CHARACTERS:

Luxuria --Lust--Expers --Wanting--

Gula --Gluttony--

Avaritia --Greed--

Acedia --Sloth--

Ira --Wraith-- Dementis --Insanity--

Invidia --Envy--

Superbia --Pride--Ultio Ultonis --Revenge--

Castimonia --Chastity--Castitas --Purity--

Temperantia --Temperance--

Sanctimonia --Charity--

Industria --Diligence--Devoveo --Sacrifice--

Venia --Forgiveness--

Humanitas --Kindness--

Humilitas --Humility--Macto --Honor--

--The scene would open on the group of sins standing in a dungeon-like room. Luxuria, a female clad in a very revealing black leather outfit, Gula, a large, heavyset man a black jumpsuit which strains with his mass, Avaritia, a very small, unhealthy-looking man wearing elegant looking black silks, Acedia, a very tired looking, ragged man wearing very worn black pants with no shirt, Ira, a very tall, menacing man wearing a black robe with a mace in his hand, Superbia, standing erect, wearing black robes as well, holding a opalescent black sword, and between Ira and Superbia stands Invidia, a short, pudgy man wearing robes exactly like Ira and Superbia, only they were much too long, and his is looking back and forth from one to the other in admiration as they speak.--

Ira: We find them. We kill them. It is the end of our troubles.

Superbia: We are ready to destroy them. We are unstoppable, lord.

--The voice of Satan?--: Nay. You will wait, fools.

--Ira would smash a table in front of him with his mace--

Ira: NO! We find them. And we kill them.

--The voice of Satan?--: You will wait, fool. You will wait until they find you.

Superbia: But we could find them so much faster!

Acedia: You idiots! Listen to our Lord. We shall wait.

Ira: If you had it your way, we would always wait.

--Acedia would grumble.--

--The voice of Satan?--: You will wait. You will wait for the Holy Seven. That is final.

Ira: Damn it all!

--He would dislodge his mace from the ruined table.--

--Luxuria would brush up close to Ira.--

Luxuria: Seductively Calm yourself.

Ira: Aye. I’m calm. But you didn’t have to do that.

--Luxuria would plant a firm kiss on the mouth of Ira.--

Luxuria: Warmly But I wanted to, love.

--Luxuria would smile seductively.--

Superbia: Silence. The both of you. There are things we must be doing. We must prepare.

Ira: I AM prepared, idiot. I am ALWAYS prepared.

Superbia: The others are not. Luxuria? Are you armed?

--Luxuria would giggle.--

Luxuria: I’m always armed. My kiss is deadly, if I so choose. You should know this well, Superbia.

--Superbia would scowl.--

--Luxuria would blow gently on a spider on the wall, and it would fall to the ground, dead. She would then smile seductively--

--Superbia would scowl and turn to the rest of the sins.--

Superbia: Get yourselves ready. Do it now.

--Ira would sit and Luxuria would straddle his lap as Superbia turned to leave.--

Superbia: Lucifer, save us all.

--The scene would close--

--The scene would open on the virtues, standing in a serene forest, with a waterfall behind them, Castimonia, a girl of about seven, though her face showed her wisdom as infinite, she is clad in a white toga, Temperantia, a small man with a chiseled face wearing a white suit, Sanctimonia, a thin man clad only in baggy white pants, Industria, a man wearing a worn white jumpsuit, holding a white staff, Venia a small man wearing white robes, Humanitas, an older man whose brown hair is flecked with white, wearing a white toga, and Humilitas, a man with long white hair in white robes, holding a pearly white sword--

Industria: We must continue! We know where they are, let us destroy them!

Humilitas: No. We are not yet ready to combat them.

Industria: We must fight them.

Humilitas: Of course we must. But we need not do so now.

Castimonia: We shall wait. They will find us.

--The scene would close--

The scene would open on the group of sins, with Superbia leaning against a wall, Ira pacing, and the rest standing in the background.--

Ira: To Satan with this. I’m after them.

--Ira would burst through the door, pulling his mace from his belt. Luxuria would follow, and Superbia followed them both, angered.--

Superbia: To Lucifer with it!

--The others would file out after the former three, hurriedly--

--The scene would cut to Ira and Luxuria walking down a long dark hallway, with Superbia following by quite a way.--

Superbia: How dare you defy him! Turn you both around and come back here! We are not to seek them.

Ira Mockingly Remember the first rule…the sins will always be the sins.

Superbia: How very witty. This situation is more serious than those the rules pertain to. And you know it.

Ira: No matter. The situation shall be quite over quite shortly.

--Luxuria would laugh vivaciously--

Superbia: If you are so quick to cite the rules, remember the fourth, “No sin shall act alone, for neither shall the virtues.”

Ira: If you are so quick to mention their irrelevance, then silence yourself.

--Luxuria would laugh again as they came to a light at the end of the tunnel, and Ira would break through a barrier of dirt to the outside world.--

Ira: It is all over now. VENIA, I HAIL THEE; I CALL THEE FORTH AS THOU NATURAL-BORN ENEMY!

--The world around the sins would freeze just as the rest of the sins made it through the tunnel--

--The scene would cut to a bridge, where Ira stood across from Venia--

--Ira would swing his mace as Venia would pull out his rapier--

Ira: It is all over for you now, virtuous whore!

--Ira would laugh madly--

--A battle would rage, going back and forth between the two until, at length, Ira would get the advantage--

Ira: How virtuous are the virtues anyway?

--Ira would laugh--

Ira: You probably aren’t at all!

--Ira would laugh--

Ira: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye!

--Ira would throw his head back and laugh, and then Venia would remove Ira’s arm with a sweeping stroke of his rapier, as Ira fell back and then swung with his mace, Venia blocked it and removed his other arm from him, and then in two sweeps he removes both of Ira’s legs, and Ira fell to the ground as Venia’s face was splattered with blood, and Ira began to mutter incomprehensibly. The scene would jump to a red dirt plateau of about one hundred yards in diameter, surrounded by the fire and brimstone of hell, where Luxuria stood staring at the child Castimonia.--

Luxuria: So it has finally come. The day when you fall into sin, little girl!

Castimonia: It is your existence that shall come to an end on this night.

--They flew towards each other and met in a fury of blows in mid air, after a while they begin to grapple in mid air. Eventually, Castimonia get the advantage and casts Luxuria off of the plateau, where she burst into flames. The scene would cut to a grimy plank of iron in a disgusting looking place, standing on this plank of metal are Gula and Temperantia, preparing to fight.--

Gula: I am thrice your size, fool, you will fall!

Temperantia: It is quality over quantity, I’m afraid.

--They took the sky and began trading blows and exchanges of kickboxing moves, until eventually Gula fell, missed the plank and fell into a disgusting sewer, where legions of rats, toads, lizards and snakes forced their way into his mouth and down his throat eventually killing him. The scene would jump to a sea of boiling oil where Avaritia and Sanctimonia stood on some invisible barrier that kept them from the oil. They would begin to go through Jujitsu sets on each other, until with one hard throw by Sanctimonia, the invisible barrier would crack like glass, and Avaritia would fall, screaming as he is consumed by the boiling oil. The scene would cut to a scene where a bridge of dirt stands tall over a pit full of snakes, where Acedia stared at Industria, and then they ran towards each other begin to fight using Judo, until Industria stays down after a hard throw by Acedia. Industria began to rise but Acedia aimed a hard kick to his face, Industria fell to the ground, but again began to rise, and was thus kicked and felled again, the process is repeated several times until Industria grabs the leg of Acedia and wrenches him to the ground and hits very hard strikes to the face, he then throws Acedia off of the bridge and into the pit of snakes. The scene would cut to a lake frozen over with ice. Beside the lake, Invidia cowers from Humanitas, and with a single backhand blow, Invidia is sent toppling through the ice and into the freezing water, the scene would cut to a raised platform of blackened earth, beneath which was a thousand shadows waiting for the man who would fall. Superbia stands staring down Humilitas--

Superbia: You die tonight, old man.

--Humilitas remains silent. Humilitas drew his pearly sword, and then Superbia drew his black sword.--

Superbia: Have you forgotten your voice, Humilitas?

--They would meet in a clash of swords and they would fight, Humilitas obviously the better swordsman. Using underhanded tactics, Superbia manages to get the advantage, and has Humilitas nearly off of the edge of the platform. But then, Humilitas falls to his back and catches the legs of Superbia in his own and trips him, sending him flying off of the raised platform and into the waiting hands of the shadows below the platform. The shadows grab him and drag him to a wheel A medieval torturing device where he is tied and tortured. The scene would cut to the meadow where the virtues were previously.--

Humilitas: We have done it. They have been vanquished.

--The voice of God?-- Forget not, my followers, of the prophecy. “The most evil of evils, the most vile of vile, the most sinful of sins, shall walk again on this earth, more powerful than ever before.”

--Silence would overcome the meadow of virtue, as the virtues would fall to their knees in prayer.--

--The scene would close.--