"Talking"

'thinking'

"Spells"

Disclaimer: I do not own either Fairy Tail or the Seven Deadly Sins

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Chapter 4:

The sin sleeping in the forest

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After finding out there was a place that the holy knights avoided, Meliodas and crew left for the forest of white dreams. But this forest didn't look like it belonged in a dream, but rather a nightmare. All the trees looked dead and was no vegetation to be seen anywhere. And to top it all off there was an eerie fog all around them, it wasn't heavy enough to make it hard to see, but it was there like it was watching you.

Currently everyone was walking through the forest looking around hoping to find a sin, but things weren't in their favor.

"It's been almost three hours since we entered the forest." Said Elizabeth as she held a branched as see looked around. "But we haven't seen a single person or animal since then."

"Maybe there is no one here." Suggested Lucy as she also looked around.

"Then let's go home. I'm sick of seeing branches and trees." Hawk told them as he continued to walk forward.

"Lord Meliodas, is one of the seven really hiding in this forest?" Elizabeth asked Meliodas as she wondered if they were wasting their time.

"Probably." Was Meliodas said as the others stopped and looked at him.

"What!? So we're here for no reason!" Yelled Hawk as he couldn't believe what he just heard.

Lucy was about to say something when she heard Elizabeth cry out. "Elizabeth what's wrong?" She asked her in worry as she went for her keys.

"So... something is touching my butt." Elizabeth told her as she didn't know what to do.

"Don't worry, it's just me." Meliodas told everyone as he grouped Elizabeth from behind.

"Oh… That's alright then." Said Elizabeth as she let out a breath of relief.

"Lucy Kick!" Yelled Lucy as she kicked Meliodas right in the face causing the sin to fall back as an imprint of Lucy's boot could be seen on his face.

"Ouch!" Said Meliodas as he rubbed his face as he sat up. "What was that for Lucy?"

Hearing this Lucy humped at him. "We're looking for a sin, not for a place for you to have fun with Elizabeth." She told him as Elizabeth stood to the side awkwardly.

"Ok, ok." Said Meliodas as he got up. "Also 'Lucy kick'? Really?" He asked her, as he couldn't believe the name of a normal kick.

Hearing this Lucy blushed and looked away. "Shut up." Was all she could say as no had said anything about it before.

"We'll work on your attacks later." Meliodas told her as he was still grinning at the name of her attack.

"Anyway, I do have a hunch. This 'forest of white dreams' is cover by fog all year long. Travelling on horses here is difficult and it's easy to lose your sense of direction. Even people used to traveling, like hunters, avoid this forest. So this forest would be perfect for hiding from the holy knights!"

Lucy looked around and agreed with him. "Then do you know who could be hiding here?" She asked him.

Meliodas looked around before answering. "No clue." He told her as he started to walk.

Lucy shrugged as she and Hawk continued on as well. As Elizabeth was about to joined them, she felt something was off or rather missing.

As Elizabeth felt around her waist, she couldn't find her underwear. 'I'm sure I hand them on this morning.' Thought Elizabeth as she thought where her missing article of clothing went.

Lucy looked back and saw the confused looked on Elizabeth's face and went over to her.

"Is everything ok?" Whispered Lucy wondering what was wrong.

But before Elizabeth could say anything Hawk spoke up. "Hey you two! We could be attacked while your talking to each other!" He told them.

"No one like's a paranoid piglet." Said Meliodas as his eye went wide at what he saw.

"Who's a paranoid piglet?" Said Hawk, but what shocked the others was that there was over a dozen Hawk's now.

The Hawk's then saw each other, and all got confused as they started to talk all at the same time.

"It's like Gemini went crazy here." Said Lucy as she and Elizabeth joined up with Meliodas to watch everything.

"That's the one that can copy people, right?" Asked Elizabeth as she remembered what Lucy told them about her spirit.

"Yeah." Was all Lucy could say as all the Hawk's looked at them causing the girls to take a step back in fear.

"Hey Meliodas! You might not believe me, but I'm the real one!" Said one of the Hawk's as they all charged at Meliodas saying they were the real one.

As the girls got ready for the stampede Meliodas just charged them knocking them all to the side. Then the Hawk's all got up and rushed behind Elizabeth saying 'Meliodas was mean' and things along that line.

Then to the shock of the others, instead of there being an army of Hawk's behind Elizabeth it was an army of Elizabeth's. As the Elizabeth's looked at each other they soon started saying that they were the real one.

Lucy just watched as her friend got copied as she went for Gemini's key. "This getting crazy." She told herself hoping that Gemini could help.

But then Meliodas grabbed her hand. "Don't worry I got this." He told her as he then jumped to a nearby small hill causing the Elizabeth's to look at him.

"Now, let's see which one is the real one?" He mostly said to himself as Lucy wondered what his plan was.

His question was meet with the Elizabeth's saying they were the real one.

"Alright." Stared Meliodas as the Elizabeth's listened to him. "Then you have to do exactly as I tell you alright." He told them as the Elizabeth's agreed.

"Right hand up, left hand on your cheek!" He told them as the Elizabeth's did just that.

"Say my name with an embarrassed face!" Was the next thing he told them as they cried out his name in different tones of embarrassment.

"Message your breasts!" Meliodas then cried out as the Elizabeth's did just that.

"I'd should have known." Said Lucy as she covered her face with her hand and held her head low as she shook it.

"Take this seriously!" Yelled Hawk as he jumped at Meliodas as Meliodas just grabbed his face and pulled it.

Meanwhile the Elizabeth's stopped and started to call out Meliodas's name once more.

"Alright this is the last test." Meliodas told them as Hawk and Lucy wondered what it could be. "Jump as high as you can!"

Hearing this the Elizabeth's as jumped as high as they could, all but one.

"I'm sorry! I can't do it!" One Elizabeth as she fell to the ground holding her skirt down. Seeing this Meliodas then attacked all the Elizabeth's in the air. They then had smoke surrounded them as their true forms were revealed.

They were small imp-like creatures that had larges noses between their yellow eyes. They had long and large mouths showing lots of sharp teeth. They all seemed to be wearing shoes with their purple ragged clocks that had hoods covering their heads.

"What are those things?' Asked Lucy never seeing anything like them before.

"They're the prankster imps, hide-and-seek!" Explained Hawk as the imps started to run.

"Let's chase them!' Said Meliodas as the others looked at him wondering why. "They must be running back to something." He explained to then as he then stopped.

He then went to Elizabeth and held out her underwear to her. "Oh, that right. You can have this back." He told her as he gave her underwear.

"Meliodas!" Said Lucy in such a threating tone that Erza would be proud of it. Hearing this Meliodas took of after the hide-and-seeks. Seeing this Lucy and Hawk followed him, mostly to hit him for what he did. As all this happened Elizabeth quickly put them back on as she then followed them.

As they chase the hide-and-seeks they saw something in the distance.

"Look at that!" Cried out Elizabeth as she saw a girl laying on the ground in front of them. "They're running to that little girl."

"Hey, are they going to attack her next!?" Asked Hawk as they got closer to her.

"We need to stop them….." Trialed off Lucy as they got closer to the girl and saw she wasn't little, but rather a giant.

The girl before then was nearly as tall as the Boar Hat when mama Hawk was standing. She had brown hair that was tied in two ponytails on each side of her head. She wore an orange one-piece suit that had a collar and exposed her chest. She wore boots that extended up to her knees and two finger-less gauntlets on her wrists. And on her back was a cylinder style backpack.

The hide-and-seeks then stopped at the girl. "Lord Diane! We've allowed a holy knight to come through. Please forgive us!" The hide-and-seeks begged as the girl's eyes opened as everyone but Meliodas took a step back in fear as the girl got up.

"Us… holy knights? You… you got it wrong!" Said Elizabeth as fear was taking her over.

"Maybe we should start running." Suggested Lucy as she slowly went for her keys.

Then there was a sudden gust of wind as they soon saw that Meliodas was gone.

"Lord Meliodas?" Said Elizabeth in confusion as she looked for him as she saw Lucy look up in shock and fear.

"He's up there!" Lucy told the others as they saw he was in the grasp of the giant.

"A holy knight?" The giant said as she eyed Meliodas.

"Meliodas you got to break free!" Yelled Lucy hoping he could.

"Let lord Meliodas go!" Elizabeth also yelled hoping the giant would.

"Meliodas?" Said the giant as she eyed him more.

"Yo, Diane! It's been ten years!" Said Meliodas as he greeted the now named giant.

Then Diane personality did a 180 as she then hugged him while saying 'captain' in a loving matter.

"Sigh, it's like a dream come true!" Said Diane as she held Meliodas close to her.

"Di...Diane you mean this giant is one of the seven! The sin of envy, Diane!?" Cried out Hawk as Lucy and Elizabeth were also shocked to hear this as Lucy then saw a tattoo on Diane left upper thigh of a serpent.

Diane then looked at the others and then saw Hawk. "Oooh! Captain you remembered that I loved whole roasted pig!" She said with excitement as her free hand went for Hawk.

"What!" Cried out Hawk as he got ready to run. "Let me make myself clear! I'm not a pig for food." He told her as Diane saw Lucy and Elizabeth.

"Who are these girls?" Asked Diane as she eyed them, making Lucy and Elizabeth nervous.

"Um, hello I'm Lucy Heartfilia." Lucy introduced herself.

"Nice to meet you lord Diane! I'm Elizabeth. Me and Lucy are traveling together with Lord Meliodas…" But what ever Elizabeth was going to say was cut off.

"Just you two and the captain!?" Asked Diane as she looked at Meliodas.

"Plus a pig." He added as Diane got a look on her face no one was sure about.

"Oh, is that so?" Diane said in a dangerous sing tone voice.

"Yep, anyway…" Meliodas started but then out of no where Diane threw him into the ground.

"You cheater!" Cried out Diane as she threw him.

Seeing this all the other could do was watched the scene before them.

'And I though Juvia was bad.' Thought Lucy as Diane fell to her knees and cried.

"Just when I thought I was finally reunited with the man I like. And you bring two other women with you!? You've scarred my woman's heart! If you have any excuses say them now!" Cried Diane as both Lucy and Elizabeth stayed quite not wanting Diane's furry to come down on them.

"Diane, I don't need an excu…" Started Meliodas as he climbed out of the hole.

"I don't wanna hear your excuses!" Yelled Diane as she threw punch after punch onto the hole Meliodas was coming out of. "Captain you pervert! Womanizer!"

As this happened Lucy turned to Elizabeth. "Maybe we should hide until she's done?" She suggested as Elizabeth looked at Diane.

"I think that's for the best." Agreed Elizabeth as the two walked away from Diane's eyesight as she left her frustrations out on Meliodas.

A while later after Diana calmed down Meliodas explained Elizabeth's situation to Diane. "And that's why Elizabeth is traveling to find the seven to stop the Holy knights." He finished explaining to Diane.

"Oh… is that it?" Said Diana as she felt bad for jumping that gun like that. "Sorry. I got ahead of myself and went a little out of control."

"How was that 'a little'?" Asked Hawk only to get ignored.

Diane then looked at Lucy. "So, what's your story?" Asked Diane as she wondered what it was. "Are you Elizabeth's servant, her knight or something like that."

"She's from another world." Said Meliodas like it was nothing.

"Another world!?" Gasped Diane as she had never heard of this before. "Are you sure?"

"Yup." Meliodas told her. "She appeared in my bar in a pillar of light, so that make it more believable."

Hearing this Diane was wide eyed. "Then why are you here?" She asked curious to what the answer was.

"To stop the demon clan." Lucy told her as Diane gasped at this.

"I'd heard stories about them, but I thought they were gone." Said Diane as she thought about it.

"The person who sent me here had a vision of the demon clan attacking my world, so he sent me here to find the Seven Deadly Sins and help them stop the demons from being freed." Lucy told her as Diane nodded as she had one question.

"But why us?" Diane asked her curious to the answer.

"It's because he saw you fighting them. And other then that I have no idea" Lucy truthfully told her.

Diane looked at the two before nodding to herself. "Ok then." Said Diane as she accepted Lucy's story. Afterall if Meliodas believed her then that was good enough for her.

"It was pretty lucky that the two of you found each other. It makes looking for us easier for you." Added Diane as both girls smiled at each other.

"Hey Diane." Spoke up Meliodas as said girl looked at him. "About what happened ten years ago…" He trailed off as Diane thought about it.

"Huh?...Oh." Said Diane as that day came back to her. "That wonderful day when we were summoned by the great holy knight?"

"I have almost no memories of that day." Meliodas told her as both Elizabeth and Diane were surprised to hear this.

"You don't have any memories. Really?" Asked Diane as she would never forget that day.

"Um, what happened?" Asked Lucy as she had no idea what they were talking about.

The three looked at her like she was crazy, until they remembered that she wasn't from this world.

"You see from what I remembered of that day, things happened like this." Started Meliodas as he told his story.

It all started when the great holy knight summoned them to an old castle in the outskirts of the town. They weren't sure why they were summoned, but when they entered the room, they found the great holy knight dead. His body impaled by multiple different weapons. But before they could even remove the weapon from his body, they found out they were surrounded by all the knights in the kingdom. Knowing that a fight was out of the question they did the only thing they could at the time, the split up and hoped to find each other later. The last thing Meliodas remembered was someone saying they were sorry.

"Those were the last word I can remember." Meliodas told them as he finished his story. "When I came to my senses, I was lying in a hole somewhere. That's were I meet Hawk."

Hearing this Lucy thought about it before speaking up. "It was Merlin." She told the others.

"Merlin!?" Gasped Diane. "Why would she do that?"

"I don't know, but Meliodas remember when Crux found her, he passed along a message that the two of you needed to talk." Explained Lucy as Meliodas thought about it.

"That does make sense." He admitted as Merlin did know a lot of things, so knocking him out wasn't that far fetched.

As the others talked Elizabeth thought of something. "Could the one reasonable for framing you being the one planning to bring back the demon clan?" She asked the others.

Hearing this the others looked at her causing her to explain. "I remember my father saying that the Seven Deadly Sins were some of the strongest knight in the realm. If some one was planning to bring back the demon clan, they would want to get rid of the strongest opposition."

"That makes sense Elizabeth, but it's been ten years. If they were planning to make their move wouldn't they have done it by now?" Countered Lucy as she saw Meliodas look at his sword through the corner of her eye.

'What was that?' Lucy thought to herself wondering what was so important about that broken blade of his.

Diane then slammed her foot down as she stood up. "I don't understand everything right now, but for my captain, I the serpent's sin of envy, Diane will lend you my strength!" Diane told them as they were glad to have her.

"Alright! That'll help a lot!" Said Meliodas.

"Thank you lord Diane!" Said Elizabeth.

But before Lucy could say anything Diane spoke up. "Let me make this clear you two. The only reason I'm helping you is for the captain!" She told Lucy and Elizabeth.

"Why do I feel like I found this world's Juvia?" Lucy asked herself quietly, so Diane wouldn't hear her.

"Alright!" Cried the Hide-and-seek. "Lord Diane threated us to help hide her for ten years, or she would go on a rampage. Now we can finally live in peace!"

"You guys had it rough huh." Said Hawk as he watched them celebrate.

Then out of no where the weather changed as dark storm clouds formed over their heads.

"What's going on?" Lucy asked the others in worry. The from the clouds a bolt of lighting came down towards them.

The next thing everyone knew their bodies were trapped by lighting that formed rings around them, parlaying them.

"We finally meet, sin." Said a voice from behind them causing them to look that way, only to see Gilthunder there.

They then felt his magic and Diane and Meliodas knew who he was. "A holy Knight!?" They both said at the same time.

"Oh no." Was all Lucy could say as she watched the knight in front of her worried what will happen to them.

Sorry about the short chapter, but I felt this chapter would end best on a cliff-hanger. But don't worry I have a great fight planned out for the next chapter.

Also has anyone noticed that Diane and juvia are a lot alike when it come to their crushes? I never thought about it until I was writing this chapter.

Now I would like to ask everyone something. I'm thinking of adding someone else from Fairy Tail to join Lucy on her job/quest. I already have some ideas on how, but I want to hear from you who it should be and why. And just know I will not accept answers like this "Natsu cause he great" or anything similar. I would rather something more like this "Wendy because her healing magic will prove useful to everyone." And just remember this is happening while everyone is asleep for seven years so some of them don't have certain skills or magic i.e Gray demon slaying magic for example. And if you don't think I should add anyone let me know.

I don't have much else to say other then I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you enjoy the new year. Until next time.