Chapter 1

White. That was all that the boy saw. Then his surroundings darkened, revealing line after line of computer code. The boy looked through the codes. As he did so, previews of the codes of each game he was viewing appeared.

"World of Tanks… nah," the boy said. He continued looking through the list. World of Warships, War Thunder, Gundam Online ("Maybe later," said the boy.), Alfheim Online, Fire Emblem Online, and so on and so forth. His eyes landed on a particular game, Sword Art Online. He gritted his teeth at the name and carried on. His eyes eventually landed on a game that was fairly popular at the time. He smiled. The title of the game was Gun Gale Online, a game that recently re-patched itself allowing tank driving. He clicked on the game, and his surroundings went white again.

Sino Asada was walking home from school, humming rather cheerfully. She had very good reason to be cheerful. Today was her birthday, and the start of summer break. She opened the door to her room, dropped off her school stuff, put on some casual clothes, and headed back out the door. She soon arrived at the Dicey Café. She looked at her phone. 5:30 pm. Sino took a deep breath and opened the door. She jumped a little at the large amount of bangs she was greeted with. Over the bar counter, there was a banner that said お誕生日おめでとう (Happy Birthday in Japanese). Everyone was clapping.

"Thanks guys," she said. She walked over to the counter and ordered a glass of ginger ale. Everyone else carried on what they were doing, a few stragglers hiding presents before Sino noticed. Then a figure walked over to Sino.

"Sinon," said the figure. Sino turned around. Standing next to her was Kazuto Kirigaya, the boy that saved her life about a few months ago. Standing next to him was Asuna Yuuki, Kazuto's girlfriend. Sino blinked a little before answering.

"Hi, Kirito. Thanks for the party," said Sino aka Sinon.

"You're welcome," said Kazuto aka Kirito. "It wasn't too hard, considering we're usually the only customers that come here."

"Hey!" said the bartender Andrew aka Egil. "I have more customers other than you! It's just that you guys come here more often."

Asuna and Sino laughed. Then Sino remembered something.

"Hey, Kirito-kun," began Sino.

"Hmm? *gulp*gulp* what's up, Sinon?" asked Kazuto as he sipped his ginger ale.

Sino stumbled for words for a moment, and then said, "I want to go back to GGO."

Kazuto coughed a little (sorry, a lot) and looked at Sino wide eyed.

"Are you sure?" he asked. "But..."

"Hey Sino-chan!" Asuna butted in, clearly not wanting her boyfriend being focused on another girl. "Look what I got for you!" She pulled out a book. Sino took the book. It was an album with pictures of everyone in real life, screen shots of everyone in Alfheim, all the happy moments that had happened. Sino smiled.

"Thanks Asuna. It's beautiful."

"I know right?" said Kazuto. "Almost anything makes is beautiful."

Asuna blushed. Sino chuckled. Then she checked her phone. Well, what a surprise. 6:30 pm. "Did you guys check the time?" asked Sino. Andrew looked at the clock and said, "Aw man! It'll take an hour to clean up this mess, and I need to open up for dinner!"

"Um," said Kazuto. "Should we leave?" Everyone got up. Asuna looked out the window.

"I think we should, Kirito-kun. There's a crowd waiting for the café to open."

With that, everyone waved goodbye to each other and left. As Sino walked home, she was a little nervous. The last time she played GGO, or Gun Gale Online, her life was being threatened. Kazuto (Kirito) saved her from the mess. (For more information, read SAO volumes 5 & 6 or watch SAO II). When she got home, she changed into her pajamas, jumped into her bed, and put on her Amusphere. And then, with a strong and determined voice, she said, "Link Start!"

Author's note: Hello ladies, gentlemen, and others! Welcome to my third fanfic! I'm happy that I got this idea into words. I will warn you, the beginning might be a little slow, but the main part should be fun ;) Wish me luck guys! Now time to play some World of Tanks *looks for Amusphere* Oh no, where did my Amusphere go? *Finds nervegear on table* Meh. better than nothing.