Haha! I'm already at Phase Three. :O This is going by fast. (Well I mean the exam.) But this might be the only fast arc. (Of the amount of chapters.)
I read this over. (Changed/added a few things while reading) and realized that I forgot to mention that I am saying Phase One, Phase Two, Phase Three, etc. i forgot to mention it on chapter two. But what I am saying Is that if you read my other fanfics with the Hunter exam, I say the first exam, the second exam, etc. I don't know why I didn't say Phase because that is what they say in the show, along with other fanfics where people saying Phase. (Basically what I am saying is that I am using Phase instead of Exam.)
Well there you go. Read and enjoy!
Chapter 4 Gutano X And X Tsumaera
Suddenly the airship stopped, and many, many tiles appeared. There were a million all over an enormous circle top building. The Third Phase must have been there. Hano awed as he walked out, oblivious to who was around him, except fot Tsuma, who had been right next to him.
"Now it begins with this." Tsuma hit the ground, feeling the tile. "Oh well, I thought differently about what it was like."
"The inside must be different." Hano fell to the ground.
"If there is one," Tsuma corrected in response. "I can't wait to see how many people are left after this last phase."
"The examiner said that we need to get to the bottom. There must be a way in."
"That's probably true, also due to the one guy who tried to climb down the side. I will do anything else than climbing, since I don't want to be eaten by a man eating bird."
Hano laughed as if it was halarious. Then Tsuma stepped back, and his legs got caught in something. Soon he was gone after falling through the ground. The ground beneath him came and he hit it feet first, then his back onto the ground.
"Huh? What happened?" Hano stood up. He reached his hand for a tile and it moved, showing bars.
"Ouch." Tsuma rubbed his head. "I'm never doing that again." Then he looked around from left to right. "Where am I?"
Then he heard a creak up above, and someone fell down onto their feet. "Glad to see you." It was Hano, and he smiled. "I saw you fall down and noticed that there were tiles that could move up and down, so I jumped down a different one nearby."
"I still don't know where I am." Tsuma crossed his arns and sighed as he sat on the ground, legs free in front of him. Then he heard a voice.
"Welcome!" Tsuma gasped and turned towards an intercom. "I am the examiner for Phase Three. You can call me Lippo. I will start by telling you congratulations for getting inside." Tsuma twitched and eyebrow. He smirked unhappily.
'How is this a congrats? We only made our way in the first part.' He began to stand up from his spot. 'This better be good.'
"If you notice to your left, there is a door. And if you notice to your right, there is a stand with two watches. Put them on, and then I will explain the rules for getting through Phase Three." Hano did, and the two ends clasped together easily. Tsuma did the same. "Now then. On the watches are a X and an O. On the door, there is a question. The options are given up above the door." They turned to see the door having a question.
It read: Would you like to open the door or not open the door?
"Dumb question. Its obvious." Then he read above. The answer to open it was X and the answer to not was O. "X, obviously. I didn't expect the exam to be this easy. Maybe I judged it wrong." X was pressed for both of them, and the door slowly lifted itself up. The entrance came and a gigantic room came up.
And there, laid a man sitting on the other side.
He laughed psychotically in a way of eagerness and happiness.
"Who's this?" Hano put his figer on his chin.
The man continued to laugh. "I love to sight of two young boys. You won't stand a chance against me. Screams, torture, agony, are all I care about. I will tear you both apart to every last bit until you are gone."
Tsuma twitched his eyebrow again. He clenched his fist. 'Creep.' He gritted his teeth hard. "Give me a break. I've had enough with these stupid games during the exam. I will rip you apart if you come near me."
"Hmph. I like you kid. You aren't afraid of death I see. How about we have a one on one match. You and me. Deal?"
"If that's what you want." He shrugged. He took his jacket off and a white shirt appeared, a short sleeved shirt. "Give it your all. I'm ready."
"Heheheh. Now your dead." His finger lifted up into the air. He stood up and ran towards Tsuma, but he dodged the attack the was thrown. He jumped back, falling to the ground on his back. "Can't handle a dodge, eh? You are no match for me then." He licked his lips with redness on his tongue. "You didn't notice then. Look at your arm."
Tsuma checked it. Fear entered him quickly, quicker than he had ever been. His eyes widened more. His arm was covered in red. Blood seeped down his arms up until the palm of his hand.
'When did he...?' White hair went on his face. The spiky white hair of the man lightly touched him. His face was in front of him, with starings of suffer that entered into his eyes. His stomach became numb and it hurt bad. He fell to the ground as his hair swooped around. His eyes became darker, the agony filling him.
"You see..." He smirked. "I used this knife to cut your arm. I used your arm so I could distract you. Then I ran up to you before you noticed, and there you know. I stabbed you. Now you will die from the mass of blood loss."
Tsuma's eyes saw whiteness all around. He watched the man put his head above him. Tsuma reacted with nothing, his mouth partly opened and his eyes partly opened. His arms laid wide open, flat on the ground. Blood seeped the ground all around. His ears heard nothing. Then the blank white carried all over him.
'Did I die? No, I couldn't have. I can't leave Hano alone. He can't survive on his own. I need to help him before the same thing happens to him. I don't want him to die." Then blue appeared in his eyes. He felt wind and grass on him.
As a quick response to himself, sitting up was the only option. He sort of recognized the place around him.
Then a realization. He had been in the place from a few days ago.
Next to him was a darker spot and he used it. It opened, filling with dust. He coughed with his hand ahead of his mouth and the other waving the dust away. The steps were still their usual, hard stone with chips off.
But the path was too confusing. He hadn't remembered a single bit of every detail Nami had told him. Left, right, straight, that was all he remembered, but the order was not what he could determine.
He took random paths, hoping he would chose the right pathway, but none were right. It was nonsense to even remember. He might as well have a map in his head to show the way.
But with all the twist and turns he made wrong, a different door came. It had a sign like Montoyari's sign. This one had said. 'Furanwor.' (Pronounced Fuu-rahn-war) Another city perhaps?
He opened it and checked for someone who could help, but as he entered the mischevious place, a guard pointed a staff with a sharp knife on top, at his face.
"Who are you, and why have you entered into this city?" he ordered impatiently.
Tsuma put his hands up in the air. "Sorry. Sorry. I came to the wrong city. Now I should go." He tried to turn, but the guard threatened to hurt him if he moved an inch.
"Leave?" He laughed hard. "Can't you read kid. The sign clealy said Furanwor. No one would come in here and say they were in the wrong city. It gives you a warning. Now let me say that you must be a thief or a spy. If you are new here to live in the city rightfully, then you would have spoke with the second command servant."
"Second Command Servant?" he asked confusingly.
"Don't play dumb. Do you know what happens when an intruder comes into our city? We take them in and treat them as the master says. The master always turns down the intruders, good or not, willing to do something or not."
"I don't know who your master is. All I know is that I fainted, came to this world, which somehow happens to be my dreams, and I tried to find my way to my own city where I am welcome." he said truthfully.
"Your city? Ha, we don't care about anyone who doesn't live here. Every other cities here are our enemies. Now I will take you into the master, so we can get this over with."
He was taken over to the room where the 'Master' had been. He sat in a chair and turned himself around to speak.
"So I see we have another intruder. What shall I chose now?" A light brown haired man got up from his seat. "Bring him over. I wil check him before I decided his punishment." Tsuma was pushed over by the guard. He turned his head to make an annoyed face at the guard. Then he turned back at the master. "Who have we here?" He looked around Tsuma, checking him.
"Your wrong for taking a twelve year old child in. How can I even be an intruder? I don't have any weapons with me. What proves this?"
"Silence. Don't speak unless I say so." He rubbed his chin, changing the topic. "You seem familiar. But its possible that its not who I think it is." He continued to rub his chin. Then he laughed. "I beg my differences. It seems like it is you then, King."
"King? Let me get this straight. I am an intruder, and now I am a king. This is all wrong in many ways."
"You don't know then, do you. Well I can't blame you. You aren't who you were from before. I will tell you then."
'Oh gosh. First I come here as an intruder. Next I'm a suspect. Then I become a prisoner. Then I am referred as a king. And lastly he wants to tell me something? This is way too confusing.'
"Ten years ago, this world, which we call Galianton, had a king to rule over it, to watch and help we Galians. But nine years ago, the ten communities broke into war, trying to see who would get to have the King to live with them. Two of the communtities were gone, leaving eight. So the other eight, turned into three clans, using two or three communities joining each other. The three clans which we call Tsumaeru, Dalonte, (Pronounced Doll-on-tay) and Xantobi. (Pronounced Shan-Toe-bee) We are the Dalone's in which we live here in Furanwor, with three communities joining together. Xantobi lives in a city called Bhunpo, (pronounced Boon-po) in which three other communities joined each other. There it left the Tsumaeru's, who were two communities, and they live in Montoyari. From there, we three clans broke into war six years ago. But then you left because of all the nonsense. Finally six years later you showed up again."
Tsuma sweat dropped. "I'm not getting anything into my head. I need more details in this. Its too confusing."
"It won't matter anyway since you will be sentenced after this. As I was saying though, you decided to live with the Tsumaeru's so everyone would stop getting into war. You betrayed us, so we thought that getting rid of you would help us. If we get rid of you, all these wars and decisions will end, and I will rule over this world. It will start with you, then the Tsumaera's and the Xantobi's will die off, leaving us Dalone's living."
"Cruel and harsh." He stuck his tongue out. "How will sentencing me do anything?"
"Because the Tsumaera's need you and the Xantobi's still think you can serve them, but only by a little. So if you die, they will become weaker from fear and depression."
"Crazy person. I would rather not die, not because of this king thing and you ruling this place, but I have other things I need to do that I haven't done. I can't die in order to do those."
The master laughed hard. "You don't see what this place will be after I rule it. I will make sure you die so you can't get in the way. Take him to Valince."
"Are you sure master?" The guard gasped. "He doesn't seem strong. This is him in the past. He seems weak, weaker than he should."
"I don't care how weak he is, I won't take any chances. Take him there." The guard grabbed him. Tsuma turned his head towards the master. He gave the death glare at him and the master smiled with an evil look in his eyes. The hatred in him filled Tsuma.
Soon he arrived in a room deep beneath the large building. He stood on a circle, a small one, with his neck having a chain surround it. He waited for whoever this Valince was, and soon it arrived.
It was huge, an animal. The fury brown creature. It looked like a large dog, but it wasn't exactly one. It looked like an enormous dog, but it was something else. No one knew what it was exactly. But its claws were sharp. It could cut through thin metal easily.
Many guards surrounded Tsuma and the dog like creature. The ceiling was only five feet above him. A vent laid a top of him.
"Let the sentence begin!" The guards cheered out of happiness.
'Wow. They really want me dead, don't they?' Tsuma's lasts thoughts came.
The dog like creature approached him, its claws getting bigger and bigger. But then something above him was heard. Tsuma looked up, seeing a cloaked figure staring at him. The person had a black cloak on with the hood on his head and his mouth covered. All he could see was the eyes and the strands of hair on the man's forehead.
"Who are you?" He whispered in moments. The cloaked man moved the vent and spoke.
"Do you want to live?"
"Heck yes I do." He frowned.
"Well then, I will come down." The man's voice was soft. He didn't recognize the voice, but he still had the feeling he knew this person. His hair was red like Tsuma's and his eyes were the same color. He slowly jumped down and no one noticed. He quickly broke the chains in less than a second, as if no one had been there. Everyone yelled and ran down. The cloaked man jumped up onto the small circle platform Tsuma had been on and pulled himself up into the vent hole. From there, he pulled Tsuma up and they headed towards the exit.
They got out fast before anyone noticed and ran towards the exit of the city. All the guards, but a few remained by the exit, due to most of them being inside to watch the sentence.
"Who are you anyway?" he wondered as the man threw something at the few guards. They fell down from becoming numb.
"Glad you asked." He opened the door and they both ran out. "While I take you to Montoyari, I will explain myself." Tsuma nodded in agreement. "You may not believe me, but if so, my name is Hunter, like you."
"How do you know me?"
"Its easy. Your the king of course. This world is different than before. It not even a world actually. The people here think it is, but is not. All of this is your dreams. Its basically the world inside your head."
"But I still don't get why they call me King. I just recently found out about this place."
Hunter sighed. He placed his fingerless gloves on his forehead, along with his hand which had the gloves on. "I want you to know who I really am, but now's not the time. And my name is Hunter, but you don't know me fully. And you wouldn't know my friend fully either. But soon you will meet him."
"Can I at least know more? Even if its not all, I can still get to know you better."
"Right. First of all, you will need to know my age, but only for a certain reason. I am eighteen along with my friend. Don't wonder why I am telling you this, but its important for when you know me fully." Then teen turned right in the passage way. "Another thing is that I was part of the king's system, so I know you. But I left it for a reason. And I was told this and told myself. This is a message to you."
'Message?'
"Do not continue to be the King. Its not a good idea. This place has gone all over the place because of what you did in the future. I want to change the past like that one guy wanted. But this is so everyone can live peacefully. If you stop becoming the King and live, then this place will be back to its old self. It was a bad decision to make with these wars going all over the place. People are dying because of this 'who gets the king' nonsense. So choose to not continue to be the King here."
"I didn't want to be one in the first place. And this is just a dream. So why does it matter if this place goes through like you want to stop?"
"I knew you would ask that." Tsuma stared at him blankly. "Actually I found out this just recently. If you die here, then you die in the real world. Your mind will be messed up and because of that it will increase damage to your body. Its already starting, so you need to stop it."
Another door appeared. This time it had said 'Montoyari'. The door opened and the guards didn't do anything, except greet Tsuma.
"Welcome back Tsuma-senpai. The city has been waiting for you to come back, along with Master Gutano. He is waiting for you."
"That's where we are going," Hunter explained.
"And who are you?" the guard questioned.
Hunter gasped. "Call me Bob." Tsuma sweat dropped and faceplamed. "I am helping him right now because I was ordered to."
"Well then, Master Gutano is waiting for you."
Then they went towards the large building.
"How come you lied to them?" Tsuma looked around.
"I can't show my true identity, except to Master Gutano. I had to fake my name in order to pass. But the helping you thing is true."
Tsuma shrugged. "Makes sense. But out of anything, why chose that name?" He slowly moved his head left to right.
"The world works on truths and lies. Lying must be done quickly if needed or else you may not get through things. But I'm not saying you should lie anyway. I only had to so I could cover up my identity." Once again, he facepalmed.
Later they arrived in the same room Tsuma had first seen Master Gutano. He greeted Tsuma and Hunter.
"Its good to see you again Tsuma. And same thing Hunter. Where have you been off to?"
He took the cloak hood off his head and his hair showed. His eyes glowed yellow.
"Wait a minute. You both know each other?"
"You didn't tell him. Good. But since no one else is around, I will allow you to give out your true identity."
"Okay then." He turned to Tsuma. "The truth is. And believe me about this. My full name is Hunter Tsumaera." Tsuma's eyes widened. "I know its surprising, but its true. I am you six years later. I came here to help you and to stop you from becoming the king. Everyone is struggling because of this. Its both of our faults. But since you haven't chosen if you want to become King or not, there is a way to stop this war against the three clans. You can stop it."
"Why me? I can't do anything. I wasn't even a part of this in the first place. Can't...can't you do it?"
"No...I can't. I live in the future where this place is different. I chose to leave so I could see how this would become, but it got worse. If I change the past, there won't be any future because then there would be two of us. But the problem is, is that you only have one chance. You must be trained to fight in this next war. It starts in six months and you have until those six months to train."
"Its time to leave now. Both if you. Tsuma, I want you to come back again when you are ready to learn the ultimate technique only the Tsumaeru's know. We can win if you help us. But you aren't ready to learn it. I know you are still taking the exam right now. Finish it and then you will be ready."
"I guess I will then."
"I should be going. See you later Master." Then he placed the hood of the cloak onto his head. He left the room and returned to where he needed to go.
"I will send you out now. I know what's happening in the real world, and I will make it so you can survive." He put his hand up. "Next time you can come is after the exam. That's when I will show you what you are suppose to do."
"Thanks anyway." He smiled and then he disappeared.
His eyes opened up. The man had been facing the other direction, away from Tsuma. He was facing Hano, who held up the gun he had. His back laid against the wall, and he had been frightened. Tears streamed down his face.
Tsuma stood up, and lumped over to the man.
"Heheheh. You can't even pull the trigger. I will tear you apart." Then he stopped. He looked down and the knife had been in his stomach this time. "What? How?"
"Because I don't like people who kill. I've learned that in my head. I won't let you kill anymore. But I won't kill you either. If I can survive being stabbed in the stomach, then you can." Tsuma's eyes were dark. The man fell to the ground. He groaned and he laid there motionless. Then Tsuma walked up to Hano. He put down the gun and took it out of his hand. "Don't worry, you didn't have to kill him. We should continue forward." Hano's face changed from worriness and sadness, to him smiling again with joy. He wiped away the tears and got up from his spot. "We should get out soon anyway because I don't have any badages to cover this up."
"We don't have to rush." He opened his bag. "I always have first aid on me. He took out a set a bandges from his bag. "You never know when you need this stuff." Tsuma laughed at the joke. He wrapped himself and the bleeding stopped. Then they moved forward down towards the bottom.
"I need to tell you something important," Tsuma went. He finally had the urge of saying it. They had gotten to the bottom hours later, and he finally was willing to speak. "About those two times I fainted, I woke up in my own world which happened to be my dreams. I met someone that is suppose to help me after the exam. And I have to stop this war from happening or else I can die and the future can be different. You might not believe me, but its true."
"I will believe you on this. I don't think you would lie to me anyway. I can tell also that you are saying the truth." Tsuma looked up. The exit appeared and they finally reached the bottom with fifty-two hours remaining. The only spent thirty hours taking the path they chose, but most of it was from choosing two different paths in which one was longer, but it was easier. They choose it since the amount of time was less then the remaining time they had left.
Now they had to hope the other four made it out in time. That was all the worrying that had left. Not even the war was something Tsuma worried about yet because he knew it wasn't important at that moment.
But was it worth starting to focus on so early?
Next time on Hunta To Hunta-
Hano: Guess what?
Tsuma: Don't tell me its that you finally learned how to use that gun.
Hano: No. It isn't. But I found out something. Phase Four.
Tsuma: What about it?
Hano: I know who my target is, and its most likely going to be easy getting their badge.
Tsuma: *laughs lightly* Those stupid cards. I had to get someone I don't know who it is, and I might have a challenge against whoever I have. I may end up getting three other points instead.
Hano: Good luck on that! *Gives a thumbs up and grins*
Tsuma: Who is your target anyway?
Hano: *dun, dun, dun* Won't tell you. And this time we should split up so we can find our targets more easily.
Tsuma: Sure. And I'll end up getting my butt kicked after getting someone I wish I hadn't because I'm weaker, and then I end up fainting again.
Tsuma and Hano: Next time on Hunta To Hunta: Predators X And X Prey
Hano: *laughs hard* You just gotta hope.
Tsuma: Whatever you say. *shrugs*
Only the fourth chapter and the exam is half way done. I was planning in making it this short because the exam isn't that important. But after the Zoldyck arc, I think all the other arcs after that will be long.
Answers to reviewers:
DeadlyPinkFluffyUnicorns: Thanks for last chapter's review. :) And yes he is a nice person. But with what you've seen with Dalonte's master, and the war coming up, Master Gutano may change. (But just during the war. He may just end up not acting happy all the time like Hano does.)