บท 6: Hatsu x Victory x Realization

Jett was sweating; while he could keep his Ren active for thirty minutes, he wasn't sure how long he could keep it up while fighting an unknown creature, who had also just learned nen. It was strong before; adding Nen to the mix did not look suitable for Jett. Jett had forgotten about the kid that had warned him about the attack, right now he couldn't help it, his attention was on the creature. Jett hoped the kid didn't get caught in the battle or die.

Jett stared at the creature as it curiously looked at his nen. Jett understood that it had never seen Nen before; just by looking at its actions, he could tell it didn't know about it before. Jett watched as the creature somehow gathered a sizable amount of nen to its fist and punched the ground, releasing the nen like he himself had done a few moments ago. The ground around it exploded, sending tremors to the surrounding area.

"Looks like things are getting too spicy for the pepper," Jett joked to himself, realizing that he was royally screwed.

'Did this thing copy what I did? How?!" Jett shouted inwardly.

'This damn thing didn't know about Nen a few minutes ago; now it can control it like a freaking war veteran, does someone out there want me to die that badly.' Jett inwardly freaked out.

Besides what was happening, Jett still kept a calm demeanor. He didn't want to give time to that thing to adjust to its nen, but he also needed some time to figure out what was happening with him. When he was training his nen, the color he used to keep Ren active was royal blue. Now, just when he felt that strange sensation at the back of his shoulder, the color of his nen changed from royal blue to two colors; his nen was now a mixture of red and blue, burning around him without mixing, sometimes switching places in an instant.

Jett wasn't an expert on Nen, but he knew one thing: Nen shouldn't be able to change color like that; he wasn't a rainbow. Changes happen based on rules and other factors, which would mean that he had somehow activated a Hatsu; the problem was he had no idea what his Hatsu was. When he had done water divination, one side of the leaf in the glass cup had turned entirely black while the water in the cup had started to overflow.

Jett had all the information in his head about Nen's attributes. The leaf turning another color would indicate that he was a specialist; he had been happy about it. Then, not expecting it, the water in the cup had started to overflow, making him an enhancer. It confused him; he wasn't sure what was happening. He didn't know if it was normal and had no one to ask for advice. Now that he could see his own nen active and the new sensation behind his shoulder, he had some speculations.

It had to be said that transmigrators had a better chance of figuring out some things faster than others; transmigrators had seen a lot of anime in which many crazy things happened. In this case, Jett conjectured that he somehow had a blood limit. Remembering the first time he appeared in the world, he had no clue how to activate his nen. Yet his nen stayed active for eight minutes, from what he could remember. If he guessed correctly, it took him five minutes to kill all those ugly monkeys and another three minutes when he stayed on guard. This wasn't his point; his point was that while his Ren had been active, the amount of nen he used had never diminished. The strange burning sensation on the back of his right shoulder had also been present at that time.

Jett felt that his deduction was right, especially now that he could remember everything clearly. He had no idea if people could somehow have a blood limit in this world, another thing he would have to investigate if he lived.

While thinking about the things happening to him, he did not immediately take his eyes off the lizard creature. As Jett saw it focus its cold eyes on him again, he stopped all his thoughts and concentrated on watching the creature's every move. In a burst of speed, the creature ran in a collision course with Jett. Thinking about what was happening to him wasn't all Jett had done; he had also weighed his options. If he ran, there wasn't any guarantee that the creature would let him go; there was even a chance it would chase after him. No, it would chase after him; it seems adamant about killing him. With that in mind, Jett steeled his resolve and decided to fight.

Jett performs his first conscious flash step by grasping the ground with his foot. In an instant, he appears right in the path of the creature. The creature was almost the height of a full-grown adult, and Jett literally reached up to its chest, but it was that difference that allowed him to land a kick. Kicking off the ground at full force, he delivers a power-filled kick to the jaw of the creature, sending it into the air.

Enhancing his legs with as much nen as he could, Jett jumped after it. In the air, bypassing the creature, Jett raised his leg, used the momentum of his fall, and spun. He understood why some characters shouted the names of their moves; it made them feel confident in delivering their attack. Jett followed the same example and yelled at his move.

"SPINNING AX KICK!"

Things didn't often go as one hoped. The creature didn't stay still, waiting to get hit. At the last moment, it grabbed Jett's leg, using Jett's momentum against him, and it started spinning in mid-air. Jett couldn't free himself; the creature's grip was too firm; after what seemed like an hour, the creature finally let him go, sending him crashing to the ground. Aware that he was falling, Jett screamed, redirecting most of his Nen to his back, the part that would first make contact with the ground.

A considerable rumbling was heard across the island. Gon, who had been forgotten, was shocked at what was happening. He had never seen anything like it. He was scared; yes, his body was shaking in fear, yet a smile was present on his face.

Jett, who had landed on the ground, had created a vast pit shaped like a bowl; he was still conscious. He had saved his own life by strengthening his back before he made an impact. He looked up at the creature, which had remained suspended in the air because of the momentum it had used to throw him. As it began to fall, Jett watched that damn thing raise its leg in the air. Before it started spinning, Jett saw its mouth elongate into a sadistic smile. That damn thing was having fun with him. He should be angry, he should be afraid of what would happen if that kick landed on him, but he wasn't, all he could do was smile.

"Let's see who kills who you bastard!, (haha)" Jett yelled with a laugh at the end.

Jett jumped out of the crater by doing a backward flip, landing far from where he was. Not wasting any time, he immediately used Gyo to spot where that thing would be among all the dust it had picked up with that powerful kick.

"You want to play copycat, asshole. Then I will too, although is not lightning, the concentration of nen focus into a single forward point should have the same result, you can thank your death to the copy ninja." Jett watches as the damn creature slowly walks out of the crater, gathering some of his Nen into his back and legs; Jett once again grabs the earth with his foot and performs another flash step, this time much faster than the last one.

The creature who had just come out of the crater sensed danger; all its animalistic senses told him to move out of the way, and with inhuman solid reflexes, it managed to avoid a stab to the heart by moving slightly to its left. Jett's hand that had concentrated nen pass right through the creature's torso, he would have enjoyed his small victory if it wasn't because the damn thing acted quickly, and charged at him trying to bite his neck. Jett retreated out of the way by jumping back with a weak flash step; the creature's bite had grazed his neck.

'That was a close one, had I been any slower I would have died just then, this bastard had good instincts too.' Jett thought. Jett watched as the wound on the creature unnaturally started to heal.

'An enhancer type, then.' Jett deduce. It made sense that the creature was naturally strong and had a one-track mind; in this case, he was trying to kill him. Enhancers had solid physical attacks and defenses. They could increase their natural abilities; in this case, the lizard creature used his nen to heal the wound on its chest. Jett to mock him, like it had done with him when it sent him crashing to the ground, licked the blood on his hand, smiled, and then spat into the ground; Jett was vindictive.

The action of licking the blood activated something in Jett's Nen. A powerful aura that startled both him and the creature erupted from Jett. A beam of light shot out of Jett's body at supersonic speed, not giving the creature any time to react. The beam of light wrapped around the creature's neck and consolidated into a ring that circled its neck. Something else also happened. Information was appearing in Jett's mind as he witnessed the creature trying to pull the dark blue collar it now had.

The information was his Hatsu, or should he say Hatsu's. This only brought up more questions about his body. But right now wasn't the time for that; snapping back to reality, Jett once again gathered his Nen into his hand and exploded with Ren, enhancing his body to the max. In a flash he disappears from where he stands and reappears behind the creature, Jett delivers the killing blow. Half the creature's head was now missing; blood was coming out like an unattended hose. Jett, fearing it could recover, attacked it again, driving its hand right into its heart.

Jett stood above the creature for another five minutes, watching, expecting it to move. When he saw that its body no longer twitched or made any movement, Jett finally sighed in relief. What had happened before was Jett's hatsu activation.

From what he could understand, Jett, or his body, was unique; he didn't know how he knew this information; maybe it was a condition he didn't know about. He knew that he had a body that allowed him to have two types of nen attributes that he could use at a hundred percent. Jett's two Nen attributes were Enhancer and Specialization. His specialization, Nen, was responsible for the earlier development.

His first specialization, Hatsu, was called 'Unlimited'; this Hatsu allowed him to use unlimited nen. The duration of this nen was derived from his age; if he were now ten, he would be able to use it for ten minutes. The time would not change until he became older. It was one of the conditions. The second condition was that the amount of nen would stay constant according to the amount of nen he could output before activating the hatsu. No matter how hard he tried to increase it, it would not work, but it would give him unlimited nen he could use. The loophole was that he had to train and improve his nen without activating his Hatsu.

The third condition was something he had already done, which was to die. The third condition was that he had to have passed one time. Jett almost wanted to laugh; how could someone die one time? Was it a good thing he had already died, or did the previous Jett's death count?

The fourth condition was that he had to have two types of Nen attributes that he could use at one hundred percent; under any other circumstances, this condition would be impossible to have if you didn't have a unique body like his, although he didn't know what was special about it. Jett also thought that this was good; from his information, Hatsu could have been stolen, and the condition of death alone was already a deterrent for anyone trying to steal his nen.

The fifth and last condition was after time had run out, he would enter a state of force, Zetsu; any other time, this would have left him vulnerable. This part made Jett extremely happy; his enhancer type wasn't affected by the conditions of his specialization. The two nen types existed together in his body but were not ruled by the conditions of the other. For this reason, Jett was overjoyed because the second hatsu matched perfectly with his body's condition. Yet again, he didn't know what was unique about his body; all he had was the information that came into his head.

His second hatsu was called 'Gemini Bond'. This Hatsu had few conditions; they were all simple, but Jett didn't like one of the conditions because it was gross. This hatsu allowed him to force his opponent into a state of force zetsu.

The first condition was that he and his enemy would enter the force state of Zetsu. The second condition was that 'Unlimited' hadn't been activated. The third condition was that the target had to be unwilling, which was an easy enough condition to meet. The fourth condition was that the Hatsu would break if the target surrendered willingly. The fifth condition was the one that Jett did not like, to activate 'Gemini Bond' Jett had to consume his target genetic material, it was gross, he would not have done so earlier if it wasn't because he was so vindictive. Although he had to admit this, Hatsu was what had decided his victory.

Gemini Bond had forced the lizard and him into a state of Zetsu that sealed their nen. What decided Jett's victory was that his enhancer nen wasn't affected by his specialization nen; both existed simultaneously inside his body yet worked separately. It was the perfect winning move. Jett had been so concentrated on the information that he didn't hear Gon coming behind him. However, his body didn't react this time because Gon didn't have any ill intentions.

"Hey, Jett, right. Are you okay? You have been standing there for a while?" Jett spun around when he heard Gon's voice.

"Okay? I'm great. Did you see that? Tell me you saw it. I won; it was my victory!" Jett yelled, grabbing Gon by the arms and spinning him around.

"I was like boom and kaboom; then I was like whoosh, and at the end, I was like dying. It was incredible; my heart was racing out of my chest. I thought I would die, but in the end, I won. Can you believe it? I've never been so happy to be alive." Jett said without stopping, at one point he grabbed Gon by the head and kissed him on the cheek, although he didn't realize what he had done. Gon himself had been so affected by Jett's enthusiasm that he didn't give much thought to it.

Gon had indeed watched the whole thing from start to finish. He had seen how Jett plummeted to the ground. He saw when he vanished from view, and the next thing he knew, the lizard thing was missing half his brain. When it ended, Gon watched as Jett had an indescribable smile on his face that, for some reason, squeezed Gon's heart, giving him an emotion he couldn't describe.

Jett also had a realization of emotions; he enjoyed that fight. Not the thrill or the danger. What he enjoyed was the fight itself, how he had to plan his next move carefully. He could die if he didn't predict his enemy's next move. It was a battle of strategy and conning. Jett realizes he found a reason to become stronger and something to drive him forward in the future. The reason was to have the satisfaction of being the last one standing after both opponents had given it their all, but there was also something missing.