Arm wrestling competition! Yeah!

But, um, I really have gotten into the whole Seven Deadly Sins anime, and am currently working on the manga. And by that I mean, I have another separate story in the works, and will probably post that soon. My apologies to anyone who was looking forward to updates on other things, I haven't abandoned anything yet, but I can literally not find it in me to write anything other than this right now.

I do not own the Seven Deadly Sins, or anything else that is recognized.

Arm Wrestling

It all started in a bar. Because of course it did. Whenever there was a free night, you could guarantee that Ban and Meliodas would be there, and most of the time one or more of the rest of the Sins followed.

This particular trip to the bar, however, was different than all of the ones before it. In fact, years later, five members of the Sins would still look back and curse the existence of this bar simply because of the ongoing… greeting it would cause.

At this particular bar, when Ban and Meliodas sat down to acquire drinks, the bartender noticed them and smiled.

"Are you guys here for the arm wrestling competition?" He asked cheerfully as brought them two tankards of ale.

"Arm wrestling?" Meliodas asked, "Sure, sounds like fun! You'll join too, right, Ban? Even though you'll definitely lose."

"What are you talking about, Captain? You're the one that's going down!"

And the two left to go sign up and join the competitors.

"Now you've done it," the night form of Escanor sighed, "I suppose I'd better go and tell Lady Merlin so that she can make sure that none of this will get out of hand. And I was so looking forward trying that new ale that this place came out with."

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In the end, every Sin except for Diane showed up, though Diane really wanted to watch. Mostly this was for… damage control(though King only came so that he could watch Ban get pounded by the Captain, because it was a forgone conclusion that Meliodas would easily win).

It was, however, the bad luck of everyone else in the competition that Ban and Meliodas were on opposite ends of the bracket. Or, put simply, they would face each other at the end of the competition after easily crushing everyone else.

And so, leaving easily defeated and utterly humiliated people in their wake, Meliodas and Ban got ready to face each other. They sat across from each other and gripped hands, eyes narrowing on their opponent.

The now frightened bartender, who was only hoping that this whole thing won't end in a fight, says, "On the count of three…"

Grips tighten.

"One… "

Meliodas' lips pull into a light smirk.

"Two… "

Ban grins suddenly wider and with a vicious cast.

"Three!"

BANG!

A cloud of dust filled the room momentarily, clearing after a few long seconds spent in silence. A gasp ran through the Sins, because through the carnage of a destroyed table and a small crater in the ground, it was obvious that the Captain had lost.

"Well now," Merlin mused, "this is certainly a surprise."

A moment later though, laughter rang out from the two competitors.

"Man, Ban, I sure wasn't expecting that! How did you manage it?" Meliodas wondered through his laughter as Ban held a hand out towards him to help him up.

"It's all about speed, explosive force, and technique," Ban replied, "You were actually pretty difficult to defeat both because you're really strong and you're so much smaller than me. Probably the first time being so tiny has ever given you an advantage, Captain!"

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And if that was the end of it, then they'd just all remember it as the time Ban defeated the Captain in a contest, but it wasn't.

Oh, how it wasn't.

See, Meliodas became determined to defeat Ban in arm wrestling. So determined, in fact, that every single time the two saw each other, Meliodas would challenge Ban to a match. Ban, after agreeing the first few times, soon got kind of bored with it, leading to the Captain trying to capture his hand and force Ban into arm wrestling with him.

This led to regular slap matches that soon turned into super powered high fives before Ban would agree just so that Meliodas would stop. It all came to a head though, when one day out of frustration Ban hit Meliodas. Meliodas' head only turned, but his return attack flung Ban through a nearby wall.

Ban still won that competition.

But not long after that, the whole thing seemed to gain a different edge. They stopped doing it all the time, and began using it as a greeting only when they hadn't seen each other for more than a day.

And when asked about it, Ban and Meliodas only high fived each other before Ban said, "He finally won one."

:Yeah, this was only an origin story to their magnificent greeting. Honestly, those two... But seriously, it had to happen at some point.