I had a smug smirk as I watched over the cultists working on creating another summoning circle from my spot slumped lazily on the old castle’s shattered, remaining, throne, I’d thrown the bright throne at one of the cultists who questioned me. Then I ate her soul.

I waited patiently. For, you know, about ten minutes. “How much longer is this going to take?!” I yelled.

“My Lord, please calm down.” The leader of the cultists, Open Speech, begged.

I raised an eyebrow, “Eh? Why? I’m tired of waiting already!”

He gulped, “Uh...m-my Lord, perhaps it would go faster if...you assisted us?”

I leveled an even glare at him, “Fuck off, I don’t do grunt work, that’s what you mortals are for.”

He backed off, “Oh, uh, of course, Lord Greed!”

“Good. Now get back to work! I want some summoning done here!” I started laughing. These idiots don’t even realise that they’re not working for some Lord! In hindsight that’s made them extremely lucky. If they did summon a Lord or even some other Demon then this world would already be on its way to an apocalypse. I’m doing them all a favour!

With a groan I stood up and made my way out of the room, “Yo, I’m off for a walk, check on you freaks later.” I travelled down the halls, my hands stuck in my pockets. So this was a castle, eh? Bit of a fixer upper, huh? But I can kind of see it working. I stroked my chin and nodded, “Yeah! Fix up the walls, get some tasteful paintings, maybe a few stained glass windows, a few banners and definitely some stripper poles and it’ll look great!” I laughed to myself, “Yeah! This I can do! Once I summon my buddies I’ll get to work on it!”

I continued exploring the place, but eventually went back to the throne room, I kicked the doors open dramatically, “BOOM! Greed’s back, baby!” The cultists blinked at me before getting back to work. Feh, they don’t know class when they see it!

Open Speech approached, his cloak billowing slightly. Hmm...maybe I should get a coat? Maybe a robe? I do like billowing clothes. “My Lord. We are ready to begin the summonings. The summoners are ready for the names of the Demons.”

Huh, alright. I headed on over to the first summoner and whispered the name of my best friend into his ear. Of course, if he wasn’t killed immediately I’d have to do tear out his brain myself. I stood back and watched with anticipation. This was it! I was finally going to see them again! I was going to have back what was rightfully mine!

The circle light up a deep red and began sparking with blue lightning as the light grew more intense. The light in the room seemed to be getting sucked into the circle and the room began shaking. There were cries and panicked yells from the cultists as Open Speech tried to keep them calm, and throughout it all I was grinning and laughing maniacally. All of a sudden there was silence and everything returned to normal. All was fine, and there, stood at the center of the circle, was a Demon.

Scarlet skin covered a short, yet curvy body with wide hips and large breasts which a long, spaded tail curled around, whilst a pair of flaming wings jutted out of her back, she had a short, tight, black tank top on, showing off her body’s toned muscles, she wore a pair of short shorts. She let out a seductive moan as she rolled her neck and the horns jutting straight up from her head gently scraped the walls, long, wavy red locks waved and the several piercings in her eyebrows and ears jingled softly. She opened her red eyes, her cat like pupils focusing on the mortal in front of her.

“Well, well.” She purred. “What have we…” She noticed me and turned her cute little nose up at me. “Who the fuck are you?” She sighed, “Let me guess, you had this fleshbag summon me, huh?”

I clutched my chest, “Ah, ma petite chérie, have you already forgotten my handsome face?”

She spat on the floor between us, “Fuck off. Why the fuck would you waste my time, you fucking cock sucking, shit licking, dog fucking, knob polishing, cum eating, piece of shit, fucking waste of my fucking time, TWAT!” She roared.

I smirked, “You haven’t changed, have you, Lenora?”

She jumped, “How the fuck?!”

“Don’t you remember me? Your good pal?” I strode towards her with a grin plastered across my face, “I more expected you to be a Wrath, but I guess you did like sex a bit too much, huh?” I leaned in close to her ear and whispered, “You don’t remember your old friend, Jack?” I took a few steps back and watched for a reaction.

She was silent for a few seconds before she started laughing, “You bastard, I thought you’d been erased! Should have known you’d survive!”

I grinned, “Great, you do remember me! But first thing’s first.” I nodded towards the summoner, he was panting and sweating. I guess it took something out of mortals to summon. Huh, the more you know. “He knows your Name.”

Her eyes hardened and without a thought she shot towards him and grabbed his face in her hand. His eyes widened for a second before he started screaming. I laughed as he began writhing. His face started to turn to ash and he held a hoof out towards the other cultists for help as the rest of his face was slowly followed. After a few seconds Lenora let go of him and he crashed to the ground and disintegrated into dust. As his soul emerged Lenora grabbed it and swallowed it in a way that I know made a few dicks twitch.

I clapped happily, “Nice, nice! Very nice!” I walked up to her and slapped her on the back. “Good work! Now, let’s discuss your name here.”

She frowned, “What are you talking about?”

I smirked, “I...am Greed. What shall your name be?”

She grinned, “So that’s what your sin was! I’m always forgetting that one. Well, if you’re Greed...then call me Lust.”

I pulled her into a hug, definitely enjoying the feeling of her breasts against me, “Now, we summon Logan.”

“Logan. Yeah, one guess what his sin is.” The newly named Lust smirked.

“Yo!” I yelled, “Summon the next one!” I went over and whispered Logan’s Name into the summoner’s ear before hopping back and standing next to Lust.

The lightshow started up again and the room started shaking worse than before. And like before as the mortals were panicking I was laughing, I was getting back my friends, one at a time! Nothing in Heaven or Hell could stop me!

When the light died down a large fat, slob of a creature was stood in the center of the circle, it’s obese mass almost touching the summoner. It’s head was perched atop its mass, reptilian scales covered the body of the Demon and slime and drool constantly dripped from its large, fang filled mouth, its entirely black eyes were roaming the room, its ears were pointed and sunk partially into its skull, and it had several short, stubby horns all across it’s hairless head. It stood at around ten foot tall and it’s stomach had three smaller, but still large enough to fit an adult human into, mouths on it. The Demon’s claws were short, stubby things, used more for grabbing things than attacking. He wore just a simple loincloth.

“Logan, how are you?” I smiled.

The large blob of a Demon turned its head towards us before grabbing his summoner and shoving it into the mouth on his face. As he munched down he grabbed two more of my pawns and used the mouths on his stomach to start devouring them. “Hun...gry…” He rumbled, blood and bits of the body and organs sliding down his body into the other, waiting, mouths.

I chuckled, “Logan, buddy...What’d I tell you about eating and talking, huh? How are you going to get a girl this way?”

“I know, friend…” He muttered, his voice deep. “But I can’t…” He trailed off and his eyes widened. “Is that you?” He whispered.

I threw out my arms, “I know I’m different, but it’s still me, old buddy! You’re still chowing down and I’m still planning my plots!”

“It is you.” His mouths all started grinning, “Heh...You kept your promise. You found us.”

I shrugged, “Not all of us yet. There’s still Gwen out there somewhere.”

“M...my Lord?” Open Speech piped up.

I cocked my head back towards him, “What is it?!”

“I...was just wondering if your...companions are going to kill my fellows everytime they appear?”

I scoffed, “What of it? You expected to summon Demons with no cost?”

He grumbled to himself, “Maybe...at least use the followers with...less money? It’s not like we actually own this place. If we get caught we’ll have to run.”

I raised an eyebrow, “Then buy the place.” I turned back to Logan, “Call me Greed, buddy.” I jerked a thumb at Lenora, “And you remember Lust, right?”

“Lust?” He blinked before nodding, “Yeah, I get it. Then I’m Gluttony, right? I’m fine with that.”

“It isn’t that simple!” Speech yelled. “Stop playing with your lessers and focus on me!”

I grabbed him by the throat, “Don’t you talk about them like that! Or I’ll repurpose your spine as a toothpick!” I slammed him against the wall, “Or do you still think you’re in charge of this little operation you have?!”

“I’m sorry, Lord Greed!” He whimpered.

I let him drop, “Now what is it you keep going on about? You have enough money, right? Or are you poor as shit?”

“No, many of our members are well off, it’s just...we’re sort of noticeable and I doubt we’ll be able to buy a property. It takes a blood contract to identify our real names and it’d be suspicious if any of us suddenly bought a property out of the blue with money we didn’t have previously.”

I sighed, “Alright, fair enough.”

“I could go.” Lust said.

I raised an eyebrow, “Lust...you’re kind of obviously not mortal.”

She rolled her eyes and swayed over to me, I grinned as I took a nice look at her cleavage. Then she flipped me onto the floor, “Stop thinking about my tits,” She grabbed my dick, “Or you’ll be losing this.”

My eyes widened, “Okay, okay! Fuck! I take one look…”

She laughed and let me go, “That was fun, remember the time I did that to Gluttony’s bully?”

I gave a giggle, it was another good memory. “Yeah, good times.”

She helped me up and grinned, “I’m a Lust Demon. I can take the form of that most pleasing to the one I plan on fucking.”

I slapped my head, “Right, ugh, how’d I forget that?”

“Hey, don’t worry, we all fuck up from time to time, right?” She walked over to a cultist and locked eyes with him.

After a few seconds she transformed into a small, young filly. She blinked before giving the stallion an even glare, “You people make me sick.”

He stammered some excuse before Gluttony grabbed him. “Does he have a lot of money?” He asked.

“Uh...no.” Open Speech said dumbly.

“Okay.” Gluttony then ate the sick fuck.

Lust sighed, “Well, I can work on this.” She began shifting her body and changed to an adult pegasus mare with a reddish black coat with a voluptuous but slender build, red eyes, a long wavy black mane and a cutie mark of a red stylized dragon circling and eating it’s own tail and a triangular mark inside the circle, an Ouroboros.

Lust nodded, looking proud of herself, “There we go.”

I raised an eyebrow, “Really? Are you really doing this?”

She coughed, “Er...no idea what you’re talking about!”

I laughed, “Sure, whatever you say!” It was stupid, she was using a ponified version of an anime character, but it was a reminder of better times and I needed all of those I could get. “Can’t believe you still actually remember that show.”

“Excuse me, Lust, if you could follow me?” Speech left the room and Lust soon followed.

I turned to Gluttony, “So, what’s been happening to you for the past hundred years, pal?”

He smiled warmly before gently sitting down, “Meditating a lot. It helps keep the hunger at bay.”

I blinked, “No shit? That stuff works?”

“Yeah, Mr Malice helped a lot.”

“Wait, Mr Malice? You mean Lord Malice?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

He shrugged, “I guess, he didn’t like me calling him that though. He found me meditating one day after some new Demon stole a bunch of meat from him. He helped me focus my mind and invited me over for some tea. We ended up talking about things, he was really bored. He reminds me of my grandad. Anyway, he ended up inviting me back and I ended up having tea and reading with him every two weeks.”

I burst out laughing, “Fucking hell, Gluttony! That meat thief? That was a guy I set up! I was behind it and got a month’s food out of it!”

“Huh, small world.” His tone was even, but his eyes twinkled with mischief.

“Hey, boys!” I turned to the door and saw Lust sticking her head through, “Greed I need you a second.”

I walked over to her, “What’s up?”

She held up an empty vial, “The contract for property is signed in blood. It’s a magical bond, as long as you live you’ll own it.”

“Right.” I dragged a claw across the palm of my hand and waited as the blood dripped into the vial.

“Also, what’s with the whole ‘Lord’ business?” She asked.

I chuckled and whispered to her, “They screwed up the first summoning. They think they summoned a Lord of Hell, but they just got me. I’m not telling them, are you?”

She laughed, “Fuck no! Right.” She put a cork on the vial. “That should do.”

I walked back to Gluttony, “See you.” I waved lazily, not looking her way.

“Alright, fellas, I’m off! Don’t know how long I’m going to be, be good!” She laughed as she headed off.

I smiled, “Looks like it’s just me and you, Gluttony.”

“That’s fine.” He mumbled.

“Uh, excuse me, Lord Greed?” I sighed and turned to Speech.

“What do you want now?!” I snapped.

“What...exactly do you want us to do now?” He asked, bowing his head again.

I grinned, “I have the perfect job for you bozos! Get to cleaning up this castle! Move rubble, start dusting just start cleaning the place!”

“What?” Speech seemed shocked.

“Hey, this place is a mess! Besides, how exactly do you expect Gluttony to leave the room?” I pointed at the small doorway. “Because he ain’t fitting through there.”

“Uh...right, my Lord.” He nodded and scampered off, the rest of the cultists following.

“So, Gluttony.” I turned and faltered. He was meditating. I sighed and made my way to my throne. Time to catch on some sleep.

I awoke to someone stroking my hair. I cracked an eye open and noticed it was one of the female cultists. I watched her for a few minutes before speaking up, “What are you doing?”

She yelped and fell to the floor, “I-I-I’m sorry, my Lord! I...I was just curious what your mane felt like!”

I sighed, “It’s called hair, now get up, you’re embarrassing yourself.”

As she stood up her hood fell down and I noticed her mane was done in double pigtails. Huh, she couldn’t have been older than seventeen. Wasn't that the age I was when I died. No wait, I was in my early twenties. I think. What was a kid doing here? I shook my head and brushed my hair back as it got in my eyes again. I eyed the kid’s hair and got an idea. “Hey, kiddo. You got any hair ties?”

Her eyes met mine, “Yes, Lord Greed.” She carefully passed me a black hair tie. Nice, it should blend it with my hair.

I pulled my hair back into a ponytail. I shook my head, the hair stayed in place, “Yeah, nice!” I could feel my hair ended just under my shoulders, this was great! “Thanks, kid!” I leapt over her before jumping again and landing on the top of Gluttony’s head.

“Hm?” He rumbled. “Greed?”

“Yo, big guy, let’s spar!” I grinned.

He went silent. I was about to try and convince him when I felt him move. I jumped just in time to avoid a grab. “Sure thing!” He grinned cockily. “It's been a while since I've had a good fight!”

“Hey!” I laughed, cartwheeling away from him, “You're fast!”

“You’re damn right I am! I'm not your average Gluttony Demon, that's for damn sure!” He cleared the space between us in seconds, something an athlete would have trouble doing, and swung his arm at me.

I jumped over his attack and delivered several punches to his stomach to no effect. “Yeah, I'm actually kind of worried here!” I slid around to his back and brought a foot down on the back of his knee.

He just laughed, “You'll have to try harder than that!” He spun around and kicked at me.

I jumped onto his leg before leaping onto his head and started punching him in the top of his skull. “You're pretty tough! Remember back when we were in school?” I leapt over his fist. “You were such a weakling! I had to help you with everything!” I jumped off his head and delivered a series of swipes with my claws to his stomach.

He grabbed me and threw me against the wall, “I'm not the same person I was back then!” He charged me and I was able to duck just in time to avoid his punch. “I'm not that weak, little boy anymore!”

As rubble and debris rained down on me I grabbed a decent sized rock and threw it at his head. “Yeah, no kidding!” I grinned and bounded away from him. “You're strong now! Not to mention fast!”

“All thanks to my meditation and Mr Malice! He's learned from warrior monks and he passed those teachings onto me!” He rushed over to me and slammed his arms into the floor as I bounced away.

“Ha! You always did have the devil’s luck!” I laughed as I leapt back over to him and brought the back of my foot to his head before clawing at his legs

“But you never needed luck, did you?” He grinned, kicking me away. As I landed I used the momentum to push myself back to my feet and casually flicked my ponytail, “Always had some plan brewing, somebody to exploit! I loved it! I wished I could be more like you!”

“Why be like me? You've got your own style now and everything!” I laughed.

As I faced him down I saw him scrape his foot against the floor. Was he going to charge me? No way I was missing out on the opportunity for a clash! I'd only heard rumours of Demons successfully clashing in a charge, I wanted my name added added to that list!

We charged each other and were about to attack when the floor exploded in a fiery blaze. “WILL YOU IDIOTS KNOCK IT OFF?!” Lust roared, kicking us both in the head, she was back in her normal form so the kicks had some weight behind them

I fell to the ground and gave a sheepish laugh, rubbing the back of my head, “Er, sorry, Lust, didn't see you there, been back long?”

“Sorry, Lust.” Gluttony rumbled, “You have a good week?”

“Week? What're you talking about?” I asked.

He nodded, “Yeah, you were asleep for a week.” Well...shit. I must have been more tired than I thought. Lust then kicked us both across the head again. “Hey, what was that for?!” I yelled.

“You destroyed the room!” She yelled. I looked around the floor had a giant crater in it, one of the walls was now missing and dust and rubble was all over the place.

“Oops.” I tried to laugh it off only to get kicked under the chin. I rubbed my chin, “Fucking hell, woman! Calm your tits for once, yeah?! It's not like we went and did this on purpose! We were just sparing! Besides, we can get Gluttony out of this room now.”

“Fine, whatever.” She shrugged. She shoved a piece of paper into my hands. “Congratulations, Greed, you're now the owner of the Castle of the Two Sisters, place was cheap enough after a thousand years of abandonment.” I looked around my throne room. Huh, where'd the kid go? Ah well, I'll find her later.

“Alright! Now we can get shit started!” I laughed.

Lust pulled up another piece of paper, “How about we talk about this?”

I snatched it up. It was a wanted poster for Open Speech. It was the reward that caught my eyes, “Fifty thousand bits?!” I grinned. “But...like they'll give the cash to some Demons.” I waved off any ideas.

Gluttony snatched the poster out of my hands and inspected it. “Hey, guys.” He grinned deviously. “You know this says dead or alive, right? Well, how about we offer to find the rest of the cultists? That way...we get to stay. Especially if we spin some story about being outcasts of Hell because we like to protect people.”

I grinned, “Sounds like a plan! I told you that you had your own style, Gluttony! Good plan!”

“What happened in here?” I turned and saw Speech step into the room.

“Open Speech!” I snickered, “Perfect timing.”

Author's Note

Hey, everyone. This'll be a quick note about Demons and any Heavenly forces.

With other sins...I'm going to try and include all seven, but they won't all be friendly to Greed.

And with the Heavenly forces...I'm not too sure. Maybe later on? Honestly I haven't really thought about it.

Well, that's the note. See you guys next time.