Ruins in War

20 years after the events of Aincrad Kirito and Asuna are married with two children. A 16 year old girl named Miuna and a 12 year old boy named Nobuyuki. A game based off an old popular strategy game named 'Fire Emblem' has come out and Miuna bought her own copy despite her parents warning her to never play one of these virtual games. But, Miuna, being a fan of Fire emblem takes that risk of being caught and plays her game while her family leaves for two day to visit family 5 hours away. What starts out as an innocent game, fun and exciting for Miuna, has turned in to a fight for survival. Maybe she should have listened to her parents.


Chapter 1: Awakening

Miuna held a holographic box set to her chest, a grin on her pale complexioned face, eyes closed as she tried to control her breathing and hurried up the stairs. She had just run 2 miles all the way home from the nearest VRG store to buy the latest game 'Fire Emblem: Crimson Fires'.

"Miuna?" a woman called up the stairs, after she had shut her room door and leaned against it, opening her honey brown eyes to finally look at her prize. Such perfection, it was amazing. She laughed silently, albeit creepy- like, and walked to her desk to set her game in the center. "Miuna, honey?"

"Coming, Mom! Let me change!" Miuna finally shouted back, quickly taking her school jacket off and throwing it in the floor carelessly. She walked to her closet and chose a black long sleeved shirt with a stretched out collar and a pair of grey shorts. Quickly changing into her house clothes, she grabbed her red knee socks and slipped them on, before putting her panda slippers on and marching out of her room. She skipped steps as she went down the stairs, humming a song.

"Miu, what's that in your hair?" Miuna stopped as her younger brother pointed at her head, trying to hide a smirk. Miuna moved to a mirror and turned her head sideways, noticing an aquamarine metallic dragon pin, out of place her honey-dew hair. She quickly took it out and hid it behind her back, laughing oddly.

"It's just trash! Must have got caught in my hair on my way home from orchestra practice after school," her brother gave her a look that made her feel like he knew what it truly was, but he turned away and went to the kitchen.

"Ah, Yuki! How was school?"

"Same old, same old, Mom. We got a sub since Mrs. Tsuboi had her baby yesterday."

"Twerp, why do you sound like that is a bad thing? Is it that the great Nobuyuki has a thing for his teacher?" Miuna said in a perverse way, snatching a brownie off the plate in the middle of the table before he could get it. Nobuyuki stuck his tongue out at her and rested his head on hands.

"Says you. No man would ever want to be with yo-"

"How do you know, you are just a child after all."

"Hey hey, enough now," a voice said behind Miuna. She turned around to see her father, Kazuto come in to the kitchen. "Just got home from work and I don't need to hear you two not getting along... again."

"Ah, Kirito-" their mother, Asuna, shook her head and went back to cooking. Miuna looked sourly at her father, who she never had a really great relationship with in the first place since his work took most of his time. It was always Nobuyuki who shone the brightest in her fathers eyes.

"Say, Mom... that new game I've been wanting... What if Hiiro got it for me tomorrow? Since-"

"No. I've told you, countless times, those VRG's I don't want you getting into." Asuna bluntly stated, stiring the steaming pot all the while avoiding her daughters glare.

"But, Mom!"

"Miuna," this time it was her father, giving her a stern look. "She said no. And I say no as well."

Miuna stood up angrily, slamming her hands on the table. She ground her teeth together, trying to calm herself down. She pushed her chair back and made her way to leave the kitchen but Kazuto grabbed a hold of her arm, pulling her back. Miuna refused to look at her father.

"But isn't that what you two used to do before you had me? Played VRG's?" Kazuto let go of her arm, sighing.

"Perhaps, yes, but you also know what we went through at your age."

"Doesn't mean it will happen again!" she shouted, storming off to her room. Nobuyuki scoffed.

"What's so great about games like VRG?" Nobuyuki grabbed a brownie and ate one slowly.


Miuna paced her room in a huff, her eyes still on her prized possession. After what felt like for ever of pacing, she sat on her bed, pulling out her phone. She held it in her hand, a text blaring on the screen that was from Hiiro. She tapped out something rushed in response and sent.

'My parents are adamant about me not going into the game. I don't get what their problem is. My birthday is tomorrow and they just don't care.'

Miuna layed down on her bed, covering her eyes with her arm, trying to figure out what to do. She did her best to win her parents affection, but she wasn't smart in school and the only thing she really was good at were games. The thrill of games made her excited and always strive to be the best and her parents experience in SAO made her love of games so much more difficult. It was almost like they didn't want her to be anything like them, but Miuna wanted to. She thought her parents were the coolest for all their stories of adventure and love through SAO.

A loud ring startled her and sat up quickly, reading the new text from her childhood best friend, Hiiro.

'Maybe they just don't want you hurt. I am sure that they care about you more than you know it.'

Miuna flung her phone towards the end of her bed and curled herself up into a ball, and cried herself to sleep. She just wanted, for once, to experience the very thing she knew her parents had found to love in.


Miuna slowly opened her puffy red eyes and turned to look at her clock. It was 8 in the morning and it was silent in her house. She smiled as she realized her parents had left her home alone for making her upset. Except she didn't know that for sure until she went downstairs and saw the note on the fridge in her fathers handwriting. For two days, she was alone, which meant that she could be able to experience the one thing she wanted.

She grinned and text that she was alone for the next two days and that she was going to meet Hiiro in-game under the name Ayano. It wasn't long after that she got a response where he said sure and that his in-game name would be Haruka. Miuna was just happy that for once she could experience the same thing her parents did.

A bit later, after putting on the VRG headset, she woke up in a small inn, feeling very distant from her real body. She sat up and flexed her hands, which had finger-less white gloves that had two red and black stripes going down from her middle finger. She was amazed that this felt so real, and she could hear all the sounds of people moving around out in town. She sucked in a deep breath and stood up, stretching. She couldn't wait to get out and start playing. She had even picked her favorite class, a Pegasus Knight. She brought the menu up to see her skills and to rename her Pegasus, she realized that her character stats didn't say she was a Pegasus Knight, but that of a Wyvern Rider. She kept refreshing her stats, closing the menu and bringing it back up thinking it was a glitch, but it stayed the same.

"Ehh!? Wyvern Rider! What the hell!" she shouted, freaking out. Classes were irreversible and you could only make one character in this game. She honestly thought it was stupid, but she didn't mind as long as she got her Pegasus. Some people who were in the inn looked at her oddly and moved on, whispering about her. She stood up from the chair she sat in and stormed off out of the inn, ready to find Hiiro, even though she was still pissed about this issue. Maybe a GM would be able to switch it for since she knew she had chosen the right class.

"Ayanooo~!" Miuna turned around and saw a rather tall boy, with light red hair, waving as he ran over. She eyed him and down, making note of his clothing, which was pale green tank-top and dark black cloth pants. He had a long black scarf wrapped around his neck. He stopped just in-front of Miuna, grinning. Miuna crossed her arms and huffed.

"You could just call me by my real name, Hiiro."

"But that wouldn't be fun, if we are playing the game under ign's not correlating to our real names. Ah! What class are you? I chose Myrmidon. Cute look! Don't recognize that armor from the wiki though."

"Eh, it's probably just some glitch. I chose Pegasus Knight, but I got stuck with Wyvern Rider. This is probably armor for that class."

"Eh? Wyvern Rider? Was that an optional class in here? Thought they took it out?" Hiiro looked about as confused a Miuna, as she scratched her head agonizingly.

"I thought so too, but well, look," she opened her stat menu and showed it to him. Hiiro got real close to read it and gasped.

"Well, I'll be damned, I guess they do exist in this game. Why did you run off without me tho? I was waiting for you in the spawn area."

"I was in the inn. Isn't that the spawn area?"

"No, not that I know of. It'd be weird if you could spawn inside the inn in the middle of the town."

"Yeah... you're right..." Miuna seemed lost in thought as she had spawned inside the inn oddly enough. She turned her eyes slowly to gaze at her reflection in the mirror. She had the armor of a Pegasus Knight, but the tunic went to midway her thighs and had three layers of red and black lace ruffle. She had knee white high boots that laced all the way up with alternating red/ black laces and she had white feathers in her curled honey dew hair. The upper portion of her body has intricate black armor with silver markings spiraling around like flowers, as well as pauldrons the held a white cloak that stopped just below her knees. She did look stunning, like Hiiro said, but this was just too weird. Armor not in the wiki, first spawning inside the inn, and now a class that had been taken out.

"Miuna?" Hiiro waved his hand in-front of her face to snap her back and she smiled slightly, trying to relax.

"Ah, I'm fine. Just looking at how I look. Odd they don't let you pick out your starting armor in the character name selection.. or pick what you look like."

"That could be just a feature they have used in older games. It takes our genetic material and puts our real world appearance in game. And our starting armor is just cosmetic. We can keep it on and if we get better armor it goes in the secondary armor slots if we wish to keep the way our starter armor looks."

"Eh? That's pretty cool," Miuna muttered, looking around. Suddenly it dawned on her. "Hiiro... if I am a Wyvern Rider, where do I get my Wyvern?"

"Uh...uh..." Hiiro tilted his up and scratched his head, looking stumped. "Since they removed the class, I honestly don't know.."

"Oh my god..." Miuna flabbergasted moved past Hiiro and maneuvered around the crowd. Hiiro chased after her and tried to keep up as she moved quickly. "This is so stupid... Why can't everything just work for me?"