Riders of Aincrad
Chapter 1
Black Dragon
Okay, so this my first attempt at an S.A.O fic. Now as stated in the description this is a Kirito Harem fic. However the main pairing is something you'll have to wait and find out. And before I get a lot of question on the subject. Yes, I do intend to go through the other arcs. With all that out of the way... Let's kick it up!
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Unkown forest: December 29 2023
Deep within the forests of Aincrad, we find our hero, Kirito walking in a deep depression. He had been wondering around aimlessly for four days strait, refusing to go to any town or inns in fear of what he say every time he closed his eyes.
They played on an endless loop for him every time he even blinked. The Moonlit Black Cats. Keita, Tetsuo, Sasamaru, Ducker... Sachi. Each one of their deaths happened in slow motion no matter how much he kept fighting to make the pain go away.
He had thought about going to one of his friends like Klein or Agil to talk about it. But he quickly decided against it, he was afraid of letting people get close again. Both out of fear of them dying and them being associated with the 'Beater' That dumbass tidal given to him by that idiot who didn't know how MMO's work and tried to turn everyone against the beta testers. Though he'd be lying if he said he didn't miss his friends company.
Kirito continued to walk for several more hours, not noticing that he was walking at the edge of a circular cliff about a hundred yards around and about fifty yards deep. This absentmindedness led to Kirito stepping on a week point on the cliff causing him to fall in to the pit.
"Son of a bitch." Kirito ground as he got up. At his current level, the fall wasn't nearly bad enough to cause him any serious damage. But it still annoyed the hell out of him. He then brought his hand up in order to pull a teleport crystal from his inventory before something caught the corner of his eye.
Out of curiosity, Kirito walked over to the items to see a pile of black chains. Kirito brought up his item scanner and began to read the stats of what he was looking at.
[Obsidian Chains: Taming item Area of effect: All bestial enemies. Tamed enemy will become the permanent familiar of the one who tames it as well as becoming communal with the tamer's spouse and/or guild. Warning: A player may only tame one beast. Choose wisely.]
Kirito finished reading before making the scanner disappear and placing his hand to his chin in thought. "These could be a very useful item." He said to himself. "If nothing else, they can net me a decent amount of Col." He said as he placed the ropes in his inventory. However, doing this caused a warning light to trigger.
"Ah shit. I really should have seen that coming." He grumbled as streak of violet lightning struck down as a black Dragon with silver wings and glowing purple eyes. The words black lightning lvl 76 appeared before four HP bars showed up.
Kirito took a step back as he looked upon the creature which was a few levels higher than him. 'To beat that thing, I'm going to need to pull out everything I've got.' He thought as he took advantage of the Dragon's stalking phase and activating the secret skill he rolled at level 40, summoning his Knight Sword to his left hand and keeping his Gem Sword in his right.
The dragon off several balls of purple lightning hat Kirito though each one missed, the balls left behind an electrified smoke for five seconds. Thankfully, Kirito's duel wielding made his speed go up drastically, allowing him to slash through the Dragon leg. The Dragon then tried to take off only for Kirito to jump on its tail and climbed to its back and stabbing to its left wing causing it to fall to the ground, throwing Kirito off.
Kirito rolled back to his feet before the Dragon got back up and fired out a large purple beam of energy with electricity around it. Kirito was just barely able to bring his swords up to block the blast and send it back at the Dragon. Even with the extra power that it was given, Kirito's block meter was almost completely depleted from the attack. He quickly realized that he wouldn't be able to block another attack like that until his guard meter fully refilled in thirty seconds.
"Alright, time to go Bloodborne." Kirito said before running as fast as he could towards the Dragon, rolling under and dodging its lightning orbs before ducking in to its blind spot and using the best Sword Skill he possibly could on the Dragon which, in addition to the damage from the fall and the blast back, brought its health in to the yellow.
Just then, a prompt came up in front of Kirito's left eye that said 'Taming possible'. Within that split second, Kirito decided to pull the Obsidian Chain out of his inventory and launched it out, wrapping it around the Dragon's neck before several directional prompts appeared which Kirito was able to quickly pull off before chain began to glow red, link by link until reaching the Dragon's neck, completing the taming possess before a set of reins appeared over the Dragon's head before a menu appeared in front of Kirito saying 'Would you like to name your new familiar?'
Kirito took a minute to think before selecting yes on the menu and typing out the name Arashikage before confirming the name. (Ten points if you know where that name comes from without googleing it.)
Kirito then looked to see two skills that he learned from the capture sequence. Familiar Grow and Familiar Shrink. Kirito looked over for the description of the skills before climbing on Arashikage and taking off in flight.
The sheer adrenalin coursing through Kirito at that moment was unparalleled. This sensation was so amazing that for the first time in a long while, Kirito found himself smiling.
After about an hour of flying, Kirito decided it was time to land before shrinking Arashikage down to around the size of the average pets in S.A.O and deactivated his Duel Wielding before walking back to the nearest town.
A few days later Kirito was approached by Argo the Info Broker.
"Hey, Kii-bou. You're looking a lot less sad than the l saw you." Argo said in a jovial tone.
"Yeah, I'm doing a lot better since last time." Kirito said while petting Arashikage, who was sitting on his shoulder. "So, what's new in Aincrad?" He asked.
"There's some new add-ons that got set up last night. Long range weapons like bows and crossbows will start being common place soon, new Super Skills are going to be added to the roll, and elemental items just got put in. A few items have been retroactively changed to fit that. The elements are water, earth, fire, air, holy, and dark." Argo explained.
'That explains why the icon for my Gem Sword turned brown.' Kirito thought. "I'm guessing that some elements are week to others." He reasoned having picked up that pattern from most other RPGs.
"Yup." Argo confirmed before explaining. "Fire beats Wind. Wind beats Earth. Earth beats Water. Water beats Fire. Holy and Dark are weak to each other." She finished up.
"That's gonna take some adaptation." Kirito mumbled to himself before looking back to Argo. "So, how much for the info?" He asked.
"You would have figured it out on your own eventually." Argo replied before standing. "Besides, you already paid me, Kii-bou." She said with a flirtatious wink before walking away and thinking 'I'm glad to see you smiling again, Kirito.'
That night, Kirito was lying in bed while looking down at Arashikage who was lying down at his feet. He then opened his inventory to look at at the Obsidian Chains and strangely began thinking about some advice he had given to one of the few friends he had in S.A.O and the message he got from Sachi. 'Maybe it would be a good idea.' He thought to himself before bringing up his menu and went to the symbol creator.
(The next morning on floor 25)
A young woman wearing a hooded long coat was carrying a blue bladed long sword was being set upon by six of the newly created Fire Goblins. The creatures surrounded the girl in a circle. The one directly behind the girl leapt at her only to get met with a behind the back stab from her. The girl then ducked under a horizontal strike from a Fire Goblin's mace before doing a wide slice which took out three more Goblins. The girl then threw her sword in to the throat of another Fire Goblin before jumbling over it grabbing her sword mid jump and chopping down the final Goblin.
When the encounter came to an end, the girl's menu came up to reveal that she had reached lvl 40 and the words 'Roll for Super Skill? Odds for success 25%. Attempts remaining three.' came up. The girl simply gave a 'Why not?' shrug and confirmed the roll. The word 'Success' came up as the girl looked at her new super skill. Dual Wielding.
The girl then looked off in to the distance, seeing a few Lizard Warriors spawning several yards away from her. "Just wait for me a bit longer, Kirito and don't let yourself be alone." She whispered before she rushed forward sword in hand.
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Well, there you go. I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter. Next time, Kirito officially begins building his guild. Now, before I go I should explain how Super Skills will work in this. Any player can get one if they roll it. Max odds of doing so seventy five percent. But you can't change it once getting it. Anyway, please like, fav and review and until next time and as always... Keep on keeping on.