I'm bored. Review so I won't be bored. *sigh* Here's your next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own HxH. I own the Oc's you will find in this chapter.
Chapter 3 BeginningsXEmployeeXProblems
"If you two lazy butts don't keep up with me, then I will leave you behind!" Kei angrily stared over her shoulder, trying to wave them over. "And if you want me to continue with this whitey, then you must obey my rules. Don't be petty on me," ranting, she marched up a hill, ahem, more like a mountain it was.
"I didn't ask for this dumb brat," he muttered under his breath, scoffing. He left both hands in his pocket, muttering about how annoying this was. Since they were somewhere they didn't know of, she was their only source.
"If you wine, dumb baby, then I won't help you either." A smirked formed once again on her ravaging evil little face.
Gon walked up nervously, not only he had to figure his way up without tripping or running into something, he was left with them beginning an argument. (Again!)
Approaching, wind suddenly blew in their faces. Kei landed a stop, jumping around on the now flat (flatter) surface.
"Why did we stop? Is this the end," he teased a little, but she didn't care. Instead she ended off with a small explanation.
"This is a place I go sometimes. There might be some points of time you are here, that we will come here. It can also be used as a meeting spot, if that is what you want to think of it, and, or just use it as."
'If we come up here ten times a day, I'm done.' Outside, his face was normal, no frowns or angered face messages.
"Well. Go back down, and climb back up here," she started to command, but...
"What?! Why should we? I thought you were showing is the way through, not make us hike twenty times up and down." He assumed though.
"It's called memorization," Kei fled. "There are chances. We may not need to go far, so you need to know the way up yourself."
"I'll do it." Raising a hand, Gon stopped his tracks. "It might be better anyway."
'At least someone agrees.' "Now. Off you go. I will wait here. And don't take fifty hours, okay?" She fell to the ground, sitting with crossed legs and back straight, facing a small house directly behind. "I'm waiting."
Killua turned, black filled eyes again, marching his way back down. Gon followed with his nose, the only source he had, luring behind a little. And yet, he did trip, his foot right next to a rock. It was good that he wasn't hurt bad, but he was still father behind.
Unexpectedly, he made his way closer. Soon, minutes later, they reached the bottom.
"Come on, we can turn around now." He said with a mouth full of words to blurt out, except all turned out to be mutters.
Gon nodded slowly, taking a step up.
"Hmph. Hmph. Hmph." Laughed the blonde encountering Kei before. "You don't get it do you? They don't realize your true self, unfortunately. But, I'll find a way to let them know for sure." Unintentionally, his eyes seeped into all the screens of invisible cameras. "You should welcome yourself," he mumbled, pushing the off button. Then his fingers dashed around a small computerized board, and he did appeared in less than a second.
"Let's see. It's been...half an hour already. I don't expect them to get here already anyway. I just hope thought that he doesn't show up."
"Me? Were you referring to me?" Crossed armed, stood him again, the blonde cloaked man, with bits of decorative black on the blank white cloak. "I can continue to do this, whether you like it or not. I'm watching you, you know." She didn't make her way at him and instead looked down slightly.
"Pathetic, annoying butt."
"Call me whatever you like. But as a suggestion, just call me by my first name." His mouth reached abwarm smile, but it wasn't like that in her eyes. "You seem down all the time. You're only happy when you get to pick on people and ruin them."
The wind smoothly glided away, leaving her hands pinned to the ground. "Ah, I guess you have enough guts to even say that." Laughing, she put her head back, facing him, upside down. "I still don't get why you haven't kill me off. Will you ever? It's surprising."
"I'll come back later then," he finished off, exiting in a flash.
'He's never going to change. That could be good, cause he doesn't want to kill me for some weird reason.' Exchanging her look from behind, she moved them in front, and waited just seconds later before the two figures appearing. 'Finally!' "Again! One time I bet didn't do anything."
Three days passed by, nightfall came by. Her "training" she called it, didn't do anything, and instead tiring them out.
"Your training's over now. Starting sunrise tomorrow, we will continue." Lifting her finger, it lowered a little, adding on with, "You can rest all you want, but if you aren't up in time, you will be left behind and then your search for me will start. That will waste more time though."
Understanding her concept, they fell back onto the ground, wheezy looking.
It didn't look like it, Gon was already asleep in the first place when they stopped. He had chances though, since he didn't know what time it would be.
Laying against a tree, both, quietly they snored away.
Kei, for herself, turned on her screen, going to a control system. Pressings a button, a sign appeared in her eyes. Are you sure you want to do this? But obviously, she pushed yes, disappearing in a flash.
Gon opened his eyes slowly, still seeing the cloudy blurs around. The hint of colors he saw, it seemed like it was only close to sunrise. He tried falling back asleep, but it was no use. His aura grew, but then he felt no one nearby.
"Huuh?" he first said as a confused response. His hands moved left and right, and he felt something behind.
Killua, was it? No, the thing was completely flat and hard, like a type of concrete wall of some sort. Then it got him. He had been inside something. But those hints of colors. It couldn't have been in any way. Plus, he also felt rough, pointy bark behind.
Standing up, he followed along an edge, going straight in one direction, hand placed against the dark-ish grey trap.
Stepping feet was all he heard. His footsteps slamming onto the grassy field and crumpling pops of leaves. It wasn't so good then to think about it.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
The banging on the door the maid had been doing, grew louder, but no answer came to her.
Knock!Knock!Knock!Knock!
"This is pointless." In her pale white hand came up a rectangular shaped sign, the 'Do Not Disturb' sign. She sighed, unlocking the room.
Click! It went. The door creak, the room dim, small amounts of light coming from the curtain covered window. The TV sat on, weakly screeching. The console and controllers held the large amounts of aura, except she didn't see it because of the lack of knowledge she had of nen.
Again, she sighed, bringing her cart into the room to start cleaning.
"Hmm, I shouldn't leave it on, yet I should. I'll get in trouble by the manager if she finds out about this, but then again, if I do turn it off, I'll get a scolding from the two." Why care about the scolding? Well, for one thing, it was just a game. If they had left somehow without them knowing, they should have been back because the sign was still hooked onto the door handle. "I can let it wait one more day, two if that's possible.
Only cleaning up the things around, she rushed down the hall to check the next set of rooms to clean.
And she came back the next day, hoping to see that they were there.
Knock! Knock! Knock! she continued, no answer of course.
Once more, she sighed, lending her spare hand to open the door. No one sat. The TV was still on, with the same picture. The two "Now playing" things were on each top corner, but she ignored that, and walked away since nothing was left to do there.
"I can wait one last day. I'll just ask for an extra hour if that's all I need." Back slumped, she pushed the cart, again, away.
He felt the end of the wall. From then, the maid had checked for her final time, the third. The two had already been in the game for at least four days, the second when the maid checked for the first time.
He walked forward a little more, until...
"Waah!" Slipping, he fell back, trying to grip something before the end. A long branch stuck out the side. The cliff, a small one, he had fell into, showed its bottom not too far. He could hear water rushing, but he didn't know about some sharps rocks sitting there in the mean time. Now he was at the verge of dying. He was lucky that his hand only slipped a little because, if he fell, he was done for.
She made her way to the console, grabbing onto the plug. She smiled weakly, apologizing a little. "Sorry about this. But I have a job to do and this is wasting our money." The plug flew out, and the console died down, but the aura still stayed around. The TV shut off, going black, and the Joystation and the controllers stayed flat inside a drawer. "If you want a refund, we will only give you an extra day for free," she said, writing it down on a paper, and setting it on the TV stand.
There she left the room. What were the odds then of them even getting out? Or would they die even before they found the end?
Danger! Danger! Game Over! Game Over! Blackness now surrounded his eyes. He could only read the words appearing in front.
He thought to himself that moment forth. 'Is this the end of me? What's going on?' Running around his head, he got his head stuffed with questions.
No hand touched the branch. He no longer had been holding the branch anymore. He fell, down onto the rocks, and the cold water splashed him instantly.
The waking assassin got up, seeing the sun rising.
Looking around, he saw what he had seen before, but one thing. Gon wasn't there.
Turning his gaze at Kei, she sat a little ways ahead, facing away.
But before he could say anything, she interrupted. "Don't ask me. I didn't see him the first time I looked. I will bend the time. If you can bring him back before two days, I will continue to help. This is your next task." Commanding, she was this morning, he honestly didn't care. It was good that she changed the date to continue. Two days seemed like enough.
Running away, he headed the other direction of what she was facing.
'I guess he already knew the way.' Eagerly she smiled, raising up. 'Time to figure out the plan.'
He felt different this time about using his nen to go faster. He somehow felt that he didn't need to because of how close he thought Gon was.
But he felt for some reason, faint. His eyes reached their end. They fell black, and his tracks stopped. He slumped forward onto the ground, hoping this wasn't someone knocking him out. But it wasn't.
Danger! Danger! Game Over! Game Over!
'What's happening to me?" He lifted himself up, no where to look because every side he turned his eyes to, was just those words and blackness, pure dark blackness.
"You made a mere slip up of her, didn't you?" Questioned the blonde. He gave a solemn look, pressing a button on his screen.
Would you like to revive any character?
Yes, he put, typing in the two names of the two boys. Then he typed in the destination they would return to. The Hidden Dump, it was called, and was put in. The message was sent through, and the two were sent to a small room, light grey colored walls, ceiling, roof, just anything, but the door, and any being.
"Tough luck. Now's my chance to help."
Grey colors showed. The words disappeared in his eyes. Killua held onto his head, searching the room, with small shaking images. He went up left to the corner, down, then right, then in front, where his vision cleared completely.
His eyes widened at the sudden look he received. Seeping blood, with the mixture of black and green.
"Gon!"
Had to end there. I think this part of the story was rushed, compared to the original. But I want to make sure chapter fourteen doesn't have any of the first three arcs in it, like it was originally because then I would have to rewrite it on a new doc, instead of just editing how I write it (I think the story to chapter fourteen is good enough, I just want to reword it a little)
So have fun with the rest. I will try not to rush this too much.