Chapter 1: A new player


POV: Third person omniscient


Disclaimer: sword art online is owned by A-1 pictures, Aniplex USA, Reki Kawahara

AN: I do not own danganronpa... I do, however own a Monokuma plushy.


Kirito walked up the stairs connecting floors 49 and 50, lost in thought he didn't notice Argo was walking up silently half a yard away behind and to the right she said, "I got some info you might be interested in" he looked in her direction with surprise spelled out on his face, "how long have you been there"

"I was hiding in the corner at the boss battle the whole time. What's up!"

"Well uh... Wait you said you had something interesting to share"

"Yup!"

"So what was it?"

"Fifty col" he produced the coin handed it to her and she said, "some Idiot decided it would be a good idea to start playing a few days ago" when he heard this he nearly fell, "WHY?"

"I don't know but he leveled up faster than you did"

"What?"

"I met him yesterday. He was slashing through a bunch of mobs on the forty-ninth floor at night. As soon as I spotted him he turned around and looked in my general direction but i was pretty sure he couldn't see through my hiding skill. Anyway he turned back, killed all the mobs, looked at me and said, 'I know you're there' so I walked up to him and said, 'I haven't seen you before' and he's like, 'shouldn't have I just started two days ago' so I said, 'after they informed the public that this game was a death trap are you crazy?'

'no I'm just excited to finally be playing this game I've been working on programming for so long I want to experience first hand the word I helped create. By the way where's the log out butten'"

"Idiot"

"I know right. Oh and he had wings like an angle or something"

"Did he tell you where he got them"

"You know it's funny you mentioned that. When I asked he held out his hand and said and I quote, 'five-hundred col'"

"He asked for money"

"It's like he's a new source of information that only I know about"

"Except you just told me."

"But I didn't tell you how he looked. Though it wouldn't do you much good any way."

"Meaning?"

"He said that if I wanted to talk to him again I'd have to up my "recognition skill" whatever that means."

"What did he look like?"

"Five-hundred col"

"What?"

"Hey I gotta make up the money someho-wall"

"Wha-" at that moment the back of Kirito's head made contact with the door to the next floor and he fell backwards as it opened, "my bad it wasn't a wall it was a door"

"Oh haha very funny. Wait why did you need to tell me on the stairs?"

"Ten col"

"Forget it" so they entered the floor and Argo began to run through the flower filled floor straight down the path past the town in the center and kept moving until she reached a small hill with a single cherry blossom on top and one white cloaked girl lying motionless beneath it. Kirito caught up saw the girl but had lost sight of Argo so he called out, "Argo where'd you go?" Then she swung down from a branch above and said, "what's up" he half jumped in surprise but quickly replanted his feet to keep from accidentally causing a self-inflicted stun affect. Argo let her arms dangle toward the ground then let herself fall and rolled to a sitting position as she landed. Kirito spoke, "so who's this?"

"No idea, but somehow she got here before us"

"Could be an NPC"

"Check again" he looked just above her head, "her cursor is green"

"Yup."

"So..."

"So she found a way up without using the stairs"

"Oh you think it's that guy who just started right?"

"Or another programmer who decided to play this game but she doesn't have wings like the guy I met"

"She could have asked him for a ride?" She checked under the cloak and wide eyed she slowly put the fabric she lifted back down, "well we can rule that out"

"Why?"

"She's naked under there"

"Wha?"

"Shhhhh she's waking up." Just as she said she was getting up. Her right hand moved to cover her mouth and she yawned stretching every other muscle for about two seconds, then relaxing and tilting her head to both left and right producing equal and opposite cracking sounds. Punched full force with both arms hitting nothing yet still producing two cracking sounds she then hopped to her feet and put her left hand in a fist behind her back while her index and middle fingers reached the right side of her head. After both arms seemed to have reached their destination at the same time the right arm relaxed and the two fingers separated between two or three inches away and stopped at four. One word left her lips, "Yo!" Argo was about to return the greeting when she noticed, "someone said the same thing to me the same way yesterday but it couldn't possibly..."

"Well ya caught me. Huh. Why's he here?"

"You know it's rude to speak of someone when they're right in front of you"

"Alright *clears throat* why are you here and were is your girlfriend?"

"Ahahaha hahaha ha... He doesn't mean that he's just... um."

"A girl?"

"Yeah let's go with that. Wait how did you become a girl?"

"Five-hundred col"

"Of course!" She nudged Kirito and whispered for him to pay when she said, "each" Argo pouted for about two seconds then held out the coin with a sad expression, "you gonna do that every time you buy information from me?"

"Yes?"

"There's a dungeon on the first floor clear on the other side of the floor with the other dungeon I mentioned... actually exactly the same distance from the center. There, is a quest that will give you a skill called brewing in which you can make drinks and other such liquids but most importantly potions. There are certain flowers and plants that can be easily accessed in this floor. If you upgrade the skill high enough-"

"You can change genders"

"Not just that. It will tell you what plants you need to make what ever potions you want to make, a list beyond imagination."

"So why are you naked?"

"I don't plan on moving around to much in this form just sleep under this tree"

"So why are you a girl"

"Ten col" they paid, "I don't know why I'm a girl I just made a ton of these potions because they're the easiest to make and raise the skill the fastest. And I have a problem with having something take up space I could be using elsewhere unless I have unlimited space in which case I don't care if things go to waste. Oh and before I forget either of you want to buy an instant full heal potion" Kirito said, "YOU CAN MAKE THOSE?"

"Yeah they taste like ass on a shit sandwich but if you really want it..."

"How much"

"Um... say... a hundred col each"

"Ok I'll take ten" the trade window popped up and disappeared almost the moment it appeared, because Kirito pressed the okay button the second he saw the line turn into a square. Argo said, "wait you never told me why your naked"

"Is it really that important to you?"

"Yes"

"It's more comfortable (yawn) to sleep naked (slow blink) try it... sometime... how 'bout..." she fell asleep propped up on the tree again and she was so peaceful that they didn't want to disturbe her so Kirito left.


AN: fair warning. I meant it to end with as much dissapointment as Reki Kawahara caused