Welcome to Gaia! ::

(Neko-chan! ... Let's head over to... *rubs head* either the library or the hotsprings since we can't get a dorm room... sweatdrop *doesn't have any stars*)

Rikku's eyes opened wide,"Oh my gosh! I love those animes! But my favorite one is DNAngel! I love Krad and Satoshi the best,"she reached her hand in her bagpack once more and pulled out two poorly sewn plushies of Dark, Daisuke, Satoshi, and Krad smothering them in a tight bear hug,"How about you? Which characters do you like?"

Mitsuki's so cool! This is the first time I've ever had anything in common with anybody Rikku thought happily.

"Here we are, Charlie." his mother said, turning around in her seat to face him. "Have fun! I'm sure you'll make lots of friends!"

The ten year old looked up from the comic book he was reading and noticed his mother smiling at him. He pressed a button on his MP3 player and paused the current song.

"Sorry, what did you say?" he asked. His mother shook her head and pointed out the window. "We're here." she said. Charlie followed her finger and saw the gigantic iron gates towering over their car. He couldn't help but let out an admiring "Whoah..."

Undoing his seatbelt, he put the half-finished comic book into his suitcase and closed it. Opening the door, he slid out of the back seat of their car. "Call me if you need anything, sweetie." Charlie's mom said as the boy closed the door and stepped away from the car. She blew him a kiss and rolled up the window. The car gave a bit of a lurch, and drove off. Holding his suitcase, Charlie looked up in amazement at the gates. They were slightly ajar for students to walk through, and this is what Charlie Wier did.

Not a moment after he passed through the Gates did an android approach him.

"Welcome to Ria High!" she said cheerily. "Please present your application form to get your Student ID." Charlie nodded and unzipped his suitcase. Peering inside for a moment, he pulled out a comic book and flipped through the pages. A folded piece of paper tumbled out to the ground. Picking it up, he handed it to the android lady.

"Here you go!" he said happily. The android lady unfolded it and looked it over. "Welcome, Charlie Wier." she said nicely, producing a student card for him. Charlie took the card and slipped it into his pocket. The nice android lady told him that if he needed a map to go just inside the building - there'd be a help desk there.

"Thank you Ms. Android Lady." Charlie said, and headed in the direction she had indicated. At the help desk he met another nice lady who smiled and gave him a map of the school. Sitting down in one of the plastic chairs in the lobby Charlie opened the map and looked at it.

Wow... he thought. This school is really big! I hope I don't get lost! he looked around the hall, but didn't see anyone. I wonder if someone will show me around?

Halcón parked his motorcycle several blocks away from the school in an abandoned parking lot, and walked the rest of the way to Ria. At this point he didn't really care what happened to the bike, since it was stolen anyways. Walking quickly, he soon arrived at the gates to the school, and shook his hair into his face before walking inside. He was immediately greeted by an android, and glared at her through his hair as she explained that she needed to see his accepance letter. Naturally, he didn't have one, but that wasn't going to be a problem. He reached into his pocket, concentrating for a moment, and pulled out a folded sheet of paper created from shadow. He handed it wordlessly to the android, which beeped and handed him a plastic ID card. "Enjoy your stay at Ria," it whirred, and rolled away. Halcón grimaced, and turned his attention to the school. It's bigger than Father said it'd be...how on earth am I supposed to find little sister in this place? He started walking aimlessly, figuring he'd run into her eventually. He could be here for awhile, after all, so he might as well get the lay of the land.

Her wings fluttered to ease her decent from the darkening sky. Small red feathers fell from the small pair of wings emitting from the young ladies back, but she did not mind as new ones immeadiately grew to replace those lost. The figure seemed to be extremely hesitant about touching down on this unknown land. It was obvious she was debating whether to just soar back off into the horizon or actually stay in the establishemtn named what she recalled as Ria High School. It was strange that the fairy was having such a had time deiciding. There was an odd excitment rippling through ehr veins, but at the same time there was an excessive amount of denial mixing together. Desta did not want to be disappointed if this place did not turn out to be the heaven she envisioned. it would break her heart to bits. This is truely the first time that the female has even allowed herself to come anywhere near others; so, it was understandable why she was so confused about the decision.

A cold, bitter wind smacked against her back as if urging the small lady forward toward the large gates which held her fate. Desta swallowed large amount of her own saliva before allowing her wings to relax, and letting her feet touch the soft grass. She flicked a gray strand of hair away from her sunset hue before taking one deep breath. One foot infront of the other, she thought to herself repeatedly till the metal bars were within her reach. Desta exhaled in a desperate attempt to regain breath before choking herself to death. Heaves and coughs erupted from the fairy, while her fist pounded against her chest; breaking up whatever kept her breathing unstable. She must have looked like a complete bafoon infront of the other new, she assumed, students before even she even got to glance around. They would probably dislike her for the fact she had wings; Desta still did not know of Ria's intentions.

Desta finally regained her composure after the coughing spell, and began to study the large, iron gate blocking her way into the campus. "How the hell.." She mumbled aggrivated, placing both hands on her hips. it was so odd how they would not open and Desta was not exactly a patient person. "HELLOOOOOO!!!" She called out, her voice echoing through the silence. It was actually spooky enough to make the fairy shiver, and she knew it was time to stop her screaming. "Well...what am I supposed to do?" She asked herself, folding her arms over her cleavage. Her brow furrowed, while a frown appeared on her dark blue-gray lips. However, her questions were finally answered as an android made its way over to the confused and bitter young fairy.

"Hello, and welcome to Ria high School." The robot cooed in its computerized voice. It seemed pleasant enough, though it was difficult to tell due to the lack of emotions within the android's voice. Its arms rested at its sides as it awaited a respone from the fairy girl. "Give me your invitation so I may hand you an I.D. card." She finally said, a hint of irritation and insult rippling through her odd tone. Obviously this girl had no mannors or, she had never seen an android in her life.

Desta was dumbfounded by this technology that stood before her. both sunset colored optics were wide with surprise and curiousity. She didn't even seem to hear the robotic words as she scanned the android for any sort of explanation to this phoenomina. "You are...very odd.." Desta mumbled to the droid, prodding the technological advancement as if she were a pile of silly putty. Desta smiled enthusiastically, and suddenly threw her arms around teh android as if she were the greatest thing in the world. "I can't believe it! You are so life like!!"

Lillith could not believe how rude this fairy was being. "Excuse me," she said suddenly, gripping Desta's arm and jerking her prodding finger away from her body. "May I please have your invitatio----iiieeeee!!!" Lillith cried, being thrown back by the sudden affection that was thrusted upon her by this stranger. She stood stunned for a moment until she threw Desta off of her. It was not in her programming to have any sort of....anything with the new students. "May i just please have your invitation into Ria?!" The android cried in the computerized cry of annoyance.

Wings fluttering, Desta caught herself before she could collapse onto the ground from the androids sudden hateful reaction towards her hug. it wasn't like she was dipping her in acid or anything! Geez..Desta's smile turned solid, and her face expressionaless. Almost frightening. "Fine." She replied cooly, digging through her bag for a moment before withdrawing a small, crumpled envelope from her backpack. Desta growled at her as the exchange in posession occured, and a blade of fire encircled her hand. it left the invite singed slightly. never would the fairy be pleasant to this god for saken android ever again; that's what she got for being friendly. Her hand tore away from the envelope and returned to their resting place ontop of her hip bones. She was about to pummel the android into the hell from which it came, but she needed an I.D. to get in so she'd wait for now.

Lillith sighed heavily, dusting herself off in a stuck up mannor. "Thank you." The female android muttered, her voice the same computerized and emotionless version before Desta touched her. However, the look Desta gave Lillith actually gave her the emotion of fear and annoyance. The singing of the envelope only urged her to do damage, but it was not in her programming. She slid the peice of paper into a slot within her abdomen, and it was as if her computer brain kicked into gear. "Student Name...Desta Akilah Zeatin. Abilities include Drawing Massacres and Fire Manipulation. Access granted." instead of the invitation exiting, a small I.D. with her name and abilities replaced it. "Here." Lillith said quickly, shoving the plastic card into Desta's hands before scampering off to help another new student.

Her hand gripped the plastic I.D. and a smile of satisfaction littered her delicate features. S"erves her right.." Desta mumbled to herself, flicking one of hte bangs away from her face in a know-it-all fashion. She had no need to hurt the android, and since she could now enter the establishment, what was the point in continuing the argument. The fairy shifted her position as the I.D. was scanned by the iron gates. When the gears moved silently between one another until the bars unhooked themselves, Desta held her breath. One hand pressed against the gate but only a gentle push was needed. She stepped through the gates, and almost instantly took flight. It was nice to be back in the cool air; Desta was content being in the air more than on the earth threshold. The female flew off in search of a place to relax,a dn meet others. Hopefully not everyone was like the android.

(Ri-chan, okay, how about we go after this post?)

Mitsuki squealed delightfully as she recieved the wiz plushie, "I just absolutely love wiz!" she squealed again, feeling rather bubbly and light. A few passer-byers laughed at her giddyness, making her settle down a bit. She looked up at Rikku and laughed, before she returned back to squealing. "Thank you so much!" she screamed, hugging her new bestest friend to 'death'. Then she sighed, "Yeah, i wish i had one!" she laughed, "So why don't we go to the hotsprings?" she said skipping ahead.

Kat stumbled around the grounds of Ria High. She had a long black coat on to keep her fragile frame safe from the cooling weather, and small black earphones were in her ears as she blasted music through a small MP3 player that was in her outside pocket. She was wearing her usual gothic boots and a pair of baggy, dark grey trousers. With a dark green t-shirt slightly visible under her black coat, green eyes calmly looked at her surroundings.

She was calm about being lost, since she was lost so often it was practically a routine. Though as she looked around she thought the place looked strangely familiar, like everything about it was screaming that she should know the place.

It hit her a moment later that where she was were the Ria Gates, the place she had been only a year ago when she was sent to Ria herself. A small smiled played on her lips as she looked around, her green eyes peering behind orange bangs, the music continuing to play as she seemed to be lost in her thoughts for a few moments.

Kat had been wondering aimlessly, her mind elsewere as she seemed absorted in the music that was pumping into her head when she suddenly bumped into someone. She was quick to regain her blance to prevent herself from falling but in thr process her earphones fell out of her ears.

"Oh my gosh! I'm sorry, I should really pay attention to where I'm going!" Kat said in a rush, an embarrised blush spreaded across her cheeks. She suddenly realised she was talking to someone who was obviously at least a few years younger then herself and she relaxed slightly.

Nicole walked slowely up to the iron gates. She was still in her white wolf form when she arrived, with a backpack straped onto her back, but when she saw there was people inside, she quickly turned back into her normal-looking, human form. Should I really be going into this place?, she thought staring at the gates, her eyes looked glazzed, like she was knocked out. Would people truely accept me? I'll... try, once more. If this dosn't work, I'm leaving and not trusting anyone again, she thought taking a deep breath and walking through the gate quietly with her shoes making a muffled 'click' on the ground. Do not run, you fool, she thought as a women appeared in front of her. When the 'women' got close enough, Nicole could see it was an android. Brings back memorys..., she thought glumly.

"Hello, welcome to Ria High-School! Here's a form you must fill out to enter further. When your finished set it on that table over there", it said pointing to a table further on the landscape.

Nicole nodded in reply and walked silently up to the table that the android pointed to. She grabbed the paper carefully and scanned it with her eyes twice before looking around for a place to sit down. There was no seats open so she walked to an isloaded area and sat down on the ground. She sat her backpack on the ground, unzipped it and started to search for a pencil. She found one sitting in a corner behind a knife she made on her journy here. She pulled out the pencil that had been chewed on plenty of times, and started to fill the questions with answers. After twenty minutes she completed the work and quietly got up with the paper in hand. She walked quietly over to the table, set the paper down and grabbed the map next to the pile of completed work. She spent a few minutes scanning it then folded it into three folds and stuffed it into her pocket with many other things. With one last glance at the people behind her, she headed to the dining hall. I'm quite famished and I have some money, she thought sticking her hands in her pockets and walking away.