On Mid-Childa...
"Hey, Due!" Said blonde-turned-redhead turned to look at Sein as she rushed towards her older sister. "Tre, Cinque, Dieci and I are going to take a bath, wanna join?"
"Sure!" Due grinned and ran to her room to get some stuff for the bath. After getting her stuff, she joined Sein as they walked towards the bathroom. "Whee! Bubble bath fight! Splash and boom!"
Sein laughed and nodded, grinning the whole time. "Yeah! It'll be lots of fun!" Looking at Due's red hair, she grabbed the girl's short hair and tugged on it.
"Ayayayayayayayaaha!" Due let out a yelp and turned and kicked Sein in the gut, making the slender girl let go of her hair. "What was that for!?" Tears leaked out of her eyes as she patted her head protectively. "Mouuu... What did I do to deserve that?"
"Sorry, sorry." Sein waved her hands in front of her while being hunched over in slight pain. "Didn't mean to pull so hard, I was just wondering how long your hair was going to stay that way."
Due turned away from Sein and crossed her arms, pouting. "How should I know? That, EEEK!" She jumped as Sein got behind her and did the only thing she could think of to calm her upset sister down. "Hey! Let go of my boobs!"
Sein grinned as she let go of them. "They're pretty soft, but kinda small." She yelped as Due's hand suddenly lit itself on fire. "That didn't help you feel better, did it?" Due shook her head, her eyes glinting dangerously. "Um... HEEEELP!" Sein turned and ran, with Due right behind her, her fingers held like she was wearing her clawed glove.
"Get back here! I want to introduce you to Mr. Smoky!"
"But I don't like smoking!" Sein whined as she ran, screaming for help while Due chased her with those flaming fingers.
Blinking as she saw Sein and Due, both dressed in nothing but towels, Uno sighed and ran after them. "You two, the bathroom is this way." She pointed behind her. "Due, put that fire out, you'll hurt someone."
Due pouted, but did so as Uno caught up to her. "Sein was mean, she pulled my hair and then she grabbed my boobs and said they were small. It's not my fault, they just got smaller when I became like this." Due grumbled and turned to go back to the baths. It wasn't her fault that she looked like a teenager right now.
"Sein..." Uno gave the slender girl a flat look, said girl held up her hands nervously.
"I wasn't trying to be mean, I just wanted to feel her hair, but I pulled too hard by accident."
Sighing, Uno shook her head. "Just get back to the baths, and tell Due you're sorry, okay?" When Sein nodded and ran for the baths, Uno bit her bottom lip and continued to walk down the hallway. Entering one of the labs, she raised an eyebrow as she saw Quattro working on that child that she had kidnapped awhile ago. Looking at the child, Uno couldn't help but shake her head as the girl screamed painfully to the procedures that Quattro was doing. "Does it have to be painful?"
"Not at all, but the best results happen when they suffer first." Quattro pushed a button and the pain stopped, the girl stopped screaming and started twitching heavily. "I won't kill her, but making a normal girl become an Artificial Mage is hard... Unless we kill her and then clone her through Project F."
"Not a good idea, and you know that." Uno shook her head as she looked at the little child. "Make sure that you have results."
Quattro nodded and grinned as Uno left. 'See how easy that was, Quattro?'
'Yeah.' Quattro's voice had a tone of sheer delight going on in the back of her mind, it was enough to nearly make her laugh. 'Though, why are you torturing the girl instead of doing what you're supposed to do, Levi?'
'Simple,' Levi pushed a few buttons and a grin nearly split her face as the girl was lit up again, more pain rushing through her and causing her to scream in anguish, 'the more she suffers, the more food I get. Besides, I have been modifying her body so that she'll be a better weapon in the future. This pain that she's feeling now? By the time I'm done with her, even broken limbs will be nothing to her.'
Which was true, but that was just a side-effect of what Levi was doing to the girl.
After all, a meal was a meal, regardless of how you got it.