Wildfire - BOOK 2 | Kurapika x OC [DISCONTINUED]

05

"N-no... I'm actually heading to Yorknew right now. Sorry guys but I don't think I'll be able to go with you this time as well." Erika said sadly. Gon's features darkened for a moment before he smiled up at her. "That's alright! What are you going to do?" Erika brightened up. "Actually, I kinda wanna search for Leorio and...
K-Kurapika.." She said blushing a bit at the end. Killua's face turned cat-like as he said, "Ohhhh..."

"Just go you two!" Erika shouted looking quite embarrassed. Gon and Killua ran away towards the boat leaving the purplette smiling alone on the docks.

"Ah. I guess I should get going.. Don't wanna leave Uvogin to have all the fun." She said, switching into an icy version of herself.

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Erika entered the ramshackle of a building known as the Phantom Troupe base and groaned. "It smells worse then usual. Who did it?" She said playfully.

A high voice laughter met her sentence like a response. She smirked at the sleeveless blonde Manipulator that came out of the shadows.

"Nice to see you too, Erika."  Shalnark said in greetings. Next came Franklin with his droopy ears that somehow resembled Netero's.

"What have you been doing with... Him?" He said with his low voice as he gestured to the red haired clown. Erika lightly stiffened as she turned her head to Hisoka. "Not much, just went to the Heavens Arena to fight some people. Of course, they were terrible. Right Machi?" She said looking at the hot pink haired girl. "Mm." Machi said in response.

"Is Chrollo here?" The purplette asked. Shalnark shook his head. "He and Pakunoda went somewhere." "What about Uvogin?" Erika said with a grin.

A gravelly laugh rumbled through the building. "I missed ya, y'know? No one here would fight me while you were gone!" Uvogin said. The teen shook her head in disapproval. "You only play fight anyways."

"Keep it down!!" Phinks shouted from the corner of the building. Feitan on his tail, nodded. "You are being quite noisy." Said a feminine voice from the shadows.

"Oh, sorry Shizuku." Erika apologized, smiling when she saw the sloppy vacuum in her hand. Nobunaga said nothing as he continued to lean on the crumbled wall and Kortopi and Benelov were as quiet as always.

〜

Erika peered over the edge of the familiar hot air balloon and frowned. Did she really want to do this? Not like she had a choice though...

"Hey." She said turning around to them. "Do I even get to fight this time?" Uvogin let out a loud cackle. "Maybe." He said. Erika pouted as her purple locks swayed.

She's been with the Phantom Troupe for a month now and she hadn't even tried to find Leorio nor Kurapika, though she wished she could at least search.

"The Yorknew Dream Auction, huh?" Shalnark said. Shizuku nodded her head as Blinky let out a, Blugoo sound.

Franklin lowered the air balloon's heat and dropped them off on top of the auction building. "I wanna explore first." Uvogin stated. The rest of the troupe members didn't agree but neither did they disagree so they ended up touring the big city.

〜

The Phantom Troupe walked around in their large posse on the sidewalk checking out the large city they'd most likely be wrecking in only a few hours.

As they continued on the street the group heard a loud call. "Arm wrestle! Arm wrestle this kid to win this beautiful diamond! 10,000 jennies a try!" Erika heard, wincing at the familiar voice.

Leorio.. She thought. Erika peered over Shizuku's shoulder to see Gon and Killua with him. Gon was at the wrestling table while Killua held up the large purple diamond.

The troupe stopped at them and pushed through the crowd of men that swarmed the table. Reluctantly, Erika followed. "Oi, Ika." Uvogin said, stating her nickname. "Wanna try?" Erika grimaced. If she turned down the offer they'd all become suspicious of her.

"Sure." She said in a different voice while placing a white mask on her face. "Why the mask?" Franklin asked. "Dunno. For some reason I felt like I had to." Erika lied. Franklin nodded at this and stepped aside for her to enter through.

Erika sat on the other side of Gon. The green haired twelve year old scanned her suspiciously before holding out his arm. The purplette took his strong grip into her arm and waited for the signal.

Leorio shouted, "Go!" And they began. Gon's hand edged a bit to his side before Erika brought it back to the middle where she began applying pressure.

The boy struggled to keep their hands in the middle but was overpowered by Erika's strength. Erika then looked into the crowd again at the troupe as if asking a question.

Do you want me to beat him? Uvogin shrugged with a grin. Erika turned back  to Gon and shrugged, letting go of his hand. The purplette forfeited the match and stood up to rejoin the group.

Her heart was pounding as she took off the white mask she was wearing and continued walking with the spiders.

Oh boy. This'll complicated. Erika thought as she listened to Leorio's fading voice in the distance.