The Seven Deadly Sins

==Plot==
Humans have always had a sense of good and bad. Helping people is good, while killing people is bad. In fact, killing is sinful. Sins are what make us do bad things. Humans have a concept of sins that divides them into seven deadly categories, and one person can fall victim to all seven deadly sins.
A man, a doctor, was one who fell victim. While he was able to cure people of disease, he was unable to prevent this disease from befalling him, and eventually ruin him.
One day, the doctor had a visit from a woman, named Serana. She wore a black low cut dress with red details and a black hood. She walked into the room and removed her hood, revealing her long, dark hair. She had on sunglasses, concealing her eyes.
“Hello, Serana. I’m the doctor. How may I help you today?”
“Doctor, it’s my eyes.”
“What about your eyes?”
Serana looked down, and removed her sunglasses.
“Serana, please, show me what’s wrong. I can help you.”
Serana looked back up at the doctor, her eyes glowing a fiery and gold-tinted orange. The sight of her eyes instilled fear in the doctor, causing him to collapse to his knees in front of her.
“Who are you…”
“You know me, doctor. I’m Serana. What you don’t know is what I am.”
“What are you, then?!”
Serana slowly but surely pulled the doctor up by the collar of his shirt to be eye level with her.
“I am what your kind calls a vampire.”
Serana’s canine teeth sharpened to a point. She bit into the flesh of the doctor’s neck before he was able to even scream. This would not be the last meal Serana would dine, and it would not be the last time the doctor got with a patient.
The next day, the doctor was to meet with another patient, an obese man by the name of Dee. Dee walked into the check up room where the doctor was.
“Hello, Dee. Still at the eating, I see. Any luck with that diet I recommended?”
Dee simply shook his head.
“I see. Well, we might have to do… a blood test.”
Dee squirmed at the thought, but as the doctor turned around, Dee smiled. The doctor pulled out a needle and then turned back around.
“Alright, Dee, this will only hurt for a second.”
The doctor put the needle into Dee’s arm, Dee seemed to have no reaction, while the doctor’s mouth watered.
“That… will be all, Dee. We’ll contact you after the blood test has been done.”
Dee nodded and walked, more like rolled, out of the room. The doctor made sure he was gone, then poured all the blood from the syringe into his mouth. Not two seconds after, his stomach began growling, much like a lion. The doctor walked into the job the next day and had gained significant and unhealthy weight since the previous day. He walked into his check up room to see a male named Alduin sitting there, with green skin.
“What do we have here?”
“What does it look like, doc? I’m sick enough to turn literal green.”
“Interesting. Any ideas what it might be?”
“Everyone.”
“I’m sorry?”
“Everyone is making me sick. Sick of what they have. Why don’t I have it? Their friendships, their content, I can’t have anything like that. Doesn’t that bother you? When you see that someone has something you want, or rightfully deserve?”
“Well, I’ve never-”
“Thought about it? That’s what they all say.”
The doctor pondered this. He was pondering it until the next day. His skin was slightly green by the time he showed up for work. He had thought about how he never got the girl of his dreams, how he never got to be a leader at anything. This was until his next patient came in. A man dressed in gold stepped in, named Midas.
“Midas! It’s good to see you again!”
“You’ve… Never said anything like that before, doctor. Is there something on your mind?”
“Oh… nothing. Just… Gol- I mean, great. I’m doing great.”
“Right. Tell you what. I’m only here for an annual check up so how about I just give you some pay and we act like everything’s fine with me? It will be a good price.”
The doctor, now stricken with the envy given by Miguel the previous day, was ecstatic to do this.
“Oh, yes, yes, yes! Certainly!”
Midas dropped some gold into the doctor’s hand. The doctor’s eyes sparkled as he gazed upon them.
“I hope that will suff-”
“More.”
“I’m sorry?”
“More!”
The doctor greedily snatched at all the gold in which Midas was wearing. Midas was at first confused, but then smiled with content.
“Exactly as planned.”
Despite the lack of clothing, Midas walked out of the room. The doctor was covering the gold, trying to protect it from being stolen. He was so protective of it, he sat there over the gold until the next day, when his next patient, Edward, stepped in.
“Hello?”
“MINE!”
“What? Doctor, what are you-”
“THE GOLD IS ALL MINE! You can’t have it!”
Edward was confused at first, but then realized what was wrong.
“So, Midas has gotten to you as well. Everything’s going according to plan. Say, how about you cut a bit of that out for me, eh?”
“NO! You stay away from my gold! It’s mine! Mine!”
“Now, now. Sharing is caring.”
Edward reached for a piece of the gold. The doctor grabbed a sharp piece and then stabbed Edward’s hand, causing him to pull back in pain.
“AGHH! Alright… Fine.”
Edward grabbed the doctor by the throat.
“I’ve seen therapists about this, but I think you’ll be the one to truly take my wrath!”
“Elaborate!”
A swarm of red energy transferred from Edward’s body.
“Here’s your elaboration! You’ve got two more patients this week, and they’ll both influence you as much as me and the other four have!”
“You’ve been ganging up on me?! One day at a time!”
“This is true, doctor. Now, take it. Take all this anger!”
Edward dropped the doctor to the ground and then left. The doctor stood up, calm and collected, but with a look of silent rage on his face. The next day, the doctor drove to a house. He walked in, and a man was lying on the couch, in an undershirt, undergarments, and socks. Cans of alcoholic drinks laid on the ground. The doctor calmly walked to him, but then picked the man up, infuriated.
“YOU! Sid! You are unhealthily lazy! I’m surprised you aren’t as overweight as Dee is!”
“I… That’s hurtful…”
“HURTFUL?! You don’t know the first thing! What’s ‘hurtful’ is when you give someone the help they so obviously need and they turn into a sloth, not even trying to use the help you’ve given!”
“The truth is doc… Being a lazy slothful slob is great…”
“WHAT?!”
“Yeah… You don’t have to do anything… You just have to sit and eat and drink and not have any worries… Maybe… You should try it sometime…”
“I pity you, Sid, your slothfulness just adds to the percent of the population that’s in poverty… but perhaps you have a point.”
The doctor dropped Sid to the ground, and then walked out of the house. The next day, a small child with vibrant emerald hair walked into the room. The doctor was in his chair, leaning back.
“Hello?”
The doctor looked up at the boy.
“Oh, hello. I don’t believe we’ve met.”
“I’m Alan. I was told to come in this room.”
“Oh, well now. We don’t really have to do this, do we? It’s just a check up, right? You’re probably fine.”
“How slothful of you.”
The doctor cocked an eyebrow.
“You’ve got… quite the vocabulary.”
“You’ve got quite the greedy pile of gold behind your chair. Did you earn that, or grow envious of someone who did?”
“What’s it to you, child?”
“You seem to have a lust for being wrathful, even to those you just met.”
“And you seem to not know who you’re talking to!”
“A sinful glutton. That’s who I’m talking to. But do you not know who you’re talking to?”
“A child with an extensive vocabulary and doesn’t know his place.”
“I know what my place is. Above all.”
“How prideful of you.”
Alan laughed, closing his eyes while doing so, and then suddenly stopped laughing as his face dropped to serious, and his eyes opened. His eyes, which were originally brown, became a vibrant purple.
“You don’t know the half of it.”
“What?”
“You’ve met my associates. Serana the lustful, Dee the glutton, Alduin the envious, Midas the greedy, Edward the wrathful, and Sid the sloth. The like of those six do not exist in me.”
“What does that mean? What are you?!”
The door to the room slammed shut. Alan’s shadow swarmed around the sides of the room.
“It means exactly what it sounded like. Lust, gluttony, envy, greed, wrath, and sloth do not exist in me. You ask what I am? I am Pride. The first and most deadly. Pride consumes, you know. And it’s not just figuratively.”
The shadows reached and grabbed the doctor, as he squirmed.
“We were all consumed by one of them. It was destined to happen. Now we just put the abilities we gained from the sins to good use. Well, most of us. Gluttony and Sloth I’m not so sure.”
The doctor struggled to get out of Pride’s grasp.
“What do you think you’re doing? Even if you could escape, where would you go? I’ve blocked the windows and I’m in front of the door. You can’t move me, and you can’t escape. This is your final fate.”
Shadows moved in front of Pride, and opened into what seemed like a mouth. The shadows holding the doctor pulled him in, devouring him. So take this tale, and use it well. Focus on the virtues of chastity to counter lust, temperance to counter gluttony, charity to counter greed, diligence to counter sloth, forgiveness to counter wrath, kindness to counter envy, and humility to counter pride.
==Story Components==
===Elements===
====Good Character(s)====
*The Doctor
====Bad Character(s)====
*Serana
*Dee
*Alduin
*Midas
*Edward
*Sid
*Alan
====Royalty====
Midas’ social position
====Poverty====
Sid’s social position
====Magic and Enchantments====
*Serana turning the doctor into a lustful vampire
*Dee’s blood turning the doctor into a glutton
*Alduin’s words making the doctor envious of others
*Midas’ gold making the doctor greedy
*Edward transferring his wrathfulness to the doctor
*Alan’s shadow consuming the doctor
====Symbolism====
*Serana’s Vampirism
**Serana is a vampire, and sucks blood from her victims through the neck. Neck biting and kissing is done in relationships as well as in sexual activities. This relates to Serana’s sin: lust.
*Dee’s Mannerisms
**Dee would act in a way to prevent any sort of treatment of his obesity and just continue eating. This relates to Dee’s sin: gluttony.
*Alduin’s Green Skin
**Alduin’s skin being green is a reference to the expression “green with envy.” This relates to Alduin’s sin: envy.
*Midas’ Name and Color
**Midas was the name of a greedy man who had the ability to turn anything he touched to gold, which became his downfall when he accidentally turned his daughter to gold. His clothes are gold in reference to this. This relates to Midas’ sin: greed.
*Edward’s Calmness
**Edward was rather calm and often kept his cool. When he did get mad, it would pretty much be an explosion of anger. This relates to Edward’s sin: wrath.
*Sid’s At-Home Appointment
**Sid refused to even go to the doctor’s office to meet with the doctor. His name is in reference to Sid the Sloth from Ice Age. This is in reference to Sid’s sin: sloth.
*Alan’s Shadow Consuming the Doctor
**Alan’s shadow consuming the doctor is symbolic of pride consuming people. This relates to Alan’s sin: pride.
*The Doctor’s Job
**The doctor’s job is to help and cure the ailments of other people. This is an act of selflessness, helping others before himself, trying to defy the seven sins that eventually corrupted him. The sins corrupting him is symbolic of the fact that selfless people are more easy to take advantage of.
====Archetypes====
*7
**The doctor worked for seven days of this week.
**Each day, the doctor met with someone who represented a different sin.
====Motifs====
*Seven Deadly Sins
**The entire work focuses on mankind’s seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, envy, greed, wrath, sloth, and pride.
**The work shows how all seven can eventually destroy someone.
====Lesson====
The seven deadly sins, in human terms, are lust, gluttony, envy, greed, wrath, sloth, and pride. Excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human.