Disclaimer: I do not own Sword Art Online just my OC

It was my only escape from this harsh reality… but they took it from me. only temporary but still it was gone. My name is Zen Kara I am a beta tester for SAO. The game was coming out today, so I didn't have to wait long. I would go get it myself… but I'm paralyzed. The doctors say it will be a miracle if I ever can walk again. It's not impossible for me to walk again… heh… what am I thinking. I laughed

I actually had hope for a second I thought to myself in a hospital bed. My arms and legs were limp and couldn't move. They lay gently on the soft bed… yet, I couldn't feel the soft comfort of the bed. Where my arms were, I felt a void, something nonexistent. No they existed, but, only for the sole purpose, of reminding me of the great gift I once had. Were my legs had been, my means of transportation, my ticket into the free world, were now just dead hunks of flesh, hanging, keeping me in this cage of a room.

SAO was a virtual reality online game. That is where I was free, that was my home, not here. The game was made for me. It didn't need arms or legs. It used the one thing that hasn't betrayed me, my mind. In the world, even though I couldn't feel anything, I had freedom. I had the power to explore, make friends, and even have a life. Tears started coming to my eyes. It was definitely better then what I had now. I can't feed myself, I can't protect myself, and I can't even go to the bathroom by myself. I was like a baby. No, I was worse than a baby. Babies could crawl and be free, and as for me, what could I do? I could only lay down wait for the sun to pass me by and the moon lull me to bad while the darkness hid tears. There was only two things that kept me here in the land where the living walked, they were the fact that I couldn't kill myself if I wanted, and my family. My mother and little sister visit every day. My father was like me. he had also given up on me. I haven't seen that man in months. Most of my family still had hope for me. Fools they are. What hope is there, but still, they are the reason I bother logging out of SAO.

Someone opened the door. It was a nurse. They come around every fifteen minutes to half an hour. This one was here to feed me. I had no clock in the room. I asked them to take it out. It just made the days go by slower. I couldn't remember what meal we were on. Once she came in she had sandwiches on tray, so I guessed it was lunch.

"It's lunch time Zen" I was right. The nurse was speaking in a happy tone to try and help me up my mood. No, it didn't work, it would never work.

"You feeling any better?" no I wasn't and I wasn't going to answer her. I abandoned my voice in the real world months back. No this stopped being the real world a long time ago. There was no reason to talk in this fake world anymore. The only person I even react to is my little sister Isis. If I am ever to talk, it would be in SAO. After all that is my real world

The nurse was feeding me the sandwich and if life wasn't bad enough it had avocado. I hated that stuff. I wasn't going to say anything. I just obeyed and ate and once I was done, she left me again. She had given up on talking to me.

Hours were starting to pass by and there was no sign of anything happening. Why would there be something happening? Everything in here can't move!

I always seemed to have bad timing, because the door said otherwise. The door opened and my sister Isis came in. Isis was young around fourteen. She had black long straight hair that stretched down to her waist. Her hair color was the same as mine, and my hair was short, not long. She held in her hand, a copy of SAO. That brought me my first smile of the day. My mother always said that my smile was the brightest thing in her day.

My smile was the one give away she got that told her I wanted to play. She put on my nerve gear and I was now about to play the official version of SAO. Isis finished and I activated it by saying in my head

Link Start

The world disappeared and was replaced with white. Colors were flooding my mind they were making up my new home.

Settings came up

Touch ok

Sight ok

Hearing ok

Taste ok

Smell ok

The settings formed a line. They were all good to go. I went on to the next screen.

Language, I selected Japanese. The language setting disappeared and what replaced it was the log in screen. Since I was a beta tester, I had an account already. I put in my name and password.

Words appeared, they read Zen Kara(M) correct? Yes or No

I used my real name for my username. I had no reason not to. No one knew me so there was no reason to hide my name. The M I guessed stood for male

Yes

The colors came back flooding my mind again and I was in.

I was in a town paved with white bricks. In front of me was a hedge perfectly cut and it slit the path in front of me two ways.

I noticed something new that wasn't in the beta. Tears streamed through my eyes.

"I can feel!" I touched my face with my hand. The longing that I had for this feeling. It was too much. I could feel it. The warmth of my face, the solid ground. The tears wouldn't stop.

This beautiful world gave me the ability to feel. I'm going to enjoy this… for as long as I live.

My appearance was taller than my real body and my hair was now white. Since the game had just came out I started as the bottom level 1. I turned around to see that meny people were loging on at the same time as I.

I smiled "Hello Family"

I started walking. I was on floor one AKA the town of beginnings While I walked through the market I saw many stands of different kinds owned by NPCs. beside every market it overflowed with real players. The game had just came out so there was ten thousand players or even more still in the first town or even right now killing their first mob. That's where I wanted to be. I wanted to level. I made haste towards the fields. I was running past players and even bumped into a few. The bumps sent chills down my spine. I was so great that I could feel. It only took a while to get to the fields, but once I got there I saw great fields of grass, flowers blooming everywhere and to top that off I instantly saw bores that I could fight. I looked at my equipment to see that I had started off with a beginning sword. I readied my stance for the first blow on the bore. My sword was by my hips facing my back. The skill activated and my body glowed a faint purple aura. I ran, the grass and the wind were supporting my action. I jammed the sword into the bore's side making a gap of coded blood. Once I had passed through I turned around to see that the HP bar above the bore's head went to half. The bore charged for revenge. I griped the cold steel in my hand and pointed the sword towards the ground. I activated another skill and slashed upwards. The bore ran into the cut. The momentum from the bore's charge gave my sword the power to slice the whole thing in half.

I defeated my first enemy. I continued to do this for a good twenty minutes and I leveled up. I wanted to save the points that I got from the level up until I found a stronger opponent or I had decided on what I wanted to level. I continued to kill off bores for a good hour. Two bores was my limit at one time. The second bore managed to land a few blows on me and I found out that they didn't transfer the feeling of pain into the game. That made it more convenient for me. I only had to remember the good and not the bad parts of being able to feel.

I hit level three and decided I wanted to log out. I opened the screen and opened the settings.

"What's this?" I said in unbelief. "Where is the log out button?" I checked every menu and option for the log out. It was just gone. I wanted to think that it was an error that they were going to fix. I was about to have my answer. My body started to decode bit by bit. It was a force teleport.

I was teleported to the main hall, and I wasn't the only one. A bell was ringing from the main bell tower in the dead center of the town of beginnings. There was commotion amongst the crowd, confusion.

"Do you know what is happening?" a random guy asked me.

"No… sorry" I replied

I didn't know what was going on and apparently no one else did ether.

"Look up there" someone spotted something. It was a glowing red panel blinking off and on saying warning. Once everyone had their attention on it, it grew. Warning, system error, warning, these were all things that thousands of panels read as the surrounded the town in a dome.

Red liquid started oozing out of the cracks in the panels forming a huge blob in the air. The blob eventually formed a clocked man. The man didn't have a face. I would think that it was a welcome event, but it was too ominous.

"Attention players. I welcome you to my world." The clocked figure greeted. "My name is Akihiko Kiaba and as of this moment I am in control of this world." What does he mean by that? I thought to myself.

"I'm sure most of you had noticed that you are all missing an option in your main menu. The log out button. Let me assure you, this is not a defect in the game. This is how Sword Art Online was designed to be. You cannot log yourself out of SAO and no one from the outside will be able to shut down or remove the nerve gear that is on your head. If anyone tries to do so, a transmitter inside of the nerve gear will go off and fry your brain and you will die."

Everyone was panicking at what he had said. There was no way out of this game

Akihiko continued "despite my warning family and friends have tried to remove the nerve gear from some of the players. As a result, the game has two hundred and thirteen less players then when it had begun." He brought up new reports in the sky reporting deaths from nerve gear. This man was serious.

"There is no longer anyway to revive someone within the game. If your HP drops to zero, your avatar will be deleted from the system, forever and the nerve gear will destroy your brain." This has to be a joke. "there is only one way for a player to escape death and that is to complete the game. Right now you are gathered on floor one. The lowest level of Incrag. If you manage to defeat the dungeon and defeat the boss you may advance to the next floor. If you defeat the boss on floor one hundred and you will have cleared the game." This was now a death game. My sweat escape was now a fight for my life. I never had anything work out for me. Even my freedom comes with a price.

"One last thing" the clocked figure continued "I gave you all an item in you inventory, please take a look."

I took out the item in my inventory and it was a mirror. What was this supposed to do? Remind us of who we are? My questions were swiftly answered when every player was swallowed by a light. Once all the lights disappeared we were all revealed as we truly were. I was lucky my body didn't bring the peralyzation with it.

"You are probably wondering why I did this" damn right I am "My goal was to be able to control the fate of a world I designed. As you can see I have achieved my goal. This marks the end of the tutorial and the official launch of Sword Art Online. Players, I wish you the best of luck

WOooooo sword art online started I'm excited. Good day or night peoples