"You all may now split to your own section. The exams will start shortly," a voice said over the intercom. 

"You ready?" Victor Purple said next to her. His wavy purple hair was tied in a bun on top of his head.

Cecilia sighed, "I better be."

"You sound excited," he chuckled.

"Overjoyed, actually," she gave him a slight smile.

"I see the purples going over there," a green bumped past her, "so get out of the way."

Victor glared at him but Cecilia kept her neutral face.

She tugged on Victor's white long sleeved shirt as she walked to where the green said.

"Why don't you just show that guy a lesson," he said.

"Why?" she said, "there's no point in that."

She stood in the large mass of purple. Every student in the room was wearing white. White long sleeved shirt, white pants, white sandals. Everyone was uniformed. The only way to see who belonged where was by their hair and eyes.

"You're too soft with those jerks," Victor said.

"There is no reason to give them the time of day," she said, "besides, I'm going to be a leader, what do I care about a green jerk."

"Ah, I love that confidence of yours," he said.

"My name is Catherine, and I will be monitoring your exams. First exam is intelligence," a woman with straight yellow hair tied back in a tight ponytail said at the front of the group, "follow me, Purple."

It is mandatory that a different color monitors exams to make sure it is fair. Each year the colors rotate.

Catherine Yellow turned around and walked down the hall.

"Easy peasy," Victor said. Cecilia looked over to him and she could tell by the way his stance went frigid, that he was not calm about this.

"Forgot to study?" she asked him.

"Forgot to pay attention in class for the past fifteen years," he said.

"You never were the brains in the operation," she said.

"Barely the bronze," he replied.

"You don't give yourself enough credit," she said, "you're a good bronze."

Catherine took them to one of the lecture rooms that sat 200 students. The tests were already on the desks. Cecilia and Victor sat next to each other.

When everyone in the room had settled down, Catherine gave the go. 

An hour passed and Cecilia was done. She could still hear the sound of the other students still taking their test, pencils scratching against paper. She placed her head on the table and closed her eyes. 

Another hour passed when everyone else had finished.

"The next exam will be team based. Separate yourselves in five manned groups. You will go against the other Purples and at the end, the winning team will go against the other colors. Follow me to the arena," Catherine said.

"Well we have two," Victor said as they stood from their chairs.

"It won't be hard to find members," she said.

"I don't know if you know this, but we're not the popular kids," he said.

"Maybe not, but I am the most successful one here, people will leach off of successful people," she said.

"Hey guys!" a girl with straight purple hair pinned back smiled as she quickened her pace to catch up with them, making Cecilia's point.

Cecilia knew her. She was Lindsey Purple, a girl who was neither mean nor kind to her. They did not talk to each other.

Cecilia knew she had good aim with a bow and arrow and that was enough for her. She needed a person with long range skills.

She had observed everyone in her class since the beginning of her years at the Academy.

"Yes," Cecilia said.

"All right," Lindsey clapped her hands excitedly.

Before they reached the arena, Cecilia had hand selected her team.

The last two members she choose were male twins. Tyler and Kyle were speed demons with the magic of trickery. They could make their victim see what was not there. There were defenses they had learned as a class to avoid hallucinations but the twins almost always pulled a quick one.

Victor was not as useless had he had claimed. He was the master of sword fighting and hand to hand combat. Could he beat her? No, but the only person who could was her brother. She also suspected that he held back his full potential when fighting against her. She just could not figure why.

The arena was programmed to look like a tropical jungle, including the animals and sounds.

"The objective is to render the other teams useless," Catherine said, "you will have five minutes till the starting bell."

When the bell rung, it took Cecilia and her team only twenty-five minutes to eliminate the other teams.

Weapons inside the arena looked real and felt real for a split second. None of the weapons in the arena could kill.

"Ready to enter with the other colors," Cecilia reported to Catherine, "we were the last section to enter the arena, correct?"

"Yes, Purple was the last section to use the arena. The other colors are waiting, but the wait was not as long as we planned," Catherine said.

She scribbled something on her notebook, "and you, Cecilia Purple, were the leader of this team?"

Her team was sitting on the seats that observe the arena, drinking water as she instructed. The twins whined saying that they barely used energy and did not need water but she shut them up with one glance.

"Yes," Cecilia said to Catherine.

"The main event will start in ten minutes," Catherine said before walking off.

"I don't see why we have to drink water," Victor said when Cecilia returned to the group.

"You'll see," she said, "honestly the person who created today's exams is predictable."

"You're weird," Victor said.

"You shouldn't expect anything less," she looked at him.

"I suppose not," he said with a smile.

She gave him a quick smile before grabbing a water bottle.

Ten minutes passed and they lined at one of the entrances of the arena. When the doors opened, hot air slapped them in the face.

The new terrain was the desert.

The team stared at her.

"Predictable," she said. She stepped forward.

"There is nowhere to hide. No trees to shoot from," Lindsey said.

"I've been planning this since I saw the first terrain was the tropical jungle," she said.

Victor turned to look at her, "really?"

"Shut up and listen to my plan," she said, "first, twins, I need you to use your magic."

"I don't think it will work with the other colors," Tyler said, "they'll be looking for something to be out of the ordinary."

"I said listen," she said sharply, "Tyler, Kyle, use your power to hide yourselves and Lindsey. Make Lindsey a cactus, and you two are shrub bushes. Lindsey will fire at anyone who comes in range. Lindsey I need fast repetitive shots. No one can be left to locate your location. All head shots, I've seen you do it before. Shoot like your life depends on it, because in here it does. Twins, you just need to monitor the disguise. I am talking about masking temperature as well. No one can be able to tell the difference. You will be located near the middle of the arena."

"Wouldn't the middle be obvious?" Lindsey asked.

Cecilia looked at her and she stopped talking.

"It won't be obvious because Victor and I will be distracting them. We will be in plain sight, forcing the other teams to engage," she said, "understand?"

The bell rang.

Cecilia's plan went exactly as planned and at the end, the purple team was left standing. It was the first time a team had finished with all members with out major injuries.

The last exam was supposed to be the hardest.

They would have to defeat at least one of the seven deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins were one of the main reasons for the creation of the Imaginary World.

Imaginary Friends were assigned to protect children from being tinted by the seven deadly sins and demons. An Imaginary Friend was less likely to encounter a demon but there have been stories.

Cecilia was pushed back to the the last one to be tested. She had her theories why this happened. The most likely one was that someone very important wanted to attend her last exam. For a split second, she thought it was her father, but he surly did not care that much about it. It was more likely Lila.

After hours of waiting, her name was called.

Catherine was at the front of the gymnasium that was once full of everyone in her class.

"Follow me," she said.

As they were walking down the hallway, Catherine said, "the seven deadly sins are just simulations but are programmed to act entirely how they do in real life. Their levels will be chosen at random. "

She knew this already.

"Yes, ma'am," Cecilia nodded her head.

"Do you have any questions for me?" Catherine asked.

"No, ma'am," she replied.

"You do not care why you were the last one to be tested?" Catherine asked, pausing for a moment.

Cecilia continued walking, looking back briefly, "no, ma'am."

Catherine fastened her pace to catch up with Cecilia, "they were right to call you particular."

Cecilia chose not to respond. 

The seven deadly sins included pride, lust, gluttony, greed, envy, wrath, and sloth. The seven sins took the embodiment of animals.

Pride was a peacock.

Envy was a snake.

Wrath was a lion.

Greed was a toad.

Sloth was a snail.

Gluttony was a pig.

Lust was a goat.

All seven sins in one room. All wanting to eliminate her.

Catherine stopped in front of a door, "this is where the last exam will be."