[Job] Advice? I have nen (w/ Alice)

So, Heaven's Area, it was called... Melanie never expected to find herself in this place, especially not when she embarked on her journey and defenitely not so soon. She hoped to stay in the Azian continent for a good few months, travelling aimlessly and learning more about the ability. She had accomplished at least one of these goals, but not in the way she expected: It seemed that the first person she met there, an interesting redhead named Alice, taught her what she wanted as well as offer her some pretty fun adventures.

It was a lovely night's sleep and he woke up a little later than usual today, having agreed to go meet her new friend for a job and remembering that Alice was never one for early mornings... Thus she got up at 11AM, took a quick shower, and checked the weather outside: Cloudy. She thus slipped on some skimpy denim shorts and a waist baring black tanktop, as usual holding her hair up in a ponytail. She wouldn't be needing any sunglasses today... She ate an apple, a toast and a cup of coffee for breakfast, and with that, she was out. There was a slight, refreshing breeze in the air today, it would help with their work a great deal.

Melanie headed towards the meeting place - a bench at the nearby plaza - holding the request for the job in her hand. This was something she would never be able to do without Alice given her lack of knowledge on Nen...


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Alice had been up surprisingly early. Maybe being away from Zaban made her sleep better, the calm night rest somewhat bored her. Being in the city surrounding Heavens Arena was madly exciting though. From her window she saw the giant tower, a building like there was no second in the world. The view from the top must have been amazing and only the very strongest made it there! Just thinking about it for a moment got Alice's blood boiling, she wanted to challenge it, she wanted to see how hard the task was.

For this day a small detour was planed, instead of challenging the arena, she and her friend Melanie were to meet a former challenger, who was looking for help with Nen. It was easy to climb to the top floors without knowledge about Nen, but once up there everyone was a monster like no other, after all aside from some Hunters and other combat specialists, it was the summit of the combat world. She quickly got into a simple green tracksuit, she had bought from a shop on the day of arrival, even when Melanie did not like it, Alice liked to have something comfortable, perfect for training and combat. To that she put on some sneakers.

On the way to the meeting place she grabbed an apple and a cup of coffee, or rather a cup of sugar with some brown water on it, just like she loved it. She drank the coffee on the go, but held onto the apple till she arrived at the meeting place, where her dark haired friend was already waiting, wearing a skimpy outfit, so skimpy it reached even a new level for the rather outgoing girl and stood in stark contrast to what Alice had put on.

“Morning!” Her eyes glanced over Mel's body as she stopped to take the first bite of the apple. “I see you are the kind of person that can't throw anything away.” Her comment was aimed at the clothes that might have covered more on a less developed body, of a ten year old.

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She was pretty disappointed to see her redheaded friend cover herself up like that, the girl's glorious curves just weren't meant to be hidden, especially not from someone like Melanie who was at heart, a lover of all things beautiful. Regardless, she was still happy to see Alice no matter what she chose to wear, so she simply smiled and walked up to her, raising one hand to her apple so she'd wait up on eating it. First things first: She greeted her friend with a passionate kiss, reaching arm hand around her waist and pulling her close; any passerby's who saw this would obviously assume the two were lovers. Even with that tracksuit, she pressed herself hard enough to feel her shapes underneath as their bodies meshed together perfectly - as well as showing Alice she wasn't wearing a bra under that top - but for the dark haired sex addict, what she loved most was how sweet Ali's lips tasted. Must be all that sugar she keeps eating...

"Good morning...", she'd finally answer once she moved away and licked her lips gleefully. She'd take her comment on her clothes as an opportunity to twirling around on her foot once to show off her outfit, asking with a teasing smirk, "...Do you like it?"

Once the early morning teasing and fooling around was complete, Melly finally allowed herself to think about the job they'd be doing. It would mostly be Alice doing the job and her joining the trainee on learning about Nen, surely her friend wouldn't mind...? Probably not, since she could just buy her cakes and other sweets later to keep her happy. Ali was a girl of simple tastes after all.

"I hope you know your nen cause I certainly don't!", she'd comment with an impish smile as they'd head off to meet the "employer"

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Alice had quickly gotten used to Mel's weird quirk of greeting her with a kiss, each time that kiss seemed to be getting more intense, but well kisses between girls did not count, that was what she had read at least. “Honestly I think it is a bit little for exercising, I mean if you are not careful something gonna jump out.” She shrugged and took a bite from the apple, while looking at the other girl again. It actually looked quite cute on her, almost sexy, but Alice never had really thought of anything as sexy, her natural sex drive was almost zero. To her pleasure connected with flesh always had been violence.

“Didn't the job just say we have to display some Aura? I guess I can do thaaat much, but Aura is actually invisible to the untrained eye, so I wonder how this is going to work.” With a light sigh she turned towards the direction of their job. The pay was good and it was not like she had to show any secrets of her actual abilities, just the basics. Heavens Arena was full with strong fighters and even the clueless girl rather kept an ace or two up her sleeve for when she planed to climb the tower.

Soon the two girls arrived at the small dojo near the arena tower itself. It was more run down than any building near it and the door itself felt like it was about to break just from knocking on it. Luckily it did not and a young man, seemingly ten years older than the two girls opened the door. The first thing Alice noticed was his very well build body, typical for a fighter and a few bruises and other marks, telling a story about previous fights. “Come in, I was already waiting.” He greeted them and went ahead into a big room filled with books, scrolls and tree glasses of water, with a leaf swimming in each of them. Alice had heard about this, it was a test to determine one's Nen Type. Apparently everything was already prepared for the presentation.

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She didn't seem overly excited but then she never saw Alice interested in clothes, especially not turned on by a lack of them. Melanie had already accepted that it would be pretty difficult to seduce her like she normally did, arousing her lovers to the point they couldn't do anything else but chase her. Her clueless redheaded friend would need a different approach:

"Hmm, guess I'll just have to be careful then.", Melanie grinned and winked at her friend, before holding her waist and once more walking towards the job location, a dojo near the arena tower, "I'm hoping I can find out more about my own aura while we're at it..."

The dojo itself hardly seemed like a very frequented place, would they even find a single living soul in there? Melanie would certainly not bet on that, but then Alice knocked on the door and surprisingly enough someone came by to open. He was an older, rough looking fighter type, enough to rouse Melanie's lust just from taking a good long look at his body... Of course, her current target was still Alice - she didn't have the necessary self control to seduce two people simultaneously - so she unconsciously let her hand slide down to the girl's butt and gave her a good, long grope, leaning into her suggestively. She snapped back to reality as she saw the odd glasses with a leaf in them:

"What are we supposed to do with these?", she asked ignorantly, raising an eyebrow as she pointed at the three cups and her look shifted from Alice to the fighter, and back to Alice again...

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The fighter looked at Melanie surprised and almost a little shocked. It was Alice's turn to save the situation and actually prove that the two were able to use Aura. “Look Mel...” She stepped towards the glass and placed her hands around it, for a moment focusing on her Aura. It was unsure if the man was able to see it, not being a Nen user, but in front of Mel's eyes the redhead surrounded herself with Aura. Her whole body was bathed in orange light as she closed her eyes and began to breath slowly. “This is just called Water Divination, if I guess right your friend is currently performing Ren, which is to to refine and enhance Aura.” Explained the man to Melanie.

It was indeed what Alice was doing. She released her Aura but kept it from leaking, it covered her whole body, strengthening and protecting it at the same time. After another deep breath she closed her Aura valve again, this was called “Zetsu” and it was the standard for her and most other Nen users to conserve their energy. It forced all Aura into the body, which left them open to attacks imbued with Aura.

Meanwhile the water in the glass had not changed at all, the leaf was still floating at the same position as it was before and to someone with no clue it seemed as if Alice had no ability to use Nen at all, but she knew that there was a less obvious change. Carefully she lifted the glass and took a sip, it was sweet, not like honey, but it was sweet enough to taste a difference between it and normal water. Basically this meant she was born with the ability to use Transmuter Nen.

With a small smirk she handed the water over to Mel. “Try it.”

Meanwhile their employer looked at her with big eyes full of curiosity. “So it got sweater? Yes? That means you are a Transmuter right?” Alice just shrugged, she was more interested in what Mel had to say and wanted to see her try the same.

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She looked on with awe as her friend surrounded herself with an orange aura, thinking back to the time when she first discovered her ability to use aura, meditating with Sifu and the rest of her class. Most of the students didn't notice what she was doing, they couldn't see her white aura: Only her master could, and she soon began to train her personally, with what limited knowledge he held of Nen. Apparently there was a name for the specific exercise she was performing, as well as a name for the while leaf in the water trick:

"Sounds like I should have done that a while ago...", commented Melanie as the fighter explained what she was doing, scratching her head

Alice then extinguished her aura with a deep breath, and the ever more curious Melly looked at the glass. The leaf was still floating around it and nothing appeared to have changed, but then Alice drunk the water, and Melly looked at her intently: What was gonna happen now? The girl just smirked and handed her the water, just telling her to try it and further teasing her curiosity:

"It's sweet.", she said, looking at the employer who explained the results of their test: It meant she was a transmuter. It didn't really answer Mel's curiosity, so she just looked on flabbergasted, "What does that even mean? I guess I'll give it a try then..."

Melanie apparently had a talent for martial arts, not unlike the talent she displayed for gymnastics all her life, and even the more spiritual aspect came naturally to her, since it allowed her to make full use of her abstract, artistic side. She held on to the cup like Ali had done and took a deep breath, soon being surrounded by a white aura. She remained like that a few minutes, not sure of what was supposed to happen, closing her eyes and taking slow deep breaths as if she were meditating. When she finally pulled back her aura, the glass hadn't changed at all, so she did the same thing:

"It's really sweet, does this mean I'm a Transmuter too..?", Melanie's curiosity turned into a gleeful smile to discover whatever powers she had were likely close to her friend's. She resisted the urge to kiss her right then and there, that would come later; yet that didn't stop her from just staring into her eyes with a lustful look...

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The man took the word again and explained to Melanie what was going on: “So you are Transmuter too, that's interesting. Transmuters can change the quality of their Aura or even use their Aura to change their own qualities.”

Alice just nodded as he continued. “But even if you change the quality of the Aura it still stays Aura.” Similar to how Alice altered her Aura to mimic fire, without actually turning it into fire. It was just Aura emitting heat and behaving like fire in any other way.

“The other types are Enhancer, Emitter, Conjurer, Manipulator and Specialist. It is hard to master more than one's own typ.” Continued the employer and showed them a hexagon, which showed the relation between the Nen types. “More importantly can you show me how you use Nen?” Alice looked at the man with a blank stare, while thinking of a good application.

“I guess, just stand there.” The first thing that came to her mind was to strike a quick punch against the man's chest. “This is a normal punch.” The man hardly moved at her strike, even when she had used a good amount of her strength, nothing less expected from a well trained fighter. Next she focused her Aura in her Hand, again to her friend a visible amount of Aura was visible, this time just around the hand. Also the second time she instead went with a much lighter punch, yet suddenly the man got thrown off his feet, crashing into a stack of books. “As you can see, against a simple attack imbued with Aura it is nearly impossible to guard without any Aura.” Her little presentation left Alice smirking.

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This was one of those times where being quiet and listening was by far the best thing to do. The employer confirmed that Melanie herself was also a transmuter, and that even if you change the qualities of one's aura, it is still aura. This meant that her own ability, which she understood as separating her aura into Yin and Yang actually worked somewhat differently. It meant she was able convert her aura into something that matched those Yin-Yang energies, and then use them to change her own qualities.

"She might do a better demonstration.", was all Melanie could suggest, shrugging and pointing at Alice

Part of the reason was her own desire to see her demonstrate what so far Melanie had only been able to do by transforming her body in one way or another. She first attempted to punch him regularly, but the guy had good form and was no doubt significantly heavier than her; no way Alice would be able to hurt him without striking a pressure point. She then focused her aura into her fist and punched him with a power such that the guy was sent flying a good few meters.

"So there's another way to use aura than just augmenting my body...", commented Melly, awed at the demonstration.


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The man slowly got up, blood was dripping from his mouth. His steeled body had provided absolutely no protection against the attack made of Aura. “They say being exposed to Aura is one way to awaken one's own, but again I seem to have no luck.” Alice just looked at him, clueless like always, then her attention quickly shifted to Melanie.

“This is like the most basic use of Aura. From what I've seen it also works with objects, by coating them in your own Aura...” [color=#00cc00]“... it is both offence and defence in one, but there is more, giving Aura form, which is called Hatsu, each person's Hatsu is different and it is either something matching their personality or something they want it to be.”[/color] Their employer interrupted Alice, much to her annoyance. To her he should just stay on the ground and lick his wounds. Even if he asked them to display Hatsu, Alice was not going to do it. She did not want to present her real power to anyone in this city unless it was on top of the tower!

The fighter seemed to notice her hostility towards going into the topic any deeper and actually exposing any secrets. It was clear to a man like him that everyone needed to keep their hidden weapon hidden. “Thanks for your time girls, I learned a lot seeing Nen in action.” With a smile, kinda hurt by the fact that blood kept dripping from his mouth, he slowly handed the two their reward.

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