Sinful!

Wrath walks through a dark hallway. The only thing that accompanies him is the sound of his footsteps. It has only been a few days since Wrath and La-la arrived back at their base and a week after the Taboo incident. Thinking about getting a drink, but the thought is pushed out of his head by a heavy smell of sex. Wrath covers his nose as the smell fills his nostrils. He already knows who and where it’s coming from, “That lady pisses me off. Why can’t she do that outside like the animal she is.”

“Wrathy, I have been looking all over for you!” Hearing his name, the dog turns around to see La-la running towards him. She stops dead in her tracks when the smell hits her, “W-what is that smell!?”

“That slithering slut is having a party in her room, but It doesn’t matter.” Wrath said, leaning against the wall. “Now, Paper brat, what do you want?”

La-la starts to blush now, knowing there is a sex party down the hall. She does a slight cough, “Umm, a meeting is being held in the conference room.”

“…And?”

“And Greed says if she doesn’t see you there, half your bones will be outside your body.” She said, a little too cheerful.

Wrath groans, “Buckin’ fine, but you are coming too!” He then starts to walk to the conference room. La-la catches up to Wrath and tells him she can’t come in, but he ignores her.

The two of them get to the room pretty fast, for La-la it was. Wrath, on the other hand, felt it took hours. Listening to the pony talk all the way here was annoying, but a bit soothing. Wrath shakes that thought out of his head and opens the door.

The conference room is dark, only having a light shine down on the round table in the middle of the room. There are three others in the room. “What in Tartarus are you three sitting in the dark for?” Wrath asks, rubbing the side of his head.

“What’s wrong, Poochie?” said a seductive voice in the shadows, “Sssscared of the dark?”

“Call me Poochie again, and I will rip out your throat, Lust!” Wrath barked.

“Doggy, you’re ssso rude to me,” Lust replied dramatically.

“The more you talk, the more I get pissed.” Wrath said coldly, sitting down in a chair away from Lust. La-la sits next to him on the floor, trying not to be noticed.

“Why didn’t you sssit next to me?” Lust asked in a cutesy voice. “Am I too beautiful for you? Ssso must you can’t resist jumping on me, right?”

“Kind of glad the lights here are messed up,” said Wrath, “I don’t have to see that shit face of yours.”

“That’sss rude… Poochie,”

Wrath slams his paws on the table, “Don’t call me that. I’ll kill you!” He jumps across the table, ready to rip Lust to shreds.

“That’s enough,” said an older female voice.

Suddenly, Wrath is teleported back into his chair, “Look who finally decided to step in, Greed.” Wrath mutters as a unicorn walks on top of the table. Dark caramel brown body, and two brown tone hair and tail. Greed’s hair is in a messy bun with two thin crystals sticking out of it and heavy bags under her eyes. She wears a messy lab coat long enough to cover her cutie mark.

“I would let you two kill each other, but I don’t want Sloth waking up!” Greed quietly yelled.

Suddenly, something slumps onto the table. The light reveals a sleeping yak, Sloth. He has two golden horn rings on each horn and braided hair that covers his eyes.

“What about him, you damn shut-in pony!” Wrath roared, pointing at the heavy sleeping yak. “You have that Paper brat drag my ass here, but the yak sleeps.”

The table shanks as Greed walks across it, "I'm just glad I was able to get his lazy ass here," She stares down Wrath with her tired eyes. Her horn mirror inches from his forehead. “You can wake the sleeping yak, I don’t care.” Greed said tiredly, “Remember the last time somebo-somepony woke him up.”

Wrath remembers that all too well. It was an accident that he woke up Sloth, but it was mostly La-la. Wrath then leads back in his chair, “What about the fat cat? I don’t see his ass here.”

Greed walks back to the center of the table, “Gluttony in the kitchen. I told him to be here. Guess that idiotic cat decided not to listen to me.” She lets out a small huff, “Next time I see him, I’ll teleport a brick inside his stomach.”

“Gluttony most likely will enjoy that,” Lust said offhandedly, “What about my scaly hunk, Pride~.”

Greed rolls her eyes, “Pride left earlier this morning, saying something about the Badlands.”

“Anyway, why are we here!?” Wrath asked, “I swear if it’s something stupid.”

Lust still in darkness, she annoyingly taps her fingers on the table. “Yeah, I was in the middle of a little get together.”

Greed answers them by moving to the side, revealing a three-legged crow with four glowing white eyes. Lust and La-la are very confused about the bird. Wrath starts to get heated, “You called us here… For a buckin’ bird!”

The crow flies on top of Greed’s head, “watch what you say, dog.”

“The crow talks?” Lust said surprisingly.

Wrath’s nose twitches, “Taboo?”

“That’s Taboo!?” Lust and La-la said in disbelief.

“Yeah, I think so.” Wrath said as he crossed his arms, “They smell the same, and the voice is somewhat the same too, but less distorted?”

"I can't believe I got my hopes up," Lust mumbles.

La-la gets up and places her hooves on the table. She squinted, “Are you sure because the last time we saw a Taboo, he was a lot bigger. Also, he was defeated by the Elements and the two humans.”

The crow, now known as Taboo, stretches his wings. He then flies and lands in front of La-la, “i am taboo, unicorn.” He turns his head away with a hateful look, well his best attempt with his bird face. “i just lost my body,”

There was a moment of silence before Wrath started laughing. He bangs the table, making Taboo fly back to Greed. Sloth’s head shook after each hit, but it wasn’t enough to wake him up.

“Wrath, this isn’t funny!” yelled Greed, stomping her hoof.

“I think it’s funny, ahahhhh!” Wrath laughed, “Oh, how the mighty have fallen!”

“Please ignore that idiotic mutt.” Greed told Taboo, “I would like to know why you are like this, Lorde Taboo. I was so surprised when you flew into my lab.”

Taboo ruffles his feathers, “when ricochet cleaved my head off-” Taboo gets interrupted by Wrath’s laughing and snarky comments, but Taboo ignores him. “i made this crow body and moved my consciousness to it.”

“Okay, but why did you do it?” Lust asked.

“i did just in case i lost, and i did.”

La-la plop her chin on the table, “I don’t get this?” Greed groans, and Wrath begins to chuckle. “So, what did they steal away?”

“a puppet, to put it simply.” said Taboo, “they steal away my power, well all the power i couldn’t take in this body.”

“Lorde Taboo, I’m sorry you are like this!” Greed apologized, “If that idiot dog and paper peon would have helped-”

Wrath barks to get Greed’s attention, “You stupid shut-in pony! La-la and my furry ass were only told to release Taboo.”

“And we did!” La-la added.

“You and Pride didn’t tell us to fight the Elements of Harmony and the two humans.” Wrath grumbled, “Once Taboo was freed, we were done.”

Greed was going to yell at them, but Taboo stepped in. “dog, what is your name?”

“Wrath,” He answered coldly.

“wrath and the unicorn have nothing to do with my loss.” Taboo said, “i decided to keep fighting, being cooped up in that jar made me battle hungry.”

Wrath smirks as he leans back. He can respect that answer. He put his feet on the table, “What now, Taboo? You’re freed but a bird. So, do we give up or plan around it? Either way, I don’t care.”

“be on standby,” Taboo said, stretching out his wings. “i need to talk to Pride when he returns from the Badlands.”

“What about the humansss?” asked Lust, "I'm very interested in the boy."

“let them be,” Taboo grumbled, “we’ll discuss them later.” After he said that, Taboo flew out of the room.

Lust yawns, “Well, you heard Taboo, time to be on ssstandby. I have to get back to my party.” As Lust heads to the door, her glowing yellow eyes fix on Wrath. “Wrathy pie, do you care to join my little party~.”

“Go suck a dick!” Wrath barked.

“I will!” Lust yelled back, shutting the door behind her.

As Wrath mutters to himself, La-la taps him to get his attention. “What is it?”

“Wrathy, I’m hungry.”

“Then go to the- Gluttony in the kitchen.” La-la nods as Wrath lazily stands up, “Well, let’s head to town.”

“But that’s a three hour walk!”

“I guess you’re not hungry,”

La-la lets out a sigh but then remembers something. “We can fly on a paper eagle, which will take one hour.”

“I don’t feel like flying,” Wrath huffed, “And we should keep a low profile, La-la.”

“Well, while you two go on your little lunch rush, I have some research to continue.” Greed said, walking off the table.

“What about the lights?”

Greed sighed, “I’ll send one of my automatons to fix it.” She then teleports out of the room with a soft *Crack*

La-la taps her chin, “We should have asked her to teleport us to town.”

“Even if we beg, she won’t do it.” Wrath said, going to the door. “Now come on, we’re burning daylight.” The two of them leave, and Wrath slams the door behind them.

The sound of the door slamming wakes Sloth, looking around to see he’s alone. The sleepy yak lets out a yawn and falls back to sleep.

Deep in the woods, Wrath and La-la are walking through it. La-la is walking pretty fast, and Wrath is lingering behind a bit. “I do love the chirping birds!” La-la said gleefully, “What about you, Wrathy?”

“Annoying, but also relaxing.” Wrath muttered.

La-la slowed down a little, “Wrath, what’s on your mind?” The amount of time she spent with Wrath, La-la could tell when something was getting to him.

“… It’s about the humans, mostly about the human name Ricochet.”

“Why are you thinking about that?” La-la asked, “Taboo said-”

“I know what he said,” Wrath interrupted, “But the humans will get stronger the longer we wait.”

La-la notices Wrath’s tail is wagging. She watches and whispers, “That’s rare.”

“Especially the human Ricochet. I wish I could see him fight more.” Wrath smirks as his tail wags faster. Wrath is confused. Is he getting excited about the human? “I haven’t felt like this in years! I wonder if he thinks the same as me, Riki?”

“Aaahhhcccoooo!”

“Bless you, Riki.”

“Thanks, Spike,”

Spike and Riki are in Riki’s room playing a game of Yu-Gi-Oh. Riki is teaching Spike the game, and the little dragon is learning quickly after a few games. Riki chalks that up to being Twilight’s assistant or so crap, but Spike still has a long way to go.

Riki’s side of the field is empty. On Spike’s side of the field is Elemental Hero Flame Wingman and one monster face down. Riki places two cards face down in the spell and trap zone, “Someone must be talking about me. Also, I end my turn.”

Spike draws a card, “It’s probably Twilight. Anyway, I attack you directly with Elemental Hero Flame Wingman. I finally won!”

Riki flips over his face down card, “Magic Cylinder, I win.”

“Come on!” Spike yelled, falling on the floor. “… Let’s go again, you go first this time.”

Riki says, “Sure, but let me use the bathroom first. I need to pee.” He leaves his room and heads to the bathroom. Once inside, Riki looks in the mirror and pulls up his shirt. Bandages wrapped tightly around his waist, a bit annoying for the human, but Riki got used to it. His eyes are drawn to the dried blood stain on his side, “Time to change,” Riki said as he removed the old bandages and put on new ones. He was about to pee but heard someone knocking on the front door, “Spike, go answer it!” After a few minutes, Spike calls out to Riki. Telling him to get down here now. He flushes the toilet and then washes his hands.

As he heads down the stairs and to the front door, Riki wonders who it could be. He swears that it’s a pony trying to introduce him to their lord and savior. “Spike, who’s at the door?” Riki asked, turning the corner.

“Princess Celestia,” Spike said casually.

Riki’s eyes widen, “The lord and savior!”

“I haven’t been called that in a while,” said Celestia, “May I come in?”

“Sure, but why didn’t you teleport inside?” Riki said, letting the princess in.

“I didn’t want to be rude, Riki.”

“Well... Now, I give you permission to teleport inside my house.” Riki beamed as the three of them walked to the living room.

Celestia smiles, “Why, thank you, Riki.”

“Excuse me, Princess Celestia,” Spike said, “Can I ask why you’re here?”

“You know Twilight isn't here,” Riki said, crossing his arms, “Did something bad happen? Am I in trouble? Did Twilight say something about humans that I can neither confirm nor deny?”

Celestia was taking back a bit, but she got her composure back. “Nothing bad is going on. I was going to send a letter, but I decided to talk to you face-to-face.”

"You came to see me!? Shit, you make me feel special!" Riki laughed, but seeing Celestia's face. He can't really make it out, "How about you sit down." Celestia plunks down on the couch, making a squeaky noise. Riki is surprised that the couch didn’t break under her ass. He remembers when Luna landed on his back. "Alright, talk to me."

Celestia took a deep breath and said, “I need you to go to Las Pegasus with BlueBlood.”

“W-what!?” yelled Spike as he fell back onto Riki’s leg.

Riki just stands there a few seconds before saying, “Who the fuck is BlueBlood?”

Author's Note

Oi, how's it going!? This chapter will be the start of the Las Pegasus Arc (I couldn't think of a better name). I really hope you enjoy!