Chapter 8
Kaze village inn, Dec, 25 9:08am
I awaken to the sound of death calling my name." Master Mizore, Master Mizore I'm hungry master Mizore." I get out of bed and get dressed. I motion for her to come to me. "Come on Death, let's go get breakfast." She flies around for a second, then lands on my shoulder. We start walking down to the dinning area on the first floor of the inn. When we get there we see the rest of the guild in the room. I look around but, Saya is nowhere to be found. I walk over to a table and sit down. "Hey, has anyone seen Saya?" I ask. "Yes she is in the kitchen making breakfast and glad you could join us Mizore." Hikari replies as Saya Walks in the room With a tray full of pancakes. "Breakfast is served everyone, Hope you enjoy." She walks around the room and serves everyone. She then sits down at the table with me and Hikari." Oh, good morning, my lady. Did u sleep well?" I look down at my pancakes. They were shaped like Christmas trees. " Yes Saya, i did. Thanks for asking." I take a bite of my pancakes, still amazed at her cooking." After I finish my breakfast, I stand up. "Excuse me everyone, but I need to say a few things. First off, I never said anything but i have been feeling lonely. I miss my friends and family from the real world. However Iast night while fighting the event boss, I realized one thing. After seeing Saya almost get killed by it. That made see how much I care about her, about all of you. I may miss my family terribly that won't change, I'm sure you all do. I'm glad though because, I found a new one. I guess all I'm trying to say is I'm happy. Sure I can't spend Christmas with my parents and little sister, but i glad I can spend with all of you. You are my family, and glad I have you. Now enough of this sadness, let's get this Christmas party started". I go over to the table Saya had set up with the drinks. I pour myself a cup of eggnog. I take a sip of it, and all I can think is wow its good. I guess Saya must have made it. After hours of partying some guy barges in to our party. Everyone stops and looks at the door." Someone found it! Someone found the boss room." I figure that this is a good opportunity to test my family's strength. " Hey shinigamis, do you want to fight the boss? " I ask them. They all raise their wepons, and yell. " We are with you Mizore." I'm glad they are so enthusiastic."Ok let's go! "
As we walk toward the boss, a guild member askes me something. Her name was Hakura. She is the youngest member of the guild. She was also Hikari little sister. "Mistress Mizore, after we are done with this boss can you help me train? " she asks. " of course Hakura, l would be glad too. But right now focus on the boss." We approach the boss door and a voice calls out. "Is everyone ready?" It was that guy Heathcliff. "I'm taking charge of this boss fight. Everyone form your parties." Alot of players were here. Heathcliff, Asuna, Kirito Klien and his guild, as well as mine and a bunch of random other players. My guild mates form theirs and l'm with Saya naturally. We push the door open and the room lights up and we hear a loud Roar. I lion appears from the shadow in the corner. It roars again, its' tail comes up and it has a blade on the end. It name appears over it head "Tocho Fangblade." All I can think, is how typical a mountain lion. "Charge!" Yells Heathcliff. "A group attack from the left. B group get it from right. C, D, and F, From behind." Heathcliff charges at and starts hacking it up from the front. It immediately swings its' tail at him. It seemed to grow some how, change length as it strikes. Heathcliff quickly pulls up his shield and blocks. He holds up for a moment before it lands a that forces him to retreat. It charges at Kirito while Saya and klien shoot the X shaped attack at it. "Death attack, you know what to do!" Death files into the air and divebombs into the boss. Her attack takes a small chunk out of its' health. She flies back to me and flies around my head. Senji thows his Kusarigama at it and it hits. The attack takes it down to some. The boss now had half health. It charges toward him and nagi and hakura block it. It swing its' tail at Hakura. She dodges, but the boss turns, knocks her down. It jumps on her and starts cutting her up with its' claws. Nagi and Senji try to stop it but are to late. As the boss moves, i see Hakura disappear. She was so lively just a moment ago. But now she was gone, she is dead. It mades me feel so saddened, but at same time angry. Angry at the boss for killing my family. "Now you did it you lion bastard." I charge at it yelling." Now your gonna pay lion. You killed my family."I look at its' health bars. we had probably taken about 3 out of 5 of them. I activate my scythe skill that increases me critical chance And swing at it. I land a string of hits that took about 1/4 of its' current health bar, before it knocks me away. I get up and yell ."Shinigami, I order you to kill that lion bastard. It took Hakura from us, it must pay. Everyone that is not in my guild stay out of this. This boss is mine!" I think even death is motivated to kill it. She starts attacking the boss without a word from me. I start charging at the boss head on. My precious family coming from all other angles. The boss does it best to defend, but we prove to much for our with combined effort . Our anger toward fueled our victory. It shatters into a million pieces. I give my guild mates a look and with that we leave the boss room without a word.
Floor 6, 3:37pm
Floor 6 is a desert, a barren land. In. The distance i see what looks like a town. "Come on, guys lets go in to town." My guild follows toward the town. When we arrive we see an archway sign that says " Sunagakure." The name fit the village fairly well, afterall everything look like it was made of sand." So Guys, what do you want to do about losing Hakura. I mean I know we can't do anything to bring her back. But I still feel awful about losing her. Hikari you must feel even worse then i do. I mean she was your real sister. Now, you two can't get back to your Family together." I start tearing up. "Don't worry, my lady, we feel the same way u do. We all lost someone today. But we can't let that get to us. We must clear the game, so that Hakura's death wont be for nothing." Saya was right, we do need to keep going. "Ok guys but we must not forget Hakura's sacrifice. She gave her life fighting to beat this death game. If u guys want we can make a grave for her outside the city." Everyone agrees to that and we walk out of the city. We find a cliff with a beautiful view that overlooked Sunagakure. I take a rock,and put it on the ground. I carve her name into the rock. "There now we have a place to honor Hakura's memory. Hakura we will miss you. You are and always will be a shinigami, may you rest in peace. May you find rest and be happy in the afterlife. Any one else want to say something?" "Hakari speaks up."Hakura my dear sister, I love you . I'm sorry i dragged you into this game. I wish I could've saved you. I wish were here with me. I will miss terribly. I love you, my dear sister. I promise I won't let your death be for nothing."she tears up and runs away. Tomoe runs after her, i guess to comfort her. Hikari words made me realize that i may be sad, whatever I was feeling she must've had 10 times worse. I look at the rest of the guild. "We my have lost have lost a member of our family today. But, it will make stronger, it will drive us to clear this game and make sure we don't lose anyone else." We walk back to the city, the streets were filled with other players now. Asuna comes running to me. " I'm sorry Mizore, You lost a guild mate. I'm sure it's hard to cope with. If u need anything let me know, ok."she Says. " Thanks Asuna your right I did lose someone, but she was not my guild mate. She was my family, Just as the rest of my guild is." She smiles at me. "Glad you found people who love you In this game. Also I must say you have, a powerful family Mizore." I look up at the sky and say to myself. "Hakura, I hope you have fun in the afterlife, Becuse now you a free from this nightmare. My you rest in peace, my precious family member."