Chapter 10

A friend dies pt 1

It had been about a month since Liz and Amber joined the team and everyone was starting to become more evenly leveled. Jax, Summer, and Amber were level 90, Winter, Darkness and Fire, were level 87 and thanks to Jax's training Liz was level 86. They were on floor 69. They were going through the dungeon. They came to a split.

"Anyone want to decide?" Jax said.

"One of these will most likely lead to the boss room." Amber said

"You think?" Liz said sarcastically and rolled her eyes.

"Unless either of you have a decision please shut up." Jax said.

"We should go left" Darkness said

"I agree." Winter said

"Why not?" Fire said

"I guess majority rules." Summer said

"Yeah I guess" As Jax was about to walk forward Liz pulled him back while everyone else walked forward.

"I don't like that we have all these girls on our team." Liz said

"Why, Liz are you jealous?" Jax asked

"No I'm just afraid I will lose you to one of the others." Liz said. Jax just kissed her.

"You won't lose me to any of the…" Jax began

"Hey you two coming?" Amber asked

"Yeah. We should." Jax said and grabbed Liz's hand and ran forward so he was in front of Amber "Sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's fine" Winter said

"Hey look a secret door." Summer said going into a secret room.

"Oh look a single chest in an empty room." Liz said.

"I wanna open it" Jax said.

"Don't you do it." Fire said

"Can I open it? Summer said about to open the chest. Jax grabbed her and pulled her back.

"Look around the room first Summer. What is in this room other than the chest and us?" Jax asked

"Nothing." Summer said.

"Correct well we will most likely be able to get something powerful from this chest we'll have to go a trial. Which means a monster house. Worst case scenario this chest just contains a monster house." Jax said. Being a beta tester really helped him. These girls relied on him for every scrap of info that he had. A message appeared in front of him. It was his friend, Green, which was the name he had chosen because he wore green a lot. He was their official info broker

The message read "There is a chest in a hidden room in the dungeon on floor 69. You will get the ultimate weapon of your choice or many if you're not solo."

"Summer this message says we can get an ultimate weapon from this chest." Summer squealed and opened the chest

"But you have to fight the last 8 bosses. Five monster houses between them."

"Shit." Jax said and he pulled out sword and closed the message. The room turned completely red and Summer ran over to Jax. The door closed behind them. Jax held Summer close and looked at her.

"I'm sorry. I should've waited for you to finish the message." Summer said as she cried into his chest.

"It's fine." Jax said.

"Didn't the message say that there were five monster houses?" Amber said looking around. All Jax did was look up and monsters started falling all around them.

He then got a message from Green. "Cover me" Jax did the girls nodded and covered him to stop the monsters from attacking him while he read the message. "HAHA some idiots opened the chest."

"My team are the idiots. See if you can get help in here." Jax sent.

"Oh shit ok." Green sent back instantly.

"Ready." Jax said as he drew his sword and started slashing away. They went through the first two bosses easy but they were getting exhausted by the 11th wave.

"I got a few people" Green sent. "Going to get a few more than be there."

"Hurry." Jax sent back. "We just got done with the second boss."

"Not bad. Keep going." Green sent finally.

"Jax how much longer?" Summer asked. She looked the most exhausted out of all of them.

"Not much." Jax said. "Hopefully… Green hurry." he thought to himself

"Green will make it." Liz said grabbing Jax's hand. He pulled Liz forward and slashed at lizard man behind her killing it.

"Everyone we are the strongest team in Aincrad. Let's keep fighting." Jax yelled. Everyone seemed to get a second wind cause soon they were knocking down enemies left and right. A couple waves went by and suddenly they were on the third boss. Before it came crashing down. Another message came from Green.

"A got a few assault members and we're heading to your position. Anything I should know about the dungeon?" Green sent

"When you see a split go left. We are about 100 meters after that." Jax sent

"Alright. Thanks" Green sent. Then the third boss fell down. It looked like a giant wolf with swords for claws. It also had two scythes on its back that it used when it's health got in the red. This boss almost took out Winter.

"Winter stay back." Jax said as he pulled her to the back of the room

"I can't." Winter said. He put each of his hands on her shoulders

"I don't want this thing to kill you like it almost did when we were in the boss fight on floor 63." Jax said

"But I was weaker back then. This thing is weaker now. Don't you realize these bosses are weaker than when we fought them in their boss rooms?" Winter said

Jax realized that she was right. "Alright but be extra careful around this boss.

Winter smiled "I will." As Jax was about run she said, "Jax."

"Hmm." he said turning back to her

"Will we really all make it through this?" Winter said trembling.

"I know we will" Jax said.

"How do you know?" Winter asked

"Cause I'm here with you." Jax said smiling and ran off to fight the boss. She didn't know what to think about but knew she had to continue fighting.

So she went behind the wolf jumped and stabbed it right in the back. It turned around and tried to slash at Winter who blocked it's claws.

"I'm not dying to you.." She said. The wolf growled at her. It leaned int to try to bite her. She just closed her eyes and at the last second she stabbed her rapier through its mouth. It then died. "What?" Everyone was staring at her.

"Where is that power hiding?" Amber asked. Monsters started spawning again

"Tell us later" Jax said.

When they made it to wave 18 they were quite surprised that they were able to do this by themselves. "How many more till we're done?" Amber asked.

"We're on 18 now. So after this wave we've got 21 left.' Darkness said

"I wish we could take a break." Summer said killing a monster

"Me too." Amber said.

"Once Green gets here, we'll be all set" Jax said.

"DARKNESS, FIRE!" They heard Winter scream Jax finished off the last of the monsters and ran over to Darkness and Fire and saw something horrifying.