Hunter or Prey?

Chapter 17

I sat frozen with my eyes wide.

"Your full name is Mara Hope Freecss."

"Then my whole life has been a lie?"

"I wanted to take care of you and your brother, but I couldn't."

I simply stood up. My dad is a part of the Zodiacs. He's one of the strongest people ever! I walked over to him and hugged him. He was shocked at first I guess, but hugged back.

"Why don't you go see Gon?"

"Where's the fun in that? He needs a challenge in his life?" We both laughed and released the hug. "I'd better go Mara. I have a meeting to go to."

"Aren't you usually the one to not show up at meetings?"

"Hey!"

I laughed more and hugged him goodbye letting him go. I sat back down and smiled. Then I remembered him talking bout the chemical plant..... That was an interesting experience alright.... it was also painful.

The lady came back and said that Ging said I would pay for his breakfast....

I shut my eyes, clenched my teeth, and allowed yet another anime vein to pop out.

"Old geezer...." I payed for his breakfast then skateboarded back to the room.

I walked in and saw that Killua and Gon were playing a game on the tv while Leorio and Kurapika watched them.

"I'm back!" I yelled as I put my skateboard by the door.

"What'd he wanna talk about?" Killua asked.

"Uh..... just about my parents...... apparently he knew them." in my head I was just thinking 'he knows them so well...."

"That's cool!" Gon exclaimed as he lost to Killua on whatever they were playing.

"I'm gonna lie down for a little bit." I stated as I walked into my room and laid down on my bed. I slipped my headphones on. 'Demons' was playing as I thought back to the incident.

ANOTHER FLASHBACK

I was three when someone took me and my 'parents' didn't even know about it til I was back. I was gone for three weeks. The three weeks before my birthday.

They wouldn't feed me most days, but when they did they just wanted me to survive. They had me covered in bruises, but today....... the day of my birthday was different.

The people grabbed me and tied me down with chains. They then began to spray me with an anti-chemical apart to see if it worked. Even in my mouth and up my nose. They also sprayed the chains to see if it works on metal. They hasn't tested it out on humans yet, so they decided to have me be their experiment. the smells of the chemical plant filled my nostrils as they finished spraying.

They forgot my eyes though. They then took a bucket of chemicals and poured it in me before I had time to close my eyes. I screamed in pain as the chemicals burned my eyes.

I heard laughing.. LAUGHING! They were laughing at the pain they have me. When they stopped pouring a fog was surrounding me. I just felt a fire inside of me and broke the chains. With two cuffs on my wrists I looked at them. They were terrified and ran away. I looked into my reflection on a broken window shared. All I saw.... were red blazing eyes. I ran home thinking in my three year old mind

'Maybe they missed me and changed',but I was wrong. They were angry that I was back home..... and even worse things happened because of it.

END OF FLASHBACK

I sighed as thoughts whirled around my head. I stood up and decided to see what the boys were doing.

As soon as I stepped out I covered my mouth trying so hard not to laugh.