The Final Fantasy
Chapter 1:- Prologue
A/N: Hello! Okay truth be told I don't normally just up and publish chapters, I mean I've been working on my other stories for a few years now, (wow that sounds bad) but they've had obsessive amounts of planning and re-writing.. But this is different, it's been rattling around in my head for awhile now (well since I began watching SAO, loving it! B.T.W) and I cannot concentrate on my other stories with it constantly nagging me to write it.. So yeah, here is the Prologue to a story that I've not planned (I'm so out of my comfort zone here) and just finished moments ago (quite literally, I started writing it at about 10PM and it's now 1AM). Please don't hate me from only skimming it myself.. There may be a lot of problems but I'll work out the kinks as I go.. Well what else can I say?.. Oh yeah, I hope you enjoy the read. Oh yeah, I don't own FFXIV or SAO.. As much as I'd love to.. I don't.. They belong to their respective owners, but hell I'll use their glorious creations to fuel my creative writing anyday!
"Link st-" "Ohh no! You said you were going to wait" With a sigh he sat up, removing a helmet from his head. "Don't give me that face brother, I thought we were going to play ALO?" Again the guy let out a sigh as he ran his hand through his dark hair. "I'm sorry sis'" "And so you should be!" "Look how about we both dive into this new game?" "Well it's not new for you after all you were a beta tester for it weren't you?.. And you were a beta tester for that other game too" "Yeah that's true, but I could show you the best hunting grounds" "Are you seriously trying that with me?.. You'd think you'd remember that it was me that showed you around in ALO when you first started" Stated the guy's sister as she tapped her foot on the floor. "Well.. Uh.." "Okay fine, what's it called then?" A large smile formed before the guy spoke. "A Final Fantasy" He replied. "Wasn't there an old game with that name?" "Yep, they took it offline because of all the problems they were having.." "Oh that's great, so they messed up the first time and now they're probably going to mess up again" The tapping of her foot intensified as her voice quickly takes on an unconvinced tone. "Well if you'd let me finish.. They stripped the game back down to it's basic code, then built it up again.. Trust me, I'm a beta tester" Stated the guy as he rubbed the back of his head with a satisfied smile. "Fine! Give me twenty minutes to install it" "Inst- Wait! You've already downloaded it?" "Of course, I just wanted to see you beg me to come with you" The girl smiled as she walked out of the room. "Okay twenty minutes!" The boy shouted to his sister as he heard her door open then close.
"Well did you get it?" Asked an excited looking guy in his late teens. "Yeah yeah, I move my knight here.. Check-mate, mate" Replied another guy as he moved his black knight to a square on the board. "What!? How?" Defeat now fuelling his tone. "Did you message the others?" "The oth- Oh right you mean the rest of the AT's.. Yeah I did" "Well looks like your download just finished" "Really! Awesome! Your connections great man" The teens voice filled with excitement once more. The other guy simply laughed, clearing his throat before speaking. "Well? What did they say?" "That they'll be in-game as soon as their able, I can't wait! It's felt like a life-time since betas" "Yeah, you do realise that it's only been about two months since they closed the servers for the final pre-launch preparations" "Yeah but after waiting three years since 1.0" "Okay, you know I wanted 1.0 to test instead of the SAO game, I nearly switched teams so I would get to test it inst-" The guy's sentence was disturbed by the door opening. "Well I for one am glad that you didn't, if you'd of left testing of that game to him he wouldn't have spotted the coding errors or anything, no offence" The new-comer stated as he smiled sheepishly at the younger man he'd just unintentionally insulted. "What's that suposed to mean boss?" Retorted the bad chess-player. "What it means is that your test reports were rubbish, you just enjoyed playing the game rather than looking from problems and discrepancies in coding and game engines" "I.." "He's right you know" Stated the SAO-tester. With a sigh the man accepted his second defeat of the day. "Anyway, if it hadn't been for you noticing everything that you did that game would've gone live and put a lot of lives at risk with it, everyone's proud of you" Finished the boss-man. "Thanks, so how did my reports for that other game go?" "Really well, the developers sent a personal 'thank you' bonus to your pay.. Which is why I came around, here's both of your pay for your last set of reports" The boss stated as he handed two wax-sealed envelopes to the two guys. "There's sommat else right?" Stated the 1.0 tester. "Yeah, is the rest of your divisions joining you?" "Well I think two of my guys are coming along" Stated the SAO tester. "Yeah, I got three to come with me, looks like I'll be getting the head-start with the 'Recruit a friend' bonuses" Bragged the 1.0 tester as he looked over to see his install complete. "Okay I'm off home to get online, thanks for the dosh boss" And with that the would-be chess player left the other two heading home. "Is there anything else?" "Yes.." Started the boss before sitting down. ".. If she's there.. Can you tell her that I miss her" "One day she'll come back to us" The man attempted to consolidate his boss. "Thank you.. For everything" "Hey, she left the rest of us too, you're not alone in your feelings" "Right well I had better get everyone else's pay to them" Stated the man as he began to open the door. "Boss?" "Hmm?" "I've always wondered, why do you deliver our pay slips personally?" "So I can check up on every member of my staff, it makes it more personal, shows you lot that I care" "Boss" "Yeah" "We know you care" "Thanks, now I'd best not keep you any longer, by the looks of things you're raring to get back to that world" And with that he was left alone.
"It's been three years since Sword Art Online was shut down after some tester found malicious coding I was looking forward to playing it so bad" "Same, but those testers got to ave all the game-time when the rest of us didn't even see the release" "True, but did you hear the same tester that broke the game just worked on that new VRMMORPG?" "You mean that re-released one?" "Yeah" "I heard it was rubbish, what you think sniper?" "I think; is this really the time to be talking about stuff like this? Targets in sight.. Permission to engage, sir?" "Granted, she's right you guys.. Pull your fingers out.. Anyway our sniper is taking a break from GGO and she's trying out this new game too" "Oh wow, really? Tell us what it's like.. If you're playing then I'll jo-" The man's sentence was cut short as his avatar burst into shards. "I said pull your heads outta your asses and get your crap in gear! Return fire!"
"You can't be serious!" Shouted the girl at the security guard escorting her out of the mall. "Sorry miss, but you can't bite someone for taking the last copy of a game.. Shoes maybe, but girls don't play games" The guard replied, gaining a sour looking expression from the girl. "I'll have you know I've been a gamer for years" "Okay well next time you get the urge to bite someone, do it in a different mall and not mine" "Fine!" Retorted the girl as she stuck out her tongue and darted off home. "Mum.. I'm back!" "Oh hello dear, I wish you'd grow out of that English accent of yours.. You get it from your father" "Sorry 'mom'.. So what's for dinner?" "Lunch" Corrected her mother. "Sorry 'mom'" "Well it's takeout night, but I picked you something up.. It's on your bed waiting for you.. Happy birthday honey" "Thanks 'mom'!" Shouted the girl as she ran up the stairs. Upon entering the room her eyes lit up, it was a nerve-gear system that she was trying to buy at the mall. "So I guess I'll get to play it after all.. I can't believe my other one broke in the cargo hold of the plane.." She spoke to herself as she admired the brand new headset. "Thanks mum!" She shouted at the top of her voice then closed her door. Placing the helmet over her head she let out a sigh, the familiar sound of the system starting up as she lay down on her bed. "Link start!"
"Come on guys we should do it" "I'm not sure.. I mean I don't want to have to go through everything to get to this kind of level again" "Yeah same here man!" "God you guys are boring.. I've already gotten everything set up.." "That's the spirit, anyway I thought we'd discussed this already" "We did, we were going to shift some of The Archangels guild over with us" "Yeah but that leaves our foothold in ALO open to attacks" "Well I'm sure half of ALO's community have already said that they're going to try out the new game, so won't everyone be in the same boat" "What does the guild master think?" "I.. Uh.. I think we should split into two groups.. You'll lead our guild within this new game to glory won't you?" "If that is your wish sire" "I will keep 273 members here in ALO and you can take the remaining 177 if they want to go with you" "Of course sire, are you going to pick or are they going to choose themselves" "It is their choice but there are only that number of spaces available, if we have any less that 250 members here we might as well hand over our conquered lands back to the Spriggans" "Yes sire"
A TV lit the dark room as a man put out his last cigarette, flicking the butt out of the window into the darkness of the night. "I guess it's time to get started then" The dark figure rose from his perch on the windowsill and headed towards his computers. "Network.. Activate.. System files.. Open.. Embed.. Root.." A evil sounding laugh rang out through the halls of the abandoned building that he called his home. "Hello everyone, shall we get started? It's time I take revenge for them shutting down my world.. For destroying my dream!" The man talked into a headset as he continued to hack into important data files and confidential system functions.
A/N: Oh hello again, so what do you think? Can you guess who some of the people are? No not all of them are SAO characters, some are OC's, some are very OOC SAO characters but I'll try to get better at everything.. At least I plan to.. Heh.. We shall see.. Okay so I'm going to do this summery thing again (Like I do in my other FF)
We have introductions of a few of our characters, not all of them, just a few, I didn't want to overload the prologue with new faces ect. So I used no-names, yes this is intentional. Okay so I don't think I can do a summery at 1AM so I'll probably come back and fix this later (probably when I fix all the issues that I'm sure are in my story)
If you for some crazy reason enjoyed reading my first chapter, stay tuned for more.. I wasn't planning on this becoming my main focused story but I'll update it whenever I get the chance!
As always, have a perfect day!
01L