AN: This takes places in the video game universe and not the anime. It also takes place just before Lost Song. By the way, there's already kind of a pre-established relationship with Philia, Asuna, and Strea.

In the virtual world of Alfheim Online, a small group of friends flew by a Grassland Area near the Sylph's territory. A Spriggan and Undine that were known as Kirito and Asuna who were also SAO Survivors. A tiny little fairy girl sitting in the Spriggan's coat pocket, she happened to be an AI program from the game that trapped ten thousand players. She ended up becoming the Daughter of Kirito, she was known as a Mental Health Counselling Program 001, or just Yui. Right behind them was another AI, a Mental Health Counselling Program, Strea, and she was apart of the Genome race. She was a lot more... affectionate to Kirito than either Yui or anyone else has ever been in recent times. With the family was Kirito's little sister, or really his little cousin, who was known Leafa in Alfheim Online or Suguha in the real world. Leafa was a part of a race that was known as Sylphs. Right next to her was another Spriggan who is another SAO survivor who went by Philia, or Takemiya Kotone in the real world. Leafa was quite happy since they were heading out on a Quest. It seemed to involved a helping taking out these monsters that have been causing a stir in the area and she was supposed to get some rare item.

"Kirito..." Asuna said.

"Yes?"

"I'm... still a little worried about Rin. You said that she was with you when you first started, right?"

"Yeah, she said that she was going to help... but, we never met up. I tried to talk to her outside the game, but she never responded. I wonder what's wrong?"

"I'm worried about her too," Philia said as she slowed down enough to be next to Kirito and Asuna.

"We know. You liked her, didn't you?" Asuna said with a smile though it looked like she didn't like that fact but nobody noticed since she was able to hide it. Philia looked away to try and hide the small blush on her face.

"Strea? You said that you look for her when we're not playing, right?" Asuna said she flew a little closer to Strea who seemed a little annoyed for some reason.

"Yep! But it hasn't been so successful." Strea said, as she snapped out of her partial bad mood and answered Asuna.

"Don't worry! I'm sure we'll find her eventually." Yui said as she tried to reassure Asuna.

The sound of metal clanging against each other rang throughout the forest and they couldn't exactly tell where it was coming from since it seemed to echo from everywhere. They all slowed down to listened in on the sounds, but Kirito was able to quickly realize what that sound was. He knew someone was battling something or somebody in the nearby area. Around the area they were in a player came flying out of the forest and it seemed like he was knocked into the air by something. Kirito noticed that he was another Sylph just like Leafa and he had multiple red marks on his body. Out of the trees, another player came flying at him with their sword ready to stab the player. The mysterious player stabbed the Sylph draining the remaining bit of his HP until he died and burst into green flames. Kirito noticed the player was a messy short purple haired Imp, a little shorter than Asuna's height and that she was a female player who has a slender build with a bunch of red slash marks on her body. She wore a fancy purple open jacket with small fur on the collar of the jacket and single purple armour rest on her right shoulder. Under the Player's jacket was a purple breastplate in the standard style of an Imp player. Underneath the breastplate was a dark purple shirt. Around her waist was a purple and gold cape, and she wore a skirt of the same colour. She wore purple heel boots that reached just past her knees with small purple metal plates covering the boots.

"Daddy! It's her!" Yui said.

"What? Who?" Kirito asked.

"It's Rin!" Strea said as she was just about to fly after her but stopped when more Sylph players flew out of the forest. They watched as Rin lifted up that one-handed sword she was carrying. The blade was thin and scarlet red, and the blade seemed to gleam like fire while in the light. The red and black hilt was laced with gold, and in the middle and on both sides of the cross-guard was two sapphires embedded in.

"Give us the sword, and maybe we'll forgive you for what you did!" The Sylph threatened.

Rin didn't say anything and all she did was raise her sword in a stance ready to take on her assailants. Two of the Sylphs charged at her with their weapons drawn and ready to attack. One of them swung at her but Rin dodged and in one attack she killed the player mainly because said player was heavily damaged already and was cocky due to them outnumbering her. His teammates weren't as cocky as him since they were carefully observing her actions. Three of them went in to attack while the other three stayed behind either because they saw their group or they were planning something. Rin blocked each of their attacks but they were able to get a few hits in. Rin stabbed her sword into one of the Sylph's gut and she yanked it to the side which ended up cutting him in half. She blocked the attack of the two that went in coordinated while two others stayed behind. They both went in and Rin blocked the attack from the one that flew right by her. The other one tried to attack while she was distracted by the other player, but it didn't work since she got one good hit on him. Thinking they seen enough, Kirito and the others charged in to help her. The other two players noticed them and slowly backed away from them since they were outnumbered at the moment.

Rin stared in confusion once she noticed her attackers backed off for some reason. A voice from behind her called out her name and turned around to see another group fly towards her. She prepared for another fight by raising her sword towards them which kind of shocked them.

"It's... It's us! Rin, don't you remember?" Asuna said.

"What? I don't know you."

"What? It's me! Asuna!"

"Asuna?" Rin looked at her with confusion, and Asuna could tell from the look in her purple eyes that she didn't really know her.

"Don't you remember us?" Philia said this time. "We survived Sword Art Online together!"

"Sword Art... Online...?" Asuna and the others noticed the surprised look on her face before it changed into a pained expression. Rin brought held her hands to her head like she was in pain, but what confused and startled a few of them was that it looked like there were bits of glitched data appearing around her that had a rather similar look to what happened when Kirito fought against Heathcliff. Before they could do anything a magic spell from those other players hit Rin and they watched as she falls straight to the ground. They all readied their weapons and noticed that more of them had appeared.

"Looks like we'll have to deal with them before we can get some answers from Rin," Kirito said.

Having just only arrived, a young Imp girl with long purple hair watched as Rin was hit in the back with a magic spell. She rushed over to where she had hit the ground and she quickly dropped next to her. Rin slowly opened her eyes and stared at the Imp girl with worry clear in her eyes.

"Yuuki?"

"Man, you were really outnumbered there. Let's get you out of here."

"Right..." Rin agreed before she stood up and followed her away from the battling group. While she followed Yuuki through the forest, Rin noticed that her hand was trembling slightly in from the recent fight. She imagined about the people she killed not too long ago just to get out there caused anxiety to build up for reasons that she didn't really understand since they aren't truly dead. Rin didn't expect a hand to grab her's and she looked at the owner to see Yuuki smiling at her although for some reason that smiled filled her with an unknown warmth.

"Come on."

"Yes..."