Of flames and lighting

chapter 18

She let the boys talk as she talked the twinkling of stars, "oh a shotting star" she muttered quietly. Internally voicing her wish...

Sliver hues glancing towards the animated slivernette. The smile growing on his face, sapphire hues glittering as he laughed at something gon had said.

Maybe it was a wish that could come true.

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Kyriak wasn't sure how it came about but, two hunters and an assassin was staring in puzzlement at the metal box aunt Mito had given gon. A clue from the boy's father.

Apparently, it was something given to her from ging to give to gon, when the boy had become a hunter. The man had become a hunter at 12, same as gon – the box being the only thing he'd left for the boy. The box was made from a dark sliver material, each side a number of groves craved cut into the metal – a pattern repeated on all but the top and bottom of the box. It looked simple to open, or at least pry apart.

"So, this is the box" killua muttered, spinning it on his finger. "How do you open this thing?"

Kyriak took it from the boy's hands examining it closely – bringing it up to her eye trying to get a better view of the box.

"That material..." she muttered, a frown donning her lips, "I see it before"

"Can I use force?" the slivernette gestured to the box.

"Yeah, I tried that too but I couldn't get it open" gon sighed, as killua took the box back.

He tried; the assassin tried crushing the box in his hands to no avail. The box wasn't shifting at all. "This is no ordinary box!" killua grumbled, "even if it welded, I should be able to wrench it open"

Kryiak stared at the box, why did the martial seem familiar...

She watched as killua shook it, only for the thing to make no noise. She brought here finger to her lips Bitting it as her thoughts whirled. Racking her brain for the answer.

"Nen..." she muttered brow furrowed.

"When you became a hunter..." killua wondered out loud.

Gon being the dense boy he is brought out his hunter license, not what killua was suggesting. Kyirak grinned, "its Nen constructive metal! It's a type of alloy that has a high conduct to Nen."

The boy glanced towards her, "alloy? high action? Nen constructive metal?" the pair questioned, eyes going from the box to the grinning kyriak and back to the box.

Gon took the box placing it in his hands, concentring on his Nen. It took a moment as the boys Nen seeped into the boy.

A blinding flash of light filled the room, there was a clatter as the pieces of stick like shapes of metal scattered to the floor. In its place in the centre of the chaos sat a box. Black and gold coloured small box, with a card like slit in one of the sides.

The group of younger teens stared at the box in awe, what you could do with Nen was SOOO cool!

Kyriak pieced up one of the metal sticks examining it, noting the Nen scripture what would have been the inside of the box.

"Another box within the box" gon spoke examining the newly discovered box. As killua pieced up the metal stick.

"Yeahs, these have no traces of adhesives" he muttered with no confusion.

Kyriak nodded, "they don't need it, it's purely stuck together with Nen" she channelled the Nen into her stick before poking killua's stick and letting go.