All Sins Can Be Forgiven

"Really? Magic?" Lust fell over giggling.

"Yeah, talk about a love/hate relationship." Pride said, nudging Greed with his elbow.

"S-shut up! It's only because I was shaped from her! Didn't any of you feel a spark?" She asked with the slight hint of a desperate tone in her voice.

Pride paused. He was quickly mimicked by the others, and most of them grew blushes. Envy cleared her throat awkwardly and Pride scratched his neck in thought.

"I guess she was kind of hot." He said, still rubbing his neck. Lust groaned.

"Why must it be so?" She wondered out loud.

"Ha! Now you can't blame me!" Wrath shouted with joy. "Now you ALL know how it feels!" He laughed maniacally before awkwardly coming to an abrupt stop when he saw them glaring at him. "I mean, hooray! Now you know how it feels!"

"At least we didn't act upon it!" Greed growled, scrunching her face against his.

"Please, I could see that tail flick." Wrath said with a smirk. Greed pulled away with an intense blush.

"I-I...I didn't do it on purpose." She mumbled, covering her face with an arm to hide the crimson blush on her cheeks. Though, everypony could see it creep up to her ears.

"Well, then that settles it. We are not prepared to take on this mission." Lust said with an affirmative nod.

"Yeah," Gluttony agreed. "We can't destroy the elements if we like them!" She said with a sad frown.

"Send me to Tartarus if I'm lying, but I refuse to disobey a simple order from Master!" Greed declared, stomping a hoof into the dirt. She grimaced as if expecting a lightning bolt to shoot out of the sky.

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"What?" Fluttershy asked with a shrug as the others simply sat there in shock.

"Wha-how-why-HUH!?" Twilight exclaimed. Rarity dragged her hoof across the wooden floor of the library.

"Well, he was rather cute if you can ignore that little...outburst of his." She admitted.

"Aw, I'm sure he's just a little rough around the edges, that's all." Fluttershy said with a sweet smile.

"Fluttershy, you do realize that these ponies were made specifically to DESTROY us don't you?" Twilight asked just to make sure her friend wasn't delirious.

"Of course I do, Twilight! You made that perfectly clear already." She replied, a touch of disappointment in her voice.

"Then why in Celestia's name would you actually consider liking him!?" Fluttershy shifted her gaze to the floor.

"I...don't know." The others exchanged confused looks. Twilight rubbed her temples in frustration.

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Greed rubbed her temples in frustration. "How many times do I have to tell you, we came here to DESTROY them! Not to soak in their love!" She yelled. Pride rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, yeah. You made that clear already, how many more times are you gonna say it before you're satisfied?" He asked, stretching his wings.

"As many times as it takes you to-" She stopped abruptly. "I've got it!"

"Got what, sis?" Gluttony asked, bouncing up and down on a random ball.

"We could act like we've turned over a new leaf! We stay with the elements until we've earned their trust, and BAM! We obliterate them!" She squealed with joy. "It's the perfect plan!" The others simply exchanged curious glances.

"I don't know..." Wrath muttered. Greed frowned.

"Weren't you the one who fell in love first?" She bit her lip. "Not that I'm in love!" She sighed in defeat. "Forget it, I'll never win." The others giggled at their sibling's misfortune.

"Yeah, but I never planned on acting upon it." He said, sticking out his tongue in Greed's direction.

"Shut up! That's not the only reason I came up with this-" She stopped. "That's not why I came up with this plan!" Wrath chuckled as the laughter grew louder.

"Oh Greed, I don't blame you for being so flustered." Lust said with a smile, wrapping an arm around her fellow sin's neck. "I too know what it's like to be in love!"

"Because Master put it in your head?" Lust quickly pulled away from the yellow unicorn.

"Um, yes. Yes, that is what I meant." She looked to the side to avoid eye contact, making the other sins laugh. "Oh...if only my song worked on mares." Greed's eyes snapped open.

"Of COURSE! Our powers! I totally forgot about them!" She turned to a yellow unicorn stallion who had been watching them with slight fear. She closed her eyes in concentration as her horn glowed bright orange. "Yes...come to mama." Her eyes snapped open and lost focus as they glowed their own shade of bright yellow. She shook her head and it all stopped.

"Um...what did you just do to that poor stallion?" Lust asked, pointing towards the unicorn who had now collapsed onto the ground.

"I took his magic." Greed said quite bluntly. She grinned. "I can definitely face Twilight SNARKLE now!" Pride snickered.

"Is that the best you can come up with?" The unciorn blushed.

"Well, she has a very nice name!" She slammed a hoof into her mouth, slammed her face into the ground, and kicked her hindlegs against the dirt wildly. She could've easily being mistaken for a yellow featherless ostrich. She lifted her head from the ground and began to walk towards the library they all knew Magic stayed in.

"Are you done with the little freak-out?" Envy asked, trotting beside Greed. She gave the earth pony a sharp hiss before continuing.

"What's up with her?" Gluttony asked, tilting her head to the side in confusion.

"What's wrong with all of us, the elements." Envy answered, watching the unicorn now gallop towards the library. "In her case, it's Magic." Gluttony blinked.

"Ooooohhh!" She said with a smile. "Greed has a crush! Greed has a crush!" She cried out in a sing-song voice.

"We already knew that, Gluttony." The blue mare let out a long aw of disappointment.

///

"I dunno, I thought the pegasi were kind of cute..." Rainbow Dash admitted, not picking out a particular one.

"What?" Twilight gave her a flat look like she just made the 'why did the chicken cross the road' joke.

"Sheesh! I was just saying!" Rarity scratched her leg in silence.

"Well, you have to admit that there's something different about them, Twilight." She said with an awkward smile.

"You could say that again! Discord MADE them! Didn't you girls pay attention to my specific description of my dream?" She huffed and turned around.

"Of course we did, Twi." AJ said.

"Most of us anyway..." Dash grumbled.

"We're just saying ya'll should give 'em a chance!" She continued, holding her hat to her chest. The others nodded in agreement. Twilight looked back.

"I guess I could give them a chance..." Fluttershy quickly grabbed Twilight in a hug.

"Oh, thank you Twilight! I just know he'll be different on the inside!" She enthused, squeezing her friend rather tightly.

"Okay...Flutter....SHY...but...I meant...all...of them." The butter pegasus let go of her friend with an innocent look on her face.

"Um, oops." She said with a blush.

"Twilight Sparkle, I challenge you to a duel!" Twilight groaned at the words.

"I'm really not in the best of moods to-" She froze when she saw the cocky looking unicorn in her doorway. "GREED!?"

"The one and only. Now, what were you saying?" Twilight's eye twitched and spasmed.

"Bu-I-you-why?" Oh, she was going to regret this.

"I wanted to see you in action!" She declared with a grin.

"Um, thanks...I think?" Greed blushed.

"Urgh! Why does my brain always do that!?" She smacked the side of her head and groaned. "I hate this..."

"Whatever for?" Lust asked, walking up beside her fellow sin. "Love is a wondrous thing!" Greed smacked her with a sharp hiss.

"You idiot! The elements are right there!" Lust coughed awkwardly before smiling.

"Oh! Yes, of course. Hello my dear Generosity, what a pleasure it is to meet you!" She exclaimed with a bit too much enthusiasm.

"Whoa, the elements are actually here!? Move it peachy!" Pride shouted, pushing Lust to the side.

"Excuse me!?" The lavender stallion was already too close to Rainbow Dash to give a darn.

"Why hello, I do believe you are Loyalty." He said with a smooth voice. A little too smooth for Dash's liking.

"What the hay is going on here?" She asked, turning to Twilight. The unicorn just shrugged and leapt back when she saw Greed directly in front of her.

"What IS going on here?" She asked, slightly uncomfortable from Greed's sudden close proximity. She chuckled at the question.

"Why I'm surprised you don't know." She said with a snicker. "Wasn't it in the dream? Did CELESTIA not include those details for your 'well-being'?" Twilight's face contorted with confusion.

"My well-being? What do you mean?" Lust fell over laughing for no apparent reason.

"Oh...that's too rich... Greed! The elements were just talking about us!" All of the mares were shocked.

"How-how did you know that!?" Rarity asked, slowly scooting away from Lust.

"I'm Lust! I jus know!" Rarity gulped nervously, though nopony knew why.

Of course, it wasn't long before everypony knew.

"Really...?" Lust asked curiously with a grin. Rarity looked back and forth desperately.

"I...uh...Fluttershy was the one who pointed it out!" She said, desperately waving her hoof in Fluttershy's direction. The mare looked up in shock.

"Rarity! Did you just-"

"Oh, I'm barely interested in her." Lust said. "I know what she's thinking." Fluttershy's brand new blush grew as red as Wrath's coat.

"Come on, Lust! Cut it out! It's no fun when you spoil everything!" Wrath said angrily, wings flared out in what was perhaps anger.

"Fine, though I don't see why you want to wait sooo long to find out." She calmly walked away from Rarity, letting the ivory mare fall limp to the floor.

"I still didn't get an answer..." Pride cooed before he was dragged away by his ear by Greed.

"Come on, let's go!"

"Wait!"

Everypony froze, including Greed. A tingle went down her spine. "Why are you leaving?" Twilight asked, genuine confusion in her voice. Greed coughed awkwardly.

"I thought you didn't like us." She said, turning around to face her 'worst enemy'. "Did something change?" Twilight blushed.

"Uh...yeah, a little bit." Lust giggled, making Greed growl.

"What did Wrath say about spoilers!?" Lust quickly shut her mouth.

"Can...can you stay? I was planning on giving you guys a second chance." Twilight explained, nervously rubbing her foreleg.

"YES!" Greed quickly put a hoof over her mouth. "A second chance would be nice." She said with a small nervous giggle.