I, Bluecookiedough do not own The Seven Deadly Sins. I may be changing a few parts or skip over a few parts so that it's not so awkward. I'm basing it off the anime. Possible OOC-ness. Interpret ships as you please.

The mage looked around the room they had set up and smiled, everything was in place and it was time to begin. There were a number of chairs and couches set up in front of a coffee table set up in front of a screen. Soon those seats would be filled, but for now it was time for the mage to disappear. A puff of smoke and they were gone.

A bright light appeared and a number of people fell onto the ground. The Seven Deadly Sins, the king of Liones, Princess Elizabeth, and a pig.

"What are we doing here?"

"Where are we?"

"Is everyone ok?"

"Yo Baltra, what's up?"

There was chaos, everyone was talking at once and they all seemed quite flustered. All of them except Meliodas. He just sat down in an arm chair (orange and very cushiony) and smiled. Finally the king roared "SILENCE." and order was restored. "I don't know where we are or why we are here. I am sure everyone is ok elizabeth. And meliodas, would it kill you to address me with my title?" The king continued. Meliodas just smiled.

A note appeared on the table.

Ban reached forward and grabbed it, since he was the closest. He read it quickly and rolled his eyes handing it to the king, who proceeded to read it aloud to the group.

"I have gathered everyone here to watch the future. You will forget all of it once you leave this room, but remember it after it happens. Please take a seat and watch the screen. Thank you." Nobody moved, they seemed to be in shock. Except Meliodas of course who reached over and grabbed the note from where he was sitting.

"There's no signature." He said. That seemed to jolt everyone into action and they all sat down in the chairs and couches. Diane was surprised when she found a chair big enough for her on the very far left of the screen. King sat in a chair next to her, next to where Ban and Meliodas where sharing a couch (meliodas had moved). Gothor, Merlin, and Escanor shared a couch next to them. And Elizabeth sat on her father's lap in a chair on the far right.

As soon as they were all seated, the screen flickered to life and showed a view of the kingdom of Liones. But there was something very wrong. Ominous music filled the speakers, and as the view panned to the left, you could see that the city was in shambles.

"What happened to the city?" Diane asked. The video paused.

"I do not know, it is the future, remember?" Gothor commented.

"Oh yeah."

The video started up from where it had paused. A young man was walking slowly down a street. He was wearing a suit of armour and seemed to be quite scarred, he was breathing hard.

Suddenly a shout "Hey! You got a minute? Give me a hand here." The boy flinched and hurried over.

"Yes, sir!" They walked down the road together,

"Where are you from?" The older knight asked.

"Cains, sir." The younger replied.

"Cains?" the older questioned, "I'm an old-timer who's served the kingdom for 40 years, and I've never heard of the place."

"That's not surprising." The young man answered, looking quite flustered, "It's out in the boonies." The other turned his head to look at him.

'If you're this flustered, you'll never be a Holy Knight apprentice." He responded. Ban laughed, "Oh, I like this guy." he said, smiling. King rolled his eyes.

The boy laughed a little bit, "No, I could never be a Holy Knight."

"Then this might be a tough job for someone like you." The older knight replied grimly.

"What's that mean Father?" Elizabeth asked. Her father smiled down at her.

"I don't quite know my dear, we'll just have to wait and see."

"Ok." She said, turning back to the screen. The king chuckled.

Suddenly the boy looked at something off screen in terror. Eyes wide and gasping he asked, "Are those…"

"Holy Knights one and all."

The audience gasped at the sight. Holy Knights lay dead on the ground. Rubble surrounding them. Blood splattered the ground, and the scene just kept going as the camera panned upwards. The young man gasped and started to back away, "Wh-what happened here?"

"What happened?" The man replied, "They were butchered. In the blink of an eye at that. By just seven people." The camera panned upward before fading to black.

Everyone sat in shock at the massacre they had just witnessed.

"Who did that?" Elizabeth asked, tearing up. "Who would murder those Holy Knights? And who could possibly be strong enough?"

"I have no idea." The king looked grim and serious.

"I suppose we'll just have to see." Meliodas said, looking serious as well. Everyone else nodded and turned back to the screen.

The screen turned on to show a panning view of a grassy hilled area with the words 10 Years Later and then Near Cains Town. The sun was rising in the background as someone walked across the screen in rusted armour in the foreground. A rusty night with a tattered cape. Dramatic music filtered out of the speakers, and the knight walked on.

The scene changed to show a sign reading The Boar Hat.

"Wait, who was that knight?" Merlin asked. Escanor shrugged. Ban rolled his eyes.

"I guess we'll just have to watch and find out." he said, the sarcasm almost paleable. Meliodas chuckled.

Someone set some glasses full of beer on a table, "Here you are! Five steins! Thank you for waiting!"

"Sir Meliodas, is that your voice?" Elizabeth asked. Everyone turned to look at Meliodas. He laughed, "I guess we'll find out."

The camera panned up to show Meliodas smiling. "It is you! Why are you working at a bar captain?" Ban asked.

"How am I supposed to know? This is 10 years into the future!"

"Oh yeah. Woops." Meliodas just shook his head.

The scene shifted to show Meliodas working hard running a bar, getting everyone seated and bringing them drinks. One customer commented "For such a little fella, he's a hardworking waiter." Meliodas turned and gave them a look,

"I'm not the waiter, I'm the owner! This is my place!" Ban burst out laughing, "Of course you own a bar." Meliodas winked and laughed again. Diane turned an angry look at Ban, "Don't talk to the captain like that! I bet he'd be a great bar owner!" King sighed.

Meliodas set down a meat pie on a table. "Here you go, fresh from the oven!" "Um Captain? You can't cook…" Ban commented. The other sins nodded in agreement looking disgusted. The king looked perplexed, "It can't be that bad can it?" King looked faintly green as he answered, "Just wait and see."

"The Boar Hat's signature meat pie!"

"That looks good!" Escanor snorted.

"Let's dig in!"

"Ooh I can't even think about it!" Diane looked faintly green as well.

As soon as they put the bite in their mouths they threw up. King Baltra nodded, "I see."

"Our rep is for good booze and terrible food." The customers looked furious,

"You could have mentioned that!" Diane giggled, "Captain's so funny!' King sighed again (poor King).

"Are you messing with us, you punk?" The customers stood up and looked like they were going to beat Meliodas up, but they seemed to think better of it when one of them said, "Hang on, this guy has a sword…"

"Yeah you bet he has a sword. A super cool one he won't let me see." Ban mumbled. Meliodas smirked and nudged Ban in the shoulder with his own. Ban looked over and rolled his eyes, "Fine." he sighed. Meliodas smiled and leaned over on Ban so their arms were touching. He was still pretty tired from there last mission. King looked over and shushed them. They looked back at the screen with looks too innocent to be real. King rolled his eyes, turning back to the screen himself.

"Oh, dear. We've got a difficult crowd tonight." Meliodas said, he snapped his fingers. "Clean up this mess."

"Sheesh, you call that a mess?" Someone stepped in front of the camera. "Why do you even need me for this?" "That's me!" Shouted Hawk.

"Where have you been this whole time?" The king asked.

"I was lying underneath the table!" Hawk squaled and ran over to Hawk

"A talking pig! And he's so cute!" She picked him up and he was just small enough to fit in her arms. She smiled down at him and sat down on the floor facing the screen, Hawk now in her lap. The king chuckled and turned back to the screen as well.

"Th-the pig, it's talking!"

"Don't get surprised by every little thing. This is why I hate hillbillies." Ban laughed, "Oh I like you pig."

"My name's Hawk."

"Alright Hawk."

"Hawk, I need you to clean the floor." Meliodas said.

"What a hassle...Being in charge of scraps disposal ain't no picnic." Hawk said, as he started eating the pie off the floor.

Soon the floor was clean of pie, and cleaner than the rest of the floor as well. "Make sure there are better scraps next time." Hawk said as he turned to walk away. Meliodas looked at the customers,

"If you guys are interested, i could make a decent whole-hog roast." Elizabeth gasped from her place on the floor and held Hawk tighter,

"You wouldn't do that would you Sir Meliodas?" Meliodas smiled at her from where he was still leaning on Ban.

"No, of course not, Princess."

"Good." she replied, looking him straight in the eye, before turning back to the screen. Meliodas shared an amused look with the king before they turned to watch the screen as well.

Hawk turned around and yelled, "That was great! Those were the best scraps I've ever had!"

Suddenly a man burst through the door shaking,

"I-I saw it!" The scene changed to the man being served at a table. "Honest! I saw it with my own two eyes! I'm positive that it was the Wandering Rusty Knight!"

"Like the one it showed earlier." Merlin commented, the king nodded.

"Everyone's been talking about it lately." Someone else at the table said.

"Come on, there's no such thing." Said another. "It's just something to scare children into behaving. If you keep misbehaving, one of the Seven Deadly Sins will come for you in armour that's rusty from blood!" They all laughed.

"What? What's that supposed to mean!?"

"Why would anyone say that?"

"What the hell is going to happen in the future?!"

"Ban!"

"What?"

"Language! There are children present!"

"Yes, thank you Meliodas. Now everyone just calm down. I fear the only way to find out any information is to watch what happens." The king broke into the chaos. Eventually everyone settled and turned back to the show.

"Seven Deadly Sins?" Meliodas asked from behind the bar.

"Yeah. You've never heard of them, our good underage owner?"

"They're even on those wanted posters. Those over there." Someone else at the table told Meliodas.

"Why are we on wanted posters?"

"How should I know?"

"Enough!"

"Sorry Captain."

"When was it, 10 Years Ago?" One of the customers started. "That big fracas where dozens of Holy Knights who had gathered from across the land were all butchered. These Seven Deadly Sins were the ones who did it." Everyone looked at the screen in shock. They needed to process that last statement. Nobody on the Seven Deadly Sins would ever do that! Especially not all of them together! But since nobody was talking the video continued.

"They say that the way the Holy Knight's Grand Master himself was killed was too gruesome to look at. And their captain Meliodas is the scariest of the bunch. They say he's even brought down whole countries." Meliodas' face darkened and looked down. Liz.

"They haven't been caught yet right?" Another asked.

"Yeah, not a single one."

"Some of the rumors I've heard say they're all dead." Well clearly not, thought Ban.

"They're dead, they have to be." Someone commented as Meliodas served a beer in the background. "The new Holy Knights wouldn't let them live."

"Yeah, that's true. Even now, with the king bedridden the Holy Knights are keeping the kingdom good and safe. Elizabeth climbed into her father's lap (still holding Hawk) as though to make sure he was alright.

"But this wanted board is updated every year." One said. "Wouldn't that mean that they're not dead yet?" Now all the customers looked worried, until the third guy said "Anyway, this talk of a knight walking around in rusted armour is kinda farfetched. Right?"

"Yeah, it's crazy." laughed a guy at a nearby table. Then a clang sounded from behind the front door. All the men looked up, fearful. Hawk sniffed, "Why do I smell rust?" He asked. The door opened to reveal the armoured knight from before, with the tattered cloak. It walked forward slowly, creaking audibly from the rust.

"The...Seven...Deadly...Sins." It groaned as the men ran from the bar in fear. Hawk cowered in fear as Meliodas vaulted over the bar to stand in front of the knight.

"Who are you?" He asked. But the figure fell backwards, the helmet came off and revealed the girl's face before the screen faded to black.

"Elizabeth?"

"Princess? Why are you wandering around in that armour?"

"And why did you ask about the Sins?"

"What are you doing all the way out there?"

"Where did you even get that armour?"

"And how long have you been out there?"

"Guys! Calm down. It will all be explained." Yawned meliodas.

"Aw, Captain, why don't you get some rest." Diane said.

"Yes, Captain. Getting enough sleep is vital in keeping up your health." Gothor said. Escanor nodded.

"Alright." Meliodas yawned again and lay down on the couch with his head in Ban's lap. Ban rolled his eyes but didn't move him. They were best friends after all.

"Aw! The Captain is so cute when he's sleeping!" Diane said. King sighed. Everyone else turned back to the screen.

"It's a girl." Hawk said as he and Meliodas looked at the girl on the bed, the armour piled in a corner of the room.

"Obviously." He stepped closer to the bed as she woke and sat up, looking around.

"Where am I? Um, why am I…"

"You strolled into my bar and passed out cold." Meliodas said.

"Your bar?"

"The Boar Hat. My Bar."

"I wonder why it's called that." King said, the others just shrugged. Elizabeth was now playing with Hawk on the floor again. Ban glanced down at Meliodas and smirked, his captain was so weird.

"You're...the owner?"

"Is that so strange?" Meliodas asked?

"N-no! I just saw the sword on your back so I just assumed…"

"You have a very observive daughter King Baltra." Merlin said. The king laughed and Elizabeth blushed, hiding her face in Hawk's side.

"Oh, this?" Meliodas reached up and grabbed the handle of his sword. Pulling it out Elizabeth flinched but the sword had no blade. "Did I scare you?" Meliodas laughed, "If I only show the handle it looks like the real thing doesn't it? Call it a determent against people skipping out on their tab." He said, putting it back in the scabbard on his back. The sins smiled, they knew that he could use that broken sword as well as anyone else could use a real sword.

"It's the customers that get charged a fortune after eating your food that I feel sorry for." Hawk said. Elizabeth squealed and ran over to Hawk.

"It's a talking piggy!"

"The name's Hawk. Nice to meet you."

"Long ago I pestered my father to give me a piggy just like this for my birthday."

"Did you get one?" Meliodas asked.

"No." Elizabeth replied sadly. Seeing this Meliodas quickly changed the subject,

"Hey, are you hungry? If you want, you can have a bite to eat." The scene changed to show Meliodas serving Elizabeth a plate of delicious looking food.

"First you nurse me back to health and now you're feeding me...How can I ever thank you?" She asked.

"You should taste the food before you thank him." Hawk said.

"Okay, here goes." She picked up her silverware and cut off a bite of meat before tasting it. She immediately gagged. Meliodas leaned over from across the bar.

"What do you think? Pretty disgusting right?" He asked.

"Yes…"

"Knew it." Hawk and Meliodas said at the same time. Elizabeth started crying, and Meliodas looked over in concern.

"But still...it's delicious."

The sins looked at Elizabeth like she was a weirdo, but the king smiled at his daughter.

"Say, what were you doing wandering around in that armour?" Meliodas asked.

"I'm searching for the Seven Deadly Sins." She replied. The audience looked on surprised.

"But why?" Hawk asked. Everyone watching was thinking the same thing.

"Nobody knows if they're even alive or dead." Hawk continued. "Those guys are serious villains!" Just then there was a banging on the door,

"Open up! We've had a report from some villagers! We, the order of the beard of the Mountain Cat serve under the Holy Knights and are stationed at the mountain's base! We're here to arrest the Rusty Knight, potentially one of the Seven Deadly Sins!" Yelled the soldier in charge of their group of five, as he banged on the door. "Come out peacefully!"

"Again with the unruly customers." Meliodas said as he stared at the unopened door.

"Holy Knights." Elizabeth murmured in what seemed to be fear.

"Why would she be afraid of Holy Knights?"

"Why would people be afraid of the Sins?"

"Ah, touche."

"Doesn't look like they're coming out." Said a second soldier, standing to the left of the first. A third soldier looked up and said,

"Out of curiosity, when did someone build a tavern on top of this hill?"

"Now that you mention it, I don't remember this being here three days ago." Said another. The first turned to look a the others.

"Stay on your guard. We face a Holy Knight who answered directly to the king, even if that was 10 years ago."

"Don't worry about it Allioni, he must be an old fart by now." Said the second again.

"He's right." Said the third, "He'll be no match for the likes of us, fighters trained by Sir Twigo himself.

"Who could that be?" Asked Diane.

"No one I've ever heard of." King replied.

"Don't underestimate them! Haven't I told you that before?" Allioni said, "During the uprising 10 years ago, dozens of Holy Knights were butchered in an instant!." The audience flinched,

"Damn, I wish they'd stop mentioning that." said Ban, the other sins nodded in agreement.

"About that…" The second started again.

"What?"

"Well, I've just been wondering if it hasn't been exaggerated a little bit."

"Meaning what, exactly?"

"They say that each Holy Knight is worth 100 soldiers." Said the third. "So how could dozens of them be killed? Right?" A fourth soldier nodded, Allioni raised a fist at the third,

"I saw it with my own two eyes!"

"Ah, so he is the young man from the beginning." Gother commented.

"Yes, that makes sense." Said the king.

The second soldier raised his hands,

"Calm down. For now just stand back, Allioni. We'll see to this by ourselves." he turned to the door, "Hey! Come out here!" Meliodas opened the door stepping out,

"You bellowed?" he asked.

"Who are you?" Allioni asked. Meliodas smiled,

"I'm the owner of this fine establishment." he replied.

"Where is the rust knight? Send him out." Allioni said. Meliodas sighed and turned around.

"Come on out!" he called. The camera panned over to show Hawk dressed up in some of the armour.

"You called? I am Sir Hawk, the Rust Knight." he said walking outside. The second soldier gasped,

"Th-this pig is one of the Seven Deadly Sins?"

"Of course it isn't!" Allioni said, "H-how dare you!"

"I'm captain of the order of Scraps Disposal!" Hawk announced.

"There's no such order!" Allioni replied. "You little punk!" Allioni picked up Meliodas by the front of his shirt.

The Sins growled protectively, and the king sent them surprised looks. He hadn't thought they were that close. Elizabeth didn't notice, she was too busy playing with Hawk under the table.

"You've got some nerve making sport of knights!" Allioni continued, holding meliodas high off the ground. Elizabeth peeked around the corner before running off into the woods.

"Allioni! A woman ran out the back!" Yelled the fifth soldier.

"What? Inform Sir Twigo at once!" He Yelled, throwing Meliodas roughly to the ground. Meliodas landed next to Hawk, looking up at Allioni as he yelled, "That woman must be the real Rust Knight. After her!" The knights ran off into the forest after Elizabeth as Meliodas got slowly onto his hands and knees. The screen faded to black.

The Sins looked murderous. And switched between glaring at the screen and looking fondly at where Meliodas was still sleeping. Ban had his hands on Meliodas' head, running his hands through Meliodas' hair. The king was still astounded at their closeness. Elizabeth had come out from under the table and was kneeling in front of Meliodas' face.

"Why is he so tired?" She asked the Sins. They shared a look with each other and then looked back at Elizabeth.

"Well, he used a lot of his power today." Said Merlin.

"Yes," King continued, "There were a lot more civilians to be protected then we expected."

"And Captain really hates when anyone gets hurt on his watch." Said Diane.

"So he used a lot more of his power than he usually does in order to end the fight quickly." Ban finished. Elizabeth nodded and turned back to the screen, pulling Hawk out from underneath the table and into her lap. King Baltra looked over at the Sins,

"That wasn't in your report." He said.

"The Captain does this most frequently. We are used to it by now and most often forget to add it." Gothor said. Escanor nodded again.

"Very well, but try to remember it from now on."

"Sure thing, your majesty." Diane replied, and they all turned back to the screen sufficiently calmed down.

The screen flickered back on to show Elizabeth running through a forest pursued by the knights.

"Wow, she's pretty agile." Diane said. Elizabeth just blushed.

"If I hunt down one of the Seven Deadly Sins it'll look really good for me! They'll make me an apprentice Holy Knight for sure!" Allioni said. Suddenly a knight flew through the air to the side of Allioni, "What? What's happening?"

"The pig is charging at us!" Yelled the second soldier. Hawk was running up behind the soldiers and throwing them up into the air with his nose. He hit all of the soldiers except Allioni who started yelling,

"Stay away, stay away, stay away!" Hawk chased him to the edge of a cliff, Elizabeth was nowhere to be seen. "Where'd she go?" He questioned before being pushed off the cliff by Hawk.

The scene changed to show Meliodas holding Elizabeth bridal style in the bows of a tree. "How can I ever thank you for saving me not just once, but twice?"

The scene changed again to show them all standing looking over the side of the cliff. Meliodas turned to Elizabeth, "So why are you looking for the Seven Deadly Sins anyway?"

"So that I can stop the Holy Knights." She replied.

"WHAT!?" Diane and Ban yelled. Everyone else seemed to be in a state of shock again. Why would the princess want to stop the Holy Knights. And why would they even need stopping in the first place? Unfortunately all the yelling woke Meliodas up. He sat up sleepily rubbing his eyes with his fists,

"Why are you yelling?" He said yawning, his hair even more messy than it usually was. Diane cooed at him while everyone else but King (who was sulking) filled Meliodas in on what had happened while he had been asleep. When they were finished Meliodas nodded and leaned back against Ban, "We'll just have to watch and see." They all turned back to the screen as Meliodas leaned his head on Ban's shoulder, still a little tired.

"Stop the Holy Knights? From doing what?" Hawk asked. "The Holy Knights are the ones who protect Liones! They're Heroes!"

"But what if they were planning to start a war in this country?" Elizabeth said.

Ban opened his mouth, about to say something but Meliodas shushed him. He rolled his eyes but complied.

"The other day, the entire royal family except the king was arrested by the Holy Knights."

Elizabeth ran to her father again as Meliodas watched in concern.

"The king isn't laid up in bed, sick?" Hawk asked. Elizabeth shook her head,

"That is a cover story spread by the Holy Knights. I don't know what they intend to accomplish by starting a war, but they're drafting people from the kingdom and surrounding villages. Making preparations slowly, but surely. Their reach will probably extend to this area soon."

"Seriously?" Hawk whispered.

"That's rough." Meliodas said, Hawk turned to look at him.

"You never take anything seriously." he said. But Meliodas continued,

"But what does this have to do with the Seven Deadly Sins?"

"If there is a hope of stopping the Holy Knights, it lies with the Seven Deadly Sins alone!" Elizabeth said. Meliodas crossed his arms,

"Wait, you're looking for the Seven Deadly Sins knowing what kind of people they are?" He asked.

"The Seven Deadly Sins." Elizabeth started, "The mightiest, most vile, order of knights in the kingdom. Composed of seven terrible criminals, each with the mark of a beast branded on his body." Merlin looked minorly offended, but didn't say anything. Mindful of the captain, who had fallen asleep with his head on Ban's shoulder.

"10 years ago, they were attacked with the full force of all the knights in the realm, on suspicion of having attempted to overthrow the kingdom. And were scattered to the four winds." Meliodas broke in,

"Apparently some rumors say that they're all dead." Elizabeth turned around looking scandalized.

"Such amazing people wouldn't die that easily!" She exclaimed.

"But aren't they criminals?" Meliodas asked her.

"It's the Holy Knights who are causing the people to suffer now!" She yelled at him before looking down. "Long ago when I was only 5 or 6 years old, my father would tell me stories about them all the time." The Sins all looked at King Baltra with questioning expressions, he nodded and they shared amused glances before turning back to the screen.

"About how they were the mightiest because they were the Seven Deadly Sins!" Meliodas looked about to respond when there was a loud clang and the cliff shook like an earthquake, they looked around questioningly before a larger shake caused the part of the cliff they were standing on to break off and fall into the abyss. Elizabeth and Hawk screamed while Meliodas remained perfectly calm.

The king gasped while the Sins remained calm.

"Why aren't you at least a little worried?" Asked King Baltra.

"Because the Captain is there." Gothor answered and the others nodded like that made perfect sense.

"But even he isn't that powerful!" Baltra protested. The Sins just laughed a little.

"Hopefully you get to see his power in these videos Your Highness. Maybe then you will see how nice it is that he is on your side. Because if he wasn't, no one would survive." Merlin finished and the other Sins nodded once again before turning back to the screen. Baltra looked at the sleeping Meliodas for a few seconds before turning back as well. Elizabeth observed this all in silence, Hawk had fallen asleep as well, underneath the table.

There was a large dust cloud before the camera shifted to show a man holding a sword out. Presumably, he was the one who had caused the cliff to break off.

"Oh, dear. I forgot to confirm that those two were the people in the report." The man said while sheathing his sword. "Conclusion, two persons of unknown origins dead! Does that sound alright?" He asked turning to face the four knights from Allioni's group earlier.

"B-but Allioni was at the bottom of that cliff!" The second knight protested.

"Then list three fatalities." The man replied. The knights backed away in fear,

"Sir Twigo! That's going too far!" The third knight protested as well. Sir Twigo narrowed his eyes,

"Shall I make it seven fatalities?" He asked menacingly, the knights started backing away in fright,

"No! We're sorry! Forgive us!" Sir Twigo walked closer to them and was about to pull out his sword when Meliodas jumped up the cliff, Elizabeth in one arm, Allioni in the other and Hawk on his back. Sir Twigo started yelling,

"You there! How dare you survive without my permission! I shan't revise my death tally conclusion!" He gripped the handle of his blade.

"He better not do anything." Merlin said, the Sins nodded in agreement. Diane narrowed her eyes, King started to float a few inches above the seat of his chair. Ban put his arm around his captain and everyone else just glared. There is no doubt they would have gone to grab their weapons, had they not disappeared when they landed in the room. As it was they had to make due. The King pulled Elizabeth on to his lap as they turned back to the screen.

"Nobody asked you to conclude anything!" Hawk yelled back. Meliodas nudged Elizabeth.

"Hey, are you awake?"

"Y-yes…"

"Ok. When I give the signal run towards the forest, got it?" She nodded and he set her down. He had already dropped Allioni on the ground and Hawk had jumped off as well.

The scene switched back to Sir Twigo,

"So, which of them is the likely member of the Seven Deadly Sins?" He asked himself. "Neither of them bears any resemblance to the wanted posters." He looked them over before zooming in on Elizabeth's earing. He started walking across the grass towards them, glaring even harder. "Fate is smiling upon me today!" He said as he neared them. "The crest on that earing is that of the royal family. Meaning that, Conclusion! You are Princess Elizabeth!" Elizabeth gasped and Meliodas looked over at her,

"Princess Elizabeth?" He asked Hawk looked at her as well.

"Hang on, Princess Elizabeth?!" He exclaimed, "She's the country's third princess!"

"An official decree has been issued to locate you." Sir Twigo said coming even closer, "The order was to capture you alive but...If you died in an accident it would be regrettable but unavoidable."

Elizabeth started crying and Baltra hugged her to his chest rubbing her back. The Sins glared at the screen even harder if possible.

He came closer still and Meliodas shouted for everyone to run. They took off into the woods, Elizabeth started talking as they ran,

"I musn't be captured yet! I mustn't give up yet!" Sir Twigo grabbed his sword,

"Conclusion! Accidental death!" He shouted and swung his sword in a long horizontal arc. All of the trees were split in half and launched into the air before falling down in clumps on the forest floor.

"Oh that is it!" Diane shouted as she stood up.

"Diane! You have to calm down! It's just a video!"

"But it's going to happen one day King! And I just can't stand the thought!" She turned to look at Meliodas. He looked so peaceful and it hurt to think that one day he would be run out of the kingdom and separated from his friends for 10 years! Nearly all the sins were having thoughts similar to these and Ban hugged Meliodas tighter to his side. They turned back to the screen.

Elizabeth gasped and opened her eyes to see Meliodas kneeling above where she was laying, using his body to shield her.

"Hey." He said, as though everything were totally normal. He turned to Hawk getting off from over her, "You ok there Hawk?"

"I'm Pork on a stick!" Hawk had a branch impaled on his back and he started crying and ran off behind some clumps of fallen trees calling for his mommy.

Elizabeth started crying and slid off her father's lap to see Hawk under the table. She crawled under there with him and held him.

"It's ok Elizabeth. I'm just fine. Please don't cry." Meliodas yawned, waking up again.

"Who's crying?" He asked. Ban ruffled his messy hair chuckling.

"No one captain. Everyone's just fine here." Meliodas settled back against him,

"Ok. If you say so." They turned back to the screen.

Elizabeth got up and started walking over to Sir Twigo.

"Elizabeth?" Meliodas called after her. "Hey, where are you going?" Elizabeth kept walking,

"There is no escaping him." She said, Meliodas stared after her.

"Hang on, you just said you can't give up."

"If I surrender myself peacefully, maybe he won't kill you in cold blood."

The Sins growled.

Sir Twigo slashed his sword up in a vertical line. An arc of destruction radiating out from it. Meliodas knocked Elizabeth out of the way just before it could hit her.

"Please, escape by yourself!" Elizabeth said from where Meliodas was shielding her with his body again. Meliodas looked over his shoulder,

"He seems pretty intent on killing us both regardless."

"Why?" Elizabeth rubbed her eyes, starting to cry. "I was happy...I set out to search for the Seven Deadly Sins all by myself...I've never traveled before so I was nervous…" Sir Twigo walked closer. "So that no one would recognise me...I walked around in that clunky armour until I was exhausted. But I wasn't able to turn to anyone for help." She said through her sobs, "And now you've been so kind to me, a total stranger… That's why I don't want to involve you in my problems any longer, not when I don't even know your name!"

There was a dark scene of Meliodas standing in front of a girl, both of them wearing armour, in the ruins of a city. Then a close up of the girls face, coughing up blood, telling him something. Meliodas looked down, before smiling and looking up at her.

Meliodas turned and hid his face in Ban's shoulder.

"That's not very nice, doing that out of the blue like that." He mumbled. The other Sins looked at him sadly. They didn't know the sin each other carried, and were forbidden to ask, not that they were likely to be answered if they did ask. But if these videos were to reveal the sins they carried, or at least hint at them, then they would need all the support they could get.

Meliodas smiled down at her,

"Meliodas. My name is Meliodas." Elizabeth gasped, eyes widening.

"I don't believe it…" She whispered, "You can't be!" Meliodas just smiled wider and laughed a little bit. "But you're just a…"

The scene switched to where the four knights were gathered around Allioni, he sat up quickly, "Where is he?!"

"Allioni?" The second one asked,

"The boy with the sword on his back!" He replied. The second one waved his hands in a calming motion,

"Take it easy Allioni, Sir Twigo has him on the ropes."

"Idiots!" Allioni yelled, "We mustn't anger him!"

"I don't think that will anger him much, maybe just annoy him. I've only seen him angry once." Ban said, carding his fingers through the still hiding Meliodas' hair.

"The kingdom will fall!" Allioni continued.

"Well sure, but only if you can actually get him angry." King said, Diane nodded in agreement to his left.

"When he saved my life I saw it! He's the real thing! The most dangerous of them all." Sir Twigo walked ever closer. "The symbol on his shoulder! It was-" The camera zoomed in on Meliodas' tattoo,

"That symbol," Elizabeth said, staring at it. "It's a beast! No, a dragon!"

Twigo swung his sword down on to Meliodas' back from high up above. But suddenly he was blown back by the power of his own swing, and Meliodas stood in front of him, unharmed.

"How can this be? I'm certain that my blade struck him." Twigo said, staring at Meliodas. "But the one who felt the blow...was me!?" He spotted Meliodas' sword, "What is that?! A sword with a broken blade?" Elizabeth stood up behind Meliodas,

"Meliodas? Are you really him?"

"Hold on," Sir Twigo said, "Your face seems familiar...But if you are him, how is it that you look exactly the same as you did that day?" His eyes widened in shock. Meliodas got into a fighting stance. Knees bent, right arm behind him, left arm across his body holding his sword,

"So," He asked. "Have you figured out who I am yet?" Sir Twigo looked shocked,

"I-it can't be!" he said, "It truly is you!" He swung his sword at Meliodas from up above again. Just as his sword slashed into the ground in front of Meliodas, Meliodas slashed his own broken sword horizontally in a beam of light, the light glinting of the sword itself. Shock waves spread out from the swing,

"C-conclusion. This extraordinary power! It's legendary!" There was a huge mushroom cloud of smoke from the top of the hill and Sir Twigo was catapulted through the air, his armour cracking with the force.

"Seven Deadly Sins: the Sin of Wrath! Meliodas, the Dragon Sin!" The screen faded to black again.

The king looked at the Sins.

"Was that the power you spoke of?" He asked them.

"No." Gothor said, "He wasn't even trying in that scene." The king looked shocked, turning to Meliodas he asked,

"Just how powerful are you?" Meliodas turned to look at him.

"I dunno." He shrugged. Ban snorted. The king just sighed. They all turned back to the screen.

Meliodas sheathed his sword in the scabbard on his back,

"So I guess this means you've found your first, right, Elizabeth? Look, about the other six...I had some business to discuss with them, so I started looking for them recently. I've been running the tavern for intel gathering purposes."

"Oh, that makes so much sense! Captain is so smart." Diane said. Meliodas just smiled fondly at her.

"If I had a girl to act as a draw, I'd get a lot more customers and intel." Elizabeth just stared at him. "You're coming with us, right?" Elizabeth gasped, starting to cry a little bit.

"Yes!"

The scene changed to show the five knights gathered around a crater that held Sir Twigo.

"Sir Twigo! Hang in there!" One of them said. Twigo started pulling himself slowly into a seated position.

"R-request reinforcements from the capital." He said, "This is a matter of utmost importance." Then a shadow covered them all, and there was the sound of a pig squealing. A giant green pig landed on them, with the Boar Hat strapped to it's back like a backpack. Hawk threw down a ladder from where he was standing on the green pig's head.

"How's that for timing?" He asked. Meliodas grabbed the ladder wrung with one hand, holding Elizabeth in the other arm.

"Way to go, Hawk's Mom!" he said. Hawk looked offended,

"I was the one who got her!" He yelled at Meliodas, who payed him no mind.

"Ok, Let's head to the next town! Take us out of here Hawk's Mom!" Hawk's Mom swung around and started marching off. Elizabeth screamed as the ladder was whipped around. The knights, including Sir Twigo stared after them in shock as the green pig marched away from them.

The scene shifted to show Meliodas and Elizabeth standing behind Hawk on Hawk's Mom's head. Elizabeth started narrating in a voice over.

"Was out meeting the work of chance or Providence? What lies in wait for us? Despair or hope? This is how my and Meliodas' adventure in search of the Seven Deadly Sins began.

The scene switched to a scene, panning down from a starry sky with the words Approx. 38 Miles East of Cains Town. It showed a tower and then the words Fort Solgres. Then the inside of a room where Sir Twigo kneeled in front of someone reporting.

"The Seven Deadly Sins." The Person in front of him said, walking over to a map hung on the wall. "I hope it's really them this time. I've waited 10 long years. For the day that I will destroy the Seven Deadly Sins!" The camera panned up to show the knights face.

"Gill!" Elizabeth shouted, "He's so tall."

"Aw, Little Gill!" Meliodas said, "He looks so grown up!"

"Too bad he wants to destroy us." Ban said. King rolled his eyes.

The camera panned over to show a view out the window. A large black bird with red eyes staring at Gilthunder through the glass. Then the screen faded to black.

Meliodas stared at the bird thoughtfully, a wisp of an idea beginning to form in his mind. Gothor looked over at him,

"What are you thinking Captain?" He asked.

"Nothing substantial yet…" He said, clearly thinking about something.

"Well, now that the video seems to be at a stopping point, we have some things to discuss." King Baltra said.

"Like what, your majesty?" Diane asked.

"Like how long will we be here, is time passing in the real world, are we in the real world, etc. etc." He replied.

The mage waved her hand, another note appeared on the table. Elizabeth reached up and grabbed it from where she was lying underneath the table. Opening it up she started to read,

"You are in a room out of time, so no time is passing in the real world. You will stay here until I deem you have seen enough. Beds and food will be provided when the time comes. Good luck." Elizabeth frowned at the note once she finished reading it. "Why did they say good luck?"

"I dunno, maybe the videos will be challenging to watch?" King said.

"I don't know either." Diane replied. The table shook a little as Elizabeth and Hawk crawled out from under it to sit with King Baltra.

The mage watched there confusion and smiled darkly, if they had this much trouble with just the beginning...there was no way they'd ever be able to handle the rest. She cackled and turned, walking off with a swish of her cloak.

In the room, Meliodas thought he could hear someone cackling, and shivered.