Chuck put up a choice of the Seven Deadly Sins for us to choose from. I couldn't pick - so I used them all; but mainly Pride.
Enjoy!
University is fun!
I’ve loved this
place since the very first one opened oh, so many centuries ago and I started
bouncing around its walls just to tempt people into doing things they really
wanted to do…
Some of them loved it,
some of them hated it… most of all I had my fun and went on my merry way.
But then, once I did
destroy one or two generations of one university, I’d move onto the next academy. Sometimes, they’d be soldiers in Greece – and were they fun!
At Sparta, I had them nearly ripping each other apart! Wooo! What a thrill! The
instructors never knew what got into those kids!
I was on my own for
a long, long time… a long time! I didn’t mind it. But then, my fellow brothers
and sisters showed up at another university or two in Londinium, when it was
only a tiny little village on the shores of The Thames and it was beginning to
grow into something major.
It was good.
It was fun.
It was deliciously brilliant
to have my family together with me. But I couldn’t tell them that… after all, I
have my Pride.
But watching them
work their best whiles on the Humans is always the best thing. And it’s always
the same: you Humans are weak in the same ways as you were in the beginning of
time.
No wonder we exist.
No wonder we’ll never go away.
Now, we are in the
present day of computers, of the internet, of mobile phones, of motor cars (and
what brilliantly wonderful things they are!). And I can say that you Humans are
as gullible as ever! I don’t have to work on you as hard as I did when I
started out in this gig way back when there wasn’t electricity and a computer
screen to distract you.
I’ve set up a great
party at my old House on one of the very first campus’ I frequented, back in
the day! Oh, joy! The strange thing is that nobody knows what the symbol on the
building means – nobody but us Deadly Sins… and we called the House Septem
Peccatis Mortiferis. Everyone thinks it’s a joke, but when you create a House
on a campus right at the beginning of time, you can initiate it with all kinds
of symbols and things that lose all meaning to the people now.
It’s been over 6,000
years since we have been back. And we’re welcomed back with open arms; as new
students to the Alma Mater, something that I’m not surprised at as we look into
the den and find that a reproduction of the portrait of me is still over the
fireplace. The old one must have been destroyed.
“Hey, Alex, dude,
you look like that guy in the painting.” One of the seniors points out almost
immediately.
“Yeah. I do.” A grin
grows on my face. I slip my arm around his shoulders, as though we’ve known
each other our whole lives, “How about we have a party tonight?”
Rich looks at me,
beer in hand, not knowing how to react. He’s normally the one organises these
things. He smiles, “Sure! It’s the start of the year, let’s find out who the
hotties are on this campus.”
The place is pumping
soon after sunset with beer flowing easily. People are everywhere in the house
and my brothers and sisters arrive right on time – two hours into the party –
and the whole atmosphere changes almost immediately.
Lust grabs herself
somebody’s boyfriend and starts taking his clothes off in front of everyone –
much to the disgust of the girlfriend, but she doesn’t do anything for a minute
due to shock.
Gluttony starts
eating everything in sight – and not just the food. Anyone who gets in the way
loses a finger… a hand… oh, oops, one guy’s neck just got in the way of
Gluttony. Blood everywhere! People have begun to panic; which spreads like a
brushfire. Nobody has to see what’s happening, strangely enough, you Humans can
just sense it. That’s what I love about you.
Wrath swoops in on
that girlfriend whose boyfriend is now humping Lust. Just as she gets her fill
and dumps his dead lifeless body to the floor, pulling his life force from him
through her touch (no not his dick you sorry, disgusting perve!), the girlfriend
jumps on Lust with Wrath by her side. Wrath and Lust are a tag team (little to
anyone’s knowledge but mine) and work well together.
Sloth? Well, he just
walked in, sat down and enjoyed the floor show. His body odour was here before
him and nobody wanted to be around him; not even me. So, I moved into the next
room where most of the population of the party were trying to get out of the
kitchen door all at once – and failing. It was funny in a way, sad in another.
Greed and Envy
swaggered through the door and looked around. They didn’t do much as they
watched Wrath and Lust suck the rest of the life force from the poor chick who
was hoping to get her own back for the death of her boyfriend… and failed.
I came back into the
room with a bowl in my hand to collect the blood from the two bodies by the
door, “Okay, people, we have to do this right. Make sure all the symbols are
doused in the blood of two Humans who were in love and recently killed.” Once
all seven symbols had been anointed with the blood, the house began to shake as
though an earthquake was approaching.
Things fell off the
walls
Remaining people evacuated from the house,
running, screaming!
The symbols began to
glow a brilliant white.
There was a massive
flash and a clap of thunder and the house Septem Peccatis Mortiferis’ shook
harder! I could see it was going to collapse, dropped the bowl and ran outside
to join the other people standing out in the darkness of the night.
The police and Fire
Marshal came back from the rubble of the house, declaring that there were no
other bodies, except for the two dead people just inside the door.
“You were very lucky
to get out just before it collapsed, Alex.” The Dean of the University said.
“Yeah, I was.” I
nodded.
“Do you need
anywhere to stay tonight?”
“No, I’ll be fine.”
I turned and walked away smiling. I had anointed all the symbols in that house
for the others to go home… all but mine.
After all, I have my
Pride.
