Lucas woke up with a cough and his throat ached something awful, it felt like it was on fire and his head was dizzy, probably from lack of oxygen.
He slowly sat up and reached towards his neck and felt the rope still attached he sighed realizing he failed and walked towards the kitchen in hopes to grab a knife to cut off the remaining rope.
"Woah slow down there buddy! You gained consciousness, and you are already moving about as if you were a newborn stallion!" Lucas jumped when he heard the masculine voice from behind him and turned to see an old man with white hair and a mustache standing in the air.
"So this place really was haunted," Lucas said in surprise.
"Haunted! Never would I stoop to such a level as to haunt such a crappy place!" the old man said with a frown on his face. "You boy listen here! We found it within our hearts to save you, so now as according to demonic code your life belongs to us!"
"Us?" Lucas dumbly replied as he looked around not seeing anyone else.
"Yes! Us!" the old man replied as he motioned behind him, but when he noticed Lucas' face didn't change a frown appeared on his face and he turned around to find that no one was behind him indeed! "Give me a moment please," the old man said before he rushed into a wall disappearing from Lucas' sight.
Lucas stared stupidly at the wall, and a minute later the old man reappeared this time dragging along a few extra people pulling two by the ears, kicking one, and the other three following behind him.
"YOU OLD GEEZER! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU BRINGING US OVER HERE FOR!" A muscular man yelled as they appeared through the wall.
"We have guests please watch your tone" he responded.
"And quite a handsome one too," Said a mature lady who had a full bust and a shapely butt. She began to give him some flirtatious winks and pushed her arms together to make her chest even bigger than it already was.
"Yes, he was saved by me and Envy, so by the demonic code, he belongs to us, and since he had tried to kill himself I have decided that the seven of us deadly sins will try and make him into an outstanding human!" the old man said.
"What do you mean Pride?" said Greed, a fat man with gold accessories hanging on every body part available. Greed was extremely covetous of his wealth, and if Pride was asking him to use some to help some failure of a human, then Greed was going to have none of it.
"Each of us will teach him something that would enable him to be successful, like you, for example, Greed, can't you teach him how to make money or something? It's a simple concept, and since this young boy has reached the bottom of society bringing him to the top would be fun *cough* I mean saving this boy would be one good deed to help relieve some of our sins!" Pride stated.
"He just wants another competition," Envy said with a smirk, a little boy with brown hair and eye, and a blue backpack he looked to be around eight years old.
"Enough of that!" Pride said, "So, who else is going to help?"
Envy and Greed agreed immediately, while Envy just wanted to finally beat Pride, Greed had a twinkle in his eye thinking of the future prospects.
Pride nodded and looked towards the others "LIKE HELL I'LL ALLOW YOU TO BEAT ME AGAIN PRIDE! COUNT ME IN!" Wrath yelled as he agreed.
"Like I said this is not a competition it is for-" Pride countered.
"Sure I'll help *munch* the kid looks like he could use some meat on his bones" A teenage girl's voice cut Pride off. She was popping skittles in her mouth as she was talking, and she was surprisingly not fat like Lucas would have assumed Gluttony would be.
"Anything for such a handsome man like you" Lust said as she smiled at him and agreed to participate.
"Now all that's left is..." Pride turned to see a girl with white hair curled up in a ball sleeping while hugging onto a teddy bear doll. He reached down and pulled on her ear and said: "Are you going to participate?"
She yawned as she lazily replied with a "No" wanting to get back to sleep as soon as possible.
"Too bad! Majority rules, you have to participate" Pride laughed and said, and this caused Sloth to whine while she said "Why am I always dragged into doing stuff because of you guys! All I want is to sleep...and sleep..." she said and again began to drift into sleep.
Pride turned away from her and smiled towards Lucas and said: "So it sounds like a plan?"
Lucas was having a hard time processing what just happened to him. He was saved by the seven deadly sins, and now they are going to make him successful? This doesn't make any sense! Even if he wanted to end his life at this point, he was unable to because Pride said that his life belonged to them!
Lucas sighed as it slowly began to sink into him that his life now was going to be revolving around these seven sins, and there was nothing he could do about it.
At least on the bright side, he was going to be successful. 'Wait I am going to be successful? Right? Right!?' Lucas thought meekly.