Chapter One

the sound of screams...chaos and panic flooded the inner corridors of my ears. I stood there, in the quad with thousands of other people. Confusion and disbelief. I looked around me for the closest exit. Screams of panic arouse in the quad as people began to run in all different directions. I looked over to an empty alley way and ran as fast as I could. My plan: go to the next town and collect as much supplies as I can before everyone heads to the next town. I opened my map, which I had completed for the first ten floors when I was a beta tester. I nodded, I knew exactly were to go. I was scared, the creator of the game, Akehiko Kayaba had told all of us, that we were trapped here. If we were killed in the game, or someone in the real world pulled off our nerve gear, game over. Not just in SAO, but in real life too... I gulped, trying not to think about all of the events that had transpired within the last hour. Not paying attention to were I was going, I slammed into a rock hard chest.

"Hey watch where you are going!" A little girl, with short black pigtails and huge greyish blue eyes glared at me. I looked up to see a boy, who looked very similar to the little girl staring at me. I back up a little bit and kept my hand on my knife that rested in its holster on the back of my right thigh. The little girl looked up at the boy, who looked to be way older than she was. "Brother, lets go!" She smiled at him and then turned to look at me, practically sending me daggers. I avoided the girls glare and looked back at the boy. Our eyes met again, but I blushed and looked away as soon as I caught myself staring.

"Do you need our help?..." The boy asked me, his voice smooth and deep sent chills down my spine.

'No, I'm okay. Thank you though." I said in a pissed off tone. I didn't need his help, or want it for that matter. The little girl huffed and rolled her eyes. I placed my hands on my hips, and went to go walk away when the boy grabbed my wrist.

"Can you please...help us.." He looked at me, I wasn't able to see his mouth cause a black bandana was covering it, but I could tell in his eyes, he was desperate. At first I wasn't going to help them, but the boy looked really desperate. Suddenly the little girl interjected.

"Tutsue! we do not need HER help!" The little girl snarled at me with an attitude that was bigger than her height

"I apologize for my sisters attitude. My name is Tutsue Kaiya, and my sisters name is Myaell Kaiya. But she goes by Mya." He looked down at Mya, who looked out raged. I nodded.

"My name is Akari Tetsume. Its nice to meet you." I shook his hand as Mya huffed.

"I don't see why we need any help Tutsue. We will be fine." Mya tried to sound tough, but she was doing a horrible job at it. I shrugged.

"Look Mya, I know you think that we will be ok here by our selves, but we wont. I promise you that." Tutsue explained to Mya, who looked shocked. I nodded as I opened my menu bar and sent Mya and Tutsue a party request. Tutsue accepted immendeiatly, Mya hesitated a bit but then pressed the accept button. I smiled at both of them.

"Then its settled, lets get out of here and head to the Mandar Town." I told them both as they nodded and we set off to the next town.