~~~ (Y/N) POV ~~~

      We were in the sky arena where Pearl trained Connie on how to use a sword. Pearl had been caught up, and Steven and Pearl were going to help me with my fighting. Steven started to stretch.

Steven: "So far, I have been able to stop time by wanting to just escape the moment, or when I had to do a lot of things at once. So, you just need an intense feeling of wanting or needing time to slow down."

     I nodded my head while thinking for a moment. I thought back to many moments in my life when I couldn't catch a break. I thought about now, how I was still training for a fight instead of resting, because it always feels like I never had a moment to rest. I thought about my desire to just lay down and sleep. How I wish I could go back to about a week ago when I was sleeping comfortably instead of having to deal with all this sin stuff. I let my aura consume me as I went into my black hole form. I closed my eye and felt the world slow, just wanting a single god damn moment to sit down. I saw Pearl and Steven staring at me. For a moment I was disappointed until I realized they weren't blinking. I smiled as I walked toward the seats of the arena, and took a seat. The feeling of moving through the timeless air was weird, it rushed by me, and yet it was so gentle as I moved through it, making my own path through the air. As I sat in the seats I took a nice deep breath, and I relaxed a little bit, but not too much, I didn't know what kind of powers I would unleash if I stopped keeping a leash on my aura. And I was pretty sure that Gluttony wasn't frozen since he was apart of me now. I looked at the two standing, still turned to where I was. This, this is nice. I wish I could do this all the time. Whenever I want, that would be cool. I closed my eye again and leaned back. Until....

Pearl: "(y/n)?"

     I opened my eye.

Steven: "Did you teleport?"

     I shook my head with a simple smile.

Pearl: "You look, very relaxed for someone who just moved at an exponential rate."

(y/n): "I slowed time, simply by wanting to catch a break, so I took this time, or lack of time, to just sit down, and chill out. That was nice."

     Pearl and Steven looked at me, confused.

Pearl: "Well you will have to practice that later, right now it is time I teach you how to use your weapons. You are going to be able to use multiple forms for each of your weapons, including your hands. I have been learning about your human's martial arts."

(y/n): "Ha, ninja Pearl. That's funny."

     Pearl looked at me confused as Steven held in a laugh.

(y/n): "I know, I know. You are serious. Let's get started then, but just remember it is expected for humans to take years and years to perfect and master a martial arts. Since it is not just about the moves, but muscle memory, forcing these moves to be ingrained in the very fibers of your being, and muscle."

     Pearl beckoned me to the center of the arena while grabbing an ordinary looking hammer from her gem. 

Pearl: "So, a warhammer is a weapon that is best used by someone with a lot of strength, but no matter who you are, a hammer will always work best with centrifugal force. So by carefully arranging your grip, you can use minimal force on the rise, and add force to the fall of the head. This can cause the hammer to do a lot of damage as it falls on your opponent. But it is often used by swinging sideways. It is difficult to pull of, but you can have more of a diagonal swing if you start to change direction of movement as the head rises. This does decrease the efficiency of the attack, but it does allow attacks a certain angles which can be very useful in many situations."

     I nodded as I took out my hammer.

(y/n): "Well, I get the basics. But for a horizontal swing, wouldn't it just be better to use your core to spin, instead of using gravity and having a diagonal strike. Like so."

     I grabbed near the head of the hammer with my right hand, and the left hand was more in the middle of the handle. I brought the head of the hammer to above my shoulder and twisted myself to my right. I then surged, twisting my body to the left, bringing the head of the hammer just leveled above my hip, swinging while sliding my hand lower down the hammer as it swung to the side.

Pearl: "Well, that is one way to do it. But it can be quite difficult, and not the most efficient. If you do that too many times, you can easy wear yourself out. That's why the heavy head of the hammer is often used as a down striking weapon. Because even the strongest wielder can always do more damage if they maximize their force output, while minimizing energy used up. I recommend that you practice down swings with the hammer. Now moving on, bring out another one of your weapons."

     I brought out my war ax.

Pearl: "Oh my. That is, quite interesting. Where did you get that?"

(y/n): "Well, one time, I tried to summon an umbrella, and this happened. So this is another form of Steven's shield, and your spear."

Pearl: "Well, I guess I can see that. But then with the amount of weapons you can summon is quite drastic, considering the shapes in your arsenal. Well, that is similar to the hammer in weight distribution but in terms of use, I could see that as a better weapon to swing to the side. Hmm, well, practice down swings and side swings. Next."

     I brought out my Karambits.

Pearl: "Oh yes. So those are best used with jabbing attacks. Using punches you can use then to create small punctures next to your strikes, or you can twist your wrists to dig deep with the knives. Or you can go for a more direct stab. And if you use an extended grip you can go for more brutal slashing and tearing strikes. So first get used to punching and jabbing before moving onto more complicated moves, and then after getting used to that, practice using those moves with your karambits."

(y/n): "Pearl, can you wait a moment, I want to try something."

Pearl: "Well okay, but afterwards we are going to continue with your weapons."

     I nodded before going into my void. I activated my black hole form. I felt my aura surrounding me, and I extended my hand. I focused on the shadows on my hand, and I saw that most of the flame-like shadows had concentrated there. I focused on shaping it as I somewhat closed my hand, leaving a small spot. After a moment, the shadows had formed a sword in my hand. I put my left hand under my right one and had the handle extend as the blade did the same, creating a much longer sword, I made it shrink again, removing my left hand. I smiled and let my black hole form go. I teleported back to the arena.

(y/n): "Pearl. Can you teach me how to use a sword?"

     I entered my black hole form, and made a sword, showing off my creativity.

          ~~~ Time Skip 30 minutes ~~~

     I had gotten knocked down for the fifth time. I was training with a few of the holo-Pearls. 

Holo-Pearl: "Challenger defeated. Try again?"

(y/n): "Yes."

     I stood up again and sighed. I got into stance, keeping my feet wide and firm, the training sword I used was extended in my right hand.

          ~~~ Envy POV ~~~

     I was walking to Pride's throne room. I really should tell them about Gluttony's other abilities. We need to be prepared, just in case. I entered the room and looked at Pride, who was doing push ups. They have been doing this essentially ever since Gluttony left.

Envy: "I know you said you don't have time, but I really need to tell you about Gluttony."

Pride: "What, what is it that you keep trying to bring up?"

Envy: "Their abilities. I know you wanted to keep it a surprise so you could see it for yourself, but trust me, they seem to get new abilities everyday, no matter what, there is going to be something to surprise you. There were even things that surprised me. So can you let me tell you now?"

Pride: "Fine."

Envy: "Their aura, it can copy other aura's. They used it to make  an emotional field, and used to to form lightning. At one point they even copied White's power."

     For the first time today, they stopped doing push ups, and looked up. They stood up and used their towel to wipe off their sweat.

Pride: "They copied White?"

Envy: "Yes, and they were immune to her aura, well for the most part. It only immobilized them. They can also steal weapons from gems and use them, they can create multiple weapons from their base arsenal, much like a fusion. They can use their aura to keep from gems using their abilities. They can enter a void, which is what they use to teleport, and it induces increased healing. They can technically clone themselves, but hate doing so. When they cover them self with their aura, like they did in the end of your fight, the can absorb energy, and use it against their opponent. Most of their abilities seem to depend on using other's to their advantage. They can even make fire and ice. There was a reason I couldn't even handle their experience, they push them self to the absolute limit and beyond so that they can grow exponentially. Now with Gluttony in their with them, that is only going to make it harder to control them, if that's what you had planned."

     I stopped talking and Pride had a serious, and angry face. They let out a deep sigh and looked at me.

Pride: "Gluttony is going to be a real nuisance. Tell me anything else they can do, no ability is too small."

Envy: "Yeah, especially since they used to not be able to use their aura to it's fullest, it could be possible that any ability they have now could be upgraded in some way."

     Pride nodded as they took me to convene with the others. It seems it was finally time to assess how to properly deal with Gluttony.