi's cheek and the bruises around illumi's arm, the injuries finally coming into view.
"Oh, the punch she gave me wasn't that big of a deal." Illumi then looks at his arm, "But this? Yep, it's broken." He looks and sees them walking down hall from a few distance, "He has incredible potential. As for her, she has some rare power. I can understand why you want to see gon grow up. Don't know about her."
"Didn't I tell you?" Hisoka smirks while looking at the group walking off as well.
"But that just makes them all the more dangerous. This would be the best chance to..." Illumi thought and was about to get them, before looking at hisoka, who knows what he's thinking and isn't pleased and threateningly frowns at him.
"I don't care what you do with wendy, but gon is my prey. Touch him and you'll be reaping the consequences."Hisoka threatens.
"I know." Illumi understands, but isn't bothered by the threat, "I've only known you for a short while, but I know your tastes." He walks on his way, but stops and turns back at him, "So hisoka, what are you going to do now?"
"What patiently." Hisoka raises his hands.
Illumi then walks off after receiving his answer.
"For the fruit to ripen..." Hisoka smiles psychoticaly at the thought of gon's development.
With the main group:
"Kukuroo mountain?" Leorio thinks, "Never heard of it."
"Kurapika, do you know where it is?" Wendy asks.
He doesn't answer as he's thinking of something.
"Kurapika!" Happy shouts.
"Huh?" Kurapika looks up and snaps out of thoughts, "Oh? what is it?"
"The mountain!" Leorio reminds.
"He said something about it." Happy adds.
"Do you know where it might be?" Wendy asks again.
"No, I don't..." Kurapika replied.
"Great, none of us knows." Happy crosses his arms.
"We can look it up online." Kurapika suggests.
"Yo!" Hanzo waves and walks up.
"Ah, hanzo-san!" Gon waves back and so does wendy.
"I'm going back to my country." Hanzo says, "It was a short, yet seemingly long aquaintance, but I had fun."
"So did I." Gon replied, and wendy nods.
"If you ever visit my country, let me know." Hanzo smiles before taking out a card, "I can show you the best tourist spots!" He hands it to kurapika.
"That sounds great." Wendy says.
"You bet. See ya!" Hanzo bids farewell and is on his way.
"Bye!" Gon and wendy wave back.
The look at the card and it says, "Cloud ninja hanzo"
"Awesome!" Gon, wendy, and happy are amazed.
"A shinobi who tries to leave an impression..." Kurapika is amazed a little.
"Hey!" Pokkle walks up next, looking at kurapika, "Sorry about getting worked up back there." He bows his head in apology.
"Please, I was no better. Forgive me." Kurapika apologizes back.
"No, I only got mad cause deep down inside, I knew you were right." Pokkle confesses, "I was using you to take my frustration out on for winning by default." He then smiles, "But I'm over that now. Since I passed, I'm going to make the best of it!" He runs up to them, "The question is what to do now."
"Yes, you're right." Kurapika agrees.
"I'm going to travel the worlds, gathering information and discovering new species as an exotic game hunter." Pokkle says.
"An Exotic game hunter..." Kurapika is a little amazed.
"Hey, what's that?" Gon points at his tablet.
"Oh this? You can use this to obtain all kinds of information." Pokkle explains, revealing his tablet, "Is there anything you'd like to know? I can look it up on the spot."
Gon thinks a moment before, "Can you look up a hunter named Ging freecss?"
Pokkle looks him up, but finds nothing, "Who is he anyway?"
"Huh?" Gon questions.
"All information related to him is behind a tight security system that requires a bunch of different accesses." Pokkle explains, "He has some serious influence, even at the national level."
"Huh? really." Gon is surprised, "Forget it, then..."
"Your dad looks to be someone really special." Leorio whispers to gon.
"Aye. You can say that again." Happy whispers as well, which gon chuckles a little.
"I actually have one too." Wendy speaks up and steps up, "Can you look up my mother, grandeeney?"
"Okay, sure." Pokkle looks her up, it finds nothing, "Who is she anyway?"
"She's a sky dragon." Wendy answers.
"Huh?! Your mom is a sky dragon?!" Leorio exclaims dramatically.
"That's unbelievable..." Kurapika is surprised.
"Oh yeah, Dragon slayers, like her, have been raised by dragons. That's how they acquired dragon slaying magic." Happy explains.
"She already told me and killua." Gon nods.
"Incredible..." Leorio was surprised and amazed.
"I see, no wonder you used some sorta energy attack on gittarackur." Pokkle understands before looking back on the tablet, "Well, there isn't any information on her."
"Oh, I see." Wendy understands, looking down a little but easily cheers up, "Forget it, then."
"Dragons are pretty rare and big. It won't be easy finding them." Leorio whispers to wendy.
"Well... you could say that." Wendy replied, a little, "But I'll find her one day."
"We believe you will. And you too, gon." Kurapika smiles.
"Aye." Happy raises a paw while floating.
Gon and Wendy happily nod in response.
"Okay, let me if anything comes up." Pokkle hands gon a card, "Here's my email address." He then runs off, and bids farewell, "Bye." He waves.
"Bye!" Gon and wendy wave back.
Leorio then notices something, "We should of asked him to look up kukuroo mountain." He lowers his head.
"That's right." Happy lowers his head as well.
"It's okay. Chairman netero said we're hunters now. It's a bad idea to let hunters know where you're going." Kurapika explains and assures, "We can look it up ourselves."
The four understand in response, shaking their heads.
"Gon-kun." Satoz then shows up.
"Satoz-san." Gon is happy to see him.
"It's great to see you." Wendy is happy as well before gon runs to him.
"Gon-kun, you forgot this." Satoz hands him his license.
"Oh, thanks a lot." Gon take it.
"Also, do you have a moment?" Satoz asks.
Gon turns to his friends if they're alright with it and they happily nod.
"Take the time you need." Wendy assures him.
"Aye." Happy agrees.
"We'll be waiting in the lobby." Kurapika waves a hand before they walked off and gon waves back.
Few minutes later:
After Gon finishes talking with satoz, The group is looking up kukuroo mountain on the computer.
"Here it is. A 3,722 meter high mountain." Kurapika reads, "In the dentora region of the republic, padokea."
"The republic of padokea?" Leorio wonders.
"I never heard of that." Happy says.
"Where is it?" Wendy asks.
"Hold on. I'll bring a map." Kurapika begins typing and brings it up, "There it is. It appears to be a stable country so it should be fine. It allows ordinary tourists."
"That's where we'll find killua?" Gon questions.
"It will take three days to reach, by airship..." Kurapika thinks, "When do we leave?"
"How about today!" Wendy suggested.
"Yeah!" Gon agrees, "And right now!"
"Aye!" Happy agrees.
"Yep, I have no objections!" Leorio chimes in.
"Understood! Then I'll order some tickets." Kurapika begins typing them.
Moments later:
The group is in a taxi.
"This is ridiculous." Wendy complains.
"We've been stuck in one place forever." Leorio complains as well.
"Aye." Happy agrees while on leorio's shoulder.
"This won't do, we'll be late for our flight." Kurapika looks at the radio time, which is 17:38pm.
Gon then thinks of an idea, "In that case..."
"Huh?" The group questions.
The next thing they did was run on the edge of the road, making them go faster.
"Yahoo!" Gon is enjoying himself.
"Didn't know this is what you came up with." Wendy sweat-drops.
"Hey gon, you do realize how far away the airport is, right?" Leorio questions.
"With me flying, it ain't a problem." Happy brags and flies on.
"Lucky you..." Leorio mutters.
"I wanna rescue killua as soon as possible!" Gon smiles and runs to them as they keep running, "Right, wendy?"
Wendy nods in response, "Yeah!"
"Fine, you win!" Leorio and kurapika catch up to the three.
"This reminds me of the hunter exam." Kurapika compares.
"Compared to the hunter exam, this is nothing." Gon replies and grins.
"You can say that again." Wendy agrees.
"You got that right." Leorio grins as well.
"Aye." Happy agrees.
"Okay, Race you guys to the airport!" Gon runs on.
"Your on!" Wendy accepts it.
"This is no problem." Happy brags, knowing he can fly.
As they run on the edge of the bridge, "Ready... Go!" Gon jumps with a fist in the air as they head towards the airport.
There we go guys, that ends the Hunter Exam arc.
Next stop for Gon, wendy, happy, kurapika, and leorio is the republic of padokea, which is Kukuroo mountain, killua's home and to get him back.
Until the next story(Killua's Home: Kukuroo Mountain).