I was sitting on my bed holding the fragile helmet-esque form of the Nerve Gear. Tomorrow, the game meant to launch the Nerve Gear was set to go active. Sword Art Online, a VRMMO that allowed the players to escape to another world. I was just hoping that tomorrow would go of without a hitch. Having to move schools is a pain. I stood, set the Nerve Gear down on my desk and set my glasses down before laying in bed and drifting off to sleep.
I woke up with a beam of light on my eyes. The sun wasn't bright enough for me to bother waking, it was still rising, and with the delay with school starting late, there wasn't a reason me to not go back to sleep. I stood and went to close my blinds, then laid back down and fell back to sleep. I woke up for the second time due to a beeping coming from the alarm to my left. I hit the alarm and sat up, looking at the clock and seeing 10:00 on the display.
After taking a shower, I opened my closet and grabbed the uniform I had to wear. It consisted of a white undershirt with a brown sweater over it. It had a black skirt that went close to the knees. I put my glasses on, I didn't really need them, but they make me feel better. I locked the door to my apartment and started heading to school. After walking for around 30 minutes, I arrived at the school grounds. I headed to 3-C and opened the door. The class went silent as the teacher stood and welcomed me.
"Welcome Ms. Asada. There is only one seat available as of now, so please sit in the back next to Mr. Shirayuki in the back." He gestured to a guy sitting in the back row next to the window with brown hair and alabaster skin. I walked over and sat next to him, and he looked over. I saw his grey eyes lock onto mine before quickly looking away.
"Im Shino. Shino Asada, nice to meet you." I said, putting a smile on my face.
He looked over again," Shiro. Shiro Shirayuki, nice to meet you too." He introduced himself in such a quiet voice that it was hard to hear him over the commotion being caused by the other kids. The class passed my fast, and before I knew it, we we're already supposed to head for lunch. I saw Shirayuki stand before turning to me. "Im assuming you don't know this school's layout very well?" I nodded in response. He gestured me to stand, "Come on Asada, I'll show you around if you don't mind missing part of your lunch."
"I don't mind. Thank you." I stood to join him as he shrugged.
"Its expected from me, I helped one person around and suddenly in the new tour guide." He sighed, "On the bright side I've learned this place well." He started showing me around and after taking me through the important parts of the school, showed me to where the cafeteria was. "…And this is the cafeteria, its obvious what its here for. Well, this is the end of the tour. I'll be around if you ever need help." He waved as he walked away and went somewhere in the cafeteria. I stood in the line and got food, and afterwards I looked out at the tables and saw that a majority of them were crowded. I walked past the more crowded ones and saw Shirayuki sitting on his own.
"Mind if I sit here?" He jumped when I spoke.
"Huh?" He said in a surprised tone. "Oh yeah, knock yourself out."
I sat across the table from him. "Thanks for showing me around today."
"Of course." He responded, looking back down at the book he was reading. We both sat in silence until the bell rang, and we had to return back to our class. Nothing else really happened, other than normal school stuff. When the final bell rang, everyone stood up and left the room. After walking to my apartment, I opened the door and locked it behind me. Setting my bag down, I changed into a pair of black shorts and a white tee, and laid on my bed. It was still 30 minutes until the servers went live for SAO. I took my glasses off, setting them on the table next to my bed, and put the Nerve Gear over my head. "Link start"
A wave of colors and noise overwhelmed my senses, and deposited me in a character creation screen. There was an image of myself that looked exactly like I did in real life, with a variety of sliders and color options. I went to move the slider for my height, but as I went to move it a warning popped up on screen. 'WARNING. Changing your height will affect your walking in game, and you may need to relearn how to move properly. Are your sure you would like to change these settings?' I hit decline and decided to change my hair color instead. I changed my hair so that it was more split on the sides, with some hanging down in front of my eyes being held by rubber bands, and chose a pale blue for my hair, and added metal clips to where I had my ribbons in real life. I changed my eye color to an indigo, then accepted the character. A menu showed up, asking me for my username.
I entered 'Sinon' as my name, a name that I didn't know I would be called for the next 3 and a half years, and that would follow me for the rest of my life. I selected accept, and a counter showing 20 seconds appeared on the screen, along with a dulled our button that said 'Join Server', which soon after glowed blue. I pressed the button, and soon felt myself being moved around by some force.
Well, that marks the end of this chapter. I felt like this is improved drastically over my other story's first chapter, and an really proud of how this turned out. If you enjoyed, than feel free to review or some other shit, I really could care less. Anyways, this has been TheExoticCake, Signing Off.