Chapter 7

Kaze village market , Dec. 24, 7:08pm

After a long day of training and Item gathering . I walk into the market and head to new friend's shop. "Hey Agil, I got a whole bunch of stuff for you." I say as I walk up to his stall.

" Welcome Mizore, what rare stuff did you bring me today?" He asks.

"Nothing to rare mainly just a bunch of weapon drops from the monsters." I go into my inventory and pull out all the swords and daggers i was selling.

Agil looks over the them for a moment, then says. "I will give you 50,000 col for all this." I guess 50,000 is fair, I know Agil could make at least 150k selling them. He is a natural-born salesman. He could sell someone an umbrella in a drought.

"Ok Agil you've got a deal, 50,000 it is. " I say as I shake his hand to finalize the deal.

"Thank you for all your repeat business Mizore. He says with a smile as he hands me the money.

"You're very welcome Agil. "I say as I turn and walk away." See ya later Agil and Merry Christmas to You."

I start walking to the inn I was staying at. On my way there, I decide Make a stop. "Hey Arrgo, How are you?"

She turn and looks at me." Oh hey Mizore, I'm good and you?"

" I'm good, say do you have anymore info on that Christmas boss?" She motions for me to come closer.

"It's gonna appear in the forest outside of town at the stroke midnight tonight. I hear it gonna drop a really rare item, though I don't know what is."

Arrgo was great a gathering info, she's probably the best info broker in the game. Plus I don't think most people know that she is a beta tester. " Thanks for the info Arrgo!" I say with smile.

Even though most people paid Arrgo for information. She let me have it for free cause I helped her out back on floor 3." See ya Mizore!"

When I get to the hotel. I stop in to Saya's room to drop something off. I knock on her door and after a moment or two she answers. "Saya I brought You some meats and herbs you could use in your cooking." She looks over the item I was giving her in awe.

"Wow my this stuff is great, thank you very much. "I can't wait to see what I can make with this." She accepts the trade, then smiles at me."I just finished making dinner. Would you like to join me?" I nod my head.

" Yes Saya, I would love too." I walk into her room and sit down at the table. The inn we were staying at had a kitchen in it that the npcs let us players use. Saya goes into her inventory and gets out two bowls. She also pulls out soup ladle.

"I hope venison stew is ok, My lady." She asks.

"Yes Saya that's fine." I smile at her. She puts some stew into the bowls. She puts one in front of me. She then sits down at the table herself.

"Dig in, my lady." I take a bite of the stew. All I can think is wow Saya is good cook. She will make someone real happy some day, if her cooking is this good irl.

"Saya you ever think about your family?" She looks up from her stew.

" Yes of course, I do. I miss them all very much. I wish I could be with them now, during Christmas." She starts to tear up.

" Saya did I ever mention my little sister?" I ask.

"No my lady, I don't think you did. " she replies.

"Her name is Hiyori. She is only 6, and I'm her hero. She always follows me around and imitates Every thing I do. I normally find it annoying. But now I would give anything to see her. I wonder how she will take Christmas with out me. I know she probably bugging mom right now. " Mommy is when my sister waking up?" I just hope she is ok with out me this Christmas. She is the reason I fight, will live to the end to see her again. I fight pkers to stop senseless slaughter. Those pkers could be killing people like me. Players who want to get to their special people."

She looks at me with a really sad look." Wow my Lady I had no idea. I'm sure your sister will be fine. I promise I will help you see her again. You have my word my lady." I'm glad Saya was here to help me.

"Saya I'm glad I saved you from being killed . You have quickly become my best friend."

She blushes a little bit then says." Your mine too!"

I get up from the table." I've got to go now. I need to prepare for my my fight with Rudolf the mutant. Thanks for dinner, Saya." I walk out and head to my room to prepare.

Kaze forest clearing ,11:59 pm

I was now in the forest clearing out side of town, waiting for the Christmas boss to spawn. Then I hear the Kaze village clock strike midnight. A portal opens up in the sky and the boss appears. It looks like some kind of mutant reindeer. But it had red glowing nose like, the reindeer from that American Christmas song. It stands on fours and its' legs are as long as my whole body. It had to be like 200 meters tall has 4 and 1/4 health bars. But what really stood out was its' antlers, they were not the typical reindeer antlers. Instead of the normal reindeer antlers, it had saw blade like antlers. I figure I better kill it before someone else comes. I'm about to charge, when I hear someone walking in snow behind me. I immediately turn, only be relieved to see Saya. " Good I got here just in time! I'm here to help you my lady. I won't let you be killed soloing an event boss."

I smile at her though, I don't think she saw. because of the way my Shinigami's Robe cast shadow on my face. "Thanks Saya, I. Would appreciate the help."

I accept Saya's party request as I turn to face the boss. I rush toward it and slice it in its side, before it has time to react. My attack does very little damage. It must have a high defence stat. It runs away. It then turn around and charges at me, saw antlers pointed right at me. I dodge but, it keeps going. It runs into at tree. To my surprise, The tree impact damages it and stuns it for a moment. Saya and I both take this opportunity to attack. We rush in and hack it up as much as we could, before the stun wears off. Saya and I jump away, as it shakes off the stun. I charge at it as i activate a skill. My scythe starts to glowing and a wave of energy shoots out. The energy wave hits it effectively, damaging it.

"Hey over here reindeer freak!" Saya yells. It turns its attention to her and charges. She dodges and activates a sword skill. Her sword glows as she slices vertically, the horizontally. A cross-shaped energy blast forms and shoots towards the boss. I hits the boss, just as it hits another tree. We take our chance to hack it up again, doing some serious damage. It regains its senses, turns and charges Saya. I guess it was pissed off by the cross blast skill. I take a glance at its health bar. We were doing pretty good, it only had one bar left. While it's charging Saya, I take the opportunity and hit with a skill. Suddenly I get a really idea.

"Hey Saya lure it over here!" She does as I say, it follows her. As it closes in on me, I jump and land on its back. I grab my scythe near the blade and start hacking away at its health. After a moment it shakes me off, but not before i took half its remaining health. Seeing that I'm no longer on its back, Saya shoots another cross blast. It charges at Saya and hits her with its saw blade antlers, then tramples over her. The boss runs it to a tree again.

"Saya!" I yell as I run to my bff's side. She had survived but just barely. I quickly trade her health potion."Saya you rest for a few moments. I'll finish it off!" She nods then runs off to side of the battlefield." Hey ugly Asshole! How dare you! You almost killed my best friend! Now you're gonna pay!"

I charge at it, and it charges right back. I dodge but, as I do I put my scythe right in its way. It slices all the way down its side. I then, charge at it from behind. I activate a scythe skill that increases my attack. I swing at it and land an attack in the back of the neck. It shatters into a million pieces and disappears.

A box appears in front of me, it says. " Congratulations! You have won a unique skill: hidden" I pull my menu up and look at the new skill. The description says "This is a skill is one of the 10 unique skills. Thefore you are the only one with it. It allows you to stealth yourself and hide. Note: players with detection skill higher the this skill's lvl can see though it." Overall the skill seemed like it would be pretty useful. I look at my clock it was now 2:07am. I look over at Saya, She seemed ok. "Saya, let's go back to our hotel and get some rest."

I reach a hand out to Saya and help her up. She grabs my hand, and pulls herself up." Ok my lady, did you get anything cool."

I look to her and say. " Yes Saya I did, but I will show It to you later. Oh, by the way Marry Christmas Saya."

She looks at me and smiles. " Marry Christmas My lady."

Christmas is a time family spend together. I my not have my real family, but right now am glad that I have Saya and the rest of my guild. After I get some sleep, I'm gonna spend the rest of the day with the wonderful family I have in SAO.