The Sin and His Pets

[Temma-Kati]

(*Mumbling against the wood* Today has been i n s a n e. I either wanna get drunk or die in a hole. Maybe both.)
​

 
​

Jace looked away as Pride acknowledged her presence, glancing outwards and up. High above her, where the eerily blue sky glistened like water, a flock of birds whirled. Cawing and shrieking, it appeared to be a fight between two eagles over a female mate. Jace suddenly seemed interested, head tipping to the side as she slowly uncurled, rising to her feet in a slow, serpentine movement.
​

 
​

Sure enough, there was a cry of pain and outrage as one of the eagle started to fall, crashing into a tree not far from Pride. Jace didn't seem to think twice, already headed for the tree as the eagle fell. Flexing her hands briefly, she sidled past the sin and reached up, hauling herself onto the lowest branch of the tree the eagle was plummeting into. She delved into the leaves, ignoring pricking twigs and thorns as she finally reached the quacking eagle.
​

 
​

Carefully, Jace wrigledher way towards the massive bird, his beak snapping andhis talons lashing out. Pausing her approach, Jace let the bird catch her scent, his head cocking as he watched her. This is where Jace slipped up - she had never helped a predator birdlike a eagle, always the smaller creatures like squirrels or crows. She moved too soon, and the eagle lashed out. However, she remained calm, oly wincing a bit at talons tore into her arm, drawing along wound fromthe inside of he elbow to the back of her wrist.
​

 
​

Letting out a short breath of pain, Jace approached the bird once more, carefully this time. It took a few attempts, an the only reason she could come close enough to touch tmagnificent creature was because he was slowly dying, squawking sadly. Jace sat on the branch carefully, cautiously reaching out to touch the creatures scarlet-colored feathers. Healing wasn't an ability of hers, and it pierced her to her core as she comforted the eagle, hearing a few squawks of pain. 
​

 
​

Finally, the rapid rising and falling o the eagles feathered chest slid to a stop, his wings going lax. Jace felt her eyes tear up, the familiar burn behind her eyelids as she stroked the birds wings once more. She knew that such a rare and wonderful creature should be burried, but she wasn't sure as to get the body from the tree, twenty feet off the ground.
​

 
​

Or herself, for that matter. 
​

 

[Dumbledoof]

((Well don't die, who am I gonna be an angelic sin with then?))


Pride looked surprised when Jace had seemingly come over to him of her own volition, but then realized what was really going on. He had heard the scuffling between the first but had not really looked. He stood up and looked up into the branches of the trees, narrowing his eyes at the sunlight finding its way through the leaves hit his sensitive eyes. Of course, he could make it disappear, but what would be the point in that? He didn't want to pollute the natural order of things.


Eventually, he grabbed a branch and swung himself up. He was so fluid in the climbing of the tree, as if he had done it a million times before. Of course, he has; you can only resist climbing a tree you planted for so long. He was in perfect motion the entire time; not going too fast, nor was he moving too slow, just at that speed that carried his momentum about like it was an orchestrated dance number. He balanced neatly on one of the branches near Jace and the eagle. His eyes darkened with sadness.


Despite having become a being of evil and darkness, his angelic ways had never left him. Not even a little bit. He did not wish pain upon anybody, he did not want anyone to die, to suffer. He could tell the eagle had suffered before it had died, but at least not for long. He placed his hand upon the bird's breast, whispering something that sounded like a prayer, before gently picking it up like it was a child, folding its wings up at its sides.


He opened his mouth to say something to Jace but he just closed it afterward, looking away. He eventually looked back. "You are able to climb back down on your own, yes?" He asked quietly.

 

[Temma-Kati]

(It's okay, I went with the first one x3 Hungover so bad....)
​

 
​

Jace tensed as Pride spoke to her, angling her eyes away from him and to the predator cradled in his arms. Several heartbeats passed in silence as she gathered herself, finall raising her hands to reply. However her brothers voice broke the silence, and relief flooded her chest. "Jace! God, again?" 
​

 
​

Jay stood under the tree, arms crossed over his chest irritantly as he narrowed his ocean-blue eyes at his sister He had woken up alone, and Jace had vanished - he set off to find her, wearing a pair of his usual black jeans and a plain gray t-shirt. "Careful," he said he'd, pulling himself ontot he lwoerest branch and reaching up, carefully propped against he wide trunk. "C'mere."
​

 
​

With a final glance at Pride, Jace edged downwards until Jay circled her waist with his arm, pulling her protectively against his side before allowing her to drop down. She stumbled slighty, catching herself before she landed on the soft ferns. Jay dropped to his feet next to her easily, immediately pulling her to his side once again. "What were you thinking?" He chastised, voice taunt with worry. "Please, at least wake me up to tell me you're breaking off," he sighed, usin his hands to smooth his sisters white-blond hair from her face. 
​

 
​

Scarlet caugh his eyes, and he grabbed her hand and raised it upwards, carefully brushing his fingers over the deep scratch along her arm. He looked upwards sharply at Pride, his blue eyes hard as he ushered his sister back towards the mansion, pulling open the glass door and makin her sit on the steps again. Huffing, Jace propped her head in her non-bloodied hand. Her elbow braced on her knee, folded over the other, Jace semi-pouted as Jay cared for the wound along her arm, his hands trained. He had studied as a nurse for a few years, before quitting to be with his twin after their parents passed away.
​

 
​

"Even so," Jay said sharply, having read the sign language his sister gave with her free hand, "you shouldn't have approached the bird like that. Just be more careful," he sighed, wrapping his sisters arm with white bandaged and carefully securing them. He flashed her a glance, an expression Jace could get a whole paragraph from. How are we supposed to get out of here if you're hurt?
​

 

[Dumbledoof]

Pride was about to offer her help to get down before he heard the voice of her brother. Even he looked relieved that he didn't have to do anything, the awkward nature of just being around these two was murder. Maybe it would have been better if he had just picked two random people off the street like usually instead of these twins. They always seemed to make him out to be the bad guy through looks alone. It wasn't as if he could just defy God, and all-powerful being who could stop his breath just by wanting it.


Regardless, he met Jay's eyes with his own narrowed ones. "I didn't touch her." He said harshly. It came out a lot harder than he intended, however, the fire in Pride's eyes was nothing the mere human would want to challenge. Jmhe did not appreciate it, he was as stuck in this situation as they were at the moment. If the choice was his iwn, he would be alone in his home.


Regardless, he climbed to the top of the tree and stood on the tippy ton of the trunk, using his powers to make himself near weightless. He balanced precariously on nothing but twigs with the eagle in his arms. With a few muttered words, its firm began to change, growing smaller and changing shape into that of a crow. The crow's eyes opened and it squirmed around to sit in his hands, squawked at him, and then took off. At some point when flying into the horizon, a barely visible ripple appeared and it had disappeared.


He hopped down the tree and back underneath it, sitting down and leaning against the trunk. The raven was still there, seeming content to relax near the dark deity. Apparently the bird found him enticing in some way, or simply had no dear for Pride for whatever reason. His eyes closed and he seemingly fell asleep, but he was just resting his eyes. The raven climbed up into his lap and say there itself, deciding to nap with Pride.

 

[Temma-Kati]

Glancing up the trail once more, Jace's brows furrowed when she saw Pride... sleeping? Sh tipped her head, rising to her feet and walking inside silently. Jay watched her from the patio, expression mildly surprised when Jace grabbed a plain throw blanket from a closet. Jace rarely surprised im - he knew her better than himself - but her next actions had him almost uncomfortably surprise.
​

 
​

Walking back outside, Jace passed her brother and quietly made her way back up the trail, carefully approaching Pride. Silently unfolding the blanket, she clicked her tongue softly to alert the raven what she planned. "Jace, knock it off. Jace!" Jay's voice hissed almost angrily as his sister softly laid the blanket over the sin, backing away quietly. Putting a finger to her lips, Jace grabbed her brothers hand and leaned against him, giving a one-shouldered shrug. The pair vanished inside.
​

 
​

However, not for long. A shrilling, wobbling shriek of an alarm pierced the air, signaling an unallowed exit of the sins' world. Indeed, Jace and Jay had found a 'drop zone', a rarely-used and dangerous exit from his world. Finding hidden in the basement durring and exploration, behind a dry door, the twins leapt at the opportunity to escape. As such, it was rarely guarded - and if so, it was guarded sparingly. "Fuck!" Jay hissed, looking down at the clear-glass below them. Jace looked at him, fright in her eyes even as she gripped Jay's hand in affirmation. Jay nodded, and the pair jumped through the portal.
​

 
​

Below them was the ocean. In ever direction but one, that was all there was - near-black waters, the current pulling in every direction. The twins struggled to cross their arms, taking in a deep breath and closing their eyes as they hurdled into the water. Jace reached out blindly under the water finding her brothers hand. They broke the surface again, white hair darkened a few shades by cold, bitter salt water. Not far from them was a wide buoy- bright orange, signaling something or other for passing ships. 
​

 
​

Pulling hemselves onto the floating device, the twins scraped hair fro their faces and looked upwards, nerves wracking their bodies. The portal was a wavering sheen in the air, far above them. Looking at each other, the pair began shivering from being soaked and in he middle of the ocean, even if there was land miles to their left. They could just see the end of land, towering buildings that signaled a large city.
​

 

[Dumbledoof]

Pride was startled awake by the sudden loud noise. Not that he had fallen completely asleep in the first place. The raven was even more surprised, cawwing and squawking in frustration at the shrill noise. The Deadly Sin knew exactly what it meant, somebody was trying to leave without his permission, he had a feeling he knew who it was. He had warned those two.


With a roll of his eyes, he disappeared in a puff of dark smoke, the bird flying into it with him. He reappeared in front of the twins, the raven perched on his shoulder and he looking very disappointed. "Is this your half-baked escape attempt, humans? Jumping through the ground of my realm to try and escape?" He asked quizzically. He didn't seem angry at all, he was just slightly annoyed. He had been so close to actually falling asleep, too.


Pride raised his hand and the twins were lifted out of the water, this time by some truly invisible force. He was not using tendrils of sin, more or less bending the laws of nature temporarily. At least this couldn't cause another strange interaction from Jace. "I'm very disappointed in you both, honestly, not like you care at all. Don't try this again or I may have to a really hurt one of you." He paused. "I don't want to do that."


They were all teleported once more, this time directly to the twins' bedroom. "Just remember something; if you think you're going to outsmart a bring that has lived for millions of years, you are more naïve that I have ever given you credit for. I hope neither you got sick." He turned around and went to the door, opening and closing it quietly with a silent sigh.

 

[Temma-Kati]

A small measure of time passed, leaving the twins siting together in the room they had apparently  been locked in. Thankfully, neither had caught a cold - but they did catch a moment of freedom, and they were addicted. Jay sat across from his sister on the bed, watching her carefully. They had showered and dried off, leaving the both of them dry and in-salted. 
​

 
​

They had also been working on a new plan. Jace knew of a few other mystical beings that could hep them down in earth, but it would be even riskier now that Pride had caught a whiff of their rebellion. They communicated in pure sign language now, in case something listened at the door, and they had hatched a new plan. There had to be another drop-zone somewhere, and the pair had decided to split up next time. Jace would be at the portal, using the sin stored inside of her to trick it into shutting off the alarm. Jay would go through and intact Jace's associates.
​

 
​

At least, that was the theory. Jay was still boiling with wrath, and Jace wasn't sure if she could absorb so much at once. However, she did her best - hovering her palms over her twins wrist, she called the vivid black strands to seep from his skin absorbing into her palms slowly and thickly. Her mental vaults shivering from over-flow of the sin, Jace slammed her will against it to keep it from exploding.
​

 
​

More and more time passed. Jace and Jay couldnt eat anything, their nerves too frayed to stomac anything - they stayed in their room together, the door securely shut even if it had been unlocked ages ago. They simply waited for a moment, giving Jace time to practice leasing sins rom far away.
​

 

[Dumbledoof]

Pride himself had become much more reclusive ever since they tried to escape. The twins would only see him barely once a day, either he had locked himself in his office or he was talking to somebody. Every time it seemed he was speaking to himself, but being the deity he was, it was obvious he would not be doing that. There was another voice he was talking to, one that they could not hear, and he mentioned freedom a lot.


"My freedom?" They would be able to hear once through their door as he walked by. "What freedom? I have been locked in a God damned house for eons, only ever able to leave once to collect two humans to bring back. Is that supposed to be some kind of joke, because I'm not laughing! They don't deserve to be here..." Maybe he wanted them gone more than they wanted to leave. What a strange captor.


The rest would become inaudible because he would continue walking down the hallway. It was obvious that he was talking about them, was he perhaps trying to persuade somebody for him to let them go? Maybe he wanted to be rid of them just that much. Them trying to escape again would not be helpful in the least. He had ordered tighter security all around the mansion, most exits out of the house having been locked, and due to their nature, the twins would not be able to break them. The alarm system would have been useless to them regardless due to the nature of their collars. If they ever managed to hurt themselves when he was not there, he would be alerted immediately.


The atmosphere around the house was steadily becoming heavier with Pride's decreasing mood. He steadily was becoming more and more irritated and sporadic; some days he would randomly barge into their room, make sure they were still there, and then leave, muttering something about hating some male figure. Storm clouds brewed outside the window for weeks, thunder and lightning arcing and lighting up the sky in accordance to Pride's disposition.


Their next escape attempt would probably not end well for them if they were caught.


((What if instead of faking one of their deaths, Jay or Jace actually did die? And then Pride goes out to find them in the world of the dead and bring them back to life?))

 

[Temma-Kati]

Jace, at least, had enough sense to give into the captured role. However, she had fallen ill - perhaps not physically, but emotionally. She couldnt keep food down if she tried, and her hands were starting to shake as she signed to her brother. Her eyes, once alight with blazing fight, were dull and serene, depressed. Ribs visible underneath her skin, her clothes fitting worse and worse as weeks went by, Jay's wrath began to build higher and higher at her illness, although her was as gentle with her as ever.
​

 
​

Jay woke one night, his wrath practically glowing in his eyes as he placed a tender hand on his sisters cheek. She was asleep, aided by sleeping pills. His heart twisting, Jay kissed her cheek with a tenderness that could wrench a heart from a chest before rising. He left the room, drunk off sin an blinded by desperation to help Jace. In te basement, the dropzone was guarded by two demons, expecting an ambush at any moment.
​

 
​

They didn't expect a human barrel. Jay sprinted towards them, slamming them to the sides as he dropped through the portal, wondering wher it could leave him this time. 
​

 
​

~~~~~~~~
​

 
​

Jace woke up the next morning as he had for the past many weeks: tired, stone-cold, and wishing she wasn't alive. However, therewas anotehr factor to this - she was alone. Alone? She hadn't been alone for many weeks now, always by Jays side as he tried to help her jar from this depression.
​

 
​

Pulling on a loose hoodie to hide the skeleton of her ribs and chest, Jace shakily stepped downstairs. Heart pounding in her throat, her collar significantly looser now, it was the first time she left the room in many days. The sin inside her was almost too much to carry, straining at her emotional prison she locked them in. This made it hard to keep her mind in track as she wandered almost aimlessly around, on the brink of panic when she realized her brother was no where to be found.
​

 

[Dumbledoof]

Pride noticed that Jay had disappeared almost immediately, even as his guards ran to tell him. He gritted his teeth in anger, standing up slowly. Can these people not do as they are told? His rage made Jay's pale in comparison, the frustration if eons coming out at the moment. Within a moment he had disappeared in a flash, on the hunt for the fugitive.


It really did not take Pride any time at all to find the missing Jay. The portal had decided to spit him out in the middle of a poor neighborhood of Russia. The world was in winter and it was freezing with the both of them being so far north. Pride's face was twisted in a small, sharp fangs showing where the normal teeth of a human should have been. Dark nails came from his fingertips as claws as Pride wrenched Jay up by his collar, a deafening growl coming from him.


"HAVE YOU NO SHAME, MORTAL!?" He screamed into Jay's face. Dark energy was coming off of Pride in waves. "YOU ARE GOING TO KILL YOUR SISTER OR YOURSELF WITH THIS FOOLISHNESS! STOP GIVING IN TO WRATH AND FORCING YOUR PATHETIC SINS ONTO HER!" He dropped Jay back onto the ground, putting his face into his hands and hissing.


"You are stupid... You are so foolish, it hurts my head to try and think about it." He turned his head back to Jay. His eyes were completely black, no shine of the light reflecting off them. "Do you think this is a game, mortal? Do you think you we are playing Hide and Seek!?" He came closer, face still twisted in total fury. "DO YOU!?" 


Meanwhile, the demon butler's had to regrettably inform Jace that Jay had fled the home and Pride had left immediately to in search of him.


"We ask that you remain here, for your own safety." One of them said, glancing towards the doorway. "Pride should, hopefully, be returning with your brother soon, unharmed and intact. It has been some time since I had seen him so... Angered."

 

[Temma-Kati]

Jay reacted viciously, lashing out with quiet words and a deathly cold glare. "You are killing Jace," he hissed. "She doesnt take my sins and she hasn't since the first escape attempt. Have you ever heard of depression, Pride? Have you heard of what it can do to someone? She needs helps, help that I have been asking for the past weeks without an answer. If you won't help her, like hell I was going to stay there and do nothing, even if it failed."
​

 
​

Jay stepped away, his glare fierce but his words quiet. "I don't care what happens to me. I don't care about your orders from God, I don't care about anything you say. Jace has been and always will be the first thing in my mind because that's what family is for. I came here to take anti-depressants back to her. I came for this." Jay pointed angrily towards a pharmacy nearby, his shoulders tense. "Because nothing was happenening in your world."
​

 
​

He steepled his hands in front of his face, glancing as if he were in pain. "Jace is slowly killing herself. If you expected me to let it go, you're an idiot - I don't care if I'm damned to hell for my sins and transgressions, as long as Jace is safe. And right now, she's at risk of ending her own life if I don't do something!" He raked both handsthrough his bleach-like hair, trendles of wrath seeping from his pores.
​

 
​

~~~
​

 
​

Jace looked up at the demon, heralread pale skin draining of any color at all asher dead blue eyes shook with threatening tears. He told me. He told me I needed meds. I didn't listen. He left for me. Jace sank down into a chair,  frozen. The thought of anything happening to her brother had her weaker than before, anxiety pounding in her veins as she struggled to maintains the steel trap over the sin she stored inside herself. 
​

 
​

(Sorry for late and shitty reply! I had a few tests for college.)
​

 

[Dumbledoof]

Pride growled, stepping closer. He could be a lot scarier than the little human ever could hope to be, and his glare meant nothing to the Deadly Sin. He was an incarnation of darkness and evil, and this human... A toy for their amusement. "Did you ever bother to think about what would happen when you actually came out here? Hm? Did you ever stop to think 'what happens if I can't get back?' What the hell do you think would have happened if I never found you and Jace could never escape? God damnit, if you can't even think straight because you're so damn worried, then you aren't fit to be going out and trying to care for another being anymore! Use your head and stop thinking with your heart!"


He wrapped his claws around Jay's throat, eyes narrowed to slits. "You know what's also funny? I'm not required to keep either of you alive, though. Now I can't help what I have to do, but I'd like to see YOU try to deny an omnipotent being who all but needs to be angered ONCE before he can cause the Apocalypse. All he needs is to just WANT it to happen and it shall. No one will live if he doesn't want anybody to. Nobody can stop him. Not me, not you, hell, not even another omnipotent being could stop him. Stop tunnel visioning and actually look at the bigger picture, you damn fool, or you're not going to be able to help ANYBODY."


He released Jay. "You're not in control. I've only been trying to help so far but I'm getting sick of your attitude. I haven't even touched her once at all, and I don't have any plans to. I just want you both out of my damned house and out of my damned life." He flicked his hand and a portal opened behind him. "Go. Focus and stop becoming overwhelmed with Wrath, it really will not do you any good. If you both would stop trying to escape, and you get her to eat SOMETHING good for her, then I might be able to actually have you set free."

 

[Temma-Kati]

Jay clued his hands at his side, seething with rage as he stood frozen for several moments, struggling to calm himself. "She won't eat, she can't sleepwith drugs," he said lowly, glaring downwards to avoid Prides' eyes. He was afraid, but refused to show it - his sister loomed in his mind, and worry clenched at his heart. Finally, his rage seemed to still and Ja found himself stalkin forwards, vanishing into the portal.
​

 
​

He half-expected to find his twin waiting, and was prepared to clench her to his chest - instead he was met with complete darkness. A wave of instinct washed over Jay, telling him to run - too late. Chains lashed outwards, cinching around his rists and arms and pulling taint, making his growl in pain as he was forced to his knees. "What are you doing?!" He snarled in rage, fighting against the chains.
​

 
​

"Jace is going to break if I don't come back, you don't understand! She's dangerous, to herself and to everyone else without my help!" His halfpanicked, rage-fuel voice was muffled as a piece of what he assumed was a piece of tape, forcing him into silence. He clenched his hands again as a door opened, letting light stream across his face for a split second before it closed again leaving him in jet-black surroundings alone.
​

 
​

~~~~~~~
​

 
​

Jace snapped her eyes up at the sound of a portal edging open, forcing her weak form to her feet. Running towards the sound, Jace's heart pounded in her chest as she prayed to anything holy that her brother had come back. Fear lashed at her in shocking whips, leaving her weak as she came to a stop in a halway, shaking with fear and malnutrition. She was lost now in his giant mansion, and afraid - where was Jay?! She felt the beginnings of her energy starting to unravel, and her panic at the feeling only made it worse.
​

 
​

She simply stood there, heart pounding loudly as her hands clenched over her chest at the pain, her skin too pale to be uman and her expression completely hopeless as she waited for something - anything - to happen.
​

 

[Dumbledoof]

Pride was not entirely focused when he allowed Jay to go back, however, not unfocused enough to not realize that the portal had something wrong with it. He had opened it to a normal plane, his house, yet for some reason the fabric of it had changed. He could feel that it had changed drastically suddenly and his eyes widened. He heard a faint laugh in the air, recognizable only to him or the other Deadly Sins. Wrath.


"Wrath, no!" He yelled, running for the portal and only barely managing to step through it before it had closed. The world was pitch black, save for the red chains binding Jay to his knees. It was a trap, but for what purpose he could not tell. The laughter in the back of his mind lingered still and he rushed to help Jay.


"This isn't my doing!" He hissed to Jay, cutting through the chains as easily as butter. He knew he should have kept a better check in the two of them, he knew he should have controlled himself more, letting his dark side out like that... It was dangerous. He didn't particularly have an extreme amount of control when he was in his current state, but enough for his angelic qualities to shine through still. He had sworn that he would not use it, it would turn him evil and just as bad as the rest of the Deadly Sins.


Wrath's laughter was getting stronger. "Just give in, Pride... You can't fight it forever."


Pride snarled. "To Hell with you, Wrath!"


He removed the rest of the chains from Jay, teleporting himself and the human directly back to the mansion, without use of portals. Wrath couldn't tamper with that. They both amfell onto the floor of the main room. Pride sat up with a grim expression, looking over at Jay.


"Do you see why I stressed the importance of you not leaving until I could set you free now?" He asked, glancing around. "Outside of these walls, there is no place in any world that you will be safe. The other Deadly Sins particularly like attacking me or my guests because I have not turned evil like I should yet." He helped Jay up. "Go find your sister, with haste."

 

[Dumbledoof]

@Temma-Kati


Hey, did you lose interest in this?))