Kurt managed to break away from Kurapika, who was trying to organize the remaining people to fix the ship. Before she had gone to bed, she had read a little bit of the books she had found. Halfway through the first chapter, she snagged a few hairs from her roommate and a few of her own and asked the hotel owners for a favor. The second she saw the bit about the storm that happened once every ten years on the island, she knew that the reason they were dropped there was part of the exam.
Probably to escape while the old couple left them to fend for themselves.
So she had them take both hair samples in the envelope to do a blood test. What better way to make the most out of a useless situation than to see if Kurapika was telling the truth about being her half-brother?
While she was exploring the island, she ran into Hisoka.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the little Nen girl..."
"Nen? What the hell is Nen?" she asked.
Hisoka looked at her with some amusement
"Nen is the power you are using to make yourself invisible to everyone. Unless you didn't know what it was..."
"All I knew was ever since I mastered how to go invisible, I could see weird lights with my eyes."
Hisoka chuckled.
"You're a Nen prodigy and didn't even know it. To be able to use Gyo without knowing the name or how to shut it off... you must have massive reserves. You'll make an interesting opponent later on."
"Well since we're on the subject, mind explaining a few things for me? Not like we'll have anything better to do once those idiots figure out that the storm is going to hit."
"You knew there was going to be a massive storm?"
She held up a book, which was clearly a travel log.
"Found this on the other side of the island. Apparently the owners of the boat knew about the weather phenomenon and decided to come watch it first hand. They crashed their boat but missed a few things when they cleared it out. This storm will last a few days and will be beyond strong. Though the first wave is said to be quite interesting to watch."
Hisoka gave her one of his more...terrifying smiles as he explained the basics of Nen to her, as well as the types. From what she could tell, her type was the rare kind that allowed mastery over all the others. And that she was halfway between creating a technique to suit her personality and a rather interesting trick.
Even Hisoka was stumped as to how she had been able to keep it up like a shield for the past three years without passing out from exhaustion.
Though she did learn something Netero failed to tell her. Because she was instinctively able to use Gyo, which allowed any basic Nen user to see certain wavelengths, she had unknowingly passed the hidden test for all aspiring Hunters.
When the sun began to go down, she did something that would have Kurapika's mental state be in a rather...tense...position.
She stayed inside one of the cannon barrels to watch the storm. The other one was occupied by the pin-headed applicant with Hisoka sitting on the outside.
Kurt knew a great way to help out without actually doing something. She borrowed Gon's fishing pole and had a few of the others catch large amounts of fish...and then bribed Hisoka and the pin headed one to help her prepare them.
By the time lunch rolled around, everyone had their noses twitching from the smells in the kitchens. Eventually Kurt began to roll out several large tables that had food one could simply grab and eat on the go. Several of the others hit the tables pretty hard as they continued on with what they were doing, and no one asked Kurt to help considering she was doing the cooking.
Though there was no way in hell she was going to clean up the kitchens. She had her hands full cooking the large amount of finger foods for everyone else!
Eventually things calmed down...but Leorio still hadn't come back up. She went and found Gon immediately the second she heard he hadn't come up.
Gon went down...and ten minutes later she knew something went wrong. The underwater currents were strong enough to move whatever ship Leorio found. And with the type of items he had been retrieving, being pinned was a serious concern.
She tied a strong metal chain to her waist, making sure it didn't put pressure on only one side of her body, before jumping in. within seconds a strange bubble appeared around her face allowing her to breath. She had no idea what created it, only that she could now help the others.
She sank like a stone...and quickly found the two missing idiots. (And yes, she is lumping Gon with Leorio at the moment). She quickly figured out how to move and then pinched Gon. She noted with interest that another 'bubble' appeared around his head and he took deep breaths of air. He managed to free Leorio when the lights suddenly went off.
Fortunately Hisoka had prepared for this, because he was waiting with a large fog light aimed at the ocean.
Gon and Leorio held onto her when she jiggled the chain, telling the pin head that she had them.
It was still odd that she had become friends with those two. Then again both openly admitted they were extremely impressed with her invisibility trick, and the fact she could sneak up on them every time. Apparently that hadn't happened to them since they were actually rookies.
"Kurapika, get your ass in gear! Gon and Leorio are back up top!"
"We are going to have a discussion about your suicidal tendencies when this is over."
"Only if you can find me! ...And if that blood test I asked the chairman to do for me comes back positive..."
"...Where the hell did you get a sample...?"
Kurt smirked.
"Next time, clean your hairbrush out better. Lifting a few strands was too easy."
Kurapika didn't notice that the old woman handed Kurt something as soon as she ran into her. He did, however, see the girl thank the old woman profusely with a genuine smile on her face.
He couldn't help but think a smile suited her more than her standard expressionless face.
When he caught up to the girl, she was actually grinning. She had taken a look at the paper after the old woman had given it to her.
Kurapika took one look at the results, before giving a sigh of relief.
Kurt was his missing sister Luna. The DNA profile showed that the two had a very large number of strands (A/N: I watch a lot of CSI occasionally. So sue me.) were the same, which only happened when the two people were directly related to each other...such as direct siblings.
"I guess this means I should start to call you Kurapika-nii..." said Kurt.
"Or Nii-san. Of course you do realize what this means don't you?"
"I actually have family I don't want to kill painfully?"
"No, it means we now have a legitimate excuse to kill Albus Dumbledore."
Kurt laughed...and it sent shivers down her newly found older brother's spine.
"Why kill him when we could do something much worse? I happen to know how to do something that will lock him in his body, unable to move anything other than his eyelids for the rest of his life."
"How would you do that?" asked Kurapika, morbidly curious.
"There is a condition called 'locked in syndrome', which when a very specific set of nerve clusters are pinched in the correct manner, makes movement impossible. There is no cure to it, and the victim is essentially stuck in their own body unable to move ever again. The eyelids, which move automatically, are the only thing unaffected by this condition."
"...How the hell do you know about this?"
"I read medical textbooks sometimes, and they had the description of the symptoms, but didn't say how to do it. According to the book, you could just as easily break the person's neck."
"Either way, Dumbledore will be out of our hair."
"The next part of the exam is a badge battle. In order to pass, you must have your badge...and the badge of the number you just drew. Both of those badges will be worth three points. If you can manage to collect the badges of the other applicants, which are worth one point each, you will pass anyway. You must accumulate at least six points before the end of the week."
"Alright everyone! Would you all line up in the order you left the tower?" called the perky woman who had come along. Why, Kurt had no idea, but she certainly couldn't read the mood worth a damn.
Kurt was hanging out near Killua since for some odd reason they had managed to get targets which were one number apart...and that she had seen Killua's number in the hands of her target. When she mentioned this (and noted that her target tended to stick around his brothers) the two decided to tag team against the three brothers.
It had the added perk of giving her an excuse to avoid Kurapika for a week and give her time to come to terms with the fact she had a brother who would cheerfully help her kill her victims when she gave him the full scope of how badly they had treated her.
Plus hanging around Killua was actually fun. Listening to his description of his family was what she considered quality entertainment.
Illumi blinked when he found Kurt sitting in the branch above Hisoka. Apparently she had tag teamed with his brother to retrieve her badge and went to find the insane clown.
Strangely, she seemed to know instinctively that Hisoka wouldn't try to kill her if only because her little invisibility trick interested him so much. However if he went into his...bloodthirsty...mode she was going to go find Killua until it died down.
Kurt didn't even blink when she saw him take out the pins and change...however she did say something rather interesting when she saw his face and bone structure.
"You wouldn't by any chance be Killua's older brother Illumi, would you?"
"How did you know?" he asked surprised.
"Killua mentioned his rather...interesting...family and how his older brother Illumi scares the living hell out of him when he's pissed. And your facial structure is similar enough to him for you to be related, but your age makes me think brother since you're clearly too young to be his father."
"How did you know I was Illumi though?"
"He said the only other brother who's older than him is fat as hell, and you are about as skinny as a scarecrow. Simple deduction after that."
Illumi made a note to speak to Killua once he got the boy to go home. Revealing something like that to a stranger was a bad idea in the line of assassination.
Though considering who they were talking about, Killua probably didn't think twice about it. Kurt was an unusually good assassin and by her own admission she had never trained in the art.
If she got any stronger the chances his parents would match her up with Killua or himself were very high...particularly if she did something to impress them...
Kurt managed to find Kurapika...in a cave...full of poisonous snakes...who were pissed at the group.
'What did they do to piss you off?' she asked the snakes. They were surprised to find a speaker nearby, so they answered.
'I'm afraid I can't allow you to kill them just yet. The medium one who doesn't stink of honey happens to be my hatchling mate. Is it possible you could let them out? They would most likely leave you to guard your partner...'
The snakes hissed among themselves...before opening a small path. Gon, who had likely heard the entire thing with that hearing of his, convinced the others to go through before the snakes changed their mind.
Kurapika looked at his sister in surprise when he realized she had just spoken to the snakes.
"You're a parselmouth?"
"A what?"
"Snake speaker."
"Oh that. I can speak to more than just snakes, but attracting attention is one of the things I learned early on never to do, so I just ignore it."
Kurapika tried not to growl, and more or less succeeded.
"I think I'll go look the other way while Leorio gets the last badge. Maybe Killua will play rummy with me again while we wait for the others."
"You get along rather well with him," Kurapika noted.
"Similar skill sets, similar thought patterns. He's easier to get along with than Gon in some situations...and he's not naïve."
Their group passed...but not before Kurapika nearly had a heart attack that she had somehow gotten on speaking terms with Hisoka...over her invisibility trick...and that he considered her a worthy opponent.
Netero looked at Kurt with some amusement. Aside from the rather interesting request, Kurt had shown several traits all good Hunters had.
Finding out the girl was a Nen prodigy and hadn't known it was a bit surprising, though it did explain her trick of turning invisible.
"Now then, who do you want to fight?"
"Killua, Gon or that archer guy."
"And avoid?"
"Hisoka, pin head, and Kurapika."
"Thank you, that will be all."
"...Is this going to be a tournament style thing where the winners get their license and the loser has to come back next year?"
"Maybe..."
"Then can I make a suggestion? Make my battle the last of the first round and I'll claim to give up for the remainder of the tournament. That way they all pass. You can just claim that little trick with the storm was part of the fourth round or something."
"Ohoho! I like the way you think! Get them all prepared to fight for their license then pull the rug out from under them! And since you won yours before the third round, everyone wins!"
"I just want this over with. My newly found brother and I want to have words with an old man who plays with sticks."
"Fortunately for you, the Hunter's Association doesn't have any jurisdiction over crimes in the Magical Communities, just as they don't have any hold on ours. Never thought I would see someone become a Hunter before a witch though."
"What?"
"I'll explain to you later, when the exam is over. Right now I have to interview the others!" said Netero cheerfully.
"What did he want?"
"Oh he's planning a rather boring tournament. Since the chances of me actually surviving that are next to nil, I came up with a rather amusing plan that he agreed to since I already earned my license in a little contest he had between the younger participants before the third task."
"What?"
"He said if we took a bright red ball from him as a way of amusing himself before he dropped us off, we would get our license then and there. I was the only one to succeed to my knowledge, so I already got mine. I just wanted to make it look like I got it with the rest of you."