Chapter 4: Vian

"Yeah, Ollette, Pence and Naminé!" Replied Roxas.

"Who are they?" Sora questioned.

They had been discussing their former towns.

"Friends."

"And Seifer got to come, too!" Hayner said in outrage.

"Who's Seifer?" Sora asked from his top bunk.

"Well, you could say he's our nemesis, we're always messin' each other up, ya know?" Hayner answered.

"Now you sound like Rai." Roxas remarked.

"And who's that?" Sora asked with a sense of Deja Vuu.

"He's one of Seifer's cronies, too dumb to make it here, though." Hayner replied, still upset at being compared to such an idiot.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door.

Riku's bunk was closest to the door, so he answered it.

There was a tall person there, too young to be a teacher. Riku guessed it was the administrator.

"You the Trator?" Riku questioned.

"Yeah, names Vian."

"I'm Riku, those guys can introduce themselves."

Vian stepped into the room.

It wasn't a large room, but they had enough elbow space to move freely. There was a large walk-in closet, however. It was enough for 4 boys to put up clothes in their own small section. Each boy had his own small dresser, and there was one alarm clock.

Vian walked over to the alarm clock and checked the alarm time. He adjusted it. Roxas groaned when he saw he was adjusting it earlier.

"Why do we have to get up at six?" Sora asked.

"Because Sora," Riku said, "he's giving you enough time to put on your make-up."

Sora replied by throwing his pillow at Riku.

"Just for now," said Vian, "I'll give you more sleep later in the year, once you've proven you can get moving with enough time to spare."

"Anyone who takes away my sleep must be a traitor." Hayner mumbled.

"Hey, it's not like I get up that early. I get up at 6:45."

"What?" The boys said incredulously. "No fair!"

"I've been here five years before, you'll get used to it."

"Do we at least get to sleep in on weekends?" Roxas pleaded.

"Yeah. You have weekends off, but most of us spend it in the river, lake, cough library, oh, and sometimes the teachers let us use the arena."
"The arena?" The boys reiterated in hushed tones.

"Yeah." Vian said.

There was silence coming from the boys.

"Okay, it's simple. Did Ansem tell you about the divisions, yet?"
"Yeah!" Said Sora excitedly.

"He did?" Said Hayner.

"I don't remember him saying that." Roxas added.

"I've heard about them, but I don't think it was from Ansem…" Riku said slowly, turning his head toward Sora.

"Well, I don't know what he said, but I'm going to tell you about them now." Vian said, ignorant to the strange visions of Sora and Kairi.

"Now, divisions are made of two groups, for us, it will be you four and the rest of your people."

"You mean Ollette and Naminé?" Roxas asked.

"Well, if you know them I guess that's them." Vian said.

"Sweet!" Hayner said.

"And that means Kairi and Selphie are there, too, right?" Sora asked.

"I suppose. Should be." Vian answered.

"Aww…" Riku groaned.

"What?" The others asked incredulously.

"Girls can't fight, we'll lose!" Riku sighed.

"Hey, every team has four girls, and I hope you'll be interested in knowing that a girl was in first place this morning."

"What? That would never happen."

"It did today, and it's not the first time."

"What's her name?"

"Tifa, she's in my division, then again, my division is graduating this year."

"What's your rank, Vian?" The boys inquired.

"Well, you see, I'm a trator, which you might guess means I'm kinda brainy, and uh, well…" He awkwardly began.

"JUST TELL US!" The boys demanded.

"OKAY! He said, giving up. "I'm one hundred and sixty seventh!"

There was some stifled laughter through the room.

"That's not bad you know!" Vian tried to use as an excuse. "Do you have any idea how many students are here? There are over 300?"
"Yeah, we believe that, but you're on your sixth year here and half the students beat you?"

"The arena's not everything, you know." Vian irritably said.

"Sounds pretty awesome." Sora said enthusiastically.

"Well, it's everything for most of you first years." Vian rolled his eyes as he said this.

"When do we learn about it?" Roxas impatiently asked.

Vian held up a piece of paper.

"Right after breakfast tomorrow." Vian said as a final note. "I'll be back to make sure you kids get into bed on time."