INFORMATION ON USER NAMES:
Celeste: Lucy
FlamerDrago: Natsu
IcyMan: Gray
Robin: Erza
IronDager: Gajeel
WaterLove: Juvia
WindMadien: Wendy
ManKeep: Elfman
Icer: Lyon
RuneCaster: Freed
These are the only Fairy Tail characters that are going to be inside the game, the rest of the characters will be outside of the game. Also, everyone will be OOC because they aren't in their own world, so if you want Read and Review. Let me know if I should continue on with this or not.
Prologue: The Beginning of Being Trapped
Lucy Heartfilia was a gamer, and one of the best of course. She was able to BETA test the new game that was going to be released. Because she was rich - she was one the select few to test it out though at the time no one what was really going to be happening. With her celestial powers she wondered if she would be able to use them inside the game, that would have to be tested another day. Lucy had named her character - Celeste, after the fact that she's a celestial wizard. It was just her and her father. Her mother died when she was young so she really didn't have anyone, her father every year gave her a celestial key - so far she had ten out of the twelve Zodiac keys, which is a lot - she is the first celestial wizard to have that many. She started out with three zodiac keys - Aquarius, Cancer and Capricorn. Lucy had met a few other members on the game, a lot of them are wizards in the real world, though she wanted to know who they really are, they seem like great people to be hanging out with outside of the game. She met, FlamerDrago, IcyMan, Robin. Of course they never traded real names before - she had to ask them that when she met up with them when the game was released to the public.
There was something that was happening to happen, something that no one could know for sure. There was just a feeling that today - no one should be signing on, but that feeling was ignored. Lucy was bit busy trying to get all of her work done before she went inside the game, as it was going to be going online in three hours. There was still so much more for her to do. Lucy sighed as she wanted to go game, but there was something else that was going to happen and she needed to know if she would have time to get on before they opened up the system for around the world. Lucy was sitting in the library trying to get some of her work done. Her father - was so proud that she was going to be able to one day take over the company whenever he found her a good husband, but that has changed when he found out that her ability to do magic was like her mothers. From there he was able to understand that he didn't care about what could happen - as long as Lucy was happy with her choices in her life.
"Lucy, are you paying attention?" her tutor asked.
"Yeah...What did you ask?" Lucy asked.
Lucy looked at her tutor, than at the clock - two hours and three minutes left. She needed to get to her room, so she could get online when the game was set. There were so many people getting ready to play the game. She had to make sure that everything was going to be okay. She had to make sure that if something happened that her dad would be able to take care of the players - what if they get trapped in the game? That couldn't happen, right? Lucy looked up at her tutor. Her dad would be in his office. She had to get to him before she went online.
"Can I be excused now?" Lucy asked.
"I guess so, we can continue tomorrow." The tutor sighed as he waved his had to let Lucy leave.
"Thank you! Good bye!" She smiled as she left the library.
Lucy ran towards her dad's office. Sure she still had time, but she needed to make sure that she had everything ready. Her father was a big deal when it came to everything. She was out of breathe as she made it to his office door. Lucy stood up and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Her father - Jude Heartfilia, the owner of major company and some smaller companies. The Railroad system was his idea to expand it, and it was doing really well. He also helped with some hospitals in Fiore.
Lucy walked in and looked at her father. "Father...I have something I want to talk to you about."
"Of course Lucy,"
"If- and this is just and if situation. If the game malfunctions, I want you to find everyone who bought the game and put them together in one place - I watched this show about how people got trapped in a game for two years, and I'm sure that no one is going to get trapped, but I'm just saying if something like that happened -"
"Of course Lucy, but I'm sure that the game doesn't have that problem. You'll be safe and I shall see you at dinner."
"Of course father."
Jude looked up at his daughter and smiled, "If something like that does happen, I will have people look for all the players and bring put them in the best care"
Lucy walked over to her father and hugged him. "Thank you"
"Anything for you." He hugged her back. "You go and have some fun."
Lucy pulled away from the hug and smiled. "I will!"
As Lucy let the office she walked over to the door and looked back at her father who already started to work on reports. She smiled and started to walk to her room, where she was going to get ready for the main release of the game. She logged into her computer and put the game as she wanted to get on a few minutes before the servers would get overloaded. She took a deep breath and looked out the window before she put the helmet on. Lucy laid down on her bed, as the game started to load. She picked up her helmet and placed it on her head.
She took a deep breath as she was ready to go into the game to go meet up with her friends. Today was the day that she was going to meet more members from the magic guild that her three friends are in - or at least that's what Robin said. What Lucy wanted to know was who were they, what did they look like, there had to be something that she needed to know about those three. As the game loaded, Lucy closed her eyes as she was transported into the world of SAO - Sword Art Online. The only thing here that they can't do is - their magic, which Lucy was alright with doing. She could've cared less, the game made it seem that there was more to it than just the outside world with magic.
Lucy - or as her ingame character is called Celeste started walking towards town, where she was going to meet up with IcyMan, FlamerDrago and Robin. Robin said that there was going to be more people inside their small guild - Yeah, SAO had guilds too, this was the only kind that Lucy was part of. Anyways! Robin said that there was going to be six more people joining - Lucy was away from the game for a while, so she guessed that they were going to be already there and Lucy would meet them soon. As she ran though town, she saw Robin.
"Robin!" Lucy shouted as she ran over - panting.
"Hey Celeste, you made it right before the launch!" Robin turned around to look at Lucy. "We can go together to the building, but I doubt anyone else is there yet. I can't wait for you to meet the other six members." Robin stated as she grabbed Lucy's arm and pulled her along.
"Robin, come on! I don't need you to hold on to me, I know where to go." Lucy shook her head.
"There was a rumor on the outside world that the creator will be playing along, but we won't know who they would look like." Robin sighed. "Kayaba Akihiko, everyone knows so much about him, but none of us will know that the was going to be one of the players among us."
"Robin you are now, making no sense what so ever."
"Sorry. I just can't wrap my head around that fact that a creator would play their own game the day it's released to the public."
"Maybe he thought that it would be cool to meet everyone who was going to be playing along."
"Maybe, but it just seems so...weird." Lucy stated as she looked around the town and took a deep breath. "You know, I'm scared that something might happen while we're all in here."
"Celeste, don't talk like that! Nothing is going to happen like that!" Robin rolled her eyes as she opened the door to their meeting place. "Hey guys! I found our little Princess!" Robin shouted.
"Robin!" Lucy blushes. "I told you not to call me that."
"Oh come, you might as well be one, look at your outfit you picked out, and your avatar just screams Princess." IcyMan said as he walked over and gave Lucy a hug. "So let's introduce everyone later, how about we go out there and rank up before all the newbies start."
"LET'S DO IT!" FlameDrago and another one said - by looking at his username, Lucy could tell that it was IronDager.
"Sure, let's go." Robin stated.
The team headed out as they were going to take out some boars or pigs or whatever you wanted to call them. They had enough, but sometimes if they went out in certain areas, an item would drop - and that's what the team was all about, they were all about collecting the items. They got know each other more. Lucy was happy to know everyone, she could feel a connection with RuneCaster. She didn't understand why - but he was an easy talker and she had a lot in common with him. Soon enough the sky was getting dark.
"We should be logging off soon." Lucy noted.
"She's right, we all have so much to do." WaterLover stated, to the others.
Lucy swiped for the menu. "You guys...Where's the log off button?"
"Same place it has been." Robin stated opening up her own menu, and seeing the same issue. "What the fuck?" She asked.
"Hey...guys..." WindMaiden said with a shaky voice. "Something is happening..."
"What do you mean?" WaterLover asked WindMaiden.
Soon, there was a light around each of them as they were transported to the main square, a lot of other placers were arriving in the same manor. Lucy looked around, there were a lot of players playing, and they were all arriving. Lucy looked around as she looked at her friends - even though she never knew who they really are and what they looked like. All the other players started to murmur among themselves as they didn't know what was going on. Soon there were warning signs covering the sky as it was new, this never happened before. Soon there was -
"Is that blood!?" Lucy asked as she watched the blood drip, but it never fell to the ground, instead someone - or something was created from it.
"Hello, and welcome players of Sword Art Online, I am - well you should know who I am. But for those who don't know I am Kayaba Akihiko. Today is a very special day for all of you playing. As you know, today is launch day, where the whole game is playable, but there is a catch, you die in the game, your life ends in the real world. There isn't anything that can stop it, your live points drop down to zero, game over. Though, I have given all of you two hours from when someone disconnects you from the system to be transported to a hospital where you will be plugged back into a better source. You can all make it out alive when you beat all 100 floors." The voice - The voice of Kayaba Akihiko - The creator of the game, had said to all the players. He was trapping everyone inside the game for what reason?
"What's the reason for trapping us in here..." Someone whispered to another player.
"For his sick amusement." The player said.
"Ah, so you know, I placed a little gift in everyone's inventory!" Kayaba said as he looked at everyone.
Everyone opened their menu and everyone saw a mirror. As everyone started to look into the mirror - they all glowed and looked like themselves. The characters they were playing as - disappeared and now everyone in the game, found out who each other were, and what they looked like. Soon, Kayaba disappeared, everyone started to turn around, look at all the other players. Lucy took a deep breath and quickly disappeared from the crowd, as she didn't want anyone to notice her - people would surly find out who she was- the reason for this game was to get away from everything. Her group - What did they look like? Who were they? Lucy ducked into an Alley to hide, she noticed something jingle - her keys! How?
"Celeste!" Someone called.
"Where did she go?" Another voice said.
They sounded familiar. She kept still.
"Natsu - Can't you sniff her out?" Robin said.
"What do you think I'm trying to do, Erza!" Natsu - who sounded like FlamerDrago.
Erza? Natsu? Lucy was now confused - those names, they sounded...Familiar.
"Found her!" WindMadein said looking right at Lucy.
"AH!" Lucy jumped back a few feet - staying in the shadows, where they can't seem to really see what she looked liked.
The others started coming over to where WindMadein was. They all looked familiar, Lucy could see markings on them. What were they? Where are they from?
"Celeste, come on, what are you doing hiding in there?" Icer asked.
"Who are you guys?" Lucy asked.
"We're part of Fairy Tail - " Icyman started to say.
"The strongest guild in Magnolia." Lucy finished.
"Celestial, why don't we go to a bar and we can get to know each other better, and get to know our real names." RuneCaster said as he held out his hand.
Lucy took a deep breath and nodded her head. "Alright."
The group walked back to the bar that they met up at before. They now had to get to know each other. They had to understand each other, know what each of their magic was. So here was Lucy, a rich girl, a rich celestial wizard girl hanging out with a bunch of Wizards from one of the most famous guilds out there. One who is known for...for...destroying any place that they went. Lucy was pretty sure that she was going to be the best Wizard here and help her friends as they battled their way through all 100 floors, if they can make it through that way. They arrived at the bar, grabbing their table and sat around.
"Alright, how about we introduce ourselves," Lucy suggested.
"I'll go first, I'm Natsu Dragneel, I'm the Fire Dragon Slayer of Fairy Tail." FlameDrago - Natsu said as he looked at Lucy.
"I'm Gray Fullbuster." IcyMan - Gray stated. "Ice Make is my specialty"
"Erza Scarlet, I'm a Requip Mage." Robin - Erza said as she looked at him.
"Gajeel Redfox is my name, and I'm an Iron Dragon Slayer." IronDager stated as he yawned.
"I am Juvia Lockser, I use Water Magic." WaterLove - Juvia smiled.
"Hi there! I'm Wendy Marvell, and I am a Sky Dragon Slayer." WindMadien said.
"And I-" ManKeep started to say.
"Wait! There's like three Dragon Slayers?" Lucy asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah -" Natsu started to say.
"But there aren't any dragons in our world..." Lucy looked at them wondering if they were crazy.
"Our Dragons disappeared July 7th X777." Wendy sighed.
"July...7th...X777..." Lucy repeated.
"Celeste, what's wrong?" RuneCaster asked looking at her
"The year, X777 was the year my mother died." Lucy looked up at him. She looked at ManKeep, "Oh! I'm sorry that I cut you off, who are you?" Lucy smiled.
"The name is Elfman Strauss, I use Take Over Magic." ManKeep - Elfman stated smiling.
"I guess I'm next, I'm Lyon Vastia, I also use Ice Make Magic, just like Gray." Icer - Lyon said looking at Lucy.
"I'm the last one, I'm Freed Justine, and I use Eye Magic and Letter Magic." RuneCaster smiled at Lucy. "So what about you?"
"I'm...How do I put this. The name is Lucy Heartfilia. I'm a Celestial Mage." Lucy said.
"Wait! Heartfilia?" Erza asked. "I heard that name before..."
"My dad owns the railroads." Lucy admitted.
"That's not it," Erza shook her head. "OH! I saw your name in the magazine, but there was no photo."
"What magazine?" Lucy questioned.
"I saw that! You collected all twelve golden keys, the most any celestial wizard has collected." Gajeel said looking at the blonde celestial wizard.
"You read?" Wendy, Natsu and Juvia asked Gajeel.
"Yes..." Gajeel raised an eyebrow looking at the three
Lucy laughed. "You guys are really funny."
"We are?" Gray asked.
"Yeah, I mean I wouldn't mine being trapped in here with you guys. We might be the only ones who can keep each other sane and I'm sure we can be able to defeat this game with our magic. My keys appeared -" Lucy said as she placed her keys on the table.
"Wow, look at all those keys!" Wendy said as she looked at the keys. "So that means -"
"We all have our magic..." Elfman smiled. "Hell Yeah! We can totally win!
Chapter One: The Start of Day One
It's only been a day, some of the people have been dropping like flies for a while. Everyone who was dropping, have been in a safe zone, so that means that they aren't able to die - inside a town. So that would mean that they were being moved to a local hospital in their area. None of the Fairy Tail mages have dropped yet but once they do, Lucy knew that her father would be ready to have someone go and get them to bring them to the house. Since Lucy was already in her room, in the house that would mean that she wasn't going to be disconnected. Of course it was only 9:34am and some of the one who have been dropped dead, were able being woken up.
Lucy was sitting in the room that she was sharing with Erza, Wendy and Juvia. Lucy looked out the window as she could that there were more people dropping, they only had two hours to be moved and be reattached to the hospital main electrical unit. This was something that no one could understand, why would he allow everyone two hours of being disconnected from their home units to be moved...
Life right now in this game, is making everyone have two choices, be killed or survive. Lucy took in a deep breath and walked out of the room, making sure she didn't wake anyone up. She walked down to where they were serving breakfast. She looked over and saw that Natsu, Freed and Lyon were up and eating.
"Hey Luce!" Natsu said smiling.
Lucy walked over and sat net to Freed. "So, what are you guys doing up?"
"Natsu..." Lyon and Freed said.
"Hey!" Natsu pouted.
"He snores..." Lyon rolled his eyes.
"So, how did you sleep?" Freed asked.
"I slept alright, We didn't do much after yesterday. I was so tired, I went straight to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow." Lucy laughed
"We stayed up talking, the others came into our room to talk about stuff and what we could tomorrow - while today." Lyon said smiling at Lucy. "Are you hungry? I can get you something to eat."
"Ah, I'm fine, really." Lucy said.
Soon there were footsteps, light and airy. That only meant that Wendy was up. Lucy turned around and saw Wendy walking towards them, standing at the front of the table.
"Good morning everyone. Hey Lucy, do you wanna come with me to go explore the town?" Wendy asked.
"Sure, but I'm sure we've seen most of the town." Lucy laughed as she stood up. She turned to the guys. "We should all meet up here, we'll need to head over to the next town, and then try to make our way to the next biggest town." Lucy said as she plotted what they could do. "We can't stay in a safe zone until others have made their way to the top."
"Sure thing Lucy." Freed smiled.
Wendy and Lucy left the place where they were staying and headed out to the town, seeing all the sleeping bodies, and seeing people who were walking around, stepping over the sleeping bodies of the players. No one has died yet - no one that they know of. There was still time to realize if something like that was going to happen.
"Hey, Luce, do you think that we will get out of here?" Wendy asked as they looked at the NPC's (Non-Player Characters), out by their stands, trying to sell people their items.
"I'm sure, that with our powers we can get through this game, safe and sound." Lucy smiled at the little mage.
They walked into the market place, this time it was all food. Just then Lucy's stomach started to growl. Wendy looked up at Lucy - raising an eyebrow. Being a Dragon Slayer meant that they had higher senses. They could see better than the normal person, smell better, and hear better. Though Lucy was definitely convinced that that something about their Dragons disappearing wasn't true. Yes she believes that their dragons are gone, but I think that they -
"Lucy!" Wendy said as held up a piece of food. "You better eat something now,"
"Oh!" Lucy nodded her head as Wendy pulled her from her thoughts. She took the piece of food and ate it. "Thanks. We should head back to the bar."
The two started to walk back, as she saw people running towards them, going out of the town and towards the other towns that were waiting. Lucy grabbed Wendy's hand and moved out of the way as people were probably going to trample the two girls. Lucy sighed as they were in the clear. They headed back and once they arrived, everyone was awake .
"Morning everyone!" Lucy smiled.
They all said their good mornings. Lucy smiled and took a seat next to Freed. It was still weird to see everyone - as they are in the real world, but it's also nice to know who they are as a person too. Though, under the circumstances of seeing them they are in the game - well, that isn't much fun. There was so much that could be happening, right now there was a few things that someone right now - was going to start killing players. It made everyone sick to picture people being killed, people killing themselves because they either try really hard, or there was nothing for them to go back to. Lucy looked at all her friends. This was just something that they couldn't afford to think about. They needed to stay strong. They had to remember - out there - people wanted them back.
"We have to head out, to get to the next village, we have to try and make to the dungeon, find the boss and clear the first floor for everyone." Erza said as she looked at everyone. "We are going to either to it ourselves, or we will have to meet up with other people and not use our magic, but try to channel your magic to your swords."
"That way everything could be a powerful attack," Freed agreed. "Let's headout as soon as possible"
Two Months Later
"I can't believe we still haven't found it!" Natsu whined.
"Natsu, stop it." Erza growled.
They were sitting with a bunch of other people. Today a meeting was being held, as someone has found the boss floor, in the tower. Lucy looked around and noticed that it was mostly boys in the group. One of them - Diavel (A/N: Yes, his name is Diavel, not Diabel. Just wanted to let you all know. Back to the Program) . Lucy looked at him, wondering why he seemed familiar, of course, Lucy was one of the 1,000 beta testers to test out the game. But then again it's hard to know without seeing the avatar, but the name was familiar - that much she knew for sure. There was a tap on her shoulder and it Freed, apparently she has been zoning out this whole time.
"We have to deal with the creatures that the boss sends out, along side the two team over there." Freed pointed over to two people.
"Alright." Lucy smiles as she looks at him "We can deal with the creatures - so all the other teams will go after the boss itself?" She asked.
"Seems like it, but I'm telling you, we should be fighting that boss, we have good high levels." Gajeel groaned.
The team started walking back, they were their own small little guild, they called themselves Fairies of the Sword. Of course the guys really didn't have a choice, it was like a piece of home in the name. So them joining the raid was to help out, they didn't care about anything else. The money - well they did enough separate quest to have enough money. The guild was just doing so great, but they weren't well known - okay so in the two months, no one knew that they were guild, they all thought that they were just the best of friends.
Night came and went as they were getting ready to go fight - Illfang the Bobold Lord, and his creatures Ruin Kobold Sentinel. That was their job, to deal the Sentinel, though Lucy could sense that there was going to be something off - she was able to get past the Level one boss with the help, but it was still hard. The door opens and everyone walked in, Lucy felt the familiar presence of Illfang, and then the room changed colors - Boss Battle -
"GET READY!" Diavel shouted to everyone.
Illfang let out his battle cry, and three Ruin Kobold Sentinels appeared, Diavel shouted his orders to the teams to hold them off while everyone else went to go and attack the Boss.
"I have a bad feeling.." Lucy said as she looked at Illfang.
"Lucy what do you mean?" Gajeel asked, "Take this!" He said to the Sentinel trying to hold him back.
"I mean, this isn't like the Beta, he was bound to make changes to the game before releasing it. It's how it normally goes," Lucy admitted.
"Wait, are you a beta player too?" The one guy - who had the user name, Kirito whispered.
"Yeah, you?" Lucy whispered back.
"Yeah, I have the same feeling." Kirito said to her.
Just then the Illfang's HP bar hit the red, and out came the nodachi - not a talwar.
"STOP!" Kirito shouted. "THAT'S NOT A TALWAR! IT'S A NODACHI!" He tried to get Diavel to stop, but of course there happened to be movements not from the Beta.
"The game has been changed for the official release." Lucy muttered under her breath.
Diavel got attacked, his points reaching 0. Kirito ran over to try and heal him, but it was too late. Lucy was holding off one of the Sentinels as Kirito and his party member went to attack the boss. The fight was over, with everyone else alive, one of the raid members looked at Kirito and shouted something -
"He knew the attack pattern of the Boss! And with-held the information! He's a Beta Tester!" Kibaou said. "Who else is a Beta Tester!"
"Diavel - now I remember, he was a Beta Tester with me..." Lucy thought. "Kibaou doesn't know that Diavel was also a Beta Tester..."
"Don't compare me to those Beta tester, I'm much more, I made it to higher levels than they ever did." Kirito said.
"You are a Beta and a Cheater?! You are Beater!" Someone from the Raid said.
"Beater? I like that." Kirito laughed as he activated his coat. "See you are around."
Soon everyone started to head up to the second floor, and then soon all the other players on floor one, could finally make their way up. Lucy and her friends started to travel to another town, to get the quest there, to make sure they were able to get more rewards, and cash, so that one day that they would be able to get a place of their own. Though Lucy wondered if anyone would fall in love in the game.
