I took a few steps back, Hisoka and The Green Man were watching my every move.
''What's wrong Cherry-chan? You no longer want to be my friend?~ '' Hisoka asked me letting a little bit more of his blood-lust escape.
''W-well I'll think about it, but first you have to turn that aura of yours off!'' I said...pointing an accusing finger at him.
'Real smooth Izumi...real smooth out of all the possible things I had to say that' I thought mentally face palming at my dumbness.
Hisoka chuckled and started walking my way slowly taking one of his cards out. I took a couple more steps back until my back hit something soft.
'Oh no...' I felt something take deep inhales and exhales behind my back.
''D-do..I have a bone eating pig behind my back?'' I asked The Jester..admit it people, Hisoka is nothing compared to a man-eating pig.
I stayed there frozen until the pig took a sharp inhale sucking some of my hair in it's nose. It backed away a little and charged at me, but before it could send me flying to God knows where I did a back flip landing on it's back.
It was thrashing all over the place and I was on it's back clinging for my dear life while the Jester was watching amused not even lifting a finger to help me. I guess it must have looked quite funny for him, but not for me.
'No! I'm not going to die getting eaten by a pig!' I rallied myself and reached into my pocket looking for something so stop the pig with.
I felt something cut my finger, 'The Ace Of Hearts' I smiled remembering the card that The Jester threw at me.
I took it out and stabbed the pig in the head. Surprisingly the card actually cut pretty deep killing the poor pig and I rolled off of it.
Panting heavily I opened my eyes to see Hisoka and The Green Man if front of me.
'Damn, now I have to deal with them' I remembered standing up and taking a defensive stance in front of my pig, ready to use my shield ability if needed.
'No ones getting my pig, be it Tonpa or a crazy-psycho-clown' I thought scowling at the amused looking clown.
''What an entertaining show that was~ '' Jester said clapping his hands a little
''I see the card I gave you was useful '' he added making me blush a little 'I could have handled it without the stupid card..' I looked away.
''~How cute~don't worry I won't kill you...for now..bye bye~'' Hisoka said turning in the opposite direction and walking away.
The Green Man stood there a little while longer and looked at my creeped-out face as if considering whether to kill me or not, but fortunately he turned around making weird noises and left as well.
'Phew...That was a close one' I thought letting out a breath that I had been holding in for quite a while.
I piked my pig up and made my way back to where the Second Phase took place.
I walked back up the hill I rolled down from carrying the pig with ease. After making it the whole way up I saw Gon and Killua standing in front of their pigs.
''Oh! So you figured it out too Izumiko!'' Killua said walking up to me and smiling at me.
''Figured? What out..?'' I gave him a dumb look.
''Ok, maybe not..'' he said sweat dropping a little '' their foreheads are their weak spots'' he explained pointing at the pig next to him.
The poor thing had a huge pit on it's head.
'Oh yeah, the card' I remembered taking the card out of my pigs head.
It didn't have any blood on it. In fact, it looked even shinier than before. I remembered Hisoka's amused look back when I was on the pig's back..
'..One day. I'll stab that dumb clown's face with this card for sure' I thought with a little anger vein popping of my head and put the card back in my pocket.
'''Come on Izumiko, Killua! What are you waiting for?''' Gon called out holding the pig with one of his hands and waving with the other.
'''Coming!''' I yelled back with a wide grin and ran after him.
. . .-time skip-. . .
All of us ended up being failed my Menchi even though she complimented me for my effort it still wasn't good enough for her standards.
''Were finished here!'' She announced and everyone started complaining again, but this time I joined in!
''It's not fair! We don't need to be perfect at cooking to become hunters, isn't it good enough that we caught those pigs for you?!'' I whined siding with everyone else. I really wanted to become a hunter this year..
''Yeah, she's right!'' Leorio added.
All the other contestants started to become a little aggressive towards Menchi.
'''See, even the little girl agrees with us!'''
'''This isn't funny!'''
'''You can't fail all of us''' some of them yelled and I got a little angry at being called little girl..That just proves my point of being underestimated..
Suddenly there was a loud crash. I looked over to see that the annoying Ponytail again had broken one of the tables.
''I won't accept this..I absolutely refuse to accept this'' He growled. He did have a point, she can't fail all of us for not knowing how to cook just like I said before.
''In the end, you've still failed'' Menchi said adding oil to the fire.
'''Stop screwing around!''' the ponytail yelled ''you asked for pork, so we risked our lives to-'' Menchi interfered.
''I said to prepare the pork in a manner we both found delicious..and all of you made the same thing! The only one who actually made a little effort was her-'' she said pointing at me and making me jump like a white rabbit in the middle of a black pack of wolves ''-in fact you're right! I won't fail all of you! She can pass but the rest of you can't!'' she said crossing her arms.
'Why!? Whyyy onlyy mee?' I thought happy but scared at the same time.
''Pork dishes are all the same'' A bald ninja like man said shrugging a little and the next second Menchi was gripping his red scarf and threatening to beat the crap out of him.
I sighed and sat on top of a table..'What do I do now? I don't want to be the only one that passes..what about Killua..and Gon and Kurapika...hell even the old man deserves to pass...' I thought feeling really guilty.
Menchi let go of the Ninja and sat down crossing her legs.
''In other words, you people don't have the guts to try anything new'' she said not looking bothered.
'I'm pretty sure that by now some people are planning on how to kill her' I thought looking at Menchi's uncaring self.
''Shut up! I'm not trying to become a cook or a Gourmet'' the ponytail spoke once again..'his asking for it'..
''I want to be a Hunter!'' he said raising his fist in the air.
''Yeah!'' People behind him agreed.
''My goal is to become a Black List Hunter. I refuse to let a mere Gourmet Hunter decide my fate!'' He said looking at the annoyed Menchi.
''To bad you got stuck with a mere Gourmet Hunter as an examiner. Better luck next year?'' she said making everyone even angrier than before.
''Why you..'' the ponytail turned red '''don't mock me!''' he yelled running at her with his fist raised.
*BOOM* with a single punch ponytail was sent flying all the way over to the gate. 'Wow! Now that's what I call a punch.'
''Buhara, don't interfere'' Menchi said.
''But..if I hadn't intervened, you'd have killed him, right?'' he asked her.
''Probably'' she said standing up with knifes in her hands ''Let me clarify this..'' she continued walking down the stairs.
''We frequently venture into the dens, of ferocious beasts searching for ingredients. Every Hunter knows some form of martial art'' she spoke showing off her knife skills ''you lack focus and the willingness to experiment. That alone disqualifies you from being Hunters''
It was quiet for a while. Everyone seemed to be processing her words. I noticed that Hisoka got one of his cards out.
'His going to kill her?' I thought wondering whose side I should join but luckily a voice interfered him even though Hisoka VS Menchi would have been fun to watch.
''With that said, it would be excessive to fail every single applicant'' voice that of a old man said. Before I could look up at the air ship there was a big explosion on the ground. 'He jumped?' I wondered looking at the old man impressed.
'W-who's that geezer?'' one of the men next to me asked I snickered at the word -geezer-.
Menchi then told us who he was. 'So his pretty important then...sure doesn't look it..' I thought when seeing the Old Fart stare at Menchi's chest.
She seemed to really respect him..we ended up getting another go at the Second Exam Phase much to my relief, but this time it was something harder.
The airship took us to place called -In-Half and we were standing on the edge of a HUGE hole. 'No wonder it's called that...seriously..'
Menchi then demonstrated what we had to do.
I wasn't too fond of heights so I stood at the edge of it looking down, but before I could decide weather to jump or not I got pushed by Gon and Killua soon followed by Kurapika and Leorio who seemed to enjoy the idea of falling to death..
Squealing, I managed to grab onto one of the webs, but it sure wasn't as easy as Menchi made it look. More and more people jumped down clinging onto the webs. I heard Menchi trying to stop them. 'Idiots! Not so many at once!' I thought getting a bad feeling about this.
''Lets go!'' Leorio said wanting to follow the example of the man that recklessly jumped down.
''Not yet!'' Gon stopped him.
''Why not?'' Leorio asked him cluelessly.
''There's no wind. There isn't always an updraft'' Killua explained.
I was on a web behind them next to some other people and...Tonpa to my right, but I could hear them loud and clear as did the reckless man who jumped off first probably.
''When's the next one?'' Leorio asked sounding a little worried because of the scream the reckless man gave.
''Wait'' Gon said closing his eyes and catching everyone's attention. Suddenly the web started moving.
''The web can't hold us all!'' I said worriedly.
''Gon, not yet?'' Killua asked him, but Gon didn't reply.
''Damn, I can't wait for an updraft!'' One of the men yelled and jumped down to his death more others followed him.
'At least this gives us more time' I thought cruelly, then I started feeling something slimy on my hands. I looked up at the web to see some sort of liquid. 'What is that? It's slippery' I looked to my right to see Tonpa smiling at me.
''Is something wrong?'' he asked me innocently.
Damn, it was him! Is he trying to kill me!?
I couldn't hold on anymore.
'''DAMN YOU TONPA!''' I yelled, my hands slipped.
I tried to cling on to one of the eggs but I ended up taking it down with me.
I heard Killua and Kurapika yell my name but I couldn't reply the only thing I could do was hug my egg and hope to magically grow a pair of wings. Everything happened so fast. I felt something attach itself to me, the next thing I knew I was flying in the opposite direction and landing in someones arms. I opened my eyes to look at who had saved me..I did NOT expect it to be Hisoka...

Thank you to everyone who has kept up with the story this far!
This chapter wasn't that good, but I have good ideas for the future ones! ల(◕ _ ◕ ల) Yosh!