Hello everybody! This Ayame Himura-chan yet again. I am here to bring you another Demonic Love! What will happen to Grace now that they guys hate her? How come Gon and Killua doesn't hate her? And who was the other person that hated her from the start? Don't go away and see this through! Here we go!
Grace's POV
Thank goodness that Fiona changed her ways now. Now that we're friends, she won't be lonely any longer than she has already… And these guys hate me. I bet that fat Tonpa wasn't affected by her Nen because he already hates me. I'm surprised that Lippo actually let her be an examiner. She's a Nen user, and Nen is when you become a true hunter, so why in the world that he allowed her to be in here… I shouldn't let that bother me.
Now that the guys hate me now, I wonder if we can progress the way. Not that even bothers me, but I have to protect them. Something weird is going to happen to them since I became part of the storyline. I wonder if there's any other changes other than me being here. I shouldn't worry about it until we actually come across the problem. So what should I do till then?
It felt like an hour since I became bored. I wonder if there is anything to do here. Nothing but total silence. I looked at the clock and… it was only a few minutes. Ah man. There is nothing to do here. Wait… I have my phone in my backpack, so I'm saved!
I went into my iTunes and clicked into my favorite song cluster. What should I listen to first…? Ah! I know! Knight of the Wind! I plug in my headphones and let the magic begin!
No one's POV
Knight of the Wind:
Whoaaa Whoaaaa Whoaaa Whoaaa Whoaaaa!
Hey all (hey all) welcome to the greatest storm
I know (I know) you have waited much too long
And I (and I) I will be your shining star
I'm here (I'm here) here to conquer near and far
She soon couldn't help herself and began to sing along with the song. The vampire just let the music to lift her out of reality and just made her sing all the way through.
Like the sun (the sun) I run (I run)
Into the heat of day
Like a knight (a knight), I'll fight (I'll fight)
Until the fight is won
In a rage (a rage), I'll save (I'll save)
Each and every, each and every, each and everyone
'Til this war is won
And I live to rule by the sword
She pointed her finger up and slash the air like Grace was a knight herself and 'slay' everyone who's in her way of victory and peace. Unknown the red eyed vampire, Gon and Killua was listening to her with every content. They can feel her exhilaration pumping inside her, like the last time in the airship. They nodded their heads to the rhythm.
Slashing through the
Every inch of the power, the power in you
As I sit, as I stand
By the table I command
My kingdom
I'm the knight of the wind
Whoaaa Whoaaaa Whoaaa Whoaaa Whoaaaa!
Hey all, (hey all) welcome to the end, it's near
I know (I know)
I will bring you pain and fear
On the ground (the ground), to the sky (the sky)
Faced with you and I
In a flash (a flash), I'm gone (I'm gone)
Holding your crown high
In a rage (a rage), I'll save (I'll save)
Each and every, each and every, each and everyone
'Til this war is won
And I live to rule by the sword
Slashing through the
Every inch of the power, the power in you
As I sit, as I stand
By the table I command
My kingdom
I'm the knight of the wind
The knight of the wind
I'm the knight of the wind
Our castle is a massive force
In a rock and roll way, Grace pumped her fist up and down. She let the Rock God just take her by the arms, but remained sitting. She doesn't want to raise any suspicion.
A stronghold of power
My armor stays unbreakable
In battle every hour
(Instrumental)
Whoaaa Whoaaaa Whoaaa Whoaaa Whoaaaa!
Like the sun (the sun) I run (I run)
Into the heat of day
Like a knight (a knight), I'll fight (I'll fight)
Until the fight is won
In a rage (a rage), I save (I save)
Each and every, each and every, each and everyone
'Til this war is won
And I live to rule by the sword
Slashing through the
Every inch of the power, the power in you
As I sit and stand
By the table I command
My kingdom
I'm the knight of the wind
The knight of the wind
Soon, when the music was done, there was an applause which surprised the vampire girl. She opened her heart and saw it was the two twelve year olds. She stared at them for a moment and said in a cold tone, "What do you two want?"
The two saw she didn't mean to be nasty, so they just shrugged it off. The fisher said first, "We were worried about you, so we came here, and soon heard your awesome singing! You're amazing as ever!"
The girl from reality eyes' widen. 'What… what did they say?' she stared at them like they were ghosts. She couldn't believe what came from their mouths. Did they really mean those words? Gon is a very honest person, and Killua is a weird boy, but he does know how to be someone's friend. "Guys…"
"And besides, we made a promise not to leave you! And we are here to keep it!" The black-green haired said.
The silver haired boy agreed, "Yeah, why would we even fall for her spell like that? Yeah, I was a trained assassin, so that means things like poison and hypnosis tricks won't get me easily!"
She saw the chibi version of himself and proud as can be. The two boys laughed. She smiled and laughed with the two. Then realized at the thought of something. She was a really suspicious person, so why in the world would he be her friend? "Say… Killua… Gon." The two stopped laughing and became worried for the vampire. "I have a ton of secrets. I want to tell you all of them, but I'm afraid you'll leave me if I do. And I have a feeling that you know I'm hiding many things, even if it's about you two, so why do you even want to talk to me? Why do you want to be my friend?"
Before Grace can continue, Gon said, "It's because I trust you! If you don't want to talk about anything personal, then I understand! I can't just leave you because you have a few secrets, that isn't right. And I know you have the right to keep them."
"Gon." She whispered.
"And my reason is that it seems like you and I are the same… yet different at the same time." Killua explained, looking in her eyes with seriousness. "You care deeply for many things, even if it was something that didn't like you. I can see that we're not different. Even you said it yourself. You carry a unique warmth… and I swear to protect you, even at the cost of my life. We assassin cared only for our lives. It was said that our only love is to kill, but then when you came, that warmth was all over me. I couldn't explain it, but you made me realize that isn't the case at all. Though you carry secrets with you, I can see you do it because you want to protect us."
Tears began to form in her eyes again. She wiped it away and hugged the two. "You two… you two are the best! I'm glad to have friends like you!"
They returned the hug with their own. Gon accepted her not because Grace was a vampire… or a girl. Like Killua said, it was because she has this warmth around her that no one has. The ex-assassin now knows what it is like to have friends. He now knows that Gon and Grace are his friends.
Kurapika's POV
What are those two doing? Do they know Sennosuke is dangerous? He was the one who sent Fiona to prison? So why in the world are they being friendly with him?
Wait… What is he holding? It's a white box… it's pretty small… like a cake…
"Oh! It's a cake that I made!"
What?! I don't understand. What was that?
"Killua! Allow Gon to have some!" He shouted.
"You know how much I like your cooking!"
"Yeah! But don't hog it all! Let me have some."
Oh those three… at it again… I couldn't help but smile at them. Wait… NO! Sennosuke is the bad guy here! Yet… why… I don't understand. Killua and Gon played with him like there was no tomorrow. Killua showed them his moves on his skateboard and Gon gave them a fishing lesson. During these 30 hours, they're acting like they're friends… I just hope you two know what they're doing.
Later
It's almost time for us to go. Now we can't lose any more time. We need to go… even if it's with him. "One minute left."
"This is one long minute," Leorio said.
The light flashed green and opened the way to us. Of course, Gon was the first one to run out there first along with the other two, Sennosuke and Killua.
Grace's POV
After that running, we soon found ourselves back at the arena… like in the anime -_- Man… all of that and nothing. We wasted a complete 34 minutes! I hate this stage with a passion! I don't hate Lippo, but I hate the stage that he made! Why do I have to go through this way! I just want to either go home and watch many anime shows or go to the next phase of this exam.
"We should have taken the stairs down." Killua said in a monotone way. I actually tried to convince them it was the right way because it was simple, but they wouldn't believe me. I nodded with him. If it wasn't for Tonpa talking them out of it, then we wouldn't have wasted all of that time just going in circles.
"Shut Up!" Leorio shouted, "We all agreed to take this route!"
"Not me," I muttered.
"What was that bastard?" He growled. I merely shrugged it off.
And like Hunter X Hunter 2011, there were dangerous rides, floors falling, and many more. I have to admit that this part is much more fun than the other than waiting around for about two days! I was actually helping them on the railroad track because it gave all of it acceleration. I know my fact!
When we out ran the bolder that was rolling our way, though I could've punched it into trillions of pieces, we were almost at the end.
"Man, I'm covered in dust." Killua complained. I looked at my clothing and it's the same with me. Damn it, now I have to clean these clothes, and people don't know how hard it is to clean 42 hundred billion ton clothing.
"Hurry up, we only have an hour left." Leorio panted.
We were at the point where we have a choice to open the door or not. Of course, we all did, but there was one who didn't. The door opened anyways, so I just entered in. It didn't matter to me, but those two are just wasting time of their own. I can't stand dumb bickering. Guess I have to come in and stop it.
"How stupid. I'm moving on." Killua replied in a bored tone. I found that he was next to me, that's until we see the near end. I smiled at him and he smiled back. I saw he got excited and got back to the others. "Hey Gon… we're getting close to the goal."
"What? Really?" I nodded.
They all decided to enter inside and saw our next task. "Let's see… This will be the last decision made by majority rule. Are you ready? Choose X or O. That's it."
They all chose, but Tonpa didn't because he loves to screw us up like he does for 35 years.
"Stop!" Kurapika scolded at Leorio, "We don't have time to argue about this!"
Uh oh… we're at this part. We'll be wasting time and I may have to be the ones that will stay here. Like the show, but not quite, four are going to the quicker path while all go to the difficult path. "Incidentally," he continued, "the long and difficult path require the minimum of 45 hours. The shorter path leads to the goal approximately three minutes. Press O for the difficult path, press X for the shorter path."
I can feel the tension in the air. What should I do now? I don't want anyone to fail this phase, but I need to look out for them by being in the exam. I want to quit for them, and yet I can't just give up like that. I don't see why we have to struggle.
"The examiners were very prepared." Killua said. I couldn't agree more. "I think they have every weapon under the sun here."
"Two out of four." Kurapika sighed. I understand how you feel now. I wish I could just… give up… but I don't know what to do. "So we're supposed to fight to decide the four who pass?"
Everyone is becoming much tenser than before. I don't want any blood shed… not like that time… that time… "Demon! We're going to die!"
No one's POV
Killua saw the struggle Grace is going through now. He doesn't care if he has to kill anyone. All he cares now is that he, Gon, and Grace will pass this exam. He doesn't care what will happen to the others, unless his friends pass.
"Hold on," everyone turned to Gon with a determined look, "I'm going to press O. we made it all the way together. I want us all to pass together."
"NO GON!" Everyone turned again to the vampire. She looked down as if she's disappointed in herself and closed her eyes. "I should stay here. Killua wants to be free, you want to find your father, Leorio wants to be a doctor and Kurapika wants to collect all the Scarlet Eyes, but Tonpa and I have no intention for anything at all… So it's pretty obvious that we should stay."
"No! I refuse to allow you to stay here!"
"I agree with Gon. Just forget about everyone else, but yourself. You are important to you. Don't do anything stupid."
The Kuruta was really surprised at the scene before him. Not only that Gon and Killua are defending 'him', but he even offered to allow 'himself' to stay here instead. A tear formed in his eyes which made his eyes widen. 'Why?' he asked himself. 'Why am I crying...? He doesn't deserve mercy for what he did! He never even deserved kindness! He's just acting!' Soon flashes of Sennosuke and him talking at the airship pledged his mind, gentle eyes… "Please stop it! Stop!'
"What the hell are you doing to me?!" He yelled at the only girl and grabbed his shirt.
"Kurapika!" The two twelve year olds shouted.
"Tell me!" She looked at him with shock… His eyes… were full of tears… he's crying. "Why do you make me feel like something is wrong?! Why are you in my head?! Why in the world are you making me feel empty, and why… tell me why I… Like I'm doing something wrong! It happened before, what have you done to me?!"
"Kurapika." She whispered. "Calm down. This isn't like you."
That's when an axe flung at the group. Everyone dodged, but Grace had to grab the blonde in order to keep him from getting sliced in two. He was attacking 'Sennosuke' with all of his might, and yet 'he' kept dodging them easily. He soon tried to attack the girl, but then it hit the wall.
Gon saw this and began to have one of his ideas.
Killua was as calm as ever, ready to protect Grace, "Guess we have no choice but to fight," he said as his nails became sharper than knives itself.
At the bottom of Trick Tower, a door soon opened with nineteen people waiting to end. Four people soon exited out of the door, all dusty and dirty. They were Kurapika, Grace, Gon and Killua.
"Sennosuke, applicant #405 is the twentieth to pass. Kurapika, applicant #404 is the twenty-first to pass. Killua, applicant #99 is the twenty-second to pass. Gon, applicant #406 is the twenty-third to pass. Total time, seventy one hours and fifty-nine minutes."
"My butt hurts," Killua moaned. "I didn't expect a slide for the short and easy path."
In the corner a clown/jester saw them and wondered, 'Four of them?' The vampire noticed his wonder and gave him a death glare to try to scare him off, but he just waved to the girl like it was nothing.
"That was a close one." the boy said.
"Yeah, I got blisters all over my hands." The Kuruta agreed.
Then, the older one of the six group were fighting on who gets there first. Grace sighed and laughed it off.
"Sennosuke." She turned to the blonde. She wonder what's up and tilted her head. A minor blush came across his cheeks, but it disappeared without her knowing there was a pink tint on him, even with her super speed. "I still don't know why you made me feel like I'm not sure of myself anymore. And I want answers from you. I don't care how, but I want answers. But… I guess I have to wait for them… and say… thanks."
He held out his hand and tried to keep as much pride that he has left. The offer was rejected which shocked him. "No… it was Gon's idea. All that thanks should go to him… not me."
A flashback soon started. Everyone chose the O path and it went to using the axes to smash away the wall. It was Sennosuke's turn, but they tried to reject other than Killua and Gon. With a single punch, 'he' took it down with a single strike. And with no time to waste, and went in.
"You see Kurapika." She said. "That's what makes him different than other people. He defies reason and always get an idea to do anything for his friends, even if he is a bit dull. Yet there's always a way for him. I don't think that impossible is in his definition."
Kurapika looked at the girl for a moment and nodded. He wanted to do something to her, but he couldn't figure out what it was. He merely shrugged it off and prepared… for the next phase…
Whew! That was a long night for me. Thank god that I finished it today! Now you will excuse me, I need to get ready for bed. I'm going to have some R&R while you should just read and review this story. Bye!