JUST WANTED TO SAY: I have had people leaving reviews about my stories not being accurate (Not OOC, I'm okay with those reviews they are actually reviewing my stories for not being accurate to the manga or anime) ... ... ...This is FANFICTION! of course it's not going to be accurate, but if any of you would like to review about the story itself PLEASE DO! I LOVE READING REVIEWS! They make me happy. Even the ones that say the story is too OOC. I love ALL other reviews except reviews on Accuracy. Now, please enjoy the story and I want to say sorry in advance to the grammar Nazis...There will be Grammar errors.
"Yo, kid where is the owner, this food is awful." A man taller than Meliodas by about 4 feet threw his plate of 'Food' on the floor and walked up to him.
"Well, I'm the owner. What seems to be the problem?"
"What? A shrimp like you? You're funny kid so I won't punch you in the face. Now bring the real owner out?" He pushed Meliodas and he felt the muscles in his shoulder and partially his chest. "Say...How old are you?"
"Older than you."
"How much older?"
"Older than you think." Meliodas grabbed the arms coming for his shirt aggressively and threw him against the wall. "So, I'm open to any complaints as long as their complaints okay? I don't have time for talkers. Drink and eat or don't be here."
Hawke walked up to Meliodas behind the counter and tugged at his trousers, "Don't you think that was a little harsh?"
"Awe, are you jealous Hawke? Do you want to be thrown against the wall too?" Meliodas smiled and Hawke jumped on the counter.
"Seriously, what's wrong with you?"
Meliodas sighed and looked back at his piggy friend, "Honestly I have no idea. I have a feeling something from my past is going to come back and Haunt me."
"Like how?"
"That's what scares me Hawke, I really don't know."
Hawke was surprised to hear his friend was scared so he made him a mug of Vanya Ale. "Here ya go, I hope this makes you feel better."
"Thanks Hawke." Meliodas smiled and petted the top of his head and showed him that there were scraps on the floor.
Meliodas turned around and was starting another round of beers for a table closest to the window when he started over hearing some of the men in the boar hat talking about a walking knight in huge armor. 'Could that be Gowther? I know his armor was pretty large.' Then he heard clanking and his door bust open. He turned around to see someone in rusted armor walking through his door saying, "Seven...Deadly...Sins..." Everyone ran and the person in the armor fell. Meliodas went to get a closer look and felt his heart stop. 'Liz!? I thought she...Wait no, her hair was a reddish brown color. This girl's hair was pure silver.' "Hawke put her in my room."
"You're not going to try anything are you?"
"Oh look we're having roasted pig tomorrow." Before he knew it Hawke was upstairs saying he had put the girl on the bed but she wasn't waking up. "Alright I'll be up there in a minute. Watch over her and let me know if anything happens. I'm going to...clean up."
"You got it."
Meliodas cleaned up like he said he was going to, but he couldn't get the girl's face out of his mind. She looked like Liz sure, but she looked like someone else he knew...not many years ago for his lifetime. Someone small...'Silver hair, one eye covered no matter what. That sleeping face...it...couldn't be...' Meliodas walked up to his room and saw her still sleeping.
"Definitely a girl" Hawke said.
"Hmm, lets see about that." Meliodas started sniffing her and examining her and eventually groped her breasts. She woke up and the first thing that came to his mind was, "Just checking to see if your heart is okay. Yup it's okay."
Elizabeth smiled in reply, "T-Thank you very much."
Hawke shouted immediately after she said thanks, "You bastard! Acting so Aloof!"
Elizabeth got a good look around and then looked at Meliodas, "Where...is this...? Um...Why am I..."
Meliodas cut her off to ease her confusion, "You came into the shop in some crazy Daze and suddenly keeled over."
"Shop?"
"The 'Boar Hat' It's my shop!"
"A-Are you the owner?"
Meliodas smiled on the inside, 'This definitely seems like her.' "Is that strange?"
"N-No...That sword on your back..."
"Huh?" Meliodas was wondering why she seemed fidgety all of a sudden.
"I...just thought that you were a sword master or something..." Meliodas begins to pull the sword out of it's sheathe hearing her scream in fear upset his heart somehow. The pain faded as she relaxed. "The blade is broken?"
"Hehehe Did I scare you? Even if it's just the hilt it looks pretty authentic if I show it off, right? This is what you'd call an incentive for people not to run off without paying!" He put his sword back into it's proper placing. "A lot of different customers come into the bar, after all...it's hard being the owner."
Hawke walked a little closer, "I feel sorrier for the customers who eat your cooking."
Elizabeth practically jumped out of the bed and went after Hawke and immediately hugged him and petted him all over. "It's a talking piggy! I begged father for one before!"
"The names Hawke." he had to admit he liked being petted and hugged unlike what Meliodas does which is threaten to cook him.
"So how was it?" Meliodas asked with a smile
"How was what?" Elizabeth was now a bit confused
"How was having a talking pet pig?"
"I...never got one..." She seemed sad so he invited her to try some food. Still somewhat suspecting who this girl is even if she DOES resemble Liz by looks. When the food was done and put in front of her she felt like she had to repay him somehow. "In addition to looking after me you're even giving me food...Just what can I do to repay you?"
"It's alright just eat."
"Alright thanks for the food." She put some in her mouth and it was unbelievably horrible yet it had a taste of kindness and thoughtfulness that she never tasted in the castle.
"How is it? It's horrible right?"
"Yes..."
"I knew it." Meliodas felt happy and somewhat sad that he had given a woman something so awful tasting.
"But at the same time...it's really good." Meliodas saw the tears and it felt like his heart had stopped and that he drew in a breath he couldn't let go of all at the same time. Elizabeth suddenly remembered why she was going to the bar. "I was looking for them you know...the seven deadly sins."
'Well that's convenient as Hell...' "Really why would you do that?"
"There is something wrong...I just know it. There is something unjust and wrong with the holy knights."
All three of them heard fierce knocking on the door. "Bring out the Rust knight or we'll break down the door! I'll give you thirty seconds."
"Don't need it." Meliodas came out and waved his hand behind his back to motion for Elizabeth to get away. Hawke instantly knew what to do.
Elizabeth looked back behind her to realize they were now chasing her and one of them shouted "CAPTURE HER!" when she tripped and fell the knights were seemingly running a bit faster. "She's down get her!" Meliodas was running behind her and ran past the knights. He then covered her body with his and hovered over her as Hawke chased them off the cliff.
"Um...you've saved me twice now...thank you."
"So...how's the rest of that story go?" Meliodas smiled, genuinely curious.
"The reason why I'm searching for the seven deadly sins is to stop the holy knights. You've helped me so many times I will never...I will never forget this debt...but please somehow forget about me."
'VERY UNLIKELY!'
Hawke was now confused, "Elizabeth you're going after the holy knights!? The holy knights are among knights who protect Britannia. They're heroes aren't they?"
"And they are terrifying. Just one has enough power as an entire country's army...what if they decide to wage war against Britannia?" Elizabeth looked at Hawke with decided eyes. She had to go look for them no matter what. "A few days ago...Due to a coup D'état orchestrated by the holy knights, the king was captured. The kingdom has essentially fallen into the hands of the holy knights. In order to start a war they are forcibly recruiting people from the towns and villages surrounding the kingdom. The men are to be trained as soldiers, the woman and children are to bring food for storage, and the elderly are to construct castle walls. Without mercy, those who oppose them are...soon enough the Effects of their actions will befall to this region too." The thought of all that practically had her shaking.
"S-Seriously!?" Hawke was shocked.
Meliodas had a million things running through his head as he was on the wanted poster...well...someone else's face with his name, but same thing essentially..."That sounds pretty bad."
Elizabeth continued, "If there is one thing that could stop the Holy Knights, it would be the seven deadly sins!"
'Does she know what she's saying?' "Come on, are you looking for the seven deadly sins knowing what kind of people they are?" Hawke nudged her leg a little. "Aren't they supposed to be the most evil people in all of Liones?"
"When I was five or six years old my father told me the stories. Apparently the seven deadly sins was the strongest and cruelest order of knights in the kingdom formed by seven brutal criminals who carved symbols of seven beasts into their bodies. Not only that but Ten years ago they were accused of plotting to overthrow the kingdom and disintegrate after all the holy knights in the kingdom launched a general offensive against them...And I heard horrible rumors of them all of them dying but...that simply can't be true. There is no way that such amazing people would die so easily."
'No way...even though she comprehends they are villains and are different races of creatures she still wants to search for them...well, us.' "But they're villains aren't they?" 'I have to make sure she does understand who she is looking for...'
"The Holy Knights are the ones who are actually making the people suffer!" Suddenly the ground fell beneath them and Meliodas heard someone talking about two confirmed deaths and he laughed a little bit. "Um, Why are you laughing?"
"No reason. Just thought I heard something funny." It was then that he noticed he was inches from her face again and if this is who he thinks it is he needs to keep a safe distance...no matter how beautiful she looks, or how innocent and sweet she seems. "I'm going to need you to hold on to me tight around the neck and close your eyes."
"Why?"
"Because I'm going to get us back up on the cliff."
"O-Okay but how are you..."
"Now!" He leapt into the air and got back on the cliff like he said he would. He notice how light she was in his arms and hid away a small blush and he didn't understand why it was there. He looked at her injured face which had scratches and some bleeding and pure anger overflowed in him. 'How dare he harm her!' It took all he had to not level the entire cliff himself and he had to think of someway to calm him down so he tried asking, "You awake?"
"Y-Yes I am." She sounded a bit frightened but knowing what he knows about her feelings for the holy knights, that is a bit understandable.
"What are you doing alive! I will not change my statement!"
"Hey when I give the signal you run into the forest okay?" Meliodas looked at her the anger still boiling inside of him.
"Huh? Oh um...yes! of course!" Elizabeth said looking thought the forest for a clear but complicated path to take.
The holy knight then noticed Elizabeth's earing, "Well it seems I'm in luck! The symbol on that earing is that of the royal family which means you are...CONFIRMED princess Elizabeth!"
"Princess Elizabeth?" 'So I was right. She has surely grown in more than one aspect but so has her personality and her kindness and innocence. Which means he harmed the princess...not just any of the princesses...he harmed Elizabeth.'
Hawke was shocked and concerned at the same time. "Princess Elizabeth as in the princess of the kingdom!?"
The holy knight ignored this statement from a talking pig, and continued to talk. "There's a search order out for you throughout the kingdom. You won't run will you? The orders are to capture you alive but it can't be helped if you die in an...accident...can it?"
"WE ARE GOING!" Meliodas shouted and told Elizabeth to run in front of him.
"There's no way I can allow myself to be captured. I can't give up just yet!"
The holy knight swung his weapon in the middle of the trees, "Confirmed accidental death!" Meliodas took her arm and pinned her to the ground and shielded her from would have instantly killed her. Somehow...seeing her alive and well beneath him and somewhat surprised took the anger away. They heard the holy knight coming closer, "Now then what shall the circumstance of death be. Crushed by fallen trees? Or blood loss from the cut of a whirlwind?"
"Hawke you seem to be fine..." Meliodas looked at his piggy friend, while choosing to ignore the holy knight.
"You call this fine? I'm skewered!"
Meliodas began noticing that Elizabeth had gotten up and now he was slightly confused. "Elizabeth! Hey where are you going!?"
"I won't be able to get away." She tells him with a heavy heart.
He felt something alike to heartbreak but not quite at the words that Elizabeth were saying to him. "You...you said that there's no way you can give up didn't you" Slight desperation crept up in his throat.
"If I surrender to him quietly he shouldn't take your life for no reason." Suddenly She saw a wave of power coming towards her and couldn't move.
'NO! YOU WILL NOT HARM HER ANYMORE!' Meliodas shielded her form this blast like he did the last one. 'If Bartrand saw me like this he would have my head!'
"Please! At the very least you should make it out alive!" Elizabeth begged with tears in her eyes.
'Still so innocent.' "It looks like he is going to kill you either way!"
"Why? I was happy in my journey searching for the seven deadly sins. I've never been on a journey before...I was so worried and in order to hide my identity I wore armor I wasn't used to and walked until I was exhausted...but...I wasn't able to rely on anyone...and even then you were so kind to me. someone you didn't even know..." Meliodas couldn't help but remember how they first met prior to this, and was brought back from his thoughts at her tears overflowing even more than they were. "That's why I don't want to wrap you up in this any further...you whose name I don't even know."
'You know it you just don't remember.' He couldn't keep the smile off his face when telling her, "Meliodas. That's my name."
"W-What? Meliodas? That can't be...no way...you look like a child! Wait...that symbol on your arm, it's a dragon!" It took all he had not to laugh at the fact that she had said the same thing to him years ago.
The holy knight tried to attack Elizabeth again and Meliodas blocked it. The holy knight began trying to asses the situation. "Have you figured out who I am?"
"It can't be you truly are...YOU ARE!" with one swing of Meliodas' broken sword it stopped the holy knight's attack in it's tracks.
"I'm the dragon sin of wrath, Meliodas"
"That's...That's impossible!"
Meliodas swung his blade and watched the holy knight take flight. "He sure went up high..." He looked at Elizabeth and inwardly smiled. "Well, looks like with this, you've found the first one...Elizabeth." After so long the name felt nice coming off his lips. "About the remaining six, I've got business with them too, and coincidentally I started looking for them recently as well. I've been running a bar to gather information. If I had a serving girl I would probably get more information." He couldn't hide the joy he felt in his heart when he saw her starting to put two and two together. You'll come with me right?"
"Of course I will!" He enjoyed the look on her face when Hawke mama showed up.
Meliodas was reunited with Elizabeth but how does he know her from years ago? when and where and how did they meet. Will this blossom into a surprising romance? (Probably considering that's the genre right?) What will happen next!? These are all questions I will answer in the next chapter PLEASE READ AND REVIEW AS THIS IS MY FIRST FANFIC FOR THIS ANIME/MANGA! (Please note that yes I will put some of the manga in it but again it is still fanfiction and please don't judge me on accuracy. :) please tell me what you think!