Hello every one, it's me Robert96, I know that I am behind on most of my stories. I will get back to writing them as soon as possible, but I have been issued a challenge by one of my school friends. The challenge is to see who can write the better SAO (Sword Art Online) story without it revolving around Kirito and Asuna. This isn't too bad of an idea mainly considering the fact that SAO had 6000+ players that survived, so the only change is going to be is who the story is going to be about. So without further ado, I give you chapter one of Sword Art Online: The Untold Story!
Disclaimer: I do not own SAO, I only own the weapons and characters that I made up.
Chapter 1: The beginning
"Welcome to my game players… my name is Kayaba Akihiko, also the developer of the NervGear you are wearing right now." explained the faceless figure who was hovering above the crowd.
"As of this moment you may have realized that the log out function of the menu is not available, this is no error this is a part of SAO. Also any attempt to remove the NervGear will result in death, and to add to this, if you are to die in the game, The NervGear will send microwave signals through your mind resulting in your death in both worlds…" continued the figure.
Below this man were 10,000 players who are now stuck in this world, mostly men considering the fact that this is a video game. The ages of the people were an average between the ages of 15 and 24 years old, of course there were a few that fall below this age ranking all the way to 10 years of age. While many people began to panic at hearing this news others seemed to accept this fact and began to mentally plan how to beat the game so that they could go home. No one really knew of the dangers that lay ahead of them, not even the Beta testers were sure of what to expect.
"… This now concludes the end of the official tutorial of SAO! Players, I wish you luck!" concluded the figure as he began to disappear and the worlds atmosphere became a beautiful sunny day again.
As soon as the sky returned to normal most players began to shout, begging the makers of the game to release them, while others dispersed heading to different locations so that they could get a head start on leveling and gaining loot. Despite this there were three people, all three were male, that ran farther into the woods towards the nearest town so that they could get even more of a start. One of these people was Kirito, who decided going solo was the best way for him to level up and gain loot. While the other two boys decided to team up together as they ran and disappeared into the woods.
Two weeks later, two figures walked down the main street towards where the first floor clearing meeting would take place. One of these figures was describable as: a 5ft. 11in. white male wearing dark brown boots, black pants went inside of the boots as to not hinder the walking, a dark grey long-sleeve shirt with midnight black trimming, and also a midnight colored cloak that he earned in a quest, and to finish off his appearance he wore black fingerless gloves and had the hood of his cloak on hiding his face.
The other person was a little bit easier to identify considering you could see his face, what this person looked like was: a 5ft. 11in. black male that wore a black bandanna to cover his hair, he wore black boots, black pants with purple markings that were tucked into the boots, a black long-sleeve shirt, and a black trench coat with a purple X going all the way around the torso, on his back was a dark black sword where the guard fans out like a large X in the center of the guard there was also a purple gem.
As the two walked down the street, many people gave them awkward looks thinking that they were two of the rumored BetaTesters which caused many people to give them dirty looks. The truth of the matter, however, was that these two boys simply lucked out on drops and did the right quests. They also were both level 13 despite still being on the first floor.
A few minutes later, the group arrived at their destination in which they entered the play-styled-stadium. After taking their seats the two boys then looked to a blue haired person that seemed to be about 16-17 years of age. The blue haired man then called the meeting to attention as the crowd silenced.
"Hello everyone, my name's Diabel, and I like to be referred to as a Knight." smiled Diabel
Diabel's announcement about being a knight caused a little uproar within the crowd as there is no such class.
"Look, do you want to hear what I'm saying or not?"
At hearing this the crowd then silenced themselves, Diabel then began to speak telling everybody present about his plan to defeat the boss IllFang The Kobold Lord. The two men, however, just nodded and at the end of the meeting they went to the pre-raid party/celebration location. They stayed somewhat to themselves only speaking when spoken too. Eventually the cloak-wearer got tired of not being social and began to speak with his friend.
"Hey Kashawn, should we go and try to get to know our fellow raiders a little better?" asked the cloaked person.
"Yeah sure why not." replied the person now known as Kashawn as they walked over towards a rather tall man.
"Hello there guys, you looking forward to the raid tomorrow? By the way, my name is Agil." said Agil as he introduced himself.
"Hello my names Kashawn, and yes I am quite excited to be able to finally be able to go to the next floor." replied Kashawn.
"And my names Robert, I am also ready to experience the next floor." replied Robert as he removed the hood of his cloak from his head revealing a 17 year old face with clean-cut dirty-blonde hair and shocking blue eyes.
"Very good so do you two know each other from somewhere?" asked Agil.
"Why yes, me and Robert have been friends since seventh grade. We actually waited in line together to get this game, we both got a copy of the 100 American released versions." replied Kashawn.
After a brief conversation with Agil and Diabel, Robert and Kashawn both sat down at a table with drinks in their hands. They began to converse about their battle plan for tomorrow when two girls walked up gaining the two teenagers attention.
"Hi my names Heather and this is my sister Haley, umm do you mind if we sit with you?" asked Heather blushing slightly when she looked at Kashawn, Robert noticed this and nodded his head towards the girls allowing them to sit down.
Haley sat down next to Robert while Heather sat next to Kashawn. The two girls both were quite attractive and had shapely bodies, which the eyes of the two teenage boys instantly saw. Although they were shy at first, the girls really began to open up and started to laugh and have fun, although Robert attributed that mainly to the fact that the girls were drinking glass after glass of wine. Soon though the girls became tired and sent friend requests to the boys whom they hastily accepted, the boys then decide to escort the girls to their inn. For two reasons, one they were drunk and two they were all staying at the same in just in three different rooms. As the boys said their good-bye's to the girls who disappeared into their room, Robert and Kashawn both began to walk towards their rooms.
"Well I think that went well." smiled Robert.
"Yeah surprisingly… but who would've thought that girls that pretty played video games?" answered Kashawn.
"I don't know, but honestly I hope that there are more like them. Oh here's my room so see-ya tomorrow man at 6 A.M." said Robert as he went into his room closed his door and passed out on his bed.
Kashawn simply continued down the walk-way for a few more steps until he reached his room, using the key, he opened the door and stepped inside also passing out on his bed.
Robert and Kashawn began down the path following Diabel as they headed towards the boss' room. As they walked they could hear a black-haired boy talking to his team mate asking if they had ever been in a party before, where the person replied no. Outside the boss room, Diabel drew his sword from its sheath and opened the door telling everybody that he hoped for the best. When the raid party of about 32 people made it inside of the room, the boss IllFang the Kobold Lord and his Kobold Sentinels began charging towards the players. Diabel then ordered everybody to attack which they did without hesitation.
Kashawn immediately drew his one handed long-sword from its sheath as he cleaved a sentinel in half. Robert on the other hand lifted his cloak, revealing two one-handed long-swords that he drew respectively from the sheath. The swords were twins with intricately designed hilts with and electric crown at the bottom of each hilt, the guard was a slightly curved one that had two Japanese symbols on both sides, on the left was the symbol for thunder, on the right lightning. The blades looked amazing by themselves, at the point where the blade and guard connect, for five inches up the blade scoops inwards on both sides; with three straight 2 inch spikes on both sides on the flat surface of the blade was some special runic writing.
Although the fact that Robert was wielding two swords instead of one was amazing, nobody had time to really pay attention to this however because they were still engaged in combat with a very deadly foe. Two people in particular showed excellent team work as the black-haired boy would block the sentinel's strike, the girl with Hazel colored hair would finish them with precise strikes from her rapier. Even though the raid party in particular was doing very well disaster soon struck as Diabel was struck twice and sent flying the black haired boy then ran to the body of Diabel. Diabel seemed to tell the boy something, but before he could finish Diabel shattered into hundreds of polygons. The boy then stood up calling to his partner.
"Asuna, help me defeat this guy." called the boy as the girl named Asuna began to run besides the boy.
The two fighting alongside each other was a sight to see, as the boy would block, Asuna would unleash a fury of rapier specific sword-skills causing fair amounts of damage to the boss. The boy at the end used his sword skill to cut all the way up the boss' body causing it to explode into polygons. Every player's menu then popped up showing a list of rewards, Kashawn earning 10,000 COL and 1,500 Exp. while Robert earned 5,000 COL, 1000 Exp. and a Coat of the Midnight Hunter which was a fairly decent Def. and speed clothing. The happy moment then ended as the boy who finished the boss, equipped his Midnight Coat which increased all stats by two levels, and walked out of the room.
Shortly after exiting the boss room, the players were greeted by a short trail leading to a town very similar to the first floors. The only difference was that there were houses for sale, which excited many of the players.
"You know Kashawn… things are finally looking up for once in this world." smiled Robert as they walked towards the town.
"Yep but now that we've started, we can't stop until we've completely beaten this game." answered Kashawn with a determined look on his face.
A/N: Look I know that some of you may be thinking, "Hey only Kirito can use duel wielding." That's not necessarily true, Heathcliff himself even said, "Duel-Wielding, a skill unique to players that have great reaction time," which means that if a player has a good reaction-time, then they have a chance of gaining the skill of duel-wielding.
Anyways I hope you liked my first chapter, and let me know what you think through both reviews (ABSOLUTELY NO FLAMES!) and PM's. Can't wait to write the next chapter, so until next time… Play smart, and don't die!
