Sword Art Online: The Beaters

disclaimer: I do not own SAO or any of the characters

this is my first fanfiction so please leave any review is welcome a quick warning this story will contain sexual content and some swear words ( the sexual stuff want be till later after kirito and asuna get together)

I have only watch the anime so thing may be missing from the light novel.

this first part of the story is set in the POV of Kirito

chapter 1: The 'death game' and floor one

It all started a month ago when Akihio Kayaba the creater of both SAO and the Nerve Gear and now he has trapped 10 thousand people in his 'death game.I am one of those people my name is Kazuto Kirigaya but here, in the world of Sword Art Online my name is Kirito and I was beta tester, one of the best in fact and I was the one who lead the strongest team of beta testers (known as the elites) to floor ten in the single month we had to test the game. However after the last month of the game start no one has been able to get past floor one and but this time in the beta I was I mean were on floor 10 hunting for the boss. Even thought no one has defeat the floor one boss all some of the strongest (and the most confident) players of SAO are having a meet in the old Roman style theatre to decide how to find and kill the floor one boss.

At the meeting

I arrived at the meeting's location and to my surprise the number of player that come to the meeting was few than 50,this might have been because over 2,000 people had already died in the last month and most people were scared shit-less of fighting and hoped that Kayaba who get bored and release them but I knew the only way to escape was to fight, so just kept my hopes up that more player show because currently there just wasn't enough (this coming from a guy who lead a team of 20 at least to floor 10). I took my seat at the top the theatre and waited. After ten minutes of waiting more people showed up which made me feel a little better but we only had to wait a few more moments until a blue haired knight stood up and began to speak. "hello my name is Diavel and the job I rolled is knight."

After what the self-proclamied knight spoke a lot of the people at the meeting began to laugh and say that was no job system in this game all that I was thinking was we still need more players . A few moments later every calmed down and Diavel start to talk again and he said to everyone surpise "yesterday me and my hunting party found the first floor boss room but on inspection half the party were wiped out and that is why I called this meeting here today."

Now the crowed we whispering against one another until a second man yell " hey I go something need I need to get off my chest" he stood at the top of the theatre above everyone else. With all eyes now on the mid high ginger haired man, he started to make his way to the front and spoke once again. " My name is Kibaou and I think that some you should apolgise" he said with anger.

Then Diavel spoke up, "I think I know the ones you are talking about, it the beta tester right."

The whispers started again I suck into my seat to avoid people's stare then kibaou started to talk again " Yes the beta tester they don't off as beginners and as soon as this death game started they got all the best hunting stops and the best loot so the rest of us were suck with crappy gear and to make up for it they should give us their money and gear and ..."

kibaou said this getting angrier and angrier until and huge dark skin man ( A/N not meaning to be racist) spoke which made me sit up straight " hello my name is Agil and you say the beta tester are to blame for the 2,000 players death am I correct" Kibaou nodded " well I will have to disagree" Agil said again making kibaou to get angry but before he could speak agil continued to speak " do you see this book it an item that the NPC traders still give out for free, it a information guild that has all the information need to survive up to floor ten" after this statement the whispers carried one " and do you know who created this info guide, it was the ex-beta testers." The whispers stopped and was replaced with gasps and then followed with more whispers. " Everybody had equal access to this information yet people still died I would like to learn from those guys mistakes and survive"

after this last statement people nodded in agreement and Kibaou and Agil both took there seats at the front and Diavel continued the meeting " As I was saying half of my party was wiped out by this boss and I believe at if we worked together as a group of party made of six people and together, as a raid party we will able to defeat the boss. For the information on the boss look towards the info guide you were just told about"

Diavel said as he and I along with everyone else got out their copies of the guide that I as a beta tester helped to create, although I only gave advice on the 7,8,9 and 10th floors, Diavel continued to speak with the guide book in hand "

"It says that boss start off using a shield and axe and has four health bars, however when his last health bar reaches red he switches to a talwar and changes his combat style. He also has 3 minions to guard him at the start and another 3 spawn when his last health bar reaches red so be careful, now lets get into parties of 6 or less and we will meet at the end of the week at this dungeon."

Once he had finished talking he got into his own party with Agil and Kibaou. I then noticed that I was on my own and I need to find party member fast if was going to have a chance of surviving the fight to come. I look around desperate to find a party member then I notice someone sitting alone with no party member around them. I quickly made my way to them and asked " you got left out to huh."

She then reply in the most elegant voice I have ever heard" no everyone already look like they are friends."

I sighed and then said " well do want to join a party with me, I mean you heard what he said we can't survive on our own"

I then sent her a party invite with my hopes up high. She sighed then accepted and before I could say anything else she left and all I was left with was a name 'asuna.' a cute name I thought to myself, however I never got to see her face as she wore a hooded cloak that cover her face and most of her body so I went to find out more about her.

Hope you enjoyed the first part of the story. :)