Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
God I'm so hungry.
I don't know what to do. Everything in the fridge is gone. Everything in the cupboard is gone. I've eaten everything. Every last crumb. I even ate the baking soda right out of the box.
But I didn't stop it. This raw gnawing pit in my stomach! My need to devour is devouring me, it's eating me up from the inside! I feel like I'm going to die! I have to eat something, anything, NOW!
Mom's plant. Ugh, it's bitter, but I have to…BLERGH! God I'm still voracious! More food! More food!
Outside now. The tree. More leaves, ugh, bitter leaves. Ugh, the bark is even worse! Dear god, the whole tree's gone already. Did I eat the whole thing? How could I eat a whole tree?
Oh god, I'm still utterly famished. This is terrible. I love eating, but if this is what my love of it gives me…ARGH! Have to eat! ANYTHING!
Digging up the ground, swallowing the earth, so wet, moist, and bitter…was that justa worm I sucked down? WHO CARES? More dirt! Ugh, beetles…MORE FOOD.
Still so hungry…there's a bird! DIE BIRD! No time to cook it, must eat it now! Ugh…oh, I think it's going a-wwwwwwaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhh! It's worse then ever! It's like I have a blast furnace inside my stomach! It's burning up the food before it even gets down my throat! I need more!
Grass, cows eat grass, rip it up, need bigger hands to get more down! Need food, anything at all! Rocks, swallow them, argh that hurt…but my stomach hurts more!
There's a fruit tree…YES! EAT! EAT! MUST EAT! Oh god, it's already gone…damn, father never had it this bad! Need to eat more! Food! Food!
Little creatures running through the bushes…catch them and swallow them down…barely chewing, don't need to, just have to eat…MORE! NEED MORE! God, am I bleeding or is that their blood….oh, stomach feels like I've been eating red-hot irons…
Noise…what is that noise…car? People? Pic-FOOD!
"Hey, who are you…ARRGGGHHHH! HELP!"
"DADDY!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
"DADDY! DADDY! DA-GORSH!"
"HELP!"
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH……!"
Food. So much food…must eat it all…all gone already? What's all this blood…where did it come from… my shirt…soaked…ARGH! Must eat! Eat my own shirt! Argh, gone already, eat what now? Eat the car? Can I eat the car? I can try!
God, I ate the car…and I still need to eat! This is horrible!
More cars…more people…FOOD!
FOOD, EAT, EAT EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much blood……so many screams…don't care, just have to EAT!
Eat…eat…girl…blonde hair…know her…ARGH?
"Goten! Oh my god! What have you done? You've…"
DON'T NEED TO KNOW MUST EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Goten? Goten, what are you doing? GOTEN! GOTEN NO PLEASE! GOT-IIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I can eat now.
Oh god…I'm finally full…no more burning pain in my stomach…at last this nightmare is over…
Oh my god…all the blood…dear god…what did I do to…
What's this in front of me? Can't see, vision blurry…feels warm…and wet…vision clearing…oh god, it's not…it can't be a corpse! No, I didn't…
OH MY GOD! MARRON! OH NO! I DIDN'T! I COULDN'T OF! No…no no no no no no…I…I…
WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
MARRON!!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…
"…OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" Goten screamed as he sat up in his bedroom, his mind afire with fear.
"I couldn't have done it! No matter how hungry I got, I couldn't have…couldn't have….oh god, a dream…just a dream…" Goten gasped, taking long panting breathes.
"Just…a…Marron?" Goten said, finally noticing that the bed was empty save for him. The fear came back full force.
"Marron? MARRON! WHERE ARE YOU? MARRON!" Goten screamed as he leapt out of the bedroom and ran down the unfamilar hall. In the back of his mind Goten remembered he was at the Capsole Corp building, he had been crashing at Trunks's house.
"MARRON!" He screamed, not caring if he woke anyone up.
"Goten? What is it?" Marron said as she ran up the stairs, followed closely by Trunks. Goten's frantic screaming had startled them out of their talking, and they had headed for his yells before he woke up half the neighbourhood, or worse, Vegeta.
"Goten, are you…ERGH!" Marron cut off in a gasp as her husband ran forward and practically crushed her in his arms.
"Goten! Goten sweetie, I can't breathe!"
"Oh, sorry. I'm just glad you're safe…I thought…I thought…"
"Dear god Goten, you're as white as a sheet! What happened?" Trunks asked, glancing nervously up the hall to see if his father would come out. Luck must have been with them as no one emerged.
"What happened, love?" Marron asked her husband. Goten, now finally calmed down, actually broke out in an embarrassed grin, bringing his hand behind his head in a mannerism he had picked up from his father.
"Oh…heh heh heh, it's actually pretty stupid. I just had a really bad nightmare…"
Now it was Trunks's turn to pale.
"Trunks? Are you ok? What did I say?"
Trunks licked his lips slowly. The fact that both he and Goten had had nightmares did not mean anything, nor did the fact that they had happened so close together.
But the fact that BOTH had been so strong, so visually realistic, to inspire such continued terror after awakening…that did not add up in Trunks's mind. And the possible solution to the problem chilled him.
"I think we had better talk, Goten."
"Dear god, I didn't think yours could be as bad as mine, but it was. Yours used the way you love to eat against you, by giving you the uncontrollable urge to have to eat everything. It would almost be funny…until it came to the point where you were eating the woman you love…that kind of kills the humour."
"Tell me about it." Goten said, sitting in the chair across from Trunks and holding his wife close with one arm. "It was like Toussan's nightmare…the one he had where Agony came back. But his love of eating was tied to his love of us…hence what happened. But mine was simply about my eating…but even so, it does suggest the possibility of a link."
"Indeed." Trunks said gravely. "But if there is a pattern…a link, what does it mean? How is it happening?"
"I've got a somewhat more chilling question guys." Marron said. "Who's next?"
The figure chuckled.
"Oh, this is so much fun…who shall be next, indeed…ah, I know."
The figure tapped the keys on the panel that was at his fingertips, and the 3D holographic image switched away from the conversing hybrids and human. Now it was again on a sleeping figure.
"You don't like to fight, Son Gohan? Well, let's just see if you still feel that way after I'm done…because when I come, you'll need every fighting instinct you have…as futile as they will be…heh heh heh heh HA HA HA HA!"
The evil is drawing closer…an evil that again threatens to consume all…
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