Title: A Story with a Beginning and an Ending
Category: Anime/Manga » Seven Deadly Sins/七つの大罪
Author: LucyDragneel2009
Language: English, Rating: Rated: M
Genre: Romance/Fantasy
Published: 06-01-16, Updated: 10-23-18
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,605
Chapter 1: Chapter 1 – her dream
Summary:
And so the cycle continues, Meliodas still hasn't managed to save Elizabeth, in a world that's been cut off from the other races for so long they've stopped believing in magic. Izzy has grown up in an orphanage ran by nuns, secretly druids that practice the magics of the goddess'. She remembers everything, her only wish for the man in her memories to find her. Rated-M for violence in later chapters.
Chapter 1 – legend becomes myth, myth becomes stories
There are no demons, there are no fairies, there are no giants nor giantesses, no goddesses, no elves, no dwarves, no mermaids, no dragons, no unicorns, no druids, no apostles of goddesses, no immortals, no fountain of youth, no giant pigs nor talking ones either, no hat shaped taverns, no swords to pull from stones, no magic.
Elizabeth had been reminded of all these things all her life, there are only humans, animals and plants and this big thing everyone would tell her was called "stories you tell to scare children into being good". She wasn't the reincarnated descended goddess with a man searching for both her and her wings to ascend her. No that was a story she was told a very long time ago by a crazy old lady and she wasn't supposed to believe everything people like that told her.
Elizabeth was nearly fifteen and according to that story her legendary lover would come into her life, in a very strange way very very soon. No, she wasn't as crazy as the woman who had informed her that this would come to pass. No, Elizabeth had dreamed about this man, every night for the last ten years, so many things that she had done with him, so many years she had spent with him, so many times had she met him for the first time and so many times had she died in his arms. Every time she met him he looked exactly the same and that was something she wished to question him about. Again, no, she wasn't crazy. It was the truth and it would happen, very, very soon.
Elizabeth was a fifteen year old child with blondie brown, gold coloured hair, her bangs covered her right eye and she had one blue eye and one amber. Her amber eye had been damaged when she was very young and she was almost completely blind in it so to save people from both asking about her disfigurement and her heterochromia she covered it. Elizabeth had grown up in an orphanage after being abandoned by her father so she was told but no one could be sure, after all. The man had apparently handed her to a woman and asked her to look after Elizabeth for a week, the woman had cared for her for that week as he had said and before she knew it three weeks had passed and the man never once returned. The woman had put her into the care of an orphanage. The woman her name unknown to Elizabeth had visited her when she was five and told her of her destiny and all about the other races, how when she was sixteen a man who looked far younger than his years, with emerald green eyes and blonde hair would whisk her away and love her forever.
Elizabeth believed that woman, she believed that, that was indeed the truth, Elizabeth counted down the days until her sixteenth birthday, she had one more night to go..."EVERYONE OUT OF BED! THERE'S A FIRE! OUTSIDE! NOW!" A voice screamed, Elizabeth's room was filling up with smoke as she awoke to the screaming, she glanced at the clock as she opened her window wide, she wouldn't go through the door, she assessed that the fire was just beyond it.
It was one minute until midnight, she would be sixteen in one whole minute. "...if you are real, then save me...there isn't any point to keep on living if you're not anyway..." Elizabeth whispered to herself, the clock chimed midnight and she threw herself down four floors to her death...
...
"That was very stupid, Elizabeth," a care-free voice said, from above her.
"Huh?" She groaned, believing she had just woken up from a nightmare as she peeked one eye open, "...five more minutes," she said yawning and closing her eye. Still half asleep to notice that the person carrying her was not a dream or her imagination but the real thing.
"Didn't know I was that comfortable...do I not even get a thank you for saving your life?" The man questioned.
"W-what?" Elizabeth yawned, blinking her eyes open.
"Did you jump out your window, whilst you where still half-asleep or something, Elizabeth?" The man questioned.
"What does it matter I'm dreaming anyway, am I not?" Elizabeth questioned.
"Nope, your not," he said nonchalantly.
"...S-Sir...Meliodas?..." She said, looking up at the man holding her in his arms, she raised her hand to her face and stared at it, for a moment trying to work out whether this was real.
"Yep! That's me," he replied, "how'd ya know?"
"I remember you," Elizabeth said, "I remember everything."
"Everything, how would you know? If you've forgotten something how are you supposed to know that you have unless someone prompts you?" He asked.
"Very true, Sir Meliodas, I believe that I know enough anyway..." Elizabeth replied.
"Okay, I don't need to explain all the reasons why I think you should run away with me then, now, do I?" He said, grinning down at her, he stood her up onto her feet, a hand sliding round to grope her cute butt.
She blushed squealing, "eep!" no matter whether she remembered this happening many a time, she wouldn't get used to it, "Sir M-Meliodas..." there was a slight question to her voice as her head tilted down, bashfully...this was cute. There was no denying it.
He liked this side to her he hadn't seen it in so long, his grin widened slightly as he said, "uh-huh, so will you come with me, Elizabeth?" He asked sincerely, giving her butt a less gentle squeeze before letting go.
"...Yes! Anywhere," she said, this was a different side, although he had seen her desperate before.
"That's good, will I carry you, seen as though you're not wearing any shoes?" Meliodas asked, wrapping his hand round her back sensually. Gazing down at her feet now dirty and wet with the puddles in the dingy alley way.
"Em...shoes? Oh, I'm fine," Elizabeth said, as she began to run her fingers along the wall, she counted in a whisper up to eight, before pulling out a stone in the wall and removing, an outfit and leather boots, "...I've been waiting for you," she said in no more than a whisper.
"Oh, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I take it you don't enjoy the company of druids?" He asked, although he knew that she found it terribly boring to spend her time with them, his previous experience of her growing up around druids is that she can sew and clean and hates their guts.
"Druids? So they do exist!" Elizabeth said as she elated with joy and accomplishment.
"What are you talking about, Izzy?" He questioned.
"You don't know how long I've had people telling me I'm crazy, because I said that Humans aren't the only intelligent race in this world," Elizabeth replied.
"That's ironic seen as though, there is an apostle of the goddesses disguised as an ordinary druid inside that building," Meliodas said, "we should leave soon. If they discover us we'll get into a bad situation."
"Okay, I'll be two seconds!" Elizabeth said, she waited a moment... "em...could you, um...turn...around?..."
"Oh, right!" He said, closing his eyes, although not very tightly.
"...I guess that's the best I'm gonna get..." Elizabeth mumbled.
"Yep!" He said, joyously.
"Keep 'em closed!" She snapped, very scary, Elizabeth, very scary, she thought to herself. She was too happy to be angry at hhim Elizabeth got changed fairly quickly and spoke up, "I'm done, Sir Meliodas, you can open your eyes now," she smiled.
"...Hmm," he hummed, looking at her hair intently.
"...what's wrong?" She questioned tilting her head to the side.
"Your hair is nice blonde, I like it," he murmured, walking closer and taking a lock of hair into his hand.
"My hair is silver quite a lot of the time, which do you like better?" Elizabeth asked studying the hand that held a lock of her soft hair.
"I couldn't tell you."Meliodas said.
I guess he likes the original me, rather than the reincarnation I've become, "oh..."
"Don't worry! Your blonde hair is really cute! You're beautiful every way, remember that," Meliodas said, looking deeply into her one visible eye, "come on, we need to go, there's someone looking for us and I don't believe you'll survive an encounter with her." Elizabeth smiled.
"...why are you smiling?"
"I know you'll get me out of this alive."
"Fair enough."
...
"Hey, everyone, I'm back...or should I say we?" He added quietly as an after thought, as they walked into the Boar Hat, although, at one time, they had all been magical knights, running a traveling pub, that golden age as some would call it soon passed, where better to hide than the fairy king's forest?
"Meliodas, you bastard! You better not have done anything to her!" Hawk cried running straight for him, Meliodas removed one hand from his pocket and held the pig back easily.
"I didn't do anything to her," Meliodas replied, boredly, "well other than bringing her here, but I needed to do that."
"Captain!" Ban and Dianne cried together.
"Hey, Captain," King said, lazily looking up at the two of them as Elizabeth smiled and Meliodas held back the pig.
"You've returned," Gowther stated, before turning back to his book.
"So they have, Captain, Princess," Merlin said, nodding with a small smile.
"...eh? Princess?" Elizabeth questioned.
"Number one hundred and six," Meloiodas said, "give or take a couple..." He mumbled the last part.
"Ohhh," Elizabeth said, "that's when I first met you all, is it not?" kind of feel like the latest model of an iPhone.
"...Elizabeth, you remember us?" Hawk asked.
"Yes, all of you, just a little patchy, all my memories seem a little jumbled up," she replied, with a smile.
"Interesting," both Merlin and Gowther said.
"That's cool, so now we don't need to explain everything," Ban added. "Like how you shouldn't eat anything, he cooks for you." He pointed at Meliodas and he smiled whilst sidestepping towards Ban before bonking him on the head.
"Oh, I'm well aware, to only eat food that you make, Sir Ban." Elizabeth replied, keeping Meliodas' tease going.
"You did say however that Meliodas' cooking was delicious at one point," Gowther countered.
"Yes, I did," she winked at the puppet before turning her attentions back to everyone else, "I'm happy to see you all again," she smiled warmly, looking at each of the people in turn.
"We're all glad you're back too, Princess, we don't get very far without our chief medic," Merlin smiled, playfully.
"I had believed I was more than that to you all..." Elizabeth said, looking sadly at the ground.
"You are, of course you are, everyone loves you, Elizabeth," King said, as Meliodas gave a dirty glance to Merlin before focusing solely on his perfect long-term girlfriend, this Elizabeth was like a mixture of all the Liz', Eliza', Ellie' and Izzy' He had ever met, with her own originality smooched in between, all her past experiences would make her wiser to future ones, she most likely could fight, could cook just as well as him (he taught her) and she probably already loved him.
After all she had fallen in love with him so many times and she could remember all of those times, so she must be more in love with him than ever, he'd still give her time though that was something people needed, time and space, before they settle down after all it was her first day of being a sixteen year old girl.
"Especially, the cap'n!" Ban added, Meliodas smiled in a care-free manner, as if he hadn't heard.
She blushed "y-yes o-of course..." She replied, smiling slightly, although she was shy she knew how much he loved her he had shown her many a time, just how much. Whether it had been intense sessions of making love to her or simple affectionate gestures, he had proved that fact many a time.
"If Elizabeth has all her previous incarnations memories, doesn't that mean that she loves the Captain still anyway?" Dianne questioned.
"It would be interesting to know?" Merlin added.
"...Well, yes, I do still love Sir Meliodas..." Elizabeth said blushing pink.
"Course she does, that's why she threw herself out of a window with so much trust that I'd catch her, we've both always loved each other since before any of you where born...besides Gowther," Meliodas replied, taking a generous amount of breast into his small hand, no matter how cheesy the line, it was always fine as long as he added his perverted side into the fray. After all he hadn't seen this beauty in years.
"I'd have to agree with that," Elizabeth said, quietly in agreement, not even bothering about the hand on her breast, the groping was something that Elizabeth was used to. It had happened nearly every time they had came across each other.
Which begged the question: was he really a pervert if it was only towards the girl he loves?...probably, but still.
Original A/N: This won't be continued until I've finished one of my other works, sorry but I will have to leave ya hanging until I've finished one of my other works, hope you enjoyed the first chapter. I thought it was really cute!
R & R desperately if you want more there might be a chapter soon depends but I want to get my other story completed first. If this is popular enough then there will be a second pretty damn soon.
Yui out! Cya soon!
This has been edited and a few things have been changed you may want to re-read it. I'll hopefully get a second chapter up soon.
A/N: Has been edited again in hopes of starting this up. After ah heh... Years... Whoops...
My original plan was to finish the two stories I had in progress. Years later I'm back and I deleted all my previous works except this and one of my better short fics. My plan is to start this, now it won't be every week it might only be once a month but I'll try my best.
With love your dearest Yui!