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Hunter X Hunter: Grounded
🕑 Added 2020-08-27 19:27:39 +0000 UTCChapter 7
Title: Hatsu Ability...
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As I feel the electricity running through my body I also can feel my consciousness slipping away and my eyes rolling at the back of my head. My body kept thrashing and my throat was raw. Just as I was about to pass out they would stop and let me come back to my senses, just so they could torture me again. This continues for twenty minutes before I am let go.
The woman just says to me. "You did pretty well sweetie."
I am gonna kill her… I am gonna KILL EVERYONE IN HERE. I scream inside my head. But on the outside I have no reaction at all.
Though I am currently angry and in pain, I can't even scream anymore as when I try to, just a heavy rasp comes through.
My body spasms every couple of seconds, and I actually can't get up for up to one minute. I just staying there lying down on the floor, glad that the pain was over.
My torturer comes close to me and starts massaging me. She looks at me and I can clearly see the pitying look in her eyes. "Don't worry, you will get used to it. The first times are the worst."
I hear what she says, but I don't care. The anger currently inside me is illogical and like fire, it wants to burn everything around me. But instead of acting on it, I just somehow, through sheer will alone force my body to stand and I start walking away. Not saying anything at all… I start walking towards my room.
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As I arrived there, I closed the door behind me and laid down on my bed. For the first time since coming to this world I cry for real. WTF… that pain was unimaginable, I was mentally prepared but as a normal person I never experienced pain like that. I was a normal person…
I wanna run away from here… but I can't. Well I can, but… I want to be stronger. I want to see how far I can go. I want to see the Dark Continent, I want to become strong and have fun. I want to have s*x and fu*k as many girls as I want. I want everything a normal human would want.
So I must stay here, and learn. I must get used to and overcome pain like this.
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So two months later and the torture training contines. From electrocution, waterboarding, oxygen deprivation and many other methods were used against me and the other kids. In the beginning I was disturbed by hearing their screams, now I am indifferent. Better care for myself. The schedule for torture training was random, so I couldn't even prepare for it.
And that is where I am currently, I can smell the burning and the damp smell of electricity and cables coming from behind the door I was standing in front of. I still scream in pain but when I can handle a whole session without a loud scream I will move on to the next class. But really though, damn… this sh*t has been leaving a heavy load on me. I am planning to create my my Hatsu today after this torture session.
"Next is Sub…" My heart jumps a little in panic when I hear my name being called. But I still enter the room as the kid before me comes out with a traumatised look on his face. I wonder how high the suicide rate in this place is?
Anyway I entered the room, but unlike before. I don't waddle on, instead I just sit down on the electric chair with no problem, it is kinda kid sized. And as they wrap my body so I don't move too much, I just open my mouth and the lady puts the cloth that I can bite at, so I don't break my teeth.
*bssst*
Immediately my body starts thrashing, I don't scream at all. I try to hold it inside, my Nen is moving irregularly because of my pain. I can't control it at all, but I force myself… ignore the pain. I take deep breaths to distract myself from the pain.
That is mildly successful and I close my eyes shut at the same time too. I slowly feel my Nen and the electricity running through my body. I try controlling my Nen but…
*bzzzt*
I can't, it barely even moves. My pain and emotional state is currently unstable. I can't even hold a straight thought.
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I just go back to my room again after the torture. As I rest for a little, I think back on the torture. I use my Nen again and… in comparison it feels so easier to move it outside of torture. It's like someone who lifts 200kg, it will feel easy lifting 20kg.
My Nen moves naturally as at the tip of my finger, I make my Aura form into numbers, a 3d Pyramid, even a house with great detail.
Torturing myself is horrible and mentally draining. In the beginning I was afraid that I might go crazy from it. But it seems like it isn't that easy to go crazy from pain and the people in here made it so kids won't go crazy, probably through a bunch of trial and error. But I can resist the mental exhaustion, I can deal with the surprisingly irrational feelings of anger that come from being tortured.
I get up from my bed and go to take a shower. I always do this, it calms me down. As I wash myself I can't help but sigh. Though they haven't made us do any physical training yet. But I have been training heavily whenever I could, in the beginning I was to tired after torture, but after some time I got used to it. Also now muscle pain feels like nothing, so I can intensively train with no feeling of real discomfort.
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After taking a shower, I give a sideways look around my room. I am looking at all of the hidden cameras. I just act angry and throw my clothes around, covering all of the cameras. There are hundreds of children in this facility, I doubt the small amount of staff can look through all of the cameras. Plus they are human too and can get bored. So most likely, someone is looking at TV and just staying in there. Even if he isn't I have covered the cameras for that reason. To come to my room they would need a couple of minutes and until they actually notice something strange, it will be around ten minutes… enough time to do my thing.
I just put on my underwear and some normal clothes. I then take a deep breath… I can do this. Slowly my Nen flares up, I take another deep breath and my Nen is condensed. Forming a spiky aura around me.
Slowly and with 100% concentration I say.
"My Nen… by lovely Nen."
I address my Aura like my own child. "Condense yourself, form yourself, get soft, get hard, get sticky. Become like the earth, hard and soft… my Nen… change."
Slowly my Nen starts moving a little erratically, until it slowly changes color. From the normal white, to a gold like brown colour.
I smile at this… my Hatsu Ability is...
<Dirt Cheap>
Transmutes the user's aura to have the properties of earth & rock, so the aura can form a hard structure like defense like rock or be soft and absorb blows like earth.
Conditions:
(1) If Sub tells someone about his Hatsu ability to someone that he is fighting, his Nen will get stronger.
It has both the properties of rock and dirt. It is a substance I was very familiar with in my first life. From studying it in college and working as a construction worker for part time.
Slowly I control my Nen to take the substances of rock. Slowly it looks like I am surrounded by brown glass. I tap my fists together…
*baam*
Yep, just like rock. But of course since my Aura is not really rock, it can become way stronger than the average rock. Just like Hisoka's Bungee Gum, it doesn't have properties as strong as gum, but it simply imitated the substance's qualities.
That is the same with me… <Cheap Dirt> is my Hatsu Ability. Hard like a rock and soft like dirt… this can become very versatile for me.
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AUTHOR NOTE:
This is the MC's Hatsu. Of course there will be more, but this will be the primary one, just like Killua created from lightning manipulation GodSpeed. The MC will create others too...😁👍
P.S: Hope you like it.
