This is my fanfic of the anime/manga i really like, Sword Art Online. For the once that arent familiar with it, simply put, its about 10000 players that get stuck inside the game Sword art Online and the only way out is to beat all 100 floors of its castle Aincrad. They have to fight for ther lives, because dying inside the game, will mean death in real live too.

This is the first story i have written and to make it extra diffecult for myself, i chose to do it in English. I'm from the Netherlands and recently started to pick up English again because i noticed it was falling behind. Thats why i hope people wont be to hard of something being spelled wrong. Dont get me wrong, please do say it, it will only improve my english writting and thats one of my goals.

I hope you will enjoy this fanfiction and i'm looking forward to hear your reviews. If you have a question, feel free to PM me and i will respond to it.

Have Fun

Prologue

With a last cry it explodes with the sound almost the same as breaking glass into an infinite amount of polygons and disappears completely. With a smile I swing the heavy black one-handed long sword towards my back and into its scabbard.

"….glad that is over"

There was no one close to listen, but I just spoke while I slid slowly down with my back against the wall of this dungeon. After I got back my breath and got the rate of my hart down again I slowly moved my eyes toward the upper left of my vision were my health bar was located. I didn't think I had taken that much damage but the monster had taken down almost 50% of my health.

"This is what you get with being sloppy and let your mind wonder of in the middle of a fight… "

Thinking about it I can't remember what causes it that I had to think about that day. That day exactly 1 year ago when my life and that of 10000 others changed forever.

Chapter 1

"Please calm down "

My little brother looked at me after saying that. I think he must be getting annoyed that I was this exited over something he didn't care about.

"I'm sorry bro, I can't. Only one hour remaining intill the server goes online and I can log in and play that game. "

Ever since I had won that quiz and had the luck to play that game for 1 day at the office of Argus who had made that game I was in love with it. Back then it was still during the beta testing but no is the time to play it for real!

What more lucky was for me is that I even had the chance to meet Kayaba Akihiko that day. Because he was impressed how quickly I learnt that game and seeing how much I loved it, he gave me an amazing gift: a pack with a Nerve Gear as well as a copy of that game Sword Art Online!

After I got home that day my little brother looked surprised to what I had. He was only 2 years younger than me, 14 years old, but he never had any interest in gaming so he didn't know what a Nerve Gear was. After I told him that it was a gear that instead of looking at a screen monitor, it was a streamlined interface that covered your whole head and face that was filled with numerous signal transceivers. That way it could send signals directly into your brain and make you Fulldive into the virtual Reality. That way instead of controlling a avatar, you will become the avatar and play as it.

"I still don't get why you are so excited about it…" he said.

"In my room is the Nerve Gear and the game I had bought before I got it as a gift. Why don't you try it later today and see for yourself what it's like? "I asked.

"Maybe I will, what will be your character's name be? That way I can look you up if I like it and you can explain it to me."

"Look for Exia, I think I will use that one but I'm not sure yet. Any idea what yours will be?"

"I don't know yet, I will look you up after I made up one. That is the easy way I think"

Looking at his face I couldn't help to laugh. Knowing him he will come with a funny name as usual.

After we talked about it a little more and finished eating we both went to or rooms and I got ready to dive into the game the minute it comes online. Strapping on the Nerve Gear and got on my bed. When the time hit 1 PM I said the command to activate it: "Link Start!"

After opening my eyes I saw the world I couldn't wait to return to. After an hour waiting at the starting point to see if he had decided to log in, I gave up on the idea and went to the fields outside of the starting city to train a little and to check I still remembered how to play.

After a couple of hours I took a break and looked around me. The sun was already setting so it should be evening by now. While looking around me, I was thinking about the game.

The game was being played in a placed called Aincrad. It was a castle, floating in the skies. It was a castle that had 100 floors and every floor had only 1 way to get up to the next floor. A dungeon with a boss at the end of it. After defeating the boss and went to the city, the transport gate will be activated and everyone can freely move to the next floor and get closer to the ultimate goal of this game, being the one that defeats the boss of the highest floor and win the game.

At that moment, the sound of a bell in the distends got my attention. Immediately after it a blue light covered my whole body. Past the blue light, the plains in my vision blurred steadily.

I had no idea that right after that, my life would change forever.