Disclaimer: Once again, I own nothing directly related to the game FFTA because that belongs to Square.

Author's Notes: Ok, well, the last chapter sucked. This chapter is basically used to introduce characters. I would add more, but I don't want to make this SUPER long and super boring by making a single chapter really long and another really short. Also, I'm gonna add more and I'll double space this time because I forgot to in the last chapter . So here goes!

Six Different People

"One... two... three... four jumps! I win again!" cried Leo with glee. Leo had dark black hair and dark brown eyes. He sat in his room grinning to himself while his other friends sat around rolling their eyes at him or eating junk food. Leo was probably the only one in his room that was still a kid at heart. Everyone was so worked up in school and always stressing out, Leo figured that a fun game of Chinese checkers could help calm them down while they all spent the weekend at his uncle's cabin.
"You're such a dork," said Mike. Mike was about average height and had dark brown hair. He was the star of the track team at their school, and had met up with Leo through a tutoring advertisement since Mike had needed help keeping his Biology grade up to stay on the team. "That's the seventh game of Chinese checkers you've won in a row. And who plays that many games of Chinese checker anyway?"
"Well, you could use the thinking skills," said Mikey. Mikey and Mike were the best of buds and knew each other since the first grade. Whenever Mike lacked in brawn, Mikey made up with his smarts. The two were a dynamic pair, and even though Mikey wasn't much of an athlete, Mike inspired him to take up paint balling. "Honestly, it's not Leo's fault you suck at the game."
"You're only saying that because you came in second!" retorted Mike as he threw a fistful of popcorn at Mikey.
"Well, it's true. There isn't a nice way to say 'You suck' you know," said Nick, joining in the childish argument. Nick was a close friend of Leo's. They met during competition band, and fate made them the best of buds when Nick had accidentally shot Leo with a stray arrow while he was at archery practice. Immediately after that, Nick rushed Leo to the hospital, and Nick hasn't left Leo's side since. They were kind of like side-kicks, only none of them was the main super hero.
"Hey, two against one isn't fair!" chimed in Tom. Tom was a little on the short side, but his appearance was the complete opposite of his strength. Tom was, in a word, built. Tom was on the gymnastics team, the football team, and the baseball team at our school, and was deemed "the jock". He had met up with Leo when Leo took his little sister out to gymnastics practice, and Tom had caught her from falling off a very high balance beam.
"Gaah!" screamed Mike. Leo stopped cheering for himself and began to burst out laughing when he saw that his friends had started on a major pillow fight, with feathers flying all over the place. What Leo thought was a two on two match turned out to be an all out melee. Of course, Tom came out on top after knocking the other three across the room and tearing open half the feather pillows in the process. Leo couldn't help but laugh louder.
"Leo, you laugh too much," said Luke from the corner. Luke was the loner of the group. He was always brooding over some dark thought by himself in the corner, and how or why he stuck around with these five, nobody could explain. One day, Leo just walked up to him and asked him to sit with him and his friends at the lunch table because he was sick and tired of seeing Luke by himself.
"No way, there's no such thing as laughing too much!" said Leo. The strange thing about Leo was that he was so different. Everyone in the cabin was sixteen years old, and usually teens at that age were temperamental and had mood swings and were sometimes rarely happy. But not Leo. This boy was always smiling, always laughing, always willing to help other people out, The flaw with this child was that he trusted people too easily.
"You can never laugh too much! Laughter is the medicine of life ya know! And did you know that angry kids are more prone to obesity? You don't want to be a fat lump do you?" Leo rambled on and on and then suddenly, the lights went out and came back on in a flash. Everybody had vanished. In the background, the toilet flushed and Leo's uncle came out of the bathroom.
"Hmm, durn kids and their games," muttered Leo's uncle, as he scratched his left butt cheek and slowly walked off to bed, thinking nothing of the disappearance.