The Blimp Ride

At the head of the airship, in an open room, the 42 remaining examinees listened intently to the old chinese man's speech. He wore a worn beige robe with red markings on the back. His puffy beige pants stopped at his ankles and his feet adorned wooden sandals. He had a grey beard and was bald excluding the ponytail on his head.

"I should introduce myself properly," he spoke out to the tense group. "I am Netero, chairman of the selection committee for this year's exam. I figured I didn't need to show up until the final round, but since I'm already here, I'll enjoy this nice, edgy atmosphere!! Hohoho!!"

"We'll arrive at our destination eight A.M., tomorrow," a short, bald, noseless man that Stasy recognized from the First exam explained to the crowd. "Until we notify you, please relax and enjoy the ride and the features of this ship."

With that said, everyone was released. "Come on, Gon!" Killua pulled the boy along. "Let's go explore!"

"Yeah!" he chimed, but then looked back at Stasy. "You wanna come?"

"I'll join you guys later," Stasy apologized, her mind obviously somewhere else. "I wanna talk to Asparagus-nii for a bit."

"We'll see you then!" Gon shrugged his shoulders and continued on. Killua followed but his ecstatic smile disappeared, as he secretly watched Stasy leave the room.

Hisoka sat in one of the many waiting rooms, stacking a perfect pyramid of cards. When he lay the last piece down, the structure crumbled, creating a pile of cards on the floor, as if to alert the prescence of the newcomer. Hisoka chuckled, which set people around him on edge.

"Hello, Asparagus-nii!" Stasy smiled broadly as she walked into the room and immeadiately zoomed to Hisoka's exact location. "Whatcha doin'?"

"Waiting for you," he replied. "The other you."

Stasy seemed frozen, and then her smile slowly faded away, and her bright, eager eyes grew cold and dark. "How long have you known?" the dark voice eminated from the small girl.

"Oh, since you turned into Melancholy," Hisoka picked up his cards and began another pyramid. "Those little boys may think you're only pretending, but I know who you really are." His little golden pupils moved in the thin slits to look at the dark girl. "The girl with nine lives, who destroyed the entire city of Kainstald. You have many different names by people who fear you. However, I would like to know your true name."

"My true name? Not even I know," the girl mused. "However, this personality is known as Malevolence."

"How fitting," Hisoka chortled. "Do you have a cute nickname like the others?"

"I have no need for one," she frowned deeply, her brows knitting furiously, a dangerous aura eminating from her. "Because anyone who has heard my name soon dies." She clenched her fists, the urge to fight oppressive in the air.

"Calm down," Hisoka sighed, already on the second row of his little pyramid, waving the girl off. "I have no desire to fight you as you are now. I've got my sights on another fruit. I am merely waiting for him to ripen until I can devour him completely." As he said this, his eye twitched and he licked his lips. Malevolence could tell he was getting excited.

"Who is it? Gon?" she inquired.

"Yes," Hisoka smiled even wider than he already was, as if he was remembering something nostalgic He was on his fourth row. "He holds potential. I can tell he will get stronger. I am merely waiting until he is ripe enough. And when he is, I shall-"Hisoka flicked a card in his hand"-pluck him."

"You're wasting your time on that boy?" Malevolence merely snorted.

"What's wrong?" Hisoka smirked. "Are you jealous?"

"Hardly," she retorted. "I just don't understand why you have your eyes set on him when he has a perfect specimen next to him."

"Killua? He's definitely curious, but I've already met someone even stronger than him." He caressed her cheek. "You."

The girl's expression darkened to an evil measure and a purple light glowed at the point of contact. Hisoka calmly pulled his hand back. It was burnt badly.

"Fiesty today, aren't we?" Hisoka chuckled, licking his wound, then he stood up in front of his finished pyramid. "All this conversation has gotten me hard," he sighed, picking up his cards. "I suppose I won't be seeing you anytime soon?"

"Not if Stasy can help it," Malevolence spat in disgust at the name. "She's still searching for a way to seal me."

"Well, then, I bid you, adieu," Hisoka bowed and then walked off.

Stasy was wondering around the many hallways of this enourmous blimp. To her left was a long row of windows that opened up into the night sky. The brown-haired girl sighed in serenity as she gazed upon the gliterring jewels below. It may cause light pollution, but it's still breath-taking from above.

She turned the corner just in time to hear a gruesome splash and to see pieces of human men soaking in a pool of blood on the floor, with Killua standing in the middle of it all, one arm covered in the red liquid, the other holding his shirt.

"Oh, my god!!" Stasy shouted which alerted Killua to her prescence. "We better clean up this mess! Someone might slip!"

Falling to her knees, she immeadiatly began to proceed in the task. Killua simply stared at her for a few seconds before his brain began to work again.

"You do realize I killed them, don't you?" he asked her.

"Of course, silly!" she giggled happily. "You're covered in their blood. Anyone could see that. Since you caused all of this you should help me too."

Killua couldn't help but laugh. Twice. Twice today, someone has seen his dark side and brushed it off as if it had no meaning. "Girl, I just don't get you. Most normal people would be running away by now, and the only thing you're worried about is if someone happened to slip."

"That's because I'm only allowed to feel one emotion," Stasy said as she continued her work. "Animalistic instincts would tell one that danger is near, but I don't have any instincts. While I am Stasy, I'm only allowed to feel ecstasy, and that's it. Plus," she added smiling up at him, "Fear is not one of my personalities."

What are you doing?! Are you going to blow our cover so early in the game?!

Yeah! What do you think we have been doing up until now, letting you be out all the time!

It's ok! I want to tell him. I'm planning on telling Gon too. Besides, Hisoka already knows, so its only a matter of time before word gets out who I really am.

We could always kill him before that happens.

Like we would have a chance.

Besides, Stasy's grin widened to a disturbing degree, He has no shirt on. I must repay him for this delicious treat.

"You know, Killua," Stasy said as she finished cleaning up the last bit of blood on the floor. "We're not so different you and I." She stood up and dusted herself off. She turned to him with the sweetest smile she could muster. "We both have killed millions of people."