"Are you serious?!"
Chelsea glared at Dayu's bewildered look, repeating her story again.
"I just had a friendly conversation with terrorists and got away with it. What's so hard for you to absorb?"
Hisoka merely snickered at the younger boy's reaction. Chelsea's experience hardly surprised him. She was just amazing that way.
Dayu finally calmed down. "You say they were celebrating with the wine fountain, Chelsea? That probably means something terrible has occurred to the other players," he stated.
"What do you mean? I've seen psychopaths celebrate before without reason," Chelsea replied.
Dayu gave her a weird look. "Last time players saw the Bomb Devils drink, half the island player population had been blown up," the green-haired boy simply added.
"I see. Well, I guess that will make it easier for them to find us, then," Chelsea observed, and Dayu nodded grimly.
"Correct. Our card collecting must proceed much faster, then, unless you have another purpose for entering this game?" Dayu questioned, seeing the nonchalant look on Chelsea's face.
"Actually, yes. I do have other goals on Greed Island," the young assassin stated, letting Dayu wait for her reason.
"Well?" the boy continued impatiently.
"My other friend is supposed to be here. His name is Gon Freecss. I wish to look for him."
***
"Ne, Killua!" Gon shouted, lashing out at Killua suddenly with his fist.
Killua gracefully dodged. "Ya, baka! You have to try harder than that!"
Gon growled with effort, swinging a multitude of kicks at Killua next, which Killua continued to dodge before quickly countering.
In the midst of the two boys' fight, a yellow-haired figure watched, hands on her hips. Her pupils' training was going on quite well. She was very pleased.
"Time's up! You two can rest for today. You did great!" the figure called in a girl's voice. Gon and Killua leaped out of the training pit and onto higher ground, wiping sweat off of their foreheads.
"Thanks, Bisky!" Gon called back before sitting down on the ground, sighing. "Wew, training on Greed Island is so challenging sometimes-"
"-because I'm your opponent," Killua finished, earning a playful slap from Gon.
"Don't be so full of yourself, Killua." Gon stared absentmindedly into space. "You know who might be strong enough to test our new strength?"
"Hmm?"
"Chelsea-chan! I heard she's been hanging out with Hisoka lately! That probably means she's been training to be super powerful!" Gon cheered excitedly.
Killua only nodded. "I guess so."
"We'll run into Chelsea-chan soon. I'm sure of it."
The mysterious girl named Bisky only listened on in interest.
***
"Where do you think Gon is, Chelsea?"
"Just wait, and he will come. It works for me every time~"
Chelsea waved off the two guys' comments. "We should continue in the direction of important cities with lots of player resources. Gon is bound to be there."
"Great idea, but we should train in the meantime, don't you think?" Dayu suggested. "Genthru and his guys are bound to be more than enough of a match to handle should they turn on us." He eyed Hisoka warily from the side. "We wouldn't want Hisoka to fight them alone."
"True." Chelsea skipped ahead, kicking a rock into some bushes in the path. An animal yelp could be heard, and the girl winced. "I'll take you up on your offer for training. For a guy we just met, you are pretty good from what I've seen."
"Excellent." Dayu flipped to land in front of Chelsea. "Let us start, then, and give our slow venture another purpose."
The group moved into a small clearing, where Hisoka perched on a nearby tree limb to observe the fight. Chelsea and Dayu readied themselves.
"This is warm-up. Give me as much Nen or physical power as you wish," Dayu commanded.
Chelsea nodded, already preparing her next three moves. "Got you."
Dayu was suddenly in front of her, throwing a kick at her head. Chelsea moved her arm over to block the kick. A loud smack echoed through the trees before Dayu tried again, twice as fast.
A thump was heard. Chelsea had caught Dayu's leg midkick, using the force to fling him to the ground.
"Pretty good. We've got physical attacks and counters down, I see," Dayu noted. Chelsea gloated in her most recent move as her friend got up from the ground, rubbing the dirt off of his clothes.
"Since that was so easy for you, Chelsea, let us move on to Nen. I will show you some techniques The Devils might use against you." A fog with a thick consistency rolled in, obscuring Dayu from sight.
"How are you supposed to do that?" Chelsea questioned the empty air, swatting experimentally in front of her. Dayu's aura had been cloaked, and physical sensation was the only sliver of hope at this point. Unfortunately her swat returned no signs of human presence.
"My Nen will help us. You've seen some of my prowess. Let's say I can mimic anything to the extent of what I have observed about it and fill in any gaps of its behavior with educated guesses."
"I see. Mimic as well as you can and come at me," Chelsea challenged. Her katana was in hand, ready to strike with its aura-enhanced blade.
"Very well," a raspy voice answered. Genthru. Chelsea watched in amazement as a tall, lanky figure similar to the head bomber emerged from the fog, smiling crookedly. "This shall be Pseudo Fog: Trial One," the transformed Dayu announced in Genthru's voice.
Chelsea spun rapidly, dissipating the fog around them for visibility. The fake Genthru stood in the middle of it all, crooked smirk plastered on his face. Chelsea landed behind him ready to land her killing sweep when the man suddenly turned around, grabbing her small hand in his massive one.
"Little Flower!"
Chelsea gasped as the Genthru transformation let her go at the last second before a small explosion rocked the field, sending Chelsea flying back into Hisoka's tree. The clown leaped off, bloodlust flaring.
"That," the transformed Dayu stated, turning back, "was Pseudo Little Flower. Not even half as strong as the real one."
"A death by explosion sure sounds great," Chelsea muttered. Dayu sighed at the girl's sarcasm, strolling over to where she stood.
"I hope you've at least picked something up from my demonstration." Dayu sat on the ground, displaying a bit of his wariness after the transformation. Bombers put quite the strain on him to replicate.
"I did. Hope you aren't too tired now that I'm ready to take anything on." Chelsea smiled at the slight annoyance that creased Dayu's face for a moment. "Anyway, we go to find Gon now."
"Are you serious?" Dayu whined, but Hisoka and Chelsea were already ahead of him. "Hey, wait!" He rushed to catch up to them. "I wasn't tired at all!"
Chelsea barely cast a glance back as she took to the trees in the forest now ahead of them. They were finally going to find Gon.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MY LOVELY READERS!
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