This chapter is a copy of ep.1 of SAO. All the chapters following are my own work. And is where story gets interesting.

Chapter 1

Welcome to my world

FL 2, Boulder City

Dec. 8, 2022 2:27 am

(MIZORE'S POV)

"Death has come for you, pker." I say as I deal the finishing blow with my Scythe. You see I'm a pk bounty hunter. I hunt down the players who pk the innocent players. The latest Target was an elusive one. I've chased him for days, but now I had finally taken him out. I bow my head."Forgive him Kami-sama, May he rest in peace." I look over at the girl who was almost my target's next victim." I'm forming a guild to stop bastards like him. Do you want to join me?" I offer her my hand.

"I owe you my life. Of course, I will join you. I'm saya." She says.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Mizore." I say as I pull my hood down. she stares at me for a second or two.

"Wait, You're a girl?"After talking for a while, I realize Saya is actually really cool. I'm glad to have her as a friend. I sit there, thinking about how this game all began.

My room, Nov. 6, 2022 11:55 am

5 minutes that was all that remained till Sword Art Online launched. It was the world's first virtual reality MMO RPG. Created by Kayaba Akihiko, a true genius. After waiting line for a week I had one of the 10,000 copies released. Then before I knew it was launch time. I put on my nervegear helmet signed in and did the all the necessary calibrations . I got on my bed, laid down and said those words, . "Link start." Little did I know how much those two words would change my reality. I blanked out for a second or two. When I awoke I was not in my in bed, but a totally new place. I was in Aincrad, I was in Sword Art Online.

The Town Of beginning

Nov. 6, 2022 12:05, pm

I rushed around town, amazed at how real this world is . I found a nice little sword shop. They had a few swords, I found one I like, a nice big two-handed Sword. It was not the weapon I wanted, but it would do for now. I payed for it and walked away. As I looked around in awe. I bumped right into someone. I looked up to see a girl, she had light brown hair and eyes that matched her hair. She carried a reaper sword. You know, the ones with the really thin blades. " I... I'm sorry, it's my fault. I wasn't watching where I was going." I apologized.

"You have nothing to be sorry about, you meant no harm. Hi, I'm Asuna." She replied.

"Nice to meet you Asuna, I'm Mizore." I said .

Asuna looked at my back." Wow, You think you Can handle that big Sword?" She asked.

"Of course, I can! Hey Asuna, want to come train with me?"

Fields, outside town

Nov. 6, 2022 12:30 pm

"Take that, you baka pig!" I yelled as I cut a pig in two. It shattered like glass and disappeared. A little box popped up in midair. It said that I gained 22 Exp. Points and 100 col. I stepped back to watch Asuna. She ran toward the pig and stabbed it a few times. It shattered just like mine and the little box popped up. "So this game has no magic, right?" I asked.

"Yea, but I heard there is an infinite number skills and not just sword skills. It has stuff like cooking and blacksmithing " Asuna said.

"Lets try it, let try to do a sword skill. You want to try first or should I?" Asuna ran toward a pig and her sword started to glow. She repeatedly stabbed the pig at high-speed.

" Wow, Nice job Asuna. But stand aside, it's my turn." I started to swing my sword though the air. The game took over and finished the motion for me. A wave of energy shot from my sword and sliced the pig in half.

" Whoa, Nice one Mizore."

Nov. 6, 2022 5:25 pm

Asuna and I had trained for the last few hours, we both level 5 now. I looked at my in-game clock and realized it was getting really late, Mom was probably done making dinner by now. "Asuna, I think it's time I logged out now." I waved my hand, and the game menu came up. I looked for a log out button but, didn't see one there. " Hey Asuna, where is the logout button? I can't find one."

"You're probably not looking in the right spot." She said pulling her menu "No, it's not there."I replied.

Suddenly Asuna started to glow. " Hey Asuna, you're glowing."

"So are you. I think it's a forced teleport."

Town of Beginnings, Plaza

Asuna was right it was a forced teleport. I was now in the town plaza. I look around, I guess all the players are here now. Then suddenly the sky turned red, little words that said warning and system announcement appeared in English. Then the red sky started to drip, it almost looked like the sky started bleeding. The drops of blood formed brown robe. But the weird thing about it, there was no one wearing it. It started addressing the players. "Attention players, I welcome you to my world." His world, then this faceless figure is...

" I am Akihiko Kayaba , and from this point I am the one in control of the game. I guess many of you have already noticed that the logout button is missing from the main menu. This is not a game glitch. I repeat... This is not a glitch, but an original feature of Sword Art Online. You can not log yourselves out of the game and no one outside can shutdown or remove the NerveGear. Should this be attempted, the transmitter in the NerveGear will send a powerful microwave though your skull , destroying your brain and thus ending your life." He could not be serious. A game, where I can't logout. A game where I had a chance of dying. What the Hell was Kayaba thinking?

" The friends and families of some of the players failed to heed my warning. As a result 213 players are now gone from Aincrad and the real world. As you can see various news networks are reporting this."Images of various news reports of Deaths caused by the NerveGear appeared in the sky around Kayaba ."So the threat of forced removal has been reduced. So I want you to relax, and focus on clearing the game. Also please make note, that there is no way to respawn when your HP reaches Zero. If this happens your avatar will be erased from the system, and simultaneously the NerveGear will Fry your brain." I couldn't die here. Why should i die just because of some game? " There is only one way out, you must clear the game. Right now, you are on floor 1 The lowest level of Aincrad. If you can get though the dungeon and defeat the boss you can advance to the next floor. Defeat the boss of floor 100 and you will clear the game."

"What the hell!? How are gonna do that!? It seems Impossible!" I yelled.

Kayaba just ignored me. "Lastly, I placed an a little present in the item storage of every player. Please, take a look." I brought up my menu, and went to my items. In my items I saw a mirror. I brought the mirror out of storage and stared into it. Then I heard Screaming, I looked to see all the players starting to glow. I looked back in my mirror and saw not my avatar but me, the real me.

"Asuna you okay?" I looked around for my new friend. Then I saw Someone who looked like her just a little younger. "Asuna?"

"Mizore?" She replied. "How does the game know what we look like?" Asuna asked.

"It must have been those calibrations it made us do." I replied.

Kayaba started speaking again. "Many of you are probably wondering why? why would Akihiko Kayaba creator of Sword Art Online do this? Ultimately my goal is a simple one, the reason I created Sword Art Online was to control the fate for a world of my design. As you can see I have achieved my goal. This marks the end of the tutorial and official start of SAO. I wish you all the best of luck." With that Kayaba started turning back into the blood like form and then disappeared.

FL 2, Boulder City

Dec. 8, 2022 2:40 am

"Mizore, Mizore, Hello Mizore?" Saya's voice brings me out of my day dreaming.

"Sorry Saya, I was just remembering how this Death game started. I guess, I was day dreaming."

"Day Dreaming? But, it the middle of the night?" She asks. At least she had a sense of humor "Do you ever think we will clear this game? I mean it is a month in to the game and we've only cleared the first floor. Already 2,000 of us have died. Is there really any hope?" She asks.

" Never give up hope. I will never give up till this game is cleared." She just smiles at me.

"So, what should we call our new anti-pk guild?" Saya asks.

"I don't know? What do you think Saya?" I ask.

"Well, with that black robe and scythe you look like a... that it! Let's call our guild shinigami." She says to me.

"Shinigami huh? I like the sound of that. Then Shinigami it is, our mission is to protect the weak players from pkers who would harm them." She gave me a thumbs up.

She then starts speaking."This could be our motto. Pkers beware, Death has come for you. These are the last words you shall hear, before the shinigami comes for you."

Thank you all for reading SAO: Mizore's story. please note, that unlike the ice dragon slayer, this story will be in present tense. Only flash backs and memories will be past tense.

This story will cover all 74 floors of SAO and will only be in Mizore's point of view. If you have any idea for floor themes. You can leave them in the comment section or pm them to me.

Also i would like to give special thank to JamieLee who help me with this story idea.