Envy's POV

I watched Kindness sleep, feeling extremely bored. There wasn't anything to do! Especially since I couldn't pick on the redhead. Her temper's like the Fullmetal Runt's. So much fun to prod. Until she'd say something that would make my own temper explode.

"Everything's silent." I could hear Charity whisper.

"So?" Greed's own louder voice made no try to be quiet.

"So what's happening?" Charity was still whispering.

"Envy's probably choking Kindness."

I nearly started laughing. I wish. That would make things exciting.

Charity gasped, then the cloud that made up the door suddenly vanished. I watched her burst into the room, glancing around wildly. Her gaze landed on me.
"What, you don't trust me?" I asked.

"You. . .aren't doing anything." She said in disbelief.

"Again, you don't trust me, do you?" I stood up, sliding my hands into my pockets and regarding her lazily.

"Of course not. You could be doing any number of things to my little sister!" She said defensively.

I rolled my eyes. "I could kill you now, but I told Kindness I wouldn't do anything. If she learned I killed you, I'd be in huge trouble."

"Wait, are you scared of my sister?" Crap.

Yes, I'm a little bit scared of her.

But only a little.

"No, of course not," I scoffed. "She's not the least bit scary."

Greed spoke up. "Then why haven't you done anything?"

Damn it.

"Is it any of your business what I do?" I asked. "I haven't felt like doing anything."

Charity and Greed just looked at me skeptically.
"Shut up before I kill you." I mutter.

"Whatever. Chastity told me they'd probably be back this evening, with food and stuff." Charity informed.

". . .and this is helpful because?"

"I figured you'd probably be hungry."

"Yeah."

Charity and Greed left the room, but not without a warning. "If you touch my little sister, I will kill you."

I sighed, bored again. I glanced at Kindness, only to nearly let out a girly shriek. She's glowing! Is this normal?!

I jumped up from where I had been sitting on the bed, but then I realized that this was probably the healing trance. I walked over to her, eying her cautiously. A green glow surrounded her, the edges of it a golden color. The glow covered her completely; it was reflective, and I eyed myself for a moment.

"Humans are weird," I announced. "But Virtues are even more so."

With the other Humility, no POV

Humility walked to Mother's door, knocked twice, then entered. Mother sat in a chair, watching three screens. Humility knew what was on the screens; her brother and sisters.

"Mother?"

"What is it, Humility?"

"I. . .have a small problem."

Mother didn't spare her a glance. "And it is. .?"

"Um, I can't really handle Pride. . ."

Mother sighed. "It really isn't that hard, Humility."

"Yeah, but. . ." The girl ran her fingers through her shock-white hair, frustrated.

Mother turned her attention to the girl. "Just try. Try to keep him occupied until I can send you to Earth."

Humility nodded. "But I don't really understand why we weren't also sent with Kindness."

"Pride died when Selim was hit by a car," Mother said. "And I want him to get used to being with people before sending him into a world were he can kill everyone."

Humility nodded, signaling she understood.

"Which is why you need to be around him."
"I understand." Humility sighed, then walked out.

Humility walked, muttering to herself about missing Kindness and needing new video games in Italian. She closed the door to her room, flopping onto her bed.

"Why so glum?" Diligence asked, walking in.

"Bored. Don't wanna watch Pride." Humility mumbled into her pillow.

Diligence was younger than Kindness, but looked about Charity's age. Diligence had curly, shoulder-length, reddish-brown hair and purple eyes.

She looked at Humility, annoyed. "Do something, then."

"Like what?" Humility didn't lift her head.

"Practice your languages, or violin." She suggested.

"Nein."

"What?"

"No."

"I don't know, just do something!" Diligence threw up her hands.

"No. I wanna be lazy."

Lazy was a word that annoyed Diligence to no end.

"Alright, that's it." She grabbed Humility by her pink shirt and dragged her out of the room.

Humility mentally groaned.

Here we go. She thought. Chores.

Wait, maybe I can get Pride to do them for me.

Her mind flashed back to the boy.

...Nah, probably not.

Rats.

Kindness's POV

~Inside her trance~

When I opened my eyes, I was somewhere in time. Yeah, that's one of the downsides to being a Virtue/Angel. When we do healing trances, we get a little weird. Humility, for instance, starts chanting in Latin and the occasional Greek. It's actually pretty creepy. To walk into a room, see her floating, shrouded in white, and long Latin words coming out of her mouth.

It's like a supernatural movie.

Or, or for Diligence. Her whole body encases itself in metal, and she weighs a ton.

Literally.

Now, back to what I was seeing.

I saw myself, dancing. No, that is not unusual. My hobbies are dancing and reading sci-fi. But what scared me was I was on a stage. And people were watching. And clapping. I don't dance for anyone. The only people who know are Mother and my secret stuffed animal, a tiger by the name of Kiara. The Earth name I gave myself, in memory of my best friend.

She got torn to bits when Humility was messing around with making a dog. Humility's power is life, and she can make anything, animal or human. She's in charge of human transmutation, but handed the responsibility to Truth. She still manages it though, to make sure nothing really really bad happens.

Anyway, she made a cross between a German-Shepard and a Golden Retriever.

My tiger never had a chance.

ANYWAY~

I was dancing, yeah, we established that. The scene shifted, and I saw the backs of Charity and Greed, I think, walking down a beach, hand-in-hand. The scene shifted one last time, and I saw a little boy with curly dark hair and sparkly green eyes on a swing, a lady pushing her. The kid was gleeful, and it struck me that this was a mini-Chastity.

I woke up with a cry of, "OH MY GOSH, LUST AND CHASTITY END UP TOGETHER!"

I must've scared Envy like never before, because he jumped about twenty feet in the air with a very girly shriek. We stared at each other, then it sunk in what I had just seen. I cracked up laughing as Envy glared at me.

"Not funny." He mumbled.

"On the contrary, dear Envy, it was hilarious." I wiped away a tear, still giggling.

"Shut up."

~With Lust and Chastity~

No POV

"Look!" Chastity pointed.

Lust turned her attention to the store he was pointing to. A pet shop.

"And?" She drawled.

"Let's go see." He grabbed her hand and led her inside the shop.

Lust glanced around the store. To her left, the cat section. To her right, dogs. Straight ahead, amphibians and reptiles.

"Why are we here again?" She sighed, but was ignored.

"Look at this puppy!" Chastity picked up a happy Golden Retriever. "Ain't he cute~?"

"She." Lust corrected flatly.

"What?" Chastity turned it away from Lust and eyed it.

His face colored. ". . .Oh."

Lust sighed, rubbing her temples. "Can we leave?"

"Nope! I wanna look around first." He grinned, enjoying that he was getting on her nerves.

Chastity wandered around, half-dragging Lust with him.

"Can we get something?" He asked.

"You're asking me?" Lust raised an eyebrow.

"No." He stuck his tongue out at her, then grinned down at the cat who was lazily watching him from the cage.

"But this cat is seriously cute." He stated.

The kitten blinked at him, yawned, then went to sleep.

"Looks lazy to me." Lust smirked.

"Let's not show it to Diligence." Chastity grinned.

"Can we leave?" Lust asked five minutes later.

Chastity heaved a sigh, standing up from where he was watching a guinea pig. "Sure. If you really hate it this much, we can go."

"Seriously, though, if we got a dog, where are we going to keep it?" Lust asked.

"In the house." Chastity replied.

They walked out of the store, discussing it.

"A dog needs to run around." She argued.
"So we get a cat." Chastity shrugged.

"Envy would be thrilled." Lust rolled her reddish-brown eyes.

Chastity noticed they were more red than brown. "Why, he hates cats?"

"They don't get along very well." Lust held back a smile, remembering the time a kitten had followed him home. It attacked him everytime he tried to touch it. Nobody could understand why it had followed him home, but wouldn't let him get near it. Envy despised cats after it had clawed his eyes.

"We should totally get one for him and claim it was from Kindness!" Chastity snapped his fingers.

"Are you trying to kill your sister?"

"No, she does that well enough on her own. She doesn't need any help."

Lust could agree with him on that one.

They walked into a grocery store.

"So, how are we going to get any of this home? It's a long way back." Chastity realized.

Lust thought for a moment. "Call Charity here and have her take it home?"

"It would be so much faster if Temperance did it." Chastity groaned.

"Why?"

"'Cause she has teleportation."

"Ah, that would make it easier."
"Isn't that what I just said?"

"Yes. I was agreeing with you."

"Right. . ."

Lust watched him, thinking. His sisters already have someone, and he just treats me like a friend. Kindness and Envy are friend-enemies, Charity's crushing on Greed. I can't even tell what he's thinking all the time.

"Hey Lust, we should give you an earth name." Chastity abruptly said.

Lust raised an eyebrow. "Such as?"

"Lemme think about it." Chastity tapped his lip, staring at the floor, in deep thought.

Lust waited.

"Luciana." He said. "It's perfect."

Lust just stared at him with a 'What is wrong with you?' look on her face.

"No, really!" He protested. "It's sophisticated and it fits you! Plus you can get oodles of nicknames from it! Lucy, Ana, Ciana. . ."

"You are an idiot." Lust walked past him.

"Aw, come on~" He whined.

She quickened her pace to hide the smile.

This is probably my favorite chapter so far. It's got Envy and Kindness, a glance with Pride and Humility AND Chastity and Lust. Seriously, the only other thing you could want is Greed and Charity.

Like Lust's name? I thought it's awesome, but wouldn't want to be named it.

The next chapter has Temperance and Gluttony! Yay!

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