Chapter 2 - Introductions

We start on a new colorful planet with a large ring surrounding it, and are set in a desert with small flowered cacti everywhere, a small town two miles outward, and a tall jungle a ways away.

In the desert is a large four story building, with a tall brick wall surrounding it, each corner of the wall being a lookout tower. There's a tall man standing outside the wall, patiently and quietly waiting for something. The silence is interrupted when a slightly shorter, curly haired teenager says, "Hey, Alth!". "What." Alth replies back without making eye contact, slightly annoyed by his presence. "Where's Wally? He's usually late to our meetings, but not this late! Not to mention it's the first day! I'd imagine that he'd be on time for this." The kid asks. A long haired woman wearing a fur pelt around her waist adds herself to the conversation, saying, "Does it matter? Weren't you late as well?". Alth hears this and adds a, "Thank you!" but the kid replies to them with a smug look saying, "Nope! I arrived exactly on time! If I were a second later, then I'd be late! And even if I was, I have an actual job... at a fast food joint... which is pretty much a free pass for being late.". The woman replies to him with a smirk saying, "Oh? An 'actual' job? So I guess you won't mind me telling Wally you said that, so he'll fire you?". There's a bit of nervous silence coming from the kid until he notices a small ship in the sky and yells "Well wouldja speak of the devil! Look! Wally's here!". The woman snickers at his change of the subject, before they start walking a bit to where the ship is landing.

The bottom fin of the ship splits into two, working as legs to hold it up. The back of the ship opens up, and lets down a little walkway which is used to enter or exit the ship. Two people walk out down the walkway, Wally and Tayer. Wally has a nervous and bothered look on his face, but Tayer says, "Cheer up, Wally! This'll be fun!". Wally sighs and says "I guess." They both look at the three people lined up, and Tayer adds, "Plus, you're not the only one working. You got Alth and these new guys you met here who don't have a whole lot experience with children either!". Wally has a slight feeling of relief, and as he gets to the bottom of the walkway, he says, "Hey guys sorry I'm-" and regains his stress when he says, "Wait did you leave the kids inside?!" The curly haired kid stands there with a blank expression, basically admitting he left "the kids" inside alone. Wally gives him a look, but Tayer comes in between them and says, "Hey.. let's just go inside, I'm sure they're fine!". They start to walk to the building, but Wally gets anxious and thinks out loud, "These kids have probably wrecked up everything already.." which is immediately followed up by the woman saying, "Calm down, they've been alone for two minutes."

The five walk through a large gate in the wall and into the grounds of the school and see a dirt walkway leading to the entrance. The environment upon entering the property changes as outside the wall is dry desert and inside is a grassy terrain. They all walk up to the double door entrance, Wally grabs the left door handle, and Alth grabs the right. Wally lets out a sigh yet again, and Alth looks at him and says, "Don't worry, you'll be fine." as a form of reassurance. Wally looks back and nods, and then they both open the doors at the same time, and see 14 seven year old children standing in the room, nothing broken and everything is overall fine.

"Wow, what a surreal moment." Wally thinks to himself. The woman nudges Wally, saying, "Go ahead!" Wally inhales, and says aloud "Hey... kids. I'm going to be your sword fighting teacher. My name is Wally." The curly headed kid that was "right on time" walks up proudly. "And this is Thanian. He'll teach you about the history of our species." Wally explains, while Thanian is waving excitedly. Then Alth walks up; "This is Alth. He'll be teaching you fist fighting, and many forms of physical combat." Wally says as Alth stands there like a statue, not expressing much emotion. The woman walks up next; "Here's Ruby, she guards and protects the school." Which is explained while she waves both her hands around. Last, Tayer walks up; "Finally, Tayer. He's a pilot, and he'll take you to places all over the world eventually, ince we get some sort of vehicle that can fit everyone." Explained as he salutes to the children.

Wally grabs a paper from a nearby countertop and says, "Alright, let's check roll call I guess. Jade?". A girl of asian descent with messy hair quietly responds with, "Here.", and slightly raises her hand. "Jasper?". A kid of hispanic descent quickly raises his hand, loudly shouting, "Here!!", "Eric?". A quiet kid of seemingly Italian descent quietly says, "Here, Sir.". without raising his hand. "Linn?". A girl of American descent shouts, "Hiya!", and promptly raises both of her hands. "McJ?" A kid of American descent with striped patterns on his arms, unnaturally stiff hair, and odd looking eyes says, "Here.", and raises his hand fairly quickly. "James?" A kid of American descent holding the hand of another says "Here." Quietly without raising his hand. "Chris?" The blind twin brother of James, looking at the floor says "Here." quietly, without raising his hand. "Jacob?" An American kid shouts "Here!", and raises his hand promptly. "Dex?" An African American kid says "Here!" And slightly raises his hand up. "Brittain?" An asian kid confidently says "Here!" And raises his hand very quickly. "London?" Brittain's brother says "Here." "Hmm, odd names on some of these kids.." Wally thinks to himself. "Violet?" A girl of American descent says "Here." And raises her hand up a bit. "Tobias?" A chubby American boy with a bowl cut quietly says "Here." Not raising his hands. "And... Cyrus?" An American boy who is taller than all the other kids, and is wearing a black track suit over his body and a heavy metal harness on his torso with a gem in the middle says "Here." normally as if he isn't the most unorthodox child in the room.

"Alright, you kids can explore the area, but don't go too far out of the wall yet. So try and have fun for the rest of the day." Wally says with forced enthusiasm to the kids. He walks up to Tayer and the rest of the staff and says, "Finally got that over with.". In an exhausted tone. "Way to ruin the mood." Thanian says to Wally.