Oneshots!

#100 Reset Part Two

Oh my gosh.... I'VE HIT 100!!!!! :0 Let's hope this chapter lives up to the milestone. ^^"

Things were silent for the first hour of the trip, not something Meliodas minded in the least as he found idle chit chat grating. Even when it wasn't with an incompetent goddess like he was being forced to travel with now.

However after that nice hour of peace, it was rudely killed by the girl opening her mouth and saying something with a nervous stutter.

"I-I um... I-I would like to discuss the plans for what we're doing about the Vampires we're being sent to deal with. I understand you may not prefer working with me, but I was s-sent to work with y-you just as you were send ordered to do the same w-with myself. So at the very least, we have to communicate our plans to ensure this mission's success."

Her stuttering decreased as she spoke, growing more and more confidence and graceful authority as she seemed to forget Meliodas's previous warning.

However he did not.

"I can easily take care of this group myself without your involvement. So there's no need to discuss any plans with you as you're not going to be a part of them. So simply stay out of my way, let me do my job, and then go home with news that you succeeded in working with me. Or even better, get yourself killed along this trip and allow me to walk in peace. You've already ignored my warnings once to keep your mouth shut, do it again and I won't lose a second of sleep slicing you in half myself."

His voice was still firm, even, and cold, but this time there was no actual assault accompanying his threat as he didn't even give her existence an acknowledgment by looking back as he spoke.

Continuing pace as usual, he heard hers slow for a moment and hoped that she was giving up trying to have any discussions with him. Only instead to be unpleasantly surpised as her pace then sped up immensely; putting her right next to him as he kept his eyes foward and ignored the annoyance he felt at that.

"With all due respect, I don't believe you will kill me."

His jaw grit together, his voice lowering to a growl once again as the annoyance and anger he had finally mostly dispelled of came back with a vengeance. Why were all goddesses so arrogant, so stupid, so... completely AGITATING!

He was about ready to pull his sword out now and end her life without even responding to her smug comment.

"Oh really? You honestly think I give even the tiniest of shits about what happens to you? About your life? As if you somehow matter to me at all? How arrogant can your species get? You are nothing to me. A speck of dust on the ground, an ant to step on. Something worthless, unnecessary, and pathetic."

His voice ground out each word with new hatred and venom in each, it all spiking in the last one as he felt his blood boil at even the sight of this wretched creature next to him daring to doubt him.

She flinched a moment and he felt a flicker of satisfaction at that, before she straightened herself and forced her face to remain even and calm.

"No, I don't believe you value me at all. However I do know your father does. This mission is important for both of us to complete as a symbol of the treaty between the Supreme Diety and the Demon King. If I were to go back dead, the treaty would be off and our kinds would go to war."

He turned to her, an evil smirk playing on his face; one holding no remorse or hesitation in what he said next.

"Oh? And what makes you think I care about the treaty? A war would just give me a good excuse to wipe your pathetic kind from existence."

Without missing a beat as her new confidence was apparently here to stay, she responded with something he unfortunately couldn't rebute.

"I don't believe you want a war. Otherwise you would've killed me directly after seeing me, but you didn't."

She was right. He hated the goddesses more than anything in this world, but he didn't want a war. It would be stupid and pointless. Something both sides would lose in one aspect or another. However he wasn't about to let her catch on to that.

"Oh? Quite the conclusion to jump to. Maybe I just don't want to deal with the sob story. I'm worried I'll forget your entire existence by the time I return if I kill you too early."

"Perhaps you're right. However that still means you can't kill me right now. You need me until you at least come up with that, right?"

Damn. She's not wrong. Ugh, I hate this goddess so much.

"Now, if you'll be so kind, what is the plan for when we face the vampires?"

His eye twitched in annoyance as he made sure that was all she was able to see versus the internal fury he was experiencing.

Keeping his voice an even growl, he bit put the words cooly.

"Something simple enough for even a goddess like yourself to understand, wipe out the threat."

Her eyes widened as her grating composure finally fell.

"W-Wipe out the threat!? No! Surely that's not what you're planning! We need to give a diplomatic approach! We haven't tried to reason with them yet! This can be handled peacefuly!.."

After that point Meliodas tuned her out, feeling more and more aggravated by her endless chatter every second she went on. Finally, having enough of it, he decided to do something he had foolishly forgotten was in his capabilities previously.

Giving an incantation as his mark flared briefly, he let his darkness rise and travel to the girl before it entered her mouth in the form of a hand and a light glow came out with it.

"There. That will shut you up for at least a few days. You'll get your voice back when this is over. You seem to have forgotten something very important, goddess... I may not be able to kill you at the moment, but I can still do things that make you wish you were. So.... don't anger me again."

I hope this was okay guys. A few words longer than the last one. (3