(Remake) World Jumpers: Thus The World Jumpers Fought There

Special Chapter - Twas the Night Before Christmas

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( Summary )

Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Get the fuck off, you politic shit. The World Jumpers don't give a fuck. Fuck off and let the kids sleep. For this is a wholesome chapter.

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(Cue World Jumpers x GATE Opening: Sore wa Akatsuki no You ni)

The scene starts in the lounge with Keith waking up early and taking a warm shower. Ever since December began in the GATE world, the air conditioners had been blasting colder air than usual. Keith could've sworn the ACs were at five degrees (5℃ / 41℉) due to how cold it was. He was hoping the others were doing okay.

He exits the shower and gets dressed almost immediately in a cotton turtleneck sweater and pants combo to fight the cold, along with Christmas socks.

He heads down to make breakfast and sees Ashley, Rishia, Kizuna, and Glass, drinking hot cocoa. "What's got you girls up so early?"

"I-It's so c-cold." Rishia shivered, having worn a sweater, jacket, wooly pants, socks and mittens.

"I sometimes forget how cold Winter can be." Kizuna chuckled, shivering a little. She wore a cotton sweater, puffy jacket, her haori — which she never lets go off, cotton pants, and socks.

Ashley was wearing casual clothes, having been used to the cold. "You think winter is cold, try living in Canada during the winter time."

Keith shivered, "I still remember that time the temperature dropped to negative forty sixty degrees (-46℃ / -50.8℉)."

"Coldest winter I've ever felt," Ashley recalled, "And we were caroling during that time."

"It was a mistake doing that," Keith chuckled, "But hey, snowballs and snowmen."

"How did you two survive such a winter?" Glass asked, wearing her normal attire. Apparently, she barely felt the cold.

"A lot of warm clothes..." Keith said.

"And a fireplace." Ashley finished.

Keith began cooking breakfast before checking the calendar. It was only a week before Christmas, December nineteen to be exact.

He looked around and was surprised that GM had provided Christmas decorations for them. Even Christmas treats like eggnogs, gingerbread houses, Christmas cookies, and even warmer clothing.

Keith didn't really like celebrating Christmas as much, mainly due to moving around a lot and barely celebrating the holiday with anyone. Well, at least his sister enjoyed the holiday.

The white-haired Aussie made cookies and BLT sandwiches for everyone to enjoy. He wanted to log back into their avatars with his sister to prepare the people of Alnus Hill for Christmas.

Not to mention, trades have begun between Fort Alnus and Italica, thus merchants have been visiting frequently. This then creates a cycle. Merchants come by, sell goods, spread the word about Alnus, people come by, houses are built, and it repeats until a town begins to slowly sprout beside the fort.

However, due to the multitude of people that were beginning to come by, the SDF could barely keep up with the lodgings and buildings due to lacking resources at times. Didn't help that some of the SDF were taking days off to spend the holidays in Japan, thus they had very little staff.