HxH: Fraternal Twins

Chapter 14: Ambush

A/N: Ignore the few subtitles in the picture above! I couldn't find one without it... -.-

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The mysterious Snake from before, General Allarie, had not moved an inch from the rooftop that he had jumped up onto, to watch those two people. His mouth was as expressionless as Illumi's eyes, blank. Yet they were always in the form of a wide W with his lower lip being a normal shape. Standing with his arms lazily hanging to his sides, his bath-looking, white robe softly waved from the small gust that occurred; his robe exposing most of his peck muscles and very little of his abdominal area, his sleeves masked most of his hands; only allowing his fingers and knuckles to show. Black, cloth, pants that were baggy and covered his feet, only showing his toes. He wore Japanese-styled clogs that were made of wood and his socks poked out between the straps.

"My, my... How...interesting.~ The female mutant from the recording is the same girl in that building... That redhead male just so happens to be the first escapee from the facility, several years ago... I'm going to love seeing them both covered in blood...~ The female mutant's beautiful white wings... Tainted with red, her sweet vessel being ground up and intertwined with my death flower's stems...and roots.~ Mmmm... I can almost smell the intoxicatingly sweet scent of iron in the air. Hahahahaa...~" The man eerily spoke in a sing-song, low, feminine dark tone then popped out a corn cockle flower from within his sleeve. The flower's stem stuck out from between his index and middle finger as he chuckled to himself. "Enjoy my gift, dearies~ hmhmhmhmhmhm~..." He shot the flower out with blinding speed, its sharp stem facing the building like a kunai. It pierced the wall of the structure and made it crack all around it. The scene zoomed into the wall to show the stem growing roots and fazing through the other side of the wall. Soon, the roots grew in size the longer they got, spreading throughout the inside of the building.

From afar, outside of the building, screams were heard with sounds of blood dispersing from the gruesome slashes of the flowers and their sharp roots. Not long did it show Hisoka sitting there with his teacup along with Ruby, before getting alerted by the cries from bloody murder. "The hell!?" Ruby shouted in confusion and instantly stood, followed by Hisoka. The woman rushed to the door before the redhead grabbed her shoulder, to pull her back. She turned to look at the man from behind, only to see him glaring intently at the door before them. Seeing that, Ruby looked forward again and saw roots crawl under the space of the door below; she could smell a familiar musk from the roots as if it were that snake-like guy's scent.

The roots gradually masked the room they were in and grew flower buds with each passing moment. "Ruby... Get ready, these aren't your everyday flowers; they're coated with nen. Someone's controlling them and making them grow." He warned in a low tone as if he were whispering. Her eyes grew stunned, thinking that it might be her sister trying to kill her for some strange reason. "I- It can't be... Is this Rui's doing? No... No, it can't be..." she muttered in fear, and tears nearly pricked at the corner of her eyes. Her breath began to hitch and her eyes watered a bit.

"Hardly, Ruby gem, this is someone else's doing. It's coming from the snake-man you had described to me, earlier; I've been keeping an eye on him this entire time...he's been following us. If I had let you go alone, back home... He would've killed you quite easily, in fact.~" Hisoka replied in a reassuring voice. This sick, murderous man was very dangerous. He could feel it through his nen, blood-lust was being directed through Hatsu. That snake must love bloodshed; I can see the dark aura around those stems... His mental voice echoed with caution. He understood why Ruby feared this guy, he's far stronger than her and purely evil, heartless...in so many ways. Not that it scared him but he knew it scared Ruby and also knew that he could kill her if the snake got close enough.