Hello everyone, Packerfan95 here with a new SAO story. Now this story is part of the first story I did. However, it contains five stories from each ninja in their own adventures before forming their guild to defeat the Overlord Virus. And up first is Kai, the samurai player. I hope you enjoy Ninjago Online: Progressive.

Kai

Chapter 1: The Invitation

It's been a month since the tragic fate for thousands of people. And by people, it meant video game players. Thousands of players immerse their brain activity toward a video game by a device known as the NeuroGear, a dome helmet that the users place on their head to dive into a new world. And with the NeuroGear on, the user can control a new virtual body to interact and play in the newest game in Ninjago; Ninjago Online. To fight monsters in the game, challenge players in duels, or to interact with friends to form guilds as a team. This was the elite movement in the gaming industry, but it was also the worst event to happen when the Overlord Virus attacked the MMOVRRPG.

On opening launch of Ninjago Online, thousands of players have logged into the game to venture into the new world of gaming, meet up with friends, and to fight along side each other. And when the day was getting late to have players call it a day and log off, the worse had began there. Many realize they couldn't log out of the game from their menus as it was missing from the system. Many thought it was a bug that hasn't been patched yet. Others weren't sure of what was happening. But when the players were teleported into beginning town's square, the Overlord Virus revealed itself as their captor and explained its own set of rules.

The main rule was survival.

The virus was once suppose to be a boss for the game created by Cyrus Borg and his partner Neuro Hisoko. But the binary codes of the boss became corrupted to become a virus and hacked its way into game and changed it into its own image. When a player dies in the game, their avatar becomes part of the Overlord's stone army to become the hardest boss in the game. The only way to free everyone in the game was to defeat the virus. But the more players join the ranks of virus' army, the harder to defeat the virus became. Since then, players have formed guilds, players became loners, theives, shop owners, or murderers. This was their new life when being trapped in the game.

The virtual sun rose high in the afternoon sky of a small village. A teen with spiky burnet hair gazed at the village out from the window of his room in the inn to sigh softly and turned to close the window and flopped on his bed. He laid in silence for a couple minutes to comtemplate of his predicament. It's been a month since Kai and thousands of other players became trapped in the game and no one has made a dent on where the virus was hiding and from what he heard was that twenty more people have fallen to the game and became the virus' army. He sighed as it seemed like everyone was going to be stuck here longer than he thought.

For being trapped in the game, he had one thing on his mind for when he became trapped and it was his sister. His sister was probably worried about him a lot as well as his family, no doubt his body was transported in a hospital to receive care while being trapped. But he made a promise to himself to always be there and protect his sister. But with him in the game, he can't keep the promise. He sighed again to ponder his thoughts to close his eyes and try to sleep. But with the sunlight hitting his face made him grimace to stand up and climb out of his bed. He couldn't sleep his troubles away, he knew it. He had to get out and do something.

Kai opened his menu to browse his inventory and tapped on his attire to become surrounded in light to change. Simple armor covered over his chest and shoulders and biceps and red tunic shirt. Metal greaves covered his shins and boots with a katana strapped to his hip. And to top it off, he had a red bandana over his forehead. With everything secured on him, Kai left his room to walk out and explore.

The burnet glanced around his surroundings as he walked through the village's market area. Players interacting with NPC shop keepers, buying weapons, armor, to health items. He noticed that the players around him act like this was a regular day as if they were outside in the real world. But he knew that they were still worried when being trapped in a game. But with the players, it felt like it was a second life to them, having freedom to be themselve.

After walking through the market, Kai found himself at the village wall to think of what's outside on the wall. When being in a town or safe zone, players can't die to the elements of the game or other players. But outside the safe zones were the creatures of the game from skeletons to snake creatures known as Serpentine and others. But at night, there were far worse creatures that many call as Dark Creature and many don't know what kind of monsters there were. Many have gone to fight against the Dark Creatures for glory, but they weren't successful. The burnet brought himself back to turn on his heels and headed toward the inn for a meal as he was feeling peckish.

The door's bell chimed as he entered in to see players conversing with one another while others were enjoying a meal to make his way through in the restaurant and took a seat at the bar counter. As he gazed at the menu, he overheard on a couple players talking to one another about their ventures in the game's dungeons to snort as he didn't care as he has been in a few dungeons and hasn't found much of treasures at the end. Seemed like a waste of time to him. Finally he decided on what he wanted to have the NPC waitress take his order and have the dish in front of him to quietly eat.

His ears perked to the sound of the bell chiming as someone entered to glance over his shoulder to see two players that looked odd to him, almost shady. Both were burly players with purple markings etched in their armor and around their eyes. They both had snake like attire on their bodies with large swords brandished to their hips. Kai felt himself tense up to their appearence, but he figured they were passing by to make him turn back to his meal.

The two players glanced around the small restaurant to smirk to one another and meandered around. They ignored the players as they interacted with one another or ate their meals as they eyed at the individual players, observing them. They finally stopped at a table that had a boy, no older than thirteen years old, with wavy blonde hair and simple armor and sword to stand in front of him. The boy looked at them a bit nervous as they stared down at him to keep their smirks and took the dish he had in front of him and kept it out of his reach. "Hey!" the boy complained to try and get it back. "Give it back! That's mine!"

Hearing the complaints, Kai turned to see the two players tease the boy as they kept it out of his reach, no matter how much he tried to fight them back for it. It was starting to draw the attention of everyone. This wasn't right, he thought. Bullying a kid and taking his virtual food so his brain could think he was starving. The burnet looked at his knife next to his plate to take it and took aim. The utensil glowed a yellow aura as he charged it and threw it to hit the man's hand to make him yelp and release the plate, but it shattered on the floor. The two players turned to Kai.

"Really?" he huffed. "Just really? Out of all people in this game, you had to take food from a defenseless kid who I'm pretty sure worked hard to earn money and pay for his own when you can't. That's just lame." He walked over to them to move the kid behind him to shield him and glared at eye level to them. "Look around you, everyone here looks like they want to kill you for picking on a kid, because in this village, everyone here looks after one another. So if I were you two, leave while you got the chance." He turned to the kid to open his menu to search for something and had a golden tricket appear in his hand to hand out for him. "Here, take this to sell and buy yourself a few meals in the future." The boy smiled to accept it and left the restuarant.

The two players glanced at each other to observe the restaurant as every player had their hands close to their weapons to Kai and smirked. They quickly drew their swords out to slash at Kai, but the burnet was quicker to catch both blades to stun them as he pushed against their strength. He finally pushed them back to jump out of the way from their attack to defend himself in the tight establishment. Finally two more players came to aid the burnet as everyone else moved out to make room for them.

The three players stood across from the ones that started it to grip their weapons tightly. A player with a mace charged at one of them to swing his weapon toward his chest to have it parried and was kicked into the other one to leave Kai standing. The other burly player charged at the burnet to make Kai avoid his attacks to slide underneath a table as he broke through it and grabbed a plate to throw it at his face to stun him and pushed him against the bar counter to throw punches to his face. The other burly player grabbed Kai by the throat to throw him at the window to break through it.

Groaning, Kai picked himself up to watch the players leave the restuarant to run from the scene. He, however, wasn't finished with them to give chase into the alley they fled to. The chase finally came to a halt as the burnet came to a clearing of the alley and glanced around to find where they were hiding, but he couldn't spot them anywhere to scoff. Cowards, he grumbled to himself and sheathed his sword. He glanced around once more to turn on his toes and started to headed out, but his ears perked to the sound of shuffling and quickly turned with his sword drawn.

They were back.

But what stood in front of Kai wasn't the two players from earlier, but in front of him was a single fortune cookie on a dish to make him raise his notched brow. He searched around to where it could've came from, but he couldn't see the players or anything to sheathe his sword again and cautiously grabbed the cookie to study it. How weird for a single fortune cookie to appear to him and broke it open to see a small slip of paper inside, like most fortune cookies would have. But it wasn't a fortune, it was a note to read it quietly.

To whoever receives this cookie, your strength and wisdom is recognized by the guild known as the Anacondrai Clan. Our recruiters were sent to seek out for the strongest players to seek a chance to the guild that will seek the quest to destroy the Overlord Virus. By accepting this offer, you will join the ranks as honorary members to receive high payment, better weapons and armor, and many other items. If you wish to accept the offer, head to the Hiroshi Labrynith Jungle where a convoy will lead you to the guilds hideout. We hope you accept this invitation as we all want to defeat the virus and leave this game. Yours turly, Master Chen.

Kai blinked to realize it was an invitation to join a guild. But he had to scoff as he didn't care for guilds as he joined a couple of them in the past, they didn't work out for him. But this guild had high expectations apparently with the conquest to defeat the Overlord Virus, not to mention it would mean he would get money and better armor than what he had currently. It sounded tempting to him. But his sister came to his thoughts that if he did join to fight against the virus, it would bring him one step closer back to her. The more he thought of it, the more it made him lead to accept it.

"If I join this guild, I'll be back with you, Nya." he said. "Just one step closer to leave this game then."