A/N This story is is based off the ideas of Sword Art Online and several other books I have read, the main one being The Eye of the Minds. I wasn't sure if I should call this a SAO fan fiction, but I figured I would give it credit.
I came up with the idea of this story on a spur of the moment. I only have the vaguest of ideas of what I am going to do with it, but I thought it could be good. The ideas for the characters in this story are based off of people I know in real life. I will be inserted in this story, but I will not say who I am.
Anyways enjoy the first chapter of "Seven Deadly Blades."
Disclaimer - I have no intention of hacking/crashing any site mentioned in the story. They are used so people will understand what I mean.
I'm sure you have used a computer before. I am almost equally sure you know that there are ways of hacking into programs in computers. And if you have used a computer or played online games for any considerable amount of time you know that people tend to group up together online. This is where this story takes off.
On the internet there is a fairly well known group of seven people. They are known by the name The Seven Deadly Sins, even though none of them go by any of the seven deadly sins. Their names are Toxic, Raven, Monkey, Angel, Ares, Death, and Muse. Each one is a member of the group for various reasons. They all do various jobs on the internet over their website such as : Leveling others up in games, hacking into people's save files for them, designing web pages, creating music, and hacking into various programs and web pages.
Angel is one of the four who helps people in games and one of the primary two who hack into save files and games. Out of the four he is the worst at games, even so he is still great at games compared to the average person just not as good as the others. He is the better of the two at hacking into games and save files.
Death is also one of the four who helps people in games. While he is tied for second in actual skill he is much better at keeping calm so is considered second best at playing the games. While he can hack into games and save files he is not amazing at it and finds it boring most of the time.
Ares is the best player at games not only because of his skill, but also his versatility. If you can play a game in more than one way he is great at all of them. He also helps with making music when Muse needs it, he can play drums, guitar, and bass.
Muse is one of the girls in the group and is very artistic. She creates webpages, music,draws pictures, and designs character skins for some games. She is the one who handles their web page and creates most of the music, with some help from Ares, Monkey, and Raven. If she really needs it Toxic will help her out. While she isn't very good at hacking and is the worst at games, which is still pretty good compared to average player, she more than makes up for in artistic ability and how she does everything perfectly.
Monkey is tied for second in terms of skill at games with Death, but loses because of how he can lose his cool. He is the other primary game and save file hacker of the group and while he isn't as fast or good at it as Angel, give him enough time and he can get most things done that someone wants. He also helps Muse by playing the piano and is Toxic's right hand man.
Raven is the second girl of the group and while she can help with the save files and games if need be, she is primarily the one who hacks into programs and web pages along with Toxic. She helps Muse out with female vocals and art design. While they never say it, it is believed by the other members that Raven and Toxic are a couple.
Toxic is the leader of the group. He primarily hacks into programs and web pages and manages everything that goes on with the group. He is actually just below Monkey in terms or skill, but does not work well with people he does not know so doesn't play unless it is with his group. When the group plays he is the strategist and while he isn't the best at games he comes second to none at strategy. He also handles personal request from people. On two separate occasions he was asked to hack into something and crash it in under 12 hours. One time it was a MMO and another it was a webpage. Both times he crashed them in under 6 hours and to add insult to injury made sure they knew who did it. He also helps Muse with male vocals if she needs it.
They will do just about any job on the internet for a price and are widely known. While separate they are very good games, Ares and Death considered in the top 100 gamers out there, together they have never lost a game no matter the genre. They do tournaments from time to time and usually come in first, sometimes Ares and Death do tournaments and always come in top three at least.
They communicate in one of the most secure ways possible. It is known as a Web of Trust. Basically everyone has a private key and there is a public key, both a series of numbers. You lock a message with both keys and send it to someone. They need the public key and your private key to unlock the message. They change their public key every month. Everyone keeps the others private keys and that month's public one in at least three different locations, not including their computer.
They only know three things about each other on a personal level. First is that Toxic, Raven, Monkey live in the same area of the U.S., Death, Angel, and Ares live in the same area of the U.K., and Muse lives in Japan. Second everyone, except for Monkey and Muse, is white. Monkey is black and Muse is Japanese. Third is each other's age. Monkey is 18, Toxic, Ares, and Death are 17, and Angel, Raven, and Muse are 16.
Doing this they make enough for each of them to get 3,000 dollars a month and have enough extra for Toxic to build them each a new computer and laptop every 6 months . They each use three computers so they just cycle out the oldest either selling the old one, storing it away, or taking it apart. Most of them have a cover for why they have this money. Raven, Toxic, and Monkey just say they don't need a cover, Death says he fixes other people's computers, Ares says he enters skateboarding competitions, Angel's parents don't pay much attention to him so he just says he has a job at some nameless store, and Muse says she sells art online, which is true in a way.
This story is about this interesting group of people.
P.O.V. Muse
Muse opened her eyes looking at her ceiling. Glancing over at her clock she saw it was 2:14 P.M. None of the group went to actual school, Ares, Death, Angel, and herself had convinced their parents that regular school would hold them back. Though Toxic, Raven, or Monkey never said it, but they had probably done the same. They all just took online classes that were extremely easy for all of them.
She stepped out of bed and walked over to her computers turning them on and changing while it came on. She asked everyone if they were on before going to brush her teeth and fix her hair. After brushing her teeth she stared at herself in the mirror for a moment.
She had hazel eyes and wore black, wire frame glasses, she stood at about five feet four inches tall and had low c-cup breast, and she dressed like a guy because she liked guy's clothes better, she wore dark green cargo pants, a black shirt that had a blank canvas, and she had some normal grey sneakers. She also had long, black hair with bright yellow streaks and pierced left ear and right eyebrow, both of them music notes. The reason for this was because one day Toxic had asked everyone to dye their hair an unnatural color and to get at least one piercing he also said to come up with a word and then send him the information on their hair, piercing (s), and word.
He never said why, but they had agreed because he rarely asked them for anything and they had all been thinking about dyeing their hair and piercings anyways. He was also the reason they had all met each other and became close friends. He was also why she had gotten out of her depression and not killed herself. Before she met the group she had been very depressed and even afterwards.
About 4 months after she met the group she had been thinking about suicide. Right before she was about to tell all of them goodbye and shut down her computer she got a message asking her if she was alright from Toxic. She had ended up telling him what she was going to do and how she felt so alone and unloved. He had talked her out of it and to this day told her goodnight and sweet dreams every night.
Muse smiled in the mirror at the memories and walked back to her computers. Angel, Monkey, and Toxic had messaged her. She had noticed long ago how almost never slept. While no one slept much in the group, Ares and Monkey slept the most at about 5 and a half hours and Muse only slept about 4 and a half, Toxic seemed to never sleep. The longest it had ever taken him to reply to a message of hers was 20 minutes.
She had asked Raven and Monkey if they knew how much he slept and they said they didn't really know, they only knew it was less than four hours a day. Monkey had said that one time Toxic had stayed up for 2 weeks straight. Before he had told her that she had thought it impossible to stay awake that long. She quickly figured that if anyone could do it, it was Toxic.
She started working on some projects and was thinking about other things. She started thinking about everyone's nicknames. You could figure out most of their's just by thinking about it. She had made hers because she was artistic and The Muses where the gods of music and art in Greek Mythology.
She opened the latest message from Toxic and started reading it. It said they would be having a voice chat later today. That was unusual.
P.O.V. Angel
Angel rolled over and squinted at his alarm clock, it said 5:50 A.M. His parents would be gone by the time he got out of the shower. He stood up and cut on his computers and grabbed some clothes before going to the bathroom and taking a shower.
Right before he got out he heard his mom knock on the door saying that his father and her were leaving. He sighed thankfully and got out of the shower putting on his shirt and brushing his teeth. He looked at himself in the mirror for a moment.
He had silver hair that went to just above his shoulders, he had gotten three piercings in his left ear and currently had a snake going through all three, his eyes were blue, he always wore jeans, wore a jacket 90% of the time which was currently black with "Bite Me" in red letters on it, he had a normal black shirt with an angel lying down in the middle of the void, and grey Chucks. He was skinny like a pole and had almost no muscle on him which he didn't mind. He stood at about 5'10" and had pale skin.
He walked back to his computer and saw that he had a message from Muse and messaged her back before messaging everyone else seeing who was up while thinking about their names.
At first his name made no sense. He wasn't a religious person at all, he wasn't a very good person, and he wasn't overly nice. You had to know one saying before you could understand his name, "Even an Angel can become a Demon when provoked." After you knew that saying his name didn't seem so weird.
He walked into the kitchen and grabbed a drink while looking around the house thankful his parents where gone. They lived in a one story house that had a front and back porch with a basement. His room was passed the kitchen into the living room and into a hallway on the left while his parents was on the other side of the house on the right.
It wasn't that he didn't like his parents, there was nothing wrong with them, he just didn't get along with most people very well. That is one of the reasons he didn't have to go to regular school. Before he had met the group he didn't associate with anyone. He was grateful to Toxic for inviting him into the group. While his life hadn't been bad before hand, he realized how boring it was after he had joined.
He walked back to the computers and saw he had messages from Toxic, Muse, and Monkey. He messaged them back and glanced at the time, it was 6:20 now. He opened up some of his projects and put on his headphones. He started working on some things and forty minutes passed. He looked and saw he had some new messages.
He started reading it and was surprised by what it said.
"Interesting."
P.O.V. Monkey
Monkey was woken up by Toxic who shook him awake. He leaned up and looked around before looking at Toxic.
"What is it?"
"You told me to wake you up at 10, remember?"
"Oh yeah, thanks."
Toxic walked out saying no problem.
Monkey stretched before hoping out of bed and started doing some push-ups and sit-ups. He liked to stay in shape. He stood up now sweating slightly and grabbed some clothes and turned on his computers before walking out of the room to his bathroom and taking a shower. He got out and brushed his teeth before looking at himself in the mirror.
He was about 6 feet tall and was very skinny. He had some definition, but nothing to major. His hair was very short and he was wearing shorts like he always did. He also had on a green collar shirt and wore a pair of white Nike's. He had a very dark almost black complexion. His eyes were about the same color as well. While he couldn't really dye his hair he had pierced both of his ears, just having normal studs in at the moment. He walked out and went to the computers seeing he had a message from Muse he responded and messaged everyone else, save Toxic.
He smiled thinking about their names. His seemed like it would be a racist insult at first, but it wasn't. His favorite animal had always been monkeys and he liked to climb trees so the name Monkey just fit. It did make it awkward for the others though sometimes. He just thought it was funny.
He walked into the kitchen fixing a bowl of cereal and looking around. The house had a living room and then a kitchen just past it if you went to the left from the kitchen you would go to Toxic's and Raven's room and bathroom to the left was his.
He had known Toxic ever since they were seven and eight years old. They ha been living together for almost as long and had been living here for almost 3 years now. Why had three minors been living by themselves for nearly three years? That is a story for another time.
While the house wasn't overly big it was big enough for them. He finished his cereal and rinsed the bowl before placing it in the dish washer. He walked back to the room and saw he had messages from Angel and Muse. He messaged them back and then put on his headphones and started checking out some projects he had going on. He glanced down at the time. 10:30 P.M. is what it said. He stared working on some things he had to do.
After about thirty minutes he thought he heard something so he took his headphones off and listened.
"MONKEY!"
He instantly jumped up at the sound of Toxic's voice calling him.
P.O.V. Raven
Raven opened her eyes and rolled over looking at the clock. It said it was 10:30 P.M. She looked over at Toxic who was sitting at his computers. She hated how he didn't sleep much. It can't be good for him, but she knew it was pointless to try and argue with him. Unlike most guys who just agree with whatever their girlfriends wanted Toxic was not afraid to argue with her, and he was usually right.
She stood up quietly and tried to tiptoe over to him so she could scare him. Right before she got there he turned around and smiled at her.
She huffed and asked, "How do you always do that?"
He just wiggled his finger at her before standing up and kissing her softly and then sitting back down. She smiled knowing she could never be angry with him. She wrapped her arms around him and stared at the computer screens. She quickly got lost. While she was the only one who could even hope to keep up with him, she was no where as good when it came to using three computers at once. She just kissed him on the cheek and grabbed some clothes.
She turned on her computer before going to their bathroom and taking a shower. After she was finished she put her clothes on. After brushing her teeth she looked at herself in the mirror for a moment.
She had long, black hair with blood-red streaks going down it. Her eyes were bright green and she was about 5 and a half feet tall. She was fairly skinny and had d-cup breast. She was wearing a dark red shirt with black ravens all over it, black skinny jeans, and some black shoes she couldn't remember the name of the brand.
Before she had started dating Toxic three years ago she had been very self conscious about how she looked like most girls. He had quickly broken her out of that by saying he didn't care what anyone, even herself, had thought she looked like she looked gorgeous to him. She had tried to argue but he made clear he wouldn't hear it.
She smiled thinking about when had started calling her Raven. She had asked him why he called her that.
He said, "Because you will be the death of me you troublesome woman."
Before she could respond he finished, "But I guess there is no better way to die."
After that the name had just stuck. She liked it and had started using it.
Raven walked back into the room and sat down at her computers after kissing Toxic again. She noticed she had a message from Muse and messaged her back before messaging everyone seeing who was up, save Toxic. She glanced down at the time, it said 10:55 P.M.
She opened up some projects and before getting started she noticed that Toxic had stopped moving. She turned to him wondering what was wrong.
"What's wr-"
She was interrupted by Toxic.
"MONKEY!"
This can't be good.
P.O.V. Toxic
Toxic was working on some projects when he glanced down at the time, it was 9:30. He figured he'd take a shower and then wake Monkey up like he had asked him to earlier. He stood up and looked over at Raven as she slept which made him smile. He grabbed some clothes and went to his and Raven's bathroom. He got in the shower and just kind of stood there thinking about the past.
He remembered when he had first came up with the idea to start this group of his. He had gained a little group of people over the course of a few months. He knew each of their skills and abilities. He also knew that while Monkey, Raven, and himself were getting by it could be better. So he came up with the idea for all of them to start selling their services. Raven, Angel, Muse, and Monkey quickly agreed. Ares and Death agreed soon after.
At first it had been slow going, but after about 3 months they were decently known due to the 3 group tournaments they had done and the half dozen tournaments Ares and Death had done. Muse and himself created the website and after a month he got a personal request. He saw what it was how much they were willing to pay. He also asked if he would get extra for doing it in half the appointed time. The client had said yes and Toxic had gotten to work.
After only 5 hours he had crashed all of the servers of the biggest MMO at that time. That was their big break along with the second job he had gotten from the same client a week later.
Everyone had been ecstatic at the business they were getting. Monkey finally got to quit that awful job of his. It was great. They had only grown from their. Now you couldn't do anything on the internet without hearing about the Seven Deadly Sins.
But he was always ready for the worse. He had lived his whole life where every time something good happened it was taken away or destroyed. That is why his name was Toxic. Everything he touched died. The only true constant in his life for the longest time was Monkey so he was always ready.
He sighed and got out of the shower putting on his clothes. He brushed his teeth and looked in the mirror.
He was the same height as Monkey 6 foot tall. He was muscular but all of his muscles were tight and he had less than 0.5% body fat. He had dark blue hair with black streaks going through it that went to his shoulders all around and in the front was swept to the side. He was wearing black jeans, a black shirt with a green radioactive symbol and he had a tongue ring which was just a normal barbel, a dark blue jacket with silver tracing along the zipper, hood, and arms. He also wore some black combat boots. He had each ear pierced 6 times all with radioactive symbols.
He walked back into the room and glanced at the time, it was 9:50. He went into the kitchen and heated up some chicken from earlier and got a drink out of the fridge. He looked around the room.
While he could probably have better, he wouldn't have it any other way. Everything in his life was pretty good. He finished his food and drink before going to wake Monkey up.
He walked in and shook him awake and waited for him to lean up.
"What?"
"You asked me to get you up at 10, remember."
"Oh yeah, thanks."
He walked out saying no problem. He walked back to his room and looked over at Raven again. She looked beautiful with the moonlight shining on her face. He walked over and kissed her on the forehead before sitting back down at the desk. He pulled his hood on before placing his headphones on top. After about 15 minutes he got a message from Muse asking if he was awake. He messaged her back and asked who was awake, save Raven and Monkey.
After another 15 minutes he heard Raven walking up behind him and looked at her smiling. After she asked how he always does that he just wiggled his finger at her before standing up to kiss her. He sat back down and soon after she wrapped her arms around him and looked at the three screens. He was currently doing three different projects and he knew she wouldn't be able to keep track of all three. She kissed him on the cheek before unwrapping her arms.
He smiled and heard the door close signifying her leaving the room. Man, he loved that girl.
She came back in about 20 minutes later. He gave her a kiss before she sat down at her own computers. He continued working for a few minutes before checking the personal request he had gotten. He only had one new one.
He opened it and started reading it. It took about five minutes to finish and once he was done he just stopped moving. This was just to crazy.
Apparently Raven had noticed and said something he didn't hear.
He yelled really loud, "Monkey!"
P.O.V. Death
Death opened his eyes and rolled out of bed waking himself up quicker. He looked over at the clock, 9:00 A.M. He decided he'd take a shower and then wake Ares up. Yes, what no one in the group, except for Angel who lived close to them, knew was that Ares and Death were step brothers. His mom had gotten with Ares' dad years ago, not a big deal. They were more like close friends than brothers.
He stood up and turned on his computers before grabbing some clothes and going to the shower Ares and him shared. After taking the shower he put on his clothes and brushed his teeth. After finishing he stared at himself in the mirror.
He was about 5'9" and while he wasn't fat by any means he was bigger than his brother. He didn't mind he was happy with his weight. He had completely black hair that went to just below his ears and had snake bites. His eyes were hazel and he wore a white shirt with a black-robed figure holding a scythe. He also had a jacket which was just plain black and he had black jeans on. His shoes were black Chucks just like Angel's.
He looked closely at his shirt thinking about his nickname. He was always the dark one in the family. At first he had though about using Hades, but Death just had a menacing tone to it.
He walked back to his room and saw he had messages from everyone, except his brother. He looked at all of them. He looked at Toxic's and was shocked at what it said. They would be having a voice chat in about 30 minutes. He responded before getting up quickly thinking about what Toxic had done for him.
Before he had become part of the group he had always second best to his step brother, which he didn't mind really and his brother was cool about it, but it got annoying after a while. So when he was asked if he had anyone who could be in the group he asked his brother. Ever since then they had become much closer and did a lot of things together. He was thankful for Toxic.
He walked into Ares room and kicked the bed waking him up quickly.
"Get up. We've got a voice chat in thirty minutes."
He looked at him wide-eyed, "Seriously?"
"Yes, seriously."
He nodded and Death walked out of the room sitting down working on some project waiting for the voice chat.
P.O.V. Ares
Ares was woken up by someone kicking his bed.
He heard Death's voice, "Get up. We've got a voice chat in 30 minutes."
He quickly sat up, "Seriously?"
"Yes, seriously."
He nodded and Death walked out of the room. This was crazy, they hadn't had a voice chat in over three months. It must be pretty important if Toxic's calling for one of those. He got out of bed turning his computer on and grabbing some clothes before going to the shower.
After finished taking a shower he put on his clothes. He brushed his teeth and once done looked at himself in the mirror.
He was 5'8" and muscular. He was probably one of the most muscular in the group. He was the athlete of the group. He had fairly short, almost white hair with red streaks in it that reached just above his ears. He had one piercing in each ear and one in his nose all of them just normal studs and he had green eyes. He had on normal jeans and a black shirt with flames on it. He also had on some black Vans that helped with skateboarding.
The reason behind his name was simple. He was very vicious when in-game. He was also one of the best so he had gotten the title as the God of War. It wasn't a complicated name, but it did fit him.
He walked back to his room and responded to all his messages and glanced at the time, it was 9:50 P.M. He stood up and went to the kitchen. He heated up some biscuits and got a drink while looking around the house.
His house was very similar to Angel's except if you went into the hallway for his room and turned left instead of right you'd be at Death's room. His dad and Death's mom had started dating about 7 years ago and got married about 5 years ago.
He was happy when they joined Toxic's group. His brother seemed a lot happier afterwards and they became closer. They also got meet Angel who wasn't to far away from them. He wasn't sure why Toxic would call for a voice chat, but it must be important.
He headed back to his room thinking about the voice chat.
The voice chat was something that Toxic had got to work. It was kind of like the Web of Trust except you could trace where the messages came from with out even unlocking the ability to listen to them so Toxic didn't like to use it unless it was important. While everyone trusted Toxic's decisions he could be very paranoid at times. Ares had just stopped asking why though. Every time he used to Toxic would explain why and it would make perfect sense so he just stopped questioning it.
He sat down at his computer and put on his computer and put on his headphones. He was glad his parents weren't home. Two other problems with the voice chat were that you had to talk out loud so if someone was home they might think you were crazy and everyone had to be awake at the same time which could sometimes be difficult.
Once it hit 10:00 A.M. he started sending the stream of info to everyone. Until this ended anyone who found the stream could trace it even if they couldn't listen to it.
P.O.V. Toxic
Toxic had waited for everyone's stream to come in and connected at the same time. Everyone was talking and he asked them to be quiet they stopped talking immediately.
He sighed before speaking, "Raven and Monkey are next to me. If you haven't figured it out we all live together. I am going to send you each a message I want you to read it and when you are finished just send me a message don't speak. Got it?"
They all said yes and he sent them the messages. After about 5 minutes he got messages from all of them.
"What you just read is someone very powerful wants us to work for him doing various things for various powerful people. If what he says is true we will be payed lots of money if we do this. He says he will be willing to provide alibis for you so your parents don't ask any questions. I am going to ask each of you how you feel about this. Tell me how you truthfully feel no matter what anyone else says. First Angel you go."
It was silent for a few moments before he spoke, "I think this could be a great opportunity for us as long as we have a back up plan in case he tries something on us."
"Good. As you know I always have a back up plan and if anything happens to us this will work. Now your turn Muse."
It was almost a full minute before she spoke, "I agree with Angel, but I want to know the details of these alibis before we go."
"I have already requested information on the subject. Your turn Death."
"Before we go I want to know the exact location we will be going to before we do it. Also I would like to know the details of our job."
"So as long as get this information you will all be willing to go?"
They all said yes, "Then I know what I need. I am glad to hear this."
Death decided to speak up, "You didn't ask Ares for his input."
"Because he doesn't care about the details, he just cares about the adventure. Am I right Ares?"
"Yeah, pretty much."
Before Toxic could respond Muse spoke, "Toxic, do you think you could be there to pick me up?"
Angel asked the same as well. Toxic thought about it for a moment.
"I don't think our client will mind that. I'll go ahead and ask to be there to get Ares and Death as well. Anything else?"
Ares spoke up this time, "Yes, what will our pay be?"
"I asked the same question as soon as I got the message. I got a response just a few hours ago. He said 50,000$ plus expenses."
Everyone was shocked, even Raven and Monkey who hadn't heard that yet. Death was the first to speak up.
"Wow, 50,000$ a year. That's insane."
Toxic actually started laughing at this. This confused everyone.
Raven decided to ask, "What is so funny?"
Toxic quickly responded, "It isn't 50,000$ a year. It's 50,000$ a month."
Everyone gasped at this and Ares fell out of his chair. Angel quickly responded.
"Why didn't you tell us that at first?"
"Would you have even thought about the situation if I had?"
Angel understood his point and didn't say anything.
"Now do any of you have questions?"
Nobody responded so figured not.
"Good. Finish up any projects you have. Muse I want the site purchasing features down and a notice up in thirty minutes. We will do this again in three days when I have all the details. Understood?"
They all said yes and then closed their streams down.
As soon as the streams were down Toxic slammed his head on the table.
"This is such a fucking headache."
Raven rubbed his back and Monkey just laughed.
"Monkey, do you think you can finish all of your jobs?"
Monkey thought about it for a moment, "Yeah, I should be able to."
"Good. Raven, ask Muse if she needs help with any jobs of hers."
She nodded and walked over to her computer.
"Monkey, do you remember how much Facebook is willing to pay you if you can hack their website?"
Monkey tried remembering, "I believe it was 1,000$ an hour."
"Good."
With that he started typing away at his three computers.
"What are you planning?"
"I just think Facebook needs to take a break for a couple of days is all."
Monkey didn't say anything he just nodded his head and walked out of the room. After about thirty minutes of typing Toxic leaned back and stretched his arms out.
"There that should keep it crashed for a few hours."
Raven just shook her head at how calm he seemed about doing that. He pressed a few more buttons before standing up. He looked at the time. It was 4:12 A.M.
"Hey Raven, wake me up at 7 okay?"
She nodded and he kissed her before laying down on the bed thinking about everything that had happened.
P.O.V. Angel
Angel closed the stream down and leaned back in his chair sighing. This was insane. Just two years ago he would have trouble with even talking to people. Now he was famous on the internet and being offered a high paying job.
While he was worried about the details of this job he trusted Toxic completely. Toxic always lead them correctly and this was no different. He was like the indirect father of the group. If anyone needed advice on anything he would help as much as possible.
Anyways, he needed to hurry up and finish any jobs of his. First he messaged Death to see if he or Ares needed help with any leveling jobs. While waiting for a response he opened up some of his programs to start editing saves and hacking games. Once Death said they shouldn't but they would message him if they needed it he started working on his jobs while thinking about their strange group.
All of them had their quirks, but that was one of the reasons that fit so well together. He was socially anxious and as awkward as they come, Muse had very low self-esteem, Ares never fit in anywhere because of how diverse he was, and Death hated being second. Each one of them were helped by Toxic.
Toxic accepted them for how they were and didn't judge their faults. He didn't know the story behind Raven, Toxic, and Monkey, but he figured it was very complex like everything else that involved Toxic.
Anyways he needed to finish these assignments as soon as possible. He looked down at the time, it was 12:30 P.M.
"I wonder if Monkey needs any help with his jobs?"
P.O.V. Ares & Death
Death closed the stream he and his brother were using in his room. They both looked at each other for a minute before laughing like crazy. After about 4 minutes Ares spoke.
"This is crazy. Who would have though when you asked me to join this group that we'd end up doing this?"
"I definitely didn't. I just thought it'd be a cool thing to do in our free time. I never once thought it would turn into what it has."
"Yeah who would've thought one guy on the internet would bring together our broken family of psychos and make us famous. We need to tell Toxic thanks when we finally meet in real life."
Neither one said anything. They didn't need to. They both knew Toxic had helped both of them with their problems. Before this group Ares had never been accepted into any groups. He was an athletic, punk, who skated, and played on the computer a lot. He didn't exactly fit into most groups. But when he joined this group Toxic had made it clear he didn't care that Ares had an odd assortment of characteristics. He had accepted him with open arms, metaphorically of course.
Death had always felt like second best before he joined the group. He always felt like he would only be second best. It had taken Toxic all of five minutes to show him that even if he was second best he was still better than all the others below him and he had an assortment of skills no one else had.
Death checked a message he got from Angel. He read it quickly before telling Ares.
"Angel wants to know if we need any help with leveling jobs. I know I don't, do you?"
"I don't think so. If we do tell him we'll message him."
Death nodded and sent the message and leaned back in the chair. Ares smiled at him in anticipation before speaking.
"Are we pulling an all nighter?"
"You know it."
They bumped fist before Ares went back to his room.
P.O.V. Muse
Muse closed her stream down and stood up out of her seat to go and get something to drink. She was still processing all of this information. She never expected any of this when she accepted Toxic's invitation to the group.
She had been playing a normal MMORPG and was playing with a random group of people. She was doing fairly well, but what was weird was that there was team of only 6 people who were destroying groups nearly triple their size. Her group decided to test out this small group. She noticed that about half way through the fight the leader of the group had went to the back of the group.
About 5 minutes later she heard a voice that wasn't on her team. He quickly told her he was the leader of the other team and wanted to talk to her about joining their group. At first she had thought about saying no, but she realized that if this guy could break into the game a get access to her character that maybe she should hear him out.
After the rest of her team had been destroyed she started talking to the leader. He said he had noticed how she was wearing a very interesting customized skin. He asked her if she had made it. Once he found she had he started asking her to be the art designer for their group. At first she thought this was odd, but after he had explained that no one else in their group was very good with art design.
It didn't take her long to accept. She soon found out they actually spanned across many games. After a month he had asked her to design a webpage for their group, that he decided to call the Seven Deadly Sins. She had said she would and from their everything had taken off. He had helped her with her self-esteem and gave her a place in their odd group.
She looked around her apartment. She lived in a large apartment with her parents. It was similar to most hotel rooms. There was a kitchen to the right of the door and then the Apartment was right past that. From their you could go left to her parents room or right to hers. Each one was connected to a personal bathroom.
Her parents worked quite a lot and tended to ignore her unless it had something to do with her art and/or music. She knew that they didn't do it on purpose, but it still made her feel unwanted until she had that talk with Toxic.
She walked back to her room and started working on some projects thinking about how they would be working for someone soon, most likely. The only thing she was worried about was the alibi, but she knew that as soon as Toxic had gotten the message from the client he would've started thinking of possible alibis for everyone. She knew that as long as he was their leader they'd be okay.
She had a message from Raven asking her if she needed help with and jobs. She told her she didn't at the moment and if she did she'd message her. She needed to get the site down quickly and then finish her jobs. Thankfully none of them were that hard, for her anyways.
P.O.V. Toxic
Toxic was awakened by Raven trying to climb on the bed and scare him awake. He sat up and wiggled his finger making her pout, but he kissed her before she could say anything. She smiled and climbed off and he stood up stretching.
He walked over to the computer and started working on a program to keep Facebook down for a few more hours. After making sure it would stay down for at least 4 hours he went to the bathroom and brushed his teeth. He came back and put his shoes on.
"Hey Raven, I got to leave for a little bit. If I'm not back in four hours can you hit the start program button the screen?"
She nodded and he kissed her on the cheek before grabbing his phone and keys. Before walking out the room he asked a question.
"Do you need anything while I'm out?"
She placed her hand on her chin and thought about it.
"Hmm, you should get some suitcases while you're out."
He nodded and walked over to Monkey's room. Monkey looked over at him.
"I'm going out do you need anything?"
"Yeah, grab some food on the way back."
Toxic said okay and walked out to the car. While it wasn't very new, it was a very nice car. Jerald had gotten this black 2000 Ford Mustang two years ago and had been customizing it ever since.
Toxic got in and started driving to the mall. Since they lived just outside of a big city the mall opened at 9:00 A.M. and it was currently 8:30 A.M. He would be there about the time it opened.
Once he got to the mall he quickly went inside after pulling his hood up, he didn't like to talk to people unless necessary. He headed towards one of his favorite stores, Spencer's. He walked up to the cashier, who couldn't be to much older than him. She smiled at him and spoke in a very happy voice.
"How may I help you?"
"I need seven studded chokers , identical except for different colors and different tag designs."
Who is this client that wants the group? What will everybody's alibis be? And why is Toxic getting seven chokers made? Find out all of these and more next time on Seven Deadly Sins.
A/N Well, that's a wrap. So, I'm pretty much making this up as I go. I only had the vaguest of ideas for this story and it quickly became this. Whether it's good or bad it up to you. If you like it great, if not tell me why.
Anyways until next time,
Toxic Out.