Finished this at 2 in the morning and I kinda woke up from a nap earlier lol.

...Don't ask why I was up so late..

I'll just say this.. insomnia's the worst.

So the reason this is published much later is because I edited the chapter and read through it just to make sure there aren't any spelling errors. If I missed any, please let me know

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The group had searched through the city and had finally found a lead; which led them to a bar full of only a couple of pirates.

Empty beer bottles lay littered amongst the ground and the three had another full bottle in each of their hands.

'Who the hell are you guys? This is a private party, so get lost!'

'We're only here to talk',The man with the fuzzy hat explained and had his hands on his hips,'Would you please leave this town?'

Only staring at them for a moment, the group of pirates immediately began to burst out laughing and were sprawled out on the floor.

'It's been a long time since we heard that line',One of the pirates stated with a smirk and then, a loud laugh left his lips.

And as soon as that laugh had left the man's lips, the other pirates followed suit and began to laugh along with him.

The large one stood to his feet and spilled alcohol all over the floor, before taking a lighter out of his pocket and opened it.

Once the lighter was lit, a large ring of fire quickly circled around the man and he took a seat in the middle of it, crazily smiling at the ground.

'I don't care how many of you attack me at once, if you can knock me out of this ring, then I'll take you guys over to see our boss'

Smirking at them through the fire, the man's grin only widened once he saw a buff, bald man step forward and he uncrossed his arms.

'Wait, knock you out of the ring, is that all?',The man questioned and activated his Ren.

The power that emitted from it was weaker than most beginners and it clearly took up a lot of his energy as sweat began to drip down his forehead.

'If it's brawn you're looking for, then I'm your man!'

Charging forward, the man latched onto the larger one and tried to push him out of the circle, but he had failed to move him even an inch out of the circle.

Grabbing the man by the back of his shirt, the pirate walked over to the flaming ring and held him over it, causing them all to watch as fire began to crawl up his leg.

'Stop it! Let me go!',The man shouted in surrender and screamed in pain as his entire leg was now on fire,'I lost, just let me go!'

The pirate refused to let the man go and even licked his lips at the man's cries of pain, smirking down at him.

But before he could do even worse, his body suddenly froze as something sliced his arm and without the use of his body, the man wasn't able to move out of the way of the kick that harshly struck his face.

The man fell to the ground and hurriedly tried to put out the fire rushing up his pants as the larger man looked down at the two children; seeing that the blonde one of the two had her left eye glowing as her hand was slightly outstretched and the green-haired boy was slightly crouched down.

It was clear that he was the one that that kicked him, but why wasn't he able to react or move at all?

'He said that he lost already',Gon spoke up harshly,'So why didn't you let him go?'

Turning around, Valentine walked towards the man crying out in pain and bent down in front of him, watching as he looked up at her with sweat falling down the side of his face.

Holding out her hand slowly, Valentine stopped it where it was and looked up at the man once more, nodding slowly as she looked for his permission for her to help him.

Breathing heavily in pain, the man slowly nodded and Valentine looked down at his leg, her left eye gleaming brightly as her aura began to surround her body.

Staring intensely at the burned skin, the small crackling of the burned blood vessels having blood gradually moving through them echoed throughout the air and some of the group winced in disgust, before watching as the reddened skin slowly lessened.

Feeling as the burning sensation began to slowly fade away, the man's scream came to a stop and having done as much as she could, Valentine stopped.

Sweat gradually rushed down the girl's forehead and as soon as her aura vanished, she slumped slightly in exhaustion, slowly looking up at the man.

Staring down at his leg in shock, he slowly moved it and winced slightly, but it didn't hurt as badly as before.

She had only speed up the healing process by having his blood gradually move quickly through his veins, but she kept an eye on the man since that could have serious repercussions.

Looking up as Killua walked passed her, Valentine hummed in confusion and wondered what she had missed while she was helping the man.

'I'll be using this',The silverette stated and grabbed a bottle of alcohol.

Turning to look at the man, a small smirk spread across Killua's lips and he flipped the cork out of the bottle.

'You wouldn't!'

Disappearing in the blind of an eye, Killua appeared above the man and poured the alcohol on his face, causing the man to splutter.

Activating his Nen, electricity crackled between the silverette's fingers and those sparks quickly kindled a flame, setting the pirates head on fire.

Loud screams of agony filled the air and the pirate rolled over, but rolled out of the ring, crashing into the wall; rubble falling onto him which quickly extinguished the flames.

Still standing in the circle, Killua turned around and a smirk formed on his face as he stared at the struggling pirate.

'Well, I guess I win'

Dragging himself out of the wall, the pirate panted heavily and veins angrily popped out of his head as he stared at the boy.

'D-Damn brat, you're dead!'

Even though he wouldn't have been able to reach the boy, multiple spikes of blood spread across his path and before he could reach them, another pirate kicked the man in the face, sending him flying into a pillar.

Humming with surprise and interest, Valentine reeled her hand back and slightly closed it into a fist, watching as her blood became dark, small specks of dust in the air flying out of it, decontaminating the blood, before disappearing back into her hand.

With a small sigh, Valentine stared down at the wound and squinted her eyes in concentration, small beads of sweat falling down the side of her face as her Nen spiked, before her eyes widened at the sight of the wound slowly closing over.

Before it was nothing more than a scab.

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The group had been lead to a large building on a cliff side beside the ocean and the pirate opened the doors, leading them inside.

Some were playing basketball, some were wrestling and others were even playing soccer.

'Your boss lives here?',Killua questioned and looked around.

Suddenly, the group stopped in front of a musclar man and Valentine tilted her hand as she watched him lift only one hundred twenty one pounds on each weighted dumbbell.

'Hey boss, we have vistors'

Not even bothering to turn around the man only continued to work out and paid no mind to those behind him.

'Oh, yeah? Who are they?'

'It seems that they want us to leave town'

'Is that so?'

Turning his head to the side slightly, a low chuckle left the man's lips and he placed the weights on the ground, turning towards them, a small smile on his face.

'Then, let's have a contest, shall we?',The man asked,'If you win, we'll leave the island peacefully. It'll be up to us to choose what the contest will be. Alright?'

'What if we lose?',One of the men from the group asked,'What'll happen to us then?'

'Oh nothing really, you'll just have to leave instead',The man proposed,'Simple as that'

Narrowing her eyes, a look of suspicion filled eyes of thunder and Valentine slowly looked the man up and down, squinting slightly as she observed him.

'Fine, let's go'

He was a hard one to read.

She couldn't tell if he was lying or not.

'It's an athletics contest. Where each member will challenge you to a match in their specialty sport, one win each. The first to eight wins is the winner'

One of the pirates stepped forward and it looked as if he were wearing a black clown hat, causing Valentine to raise her eyebrow.

'My challenge is first up. And I'm going to choose boxing'

Perking up slightly, Valentine had almost stepped forward and before she could, someone from their group spoke up, causing the girl to frown slightly.

'I've got this one'

Watching as he entered the ring, Valentine crossed her arms over her chest and frowned as Killua gently pat the top of her head, almost seeing the storm within her eyes as she grumbled.

'There's just one special condition, you can use any item conjured by Nen'

'What the hell!?'

'You can't call that boxing!'

Leaning against the pole on the other side of the ring, the pirate smirked and had his head tilted down towards the ground.

'Don't worry about it, I'll only use my fists. That rule is only for your benefit. Tag out if you want to'

Punching his hands together slightly, the man looked up at the pirate and smirked up at him.

'That's not going to happen'

With his hands out on either side of him, the boss quickly crossed his arms together in an x-like motion.

'Fight!'

As they jumped on the tip of their toes, circling one another, Valentine placed her hands on her hips and her left eye glowed brightly, narrowing in on the situation.

'I know what's going on here. But I figure if you choose boxing, there must be a reason'

Sending a punch through the air, a burst of aura flew from his fist towards the pirate's head and it had only grazed his cheek as he tilted his head to the side.

A thin scratch formed on his cheek and blood slowly trickled down from the wound.

'You're an Emitter too, aren't you? We're fighting at close proximity and this, well, this is a finite space. Making it an ideal situation for an Emitter. However, you made one mistake!',He yelled and quickly ran towards the pirate, sending a flurry of attacks,'Not anticipating that I might be stronger than you!'

'Wow, he can't dodge that speed!'

Watching as the man hit the ground, Valentine tilted her head as her eye glowed brighter than before and had figured out what happened as everything slowed down in her eyes.

'Yes, he's down! That was way too easy!'

'No.',Gon spoke up.

Hearing his voice, everyone; except for Valentine and Killua, turned towards the boy and furrowed their eyebrows in confusion.

"They were both hit"

Staring between the two with confusion, everyone turned back towards the ring and watched as the blonde man fell over as well.

'What in the hell just happened?'

'Their guy teleported',Killua spoke up.

Quickly, everyone in the room turned their eyes towards the children and looked between the three, confused as to how they knew what happened.

'Wait, what do you mean?'

"What he means is that only the man's fist was teleported and he landed a short uppercut"

'From the very start, his goal was to land a knockout counter',Killua continued,'I thought it was pretty obvious'

Kneeling down next to their teammate, the boss determined that he was knocked out cold and stood to his feet.

'That looks like a win for our side'

Looking towards their teammates, Killua's eyes narrowed and he knew that getting eight wins with any of them would be impossible.

'Okay, I'm up next. I'll go with juggling soccer balls',One of the other pirates spoke up.

'I'm up next',Gon stated and was about to walk forward.

'Wait, Gon!'

Quickly calling Valentine, Zeus, Gon and Biscuit into a huddle, Killua looked between them and whispered a plan to them.

They were going to fail the games so they could lose and then find a much better group to work with.

'Alright, that would be quite wise indeed. Then I'll go next'

Eyes widening and sparkling with an idea, Valentine reached forward and wrapped her hand around her teacher's, watching as Biscuit turned towards her, a confused hum leaving her lips.

"Leave this one to me, I have an idea"

Seeing the gleam within her eyes, Biscuit nodded and her gaze followed Valentine as she walked towards the pirate.

With a smile, the leader soon realized what they were doing and an amused chuckle left his lips.

"Hello there!",Valentine greeted and a bright, innocent smile formed on her face as she closed her eyes, sparkles surrounding her.

Chuckling in amusement, the pirate looked the little girl up and down, a smirk on his face as he figured that she was quite weak based on her innocent stature.

'A little girl, hmm? I guess that I'll have to be extra careful in order to not injure you'

Tilting her head to the side, Valentine slowly blinked in confusion and furrowed her eyebrows.

"Injure me.. with juggling?"

'We're both allowed to attack using Nen. Provided that you don't touch the ball with your hands'

Catching the soccer ball in her hands, Valentine began to think over a plan to lose this match and a small smile spread across her lips.

She got it.

'Whoever drops their ball first, loses'

"Alright"

'Ready... go!'

Dropping the ball, Valentine watched as it slowly came towards her foot and purposely kicking it the wrong way, she watched as it sped towards the wall, bouncing towards the ground.

Gasping in fake surprise, the blonde lifted her hand to her lips and her eyes gleamed with false shock, staring at the ball with wide eyes.

"Oh no.. that was much harder than I expected it to be",Valentine said and clasped her hands together, tilting her head as she falsely frowned,"I guess that means I lose then.."

With a small chuckle leaving his lips, Killua covered his mouth and kept his laughs quiet, causing Valentine to glance towards him out of the corner of her eye, a small smile on her lips.

Walking back towards the group, Valentine gave Gon a subtle high-five as she walked towards them and gave a Killua a side-ways fist bump; knocking the sides of their fists together.

Walking forward, the silverette stood in front of the man from before and sent a smirk his way.

'I'm next, big guy',Killua stated,'You wanna go?'

With veins popping out of his skin, the man stared at Killua with anger and held up his fist, his eyebrows pulled together in rage.

'Yeah, you think!?',The man exclaimed,'You are so gonna get it!'

Standing there with his arms behind his head, a nonchalant smile was on the silverette's lips and Valentine's lips twitched slightly, before she wiped her smile off of her face.

'Ready.. and, fight!'

'I'll crush you!'

As soon as those words had left his lips, the man charged towards Killua and the silverette jumped back, landing outside of the ring.

Casually placing his arms behind his head, Killua blinked down at the line in faux surprise and stared up at the raging man.

'Oh.. sorry',The silverette apologized,'I stepped outside the ring'

Placing her hands over her lips, Valentine tilted her head down and chuckles left her lips, her shoulders shaking lightly with her laughter.

Chirping in a laugh-like manner, Zeus turned his head and placed it in his wing, making it look like he was preening himself.

Glancing towards the blonde out of the corner of his eye, a small smile formed on Killua's face and he turned towards the group, walking back towards them with his arms placed behind his head.

Once one of their teammates had lost at Basketball, the man looked towards the group and smiled at them.

'That's eight wins for us. So we're the victors'

'Go on, get out of here. We'll keep doing whatever we want in this town'

The raging pirate from before stepped forward and watched the silverette as he began to walk off.