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All the homunculi, new and old, were gathered in a large gradoise room, waiting for Dante to speak.
" As you all know, it has been nearly a year since your homunculi were created, now it is time for you to announce the names you have chosen for them. Lust, you go first."
All the homunculi turned their attention towards Lust and the homunculous she brought with her. The 'newbie's' eyes darted around the room, trying to take everything in. Her shoulders arched back and she slightly inclined her head, trying to give the impression that she was in complete control. Lust chuckled at this defensive pose and pushed her in front for everybody to see. Gluttony, standing beside Lust as well watched Tem deal with the others. He didn't mind Tem at all since both were often around Lust.
She no longer bore resemblance to a gorilla and appeared fully "human". Infact she had the same physique as when she was Kara, semi-slim waist, slightly large breasts, long somewhat slim legs and rather muscular arms and stomach. Nowhere NEAR as voluptuos as Lust or as serene as Sloth, then again they had the bodies of fully developed women and she appeared to be a teenager. Her black attire consisted of a rather low v-necked sleevless "half shirt" that clung to her upper torso, a short skirt that stopped half way down her thighs, gloves with the fingers cut halfway and toe-less and heel-less socks that went halfway up her lower legs. The scarlet oroborous lay between her breasts in the same exact spot as Lust's. Her ebony emerald tresses fell over her shoulder down to her lower back. Her bangs which were typically shoved behind her ears now acted like a barrier between her and these strange people by hanging in front of her face, coming down to a little below her chin. Her slitted violet orbs held intensity, suspicion, definance and a hint of mockery.
"This is Temptation." Was all Lust said as an introduction.
Envy snorted, "So that's what you're called, from my collection of mutilated weaponry I'd say you "inherited" Lust's ability to pierce metal."
Pride stepped up to greet Tem next. " I Pride welcome you Temptation." He was obviously a man of few words and a bit of an ego.
Greed quickly stepped up and looked at her body instead of her face. What a greeting, Tem thought disdainfully. She could have sworn she heard him say "Not as big but not lacking either." Her muscles tensed and she instinctively roundhoused him. However when her foot connected with his head he didn't go flying. Instead he was pushed back a few feet but he did stop looking at her body and now looked her in the eye. All he was met with was indignation, fury, and smugness. He shrugged his shoulders and smiled as he walked away. Lust quietly whispered into her charge's ear that the rude man was called Greed. Tem whispered back "I know."
Sloth rolled her eyes, walked up to a slightly fuming Tem, and smiled. "Welcome, I'm Sloth and this is Wrath and the two girls behind me are Loathe and Lithe." She doesn't seem bad at all, Tem concluded. Holding onto her hand was a small boy with untamed bluish-black hair and sharp teeth. I hope he's not like Greed Tem mentally moaned. Both girls smiled and one waved at her. This eased Tem's suspicion and she let her guard down and smiled back.
"Now Sloth." Dante's voice commanded.
Now all the attention turned towards Sloth and her little 'family' of four. The water homunculous gave a light tug on a rather tall girl's arm, signaling her to come. She did and was soon seperated from her 'family' and surronded by odd looking people. She quickly spun around looking for her mom and found her only a few feet away, calm and relaxed. The girl decided that if mom was okay with this, I should be too. Then a little voice popped into her head, are you so sure? it taunted. However she brushed away the doubts this little voice brought and held her head high like a proud stallion.
This girl wore another all black ensemble but instead of two pieces it was one. It was a sleeveless, curvaceous, haltertop dress that barely brushed the floor with it's hem. Her oroborous lay right above her left breast. Her shoes were elegant highheeled and resembled lace up sandals. She sported very large breasts, stood around 5,8,and had large swinging hips. Her black hair shimmered with gleams of plum purple and fell all the way down to her hips. She had no bangs and tucked stray locks away behind her ears. Her violet slitted orbs held a certain warmth but also suspicion and a hint of anxiety. As Aundrea she may have had very good people skills.
"Everyone, this is my daughter Lithe. Say hello Lithe."
"Hi." She said in a deep voice laced with tension.
Envy marched up to her and stared her straight in the eye. She returned the challenge with a glare of her own, accompanied with a low growl. He raised an eyebrow at that and smirked.
"Name's Envy, you'd do best to remember it. I'm also the eldest and whatever I say goes, got it?" She turned her head away from him in a gesture of refusal.
"Brat." He scowled and walked away.
Now Lust walked over to her.
"Hello, my name is Lust and please, don't take offense to what Envy said. He's incredibly hotheaded." Her words seem to be wrapped in silk which put Lithe on edge. She didn't know whether to trust such a smooth talker. Next, the girl beside her spoke.
"Hey, I'm Temptation, Tem for short. And this is Gluttony" She said, letting a bit of a smile slip. The short round man on the otherside of Lust mumbled something along the lines of hello and waddle off. Lithe felt the urge to recoil at the sight of the blob man.
All of a sudden, a big burly man stood in front of her. She already knew who he was so she let her guard down a bit and was able to relax.
"I believe we're already aquainted." Pride said and walked off to go stand by Sloth. Lithe had grown used to this ad no longer minded the close proximity he and her mom shared. However she shifted her violet gaze and saw Wrath pouting and snarling then being admonished by Loathe. Lithe felt a smile creep upon her lips as she thought of all it took for those two to get along.
From what Loathe had told her in the beginning she had been afraid of Wrath because he brought Envy and Envy hurt her a lot. But once in an act of who knows what, Loathe managed to stumble upon a crying Wrath. She comforted him and asked him what was wrong and he replied that Envy was mean to him. At the name Envy she flinched and slightly shrunk back. Wrath noticed the abscene of warmth and looked at her and saw they were close to the same. Besides the fact that they were both the supposed embodiment of the sin wrath they both shared the same problem. Wrath clung to her and buried his face in her clothes and she just barely heard a muffled "Sorry." She tilted her head to the side in confusion. Wrath looked up and saw her puzzled expression. "Sorry means I feel bad about all those times Envy beat you. No more, okay?" He explained and promised. Loathe's face light up in joy and she squeezed Wrath in a tight hug.
Eversince then the two had slowly grown closer together, also Loathe gained more self confidence and Wrath cut down on his dependence issues. I guess that bastard's good for something at least, Lithe thought a tad morbidly. She was snapped out of her reverie by the arrival of another person whom she guessed was the last homunculous bcause Sloth had told her there was seven of them, well ten if you count the new ones. Sadly the other four new homunculi didn't make it.
She was right, Greed was the last homunculous she was goig to meet, but she remembered him from Tem's introduction. Once again he looked at her breasts instead of her face. "Woah, those are big, but the waist needs to be slimmer." He lewdly commented. A slight blush alighted on her cheeks and she snarled and whacked him upside the head.
"Bastard!" She spat at him angrily.
He shook his head and sighed once more before trudging back into the crowd.
Once more Dante's voice echoed off the orantely decorated walls. "And lastly, Wrath."
Sloth walked Wrath up to the others and Loathe followed somewhat reluctantly. Then she let go of his hand and whispered a few encouragements into his ear. He nodded and turned to face the crowd and watched as she walked away. The girl stading next to him, Loathe had a different physique than the other two. She had large curved hips and a smaller chest and wore all black again but this time it was a three piece outfit. The first piece was a top that wrapped aroud her neck like a turtleneck and then branched off and went under her arms and clothed the entire length of her arms. Then came a simple tight-fitting dress that stopped a little above her knees and two slits that ran up to her thighs. Beneath those were black shorts that clung to her legs and stopped at midthigh. Her feet were adorned with black toe-less and heel-less socks that went up a little above her ankles. They couldn't see it but her oroborous was on the ball of her left foot. Her slightly wavy black hair had just a tint of dark blue and stopped at her shoulders in an inwards curl. Her bangs curled inwards as well, came down just above her eyes and parted in the middle. Her dark lavender gaze held apprehension modesty and shyness.
Once again, Envy was the first to greet her.
"You don't look like anything resembling or even hinting at wrath or loathing. Infact you look as though you would melt into a puddle." He sneered, jeering at her. His only response was a set jaw and a look of determination mixed in with the shyness.
"I'm sure you've already heard but my name is Envy, then again, you already know that." And with that, he spun on his heel and walked out of the room. He'd seen all the new homunculi and decided to retire to his room for the rest of the day. Maybe he could go and torment O chibi or at least scheme up ways to torment the pipsqueek.
Also, once again Lust stepped up to apologize for Envy's behavior. "I'm so sorry about that, he's just tempermental today. By the way, my name is Lust and I apologize for Greed's behavior in advance. Oh, and this is Gluttony, he doesn't say much." She patted Gluttony on the head.
"Hey! I'm not that bad!" Greed shouted from somewhere in the crowd. Most of the other homunculi rolled their eyes at this response.
Pride replaced Lust. "Hello young one, my name is Pride and I welcome you." How come he didn't call the others 'young one'? I don't look THAT young, Loathe silently fumed.
Suddenly a girl ran up and stood before Loathe. "My name's Tem as I'm sure everyone knows by now, just thought I'd say hi." Loathe blinked and shakily smiled. Then Tem ran back to Lust.
This was strange for Temptation, these two girls made her feel so relaxed and at ease. The strangest part about it was that she hadn't the faintest as to of why. Even stranger still, unbeknownst to her Loathe and Lithe felt close to the same way about her and each other.
All to quickly Greed was busy eying Loathe up and down. Ascarlet blush spread across her face like wildfire. "Cute, very cute." Was all he said. Loathe became so flustered she began to fidget nervously, until she couldn't stand it anymore. Her foot planted a vicious kick into his stomach and he nearly doubled over.
"I already know your name is Greed. Good bye." And she stomped away in a huff over to Sloth, Pride, Wrath, and Lithe. Three of which were fuming over Greed's antics. Sloth and Pride had taken to 'parenting' the other three homunculi.
"Now that that has been concluded training will begin tommorow and each of you will be assigned a room with the appropriate training materials. You may go now."
Slowly, all the homunculi filed out of the room and back into their respective quarters.
Maruken: Sorry, the top said Monday but it'll have to be Tuesday because I cut open my damn right middle finger and I use that to type so it hurt and I had to finish this on Tuesday. Hope this was long enough.
Sea monkeys, HAHAHAHAA! Good one.