Finally decided to do it. Like with most of my favorite characters, it was love at first sight. I love Naotsugu's character, he's so goofy, it's hard not to love him. Who doesn't love a man in a suit of armor, right?

Anyways, this may or may not evolve into a love story, who knows. But for now, it's just be a growing friendship kind of deal.

I have also drew what this OC looks like and if you want to look, check out my profile and click on the CallmeOptimus deviantArt link. I strongly suggest looking at it because I was lazy when it came to describing how the armor looks, the designs, and where the colors are placed. The OC was made just for this story.

SO LOOK AT IT. I WANT ALL OF YOU TO LOOK AT IT.

So I don't own Log Horizon, just the OCs.

SMALL EDIT: It's been a while since I made a new story and forgot about the whole image uploader thing. So if you're lazy and don't wanna go to my profile to get the picture link, just look at the story cover instead.

ANOTHER SMALL EDIT CUZ I'M DUMB AND ISN'T USE TO IMAGE MANAGER: Please do go to my profile and get the link. The cover for the story doesn't show her entire suit of armor. Only from the waist up. The original picture was too big and cut off her head so I had to fix that. I'm dumb. Sorry.

"You've got to be kidding me…"

A young woman sat on the moss-covered earth as she observed her surroundings. Her familiar surroundings. And familiar is a bad sense. To her left and right, there were more confused people. Or should she say, players? Most of them had the same look as her on their faces, while others were in a complete rage, blaming the nearest person or thing.

She wanted to know:

Where am I?

But deep down, she knew exactly where she was. It's the fact that she didn't want to accept her fate yet. Perhaps this was some sort of bad dream. Surely something like this only happens in silly children's movies and novels…right?

Just moments ago, she recalled sitting in front of her laptop at home with her knees pulled up to her chest. This was her form of 'down time'. She was given the day off from work today so she decided to spend it by sleeping in and then lounging around her apartment. However, she found herself bored after a while, so she decided to work on some documents for her work. As a Computer Science Engineer, she was required from her department at work to do some detailed research about programs and software that could be used in upcoming projects around Japan, and even America.

"So this is how I spend my day off…working." She sighed to herself as the sound of her typing filled the quiet room. Her thoughts were interrupted with a loud buzzing sound coming from the side of her desk. Someone had texted her. Reaching for the phone, she flipped it open and looked at the screen. She had received a message from a fellow co-worker and a good friend.

Message from Ao:

Heard you got the day off. Wanna play some ET today? I heard the new Novasphere Pioneers expansion pack is coming out some time today. Well?

She leaned back into her chair, putting some actual thought into her decision. By ET, surely Ao had meant Elder Tale. It had been nearly a year since she had stopped playing. Part of the reason was due to work needing her full and undivided attention. The other part was the fact that after years of playing, she finally finished the main story line and maxed out her levels. It took about 6 years in total for her to find herself becoming bored with the game. She was introduced to the game a while back, thanks to a couple of classmates from her college computer programming classes. She was a fan of MMORPGs and thought this popular game would be worth trying. For the first year or so, she played with one of her really close friends, Yuugo. After a few unfortunate events and meeting new friends, she parted ways with Yuugo and played with smaller parties from her computer science classes. The need to be in a party slowly died down and she began doing quests on her own. Shortly after adventuring by herself, she met up with another loner, Ryuuji. He became her new partner and vice versa. They formed their own small alliance with each other and leveled up together.

Years passed and they both began to log on less and less. One day, they both happened to log on at the same time and Ryuuji informed her that he was joining a guild, despite the fact that he was hardly ever on. He offered her to join the guild with him, seeing that she exceed the level 85 requirement the guild had asked for. She never bother asking about what guild it was but it didn't matter. She wasn't interested. She admitted that college work, graduation, and searching for a job was consuming a good portion of her time and life. She said that she had fun play the game and leveling up her character, but now, with nothing else to do in the game besides venture, collect rare items, make money, she decided it was time for a break. Her long term partner understood and wished her the best of luck in life before they went down their own life paths.

The girl blinked back into reality and realized that she had spaced out. She looked at her phone again, a blank message still on her screen. Without a second thought, she decided to reply back.

Sure, I heard of the new expansion. Idk when it's being released today, but I'll log on now.

She hit 'send' on her dial pad and closed all of the document files on her laptop before opening up Elder Tale. She logged on and was currently staring at her character. With a few taps on her keyboard, she opened up her friends list to see if Ao was already online. She quickly found out that he wasn't.

An audible sigh escaped her lips as she made her character walk back and forth on her screen.

Before anything else could happen, her entire world went black.

…

And then she woke up here.

This was, without a doubt in her mind, Akihabara. The largest, and most well-known city on Elder Scroll's Japanese server. This is where she spent most of her time as a beginner when she first got the game. With the help of her college classmates was she able to finally venture out into the world.

"This is definitely Akiba…but…it seems much more than that now." She thought to herself as she watched the blue sky stretch farther than she recalled in the game.

She grew tired of sitting on the ground and decided to stand up. As quickly as that idea popped into her head, she immediately fell over face first into the ground.

"Seriously…" She groaned to herself as she raised her, now, dirt covered face from the ground beneath her. She felt like the wind was knocked out of her. This time, she slowly raised herself up until she was sure that she was stable on her feet. The sound of metal rubbing against and hitting metal filled her ears. She had nearly forgotten about her armor that dressed almost her entire body from head to toe. She also realized the giant shield she had strapped on her back, which was probably the source of her winded state when she first fell.

Her armor covered areas that included her torso, hips, shoulders, upper arms, forearms, hands, shins, and feet. Underneath the armor, she wore a simple, navy blue, sleeveless turtleneck piece. Accompanying that was a pair of black, skin tight pants that stopped a few inches above her knees. Her stomach area, lower back, elbows, knees, and fingers were the only parts of her body naked from any means of armor. The color of her suit of armor ranged from a dark turquoise color to light blue decorations with black trimmings around certain pieces of armor. The color scheme of her shield also matched her armor.

With a sigh, she blew a misplaced strand of her chocolate colored hair out of her slate-gray eyes. She wasn't sure what to do now. Hell, she wasn't even sure how to access her menu to try and log out of this madness.

"This sucks!" She growled and slammed an open palm into the center of her forehead. A small ping sound rung in her ears and it startled her. Before she had time to freak out, she noticed some sort of screen that projected itself in front of her.

"What's this…" It looked exactly like the menu. She reached out to try and touch one of the options and it worked. Now she was getting somewhere. With a small, satisfied hum, she scanned the variety of options before her eyes landed on the 'log out' selection. She tapped it once and it beeped before displayed a red 'x' over the option, obviously meaning her access was denied. She narrowed her eyes at the display screen and began to furiously tap on the 'log out' button. She was only rewarded with the constant beeping noise and the failure to log out. She slumped her shoulders in defeat.

"Now this really sucks…"

Straightening herself out, she decided to look through more of her options. All of her items were there and so was her gold. That was a good sign then, at least she had money if it even came down to her having to buy food from this place. Then she noticed her 'friends list' and she immediately felt her mood brighten up. Maybe Ao was on and she didn't have to be alone. She scrolled through the list of people and a lot of their names weren't lit up, which probably meant that they weren't online. Only a small handful of name were actually lit up. However, Ao's name wasn't one of them. Her bad mood instantly came back.

"That moron bothered me to log on and didn't even log on himself?!" She was furious with her co-worker. It's because of him that she was stuck here.

"-PANTIES~!" A sudden outburst scared her out of her thoughts and she looked around for the source. She only saw birds flying away in the distance, probably startled by the yelling as well.

"…what the heck was that about…?" She looked in the sky and decided to shake it off. Some things are better left unanswered.

So you guys thought I was joking when I said I was too lazy to fully describe the armor in detail, huh?