SAO: Tale from the coffin
A retelling of the whole story of Sword Art Online told from the point of a new character known as Mikael the long lost brother of Kazuto Kirigaya (Kirito) who spent most of his time looking for him until he meets someone special. Also i will be using Avatar name and not their real names. Pairings KiritoXAsuna and OCXSinon.
Chapter 1-His Story
Everyone knowns about the SAO incident. Where in 2022 on November 6, 10,000 player were trapped in the MMO known as Sword Art Online. They were all trapped there by the game creator Akihiko Kayaba. For two year player worked together to clear all 100 floor of Aincrad, out of all the player only one stood out and discover that the game creator was a player called Heathcliff. On Floor 75 he revealed who Heathcliff was and duel him. He won the duel and saved all those who were trapped in SAO at that time. His name is Kazuto Kirigaya and he is my younger brother. That was his story and this is mine
My name is Mikael Kitagawa. When I was little i lost my parent in a car accident. After that i was adopted by the Kitagawa's while my little brother was adopted by are Aunt Midori Kirigaya. When i was 8 year old i discovered this fact by hacking into the medical record and adoption files of the orphanage we were placed in before are adoption. For years i tried to located him but eventually stop when i became the captain of my schools kendo team and spent most of his time practising as well as studying and playing online games. In 2022, I was one of the people who got a hold of the beta for Sword Art Online unlike any of the other Beta test I was good at the game but i was only the second best beta being behind a player known as Kirito who was my brother but i didn't know that at the time.
On November 6th when I was 16 years old i logged into SAO the minute i got a hold of the game. As I was about to log into SAO I looked at the only photo of my parents. I then layed on my bed and put my nerve gear that I had modified. I logged into SAO by saying 'Link Start'. I appear in the town of beginning in the avatar I had designed when i was in the Beta. I had managed to keep most of my item of gear from the Beta by hacking the Beta and saving the items on my nerve gear which i had modified to fulfil that purpose as well as stop microwaves from frying my brain which i didn't was possible. I reequipped all the items I had in the beta in a flash i was dress up in my familiar long coat known as the coat of Eclipse which was gave me an exp bonus of 40% with every monster I kill as well as protect me all attack ass well as give my 50% more on all stat and level them up 2x faster (the design of this item is similar to Kirito's from Alfiem Online but with alot of white on it) . I soon took off running to a nearby field to get started on raising my level as i did so i forget to watch out.
Bang I crashed into another player (it was kazuto but i didn't know that). "Sorry i should of been watching where i was going" I said to him. I got up and then helped him up "It's okay i know that most people are excited about this game." I then ran off not wanting to bother the player any more than i wanted to. I soon reach the field only to be face with a mob of a least 20 monster. I was able to get through the mob easily. After that I looked my player data and saw I was already at level ten. After I was done check i reached a message from someone know as Hacker. The message said 'Nice job levelling up to level 10 but something bad is about to happen so to help you deal with it.' After I read the message i got a notification which said 'You have received an item and skill from Hacker.'
I then pulled it up my inventory a clicked on the item. It was called 'Blazing Hope' (imaging ryukos scissor blade from Kill la Kill but the edge is red and the rest of the sword is white) it had an attack of 950 with the ability to protect from all unique skills. I equipped the item before taking a look a my skill. Most of my skill were the same as the beta except there was a new skill area which was called 'Unique' in that area was a skill title 'Boss Beater.' I tapped on it to look at it description it said 'this skill allows the user to combat boss by matching it stats of the boss of the floor they are on. It also allow it use to become a second duel wielder when they have passed the boss gleam eyes. It is also able to defeat the unique skill Holy Sword.' I sighed believe that i shouldn't use the skill but i couldn't get rid of it. I sat down for a while before i was forced teleported back to the main square where it was revealed we were trapped in the game by Ahikiho Kayaba.
After that i ran away but not before i saw the player i ran into early was talking with someone. I continued to run. About 3 months in the game i found myself in a forest train my skill improve my sword skills and throwing skill. I was soon surrounded by an orange guild known as Loose Knife. They had threatened to kill me and take away Blazing Hope. All i did was laugh before i used a skill called Eternal Flame which engulfed the whole guild in flames killing them. After that was done i heard clapping, i turned around to see a women wearing a black robe with laughing coffins symbol on it. She then said "My you are quite skilful with that blade. We could use someone like you in are guild." I looked away before responding "And why would i join your guild."
She laughed and said "Well the reason why is simple." Suddenly 5 members of the Knights of Blood Oath appeared and said "Shelia as a member of Laughing Coffin you are under arrest and Mikael you are under arrest for killing a spy of the Knights of The Blood Oath." Shelia then looked at me and smiled. I then told her "Okay i will join your guild" we then charged at the KOB member wiping them out. She then transferred the black robe of Laughing Coffin. She the told me "Welcome to Laughing Coffin, Mikael."
Authors Note: Well this is the first chapter of this story. At the beginning I forgot to mention that this story is split in two part as the first is want the character was doing during the Aincrad Arc and the second part is set after the whole of Sword Art Online 2 and we won't see the pairing till that part but there will be hint of Asuna and Kirito relationship in the first part. The first part will be short as i want to get to the second part quickly since that has the most drama. I also apologise if their are spell mistakes as i am writing on a tablet. Enjoy chapter 2 as we are about to see some familiar faces