Hey everyone! For those of you who recognize me for my Phineas and Ferb stories, I will be taking a small break from PnF. I might update every so often, but right now I'm REALLY into SAO, so be patient with me. Also, I wanna apologize for my long absence from . My laptop had some Malware and my internet wasn't working for a long time after we scanned it and cleaned it.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Marissa Flynn, formerly known as iheartphinabella05, but that's somewhat behind me now. Anyway, I usually write PnF, but now I'm somewhat expanding my horizons. I say somewhat because...well...never mind, I wanna see who can figure it out. Anyway. While usually my OC's are 'insert major', Mirikai...is actually background. WHAT?! Marissa Flynn, formerly iheartphinabella05, is creating a BACKGROUND character?! MADNESS! Lol

Anyway, I do not own Sword Art Online (I WISH), but I do own Mirikai.

Please review, this is my first SAO story. I'd appreciate reviews.


I placed the nerve gear on my head, and laid down on my bed. My brothers banged on the door, wishing they could play too, but my intentions were clear to them. This was mine, and they weren't going to take part in it. I wish they'd understand. They were furious with me for not letting them have a turn. I closed my eyes, and I announced two words, "Link start!" and after that I seemed to be asleep to the real world.

After a bunch of colors passed through my vision and the system checked my five senses along with me selecting my language, I was greeted with a huge screen that said, "WELCOME TO SWORD ART ONLINE."

After that, a menu pulled up. I was able to pick my gender, hair, height, weight...everything. I decided not to deviate too much from my true self as far as physical body. Of course the first thing I did was pick my name. I...I didn't feel right about using my real name. I decided to go with a different name...something exotic and different. Ah! I know!

Name: Mirikai

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5.5"

Hair color: Light Brown

Styled: short past the shoulder length barely, straight

Eye Color: Hazel

Other Eye Features: glasses

Outfit: a black t-shirt, white sweater-like jacket, layered skirt (black, white and blue), white leggings, black heels (able to fight and move comfortably)

My outfit is nothing like my true self...but I didn't really care. After that, a blinding light shone into my eyes, and when I opened them...I saw skies and grass. I saw buildings and other people. This is amazing! It's like I actually live here, actually stand here and feel the breeze...it's like I'm...in a new dimension. I look around, and I see many different avatars. When I look at their features, they are a lot different than mine. It's strange...we all look like a person in an anime...which is fine by me. I can't let them see where I'm really from...what I really look like. This is my escape from the real world, from people always teasing me. The nice thing is that if I die...I can just try again...I had no idea how wrong I was.

It was later within the day. I had fought some low level monsters for a little bit of experience points trying to level up even a little bit. I was about level five when I looked at the time. It was about dinner time. I admitted I was kind of hungry, and mom made the best tacos I knew of. I decided to logout for the night. However...when I opened up my main menu...the logout button was gone...must be a bug or so. From what I've heard this is Sword Art Online's first day out of beta. I hear the beta testers made it far...but not far enough to beat the game. How amazing it would have been to beta test this game. Oh well, at least I get to play it now. I just hope they fix the bug soon. Suddenly I felt myself being teleported into the square of the Town of Beginnings. I was surrounded by other players. Some were pretty handsome...but I knew most of these players were from Japan. I can't make too many friends here...considering I'd never have money to fly to Japan to meet them in real life. It's one reason I chose the name Mirikai. It sounds more Japanese. I can't let them know where I really come from. If they did, they'd all judge me. They'd judge me and wonder how I managed to get a copy of SAO...the truth is...I specially ordered it so that I'd be able to play it. My sister has a friend who has family in Japan, and she managed to get a special copy of the game translated in English for me. I'd have to thank her. I had to wonder what was going on though. I mean...first the logout button is gone, now this? Suddenly the skies became a dark red, and a red liquid started oozing from the skies. It took the shape of a hooded figure without a face. I admitted this scared me a bit. He announced his name, Akihiko Kayaba, and that the whole 'logout button bug' wasn't a bug at all. The truth was that this was completely intentional. We couldn't logout of SAO...and if we died in the game...the nerve gear would destroy our brain. It got worse than that...if our family members try to remove it, it would destroy our brain as well. This wasn't a game anymore. It was now a fight for survival. Life or death...that's what this was now. The only way out of the game is to beat it by defeating every boss on all one-hundred floors of Aincrad, the floating castle that SAO is on. I had to be careful if I ever wanted to see my family again. Akihiko Kayaba then mentioned an item placed in our storage, and he invited us to check it out...but...I didn't trust him. I mean he's trapping us in a death game! I decide against looking at the item given to us. I was right not to trust this item. It changed every player in the square to what they look like in the real world. I couldn't bear it if they saw who I looked like in the real world. A lot of players were revealed to be opposite gender than their avatars. I was glad I didn't check out the new item. I feared what would happen in the real world. How worried my brothers would be when I didn't come to dinner...Oh no! What if they try to remove my nerve gear?! I'll die! Kayaba then mentioned that two hundred thirteen players out of the ten thousand disregarded his warning and their families tried removing their nerve gear...and indeed the nerve gear destroyed their brains. Those poor people. I was relieved when I heard that bodies playing SAO were moved to hospitals to further secure their safety of dying. It then hit me...I might never see my brothers again...or my sister...or any of my family. Oh my God...what was I going to do? Let's see…there's these places called safe zones, where a player cannot die unless there's a duel. But even then, those are challenges of skill and strength, not a fight to the death...but...I guess some people think differently. I'd be wise to avoid duels...avoid players altogether. I think I'll just stay in the safe zones...my only problem is food. What was I gonna do? Would I ever see my family again?

My name is Mirikai, real name...not important right now, and I am thirteen years old. And I'm gonna survive this game...for my family.


Yeah, a little short, but it's a prologue, what do you expect. Now, Mirikai is going to come in contact with major characters like Asuna and Kirito, BUT, it will be in chapters that take place between episodes. Remember how it took two years to get out of SAO, and the first and second episodes took place a month apart? Well, Mirikai's Story will take place between episodes...maybe background to the actual episodes, but background only. She'll be major in the story...but if she's in any episodes, she's only background...like...during Kirito's part of the story, it's a meanwhile kind of thing. You never 'see' her in the episodes...if you know what I mean. Anyway, please review!