Envy's POV-10 minutes later

I sighed, rubbing my face. I made her mad. That's not good if I want to come out of this unscathed. I could go apologize. "No way. What's wrong with you? No way are you going to apologize to a girl!" I scolded myself.

I sighed, slinging my feet over the side of the bed. "Might as well get this over with." I walked across the hallway, knocked on the door. No answer. I opened the door, then stopped.

Walls with fire licking up them, blue edging where the wall hit the ceiling and floor. Kindness was facing the corner, shoulders hunched. The fire made me uneasy, especially how high it was getting. I cleared my throat, which only made the flames grow. Kindness took a deep breath, the flames settling a little. Little by little, the flames died down, plant life overtaking the walls. She stood from where she was crouched in the corner, sighed, then turned to me, a small smile on her face. "Congrats. You're the only one who can make me that mad."

Kindness' POV

I was still seething inside, but forced a smile. Because that's what I did. Put others ease before my own. My curse for being Kindness. Awkward silence for a moment. . . "Why did you come here, anyway?" I asked finally. He rubbed the back of his head. "Nevermind." He turned to go.

"Kindness, please come to the Star Room, and bring your homunculus." Mother's voice radiated in my head.

"Sure thing." I replied, then grabbed Envy's arm.

"Leggo!" He tried to shake me off.
"Quit it, Mom's spoken and we need to go." I said, letting go and walking down the hallway.

Envy followed me, somewhat reluctant. I led him to the star room, where Humility, Charity and Forgiveness were.

"Where's Chas, Diligence and Temperance?" I asked.

"Diligence is trying to wake up and motivate Sloth. Chas can't get Lust off of him long enough to drag her here, and Temp's coming with Gluttony. He keeps trying to eat her." Humility said, eyes closed.

I grinned. "That seems about right, given their names."

Envy bonked me on the head. "Take it back." He growled.

I ducked from another swing. "Why should I? It's true. You're jealous." I stepped to the right, walking backwards in a circle and dodging Envy's hits. "Of what? Hmm, is it us and our relationship with each other?"

Greed snickered. "He's jealous of everything."

"Shut up!" Envy's arm shot forward at Greed, at an impossible speed and length. Greed barely managed to dodge it, his abilities obviously taken away.

"Enough!" Mother roared, walking into the room. "Kindness, I thought you took the abilities away."

"Heh, never got around to it." I rubbed the back of my head, sheepish.

Mom sighed. I snapped my fingers, and Envy suddenly threw back his head and screamed, a bright green ball pulling out of his chest and drifting to my outstretched hands.

"I'll keep this for a while. Sorry." I shrunk it and slid it into me.

Envy had collapsed to his knees, panting like he had run a marathon. "What. . . did you. . . do?"

"Mom's orders." I offered my hand.

He glared, batting my hand away and standing up by himself. He swayed, and I shot Mother a worried look. She shook her head, walking into the middle of the star. Chastity, Lust, Diligence, Sloth, Gluttony and Temperance filed in within 10 minutes and went to stand in their respective places.

"What are we going to do now?" Envy groaned.

"Hush, and listen." I scolded, pressing on his side to get him to move to the right.

He shivered, moving and standing in the spot I told him to. I mentally cackled. Ticklish, then? All right! Blackmail!

"After much debate, I have decided to take back my original decree. Three of you will go to a galaxy and live like a normal human. If you can prove to your Angel that you deserve to live in Heaven, that's where you shall go." Mother said.

"And the other four?" Envy challenged.

She turned her golden gaze on him. "I have already made up my mind on them." Envy tensed under her gaze.

"Who's going?" Envy asked in a hushed tone.

"I. . .don't know." I said, startled.

"So you weren't even told the plan? Does your Mother not even trust you enough to tell you the plan? Is that how you want to be treated?" He prodded.

"Shut up, if she didn't tell me, she had a reason!" I snapped.
"She told Humility." He pointed out.

"Humility's the oldest. Mom trusts her the most." I fired back.

"So you haven't earned that trust?" He countered. "Diligence was told."
I froze, looking at my sister. She was oblivious to our argument. I looked to Charity. She seemed caught off guard too, which I pointed out.

Envy looked thoughtful, dropping the subject as Mother began speaking.

"Lust, Greed and Envy, you will be sent to Earth, in the Milky Way Galaxy. You have two months to earn your Angel's trust, more than enough time. Your powers will be of no use, unless your Angel deems it fit."
Envy shifted, obviously remembering how I took it from him. "Angels, your powers are your normal ones, plus a new one. Chastity, yours is telepathy. Charity, yours is invisibility. Kindness, yours is wall crawling. Good luck with these Homunculi." The power streams lit up, zapping me of some energy.

"May the odds be in your favor that Truth doesn't interfere."

The last thing I heard was a "WHAT?!" from Charity before the world went black.

New chapter!

Fun Fact: Each Virtue has an elemental power. You'll learn of Temperance's soon, in chapter 5.

Fun Fact #2: This was originally 2003-based, but I changed my mind at last minute before I posted, and it's so different, it screwed everything up...which is why in the first chapter it says "Father" instead of "Mother" That's actually a typo...

I'll probably have a story for the other homunculi and virtues, but with the 2003 anime version.

It'll probably screw everything up, but oh well. *shrugs*

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