Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own anything in this story except for Eccah and Sora. Dollarama is a real store.

Ch I

Strange Boss, New Positions

As Kratos closed the door behind them, a sudden sense of doom settled over them. The dingy-looking green and yellow dollar logos stared down at them from the top of every aisle, and the flourescent lighting flickered in the ceiling.

"Suddenly..." Sheena muttered. "I'm not so excited to start work anymore..." A collective shudder ran though the employees. They seemed to share ther sentiment. Kratos turned to them with a dutiful expression on his face.

"Follow me," he said. "It's time to meet your boss." Genis raised one eyebrow.

"But...didn't you just say you were our boss?" he said. Kratos chuckled.

"You'll understand when you meet him." was all he replied. The crew followed Kratos to the back of the store and through the door marked "Employees Only". After manouvering their way around the boxes and trolleys that were piled haphazardly in the small stock room, they came to a door marked "Office". Before opening the door, Kratos indicated the washrooms and the break room. As he opened the door their eyes fell upon a blonde haired young man who looked no older than twenty.

"Ah, hello there." he said. "You must be my new employees." He surveyed their faces and then his expression grew stern.

"While you are here, I am your God and you will treat me as such." the blonde man said. "You will not call me by my first name, Mithos, but Lord Yggdrasill, or My Lord. You will do as I say, when I say. You will greet every customer with the phrase:

'Welcome to Dollarama, the domain of the Great Lord and God, Yggdrasill. I am his humble slave and you too, will bow to his extreme awesomeness. Failure to comply will result in him emerging from his awesome castle of awesomeness, and kicking your ass with his awesome boot of awesomeness.' Got it? Make sure you memorize that."

As the new employees stared blankly at him, he said,

"Good, so you've got it. Next order of business. One of you shall be a cashier, one a keyholder, and the rest of you will spend your shifts either catering to my every whim, or spreading the word of how awesome I am."

Once again, his speech was met with a stunned silence. After a moment of looking around at them all, he pointed at a small-ish blue haired boy and beckoned him forward.

"You," he snapped. "Your name." The boy blinked and looked surprised. Yggdrasill glared at him. "Well? I don't have all day! What's your name, boy?!"

"J-Jay..." the boy stammered. Yggdrasill snapped his fingers and pointed to the door.

"I don't like you. You're fired." he said. "Go away." Jay looked even more surprised and stammered.

"B-but sir, you hired me yourself! I'm the only one here that actually had an interview!" At another snap of Yggdrasill's fingers, the boy was hoisted off his feet by mall security who had appeared out of nowhere and thrown out the back door.

"Any more questions?" Yggdrasill asked with an unpleasant smile. No one said a word. Yggdrasill seemed pleased.

"Good." he said.

~*~*~*~

"So, because Mithos is so self-centered and useless," Kratos said once they were at the front of the store again. "You will only follow his orders if he is around to watch you. He will remain in the office most times, but you will be warned of him leaving by a P.A. announcement of "Code I", but as long as he's still there, we're going to run this place as a store, not a Mithos Yggdrasill fan club."

"Now tell me how this is s'posed to work," Zelos said, his voice full of sarcastic humour. "The store opens in twenty minutes, and none of us even know what we're doing. We don't even have positions."

"I was getting to that." Kratos said. "Now, because women tend to be a little more social, most of our cashiers will be female. Colette will be head cash, and Sheena, you will be her first call. When you're not helping her, do the returns, stock gum, batteries and glasses."

The two in question hurried to their positions as Kratos surveyed the others. His eyes fell upon a shy-looking girl with black and blonde hair and bright blue eyes. When asked her namee, she timidly replied that it was Eccah. She then became Colette's third call, and in charge of keeping the store clean, and the pop cooler full. Zelos, also being rather social, was assigned to be the fourth call, and to clean aisles 1, 7, and 10, the party aisle, the food aisle, and the kitchen and bath aisle. Raine and Regal became keyholders, and Genis was given aisles 2 and 4 to clean, toys and crafts. Presea became the cleaner of aisles 5 and 6, hygeine and seasonal, a red-haired boy unknown to the others became the cleaner of aisles 3, 8 and 9, the hardware, canned goods and linens, and tupperware/glass aisles, while Lloyd became the store's floorwalker.

"Now," Kratos said, when all of the positions were filled. "Are you ready to work?" An ominous feeling fell on them ashe pushed the door open and several waiting customers filed in.