Chapter 5
A New Enemy Emerged
Harry woke up early that morning. He left to go to the great hall as soon as he was dressed. He ate bacon, pancakes, and some buttered toast. Right after that, he went to Vincent's room. When he got there, Vincent wasn't there. He looked around, but couldn't find him. He, of course, looked up into the rafters. But Vincent wasn't there either.
"You won't find him here." A voice said behind him. "He hasn't been here all night."
Harry whipped around quickly to find Sephiroth there.
"No disrespect sir, but why are you here and Vincent isn't?" Harry said.
"I will not take it personally. Anyways, he told me to tell you that he will not be here for a while, and that you should start your training with me right now." Sephiroth said.
"Well, how are we going to get started?" Harry asked curiously.
"You will be training with wooden swords." Sephiroth said. "And you will be training with him." He pointed behind Harry.
Harry turned around and was surprised to find Kyoshiro behind him.
"When…how?" Harry asked surprised.
"Your eyes aren't fast enough to follow me or Sephiroth." Kyo said. "When you first came in, we saw you looking around to make sure no one was here. We came in as you were turned around."
"Oh, well, I knew you were fast, but I didn't know you were that fast. I didn't even notice that you came in." Harry said.
"Enough talk, let's get started." Kyo said. "I'm not as good as Sephiroth using a Muramasa, but I am well known for it."
"Once you're able to beat Kyoshiro in a sword fight, you will start facing me." Sephiroth said.
Kyoshiro pulled out his sword, and held it high above his head. While Harry pulled his own sword out and held it with both hands, the handle where Harry's hip was. Kyoshiro suddenly disappeared. Harry started looking around, but the only person he could see was Sephiroth.
"Above you." A voice said above him.
Harry looked up and saw Kyo coming down towards him, about to swing his sword. Harry quickly put his sword up to block it. Kyo acted as though the blade was going to hit, but suddenly swung it horizontally. Harry, with his sword still up, ducked. Kyo's blade missed Harry's head, and hit Harry's sword. It knocked the sword out of his hand. Harry tried to punch Kyo, but he easily dodged it and punched Harry in the gut. Harry fell to the ground, losing his breathe.
"You're trying to anticipate the attack, which is your weakness." Kyo said. "You should be patient, and wait for the attack. Unless, you have mastered the technique of anticipating an attack from your opponent."
"So your saying that if I haven't mastered the technique of anticipating attacks, that I should stop trying?" Harry asked.
"Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying." Kyo said. "Now, try attacking me again."
Harry quickly lifted his sword and attacked Kyo. He tried to do a vertical attack, but Kyo blocked it with his sword easily. Than kneed Harry in the stomach. Harry fell to his knees, loss of breath.
"I don't get it." Harry said. "My sword should cut through your sword with ease."
"If you're facing someone with my kind of skill, a sword won't win the battle for you."
Harry pulled up his sword again, and started lashing at Kyo as if he was angry with him. But, out of nowhere, a sword came and blocked his attacks.
"That's enough for today." Sephiroth said. "Don't let your anger control you. Or an amateur could beat."
Sephiroth lifted his sword, and put it in the holster.
"Come back tomorrow early." Sephiroth said.
Sephiroth and Kyo left together, still talking about him. Harry left and went straight to his room. He was very tired from facing Kyo. If Kyo was the guy to just prepare him for facing Sephiroth, he didn't even want to think about facing Sephiroth. He had a troubled sleep. Although it had been a couple days, Harry was having nightmares of the long haired man killing his mom. All night he dreamed the same nightmare, over and over and over. He woke up rather early, probably because he had a start from the nightmare. He quickly got dressed and walked to the great hall to get some breakfast. He wasn't really that hungry, so he just had some toast and bacon. Than he went to go train with Sephiroth and Kyo. It felt to him like he was following the same schedule for the next week and a half. After about ten days of training with Kyo when it happened. Harry and Kyo were attacking each other furiously, but not landing a single blow. Both of them could tell that Harry came a long way and was becoming a great swordsman. The fight was absolutely furious. Swing after swing, slash after slash. Yet neither could hit the other.
Than, surprisingly to both Kyo and Sephiroth, Harry struck Kyo hard on the side of the knee cap, making Kyo fall to his knees.
Harry, also being surprised by this, let out a half snigger half laugh. Kyo started to laugh as well. Sephiroth just kind of looked at them, no emotion what so ever.
"I think you're slipping Kyo." Sephiroth said. "Either that, or Harry's getting better. But I highly doubt it's the second one."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Harry said in an angry voice.
BOOM!
The three of them stood there shocked.
"Ummmmmm, what was that?" Harry asked.
"I'm not sure, but we need to go check it out." Kyo said. "Let's go."
The three of them ran outside, trying to figure out what had happened. Right when they opened the door, they were greeted by twelve men. All of them wearing dark red suits and with swords in their hands. What Harry thought was weird, was that they all looked almost exactly the same.
"I'm guessing there not from here." Harry said. But no one answered, because Sephiroth and Kyo were already fighting. Harry was only left with two people. He was, of course, a little disappointed at this. He really wanted to try out his skills. But before he knew it, he had taken them both down. Harry looked over, and saw that both Kyo and Sephiroth had already finished with the men who attacked them. Each of them was facing five men.
"Wow, you really are getting better Harry." Kyo said.
"That's enough talk, we're under attack." Sephiroth said.
The three of them took off towards the headmaster's office. Along the way, there were students all over the place fighting the soldiers. Every once and a while, the three would encounter a few soldiers, who they easily broke through. When they finally reached the headmaster's office, they saw a few of the teachers fighting what looked like elite soldiers. The teachers who hadn't been there for long were finding that they were a bit troublesome. But they had Cloud and Sephiroth with them, who were cutting through them with ease.
"Where have you three been?" Cloud asked after cutting through a soldier with his huge buster sword. "We've been trying to protect the headmaster, but we think a few of them came from the air. We've been able to hold them off here, but we need you to go check on him."
"You got it." Kyo said. "Let's get up there."
The three of them headed up to the office. When they got there, there were six people surrounding the headmaster. One of them was talking to him in a deep voice. The man who was talking was extremely tall. He must have been at least 6'8.
"If you don't give her up, we will take her forcefully and burn this place to the ground." The tall man said.
"Then you'll have to take it by force, because we will not give her up." The headmaster said.
Three of the people turned towards the group and immediately attacked. Harry was holding his own, but he wasn't even getting close to touching the attacker. Sephiroth wasn't even able to touch the person he wasn't facing. And what was really bad was that they weren't even using their weapons. The person Harry was facing was extremely good. It was almost like he knew what Harry was going to do before Harry did. Then, as if out of nowhere, the person stuck his fist right in Harry's stomach with such force that it knocked Harry right to the ground. Harry couldn't breathe what so ever. It felt like his lung had collapsed. Once Harry was down, the person he was facing went to go help the others. But it was not needed. Soon after Harry was taken down, Sephiroth and Kyo did the same.
"We're done for now." The leader said. "But we'll be back, and next time she will be coming with us whether you like it or not." Then the six of them disappeared in a shroud of darkness.
"Who were those people?" Harry asked. He looked from Kyo to Sephiroth, but they looked just as confused as he was.
"They were the Six King Demons." The headmaster said. "They were here looking for someone, as you might have guessed. But for her sake, I can't reveal who she is."
"Wait, how come I've never heard of the Six King Demons?" Harry asked.
"Because they choose that you don't know about them." The headmaster said.
"What do you mean?" The three of them asked at once.
"The only people who have heard about them are dead." The headmaster said. "Now Harry, I think you should be off to bed. I need to have a meeting on this matter. For now, you should act like nothing happened."
Harry listened and left the office to go to his room.
