Hello everyone! I'm back with a new story! I hope everyone will enjoy this new story and without further ado, let's start!

Normal POV

Aichi and the others were in the space in between Cray and Earth as they were facing Team Dreadnought, with Leon having Void's power aiding him.

" We have to get out of here and think of an alternate plan before Leon does anything." Misaki whispered

" Yeah."

" Let's all go." Ren whispered

" Yeah!"

A scream was suddenly heard from above as they looked up. A black blur fell on top of Aichi after that.

" Ow..."

" That was the worst... Where am I...?"

" Who are you?"

" I should be asking the same thing..."

" How long are you going to sit on me...?"

The boy noticed Aichi below him as he immediately got up while apologising.

" It's okay... I'm just fine..."

" Uh... I do have a question before introducing myself... What's that?"

They turned behind to see black mist starting to attack them as they immediately ran.

" Hey! I'll carry that kid!"

The boy hauled Takuto up his shoulder as they tried to run as fast as possible.

" What's going on here?!"

" We don't understand much either! And you're the one asking us?! You fell from the sky!" Ren exclaimed

" Well... Ah! I had other friends with me! They might be lost in here!"

" We'll find them later! For now, we need to get away from here now!" Kamui exclaimed

" But this is strange... You're not NPCs or players, are you...?"

" Huh?! Don't talk nonsense! This isn't a video game!" Asaka exclaimed

Aichi looked behind and stopped as the others also stopped.

" What's wrong?"

" They're not coming anymore..."

" Weird..."

Aichi suddenly gasped.

" Turn to the left and keep running!"

" Huh?!"

" Hurry up!"

They did as told as the black mist soon shot out from where they were standing at.

" How did you know?!"

" I don't know... It just came to me..."

" But that was close..."

" At this rate, the black mist will consume the entire space if we don't get back to Leon-kun." Ren said

" Well... Then we could follow his trail using Psyqualia, is that right, Takuto-kun?"

" Yes... But we should rest first..."

The build up of black mist started to surround the whole space as Takuto was leaned on a rock to rest.

" We managed to come this far, we can't give up here!"

" I also need some rest..."

" You didn't use your Psyqualia, Ren."

" We did run!" Ren pouted

" Shut up. But where are we?"

" Obviously, we're still in the space in between Cray and Earth. But the where we are and how close we are to Leon is a good question." Misaki said

" Cray and Earth? Wha?! We're not on Earth right now?!"

" Yeah, I thought you knew..."

" Well, this is a little complicated... Oh, sorry! I forgot to introduce myself! I'm Kirito. Nice to meet you."

" H-Hello! I'm Aichi Sendou."

" Misaki Tokura."

" I'm the Great Kamui Katsuragi!"

" I'm Ren Suzugamori! And these are my teammates, Asaka Narumi and Toshiki Kai."

" Hello."

" Hmph."

" I'm Christopher Lo."

" Lee Shenlon."

" Ali Pajeel."

" Hey, Kai! Introduce yourself properly!"

" Whatever."

" Anyway... You look very... Uh..." Aichi started muttering, looking at Kirito's outfit

" Oh sorry! T-This is a little complicated! I know this feels a little awkward..."

" Is that why you were talking in video game language?"

" Kind of..."

" But you need to find your friends too, don't you? If you really think you're still in a video game, then don't they have trackers in a friends' list or something?" Kamui ask

" Oh yeah!"

Epic anime fall...

" We'll set out after you try to find them. Anyway, do you still need to tell us anything about Leon-kun or Void, Takuto-kun?" Aichi ask

Takuto nodded.

" It seems that Leon's newfound power has destabilized this space and merged the two worlds of Cray and Earth."

" Hey..." Kamui said when he saw him starting to collapse

" You aren't the one who sealed away Royal Paladin, are you?"

" The thing that captured Royal Paladin and the others, that gave Leon power... Its name is Void. It's a nihilistic power."

" Void... A nihilistic power..."

"It's Cray's greatest enemy. It's said to have no physical form, existing only as a will. And its power is immeasurable. Void is what sealed Aqua Force long, long ago. But none of the clans have ever been able to help Aqua Force. And now Void has sealed away Royal Paladin and two other clans. "

" Is Void more powerful than before?"

" Yes. But so are the clans. The clans have any years of training, so if they join forces, they should be able to save Royal Paladin and the other clans. That's why... I manipulated all of your memories and switched Gold Paladin and Narukami with the clans that were sealed away. You see, a fighter's ability to lead a clan will be necessary for battling Void. "

" Manipulated memories..."

" Fighter's ability...?"

" I gave you new clans, made you compete in the Vanguard Fight Circuit, even encouraged you to level up, all to free Cray." Takuto continued

" You used us... You used us as pawns..." Misaki said

" That's correct... But using all of you has led to this. Now the only thing I can do is put my trust in you. My power has been weakened because of Void. While I still have power, I'll restore all of your memories." his Psyqualia glowed in his eyes and everyone restored all their memories

" I remember. I remember clearly... I remember all my time with Blaster Blade and Royal Paladin!"

" That's right... You originally used Royal Paladin... Brother Aichi."

" I can't believe I'd forgotten all this time..."

They held onto Takuto when they realized that he was falling.

" You must hate me for manipulating your memories and using you as pawns."

" No. Just the opposite: I'm grateful to you." Aichi smiled and said

" Grateful?"

" You gave me a way to help Blaster Blade. And more than anything, you introduced to me Gold Paladin. With them, I'll free Cray and help Blaster Blade!"

" Void... A fearsome power of emptiness... Right now, emptiness has invaded half of Cray's land... No sound can be heard there, no light reaches through... Nothing moves, and everything is enveloped in silence."

" That's Void..."

" The power of emptiness has begun to move from Cray to this space. And when the emptiness has filled this space, It'll be destroyed and the emptiness will move on to Earth!"

" Earth?!"

" The tragedy that once befell the Souryu people will happen to the entire Earth. The land will rot. The seas will dry up. All of Earth's blessings will be lost. All life will be robbed the will to live. Earth will become a planet of death."

" That'll happen to Earth...? We can't let it!"

" What should we do?"

" The only thing you can do to stop Void is to beat Leon Souryu... No one but the Vanguard Fight winners can exist in this space."

" You mean if we win, it'll be possible to send Leon back to Earth?"

" However, it works the opposite way, too. If you lose in a Vanguard Fight, you won't be able to stay in this space either."

" In other words, if we lose, Earth will..."

" Leon Souryu may think he's using Void, but its power is vast. He can't control it completely. And Leon's ambition has made him lose his cool-headed judgement. At this rate, everything will be controlled by Void..."

They carried him to a nearby rock for him to rest...

" If he isn't stopped, both Cray and Earth will come to an end. Quickly, go to him..."

" But how can we find him?"

" Psyqualia... You should be able to sense Leon's Psyqualia..."

" Psyqualia..." Aichi stood up, his eyes glowed and Aichi turned towards Leon's direction... " That way!"

" Go. Cray is in your hands."

" Right! Let's go, everyone!"

" Right!"

" Oh and Aichi-kun... One warning..."

" What is it?"

" Be careful..."

" Huh? Sure..."

Kirito walked back to them after that.

" I managed to contact my friends. They said that they'll try to find me too. So we should be able to keep moving first. Will the kid be alright alone here?"

" Yes, I'll be fine..."

" Alright then. So you guys found a way to locate that Leon guy you were talking about?"

" Yeah. I was right about using Psyqualia to find him at least... Hopefully, we'll make it in time before this black mist blocks our whole vision..."

" Yeah."

" Don't worry. I was surprised when I could use all the skills I had in the game world. So, I have the searching skill and night vision skill. They should be able to help us in this situation... I think."

" Well, we can only depend on the Psyqualia users for now."

" Leave it to us!" Ren said

The three led the way as they tried to speed up to make it in time before Void starts to destroy both Earth and Cray.

Meanwhile, Leon was alone while Jillian and Sharlene were keeping watch for him.

" So... You're saying that different Psyqualia have different traits to them?"

" Yes. This is why you should obtain all of them, is what I want to say but... You cannot extract the power that easily." A voice bellowed

" I see. So what traits are there?"

" From what I've seen here, you can sense the 'wind', Ren Suzugamori has a good sensory radar which helps him to sense many things, it might be good enough for him to just find us despite the interruption, Christopher Lo has the intellect, in which he had it long ago and as for Aichi Sendou... It's an unbelievable case for him."

" What is it?"

" The power of premonition."

" Premonition?! Of the future?!"

" Yes. He had already seen through all of our attacks on him and his friends by unconsciously activating his Psyqualia for as quick as a split second where it'll be hard for people to see the activation, including himself."

" So that's how they avoided the attack from underground... Because Aichi Sendou saw the future. That means... Did he see this event happening?"

" Hm... I dug through his memories while he was asleep one time before I was forced out by the light coming from his Psyqualia. He remembered his first meeting with Takuto Tatsunagi, saw what Takuto Tatsunagi showed him of me sealing the three clans and even remembering the three clans even though the rest of his friends couldn't. His Psyqualia is a special one indeed. It protected the memories that mattered the most for him. Thus, him showing up here."

" Heh... Interesting. Let's have him here as our special guest, shall we? But first, we need a plan to trick his special ability, even for a split second chance."

" Don't worry about that. I'll be quick. Because I found a quick flaw in his premonitions... They would sometimes be slightly wrong."

With that, the black mist Leon was talking to disappeared as Leon waited.

Meanwhile, Aichi and the others were still walking towards Leon.

" No good... I can't sense Leon-kun anymore."

" I can't either."

" I can still sense him! I guess I have a better nose than you guys!"

" Ren, this has nothing to do with noses." Kai sighed

" Just keep going. We need to hurry."

" Yes~"

Aichi's Psyqualia activated for a slight second as he gasped.

" Aichi?"

" There's black swords... Coming at us from behind..."

" Huh?!"

Kirito turned behind as he drew his swords. Soon after, as Aichi predicted, swords were coming after them as Kirito smirked.

" Finally, a fight! I don't understand how I got here, but this'll be worthwhile! Everyone, stay behind me!"

Kirito started to spar with the swords as he managed to get them away from the others when they somehow managed to get past him. Using his different sword skills, the swords were destroyed and they disappeared after that as Kirito sighed.

" It should be safe now."

" But Aichi, how did you know?"

" I don't know..."

" It was the same with when we were almost attacked from underground by the black mist."

" I'm not sure either..."

Aichi suddenly felt something stinging his neck as he pulled out what looks like a needle before it disappeared. Aichi suddenly felt faint as his vision blurred. Kai caught him the moment he fell forward as Aichi tried to stay awake.

" Aichi! What's wrong?!"

Aichi's Psyqualia flickered again as Aichi tried to tell Kai something but it was futile because of whatever was inside the needle was forcing him to sleep. In the end, he fainted as Kai tried to shake him awake again.

" Aichi! Come on! Wake up!"

" Seems to me that something like a sleeping needle was shot onto his neck."

" A needle?"

" I managed to see it before it disappeared. At this sort of timing, I have a potion that can make someone forced to sleep, wake up. That is, if I can use it for you people. After all, I seem to have fallen into a real world from a virtual world."

" I'd rather not take the risk. I'll carry him along the way instead."

" If you say so..."

Kirito opened his items window when he spotted something and screamed.

" W-What?!"

" This is... SAO?! The old ALO! and GGO avatar too!"

" Huh?"

Kirito decided to tap on his SAO character as he was immediately changed into it.

" When I look at it this way... It looks more real than just now. Minus the elf ears..." Ren said

" Weird... Why?"

" Anyway, let's move on. We're losing a lot of time."

" Y-Yeah..."

While Kirito continued to ponder, more black mist came forward to attack them as Kirito looked up and quickly started to deflect them again, unaware of one behind Kai. Kai was hit from behind as Aichi was quickly caught by the black mist.

" Aichi!"

Kirito turned behind only to be knocked back by the black mist as it disappeared right after Aichi also disappeared.

" That's their motive, huh?!"

" Kirito-kun!"

Kirito turned his head to see his friends.

" Everyone!"

" So you noticed too? Our old avatars are in our menu."

" Yeah. Is it because we're here?"

" I'm not sure but... This is trouble. Where are we?"

" A real world from what I know."

" Still... The mist around here is really bothering the vision."

" No time to keep talking right now. Their friend is in trouble. We need to find the source of all this power fast."

" Our vision parameter won't go very far with all this mist."

" Over there."

They turned to Ren after that.

" I have a really good nose! Leon-kun's Psyqualia sticks out like a sore thumb!"

" Psyqualia has nothing to do with noses. Anyway, lead us to him. Aichi is probably with him by now. Whatever he's planning, we need to make it in time before it happens."

" Yes~"

They continued to walk while Chris sighed.

" This is my limit. I'm beat from using too much Psyqualia and I still can't sense Leon."

" Ren. I guess it's up to your nose." Kai sighed

" Leave it to me! Still, this mist is getting thicker. Any more and I think I'll be reaching my limit too."

" But you worried us, Kirito-kun. You were the only one separated from us."

" I know... Sorry..."

" But as expected of Papa. You contacted us even though we never thought about it." Yui said

" No... These guys reminded me. Oh yeah! These are the friends I was talking about."

" I'm Asuna."

" I'm Klein."

" I'm Lizbeth, you can call me 'Liz'."

" I-I'm Silica!"

" I'm Leafa. Kirito-kun is my big brother in reality."

" I'm Sinon."

" And I'm Yui."

" Kirito is your big brother?! What a surprise! You two don't look alike at all!" Ren exclaimed

Kai and the others sighed.

" We've discussed this half an hour ago, Ren. They're from a game but fell into our real world for some reason. Did you forget?" Kai ask

" Oh yeah."

Sweat drop...

" Ignore the idiot. Any ideas how you guys fell into this world?" Misaki ask

" Well... There was a gigantic hole and we fell into it... That's all."

" Mysteries later. We're arriving."

" That's fast! Looks like your nose is really working!"

" Leafa... We've already known that noses and the other ability he has is not related..."

" O-Oh..."

They suddenly heard a scream as Kai immediately broke into a run towards it.

" Kai! Wait!"

" We're following him!"

" Yeah!"

They ran after Kai and when they arrived, Aichi was already in his arms.

" Aichi!"

" It's fine. He just fainted."

" Leon! What did you do to Brother?!"

" Nothing. Toshiki Kai foiled it when he arrived."

" No. When I arrived, Aichi already managed to escape. I'm assuming he used his Psyqualia to break free."

Leon's eyes narrowed while the others were distracted.

" Not just that... This boy..." Leon thought

" I'll try to heal him."

" Like I said, I'm not letting a virtual world thing touching him."

" Don't be such a spoilsport. He'll wake up sooner if she does this." Kirito assured

Kai stayed silent while looking over to the others who either shrugged or nodded.

" ... Fine."

" I sure hope this works..."

Her wand she uses to casts her spells appeared as she chanted her spell and a green light surrounded Aichi. Soon, Aichi opened his eyes as the others sighed in relief.

" It worked!"

" Brother!"

" Ow... My head... What happened?"

" You were captured by Leon!"

" Oh, that's right... But the more important is... Leon-kun. Let's fight. This space is already starting to crumble and Void is making its own advance. Let's settle this fast."

" Fine by me."

The others stepped back while the fight started.

~ After the fight~

Light surrounded all of them as they were transported back to Earth asleep, including Kirito and the others.

In Kirito's world... All of them woke up at the same time as they saw that it was already morning.

" No way... That was real?"

He soon contacted the others and they agreed to meet up for an offline meeting.

" This isn't a coincidence. We were logged out right after Aichi defeated that Leon guy."

" They didn't have any HP gauge and neither were they NPCs or AIs."

" But if we already logged out, then what about our bodies from the other world?"

" Let's see... If we presume that it was night by the time we defeated Leon and then woke up to the morning here... We're going to see if my theory is true. At night, we'll all full dive again and we'll try to see if we get back to ALO again or we're still in that world."

" Yeah!"

And night fell as they wore their Amusphere and full dived again.

" Link Start!"

Back in Aichi's world... As expected, Kirito and the others woke up in the unknown world again as they were now inside what seemed to be an infirmary. The door opened as Aichi walked in.

" What a relief! You guys are awake!"

" Hey, Aichi... Where are the others?"

" My team won the VF Circuit and they're now in another room celebrating our victory. I was worried about you guys since you never woke up and came here."

" Is that so? Congratulations."

" Thank you!"

The door opened again as they turned to see Takuto by the entrance.

" Hello."

" Takuto-kun!"

" Congratulations once more, Aichi Sendou. You and your team are really strong."

" Thank you. It was a team effort."

" Um... What happened to the space and that Void thing?"You

" Void retreated right after we defeated Leon-kun. And the space has been restored to normal thanks to that as well."

" I see..."

As if knowing Asuna's worries, Kirito turned to her.

" Asuna. Is something wrong?"

" N-No! It's nothing!"

" Oh, that's right. Aichi-kun, I just talked to your other friends celebrating in the other room. I'll accompany them so don't worry and go back. It's your team's party after all."

" Oh, right! I'll see you guys later then!"

" Yeah!"

As soon as Aichi left and Takuto made sure he was out of listening range before turning back to Kirito and the others.

" I take it you have something to tell us."

" As all of you might know, a select few of us have this power called 'Psyqualia'."

Kirito nodded, " Yeah. I've seen it in action."

" The others' Psyqualia are alright but the one that I'm most concern about is Aichi-kun."

" He can predict the future, right?"

" Future?! Is that even possible?!" Klein exclaimed

" He showed it very clearly in that space. In front of me, that is."

" That's not all. It's evolving. His Psyqualia is still unlocking more powers."

" What do you mean?"

" He can predict the future but now... He's predicting the time proximity of the future."

" Time proximity?"

" How many minutes or hours or days this certain event or any other certain events. He's starting to see through it all. There are slight chances where he is slightly wrong but most of the time, he would be right. In the room they are celebrating in, I discussed with the others about setting up just one fake prank to see how accurate he can be, it happened an hour before you guys woke up."

" So he..."

" Yeah..."

" Is the set up still there?"

" Yes."

" Then let us go there. I want to see for myself."

" Us too."

" Yeah!"

" Very well."

They were led to the room where the party was going on at as they saw Aichi and the others inside.

" Kirito-san! Everyone!"

" Yo. We wanted to congratulate everyone here."

" I see. But you guys should've rested more. You guys seemed tired."

" No, it's fine."

They started chatting and distracting Aichi as Kirito looked for the chance to find the trap and walked over to it, almost pulling the trigger when Aichi turned to him and hurriedly stopped him.

" Kirito-san, be careful. Ren-san made a prank trap here and Kai-kun got hit a little by it. I managed to pull him away before it happened though, so he's fine. I'm glad I stopped you in time. If not, you would've been hit a few seconds later."

" I see. Thanks."

" No, it's nothing. I'm sorry about Ren-san pulling this prank."

" No, it's fine."

Aichi smiled as he started to walk back to the others but tripped over himself by accident.

" I-I'm fine..."

" You're also clumsy like Big Brother." Leafa said

Aichi laughed sheepishly as he got up before going back to the others. Kirito met Takuto outside the room right after that as he leaned on the wall across him.

" He definitely has that power... But the only problem is that he doesn't predict his own accident... Just like back in that space where he was hit by that sleeping needle... Or even when I fell on him..."

" I want to research about something more. Until then... I just have one request."

" If Void really comes back, protect him?"

" Yes. I believe he's linked to why you guys are here as well. It's just my guess but for now, we just need to keep a really close eye on him should his powers develop even more."

" Alright. I'll tell the others."

" Thank you."

Takuto walked away after that as Kirito walked back in and headed beside Asuna.

" You're worried about something again?"

" I want to do something to protect him..."

" Huh?"

" I heard everything. But we can't be here all day and night either..."

" Then what do you suggest?"

Asuna looked around before whispering to Kirito something.

" Ah... I see. That's what's going on..."

" So I was thinking about the quest we did before for Valentine's."

" You really want to give them?"

" Copy some sword skills into it and I'm sure it'll work."

" Alright then."

Asuna walked over to Aichi while Kirito went over to Kai.

" Aichi-kun, could you come with me for a second?"

" Huh? Sure!"

" You too, Kai."

" What for?"

Kirito dragged him by the coat as the two were brought to another room. Asuna nodded to Kirito as he nodded.

" We have a little something for you guys."

Opening their item menu, a rapier appeared in Asuna's hand while a sword appeared in Kirito's hand. After selecting a few things, a scroll appeared and another window appeared and the scrolls were placed into it.

" There. We copied our sword skills into these swords."

" But why?"

" It's for you guys."

" Huh?! No! There's no need!"

" It is needed. It's for you to protect yourself with."

" Kai, protect him properly. I put some of my best skills into this sword so don't waste it."

" But we've never used swords before..."

" Well..."

Suddenly, Aichi's Psyqualia activated as both him and Kai glowed a little before the glow faded. Aichi's Psyqualia deactivated after that.

" What was..." Asuna exclaimed

" Hm? What's with these words and moves in my head?" Kai muttered, holding his head

" Huh? Me too..."

" And... These swords are from a Valentine's event?"

" Is that why the colors are red and white?"

After taking a glance at each other, both blushed and quickly looked away. Asuna regained her composure first as she walked over to Aichi.

" I placed a very special skill from a very special friend that left this to me, to protect myself. Now use it properly to protect yourself. It's called 'Mother's Rosario'."

" No way! I can't possibly..."

" You can do it. I'm sure of it. Yuuki was strong even in real life. I promised her that I would pass on the sword skill to someone one day, so I'll give it to you here, in your world and one day, in our virtual world, there will be someone who will also be given this and continue to pass on this skill to remember her by. So use this to protect yourself."

" Well... Alright then... Thank you very much."

" No problem. We're friends, aren't we?"

" Yeah!"

Kirito pulled Kai down to his level.

" Hold him close. He's important to you, right? Just like Asuna is to me." Kirito whispered

" That explains your rings... And what do you mean by that...?"

" Don't need to lie. It's obvious. You better hurry though."

After he released Kai, Aichi curiously looked over to them as Kai looked away.

" But how are we supposed to hide them?"

Once again, his Psyqualia activated as Kirito quickly opened up his window in secret to record. Two cases appeared as the swords floated into the cases and closed up. The cases then turned into necklaces as they wore themselves onto Aichi and Kai.

" Aichi?"

" Huh? What just happened?"

" You don't remember? You did that by yourself just now!"

" Huh? Really?"

Kirito stopped recording after that as he closed his window and nodded to Asuna.

" Now, let's head back. The others might start wondering where we went."

" Oh, okay..."

As the four made their way back to the party room, Kirito and Asuna's eyes narrowed.

" Takuto Tatsunagi might be right... That Psyqualia he has is evolving slowly but surely... What exactly happened back when he was captured? To get that answer..." Kirito thought

" We need Leon Souryu to tell us, right?" Asuna whispered as if reading his mind

" Yeah."

" It's too late though. I heard he went back to his island. We don't even know where that is." Asuna continued whispering

" I see... Then until we meet him again, we need to make a quick note of this."

" Yeah."

Will they be able to get back to ALO? And what is Aichi's mysterious connection with his evolving Psyqualia?

And that's the end of this chapter! I made this story after recently watching the movie for SAO. It was a really great movie! I recommend everyone to watch it either in cinemas or once they released the movie DVD! :) Thank you for reading and I'll see everyone in the next chapter!