Welcome to Gaia! ::

Amatsu was really excited since they finally could go to the academy and they had a new home. Well it wasn’t really a new home since they had been living with Tempo and Yami for a while. However he could still be uber excited about it, or at least he wanted to be. The room had been a lot more crowded than expected and Amatsu had somehow lost his twin in the crowd. So he was a bit distracted looking for them.

Suddenly his distracted looking was interrupted as another freshling ended up bumping into him. Amatsu did fall forward a bit since he wasn’t expecting it but kept most of his footing. Turning around he was surprised to see one of those new nightmares that everyone at the café he lived at had been talking about. Since they had a tail that meant that they were a naga right? It was his first time seeing one. Luckily they didn’t look to hurt at their small run in either.

“Ah, I’m terribly sorry about that. I should have been paying better attention to my surroundings” Amatsu admitted with a small smile, he wasn’t entirely sure it was his fault but apologizing never hurt. Manners were always important or at least that’s what Yami always said. Plus he had startled her at least, that was enough of a fault in his eyes to apologize.

“Y-y-yes. I'm okay. Thank you for asking.” Amatsu stated following Bismae’s movement around him with his eyes. he wondered if personal space was different where the bakeneko and Naga came from. Ah well he didn’t want to step on any toes, oh that was a bad thought…not everyone had toes. He didn’t want to step on any feelings. Then again they had just bumped into each other. Personal space in this crowd was non existent.

However He was then drawn out of his thoughts by the next question. In fact Amatsu seemed a little taken back but it wasn’t due to the roughness of the question. He lived in a café when he wasn’t at school after all. He was used to blunt customers… it was more the question. Amatsu couldn’t remember if he had ever been asked what he was before. If what he had heard about his dad was true then how did he want to answer that question? What was the best way to explain?

“Well I’m a hybrid. I guess you would say that I’m a mix of different races: Imp, Chimera and geist.” Amatsu finally answered. He hoped that was what the other freshling was asking.

Were the races not allowed to mix down where the naga and Bakeneko used to live? It was kind of sad in a way. While Amatsu and his twin hadnt grown up knowing their parents. They saw lots of different couples who weren’t of the same race. Love should be love after all. He had picked up the note of hope and wondered if that was why so many naga and Nightmares were transferring over. Below still had grudges but lots of different races could end up with each other.

“Yes, it is very much allowed here. Anyone can imbue with anyone” Amatsu answered still a little shocked. Of course second later his face was getting touched of all things. what... how was he supposed to handle... ah well better to go with the flow. “Oh ah… thank you. I tend to run a bit on the warm side due to... um... the chimera part” yep definitely had to have a different definition on personal space. “Um yeah I guess I’m pretty healthy” of course any seriousness went out the window when Bismae touched his wing and he let out a small eep. It was very ticklish.

“…that is kind of silly. Love is love” Amatsu stated folding his arms. As a hybrid learning about pure blood lines always made him feel sad. He wouldn’t be here if everyone wanted to keep their blood lines pure. In fact most of the people he knew where hybrids… or chimeras. Wait that was beside the point.

“Oh… ah…”Amatsu wasn’t sure what to say. Tempo had always said to be polite and courteous to others because you didn’t know what a person had gone through to make them act this way, but he couldn’t recall if any of her teachings explained what to do in a situation like this. “Thank you… Hatu is a very nice name. I’m sure the kid would love to carry it” he finally decided after Bismae retreated back out of his small personal bubble. Then he was thrown for a loop again when his hand was suddenly grabbed.

Wait… why was he suddenly being called Hatu….? Ahhhh, what was he supposed to do?

Well at least they were smiling that was good right? Amatsu still wasn’t sure about the whole thing but it was nice to have company. There were a lot of people in the room, he hoped that Mikazuki was okay where ever his twin was in the room. “Okay, we can go meet percy. Ah well I eat normal things I guess although pasta is the best” He replied with a smile.

He looked around still walking behind Bismae and wondered where his twin was. Considering more people where showing up he wanted to find his other half, maybe Mika would understand his new friend better, well maybe he could bring up his twin after they found this percy. He did let out a little wince as he bumped into people. Ah, it was getting really crowded in here….

“Pasta is good. I’m slowly learning how to make it myself but I’m not too good at it yet. Oh really that sounds absolutely tasty. I would love to try some. ” How did any one manage a crowd like this. Well maybe it actually wasn’t that bad and his shy anti-social nature was amplifying the crowd in his eyes.

He really did hope that Mikazuki was okay. Neither of them really liked crowds like this especially when people and fellow freshlings started getting rude. Amatsu was and had never been aggressive enough to keep them from pushing him to the side as example from his previous wince. He envied Bismae in that she was able to at least voice her displeasure more than his meek ‘excuse me’

Friend? Amatsu had never been called a friend before and it caused a small smile to form on his lips. He was still used to people actually liking him. It was a welcome change from the orphanage days. Still he couldn’t let his friend get in trouble especially since she was standing up for him.

“Well maybe we can all apologize. I’m really small,” Amatsu started with a smile. Well he was small for a Chimera child at least, for an imp child he was on the rather tall end. “so its easy to miss me and really I should have been more careful as well. I’m sorry” he blinked as the freshling seemingly blubbered a bit before not wanting to be outdone and offering a weak apology still it was an apology.

Amatsu let out a tiny sigh of relief, glad that everyone had agreed to apologize and hopefully move on. Really he was never good with confrontation and he really didn’t want to have to call Yami for getting into a situation on his first day.

“Yes I’m okay” Amatsu answered wanting to relieve his friend’s fears. “Thank you for standing up for me. It… it was really nice to be stood up for” he replied as Bismae checked to see if he was okay. However the crows were getting ridiculous and sitting on a bench and not getting bumped into would be lovely. “Yeah that would be ideal I think. There are a lot of tall students in here and I do get bumped into a lot” he added. Oh boy schools were really crowded. Way more crowded then he thought. He really should have drilled his dad more.

At least it was nice to have met a friend?