Final Fantasy X: High School Years
Chapter 1: First Day of School
"The first day of school," Tidus thought. "It's tomorrow morning. It's going to be so odd, going to an entirely new school full of people I haven't even met before. At least I'll still be able to play Blitzball with the Abes and visit Zanarkand often, if I don't find it working too well here."
Tidus, the seventeen year old athlete lay in his bed with his eyes closed, thinking of the morning that seemed so close yet so far away. He was new in Luca, and he'd only ever been to Luca to play in tournaments where his team often won, thanks to his skills. His father was an even more skilled Blitzball player, Jecht, an all-time winner. He'd never lost a game once in his life, and he remained undefeated. However, he's retired.
Tidus knew how competetive Blitzball is, and how often it's taken personally by the opposing team most of the time. If any of the local players were to recognize his face, he'd be in trouble for sure. This stuff was exactly the kind of stuff that was going through his mind right now, and the exact stuff that was making him a bit nervous about showing his face at school tomorrow morning.
"All I can do is sleep and live through the day," he thought.
***
"Hey, cry baby, wake up!" Jecht yelled, throwing a blitzball at Tidus while he was sleeping under his covers. He sat up immediately and looked at Jecht with a grumpy look. "You're going to be late for school."
As Jecht left Tidus' bedroom, he closed the door. Tidus got up and changed into a pair of long blue shorts and a blue sweater with a hood on the back. He put in a silver and very unique earring into his left ear, and put on his silver chain. After getting changed, he washed up his face and cleaned his teeth. He brushed his blonde hair, which was still clean from the shower he'd taken before he went to bed last night.
"You're going to be late!" his father yelled at him.
"Quiet, old man. . ." Tidus thought.
His mother hadn't awoken to see him off to school. Lately during the summer it seemed like she was sleeping in a lot, and she lost her energy that she normally had. Tidus had just shrugged the matter off though, thinking that it was probably just a phase that she was going through and would pass soon, hopefully.
"I'll see you when I get home from school!" Tidus yelled, running out of the house with a couple pieces of bread in his hand and his schoolbag on his back.
"You have practice when you get home, remember!" Jecht yelled as Tidus was running down the road. Tidus just waved at him.
Luca was a big town. Bigger than most in Spira. But Zanarkand was the largest town in all of Spira. Yet even though he'd grown up in a town so big and found it easy to navigate himself around there, Luca was still difficult for him. He eventually ended up on a walkway that connected from the market to the docks and Blitzball Arena of Luca. There was a fountain halfway down, and to the right of that there was another walkway leading to what Tidus had been told was the Sphere Theatre. It seemed like there was something important he needed to remember about that place.
He approached a tanned man wearing an open white shirt and long blue shorts, almost like Tidus' shorts. He had long blonde hair, but longer than Tidus'. This man's hair went past his shoulders, or at least an inch past.
"Excuse me," Tidus said. "But you wouldn't happen to know where Luca High is, would you?"
"Oui'na jano lmuca," the man said, "ed ec nekrd paceta dra Cbrana Draydna."
Tidus looked at the man wide-eyed. He was hoping he wouldn't run into one of these. An Al Bhed. He found their language oddly confusing and too fast for him to understand, although he had signed up to take the course this year.
"We na jonno limooka?" Tidus asked, clearly trying to show that he didn't understand.
"Hu, oui yna jano lmuca, hud sa," the man replied. Tidus stared at him dumbfounded again, and then the man laughed. "I'm sorry, but I do enjoy running into people who don't understand the Al Bhed language. Mind you that is a lot of people. It is my native language, so I do prefer to speak it. I was just hoping that perhaps you would know it, so I wouldn't have to speak this way."
"Well, that's interesting," Tidus said. "This man's a strange one." he thought. "So, in my language, can you tell me where Luca High is?"
"Cina," he said. Tidus stared confused again. "That means 'sure', in english. But anyway, enough fun for now. Luca High is very close to you right now. It's right over by the Sphere Theatre. The only other building by the Sphere Theatre as a matter of fact."
"Thanks, man!" Tidus said. "I wish I could give you something for the help, but I don't have anything. I'm sure I'll see you around some other time. I'll repay you then."
"You're welcome," he said, watching Tidus run off.
"Only... right... there!" Tidus said, nearly out of breath, running for the school.
He approached the courtyard. There were hundreds of students alone sitting and standing outside here, just talking amongst themselves. There were people of all kinds. He even managed to spot some Ronso, and even some Hypello. When he'd ever rarely seen a Hypello, he always had to keep himself from laughing when they talked.
"The Ronso are so cool," Tidus thought. "I wonder if I'll meet any this year?"
He began walking down a shiny stone walkway that lead through the green and grassy courtyard filled with benches and social areas and to the large front doors of Luca High.
"Who do they get to close and open these things?" he thought.
He decided that maybe he didn't want to go into the school just yet, but instead he'd wander around the courtyard, studying his soon-to-be new classmates. As with most kids who were new, the thoughts like, "These kids sure are weird." popped into his head. But, he couldn't deny they were different to him.
***
"Okay, girls, this year is going to be awesome, right?" the young blonde girl asked enthusastically.
"Right!" the other group of girls she was with replied cheerfully.
"That's got to be the cheer squad," he thought while walking by. "That girl leading them on seems too young to be the leader."
"Rikku, I really don't feel comfortable being here with these people," the brown haired girl said to Rikku; the cheerleader.
"Nonsense, Yunie!" Rikku said. "You'll get along with these girls just fine! I know they're a little bit more energetic and louder than you but-"
"Rikku, that's all they are." Yuna said.
Rikku rubbed the back of her head and kicked the soft dirt on the ground then looked back up at Yuna with a sort of sad expression on her face.
"Don't worry," Yuna said. "You're not like them. You have a mind!"
"Thanks, Yunie!" Rikku said and began jumping and clapping briefly.
The school bell rang and then Rikku grabbed onto Yuna's hand and began pulling her to the school, somewhat too excited.
"Come on, Yunie!" she yelled. "Keep up! I want to find out what my classes are!"
***
The students of the school gathered into a large auditorium filled with blue cushioned seats. It was dark, and there didn't seem to be a stage, but instead a white screen. Yuna didn't seem to care where she sat, but Rikku was very picky. She wanted to be in the exact center of the room.
Once all of the students had entered the auditorium and everyone was seated, a voice could be heard through the speakers.
"Welcome to another school year here at Luca High," the voice boomed through the large speakers. "Everyone please turn on your spheres now."
Tidus, sitting somewhere in the back where there were less people, pulled out a shimmering blue sphere that was about the size of both his fists combined. He turned it on. Spheres were necessary items to bring with you to school, especially in Luca and Zanarkand, where a lot of education was very technological. Fortunately, no one in Spira, especially Luca and Zanarkand, was too poor to afford one.
The sphere created a three dimensional image of an old man in robes using a cane. This must have been their principal, Mr.Mika. In the back of the image there were three others, who could've only been the vice principals. Mr.Kelk Ronso, Mr.Jyscal Guado, and Mr.(Insert fat Maester's name here).
"Welcome to another year at Luca High, students." Mr.Mika said. "For some of you, this is your first year here. Fortunately for you, Luca High is not much different from Luca Middle School. However, our technology is much more advanced. You'll find there's more freedom. We've got just about everything from your old school-"
"Yeah, right." Tidus thought.
"-and more, but it's all better. Somethings you should know about Luca High this year are..."
For nearly ten more minutes Mr.Mika went on about the school rules and the schedules.
"Now, if you will look at your spheres, you will see that each of your classes and your homeroom class have appeared," Mr.Mika said. "These classes, of course, have already been assigned to you throughout your summer break. Thanks to our technology, transporting them to your sphere just like that is possible. Thank you for listening, and please proceed to your first class of the day."
"What do I have first?" he thought. "Al Bhed class. Great."
***
Tidus stepped in the classroom. It wasn't very big, or very full either. He sat in the middle row, third pair of desks down. There was no one sitting in the desk to his left, and he didn't expect anyone to. A young tanned woman, probably around seventeen like Tidus, entered the classroom. She had long dark brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a long skirt with slits going up the sides. She wore a shirt that revealed her stomach. She walked over to Tidus, her eyes clearly revealing that she had something planned, and sat down beside him.
"You must be the new kid," she said in a deep feminine voice.
"Yep," he replied.
"I'm Dona," she said. "What is your name?"
"Tidus," he replied.
She moved closer to Tidus, but Tidus didn't pay attention to her. It figured that the first person that decided to talk to him was someone who he wouldn't want to ever talk to.
"You know, Tidus," she said, "I think you're kind of cute."
"Good for you," Tidus said.
"Dona," a large bulky man said, standing in front of their desks.
"Go away, Barthello," Dona said.
Barthello just glared at Tidus, and Tidus returned the glare with a confused glance. Dona gave a disgusted sigh and then stood up and left, sitting with Barthello.
The small classroom filled up fast, and the last one to arrive was the only one Tidus noticed. A beautiful young woman with brown hair and unique eyes. One blue, and one green. She reluctantly sat beside Tidus, not really wanting to sit beside the new kid. But she herself was fairly new to this school.
The Al Bhed Speech teacher entered the classroom and proceed to a desk that sat before the whole class, in front of a clear white board. Tidus immediately recognized the man who stood before the class, and he immediately picked Tidus out of the group of students. It was the Al Bhed who had helped Tidus out earlier when trying to find the school.
"Famlusa du dra haf oayn uv clruum, lmycc," he said. "Or should I say. . . Welcome to the new year of school, class."
The students in the class let out a light laugh. Most of the students here had either had him for a teacher last year, or were really hoping to have him this year.
"I am Rin," he said. "I will be your Al Bhed Speech teacher this year. I'm sure many of you know me, and I'm sure there may be a few of you here who have not heard of me."
Tidus didn't know it, but Rin was referring to him when he mentioned a few. Rin wasn't narcissistic, but he knew how well known and popular he was, especially in Luca. Rin was famous for his successful chain of stores throughout Spira, and for his excellent chocobos, which he kept at his stables at his home home on the Mi'ihen Highroad, just outside of Luca.
"I notice we have a new student this year," Rin immediately put the spotlight on Tidus and all turned to face him. He slumped back in his chair, nervously. "You would be Tidus?"
"Um, yeah, that's my name." he said.
"Welcome," he said. "I understand that you are a very excellent blitzball player and that your father is the amazing Jecht."
"Star player of the Zanarkand Abes," Tidus said. He didn't want to say it, but he was well known by that title back in Zanarkand. "Yes, my father is Jecht."
"Really?" Yuna asked, interested.
The rest of the class just stared at Tidus, now interested in this new student. Dona stared at him, her attraction growing for him. Barthello's anger was growing as a result. Yuna's interest in Tidus grew as well.
"Um, yeah," Tidus said.
"Well then class," Rin said, "let us begin the year. It's best that I tell you about how I plan on working through this school year with all of you."
***
Tidus was relieved when halfway through the day, it was his lunch period. He was starving, and his last classes after Al Bhed class were brutal for him. Some of the teachers, like the blades instructor, were determined to start the year off right away.
It was the first time he'd seen the cafeteria of their school. It was large, and perhaps one of the most impressive cafeterias he'd ever seen. It consisted of two floors, and several rows of tables on the first floor, as well as single tables and tables meant for only a few people. Wide stairs were on the east side of the room and the west side as well, leading to the second floor of the cafeteria. Here, all tables were meant for groups of five or less. The walls were sky blue, as Tidus had discovered by now that this was their school color. But the walls appeared so smooth, like if you were to place your hand up against them, your hand would slip and you'd fall.
Tidus sat down at a table upstairs, where there were less people it seemed. He thought that up here he wouldn't be noticed as much. When everyone knew where he was from, they would constantly ask him questions about the great city.
"Sittin' alone, ya?" he heard an odd voice ask from behind. "I'll join ya."
A guy, in good physical condition, sat down at the table with Tidus. A few others sat down with him as well. He had blood red hair, the front of it spiked. He was wearing a yellow uniform that almost looked like suspenders with a black shirt underneath. It was clearly a sports uniform of some kind.
"I'm Wakka, Captain of the Besaid Aurochs." he said, extending a hand to Tidus.
Not wanting to seem rude, Tidus extended his hand and they shook. The mention of Wakka's hometown cleared up Tidus's curiosity of Wakka's accent.
"I'm Tidus," he said. He couldn't resist, so he had to add in, "Star player of the Zanarkand Abes."
"I'm well aware of that," he said.
"Okay," Tidus said. "I don't think I've ever played the Besaid Aurochs."
"We've never made it far enough for you to play against us," Wakka said. "Our team is one of the worst out there, ya know. We're trying to find some talent to help us out."
Tidus knew what was going to happen now. This Wakka was just trying to recruit him for their team, and Tidus already knew that he didn't want to. He had to think of a way to get out of there, and fast!
"We were kind of wonderin'. . ." Wakka said.
Tidus was saved by a blinding flash. There was a girl in a green dress and brown hair holding a sphere camera and smiling.
"Sorry," she said. "I just had to get a picture for the yearbook of the star player of the Zanarkand Abes on his first day!"
"Uh. . ." Tidus was confused. It was either he could use her to escape, or stay here and get stuck to play. "You can ask me some questions if you want."
"Really?" she smiled. "Thankfully I'm on the school newspaper! Let's do it!"
"Convenient!" Tidus smiled. "Sorry, uh, Wakka. We'll talk some other time."
Tidus felt a little relieved. Although now he had to put up with an interview in the school paper, which the whole school was going to read sometime soon. What had he done?
***
Tidus's first day of school was over. He arrived home. It was a pretty eventful day for him. More than any first day of school was for him. But of course, the students always want to meet the new kid. Tidus had never thought he'd be the new kid.
He tossed his backpack on a chair in front of a desk in his room and laid down on his bed, staring off into nothing. It was a tiring day, and he'd need a little bit of rest of he were to do anything today. He slowly drifted off into sleep. . .
Chapter 1: First Day of School
"The first day of school," Tidus thought. "It's tomorrow morning. It's going to be so odd, going to an entirely new school full of people I haven't even met before. At least I'll still be able to play Blitzball with the Abes and visit Zanarkand often, if I don't find it working too well here."
Tidus, the seventeen year old athlete lay in his bed with his eyes closed, thinking of the morning that seemed so close yet so far away. He was new in Luca, and he'd only ever been to Luca to play in tournaments where his team often won, thanks to his skills. His father was an even more skilled Blitzball player, Jecht, an all-time winner. He'd never lost a game once in his life, and he remained undefeated. However, he's retired.
Tidus knew how competetive Blitzball is, and how often it's taken personally by the opposing team most of the time. If any of the local players were to recognize his face, he'd be in trouble for sure. This stuff was exactly the kind of stuff that was going through his mind right now, and the exact stuff that was making him a bit nervous about showing his face at school tomorrow morning.
"All I can do is sleep and live through the day," he thought.
***
"Hey, cry baby, wake up!" Jecht yelled, throwing a blitzball at Tidus while he was sleeping under his covers. He sat up immediately and looked at Jecht with a grumpy look. "You're going to be late for school."
As Jecht left Tidus' bedroom, he closed the door. Tidus got up and changed into a pair of long blue shorts and a blue sweater with a hood on the back. He put in a silver and very unique earring into his left ear, and put on his silver chain. After getting changed, he washed up his face and cleaned his teeth. He brushed his blonde hair, which was still clean from the shower he'd taken before he went to bed last night.
"You're going to be late!" his father yelled at him.
"Quiet, old man. . ." Tidus thought.
His mother hadn't awoken to see him off to school. Lately during the summer it seemed like she was sleeping in a lot, and she lost her energy that she normally had. Tidus had just shrugged the matter off though, thinking that it was probably just a phase that she was going through and would pass soon, hopefully.
"I'll see you when I get home from school!" Tidus yelled, running out of the house with a couple pieces of bread in his hand and his schoolbag on his back.
"You have practice when you get home, remember!" Jecht yelled as Tidus was running down the road. Tidus just waved at him.
Luca was a big town. Bigger than most in Spira. But Zanarkand was the largest town in all of Spira. Yet even though he'd grown up in a town so big and found it easy to navigate himself around there, Luca was still difficult for him. He eventually ended up on a walkway that connected from the market to the docks and Blitzball Arena of Luca. There was a fountain halfway down, and to the right of that there was another walkway leading to what Tidus had been told was the Sphere Theatre. It seemed like there was something important he needed to remember about that place.
He approached a tanned man wearing an open white shirt and long blue shorts, almost like Tidus' shorts. He had long blonde hair, but longer than Tidus'. This man's hair went past his shoulders, or at least an inch past.
"Excuse me," Tidus said. "But you wouldn't happen to know where Luca High is, would you?"
"Oui'na jano lmuca," the man said, "ed ec nekrd paceta dra Cbrana Draydna."
Tidus looked at the man wide-eyed. He was hoping he wouldn't run into one of these. An Al Bhed. He found their language oddly confusing and too fast for him to understand, although he had signed up to take the course this year.
"We na jonno limooka?" Tidus asked, clearly trying to show that he didn't understand.
"Hu, oui yna jano lmuca, hud sa," the man replied. Tidus stared at him dumbfounded again, and then the man laughed. "I'm sorry, but I do enjoy running into people who don't understand the Al Bhed language. Mind you that is a lot of people. It is my native language, so I do prefer to speak it. I was just hoping that perhaps you would know it, so I wouldn't have to speak this way."
"Well, that's interesting," Tidus said. "This man's a strange one." he thought. "So, in my language, can you tell me where Luca High is?"
"Cina," he said. Tidus stared confused again. "That means 'sure', in english. But anyway, enough fun for now. Luca High is very close to you right now. It's right over by the Sphere Theatre. The only other building by the Sphere Theatre as a matter of fact."
"Thanks, man!" Tidus said. "I wish I could give you something for the help, but I don't have anything. I'm sure I'll see you around some other time. I'll repay you then."
"You're welcome," he said, watching Tidus run off.
"Only... right... there!" Tidus said, nearly out of breath, running for the school.
He approached the courtyard. There were hundreds of students alone sitting and standing outside here, just talking amongst themselves. There were people of all kinds. He even managed to spot some Ronso, and even some Hypello. When he'd ever rarely seen a Hypello, he always had to keep himself from laughing when they talked.
"The Ronso are so cool," Tidus thought. "I wonder if I'll meet any this year?"
He began walking down a shiny stone walkway that lead through the green and grassy courtyard filled with benches and social areas and to the large front doors of Luca High.
"Who do they get to close and open these things?" he thought.
He decided that maybe he didn't want to go into the school just yet, but instead he'd wander around the courtyard, studying his soon-to-be new classmates. As with most kids who were new, the thoughts like, "These kids sure are weird." popped into his head. But, he couldn't deny they were different to him.
***
"Okay, girls, this year is going to be awesome, right?" the young blonde girl asked enthusastically.
"Right!" the other group of girls she was with replied cheerfully.
"That's got to be the cheer squad," he thought while walking by. "That girl leading them on seems too young to be the leader."
"Rikku, I really don't feel comfortable being here with these people," the brown haired girl said to Rikku; the cheerleader.
"Nonsense, Yunie!" Rikku said. "You'll get along with these girls just fine! I know they're a little bit more energetic and louder than you but-"
"Rikku, that's all they are." Yuna said.
Rikku rubbed the back of her head and kicked the soft dirt on the ground then looked back up at Yuna with a sort of sad expression on her face.
"Don't worry," Yuna said. "You're not like them. You have a mind!"
"Thanks, Yunie!" Rikku said and began jumping and clapping briefly.
The school bell rang and then Rikku grabbed onto Yuna's hand and began pulling her to the school, somewhat too excited.
"Come on, Yunie!" she yelled. "Keep up! I want to find out what my classes are!"
***
The students of the school gathered into a large auditorium filled with blue cushioned seats. It was dark, and there didn't seem to be a stage, but instead a white screen. Yuna didn't seem to care where she sat, but Rikku was very picky. She wanted to be in the exact center of the room.
Once all of the students had entered the auditorium and everyone was seated, a voice could be heard through the speakers.
"Welcome to another school year here at Luca High," the voice boomed through the large speakers. "Everyone please turn on your spheres now."
Tidus, sitting somewhere in the back where there were less people, pulled out a shimmering blue sphere that was about the size of both his fists combined. He turned it on. Spheres were necessary items to bring with you to school, especially in Luca and Zanarkand, where a lot of education was very technological. Fortunately, no one in Spira, especially Luca and Zanarkand, was too poor to afford one.
The sphere created a three dimensional image of an old man in robes using a cane. This must have been their principal, Mr.Mika. In the back of the image there were three others, who could've only been the vice principals. Mr.Kelk Ronso, Mr.Jyscal Guado, and Mr.(Insert fat Maester's name here).
"Welcome to another year at Luca High, students." Mr.Mika said. "For some of you, this is your first year here. Fortunately for you, Luca High is not much different from Luca Middle School. However, our technology is much more advanced. You'll find there's more freedom. We've got just about everything from your old school-"
"Yeah, right." Tidus thought.
"-and more, but it's all better. Somethings you should know about Luca High this year are..."
For nearly ten more minutes Mr.Mika went on about the school rules and the schedules.
"Now, if you will look at your spheres, you will see that each of your classes and your homeroom class have appeared," Mr.Mika said. "These classes, of course, have already been assigned to you throughout your summer break. Thanks to our technology, transporting them to your sphere just like that is possible. Thank you for listening, and please proceed to your first class of the day."
"What do I have first?" he thought. "Al Bhed class. Great."
***
Tidus stepped in the classroom. It wasn't very big, or very full either. He sat in the middle row, third pair of desks down. There was no one sitting in the desk to his left, and he didn't expect anyone to. A young tanned woman, probably around seventeen like Tidus, entered the classroom. She had long dark brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a long skirt with slits going up the sides. She wore a shirt that revealed her stomach. She walked over to Tidus, her eyes clearly revealing that she had something planned, and sat down beside him.
"You must be the new kid," she said in a deep feminine voice.
"Yep," he replied.
"I'm Dona," she said. "What is your name?"
"Tidus," he replied.
She moved closer to Tidus, but Tidus didn't pay attention to her. It figured that the first person that decided to talk to him was someone who he wouldn't want to ever talk to.
"You know, Tidus," she said, "I think you're kind of cute."
"Good for you," Tidus said.
"Dona," a large bulky man said, standing in front of their desks.
"Go away, Barthello," Dona said.
Barthello just glared at Tidus, and Tidus returned the glare with a confused glance. Dona gave a disgusted sigh and then stood up and left, sitting with Barthello.
The small classroom filled up fast, and the last one to arrive was the only one Tidus noticed. A beautiful young woman with brown hair and unique eyes. One blue, and one green. She reluctantly sat beside Tidus, not really wanting to sit beside the new kid. But she herself was fairly new to this school.
The Al Bhed Speech teacher entered the classroom and proceed to a desk that sat before the whole class, in front of a clear white board. Tidus immediately recognized the man who stood before the class, and he immediately picked Tidus out of the group of students. It was the Al Bhed who had helped Tidus out earlier when trying to find the school.
"Famlusa du dra haf oayn uv clruum, lmycc," he said. "Or should I say. . . Welcome to the new year of school, class."
The students in the class let out a light laugh. Most of the students here had either had him for a teacher last year, or were really hoping to have him this year.
"I am Rin," he said. "I will be your Al Bhed Speech teacher this year. I'm sure many of you know me, and I'm sure there may be a few of you here who have not heard of me."
Tidus didn't know it, but Rin was referring to him when he mentioned a few. Rin wasn't narcissistic, but he knew how well known and popular he was, especially in Luca. Rin was famous for his successful chain of stores throughout Spira, and for his excellent chocobos, which he kept at his stables at his home home on the Mi'ihen Highroad, just outside of Luca.
"I notice we have a new student this year," Rin immediately put the spotlight on Tidus and all turned to face him. He slumped back in his chair, nervously. "You would be Tidus?"
"Um, yeah, that's my name." he said.
"Welcome," he said. "I understand that you are a very excellent blitzball player and that your father is the amazing Jecht."
"Star player of the Zanarkand Abes," Tidus said. He didn't want to say it, but he was well known by that title back in Zanarkand. "Yes, my father is Jecht."
"Really?" Yuna asked, interested.
The rest of the class just stared at Tidus, now interested in this new student. Dona stared at him, her attraction growing for him. Barthello's anger was growing as a result. Yuna's interest in Tidus grew as well.
"Um, yeah," Tidus said.
"Well then class," Rin said, "let us begin the year. It's best that I tell you about how I plan on working through this school year with all of you."
***
Tidus was relieved when halfway through the day, it was his lunch period. He was starving, and his last classes after Al Bhed class were brutal for him. Some of the teachers, like the blades instructor, were determined to start the year off right away.
It was the first time he'd seen the cafeteria of their school. It was large, and perhaps one of the most impressive cafeterias he'd ever seen. It consisted of two floors, and several rows of tables on the first floor, as well as single tables and tables meant for only a few people. Wide stairs were on the east side of the room and the west side as well, leading to the second floor of the cafeteria. Here, all tables were meant for groups of five or less. The walls were sky blue, as Tidus had discovered by now that this was their school color. But the walls appeared so smooth, like if you were to place your hand up against them, your hand would slip and you'd fall.
Tidus sat down at a table upstairs, where there were less people it seemed. He thought that up here he wouldn't be noticed as much. When everyone knew where he was from, they would constantly ask him questions about the great city.
"Sittin' alone, ya?" he heard an odd voice ask from behind. "I'll join ya."
A guy, in good physical condition, sat down at the table with Tidus. A few others sat down with him as well. He had blood red hair, the front of it spiked. He was wearing a yellow uniform that almost looked like suspenders with a black shirt underneath. It was clearly a sports uniform of some kind.
"I'm Wakka, Captain of the Besaid Aurochs." he said, extending a hand to Tidus.
Not wanting to seem rude, Tidus extended his hand and they shook. The mention of Wakka's hometown cleared up Tidus's curiosity of Wakka's accent.
"I'm Tidus," he said. He couldn't resist, so he had to add in, "Star player of the Zanarkand Abes."
"I'm well aware of that," he said.
"Okay," Tidus said. "I don't think I've ever played the Besaid Aurochs."
"We've never made it far enough for you to play against us," Wakka said. "Our team is one of the worst out there, ya know. We're trying to find some talent to help us out."
Tidus knew what was going to happen now. This Wakka was just trying to recruit him for their team, and Tidus already knew that he didn't want to. He had to think of a way to get out of there, and fast!
"We were kind of wonderin'. . ." Wakka said.
Tidus was saved by a blinding flash. There was a girl in a green dress and brown hair holding a sphere camera and smiling.
"Sorry," she said. "I just had to get a picture for the yearbook of the star player of the Zanarkand Abes on his first day!"
"Uh. . ." Tidus was confused. It was either he could use her to escape, or stay here and get stuck to play. "You can ask me some questions if you want."
"Really?" she smiled. "Thankfully I'm on the school newspaper! Let's do it!"
"Convenient!" Tidus smiled. "Sorry, uh, Wakka. We'll talk some other time."
Tidus felt a little relieved. Although now he had to put up with an interview in the school paper, which the whole school was going to read sometime soon. What had he done?
***
Tidus's first day of school was over. He arrived home. It was a pretty eventful day for him. More than any first day of school was for him. But of course, the students always want to meet the new kid. Tidus had never thought he'd be the new kid.
He tossed his backpack on a chair in front of a desk in his room and laid down on his bed, staring off into nothing. It was a tiring day, and he'd need a little bit of rest of he were to do anything today. He slowly drifted off into sleep. . .