Sorry I'm so late! I had a few reviews to get to plus exams

Well, here is another request chapter, brought to my attention by NightOwl1515. Thank you so much by the way! They're always appreciated, even if my slowness makes those gorgeous ideas collect dust….Also, there is another 'thank you' I have to make, but that's a spoiler…

Ages

Pride-18

Lust-15

Sloth-14

Envy-10

Greed-9

Gluttony-7

I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist.

Chapter 8: A Lousy Day

Pride glared at the bathroom door, willing for it to open. It was bad enough he had to wake up but he had to shower too. There was only one bathroom as well. He had heard cases where the family would be just as big, but with more girls. Pride shuddered at the thought. Lust was bad enough. Lust was also the one who he was waiting for. Finally, she opened the door to a glaring Pride.

"Do you know how freaking cold it is in this house?"

She flashed him a smirk. "Just be glad we moved out of the Briggs castle…" With a toss of her hair she walked out of the bathroom.

With a groan, he walked in the bathroom and almost immediately gagged. The place was laden in the smell of coconut.

"Lust! Seriously?!" She didn't answer and he muttered something about girls and their perfume. Once he adjusted to the smell-which involved several gulps of air out the small glass window-he jumped into the shower. Oh lord, he found the epicentre of the perfume. The smell was horrible. So much for relaxing in a hot shower. Stupid sisters….at least the water made up for how bad things had gone in the first half-hour of the morning.

Eventually the smell overtook the luxury of the cascading water and with more enthusiasm than usual climbed out. He took in his appearance. It wasn't horrible, but he had been aghast when he found out he would forever hold the appearance of a ten year old. Still, he had found ways to make it work. Now if only Father would approve of the…piercing…

What in Amestris…?

At first he assumed it was simply the light, but it appeared something was starting to encase his hair…of course that couldn't be real. Still, he put his hand to his head. There was no illusion to it.

With a colourful expletive, he towel-dried his hair to quickly remove it. When that didn't work, he jumped back in the shower and towel-dried his hair….several times. To no avail, it wouldn't work-in fact; you could say it made it worse.

It was safe to say that none of the neighbours expected to hear that particular string of expletives that early in the morning.

Father stormed in. "WHAT on…" He paused as he saw his son's dishevelled state.

Pride quickly wrapped a towel around himself and stormed out, just wanting to head back to bed.

"That's quite the hairstyle…" Lust noted with a chuckle.

"Oh go to Truth's Domain." He muttered as he stormed past her.

A few hours later, he emerged from his bed. Deciding to take another shower-this time using the sink-he ended up surprised. His hair stopped sticking…odd. However, he didn't step into the shower again, not wanting to tempt fate. At least he looked good now. A meal lay on the table with a small note.

Here is your breakfast. Be happy I didn't make you get it yourself. This is the only bad hair day that will excuse you from training.

-Father.

"Love you too." Pride rolled his eyes and dug into the pancakes and sausage. This was rather impressive-despite it being cold.

"Wow! Thith ith…good…" He paused, confused as to what he just said.

"Hello. My name ith Pride." As soon as he said that, to affirm what he had heard, his mouth began to feel numb-really numb. Was it poison? How did it get inside?!

Quickly he dashed through the house, knowing he'd get in trouble if one his siblings 'died' (what was Father's big deal; they all regenerated…). After a long search, nothing and no one turned up. Plus, the only effect had been the numbing of his mouth. With an odd groan, he flopped on the couch. He had been lounging around more than Sloth today! He couldn't leave the house-not like this. You could only go without speaking for so long in this place. Still, he took to drinking water. Lots of water.

In between various trips to the bathroom his siblings had come home. This didn't really bother him. The only issue was Greed and since Envy was around, Greed wouldn't attempt anything stupid with Pride. However, it was at this one when the sink chose to malfunction. Right in his face.

"WHAT THE?!" He yelled as water spritzed in his face.

He took quick revenge as he started kicking the sink-however, it seemed revenge on his foot more than anything.

"OW!" He hollered as his foot took a nice hit from the pipe.

It was then that he heard a giggle. Two in fact. His eyes widened as an inkling of an idea came to him. However, he pretended not to notice and continued abusing his poor foot on the sink, adding a couple of expletives. The giggling started to turn to full blown laughter. What the two didn't notice, were two shadows creeping along the floor. With two synchronized snaps and two yelps, two boys were dragged into the bathroom hanging by their feet.

"What were you two…?"

"IT WAS HIS FAULT!"

Greed's eyes squinted. "Spineless!"

"Listen. I will kill the both of you if you don't tell me what you were doing…" From the look on their faces, they got he was serious.

Greed went to open his mouth. "You're not in any position to be making demands." He shut it with a scowl.

Envy looked terrified-no doubt envisioning the traumatizing 'shadow game' and the nightmares that followed.

Pride smirked knowing full well what was in their minds. "Shall it be…the Truth? No…Bigfoot? Nah…how about…"

"I'M-SO-SORRY-I'LL-TELL-YOU-EVERYTHING!"

Pride's eyes squinted. "Talk." He lifted the older boy towards his face.

When Envy opened his mouth, he had quite the story to tell.

Earlier that morning, Greed and Envy had awoken after a long night of planning. With three coconut candies in hand, Envy had transformed into Lust. Turning the sink on full blast, he hummed a tune while he unscrewed the shower, placing three candies in the shower. When he walked into Pride, he almost panicked, but in Lust fashion attempted to brush him off. Thankfully the recently turned adult wanted nothing to do with him and everything to do with the hot shower. Later on, after Father cooked breakfast and left some out for him, Greed took a bottle of Oragel and lightly spread the clear substance on the sausage, adding to its shine. Finally much later on, he had rigged an elastic band to the sink. They had watched their event before going off to set up the next gag but had been caught early.

When Envy finished his story, Pride's eye was twitching furiously. Greed groaned, angry that they had been given away. However, he seemed wary of the older brother. If only this fear came before they pulled their idiotic pranks.

"You…will…pay…" Pride seethed through closed teeth. With that, he dropped the two boys and stormed to his room.

Greed glared at Envy. "You big freaking baby."

"I'm sorry that you don't think I'm that brave…"

"Just calling as I see it."

Envy didn't say anything.

Greed rolled his eyes. "I don't even know why I work with you. Besides, we didn't even get to use Stripes!"

A little bit of light returned to Envy's eyes. "Ye of so little faith…"

"Amestrian please…now what do you mean…."

"KYAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Pride screeched following a sound that would remind you of a spritzed Febreze bottle.

Greed stared at Envy in awe. "How…"

"Never mind that! Run!" Envy grabbed Greed and they burst out the door. At the instant they left, Father thanked the humans for inventing beer as he knew he was going to need one after this. Whatever it was.

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