Hey, to anyone who found this, it's Mew here! So, for anyone who might not have read the description I have on my page (highly recommend it so you can understand more clearly what you are about to start reading), I'm gonna start a fanfic about Sword Art Online, a famous anime about a game that has that same name and which I will make a bit of a summary about what type of game it on this Chapter Zero before I start the actual Chapter First. (by the way, if you have not seen Sword Art Online, I seriously CAN'T put to words about how amazing and must see this anime is. It's easily my favourite anime ever so of course I can't really stress enough how awesome it is for me, but hope you give it a fair shake and enjoy that master piece XD) Anyway, has I said in my description, I either put my character on the place of another character, or I insert myself on the story. Well, probably most of you that might start reading this might be thinking i'm going to take Kirito's place in the series, well you would be wrong :D! I'm going to insert myself to the story, keeping most of the plot, inserting my own journey through the events that happen along the way and I will keep the exact same characters from the main story. I will eventually get to meet them, get to know them and... well i'm not telling you that much cause if you got here that means you really want a fanfic that bad after all my random rambling XD. So without any further a due...
Before this, all I ever had was games...now I'm trapped in one...
Chapter Zero – Prologue...
Let me start from the beginning...before I got stuck here, I was just a 10th grade student in a normal school on Tokyo, Japan. My daily basis was not that out of normal: wake up, go to school, come back home, get ready for next day and go to sleep again...with a couple of meals stuffed in the middle of course and a couple of idiots constantly making fun of me in school and you could easily say I had a pretty boring and useless life. I never knew what I wanted to do with my life...my parents died a long time ago...my family never knew how to act with me because even knowing that they were right...they saw my point of view as well...not having objective simply made me have no interest in school, so everything I that happened in my life was simply...wasteful...other than what I used to do after getting home...gaming.
Worlds with objectives, large journeys that made you attached to the very end...my favourites were always MMORPGs...no one knew who I was, so I simply could do what I wanted...and anyone who would try to do something about it...would simply go down to me.
I was, no...I'm a solo player. Has simple has that.
In every game I got in, I just wanted to be the best. I had an objective. I was a player for a living, except of course I wasn't receiving any money for it... I wish!
And then...this game came out...
SWORD ART ONLINE, aka SAO
The first ever game using the brand new Full Dive System, a system that would allow you to get inside a virtual world using an headset with all that technology called Nerve Gear. And inside that world...well...I would be like any other MMORPG...except, I would be like no other...with that technology, you play the game yourself, with your whole body, without moving a finger of my bed. The Full Dive System allows you to play the game in your dreams basically, but you still move, see and feel everything around you when you're inside that world.
I listed myself for the Beta Version of the game...and I just couldn't think of anything else...that game got me stuck to it, I was constantly thinking about it...the game consisted of a world with 100 floors in it, basically every floor was like a new country full of different environments, creatures and quests available...the objective? Simple, beat the main boss of every floor until reaching the Ruby Castle on the 100th floor, then slay the final boss...it was complex, it was hard...and the bosses in the game were overpowered comparing to the players most of the time...it was just...the world I looked for...just on the month the Beta was available (August 2022), I had beaten numerous floors, reaching the 10th floor by the day the Beta closed (August 31st 2022). I knew I would be starting from the 1st floor again, but I just didn't care... I needed to get to that castle, no matter the costs...at least...that was what I thought...
I got out of class early the day before the official release, I already had food for dinner and lunch for next day, a blanket and a pillow...surely I would have a ton of back problems when I got up, and I was going to miss class the next day... but I just didn't care... I had to have it...only 10 thousand copies would be available throughout Japan, and then some months later the developers would probably find a way to upgrade the servers into being able to support more people inside the game. But I had to be the one, I had to get to that castle... I had to be...the very best player...
At 12am, the game shop opened up. I was the first in line, but certainly on the only one waiting to get the game. Everyone that might be considered a proper gamer knew about the game. 3 or 4 youtubers got access to the Beta and the game just became a phenomenon way before the release, so everyone wanted the game...the second person who arrived to get behind me to get the game arrived around 22am...7 hours after me...no one was stopping me from getting that game... no one... I got inside the store, me and like the nineteen people behind me were allowed to get in, the others were kept outside to keep the number of people inside the store controlled...once they only allowed the first 20 to get in, people started going mad...real mad... I didn't care, I had waited for that game for ages...even spent a day of my life outside the store to get it...
I had right to pre-order since I played the Beta, so I reserved the Collector's Edition right when I had chance, it came with the game and a hologram device which would basically show a 3D image of anything I had in the game...my character, my weapon, anything, both in and outside of the game... paid 14414.95yen for it. I didn't care how much it would cost me, I had to have it... I ran as fast as I could to my house, not only to get in the game as fast as possible but also to guarantee that no one would try to take it off me...they wouldn't, but some surely would try...
The game servers would launch at 13:00, so I had to be quick... I got to my house, gave a kiss to my little sister (she is just two years younger than me, but she is still my little sister) and told her I had lunch already and to tell grandpa and grandma I didn't want anyone to get in my room. She knew what I was doing, she knew about the game. She also wanted to play, but we didn't have a second Nerve Gear for her. The one I had I got it with my own money from working here and there...the money for the game also came from it...my family was wealthy, VERY wealthy...but my grandparents never allowed me to use it, they always told me that I had to work and to keep some to get the things I wanted. I understood their point, so I always thought there was no problem about it...
I got inside my room and locked it, only my sister had a spare key for my room, so no one would get in unless she wanted to get in. I throwed my bag to the corner next to where my jackets were, along with my trainers. I laid in bed as fast as I could, turned everything on and got the Nerve Gear on my head... I was ready... ready to go back to my world...the world where I belonged...and ready to get to that castle...:
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