All Friends

"Well…" Kaos sighed, "Lets just say that combat was my favorite out of all those classes today."

"Hah!" Vasai laughed back, "You didn't get hit by a hammer as hard as I did, then! I actually enjoyed the other classes a fair amount. General Magic was pretty cool, and Magic in Industries was a bit businessy for me, but still some good information!"

"You forgot about the first one though." Kaos said, smirking back.

"So what if Magic Engineering is a bit rough now?" Vasai replied, smiling, "Mallyjax even said that he's got a whole workshop of stuff in his room, and he can help us study after dinner whenever we want!"

Vasai seemed a bit too optimistic about Magic Engineering, but after what Kaos saw from him in combat class, he was fairly sure that Vasai would be able to figure it out pretty quickly if he tried.

"It's like we really are in different worlds here." Kaos mumbled to himself.

"Hm?" Vasai questioned, turning his head back to looking at Kaos.

"Oh, it's nothing." Kaos responded, "I guess I just expected to see Sepra at some point during the day."

"Well that's hopefully what we're about to do if we can find her at dinner." Vasai replied, picking up the pace just barely.

Vasai and Kaos didn't have much trouble finding the 'feasting hall' as they called it, which was really just a massive food court full of various types of food from all over the world.

"And there's our friendly skeleton!" Vasai exclaimed, pointing towards a table close to the opposite entrance.

"Wow!" Kaos shot back, "Good eye there, I would've had to wander all over the place to find her!"

As they got closer to the table, Sepra spotted them and began to wave. They said hi, and then grabbed some food before returning to the table. As they were sitting down, they noticed Kyris walking over.

"Hey guys! So how was the first day of classes?" He asked, landing in the seat next to Sepra.

"Combat was fun, Engineering was rough, and the other two were alright." Kaos replied, sitting down on the opposite side of the large, rectangular table.

"I still think engineering is going to get easier…" Vasai retorted, pausing, standing back up and waving towards the entrance closest to them. "Hey Mallyjax! Over here!"

The metal-horned imp walked over to the table and waved a little meekly to the unfamiliar faces at the table.

"If you don't have plans to eat with anybody else, you should hang with us!" Vasai said with his typical enthusiasm.

"Uhh, yeah! I'll do that!" Mallyjax replied, his mildly panic-stricken face turning into a small smile.

"How was the Dek class?" Kaos asked, looking at Sepra a little excitedly.

"It was pretty awesome!" She replied grinning, seeming to realize that she was currently living a dream come true.

"First class was Combat, it's pretty much the same one you're doing, the only difference is my section of the class meets during your engineering class." She looked at Kyris with an eyebrow raised, "He ended up being pretty strong, and I only beat him in a couple of the duels."

"That's because I'm a semester ahead," Kyris replied, smirking back, "and I'm easily one of the best first years. The fact that you were able to beat me even twice out of twelve was honestly surprising."

Mallyjax returned with various types of unfamiliar looking food, prompting Kyris to speak up.

"Can't say I recognize that food, is that something from down under?" he asked.

"Oh…" Mallyjax said a little quietly, looking down at his tray quizzically. "I actually have no idea what this food is either, it just looked weird, so I wanted to see what it tasted like…"

"A braver man than the rest of us!" Kyris laughed, doing a mock salute towards the now sitting Mallyjax.

"I'm gonna sit here too if that's alright?" Nolly said from behind Kaos, carrying a tray of mostly meat and bread.

"So who all knew each other before coming here?" Kyris asked the group, waving his pointing hands between all the friends.

"I only knew Kaos before today, and I still don't think I know most of you."

Vasai took this as his cue to go around the table, introducing each member to the group. Once he got back around to Sepra, he squinted a little bit, and asked, "so how did you and Kaos meet, and what made y'all wanna come here?"

"If I remember correctly," Sepra said, grinning and tossing her head back towards the ceiling, "Kaos was the only one who was able to beat the crap out of me back in introductory school."

"Wait…" Kyris interjected, "There's no shot that's true."

"Well she is leaving out quite a few things." Kaos responded.

"Good try getting out of this, Kaos!" Vasai said, lightly elbowing him, "I'm interested now!"

Sepra grinned and leaned forwards on the table.

"Story time it is then!" She said, with a mischievous grin.