"Hey, Chris? You get it?" a boy about 16 asked his best friend on the phone.
"Hell yeah Xan! Like I would miss this!" Chris answered excited, and who could blame him? The first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online finally came out, and Xan and Chris had been waiting eagerly for it.
Xan was a boy with messy black hair; hazel eyes; and was average height. And on his lips there was almost always a smirk that screamed of mischief.
Chris was a taller than Xan, with brown eyes and much neater brown hair, and was often a very collected person, but tick him off, and you're screwed.
"Awesome! What's gonna be your Avatar's name so I can find you?" Xan asked, as to not have to wander around looking for him, "Oh! I'm gonna be Draxen"
"Dusk, as usual" told Chris, but not with the earlier excitement, more with annoyance, "I always choose Dusk, and will always be Dusk alright?" he sighed to Xan.
"Sorry, but you know I can be forgetful sometimes…" Xan muttered back, with a small bit of shame.
"It's fine, c'mon! Let's get in! I'm ready!" Chris whined, getting tired of talking.
"Alright alright!" Xan chuckled, then hung up and put on his NerveGear, "Link Start!"
After inputting his avatar's info, he opened his eyes to the world of SAO as Draxen, "Woah, this is so cool!" he muttered to himself in awe as he looked around the Town of Beginnings.
Draxen's avatar was pretty much the same as in real life, but had violet eyes instead.
A blue light appeared right in front of him as another player spawned, said player had black hair and black eyes, and was taller than Draxen, "Hey Dusk!" he greeted, knowing this was how Dusk normally made his avatar's look.
"Hey Draxen" Dusk greeted back cooly. Draxen frowned, "C'mon! Don't be like that! Let's go explore!" Dusk sighed and went along with Draxen to explore the world.
They were enjoying the world when they realized something… they didn't know how to fight.
"Umm… let's look for someone who knows how" Draxen suggested, Dusk agreed.
The duo walked around a bit till they saw two people fighting a boar-like creature, one had pinkish hair and a bandanna around his head, while the other had black hair, Draxen and Dusk waited until they were done fighting to approach them.
"Hey!" Draxen greeted cheerfully. Dusk just nodded respectfully, Dusk was not very sociable… "Sorry to intrude, but my friend and I are new here, could you teach us the basics of the game?" Draxen asked politely.
The black haired one nodded, "Yeah, my name's Kirito, this is Klein" he gestured to the pink haired man "what's your names?"
Draxen put a hand on his chest and bowed, "I am Draxen, this here is Dusk" he gestured to said player while he was still bowing.
For the next several hours, Kirito and Klein were showing the duo how to fight in the game, Klein stepped away to log out while the others were fighting, when suddenly, "Hey! Where's the logout button?"
Draxen raised an eyebrow, "Really Klein?" he sighed while opening the menu, "It's right-" he suddenly stopped, gaining a panicked look on his face, "hey wait… what the?! It's gone!"
Dusk and Kirito checked as well, and it really wasn't there! "Someone contact the GM" Kirito suggested.
"Just did that" Klein told them in a worried tone. Suddenly a bell tolled across the map.
"What's going on?" Dusk spoke, a subtle tone of worry within his voice that did not go unnoticed by Draxen, "Let's just hope that everything is alright Dusk" he said in an attempt to comfort Dusk.
"Yeah…" Dusk muttered worriedly. Suddenly, in a flash of blue, they were all teleported to the Town of Beginnings.
Everyone was chatting, wondering what to do or what's going on, that all was silenced when the sky turned the color of blood, and red ooze began to leak out, forming a large man in a robe.
"Attention Players!" the voice from the robed man announced, "I welcome you to my world."
From his left Draxen could hear Kirito mutter something, "What does he mean by that?" Draxen nudged him, and he turned to look, "Kirito, I'm with you on that, something doesn't feel right with the way he said that" Draxen told him.
"My name is Akihiko Kayaba" the man resumed, "And as of this moment, I am in control of this world" he then went on to explain that the lack of a logout button was not a bug, and explained how they were trapped here, and trying to remove the headgear will kill you, as well as dying in the game, and that the only way to escape was to clear the game.
"Last but not least, I have placed a present in the item storage of every player, please, have a look" Everyone opened there item storage.
"What the- a mirror?" Dusk muttered from Draxen's right. Suddenly, blue lights filled the room, and when they were gone, everyone had changed appearance. Draxen turned to his right, and saw Dusk, but what he looked like in the real world, he saw Kirito had changed as well, with a more of a teenager's face than before, as well as shorter hair.
"Kirito, are you okay?" Draxen heard Klein's voice, as well as Kirito responding that he was fine, Draxent turned to see Klein, but with red hair and a much more rugged appearance.
"What's going on? Dusk asked, Kirito responded with, "I think he's about to explain" pointing at the GM.
And explain he did, how he wanted a world of his own to control, where other's fate were played by his hands. And with that, he disappeared, and the sky returned to normal.
Everyone was in shock, soon, a girl screamed, and everyone went into panic, "Guys, C'mon!" Kirito urged as he rushed out, with Dusk, Draxen and Klein close behind.
The four ran into an alley in the town, "Listen, I'm going to head out right now for the next village, I want you three to come" He explained that if they wanted to survive, they would have to become as strong as possible, and how resources are limited.
"I would like to go with you Kirito" Klein said, then realized something, "but my friends… they're back at the plaza, sorry" and ran off back to the plaza.
Kirito turned to the duo, "We'll go with you" Dusk and Draxen said simultaneously. Kirito nodded, "Then lets go" he said, and ran off towards the next village, with Dusk and Draxen close behind.