Hiraethヒラエス(Chrollo X Kurapika)

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      My eyes flutter open, my brain feels fuzzy from being knocked out. The last thing I remembered was being hit on the nape of my neck, as I passed out onto the Phantom Troupes leader. 'How embarrassing.' I thought to myself. My eyes flutter around the room soaking up every inch of the narrow spaced area. It was dark, so there wasn't much to see. The space appeared mostly empty, with the exception of two chairs in the corners of the room, and a small table in between them. My arms had fallen asleep from being chained up in the position they'd been in, I assumed I'd been here for at least a few hours, if not more, by the feelings in my body. Both my arms and legs were chained to the ceiling, and floor. Each outstretched in the directions of each side of the wall. I was unable to move. From the corner of my eye, I caught an unknown figure standing up from one of the two chairs in the dark room. My eyes were still adjusting to the darkness.

"Oh, look who is up." A short man spoke as he made his way over to where I was hanging from the ceiling. I couldn't make out his facial features until my eyes fully adjusted, but when I did, my eyes widened at the sight of his face once recognized. Feitan. The man looked over his shoulder to another figure who was sitting in the chair beside him only moments ago. The other male looked up from something he was holding in his hand, it looked like a book. He licked his fingers, then placed them over a lit candle to put out the bright flame. He walked over to where Feitan was standing, and glared into my eyes. It was Chrollo. The sight of his face sent me into a flashback of what happened during our fight before I passed out. My eyes flashed scarlet thinking about how close I was to avenging my clan, and that I was the very reason why I couldn't finish the job- I let my emotions of sadness and hatred take over.

"You took away my only meaning in life," I felt his head avert up slightly, presumably to glance at me, who was now a sobbing mess, crying on him.

"My purpose!" I yelled out, slicing open a spot on the leader's chest. It immediately started trickling blood. Chrollo's once stone face flashed a micro-expression.

"You are a completely heartless monster!"

"The spider doesn't die once the head is gone." He spoke out softly, with a faint smile beginning to spread across his lips.

Someone released a nen infused chop to the back of my neck before I could finish my sentence.

"Take him..."

My vision went black.

"You must regret not killing me sooner?" The man spoke out, calmly closing his eyes for a moment. "You bastard!" I yelled out at him, my wrists moving, shaking the chains that were restraining me as I replied. I took a breath to calm myself, and closed my eyes before speaking again. "Why am I here?" I questioned the older men standing before me. They both appeared very cold, and tranquil. Which only made it that much harder to read their thoughts and behavior. "Boss.. Want me to, shut him up." Feitan asked glancing over to his leader, his words were very spaced out, and short spoken- it was quite obvious that this wasn't his first language, he appeared to struggle with his words, yet he still got his point across with his shortened vocabulary. "No Feitan, it's alright." Chrollo spoke calmly, nodding to him.

"You may take your leave if you wish." The taller man told the other before looking back up to me. Feitan didn't say another word, and quietly walked out of the room; with his leave, a few of the remaining members made their way through the door.

"I am not obligated to answer you, Kurapika." Chrollo turned his lips upward into a small smile replying to me. I let out a growl of annoyance at his vagueness- his voice was so calm, but with such a bitter undertone.

"So, the chain user is back?" A pink haired woman asked, entering the room with her hands in her pockets. She seemed unamused by the event that was taking place. A blonde male, significantly taller than her, walked in behind her with a warming smile- He was cheerful, but from my memory, there was never a moment I'd seen him, where he didn't look like he was enjoying himself. Out of the entire Troupe I believed him out to be the nicest. He didn't say anything until he got next to his leader and mumbled something to him. I didn't pick up a single word he'd spoken, although I wish I had. Chrollo simply nodded as a reply to him.

"Machi let's sit down for this." Shalnark let out another gentle smile to the woman.

"Why not." She nodded her head to the side with a shrug. Both Shalnark and Machi made their way to sit in the two chairs that were in each corner of the narrow room.

Chrollo walked over to the small table that held a candle and the book he was reading earlier. He grabbed both of the items and returned to where I was dangling from- It had grown rather uncomfortable, but it was still bearable. I am just thankful they didn't start out with the torture as soon as I awoke. He crouched down to the ground, placed the candle down, and the book with a pen beside it. Lighting the candle, Chrollo pulled out a book from thin air using his nen ability, from this I manifested that he is a specialist, just as I am when my eyes are scarlet. He held his conjured book in his right hand, it took him a second to get to the page he wanted. Once he found the page, he picked up the pen he placed next to the book on the ground; the aura around him changed instantly to a dark purple, it was a very strong aura- It looked strangely familiar to me. A weird creature appeared from behind his shoulder, and began speaking into his ear. Chrollo appeared to be in some form of trance while his hand glided along the paper and the thing spoke to him.

I realized that he'd stolen this ability from my young master (Neon Nostrade); her ability had disappeared a few months prior to where I am at now. My eyes widened in anger and twitched as I caught onto how he'd stolen the ability from her. Was this what his power was? Stealing others nen abilities? Once he stole them, he was able to use them for himself? As I watched his arm move fluently throughout the page, my thoughts roamed to how his nen functioned. I was angered. I needed to know more.

After a few moments, the dark purple aura disappeared, and the creature speaking to him disappeared behind him again. Chrollo closed the book from his right hand, and it disappeared alongside the nen creature. Shalnark, and Machi make their way over from the chairs to see what their beloved leader had written out as the fortune. He stood up with the paper in his hand and looked at me.

"I'm sure you're aware of how this ability functions?" Chrollo asked as he looked up at me. I didn't answer him and just kept my gaze averted from him. I was having no partake in this.

"What's it say boss?" The blonde male said, approaching his side, with a kind expression written on his face. Machi went to his other, but didn't say a word, just listened.

I stared intently at their leaders face, waiting for a reaction- while his eyes skimmed over what he'd just written. Within a second his eyes opened widely in a sense of surprise, he looked up at me once more, with this look in his eyes- I couldn't quite piece together what it was, but the look quickly vanished as the other male leaned over his shoulder to read what it said.

"Oh wow." was all Shalnark was able to mumble out. 

Authors X note~

    Hi, look who managed to choke out a decently lengthened chapter today! I feel kind of proud of myself for being able to stay this motivated. I know these authors notes probably bore you lol, so I won't keep you long. Actually hell, I'm sure you just skip past them as I do. I have an anime journaling account on instagram if you're interested in checking it out though, it's public.  

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