It's interesting when new characters enter the play, especially when there completely unexpected. It's a fun and delightful twist and it's keeps the audience on their feet. "Who is this person?" or "What are their motives" or "Why are they there?" become key question to figuring out the newcomer and what they want. This is especially true when you transfer from one school to the next.

Day 3

Where was light? He was supposed to be here. Now he had no one to sit with and nearly all the tables were full of strangers he didn't know and really didn't want to talk to. He looked around at various students. None of them looked really…nice. He let out and a sigh, about to leave when he noticed a girl with mint color hair sitting alone. She looked kinda lonely. He shrugged. "Might as well try." Lunneth slowly made his way through the cafeteria to the girl. "Can I sit here?" Lunneth asked. Terra looked left to see a short boy in the schools uniform staring at her. His hair was tied back in a ponytail and he looked around the cafeteria. "I'm a freshmen."

"Oh." The girl smiled and slid over to allow him to sit. "My name is Terra." She smiled and stuck out her hand. Lunneth smiled back and shook her hand.

"My name is Lunneth, but a lot of people call me Onion." He set down his lunch and began to eat. "Oh? Why is that?" Terra asked.

"Cause I'm short." Lunneth said matter of factly, as if he expected her to know that. "Everyone from the orphanage calls me it." Terra nodded and smiled again.

"You mean the orphanage down on Slifer Street?"

"The very same!" Lunneth said happily. He liked this girl. She was the first student to talk to me in three days. Terra laughed and he flashed her a weird looked.

"Why's that so funny? Something about me being an orphan seems funny to you?" Lunneth pouted causing Terra to laugh more. He wasn't expecting her to laugh at him. He stared at her.

"No, no. It's just you look so happy and energetic. It's a Wednesday and your at school, your supposed to be a lethargic and grouchy." Terra said. Oh, he sighed inwards. She wasn't making fun of him. That was good.

"Well your not lethargic and grouchy." Lunneth countered. Terra frowned.

"That's cause I had to run here this morning." Terra said sadly. She paused for a moment and then smiled, masking the brief sadness. "But you, your like really energetic. It's cute." She could only laugh again as Lunneth blushed from her compliment.

"Thank you." Lunneth mumbled, looking away to hide his blush. What was with this girl and calling him cute. It was nice but embarrassing. Terra giggled lightly and watched the rest of the students pour into the cafeteria. "Can you tell me who's who in the school?" He looked back at her and smiled.

"Sure." She looked around the cafeteria. "Oh there is Mr. Tribal." She said pointing. "The guy with the silver hair?" Lunneth asked. "Yes. He's our drama teacher. Do you like drama and plays?"

"No, not really." He was never one for a play

"That there is Zidane Tribal, brother to Kuja. He's a total womanizer though." Terra said, frowning a bit as she remembered when he tried to hit on her.

"Is that a monkey tail?" Lunneth asked in disbelief. Now that was really weird…but so cool! Terra giggled again.

"You'll find a lot of the students here are "special" and stuff." Terra said.

"Are you special?" Lunneth asked. Terra smiled and looked around, Lunneth following where she looked. When she was satisfied no one was looking she put her hand under the table and scooted closer to Lunneth. She smiled at him again and giggled at the look of shock that crossed his face when a small fire started in her hand. He nearly cried out when the fire froze and then exploded in little lightning sparks. "That's amazing! Your like a superhero Terra!" Now it was her turn to blush. Man he wished he could do stuff like that. That would be awesome.

"Thank you." She said. "Okay now the guy next to him is Bartz." She watched Lunneth nod as she pointed at the brunette next to Zidane. "Nothing really special about him but from what I heard he's the son of two guys."

"Like as in their gay?" Lunneth asked. Terra nodded. "But how can they have a boy if there both guys? I thought that it was a man and a women."

"Through some scientific experiment." Terra said. "He's really nice though. Dresses kinda girly though. Really energetic." She looked around. "The tall guy behind them is Squall. He's…really quiet. Not exactly the most easy person to talk to. He likes being alone but somehow always manages to get dragged around everywhere by Zidane and Bartz. He's like their mother hen." Terra said giggled again. "Okay now that guy is Light."

"I know him, he walked me to the school and introduced me to Principle Cosmos. She was really pretty and he got a flushed being around. He doesn't talk much does he?" He remembered the incident two days ago when he had to get shown around school by Light. "I think he has a crush on Miss Cosmos." Lunneth thought,

"He has amnesia that's why. He was hired here as an assistant to the teacher since nobody knows his age or who he was. I heard he just showed up in town one night. Everyone just calls him light." Lunneth nodded. "Okay that would be Firion," She said pointing at the guy wearing a bandana. ",and that's Kain." She said point to the guy next to Firion. "Firion's dad is one of the assistant principles. Firion doesn't talk much but he told me he dreams of opening up a flower store."

"Uhuh." Lunneth said nodding. He was going to try and remember all these people.

"Kain is…well Kain is a mystery but he's best friends with Cecil." She said pointing at a guy with pale skin and snow white hair. "Cecil is a bit of an airhead but really nice." She giggled. "His brother Golbez is the P.E. instructor. He's strict but nice."

"Who's the girl?"

"That's Rosa. She's really nice but she can be kinda mean if you get to close to Cecil seeing as their dating and stuff. There's something going on between her and Kain I think." Terra said. "Okay now that's Cloud." She pointed at a tall spikey haired guy that had walked into the cafeteria. "The two girls hanging off of him are Tifa, the girl with the huge rack-" Terra smiled as Lunneth blushed again. "- and the other girl is Aerith. Aerith seems to be good friends with Firion. Anyway, those two girls have been fighting over Cloud since like the tenth grade."

"Wow"

"Yea I know. It's kinda said cause Cloud has turned down every girl in the school, he quiet popular with the ladies for some reason. I don't know why he's rather moody and-"

"Is he gay?" Lunneth ask in genuine curiosity. Terra paused to think. "I mean if he's turned down every girl in school…" Lunneth let his sentence trail off. Terra shrugged.

"Maybe." She looked around again. "OH! That's Tidus over there." She said pointing. "He our schools star player."

"What's he play?"

"Blitzball."

"What's that?" He felt rather stupid for not knowing "Oh please don't let her think that I'm a huge idiot or something." Terra smiled.

"When the next game comes I'll take you, kay?"

"Wow! Really!" Lunneth asked, smiling big.

"God you are so cute." Terra said again, causing Lunneth to blush again.

"Wait a minute…HEY!" Lunneth stood up and scanned the cafeteria, noticing the silver haired boy who had to escort him to lunch. He had gotten so into the conversation with his new friend he completely spaced about Light leaving him to fend on his own. "That guy left me all alone!" Lunneth fumed, moving away from the table and towards Light, Terra close behind. "You!" Light looked over.

"Oh there you." He said quietly.

"Is that all you can say!" Lunneth said, voice rising. "You left me to fend for myself!"

"You look like you managed well enough little Onion." Light said, a small smile across his face and he watched Lunneth get all worked up. Wasn't his fault the kid couldn't bother to wait a few extra minutes for him to arrive. Terra giggled and Light looked at her. "It already looks like you made a friend little Onion."

"Well uh…yea I did." Lunneth said, turning back to Terra.

"So stop getting so worked up over nothing." Light concluded. "Now I have things to attend to, run along and go play with your new friend."

"Hmph I will." Lunneth said, turning on a heel and grabbing Terra's hand, pulling her back to the table they were sitting at, Terra trying to suppress a bit of laughter. She was glad she had met Lunneth. He was funny.

"So Terra where do you live?" Lunneth asked as the both of them exited the school, the bell still going off.

"Oh..I live on Broad Street." She said quietly. "So when are you going home?" He watched as she looked around. Was she trying to get rid of him. He frowned a bit.

"Well I was hoping to walk you home-"

"Ah! What, n-no you can't Terra stammered out. The look of utter disappointment must have been seeable on Lunneth's face because Terra quickly added in "My dad is coming to pick me up."

"Oh." Lunneth said. "Can I meet your dad." Terra paled considerably.

"N-No!" She stammered. Lunneth pouted.

"Why not?"

"Well my dad is a bit-"

"!" A loud shrill voice called across the parking lot. "TERRRRRRA PAPA IS HERE TO PICK YOU UP!" Loud obnoxious laughter could be hear and Terra cringed. Lunneth remained silent, his hand tightening a bit on hers. A man came prancing, literally prancing over to Terra. He wore a lab coat with several dark stains, some Lunneth swore were blood. His hair was messy and sticking out in everywhere although some of it was combed back as if in an attempt to look normal. The man wore stripped pants with a black and white poka-dotted shirt. All in all the man looked to be dressed by a blind nun. "Hello Terra!" The man clapped his hands together once and intertwined his fingers, grinning at Terra. His eyes ran down Terra's arm and say Lunneth's hold her hand.

"Hello….Papa." Terra said reluctantly. Her face was bright red. She knew people were looking there way. She wanted, at the moment, for the earth to swallow her, to vanish, disappear, to simply stop existing. This was so embarrassing.

"Ohohohohoh." The man laughed. "Who's this."

"My name is Lunneth sir." Lunneth said, tightening his fingers around Terra's.

"You remind me of an onion….aren't you a little small to be in high school, kid?"

"Dad, please-"

"I'm not that small!" Lunneth said, face red. Man he was getting sick of people calling him onion or small. It was starting to piss him of for a lack of a better word.

"Ohohohohoh feisty!" The man laughed. "Come on Terra, time to come home to Papa." With that the man pranced back to his car and honked the horn several times.

"Your dad is-"

"A freak, I know." Terra said avoiding eye contact with Lunneth. "I got to go or he'll start-" She was interrupted by several car honks, her father waving his hand out of the door and yelling her name with maddening resolve. She quickly pulled away and ran to the car after muttering a quick goodbye, covering her face the entire time.

"Bye…" Lunneth said.

"How was school?" Miss Cod asked as Lunneth walked in. He gazed up at her. She was wearing her standard outfit, a black suit and with stockings, her grey hair slicked back and her red birthmark, the shape of a heart on her forehead, stood out against her pale complexion. He knew that she didn't really care. She never really cared, asking that question was just something she did, like an automatic greeting when the kids of the orphanage got home from school.

"It was okay. I made a friend." Lunneth said. Miss Cod arched her eyebrow in a questioning gaze.

"Oh, really? Who was it if I may ask."

"A girl. Here name is Terra." Lunneth said. He noticed a strange glint in Miss Cod's eyes. As if she were trying to remember something.

"Terra….that names sounds familiar. What's her last name?"

"Branford." Lunneth said. A small smile crept across Miss Cod's face.

"Ah the harlequin's daughter. Oh the irony." When she didn't bother to clarify he walked to his room, setting down his bag and starting his homework.

The phone rang clearly in the spacious house of Branford home. "I'll get it." Terra said quietly as she stood up from the table. Kefka smiled at her oddly and she hurried to get the phone before it went to voicemail.

"Hello?" She asked.

"Hello." A female voice purred. "Is this the Branford family?"

"Yes." Terra said slowly.

"This must be Terra. May I talk to your father." The voice asked. Terra shivered. There was dark intent in that voice.

"Kefk-" She shook her head. "DAD! Phone!" She shouted. Kefka pushed her away when he grabbed the phone.

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeello~?" He asked into the phone, laughing madly.

"Hello Harlequin." The voice said.

"Ah, the old crone. How the hell are you?" Kefka shouted into the phone.

"Don't you ever shut up, you stupid clown?"

"Awwww that's no way to talk to an old friends!" Kefka laughed again.

"We were hardly friends Kefka. I only called to talk to you about our "kids."

"Ohohohoho do tell me." Kefka purred.

But mere players in this play all orchestrated by a higher power. Three out of twelve destined actors for the play I see. The third being the smallest of them all. Lunneth "Onion" Knight, orphan and student at Dissidia Academy. It's so interesting to see how new plays act once introduced, Lunneth the first of three actors to be introduced.

Author Note: ..WRITE. I don't like Onion Knight cause I don't play as him.