HxH Pitou's Humanity Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Sun, Night and the Beast

“So this is the inside of a mine,”said Pitou as she made her way inside the old mine turned hideout by the bandits. “This is a big mine. Huh I wonder what they were mining?”

“Coal mainly.” said a man coming out into the opening. He looked like a street fighter from a city. “Well hello there miss. You did a good job handling the cannon foutter. You clearly know nen huh, well you’re not the only one.” as he began to let his Nen flow around him. His Nen then focused on his joints and his fists. “Nen stance: Boxing. I’d really hate to hurt a lady so how about you surrender.”

PItou didn’t say a word and just kept walking, she completely ignored him and walked right past him, leaving him stunned.

“HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING.”

“Hhmm,” Pitou turned back to him. “I thought you didn’t want to fight.”

“That's not what I meant.”

“So you do want to fight.”

“YES” He then got kicked in the jaw by Pitou so hard his body hit the ceiling of the mine before falling to the ground. Pitou did a quick check and confirmed he was unconscious.

“Should have just let me walk. How about you, you want to fight as well.” she said to an empty room. “Oh for the love of I know you're there, just come out and leave.”

“HAHAHA, so you noticed me,” said a voice echoing throughout the mine. “I shall reveal myself but I shall not run.” As one of the rocks began to move and shift until it had the shape of a fully grown woman. “Well aren’t you an interesting one.”

“Look I just want you guys to not hurt my friend and also hand over Magno Passel, that would be great.” said Pitou.

The woman chuckled. “I’m afraid that won’t happen. We have a job to do and if that means you and your friend are in the way then you both are as good as dead.”

“Where’s Passel?” asked Pitou, getting a little annoyed. As she bent down and grabbed a rock.

“I’m not familiar with the name but if you mean the old Hunter, he did come this way and to our surprise he was able to take down three of us who can use Nen. He was doing well until Mr. Nix stepped in. Don’t worry he’s alive, his ability is too valuable to just kill him off. Which isn’t the same thing I can say about you.”

Pitou threw the rock at the wall behind her. When it hit the wall breaking it also revealed a panicked woman, the someone she had been talking to. “Seriously, did you really think you were fooling me with that.” Pitou extended her arm out just as the woman she was talking to ran right into it shattering into multiple rocks. “You’re going to have to do better than that.”

“I can,” said the woman as she began to sweat. Suddenly the rock version of her reformed and tried to attack Pitou again only to be shattered again with a swift kick from Pitou. At the same time the woman attacked Pitou with a knife. “Die” she yelled as it landed. “Gotcha, wait what?” as she saw that Pitou had blocked the knife with her finger nail. “Your nail, how?”

“I’m strong.” said Pitou as if she was stating an obvious fact of life. “Now tell me where-” Pitou didn’t finish as she quickly jumped back as a giant rock was thrown at them. She got away but the other woman didn’t. Pitou couldn’t tell if she was dead or not as now she had a new opponent. “So you want to go now.”

“You're pretty good, you a pro hunter?” asked the man.

“Not exactly, but I’m still here to kick your asses.” said Pitou

“I see well allow me to introduce myself, you can call me Sol,” as he bowed. “I was just hired to get rid of the people on this mountain range.” ‘That’s right lets keep talking. I just need enough time to build up my Nen and then I’ll bury you bitch.’

‘He’s trying to stall for something. Oh well I’ll play along.’ thought Pitou. “Why, what are you trying to do here exactly?”

“Well you see these mountains a long time ago used to be home to a lot of bandits.” He said as he readied his speech.

“Stop,” said Pitou. “Let me guess. Since we're in a mine, I’m guessing someone found something here in these mountains and wants it for themselves, so they hired you guys to get rid of them by any means necessary. You're using the bandits to help you so whoever is hiring you can clear them out after you guys cleared out all the people, so you can mine whatever you found up. Did I get that right?”

Sol blinked a few times. “Yeah that’s exactly what's going on, do you work for someone?”

“No, but i’ve made a new friend here and the people here have been more nice to me than I deserve, so either surrender and leave or I’m going to break your teeth.” she said while remaining calm.

“Well how about we make a deal,” said Sol. “I know a few guys who would be willing to pay for muscle like yours.”

“It's been long enough, use your Nen move or just shut up,” said Pitou as Sol dropped his jaw. “Yeah I noticed are you going to activate it or not.”

Sol sighed. “Okay well then take this, Hijack rush.” as he slammed his fist down on the mine floor. For a moment it did nothing until the ceiling began to fall down. “Good bye.”

Pitou dodged the rocks, ‘He’s going to bring the whole place down. How stupid can you get.’ Pitou then dashed towards him to end this before it can get out of hand. She appeared behind him and striked. To her surprise a burst of nen caught her fist. “Oh”

“Gotcha, Hijack Chaos” he said as he landed a blow on Pitou, she didn’t feel any pain but she could feel something was wrong. “Last chance surrender.”

“Why would- whoa what the…” as Pitou couldn’t walk right. “My body, what did you do?” Pitou then could feel that her body was responding to her and yet she was still in control as if her wires got crossed.

Sol chuckled a little. “Oh man, you are a tough one. That would usually shut someone down.”

“Shut someone down?” repeated Pitou as she remembered what happened to the phones and cell phone towers. “You're mixing my muscle signals in my body. If i’m not careful and move my limbs the wrong way I can damage my internal organs.”

“Wow you're the first person to figure that out.” said Sol genuinely surprised by how quick Pitou figured it out. “Yep, you see as a soldier I learned how valuable communicating is on the battlefield. Though that ability was mainly for war, what I did you is for one on one combat.”

‘He’s able to manipulate signals, though I don’t think he’s a Manipulator. That ability he used before the one that allowed him to get a hit on me.’ Pitou figured it out. “You're an Emitter aren’t you.”

“That’s right, how'd you figure it out?”

“When I tried to attack you, you emitted a burst of Nen that stopped me then you enhanced your body so you could get a hit on me before I dodged. So I concluded you must be an Emitter.”

“While that maybe true it’s not going to help you.” he said

“Then why haven’t you attacked?” said Pitou, catching him off guard.

“Huh, what do you mean?”

“Your ability stopped me from hitting you, It didn’t stop me from concentrating my nen to my stomach where you hit me. Not to mention you pretty much only sped yourself up to hit me, so I got to ask how’s the hand?” Sol gritted his teeth but showed Pitou his now bruised and broken hand. “That looks about right.”

“What the hell are you made of, lady?” he said now, not trying to hide the pain.

“What can I say, I was just born this way.” she said with a smile. “So I’m guessing right now you're debating whether or not you want to run, right?” he didn’t say anything. “Look you can clearly tell, I'm much stronger than you and I can feel your Nen ability running out. So it would be a good time to make a decision before I can get control over my body again.”

Sol gritted his teeth out of rage. “This isn’t over yet girl.” Sol made a 180 and ran down the tunnel.

“Wow smartest guy I’ve met since I got here.” said PItou as she could feel her muscles starting to return to normal. “Alright I think I’m good to keep moving.”

~o~

“Sol, what are you doing here?” asked Nix. “Did you get rid of the intruder?”

Sol was catching his breath. “NO, that chick is way stronger than I thought. Just look at what she did to my hand.”

Nix saw the hand. “Well that’s just great, not only did she beat you, but she allowed the prisoner to escape.”

“What?”

“Several rocks started to fall from the ceiling and one hit the lock on the chains that were holding the prisoner, allowing him to escape.” said Nix then he noticed Sol’s face. “Is something wrong Sol?”

“Huh oh nothing, I just thought what were the chances of that happening.” Said Sol. ‘God dammit, I can’t tell him that was my fault. Fuck.’

“In any case, I’ll deal with both of them.” said Nix as he began walking down another tunnel.

“You really think you can take them both?” asked Sol. “Both of them ain’t push overs and you don’t fight.”

“On the contrary, Sol. I fight without fighting.” said Nix. “I am absolutely sure I can deal with them.” He then checked his phone. “In fact I just beat one of them right now.”

~o~

Pitou cursed. “That ability that Sol guy used didn’t do any damage but it definitely slowed me down.” She kept walking for a bit until she reached a wide open chamber. She tried to use En again but found it difficult. “What the heck is this place. It's as if the whole place is covered in Nen.”

“Something like that.” said Nix as he adjusted his glasses. Pitou saw him and went into a fighting stance. “Now then lets end this quickly shall we. Space of Night.” The second the words left his mouth darkness began to surround both him and Pitou.

“No you don’t,” said Pitou as she went for a punch hoping to end this quickly. “Go to sleep.” As she tried to hit him. Nix's eyes opened wide at Pitou’s impressive speed.

He barely dodged the attack, while the lights returned to normal. Nix ran deeper into the chamber. “This is bad.”

“Sorry suit guy but this is where you go down.” Pitou began to punch Nix, though when her fist got near enough to make contact, her arm began to twist into itself. She quickly pulled her fist back. “What the?”

“Miss get back.” Pitou turned to see an injured old man in the corner of the chamber. “Be careful don’t move too much.”

Pitou stopped and cracked her Go to high. It was hard but she saw thin lines of nen all over the chamber making hundreds of walls. “The entire mountain. That was the huge nen I was feeling in one big Nen attack.”

“Indeed.” said Nix standing not too far away from Pitou but with several of the Nen walls in between them. “Like bits of sand, small but if wind kicks enough of it up, it becomes impossible to see through.”

‘So that’s it. When I was coming here. I sensed a lot of weak nen, and when I got here there were a lot of nen around me. It was him just thinning out and covering this place with his nen. No wonder my En wasn’t working. I was surrounded by so much of his nen it became like a sand storm impossible to see through.’ as Pitou figured out what was going on. “Well I’m impressed. You managed to get first blood on me.” as she examined her hand as the skin on her knuckles were slightly bleeding. “Let me guess if I try to pass through any of these walls it will cause my body to twist into me breaking me, right? Like how my skin twisted and ripped itself off of my knuckles.”

“Correct,” said Nix as he began to grin like a mad man. “So is the power of space.”

“Space?”

“There not walls, miss.” said the old man. “There weird boxes of space.”

Pitou turned her attention to the old man for a moment. “Magno Passel, right.” He nodded. “You alright?”

“I’ve seen better days.”

“He had a first hand experience at my absolute power.” said Nix, he’s smile never leaving his face.

“Oh and how does this give you overwhelming power?”

“Oh don’t get me wrong this is now me overwhelming you. You see, like you several people see Nen as a way to get superpowers. A way to get a strong body, while a few like me see how incredible of a power it truly is if you put some thought into it.”

“He’s a situational fighter.” said Magno right next to Pitou.

“What the how did,” Pitou was going to ask him how he got so close when she saw a big Nen compass floating next to him. “A nen compass. Wait what did you mean by situational fighter?”

“I’ve fought a few people like him before. People who use their conditions and restrictions to limit their options in a fight so much that when they can fight their powers become ridiculously strong.” explained Magno.

“Not strong. Absolute.” said Nix. “You see, I've thought and designed my power to the point that when you're caught in it there is no way out. That’s why fools like yourself will die here. Well then, as much as I would love to stay and watch. I will be taking my leave now. Good bye” As he turned and left the chamber.

“Shit, he’s gone.” As Pitou tried to calculate a way out. ‘This is like cheetu’s power. Trapping people in a space that they can’t get out of unless they complete some rule. Though unlike Cheetu, this guy isn’t an idiot.’

“Looks like we're in a tough spot here,” said Magno. “Tell me how did you get here?”

“What do you mean?”

“There were hordes of bandits outside. How did you get around them?”

“Oh I just beat them up.” This causes Magno’s jaw to drop. “They weren’t that strong, how did you get past them?”

“I used my Nen Compass to point to the right pass to encounter as few of them as possible. I figured if I took out the ones in charge the rest of them would just fall apart.” Said Magno.

“Hey can that Nen Compass get us out of here?” asked Pitou

“Tried that, the space boxes moved when I tried too. These boxes aren’t just floating in the air they seem to be able to go through walls and other objects. They only mess with living things. None of my clothes got damaged when I accidentally hit one.” he said as he showed his side. His clothes, even though covered in blood were not damaged, only his body. “And nothing happens if I stab it with one of my knives.” He demonstrated by putting half of his knife in the box before bringing it out without it being damaged.

Pitou tried it herself by sticking the tip of her nail into the box, only for it to twist and break itself. Pitou thought for a moment. “You said you’ve fought people like him before right? Do you have any information that can help us right now?”

Magno thought for a moment. “Well a lot of people like him don’t fight head on and have some sort of trick that keeps his targets in place unless they can figure it out. It might be something like placement movement or even target. To get out of this we need to find out what the conditions are here.”

“Hhmm okay,” said Pitou as she turned towards one of the boxes. “Let me try something here.” She pulled her arm back and punched the air right in front of the box with a good amount of force to blow wind throughout the room. Magno was impressed with the power but it didn’t make the boxes move an inch. “Nope nothing. They really are boxes of space.”

“Yeah though I doubt he would let us wait until dawn for us to fight him.” said Magno.

“Wait why did you say that?” asked Pitou

“Well he did call this Space of Night.” It could be he can’t activate this power unless it's night.”

“Or it can’t hurt us. He said the exact same thing right before I got here. He called out his ability then I attacked him right as things were turning dark. What did he do to you?”

Magno thought for a moment. “The same thing really. He called out his move and when I saw the darkness closing in I attacked him so he wouldn’t activate it, unless.”

“Unless attacking him was how we activated his Nen ability. These things hurt us because at that exact moment we attacked him. These things didn’t do anything to him when he walked through them or when he walked out. Only us.”

“So you think these things react to us attacking. That makes sense but how does that help us exactly?”

“These things only twist living things and don’t affect other objects. They move when we try to leave. Maybe if we move fast enough we can get out without touching the boxes.” said Pitou.

“Maybe but you would have to move instantaneously without redirecting yourself at all. The boxes are blocking a direct path to the exit. Not to mention they move fast if you move fast.”

Pitou made some Connection threads. “I think I have an idea.” She said as she made a yarn ball of Connection thread. “Let’s see if this works.” she tossed the ball at the exit of the chamber, as it sailed through the air, it went through several boxes without issue. “Alright it made it through. Now cross your fingers and hope this works.”

“What exactly is that thread?”

“Connection thread. I used it originally to connect two broken wires to send the electricity from one end to another, but maybe i can use it to connect us to the exit.”

“This is a big step up from wires, young lady.” said Magno

“Well when I was making this technique I was imaging the thread I used for another technique one that allowed me to control objects from far away, through space.”

“This is still crazy, you know.”

“Yep and I’m willing to hear any other ideas if you have them.” said Pitou, a little nervous. “Also just in case this kills us, my name is Neferpitou, call me Pitou.”

“Well Pitou, if we live, I owe you one.” as he grabbed the other end of the thread. Pitou placed her hands over his. “Here we go.” Pitou activated her nen. Pitou has gone faster than the eye can see before, moving through a piece of nen was new. They both traveled through the thread and appeared on the other side in one piece but for the first time in her life Pitou felt motion sickness. “HErk BleAeeAaa.” and the first time she threw up.

“Are we alive?” said Magno on his side doing his best not to vomit.

Pitou looked up and saw they had passed the room filled with the space boxes. “Yeah we made it. We made it out of the death trap.” as she confirmed there weren’t any space boxes in the mining area they were in. The mining area was larger than the last but box free. “looks like we’re in the cle-”

“Single Starry Night”

“Pitou, he’s here.” said Magno trying to stand but failing. “He’s somewhere in the room...Pitou?”

“I...I can’t move.” said Pitou trying with all her might to move even an inch. ‘What the hell is going on I can’t move my body.’ Though without her command her body began to walk. “Hey stop, what the?”

“Pitou, where are you going?”

“I’m not the one doing this.” yelled Pitou.

“Didn’t I tell you that my power is absolute.” said Nix from somewhere in the same chamber.

‘He’s somewhere in the room controlling me. From the sound of his voice he’s above. How is he controlling me though.’ thought Pitou. “The room of boxes was a nen condition.”

She was correct as Nix was above her on top of a catwalk in the mine. “Correct. An ability in an ability. My powers are absolute. By escaping my space, your space becomes my own. No one can escape this.”

“Magno, he’s up above on some sort of catwalk.” yelled Pitou.

“I understand, but” said Magno as he was too trying to move. “I can’t control my body either.”

“Wha?”

Nix couldn’t help himself but laugh. “It's futile. For escaping my first room, I now have complete control over your bodies. How does it feel, muscle heads. To have your pride and joys being controlled by someone else. HAHAHAHA.”

“You were beaten a lot as a kid weren’t you.” said Magno

“Shut up, here I have power.” said Nix. “Here I am god and here I order you to die.” Nix hit a button on a control panel and activated a machine at the end of the room. It was a rock grinder used to grind down big rock. “Now it's time for the lady to be grinded into dust.”

“No, not like this,” Pitou was now feeling complete terror. “I don’t want to die like this.” as she kept stepping forward to the machine. “Come on Nen activate. Why can’t I activate my Nen.” she screamed

“This technique forces you into a state of Zetsu.” Said Nix with twisted glee. “You can’t activate your Nen and your body is robbed of its control. I control it. How does it feel?”

She was now panicking. ‘I was born with Nen, can I survive something like this without it? Is my body strong enough? “I can’t move, I can’t control my actions, I can’t…” Pitou’s mind then flashed with all of her victims. The victims she robbed of life and the ability to control their bodies. The puppets she made from their corpses. This is exactly what she did to them, she took their bodies and twisted them. “I     did      this.” as she stepped closer to the grinder. “I deserve this.”

“NEFERPITOU,” yelled Magno. “DON’T. IF YOU DIE THEN THERES NO CHANCE FOR ME. YOU’RE THE ONE WHO TOOK OUT THOSE BANDITS. I CAN’T DO THAT. PLEASE WE’LL ALL DIE IF YOU DIE NOW, ME AND EVERYONE BACK AT OVERANU.”

“Everyone.” Pitou's Mind flashed back to Jessica, her kind cousin Ben, the store clerk Lacy. She even remembered Magno’s granddaughter Mimi. “Pitou I order you to live” Those were the last orders given to her by Meruem. ‘I can’t die here.’ “I DON’T WANT TO DIE HERE.” Pitou began to struggle trying to move every part of her body. Anything.

“Oh give up.” said Nix. “Just accept your death and die with some dignity. There's nothing you ca-” Crack tic tic. “What was that?” They all look to see a rock had been knocked away by Pitou’s tail. “THAT’S A REAL TAIL!!!”

“I can move my tail? I can move my tail.” Pitou then mustard all the strength she could into her tail and slammed it on the ground breaking the ground beneath her. “Eat this.” Using her tail she flinged several rocks up at Nix.

“Ahh.” yelled Nix as he tried to doge. “Ahh wait whoa.” Nix kept dodging as Pitou kept the rocks flying. She kept going until she hit the cords holding the catwalk up. “Wait” they began to rip. “No,” the cat walk began to fall apart, “NONONONONO.”

Pitou then sent one big rock right through the bottom of the catwalk breaking it. “Gotcha Asshole.” The catwalk soon fell to the ground, with Nix. Pitou couldn’t help but grin as he fell with a massive thud, as the catwalk crashed around him. Pitou fell to the ground right in front of the grinder as she regained her ability to control her body. She had to breathe a few times to calm herself down as this was the first real time she came within inches of death. “Time to put that bastard down.” as she got up to get some ass.

“I don’t think there will be a need for that.” said Magno as he made his way to Nix’s unconscious body. He was out especially with some of the catwalk landing on him.

“Huh, he’s out cold.” Pitou was surprised and disappointed by this. “How that wasn’t that big of a drop.”

“No or at least if he was using Nen. If I had to guess the same reason he wasn’t able to land or for you to use your tail was because he was using Zetsu.” said Magno, earning a confused look from Pitou. “Think about it. These Nen abilities must have had a few conditions to them. He must have had one that restricted his body based off of the one he was controlling. He couldn’t control your tail because he didn’t have one.” He also wanted to ask how she has a tail but knew that could wait.

Pitou thought it over. “That makes sense.” pitou looked at the man. Part of her really wanted to kill him but another part told her that wouldn’t solve her problem or make things better. “So what do we do with him?”

Magno thought for a moment. He summoned a Nen compass. He began moving the compass in different directions before placing it on Nix. When he did chains appeared wrapping around him. Magno smirked. “Compass Chains. I’ve had to deal with my fair share of riff raffs in my day. He ain’t getting out of those chains unless he knows the exact combination. That should hold him until we're done here.”

Pitou nodded before thinking. “Aren’t we done here? I came here to stop the bandits and save you. Is there anything else we need to do?”

“Of course, we need to capture the other two that were in charge. Sol and the one I believe they called Beast. If we don’t capture them then they’ll just have the bandits come after us again.”

“Sol? Oh yeah he’s one of the guys I beat already.”

“Wait, did you capture him already.”

“No he used a weird ability on me and ran away.”

BOOOOOM

They both stopped talking as one of the walls exploded. They both turned to see a man walking out of the dust before it cleared. It was a man wearing a head of a lion on his head, with no shirt. Holding a walkie talkie. “Hey Beast, did you find them?” said the voice over the radio.

In a low deep voice Beast spoke. “Affirmative.”

“Alright go kick there assess.” yelled Sol through the radio.

Beast began building a huge amount of Nen. “Hey Magno, would you be alright if you went after Sol on your own.” said Pitou as she stepped up to Beast. “I can handle this guy.”

Magno was silent for a moment. Part of him didn’t want to leave Pitou to fight on her own, but the Hunter in him could tell, he would only get in her way. “Be careful.”

To their surprise Beast didn’t do anything to stop Magno from leaving the area. “You're not going to stop him?”

“No,” said Beast “For you are the one I want to fight.” as he kept bringing the Nen.

Pitou was surprised for a moment. She noticed the amount of Nen he was building up, it was a large amount. That’s when she realized it wasn’t just coming from him. SHe looked over to see Nen was coming from Nix. “You're pulling Nen from others?!”

“My Nen ability, Pack Strength. With permission I can gather the Nen of my comrades. The amount is up to them unless they have been defeated. I have made this pack with all of the bandits and Nen warriors here. You are fighting the equivalent of all them combined.”

“Oh greeaat.” said Pitou already annoyed with this ability.

“Just be happy you didn’t kill any of them.” said Beast. “If you did there corpses would have become Nen batteries powering me for days.”

“Well I hate to tell ya,” as Pitou activated her Nen. Beast was now the one in shock. “All of you combined won’t be equal to me.”

~o~

“Yo, Hey, Any of you lieutenants readying me?” yelled Sos into the radio. WIth a bandaged hand. “Come on someone say something. There’s no way all of you guys got taken out by one cat girl.”

“You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.” said a voice behind him as several knives hit the radio and wall in front of him.

Sol screamed a little and ducked as more knives came. When he slowly got up he could see Magno Passel standing above him. Sol dived for his walkie talkie, “Beast, answer me big guy, hurry up we got a problem here.”

“Hello who is this?” came the voice over the device.

Sol froze at the sound of the voice. “Pitou is that you?” asked Magno. “Did you defeat Beast already?”

“Yep,” said Pitou before spitting out some blood. “Got to say he was better than I expected. He got a few good hits in. I guess all of you guys combine can at least give me a bit of a workout.” as she looked over a beat upped Beast. “I guess that Nix guy was right, I am a muscle head. Maybe someday big guy you’ll be able to give me a far fight.”

Sol was shaking after hearing this. He slowly looked up to Magno, “Is the option to surrender still available?”

“Hehehe We got’em Pitou, we’re done here.”

“Okay.”