Moonlight Lovers

A Sword Art Online fan fiction. I do not own Sword Art Online. All rights go to their respectful owners.

(Action, Romance) Rated M

Chapter 1. Situation

It was a early morning on the roads of Japan. The moon was full and shining over the grass filled hills. Jon was on the road making his way to work. Very few other drivers were passing by and a single car followed behind him. He loved looking at the full moon. Glancing from the road to the moon and at the light illuminating the grass. His attention is turned to the road and continued on the way to work. Getting deployed to Japan was one of the greatest things to happen to him. He has always wanted to visit Japan.

As he traveled onward another vehicle was coming down the opposite side of the road. The vehicle comes closer and closer till they are no more than a car length apart. The other vehicle takes a hard right and collides into the front right of Jon's vehicle. The tail of his vehicle spins forward to the right and butts up with the other vehicle. Both vehicles slide down the road side by side. Then the vehicle following t-bones right in to his vehicle. Through Jon's eyes it was headlights colliding. He lost consciousness.

The next image he sees is login.

Username:

Password:

The user name box fills in with asterisks and then the password too.

Language:

A drop down triangle was selected and scrolled down to Japanese.

A character creation screen comes after.

Height: 5.7

Hair type: Curly

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Hazel

Skin Color: Light

Then the details of the character start fill out quickly. The curly hair smooths out up top but begins to curl towards the ends. Not forming full curls. His facial Hair is thin. Wrapping the chin and jaw also filling in just below his jaw bones. His muscle tone was noticeable but nothing out of the ordinary. The character quickly becomes himself. Then there was a message.

Linkstart!

It was like opening his eyes for the first time. The cobblestone he stood on was almost white from the bright sun. The city he was in is alive and vibrant with cheerful people and markets along the buildings. Their were people talking in the plaza he was in. Several more people were walking the streets and speaking to the merchants stationed on the sidewalk.

Jon was confused he could not recall what brought him here. His mind races to find a solution. Then a message screen popped up in front of his face.

Friend Request!

Philus

Accept O Deny X

"Whats this? Am I in a game?"

Jon Selects accept and shortly after another message screen opens. He opens it and the message reads.

"Jon I know you must be very confused right now but I want you to raise your left hand so I can find you and explain to you the situation."

Jon closes the message and looks around at all the people. He is nervous, but he realizes he has really no choice but to comply. He then raises his left hand. He continues to look around till he spots a man raising himself onto the tip of his toes over and over again, almost hoping. Him and three others follow him to where Jon is standing. Jon lowers his left hand and turns to face them.

"Jon! Hello! Wow! I am Philus by the way. I was spot on with your character! It still was not easy to spot you with all these people. I am sure almost all ten thousand players should be on now."

Philus looks around at all the people and smiles. The other three men are looking around as well. One of the individuals has his jaw dropped. Philus turns his head and speaks to one of the other men.

"Hey Matty could you take us somewhere we could sit and talk for a bit?"

Matty responds "Sure thing."

Matty begins to lead everyone through the crowd and down several streets. They then come to a small set of stairs leading down under a building. The sign reads

The

Lost

Wolf

Matty walks down first and the two other men follow. Philus looks back at Jon and smiles then follows them down stairs. Jon looks around down the shaded alleys and follows. Once inside it appears to be a normal underground bar with dark brown wooden floors, walls, ceiling and furniture. It was very stale in the bar but a unlit fireplace inside with a wolf fur pelt at the base. The bartender greets everyone and asks.

"What will it be?"

Matty responds

"A single pitcher of ale and cups for all of us Sir!"

Everyone has a seat at a table close to the unlit fireplace. The bartender walks up shortly after everyone is seated. He places a pitcher in the center of the table and walks around the table placing cups in front of everyone. Matty grabs the pitcher and begins pouring himself a cup. The two other men to each side of Matty with Philus and Jon seated side by side across the table. Jon looks at Philus as he pours himself a cup and he begins to poor Jon a cup.

"I know you have a lot of questions."

Philus stops pouring Jon's cup and places the pitcher into the center of the table. The others were drinking from their cups and having a small chatter among themselves. Quite enough to monitor what Philus has to say. Philus tends to his cup through the conversation.

"In the summer of 2022 you were in a accident involving 2 other vehicles. The head on driver was killed and the other driver was minorly injured. Your real life body is in a comatose state. Myself and other doctors have been talking with your grandparents in the states to decided legally what they want to do. Your mother and stepfather has been equally involved. You have been put on life support and they have approved tests to further study and cure your state. It is now November 6th, 2022 and you have still not woke up. So after collaborating with your grandparents and mother. The other doctors and myself decided to try something we have not had the technology to do before. We have hooked you up to a virtual reality world called Sword Art Online. Of Course we did not even know if this would even work!"

Philus laughs and refills his drink.

"But here you are! This is so exciting! Sorry. I am here to evaluate you in day to day life here in the virtual world. The man who took lead earlier was Matty. He was a beta tester so he will act as our information and guide. Since this game is based on sword skills we have some friends of mine. Our weapons trainer . Last but not least Cherub he is a great actor who will act as our rp specialist."

Philus laughs aloud

"Everyone go ahead and add Xonj to your friends list. Oh yeah I forgot to mention. When we brought this up to your grandparents your friend Trae was with them. He mentioned that you use Xonj as a net handle very often. We will keep to in game names while we are here."

Xonj accepts the other friend request and responds

"So when will I wake up or will I ever wake up?"

"Well we are as I said before trying this as a test. It seems like a miracle that you are here now. This is all in hopes to stimulate your brain and help you maybe recover from your state quickly. Wouldn't that be great? People entering a virtual world while in unconscious states to help them psychologically before ever waking up. This is by far the most bizarre treatment method I have ever done. Of course I will be in and out of the game to talk with you and enjoy the world of course then document what is going on in real life. That is our situation now."

Xonj pause and thinks on the situation.

"It is most Bizarre indeed to be here while laying in a hospital bed."

As Xonj thinks over what he just learned he and the others turn a bright blue and appear in the courtyard where they first started. Matty questions aloud to the group.

"A force teleport?"

On the virtual screens at the sky, there was a system announcement that drew everyone's attention. Suddenly, a giant, robed, faceless figure appeared, identifying himself as Kayaba Akihiko, the creator of the game and the only person with control over the game. Addressing the problem of the missing «Log Out» option, he announced to the players that he had purposely removed it from the game as another one of its features and thus, trapping them in the game.

While all the players were alarmed by his announcement, he continued on to point out that trying to forcibly escape by removing the NerveGear would result in the player's death by having the player's brain fried by the NerveGear's transmitter, which functioned like a microwave and used the internal battery of the helmet as a power source, thus cutting off the power was not a solution. Having informed the outside world of the situation beforehand, he reported that friends and family members of some of the players had already ignored his warning, causing the death of 213 players, showing images of the SAO incident it is being called.

Kayaba also told them that he had also removed the revival system in the game. Therefore, when a player died in-game, their game avatar would be forever lost, and, at the same time, the NerveGear would fry the player's brain, thus killing them. He then told them that the only way to escape the game was to complete it, which meant clearing all 100 floors of Aincrad and their bosses.

As he finished his announcement, he left a "gift", a Mirror, in everyone's inventory, which they took out. At that moment, a huge blinding light changed the players to their true appearances, sharply dropping the amount of female players by revealing that many male players were masquerading as female characters. Though some female players were also masquerading as males. Afterwards, Kayaba revealed that his only goal was to create the game and intervene in it. Finally, Kayaba vanished after his Tutorial is finished.

Cherub turns to the everyone and says

"The situation has changed."