Sora officially truly begins his newest adventure with Meliodas and Elizabeth to find the seven deadly sins to save Britanna. And take a look at my profile page to see the timeline of currently revealed stories in my Re:Route timeline that will be updated over time.
Chapter 2:The giant girl of envy
(Fort Solgres)
After Twigo was easily defeated by Meliodas back in Cains, he and his troops retreated to the nearest holy knight outpost to report to their superiors. Now Twigo who was still wearing his broken armor(Along with a bump on his head from the rock Satsuki threw at him) was now kneeling before a man in silver armor with pink hair and a emotionlessly expression after delivering him the news about his encounter with the former captain.
"The seven deadly sins…" The man with pink hair spoke which startled Twigo as he walked up to a map of Britanna. "I hope it's a real one this time. I've waited ten long years, for the day I can bring about their destruction."
"S-Sir, what of the children that are now following Meliodas and the princess?" Twigo asked about Sora, Ryuko and Satsuki.
"Well, I don't believe they are members of the seven deadly sins themselves. But tell me again of their description." The knight asked.
"Two of them were young women, whom I believe might be sisters because of how close they resemble each other, and they wear outfits that seem to have eyes on them. And the other is a boy wielding a key shaped sword." Twigo reported as the pink haired knight interest was caught.
"Is that so? I see.." The knight said as he walked over to the window where a raven with red glowing eyes was watching from a tree branch outside. "I'll deal with these children if I must, right now, we must find Meliodas."
(Meanwhile, at the boar hat)
(Music: Happy hair day)
After leaving Cains on the back Hawk's mom, Sora's group was watching the landscape pass by from the window of the tavern, much to Ryuko and Satsuki's awe.
"I gotta admit, this is a nice view." Ryuko said as she turned to Sora. "And you see stuff like this all the time?"
"Oh, yeah. There's this one world where pirates roam around, and another with superheroes." Sora described the Caribbean and San Fransokyo with a smile on his face as he thought back to his adventures.
"Sounds like you've seen some amazing things in your life." Satsuki stated.
"Sure have. You know...Maybe one day I could show you guys those worlds and meet all my friends. Kairi included." Sora hopped, but then his face grew sad.
"Hey, no sour faces, you're getting her back." Ryuko said.
"We already know there's hope." Satsuki reminded Sora of Kairi's heart fragments as his sad face faded and he nodded in agreement. "Are you going to ask Elizabeth?"
"Huh? Ask her what?" Sora asked, confused.
"Are you going to ask her if she had any dreams of you? Like I did." Ryuko stated as she reminded Sora about her dreams about his past when Kairi's first heart fragment was inside Ryuko.
"Well, Elizabeth does remind me of Kairi with how kind she is, it's possible she might be the one. But even if she is, Elizabeth might not have had any dreams, it might actually be different for her." Sora guessed.
"So, you wanna wait on it then?"
"Yeah, we should find a guardian of light first. Just in case it's not Elizabeth." Sora said while Meliodas and Hawk walked into the tavern.
"Hey, how are my new employees doing?" Meliodas asked as Sora's group noticed the former knight captain.
"Oh, we're doing fine. Thought we'd get ourselves used to the place so we took a look around, so what's up?" Sora asked.
"I'd just thought I show off the boar hat's new waitress." Meliodas said as Elizabeth came into the room wearing a new outfit that consisted of a pink button up shirt that exposed her midriff, a dark mini skirt and a single stocking on her left leg, the darningness of the outfit made Elizabeth a bit bashful.
"So, what's this new outfit for?" Elizabeth questioned as Meliodas gave a thumbs up(To seemingly noone) In aprovel.
"It's the tavern uniform!" Meliodas said while Hawk and Ryuko looked at him with skepticism.
"Way to put your pervy thoughts on display there, dude." Hawk commented while Meliodas eyed Elizabeth in her new outfit.
"While I'm waiting on tables, you want me to keep track of rumors and collect information on the possible whereabouts of the seven deadly sins, right?" Elizabeth asked.
"Some intel on the holy would be nice too." Meliodas said as he lifted up Elizabeth's skirt and made her yelp. "Don't worry, I just need to conduct a size check." He claimed as Ryuko grabbed by the top of his head.
"You're really pushing your luck, ya perv! Did you seriously only make that outfit just to harass women even more?!" Ryuko questioned angrily.
"You if like, I got a couple more outfits like Elizabeth's for you and your sister." Meliodas answered, only for Ryuko to answer by throwing him out the tavern window.
"Oh my! Sir Meliodas." Elizabeth exclaimed as Ryuko dusted her hands.
"Oh, the little shrimp is properly fine. But I betcha he's trying to catch up with us right now." Ryuko said, only to be surprised when Meliodas opened the door to the tavern.
"Yo!" Meliodas causally greeted like nothing happened, even though he had grass and a stick stuck in his hair as he walked in.
"Figures…" Ryuko sighed with a sweatdrop.
"Forget it lady, he won't learn his lesson." Hawk said while a thought came to Elizabeth's mind.
"Excuse me? Sir Meliodas? There's something I've been wanting to ask you." Elizabeth spoke up to get the former captain's attention. "The seven deadly sins...are you really that wicked? Are you all horrible criminals? Like the rest of the world says? And if you are, what awful crime did you commit?"
"My crime?" Meliodas questioned as he gave it thought.
"Now that I think about it, the rumor is, was that you were plotting to overthrow the kingdom. But the king sent his daughter to find you all, it must mean he trusts you for some reason, despite the possibility of a coup." Satsuki stated.
"Beats me why he would do that." Meliodas answered.
"Maybe he thinks you're innocent." Sora guessed.
"Probably does then…"
"Excuse me, Sir Sora?" Elizabeth spoke up.
"Just Sora is fine, Elizabeth." Sora assured her.
"My apologies, but if you and your friends had no knowledge of holy knights or even the seven deadly sins, does that really mean you're not from the kingdom?" Elizabeth questioned, surprising the trio as they quickly came up with an answer.
"Um, yeah! You caught us, we're not from the kingdom, we live way far away from here. That's why we never heard of Meliodas and the others." Sora answered to cover up that he, Ryuko and Satsuki were from another world, but then thought of Elizabeth's secondary quest to find a keyblade wielder. "So, Elizabeth, how does your father know about the keyblade? How did he know we were coming?"
"Well, my father has knowledge of many things. I assume that's how." The princess answered as Sora began putting thought to Elizabeth's answer when suddenly the tavern began shaking like an earthquake was happening, Sora, Ryuko and Satsuki grabbed on to whatever was in reach for support.
"Ahh!" Elizabeth yelped when she was about to fall over until Meliodas caught her and had his head between her breasts.
"Be careful!" Meliodas said with a muffled voice.
"KNOCK IT OFF!" Ryuko and Hawk yelled at the same time, after a few moments, the shaking had stopped which made Sora look outside the windows and see a village just outside.
"Hey, are we there now?" Sora questioned.
"Yep! We're at our next wellspring of information, Vanya village!" Meliodas confirmed as the group walked out of the tavern into Hawk's mom's back and lowered the ladder to get to the ground. After stepping off the giant pig, Hawk's mom began digging into the ground until she disappeared from sight and the boar hat tavern was the only thing visible.
"Huh, so that's where she came from." Sora said as he realized Hawk's mom was hiding underground when his group first entered the boar hat.
"Can she breathe down there?" Ryuko asked.
"If you ask me, my momma likes it down there." Hawk answered as the group stepped off the cliff the tavern was now located on and made their way towards Vanya village.
"I usually buy all my liquor from wherever I can find it, but Vanya's stuff is special." Meliodas explained as he turned to Sora, Ryuko and Satsuki. "That's where you three will come in, with some extra hands, I can stock up much more Vanya ale."
"You sure that's all you want us for? Someone else other than you could be the cook." Ryuko commented on Meliodas' horrible cooking skills.
"Sora actually has experience cooking." Satsuki said.
"Oh, you cook, Sora?" Elizabeth asked.
"Well, I just started not too long ago actually." Sora said.
"Guess I could get more customers if we didn't have such lousy tasting food." Meliodas commented.
"Because YOU cook the food, you psychopath!" Hawk exclaimed when the group began walking over a stone bridge when Sora noticed something off.
"Uh..Guys? Where's the water?" Sora asked as everyone looked underneath the bridge to see a small riverbank underneath, only to see it had no water in it.
"Look, the herbs along the bank are dead." Elizabeth pointed out the plants alongside had dried out from the lack of water.
"That's not good, Vanya can't make it's ale without any water. What's going on?" Meliodas questioned as everyone else noticed a commotion coming from the town square.
"Perhaps they know." Satsuki pointed out a large crowd of people around the center of town.
"Look at all these people in the square. Think it's some kind of festival?" Elizabeth asked as Meliodas approached the town's people.
"Hey! What's up you guys?" Meliodas greeted the village people as they took notice.
"Huh? Oh, it's the bar keep." A man recognized Meliodas from his previous visits to Vanya.
What's this festival for today?" Meliodas asked, much to the villagers' confusion.
(Music stops)
"Huh? This look like a damn festival to you?!" A villager said angrily as he then pointed out a sword stuck in the middle of the ground where many villagers were trying to pull the weapon out with their strongest men and ropes, but to no avail. "We're trying to pull out a sword some holy knight jabbed in the ground!"
"They stuck it in the ground? Why did he do that?" Meliodas questioned as an elderly man walked up.
"Days ago, a holy knight brought his wrath upon us. He infused his sword with mana, pierced the ground, and locked away the water under our village." The old man explained.
"If we don't do something about this soon, we'll lose our water, and our fruit too!" A villager exclaimed.
"And we won't have anymore Vanya ale, Damn!" Another villager cursed.
"A holy knight? Think it might be that man you defeated the other day?" Elizabeth questioned as she thought back to Twigo.
"Who? That Twigo guy with the moustache? No, not a chance. He wasn't a holy knight." Meliodas answered as Elizabeth looked confused. "Thrust me, the real ones are a lot worse."
"Wait a moment. That guy you fought cut down a whole forest, and you're saying the real knights are a lot stronger?" Sora questioned and Meliodas nodded in response.
"Oh yeah, definitely."
"Only a holy knight has the power necessary to draw the sword belonging to another. Breaking the news isn't going to be easy, but I believe this village is done for.." The village elder said.
"Oh no…" Elizabeth said while Ryuko leaned in to whisper to Sora.
"Hey, Sora. How about you try pulling the sword out? You might have the power to." Ryuko suggested.
"Bad idea. Sora could be powerful enough to pull the sword out, anyone other than a holy knight could trigger a trap left behind." Satsuki said.
"Oh give me a big break. What's the deal with all this moaning and groaning?" A young boy questioned as he walked in front of the crowd.
"It's Mead.." A village said as everyone seemed unhappy to see the child.
"A holy knight's sword stuck in the ground is nothing! If my buddies, the seven deadly sins were here, that sword would be gone by now." Mead claimed, which upset the villagers.
"Quiet, Mead! And who's fault is it that we're all in this predicament in the first place?" An older woman scolded the boy. "Of all the things to say! Did you have to mention those criminals too?"
"Yeah! She's right! We don't need to make the holy knights angrier!" A villager exclaimed.
"Do you have a grudge against us or what kid?!" Another villager shouted which made Mead worry.
"N-No. Come on..That's not the reason I did it!" Mead defended himself.
"We had it with your mischief, and all your lying!" A villager yelled as a young girl picked up a rock.
"You're such a jerk!" The girl said as she tossed the rock at Mead, only to hit Meliodas in the face instead.
"Ugg, I hate you guys!" Mead yelled.
"Yeah? Well, guess what? We hate you even more, Mead!" a village boy said as every child in the village began throwing rocks and Meliodas began rapidly escorting Mead out of the town.
"Forget you! You're all nothing but a bunch of jerks!" Mead yelled while Meliodas was being pelted with rocks.
"Why are they hitting me?" Meliodas asked himself as he got himself and Mead out of range.
"STOP IT! ALL OF YOU!" The village elder shouted to get the village children to stop throwing rocks.
"Sure looks like we pick a lousy time to come down here, eh?" Hawk questioned as the village elder sighed.
(Later, at the boar hat)
"You think that kid is even still around?" Ryuko asked as Sora's group along with Elizabeth and Hawk walked towards the boar hat tavern, but not before the village elder gave them a little insight into Mead.
"I'm pretty sure Meliodas is trying to cheer him up right now." Sora said as they walked up the boar hat and opened the door to find the former knight captain, along with Mead sitting at a table.
"Hey, you guys made it back." Meliodas greeted as Elizabeth walked over to Mead.
"So Mead. I hear you're quite the prankster with a mad sense of humor. The chief in your village told me so." Elizabeth said as Mead scoffed.
"What's it to you? What do think you are? My mother?" Mead said as Elizabeth simply smiled and lowered herself to get to eye level with the young boy.
"When I was young, I used to be scolded by my father for pulling pranks." Elizabeth said.
"And that means what to me exactly?"
"I wanted his attention. He wasn't the father I was born to." Elizabeth explained, much to Sora's group surprise. "One day when I was a little girl, I climbed a really tall tree in the garden to give my father a scare. He turned pale as a ghost, and started climbing up the tree to try and save me. This man who never climbed one his entire life. And then he fell out of the tree and hurt himself, but luckily it wasn't serious. But still, I could still remember it every minute of it, like it was yesterday. If he died, I wouldn't ever forgive myself."
"I don't do this kind of stuff, because I don't feel for them! They're all good to me…" Mead exclaimed and Elizabeth put a hand on his shoulder.
"Then why do you?" Elizabeth asked as Mead gave in and decided to tell his story.
"My mom and dad were always going from place to place, I was even born on the road. But when we stopped here in Vanya a few years ago, there was an epidemic, and then they got sick and died." Mead explained as Ryuko and Satsuki began feeling for the young boy. "That's when the people of the village took me in and raised me as one of their very own. I was so thankful they did, but...I wasn't a part of anyone's real family. I got jealous because I didn't have what they did. I started lying, and pulling pranks." He said as tears began swelling up in his eyes.
"Is that why he put the bug in the holy knight's drink too? Because you were upset?" Elizabeth asked as she asked about how Vanya got into its current problem
"NO! I did that because the knight was treating everyone like they were crap! We just care so much about it! Everyone in the village put their heart and soul into that ale. But he insulted them! Holy knights are no good bastards!"
"Okay, But what about saying you were friends with the seven deadly sins?" Meliodas asked as Mead looked embarrassed.
"Well, I lied." Mead admitted.
"Too bad. Gotta admit, I kinda had my hopes up." Meliodas said as Ryuko punched him in the head.
"You asswipe! This kid poured his heart out, and that's all you have to say?!" Ryuko shouted.
"Well, I guess I could've been more sensitive about it…"
"But why would you tell a lie about that?" Elizabeth asked.
"The seven deadly sins are wanted by the holy knights, aren't' they? If the holy knights are going after them, doesn't that make the seven deadly sins the good guys?" Mead asked as everyone else look at Meliodas.
"What?" Meliodas questioned as he took a sip of ale.
"Well, I guess a lie that everyone knows is one can't cause too much of a problem, I mean you knowing all seven of them is hard to believe. Not like it causes more trouble then there already is." Sora commented when suddenly the sounds of shouting could be heard from outside.
"That's coming from the village!" Mead said as he ran out the door and towards Vanya village.
"Can't cause anymore trouble, huh?" Ryuko said as she looked at Sora.
"Uh..Hehe. Guess I jinxed it." Sora chuckled as the scene froze and looked at the screen. "I really hope I didn't."
(Vanya village)
"Now listen up, you peasant scum!" A knight announced as he and his partner stood around the sword stuck in the town square. "If you haven't pulled out the holy knight's sword by sundown, then we're going to charge you ten times the product tax!"
"That's insane!" A villager shouted as the whole town became outraged.
"With all the water dried up, we can't even make one bottle of ale, much less ten times that amount!" Another villager said.
"That's your punishment! Not only did you insult a holy knight, you also claimed to be friends with those known criminals, the seven deadly sins." The moustached knight said.
"Damn it! If Mead hadn't pulled that stunt this wouldn't have happened!" A villager cursed the young boy, but if by fate, Mead ran in towards the center of the square and began trying to pull out the sword with every fiber in his body, much to the whole village's surprise.
"Mead, no!" The woman who scolded him earlier shouted while the knights became annoyed.
"You little big mouth, this isn't gonna be any fun at all if he's the only one." The taller knight said.
'So we're gonna charge twenty times the tax now!" The moustached knight said which made Mead pull harder on the sword.
"You know you can't pull out that sword!" A villager shouted.
"Stop it, kid! You're only making things worse for us!" Another villager said as the whole town began shouting at Mead.
"Alright! That's enough!" The village chief shouted to get everyone's attention towards him. "Who insulted our great skills and wounded our pride as great ale makers? Was it Mead? No! Wasn't that boy expressing the feelings we had deep down inside?" He asked the town's people which made them feel guilty for the way they were treating one of their own. While Mead was continuing trying to pull the sword, until he was stopped by the older woman.
"Auntie?" Mead questioned as the woman smiled at him.
"The chief is right, you're not the one to blame, Mead." Auntie said as the villagers began to gather around the sword.
"Hey! You people hear what we said? Pull the beer out of your ears! It's twenty times now!" The taller knight shouted as he and his partner smiled in amusement as the men gathered at the sword.
"We got this now kid." One of the village men said as they began tying ropes around the sword
"Okay, DO IT! HAAAAAAAAA!" All the men in the village shouted as they began pulling on the ropes and trying to pull the sword out.
"Hahahahaha! It won't even move a fraction of an inch!" The taller knight laughed.
"We're gonna sit here and chuggin this cheap stuff and enjoy the show! The moustached knight said as he and his partner began drinking the village's remaining ale.
"Come out,AHHHHHHH!" Mead shouted as he and the village men pulled as hard as they could on the ropes, only to no avail as Sora, Ryuko and Satsuki arrived.
"They still haven't made any progress." Satsuki noted.
"That's it! We gotta pull that sword out ourselves! Trap or no trap!" Sora vowed as the two knights took notice of the arrived group.
"Oh? You're gonna help?" The taller knight taunted.
"Just so you know, we'll increase to thirty times the normal amount if you screw up. But what the heck! Since there's three of ya, how about fifty times! Hahahahaha!" The moustached knight laughed, which immediately stopped when Ryuko grabbed both knights by the collar.
"How about you send us your dentist bill instead?" Ryuko threatened until a hand was put on her shoulder to get her arms off the knights, which belonged to Meliodas.
"There's no need to do that." Meliodas said as he took the beer pitchers from the knights. "Anyone who doesn't appreciate good quality booze, doesn't deserve to drink it." He said as he drank the beer and walked towards the square just as the ropes on the sword broke and caused the village men to fall on the ground while Meliodas set the pitchers down on the ground.
"That hit the spot!" Meliodas said as he walked towards the sword and placed a hand on it's handle. "Sorry you guys. I don;t have any money for that drink. But how about this?" He asked as the former knight captain pulled out the sword with crackles of electricity and raised it above himself, much to the whole village's amazement.
(Music:Seven deadly sins~The perfect time)
"Oh yeah..That's right." Ryuko said as she remembered Meliodas used to be a knight himself. "Wait a minute, HE COULD"VE DONE THAT THE WHOLE DAMN TIME?!"
"Impossible! Only a holy knight could pull that sword out! So how did he do that?!" The taller knight said in disbelief as he and his partner were dumbstruck. A moment, later the ground began shaking, right underneath the well the two knights were sitting on top of.
"What's that sound?" The moustached knight questioned when a stream of water exploded from the well and knocked the two knights away while the town's folks cheered for the return of their water. As the two knights were picking themselves off the ground, Meliodas approached with the sword in hand.
"I think this is yours." Meliodas said as he tossed the sword on the ground in front of the two knights and made them fill up with fear.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" The two knights screamed as they picked up the sword and ran out of the town as fast as they could.
"See ya later!" Sora yelled at the two retreating knights.
"And don't forget to write!" Ryuko shouted as well, while Mead ran up to Meliodas.
"Hey, mister, that was so amazing! Are you really?" Mead cheered.
"Yep! I am the proprietor of a fine drinking establishment!" Meliodas answered a question he wasn't asked, mainly to keep his cover.
"That's not what I meant!"
(Meanwhile, at fort solgres)
After Meliodas scared away the knights from Vanya village, they immediately went towards fort solgres to report of what the former knight captain had done, and even brought back the sword that used to seal the town's water back to its owner as proof, who happened to be the commander that Twigo answered to.
"Only moments ago, we received a report from our soldiers in Vanya village. They say an unidentified boy had pulled your sword from the ground, sir Gilthunder." A knight reported to the holy knight commander, who had his attention grabbed by the report as he stood up and walked out of the chamber and began climbing up stairs as the soldier followed Gilthunder. "It must've been some fluke that allowed him to-"
"So it was a fluke let him draw out a sword placed by a holy knight?" Gilthunder questioned.
"N-no, sir!" The soldier answered as the two of them walked out to a large opening on top of the fort.
"Give me the range and heading to this village. Be very exact." Gilthunder ordered as walked towards the giant window.
"Yes sir! It's on a direct line with the fort's four o'clock. Distance is 7.3 miles!" The soldier described Vanya's exact location.
"Would you mind terribly if I used your spear?" Gilthunder asked a knight with a long spear.
"No, sir. Please do!" The knight said as he happily handed the spear to Gilthunder.
"Should be about this angle." Gilthunder said to himself as he held the spear ready to be thrown and charged it up with electricity and tossed it with great force into the sky like a missile towards its target, Vanya village.
(Back in Vanya, outside the boar hat)
"I'm beat! I haven't made that much food in a while." Sora said as he,Ryuko and Satsuki walked out the boar. After restoring the town's water supply, Meliodas offered to celebrate at the tavern with the whole town present. Mead was also able to reconcile with the town's folk and finally accepted his place as one of them while Elizabeth was nervous about her first day as a waitress, which ended in her getting orders wrong and face planting on the ground. Afterwards, Sora was able to put his time at uncle Scrooge's bistro to good use to cook food for the customers, with some help from Ryuko and Satsuki.
"You make it sound you had a job at a restaurant." Ryuko said as the trio walked towards the cliff facing the town.
"I did! Back in twilight town, I was working for donald's uncle, that's where I learned to cook." Sora answered as they sat down on the cliff.
"Hmm. And here I thought you didn't like working at all when you quit working for me." Satsuki said with a sly smile.
"Hey! I thought you were the bad guy at the time." Sora said which made the two sisters laugh at the keyblade wielder's expense. A moment after, the trio had the door to the boar hat open and looked to see Elizabeth with a sad look on her face as she sat down on the cliff.
"Hey, Elizabeth, is something wrong?" Sora asked.
"I'm fine. Just a little homesick, I guess." Elizabeth said as she looked at the ground in sadness.
"Thinking about your family, aren't you?"
"I am. I just can't help but think they might be in serious trouble, or worse."
"At least you can look forward to seeing them again, unlike us." Ryuko commented as she and Satsuki had somber faces.
"What do you mean?" Elizabeth asked.
"..Our mother killed our father." Satsuki confessed, much to Elizabeth's shock. "Our father was creating something that could help a lot of people, and it was in our mother's best interest to put a stop to him, so she had him killed."
"Then, I guess that's why you looked so sad when Mead was talking about his parents." Elizabeth guessed. "But maybe that means you'll find a new family, like I did when my father adopted me."
"Don't worry, Elizabeth. They already have." Sora said as he spoke about their friends back in Honnouji.
"Yeah, we did. Although I wonder if Mako managed to keep herself out of trouble back home." Ryuko questioned when the door to the boar hat opened again with Meliodas walking out.
"Oh, sir Meliodas!" Elizabeth greeted the former captain.
"Hey." Meliodas causally returned the greeting as he began walking around the cliff like he was searching for something.
"I know I'm supposed to be working now, but when I saw Mead and the villagers, it brought back a lot of memories I had with my father." Elizabeth explained.
"Is that right?" Meliodas conuited the conversion while he looked at the night sky, still seemingly looking for something.
"I just hope he's okay."
"Around here, maybe? A little more to the left?"
I shouldn't do this. This no time to mope around feeling homesick. But I've seen so many good people oppressed by the holy knights. I know that they're suffering, but with a princess like me, their chances aren't looking too good." Elizabeth stated.
"Hey, don't say that! You went to look for help because you care about others so much. That's exactly what the people need!" Sora said to encourage Elizabeth.
"Yeah. You also found me and Sora, didn't you?" Meliodas asked which made Elizabeth perk her head up. "Come on. If you haven't been trying everything you could to help your people and stumbled into my place, they'd have no chance at all."
"So you're saying, there's something I'm meant to do?"
"Exactly! Hmm." Meliodas said when he looked at the cliff and then began thinking in deep thought, much to the other's confusion.
"Hey. What's going on with you?" Ryuko questioned when Meliodas began pushing everyone, one by one to the other side of the cliff.
"There! That should do it!"
"Do, what exactly?" Sora questioned.
"For this thing." Meliodas answered as he pointed his thumb towards the sky and suddenly the spear Gilthunder threw from fort solgres flew at the former captain, only to be caught by his left arm and the force of the spear sent Meliodas down the side of the cliff.
"Sir Meliodas, no!" Elizabeth yelled as the group watched Meliodas crash into the ground and dragged through several houses by the spear until Meliodas turned around to skid his feet along the ground to slow himself down and managed to stop the spear's from going any further.
"Holy shit! Where did that even come from?!" Ryuko asked as she searched the sky should any more spears come raining down.
"Wherever it came from, it looks like it's going back!" Satsuki said as Sora's group watched Meliodas spin around and toss the spear into the sky to send it right back to where it was thrown from.
(Fort solgres)
"Hmm?" Gilthunder questioned when he sensed a familiar object flying back towards his direction and smiled when he realized what it was when the spear he threw crashed back into the fort, causing the whole structure to fall apart by the force, much to the surprise and confusion of the holy knights stationed there.
"Sir Gilthunder! Are you alright?! Sir Gil-Ah!" The holy knight searched for his commander gasped in surprise as he found Gilthunder, still on the chair he was sitting, with the spear that destroyed the fortress stuck in the chair next to Gilthunder's head, missing only by an inch as it slightly scratched his cheek.
"It's just as I thought. You're alive, aren't you? Meliodas." Gilthunder confirmed to himself as he smiled, ready for a hunt.
(Back in Vanya)
"Hey! Are you alright?" Sora asked as his group rushed down into the village to find Meliodas after he tossed the spear back.
"I'm so glad we found you! Was that spear from the holy knight who left his sword in the ground?" Elizabeth asked as Meliodas flexed his slightly bleeding hand, which was the only damage done to him other than his ruined sleeve that revealed his dragon tattoo.
"Probably so. I think that's our cue to leave here as soon as we can." Meliodas suggested.
"But what if Vanya village is attacked again?"
"I think they would be in a lot more danger if we stayed."
"It was nice we could find a place to hide out." Hawk said as something came to Elizabeth's mind.
"Wait a minute…" Elizabeth said.
"You got an idea?" Sora asked.
"Earlier tonight, Mead said he would do anything not taken to the forest of white dreams. In fact. He said even holy knights stay clear of the place." Elizabeth explained.
"Really? Sounds good to me!" Hawk agreed.
"What's the forest of white dreams?" Sora asked.
"From what I know,it's a forest where there's a fog that covers it year round. Nothing lives in there, not even animals, and everyone seems to be scared of it." Elizabeth explained.
"A dark and creepy forest? Sounds like a place the heartless would like to hang out." Ryuko commented.
"Then we should be ready to defend ourselves if hiding in the forest." Satsuki said.
"We're going to the forest, but not to hide." Meliodas said as everyone looked at him confused. "We're gonna be doing exactly what we should!"
"What do you mean by that?" Hawk asked.
"I think I can tell what he's saying. Maybe one of the seven deadly sins is hiding in the forest." Sora guessed.
"Bingo! Come on, let's find another sin!" Meliodas said as the group made their way back towards the boar hat to prepare for travel.
(Meanwhile, in the forest of white dreams)
The forest of white dreams was quite barren, nothing but fog and dead trees for miles and barely a sound with no sign of life. However, in between the leafless trees if one looked hard enough, one could see a sleeping girl with brown hair tied up in pigtail, wearing an orange leotard with fingerless gauntlets on both her arms, but the thing that stood out the most about the girl was the tattoo of a serpent on her upper left leg. As the girl slept, a strange whirring noise could be barely heard in the distance, which stirred the girl from her sleep.
"Hmm? Hello?" The girl questioned as she perked her head up to find the sound of the noise, but was only greeted by the sight of the forest's fog and trees. "*Yawn.* Guess I must be dreaming." The girl wrote off the noise as she drifted back off to sleep. But unknown to the sleeping girl, the noise was not her imagination. Off far in the distance, the noise belonged to a large ship in the shape of a blue flying saucer with a green dome on top and ramp opened up as the notorious , along with his butler, Lawrence and several robot troopers stepped off the ship, some were average size with oval shaped heads with blasters on their long arms, and others were larger with four spider like legs and mini guns for arms. The smaller ones were called protoguards, while the larger robots were called protomantis.
"Ahh! You smell that, Lawrence? It's nature..I hate it! It reminds me of the anger management classes!" Nefarious said.
"You might actually enjoy the scenery if you finished those classes, sir." Lawrence commented.
"Troops! Begin a search of the forest! I want at least some sign that this planet is connected to the age of fairy tales." Nefarious ordered his troops as they spread out in different directions while one turned around.
" . What are we looking for?" A trooper asked.
"I don't know! Something! Now get to work!" Nefarious yelled as the trooper slumped sadly.
"I really shouldn't have quit dentist school." The trooper commented as he vanished into the fog.
"Even if I can't find anything connected to the secrets Maleficent is searching for, this planet might be well worth conquering for it's resources. Mwahahahaha!" Nefarious laughed evilly.
"Quite a brilliant plan, sir. Even if its a little shortsighted." Lawrence commented as Nefarious noticed something off about his butler's voice.
"Lawrence, your voice box is stuck on echo again. Do something about it, would you-" Nefarious said as he turned around and became dumbstruck as he noticed that there were now a dozen Lawrences like the butler multiplied.
"Oh dear. Quite the predicament, sir." The Lawrences said as they noticed each other as Nefarious shook off his surprise.
"Okay! Because I can't tell which one of you is the real Lawrence." Nefarious said as she snapped his fingers and a couple of protomatis troops aimed their mini guns at the group of Lawrences. "I'm just gonna shoot every one of you until the real Lawrence is found!" He said as the Lawrences sighed.
"Go right ahead, sir." The Lawrences said as they braced themselves for pain.
(Later, near the entrance to the forest of white dreams)
(Music: Happy hair day~Into the forest deep~)
After Hawk's mom arrived at the forest of white dreams, Sora's group hopped off the giant pig and once they walked into the forest, they were immediately greeted by an endless fog and a small group of heartless waiting for them, putting their defensive instinct on edge as they kept an eye out for any more heartless and for any possible sign of life that could be a member of the seven deadly sins.
"Hey, Meliodas? Are you sure about this? We've been out here three hours now. There's no sign of any animals, much less any humans either, unless you count those creepy monsters that have been attacking us." Hawk stated.
"Told ya they might be hanging out here." Ryuko said.
"Hey, Meliodas? Could the other sins fight the heartless?" Sora asked the former captain.
"Totally. They wouldn't let some monsters get the drop on them." Meliodas answered.
"About that, sir Meliodas. Do you really think we can find one of the seven deadly sins in this forest?" Elizabeth asked.
"Probably." Meliodas stated bluntly as Hawk became annoyed.
"You mean we came all the way out here without any solid evidence?! I hear there's a terrifying monster around here. Lurking and waiting…" Hawk said, trembling as his fears were confirmed when several creeper plant heartless emerged out the ground in front of the pig.
(Music: Swingin' free~Into the forest deep~)
"AHHHH!" Hawk screamed in fear as he ran to hide Elizabeth's legs.
"Oh, no!" Elizabeth gasped as Sora, Ryuko, Satsuki and Meliodas stepped in front of her, defensively.
"We got them" Sora said as he summoned his keyblade and Ryuko along with Satsuki drew their scissor blade and bakuzan and got into their battle stances while Meliodas stepped in front of them.
"Allow me." Meliodas said as he bent down and reached his hand into the ground and yanked out a root from the dirt as the creeper plants were suddenly under the ground and out towards Meliodas where he tossed the heartless into the air above him.
"Hey, I did that same trick myself." Sora noted as he jumped into the air with a spinning slash and destroyed the creeper plants, only for several armored knights to take their place.
"Oh, good. I was hoping we wouldn't be left out!" Ryuko said as she rushed forward and clashed her scissor blade against a knight's sword while Satsuki took on at least three knights at once and defended against their attacks and jumped above the heartless when they rushed at her.
"Force!" Satsuki called out as she pointed bakuzan at the knights as a dark purple sphere above the heartless which flattened them against the ground with gravity magic.
"Guess I'm up!" Meliodas said as he jumped into the air and dove downward to smash the heartless Satsuki had disabled with a powerful punch that destroyed the soldiers, releasing the captive hearts while also splitting the ground and afterwards, another armored knight appeared behind the former captain and brought it's sword down on him, only to be blocked when Meliodas suddenly drew the dragon handle and stopped the attack. "Nice try!" He said as he swung the broken blade and destroyed the heartless.
"Ha!" Sora shouted as he slashed away one more armored knight with his keyblade and destroyed it and dismissed his keyblade after the last heartless was defeated.
(Music: Happy hair day~Into the forest deep~)
"We're clear."
"For now at least." Satsuki said as she and Ryuko put away their weapons.
"I knew this place would be something these guys would like to hang out." Ryuko stated.
"Oh, please. A forest full of monsters shouldn't be a problem. I'd clear them all out in the blink of an eye." Hawk boasted.
"AHH!" Elizabeth shouted which made Hawk hide behind a tree and made Sora's group draw their weapons again.
"Elizabeth! What's wrong?" Sora asked.
"I, I can feel something grabbing me from behind!" Elizabeth said, only for everyone to notice it was only Meliodas grabbing her rear.
"Just relax. Just me." Meliodas announced which made Ryuko and Hawk annoyed.
"FREAKIN' PREV!" Ryuko and Hawk shouted at the same time.
"Putting this aside for a minute." Meliodas said as he let go of Elizabeth's rear. "I might have a little evidence there is a sin here."
"What evidence?" Sora asked.
"Traveling through the forest of white dreams on horseback is more difficult than you would think. It's so hard to get your bearings, that experienced travelers go around it."
"That would make this forest an excellent place to hide in." Satsuki said as Meliodas nodded in agreement as the group began walking again.
"Okay, but how will we know for sure?" Ryuko asked as she turned and noticed Elizabeth playing with her skirt. "Hey, did you forget something?"
"Huh? Um, no! I thought I did, but I guess I was wrong!" Elizabeth answered with a bit of panic which made Ryuko raise an eyebrow.
"Okay…"
"Hurry up, would ya?!" Hawk shouted as he trotted on ahead of the group.
"Just relax. It's not a lot of fun traveling with a nervous piggy." Meliodas said only to stop walking when the group came upon a strange sight near Hawk.
"What do you mean, calling me a nervous piggy?!" Hawk questioned with an echo, and then looked around to see multiple copies of himself. "Huh?! It's a herd! They're all me!"
"Yeah, I know!" A second Hawk exclaimed.
"What's going on?!" A third Hawk questioned while the rest of the group looked confused at the sudden increase in numbers of Hawks.
"The hell is going on?" Ryuko questioned.
"Maybe Hawk has siblings he didn't know about?" Sora guessed.
"Maybe, this is the monster of the forest?" Elizabeth made her own guess.
"I for one, find it terrifying." Meliodas commented when the Hawk's suddenly gathered around Sora.
"Hey, Sora! You seem to have the most common sense, I'm the real one!" One of the Hawk's claimed.
"Says you, you faker!" A second Hawk said.
"Zip it, porker!" A third Hawk exclaimed as the whole herd of Hawk's began arguing with each other.
"Whoa! Would you all calm down? I'm pretty sure there's a way to-Ah!" Sora exclaimed as an explosion of smoke covered his vision and hid the keyblade wielder from the rest of the group.
"Sora! You alright in there?" Ryuko asked, only to be answered when Hawk suddenly rolled in front of the group.
"I think I was just rejected by my own peers.." Hawk said sadly.
"What happened in there?" Satsuki questioned and looked back to see the smoke covering Sora fade away.
"*Cough, cough!* Hawk, what did you eat?" Sora questioned as he waved away the smoke only to come face to face with, himself. "WHAT THE?!"
"Would you look at that. Now there's a whole bunch of Soras now too." Meliodas commented that multiple Soras were now in front of the group.
"What's going on?" One Sora asked.
"Guys, I'm the real Sora!" A second Sora claimed.
"No he's not! I'm the real Sora!" A third Sora exclaimed.
"I'm Sora!"
"I'm Sora!"
"Hold the hell up! Which one of you is the real Sora?" Ryuko asked.
"I AM!" All the Sora's exclaimed at once as one Sora stepped up front.
"Don't let all these fakers fool you! You know me better than that!" The Sora said, only for one Sora from behind him to summon his keyblade and bashed him in the back of the head with the hilt.
"Uh, that happened. But how do we know if you're the-?" Ryuko questioned, only for Sora to answer by showing Kairi's wayfinder. "Okay, it's him."
"SORA!" Elizabeth and Hawk shouted in excitement as they rushed over to the real keyblade wielder.
"Wait, guys! Don't-" Sora warned, only to be too late when another cloud of smoke exploded to hide Sora, Elizabeth and Hawk.
"Oh come on! Again?!" Hawk exclaimed from inside the smoke and began clearing away after a gust of wind that came from Sora casting an aeroga spell.
"That's getting old.." Sora said and then noticed figures in place of where his copies once stood. "Who did they turn into now?"
"Who's there?" Elizabeth asked as the figure's faces became more clear to look like Elizabeth's. "Their all me?" She questioned as more Elizabeth copies gathered around the original to hide her in the horde of copies.
"Hi, sir Meliodas!" The horde of Elizabeths greeted the former captain as Sora and Hawk back away should the imposters change again.
"It's me! You realize that, right?" One Elizabeth said.
No, here! I'm the real one!" A second Elizabeth said.
"Don't trust them! It's really me!" A third Elizabeth insisted as the whole group of copies began speaking at the same time while Sora's group was trying to figure out what was happening.
"What the heck is going on? How come those things turn into me and then Elizabeth?" Sora questioned.
"Whatever it is, they're certainly trying to confuse us." Satsuki said.
"Leave this place!" A voice echoed from within the forest.
"Now what?" Ryuko said as everyone looked around for the source from the voice.
"Leave...get out of this forest, humans!" The voice echoed a second time.
"If you didn't want us to come in, you should've put up a sign!" Ryuko shouted back at the voices.
"We did! It's right next to you!" The echoing voice said as Ryuko turned her head to see a sign that said "Stay out" painted on it.
"Oh…"
"Sir Meliodas…" One Elizabeth said threateningly as she crushed a tree branch as she and other copies got closer.
"Aw man, how can we fight them if we don't even know which is the real Elizabeth?" Sora asked as he kept his keyblade ready while worried he could harm the real princess.
"SIR MELIODAS!" All the Elizabeth shouted at the same time as they pounced at the former captain, only for him to jump out of the way and landed on a rock behind the group of copies.
"Oh my goodness. However can I tell which is the real one?" Meliodas said.
"That's me!" One Elizabeth claimed.
"You can trust me! I can do whatever you want!" Another Elizabeth said.
"Uh oh." Sora said.
"They shouldn't have said that.." Ryuko said with a facepalm since she now knew what Meliodas was planning on doing.
"Yes! Starting now, I want you all to do exactly as I tell you to do. Now, right hand up in the air." Meliodas commanded.
"Yes, sir!" The Elizabeths obeyed as they raised their right arms into the air.
"Left one on your cheek." Meliodas said as the Elizabeths then put their left hands on the side of their heads. "Now call out my name, and be naughty."
"Sir Meliodas.." The group of Elizabeths said in bashful voices.
"Now, squeeze your boobs." Meliodas commanded as the Elizabeths then began to comply by grabbing their chests.
"I swear to god..I'm gonna kill that pervert." Ryuko said as she clenched her fists and grinded her teeth.
"Easy, Ryuko." Satsuki said as she held her sister back, although she was considering letting Ryuko go.
"Meliodas, stop playing around and find the real one!" Hawk shouted.
"Okay, fine." Meliodas pouted as he then thought of a way to sort out the real Elizabeth. "Okay, one last thing. Jump as high as you can."
"Haaaaaa!" All the Elizabeths cheered as they jumped up into the air, all except for one.
(Music stops)
"I'm sorry! I can't do that!" One Elizabeth said as she dropped to the ground and held her skirt down.
"Got 'em!" Meliodas said as he drew the dragon handle and rushed past the Elizabeth copies with a quick attack that made the copies explode in smoke, revealing the copies' true forms to be small green creatures wearing cloaks that immediately retreated away from the group.
"Look at that! They're just hide-and-seeks! Prankster imps!" Hawk explained. "We thought they were the monster of the forest?"
"Guess that's just an easy mistake." Sora said.
"Nope, I think they're actually a monster of the forest." Meliodas suggested.
"There could be one, it might actually be a heartless." Satsuki guessed while Elizabeth looked back behind the group and became terrified.
"*Gasp!*" Elizabeth gasped.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Ryuko asked.
"W-what is that?" Elizabeth asked as she pointed at a black mass that gathered in the middle of the forest road until a long tall object bursted out of the ground, a demon tower.
(Music: Hunter of the dark)
"Heartless!" Sora said as he got into his battle stance along with Ryuko and Satsuki.
"Look at that. They know how to work together." Meliodas noted as he observed that the demon tower was made up of multiple shadow heartless.
"I'm not scared of some messy looking monster, it just seems like a giant pile of scraps to me." Hawk said as he stepped in front of the demon tower, which was a mistake as the tower of shadows then swung itself around to smack the talking pig away. "WAHHHH!" He yelled as Hawk bounced off the trees like a pinball before he dropped to the ground unconscious.
"Hawk, no!" Elizabeth yelled in concern.
"Elizabeth, you should probably take a step back and take care of Hawk. We got this." Meliodas said in a serious tone as Elizabeth nodded in agreement and ran over to Hawk while the former captain drew the dragon handle again. "So, you know how to take this thing down?"
"Run circles around it and rush it. It'll topple like dominos!" Sora advised as the demon tower made its move by slamming itself on the ground where the group was standing, only to miss when they dodged out of the way.
"Gotta be faster than that!" Meliodas taunted as he rushed at the demon tower and slice at it with his broken sword with surprising effect as shadows fell off the tower with each attack while the demon tower slithered back and dove at the ground to split into a whole section of shadows that stampeded towards the group.
"Ryuko!" Sora called out.
"Gotcha!" Ryuko responded as they stood side by side with their weapons and made sweeping motions to create a powerful gust of air that blew away the shadows back and forced them to form back into a tower that lashed at the group again only for Meliodas to get in the way and completely halted the tower with his dragon handle.
"Take it down a notch, would ya?" Meliodas said to the demon tower as he delivered a powerful punch that shook the tower to it's core and heavily staggered it.
"My turn!" Satsuki announced as she pointed her sword at the demon tower and shot out a blizzaga spell that left behind a trail of ice and froze the lower half of the tower.
"I'm up!" Sora said as he hopped on the trail of ice and activated flowmotion to slide towards the demon tower and jumped at to latch on with his keyblade before spinning around like a buzz saw to shred some shadows off before leaping off towards a tree branch. "Take this!" He exclaimed as he rushed past the demon tower with a fly by slice that broke the demon tower out of the ice it was trapped in, allowing it to swing around wildly, trying to attack it's targets.
"Hey, how about you use that counter move you used on that knight?" Ryuko asked Meliodas while avoiding the demon tower's attacks.
"My full counter? That only works on magic attacks. Physical attacks won't cut it." Meliodas explained how his attack works while simultaneously dodged attacks
"Wow, a perv and you're useless!"
"Could you both focus!" Satsuki said as she stopped the demon tower from crashing on top of them by plunging her blade into the mass of shadows and held it back.
"Thunder!" Sora shouted as he called down multiple pillars of lightning with thundaga on the demon tower and forced away from Satsuki as she took the opening to deliver a powerful strike with bakuzan.
"Eat this!" Ryuko shouted as she ignited her scissor blade in flames and swung her weapon to slash the demon tower that scorched it, and the mass responded as it's many eyes turned red. "Look at that, I think we pissed it off!" She said as the demon tower began to swing around more wildy than before.
"Better stop him, now!" Sora said as he twirled his keyblade and released a shockwave as he transformed into second form. When the demon tower made a sharp turn towards the keyblade wielder, Sora countered by jumping over the mass of shadows and dived at it with counter kick and knocked off shadows from the tower. "That's all you got? C'mon!" He taunted the demon tower as it made another swipe at the keyblade wielder, only to be blocked when Sora performed explosion and created a ring of orbs of light.
"Here's another!" Sora exclaimed as his keyblade started glowing gold and began performing a rapid series of slashes with ars arcanum that delivered heavy damage to the mass of shadows. "Eat this!" He shouted as spun around with a whirlwind spin and then brought down a heavy smash attack that created a shockwave that heavily damaged the demon tower as it started wobbling from its damage while shadows were falling off it.
"Wow, you did some serious damage to that thing." Meliodas said as he walked up behind Sora as they watched the demon tower trying to keep itself balanced. "I think it's time we finished it off."
"Yeah!" Sora agreed as he and the former captain were preparing their weapons to finish the mass of shadows off, only for the demon tower to rush past Sora and Meliodas and into the forest. "What the?"
"Where is it going?" Elizabeth asked as he finished tending to Hawk and watched the mass of shadows retreat.
"After it!" Meliodas said.
"Right!" Elizabeth responded as the group began running after the demon tower.
"Oh, wait! You might need these back." Meliodas said as he quickly turned around and gave Elizabeth a piece of cloth, which was actually her underwear that she quickly hid behind her back. "Later!" He said as he ran to join Sora and the others to chase the demon tower.
"He stole my underwear?!" Elizabeth said to herself while Sora, Meliodas, Ryuko and Satsuki were chasing the mass of shadows that was speeding through the woods.
"Hey, cheek it out!" Ryuko announced as the group noticed that the demon tower was chasing after the hide-and-seek imps from earlier that were also going in the direction of a girl with a pigtail hairstyle, wearing an orange leotard that was sleeping in the forest road. "They're all going after a girl!"
"I thought there wasn't anyone else in here!" Sora said.
"You don't think they're planning on attacking her, do ya?" Hawk asked while running.
"A defenseless little girl like that?" Elizabeth said.
"I know, right? She just..a little.." Hawk said as the group began slowing down as they got closer to the sleeping girl, and were surprised to see that little was the wrong term. The sleeping girl was actually a tall giant that took up most of the space in the forest road, and the hide-and-seek imps were not attacking, but were trying to wake her up.
"Uh, I don't think we should worry about those little guys anymore." Sora said.
"Lady Diane! We accidentally let some holy knight trespassers come in!" One imp said trying to wake the giant girl up.
"Those horrible monsters are also back too! Please save us!" Another imp begged as the demon tower slithered up behind them.
"AHHHHHHHH!" The imps screamed in terror at the sight of the mass of shadows and then ran away to hide behind a tree.
"Here it comes again!" Ryuko said as the group prepared to fight the demon tower, only for the mass to ignore them and go straight for the giant.
"It's not us it's after now!" Satsuki said as the demon tower was about to attack the giant girl, only for the so-called lady Diane's eyes to shoot open when the mass of shadows attacked and met the grasp of her armored hand and squeezed the demon tower until it was crushed by the giant's strength, eradicating it. After destroying the heartless, the giant rose off the ground from her sleep to her full height of thirty feet tall.
(Music stops)
"Some holy knights got in, huh?" The giant said, clearly angry as she believed the group were holy knights.
"Whoa..she's huge!" Hawk said with fear.
"No shit." Ryuko commented. "Sora, what do we do now?"
"She thinks we're knights. I'm pretty sure we can convince her, it's all one big misunderstand-" Sora tried to plan before he and Meliodas were suddenly grabbed quickly by the giant girl, leaving his keyblade on the ground.
Who are you calling big,holy knight?" The giant girl asked, taking offence to Sora's comment as she held him tightly.
"Figure...of...speech!" Sora said in between breath as he was being sighty squeezed by the giant girl's grasp.
"Hold on! You're not gonna eat them, are you?!" Hawk shouted to get the giant girl's attention.
"You let go of Sora and sir Meliodas!" Elizabeth shouted, which confused the giant when she heard Meliodas' name.
"Huh? Sir Meliodas?" The giantess questioned as she looked at the former captain in her other hand.
"Yo, Diane! What's it been? Like ten years?" Meliodas greeted causally, revealing that he knew the giant girl as she leaned in to take a closer look at him, and then her eyes lit up with glee.
(Music:Laughter and merriment~2.5 ver~)
"Captain!" The giant girl cheered as she nuzzled her cheek up against Meliodas, while the group on the ground had puzzled looks on their faces. "Captain! Captain! Captain! Captain! Captain!"
"Captain?" Elizabeth said.
"Hang on..That giant chick with pigtails is one of the seven deadly sins?" Hawk questioned.
"I had a feeling she was." Satsuki said, much to the other's surprise.
"How did you know?" Ryuko asked.
"Those imps from earlier called her Diane, which is one of the names on the wanted posters. And she has a tattoo on her leg, like the one on Meliodas' shoulder." Satsuki explained as she pointed at the tattoo of a serpent on the giant girl's left leg.
"So she's really Diane? The serpent's sin of envy?" Hawk said.
"Captain! I missed you so much!" Diane exclaimed as she continued rubbing her cheek against Meliodas.
"Nice to see you too, Diane. But could you let go of my friend before you squish him?" Meliodas asked as Diane looked at her other hand to look at Sora, who was turning red from lack of air.
"H-help…." Sora said weakly.
"Oh my goodness! Sorry!" Diane apologized as she gently set Sora back on the ground as he regained his breath and regained his color.
"Are you alright, Sora?" Satsuki asked which Sora responded by giving a weak thumbs up.
"I could help! I know cpr!" Diane offered, only for Ryuko and Hawk to step defensively in front of the prone keyblade wielder.
"You've done enough!" Ryuko and Hawk said at the same time while Diane looked happily at the talking pig.
"Captain, you thought of everything, haven't you? You remembered how much I love whole roasted pig!" Diane said as Hawk became fearful.
"Hey wait! Don't eat me, lady!" Hawk pleaded only for the giantess to quickly grab the pig and quickly tied him up to set him over a fire. "THAT'S HOOOOOTTTT!"
"How can I eat you without cooking you first?"
"That's not what I meant! My rump is burning!" Hawk shouted when a stream of water suddenly washed over the pig and put out the fire from under him. "Thank you…" He thanked Sora, who just recovered from being squeezed by Diane to use a waterga spell to stop Hawk from becoming dinner.
"How come I feel like I just got off the world's most brutal carnival ride? And why was Hawk on fire?" Sora asked as he got off the ground and Hawk was released from the ropes which made Diane a little disappointed.
"Alright fine, but who are these people?" Diane asked about Sora and the others.
"Oh, a pleasure to meet you, lady Diane! My name is Elizabeth, and,uh, I asked sir Meliodas if he'd allow me to travel with him." Elizabeth introduced herself.
"How about them?" Diane asked as she turned to Sora, Ryuko and Satsuki.
"Hey there! I'm Sora, this is Ryuko and Satsuki. We're also traveling with Meliodas because, well, Elizabeth asked us to." Sora explained as he then remembered the purpose of finding the seven deadly sins with the hope of finding clues to the whereabouts of the guardians of light. "Oh, I also wanted to ask you something. Have you seen several other people dressed like me?"
"Sorry, but no. You're the first humans I've seen in this forest for ten whole years." Diane answered as Sora looked down in disappointment.
(Music stops)
"Oh well. Worth a shot asking." Sora said before crossing his arms. "At least there's five other sins we could ask."
"So, are you three also traveling with the captain?" Diane asked Ryuko, Satsuki, and Elizabeth.
"Actually, more like we're traveling with Sora, who's following that perv captain of yours." Ryuko answered.
"I'm the one who sought out sir Meliodas." Elizabeth continued.
"Plus, there's the talking pig." Meliodas said as Diane turned to the former captain in her hand.
"Oh, is that so?" Diane said in a tone that put Ryuko and Satsuki on edge.
"Oh boy. Sora, we better step back." Ryuko advised.
"Huh? Why?" Sora asked.
"You should just do it." Satsuki said as both sisters grabbed Sora and pulled him back a few feet away from Diane.
"Yep, it's mainly me and Elizabeth and we-" Meliodas said before being tossed with the force of a rocket by Diane.
"YOU FILTHY WOMANIZER!" Diane shouted as Meliodas crashed into a rock, that he emerged from unscratched.
"Okay.." Meliodas said, having no idea why Diane was suddenly upset as the giant girl fell to her knees and began crying
"After all this time I'm finally back with the man I love, but now he's with another woman! You just broke my heart into a million pieces!" Diane cried as Sora's group sweet dropped at the scene. "But still, if you have an explanation, I'm ready to listen."
"Honestly, there's nothing to-" Meliodas tried to explain before getting smashed by Diane's fist.
"I don't want to hear your excuses! Your nothing but a lying, perverted, philandering little-" Diane ranted as she continued rapidly punching the ground where Meliodas was.
"You think he'll be okay?" Sora asked as he watched Diane continue to punch the ground.
"Don't know. But now I'm starting to feel sorry for the little pervert." Ryuko said.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Satsuki quoted.
"YOU'RE A BIG JERK! YOU HEAR ME!?" Diane shouted as she raised both her fist above her head and smash the ground with enough force to send up a giant dust cloud that could be seen high above the forest, and felt by and his troops on the other side of the woods.
"Lawrence, did you feel that?" The evil doctor asked his butler.
"I'm certain your minions felt that, sir." Lawrence said as he looked at the robotic troops were now flipped upside down, trying to get off the ground. Meanwhile, back with the group after waiting for Diane to claim down, Meliodas explained to the giantess about Elizabeth's quest, as well as Sora's own to find the guardians of light.
"So to finally put an end to all the corruption and stop the holy knights from rampaging, Elizabeth is trying to get the seven deadly sins together." Meliodas finished his explanation to Diane who was looking guilty after her tantrum.
"I didn't know about that. I guess I'm the one who always jumps to conclusions, aren't I?" Diane said with a somber tone. 'Forgive me...And I'm sorry I tried to eat you piggy."
"You think that's gonna make it alright?! You stuffed up my belly with fruit and burned up my backside!" Hawk shouted which Diane responded by giving him a glare. "AHH! Hold on! If you even think about laying a hand on me, then my momma is gonna let you have it!"
"What a momma's boy." Ryuko committed while Diane started at the girls of the group.
"Are you sure any of you aren't' having that kind of a relationship with the captain?" Diane asked.
"I-I'm not…" Elizabeth answered.
"I'd rather die." Ryuko said.
"And I'd rather turn into a heartless." Satsuki agreed with her sister.
"Okay, what about him?" Diane asked about Sora which caused Ryuko to blush.
"S-say what?! With Sora?! No way!" Ryuko denied while the keyblade wielder looked confused since he wasn't even paying attention as he opened up a treasure chest with his keyblade.
"What are you talking about again?" Sora asked, much to Ryuko's relief.
"You know, Diane, we're not in that kind of relationship either." Meliodas said, much to Diane's disappointment.
"Whaaaaaa?" Diane said sadly.
"Anyway, I'm gonna do what I can to help Elizabeth to find the seven deadly sins. Because I wanna find them too." Meliodas said.
"Well, if you're sure that's the case, then I'll come along with you guys." Diane decided as she stood up to her full height. "You'll have the help of the serpent sin of envy! The giant, Diane!"
"Really? That's great!" Meliodas said.
"Thank you for joining us, lady Diane!" Elizabeth said.
"But get this straight! The only reason I'm doing this is because the captain is with you!" Diane claimed.
"At least she got motivation." Sora commented and then felt a presence at the same moment when a crow cried. "Huh?"
"What was that?" Elizabeth asked as the group looked around for the crow.
"That's strange, I thought that there weren't any animals left in this part of the forest. Other than those monsters that keep popping up." Diane said as Ryuko spotted a crow with red eyes on a tree branch watching the group.
"Sora, is that a heartless?" Ryuko asked as the keyblade wielder looked at the strange looking crow.
"No, it's not. But I got a bad feeling about it." Sora said.
"Wait! Look at that!" Hawk said as the group looked up to see a storm cloud forming over them.
"I don't think the forecast called for rain." Ryuko saidas she realized the clouds weren't natural as a bolt of lightning struck Meliodas, but instead of harming him, the lightning instead wrapped around the former captain.
"What's up with this?" Meliodas asked.
"Captain!" Diane shouted, only for the giant to be struck by lightning and trapped too.
"Look out!" Sora warned as he summoned his keyblade and swung it to try to guard against the lightning when it aimed at Elizabeth and Hawk, only for the three of them to be trapped as well.
"The hell is going on!" Ryuko questioned as she and Satsuki were also bound by lightning.
"This lightning is being controlled!" Satsuki exclaimed just as the sound of armor could be heard from nearby for the group to look and see the holy knight commander, Gilthunder approach.
"And you are?" Meliodas asked.
"It would seem we meet at last...you deadly sins." Gilthunder said as he approached with his sword in hand.
"This power.."Diane said as she looked at the knight approach.
"Yep, there's no doubt about it. You're a holy knight, aren't you?" Meliodas guessed.
"I can by looking, he's more of a threat then that Twigo guy." Sora said.
"He's definitely much stronger.." Satsuki commented as the holy knight took notice of Sora's half of the group and the keyblade that was still trapped in Sora's bound hand.
"It seems Twigo's description of you three children was accurate. Especially yours." Gilthunder said as he looked at Sora's who gave him a glare while Elizabeth recognized the pink haired knight.
"Gilthunder? Gilthunder, is that you?" Elizabeth said, revealing that she knew the knight.
"Hold up. You know this guy?" Ryuko asked.
"Yes, since I was a little girl, when he was my father's attendant. He was an aide to the king and son of the holy knight's grandmaster. He was always at the palace. So I kinda grew up with him." Elizabeth explained as Gilthunder started to sound familiar to Meliodas.
"Son of the grandmaster, huh?" Meliodas said as he thought to himself and then remembered Gilthunder. "Hey! Are you little Gil?" He asked, much to Elizabeth's surprise.
"What?! You know him too?"
"Sure! I even gave him lessons occasionally when I find myself at the royal palace." Meliodas explained as he then turned to Gilthunder. "Wow! You're really grown up! Then again, it has been ten years since I last saw you."
"If you have the time to prattle on in this matter, it might be better to spend trying to escape those bonds." Gilthunder suggested.
"You mean like this?" Sora spoke up as he dismissed his keyblade and summoned it again in his mouth as the shooting star keyblade and used it to cut apart the lightning that kept him bound, much to Gilthunder's surprise.
"Hmm, impressive for a child."
"I think I know this lightning. It came from the sword back in the village that had their water supply locked up!" Satsuki accused the holy knight.
"But, Satsuki! It can't be! You're wrong! Gilthunder would never…" Elizabeth tried defending the holy knight only to stop when she met Gilthunder's eyes to see him coldy staring at her and realized that her childhood friend had changed. "No…"
Party member added!
Diane
Equipment: Giant's strength
Diane abilities
Creation
Sandwhirl
Journal update
Gilthunder: A powerful holy knight and son of the deceased grand master, Zaratras. Elizabeth knew Gilthunder since childhood and grew up with him, but after the holy knight uprising, Gilthunder's personality changed to a cold and ruthless demeanor.
Diane: A member of the giant race and the serpent sin of envy. When Diane left her homeland, a group of holy knights harassed the giantess, which caused Meliodas to intervene and caused Diane to develop a crush on her soon to be captain. Despite her crush, it reminds Diane of a past she can't remember.
Author's note: Despite Melody of memories release, it will have no effect on my stories since it takes place after Kairi is brought back since it is after Re:mind and my Re:route timeline is my own retelling of it.
