Time went by so slow. All we've been doing were jumping around in different cities to loot treasures. It's been half a year since I came back home from the Hunter's exam. This is also the time when Chrollo has an important mission for us.
"It's around the time for the annual auctions. Today, we will take all the items at an underground auction in Yorknew City. and I mean all of it" Chrollo said as he emphasized on 'all'.
"Leader are you serious? The world's greatest mafias are going to be there!" Uvo shouted
"Are you afraid Uvogin?" Chrollo asked calmly.
Uvo grinded his teeth so hard that his mouth bled. He was also shaking. But not in fear.
"I'm excited! Just give us the order Boss!" Uvo shouted in excitement.
"I give you all permission to kill anyone you desire at today's auction." Chrollo said
Uvogin was shouting in joy while everyone else were cracking parts of their bodies, eager for this to happen.
I, for one, frowned upon this. I didn't want to kill anyone. I don't even want to do this. But maybe it will give me an opportunity to see Kurapika.
"Aoi" Chrollo called out to me
"Uh..yes Boss?" I asked
"With your Hunter's license, I want you to use that to get into the auction building. You'll be the one who opens the back door to sneak everyone in." He said
"Yes sir"
"Shizuku, Make sure you use Blinky to clean up all the messes out there" Chrollo said to Shizuku
"Y-Yes sir!" Shizuku said.
"Now, I will only send out Franklin, Machi, Uvogin, Shalnark, Aoi, Nobunaga, Feitan and Shizuku. The rest of you will stay here. You're not needed yet"
We all bowed towards Chrollo and the eight of us headed off. The auction starts at 9pm and we managed to get there an hour before. I walked in front of everyone and turned around.
"Okay guys. I'll meet you in the back. I'm going in." I said
"Give us a call if anything suspicious happen" Nobunaga said
"No problem" I said and headed towards the building entrance.
I was about to go through but I was stopped by an security guard.
"Miss, what is your purpose here?" He asked
"I'm here for the auction" I said as I held up my Hunter's license.
The man looked at it for a while before letting me in.
"My apologies. You may pass" He said
"Thank you" I bowed and went inside.
I felt nervous. Not because of me acting like a suspicious person, but because of a chance that I may see Kurapika. I remember Hisoka telling me that he told Kurapika to be here at this time of the year. As of right now, I'm praying that I don't bump into Kurapika. I don't want to have to face him yet. I wouldn't know what to do if the rest of the group saw him.
I walked down a couple of hallways and took a staircase that leads to the basement area. I reached to the area where I was supposed to open the back door for everyone else but there was a guard there.
I hid behind the corner of a wall and looked at him.
What should I do? Knock him out? Kill him?
"Excuse me, sir?" I asked as I approached the guard
"Hey. You're not supposed to be in this part of the building. The auction rooms are back upstairs. How did you get down here?" He questioned me
"I'm sorry. I was actually looking for the restroom and I got lost" I said, trying to act as a lost girl.
"Really? I guess I'll have to take you back upstairs then" The guard said. "Follow me"
He stepped away from the door and walked right past me. I took this opportunity to summon my flute out.
"Are you here alone?" The guard asked as he turned around.
I was standing there, flute out, thinking about my decision on whether to kill him or not.
"What are you doing!? You're not lost are you!?" He shouted
"I'm very sorry. Please forgive me" I said as I pierced his chest with my flute.
"Gah!"
The guard fell to the ground as blood poured out from his chest.
"I'm sorry sir. It was the only decision I had. If I let you live, I don't think everyone else would spare you" I said as I cleaned my flute.
I walked to the back door and opened it. To my surprise, no one was there.
"W-What? Where is everyone?" I asked myself
After waiting around five minutes, everyone finally showed up.
"Sorry we're late" Machi said
"Did you guys get lost or something?" I asked
"Shizuku got distracted from a crowd and participated in an arm wrestling match with some scrawny kid" Feitan said
"Did you win Shizuku?" I asked her
"No. That little boy was pretty strong. And I wanted that diamond too" Shizuku said with a frown.
"Don't worry Shizuku. We're thieves, we'll probably find better treasure than that diamond" Shalnark said
"Yeah. I guess so" She said
"By the way, I need you to use Blinky to clean this up for me" I stepped to the side a little to reveal the corpse.
"Wow kid. You killed that guy for sure" Uvogin said as he patted my head.
"Yeah, I had no other choice" I whispered
So Shizuku summoned Blinky, her vaccum, and cleaned the mess on the floor.
"Franklin, Shizuku and I will take care of the auction room. The rest of you, go to the vault and take all the loot" Feitan said
"I guess we'll meet back here when everything is done" Nobunaga said.
With that, Shalnark, Nobunaga, Machi, Uvogin and I made our way towards the vault. It was guarded by a group of men.
"Don't worry guys. I got this" Shalnark said as he took out his cell phone.
He pressed a couple of buttons to gain control of them. They moved away from the vault and Uvogin came in to kill them.
"Well that was refreshing! Fresh blood!" Uvo yelled
"You're going to attract attention if you scream like that" Nobunaga said
"Aoi, give me a hand here" Machi said
She was looking at the vault lock. It had a huge number combination code.
"Think you can use your bass to open this?" She asked
"No problem" I said as I summoned out my bass.
We quickly went through each number as my strings were vibrating on whether or not it was the right code.
We eventually unlocked the vault door and opened it.
"I got it! Let's open it"
"Let's see what papa gets to bring home!" Uvo yelled as he opened the door
Inside the vault, was an empty room.
"Empty!?" Nobunaga shouted
"What the hell?" Machi said
"Where did it all go?" I asked
"I have a hunch the mafia knew we were coming and moved all of the loot" Shalnark said
"If they moved it, where would it be?" Machi asked
"Well, I just hacked into the building system. It says that all the loot was relocated just a few hours ago. Doesn't tell us the new location" Shalnark said
"Damn. This was a waste of my time then" Nobunaga said as he spit at the ground.
"Aoi, How about you go back to the others and inform them. We'll meet you guys at the back entrance." Machi said
"Alright" I said as I turned around and ran toward the auction room.
When I arrived there, I see an entire room full of corpses. It was hard to see this view at first but I got used to it.
"Oh? Aoi, what are you doing here?" Shizuku said while using Blinky to clean everything up.
"Did something happen?" Franklin asked
I walked up to the three of them and explained what happened.
"Tch. Shalnark should've done some better research before coming in here" Feitan said, annoyed.
"Maybe this guy will know" Franklin said as he pointed to an injured man
"Y-You guys...are t-the...Spiders!" The man screamed
"Yeah? So what?" Feitan said
"Should I kill him now?" Franklin said
"Not yet" Feitan said as he approached the injured man. "Tell me, where are all the treasures? I know you guys relocated them."
"I-I don't know!" The man yelled
"Aoi, is he lying?" Shizuku asked
I already summoned my bass, prepared for their lies. The strings vibrated lightly.
"This man is telling the truth" I told Feitan.
"Y-You're all going to die! The mafia will hunt you down! Kill you and your families! Wipe you out of existence!" The man shouted.
"That's very hurtful sir" I said, glaring at the man.
"What family? We don't have any family" Feitan said
Franklin changed his arm into a machine gun and finished off the man. I actually didn't really feel sympathy towards him. Maybe it was just me getting used to all the killings again.
"We should head back to the basement. The others are waiting for us there." I said
"Alright. Let's go." Feitan said just as Shizuku finished cleaning the entire area.
As we reached to the back entrance, Shalnark prepared a hot air balloon for us to escape.
We all hopped on made our way back to Junkyard city.
"Hey Boss. The vault is empty! What now?" Uvogin said on his cellphone call to Chrollo. "Yes sir. We'll take care of it."
He hung up and then sighed.
"What's wrong Uvogin?" Shalnark
"I heard the Shadow Beasts are on their way to stop us" Uvogin answered
"What? Who are the Shadow Beasts?" I asked
"They're the ten elites chosen by the mafia ever single year." Nobunaga said
"They're main priority are to stop thieves like us" Machi said
"They claim to be the strongest people in the world. I call bull. I bet I can kill them all by myself!" Uvogin shouted
"Who knows, maybe one of the shadow beasts took the auction items before we arrived there" Feitan said
"That is a possibility. They were probably one step a head of us" Shalnark said
"I think we've been spotted" Franklin said as he pointed to a deserted area outside of Yorknew City.
There were dozens of mafia cars parked around there. One of the mafia crew managed to shoot down our hot air balloon with a bazooka.
"Hold on tight guys. We're going to land" Shalnark said as he controlled the balloon to a safe spot to land.
The cars followed us deep into the desert as we landed on top of some cliffs.
"Do these guys think they can stop us?" Nobunaga said
The cars stopped and out came a huge number of regular mafia members. None of them were what claimed to be the Shadow Beasts.
"Leave this to me! I need to kill some more meat!" Uvogin shouted as he darted down towards the crowd of mafia people.
"By all means, go ahead." Nobunaga said.
"You guys wanna play cards while we wait for Uvogin?" Shizuku said as she held up a pack of cards.
"You actually brought that with you?" Machi asked
"Yeah, I asked Hisoka for some cause I wanted to play" She said with a smile.
"Might as well. We'll be bored" Nobunaga said
"I'll join too" I said as some of us gathered in a circle to play cards while Feitan and Franklin watched Uvo kill people.
Uvo took his sweet time killing those people one by one. They are just asking for a death wish if they go up against him. He's a beast.
"Oi. I think the Shadow Beasts are here" Franklin said.
"Yeah. Only four of them showed up though" Feitan said
We stopped out little card game and observed. Uvo did get injured a bit from those guys, but he killed each of them within fifteen minutes. So it wasn't much.
"Hey! Shizuku! Can you suck up these leeches off of me!?" Uvogin yelled as he sat on the ground.
He was done with his killing spree since the area was empty now.
"Huh? You got leeches in your body?" Shalnark said
We ended our card game and went down towards Uvo. He had little pieces of flesh ripped off by one of the Shadow Beasts along with his shoulder covered in leeches. It was disgusting.
"Jeez Uvogin, you actually let them touch you like that?" Nobunaga said
"Wasn't my fault. I was just playing around." Uvo said
"You need to be careful Uvo" I said
"Don't worry kid. I'm fine. See?" Uvogin said
He tried to raise his arm, but within a fraction of a second, his entire body was surrounded by chains.
"Aaaahhhh!" Uvo screamed as the chains dragged him away from us.
We were all caught by surprise. Somehow, someone managed to kidnap Uvogin right in front of us.
"Don't worry guys, I threw a needle thread at him. We can still trace him if we hurry" Machi said
"Great. Now we'll have to rescue him" Nobunaga said
"Aoi, how about you head back home and report to the Boss about this first" Shalnark said
"Eh? I'm not coming along?" I asked
"No. Just go back. Besides, I don't even think we can all fit in the car" Nobunaga said as he walked up to a vacant mafia car.
"I guess you're right" I said.
I summoned my Viola out and played a couple of notes. A musical cloud formed around my feet and I flew my way back to headquarters.
For some strange reason, my necklace was acting up. It was shaking violently around my neck.
"Huh? What's wrong?" I asked but then it stopped shaking.
I wonder what that was about. My necklace never reacted like that before. It was pretty strange.
As I continue to make my way back home, I a lot of thoughts swarmed through my mind.
I was actually kind of relieved that I didn't see Kurapika. I don't know how I would've handled my emotions if I saw him.
I do wonder who is the person that kidnapped Uvogin from us though. I do pray for his safety. Hopefully everyone else can rescue him. I wouldn't want anything to happen to them. They're my family.