Hunter X Hunter Prequel

 

Hunter X Hunter Prequel

The story starts off a while before the series actually begins. Two nations are at war with each other one fighting for freedom and the other fighting for tyranny. The story starts off with two best friends who live in a village that is in the forest and is neutral. One's name is Ging Freeces and the other Crowley Crucifixion. One believes in the side of freedom which is Ging and the other believes in tyranny which is Crowley, and loves to fight and loves the thrill of battle. They are both friends because they both enjoy fighting and testing each other's limits, they respect each other's fighting prowess despite being different ideologically. One day the princess from the kingdom that believes in Freedom comes by to try to convince Ging and Crowley and the other villagers to join the cause against tyranny. The village elder declines and wants no part in the war, she leaves while Crowley and Ging go to find food and supplies when the princess gets attacks by bandits, Ging and Crowley rescues her and after the fight, Crowley decides to join the war because he enjoyed fighting those bandits and the thrill of being in danger but he justifies his bloodlust by saying, "evil is a cancer and must be punished". Ging goes along because he was bored wanted to stop living a sheltered life and wants to keep his friend from going down a dark path because he doesn't buy Crowley's words but he cares for him. They both ask the village elder and both are exiled to never step foot again. Crowley doesn't care while Ging questions if this is the right idea. They later join the Kingdom fighting for Freedom and they train under a younger Netero with Nen training. It's a type of ability that Netero is now starting to deploy in fights. Ging and Crowley excel at their training while the latter being the better of the two but has a bloodlust if left unchecked could lead him into ruin, Ging has a better judge of character and know when a fight is over and doesn't exert himself. No one else is good at nen besides them. Netero doesn't want to go into battle in the risk of getting captured and then revealing the secrets of Nen. Years pass by and Ging and Crowley are both winning battle after battle. Crowley is enjoying the killing while Ging has enough and wants the war to end. Crowley and the Princess slowly develop a romantic relationship, Crowley often likes to be comforted by the Princess after a long battle, and the Princess admires Crowley's conviction and battle feats, they later have a child together and get married. The child's name is Chrollo. Time goes on, and the war is almost over but Crowley wants to do more killing and enjoying the thrill of battle, the King is getting tired of Crowley's bloodlust, and pestering for fights and if he steps out of line, he will exile him and worst case scenario: kill him. The Princess is liking him less and less and forms a relationship with Ging. Ging is getting sick and tired of it all. Crowley wants the war to last longer, so he secretly leaves the palace and takes his son with him, everyone in the Kingdom tries to find Crowley and his son, and during the final battle that was supposed to end the war Ging and the final battle starts, but then Crowley shows up and Ging is in shock and won't bring himself to fight him. Crowley wipes out the entire Freedom Kingdom's army and Ging holds back while getting beat up in the fight. Ging then runs away and heads back to the Kingdom, he knows Crowley will wipe out everyone in the palace soon and he asks Netero to hold off Crowley while everyone in the kingdom gets evacuated including the King. Crowley shows up and him and Netero fight. Crowley and him are evenly matched, but then the king and hundreds of people die in the crossfire. Netero than tires Crowley out, enough for him, Ging, a few people and the Princess to escape. They escape to a mountain pass that is hard to find and far away from the Kingdom of Tyranny. It's been weeks and the Princess is a few days pregnant and keeps it a secret from Ging and she wants to kill Crowley for killing her father and destroying her kingdom and wants her other son back, while also wants her unborn son to have a good life. Ging thinks it's stupid and he knows he can't beat Crowley and Netero can only fight him to stalemate plus Ging can't bring himself to fight Crowley. Netero then talks to Ging and tells him that he is going to have to get over his friendship with Crowley and he will have to kill him in order for Ging to live a life without fear. Crowley won't stop until Ging is dead because of his bloodlust. Ging thinks about this long and hard and then he decides to go to the Kingdom of Tyranny to fight Crowley, they head there and are attacked by his guard and Netero fends him off. Ging and the Princess head to the throne room where Crowley is and he takes over as king, a young Chrollo, Phinks and Phaeton are there, they ask to help but Crowley refuses because he wants to kill Ging to finally get rid of him because he was tired of his self righteousness and how he killed people despite claiming to do it for a greater good, Crowley admits that he only joined the Kingdom of Freedom because he wanted the glory of battle and wanted out of that village, everything he did was to sustain his craving for the fight. Ging pleads Crowley to stop his killing and be his friend again but Crowley starts attacking violently and tells him to stop denying his nature Nen was meant to be a weapon for murder, Ging refuses to fight but then the Princess tries to kill Crowley and is hit by a fatal wound. Ging then gets angry and finally starts taking the fight seriously, Ging is still losing, then after the fight goes on Ging notices an opening in Crowley's attacks because of how much he is enjoying the fight and Ging attacks him there, he kills Crowley and then runs away with the Princess, Netero was worn out from the fight with the guard, he temporarily heals the Princess, and the run back to mountain pass, Chrollo, Phinks and Phaeton all look at Crowley corpse and their nen aura are now glowing. Ging, Netero and the Princess head back and Ging discovers she was pregnant with another kid, Netero only has enough knowledge to perform the child birth but not to prolong her life. The Princess dies and the Ging starts crying that his love is dead and his best friend he spent so much time with is now dead. His life was nothing but failure and he can't bring himself to raise a child he names "Gon". He heads back to the village that he was forced to leave and begs someone to find someone who is more worthy of a parent than he is, the Village Elder feeling sorry for Ging and what he went through tells her about his grown up sister Mito living in the forest, the Elder tells her where she went to live and how to find her. Ging knocks on the door with and she notices a white haired man sitting with her, Ging asks that he needs to become a stronger person and then he will have the nerve to face Gon again, he won't know how long it takes, and it will take him a while. He wants Gon to be raised by people who aren't tainted by sin. Kite tells Ging he will watch over Gon out of her being friends with Mito, and Mito happily accepts because she always wanted a child. Meanwhile, Netero forms the Hunter Association and wants to regulate and keep Nen a secret to avoid people like Crowley, and wants to use Nen for good. The story ends.