Chastity's POV

Lust, or should I say, Luciana, and I walked to a secluded part of the store.

"I'm gonna contact Charity, just hang tight for a moment." I told Luciana.

She nodded, and I closed my eyes, focusing on the store first. Once my concentration was good, I swept out farther until I got to the beach. I noticed with a start that there were two new energies on the beach. I prodded one and found Temperance blocking me out.

"Hey lil' sis, what're you doing here?" I asked.

She mentally started. "Chastity? Whoa, you scared me."

"That's usually the affect I have on people."

"Not funny, big brother."
"Whatever. You never answered my question."

"Mom thought it'd be time to send me here, so here I am."

"Huh. Who's next?"

"I'm not completely sure, but I think Humility."

"That should be fun. Anyway, I have a favor for you."

"Okay, what?"

"Get everyone and meet us at the shopping department. There's one near the edge of the city."

"It'll take a while."

"In twenty?"

"We'll see. Bye big brother."

"Bye."

I pulled away, blinking my eyes blearily. Wow, that sapped energy.

"They're coming. I told Temperance to meet us in the shopping department not far from here."

Lus-er, Luciana nodded. "To discuss things?"

"Yeah. We should get going."

We exited the supermarket, and started walking in the direction of the shopping part.

"On Earth, my name was Solaris," Lust said abruptly.

"Yeah, and?" I asked.

"Why didn't you give me that name, then?"

"I wanted something new. Solaris is too much the old you," I slung my arm over her shoulder. "Therefor, you needed a new name."

Luciana watched me out of the corner of her eye, carefully removing my arm. "That explains it."

"Good, glad I cleared up the confusion." I grinned, then nudged her with my arm.

"Let's race. See who gets there first."

I took off. Luciana paused, sighed, then ran after me.

I glanced back to see a smile tugging at the corner of her lips. I turned back, grinning to myself.

I got her to smile.

Kindness's POV

"This is all your fault." I mumbled.

"Is not!" Envy snapped.

"Yes it is! We've earned another hour, and it's your fault for not getting the memo!"

"Shut up! You're just mad 'cause your sister abandoned you!"

Ouch.

My fists clenched. "Sh-"

"Another hour!"

We both paused at Charity's call. Then both of us glared at each other.

"Damnit!" Envy punched the wall.

"Took it out of my mouth." I muttered, walking to the door and banging on it. "Please let me out~" I whined.

"You're in luck. Chastity needs us." The door opened, Temperance standing there.

I almost hugged her, if Envy hadn't bolted past me, almost knocking Temperance down in the process.

Charity tackled him to the floor then sat on his back, keeping him smushed against the floor. I raised an eyebrow, then turned back to Temperance.

"Why does he need us?"

"Dunno, but he wants us there in twenty." She shrugged.

"You took the liberty to talk to him but didn't ask what about?!" I waved my arms in the air.

"Shupit." Envy muttered as best as he could with his face in the grassy floor.

"For once we agree." I crossed my arms over my chest.

"I might have to take a half-hour off your time for coming to an agreement." Charity said thoughtfully.

Envy's head shot up, both of us staring at us with wide eyes. I knew what he was thinking.

"Quick, agree on something else!"

Unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything else. Luckily, he did. "We should probably get going."

I nodded. "Soon anyway, or we won't get there in time."

"Hmm, you're right." Charity got off of Envy roughly, and I felt sorry for him for about two seconds when she stepped on his hair.

"Ow..." He mumbled.

I grabbed my green crop jacket and white sneakers, then snagged a hair-tie Charity had. I followed the others out the door while tying my hair into a braid. I failed to notice Envy was behind me until he tugged on my red hair.

"Ow ow ow, leggo! What's wrong with you?!" I bent over backwards, glaring at him.

The upside-down boy watched me uninterestedly. "You pulled my hair, I pull yours."

I righted myself, then turned and glared at him, walking backwards. "Come on! You totally had it coming! You threw me into the ocean afterwords, anyway! Shouldn't that make up for it?!"

"You were unconscious." He pointed out.

"...how do you know that?" I asked, weirded out.

"Because Temperance carried you out of the water, and you were unconscious. Now look out-" I turned and promptly hit a tree.

Envy burst out laughing as I let out a curse. (Curse you, tree!)

"Who's bloody idea was it to put a freakin' tree there!?" I yelped.

"Apparently someone's." He laughed.

I glared at him, muttering to myself. Charity watched us bicker, silently thinking how good a couple they made. Pretty soon, they arrived at the shopping complex. Chastity and Lust were waiting.

"Big bro, you gotta help me!" I shrieked, running for him and hiding behind him.

"Wha-?" He started, then glared at Envy.

"What did you do?" He growled.

"Nothing." Envy rolled his eyes, shoving his hands in his pockets.

"Liar," I mumbled. "He pulled my hair!" I accused.

"So what if I did? You pulled mine!" He shot back.

"Chastity~" I whined. "Make him stop~"

"You stop first." Charity said, annoyed.

"Wow, everyone's snappy today." Greed said nonchalantly.

"Everyone stop talking." Chastity said.

I fell silent, then yelped as Temperance moved me next to Envy with her freaky blood-bending.

I hate that skill.

I shot her a scalding glare, one she didn't even seem to acknowledge. I sighed as Chastity started asking questions.

"The first thing we need to discuss is living arrangements. Where the heck are we going to live?" Chastity asked.

"In a house, stupid." Envy muttered.

I grinned to myself.

"I know that." Chastity said, annoyed. "But where? In the city? In a development? In the countryside?"

I spoke up. "Not in a city."

"Why? Closer to your job." Greed debated.

"No freedom." I crossed my arms. "I don't want to be that close to people anyway."

"We have to think on how many people there are going to be in the house first." Lust put in. "That shortens our list of options."

"I'm thinking all of us, but I don't know for certain." Temperance said.

"That's a big house." I commented.

"More of a mansion." Envy muttered.

"So seriously, what are we doing?" Chastity asked.

After some discussion, we decided to live in the development. After that, things went smoother, and we decided to think up human names for ourselves.

Lust was named Luciana.

Chastity was named Chase.

I was Kiara.

Charity was Claire.

Temperance was Talia.

Gluttony didn't need one 'cause he wouldn't have a job.

Envy refused to take a human name, and no amount of persuasion could change it.

And Greed, we couldn't think of any he liked.

We soon split up to find jobs around the city. Charity made me walk with Envy and told us if we split up, we'd never get out of the room.

I sighed. "This sucks."

Envy suggested we just ignore each other. I agreed, and we wandered around in silence.

"If you could have any job, what would it be?" I wondered.

I thought Envy was still ignoring me until he said, "I don't know. I never had to think about this."

I stopped walking, staring off into space as I thought. Envy stopped walking a few feet ahead of me, watching me with an annoyed look on his face.

"Acrobatics. You were really good at that." I snapped my fingers.

I grabbed his hand and started running.

"Let go! Where are we going?!" He tried to keep up with me.

I laughed, only running faster. "C'mon, we gotta find a gym!"

That was so much fun having Envy being squashed into the ground.

Envy: You almost broke my nose again.

Me: Aw shut up, you wimp.

Envy: *mutters darkly*

Crazy chapter. Next one has a lot of jumping around between POV's.

Anyway, I took the whole "Acrobatics" thing from the first FMA (cause this is FF. I'm allowed to do what I want...to a certain extent, anyway.)

OH YEAH! If you like this, check out Meaning of Life by Penelope Jadewing. It's awesome.

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