My name is Foruno Ichiro and this is my story of how I survived in the amazing world of Aincrad.
It all started when my friends: Jieimusu Areiku, Misotora Kashito, and my American friend Douglass Everburn and I were waiting in a line for 7 hours. We had even skipped school to get here in time to get our copies. We were just chatting away to pass the time, and at some point Areiku exasperated, "Man! I wish they would make a full-dive game of Equestria."
To which I replied, "Does everything with you have to be about My Little Pony?"
Areiku faked a laugh and elbowed my arm, "Oh, come on, you know you like it!" At that point, I wasn't in the mood to let this argument continue. So I shooked my head and let his jarring comment slide.
Kashito spoke up then, (to change the subject) and said, "Well what do you guys want to do when we enter the game?"
Douglass laughed, "None of us have even played before, let alone used a Nerve Gear. How should we know what we want to do once we get in?" Kashito was one of the lucky thousand people chosen to beta test the game, and he had forgotten that we didn't really know anything about the game. He'd tried to let us make an account on his Nerve Gear, but apparently the beta test only allowed one account per Nerve Gear. So we had to wait and endure the constant bragging about the game.
Kashito nodded, "That's true. Well, then I guess that I will just have to choose what we do then." Everyone laughed and then suddenly went quiet as they imagined the situation his decision would lead them into. Once we reached the counter, the clerk gave us a tired smile.
"How many copies do you need?"
"Just enough for the three of us," I said, waving my hands to include the two of my friends that had not yet received copies. We each paid for our disks and then returned to the parking lot.
"Let's head to my house now." I said. We were planning to stay up all night testing out our skills in SAO. Everyone agreed, and we started running to the train station that would take us to the other side of the city where I lived. On the ride, Kashito explained to us the basics of the game so that we wouldn't have to worry about it when we started to play.
I opened the door and everyone piled into my room. I pulled two futons out of the closet and threw them on the floor and said, "I call the bed, so you three can fight over who gets their own futon." There was a silent pause as the three threw death glares at each other, prepared to do whatever it took to secure that futon for themselves. Areiku quickly jumped on the bed, fending off Kashito and Douglass with two pillows weilded like boxing gloves. I sat on the bed watching them staring at one another after the initial struggle ended, and Douglass had claimed the other futon. When Kashito finally accepted his loss, Areiku threw his pillows back on the futon in celebration.
Kashito snuck a pillow away from Areiku and threw it angrily back, shouting "You suck!" Areiku laughed as he deflected the pillow off his arm, causing it to compact in Douglass's face. We all laughed while Douglass sat there stunned.
He shook his head and said, "Come on guys, we are wasting time that we could be using for SAO." I nodded and the other two settled down. We plugged our Nerve Gears in and lied down.
Once I was situated, I asked everyone, "Are you ready?" Kashito, Areiku and Douglass muttered a confirmation.
"All right then," I said, "Let's go."
Then in unison we commanded, "Link start!"