Sword Art Online: The Shadowed Slayer
25/10/14
Twilight: Hi everyone Twilight's Shad0w here, I have no idea why I writing again as I usually can't be bothered (yes I am that lazy) but I guess it's because I've just had a bad day today, or yesterday either one whenever I get this up, um... oh yeah as I said and yes I'm making excuses but I've had a bad day and I figured since I have no internet, that I'd trying to vent using my stories. Cloud: Why did you take so long to start typing again?
Twilight: well I finished school about a year ago dropped out halfway through and I usually just used my writing to get away from my school work, so here I am now just sitting here in my room at 10:41 at night typing, onwards to other news my story which I can't quite remember the name of, I as much as I hate to say this I just lost interest, when I originally thought of it I planned to have Demise as his last act have the Time Portal send Link and Zelda back to the day of the race as I said in the description but they wouldn't be the only Link and Zelda in that time, pretty sure that I was going to have Zelda(2) still get taken to the surface, and the original Link the one that was sent back with Zelda(1), would help out the other Link out with his quest on the surface, I never really planned for what I was going to do with the first Zelda and as a plot twist at the end I was going to have both Link's sent to the day of the race again and end with this line "... Not again!" I also had an alternate route I was going to take it in as I'd been on a Twilight Princess phase and Link was going to end up all the way in the distant future of TP right after TP Link just withdraws the Master Sword from the pedestal and I never planned beyond that point. At one point I thought about making a poll to see which direction you guys, the fans wanted me to take it, but like nearly everything I just forgot about it.
Cloud: Then what happened to that motivation of yours?
Twilight: well I guess I lost it, in fact I'll probably just forget about this in the morning and not do anything with it for the next couple of years but in the event that I do get this up and I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with this yet, but in the event that I do get this up, I'd just like to say I'm sorry for the wait, also with my story as I said earlier I have lost interest in finishing the story, I will at least finish the fight with Demise for you all. Link: so I finally get my chance to kick Demise's ass?
Twilight: well when you put it like that no but I will say this it will be a close fight, but that all you're getting for now. Now I was going to turn this into a Zelda one-shot when I started typing this on the 25th (don't give me that look I'm surprised at myself too(it's the 27th today ha-ha)), but since I just watched episode 16 of season 2 of Sword Art Online (like damn it people I came for action and got feels instead, still a great anime though) I've been feeling a bit sao'ish so hopefully I can turn this one into a fully fledged story unlike my other one (yeah I know) just be warned as once I find the password to my new internet I most likely will fall into my habit of putting off my writing. Anyway I (hopefully) plan to take this all the way onto season 2 (season 1 might take awhile as I will need to do some research), and I think that's it for my little rant (Cloud: *snorts* yeah "little".) ... shut up you! (Tackles Cloud and starts wrestling with him making a cartoon dust cloud.)
Rei: ... Boys.
Twilight: (sticks head out of the cloud) what are you talking about? I made you and I'm a boy... well more like a man but you get the idea. (Sticks head back in)
Rei: ... *sigh* well as seeing those two idiots are occupied- (Twilight and Cloud: Hey!) as I was saying since their occupied I'll start the story off, happy reading. (Grabs both Twilight and Cloud and slams their head together knocking them out)
Note: (1) means it will be explained in the A/N at the end of the chapter. Also Cloud is just a nickname his real name is Kuraudo, but he prefers to be called Cloud.
Note: (2) I found the internet password... ALL BOW DOWN BEFORE OUR LORD AND SAVIOR THE INTERNET!
Note: (3) my godfather left me... now who will help me run the mafia? Nah just kidding, it was actually my girlfriend...;-; *breaks down crying* so now my only friend is music... WHU MUSIC! (The Moral of the story is I say weird shit when I'm sleep deprived XD, which is pretty much always XD)
Note: (4) this is the last one I swear, I just remembered that if anyone wants to beta this story and help me with fleshing it out then pm me plox :P
Disclaimer: I own nothing but those two in the corner making out *camera shifts to Cloud and Rei in the corner K-I-S-S-I... damn it, I forgot how the rest goes... oh well* and the idea behind my stories, also if the actual owner of SAO is reading this right now then feel free to "donate" the rights to me ya savvy? Hmm... I wonder where I put my mini death-star.
Normal talk - "Fight me IRL!"
Thoughts – 'Ow I regret everything!'
GM Talk/Menu text – "Get wreaked!"
Scene Change/ Time Skip: Cloud is the Mafioso, town we should lynch him!
Chapter 1: The Beginning of a New Life.
"... Link Start!" As those two words were said a young male with chocolate brown hair and a scrawny build fell into a state of semi-unconsciousness, his body was psychically asleep with a helmet connected to his computer next to him on his desk known as "Nerve Gear", asleep his body might be, but the mind however was a different story.
The Nerve Gear, using a special blend of technology had pulled the male's mind into the virtual reality game "Sword Art Online" when the male had originally gotten the game he was excited to play it even though it was the beta, but now however he had a different idea in mind.
He just hoped he was able to do what he had to do in time, even though he still had no idea what he was going to do. He had hopes for the future to come; unfortunately he had no idea that the morning was the last he'd see of his father in awhile. (1)
-Line Break-
Welcome to Sword Art Online!
Those were the first words he saw when he opened his eyes. The teen then noticed a window in front of him saying the same words that he could see above, he looked around and saw that he was standing on a small circular platform that seemed to be made of light which seemed to be the only other source of light in the space he was in apart from the words above his head and the screen in front of him in the eerie darkness that made up most of the space.
He turned his attention back to the screen in front of him and pressed the flashing Login text at the bottom of the screen, the screen flashed once and changed. When it finished it came up with the teen's login details, the boy surveyed the text to make sure there were no mistakes from the change over from beta to the full version, after making sure there were no mistakes he pressed the login button and was taken to a screen with his character details, he selected the only one on the list and prepared to enter the form of his character when a text popped up.
"... Characters transferred over from beta must restart at level one with only the basic equipment!? What bullshit is this? Sigh, fine restart." The male sighed to himself as he pressed the button to restart; he was engulfed in a ray of light and was transported to the starting town of the game. (2)
*Scene Change* Welcome to the Town of Beginnings
A light flashed blinding those who would look upon it and when it faded all that was left was a teenaged male looking to be about 5'9, he had messy chocolate brown hair and deep royal violet eyes, this form the teen had entered was both taller and more built than his real body, "Whoa, that's kind of disorientating! I hate having to get used to the HUD after I leave and come back, but then again it is worth it as the HUD is extremely helpful. Launching day huh? I wonder they changed during the month break." The teen turned young man wondered with a slightly deeper voice. (3)
The male then took a couple of steps forward away from where he had just teleported in to observe his surroundings, noticing the excited atmosphere surrounding the dozens that would soon turn into hundreds of players from all over the world, the game developer Kayaba Akihiko had decided to release only a couple hundred copies in each country across the world simultaneously against the protests of his co-workers, Kayaba Akihiko, now that was a name he was familiar with. (4)
Deciding to check his stats vaguely remembering something about his stats changing depending in how he battled, opening the menu he looked over it committing it to memory and comparing it to the beta menu, and apart from the little text up in the top left corner that used to say beta but was now gone, it was the same he decided not really knowing what he expected, pressing the option that lead to his stats he saw that his stats were indeed back to their basic level but with some changes, his STR, DEX, and AGL stats were a few points above his others, which worked out pretty well considering his fighting style mainly relied on being stronger and faster than his opponents as well as being able to actually hit them, with the agility being for those other players and mobs that were faster than him to help with his dodging. Strangely enough he found his LUK stat to be little high as well, now his other stats however were a different story. He found his VIT to be about average, his however DEF and his ITL was quite low, personally he didn't see a use for it as it was mainly used in games for magic, but he figured he'd need the DEF for those few moments he had to tank. (5)
He then checked his equipment, finding that as he expected his equipment was the basic kit players start out with, a gladius (roman short sword for those of you who don't know), a pair of basic black leather gloves (Yes I know that they don't start out with gloves but in this they do), the basic baggy black pants, brown boots, and a shirt that could be coloured according to the player's wishes, his was currently red, and a small metal chest-plate that covered the upper chest, which was new because it was leather in the beta, but hey he wasn't complaining. (6)
"Kuraudo!" the now named male looked up to see another teen looking to be the same age as him with even messier black hair, the teen was wearing the same gear as our now named brunette was but his shirt was blue, he was also around an inch or two shorter than himself.
The now named Kuraudo smirked "Kirito you sly dog! Hoping to get in some easy grinding while there's still barely anyone in eh?" Kirito panicked and started waving his hands in front of his face with a sweatdrop sliding down the back of his head "No-no not at all Kuraudo you got me all wrong! I wouldn't dream of grinding without you!" Kuraudo just started snickering "Calm down Kirito or should I say Kazuto, it was just a joke." Kirito fumed 'What's the use of a fake name if no one ever uses it!' "Damn it Kuraudo! I'm Kirito in-game, geez we can't all use our real names now can we?" (7)
Said mentioned brunette just arched an eyebrow and laughed "Calm down Kirito I was just pulling your leg, come on lets go get in some early grinding while we still can. And maybe do those quests that were around here somewhere."
Kirito just sighed and nodded his approval, "All right let's get going, party up!" Kuraudo declared as he swiped the air in front of him to open up the in-game menu and selected the party button, the menu opened up to reveal a side menu asking if he wanted to form a party, Kuraudo pressed the blue button meaning yes, another menu then popped up to ask who he wanted to invite to the party as party leader, as he browsed the list he noticed that it showed Kirito up the top and a few other names that he didn't know below him, he guessed that it sorted by the distance they were from the party leader, plus there was a range to it because he could see quite a few people milling around going from place to place and talking among themselves, a bit of text up the top of his menu then caught his attention, "Warning: Party Invite now has a 10 meter range. Huh." He muttered distracted in his thoughts. (8)
"...Kuraudo!" Startled said teen looked at his friend and asked "Huh?" Said friend just faceplamed and asked "Are you going to invite me or what?" "Oh... Oh!" said Kuraudo rather embarrassed, grinning sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head with one of his hands as he used the other to select Kirito's name among the others so he could invite him to the party. After he finished "Sorry about that ha-ha, I was just looking at the new stuff in the menu." He said trying to excuse his air-headedness; Kirito raised an eyebrow amused "Who knew you were such an air-head." Kirito then ignoring Kuraudo's undignified oi he opened his menu and fiddled around with it until it showed a map of the town they were in and a bit of the grasslands outside the town. (9)
"Alright so I was thinking we could hit the quests here, here and here, and then leave town and do some grinding in the Monster Zone.(10) What do you think?" Kirito suggested as he pointed to multiple spots in town then finally stopped on the grasslands outside town, Kuraudo thought this over for a minute then replied "I think we should get going if we want to do all that by dinner time!" He then smiled and held out his fist for a fist-bump to which Kirito then bumped with his own fist.
The boys smiled at each other and nodded and started walking to their destination, as they walked Kirito stole a look at his friend, Kuraudo was walking along with his hands in his pockets, eyes darting to and fro but not taking much of anything in, he looked distracted, lost in his own mind clouded by doubts.
Kirito frowned; he didn't like it when Kuraudo looked like this, it didn't suit him at all, he preferred Kuraudo when he was happy but as of the moment it looked like something was seriously weighing him down, Kirito knew that all too often as Kuraudo would wear it multiple times whenever he came over for dinner, that was usually whenever his father had locked himself away in his workroom, sometimes for days on end.
Kirito shook his head trying to clear his distracting thoughts; he had to do something to cheer up Kuraudo. He briefly mused the idea of asking him to share his thoughts, he nearly snorted in twisted amusement, 'like that would work.' The boy thought, 'but what about doing that? Yes that could work!' He decided.
"Yo Kuraudo; race ya to the first quest!" Said mentioned boy jerked out of his position in surprise, he'd forgotten all about his friend walking along side him in his thoughts about how he was going to find who he was looking for. Kirito smirked as he watched Kuraudo snap out of the funk that had seemed to settle in a few moments ago and say the first intelligent thing that popped into his mind "Huh?" Kirito continued smirking as he replied to the unasked question "You heard me! See you when you get there." After this was said he watched as Kuraudo's face twisted in confusion as the boy tried to work out what had been said before he was snapped out of his funk, something about racing to the first quest?
Suddenly there was a displacement of air as the boy beside him speeded down the road before him towards the first quest that they had discussed eelier, Kuraudo looked on in disbelief, this guy just up and ditched him, 'how rude.' He thought to himself. Suddenly Kirito's words flashed though his head 'Race to the first quest? Crap, You teme! I'm so going to get you for this!' Kuraudo then broke into a sprint as he tried to decrease the distance Kirito had gathered between them.
The boy's only thoughts during their little race were 'this is going to be fun!'
*Scene Change* Outside the Town of Beginnings
-Time Skip- 2 hours later.
"... TAKE THIS YOU STUPID PIG!" Shouted a pissed off Kuraudo as he rushed at one of the many monster boars that roamed the grasslands beyond the Town of Beginnings, Kirito faceplamed as he looked at his friend getting his ass kicked by a level 1 monster "You do realise that it's a boar right? Not a pig?" he asked as Kuraudo was thrown back by a headbutt from the boar.
Kuraudo managed to get back onto his feet just in time to dodge another headbutt by the boar "I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT IT IS, I'M GOING TO KILL IT!" (Kuraudo Channelling his inner Nappa) he roared as he swiped at the boar's flank dodging another charge, as he scored the hit the boar's flank where the sword had sliced had a glowing neon red line through. Kirito lifted his hand from his face to watch the battle if you could call it that.
He noticed that even though Kuraudo's HP had been getting low, the boar's was even lower from that strike, it seemed that Kuraudo's reflexes were starting to build again as now instead of dodging early and still being hit, or dodging too late and being hit on the side, Kuraudo was now starting to time his side-jumps right. About time he reckoned, he got bored the first few times Kuraudo failed to dodge.
So far it'd taken Kuraudo around five minutes to get this one boar this low, in the amount of time he reckoned he could of taken two maybe three boars if he didn't stop to heal after battles, "YES!" and it seemed that Kuraudo finally finished off that boar; about time if you asked him.
"About time, it only took you all day." Kirito called out with just the tinniest bit of sarcasm in his voice, once again ignoring Kuraudo's offended reply Kirito scanned the plains in search of another boar. Kuraudo pouted as he plopped down ungracefully after claiming his reward for killing the boar, it wasn't his fault it took him awhile to get readjusted after hopping off for awhile be it a few hours or days... or weeks, he did have stuff that came before his games... granted it might not be alot, besides it wasn't like he practically lived in his games just to avoid his sister... not that he had one, maybe after this all blew over he could head over to Kirito's place again and spent a few nights there, if only to embarrass Suguha with her "onii-chan complex", he snickered he could do that later but for now he had to take care of her pig-headed brother.
"Kirito!" said black-head just hmm'ed in response so Kuraudo took that as a signal to continue "I bet you 100 Col that you can't take out a boar faster than me!" Kirito smiled as he finally spotted a boar, "that's a sucker's bet and you know it!' Kuraudo just grinned as he continued to sit and regain his hp as it steadily tickled back up to full, "Alright then, I just need to beat your measly performance and that 100 Col's mine." Now sprouting a tic mark on his head at being insulted Kuraudo growled.
With a burst of speed Kirito was off running towards the boar which using its programming turned to face Kirito, but was too slow as the blade of Kirito's sword had started glowing red as he ran signifying usage of Sword Skill an attack that did increased damage for a limited number of attacks, there was speculation as to if you could potently increase the number to sword skills you could use in chaining attacks, as the boar swealed in pain as was its programming, he could see it's life gauge on his hud lower into nothing as Kirito had killed it with one move.
Smirking as he tapped on the display that popped up after the boar died to accept his reward for killing it "And that Kuraudo, is how you kill a level one boar!" it first started out in a snicker, then developed into a full blown laugh as Kuraudo rolled around on the grass clutching his stomach in laughter.
Upon hearing the laughter Kirito developed a tic mark and shouted in confused fury "WHAT'S SO FUNNY!?" seeing that Kirito had gotten mad at him for his mocking laughter, Kuraudo tried to calm down only to burst out laughing again upon seeing Kirito's face, he did however manage to get some words out between his bursts of laughter and giggles "Dude... mine was... level 3!" Was all he got out upon seeing Kirito's now shocked speechless face.
Eventually Kuraudo calmed down enough to let Kirito out of his shocked state "How the hell did I miss that yours was level 3?" Kuraudo sent Kirito a dirty look "You didn't actually think I was having such trouble with a level one pig?" Kirito started rubbing the back of his head with a sheepish grin on his face "Yeah I did actually, and it's a boar not a pig."
Kuraudo just shrugged at his friend's attempt to teach him the actually name of the monster "Eh, po-tat-o po-ta-to." The other boy just sighed at his friend's dismissal of his corrections.
As the brunette sat in the grass an idea hit him and he quickly opened his player menu and pressed the status option, Kirito seeing this got curious and bent down behind Kuraudo to watch over his shoulder.
"Hmm... seems like a couple more of those level 3 boars and I'll level up, sweet!" cheered Kuraudo as he pumped his fist in celebration, as Kirito looked at his friend's stats he couldn't help but be impressed at how much exp that one boar had given his friend, he figured about 3-4 more would be enough to level up, probably more since the level 3 boars didn't spawn very often, about 20 an hour was what he and some of the other beta testers worked it out to be in the beta, now seeing as this was the full version he couldn't be so sure of those statistics anymore, but that didn't mean he couldn't still use them. (11)
"...to... Kirito!" the sudden intrusion of his best friend's voice into his ears seemed to snap him out of his thoughts "Yeah what? I was just thinking that us and some of the other beta's need to meet up again as we need to-." "Yeah yeah save your nerd speak for someone who understands it... by the way you do realise that you owe me a 100 Col right?" interrupted Kuraudo with a smug grin on his face, Kirito's eyes barrowed in confusion. 100 Col? When was this again? Oh yeah the bet! "Double or nothing?" Kirito asked in hopes of not losing his money.
Kuraudo smirked as Kirito proposed the new bet, it was just too easy to goad Kirito into a suckers bet in order to relieve him of his money, maybe that's why it was so difficult to sucker Kirito into a game of poker.
"You're on!" As they shook hands to confirm the new deal Kirito had a shiver run down his back as he stared into Kuraudo's demon smirk as he called it. Once they finished Kuraudo glanced up at his health, it was around 75% full enough for a few boars seeing as he'd just finished getting their attack pattern down as he was fighting the level 3 boar.
"Well laters." And with that Kuraudo started walking towards the nearest boar on the field he could find, Kirito stood there shell-shocked for a second then called out "What the hell Kuraudo? Where are you going?" Kuraudo turned around with a raised eyebrow "Where do you think I'm going? I'm going to win our little bet! I think that 200 Col would look quite nice in my inventory." Kirito just faceplamed out of aggravation "Don't you think we should stick to together, you know in case one of us run into a Dire Wolf or something?" Kuraudo just sighed "Kirito do you really think I'd cheat just for a measly 200 Col? And I'm not going as far out as the wolves spawn." The blackhead just shook his head "... You do realize that if you go that way you'll run into dire wolfs right?" Kuraudo sweat dropped as his sense of direction led him astray again, and started walking the opposite direction "I knew that." He mumbled more to his self than anyone else.
"Hey Kuraudo! That 200 Col is mine! Also we should meet back at the entrance to town after say... an hour?" Cloud grinned; it looked like Kirito was more pumped up than he showed. "You're on!" was Kuraudo's reply as he took off sprinting towards a boar.
Kirito grinned then reduced it to a slight smile, as he whispered to the air "I'm back."
-Time Skip no Jutsu! - (it took me ages to get to here yeesh, I need to step up my game, won't be coming back to this until after I re-watch the English dub... OH GOD THE FEELS;-; / well, it's the 15th of Feb and I still haven't re-watched the dub...)
*roughly an hour later*
"Hey! You! The guy in the blue shirt!" said person in blue shirt was standing on a hill checking his stats "Hmm?" he replied as a Orange haired man in a white shirt ran up to Kirito.
"Hey! Uhh, I don't really know how to ask you this but, you look like you know what you're doing right?" the orange haired man asked. Kirito blinked, was this a newbie? He wondered "Yeah, I'm a beta tester why?" he answered as he studied the new comer. Said new comer was now smiling sheepishly as he rubbed his head "Well, you see uhh, I can't get this sword skill down and..." he took a deep breath. "...canyouhelpmegetitdown?" the man blurted out, Kirito raised an eyebrow in confusion "Could you repeat that?" que another deep breath "Canyouhelpmegetitdown?" Kirito rubbed his eyes in quiet frustration "Slower." He ground out "Can you help me get it down?" the man repeated slower nervously. "Much better! Now you're asking me to help you get your sword skill down right?"
Kirito watched the man give a nod. "Hmm... normally I'd charge a 50 Col fee for this kind of stuff..." the orange haired man started to raise his hand in preparation "...but, since you're obviously a newbie I'll wave the fee this one time!" the man gave a relived grin which Kirito returned with a wide toothy grin.
"Alright, now what's your name?" The orange haired man stopped his bouncing up and down and now looked at Kirito, he then gave a wide grin and pointed to himself with his thumb "Why me? I'm the guy ladies dream of meeting, I'm known far and wide as!" the man then somehow summoned a toad from nowhere and stood in place doing a pose "I'm the one and only! The Amazing Klein!"
Kirito could only sweatdrop as Klein introduced himself, "You do realize you just ripped off Jiraiya from Naruto right?" (12)
"Ok, "the amazing Klein". To activate your sword skill here's what you need to do..."
-Time Skip no Jutsu! - (don't give me that look I'm doing the best I can from memory, and Kirito's behaviour will be explained at the end of the chapter)
*another 15 minutes later*
"...Man that was hard to get down." Klein complained from his seat on the grass.
"Stop complaining you got it down alright for someone on their first dive." Kirito responded from his fight with a level 2 boar.
Klein just laughed it off "Ya know, you're pretty alright for a beta-tester." Kirito just gave a grunt as he dodged a charge from the boar, "You want a bit of help there?" Klein asked as Kirito jumped to the side to dodge another charge from the boar "No thanks, I got it!" with an amused look Klein watched on.
"Yeah I know, he can get pretty stubborn when it comes to things like this." Klein nearly jumped out of his skin in fright as Kuraudo sat down beside him "Geez buddy, you almost gave a heart attack, anyway I'm Klein, and I take it you know this guy?"
Kuraudo laughed "Know him? We're practically brothers! I've known that idiot since grade 4." Kirito suddenly gained a tic mark on his head and used his anger to fuel his attack and finish off the boar "I HEARD THAT!" Kuraudo just laughed again "You were suppose to!"
As Klein watched the by-play between the two boys he couldn't help but think they we're actually brothers... well either that or an old gay married couple... he shuddered in fear and disgust at the thought of the latter. "Well, I'd hate to interrupt such an important discussion but I gotta get back, I got a pizza that's about to arrive!" interrupted Klein with a smirk. (13)
The boys looked at each other then back to Klein, "Sure, me and Kirito are gonna stay on a bit longer though. Do you know how to log out?" asked Kuraudo, Klein nodded at the question as he opened the game menu "Sure I do, all I have to do is open the game menu, scroll down to the bottom anddddddd it's not there."
Kuraudo and Kirito once again looked at each other, starting to get an idea of what was about to go down. The boys then each opened their own menus and scrolled down to the bottom to look for their log out button.
Kirito frowned, no log out button? Something here stank, and it wasn't Kuraudo for once. "Nope, no log out button on my menu, what about you Kuraudo?" Mentioned person looked at his menu and frowned, his menu had one thing the others were missing. His had the log out button, he scoffed, as if he would abandon his friend to whatever was in shall for them, hell no! He would be beside Kirito every step of the way! "No, no button on mine either." He lied.
Kirito frowned slightly, as if picking up on the fact that Kuraudo was lying but then began to fiddle with his menu more. "I can't contact the GM either, this can't be a coincidence, something's going on here and I don't like it!" the black headed boy declared, the other two just nodded their agreement.
Klein then had a most horrible thought (in his opinion... okay 2nd most horrible thought) "Hey guys... if we're stuck in here, then what about our bodies on the outside?!" The red head then proceeded to run around like a headless chicken, Kuraudo tilted his head to the side imagining Klein in a chicken suit... he then shook his head to dispel the image, no need to go there Kuraudo he chuckled under his breath. (14)
Suddenly a system warning popped up in a small window in front of each player, it went as followed: Warning: You shall be teleported to the town square of the Town of Beginnings in one minute. GM. It also had a counter counting down from a minute on the screen. 55, 54, 53...
What the hell were the thoughts running though each player's head, Kuraudo looked up from his screen to face Kirito who'd already done the same the moment he'd seen that the message was from the Game Master. "So this is it huh, not quite what I was expecting." The brown headed boy thought aloud.
Warning: System Teleport in 10 seconds. 8, 7, 6,
Kuraudo stood up straight "This is it!" he repeated.
5, 4, 3,
Kirito too stood up straight, but he was looking at his friend rather than the system warning in front of him.
2, 1, 0.
And what you ask was Klein doing during all of this? Why he was running around like a headless chicken still.
In a bright flash of light the trio disappeared.
*Scene Change* the Town Square of the Town of Beginnings
All around the square bright flashes were dropping players into the square everywhere but the fountain in the middle. (I think there was a fountain there in the anime not sure, but for the propose of this story there is)
Confused players looked around left, right, up and behind in order to view what was happening, but the event they had been teleported there for hadn't started just yet.
Kayaba was waiting on one very important person in the coming times ahead to arrive.
A group of three flashing in caught his attention, one had spiky orange hair and was taller than the other two, but he wasn't who he was waiting for, the one beside the taller one was an black haired teen looking around with a scowl on his face, as if knowing something big was about to happen and he knew he wouldn't like the outcome, that one brooded more attention in the future.
The last one was looking right at the centre of the sky where his camera was, and where he planned to appear; now this was the one he was waiting for. (15)
He smiled, time for the show to begin.
Twilight: CUT! Good work everyone that's a rap.
Everyone: FINALLY!
Twilight: yes yes I know it took me ages to actually finish chapter one, *sigh* if only I wasn't so addicted to internet games haha.
Alright now most of you will probably have questions, personally I did plan to finish just after Kayaba speech but now that I think about it, it looks good to me hanging on a cliff as it is.
Now this will probably won't be updated in a couple months as I am extremely lazy and I have a couple of diploma's I really need to start on, alright bit of background lore without giving away too much is that Kuraudo or Cloud as I like to call him is Kirito/Kazuto's childhood friend, as well as Suguha's childhood friend, now there will be pairings Kirito's will be canon, so all you yoai fan girls can go now, and as for Cloud's well, that's a secret, now I can't tell you too much about what's going on here even though most of the people reading this will know what happens next in the canon.
I also will be using the canon as a guideline, I'm not going to follow it to the t, so no complaining consider yourself warned, as obviously with the inclusion of Cloud my OC canon is getting thrown out the window already.
This is the big one so to say, now I've left some hints in the story as to who Cloud's father is and if you're smart you may pick it up straight away, but if you're like me then, you'll see who it is next chapter.
This is how I imagine people starting the game instead of just a screen like normal games.
Obviously I haven't seen people comment on the actual HUD in their stories unless it's in a battle or something and their low on health, how I see it, it would be mildly confusing to the young as they can adapt to it fairly quickly, but to the old it'd be like their seeing things, but hey that's just me.
How he's familiar to the name you shall see next chapter, for all we know he could just know Kayaba from being the maker of the game, hmmm food for thought :P.
Cloud has a unusual fighting style, which I have no idea how to describe... lucky me XD
Just a minor change this time, I thought it was kinda stupid of Kayaba just to send everyone with just a sword and a leather chest-plate to their name.
Let's just say that there was a pretty big spoiler here and now that I've finally taken it down, in regards to his name I've changed it to Kuraudo since it's basically the same thing in Japanese. So yeah.
Since we never really got a good look at the party system I thought I'd add in something for it.
Now yes they will automatically get maps of each town and some areas that they enter, but dungeons and special area's with high level bosses like the ice dragon will have the map blank but slowly filled out wherever the player goes.
Couldn't really think of anything else to call it, everyone else mostly just refers to it as the scenery but eh.
Another change I put in since we never got to see how levelling up works, it was just mostly kill monster's and level up, so I wanted to flesh it out a little bit.
It's Japan; of course they'd have anime inside anime, animeception.
Klein may be a major pervert as I may or may not make him into in this story but even he shudders in fear and disgust of the Forbidden Thing! Also what's your opinion on Klein, I swear he has the biggest man crush on Kirito in the sub.
Klein's role in part one was mainly comedy, but like the anime I will have him have his badass moments... he's like the DBZ Abridged Krillen of SAO except without all the dying XD.
The last hint for all you smart people reading this before I reveal next chapter :P
Well that was an undertaking, whew, chapter one done and- *IT'S OVER 9000!*- yes thank you mysterious voice that I totally didn't type in just to make a dbz abridged reference...
Also it's the 19th of March when I'll be getting this up so one more day then I'm 19... Damn time flies when you're playing computer games.
Anyway the first person who correctly guesses the answer to all the hints I left in this chapter will get one major spoiler from what I plan in the future, and I'll be choosing the spoiler so don't get too excited haha.
The story title may be prone to change as I'm not quite happy with it so don't get worried if it changes title
Twilight: what do you think you two, should I put in anything else?
Cloud: yeah you need a catch-phrase like that guy who's name I just had then forgot who always says to respect the cream soda, or was it cream puff... ah well I'll just wait till he updates again then we'll know.
Twilight: a catch-phrase huh... well I'll get back to you on that one.
Rei: C'mon Cloud we got work to do~ *she does a sexy pose*
Cloud: Really? Where? *runs off*
Twilight: ...
Rei: ... *Gives Twilight the EVILLLL EYE OF DOOM!* Don't tell me you forgot to tell him about the birds and bees!
Twilight: uhhhh... *slowly backs away*
Rei: *cracks knuckles*
Twilight: *takes off* DAMMIT WHERE'S DARKIE WHEN I NEED HIM!
Rei: HEY! *chases him*
?: You called? Hmm? *turns around and watches Twilight get beaten up by Rei* yeahhhhh no.
Cloud: Oh hey Dark Link... why is Rei beating the snot out of Twilight?
Dark Link: I don't know but one thing's for sure, I don't want to get involved in that! *Cloud nods silently*
Cloud: well since Twilight is out of commission- NOT THE BABY MAKER, I STILL NEED THAT! -I'll send us out, stay frosty unless you already are and in that case get yourself some sun, later peoples, we'll see you all next chapter!
Rei: now that Twilight has been taken care of, you're coming with me Cloud! *grabs his arm and drags him off to some disclosed location*
Twilight: *groans* lucky bastard...
One last thing chapter two should be up in the next few days following whenever I replace chapter one with this, also stay Frosty till I update 'kay?
Rei: ... worst. Catchphrase. Ever.
Twilight: ... ;-;