Part 2 of the Snow Bells Arc

This is the second part/chapter to Sword Art Online: Snow and Bells.

Part 2
(Before reading this, be aware that this part involves great violence in detail. If you'd rather read the summary, click here.)

Floor 44, March 27, 2013 One month after forming the Snow Bells,Snow has helped Claire raise her level from level 10 to level 17. He's been impresed that she's been making some really good progress lately.

All the members of the Snow Bells live in the shop that was created to help the Gild earn money.

2MNSTRM, or Brandon, joins Snow and Claire on a quest in the upper floors. Snow and Brandon usually work together when they're on the front lines. People look up to them for two reasons: they both attract women and they're strong.

"No, Chris, just stop. Your jokes are cheesy."

"But they're still funny. Hahahaha!"

"You're not supposed to laugh at your own jokes."

"So?"

"You pull too much pranks."

"What can I say? It's naural to me."

Snow looks at his map.

"Heads up. My map says that the end of the waypoint is near."

Finding the missing NPC coach wagon was their objective, although Snow thought it ended up crashing or attacked by monsters. It wasn't any of those, however. It was in the middle of a road.

"Well, this is new," Brandon states.

"Claire, hide in those trees. Me and Brandon will check this out."

"Okay!"

They both watch her skip behind the trees.

"You know, I envy you Chris. You have someone that looks up to you as a role model. Not only that, but you took her in as a daughter."

"I just did what I thought was right. Anyways, let's check the coach out."

Brandon nods.

He takes one side of the coach door and Snow takes the other. Snow gives him a countdown with his fingers to open the door. Three, two, one-

"Oh, Damn!"

Inside, was a ticking bomb. Brandon and Snow attempts to run, but it explodes before they could even turn around. Snow flies into the air and hits the ground hard. He scans his surroundings and sees Brandon getting up. His health only dropped to his high yellow. Snow's on the other hand, dropped near red.

A dark hooded figure comes out from the trees, along with a few others, holding Claire by her hair.

"Well, well, what do we have here? Two do-gooders and a kid? I don't think we'll get much from them."

He reveals his arm and it has a tatto of a black coffin with a face. Laughing Coffin. PKs. Highly dangerous.

"Oh, but wait. These aren't any do-gooders are they? You must be the infamous Winter Fox. And his partner 2MNSTRM. And this little girl must be the rumored adopted daughter of yours."

He slams Claire to the floor and pulls her up again by her hair. She was wailing from the pain.

"Claire! I'll kill you, you sick bastard."

"Oh? How will you do that? We outnumber you, and we have paralysis. There's no way you could possibly defeat us."

Brandon laughs.

"Damn. You just had to go and say it."

"What do you me-"

Snow stabbed the hooded figure in the chest with his own sword.

"H-How? I didn't even see you move."

"I'm just really fast. Plus, I'm not dying without having my daily strawberry danish."

"What...?"

The hooded figure dissolved into glowing particles. He catches Claire from her fall and had her sit and drink a health potion.

He turns to the rest of the PKs.

"Well, I'll give you a three second head start before I begin a massacre."

They all turned around and began running. Snow begins chasing them and starts ripping them apart, limb by limb, until they could barely live.

After Snow calms down, he turns to the last remaining victim, who was cowering behind a tree. The PK, surprisingly, wasn't a PK. He had the tattoo and robe, but his player icon was still green.

Snow kicks him in the face. A yelp came back in return, however, it was a woman's voice. Her hood fell and revealed another blonde girl. This didn't matter to him though because she was still part of the wretched Guild. He picks her up by the hood, slams her into a tree, and was about to dislocate her shoulder until Claire yelled at him.

"No! She's a girl!"

He stops and puts her down and sighs.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. It seems she passed out from slamming her into the tree. Let's take her back to the Guild, Brandon."

"Why are you always so sudden. There's never a second thought to what you do."

"Eh, but she's still pure. Hasn't PKed anyone yet."

"Fine."