So I finally decided to write a Sword Art Online story. And to make it as interesting as possible I decided to change a vast majority of things so hopefully that will clear up any confusion that may happen after reading. Anyways Hope you enjoy!
A young male teenager stood in the middle of his house. The room he was currently standing in was completely empty except for the wooden dummies some broken while others stood. In the male's hands was a long elegant black scythe. Sweat was dripping from his brow as he panted slightly due to exhaustion.
"Just a little longer." He said as he looked at the watch on his right wrist. He had been training for roughly two hours as he tried to beat his personal best. He took a step to continue his training but as his foot moved he lost his remaining energy and collapsed onto the floor. This teenager was known as Kirigaya Kazuto. He was sixteen years old and practically lived alone. The reason he lived alone was because four years ago his family had died in a car crash. Their deaths had affected him greatly. But the one that had affected him the greatest was the death of his sister Shigure. After their deaths he had moved into his grandfathers house. Due to his grandfather being away on business most of the time it made it seem like he actually lived alone.
Kazuto didn't really mind being alone actually. After the death of his family he went from being a happy child that loved to talk to one who hardly showed any emotions anymore and kept to himself. He really didn't have any friends so he really didn't leave his house much for anything except school. He spent his time between his two favorite hobbies which were fighting and video games. Luckily they both had a lot in common. Ever since he was a little kid Kazuto loved videos games and just couldn't get enough of them. This led to him actually wanting to try something he saw from a video game once so he began to practice fighting styles. He practiced all sorts of fighting styles such as martial arts, bow and arrow, daggers, swords, and currently he was learning how to wield the scythe.
The ringing of his wrist watch caught his attention as he looked at the tiny clock showing the time 12:55. Knowing it was nearly time for what he had been waiting for nearly a month for he sprung into action. Cleaning up the mess he had made he hurriedly made his way up to his room and was presented with the sight he had set up this morning. Laying on his bed and already turned on was his Nerve Gear.
The Nerve Gear was possibly Kazuto's favorite thing in the world. It allowed the possibility of bring both of his favorite hobbies together letting them work in perfect harmony together. The Nerve Gear when used would take him to a virtual world where he could play a game while fighting to his heart's content. He smiled as he slowly approached his bed. He lifted the Nerve Gear off the bed as he put the helmet device on before laying down. He grew anxious as he waited for the last minute to tick away. A wide grin formed on his face as he saw the numbers change.
"Link Start!" He shouted immediately as his world turned black. That however did not last long as a brilliant array of lights began to zoom past him as his Nerve Gear began to check its programming for any abnormalities. Finding none the all clear was shone as the screen went away. The next thing Kazuto or as he was called in this world Kirito felt was him spawning in to his favorite place.
He was back in Aincrad. And to be more precise he was in the Town of Beginnings the place where everyone started out. He began glancing around him and saw many other players were here as well as more people continued to flood into the game. Not wanting to waste any time he began running through the maze like streets that would had confused any new player but he had no trouble as he wasn't a new player. He had beta tested this gave just a month ago and had memorized every little detail he could in the game from the layout of the land to the smallest of details such as a dot of color. Along with his extensive memorization he had also been called the strongest player.
Back in the beta he had nearly two dozen levels over everyone else. This was due to him knowing how to get experience and fast. Due to him playing alone this meant he did not have to divide up the experience and col like a party would. This game him a major advantage as he would level faster and would be able to purchase more gear and supplies than any normal player. Although he played alone during the beta that didn't mean that the other players hadn't tried to get him to play with them.
At first it was just simple invitations which he refused politely. Things did occasionally escalate every now and then to where either bribery or threats were suggested. Kirito just ignored those moments and just told them to leave him alone. But one day something different happened. A guild had offered him to join them as he was sitting in a tavern one day. he refused and walked out of the pub towards the fields to where he would be grinding mobs. The guild had not taken this well and followed him. While he was fighting three enemies at the same time the guild struck and tried to kill them. Against any normal player they would have won easily. They outnumbered him by five and he was also occupied by mobs but Kirito was anything but normal.
He had managed to dodge one of the mobs at the exact second one of the guild members struck causing the mob to hit the player. Not expecting this the player fell down to the ground dropping his weapon. His guild mates could only watch as their friend was gored by a simple enemy. Enrage by his death the guild rushed forward and killed the mob while Kirito took care of the other two. With the mobs dead all that was left was the players. He had offered them the chance to escape but they refused blinded by rage. The fight was over in a minute but that wasn't the scary part. The part that was scary was Kirito hadn't used his weapon once in the fight.
During the whole exchange between the players he kept dodging every attack they made. This led to their movements getting sloppier and sloppier. It got to the point to where he used this to his advantage and he began dodging at precise moments causing them to hit each other. One by one the guild died as they accidentally killed each other as Kirito gave off an emotionless face. By the time there was one left Kirito didn't even acknowledge him and simply left him alive to tell the tale fully.
The way he had won made a message to anyone who would even think of offering him an invitation in the future and that message was just to leave him alone. That was what he had intended from the beginning and it had worked brilliantly. Since that fight Kirito wasn't asked once to join a party and that was all he wanted from the beginning. Kirito was wondering if he would have to do something similar again.
He managed to stop during his run at a shop to buy some starting gear. Walking inside he went up to the npc and bought two starting daggers. Usually someone would buy a few potions but he didn't need them this early in the game. And besides he wanted to level up his battle healing skill anyways. The reason he had chosen the daggers was due to many of the mobs on this floor being speed enemies. Some of the highest level mobs on the floor were wolves and their speed was hard to keep up with. But since a dagger was small and light he would be easily able to fight them a pack at a time. He then proceeded to walk out of the shop and continue where he left off.
After a few more minutes of running he finally reached the outside of the town to meet the deadliest mobs in the game... a wild boar. Kirito couldn't help but inwardly laugh at the thought of one of these things even being considered a threat. They were so weak and pathetic to him he could kill them with his arms and appendages bound together. The reason he liked to think of them as the deadliest mobs in the games is because out of all the other mobs these boars killed the most. It's sad but true. During the beta people died by the dozens to these boars since most of them didn't even have a clue on how to fight. He had never died once to them. In fact he didn't die in the beta once.
Smirking as he walked forward he drew his dagger in his right hand. When he got into range he began charging the sword skill. Feeling the energy reaching its peak he let it loose and watched as he slashed at the boar dealing massive damage sending it into the red. Following up with some quick slash attacks he depleted its remaining health causing it to burst into polygons.
And so that was how Kirito spent his afternoon. Running around in the fields killing boar after boar. It was evening by the time he stopped as he was close to finally leveling. He had paused to take a quick break and was just flipping around in his menu when he noticed something. The log out button was missing. He tapped the empty white button hoping that this was just a joke, sadly it was not.
Before anything else could happen he felt himself teleporting as he recognized the familiar sensation. He disappeared in a flash of blue and reappeared in the central plaza of town. He looked around and noticed many other players nearby most of them panicking. He deduced they must have also figured out the log out button missing.
The talk of the crowd stopped as a pure red hexagon flashed in the sky. Soon other hexagons began to join it until the whole sky was encased in them. A dark viscous blood red liquid that reminded him of blood began to drip and fall into the shape of a cocoon. The cocoon of blood formed into a giant figure of a red cloaked figure.
"Welcome to Sword Art Online." The figure said. His voice sounded slightly familiar to Kirito but he couldn't remember from. "I am Kayaba Akihiko creator of this world." That was where he had heard the voice before he remembered. He had watched many interviews made for the genius man. "As many of you have already noticed there is no log out button. I would like to say that this is not a bug. I repeat this is not a bug and is a intended feature in the game." The silence of the crowd was broken as hundred of people cried out in protest. Many of them demanding to be logged out immediately.
"I designed this game to be my own personal world. A world in with only I control. You will be forced to stay here until you clear the game by beating all one hundred floors." More cries of protest came out. "And for those of you who think they will be rescued by someone taking off the Nerve Gear that will not happen. A little over two hundred players have already discovered this." As he said those words news screens flickered into existence in front of him. "If anyone should try to remove the Nerve Gear it will microwave your brain." This received the loudest outcry yet.
That was when things started getting weirder. A nearby player suddenly dissipated as a gray hexagon appeared saying the player was forced log out. Soon enough players started disappearing by the hundreds as the same message popped up. He was relieved as he knew he would soon be next. Kayaba who noticed this had summoned a giant keyboard in front of him as he was typing away madly. Soon enough Kirito felt a strange sensation as he thought he was being logged out before he collapsed to the ground with a purple debuff appearing next to his health bar. He struggled to move and found out he was paralyzed.
Soon enough the enraged voice of Kayaba spoke, "That was unexpected." He said in a heavily labored voice trying to contain his rage. "Well looks like the game is going to need an update and some changes." He started coming up with all sorts of fearful thoughts. He was wondering why he had yet to be logged out. Kayaba then continued in a less outraged voice, "So apparently someone found a bug and logged everyone out." This caused confusion in him as he had yet to be logged out. "Well nearly everyone." His eyes widened as he realized he was still stuck here and by the sounds of it so were others.
He saw the debuff disappear and he stood up looking around to see what changed. His eyes widened in shock as he looking around. There was nearly no one left. Besides himself and Kayaba only five others were there.
"As you can see there are some of you left." Kayaba said as he pointed to everyone with his hands. "I am deeply disappointed in myself for not finding that bug earlier. But nonetheless I have fixed it and I have some of you left. I will continue this game even though there are few of you left." He felt his heart beginning to beat more erratically. He was outraged that he had been trapped in this game. When he was told the only way they could escape he was a little optimistic since that was possible. But beating the game with six people? It was just difficult believe in those odds highly.
"I will adjust the game accordingly to make this possible." At those words the first ray of hope shined." Continuing from where I left off. You need to clear all one hundred floors to beat the game. Respawn items are no longer in the game. If you lose all of your health you will die both in the game and in real life." He didn't know how much more he could handle. He was stuck in a death game. "On a final note please check your inventories for the gift I gave you." Opening up his inventory Kirito found a mirror. Spawning it in he caught it in his hands and looked into it. This caused the mirror to break and a flare of blue light to surround him. The light faded and he felt no different from what happened.
"This concludes the tutorial of Sword Art Online. I wish you all good luck as you are going to need it." With those final words Kayaba along with the hexagonal sky disappeared. The silence that followed afterwords was formidably. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Kirito watched the others players as they were looking around frantically. Knowing it was now or never he quickly and discreetly bolted away from the plaza. And while running he thought of something that made him grow a wicked grin on his face, he would be able to fight in a video game uninterrupted for who knows how long. It was like a dream come true to him and with that dream came a simple wish, to beat the game.
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