Gryffindor Common rooms
A Bright fire warmed the the Gryffindor common rooms, chuuya noticed two comfy looking armchairs sat on top of a large rug. The place seemed to be decorated with the house's primary colours--everything seven shades of red complimented by the rich gold furniture. The room was oddly circular, though it kind of added to the place's weird appeal.
The common room was really nice (something he wasn't really used too) though after living in a closet every room was nice in comparison.
Percy gave them a quick tour of the dormitories. The bedroom he would be sharing with the others was lavish with four-poster beds covered with deep crimson blankets. Chuuya looked out of one of the windows, the view basically covered the whole of Hogwarts. "I suggest you all retire to bed early as you have a long day ahead of you tomorrow, each student will receive their class schedule at breakfast which will be served from 6:30 - 8:30 am" The older boy then walked out--probably to his own dorm.
Chuuya, along the rest of the Gryffindor boys, just sat there in an uncomfortable silence. "Who wants to play some wizard chess?" Ron grinned sheepishly at them.
"Your on!" A boy--who he remembered from the sorting hat as neville stood up and walked back to the common rooms, chuuya and another boy followed behind. In the dorm there would be himself, ron and the other boys Dean and Seamus. Seamus stayed behind to get some rest.
Ron and neville sat at either side of the chess board, both boys staring intently at the small wizard figures. The fire roared in the background as if cheering them on, though the whole ordeal honestly seemed pretty boring to chuuya. "Pawn to E5" He watched with a questioning gaze: it was a bit unusual to announce your moves in chess but this was wizard chess. However instead of ron manually moving his piece--the thing moved by itself.
"How is it moving on it's own?" Dean gestured to the board in confusion, a bewildered expression on his face. Chuuya just shrugged. He was thinking the exact same thing-though he hadn't cared enough to voice it.
The other two boys turned towards them. "Have you two never played wizard chess?"
"Nope" They announced in unison. Ron cleared his throat ready to explain ( A weird quirk of his chuuya had picked up on ) "Its really simple actually you just tell the piece where to move and it moves, oh and when it takes an opposing piece out it kind of..well attacks it" Well that cleared things up.
As Ron and neville continued to play the violent, definitely not PG version of chess, both taking time with their moves and occasionally snickering at the other. chuuya and dean went into conversation of their own. He was grateful that the boy was just as confused as he was about all of the magic due to him being 'muggle born.' Which was a weird term wizards used for normal humans without magic.
A slam at the table grabbed their attention, Neville was rolling his eyes at the board. "You lose!!" ron's obnoxiously loud voice travelled throughout the common room, a victorious grin across his face.
"Just barely!!" The boys bickered like that for several minutes, their voices echoing throughout the common rooms. Chuuya was sure the whole of Hogwarts would be able to hear them at this rate. Loud footsteps suddenly silenced them.
"will you all quiet down!"
Hermione appeared at the doorway glaring daggers at the boys. "I am trying to study" She shrieked. Her stern expression only magnified when ron and neville burst out laughing. Whether it was because of the pile of books wobbling in her hands or her outburst chuuya didn't know.
Hermione crossed her arms in anger. This was going to be a long night and of course instead of trying to diffuse the clearly ticking time bomb that was hermione, Ron decided to make things worse.
The boy grinned at her. "Don't be such a stick in the mud hermione"
Hermione gasped at them. "I am not 'a stick in the mud' She crossed her arms, clearly taking offence.
"why don't you join us then"
Hermione was clearly about to decline, when she paused-- contemplating for a second. "Fine then I will, just to prove my point further." She took a seat to the right of chuuya.
Instead of playing another match of wizard chest, they slowly began to talk about the most random things.
"If you had to choose would you prefer to be in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw?"
He took notice of how they didn't include Slytherin in the question.
Ron hummed at Neville's question. "Well I think I would look good in yellow so Hufflepuff for me!"
Chuuya contemplated the question, what were the traits of each house? Ron had briefly mentioned Gryffindors being brave and adventurous but he hadn't spared any comments on the other houses.
"I would be a Ravenclaw because I read that they are eager to learn" Hermione offered a self pleased smile at that.
When the question rolled around to chuuya, he just copied Hermione since she clearly knew what she was talking about.
"A Ravenclaw because..it seems like a cool house?"
Hermione and Neville nodded in agreement. "Ravenclaw does seem pretty good, I mean the Hufflepuffs are a bit too nicey-nicey if you ask me"
A distant chatter continued as they carried on the debate. It was about 1am when they decided to go get some rest. Chuuya practically sank into the comfort of his new bed, the covers like a warm embrace.
Maybe these new housemates weren't so bad, he seemed to get along with them pretty fast. He drifted to sleep, his mind whirring with constant thoughts. He was a Gryffindor now.