As Christmas approached A festive mood enveloped the entire dorm. The girls hung decorations throughout the building, and a couple even started wearing santa or elf themed outfits for fun. Though it seemed as if the elves and Santa's were naughtier than the others. Alex was enjoying the atmosphere, when he wasn't helping to train the new members of Sona's peerage, while placing his concerns at the back of his mind for a while. He also heard that Ravel had her peerage decorating misty manor, but it was supposed to be a surprise for the rest of them. So Alex just got a new house, but was now kicked out for the moment.
He didn't let it bother him however, and just enjoyed his time before the holidays. He was busy helping set up a tree with the church trio, when rias walked over. She looked a little concerned, but before Alex could ask she started explaining.
"We have a couple guests coming over, please be on your best behavior, and try not to provoke them into a match." When he heard her caution him, Alex immediately started running through lists of people she would be worried about. At the top were her parents, Sirzechs, and Grayfia, but he wouldn't fight any of them(unless Sirzechs was angry about the hot springs situation). He then continued thinking of other people she would be concerned about, but couldn't think of any right away.
A while later his curiosity was quelled, when someone knocked on the door, and Alex opened it to see a giant man with spiked orange hair, followed by a skinny man with slanted eyes and a mix of blonde and black hair. Alex had a suspicion when he saw them, but when he saw the bottle in the Giants hand a second later, he knew his guess was correct. Before he could say anything, Rias appeared and said,
"Welcome Surtr and Macgregor." Alex nodded in understanding as his guess was confirmed, these were a couple of Sirzechs servants, one of the rooks Surtr second, a clone of a Norse giant, and the only bishop Macgregor Mathers. He didn't recall specific details about them from the series, but had looked into them a bit a while back. They both turned to Rias and said,
""Princess, you have become even lovelier since the last time we saw you."" As they greeted Rias Alex recalled her warning. About provoking them, and smiled at how she could see right through him. Even now, he was fighting the urge of wanting to fight Surtr, as he would be a good one to challenge his strength. Instead he bowed slightly, and said,
"It's an honor to meet both of you, I am Alex." They both quickly shook their heads and said,
"Don't bow to us young master, it's not fitting." Alex shrugged, and loosened up. He knew they seemed to place importance on official ranks, as they always referred to issei as "waka", or young master. Rias then asked,
"So what brings both of you here? It's rare for even just a couple of you to get together." At her question Surtr turned to Alex and said,
"I wanted to give young master something, an early Christmas gift if you will." As he spoke he activated a small magic circle and what looked like a toy ship appeared. Alex realized what it was right away, with his eyes shined in anticipation, and when he saw that Surtr smiled and said,
"This is a Norse ship called Skithblathnir, it was a masterpiece of the same tribe that created Mjölnir for Thor. It will grow and change with your aura, and I'm curious what form it'll take with such a unique red dragon emperor." Alex was truly thankful for this gift, as it would be great to have a reliable form of transportation in the other worlds. He asked for the car from Azazel, but there would be certain situations it wouldn't be convenient for.
"Truly, thank you Surtr." The big man laughed at Alex and said,
"Think nothing of it young master, I simply thought that since you wished to travel with your women, then you needed to have something to travel in! And don't get teary on me, it isn't manly!" As Alex and Surtr talked, Rias turned to Macgregor and asked,
"So how come you accompanied him Macgregor?" The skinny man laughed slightly at her question, and said,
"Why I came to ensure Surtr didn't start any trouble with the new young master of course! I heard he was quite the fighter, so I worried what would happen if they weren't supervised, a specially after the beast riot." Rias nodded at his words, as she was concerned about the same exact thing. However surprisingly the two got along really well without getting to fight, and Alex got to test his capabilities at drinking alcohol that night.
(A.N. Using a really roundabout way to post, but still somewhat able to manage. For those who didn't see my comment last chapter, webnovel fucked up the app for some reason, and I can't post there anymore. Don't know how often I'll post due to it, also depends on if what I am using works, but I'll try to stay active.
Ps. Any name ideas for the Skithblathnir? I'm kinda bad at names.