“SHo You Cam Eben Vuy Bood?”

(So, you can even buy food?)

Said Gon eyes shining with excitement while munching on his hamburger. Velena swallowed her food before replying.

“First don’t speak with your mouth full Gon and yes you can, HxW2 is first and foremost a trading website.”

“Cool!”

She turned around to look at Killua who was frowning while eating chocolate, this is rare, Killua don’t frown with chocolate in sight.

“What’s up?”

“I think we should move ahead.”

They were running again not much behind Satotz, and Velena understood why he was frowning she could also feel the killing intent, she simply wasn’t minding it too much.

“Yeah you’re right, we don’t want to lose sight of the examiner.” Gon was was completely obvious.

“I’m more concerned with Hisoka, I can smell danger from him.”

“Smell? I don’t smell anything.”

Velena nearly snorted at Gon smelling the air like a puppy.

“Hey leorio, Kurapika. Killua said we should go on ahead.”

This time let out a chuckle while Killua gave him a disbelieving look.

“You really don’t know how to feel tension, do you?”

“You idiot, if we could we would have already gone.”

“Go ahead, we’ll meet you there.”

Came the reply.

“Ok, let’s go.”

“Wait hold on!”

She stayed in pace with the two boys still eating at her burger.

It didn’t take long for them to get lost and separate from the others, Velena could find them easily but she was not in any hurry and didn’t want to interfere with the exam as much as she can since it can become a valuable experience for the boys.

She sensed something and stopped in her tracks.

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“Velena?”

Killua turned their head toward her perplexed, only to see her eyes full of mischief giving him a bad feeling before the ground trembled and he felt everything go dark.

Velena repressed her laughter and sat on top of the giant...frog? Waiting for them to find the way out. She wasn’t the least bit concerned, Killua can easily get out.

That is why she wasn’t surprised when the frog retched them out.

“I think she didn’t like how we tasted.”

Gon let out a nervous chyckle.

“It was this stuff.”

Said Killua while taking out Tonpa’s drink.

“To think you were saved by laxative, Hahahahaha!!!”

They only now saw Velena watching them laughing her ass off.

“You knew it was there and you let us get eaten on purpose!!!!”

Accused Killua with tick mark.

“Relax Kill, you should look at the bright side.”

“What bright side?”

He leaned over her with arm crossed, she gave him an innocent look.

“You fed it laxative and still got went out through the mouth.”

It took them a moment to get her meaning before they started retching.

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“Gon?”

See Gon turn back, Velena was perplexed.

‘That way...’

After focusing she understood and was amazed at how Gon could feel it.

‘Did he smell the scent of blood?’

She mused as she followed him.

She hid behind a tree just in time to see Gon smack Hisoka on his face with his fishing rod, that was a little impressive.

Velena didn’t interfere even when Hisoka punched Leorio or when he was toying with Gon, she could tell that Hisoka wasn’t going to kill them and if she helped them every time something happens, they would stay weak and be too much reliant on her, not only will lead to them staying weak in this unforgiving world, but more important is that they would stay in her shadows forever being stifled leading to a lot of resentment, Milluky was like that before she came into his life.

However, when Hisoka was strangling Gon and his control was slipping, she could watch no longer.

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Hisoka was ecstatic, he thought this exam would be boring but didn’t expect all those surprises, not only was there a monster looking little girl, but there are a lot of potential especially this kid, to think he could smack him with that unassuming fishing rod...

This so exciting, it was difficult to control his urge to kill the first think in front of him, like the kid struggling in grasp.

He needs to control himself, but it is difficult...

It was only the pain he felt in his arm that woke him up, he didn’t see her coming, that naked little feet that could only be called delicate had smacked his arm aside, breaking it and forcing him away from his pray.

“Cough! Cough! Velena?”

“You ok Gon?”

“Yeah I’m ok”

She didn’t even spare hisoka a look, making sure her friend was fine. But when she looked at him, he could feel a chill down his spin.

‘Ahhhh, This is soooo exciiiting...’

This was too much for him, their momentum was getting stronger, the air was heavy and it felt like nothing could stop the fight now.

Or more like nothing but a phone call...

Taking out his cellphone, he received the call without lifting his eyes from the threat in front of him.

“Hisoka, we nearly reached the site of the second phase, you should come now.”

“Ok, I'll be right there.”

He put the phone away before addressing the girl in front of him.

“A shame, but I need to go, as for your friends, I wasn’t going to kill them, they passed.”

She gave him a smirk.

“Aaand? Did I pass?”

She took a step forward, her momentum increasing.

“Or should I ask if you have what it takes to judge if I pass or not?”

He didn’t say anything, his smirk simply gone up a notch. He put Leorio over his shoulder and started to walk.

“I wouldn’t want to burden a lady with more baggage, see you later.”

Velena didn’t stop him, she simply stood there looking at the trembling Gon, till Kurapika showed up.

“Gon, Velena are you alright?!”

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They were silent. Kurapika and Velena keeping pace with Gon who was walking ahead confident in where they need to go. Velena never took her eyes off of his still trembling form.

“Velena?”

“Yes Gon?”

“Why am I so excited?”

She waited for him to go on.

“When fighting with Hisoka, or when the two of you were about to fight, I could tell I was outmatched, the chill I got looking at the two of you made me want to bow down, but it was not fear that I felt, I was excited.”

He looked at her with those shiny eyes.

“Am I weird?!”

She could not repress her laugher.

“Hahaha, Yes Gon, you are weird, lovably weird!!”

The three of them made it to their destination laughing all the way.