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"So, what do we do? I'm getting bored." Lithe lazily yawned and looked around.
She stood on a little island in the middle of a lagoon, eyeing the bluish liquid.
" Imagine yourself as the water."
WHAT! "What's THAT supposed to do?" Lithe was now severely confused and annoyed, if all they were going to do was pretend she neednt have come anyways. This seemed WAY too childish.
"Try it." Sloth said, smiling encouragingly.
"Fine." Strangely enough after a few minutes of meditating on becoming water she began to...melt? Abruptly her eyes flashed open and she stared in horror at her arm, now tinted a light blue.
"WHAT was THAT!" She screamed in terror.
"THat was normal try it again, only keep at it until your entire body is transparent."
This made no sense. Absolutly ZERO. Still she tried it again, although this time when she began to feel that melting sensation she went along with it.
"VERY good, now open your eyes but keep concentrating."
Lithe opened her eyes but the moment she did her body began reverting back to its original state. Frustrated she squinched her violet eyes shut again and concentrated really hard. Once again she opened her eyes, sadly the same thing happened though.
"I can't do it, this is ridiculous." And with that, the female homunculous walked off the edge of the island and into the water. The warm liquid enveloped her as she immersed herself in it, she reveled in the wonderous feeling.
Sloth sighed but didn't go after, instead she observed her. She can swim, but I've never taught her how. Strange, that shouldn't be possible. Maybe she could swim back when she was human?
AS Sloth was lost in her own thoughts Lithe was having the time of her life. She felt at home in the water, all her troubles drifted away with the waves she created. However, in all her fun she failed to realize her "mother" was no longer on the island. Suddenly, she felt herself being lifted out of the water. Lithe began frantically thrashing about try to escape the water's grip. THe substance began wrapping itself around her in an...embrace?
"AAAHHHHHHghggh...Mother?" She said incredulously, gagging on the water.
"Yes dear, now this time listen to me."Sloth said firmly to her rebellious daughter.
Dumbfounded, Lithe stopped struggling and allowed herself to be dragged back to the island. Once they both reached the small plot of land Sloth released her grip and gently lay Lithe on the ground.
"How...how..how did you...do that?" Whispered Lithe in awe.
"You shouldn't be so surprised, you can do the same thing too."
" I CAN!"
"Yes, but only with practice. Will you practice now?"
"YEAH! Of course I will."
Funny, when you show a child a cookie they want to learn how to bake. Wrath was proof of that. Now I show Lithe the "cookie" and she all of a sudden will put the time and effort into learning how to "bake. I wonder if this works everytime? Sloth thought. I wonder if I can use this information? After all, knowledge should be put to good use, or what use is it?
A couple hours later Lithe fell back on to the grassy ground, exhausted. Sloth marveled at the girl's will power and endurance. How could she concentrate THAT hard for THAT long? Did she really want it THIS much? Why? What's so good about it? She always took her abilities for granted, they were nothing special. Sadly after all that work Lithe could only keep her fingers translucent. Sloth sighed and picked up her flushed daughter and slowly tread through the water to the other side and on to land. The training had really tuckered Lithe out so she barely stirred the entire trip home. For being lazy, she was pretty persistent.
After a while the two returned to the mansion, Sloth dead tired and Lithe out like a light. Pride greeted them and took Lithe from Sloth and put her to bed. Then he returned to Sloth's side as though they were a married couple.
"How was training?"
"Good, she can't do much but she can change her fingers."
"That's not good enough, try to push her harder next time."
"But she was tired from just that. I don't know if she's capable of anymore."
"Her name is close to yours, she'll be fine."
"I guess."
Pride DID have a point, wait, did that mean Lithe is actually capable of more than just that? Was she faking fatigue? And if so, did she just FALL for it? Angrily, Sloth shook her head and trudged upstairs to her room, Pride accompanying her.
Why Sloth put up with that girl's laziness Pride didn't know. Why didn't she just push Lithe until she could do it? He KNEW she could, she was a homunculous, of COURSE she could. Then again, he also couldn't quite understand why she put up with Wrath's constant complaining and whining.
Envy watched the entire thing in disgust. He hated, no, absolutley despised the way those three acted around each other. THe way Sloth always talked to Lithe with such calming words and the way Lithe rolled her eyes or smiled back. And the way Pride wrapped his arm around Sloth. It was just VILE! WRONG! Sickening, just sickening. THe Sin felt something stirring inside him whenever he happened to catch them together, something that ravenously ate at him. That twisted his entrails into a knot and forced them up his throat.
Why were they always so fucking HAPPY? What REASON did they have to be happy! What RIGHT! They were monstrosities cast out by the Door. They killed and they butchered and they slaughtered, they should be happy doing THAT! Not talking, how can one derive pleasure from talking! Unless you were threatening someone, THAT always brought a smile to his face, but they were just talking about normal things.
Actually, he understood why looking at Sloth made him sick, it was obvious. She used to be the pisqueek's and his damned tin brother's mom. He had GOOD, oh yes, VERY GOOD reasons and justifications of his unbridled hatred of her. His hand clenched into a fist as he thought of Sloth A.K.A Trisha Elric. Oh how he wanted to rip her guts out and force feed them to her. SHE was the reason he had no real father. It was all HER damned fault! SHE stole his father away from him. SHE DID IT! He could feel himself shake with rage.
He'd kill her, he SWORE he would. At least he wanted to, he wanted to so VERY BADLY. So bad it HURT. Snarling, he pushed himself away from the pillar he was hiding behind and stomped off down the dark hallway, dreaming of the day when he would wrench that damned woman's head off.
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Maruken: YAY! I put in Envy angst, it was fun. Sorry about the length, it's kinda really short, I'll try to do better next time.
Bai bai!