How's it going everyone my name is Trevyler and welcome to another Sword Art Online fanfiction. Unlike my previous ones it's not just a Kirito/Lisbeth story, but it'll have more of an actual story to it. One thing as always with my stories is that everyone is usually OOC.

This story takes place in a game that I couldn't come up with a name for so I just called it Project New Grounds or New Grounds Online. Tell me which you guys think works better and I'll go with whatever one recieves better feedback. To say a little about it, there are different types of areas within it. They can range from Ancient Eurasia to Modern day Cities to Futuristic Places. Just know that there'll be a lot of places for the characters to go. Sometimes I'll give two or three options of the next place and all you beautiful readers out there will get to pick the next location. Any of info about the game will be given in the story and reviewed in the second note at the end of each story.

Regarding a few things with the SAO characters.

-Like I said they will be OOC.

-Lisbeth and Asuna will be kinda at odds for obvious reasons (Kirito) at certain if not all points.

-Kirito/Asuna will not last throughout the entire story so if you're here for that then you've been warned.

-Silica/Keiko won't be in love with him anymore either.

-Sinon however hasn't been decided.

That's all for now. Let's get on with the story. Enjoy!


CHAPTER 1:HERE WE GO AGAIN

In the world of ALfheim Online, two boys and five girls sat in a bar talking away.

The red headed boy, Klein, drank his tenth or so drink, "I wish it were so easy to drink like this in a real bar sometimes. Although I guess that would defeat the purpose." he talked more to himself than the others.

Sinon glanced over at him, "Idiot. I'll never understand how you of all people survived the death game." she told him.

He laughed like an idiot, "I'm not as stupid as you think I am. I just like to enjoy myself a bit." he responded.

She just rolled her eyes and returned to listening to the stories that the others were telling her about. Of course they were talking about Kirito while him and Asuna are too off in their own world to notice.

Silica sighed, "You know guys, I've pretty much given up on getting his attention. He's obviously happy with Asuna. Maybe we should just let things be." she suggested.

Lisbeth slammed her hand down on the table, not loud enough to disturb the others away from the table, "Really you're just gonna give up like that. It's easier said than done. I don't plan on giving up anytime soon. When a chance prevents itself I'm gonna be ready." she said with determined smile.

Leafa sighed, "I know what you mean. It's even harder for me. I live with him. Plus he doesn't know that I still feel that way about him since I've been playing it off as it's over with." she said sadly.

Sinon felt all eyes fall on her, "What about you Sinon? What do you think of Kirito?" Silica asked.

She set her cup she had been sipping on down, "I like him. Not like that, but he's a good friend and someone who understands the situation I've been in." she answered/

The words held more sentiment that she had meant them to, but they were true.

Klein chuckled, "Well there's another one lost to Kirito." he said before he burst out laughing.

The blue haired girl's cat ears flinched a little and she growled before she slapped him across the room to the opposite side of the bar and left a bright red hand print on his face, not unlike the one Kirito got in Gun Gale Online.

He raised his hand, "I'm okay." he said.

The only response he got was all the girls rolling their eyes.

Just then Yui flew up to everyone, "Daddy! Daddy!" she said drawing everyone's attention.

Kirito smiled, "Hi Yui. What do you need?" he asked his daughter.

She waved everyone over to her, "There's a new game that I've been hearing about and it's servers just opened up in Japan today. Can we go see it?" she pleaded.

He raised an eyebrow is it free or is it something we need to buy?" he questioned.

The little fairy expression dropped a bit, "It's a downloadable game that cost around 7000 yen instead of paying a subscription fee. Once downloaded you just play it like you would any other virtual reality game. You can also transfer accounts from other accounts." she said still hoping to see it.

The swordsman rubbed his chin, "I should have enough to get it. Alright let me see what I can do." he told her.

She gave the brightest smile she could and kissed her dad on the cheek.

Kirito turned to his other friends, "Any of you guys want to come along?" he offered.

Klein gave a thumbs up, "Count me in!" he said.

Asuna smiled, "You know I'm coming." she replied.

Lisbeth stood up, "Me too!" she agreed.

Sinon and Silica looked at each other and nodded, "I guess we're in too." Sinon confirmed.

Leafa just smiled and nodded.

They agreed to logout an call each other once they had the game.


Kazuto stretched in his chair as he watched the last few seconds of the loading bar fill.

He grabbed his phone and sent a group message to everyone saying that he was ready.

Suguha knocked on the door, "Tell everyone I'm ready. Okay Onii-chan?" she told him.

He smiled, "Alright Sugu." he called back.

He sent another message and waited for the reply.

The phone buzzed a few times.

All set and ready to go-Ryo

I'm ready too-Rika

Let's get this show on the road-Shino

I'm ready. I wonder how Yui will turn out in this game-Asuna

Wait for me guys-Keiko

Hey did you guys hear that this game you get to pick where you start off.-Ryo

What?-Kazuto

Apparently there's different starting cities and stuff. Each one is different. There's cool things like ancient japanese things, knight, modern cities. It's all in one game.-Ryo

So do you guys wanna start at the same place or find somewhere to meet once we get in the game?-Asuna

We can meet somewhere once we get in the game. Since I'm here to let Yui see the game, you guys can start where you want and we'll message each other.-Kazuto

I know where I'm starting-Ryo

Can we just play the game now?-Suguha

Yeah let's get going so we can do as much as we can today. See you guys inside.-Kazuto

Kazuto turned off his phone and put on the nerve gear, "Link Start!" he said as he was sent into the game.


This wasn't a very long chapter I know, but starting the story is the hardest part for me. Okay so next chapter, everyone will kinda explore different parts of the game depending on where they chose to start. Now I have a question for all of you. What three characters would you like me to focus on in the next chapter. I'm thinking of going with Kirito, Klein, and Sinon. If you have any suggestions, feel free to review or PM me. This chapter would've been up last night, but ,my power went out. Twice. So I had no internet at all from like 11 last night to sometime this morning. Good thing is that I slept through most of it. Thanks to the power outage I'm also gonna be unable to write as much. My schoolwork is all online so I couldn't do that either so I'll be busy for quite a bit. As always have a great day everyone!

~Trevyler