"Huh? You sure?" Saber asks.

I nod. "Yah, if I have to wait any longer I'll go crazy with nerves. Better to get it over with."

I glance back to see Kurapika.

"Be careful." He mutters. "Don't underestimate your opponent."

I blink, surprised. I was a little touched too, to be honest.

I smile. "Thanks for the word of warning, Blondie."

And with that, I start to walk forwards. Ugh, just walking across the stupid bridge was scary. When Saber was going to have to do this, he was probably going to have a heart attack or I make it over to the ring in one piece. It would be pretty embarrassing if I had fallen…

The cloaked person also walks forwards, I couldn't tell very much, but by their stature they were male. They weren't incredibly tall, but were probably taller then Kurapika by a few inches.

I breath in deeply, my heart pounding.

The guy whips off his cloak to reveal…

"NO! NOT ANOTHER CLOWN FREAK!" I blurt out, my eyes widening.

In front of me was, in fact, another guy dressed as a fucking clown. A creepy demented clown, I mean all clowns were creepy and demented, but this one really went for it! He had black straight long hair that fell over his shoulders, and on top of his head was a pointy white hat. He had a white shirt with one black eye painted on the right side of his chest, and a red X on the left side. The pupil in the middle of the eye was red. His pants were black and white striped, and one of his shoes were black, the other white, both pointed in a way that couldn't be comfortable. He had pale skin, both eyes had red paint around them, and he had red paint permanently set in an evil smile on his lips.

He actually look a little confused though. "Another one?" He had a high pitched annoying voice. Wow, this just kept getting better, and better.

I groan, raising my eyes upwards thinking of a certain psychotic clown. I wave a hand, and sigh. "Never mind."

He smiles, a creepy smile that sends a shiver down my spine. I was seriously regretting volunteering.

"I hate clowns…" I grumble.

"Do you want to play a game?" Clown freak asks.

"Huh? A game?" I repeat.

He nods. "Yes, a game."

I falter. "Uh…does it involve knives or some other heinous torture device?"

He laughs, or cackles is a better word for it. It sounded a bit like nails scratching on a chalkboard…ick. I clutch at the strap of my messenger bag nervously.

"No, it does not. It involves…"He smiles. "Hopscotch."

"…Hopscotch?" I can hear the others confused murmurs in the background.

"Um, can you explain it a bit more?" I ask.

He cackles again. "Certainly. It's quite simple really; the platform we are on right now will be turned into a large hopscotch pattern. We will each have a rock, and we can throw the rock up to 5 spaces away. The goal is to reach from one side, to the other first. If the rock is thrown more than five spaces away, you will automatically lose. Also you can only hop around on one foot, and if you place the other foot on the ground you are automatically eliminated. But," He raises up a finger, smiling. "Here's the fun part."

I'm guessing we had a very different definition of what 'fun' was.

"Each time you land on the space where the rock is, you have to answer a riddle. The riddles will be ones that we have made up ourselves for the other person. The riddles have to be 'real' riddles, meaning that the answers have to make sense, and have to be something we could figure out. You have 2 minutes to answer, if you answer the riddle correctly, you may continue. But if you have answered two riddles wrong, you automatically lose. Your friends can't help you. Simple, right?"

"Hmm…" I think over his explanation, it did sound pretty simple. And hey, riddles weren't the worst thing ever, I mean I wasn't fantastic at them, but I wasn't too bad either. I just hoped I would do okay on the one foot thing, what if I accidently fell? But what other choice did I have, I would probably lose on a one-on-one fight…

"So if we answer one riddle wrong, it's okay?" I ask.

He shakes his head. "Yep, but if you answer two riddles wrong in total, you're out!"

I nod, thinking. "And if I make it to the other side before you, I win?"

"Precisely!"

I glance behind me at the others, they were whispering to each other. Saber and I make eye contact and he shrugs. I turn back to Clown freak; guess this was my call to make.

"Alright. I accept."

Clown guy cheers, which was a little odd. "Yay!" He claps his hands, "I love games!"

"…Okay then…" I mutter.

"We're ready!" He calls out in a sing song voice.

"Alright then." I hear the examiners voice say over the intercom. "Prepare yourself."

"Um, okay?" What did he mean, for the riddles?

Suddenly there's a rumbling sound, and I let out a surprised squeak as the platform starts to…grow. Not by too much, but after all the creaking and stuff is done I can see that they added a few more rows of stones to the sides of the platform.

"Um okay, you go there, and I'll go here!" Clown freak points at the two opposite sides of the platform.

"Okaaay…" I walk over to the edge of the platform, which was near where the rest of the guys were.

I shrug at them. "This is weird."

They all nod.

I turn back to Clown freak, "We good to go?"

He was on the left side of his platform, while I was on the left side of mine. The stones were set in a way that they went in rows.

"We will be when…lights!" He suddenly yells.

Nothing happens.

"…Uh…"

Suddenly the cracks in between the row of stones leading vertically in front of me light up. So do the ones in front of him, now the platform had two rows of glowing stones on either side. The stone I was on had the number 1 on it, and the last stone on the other side towards the prisoners had the number 25 on it. Clown freak had a row like mine, except he was across from me on the other side a bit to the right, with his 25th stone on my side.

"Don't throw the stone past 5 spaces, and don't go over the sides either!" Clown freak warns me.

I nod.

"Alright then! Let's go!" And with that said, he throws a stone.

I do the same; I try to aim for something like the fourth or fifth stone. I didn;t want to accidently go out of bounds, but I also wanted to make it across to the other side with as less riddles as possible.

I land on the fourth stone, sweet. Clown freak lands on the fifth. Damn. Eh, one stone difference. Carefully I hop on over to the stone, my arms spread out on either side. I reach down and pick up the stone. Then stand back up, still on one leg. I wobble a bit, but I think I'm okay. Clown freak had also gotten his stone.

"I wanna go first, I wanna go first!" Clown freak yells out childishly.

"Uh, okay."

He cheers again. Ugh.

"Ok so first riddle…" He laughs evilly.

"Let's go!" Killua calls out, annoyed.

"Ehh, shut up!" Clown freak yells back at him.

I sweat drop, while Killua looks like he wants to leap over and stab him.

Clown freak turns back to me. He pauses, and then a giant smile crawls over his face. "What's white, and black…and red all over?"

The screen instantly starts a countdown from two minutes.

"My first riddle even matches my outfit, I should get double points for that!" He yells out, excitedly.

"Hell no!" Killua roars.

"Ssssh!" I hush at them, thinking.

White and black, and red all over…hmm… white and black and red all over…different ideas start to pass through my head; it was a bit tricky thinking though, while keeping my balance. I had to hop around a little bit, but was also careful not to go out of bounds.

Around the 1 minute mark I suddenly realize something, before I had thought maybe he even meant himself, but he wasn't red all over. Then I started thinking of some other things it could be. What was white and black all over? Lots of things, but red too? What was it, a strawberry oreo cake or something? The worst thing was, I was pretty sure I had actually heard this one before! But maybe it was the nerves or something but I just couldn't remember…

Hmmm, white and black and red…red…read! Maybe he meant read, instead of the colour red! In which case…a book! Black for the ink, and white for the paper, And read all over…wait, it's not read all over, because you really only read the inside…in that case…a newspaper!

"A newspaper!" I call out confidently. Now I remember! Man, this was a freaking classic! This was going to be easy!

"Awww, you got it!" Clown freak sighs, looking depressed. But quickly snaps right back, a smile on his face. Maybe he had mood swings or something. That would explain a lot.

"Your turn!"

"Right…"I pause, thinking over my riddle. I had a few rattling in my brain, and I didn't want to mess up.

"Ok how about…it's as light as a feather, but even the strongest person can't hold it. What am I?" I ask.

Clown freak pauses, thinking, then to my surprise he begins to spin, on one foot, mumbling the riddle over and over again under his breath.

Watching him was actually making me a bit dizzy, so I turn away. I canhear the others in the background mumbling, and turn to look at them. Gon and Leorio seemed confused and frustrated, but Kurapika and Killua looked like they already knew. Wow. I knew Saber knew it too, but that was only because Jett had told us this one. The reason I knew some riddles well was because he bought a book of 101 riddles once when we were kids, and wouldn't shut up about it.

Thirty seconds are left as the Crown freak spins, and I start to feel my hopes rising, but…

"Oh, I got it!" He announces, pausing. He points at me. "It's your breath!"

I nod, disappointed. "Yep, you got it."

I can hear Gon in the background going 'Ohhhh, I knew that."

"No you didn't!" Killua scoffs.

"Alright…roll!" Clown freaks yells, rolling his stone. Man, he was in a hurry.

I aim and throw the pebble lightly; it rolls on the eight stone and…yes, hits the ninth. Clown freak only got to the seventh stone, ha!

We hop over to our stones, and grab them, and again I do not fall. (But I do wobble)

"Ladies first." He mocks bow, nearly falling over, too bad he doesn't/

"Okay…" I think to myself…hm…Oh! I had a good one!

I speak slowly, making sure not to forget a line. "He who makes me doesn't want me, he who buys me doesn't need me, and he who uses me doesn't care. What am I?"

"Hmm…" There he goes, spinning.

I was pretty happy with that one, it was a hard one. As he thinks I concentrate on not freaking falling, it was getting tiring staying on one leg, and it was only the second turn! Ugh. I hop a little bit, waving my arms around.

"Oh! I got it!" I can hear Killua say excitedly, after thirty seconds.

"What? What is it? Tell me!" Gon nags.

"Nope! You have to figure it out yourself!"

"Killluuuaaaa!"

"QUIET!"

We all jump at the sudden roar from Clown freak; I nearly fall over.

"I'm trying to think!" He shouts angrily.

Good, he was having trouble.

"S-Sorry…" Gon apologizes.

Clown Freak continues to spin, but at around fifty seconds he smiles and stops. "A casket!"

"Damn!" I curse under my breath.

"Well, did I get it?"

I nod, crossing my arms. "Yeah."

"Ohhhh…" Gon trills.

"My turn!" Clown freak shouts. "What goes up and down, but doesn't move?"

I fiddle with my messenger bag as I think, how can something go up and down but not move? Doesn't that mean it is moving?!

I can hear Leorio shouting something about it not being fair, and rigged, but Kurapika hushes him saying it's obvious.

IT IS?! What?! No it's not! Saying that isn't helpful!

The one minute mark goes by, and I was getting stressed. It certainly didn't help that I could feel Kurapika's stare on my back freaking drilling holes. UGH. It doesn't make sense! How can something go up and down and not move?!

Kurapika should be the one doing this. Freaking smart ass.

….Up…down…not moving.

Oh.

OH!

OHHHH!

"A STAIRCASE!" I shout happily.

"Bingo!" Clown freak nods.

"Yah! Nice Talin!" Saber cheers.

I wave happily. Though it wasn't like it was over, but man that one really stumped me for a bit.

I lean forwards and roll the stone, getting to the twelfth block. Clown freak gets the eleventh stone. We hop on over and get our stones.

"I go now!" He cackles. "I have a good one…"

Uh oh.

He talks in a sing song voice. "In marble walls as white as milk, lines with skin as soft as silk, within a fountain crystal clear, a golden apple does appear, no doors are there to this stronghold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold. What am I?"

…Shit.

"Uh…" I bite my lip, thinking.

Crap, I don't know. I'm not coming up with anything; actually I think I'm forgetting a few lines.

"Can you repeat it?" I ask.

"Nope!" He replies with a smile.

…Asshole.

There were only thirty seconds left, I had no idea what it was! I glance behind me, all the guys seemed to be having trouble. Killua was rolling on the floor clutching his head, Gon literally had smoke pouring out of his ears, his brain fried. Leorio was pacing nervously, Saber looked like he had just given up, Tonpa…didn't care, and Kurapika was muttering to himself, looking at the floor in thought.

Real helpful.

Twenty seconds left.

The only golden apple I knew was from those Greek myths, something about an apple of jealousy or something? But the rest of the lines didn't make sense…

BRING!

"Times up! You're answer?" Clown freak purrs.

I glance behind me one last time, Kurapika makes eye contact. He knew the answer. He stares at me intently like he could telepathically send me the answer, or something.

"Answer?" Clown freak repeats, getting impatient.

"…Uh…a castle?" I guess.

Kurapika hangs his head low in defeat.

WELL ESCUSE ME!

"WRONG!" Clown freak cheers.

"Crap…" I can hear Leorio practically spitting fire in the background, as Killua tries to calm him down.

"Hey, hey, old man…"

"I'M A TEENAGER!"

"What was the answer?" I ask.

He smiles. "An egg!"

…

"AN EGG?!" Practically everyone yells. Except Kurapika.

"Yes an egg." Kurapiks starts, oh shit, he was going into lecture mode! "Because the line 'it's marbe walls as white as milk' refer to the shell, 'lines with skin as soft as silk' is the white substance that is on the inside of the shell, 'within a fountain crystal clear' is the transparent egg whites inside, 'a golden apple does appear' is the yellow yolk, and 'no doors are there to this stronghold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold' is referring to when people break the eggs to eat them."

"…HOW WAS ANY NORMAL PERSON SUPPOSED TO GET THAT IN 2 MINUTES?!" Leorio roars.

"Geez, Kurapika." Saber says astonished. "You're good."

"You just had to be calm and think rationally." Kurapika shrugs.

"Oh well, I'm glad you found it so easy." I mutter, my voice dropping with sarcasm. Okay, so on my hit list were Leorio, Killua, and then Kurapika. Great.

"You lost, and if you get one more riddle wrong…I WIN!" Clown freak claps, wobbling around on one foot.

I sigh. "Yeah, yeah, my turn." I pause, getting my thoughts together. I also had a long riddle.

"It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter. What am I?"

"…I don't like that!" Clown freak complains.

"What? Well…too bad!" I shout back.

"It's depressing!"

"I don't care! Answer it! Or better yet, don't!"

He grumbles at me, as he spins around. Ha, let's see him get this one!

Fourty seconds pass, I look back. I think Killua had gotten it, and Saber, and of course Kurapika. I'm not sure Gon was even trying anymore, he was just kind of lying on the floor holding his head, complaining it hurt. Leorio was pacing up a storm, muttering angrily.

"Ooh that's a good one…" He grumbles, glancing at me. "But it is depressing! Couldn't you have picked something a little…happier? It's so dar-"

My eyes widen, and Killua launches himself at Leorio, tackling him. He has one leg over his shoulder as he struggles to clamp a hand over his mouth.

"WH-MP! WHAT?!" Leorio yells, trying to rip Killua off him.

"Idiot!" Kurapika hisses, face palming.

I whip my head around to look at Clown freak, maybe he didn't hear…shit, he had stopped spinning.

"Thanks!" He calls out to a confused Leorio, and a pissed of Killua. "The answer is darkness!"

I groan to myself. No, I had almost got him!

I can hear yelling as Killua tries to strangle Leorio.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Leorio cries. "That was a mistake! And didn't you say that you guys couldn't get help? Technically I helped you!"

"Hey! That's true!" I shout, maybe I had a chance!

"Nope!" Clown freak smiles.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'NOPE'?!" Killua and Leorio roar.

"I mean," Clown freak says sullenly, not happy at being yelled at. "That you're the one who helped me. You're her friends, not mine! I said that friends couldn't help! I never said anything about enemies!"

"Seriously?" I growl.

"Wh-wh-wha…did he?! Ugh I can't remember! But that's bullshit!" Saber complains.

"Hey, I stated the rules perfectly! It's not my fault I found a loophole, and nowtmy fault your friend gave away the answer!" Clown freak defends himself.

I turn and glare at Leorio, who sheepishly rubs the back of his head. "Sorry…"

"Let's roll!" Clown Freak exclaims.

Here we go again.

I get the sixteenth block; clown freak also gets the sixteenth block. We pass by each other, and he gives me a happy little wave.

"Alright, I'll go now." I mutter, I had a good one. I needed to make him lose a riddle so we would have an even score.

"Alright." I repeat. "You have a house. It has four walls in a square, all the walls face South. A bear walks by, what colour is the bear?"

I smile at his bewildered expression. Yes! When I heard this one the first time, I had no idea either.

"Huh? What? Colour of the bear?" I can hear Gon repeat, confused.

A minute passes. I smirk, as Clown Freak spins faster and faster, somehow not losing his balance. He mutters angrily to himself.

The clock hits 0. Yes!

"I don't know!" He whines throwing his hands up in the air.

"Yay!" Gon cheers. "Good job, Talin! What's the answer?"

"The bear is white, it was a polar bear!" I explain. "The only place you can have a house where all sides would face South, is if you were at the North pole, so a bear walking by would be a polar bear!"

"OHH!" Leorio cheers. "Good one!"

Kurapika smiles and nods. "It was tricky."

"You got it after, like, fifty seconds or something though…" Saber grumbles, eyeing him.

HE DID?! Geez!

"That's not fair!" Clown freak whines.

I glare at him. "It so is! You lost! Give me a riddle."

He sighs angrily.. "Fine! Hmm…ooh, what about…what grows longer as it gets shorter?"

…Say what? What does that mean? How can something grow longer, as it get's shorter? How does that even make sense?!

I fiddle with my bag, thinking, as the seconds count down. Grows longer as it get's shorter…grows longer as it get's shorter…oh!

"LIFE!" I yell out, forty seconds had gone by.

"Awww, you got it." Clown freak nods sadly.

I was pretty happy, I was doing well. I mean, yah, I lost at that really hard stupid egg one, but now we both had lost one. If I could just stump him one more time…

We roll, I land on the twentieth square, he gets on the twenty first block. Damn, I really needed to land the next roll on the 25 block.

"You go, I need to think of a riddle." He says, and I nod.

"Okay…" I try to remember a few that Jett had told me… I quickly pick one that I think is good enough. "I don't have flesh, feathers, scales, or bone, but I do have a finger and a thumb, what am I?"

He starts to spin again, I thought it was a pretty good one, but he figures it out far too quickly. Only thirty seconds pass before he stops.

"A glove!"

Crap.

"Yay! This is fun! Your turn!"

This was bad, he was closer to the finish. I was going to have to answer this riddle right, and then land the next stone right on the finish line to beat him.

"Be careful Talin! Don't lose!" Leorio yells out.

"I know!" I shoot back, annoyed. Of course I knew that, geez!

Clown freak says his riddle in a sing song voice, once again. "You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year, when the last one is gone, your life disappears. What am I?"

I think it over, it was a long riddle. And I knew he wouldn't repeat it, so I quickly go over the lines in my head trying to memorize them. After the last one, I die? What is that? Poison? Nah… one day a year? What would that be… one day a year…never enough…one day ayear…last one is gone…what about…a birthday? Would that be it?

Only forty five seconds had gone by, I really didn't want to mess this one up, but birthday seemed like the answer. I raise my head, about to shout out my answer when…

CRACK!

"OW!" I raise a hand to my forehead, stumbling. My other foot hits the ground.

"YOU HAVE BOTH FEET ON THE FLOOR!" Clown freak shrieks, pointing at me. "YOU ARE ELIMINATED! I WIN! HA!"

I was really confused, what just happened? I stand there, dazed, rubbing my forehead.

"WHAT?! NO! YOU THREW YOUR ROCK AT HER FACE!" Leorio shouts.

I turn to the others, who were all angrily yelling at Clown freak. Oh.

"That's not fair!" I turn on him. "I even knew the answer, a birthday!"

He sticks his tongue out at me. "Too bad, it is fair! I never said we couldn't try to get the other person to put the other foot down! I just said if you did, you would be eliminated! Loop hole!"

"Are you kidding me?!" I hiss, fists clenched. "That isn't a loophole! It's just-just…"

"BULLSHIT!" Saber screams, Killua and Leorio right along with him.

Even Kurapika looked pissed, he had his arms crossed and an angry frown on his face.

"That's not fair!" Gon echoes.

"Yes it is! Yes it is!" Clown freak yells back, hopping up and down. "I win, you lose! Boo hoo hoo!"

"It's true, his little trick was not against the rules stated. You have to be clever to win these things, think outside the box. That's the whole point of riddles. You have lost." Lippo announces over the intercom.

"What?!" Leorio growls.

I sigh angrily, and march across to the bridge, which slides into place. I storm towards the others, so annoyed I don't even feel freaked over the height. I can hear Clown Freak cheering behind me, and it takes all my will power not to turn around and rush at him, fists raised.

When I reach the platform I can hear the ring removing the extra rows of stones, by the tell tale creaking noises. I don't look, I just walk up the little hallway area and angrily lean against a wall.

"That sucks, but you did good." Saber tries to console me.

"Yah, those riddles were hard!" Gon nods.

"While his actions may not have been against the rules, such underhanded mean of a victory are dishonorable." Kurapika walks over to me, arms crossed. "How's your forehead?"

I shrug, rubbing it. "They'll be a bruise, but I'm fine. I guess."

Saber starts to stretch a little. "Alright, well now how about I try to get a little pay back? It's my turn!"

"Good luck." I nod at him, and he gives me a thumbs up.

"Don't need it, I got this!"

He acted pretty confidently, probably trying to make me feel better I guess, but I still noticed how his face paled as he crossed the bridge. And how he kept his eyes straight forwards, trying not to look down.

He breathes out a sigh of relief when he makes it to the ring, and gives us a thumbs up again. Then he turns to the prisoners. "Alright, who wants some of this?!"

"I'll take you on." A gruff voice says, and stepping out of the darkness a prisoner comes forwards, his shackles falling to the floor.

He was most certainly a man by his voice, and he had a strong build. He steps up confidently in front of Saber, and takes off his cloak. He was a man, with messy, brown hair in tendrils down his back, and he had a large mouth and sharp teeth. He seemed…different then the other prisoners. More feral for some strange reason.

Another odd thing was that his eyes were whitish grey, almost like he was…

"Wait, are you blind?" Saber bluntly asks.

The man laughs. "Blind as a bat, but my hearing is just as good."

"What…?" I stand up, taking a step forwards in interest.

"Don't underestimate me, boy, I don't need eyesight to kill you." The man threatens.

"So, we're doing the whole fight thing?" Saber asks, now a little nervous.

He nods. "Until one of us dies, or surrenders."

Saber nods slowly, hopping a little on each foot, getting ready. "Alright…"

"Careful Saber." I call out uselessly, I know Saber could usually handle himself pretty well but…

The prisoner doesn't give him a chance to respond, he let's out a growl and leaps at Saber.

"Whoa!" Saber jump to the right, and the prisoner lands on all fours. He was like some sort of animal.

It leaps at him again and this time Saber ducks, jumping under the opponent's feat. He rolls and quickly gets up, eyes wide.

But this time he doesn't let the prisoner get another chance to attack, Saber runs at him, and leaps into the air. His foot sails towards the prisoners face, but he easily catches it in his hairy hands.

"Uh oh." Saber murmurs. That's all he can say before the prisoner swings him down on to the platform.

I wince at the crack sound, my hands clamping over my mouth.

"This isn't good…" Leorio mutters.

"His opponent is not in this for an easy win, if he was he would have just thrown him over the side. No, he's taking his time." Kurapika observes, frowning.

The prisoner jumps at Saber, who looks up in terror, and quickly scrambles up, just nearly dodging the strike.

"Saber!" Gon yells out. "Try to make less noise!"

Killua nods. "His hearing is his advantage, use that against him!"

Saber looks at us, face scrunched in pain, but he nods. He tries to quietly walk around, but the prisoner just grins.

"My hearing is far too good, boy. I can hear your every breath from this distance. You're mine!" He roars and jumps at Saber again. Saber jumps in the air over his body, kicking him in the back and jumping forwards.

"SHIIIIIT!" He shrieks running around in a circle as the prisoner chases him. If this weren't a life or death situation, I would have been laughing my ass off.

Suddenly Saber looks down at his belt, and smiles. While still running he starts grabbing some parts from his belt, and using a screwdriver and some other tools starts to put something together…

"Are you kidding me?!" I finally got my voice back. "Saber this isn't the time!"

The prisoner pauses, his head tilted as he listens to the tiny tinkering noises. "Whatever toy your making boy, it can't help you!"

He runs at Saber, actually swiping at him with his paw.

"Geez, geez, give me a sec, will ya?!" Saber cries, ducking. He drops a piece of metal and it rolls away.

"Shit!" Saber dives for the thing, his opponent right behind him. Saber successfully grabs the metal, but by now the prisoner was on top of him!

"To taste flesh again…" The prisoner mutters evilly, pining Saber to the ground by his shoulders, who was STILL making something, now frantic.

"SABER!" I scream.

"No! Say you surrender, idiot!" Leorio yells.

Instead Saber looks up at the prisoner. "Uh-wow your, um, hearing is really good!"

The prisoner pauses, confused. "Compliments can't save you, boy."

"Yah I know." He nods, smiling shakily. "Just saying." And with that last word he stops tinkering, with a final click.

"He was buying time." Kurapika mutters.

"F-For what?" I ask incredulously, what the hell did he make?!

"By the way, the name isn't boy, IT'S SABER!" Saber yells, raising his creation, which was a small cylinder looking thing, next to the prisoners ear. Saber clicks a button and…

"AAAAAGHHHHH!"

We all jump at the sudden roar of pain from the prisoner, who leaps off Saber, and was now rolling on the ground clutching his ears.

Saber quickly get's to his feet, smiling. "HA!"

"Huh? I don't hear anything!" Gon cries.

"It's a dog whistle!" Kurapika exclaims.

"Wh-oh, AWESOME! Yah Saber!" I cheer, finally realizing what he had done. Of course we couldn't hear it, as we had normal hearing, but to a person with such extremely good hearing like the prisoner, the dog whistle must have been torture!

"It's not just a dog whistle." Saber explains proudly. "I made it a few pitches higher than a dog whistle, just in case." He turns to the prisoner. "Ready to give up?"

The prisoner snarls, still rolling around, but after a couple seconds he nods, shaking. "Y-Yes, enough. I surrender, turn the damn thing off before my ears bleed!"