Hey! So some of you guys said I made Celestia overreact... Well I fixed it. Yay! I really hope you guys like this chapter. Sapphire and Killua get a little closer. The Second Phase finally starts! Please R&R it really helps! Sorry for any grammar mistakes. Enough talk get reading.

Diclaimer: I do not own Hunter x Hunter. *Grows mushrooms in the corner*

~Secret Restaurant~ (Didn't know what to call it)

Sapphire POV-

The door opened with a ding. A green bean shaped person handed me a tag. 100. I walked over to the wall putting in headphones. I saw someone come up to me. It looked like he was talking. He was on the chubbier side. I just looked past him not able to hear what he was saying. He walked away. Closing my eyes I tapped my foot to the beat of the song.

I felt a presence near my shoulder. In the next second someone's hand touched my shoulder. Eyes flying open I brought my razor-like sharp claws to their throat. My vision cleared and I saw it was the same man who had approached me. His eyes were full of fear.

"Don't. Touch. Me." I said through clenched teeth.

Pulling my hand back he stumbled away. I looked out at the crowd. Almost everyone was watching me. Shit! I drew attention to myself. I put my headphones back in and ignored them. Closing my eyes yet again.

I felt another presence this time right in front of me. This one was different. I cracked an eye open. It was a boy about my age. He had silver hair and blue eyes.

"I thought I said to leave me alone."

"No you told Tonpa not to touch you," he said jokingly.

Getting angry I said, "Whatever same goes for you."

"Yeah yeah." He walked to my right side and leaned against the wall. We were quiet for a while.

Suddenly he surprised me by saying, "Want a drink?"

"Not really," I said bluntly.

"Your loss," he shrugged pulling out a soft drink and popping it open. I could instantly tell something was wrong with it. It smelled weird. He was about to take a sip. Should I ignore it or tell him? Damn! I don't know. I ended up knocking it out of his hands. It spilled on the floor fizzling. He looked at me with the what-was-that-for look.

"So you could tell?" I cocked my head not understanding what he said. "That it was poisoned," he finished.

"I guess so."

"Tonpa gave it to me."

"Why would you drink it let alone offer me one if you knew it was poisoned?"

"One, poison doesn't affect me; two, I was testing you." He must've went through the same kind of training I did.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Killua Zoldyck. You?"

"Sapphire."

"Cool name."

"Thanks you too." He smiled sweetly. I looked at the floor.

"That's the deadline, no one will be allowed to enter after this point," the examiner stated loudly. "I am Satotz. Welcome to Phase One of the Hunter Examination. If you would please follow me, I will be leading you to the Second Phase."

"Well I'm heading to the front."

I walked up behind Satotz. He started slow walking in a strange manner. He began to pick up speed a few minutes later. I could easily keep up.

~A Few Hours Later~

We had been running for about eight hours. I was still in the front near Satotz. Lots of people had dropped out. I had just started on the stairs. I expected this to be a lot harder.

Killua was with some boys who were around my age. The tall one lagged behind. A boy in green stopped and Killua reluctantly halted too. I soon heard someone yell. The tall one ran past lots of people and stopped next to a blonde. I was in the front watching everything transpire.

About an hour and a half later Killua, the boy in green, and I were all racing to the finish. They were pretty fast if they were keeping up with me. I'm not about to let these boys beat me! I need to be faster! Right when the exit came into view I got a burst of speed and flew past them. A second later they jumped out of the tunnel.

"Ha I win you have to buy me dinner," Killua declared.

"Nuh uh I was."

"Who was faster?!" They asked Satotz.

"I believe you had a tie, but there was already someone here before you." At his words they looked at me with shock.

"Huhhh, you?!" Killua yelled.

"Do you know them?"

"Yeah we met before the start of the First Phase."

"Nice meeting you I'm Gon." The one in green said scratching the back of his head.

"Sapphire."

"Oh, so you're a girl. It's hard to tell with that cloak." This one isn't the brightest one out there.

Killua POV-

Satotz was explaining about getting through the swamp. Something about never losing sight of him and creatures trying to trick us.

Sapphire and Gon were chatting when I heard a noise and someone stepped out from behind the tunnel.

"He's an imposter! I'm the real examiner." Everyone turned to look at him. He was holding some kind of creature. Many of the participants were beginning to doubt the real examiner. I sensed bloodlust and felt something whiz past my face. The fake died while Satotz caught the cards. The creature ran away into the forest.

"Ah, so your the real one. I would hope a hunter could catch those cards." said a clown-like man. He was leaking small traces of bloodlust.

"I'm going to take that as a compliment, but if you do that again I'm going to have you disqualified."

"Yeah, yeah."

Satotz began walking into the forest. Fog came out in thick tendrils. Gon and Sapphire were keeping up with me. Kurapika and Leorio were lagging behind. We could hear unsuspecting or just stupid people screaming.

"Gon I think we should move up."

"Guys! Killua says we should move up," he yelled. I face palmed while Sapphire giggled quietly.

"We would already be up there if we could," he yelled back. Soon the fog became to thick and we couldn't see them.

"I'm worried about them. I'm gonna go find them." Gon turned around and ran back towards them.

"Guess it's just us huh, Sapphire?"

"Yep." She replied shortly. Is she ok? The fog was slowly clearing so we were almost out of the swamp.

Something rustled in the bushes and leaped out at her. I moved out of the way and stopped. She was across from me. As the dust cleared I could make out the silhouette of something. It had a humanoid shape. I'm gonna guess this is another Man Faced Ape. It's eyes were glowing red. It went after her. Running to protect her I changed my finger nails to claws ready to attack. By the time I reached her, it was on the ground convulsing.

"Good job!" What the hell is she?

"Thanks."

As she turned away heading to the exit the ape gave its all in a last attack.

"Sapphire!"

She just barely dodged, it ripped her cloak off revealing her appearance. She didn't seem to notice. Bloodlust leaked from her body as she thrust her hand into its back with a sickening crunch. Blood splattered as she pulled her hand out of the lifeless corpse. Turning to me she tried to shake some of the blood off her hand.

Our eyes locked and for once I could see what color they were. Green. Like a never ending plain. She had golden blond hair that ran down her back like waves. She had a form fitting tee on along with denim shorts and combat boots.

"Uh, S-sapphire you've got some blood on your face," I stuttered.

She whipped it away with her thumb and licked it clean. For a second I thought her eyes changed to a shade of yellow. Must've been my imagination.

"We'd better hurry up," she said snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Y-yea." Silence ensued as we headed towards the Second Phase.

Breaking the silence she said, "Killua, I'm sorry if I scared you." She innocently hanging her head in shame. It was kind of cute.

"It's fine I just didn't expect you to look so..." I trailed off.

"Look so what?!" She asked angrily.

"P-pretty," I stuttered a blush spreading over my cheeks as I looked away. When I turned back she was looking at me intently with a blush on her face. Somehow that made my face even more red.

"What?" I asked.

"I was just wondering if you mind if I called you Kil?" When she said that it reminded me of Illumi, but unlike with him it felt right.

"I guess not, as long as I get to call you Saph," I smiled when she looked at me like I was crazy.

"Fine," she sighed, "don't make me regret it."

"You won't I promise." We came to a clearing where everyone else was. Gon isn't here yet.

Sapphire POV-

Killua looked a little worried. It must be Gon. We had only been waiting for a few minutes when I felt his presence. I knew Kil felt it to because he started to get up. Following him we met up with Gon and Kurapika. Gon was looking behind us and started towards a tree. Where we found Leorio slumped up against it.

"Looks like he got into some trouble," I said.

"Yea. Hisoka was there," Gon said looking determined. Leorio started to move.

"What... Happened?" He mumbled.

"We'll fill you in later but we need to get going," Kurapika stated. We headed towards Satotz.

"Now you will begin the Second Phase." Metal on metal was heard as the doors opened. What was inside shocked me. An oversized man and a curvaceous woman were waiting for us.

"Hello I am Menchi, the Second Phase Examiner; And this is my partner Buhara. We're Gourmet Hunters."

"Gourmet Hunters what a joke." Someone from the group. Looking annoyed Menchi ignored the comment.

There was a loud grumbling sound. Startled questions rippled through the contestants. What the hell was that?!

"Sounds like you're hungry," Menchi stated to Buhara. "Then it's decided today's challenge will be... Cooking!"

I really hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please favorite and review. It totally helps when you guys offer advice! I wuv all of yew. Tomorrow is going to be a lot busier than today so give me like an extra hour! Thanks for all your love.