Chapter 12

Floor 48

Santa Rosa HQ

"Alright, well, it's a few days away now." I said. The others looked curious. "Well, it IS the 23rd. What else could I be talking about?" Things seemed to click when I gave them a clue.

"Ah, so what are we going to do?" Dino asked.

A thought suddenly crossed my mind. "Don't worry my dear friend, I'm sure you'll do great." I said with a devilish smile on my face.

"As it is, I have exactly what you need in my inventory." I said, taking out my menu.

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December 24th

Town of Beginnings

"I can't believe I'm doing this." Dino said in disbelief.

"Well, at least you aren't an elf." I said with a hint of defeat.

"Well, if Dino's going to be Santa, we may as well be elves." Alice suggested.

"That would be the most logical thing to do." Sol agreed.

"I think that we should do it as well." Aria put the final nail into the coffin.

And so, with Dino being Santa, the rest of us are dressed up as his elves. "Let's get this over with quickly and then we can be out of these stupid outfits." I whispered to Dino. He nodded, and we set off for the daycare church orphanage place.

We finally reached our destination, after a good afternoon trying to find the place. "Alright, you stay out here until we give you the signal. We're gonna go in first and get stuff ready for you." He gave a thumbs up as the four of us went into the church.

"Hey kids! Guess who came to town?!" I started to hype up Dino's entrance.

Each of the kids came out with a questioning look on their faces. When they saw our costumes, they knew what was coming. "Alright, altogether now. 3. 2. 1!"

"Santa Clause is coming to town!" Everyone screamed. On cue, Dino came through the doors.

"Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a Happy New Year." He sent me a death stare at my snickering. "Now kids, we have a nice gift for everyone. One of the rare S class ingredients, a Great Red Turkey." Dino brought out the ingredient and handed it to Sasha, the woman looking after the children.

"Thank you guys. I don't think I've seen the kids this happy in all their time in Aincrad." Sasha wiped a tear from her eye.

"It's no problem, we just wanted to do something nice for the kids." And because I was forced to play Santa by our fearless team leader. Dino said/thought.

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"Ugh. Christmas. I'll be glad when it's over."

"Let's go. For a little. Spree."

"Hehe, alright, let's find some suckers and play a little game with them."

"It'll be. Judgement."

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A/N Alright, originally this was going to be a full chapter, but I figured that a Christmas chapter would pretty much be a mini-chapter. I know this isn't the best chapter, but I felt like doing a Christmas story. The story will continue in the next chapter, Chapter 12: Beginning of the End (subject to change).

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Slasher: Well, that plan backfired on me. I didn't think I'd be an elf.

Alice: But you looked adorable.

Slasher: Adorable? No, I'm not adorable. Puppies. Puppies are adorable.

Alice: Yes, you and puppies both.

Dino: Ugh, will you two give it a rest?

Sol: I concur.

Aria: But she's right, he is quite adorable.

Sol/Alice: What was that?

Alice: Don't say that about my Slasher.

Dino: Oh c'mon, now there's two of them?

Alice/Aria: What was that?

Slasher: Please stop fighting. This will get us nowhere.

Alright you two, that's enough, Slasher is Alice's, and Sol is Aria's. Nothing else, nothing more.

All: Ok!

Slasher: Alright, let's start the next adventure.

Alice: I'm ready.

Slasher: Alr-

Alright, g'night everybody

Slasher: Fu-