Welcome to Gaia! ::

A woman with blue hair in double buns came up to the young girl holding out a menu. She was very asian in appearance. Her name tag read 'Yuki'.
"Hello there miss, what may I get for you today?" she sad as she tilted her head to the side.

In the back of the cafe, where the arcade was, loud noises could be heard. Artificial gun shots, glass breaking, laughing..
"NOOOOO! YOU BROKE MY HIGH SCORE!!"
.. and the loud screaming of a skinny black man who was bouncing about in the room holding onto his dew-rag.
"Only because you suck." Came a familiar voice, Arukoru. He was currently playing House of the Dead 2, and as Kaz had just screamed, beat his high score.
"You've never even made it past the first level before!" Aru added, Kaz looked from his crouched position on the floor.
"Yeah but I perfected the first level.. Unlike you!"
"Oh how I weep for you." Aru smirked, completely sarcastic.

Yuki smiled and nodded her head as she took the menu.
"No problem dear, it'll be ready in just a few minutes." she said, before she headed back behind the counter.

Aru walked out of the game room and looked over to the counter, his hands in his pocket while an unlit cigarette hung from the side of his mouth.
"Yuki, I need more quarters." He said, before his eyes scanned the rest of the room. His eyes shot wide open for a second as he pulled the cigarette from his lips, quickly stashing it in his pocket as if he was trying to hide it.

"Alida! Long time no see." He beamed, walking over to greet the girl. Kaze blinked at the woman as he stood behind Aru, holding his pants up by the crotch.
"Yo man, dat yer bo?" he asked, getting a blush and a sharp glare from Aru.
"Shut up! She's my friend, you clown." he retorted. He often called Kaz a clown because he wore pants three sizes too big.. It seemed fitting to those who weren't familiar with urban culture.

Aru glanced over his shoulder at Kaz, who was doing the same by peering over Aru at Alida's hands. Kaz did not know sign language, which came to Aru's advantage as he began signing back.
'This man is the equivalent of a red assed baboon that can't figure out his real pant and shirt size.' he said, before he smiled and spoke the next part.

"His name is Kaz. He and his boyfriend Bri are two regulars here. But Bri had to go do some shopping today." he said. Kaz walked over to the girl and held out his hand to shake, if she listened carefully, she could possibly hear the faint dutch accent in his urban gibberish.
"Yo nice ta meetcha shortie. Are yeh a mute like Ol-G?" he asked. Aru rolled his eyes.
"His name is Oliver.." he groaned, he hated it how Kaz could never say peoples names right.

Aru nodded his head.
'Yes. I don't think he's capable of saying entire words and names like a normal person.' Aru signed back.

"One Cafe Mocha." Yuki called from the cash register as she set it on the counter. She then smiled over at the group, realizing that Kaz was being a bother.
"Hey Kaz, can you go in the back and get me some tea bags? We're out of the cinnamon red chai." she said, winking at the two children.
"Righ'o way Y-dawg!" he said before he slid under the lifting counter door and threw the stockroom door.

"See what I mean?" Aru said, remarking to how he couldn't say Yuki and instead had to say 'Y-dawg'.

Arukoru glanced over towards the arcade before looking back to Alida. He wondered if she was the kind of girl who would get scared by violent zombie games. He scratched the back of his head, deciding to wait to show it to her.
"Uh, it's called House of the Dead 2. You know resident evil? Kinda like that. Only you don't control where you move. It's kinda like being put in a roller coaster and given a gun, and you have to shoot at zombies and monsters as they approach you. It's pretty fun.. But man-oh-man does that plastic gun make your hand sore." He said as he massaged his thumb over the palm that had held the fake gun. It would of been fine if it had rubber grips, but instead it was just square hard plastic.

"There's other games back there too, though. Pinball, pacman, space invaders.. Even an old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game."

Arukoru smiled thoughtfully, ah, so she wasn't the type who was easily scared off by talk of flesh eating undead.
"Yeah, no problem." He said, before he looked to Yuki who tossed a paper roll of quarters onto the counter. Aru grabbed them and nodded his head to Alida, before leading her into the room.

Once they where inside, Alida would see a claw machine with various stuffed animals and Japanese toys tucked inside, and right beside it a large screen and platform that looked similar to a DDR machine. Accept up at the top in bold bloody letters read "HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2" and there where two plastic guns instead of a dance pad.

Aru walked over and grabbed the red gun from it's makeshift holster in the display, before he held it out. It was attached to the machine by a cord, but it could still go out two feet or so.
"You aim this gun at the screen and pull the trigger. Cross hairs will flash on the screen where you're aiming, and you shoot zombies as they come at you. If you can't kill them before they get too close, they'll start eating you." he explained with a grin. Ah, mindless slaughter.. how men loved it.

Aru fiddled around with the roll of quarters he was holding.
"Well, I can play first if you want. It can be two player, if you wanna play together." He said, as he fished out two of the little gold pieces and tucked the rest in his pocket. He glanced up and saw that she was looking around, before he patted a flat spot on the gun platform.
"You can set your cup here. It shouldn't damage it at all."