The Rain Always Falls
A Sword Art Online OC-centric fanfiction. Warning: contains tragedy and angst.
-writingthedayaway
Disclaimer: No, I don't own SAO or any of the canon characters.
Prologue
Rain. The skies were weeping, the artificial world clouded with grey and gloom.
Tears. Her eyes were filled with them, their blue depths spilling over in an abundance of uncontainable grief.
Gone. He was gone. His body had pixelated into a thousand, perhaps a million, tiny crystal fragments, scattering into the cold of the night and evaporating, vanishing forever.
She gathered the invisible remains in her trembling hands, her own body starting to turn translucent as her health bar dropped drastically. Choking back a sob, the girl poured a health potion down her throat, and her form became solid again.
"Live on," he had told her, his tall figure standing protectively in front of her as he fended off the onslaught of attacks from the PKers that were targeting them. "No regrets." His smile, the self-same smile that he had given her that day when they first met, stayed strong for her, never waning even as he was hit.
She had cried countless tears, her body quavering with sighs and regret as they turned on her after finishing him off.
She had been left for dead, but now she must live on. And if not for her own sake, for his.