Here is chapter four. This has been edited a lot, so there is a lot of difference between the writing style. The story is the same, but it's only rewritten.
Chapter 4 WishXHikariXToll
It was almost to confusing, how he ended up in this room. And how first of all, how the game over signal didn't send him out or even kill him. But worst of all, why had his friend been on the verge of death. Seeping blood was all he could see around. He couldn't even tell if he had been conscious!
"Gon!" was all he was able to say because of the tears that were soon going to flood around. This was never something he had seen since they first met, never at all, and more importantly, how it came to happen.
He tried to move, but his legs weren't working, as if he had no more control. He started to curse to himself, looking at the tile white floor. Banging the ground, black covering his eyes, he murmured. "This is all my fault. I should have been watching more." But this was the doing of someone else that created the wall between them, and it was during the night, so he assumed that both would sleep until the sun rose up. "It's all my fault!" he yelled, and those words jumped out over and over.
He didn't realize, but more blood came rushing out, except only little bits at a time. Both laying there, Gon getting closer to his death, Killua feeling worse and worse, the brightness of the top suddenly appeared. Footsteps echoed in the room. Looking up he saw black leather boots, making those echoing footsteps, a white blank cloak, only bits of black on the shoulder, black clothes for the rest, and blonde hair, short hair.
"I knew this would happen at some point," the voice was somewhat deep.
Eyeing him, he looked into the brown, orange-ish eyes, wide open, and the arms crossed.
"Who are you?" Killua asked in confusion, not knowing who this was, and not knowing why he had shown up. Was he some player or a character programmed by the game, or was this just a trick to his mind?
"Have you not heard of the Man of Tolls? Usually you would know." A grin almost form on his face, but he kept more of a serious expression.
This didn't ring a bell to him. He heard something similar to this name, but he wasn't for sure, since he was possibly only known by the players that entered. Finally he gave his response. "I've heard the name before," briefly saying. It wasn't much of a great experience though to actually see a character, since it was mostly good to see him because of what he was able to do.
"Well," he started. "It seems you don't know anything, so I will tell you the rules about what I can do." With his rules, it really wasn't complicated and there wasn't much. It could have been said to be really simple to understand, but hard to do. "I am summoned when I decide you need the help, mostly when you are injured from innocence. I could see how badly hurt your friend was, and I know how it happened. More forth, I came because he wasn't guilty to get hurt like that, and it wasn't his fault."
"So, what am I suppose to do? Make some wish? You're not a magical fairy, and I heard they don't exist in this game," he said sarcastically.
"Close, but no. You do make a wish, but that is not all. I like calling them requests, but whatever you decide to call it, you must pay a toll equivalent or greater. Depending on the request, if it is intense like the one here I assume you will make, you would need to pay something that is worth the same. If it is a minor thing, just getting a day off of something would work. Now do you understand?" he explained.
"Completely." Though that was a small lie. He almost understood the whole thing, but if he needed to hurry and the most he knew should have been enough. This was his chance to ave Gon from dying. Healing him before dying would be easier than bringing him back to life, especially if he couldn't bring back the dead. "I have a request then."
"And what would that be?"
"Heal all of Gon's injuries, in exchange for not using nen for a year." He was serious, no jokes. This probably would have been equivalent, possibly a little more, but no mattering for him since he would rather do this than not.
"Very well." He sighed. "I will heal him, and then once he is healed, your nen will be taken away." He made his way over to Gon, setting his hand above him. A light shined around his hand, and then it was pulled over to Gon, where the blood rose and then disinegrated, and his wounds were closed up. Light brightened his eyes, and the light disappeared.
His eyes opened the second after his lighting hand went away. He sat up, holding his head, seeing some shaking images. Then he gasped, looking at his hands. He...could see his hands.
Then he looked over, seeing the blonde and Killua. "Killua. I can...see you." His hair was messed up a little, but none of them cared. Somehow now, he could see clearly.
The blonde turned to Killua who was in shock. "What? You said all injuries, am I right? I counted his eyesight since it wasn't like normal."
Killua rubbed his eyes, getting rid of the tears still left on his face.
"Why didn't I think of this before? I could have used request earlier and-"
"I have one more rule," the blonde interrupted. "Depending on what the toll is, you have to wait until it ends to make another request. It's your own actions, so you will have to protect yourself somehow without your nen."
He didn't bother argue with that. Of course that could have been a rule since you could end up killing yourself in less than a minute, and it would waste the aura for the requests.
"So, now I have to wait a year until I get my back, and then I can make a request." Now he understood completely.
But, Gon heard what Killua had just said, feeling sorrow and confusion of why that happened. "I can't let that happen to you, Killua. You shouldn't have to wait a year to get your nen back. I won't let you wait a year." Then he looked over at the Man of Tolls. "I have a request." He guessed that was what they were talking about, that you could request something, and because of what Killua said about his toll, he had something. "Let Killua have his nen back, in exchange for...a year off my life span."
Kei got up to look for the two boys since Gon hadn't been seen at all, and Killua hadn't returned. It had been half an hour since, and again they weren't back.
Walking off from her spot, she began to search for them. After a few meters or so, she found footprints printed on the ground. Very few players ever came here, so it was confirmed that this was one of the two.
Getting towards the end, she stopped at the ending tracks. She looked up, seeing nothing ahead, no one in sight. So, she decided to continue on just in case more footprints laid, and that some had only disappeared. But after walking awhile, she found nothing. She had been close to where Killua disappeared, but he didn't leave any footprints. And Gon couldn't' have left anymore since he fell off that cliff.
"Maybe they went in a different direction," she told herself after checking a map. She had programmed this map to see if they were on it, but she was the only one on it.
She marked her spot, and then went off into a different direction, If she didn't find anything, she would just turn back around, and go and find the marked spot. But the problem she had, the cliff had been nearby, she only didn't see it, and she headed away from it.
"I can not accept that," the Man of Tolls explained to Gon.
"Why?" Gon asked angrily at him.
"It's not what your toll is, it's about your request," he answered softly. "Since he just made the request and toll, he needs to wait awhile to change it, even if someone else does it."
"How long?" Gon questioned. "I want the least amount of time."
"If he only waited two weeks, that would be fine. But if you wait two weeks without making a request about him, you can get his Nen back immediately."
Either way he did it, Killua would have to wait two weeks, but it didn't matter which one he chose.
"I'll do that, as long as his Nen comes back in two weeks," he decided.
"Are you sure? This toll will end once you die, so you will never be allowed to make another request again, ever!" He was right about that. The toll would end once Gon died. If he did die, how would he make a request anyway?
"Yes," he answered, no changes at all to it. "If that is what it takes to get Killua's Nen back."
"No," Killua spit out, interrupting. "You don't have to do this to me." But Gon ignored him and the man began to speak.
"Okay," he sighed once more. "I will begin then." He put his hands over Killua, and the light appeared. He only saw a glow, feeling his aura for a second, but then it disappeared from his eyes.
"Gon, you-" He stopped and looked away. "Don't be stupid...You didn't have to do that. I was going to be fine without my Nen." He started to cry again, but hid the tears, so no one could see then.
He rubbed his eyes again, getting rid of the tears on his face.
Changing the topic, Gon concluded his speaking. "So anyway, how do we get out?"
After taking every possible direction she could think of, she gave up. Each way she went, no one would appear. "Dang it! My plan will be ruined if I can't find them. He better not have taken them away." She cursed to herself, clenching her fist.
Moments passed, and an idea popped into her head. She realized that the cliff was ahead, somewhere she hadn't checked.
Once she got there, she looked to the bottom, seeing a river of water, as well as rocks, and red and black.
Finding a place, she slid down, slowing herself to a stop at the water. Black cloth was what she felt when she first picked it up. It was wet, both of water and blood. "I should have known earlier. This is him." Then she smirked. "Good though," a frown killed her smirk. "He took them away. I should have known that already." She squeezed both hands, gritting her teeth. "Next time I have the chance, I'm going to get rid of him."
"That's your problem," the blonde finally answered to Gon's question. "I only do the requests and tolls people make for me. I'm not a directer."
"Then we need to figure out how to get out ourselves." Killua tried to stand and started to get his legs to come off the floor. For some reason now, it was easier, and he actually had control of them. He decided to forget what had happened though. There was no point in arguing when it already happened.
Finally standing straight, forgetting how much it hurt, he walked towards a door. "Come on Gon. We need to get out."
Gon tried to stand up, but couldn't. Killua turned around and walked towards him, sighing. He picked Gon up and they both started walking off to the door.
The door opened, and Killua started walking through. Gon hesitated and turned towards the man. "Thanks a lot...uh..."
"It's Hikari," he concluded.
Gon waved thanking him once more, but Killua grabbed and dragged him away. The door closed and Hikari disappeared.
"No way I will see him again like," Hikari told himself. That was the last he was hoping to see them like that.
Gon and Killua entered into the room, a large room, that was crowded with stuff. Another door laid ahead of them, but far.
The two boys were getting used to walking, pretty fast, while being weak.
The room was so full, it would take them forever just to get to the end of the room to the other door. There wasn't a walkway, well at least three fourths of the way, there was a small walkway. And sometimes they had to climb up and down things because there were no spaces to squeeze through.
But when hey got to the end and found another door, Gon opened it and they both walked out. Grass came and there was sky, dark filled sky.
They walked all the way out far enough to see everything around them. Just grass, sky, and mountains. And the two rooms behind them that they had been in. They were in the game, but they got transferred somewhere far from where they had been. Miles and miles they would have to run; it would take them hours, or possibly days!
"We need to find the right way. I don't want to guess and then I end up being wrong," Killua explained briefly. He remembered having the map. It showed the places he had been to. But, wherever he was, only the spots he had been to were marked far away from him.
He opened the map and saw a small spot with green that marked where they were before. He scrolled to the left, and found another spot marked. Then he scrolled right, to check if something else was marked. A long pathway was marked there. Killua went back to the left. "I don't remember being here."
"How come it's marked then? You should have been there for the map to mark it." Gon said and then opened his map. "What?! Mine's marked too. Maybe we were there. What if that really is where Kei is."
"I don't know. But I want to see what it really is." Killua walked off into the direction of the small marking.
"Killua!" Gon shouted, trying to stop him. "I don't think that's a good idea."
Killua stopped. "Good idea, or not. I'm going to check. If it isn't where were going, we will turn around and head for the other area. If Kei does get mad at us, I'll just tell her that we couldn't find where she was."
"But—" He stopped talking and instead ran towards Killua. "Wait!"
Catching up, they headed towards the spot, going in the wrong direction.
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