Hey Dark Gothic Lolita here!

So what's up you guys? I hope you're all well because I'm kinda not 0_O It's been an awkward time so you know, I brought out this! I have a prequel to this story called MY SIN and it's only seven chapters long, but if you read that, you will understand what this story will be about basically :D

Sorry for any crappy grammar and spelling, I don't own Fairy Tail or their characters either!

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This is my vice

Chapter one

They all looked among each other as they had finished introducing themselves. Then they looked around. Impatience was growing within them and Jenny stood up. "So what now?! Aren't we supposed to meet the person who cursed us?" Nothing. She growled as she sat down, feeling so angry. There was suddenly a white light that flashed in the middle of the circle that they had formed. They covered their eyes, and soon enough, there was a woman standing there in white.

They gaped at her in surprise and she smiled warmly at them. Sting choked. "Wait, you're the woman who cursed us?" She nodded her head and they gave her a weary look. "Yes, but I'm here to free you from the curse. I'm sorry I imposed such curses upon you, but the thing is, it's not so easy to also reverse so you need to all cooperate with me and with each other. Do you think you can do that? Especially you Sting. Because of the sin I imposed on you, you need to be able to get over your pride. Think you can do that?"

They all stared at him and he glared at them all for staring. He looked down at the ground in defeat. "I'll try my best." They all pitied him. They pitied each other. Gajeel then grew a little angry. "Wait, so explain to us why we're cursed!" They all nodded at her and she sighed.

"As you all know, Zeref is a very powerful dark mage, that is basic knowledge. But these sins, he wanted to be able to use it to make the ultimate creation. Fairy Tail have battled against Lullaby, and a great mage sacrificed her life to seal Deliora in her ice. All these creations could have easily killed everyone, but Zeref didn't want to stop there. He grew these sins using the most prideful person, the most lustful, greediest and so on so forth. Those people didn't know they were being used and Zeref nurtured the evil within them.

"I had to stop it from happening, but I was too slow. He had already created the creation, but the only thing I could do was to break down the sins once again and find seven mages that were strong enough to bare these curses. If they were all together, they would regroup as one again and finish the job that Zeref had set for it. Over the years, I hid them in various people, but as soon as Zeref got a lead on who they might be, he went after them and I had to hide the sins yet again by cursing another seven. Finally, after around 400 years, it would seem like Zeref went into hiding which brings me to you guys."

She looked at every single one of them and they were in shock. She continued. "But...You're actually all very strong mages. The very old people know of this rumour, that there are always seven mages that will be stronger than the ten wizard saints themselves, but it never came to pass. But you...You guys could make that so called rumour come to life! You all have the power to actually defeat the sins for good this time. I mean, sure everyone will have these sins, but they will be toned down and Zeref won't be able to re-build his creation! So what do you say?"

They all looked at one another before one of them stood up. "You can count us in. Well Juvia's in." They all stood up and nodded their heads. The woman let a lone tear fall down her face before she turned her back on them, not wanting them to see her tears. "Thank you all so much. You all have the next month to train as hard as you possibly can. Then we have to go and find Zeref." Risley's eyes almost popped out of her head. "Wait, I'm sorry but did I hear you right? We're going to find Zeref?! I'm not sure I can do this! I'm too weak, pick someone else!"

Minerva turned her annoyed eyes towards her. "Look, as much as anyone would want to replace you, we were the ones who were cursed, not anyone else! Obviously you must have some hidden strength that you need to let loose if you were able to harbour a sin within you! So stop your crying and suck it up!" Risley gasped at Minerva and the woman then gave her a soft look. "None of us wanted this. But if we can do something to get rid of it, then you heard what the woman said, we have to work together." Minerva then realised that she had just been nice and turned away from everyone else.

Risley wiped her tears and everyone was surprised that Minerva was suddenly so kind. They all nodded at her words before they turned to the woman in white. "I've now unlocked your powers that concern your sins. You also now bare your marks. Jenny, the sin of lust. Your mark is on your upper sternum. You shall use both battle transformation magic as you are now, and you shall be the ultimate spear. You can turn lies into the truth and cause chaos in people's minds." A mark appeared where the woman said it would and Jenny almost jumped out of her skin. Her nails grew and they became sharp.

"The ultimate spear? Seems okay with me..." She slashed her fingers about and almost stabbed Risley and Sting. "FUCK! Watch where you swing that!" She gave them a sheepish look before apologizing. "How do I get my nails back to size?"

"Just think. Use your will." Jenny shrugged and thought about her nails going back to normal size, and they did. "Cool..."

The woman then told Risley to step forward. "I'm sorry that you have a sin that makes your ridiculed by other people, but it's a sin nonetheless. Gluttony, your mark will be on your tongue. Your saliva will become terribly acidic. It sounds horrible, but you can eat anyone." Risley's eyes opened wide and Juvia had to keep her from fainting. "But, when you eat your enemies, or a part of them, you have some of their powers. Their magic becomes yours for a short while, so then you'll be on the same level with them. You will have a heightened sense of smell. Also, you gravity magic can aid you, but you find that out for yourself. You will become Gluttony, the Voracious."

She stuck out her tongue and saw that there was indeed a mark on her tongue. She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath before opening them. "I'll do my best with whatever we have to do." Gajeel being Gajeel patted her head like he did to Levy and Risley smiled, still being a little put out by her sin.

"Minerva." Minerva stood up straight, waiting for her sin to be mentioned. "Your mark shall be on the back of your left hand. Your body will become as hard as diamond, giving you the name, 'the ultimate shield.' I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but with the shield and your own standard magic, that's quite a combo." Minerva took off her glove simply and looked at the back to see her own mark there as well.

"So do I just will my shield like Jenny wills her nails?" The woman shook her head. "No, not at all. You have the ability to shift all the carbons in your body. For someone to be able to do that, they have to be very focused and smart. I'm not saying that anyone here isn't smart, but your intelligence is nothing to be messed with, therefore you can do it." Minerva nodded her head, a small smile appeared on her lips. She had never been praised so much in her life before. Sure people knew of her strength, but it still felt nice to be recognised.

"Midnight." His eyes snapped open as he looked at the woman. He knew his turn was coming. "Your mark will be on your left shoulder. As lazy as you are, you will have strength like no other, speed like no other and your stamina will be very high, even if you do sleep a lot. You will be 'sloth the indolent'. That is all." Midnight sighed happily. That was it for him. He just felt so...tired...

"Gajeel. Your mark will be in your left eye. With your iron dragon slayer magic and you can change your arm into an iron sword, your swordsmanship has increased, making you a master at handling as many swords as you want, you have become more agile, you have more speed and your iron makes you have more strength. Your eye can see all things, you know, like Hades demon eye and that other person's heaven's eye. You will be known as 'the ultimate eye'. You wrath obviously fuels you even more, liked the others."

Gajeel nodded his head, his arms crossed. He heard Juvia gasp. "Gajeel-kun's mark really is in his eye!" Jenny gave him a mirror and his eyes bulged. "Hey, woman, I can hide this right? You know, will it away for a while?" She shook her head and he swore quietly.

"Juvia. You are able to shape shift, imitate people's voices, their magic and you have assassination prowess. Your mark will be on your left thigh. You have the ability to manipulate other people around you and also, to enhance your water magic, you can now control every bit of water, in everything. You are 'envy the jealous'."

"Why does Juvia's mark have to be on her thigh? That's where her Fairy Tail mark is! Ugh. Our sins...they really make us sound like bad people. It's like Phantom all over again." Her eyes dropped to the floor and she willed herself not to cry. Those were bad days that she really doesn't want to remember, and her curse was bringing it all out again. The rest didn't know how to comfort her. Even the woman looked sad.

"Finally, Sting. Just like your friend erm...Rogue? You are able to control shadows, you can absorb other people's skills, like Risley can. You can also do many things that the others can do, but using the shadows, like your shadows can pierce through people like Jenny, you can possess people like Juvia. Only, you have a weaker version of all of them. Understood?"

Sting nodded his head, pride started to seeping. He was basically the strongest. His sin was starting to well up within him and it was like the others could sense it.

"Sting-san! Please calm down! We're all in this together! Don't act like you can do this on your own!" Juvia's words didn't get through as Sting could feel his inner madness starting to show through. The woman was surprised as she gritted her teeth and chanted something under her breath before she aimed it at him and he fell backwards, looking calm.

"What was that? Man I hate our curse." Juvia and Gajeel pulled him up. "That was a spell that I made in order to control your sins. The sin is obviously evil at its purest, therefore this spell makes you release your sin at your will, but you have your conscience so you can't go wild with the power. What I used just now was to nullify it and bring Sting back to his sanity completely. When you go into battle, you will have to unleash the evil side, I'm afraid."

Gajeel laughed his usual laugh. "That's fine, as long as we can get rid of this curse, I guess It's fine." The woman smiled and Midnight piped up through his sleepy voice. "Wait, all this time, we never asked for your name." They all blinked before it dawned on them that they hadn't.

"My name is Virtue."

Minerva snorted. "Of course it is. You're the good one called Virtue, and we're the bad ones with vices. Very fitting if I don't say so myself." They felt someone else's sin go off, and this time it was Juvia's. She stood there, her eyes almost turning green with jealousy. She envied that Virtue was able to be free from the curse and they weren't. "Shit, ameonna!" That seemed to bring Juvia back as she grabbed her head and shook herself out of the trance.

"Juvia's head hurts. Her sin...took over didn't it?" They all nodded and Virtue was surprised. "But for you to be able to overcome it like that...That was incredible! This doesn't mean that you're out of the clear though. Your sin could be just as bad. All your sins are bad. Now, I have to soon head out. I have a friend of mine who is willing to house you all while you train."

"House us? Why would we...? Wait, so we have to live with each other, away from our respective guilds?! I don't think I can..." Midnight shrugged his shoulders tiredly at Risley. "Well I don't know how the people in prison will take it, but I'm glad to be outta there. I'm free at long last."

"You guys need to be able to work together. The fact that you can all sense when one is going off the rails is a good start. I think you guys living with one another is a good idea. So yes, no arguments please. You will all live with one another." Juvia shrugged, not minding as much, while Minerva, Gajeel and Sting were all grumbling. "Ameonna, I thought you would have been missing that bastard stripper."

Juvia flashed him a look before sighing deeply. "Juvia would have been angry that she's had to leave...but this curse is very important to all of us and Juvia can't let anything get in the way. Besides, Gray-san doesn't even acknowledge Juvia, only when Lyon-san is around..." So Gray-sama had now turned into Gray-san?

"Okay then. It's night time now, and by the time you leave here, it will be easier for you guys to grab all your things. Everyone that lives around you is now under a deep sleep spell because of me. Good luck..." Then with another flash of light that blinded them, Virtue was gone and she left them all there to look at one another.

"You heard her, let's go!" They all jumped at Minerva's sharp tone, except from Midnight who was asleep on his flying carpet that was flying after them. They all followed her out of the building before they parted ways. "Erm...how are we even going to meet up?" They all pondered Risley's question and Juvia put her hand to her forehead. "Wait...Our marks are at its strongest when we're all near each other right? Juvia thinks that if we get closer to one another, we'll all meet up." They all nodded before going their separate ways.

No one had noticed it at first, but after about a week, it was finally time to say something. "Where's Gajeel and Juvia? They haven't been here in a week and they haven't gone on any jobs. Master, did you send them on a special job or something?" Makarov shook his head at the bar tender and Mira frowned deeply. Where could they be?

Suddenly, Levy and Laki burst in and everyone was looking at them. "Guys! Juvia's packed all her things and she's not there anymore!" Everyone started fretting. Where had Juvia gone? Then Levy also added, "Gajeel's gone too." Everyone looked at one another, asking if they knew anything of it before Makarov shouted.

"The only thing is, we have to be calm about this. We can't go rushing into things okay? Natsu, Wendy and Laxus, we need your noses to see if you can sniff them out." Before he could finish, Sabertooth were at the door and Rogue was looking about until he saw Natsu. "Natsu-san! You haven't seen Sting or Minerva have you? It's like their scent disappeared without a trace!" Now this was getting ridiculous. Erza stepped forward towards them.

"Wait, so Sting and Minerva are missing too? We can't find Gajeel or Juvia!" Rogue looked around. "Gajeel is missing too?" They all nodded. Laxus then spoke up. "You said that their scent disappeared without a trace right? Gramps, that means that Juvia and Gajeel's scent are gone too." The old man was in distress. Were mages suddenly being taken away?

Then someone else appeared. It was Kagura and she stopped right near Erza, surprised that Sabertooth were also at Fairy Tail. "Kagura, what are you doing here?" The woman bowed her head slightly, still a little stoic. "I was just looking for Risley and stopped by to wonder if anyone can help me. I heard that dragon slayers have a good sense of smell and wanted to 'borrow' one for my search."

Erza gasped and so did others. Kagura looked a little worried. Had she said something wrong? "Risley is missing too? Well Gajeel, Juvia, Sting and Minerva have gone missing too!" Kagura frowned. Something was way off. It wasn't like the mages had anything in common anyway. If Minerva was missing, then the opponent must have been very strong, and the guilds would have to link up to look their guildmates.

"Do you think this is a dark guild's doing? Maybe...maybe they want to get at us for something and they're just taking our mages?" Rufus thought about it. "Taking our Lady would have been a brave thing to do. For them to succeed must make them worthy opponents. Minerva and Sting are strong, I wonder who would do such a thing."

"There's only one thing we can do. We have to talk with the magic council to let us go and look for our nakama's!" They nodded at Makarov's words before Doranbolt came running into the guild. "Master Makarov! I'm sorry to disturb...whatever is going on here, but do you think you could get a small team of your best people please? It would seem like Midnight is missing. No one even saw him leave his cell!"

Lucy frowned. "How can all of these people suddenly go missing? Is there someone really kidnapping other mages? Midnight is in prison! Maybe it is a dark guild after all and they both had something they wanted and they're using other mages?" All they knew was that it all didn't make sense. It was a random group of mages, and who knew if there was someone else missing.

~x~

"Man I'm beat! I just want to eat and eat and eat!" It had been a week since they were living together, away from other civilisation as they focused on their training. Minerva had learned not to make snide remarks about Risley's weight, and it had gotten to the point where she never even thought of things to say in her mind about the chubby woman. Instead, she hummed in agreement as they headed to the dining room.

They found that they worked better together. Greed and gluttony were basically the same thing, but they had greed towards different things. Gluttony just wanted to eat and be greedy with food, while greed wanted everything, from fame, to money, sometimes even food. They both fought over food a lot, whether Minerva wanted it or not. It ran through their veins.

Other than that, they were the first pair to work together better and they showed that they could be very strong when given the chance. They were each other's strong points at weak points. If Minerva wasn't able to shift the carbon in her body quick enough, then Risley was quick enough to at least devour whatever was heading her way.

They both got down to the dining room and saw that it was only Jenny, Gajeel and Midnight eating. Minerva frowned as she took her seat. "No Sting or Juvia? Not even Virtue's friend?" The man who was housing them was yet to tell them his name. They had asked, but he ignored them every time. So for the past week, it was just 'Virtue's friend' to them. Gajeel shook his head and Jenny rolled her eyes.

"Juvia flipped her switch while training by herself and Sting was the closest person nearby. He called Virtue's friend and they've been trying to get her to snap out of it for ages. Why do you think our marks have been going haywire?" Minerva sighed in annoyance and Risley blushed, having not noticed. Now that she thought about it, her tongue was throbbing slightly.

Virtue's friend finally came down and everyone looked up at him with hope in their eyes. "Well?" Gajeel was impatient to find out about his friend. "Is she fucking okay now or not?" The man nodded as he dished out the food on the table. "Yeah, she's fine now, she said she wanted to be alone. I think Sting will be down soon enough though."

Silence thundered through the room as they silently ate. It was like a group of misfits being forced to live together and put all their differences aside. The only thing was, it was working.They were nicer to each other now, they all understood each other's pain, even if they didn't speak of their past. They all just connected more than they thought they would have, and they all found each other caring more for one another.

Sting came down the stairs and dumped himself in his seat, grabbing some food. Minerva's eyes flashed as she tried to calm down. Virtue's friend was watching her, waiting for something to happen, but it never came. Instead, she was now eyeing gluttony's separate pile of food and she felt like she needed it. She gulped sharply, willing herself not to succumb to the temptation of the greed that was pounding in her head.

"DAMMIT, I NEED THAT FOOD!" They all stared at Minerva in surprise and Midnight's slumped figure snapped upright as he had almost fallen asleep again. Minerva looked at them all with a sharp look. "Sorry...I...er...got greedy." Jenny rolled her eyes. "No shit."

"Shut it blondy."

"Make me hag!"

"For calling me a hag, maybe I will!" They both stood up in anger, Jenny's nails like spears and Minerva's hand had now shifted the carbon. Sting sighed at them and Virtue's friend stepped between the two women's argument. "Come on now, calm down. Minerva try not to stare at Risley's food and Jenny, don't provoke her." They both sat down with a huff and Jenny flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder and fixed her clothes. Minerva looked away, disgusted that Jenny's sin was something like that where she showed off a good portion of her body.

"So, what made Juvia flip?" Risley was desperate to make the atmosphere less tense and she might have actually done a good job because soon enough, they were discussing it. "She was over thinking about something, which she wouldn't say and it obviously made her get envious. I was pretty sure she was out to kill us all." Sting ruffled his blonde hair while eating.

Suddenly, they saw Juvia come down and she sighed. "Juvia is sorry guys..." She took the last seat which was next to Sting and people were beginning to wonder if they liked each other or something as they did hang out quite a lot. "So how is your first week here guys?" They looked up at the man and scowled at him together. "Just because I haven't told you my name, doesn't mean you get all angry at me!" He was so childish sometimes.

"I guess it's been great. I mean, I miss my guild obviously, but it's good relating to people who bear the seven deadly sin curse just like I do. I never thought that anyone would understand if I told them about it over at Blue Pegasus." They all nodded at Jenny's words. She was right. They never thought they would meet each other to discuss about something like this, talk less of now living together.

"So you enjoy it here then? Okay then, what about your training? Is it coming along yet?" Gajeel thumped the table in anger. "What the fuck have you done to my training room? Are you actually trying to kill me in there? It's a maze and nothing makes a sound so I can't even hear anything, even with my sensitive hearing!" Sting said the same thing about his. The man shrugged while eating his rice and chicken curry.

"What, did you think it was going to be easy? If you haven't yet got the memo, let me tell you. You have a month. A MONTH! Before you meet who you ask? Before you meet Zeref! You think I was going to make a kiddy playground for you as a training room? If so, then you guys are highly mistaken. Zeref is probably the most powerful mage and those curses within you are because of him. Those curses will heed to their master if you're not strong enough to overcome it and show him that he can't use you for his creation.

"Your training rooms are programmed to your sin type and how you need to work better at your skills. It will test you mentally, physically and psychologically! The faster you learn that, the better it will be for you when the time comes. You don't think Zeref is getting his own private army ready for this? Well he is. So far, I can happily say that I'm happy for Risley and Minerva. They have noticed one another's weaknesses and helped each other out. I'm not saying that you all need a partner, but you guys need to assess one another too. Midnight, I know you're sloth, but you have to do something sometime!"

The tired mage nodded which a glazed look in his eyes. Gajeel punched the back of his head and he suddenly looked alive, and very angry. "Do that again and I'll mangle you, you bastard!" That was probably the most that Midnight had ever said ever since they had arrived there and Gajeel jumped, not expecting it.

"Hurry up and finish eating you guys, it's lights out in one hour!"

~x~

"Do you think your guild misses you?" Jenny was sharing a room with Juvia seeing as her and Minerva didn't get along. She flicked through a magazine lightly, wearing very revealing nightwear. Juvia shrugged as she sat on the window sill, enjoying the night's breeze and looking at the moon and stars. "Juvia doesn't know. Who knows, maybe they haven't noticed. The reason why Juvia flipped today was because that's what she was thinking about. Juvia was thinking about the girls of Fairy Tail and they're all loved by someone, except from Juvia. Juvia loved Gray-san but he never loved Juvia. Juvia was just envious that everyone was noticed when Juvia wasn't. Juvia knows that Jenny will be missed though.

Jenny smirked a little. "Yeah, I will be won't I? But as usual, it will be only for my beauty. I want something more than that! I want to be liked for my personality, have a steady relationship with just one guy that I would see my future with! Get me?" Juvia nodded, understanding fully well. "Besides, you're beautiful too! Just don't hide it, okay? Your envy seems pointless when it comes to beauty when you're beautiful too." Juvia looked up at Jenny in surprise, trying to see her eyes whether they were full of lies, or amusement. They were sincere.

"Thank you, Jenny."

"Besides, I see romance in your future!" Juvia's head snapped up at her while Jenny giggled. "With who? Juvia demands to know!" Jenny tapped her chin and then shook her head.

"Nope. You're smart, figure it out yourself!" Juvia stuck her tongue out at her childishly and Jenny laughed. "Go to sleep Juvia, we have a lot of training to get through tomorrow." They both said their goodnights and turned out the lights before sleeping off.

With Minerva and Risley

Minerva lay in her bed as she thought of the guild that she left behind. It used to be power that went to her head and it still is, but ever since the time of the dragons, she had learnt that friendship was just as important. It was your friends that made you strong.

"Thinking about your guild?" Minerva turned her head to see her roommate staring at her from the other side of the room as she lay in her own bed. Minerva nodded her head and stared up at the ceiling again.

"I wonder how my father is fairing. I never cared for that man and sometimes, it makes me sad that I never did." She sighed deeply before turning her head again to smile.

"But hey, I see you guys as my family. Surprisingly, I see you as my insecure baby sister." Risley pouted in shock. Was this really Minerva? Maybe this whole experience was changing her. "I am no baby."

Minerva laughed and then so did Risley. Then they went silent for awhile until Riley said, "And Midnight is your husband, right?" She got a face full of pillow and she saw that Minerva was blushing heavily. "Y-you shut your mouth!" Risley laughed again and Minerva groaned.

"You won't tell anyone right? ESPECIALLY Jenny, she won't ever let me live it down!" Risley nodded her head. "Your secret is safe with me...Onee-chan..." They both looked at one another with a smile before they decided to call it a night.

So how do you think it was? I hope you liked it! Did you think it was too short? Too long? Actually, I won't make it shorter, I wouldn't like it lol :D But seriously guys, was it okay? Hope so!

I'm fully aware that I'm slacking on updates on my other stories, but as I said before, I went through a depression and this was the only thing I could think of and breathe and write! That's why I think this is my best piece...Because it helped me get out of a dark time!

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