Welcome back, Elaine!

"Are you sure you want to go alone?" You asked, as you were all gathered around to the main room in the Boar Hat tavern.

King had decided to find Diane himself, while the rest of the party travelled to find Escanor.

Something felt off, he'd told you the previous night that Helbram had came to him in his helmet and told him the forces of nature had seemed to be turning in the Fairy Forest. Still unsure, you shook your head, "I've made up my mind, I'm going too... but not to the forest". You pulled on your slippers, hopping between your feet as you headed for the door as well.

"Lady (Y/n), you're really leaving?" Elizabeth said sadly, her pale pink lips curled downwards in a delicate frown. You booped her nose with your finger and laughed.

"I wont be gone too long, but there is something I need to take care of" You tied your hair up behind your head. "Merlin, if you please, I need you to teleport me here" You handed her a piece of paper, you had seen it in your dream and knew this was where you needed to go.

The blue-haired female rested her head against her fist and unfolded the parchment, "of course".

Meliodas was sitting at one of the empty bar tables, sipping on his beer and whimpering grumpily. You giggled and wandered over to the Captain, leaning your chest against his back and sliding your hands down his chest, "now don't miss me too much Meliodas". You rocked his cheek and his frown softened, but he still refused to look at you.

"You're really leaving (Y/n)?" Arthur frowned, his mesmerising purple eyes shaking, "please don't go".

"Oh my sweet baby" You cried out and tackled him to the ground in a crushing hug, "please don't cry I won't be gone too long I swear!"

Arthur's arms locked around your waist, pinning you against him as he began to sob quietly.

"(Y/n), off you go, come on" Merlin waved her arm and you fell through a portal where Arthur used to be, disappearing from your familiar landscape as you landed in the middle of a grassy field.

You pulled yourself together, wiped the tears from under your eyes, and looked around at the grassy hill you were standing on.

A scream sounded and you spun around to see Jericho tackled to the ground by what looked to be an undead villager, "must be the commandment's work" you whispered as you looked around.

There you spotted him. Ban was sitting on the chest of a much larger zombie, poking it in its rotting face while he mumbled something boredly. You were about to run up to him when you noticed the portal growing behind Jericho as she stood up.

Found you...

In a flash, you appeared between the dark magical hands creepy out of the portal to block a magical attack about to be made against an unsuspecting Jericho.

"Obliteration" You spoke clearly, and the glow over the hands disappeared, and a figure fell out of it. You caught Elaine in your arms and fell back onto the grass, crushing Jericho under both of you as you laughed. "I sensed you were back, but you feel different" You said to the blonde as she lifted her head up to look at you with her startling gold eyes.

"(Y/-- (Y/n)?" She stammered, her small hands reaching up to caress your cheek and chin to make sure you were real. When she was sure, she cried out and buried her face between your breasts as you patted her hair.

"El-Elaine? (Y/n)?" You heard Ban's voice and looked up to see him leaning above you, his red orbs wide with shock, "am I dreaming?"

You reached up and pinched his cheek, "I sure hope not~"

"BAN!!" Elaine tackled the upper half of the sin of greed and pressed her lips firmly against his slim ones. He was startled, but managed to stay up right, wrapping his arms around the small of her black dress.

When Elaine pulled away she grinned and he dropped her down onto her slippers, you hesitated as she pushed your back against the grass as she sat down happily on your stomach.

"One for (Y/n) too!"

You were about to object when she bent down and kissed you, though only on the edge of your lips, your face felt fuzzy with embarrassment and you shoved her upwards.

"Ah don't surprise me like that Elaine" You tried to laugh as the little fairy jumped up and down in excitement.

"Is this your doing angel? Bringing Elaine back to me?" Ban grasped your wrists and lifted you up til you were standing, then he wrapped you in a tight hug. "Thank you".

"I didn't do this Banzy" Your fingers stroked down the back of his neck, "but I'm glad you're happy".

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?" Jericho cried out as she strutted back over to the three of you, her sword still unsheathed and dragging at her side.

You sighed, "to be honest I don't even question it anymore, when I'm around any of these sins my whole life just gets turned upside down". You rubbed your upper arms tirelessly, sulking back into a sullen stance.

"No I mean" Jericho was fumbling through her words, obviously completely mentally drained after watching her crush embrace two other girls, almost one after the other! "Who the.... HUH?!?!"

"Calm down Jericho, relax, you're not hurt" Ban let Elaine hover over to sit in his arms as his lazy red eyes traced idly to the Holy Knight.

"Its not about that dummy!" Jericho practically tore the side of her hair out, stressing over the sight in front of her, "she just tried to kill me! That cant be the real Elaine! We saw her in the Fairy Forest".

Ban's heavy-lidded eyes seemed easily trained to flick between you and Elaine, he took the blonde's slim wrist and lifted it up to his face to smell her skin.

"This is Elaine, I'm sure of it" The sin of greed had an expressionless look on his face as you dusted yourself off.

(14+ years ago)

"Mommy!" A two-year old Arthur cried out happily as he leaped into your arms, a wooden sword tied on a string around his small hips. You laughed and fell back onto the grass as you two collided, your dress furling out across the green.

"You got me" You giggled into his soft orange hair. Together your rolled over down the hill, all the way down until Arthur finally stopped the decent by slamming his little boot into the dirt beside your hip to stop you from sliding.

Arthur chuckled, "Got you again!" He had you pinned. Sitting on your flat stomach with his small hands on his hips, sitting on top of you with a cheeky expression on his features.

"That you did" You smiled.

"How about you give me back what's mine Arthur~" Your heart skipped a beat as a shadow fell over your face, as you looked up, a part of the sky had been replaced with the shiny-blonde hair of the sin of wrath.

"Meliodas!" You reached up, unable to actually hug him since Arthur was trapping you against the ground, your hand tangled in a bit of his hair. He leaned down just enough for your hands to grasp his cheeks and you pulled him down towards you for a kiss.

When he finally pulled away to let you breath, he bit your nose lightly with his pearly white teeth, "Hello angel, miss me?"

"Always" You tried to hid your face, you must look like a beetroot with how deep your blush was after a kiss from him. He'd been gone for almost 3 days helping out some of the town's knights, you and Arthur had missed him terribly".

"Daddy stop making mum upset!" Arthur frowned and drew his wooden sword to whack Meliodas in the side of his arm with the dull blade.

"Meliodas didn't make me upset Arthur, calm down now" You sat up just enough to set your arms under the boy's armpits and lift his small body off of you, setting him down in your lap once you'd sat up comfortably.

"But everytime daddy leaves and comes back, it makes you cry" Arthur stares at you so intensely its like he's forcing the tears in your eyes to fall, but you manage to hold them back as you shake your head.

You smile gently, "no no Arthur, I'm crying because I'm so happy to see him, because I missed him".

Meliodas drops down to squat in front of the two of you and cocks his head with a grin, "I missed you too Arthur! A whole lot!"

Now it was Arthur's turn to cry, "r-re-really *hic* really daddy!? You missed me a *hic* wh-whole lot?!" Water streamed down his cheeks as Meliodas picked him up to hug him, standing up to his short stature to embrace the little boy.

"Yes more than anything!" He patted Arthur on his lower back as Arthur tried to hide the amount of ugly fluid coming out of his face by burying it in the sin's shirt.

Later on, after you'd put Arthur to bed, you and Meliodas climbed tiredly into bed. You were only wearing your underwear and one of Meliodas' white shirts, whereas he had on a red singlet and shorts, his hair wet and messy from his bath.

You laced your fingers around his neck, still warm from the hot water, and snuggled lazily against him. He smelled sooo good, just like the vanilla and lavender soap that one of the towns woman had made for you and Arthur. 

Meliodas tucked your head under his chin, one of his hands clutched your upper arm, while the other stroked down your face and neck."Your skin is so pretty (Y/n)"

"Don't say things like that Melio" You blew cold air against his collarbone to make him shudder, "it makes me crazy".

"Sate sate sate" He snickered, "I didn't think it had that much of an effect on you".

You suddenly became ridiculously aware of the hand lifting up your shirt and running knuckles along your stomach towards your breast from under the blanket.

You leant back a little, enough to see his face, and raised an eyebrow. "You really are a sinner Meliodas".

His trademark smile appeared and you couldnt help but return it.

"Only for you".

"So you came to make sure I wasn't misbehaving?" Ban was just asking you when Elaine's body suddenly went limp in his arms, "E-Elaine?"

"Oh how unfortunate..." A slick, unsettling voice broke out over the worrisome silence as you fell to the blonde's side to check for a pulse, she had none. "The 'way of reviving the hateful dead' an incantation that augments a corpse's lingering attachments and converts their anger into life... oh but when their anger is erased, death waits for them again".

"Melascula?" Your voice seemed to stammer, I didn't even sense them?!  You'd let your wings out as you, Elaine, Jericho and Ban had been walking together, so now your white feathers curled back in fright.

Galand laughed like only a maniacal armoured figure could, "Hey sexy-face!! Miss meeee!?" He clapped his tin hands together and spun his double-sided spear between his long demon fingers. His tongue lolling out "come over hear and let me lick your whole body like a candy!"

"Grosssss" You grumbled, your shoulders visibly sinking as your wing tips hit the ground.

"Jericho" Ban dumped his former lover's still form into the arms of the Holy Knight as he snarled and crackled his knuckles, "watch Elaine for me".

"Are you kidding you two?! You plan on fighting them!?"

"Them? Their names are Melascula of 'Faith' and Galand of 'Truth', they're two of the Ten Commandments" You wiped your lip with the tip of your thumb, "and unfortunately, they're old friends".

"You say that like you regret seeing us again beautiful girl" Melascula put her hand against her lace-covered hip.

"Who cares" Ban's shoulders cracked as he stretched his muscles, "I'll still kill you".

Sorry for the long wait! xx