Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy, its characters or anything to do with it...same goes for Harry Potter and its inhabitants. Though I wish I did. The story idea and main character is mine though so don't go stealing her.
Chapter Two:
To be a human
The two parties had been sitting in silence on opposite sides of the room for nearly half an hour, Yuna was still trying to figure out how to go about her new task and Sephiroth and Vincent were waiting for her verdict in the matter for neither knew what was written in the letter sent by the Dynast Knight. Yuna's clock chimed the hour making them all jump; it reminded the teenager that she had to send a letter to her headmaster to request that she be accompanied by two companions this year though she had no idea as to how she was to explain this to him. She sighed and stood up, glancing at the two men on the other side of the room who were watching her carefully, one with a menacing glare the other with thoughtful consideration.
"I'm going to send a letter to my headmaster to request that you both join me at school, it's my last year of study so I'm required to attend the actual school instead of learning from here." Yuna told them then after a moment added, "I'll also have to turn you into teenagers so you fit in more and there aren't as many questions." Vincent nodded whereas Sephy's eye twitched; Yuna could sense a tantrum coming on and chose to exit the room stage right to send that letter. She hurried upstairs toward her room as Sephiroth hollered 'WHAT!?' in disgust and shock, Yuna could hear Vincent chuckling at Sephiroth's obvious lack of self control when it came to his anger issues.
As soon as Vincent heard the girl's door close he sighed and wondered how this was going to end, it was very likely that Sephiroth would end up killing the girl out of sheer frustration. She was an enigma to be sure, almost as unreadable as him. Her eyes interested him; one was the colour of the sky while the other was bordering on mako colouring and her hair, midnight black with a few wispy bits of red that made her seem more mysterious. And though she dressed as normal as Sephiroth thought she was Vincent could sense quite a lot of power emanating off her, why the son of Lucrecia couldn't sense it himself Vincent wasn't sure though the man was probably just refusing to acknowledge the girls power. It then occurred to Vincent that she had not introduced herself to them, not that she had had an opportunity to do so when he thought about it. By this point Sephiroth had taken out his sword and was swinging it about wildly knocking over quite a few of the girls possessions many of them broke. Vincent pulled out his own weapon, the Cerberus and pointed it at Sephiroth's head.
"Quit it Sephiroth. This isn't going to put you in her good books and she's likely to do something when she sees the mess you've just made." He said swiftly though Sephiroth didn't heed his words and swung at the gunslinger instead. Vincent was about to let a few rounds off in Sephiroth's face when the curtains in the room suddenly swung closed on their own, this threw Sephiroth and Vincent off completely.
"THAT is quite enough!" Said the girl from the staircase, her voice rang clear and strong, with more than a bit of command in it. When both men turned to look at her she was holding a small stick in her left hand and looked more than slightly angry. "I can't leave you alone for five minutes, can I?" She said looking at them both, she waved the stick in an odd manner and muttered something unintelligible; a moment later the weapons the two warriors were holding became nothing more than children's playthings. "They will only become real again when WE have dire need of them." She added to clarify that the spell she had cast was not altogether permanent. Vincent stowed the now water pistol Cerberus back into its holster while Sephiroth stared at his once deadly blade that was now nothing but a cheep plastic sword, his eye twitched again.
"YOU…..you…" He started but stoped as soon as her eyes swept over him, they had a dangerous fire in them that both men knew was not to be messed with.
"I, Sephiroth Crescent; Am a rather skilled witch, my name is Yuna Lei Bevelle, you may call me Yuna and I am not in the mood to deal with your temper tantrums." She said calmly as she walked into the room a few waves of her wand and some choice words and the room looked like new again, this girl was definitely not to be underestimated. Vincent realised why she seemed to have changed since going upstairs, she hadn't had her wand on her before and now she did she could handle anything they threw at her, even their own magic.
"How old are you? If I may ask." Vincent asked slowly while trying to be polite, he wanted to know how old he and Sephiroth were probably going to become. She smiled at him and her wand lowered slightly, she walked to one of her couches and sat down.
"I'm seventeen, that's how old I'll need to make you two look if you're to come to Hogwarts with me." Yuna told them calmly, she was glad that Vincent at least seemed to get the drift of not messing with her even if Sephy was still staring blankly at his plastic sword.
"I see, so you think we will be allowed to accompany you?" He asked figuring he may as well know what to expect at this magic school she was going to take them to. She nodded and explained that she had told her headmaster that she had been volunteered by her mother to take in some exchange students that knew very different magic and were rather good at it but wanted to see other types of magic hence the exchange program; Sephiroth had listened to the girls explanation, though it was a good one he would not be giving her any credit, she was a mortal human girl and was nothing more than a bug compared to him and his mother. He despised her for what she had done to his sword and would kill her when he got the chance, he knew this and he knew that Valentine would be expecting it. What he didn't know was if Valentine would stop him or not and that was a dangerous chance, Hojo's experiment was unreadable and was the only one bar Cloud who he knew could probably match him in battle.
"So you're saying we won't necessarily need to learn your magic but we would be required to attend classes with you." Vincent stated more for Sephiroth's benefit, he wasn't sure the raving lunatic was listening and if he was he didn't seem to be following the discussion.
"Yes, though we will all need to be sorted into houses." She said and then went on to explain about the houses within the school, this seemed to catch Sephiroth's interest.
"Slytherin sounds rather inviting for mortals." He said mildly causing Yuna to raise an eyebrow and shake her head. Vincent realised she'd expected no less from the would-be ancient.
"As I thought, it seems we have a new Slytherin among us Vinny. What do you think you'd like to be in?" She asked him, Vincent stared at her she was grinning at him and it almost seemed like she knew everything about both of them that there was to know.
"Well, I suppose Gryffindor sounds as good as any…" He said after a moment and Sephiroth snorted, Yuna and Vincent both ignored him.
"Yeah, me too, I just hope I can get in, knowing me I'll end up in Ravenclaw or something." She said grimacing at her choices house wise. Sephiroth, who was leaning against the wall and had finally put his toy sword away, was learning more about the girl who was now his keeper. It appeared she didn't have as much faith in herself as she acted and it also seemed that she knew them in some way though he knew that was surely impossible as this was supposed to be another world.
A few more minutes of talk was interrupted by a knock at the door, Yuna got up looking confused and went to open the door leaving the two men alone with each other again. They didn't talk, nor did they look at each other if only to avoid bringing Yuna's wrath down upon them again. Instead they listened to Yuna talking to whoever it was at the door, she seemed surprised by her tone and the person she was talking to sounded rather old.
"It's quite alright my dear; I thought it would be best to come in person to meet these two boys under your care." They heard and immediately looked at each other, Yuna had not yet made them her age and it seemed that her headmaster was now at the door to meet them.
"Really sir, you didn't have to come all the way here! A reply in writing would have been fine." Yuna said as she backed into the room, she was now rather stressed and had no time to spell the two men behind her before her teacher and headmaster saw her lie.
Vincent stood as a wizened old man came into the room, he was tall and rather thin, he had half moon spectacles on his crooked nose and wore a black travelling cloak and a pointed hat on his head; he also had an alarmingly long beard which was tied in the middle to keep it out of the way. Both Vincent and Sephiroth considered the man carefully while the old man looked at them curiously and then turned back to Yuna.
"These are your two 'exchange students'?" He asked good naturedly, Yuna nodded mutely as she looked at the floor. He looked at them again and nodded thoughtfully, "I assume that you will be transforming them into your own age group?" He asked and again Yuna nodded though she looked up this time, "I see. A rather difficult spell indeed my dear. Would you like me to do it; I would be less likely to make a mess of it." He asked her smiling; Yuna stared at him in shock and nodded again a grateful smile on her face as she moved aside so the old man could get a better look at the men before him. "I am Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. If you'll just stay put I'll have you at the age of seventeen in no time at all." He told Vincent and Sephiroth who both blinked at the mans words, as he drew out his wand and flourished it with the same ease Yuna had before and also muttered some words at which a shower of gold sparks erupted from his wand and spun around the two warriors taking some height off them and making them far younger than they really were, when the magic was clear from the air around them Vincent Valentine and Sephiroth Crescent were seventeen year old versions of themselves and no longer wearing their own clothes but robes similar to what Dumbledore was wearing. Yuna was looking at the two with a rather impressed look on her face, Vincent looked himself over and found that his hair hadn't changed in length and the headmaster had allowed him to retain his headband; Sephiroth's hair on the other hand had been cut short but left in the same style he'd always worn it, with his fringe hanging at either side of his face and he didn't seem impressed at all.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!! YOU PATHETIC MORTAL HOW DARE YOU!!" He screamed at the old man and Yuna who only sighed at Sephiroth's outburst.
"You'll have to excuse him sir, he has anger management issues to the extreme." She said bowing to the older man and winking at Vincent who smirked back in amusement. She seemed to enjoy infuriating the blond endlessly.
"So I see, I hope you'll have a word with him about that my dear." Dumbledore said smiling down at her; Yuna grinned back and nodded saluting her teacher. "Oh dear, look at the time. I'm afraid I'm due else where rather soon so I'll have to cut this visit short, so sorry Yuna." He said looking at his pocket watch Yuna nodded in understanding.
"No problem Professor, thanks for coming and everything." She said and left the room with him to show him out. Vincent picked at his new clothes, they weren't quite his style but perhaps Yuna could fix this, Sephiroth was still furious and had gone back to brooding against the wall until Yuna came back. Vincent had a feeling Sephiroth would have more than one bone to pick with the girl and she would probably want help to get Sephiroth to play nice.
Yuna returned to the lounge room to find Sephiroth practically fuming at the ears and Vincent looking mildly amused at his companion's lot. As soon as Yuna had entered the room Sephiroth attempted to charge her but she quickly took care of this by taking out her wand in one swift movement.
"Protego!" She cried and an invisible barrier appeared between her and Sephiroth throwing him backward into the wall. "Would you give it a rest?!" She demanded annoyed, his temper tantrums were getting old after little over an hour in his presence. He just glared at her, Vincent was shifting his vision from Yuna to Sephiroth and back again unsure of what to do. "Do you know why your both here Sephy?" She asked him but directing the question at both of them, Vincent shook his head to the negative while Sephiroth remained silent his eyes full of loathing. "Because both of you have forgotten what it means to be a human!"
AN: Well...there's another chapter for you. The people who reviewed motivated me to post another chapter up so thank them. More reveiws might get another chappie up lol, I'm so unmotivated these days TT.
