Sirius: yay chapter 2 is finally here! Thanx goes out to everyone who reviewed, I'm glad that you enjoyed the first chapter. Well, there some things I forgot to say, in this story nothing in the game ever happened, Greeton has Japanese modern time technology maybe a little more advanced, bold words are characters thoughts, and italics are flashbacks with that said I don't own Star Ocean.
Siren: Enjoy!
ANOTHER LIFE, LESS ORDINARY
Ch. 2: A Refreshing Sight
The Greeton Academy dorm stood nine stories tall, like the main academy building it looked fancy, like a high class hotel than a school dorm. Large windows filled the building and at the top held the same eagle statue as the school's fountain.
Upon entering Nel quickly examined the interior. It was just as posh as she expected it to be. Chandelier after chandelier hung from the ceilings, the floor was impeccably clean marble as was the counters. The walls were painted a vibrant gold and every possible inch of it was covered by intricate arts. The red head made her way to a sign-in desk at one of the counters.
"Welcome to Greeton Academy Dorms, how are you today?" a man greeted.
"I'm fine, thank you." Nel answered.
"That's good to hear, well then shall we get started? Please hand me your paper work and place your thumb on the scanner and give a smile for the camera!"
Nel felt her head stat to spin. A scan-what? And what in the name of Apris is a ca-ma-ria?
The Aquarian stood there dumbfounded trying her best to figure this bazaar new lingo. There were two things on the desk, a small silver square-ish mechanism that radiated a green light and a circular device that stood upon a bar.
I got it!
Nel placed her thumb on the circular device and smiled for the green square. A moment passed but nothing happened, she looked up and caught the man staring at her with a puzzled expression.
"Um, sir the camera is this," he pointed to toward the circular device, "and this is the scanner," he pointed to the square.
Nel stared at the man
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DING!
"Oh, is-is that r-right?" Nel stammered giving her best impression of a goofy smile. She quickly corrected her miscalculation.
Idiot, Idiot, Idiot!
"Now say cheese!"
"Say wha--," Before Nel could finish a white blinding flash caught her off guard and she retaliated taking a step back and positioning herself for battle.
But nothing happened.
"Ahh….sir, umm your identification card is ready," the man informed her holding out a small card.
Nel grabbed the card. "Thank you," she mumbled and quickly left.
What am I doing? I need to calm down.
The Aquarian held the card up and gasped dropping it on the perfect marble below. In the picture her eyebrows were pushed together in confusion and her mouth was in a ridiculous O shape because she was in the middle of saying 'what'. In short it did no justice for her whatsoever. Quickly she bent to pick it up but found her hand on top of another. Looking up she came face to face with a handsome blond. She quickly pulled her hand away and got up.
"Haha, you must be new here." The blond remarked getting up.
He was quite tall and wore what seemed to be the Academy's uniform which consisted of dark shoes, platted green and white pants, a white collar shirt, a tie in the same design as the pants, and a black coat that held the emblem of the eagle and the initials G.A. on the right side.
Nel quietly nodded.
"Don't worry about it, a lot of people here have the same reaction you just got when you first arrived here." The young man explained.
He looked at the card then back up at her forcing down a smile, "Nevelle Zephyr, welcome to Greeton Academy," the blond greeted sticking out his right hand, "the name's Luther."
Nel shook his hand, "What is that card for and how does it have a replication of my face on it?"
Luther smiled before pulling on her hand knocking her off her balance causing her to fall back onto his chest with a swift movement he place her card into her right hand and wrapped his left arm around her thin waist as his right hand held her small ones. Luther guided her hand up so the ID was in front of her face.
He bended over a bit so his head was leveled with hers before speaking, "This is your identification card, it hold the main information about you such as your name, age , birthday, what year you belong to, room number and the four digit number on the bottom is how the computers identify you. Its imperative that you always carry this because with out it you have no proof that you belong to his institution."
Nel stood there shocked, the guy was quick, she had no time to react, was this part of the training they receive? The spy blushed slightly when she felt the arm around her tighten and blushed even more when he spoke softly in her ear. Nel couldn't deny that Luther wasn't attractive, he was very much handsome. The way his light blue eyes sparkled when he introduced himself and the way he spoke. It was overwhelming. She had been a spy all her life and never really got close to any guy after her father passed away but Luther was the first man who actually held her in such a way……wait! But she was dressed as a guy. That meant he was a ---- or maybe he knew she was a----. Nel's heart pounded in her chest. What was she thinking just now? She didn't come all the way here to check the men nor did she come here seeking love. She quickly shook the thought out of her head.
The mission comes first!
"I think I'll be heading to my room now." Nel gave a little fidget.
Luther feeling this slowly let go of her waist, "Then please let me show you the way."
Nel frowned, "its okay I think I'll find my own way without any problems."
"I insist," Luther stuck out his hand.
Sighing Nel gave the ID card to him. Luther looked at the card and eyed the room number, "Hmm very interesting."
"What?"
The blond shook his head, "Oh nothing, it seems that your room is very close to mine."
Luther gave a charming smile and took her hand into his and started heading towards a heavy wooden door with beautiful carvings of angels.
"OH MY GOSH, LUTHER! LUTHER IS THAT YOU!"
Luther stopped in his tracks as Nel turned, what she saw next was extremely disturbing. Another blond stood at the dorm's entrance walking toward them, he was very graceful and danced beautifully but it quickly changed when his expression changed from angelic to demonic in a millisecond, as he broke into a sprint.
"HOW DARE YOU HOLD ANOTHER MAN'S HAND!"
"Aww, Jeeze," Luther groaned recognizing the voice instantly.
"What's going on?" Nel questioned.
"We have to hurry!" Luther interrupted running to the wooden door and started pressing a button quickly, "Come on, come on faster!"
After a few seconds the door slid open, Luther quickly ran in it, just as Nel was getting a better look at the young man she was harshly yanked into the elevator.
"LUTHER YOU ASS---,"
The poor man was cut off when the door dinged shut. Nel stepped back and stared at the door.
How was I able to close by it self? Is this a magic door?
"Who was that man and what kind of a room are we in?" Nel asked staring in awe at the glass "room".
Luther leaned on the glass and let out a laugh, "This isn't a room, this is an elevator, and don't mind that man he's just an obsessed fan."
Nel stared at him, "A fan? Then are you famous of something?"
"Haha, you could say something like that."
Brushing the subject aside Nel examined the elevator once more.
"How does this thing work?"
"Its quite simple," Luther got off from the glass and pointed at the buttons near the door, " all you have to do is press the number of the floor you want to go to, in our case we press number nine," he lightly pressed the button and then it glowed.
Nel let out a small yelp when the elevator started to move, "what's happening?"
Luther could not help but let out a laugh at this, "don't worry we're just moving upward."
"I see."
Nel turned around and gasped when she caught sight of the beautiful scenery outside the elevator.
"Quite a view, huh?"
She nodded and continued to watch the view.
"Well you can enjoy it anytime you want, you're room has the best view and you have a balcony."
Nel turned, "How do you know, what my room has?"
"Let's say I'm pretty familiar with it, besides all top floor rooms have balconies."
The elevator soon came to a stop and the two stepped out into a wide hall. Like the first floor, its walls were gold decorated with enormous paintings. But the only difference was that the first floor held fourteen doors here there were only six doors.
"Why are there only six doors here?"
"Oh, that's because the top floor was once occupied by really high class noble men and when they moved, students just got randomly selected to see who got the top floor, you're one of the lucky ones. The rooms up here have everything you need; you'll have your own bath, your own kitchen, not to mention your own living room.
Nel smiled, "That's nice."
Luther nodded, "This is your room."
"One hundred?"
"That's what's on your ID card."
Nel glanced at the card and it indeed read rm.100.
"To get the door to open place your thumb on the green screen there," Luther pointed to the green square next to the door.
Nel followed his directions and placed her thumb on the screen.
"It will scan your finger prints and see if it matches the first print that was scanned downstairs on the first floor and voila!" The door slid open, "you're free to enter."
'Thank you for your help," Nel smiled.
"No problem, if you need me again I'll be right next door, room 99," Luther waved heading to his room, "good luck."
She waited until he disappeared into his room before she entered her own, the door sliding close behind her and automatically locked.
How am I going to get used to this?
Nel stood in the dark for a few seconds before stepping deeper into the room, like Luther said the room was huge. The living room was the first room she entered, something big and flat hung from the wall along with a glass coffee table and a large leather couch. Black satin curtains hung covering the windows keeping the light from entry. The kitchen lay to the right like the previous room it was big but not as huge. Continuing to explore her new home Nel made her way left into the bedroom. Her eyes widened when she got into the room unlike the living room and kitchen, the bedroom was much bigger, two king sized beds lay on each side of the room, a small chandelier hung from the middle of the ceiling. Three sliding doors lined the walls, one to her right, one to her left, and one straight ahead. Nel walked to the door in front of her and examined it, the door was identical to the front door, but instead of having a finger scanning box it just had a green button.
"Maybe if I….," Nel reached to press the button but before she could do so the door slid open revealing a dark figure surrounded by white steam.
The Aquarian fell back in surprise and watched as the figure stepped forward. Nel's green eyes widened as a gasp escaped her lips when a fresh, clean, and naked ALBEL NOX stepped into view.
Sirius: I really didn't like this chapter very much but this is were all the mayhem starts to begins woo hoo!
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Siren: Well we don't want to give everything away so you'll have to wait till next chapter. Hoped you enjoyed this chapter and please review.
Sirius: oh, a question am I suppose to reply to reviews? I'm kinda new here so I'm at a lots or maybe I didn't read something. Sorry to bother you with such a lame question but it would really help if someone answered. well thanx again for reading!