Back in the Entrance Hall, the visiting instructor had gone back into the airship to retrieve her luggage when she spied a pair of boots propped up on the seat back and the owner's seat reclined so far back that his pale face could be seen. "Oh shit, I forgot Raven!" She said and raced over to the sleeping boy. "raven, wake up. We're here. We're at G.O.A." She said as calmly as she could, despite the gruesome thoughts racing through her head. Raven's amethyst eyes cracked open and he ast up, making the chair squeak. "Shadow! We're here, so stop cowering and get my salvage bag." He called to his organoid. Shadow poked his head out of the black tarp he lay huddled under and pulled a black messenger bag from under the seat behind him. He walked over to Raven who slung the bag over one shoulder and grabbed the tarp as well. He then turned to the instructor. "Where did everybody else go, Sensei?" He asked, cocking an eyebrow. "Well, they um...went to find an open dorm. Azuma said that there was a dorm open near 87, 88, and 89's dorm that any stragglers could use so I'd go there if I were you." She said and held up a suitcase as a knife was thrown at her. "Don't hurt me, they're the ones who left!" She cried, desperately trying to dispel Raven's anger with soft words. He snorted and walked out of the airship. "Save your breath for when I actually intend on killing you." He said simply as he started toward the dorm specified.
Meanwhile, Toki and the others had found the dorm and started settling in when the door opened and four boys came in, accompanied by a girl with cat ears. "Hiya, you must be the new candidates. My name is Rei Enna, but everyone here calls me Zero. This is Van Flyheight, Duo Maxwell, Quatre Winner, and my repairer Kizna Towrk. I live right through there with Clay Fortran and Hiead Gner, but you'll meet them at dinner. Who are you?" He said in about three fourths of asecond. Toki cleared his throat and stepped forward and bowed. "Toki Laties: Level 7. This is Vyper Mitgard: Level 4, and Charcoal Pandoræm: Level 4. There is one more of us, but he hasn't arrived yet. His name is Raven Bl-" "It's Raven. Just Raven." He interrupted from the doorway. "And there'd better be a place in here for Shadow." He said, dropping his bag on one bed, took a long-bladed knife from his boot and slammed it into the headboard up to the hilt. "If anyone and I mean anybody even thinks about touchin any of my stuff, I will slit his throat." Raven said as he threw himself on his bed and pulled on his headphones. "I'm going to sleep so don't fucking wake me up until dinner, got that? I've got jet lag and I'm exhausted. Wake me up and you're dead, Toki. Vyper? Charcoal? Shoadow? That gose triple for any of you." He said. He pushed the play button on his CD player and, with the sounds of My Chemical Romance blaring through his eyes, he drifted into a dreamless sleep.
There were two uniforms lying on his dresser and a Post-It on Raven's mirror explaining the uniforms when he woke up. He found that he like the pants to the formal uniform better than the shorts with the latter and he decided to wear those until he could make some himself. He started out of the dorm, recondsidered, and went to wake Shadow. About an hour later, he was sitting at a table in the corner of the dining hall with Shadow at his side and everybody's eyes locked on the metal dragonoid. Raven smirked evilly as he noticed his roommates sitting at a table across the room from him and eating happily. Raven had never trusted food that he hadn't made himself, so while everybody else had steak and eggs, he had a grilled cheese sandwich. Right about the time he finished eating, the loud-mouthed brunette from earlier came over to his table and sat down. "Hey, your name's Raven, right?" He asked. Raven brushed some crumbs from his mouth with the back on one hand and stood to dispose of the baggy his meager dinner had come in and the boy started following him. "well, is it?" He asked. Raven smirked and turned to stare at him, amethyst eyes flashing with rage. "Wow, you win the fucking prize." He mused, whirling on his heel in an attempt to get away from this ignorant but persistent twit. Zero ran after him and grabbed his arm. "Hey, don't be like that. I just want to know what's bothering you." He said softly. Raven put one hand to his temple and kept walking. "I have a headache. It's real skinny with brown hair and blue eyes. I don't know or want to know it's name, but I wish it would quit following me." He said quietly. Zero gave him a strange look, but followed Raven nonetheless. "Well, I'm sorry. I wanted to know if you wanted to be my friend." He said, scuffing the toe of one boot with his heel while Raven fiddled with hie keyring. "Dammit." He mimbled as he searched for the dorm's key. "Look kid, I don't need or want friends so get lost, Okay?" He said, unlocking the door and stepping inside.
"Wow." Zero said softly as he followed Raven inside. "What, never seen a dorm before?" The Dark One asked, going straight for his bed. "Well, yes but...Yours is so cool! I mean, lookit all this stuff. Is this your closet?" He asked, pulling open a door with various heavy metal posters plastered on it. Raven nodded and Zero pulled out a black coat with lots of buckles and snaps decorating it like a Goth Christmas tree. "This stuff is so cool! I'd die for clothes like these. Where'd you get them?" He asked, unearthing a pair of bondage pants with chain straps from the closet. "Well, I made those and that jacket in your right hand, but most everything else I got from a Goth store on Zion. There's a lot of things like that on Zion." He said, realizing that he might be interested in this boy. At least he had good taste in clothes, Raven thought. For about an hour and a half, Zero looked through Raven's closet and pulled out clothes that he deemed "cool". Raven started to fall asleep as Zero picked through his closet but woke up immediately when he realized that Zero had ahold of his favorite T-shirt, his autographed Marilyn Manson T-shirt. "You know, that would look good on you. Look in there and see if you can find a pair of ripped jean cutoffs. The ones with bondage straps." Raven said. Zero nodded at his new friend and began digging through his clsoet for the pants. While Zero was busy, Raven detatched the spiked gauntlets from his own wrists and took the spiked collar from around his neck and waited to Zero to find the aforementioned cutoffs. When he had, Raven put the collar and bracelets on his dresser and ducked his head under his bed to find his black Converse. Zero announced that he was dressed and Raven smirked, creeping up behind him with the collar in hand.