三 | COOKING UP TROUBLE

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HOLY SHIT MY MOUHHTB HURTS
JUST FOUND OUT SOMEONE DIDNT PAY THE NETFLIX BILL
WHY IS THERE NO TRANSCRIPT FOR THIS EPISODE
ENJOY

UNEDITED
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If you haven't read my an, this is going to be half-assed.
As the growth of the crowd reached its climax, the excessively large gate in front of them opened. A cluster of cooking stations were revealed. Ilias didn't have a good feeling about this.

"Welcome, all! I'm Menchi, your examiner for the second phase!" Ilias spotted the teal-haired woman over the people standing in his way. The man next to her introduced himself as the other examiner, Buhara. Ilias sweat dropped as a loud rumbling noise resounded moments later. "Well, there you have it! The second phase will be cooking."

The announcement was met with grunts of protest from the majority of the examiners.

"What do you mean cooking? We came here to take the Hunter Exam!"

"That's right, the second phase of the exam will be preparing a meal that will satisfy our palates!" Menchi explained to the less-than-eager examinees.

This was where Ilias decided that maybe becoming a hunter this year was a pipe dream. It's not that he couldn't cook, it's just he only knows how to make things taste good to himself. Which meant going overboard with seasoning, specifically spices, to the point others would find repulsive.

While lost in his thoughts he missed a few other interactions that happened between the others. He barely caught on to the fact the main ingredient would be pork, something he had little-to-no experience cooking. Should he just call it now?

Ilias begrudgingly followed behind the others as he realized he had to at least try. Passing wasn't impossible, after all. Just highly, highly, highly unlikely.

A scream broke him out of his sulking. When he looked to the source he saw a stampede of pig moving into his direction full speed. Well, shit.

He should've just forfeited.

That thought stuck in his mind until Gon found the weakness of the raging animals. One by one, the examinees took down their own pigs and brought them back to their station, Ilias included.

The pink-haired boy stared cluelessly at the pig's corpse that he had roasting above the fire. Man, this was so troublesome. The clouds were pretty, at least. He wished he could've been one, instead of dealing with this trivial task. A faint taste of pineapple filled his mouth.

Blah, blah, blah...

When he presented his dish, Menchi was absolutely repulsed and smashed it off the table, not that he cared. He just didn't feel like himself, couldn't even muster up a snarky remark after hearing the demeaning comments she came up with.

After a long wait and lots of thoughts about clouds, everyone failed. The head of the exam, or whatever he was, showed up. Ilias didn't really focus on the situation much. After a little talking, they all got in the blimp and went woosh through the sky. Their fantastical journey led them to their destination of mount half-n-half or split-in-half, something stupid like that.

"This is it, take a look down there." Menchi pointed at the webs criss-crossing throughout the canyon.

"What's that?" Someone questioned, looking at where she pointed.

Menchi began to explain, "A spider eagle's web. Look past the web, to what's underneath. This are spider-eagle eggs."

"Hey, wait a minute," The examinee paused, "So, you mean...?"

"You bet I do!" She exclaimed before diving into the abyss to capture an egg. Not long after, she flew upwards and landed safely on the ground.

A few overly-eager individuals opted to free fall, leading to their demise. The rest of the group who didn't chicken out hung from the webs, which were beginning to strain from all the additional weight.

Once it was deemed safe, they all let go in pursuit of the eggs, and were brought back up to the land by the unusually strong updraft. Afterwards, they cooked their eggs and Ilias handed his off to some random person to eat, finding any kind of eggs revolting.

Then, all those who passed boarded the blimp again and were off to the next exam site.

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I'm sorry this is so bad and short, but

1) I just wanted to get this chapter out of the way
2) I'm in pain
3) Apparently nobody paid Netflix this month and I'm too lazy to check Hulu
4) THERES A TRANSCRIPT FOR LITERALLY EVERY OTHER EPISODE OF HXH EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE
5) The next chapter is going to be really long and fleshed out, really excited to write it and is going to be heavily inspired by Angels of Death (Stan Zack Foster for clear skin.)

Also, if I did go through with writing a BNHA with a M!Villain!OC, would you read it?
Also also, why do people use exclamation marks to separate character tags?

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