A/N: Okay so this is my first fanfic so please be nice. I'm going to try to keep everyone's personalities the same from the games but I may skid a bit off. Also I'm writing this with the help of my friends and Author comments are at the end of the story.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except this Fanfic. Final Fantasy was created and belongs to Square Enix and Tetsuya Nomura
Chapter 2 – Meetings and Classes
1st Period
- Auron's Class -
An old man with grey hairs and a red trench coat walked into a room slowly and calmly. When he got to his desk he looked around the room with one eye as he lowered his head so that the shades would not get in the way of his limited eyesight in the first place. "This is your story. Being here is your decision. If you don't want to be in this class, leave now."
Well that was a bright way to start the morning. After no one left, Auron then turned to his attendance sheet and started to call off the names. Of course people were only half listening and started to talk among themselves. Only the well known people's names were heard. "Well lets start off."
1st: Tidus, Cloud, Tifa, Snow
4nd: Rikku, Aerith, Zack, Rinoa, Squall, Lightning
"If everyone is ready," Auron then banged his fist against the whiteboard behind him. It then opened up like a garage door to reveal a stash of weaponry. "Choose your weapons and then train with it for the rest of class. Make sure not to kill anyone or Sephiroth might kill you." After that, Auron sat in his chair and got comfortable. It was going to be a long day.
Tidus jumped up from his chair and immediately grabbed a blue sword from the back of the pile. He always picked that sword since he came to Sir Auron's class. He even named it brotherhood, or rather that's what Auron told him the name was. After he grabbed it, he instantly turned to Cloud who didn't even bother to get up to pick a weapon. "Hey, Cloud. Bet I could take you on!"
Cloud glanced up from his trance to look at Tidus with a straight face. "I don't want to take part in pointless battles"
- Seymour's Class -
"Come on now Hope, this is your only upper level class right?" Aerith said as she kept giving him light pushes to have him go faster.
It only served to annoy Hope because of how young she was treating him, but at least it was better than getting picked on. "Uh yeah," he replied as he walked into the room. It was moderately full of people which he didn't expect of a magic class.
"Yuna, try not to worry too much. I don't believe the teacher will teach us many high level black magic spells. You will not fail," Lulu tried to assure her young friend as they walked in behind Hope and Aerith.
"Okay but I'm still worried," Yuna said as she followed Lulu with her staff in hand. Needless to say the staff caught Hope's attention as he eyed it while making his way the girl in pink.
"We don't need any type of weapon for this class right?" He asked the girl who had wandered a bit off from where he stood.
Of course Aerith liked to talk to new people so wandering off was a habit of her's. She didn't really notice Hope eyeing Yuna's staff and assumed he was eyeing Yuna in general. When she noticed Hope directing the question at her, she shook her head. "No, I don't think so. Do you think so Serah?"
"No not at all. Even if we did, they'd at least give us a day of advance warning right?" Serah replied with a smile. Serah and Aerith didn't know each other long but they were so similar, they might as well have been friends for the longest time.
Hope looked at Serah as if he had seen a ghost. She had almost looked like…
"Hey, stop blocking the door Hope." That order came from a surprisingly familiar voice. Maybe he was hearing things…
"Attention. May I have your attention? Attention class…." A man with long fingers called as he entered the room while all the rest of the students were still talking amongst themselves. No one really noticed him walk in but he would make his presence known when the bell rang for first period.
The class kept talking after he spoke and so he continued. "Attention… Attention… " and still no one even as much as looked up. With a sigh, he decided maybe a demonstration was in order as he waved his hand before the class.
It wasn't long before everyone noticed the giant water filled sphere floating above their heads. Before they could get a chance to question it though, the sphere exploded and drenched every student in the class except for Lulu and Yuna.
"Welcome to Magic Studies class. That was a demonstration of one of the spells we will learn this year – Waterga. It seems that only one of our students is able to nullify that attack," Seymour stated to the class as he walked before Yuna. "If I may ask your name my Lady?"
Yuna flinched a bit as he stood before her, though Lulu didn't seem to care and she was right beside Yuna. At first, Yuna seemed to be struggling with her own name until a gentle nudge from Lulu got her talking. "Yuna! … Sir…"
Seymour smiled and walked back to the front of the class. "That, class, is called NulTide. It also goes by Barwater in places and as demonstrated, it can nullify any water attack. Any questions?"
A few students raised their hands to ask something but Seymour didn't seem to notice them. "No? Good then I expect you all to know that spell by tomorrow. Those who do not will get wet every day until they do." With that Seymour sat down and grabbed the stack of papers with the student's names on them. After a brief glance at the sheets, he threw them back down on the desk and started looking at his nails.
"Lulu, the teacher is sort of creepy," Yuna complained as she tugged lightly at her friend's sleeve. "Is he always like that?"
Lulu shook her head, "Only on certain days. Maybe he's just in a good mood today." That certainly caught Yuna off guard. Good day? Then what was a bad day like?
"Um… excuse me," a shy voice piped. Yuna and Lulu immediately turned to the voice and saw the boy with silver hair standing there. It was sort of a surprise to see someone so young in the class but it was Fantasy High.
Now Lulu wasn't good with kids. As Yuna stated before, she is usually too harsh on them than a person should be. So instead of Lulu responding, Yuna talked instead. "Hello. Can we help you with something?"
"Um could you teach me Barwater?" he asked.
Yuna looked puzzled before she understood. "Oh you mean Nultide. Sure. What's your name first?"
"Hope," he answered.
Yuna nodded "I'm Yuna and my friend is Lulu. Guess we should go somewhere with more room though."
Hope nodded in response and followed Yuna, briefly looking back to the group he was with before. He wanted to spend more time with Lightning after so long of not seeing her, but he knew he had to learn that spell or else he'd get wet again. He was happy to at least have one class with her though.
Lightning and Serah seemed to be talking to each other again, neither seeming to care about learning the spell. He kind of figured but he also caught a glimpse of Aerith giving him two thumbs up, which confused him. What exactly had he done to deserve thumbs up? He didn't really have time to worry about that though.
"Oh. Hope has grown up so much," Aerith said as if she were his mother even though she only knew him for a day or two. It didn't take her long to get over it as she wandered over to the foreign guy by the window.
"Tidus is lucky ya?" he seemed to mumble to himself as he looked outside as if he were dazed or in a trance. Aerith being confused looked out too and saw a group of people downstairs at the field. Tidus and Cloud were down there fighting… but no one else of great importance except maybe Tifa and Snow.
"What are you doing?" Aerith finally decided to ask, propping herself up on a nearby desk as a startled Wakka turns to look at her.
"Uh nothing?" he said as he tried to look innocent. Course Aerith knew better. When Wakka figured that out, he pointed outside. "Just… watching combat practice."
Aerith tilted her head as she looked out again at the sparing Tidus and Cloud. She thought for a moment and then the thought came to her, "Oh! So you like Cloud?" then she paused before continuing, not letting Wakka speak. "Wouldn't that mean you're gay?"
"Wha? You crazy in da head," Wakka exclaimed while putting his hands up and waving them as in a no motion.
"So why were you looking at…. Oh! You want to fight Cloud! I get it!" She said as if she completely understood. She said that pretty loudly so most of the class heard her.
Wakka on the other hand looked completely terrified. "No, no, no, no, no, no" he panicked. It was too late though and Aerith was already at the window nearby, opening it and shouting down as she leaned on the window sill. "Cloud! Wakka wants to fight you!"
Cloud and Tidus stopped fighting and looked up at Aerith who soon disappeared because Wakka had pulled her back into the classroom with one hand covering her mouth. Cloud didn't seem fazed but Tidus seemed happy about it for some reason.
"You hear that Cloud? Wakka wants to fight you," Tidus said proudly as if commending his friend for the challenge.
Cloud looked at him neutrally, "Who is this Wakka you're talking about?"