Chapter 31: Thicker Than Water

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          ~~~ (Y/N) POV ~~~

     I was running through the forest, chasing after a scent. My vision red I saw the mysterious person, some woman, and Vlad The Impaler. They ran from me as I crushed trees in my way, Vlad was slower than the other two people, but I didn't care about them, all I needed was the one who fell behind. He scowled before suddenly jumping at me, teeth bared, and nails in prime swiping position, but he never got the chance as I tackled him, my own teeth sinking into his neck. He screamed and tried to bite back as I tore at him. My vision was pure orange, and I continued to claw and bite, enjoying my feast. Then, I woke up.

     I was sweating, and breathing heavily. Was that a dream? Was that what happened? I got out of bed and remembered I was in the Palace. I went into my void and came out in my Diamond Authority outfit. I left my room and made my way to Blue's room. I didn't have a chance to talk to her. I wonder how she is doing. I entered Blue's room and saw her sitting worried.

(Y/N): "Why so... Blue?"

     I smiled and waved as I spoke.

Blue: "Oh (Y/N). I am glad to see you hear. How have you been, besides the current situation."

(Y/N): "I have been doing okay. To be honest, sometimes have been feeling like I have been unable to get ahold of my powers sometimes, but recently after coming home, I felt like all those problems just, left to somewhere else. But now a new problem show's up."

Blue: "Yes, I am sorry that this is happening."

(Y/N): "It's okay, I just hope this can be sorted out soon."

     Blue nods her head. I looked down and I let my smile fade. I know I have to sit up here so I they can't effect me, but, why can't I at least try to do something? And.... I walked out of Blue's room, and I headed to the warp pad. ...why can't I get rid of this hunger I have?


          ~~~ TIME SKIP 3 MINUTES (Y/N) POV ~~~

     I made it back to my house on Earth. I ran in the direction that Number 3 and 5 ran off in. The scenery started to become a forest as the neighborhood disappeared behind me.  At last I heard slightly distant voices as the border of my vision became a murky pinkish green. 

??(4)??: "Oh, come on Lust. I am telling you they disappeared."

Lust: "They couldn't have just disappeared, I still need to kill them!"

??(4)??: "Or make them yours? You seem to be quite obsessed."

Lust: "Oh shut it Envy, it isn't like that this time. They killed him, and I am going to avenge him! They are going to-"

     I stepped on a twig as I was trying to sneak around. Keeping as much of a distance as I could to hear, but not be completely overtaken.

Lust: "...Hello? I someone there? How about you come out so I can get a good long look at you. I am sure you look great."

     My vision was starting to get pinker and I got a slight urge to just jump out, but I restrained myself as best I could. How can they have this much power? Well, they are kind of the best. Why are they the best? Why can't I be? Why do they have to be so cool and persuasive?! Before I could move away the two figures came out and saw me. Lust narrowed their eyes.

Lust: "You! See Envy, I told you they were still here. And now we get to have fun."

     They started walking toward me as Envy stayed back. He was actually backing up instead, my vision no longer being a pinkish green, and was mostly pink at this point. They are so, so wonderful. Why was I going to hurt them? I am such an idiot. Maybe they will forgive  me.

Lust: "Hey there. Can you do something for me?"

     I slowly and shakenly nodded as I tried to resist it.

Lust: "Can you, kill yourself?"

     I froze for a moment. Well, if that's what they want, then I should do it. I mean, what's the big deal? I should just do it right now. But, actually... I started to relax ...I am still quite hungry. I don't think they would mind if I did this one thing real quick. I just need to, eat something. My vision went form pink, to Orange. Lust looked shocked as they looked at me, taking a few steps back.

(Y/N): "You know, I would love to do that, but, real quick. I just have to take care of this, this thing real quick. You see, I am. I am quite, quite hungry."

     Envy saw this from a distance. He started running toward us.

Envy: "Lust, get out of here! It is starting to look like Wrath was right. We are not going to kill them!"

    I pounced forward at Lust, my teeth and nails bared. Envy saw this and pushed Lust out of the way. 

Envy: "Lust, get out of here, I will calm them down!"

     Lust started running away, I would have chased after them, if I did have someone already in front of me.

Envy: "Now, hello there Gluttony two point oh."

(Y/N): "Well hello there. You look quite good, quite, appetizing."

Envy: "Oh yeah, that's Gluttony alright. I know a place where you can eat all you want. Just come with me."

(Y/N): "Well, there is a slight problem with that."

Envy: "And what would that be?"

     I summoned my hammer and got ready to lunge.

(Y/N): "I wouldn't be able to eat what's right here."

     I lunged forward and swung my hammer when, suddenly my hammer disappeared, and Envy was holding my hammer instead.

Envy: "Wow, this is quite the power. Lust wasn't joking about the random hammer. So you really are like one of them, huh? Well, not completely. Were you an experiment done right?"

(Y/N): "Less talk, more eat."

     I activated my aura, black lightning sparking off of me as I burst toward him.

Envy: "Oooh, and a full Diamond aura. You can't be an experiment with this kind of power. You have to be a full fledged Diamond, but you are clearly human."

     I tried to stop time, but I couldn't. I tried to summon a weapon but I can't.

Envy: "Ah, ah, ah. You see, after a few thousand years down here on Earth, we all gained power, and it seems, we have advanced quite far from our original states. We can all do a few extra things. Me, I can take the skills and experience from others, but I never was able to try out actual powers, since this doesn't really work on the others, and we haven't encountered a gem or diamond ever since we were thrown out of homeworld."

     I growled as I rushed at him, but he simply side stepped me and tripped me.

Envy: "Now that I have your powers, let's see how I can use them, by seeing how you used them, every experience you had."

     He smiled as he rushed forward and grabbed my head. He smiled at first, his eyes glowing green, until that smile turned into a frown, his eyes widened in shock, his grasp on my head tightening. He started to scream in pain, 'his' aura started going berserk and it burst. He fell down to the ground, dazed. I was in a similar condition, my vision no longer orange, but it wasn't quite fully green. Envy stood up and regained his senses before me. He stood for a moment before quickly tensing up. My vision was no longer green at all. I slowly stood up, swaying a bit.

(Y/N): "What, happened? Who are, wait. You were in the pictures, you were, were oh, you were number 4!"

Envy: "Yes, I am Envy. We don't go by numbers any more. You, have been through a lot. I need you to remember, you have potential, and we might come after you to offer you a position with us, since we are lacking Gluttony, the one you killed. But, for now I have to go. It was interesting meeting you."

     He began to run away. I chased after him, but I quickly got lost when I was hit by a flash of green and hatred. I blinked rapidly and regained my vision. I sat up and found my bearings before running home. I went to the warp pad and went to the Palace on Homeworld. Running down the halls I found the Diamonds again.

Yellow: "(Y/N), where have you been?"

      I held up a finger as I caught my breath.

(Y/N): "I found them, well, they found me, and by they, I mean 4 and 5."

Blue: "Those two?"

(Y/N): "Yes, they called themselves Lust, and Envy. They called another one Wrath, and they called me Gluttony. I found out why my gem is glowing orange. I killed Gluttony, or 6, and I think I took his power."

White: "What? So, one of them is gone?"

(Y/N): "Well, I know he is definitely dead. But, there is something else. Envy was able to steal my power."

Yellow: "That's impossible!"

(Y/N): "Well, he did. He took my power, and used my weapon. He said everyone got new abilities. He can now steal people's skills, experience, and he can take the power of gems."

Blue: "So, you beat him when he had your powers?"

(Y/N): "No, he tried to take my experience, which means he tried to go through what I went through. He couldn't handle it, and the aura he stole from me burst, knocking us both down. So he took a tactical retreat."

Yellow: "So they have all grown stronger, and we don't know everything they can do?"

(Y/N): "I need to go tell the gems about what is going on."

Blue: "But what if they effect you?"

(Y/N): "Well, I was kind of able to overcome that, because ever since I took Gluttony's powers..."

     My gem vision became orange tinted.

(Y/N): "...I have been very hungry."

     I closed my eye, and clenched my fist, calming myself down.

(Y/N): "I just can't think about it too much."

     I walked away from the now very shocked and worried diamonds. I went onto the warp pad where I arrived at the temple. I entered the house and saw the gems talking, Amethyst and Garnet were having a conversation while Pearl was entering the temple with Steven and Connie. Everyone noticed I had warped in.

Pearl: "(Y/N), why aren't you on Homeworld?"

(Y/N): "Well, I wanted to do something. So I came back down, and bumped into two of them. And, well, I got a lot of information."

Pearl: "Well that's good, but why did you go after them when they have a dangerous effect on you?"

(Y/N): "Well, I felt like I would find a solution when I got there, and I didn't really find a solution, it's more like the solution was thrown upon me. But first, those people, are somewhat part gem, but not like Steven or I. There were seven of them, and they were part of a human gem fusion experiment. Long story short, they have crushed gems in them, they have gem powers of some kind, and are thousands of years old."

Garnet: "This is very bad news."

Pearl: "Do we know what abilities they have?"

(Y/N): "Kind of, we know all the abilities they had during the experimentation days, and they have grown since then, so now they have more abilities. First of all, they have the ability to effect gems by grabbing them, and it makes them emotional in some way. Also, they gave themselves names but I don't know all of their names, so I will call the one's I don't know by their experiment number. Number 1 had the ability to make themself stronger by effecting others nearby them, the more they effected, the stronger they get. Number 2 had the ability to make people become obsessed with whatever was near them, causing them to want to steal it, not matter what it is. Number 3 and 4 had a similar ability, the ability to make people violently angry at others, but in different ways, and Number 4 is Envy, he is one of the ones I met, He told me about his other ability, the ability to steal skill, experience, and powers from others, he stole my weapons and my aura. Number 5 is Lust, and they have the ability to make people like them so much that they will do literally anything they ask, and I have been a victim of that ability. Number 6, who was Gluttony, he had the ability to make people violently ravenous to the point of making gems try to eat other gems, I say had, and was, because, he was orange, I kind of, killed him, and I think gained his power, kind of. And then there is Number 7, who had the ability to take the will to do anything from people, to the point where they would sit defenseless to any attack."

Pearl: "You, killed one of them?"

(Y/N): "Yeah, I don't remember doing it, and I don't know why, but if my dream was what happened, then his own power was what made me attack him."

Garnet: "So, you became 'violently ravenous' and attacked him..."

(Y/N): "In my dream, I saw it happen, again, if it is what happened, and if my dream was the truth, then, I kind of.... ate him."

     I looked down. Everyone looked horrified, and while Connie was wide eyed, she also seemed to be thinking.

Connie: "Wait, Envy? Lust? Gluttony? Those are four of the seven deadly sins! Pride, Greed, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth!"

Pearl: "Seven deadly what?"

Connie: "The seven deadly sins. The capital vices, or cardinal sins in Christian teachings. But fun fact, they were not mentioned in the bible."

(Y/N): "The seven deadly sins, how could I not realize it. Envy and Lust did mention their friend, who they called Wrath."

          ~~~ ENVY POV ~~~

      I made it back to base where Lust, Pride, Wrath, Greed, and Sloth were waiting.

Wrath: "So, did you get a good look at them Envy?"

Envy: "Oh yeah. I got a nice close look. They were able to effect themself in the same way Gluttony would effect others. It took over Lust's lovestruck effect, and my jealousy effect."

Wrath: "Interesting, well we-"

Envy: "There's more, a lot more. They are part diamond, part human. They weren't an experiment, they were like this since birth. And they have a power that allows them to do so much, but with a high, high cost. I apparently could even handle the costs of the past. As they grow stronger, it takes more and more of a toll, and it's nearly impossible how they can keep up."

Pride: "Sounds like I will finally have the fight of my life."

Envy: "No, Pride, you don't get it. They can and have survived things that make most of our attacks look like child's play. It was no surprise Gluttony was taken down so quickly, his favorite form of attack, has no effect on them. In fact, they have been impales many times at this point, it has become a mere annoyance to them. If you want to face them, you need me, and an army there."

Pride: "I think you underestimate me."

Wrath: "Pride, watch your tongue, you may be the leader, but it is important you don't let your own sin overcome you. Remember when you tried to fight me?"

Pride: "Yeah, I will be honest, you are an honorable opponent, but I expect nothing less from my companions."

Lust: "So, to sum it up, your saying I can't kill them?"

Envy: "You? Well, if I am there, then any of you have a decent chance technically, but if they still have their abilities, there will be a big problem."

Pride: "Then it's time to bring back, the Army from Hell."

Greed: "If we even have enough time to do that."

Sloth: "Oh, we doing this again? This is going to be so much fun."

Greed: "It will be the Napoleon's two and a half million man army all over again."

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