Heeey guys! My Luv, fanfictionlove2014 brought to my attention the poor amount of Seven Deadly Sins fictions out there with the delicious M rating—so I shall do my part, just as she is doing hers. IT'S HER FIRST FANFIC GUYS! CHECK IT OUT!

Oh, and btw, please consider that I have only watched the first 24 episodes (no manga atm), so I think I will create an alternative reality here so that the pressure of staying canon doesn't rob me of the journey this story might take me... Enjoy!

Rated M

M is for MATURE, people.

If I can pretend to be, then you can too!

DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING! *sob*

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Ever since she could remember, Elizabeth had been intrigued with Fairykind. They seemed so graceful, so beautiful. Perhaps it was simply because it was the only other race her father allowed in his kingdom, she couldn't be sure. As princess of the elven country of Liones—it wasn't in her favor to ask. Father was very set in his ways and incredibly protective of his three daughters.

The fairies seemed so alive though! She had lived a long 400 years in her woodland kingdom, and yet she only felt like she had truly lived when graced by the presence of Harlequin, the fairy king or one of his subordinates. They fluttered around and played like children despite their many years on this land. As the third princess and second in line for the throne, she was expected to be a model for other woodland elves; her father frowned on the way she would join Harlequin's people in their games.

Liones was tucked away from the world, a world that had many wonders that the Fairy King would tell her stories about under the cherry trees.

So naturally, when word got around that Harlequin had asked permission for him and his team of adventurers to be granted safe passage through the kingdom during their travels... Elizabeth couldn't help but go against her father's distinct orders for her to remain home during their crossing.

The princess roused at dawn with a smile on her lips. Today was the day she'd finally see Harlequin's team for herself! What could be better than seeing a story come to life? Merlin, the greatest mage of Britanna, Diane, the most beautiful giant in all the land, Gowther, the mind reading doll, Ban the undead, and of course, Meliodas, the demon lord. The thought shot shivers down her spine. It was like words jumping off a page right before her eyes! Nothing Father concocted would keep her home today.

She dressed in typical elven archer gear. Brown leather pants and a multi-green tunic that allowed free movement in the way it fit her form, but flared out at her hips. Nothing to distinguish her from any other elf, save for the lone earring she wore on her ear with her kingdom's crest. Elizabeth was far too excited to bother with it, or with her hair. She left it hanging down her back as she slung her quiver over her tunic and snatched the long bow from its roost in the corner of her bedroom.

Swinging the door open, Elizabeth's blue eyes widened as she tumbled onto her bottom from surprise. Her sister, Veronica was standing right in front of it with a knowing smile on her face. The second princess looked down at her guilty little sister and smirked. "I knew it!"

"Knew, knew wh, what?" Elizabeth replied shyly, fidgeting on the floor with wilting ears.

"You! You're on your way to the cross roads aren't you!" Veronica pointed, smirking at catching her sister red handed.

Her face paled, "N, no! You heard Father! We're n, not allowed to leave the castle grounds today!" Elizabeth stood up and dusted herself off, "I was j, just on my way to get some practice in."

Veronica's laugh echoed throughout the hall, "Are you kidding me? Little sister! You are such a bad liar! You haven't gone to the practice grounds in over three years! Not that anyone would blame you—being one of the best archers in the kingdom."

She was being too loud! Elizabeth grabbed her and yanked her into the bedroom and shut the door behind her, "Well, if you knew, then why are you here barring my way?" She whisper/yelled at her, "you're going to get me caught!"

Her sister's face lost its mirth, "Well, because I'm worried about you."

Words like that was one of the things Elizabeth was sick of, but she couldn't blame her. If the shoe had been on the other foot, she would have been worried too. "Sister... I..."

"Don't think for a moment that Harlequin's buddies aren't scoundrels!" She folded her arms stubbornly, "they aren't elves, ya know, and they aren't fairies! You keep your guard up!"

Elizabeth squeaked, "I'm not actually going to talk to them! I just... wanted to have a look."

Veronica scoffed, "Sure. Because we all know that you look with your eyes, and not with your hands."

This brought a blush to the younger princess' cheeks. It just wasn't fair trying to express your intentions to someone who knew you so well. She couldn't help if it if the things she looked at tended to fall... forcing her to pick it back up and replace it. This was different though. She was much too shy to actually speak with Harlequin's legendary friends "I couldn't possibly... if I did, the Fairy King would only drag me back home and I'd get into even more trouble..."

"You know I should stop you right..." Her sister frowned at her.

Elizabeth squirmed under her penetrating gaze, "...Yes..."

Veronica cracked a smile and snatched her up in a giant hug, "Good, then I never saw you this morning. When I knocked, you had complained that your stomach felt ill so you were going to skip breakfast." She slipped her fresh bread and cheese neatly wrapped up in a cloth.

The smile that grew from the platinum haired princess' face was the brightest of all in Liones, "You really mean it Sister? You won't stop me?"

"Nah." She shrugged, "just come back in one piece. I'm telling you, those guys are nothing but scoundrels!" Pausing, hoping her words weren't falling on deaf ears, "come home in one piece."

"Thank you Sister! Thank you!"

"Yea, yea, now go out the window you idiot! I'm not covering for you if you can't even scale the castle walls!"

Elizabeth laughed, now that was something she could do all too well. They'd been doing it together since adolescence.

^.~

It was mid morning when she heard voices coming from behind her. Elizabeth had made herself at home in the branches of an old oak, well tall enough to never be seen by the travelers.

That is... until she saw how tall Diane really was. The princess did a mental 'eep!' and quickly scrambled to higher branches.

"I still don't understand why we can't just drop in for a bite to eat, Captain. So what if they're a bunch of stuffy elves. A man should be able to pick up some grub if there's a town nearby." The voice came from a man garbed entirely in red leather with white spiky hair.

Then came a much more familiar voice from the small form floating on his giant green pillow, "I told you, Ban! The king does not want anyone bothering his people. You should understand that even being granted passage through his woods is an honor! I can only imagine how many elves are mad because they had to pull their defenses."

"Ha!" The same man retorted, "like a couple of dirty elves could keep us from going where we wanted!"

"Geez, Ban!" This voice bellowed out of the giant. Diane was so big! Sure she was lovely, as Harlequin kept saying... but it was certainly difficult to get over her size! "You never know when to quit. We shouldn't talk about the elves like that, especially not here! They are probably listening."

Ban scoffed, "Like I give a damn. Hey Captain, let's go grab some food." He bent over a shorter form, the only one on the trail that hadn't yet spoken. "I swear I smell bread and cheese. Smells amazing! I could sure go for some right about now."

Elizabeth did another mental 'eep!' Surely he wasn't smelling what she hadn't already eaten! She checked her pack, with what remained of her breakfast securely tucked away. How could he have smelled that? Ban the undead must have a nose like a fox! They were passing her now, so she started to leap through the trees after them. She couldn't loose them now! They were bantering back and forth! Just like in the stories the Fairy King would tell her.

The man Ban had referred to as Captain looked up at the taller man and sniffed the air. "I smell it too. It does smell pretty good."

"C, Captain!" Harlequin floated up on the other side of him, "you can't be serious! We've got to stay on the path!"

"Relax, King." The man waved nonchalantly, "all I did was admit that it smells good. We'll get something to eat when we meet up with the others at the Boar Hat."

Elizabeth found it odd about how relieved Harlequin's sigh sounded. Why had he called that man Captain? She couldn't get a good look at him, Ban the undead was blocking her view. Her attentions were spread between the branches she leapt through, and trying to watch.

"Aww, you guys are no fun." Ban grinned to himself, "just imagine the looks on their faces if we were to stride into town!" He leaned over the Captain again, "I hear elven chicks are real babes, ya know!"

"Are they?" He responded innocently enough.

"Really Ban?" Diane the giant mumbled, "the Captain wouldn't be interested in such riffraff."

"Actually," Harlequin thought out loud, "They are pretty breathtaking. They grow up to be pretty mature, unlike my kind, who tend to stay in a childlike form for most of our lives."

"Heh," Ban chuckled, "sounds like you just said the town is full of busty babes to me!"

"I suppose a slight detour could be allowed..." The blonde man put a thoughtful finger to his chin.

"Alriiight!" Ban laughed out.

"C-Captian! We CAN'T!" Harlequin cried desperately.

The Captain chuckled, "Relax, King! I'm only kidding. I know you stuck your neck out getting permission for us to go through this shorter route."

"Whew..."

"Damnit! And after you got my hopes all up and everything." Ban sulked.

"Serves you right, Ban!" Diane reprimanded, "you know how distracted the Captain can get! We have to stay on track."

"Riiiiiight..." Ban grinned again, Elizabeth wondered if the smirk of his was painted on. "I'M the one leading him down the path of temptation."

The Captain stopped short, causing Ban to pass him. He was much shorter than Ban the undead. His hair was slightly longer and wafted in the breeze in an unruly blonde mess. He looked as though he was barely over 100! Why were they calling this child Captain? He sucked his finger briefly then held it up to the air.

"What is it Captain?" Diane asked apprehensively.

"Oh..." He replied, smiling slightly. "Nothing much." The blonde counted three steps to the right, then one forward. Then he made and X in the dirt. "You guys wanna see some pretty birds?" Then the boy turned around, and walked to a tree on the other side of the path and knocked on the wood.

"Sure!" Diane smiled.

"Caaaptain!" Harlequin whined, "we shouldn't bother the wildlife!"

Elizabeth stared at the boy's smile. He looked as carefree as a fairy—much more than the side of Harlequin she'd never seen before. She was confused about the Fairy King's complete personality overhaul. He'd always seemed so confident when he would visit their kingdom.

All three of them were watching the Captain curiously, four if you included the interloper up in the trees. His smile changed into a smirk as he lightly thumped the tree before walking away.

After a moment of silence, plumed pheasants emerged from the canopy, at least ten of them. Diane smiled brightly, "Aww! So pretty!"

"Those birds are native to these lands, Diane." Harlequin educated.

"I wish we could come here more often!" She murmured, watching the birds tumble about the air.

"Me too! Especially when other beauties fall out of the sky too!" The Captain added.

That was around the last time Elizabeth had at least an inkling of an idea she understood what was happening around her for some time to come. When the pheasants regained their composer, they flew up into the tree she was perched in, which caused a pair of chittering chipmunks to scurry around their vast haul of acorns in a fruitless effort to keep them from gravity's angry grasp. Those acorns started tumbling down right on top of the princess, which resulted in her trying to move to another branch. However, her movements were not quicker than the acorns falling amidst the branches, and a few perilous steps led her foot to fall right on top of one, causing her to yelp and frantically grab at anything she could latch onto.

Alas, the only thing she was able to grab onto was a chipmunk with quite an extensive set of curse words in his own squeaky language, and she was sent falling a length higher than a giant on a one way coarse to the ground.

Yea... she screamed.

The Captain walked back to the X he had made in the dirt right in the nick of time to catch her. However, it was not like in the fairy tales where a dashing prince would catch the damsel in bridal style. No... she fell into his arms alright, but she tumbled into his waiting arms with her legs straddling his waist, and his grabby hands squeezing both cheeks of her rear end.

She blushed a bright red as she looked into those green eyes that spoke of an age she could only imagine. Her 400 years seemed like child's play under eyes such as these. The hands underneath her gripped her in a way that felt... hungry.

"Well hi there!" Was all he said, with a handsome smile and hands full of her.

"Oh dear..." Elizabeth breathed.

"AHHHH!" Came Harlequin's voice as he floated up to them, "E-E-Elizabeth! W, what're you doing here?!"

The bright red princess turned to him, but she was far too embarrassed to speak.

"Well I'll be, babes really are falling from the sky." Ban looked up into the trees' canopy.

"Hey King," the Captain said, still staring at the pointy eared enemy of gravity who was releasing a poor chipmunk from her hand.

"Uh... yes?" The Fairy King answered hesitantly.

Making no movement to put the assaulted woman down, he asked, "Is this that princess you said who her dad was trying to arrange a marriage with the drow elf kingdom's prince?

"Wha, what?!" Elizabeth started, growing redder the more he squeezed.

"Um... yea... actually."

His smile turned slightly sinister as he looked at the elf girl, "Is that something that sounds fun to you, Princess?"

It was the first she'd heard about it—marriage? To... Prince Hendrickson...? She knew father was trying to make peace with them, but marrying her off to that, that monster? With hands that gripped the Captain's shoulders firmly, her whole body moved with how fervently she shook her head, "Nnnno! I can't! I won't!"

Suddenly his smile turned cheery, his voice a pitch higher, "Great! It's settled then! You'll come with us!"

"Captain!" Harlequin shrieked, "she is a princess of the woodland elves! We can't just kidnap her!"

"We're not kidnapping! She's running away." He started walking, still holding her, "in the same direction as us."

"Nice!" Ban exclaimed, "a little political espionage does a body good!"

"This is a bad idea Captain! Think of the consequences!" Harlequin fretted.

"Think about how we better walk faster," laughed Ban.

Diane growled, "Maybe Captain should think about putting her down!"

"Oh!" the captain set her down after one last handful of elf rear to satisfy him, "sorry about that," he spoke as though he hadn't the slightest hint of anything he may have done to accost the girl, and nodded a greetings to her. "I'm Meliodas. Nice ta meetcha!"

"You... you're Meliodas...?" Elizabeth couldn't seem to shake the redness off her face.

Ban sighed in a disapproving tone, "Typically you tell him your name now that he told you his."

"Oh!" The elf jumped, she felt as though her bottom still had his hand prints on it! "I'm... I'm Princess Elizabeth..."

Meliodas made a small, very small bow, "The pleasure's all mine." He glanced at the other three with him, "we'd better get a move on."

"Oh! Umm... right!" Frowned Diane.

"Oh dear... what are we doing?" Cried Harlequin

"Hey Cap, betcha I can beatcha outta this crummy old forest!" Ban snickered.


Stage set and hands full! Let's go adventuring! I'm gonna have fun drawing lil Elizabeth with pointy ears now—keep an eye out for upcoming coverart!

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~Thanx yet again, my Luv (fanfictionlove2014) for the nickname! It's still raising the most delicious questions!