Hey everyone newest fanfic writer Anti-Shadow here. Listen I have noticed that there are absolutely no dinosaur related SAO fic's out there so I have decided to take on the challenge of writing one. Now I'll try my hardest on this so review on what you think on the story to help me improve this in the future.
One last thing. The story line in SAO is the same just add a new protagonist and medieval themed game world and normal humans and dinosaur players working together to fight the giant carnivorous floor bosses. The playable dinosaurs are medium sized carnivores and herbivores plus none of the original characters in SAO are dinosaurs. Read away and don't forget to review.
Chapter 1- World of Swords and Thunder Lizards.
On the bright morning of November 6th 2022, a teenage boy was sitting at his desk, staring at his computer which was broadcasting a news report on the recent release of the worlds greatest break threw in gaming history. He had dark green eyes, black hair, and wore a grey sweat shirt and sweatpants.
The game in question was none other than Sword Art Online Jurassic Wars, the highly anticipated and renowned online fantasy game of the year that had already sold 10,000 copies in its first batch with players forming huge lines at every game store 4 days before the sale of the game even began.
Jurassic Online featured a unique medieval setting mixed with fightable and EVEN playable dinosaurs. The teen looked over and smiled at a picture with a large grey theropod dinosaur with white teeth that gleamed in the sunlight of the picture, two red hornlike structures over its dark green eyes, black tiger stripes running down its back to its tail, and long 3 fingered arms.
As the the teen sat up from his chair, he slowly looked over at the clock and realized that it was 13:00. He then turned his attention to a large metallic helmet, also known as the commonly known NerveGear, in the far left hand corner of his room. Sitting on top of a medium sized shelf. The commonly known helmet game console is the only means of playing SAOJO. It physically disconnected the users mind from the real world and transported them into the gaming server online vi connecting the NerveGear to the FullDrive.
The teen slowly walked across the room and picked up the helmet, he than walked back to his computer sat on a large black crome desk and opened the top left hand drawer of his desk. He pulled out a new copy of Jurassic Online and placed it in the computer. He plugged in the NerveGear and lied down flat across the bed.
He closed his eyes and smiled. "Link Start." he commanded. His vision flashes white from his brain being disconnected from his real body. A swirling vortex of bright colors appeared in his line of sight, he heard water running, the booming of a gong, he felt both a hot and cold sensation coarse threw his body. These were the work of the system as it was checking for the compatibility to play SAOJO. Once a chime noise sounded, to confirm everything to be perfectly connected, large floating words written in black bold appeared out of thin air in front of his face.
Head Link, check.
Body Link, check.
Hand Links, check.
Leg Links, check.
Checking Complete.
Language- Japanese
Account and Password code- check.
Character creation.
Arekusu, M
Processing...
Congratulations the system has randomly selected you to play as a dinosaur please wait for results.
The room around the Arekusu was a white blank until a large hologram of a bipedal theropod dinosaur appeared in front of him. A female computerized voice spoke. "Congratulations. You are a Allosaurus. You are a powerful medium sized carnivore with the following stats."
Dinosaur- Allosaurus
Class- Heavy Hitter.
Highest traits- Strength, Endurance, and Speed.
Weakest Traits- Dexterity, Intelligence, and Vitality.
Weapons Stats-
Jaw strength- 150 out of 1000
Claws- 65 out of 1000
Tail- 135 out of 1000
Starting Skills-
Chomp- Bite your enemies and cause bleed, 200 dam.
Slap- Swing your massive tail and cause knockback, causes 75 dam.
Slash- Lash out with your long claws, causes 50 dam.
Headbutt- Ram into your enemies with your powerful head and causes knockback, causes 35 dam.
After the last of the stats had disappeared a small message appeared in front of Arekusu.
Do wish to continue. Or do you wish to play as a human.
Yes, No
WELCOME TO JURASSIC ART ONLINE
Floor 1 Town of Beginnings
Arekusu green reptilian eyes drowsily began to open, his vision slightly blurry from the transaction of entering the game. He blinked a couple more times and his vision came back to him. Arekusu lifted his reptilian head and slowly looked around.
He couldn't see anything, it was pitch black. "I remember this place." Arekusu said mentally,"This is the dinosaur starting point." Arekusu turned his head and could see sunlight pour threw a doorway to his right that seemed to be the exit out of the black room.
"Alright. Lets get started." Arekusu said mentally.
Arekusu lifted his bulky, scaly body. Staggering a little as he raised to his feet, he began to walk toward the doorway, still staggering a little, but soon reached the exit.
Arekusu squinted his eyes from the intensity of the sunlight. But, after a few moments of letting his dinosaur eyes adjust to the light, he found himself in a medieval market plaza, bustling with activity. Arekusu slowly looked, taking in the beautiful scenery when his attention was redirected to a players gasp.
Arekusu looked down to see he was towering over two players, a girl and her boyfriend. The girl had strawberry colored hair, blue eyes and wore a set of pink leather armor, boots, pants, black fingerless gloves, and a small dagger in a black sheath at her left hip. Were as the male had black hair, brown eyes and wore a blue shirt, on top of that he had a iron chestplate, black pants, brown fingerless gloves, and a katana in a brown sheath at his right hip.
The girl excitedly pointed a finger at Arekusu. "Wow! Look at this guy! He's HUGE!" said the girl while staring at Arekusu in amazement.
"Kiki, don't do that! You don't know what this guy might do to you." said the girls boyfriend who looked up at Arekusu fearfully.
Arekusu began to notice he was drawing a crowd, everyone murmured and looked at the Allosaurus, some looked at Arekusu in amazement, while others in disgust or suspicion. Arekusu looked around uncomfortably, he never really did well with crowds.
Finally after having enough of the other players he flashed his long white teeth and growled making the players back away in fear. Satisfied that they will leave him alone, Arekusu lumbered his way threw the crowd toward the nearest exit.
As Arekusu weaved his way threw the town, he noticed several other dinosaur players. Many ranging from the horned triceratops looking dinosaurs to a three horned carnivore that was just slightly smaller than Arekusu. All the dinosaurs stared at Arekusu as he past them, some quickly moved out of his way as he past them.
Arekusu snorted and glared ahead. It pissed him off the way the other players shied away from him. Besides he's just a medium sized carnivore, he wasn't a giant floor boss that snapped up players for lunch.
All dinosaur players in the game, both herbivores and carnivores, had a maximum size of at least 35 feet. No one could be a Tyrannosaurus due to the unfairness in power. However, humans were no match for a high level carnivore player, unless they had high level weapons and armor. Herbivores were meant to be more defensive than offensive. While the offensive carnivore troops were the fighters the herbivores served as the tanks. Providing the human players with back up and reinforcements.
But human players weren't completely weak. Powerful sword skills could be used to bring down even the most powerful carnivores, and having a small size and retaining there arms and hands, the humans players could use things the dinosaurs couldn't. Such as turn a doorknob or firing a cannon.
As Arekusu was about to reach the exit, a human samurai called out to Arekusu."Excuse me." called the samurai, as he jogged after Arekusu.
"Here we go again." sighed Arekusu, knowing some player is going to ask if he could join up with there guild or party.
As Arekusu turned his massive body to face the the unknown player, the player slid to a halt, startled by Arekusu's size."Whow!"
"You say something?" asked Arekusu, staring down at the red haired samurai who was dressed in black and red leather armor.
The samurai immediately composed himself and replied," Ya, You see I'm new to this game and I was wondering if you could show me the ropes. You must be one of those beta testers right, you seem to know your way around."
Arekusu's eyes widen in surprise."You don't have to if you don't want to but I would really appreciate it." assured the samurai, looking up at Arekusu hopefully.
Arekusu looked at the samurai in thought before sighing,"Sure."
"Great thanks man." the samurai said cheerfully.
"By the way my names Klein." Klein introduced.
"Arekusu." Arekusu simply replied.
Later
A small sheep sized dinosaur rammed into Klein, sending him sailing backward into the dirt."Ahh, kill me now." Klein groaned dramatically, clenching his stomach in false pain as the sheep sized dinosaur trotted off a few feet.
"Klein, you can't feel pain remember." Arekusu sighed, laying down in the soft cool grass.
"Oh, right." Klein said in realization.
Klein gathered himself to his feet and glared at the small dinosaur, the little creature was a dull brown color, a beak for a mouth, a simple yet muscular frame supported by four skinny legs, a thick stiff tail, and a bone neck fill. Its name read, Frenzied Protoceratops.
"Little bastard." Klein grumbled, dusting himself.
"You need to focus more. Manual strikes will only take you so far in a fight." Arekusu pointed out, rising from his resting spot.
"I know. Hey I read in the menu about something called sword skills." Klein said, looking up at Arekusu.
"Ya, sword skills are powerful attacks that human players can use to turn the tide of battle. Try to access one threw your mind." Arekusu instructed.
Klein nodded and closed his eyes, trying to think of any present sword skills. He opened his eyes and grinned."Ok, I got one."
"Alright now focus on the attack, just let your sword do the work." Arekusu instructed, picking up a the squealing Protoceratops in his jaws and directed it towards Klein.
The creature charged, flaring its nostrils. Klein gripped his sword and pulled it out of its sheath. He charged forward with his sword glowing a luminescent red and slashed a large sideways gash threw the creatures side as he passed it making it freeze.
The dinosaur stood completely still, before glitching slightly and finally burst into a cloud of light pentagons. Klein looked back and a small screen appeared in his face, confirming the xp, and items he had acquired from the creature.
"Ya!" Klein cheered.
"Congratulations. But don't get to excited, that was only a low level spawn." Arekusu said.
"What! Are you kidding, I thought that was a mid level floor boss!" Klein exclaimed.
Arekusu smiled a toothy grin and looked down at Klein,"If that was a floor boss you there would be nothing left of you. Floor bosses are always giant carnivores."
"Oh great." Klein gulped.
"Don't worry, the spawns outside the floor rooms are usually small to medium sized dinosaurs so you have nothing to worry about." Arekusu assured.
Klein stifled a sigh of relief."Oh that's a relief."
Arekusu smiled slightly and watched as Klein began to swing his sword,"Man this is amazing."
"Ya, you'll get more sword skills the more you level up." Arekusu informed as Klein continued to swing his blade.
"So how many swords skills are there?" Klein asked, thrusting his sword forward.
"Thousands. But the only reason why there are so many skills is because there is no magic in the game." Arekusu answered.
Klein twirled around and grunted as he slashed his sword in practice."An MMO without magic. That's a pretty bold move."
"Well you can't blame the developers, they did add playable dinosaurs." Arekusu added.
"That's true." Klein chuckled, giving himself a rest from practice."Hey, how does it feel to be a dinosaur anyway?"
"Kinda weird at first but you get use to it. Aside from my arms being smaller, and being huge its not all that bad." Arekusu answered, waving his small hands around.
Klein chuckled and looked across the plains and noticed more Protoceratops begin to spawn in pillars of blue light. Klein grinned and gripped his sword. He charged down the field with Arekusu lumbering behind him.
Several Hours Later.
Arekusu and Klein were resting near a cliff that dropped down into the sea below. It was sunset in the game world, the red and orange sky had a hint of purple on it as the sun began to descend out of sight with Pterasor's flying out in the distance.
Klein breathed in deeply, and took in the scenery,"This game is really something. You know, this is my firsts VRMMO." he said, perched on a ape looking stone statue.
"Really? Then this must be quite the experience." Arekusu guessed, as he lied in a soft patch of dirt beside Klein. Staring out at the sunset.
Arekusu summoned his menu clock and noticed it was 5 pm."Its 5 pm. We should probably logout and get something to eat." Arekusu said.
"Well I came prepared. I order a pizza until 6." Klein said proudly.
"I'm impressed, you sure are prepared." Arekusu smiled.
Klein smiled proudly, but soon looked back out at the sunset and regained his sense of wonder."This game is amazing."
"I know, in the game a blade can take you anywhere you want. You can be anything you want in this game without the limitations of the real world to hold you back." Arekusu agreed.
A warning gong sounded in the distance, making Klein and Arekusu look back a the Town of Beginnings with surprised expressions. Arekusu stared out at the town in suspicion then rose to his feet and mentally summoned his menu. "I'm going to logout and grab a bite. My mom has probably made dinner by now and Suguha has probably left fifty messages on my cellphone."
"Is Suguha your sister or something?" Klein asked curiously, looking up at Arekusu.
"No she's a friend of mine." Arekusu answered.
Suddenly Klein leaped onto Arekusu's snout and dove his face into Arekusu's right eye."Is she single, are you two together, can you hook me up with her?" Klein demanded excitedly.
Arekusu snarled in surprise and threw Klein off his snout, who landed on one of the stone statues on his crotch."Ahh, Ooh, ah wait getting hit in the nuts doesn't hurt." Klein said in fake pain then in realization as he rolled of the statue.
Arekusu rolled his eyes and snorted,"I don't think your her type anyways."
Klein chuckled, and rubbed the back of his head as he rose to his feet. Arekusu smiled down at the red haired samurai, and attempted to logoff when he noticed something strange. There was no logout option.
"That's odd." Arekusu muttered, frowning his scaly eyebrows.
"Whats wrong?" questioned Klein.
"There's no logout option." Arekusu responded, flicking threw the menu with his mind.
"What, of coarse there is man, its right he-." Klein cut off as he discovered the missing blank in the main menu.
"Its not there, is it?" Arekusu asked, looking down at Klein.
"No.. its not." Klein paused in disbelief."Maybe this is a glitch. I mean it is the first day out of beta."
"Maybe your right. Try calling a GM." Arekusu asked.
"I am but no ones responding." Klein replied ask he stared at a call screen.
"Somethings not right. There's no logout button and because of it the GM's would have already logged use out manually to fix the server." Arekusu said in thought, summoning his menu."And bad news, its 6 pm."
"Ah crap, my anchovie pizza!" Klein exclaimed, falling on his knees, and grasping his head in dismay. After a moment of despair Klein recovered and rose to his feet."What do we do now?"
Arekusu opened his jaws to answer but was suddenly enveloped in a blue, white pillar of light, as was Klein. Arekusu's vision began to blur and darken as the last sight he saw was the bright colored sunset and the lush green fields neighboring the cliff.
His vision begans to come back, but instead of the green pastures he was standing in a medieval town square filled with black metal light posts and stone path ways. Arekusu looked around and began to see many other players, both dinosaur and human, began to appear around his.
"What just happened?" questioned Klein, looking around the square in confusion beside Arekusu.
"Someone caused a force teleport." Arekusu answered, looking down at Klein.
"What but aren't GM's allowed to do that?" Klein exclaimed in surprise.
Suddenly a human player from the crowd pointed a finger to the sky,"Look."
Arekusu and Klein stared up at the sky and gasp. They sunset streaked sky began to fill with red flashing hexagons that blinked the words WARNING and SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT in cris cross.
What came next sent a chill down Arekusu's spine, a liquid similar to blood, began to ooze and fall. But instead of hitting the ground it formed into a large cloaked figure that hovered above the players.
It then spoke in a man's voice with a slight boom,"Welcome players my name is Akihiko Kayaba and to my world of Sword Art Online Jurassic Wars."
The players and dinosaurs around Arekusu began to murmur.
"Is this an event."
Arekusu narrowed his eyes at the hooded figure as he continued,"I bet many of you have already noticed that there is no logout button. I wish to I inform you that this is not a defect. I repeat this is not a defect."
Arekusu's eyes widened in shock, all the players around him murmured uncomfortably and some began to panic.
"What is he talking about."
"He's lieing."
Arekusu stared at the hooded figure in disbelieve who continued with his speech,"You see if the NerveGear is removed in any unauthorized way, it will release a microwave signal into the gears sensory compositors. Destroying your brain."
Arekusu's eyes widen in disbelief, all was silent as the hooded figure continued, "But unknown to some of the players families, who tried to remove the NerverGear, 214 players have already lost there lives."
Arekusu's jaws fell open in shock and horror as news reports of the deaths spread across the sky."To prove this is the only true reality, I have left a present for the human players among you. Please have a look."
Arekusu glanced down at Klein who accessed his menu like many of the other human players. Klein frowned his eyebrows and question outloud,"A mirror."
As Klein clicked accept, a small portable square mirror appeared infront of him and he glanced down at the mirror which reviled his face. Suddenly Klein yelped in surprise as bright blue, white light enveloped him along with many of the other players around him.
"Klein." Arekusu called at his friend as he closed his eyes and pulled his head away from the blinding light.
The whole town plaza was filled with the blinding light, after a few moments the light dissipated and allowed Arekusu to see once more. He stared down at were he last saw his friend and growled in surprise.
Klein looked completely different, instead of the young face he once had it was replaced with a older, gruffer face with a slightly hooked nose and a small patch of chin hair.
"Klein." Arekusu asked in disbelief.
Klein looked up at Arekusu questioningly then glanced down at the mirror and yelped in surprise. Arekusu looked around and noticed all the human players had changed drastically in appearance. Some males were females, where as some females were males.
As the outraged and confused players began to fight amougst themselves Kayaba continued as he pulled up a see threw blue hologram of Airncrad,"The only way to complete my game is to fight your way from floor one to floor one hundred and fight the finally boss. You are presently on floor one"
In a voice void of emotion he added,"And if along your journey your health reaches zero your avatar will be destroyed, thus forever losing your avatar. And the NerverGear will simultaneously destroy your brain."
Everyone in the plaza stared up at the figure in utter shock, not a voice spoke. Finally Kayaba finished,"Good luck players, and to my dinosaurs I wish you the best of luck for you are going to need it."
With that said, Kayaba dissolved into nothing, and the sky returned to its normal hue. Arekusu stared down at the ground wide eyed at what he just heard. After a few moment of silence, all hell broke lose.
Players screamed and sobbed, clambering out the plaza in all directions. Dinosaurs roared in painic and even stepped on a few unlucky player who were unharmed due to being in a safe zone. Arekusu shook his head and looked down at Klein. "We need to get moving."
"Wait what Arekusu." Klein questioned.
Arekusu didn't answer but merely grabbed Klein by the collar of his armor and headed down a nearby alleyway. Once they reached the less crowded alleyway Arekusu set Klein down and summoned his menu.
"Listen we can't stay here for long. All the items and xp in this town will be wiped clean iin a matter of days and the players will kill for it to. I know the best hunting spots, so if me and you party up we can head out and start farming xp." Arekusu explained.
Klein looked up at Arekusu and said,"Arekusu I can't party up with you."
"Why.. why not?" Arekusu stammered, looking down at Klein threw his menu.
"I have friends here that need me. They'er new new like me so they need me right now. I can't just leave them behind"
Arekusu looked down and sighed,"Alright."
As Arekusu exited out of the menu, he turned and slowly began to lumber down the alleyway when Klein stopped him."Arekusu." he called after him.
Arekusu stopped and looked back at Klein who smiled,"Take care of yourself pal."
Arekusu smiled sadly and said,"You to man."
As Arekusu began to walk away he glanced back once again and this time Klein wasn't there. Arekusu frowed and charged down the alleyway, stomping threw the empty town streets. As he exited the town and thundered down a stone path surrounded by green fields a raptor like dinosaur appeared in a flash of light and snarled.
Arekusu keep't his pace as the raper charged at him. The creature leaped up, claws outstretched. Arekusu bellowed a roar and snatched the raptor out of the air and crushed it in his jaws.
As the creature burst into several light fragments, Arekusu's roar echoed out in the distance.
Ok alright, cool, terrible, review and please don't flame me for my odd idea for a story.