Noah

In a dark and chilling night of March, five cloaked people were running through a forest heading north at high speed.

Some kilometers ahead of the group at the northest of the forest, there was a big mansion which belongs to a mafia group of that city. The place was heavily guarded, each entrance had groups of the armed guys, also there was patrolling teams all over the place. Although they were patrolling they were confident that no one in that city would even dare to look at them much less try to attack them, but there is always some crazy people, driven insane by vengeance, from time to time they have to deal with. Little did they know that day will be their worst and last day alive...

Half an hour later the cloaked group reached the outskirts of the mansion, there they stopped in their tracks and one of them said.

"You four go and clean everything around the mansion, I'll go inside" the four nodded their heads, then all of them dashed bursting in the mafia domains killing everyone on their way,most of the guards didn't even realise how they died. They were like Reapers harvesting every live they came across.

After sometime the atmosphere was filled with the smell of blood and corpses were scattered all over the place, from time to time drowned screams and shots could be heard.

Hovering over the sky the Moon dyed in crimson was glinting. Its brightness revealed stains all over the place and an overflowing river running around the mansion, the same color as the Moon... crimson blood.

Inside of the mansion a white haired boy was strolling leisurely towards the location of his main target, with an unsheathed sword in his right hand, blood dripping from the tip's blade while on his left he was holding a still beating heart and blood gushing out with each beat. As he was walking he kept staring at the heart pondering about something till it stopped beating, and then he sighed.

"It has been just five years since then... how does that even work, I wonder" he said and the heart disappeared in thin air.

"Well, I just came back so I'll take it easy..."

The boy wore a black dark coat with dragon's patterns over his chest and on his shoulders he had pads like dragon's scales. On his face there was a white expressionless mask with purple designs. He was walking as one would in his own home while beheading every person that came across his path with almost no effort; no one was able to put any kind of resistance.

He kept on doing his strolling until getting near of his target, the man tried desperately to call for help but to no avail... because the entire mansion has already become dead silent, the man froze and turned to look at the Reaper walking to him not too slow, not too fast, but surely death was getting near, what should have been mere seconds, to that man it was an eternity.

As the boy kept walking, the man started to laugh hysterically

"Hahaha a Reaper, HAhahaha"

"Yes, the time for you to pay for all you've done... has come"

"Hahahaha hahaha"

The boy stated coldly and the man kept laughing, but when the boy got in front of him, the laugher was replace by cries and yells which resounded throughout the place. Out of all the people that night, he was the one who got the worst.

After an hour, the boy decided to finish the pitiful and miserable life of his target, he had long ago got all the information the man possessed, so he has no worth anymore.

Then he got out of the mansion and went to the backyard moving towards a small hut at the corner of the place. He went inside and started to look around till he found a small trap door on the floor. He opened it and walked down, after almost ten minutes he reached the dungeon where the people were held captive. All of them had somber looks on their faces; their clothes were in tatters, and more than half of them were little kids between five to seven years. In total there were twenty seven people inside.

"Well kids all of you are lucky, because today's mission was pretty easy and smooth I'm in good mood so, I'll freed you all from this place and give you new chance to live"

The masked boy said standing in front of them. Some look at him warily but some look with a hint of expectation in their eyes.

"Today my job was to exterminate the local mafia boss and his gang. It means, now that I've completed my mission, the people that held you captive here are no more. The mission said nothing about you, so I'll give you two options, one is to go up and get out of this place on your own and taking care of yourselves…" he said and paused looking at their expressions.

"The other is to go out with me and follow me; my people will take care of you and train you till you are capable of taking missions. You will have a place to stay, protection, education, food and training. All you will have to do is to work for me. Now choose." he said while cutting the cell's bars for them to get out.

They looked at each other and discussed for a moment then they stood up and voiced out their will to follow him. With everyone out of the cells he guided them upstairs getting out of that hut, they walked off the backyard and passed through the mansion filled with corpses and finally they reached the front where the four were already were waiting. He walked and as he got in front them, they kneeled down, then a femenine voice came from one of them.

"Noah-sama your orders?" she asked slightly lifting her head

"Maya clean the place and take care of the kids, train them well okay..." he said while pointing at the kids. "And also tell Ryohei to take command while I'm off. I'm gonna be absent for a month at most I guess, but he can contact me if something serious happens. Also do take care of have everything ready for our return" he said

"Yes, as you will Noah-sama" she said lowering her head again. Then he walked off and when he was out of their sight he began to run heading to his destination.

After running for almost eight hours at high speed he arrived to the airport. He went to the reception and bought a ticket to Zaban City. He got into the dirigible, went directly to his room and lay down on the bed.

"It has been a long time since I went home... I wonder what is he doing" he mumbled to himself before falling asleep.

Next morning he woke up and began to organize his stuff thinking about what to do in the next seven days until he arrived to the city. In that week, he locked himself and meditate all day long, going out of the room just to get food. That way he spent his time until he arrived at the city.

There he met with a navigator that guided him to the meeting point for the Hunter's exam.

They walked till the entrance of a small restaurant and stood there for a moment, then the navigator opened the door and walked in followed by Noah. When he entered he saw the chef cooking while some people where eating and chatting normally. The chef greeted them and then the navigator told the password getting access to the backroom, where Noah was told to wait.

Once inside the room, Noah began to check his clothes while waiting when suddenly the room started moving down. He paid no mind to it and he continued doing his stuff, he was wearing black trousers, a white shirt and over it a blacksuit he made for combat and training purposes, the suit covers him from the shoulders till his elbows and knees adding one and half ton to his weight and to cover it a white jacket without sleeves. On his face there was a white and purple wolf like mask, and finally a black dragon-like cloak and boots with purples lines that give him another half ton of additional weight.

"Ah nowadays even with this up to restrain my strength and speed isn't enough, so to make things more interesting, let's add some more!" he thought

He then from a ring took out arm and leg training weights half ton each one, and wore them. He then sat down waiting until the elevator reached the meeting place.

After sometime the room stopped and the door opened then he stood up and walked out of the elevator and saw that some people were already there, while he was scanning the other participants he sensed someone approaching him.

"Here you go" said a green figure, giving him a tag with the number 77 on it.

"Okay, Thanks" Noah answered

"Be sure you wear this on your chest all the time and be careful not to lose it" he said while going away.

Noah began to walk towards the wall to sit on the ducts when another person approached to him, when the person got near, he greeted Noah, presented himself and began to talk non-stop, while trying to look harmless. Despite his deceiving self he couldn't fool Noah, who is an expert in the field of deception. After some chit-chat the man then offered him a can of juice, which obviously had something in it. Nonetheless, Noah received the juice.

"Oh thanks, well cheers!" he said while lifting the can and slightly moving his mask to drink.

"Cheers!" said Tonpa with a slight evil grin.

"Fuah, thanks for the drink but you know... I thought the juice was poisoning but turns out to be just a joke, this is so weak you can't even call it poison"

Noah said sounded cheerful and then a bit dejected while the grin on Tonpa face desappeared and he started to sweat profusely.

"You don't have a stronger one with you"

"Uh eh, wha... what are you talking about?"

"You know Tonpa-san one day you are gonna get yourself kill, by doing this kind of things 'cause someone may not take this as cheerful as me"

Noah said snatching another can from him while walking away. As he was in a good mood he spared him. Moreover, he didn't want to kill someone before the exam even begin.

Then he adjusted his mask and jumped on top of the duct and sat down to take a nap there until the rest of the participants arrive. As time pass by people started to show up waking him up.

As he was now awake he started scanning all the applicants and the majority was just small fries, just a small group was noted worthy, then as he continue looking around, he noticed two people that gave him a pretty strong impression.

One was a man dressed like a clown; he could sense a strong and creepy aura coming from him. The other was pincushion-man dressed in green that gave him an eerie feeling; also wonder why his aura seems a little bit familiar to him.

Just from the aura they emit he could guess they are very strong and also killers with rich battle experience, because that kind of aura just can be obtained from killing countless people. He was a bit itchy to go to fight them but decided against at least for now, "Maybe after the exam ends" he thought. Also he made a mental note to check them later in case they become his targets.

Then he spotted a white haired boy with a skateboard.

"Oh how did he get here, well finding the place isn't too difficult, but what is he doing here, I wonder…" he mumbled to himself.

He kept looking around and then saw Mr. Tonpa going to the last newcomers to tricked them as per usual; Noah was getting a little bit pissed off from that hobby of his. And while he was deciding if he goes or not to stop him a screamed resounded all around the place and the attention of everyone focused on its direction.

They saw a man falling on his knees while his arms were dispersing in red flower petals, when the man dressed like a clown started talking.

"Oh, how peculiar... His arms seem to have become flower petals… No smoke and no mirror here... do take care. You should be more careful and do apologize if you bump into someone." He said menacingly when suddenly Noah appears near him clapping his hands in front of him.

"Wow that was beautiful and incredible!!" Noah said "I have to admit that it was a very beautiful scene... well at least for me it was like a piece of art" he thought.

"How did you do that?!" Noah asked a little bit excited because one of the few things that have picked his interest was magic tricks. The clown looked at him for a while and said.

"I magician never reveal his secrets" He said smiling started to walk away.

"Tch Mean" Noah said pouting "and by the way, why are you dressed like a pink-white clown when you are a magician?" said while tilting his head to the side innocently. "Oh, so is this what having different preferences mean?" he whispered to himself loudly enough to the people around him to hear including the clown. The clown stumbled a little while walking off. Noah then disappeared from sight before he could say something.

Meanwhile Tonpa was talking to the trio of newcomers about the clown and his deeds in the last exam.

"Anyway you should stay away from him" he then looked at Noah "Besides for that strange kid... no one likes him..."

"Who is he?" a spiky haired boy asked.

"Him?, well he is also a newcomer so I don't know much about him except for his dangerous aura and his weird definition of beautiful"

"Oh I almost forgot, let's have a toast of friendship... what do you say?"

Tonpa said taking out four cans of juice. The three agreed and just when they were going to take the cans, Noah who was now close enough to hear decided to step in and appeared behind Tonpa scared him to death while the rest looked at him in surprise.

"Hello, I heard you were talking about me… so I decided to greet you" he said cheerfully and then looked at Tonpa releasing a bit of bloodlust making him to start to sweat.

"Oh Tonpa san do you have those drinks, I guess I told you to throw them because they had gone bad... geez well never mind I'll do it for you"

Noah said and signal to Tonpa to handing him the cans, he did as told then excused himself and disappeared in the crow like his life depend on it. After Tonpa was gone Noah then looked at them.

"As I said before these drinks have gone bad, but if you still want to try it's up to you"

"No thank you, just looking at his reaction anyone could tell he put something on them" said the tallest one.

"Indeed" the blonde guy one followed.

"By the way I haven't presented my self yet, I'm Noah nice to meet you"

"I'm Gon, they are Leorio and Kurapika. Nice to meet you too, Noah"

"Hey Noah you got pretty close to Hisoka, after him just killing someone, are you crazy? Didn't he scare you?" asked Leorio.

"So his name is Hisoka" Noah mumbled and then answered "Well I'm not sure about the first one, it depends on people's perspective… and no, I wasn't scared" he said

"It was just that I was too immersed looking at the scene and got there. That technique was just too awesome" he said excited while Gon and Kurapika looked at each other and smiled wryly.

As they were chatting suddenly a rin was heard all around the place, after some moments it was shut up, followed by the rumbling sound of a wall lifting. From the site the wall was lifted, a man in black suit with white hair and brown mustache was standing. His hands behind his back, he said.

"I apologize for the wait. The entry period for Hunter applicants has ended...

Now the Hunter Exam will begin!"