Rue Reaches Lugia

Lugia was an interesting place.

People had mainly two forms of transportation.

They used bubbles to go up and water slides to go down. The entire city was filled with these two things.

However, the slides weren't actually fast or anything really. They were just lazy rivers.

Rue saw important people, poor people, smart people, stupid people, rich people, all of them in swimsuits.

Literally; everyone in the beachy paradise was wearing swimsuits.

Even the guards.

Actually.

Rue just realized.

The city didn't have any guards.

The gates had been completely empty. All it had was a huge sign saying "Welcome to Lugia, the town of fun"

I wonder how they handle crime and security, thought Rue.

Anyhow, Rue for now decided to explore the town.

They had these creamy treats that Rue thought were delicious.

They also had all sorts of different kinds of seafood.

It was quite nice.

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Rue reached one of the many beaches and saw that a bunch of naked people were, well, naked.

"Ummm mister, why is everyone there naked?" she asked one of the men that had given her a really good drink based on pineapple.

"Cause they want to," said the man.

"Huh," she said.

"Lugia is a place that puts fun and freedom before anything else. If they want to be naked why not? Humans are meant to be free, after all."

"I thought it was something like a nude beach or something"

"So like a beach for people to be naked?" asked the man.

"Something like that"

"Huh. That's pretty stupid, why be naked only in a certain area of the town?"

Rue was impressed. In fact, she noticed that some people still were naked in some of the parts of the city.

Lugia was most definitively an impressive place.

"If everyone is free, why aren't you free?" Rue asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, why are you working?"

"It's fun. I don't really have to, but I sometimes do because I enjoy talking to people like you"

"That's pretty interesting," she said.

That was when a man next to her muttered something about her. She instantly grabbed the man's collar and looked at him right in the eye.

"What the hell did you say?"

"Nothing," said the man. He was clearly panicked. But more than just that, she could see the spite in the man's eyes.

"Say it"

"No"

"I said say it" she whispered.

"I said I didn't say anything," he said.

And Rue hit him right in the stomach. She wasn't playing around at all.

"Not gonna tell me now?" she screamed at him.

This got violent very quickly. It might have been because she was still tense at going somewhere new. It might have been the piña colada, whose alcohol can get you wasted without you even noticing. But at the end of the day, she did it.

She hit a human with the strength of a Hunter.

And she made the man cough blood.

If she had gone all out she obviously would have killed him, but she wasn't that drunk.

"You're a Hunter?" asked the waiter.

"Yes, why?"

The man's eyes instantly turned into a look of fear.

"Everybody run away, she's a Hunter!"

Even the people having unprotected, extremely public, and unpleasant intercourse at the beach ran away.

In fact, everyone on the beach ran away without a second thought.

"What the hell is wrong with these people?" she said.

And that was when it happened.

It was quick, and because of its very nature.

The sound reached her later, but her brain didn't register what had happened until much later.

But she did instantly feel the pain permeate her body.

Lightning had struck Rue down.

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A single, small man stood on the balcony of Lugia.

He was watching his lightning flare in town.

He had just heard a man scream about a Hunter, and had struck as fast as he could.

Of course, he knew that if this was a powerful Hunter, they could survive. But the strike probably bought him enough time to make a decent cloud and strike them down in the next one.

The man was wearing a nice Hawaiian shirt, some elegant swim shorts with the faces of dudes printed on them.

Hi's sunglasses weren't going to be needed for the next part, he thought.

Just like the Hunter was not needed in this place.