Welcome to Destiny-VR ONLINE!

It has been quite some time since I last wrote a story for FF, but that does not mean I have stopped writing stories. Recently I binge watched SAO and after diving back into Destiny I thought that they would make a great crossover; the idea is that Destiny replaces SAO. Now before we begin I do need to do some house cleaning for this story, that way both SAO's story and Destiny's game mechanics make sense.

First off Akihiko Kayaba did not create Destiny; Bungie is still the one who made the game, which will come into play later. Kayaba basically just ported it over to the Nerve Gear and made some minor modifications along with adding Cardinal.

Next the rules set forth by Destiny's LORE take precedence over all others, regardless if the rules come from SAO or Destiny's gameplay. Biggest one off the top of my head is that a players Ghost is not invincible, it can be (and will be) destroyed by anything tainted by the darkness; this way SAO's perma-death can mechanic can make sence. The reason for this change is that Destiny's rules would make it way too easy for the characters, and also this is not Sword Art, the rules of such don't always work with Destiny's mechanics. By using a combination of SAO and Destiny LORE rules I feel it balances rather well. Lore rules also affect Exotic Weapons and armor, an items lore will determine whether there is only one or multiple of an item.

Finally, in order to accommodate some other rules that will be explained in the story; all Strikes are now called 'Nightfall', mini raids, and will be modded accordingly. Once a Nightfall has been completed it converts to a 'Heroic Strike', Nightfall with a slight change, and a Strike Mission (the kind like in the real Destiny) will also become available. Once all Nightfalls on a planet have been beaten the next planet will open. However in order to progress to the next planet a player must complete every Strike in at least Nightfall or Heroic.

I think that is all of the important issues at the moment, everything else will be explained in the story.

Bungie owns Destiny and all associated terms and characters

SAO was written by: Reki Kawahara

Destiny-VR Online

Chapter 1: The World of Destiny

Finally, the day had come. After a few months of waiting Kirigaya Kazuto, or as he is known online as Kirito, could finally log back in to the newest VRMMO, Destiny. Normally American games, especially shooters where not that popular in Japan, but Destin was different. It was a new type of game, merging the worlds and multiplayer of MMO's with the classis shooter mechanics, with some swords and melee weapons for good measure; also the fact that it was from a company with such a legendary history as Bungie had, it had topped the pre-order charts along with the new Nerve Gear.

As Kirito lay on his bed with his Nerve Gear on, waiting for the Servers to come online he thought back to the Beta. Kirito had been lucky, he was a part of a select group of 1,000 players who got to test the game and Nerve Gear. However unlike the console cousins in the US, the Destiny Beta for the Nerve Gear was fully playable, and Kirito was the only one to make it to the moon as no one else mad it past the Earth Nightfall. As he looked at the box one last time, seeing that they would be getting the first 3 expansions early, before those in the US and across the world on the consoles, made him smile.

12:00

Without a second thought, and seeing the final update load into the game Kirito let out "Link Start!"

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When the lights faded Kirito saw that the Class selection screen had popped up. Remembering that during the Beta he spent most of his time as a Warlock, he selected that again, deciding to build a Titan and Hunter later once he had some good gear for them. After selecting Human Male, he began to feel weightless, as at this point he was 'dead'. Watching the Ghost, his Ghost, travel the ruins of old Russia looking, Kirito began to notice that the game had a lot more detail in it than it did in the Beta. As the Ghost came to it final location everything faded to black as Ghost began to 'revive' him.

"Guardian? Eyes up Guardian." As Kirito opened his eyes he was shocked as his body felt sore and numb, as if he had been still for hundreds of years. As his vision began to focus and his senses returned to him. "It worked. You're alive! You don't know how long I've been looking for you." Kirito slowly stood up and climbed out of the car his body was lying in. as he moved around everything began to feel like normal, albeit a little stiff. After a minute he was able to move without difficulty and he began to notice just how immersive the 'Full Dive' system was. "I'm a Ghost. Actually, now I'm your ghost. You-you've been dead a real long time." Off in the distance a roar of the Fallen that had been giving chase to the Ghost could be heard, Angry that yet another dead solider had risen. Ghost looked back towards the roar then looked to Kirito.

"I know you are confused and there are a lot of things you don't understand right now. But we are not safe here! This is Fallen territory, and they are not happy that you are alive." as the roars grew louder Ghost looked to the wall and drifted towards it "I need to get you to the Last City, it's the only truly safe spot on the planet." Ghost then turned around and moved towards Kirito vanishing in a flash of white light. "I'm still with you, but; We Need to run, I didn't bring you back, just to have you die again! Head into the wall, I'll search for a way back to the Last City" As Kirito began to run towards the wall he asked.

"If the Fallen get me, can't you just revive me like you just did?" Ducking into the staircase and walking into the dark hallways of the Cities fare outer wall. Ghost appeared next to him, acting as a sort of flashlight, illuminating the area in front of them.

"Normally, yes. Unless we are in a zone heavily corrupted by Darkness, at that point I would need the light of another Guardian to boost our power; however even then, sometime the Darkness is just too strong and will snuff out our light instantly."

Kirito looked to ghost as they began to come to opening, Checking his had he say the telltale logo of a Darkness Zone "Okay, the Darkness feels rather weak, too weak for it to generate a Darkness Zone. So how are we in one?" It's rather hard for a player to describe how the Nerve Gear emulated The Darkness, but the best description is a cold that penetrates your entire being mixed with an overwhelming sense of negativity.

"It took almost all of my Light reserves to perform the initial Resurrection on you, on top of that your body is still learning to generate light. Those factors combined make the Darkness's power too overwhelming for us right now. Once we make it closer the Traveler my reserves will recharge faster and your body will better acclimate to the Light."

"Makes sense I guess." Kirito muttered. Suddenly clanging and a myriad of other noises reverberated across the room. Ghost quickly began to look around, almost panicking.

"Quiet." Ghost whispered, his voice sounding like it was inside Kirito's head. "The Fallen are all around us, I need to find you a weapon before the Fallen find us." They began to move as quietly as possible, trying to make as little noise as possible while looking for a weapon.

As the two of them came to a large opening Ghost drifted off a few feet and looked back to Kirito. "We need to find some sort of light, Fallen thrive in the dark. Us? Not so much." As Ghost flew off muttering about military systems and entropy.

'Something feels off.' Thought Kirito, 'The Beta was way more forgiving, and I didn't feel so weak in it.' As the lights came back on Kirito saw all of the Fallen climbing the pipes and walls. As soon as the dark gave way to light they all stopped and looked at him, before he could react Ghost came racing back and the gate next to him began to lift.

"Let's go, I found you a couple of weapons that are still useable!" It yelled before vanishing again. Kirito made a run for the gate, and as soon as he moved the Fallen let out angry screams at him. Sliding to a stop and kneeling next to the weapons he picked up an Auto Rifle the Khvostov 7G-02 with only 20 light, it was weak, and would only be good for this mission and later some fun in the Crucible. Next to the Khvostov was a Spinmetal Short Sword with 25 Light. After picking up the sword Kirito immediately felt that it was too light, he preferred the ones made from Relic Iron which were heavier, although apparently there were new elemental swords he couldn't wait to get.

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As they continued through the wall a few Dregs and Vandals popped up, but nothing Kirito couldn't handle. With precision bursts from his Khvostov Auto-rifle each Fallen he encountered fell like clock-work. Once they came to a long narrow bridge Kirito saw a few more Fallen, with snipers. Kirito barely ducked behind cover right as the white wisp of a Wire-Rifle zipped passed where his head just was. Knowing that he would not be able to make it across before he got sniped, and that his Auto-Rifle was out of range. Switching over to his sword Kirito saw that its ammo was at 30/45, not full, but not low either. Doing some quick thinking he decided to try something.

Standing up Kirito put his sword into the GUARD position right as round from a Vandal's Wire-Rifle impacted the barrier. Next the Dregs joined in with their Shock-Pistols each round drained a small amount of his swords ammo. Half way across 21/40. Three quarters of the way, 13/40. Rounds continued to pelt his swords barrier 10/40. As soon as he was across the bridge he dropped his swords Guard and swung at the nearest Fallen, lunging at it and killing the Dreg instantly, lunging from Fallen to Fallen they each fell to a single swing of his blade. 0/40. As the last Fallen screamed and died the blade of his sword dissipated leaving only the hilt. Swapping back to his Khovostov Kirito continued on and after a few more encounters he came to an old ventilation tunnel. Traversing through the service halls he finally made it to the outside, Dusk was starting to set in Old Russia and Kirito and his Ghost knew that they needed to make it to the Last City ASAP.

Ghost appeared next to Kirito's head, scanning the area as if looking for something.

"I'm sensing the light of other Guardians! This must be a patrol route, although I don't detect any active signatures nearby."

"Are you picking up anything we can use to get to the City, Ghost?" Kirito asked as they made their way across the field, firing off some burst at Dregs and Vandals that would not give up.

"I am picking up and old Jump-ship, if we get to it I can see what I can do." Coming up to another building they saw two Shanks and four Dregs come out and engage them. Continuing with his short controlled bursts Kirito ended the Fallen rather quickly.

Suddenly Kirito felt a rush of power as particles of golden light burst from his body. Looking at his HUD Kirito saw that he advanced to Level 2. Hunkering down in a safe spot he accessed the mental link with is Ghost, seeing the 'menu' pop up Kirito selected his Sub-class and saw that he unlocked the Void Vortex-Grenade. Equipping it Kirito closed is menu and left the link with Ghost, looking towards his left hand Kirito focused and summoned a sphere of purple light in his palm, clenching his fist the light dissipated.

Standing up Kirito began to make his way through the building before coming up to an old hanger with a ship hanging off of the rafters. Looking around he noticed two Vandals and even a Captain with them. Looking at his ammo stores he noticed his sword was full 40/40. Drawing his Spinmetal Short Sword once more Kirito charged in dropping the two Vandals bevor being forced to use Guard as the Captain sent a burst from his Shrapnel Launcher at him. Once the captain moved to reload Kirito took the opportunity to slash the Captain, bursting its shields. Recovering from his swing and capitalizing on the Captain bring stunned, Kiroto focused his light into the blade of his sword making it glow a dark purple and immediately performed an uppercut. The Captain was sent up into the air as its body began break apart from the void light that was infused into the blade.

Once the area was clear Ghost separated from Kirito who was looking at his Sword. Taking a glance at the weapon in his Guardians hand Ghost spoke "You infused your light into the blade? That is rather impressive. But not important at the moment." Looking up to the Jump ship Ghost started scanning it. "An old Arcadia-Class, hasn't made a jump in centuries." Kirito looked up from his musing as Ghost floated up to the ship and began working on it.

"Will it fly?"

Ghost looked to Kirito "I can make it work" turning back to the Jump-Ship Ghost disappeared. Kirito glanced around, switching back to his Auto-Rifle, being ready for anything to pop up.

"Well it won't be breaking orbit any time soon." Ghost spoke in Kirito's mind. As the lights began to turn on and the engines came to life. "But it should hold together long enough to make it to the City." After a few moments Ghost began to mutter "Damn fallen pirates, we are lucky they didn't fully gut this thing yet. Reconnect those system, bridge that connection to the power core. And now about that Transmat-" a large roar reverberated through the small bay and fallen started to emerge from a hole in the wall. "No time, bringing you in!"

In a flash of light Kirito was Transmated into cockpit before the ship rose up. "We can come back when you're ready. For now we need to get to the city." Rotating the ship slowly lifted higher before pausing and launched forward as fast as it could safely go, off to the Last City.

And done, this is just the beginning. I am a little rusty with my writing but I think I am doing rather well. Also I need some OC's and Exotic items and Gear names, mainly for the swords. This is just to help me add some more variety to the items in the story. Please leave a Review letting me know how I am doing, or with an Item/OC. Also any suggestions or ideas for the rules of the world would be some good help.

For the OC's I need a Name, Race, Height, Class, Primary Sub-class and an Inventory (Exotics are not a guarantee)

For Exotics I need a Name, Item type (Armor, Weapon,), Class based or not, Weapon Type, and some Flavor Text

And for the Swords I need Name, Material, Light attribute (Void, Solar, Arc, Neutral)