Welcome to Gaia! ::

"Cool, you made that cloud... I just thought the dorm's AC system malfunctioned." Heero laughted at the thought. He then looked out the window to see what was going on down below. "Everyone doesn't look so big from up here." 'Hey grandma... I made some new friends.' Heero smiled at the two and waited for Ashitaka to say something.

Heero stopped smiling and started to look serious. "So that's what I felt earlier, the power coming from... oh, was I being a downer, sorry... that's cool." Heero was putting on a front now. 'I've got to watch him.' "So now what do you guys want to do, I mean it's a big place and we've only seen the dorms." Heero tried to forget about the scars for the moment and be happy, but it didn't work. 'So he's the kid.'

"Oh yeah, I forgot about the dorms." He looked around the area around the gates. I guess that's where everyone is going now. He opened the map and looked around for the dorms. "They are not to far. We could get there quickly." He folded the map, put it in his bag, and swung the bag over his shoulder. "Shall we?" He asked.

Natsana smiled slightly. "They're nothing to boast of, actually" she said, looking down at the ground. "I'll tell you more later when we're able to sit a talk for a while..but for now I'll just say that my power has to do with darkness and gloom..It's actually quite odd. I haven't been able to control it completely yet, but I'm getting better" she looked over at him, her black eyes searched his face to see what kind of reaction he would have.

As Stephen approached the gates to Ria High, the duct taped shoulder strap to his duffel bag parted for the fourth time in three blocks. Giving up in disgust, he shoved the roll of tape into the outer pocket of the bag and lugged the cumbersome bag by hand through the gate.

The music was much louder as he entered, and it was clear that the revelry of the student faire was in full swing. From the gate, Stephen could clearly see a great many students - or so he assumed - running gleefully from one event to another in the distance. Stalls, games, and rides seemed to have been set up all over the place, and Stephen seriously wondered whether he would be able to find his way anywhere in the strangely ordered pandemonium.

Walking through the gate, Stephen saw what he gathered was a creatively posed maniquin to the right of the door. Given the carnival atmosphere and the predilictions of teenagers, Stephen was a little surprised that no one had tried to dress it as a clown or something. Curious, he walked over for a closer look.

"Welcome to Ria High School please show me your acceptance letter so I may give you your student ID" said the maniquin.

Stephen, taken aback, dropped his duffel to the ground. Giving the robot - for that's clearly what it was - a second look, it took him a few seconds to realize just what it was that she - was the proper pronoun for a robot designed to look like a woman "she"? - had asked him. All things considered, he was glad he'd had his hands full; a shock like that could have ended with someone getting hurt, or at least with property damage. Still, it spoke well of the facility that it could have such a sophisticated device on display at the front gate. Digging around in his duffel, Stephen produced the required paperwork.

"Thank you. One moment, please." said the robot, reading his papers. Apparently satisfied, it then handed him an envelope and card and directed him to a table which Stephen could now see was covered in campus maps and various other orientation materials. He walked over, picked up a map and folder of materials, and opened his envelope, which contained his dorm and room number along with what he assumed was the name of an adviser or registrar or teacher or roommate or something; he'd work that out later. It didn't take long to find the appropriate building on the map, but with all the student faire stuff out... well, sooner begun, sooner done. Taking a deep breath, Stephen Pact prepared to explore the Student Faire of Ria High School.

Ariana walked in through the gate, and dragged her thingsin behind her. She looked over the the area from behind her bangs. She walked forward a few feet and saw a women. Ariana walked over and the lady smiled.
"Welcome to Ria High School please show me your acceptance letter so I may give you your student ID"
Ari nodded and dropped her things. Pulling her messenger bag out of the pile, she rummaged through it, pulling a folded piece of paper. Opening it and skiming it over, Ari handed it to the women, waiting while she looked it over.
While the women looked her letter over, Ari looked around her. There were people everywere and they all looked busy. Ari wondered if there was a festival, or something going on. She continued to look over the place. There wasn't to many things that were different from her last school; kids, teachers,buildings. Yup it was just like her old school, except maybe bigger... ok much bigger. But that didn't matter.
"Excuse me, but how long will this take?" Ari asked focusing on the women once again.
The women handed Ari a pile of papers and a small id card. Ari looked over the papers and then stuffed them inside her bag. She grabbed the rest of her stuff and walked inside more. She stopped and looked aroud, compleatly lost.
'Right, so now I have no clue where I am. There's probably a map in with those papers. I should probably get that out.' Ari thought drppeing her stuff and flopping down onto the ground, next to her things. She pulled out the map and looked at it, ignoring all the noise she tried to find where she was, and failed horribly. Ari looked over the grounds and sighed, stood up and continued on into the main building.