It was morning when the airship landed. As soon as the doors opened everybody began piling out. The group of us stood in among the crowd. I didn't understand why we even had do this Netero must have taken a shine to Gon. We all stood on top of the tower. We heard someone clear their throat and turned to the direction it came from it was Beans, the small bean headed shaped man in a black suit so they say.

"Ahem… Everyone, the exam's Third Phase will begin here, at the top of trick tower." Beans said. I did not like the sound of it so I waited for him to elaborate.

"Trick Tower?" A guy behind me asked

"To pass this Phase, you must reach the tower's base alive. The time limit is seventy-two hours. With that, we will now begin the Third Phase. I will pray for your success." Beans said.

"Best of luck to everyone!" Beans shouted through a microphone as the airship left us all stranded on top of the tower.

I walked over to the edge where I saw Gon and his group staring down looking down it looked like a long way down. "That's a long fall." If someone fell there would be no way for them to survive.

Leorio hugged his suitcase close to him as he looked down at the tower in disbelief. "Are we supposed to climb down?" He questioned as I shook my head quickly.

"Don't be stupid." I said the test is much more interesting than that.

Kurapika crossed his arms over his chest as he looked down the tower himself. "That's right it would be suicide…" He said. We heard chuckling behind us and turned around to face the person.

"Maybe for a normal person." Said the man. He was a muscly guy who wore a greyish brown vest top, green fingerless gloves, a big belt like thing and black trousers. He smirked at us with his arms crossed over his chest. The man walked over to us and started to climb down, gripping onto the various cracks in the wall with his fingers and feet. Me and Eevee stared down at him as he started to climb down.

"But a top-class rock climber can handle this, no problem." He said as I climbed down, not slipping once. I watched with irritation since it could not be that easy.

"It was nice knowing you!" I called out while watching him. I sensed something coming from the sky.

"Why would you say that?" Killua asked while looking at the guy in amazement.

"He looks like the type of guy to die." I shrugged out. "And something's coming."

"He's going down pretty fast." Gon said blinking a couple of times having not heard me and Killua's exchange. We then heard something in the wind and began looking for the source of the noise, as did this professional work climber. It was this giant head with wings and little arms and legs, they had razor sharp teeth and their eyes were closed. They cawed through the sky and began circling around the rock climber. Just looking at them gave me a weird feeling since they were hideous.

"Stop! Stay away! Stop! Stop it!" The rock climber shouted as we all watched the giant flying heads circle him. Suddenly one dove in under him and opened its giant mouth, swallowing him whole. It flew above our heads, making Eevee cover his eyes in fear.

"G-guess we can't climb down the side…" Leorio said, stuttering.

"Yeah…" Kurapika said.

"Didn't see that coming right Eevee?" I asked

"Yeah."

"What are you talking about you said he would die." Killua said in confusion

"Yah I did but I thought he would fall not get eaten, but that should have been an option." I said turning my head to him. I did sense the birds but sue me!

We watched the creatures disappear, carrying the rock climber with them. It's been a while since the climber died so I started to look for the exit with Gon, Killua, and Eevee. I walked around until I felt my feet falling forward and caught myself. I stepped back and looked at the tile and pressed my hand on it sank smirking I turned around to see if anyone noticed and looked for a way to the security room. Look down I saw another tile with the Hunter Association logo on it I stepped on it.

Clack!

Shuu…!

Everything disappeared into black.

*X*

"Guy!" called Kurapika

"What happened?" asked Leorio as the rest walk toward him.

"Varian's gone."

"So there is another way out?" asked Killua

"Yes, although it must be one way…"

"Look!"

Going toward Gon he showed them the different tiles. He looked back at the others and smiled.

*X*

I landed on the floor with a heavy thud on my feet with my legs bent to absorb the impact.

"Well Eevee we're in" I said as I was looking around. The room was dark. The walls were stone as was the floor. There was only a door so that would be the best place to exit.

As I followed the path I found myself in a room full of TV screens and in the center, was a petite man with a distinguishable violet mohawk and large clear glasses.

"Took you long enough, " said Lippo while watching the screen

"Shut up, " I said as I took a seat next to him and started to stare at what was going on. In one screen, you had #44 (Hisoka) clearing his from obstacles.

Then in another #301was killing everyone without mercy with his needles. Then you had the others who were doing the same thing. I sighed since this was going to take a while. Although I wonder how Gon's group was doing.

*X*

"Aaah. Already two hours. Perhaps all the other people have entered other doors. And the only ones still on top are just the last morons! That annoys me. That annoys me.' Leorio stood up, his hands on his hands, his expression in an angry face.

Clack!

"An annoying last moron is coming down now, Leorio." Kurapika said.

Shuu…!

Tonpa landed in front of them. He stood up, looked around and scratched his head.

"You!" Leorio burst out.

*X*

Apparently, it took longer and I was very disappointed with Gon and Killua's group since Leorio made them spend most of their time. Then you have Tonpa I'd like to get rid of him, but no favoritism. Looking around I found another trap door to the waiting room and down we went.

When I got there the bell already started to ring.

"The Third Phase of the exam is over. Twenty-Six applicants have passed. One has died." A voice said. A door started opening, showing a bright light. We all started to walk towards it to exit.

*X*

"Ladies and gentleman, congratulations on having escaped Trick Tower. Only the Fourth Phase and the Final Phase remain." He said.

Lippo pointed with his thumb behind him to an island.

"The Fourth Phase will take place over there, on Zevil Island. Let us proceed." He said.

Once Lippo finished his sentence he raised his hand into the air and instead of the smile on his face, it was replaced with a frown. He snapped his fingers in the air. I turned my head at the sound of wheeling and saw a guy wheeling out a little box on a portable like table thing. The man wore Yellow trousers and a long sleeved yellow shirt. The box was blue in color. Lippo placed his hands behind his back again and his smile returned. "I will need you to draw lots." He said simply, making everybody look at him with shock and surprise.

"For what?" The guy with the beanie said, looking at Lippo.

Lippo smirked and moved his head down a bit, the glare on his glasses vanishing to reveal fox like eyes. "To determine who will hunt and who will be hunted." He said to us, amused at the fact. His right hand left his back and instead pointing with an open palm at the box.

"In here are twenty-six numbered cards. In other words, your ID numbers are on the cards. Now, I need you each to draw a card, in the order by which you exited the tower. Will the first person come forward?" Lippo said, continuing to look at us all with that fox like grin.

Everyone looked around for the first person. It turned out to be Hisoka I heard Gon gasp surprised by the fact Hisoka was first. No surprise that guy is a hunter. He walked up to the box and placed his hand calmly in. He flicked the card slightly and turned around walking back to the group. Next was #301 his head bobbled every time he walked and made clicking noising. He dove his hand into the box, withdrawing a card.

"Guess I'm next." #294 said and he too walked up to the box himself. Then next was #103.

"I'm next." said #53.

Looking around there were many applicants that were nervous and many have taken off their badges. Me and Eevee were the last ones to get a card us being last in the waiting room. I walked up to the box and felt around. The inside was empty due to the other people getting a card so I pretended to get the card that Lippo gave me beforehand and walked back to the group.

"Everyone's taken a card? Then, remove the seal from your card." Lippo said

"The card indicates your target." Lippo said making everybody gasp. I saw Gon and Killua cover their tags through the corner of my eyes. Me having done that continued to watch Lippo.

"This box has recorded which card each of you drew. This means that you're free to dispose of the cards if you wish." Lippo said to us as he placed a hand onto the blue box.

"The objective is to steal your target's ID tag." Lippo said to us all.

I didn't like the sound of that because if he said it that way then anything goes to steal those tags. I'll have to find a place to hide to record my observations.

"Oh, so we don't need to kill each other." The guy in blue said voicing everyone else's question. Lippo raised his head slightly, looking at all of us.

"Naturally, you're free to use any method you choose to steal the ID tags. Including killing your target and taking the tag off the corpse." Lippo said, making me sigh. I didn't like this mostly because I can already think of two people that will take advantage of that

"That sounds like the fastest way." The brother is red said, a smirk crawling onto his face.

"S-So that's what this is about?" The blue brother asked, speaking once more. What could be the oldest brother, the one in yellow, elbowed the brother in blue in the chest.

"Fool, there's nothing to be scared of." He told him, his face also covered with a smirk.

Lippo raised his hand into the air, his fingers outstretched.

"Listen carefully! Your target's ID tag is worth three points. Your own ID is also worth three points. All other tags are worth one point. You need six points to advance to the Final Phase. So, while on Zevil Island, you must gather enough ID tags to total six points. That is the condition for clearing the Hunter Exam's Fourth Phase." Lippo said to us, holding up six fingers to make sure we got the message.

We all got onto a boat. It looked like a steam boat. I chose to sit next to Gon and Killua.

"I'd like to commend everyone on board for their excellent work during the Hunters Exam's Third Phase! I will serve as your guide. My name is Khara!" A girl said into a microphone. She held her hand up and looked very cheerful. Her eyes were yellow and her hair was orange. She seemed too happy in this situation. She wore a yellow sweater vest with the Hunter Symbol on it, a long sleeved white shirt, red skirt that fell to her calves and big pink shoes.

"It will take two hours for this boat to reach Zevil Island. All twenty-five applicants remaining here are automatically qualified to take next year's exam! So, if you fail this year, don't feel bad. Please try again next year…" Khara said before drifting off into silence. Thank goodness she must have gotten annoyed since no one was paying any attention to her, or so very little attention is being worth it anymore. Still I hope I never must come back.

Gon and Killua were just sitting there hearing the birds so I joined them. We continued to stare at the sky and watch the birds fly above us. Gon sat with his legs up and knees apart, his arms lazily over his thighs as Killua sat with one leg up and the other crossed.

"What number did you guys draw?" Killua asked us, staring ahead of him the entire time.

"How about you?" Gon asked him, turning his head slightly. I nodded my head and turned my head to look at him as well.

"Secret." He said, looking up at the sky.

We all looked away from each other sighed slightly before Gon and Killua turned to each other and smiling wide smiles with small laughs. While I felt lost about the joke since everyone else was worried.

"Don't worry. You two aren't my target." Killua said smiling at the both of us as he lazily dropped an arm over his thigh.

"And my target isn't you two." Gon said smiling at the boy of us. I shook my head, with a small smile at the two of them.

"You two aren't mine either." I said to them. Killua placed his head chin into his palm and looked away, then looked at the both of us again.

"Show each other our numbers at the same time?" He proposed.

"Okay!" Gon said happily.

"Yeah sure." I said to him, nodding my head.

"Ready and…" The three of us said at the same time, showing each other our cards. Gon had number forty-four, we all knew who that was, it was silly to forget. Killua looked at the card in shock.

"Forty-four is…" Killua began saying before stopping. I felt a shiver run up my spin while Eevee let out a cry in distress.

"Seriously?" Killua said as we all stared at Gon's card for a little while longer. Gon put the card down making me and Killua look at him.

"You have really bad luck…" Killua said to him.

"You're a goner." I said to him in all honesty. "It was nice knowing you." Hisoka was crazy strong at least even stronger than Gon I mean I saw what he did at the third phase.

"You think so?" He said, putting down his card once more. We looked at Killua's which said one hundred and ninety-nine. I raised an eyebrow slightly, looking at the card; it must be one of those Amori brother's figures.

"Who's one hundred and ninety-nine?" Gon questioned staring between the card and Killua. Killua pulled the card closer to him, looking at it with wide eyes.

"You two don't know, either?" He asked making Gon nod his head.

"I know I'm just choosing to not tell you" I stated

Killua lazily dropped his arm onto his thigh and started scratching the back of his head his eyes giving me a glare.

"I didn't bother to memorize everyone's numbers. After the initial explanation, I started checking tags, but everyone had already removed them. That's so lame…" Killua said sounding hacked off at the fact everybody did so. I turned my head slightly, smirking a little at him.

"Can you blame them? I did the same." I said to him making Killua look at me from the corner of his eyes. He shrugged his shoulders slightly, and closed his eyes.

"I guess." He said simply.

We both looked at Gon. It looked like he was shaking, but he was smiling as well. I honestly don't get this kid.

"Gon…" Killua said making Gon come out of his shaky trance and look at us.

"Huh? What?" He asked Killua looking at him confused.

"Are you happy? Or scared?" Gon looked away from us and instead looked up to the sky before looking back down to the ground again, his eyes never changing from the look of conflict between happy and scared.

"I'm okay. Both, I guess… In a straight-up fight, I wouldn't stand a chance. But if I only need to steal his ID tag, then I have a real shot." Gon said, looking at the wooded flooring of the boat.

"You got that right, but will it be enough?" I said to him

"Yeah." Killua said after me as we continued to listen to Gon.

"Right now, I might actually have a chance. That scares me a little… But I think it's worth it." Gon said, clasping his hands together as he thought to himself. I looked at Gon silently saying goodbye he seems like a good kid.

"I see." Killua said and turned his head to me with Gon doing the same.

"Who's number hundred?" Killua asked looking at me card. I gave smirked and told him my cover story

"Don't know don't care." I said to them.

Killua stood up and grabbed his board. He began walking away from me and Gon with his board under his arm. "Well, let's do our best. Make sure you stay alive, Gon, Varian." Killua said, stopping so he could turn his head a little to look at us both from behind his back.

"Sure whatever." I said to him looking away while Gon gave him a thumb up with a wide smile.

"You too." Gon said to him happily as Killua began walking away from us once more. I couldn't help but sigh since in this case I should be careful to not lose any of my badges even though no one has me as a target. It would be embarrassing.

The boat stopped at the island edge. Khara placed the ramp down for people to get off easily.

"Thanks for your patience, everyone. We've finally arrived at Zevil Island! Now, please disembark in the order by which you cleared the Third Phase. After each person disembarks, we'll wait two minutes before the next person's turn." Khara said holding up a stop watch.

"That means we'll be waiting here a while." Killua said, disappointed with having to wait. I was disappointed mostly because this wasn't over.

"I hope this ends soon" I said to them. Killua looked at my with bored eyes as he looked back to the front again.

Khara began talking once more, explaining how long we'd be on this island. "You will stay on this Island for exactly one week. During that time, you must amass your six points of ID tags and return here." She said making me worry. Seven days we will be on the same island as two psychos.

"All right then, the first person may start!" Khara said raising her hand into the air with a wide, happy smile on her face.

Hisoka was the first to leave

"Two minutes have passed. The second person may start!" She said, making the guy with all the pins walk past her.

Khara kept watch of the stop clock, looking at it and then at us whenever two minutes were up. "The third person may start!" She said.

"Yeah!" The ninja said with determination. He began walking forward and off the boat going towards the forest.

Time went on quickly as she called out numbers. Soon it was the seventh persons turn. Then the eleventh person. Until I was the last person on the boat.

"The twenty-fifth person may start!" Khara said happily after the two minutes. I started to walk around the forest and started to head to the tallest rock to keep an eye out for everyone and to not get attacked.

"Man, I hate this." I complained. "Why can't anything be easy?"

"Yeah, but what are you going to do?" asked Eevee

"Nothing, just what they tell me, but I don't get why I'm here." I said as I started to climb a giant rock.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that we are not needed here so why did Netero send me to do this?"

"Maybe he's experimenting."

"Man, if he is, that would suck I don't get that guy or anyone else on this dumb test." I said finally getting to the top of the rock from here you can see everything that's going on so I can do my job better. "Well Eevee looks like this is going to be a long week" I sighed out.

*X*

It was already early in the next day sitting all alone so high up was in a way effective, but a waste of time I had closed my eyes and sensed all the auras around me while at the same time concealing my own at this point some were able to get their tags while others not so much. Eevee while this was happening had a thoughtful look on his face.

"Well Eevee what do you think?" I asked while keeping my eyes closed

"I don't know I can't sense auras like Master could or you" replied Eevee

"I forget that sometimes sorry Eevee, but for some people things don't look so good."

"How so?"

"Well, for one thing #403 got tricked and got his tag stolen" I said, turning my head to see his reaction, but since my eyes were closed all I saw was Eevee's outline from his aura.

"Well was he able to get it back?" Eevee asked warily.

"Well, yeah, but not without #404's help" I laughed out Eevee looked amused also but then asked what was on his mind

"What are we going to do after this is over though?"

I stopped laughing with a serious voice I said, "I don't know Eevee we already identified all the others on our island so I guess we have to look to see if there are any more I guess, but who knows maybe we ca-"

We suddenly felt a wave of killer intend coming from where we were hiding it was so strong it was disgusting focusing to that area I saw that Hisoka's aura was flaring up. He was walking at a slow pace, but looking ahead I saw that there was another guy up ahead feeling sweat start to run down I watched as Hisoka suddenly pounced on the man who noticed him too late when suddenly I sensed another aura. Focusing on that I saw that Gon could use his fishing rod to get Hisoka's tag who was surprised by his sudden appearance before Gon turned and ran away with the tag in tow. He could get far, though, because sensing another aura Gon suddenly stopped paralyzed there was another hunter, but he took Gon's tags and disappeared though Hisoka brought Gon back his tags before leaving.

"That was intense." I sighed out while falling to my back.

"What happened tell me tell me tell me." asked a worried Eevee placing himself on my stomach.

Looking up at him I placed my hands on his head and recounted everything that I saw.

"That's scary, I'm glad we don't have to fight him." said a freaked out Eevee

"Don't worry, he'll have to go through me first. " I said with determination.

Eevee looked at me with before getting his confidence back and jumping of my stomach Eevee cheered out " Well, I guess we dont have to worry then so back to work Varian"

"Tch you sure recovered quickly oh well can't do much, but wait till this part is done"

With that, I went back to work with viewing the others for the duration of the phase.

*X*

It had already been a week since we all left the boat and only a few applicants were left will the other lost their tag or were dead. We made it to the starting point. The ship had docked next to the island. We walked out of the forest area. When we got there Gon was with Kurapika and Leorio.

"Gon. Varian." I heard a voice call out making me and Gon look over to him once we stopped walking.

"Ah, four more arrive at the last minute." Khara said, looking down at her notepad. Killua gave us a thumb up with a wide smile on his face. I guess he was happy to see we had made it.

"Killua. And Varian" Gon said quietly giving him a thumb up back. I waved at him while Eevee gave a cry in acknowledgment and waved at him. The four of us looked back at Khara, who seemed as happy as ever. I looked over the other contestants.

"And now for the last few members… Number four hundred and four, Kurapika." Khara said as Kurapika held his two tags to show he got them all, a stern look on his face.

"Number four hundred and three, Leorio." She said as Leorio did the same, a wide smirk on his face. He still seemed a little bit out of it from the poisoning and sleeping gas.

"Number four hundred and five, Gon." Khara said as Gon showed his two tags.

"And Number one hundred and thirteen, Varian." She said as Eevee held out my own two tags.

"These ten applicants have passed the Fourth Phase of the exam!" Khara said, throwing her hand into the air and pointing at the large airship that flew above us.

We all boarded the air ship. Me and Eevee went ahead through the empty hallway until we found a door to an interview room. Opening the door, we were met with Chairman Netero along with his assistant Bean and the other examiner's.

"Ho Ho Ho! It's so nice for you to finally join us! We were just discussing the new guys before you came in!" said Netero in excitement.

"By the way, what are we gonna do for the last round?" asked Satotz while me and Eevee to a seat between him and Bean

"That's true, we've been told nothing!" said Buhara

"It's wonderful to talk of the great newbies, but the last round hasn't begun yet so..." Menchi said before turning to me. "Please tell us already we've been in the dark for the whole exam." She begged.

I sweat dropped at this, especially when Buhara looked at me in question along with Bean and Satotz. I looked away at the sudden attention I said with ease "Well, I was thinking of a tournament that way they could pick each other off and the winner becomes Hunter"

The examiners and the Chairman looked at me with silence before Netero said, "Yes, that's a good idea, but..." there was a moment of silence, after which personally I think he was doing on purpose to get on my nerves "I would like them to hold unusual fights."

Me and Eevee looked at him questionably at what he meant while he continued "To set up this round... I shall begin by meeting them one after another"

I heard Menchi whisper to Bean while I tried to think about what he was playing at though I shouldn't have been too surprised well I should let it run its course.

*X*

After the Chairman was done with the interview he called me and told me to give him the data that I collected of all the current applicant's. Looking through it and thinking about all the answers he got from from the interviews I saw him take out a brush and a board. He started to write down the listings "There it is! Look! I wrote down some groups, " he said with a proud gesture

Still annoyed that he took over my part I went to look with the other examiners and I paired when I saw it along with the other examiners

"Chairman... are you sure?" asked Buhara

"I can't be more" came the reply

"What are you trying to pull old man first you take over my part now you're going give this bracket out for the exam!" I asked annoyed

"Yes, because I'm chairman, but don't worry, you'll get to be examiner just with my bracket"

'Is he serious if he wanted this in the first place, then why the heck am I here in the first-place senile old man' I thought

With that conclusion, the meeting ended.