I was locked in with the one who talked to me before. He was ungodly strong, on an entirely different level from myself. But there was no avoiding it now so fighting him was the only option.
We circled for a moment before he came towards me with a powerful overhand swing that made me bend over and flip around with a kick. He took it on the shoulder without even moving as he threw a punch up into my stomach with a force I could not even dream of.
"You are quite the interesting one, aren't you?" He said as I knelt on the ground holding my stomach gasping for air. After a moment of him watching me, I stood up but the instant I did he kicked me in the ribs and sent me sprawling across the ground. I could look around and see the rest of my siblings in the same predicament I was but Gluttony was being brutalized. He needed help but I was in no shape to get to him.
"Lust, come to me!" I screamed across the realms. She looked up at me but before she could make a move her opponent circled in between us.
"I don't think so, shrimp." Her opponent said as he looked at me then back at her. He kicked her but hit her arms hard enough to send her sliding back. He seemed even stronger than my opponent, although, he obviously was not as adept at fighting as Lust rolled forward and pushed off her hands over the head of her opponent. She was now closer to me than he was and took the opportunity to run.
He gave chase across the realms but Lust was quicker than he was luckily so she made it in one piece. There were now four of us in our realm. With Lust's help, I still was not sure we could beat even one of them but we had better teamwork than them; that I was sure of.
"Go help Gluttony!" I yelled as I jumped forward to attack my opponent(s). With a double kick followed by another spinning kick, I managed to at least make my original opponent slide back a few centimeters.
"You overestimate yourself, boy. You could not handle me alone. What makes you think you are any match for two of us?" My precept said standing watching me. I had to make sure not to forget my original mission objective: kill gluttony.
They beat me as a pair for a while before my precept grabbed me by the back and just slammed me down into the ground repeatedly.
"What is the meaning of all this? Did you not tell us about your brother so we could end him? Why send your sister to certain death as well?" He asked me in between slams.
After coughing up blood, I choked out, "It had to be as realistic as possible. I can work them both to make an opening to only kill Gluttony. Just give me a moment to figure it out." which to my surprise, he did exactly that. They sat on the opposite side of the realm and watched as all of my siblings were beaten horribly.
When the chance presented itself, I jumped up and flew off toward Lust and Gluttony. Their precept never even turned around as I slammed into her back head first. She and I both tumbled over from the impact but I was in a daze while she just brushed herself off.
"Oh, another ant. You all are quite the irritating bunch, ya know that?" The precept said getting angry. Her skin started changing from the grey they all were to a more vibrant red. "I am going to KILL YOU ALL!" she screamed.
Rocking back to onto my hands, I shot forward rotating mid-air to increase my impact. She blocked me with ease but I kicked her with the following kick to the head. She spun me off spitting out some black tar like goo.
"That one actually hurt a little. You die first." She said pointing to me. As I watched my siblings being brutalized, I could feel my rage skyrocket.
"I am going to execute all of you." I said getting to my feet unable to control my emotion. My mind was surging with the need to destroy them. My body solidified at the thought before I looked at the precept in front of me.
"Oh, isn't this quite an interesting update? Let's see what power this one has been holding back." my original precept said having come from our realm to the one we were in now. They were back to sitting in their position from before.
"Kill, kill, kill, slaughter, slaughter." I kept saying as I walked forward looking at my hands. When I was no more than a meter away, she took a swing but I had already ducked and kicked her legs out from under her. It was like I was moving before she began her attack. The instant she hit the ground, I kicked forward and she slammed into the wall of the realm. It was solid now as the others were leaning against it.
"Oh. Looks like you better get serious or he's going to kill you." The leader said watching us intently. As she tried to kick me back, I side stepped her attack and punched her in the stomach. She doubled over in pain from the force of the blow before falling to her knees.
"Have you ever seen him like this?" Gluttony asked Lust. They must have been quite surprised to see my true power.
"No. I did not even know he had power like this. He eclipses all of us. I'm not sure we could stand against him even together." Lust said back watching the fight progress.
"You thought you would just kill us with no opposition? Well that, that makes me sad." I said bending over the precept. She came up and cut my face with something she had hidden but I never got to see it as I grabbed her by the throat and lifted her off the ground.
"You have no idea what you have gotten yourself into. None." I said as the wound healed. Without missing a chance, I punched up three times into her chest. She was in bad shape after those but I was not giving her another chance to find some other hidden weapon.
After walking to her, I stood over her and reigned down punches and kicks. Her hands and legs just bounced up and down with each attack. She was long unconscious but I had no intention of stopping until she took her last breath.
"Go get her." the leader said to his sitting mate. He jumped up and ran over to us but I punched him away as he tried to stop me. With a fire in my eyes, I jumped over to the next and started mauling him as well. He was more powerful than the female but still little match. He did manage to hit me a few times but I could barely feel my own body as I continued on a rampage.
Their leader took the distraction of me being tied up with his mate to go to Gluttony and Lust and put a knife through Gluttony. It was a demon knife so it was very effective when he put it through Gluttony's chest. His body cracked and broke apart before he dematerialized into the ground.
I had beaten this precept to a bloody pulp by the time I heard Lust's scream.
"GLUTTONY!" She yelled as he held out his hand holding her face.
"I am not ready to die but if this is it I guess there is not much to be done about it. You and Wrath have to take care of the others. They still look up to you, sister." Gluttony said before turning to dust on the ground and totally disappearing.
Without thinking I yelled, "GLUTTONY! My brother, I will avenge you!". Shooting forward, I was punched in the back and slammed into the ground. All I could see was destruction. He had to die. Spinning to my hands, I threw a flurry of kicks but was swatted away effortlessly. Each attack I put out was blocked and parried. Even with all the power surging through my veins, I could not land an attack.
All the others made their way to us after watching me lay waste to the two precepts. Lust and all the others jumped on the precept to swarm him away from me. They were successful and Lust picked me up as we took off.
"We have to get out of here. We cannot beat him." Lust said carrying my motionless body. I was fading in and out as we crossed the different sections of our planet. I finally blacked out when we got to the lake of souls. How best to describe it. It was like a pitch-black lake filled with floating souls from the humans we killed. Their screams were never-ending but as they ended up there, we could torture them endlessly. They just regenerated and dropped back in the lake in a never ending cycle.
When I awoke, we were back home. Everyone was in terrible shape but none as bad as Lust. She watched Gluttony die and could do nothing to stop it. I did not care either way as I was the one who set the plan in motion but I had to feign interest.
"Where is Gluttony?" I said pretending not to remember anything. None of them had ever seen my true form so they had no idea its effects.
"He...he died." Lust said angrily. We were for the most part incapable of sadness so her sadness was replaced with blind rage.
"Oh? And what of the ones who killed him?" I asked wondering what happened to the precepts.
"We are going to kill them. We have to. I will not rest until they have paid for their crimes." Lust said, her voice shaking with anger.
"Agreed. We will find and kill them. Even if I have to do it myself." I said reminding them of our power difference.
"They said someone told them about gluttony. We have to find this traitor and punish them. They killed Gluttony." Lust said sitting with her arm over her knee looking over it. Unless they had a ridiculous, sudden growth of power none of them had any chance standing against me so I was not too worried about it. I would pretend to help them hunt me down, of course, but I did not have any real intention on helping them with this dead-end quest.
"Our hunt begins tomorrow." Lust said still sitting there. We all took that as our point to exit and walked away to our own sections.