Starting a new story and remember I don't own Anything except the story everything else belongs to their respected owners and the first chapter is in first person while the other's are in third person, enjoy!
Chapter 1: Enter the Raven
"Sword Art Online?" I asked, eating a turky sandwhich.
"Yes, it's incredible, I had to wait all night to get these two copies." The raven-haired girl acting weird is my twin sister Mika, she's a bit of a gaming nerd... Okay a lot of a gaming nerd.
"Why should I care?" I never played video games, I only play sports.
"You should care because this was created by genius designer Akihiko Kayaba!" She screamed, she gets wrapped up in these things, but I realized something.
"You said you bought two copies?" I asked, while she began to grin that grin always leads to trouble.
"MOM!" Knew it, Mika knows she won't change my mind so she got Mom the only person who can change my mind.
"Yes, what is it?" She asked, I ignored their talk and continued eating my sandwich and drinking my Pomegranate juice when I saw that box, it had a picture of a helmet on it and the words NerveGear written in blue and next to them was two cases and each had a picture of a flying castle.
I reached for one of them, "See, I told you he's interested." Mika said, smiling, guess I walked into a trap.
"All right, I'll play the game." I muttered, but not low enough because Mika started jumping around like a nutcase while Mom just looked at me.
"Might I ask what changed your mind?" I just shrugged, I hate to say it but Mika was right I was interested.
"What's this for?" I asked pointing to the box.
"That's the NerveGear, it's the controler for VR games." Mika stated before taking on of the cases. "I already have one bye, Mom, bye, Ash." She said before going up stairs.
"Bye, Mom." I said, taking the box and the second case before going to my room.
"Bye, Ash, have fun." Fun with Mika? Yeah, right.
Ash's room
'Are these instructions for a helmet or some kind of rocket?' I thought, flipping through pages, there were like 800 pages, I threw the book at the wall, all I really know is that the game takes place in a flying castle, called Aincard and is finished when someone clears all 100 floors.
I opened the case, put in the disk and plugged in the NerveGear. I stood up and stretched. I looked at the helmet, put it on, and lied down on my bed.
ACCESSING... ACCESSING... PLEASE INSERT USER NAME AND PASSWORD. The nerveGear works by intercepting the signals in our brains, so you just think it and the NerveGear does it. After putting in my user and password I saw a medium built man with black hair, but not as black as mine, it took a while but I choose my character a man with short green hair, with a medium build, a scar over his right eye, a black and white stripped shirt, blue jeans and brown boots and I choose his name, Raven. When I was finished I was blinded by a flash of light.
Floor 1: Town of Beginnings
When I opened my eyes I found myself in a gigantic town square. The book said to open the main menu just move your hand, which I did and checked everything from stats to inventory, I also checked my skills I only had one 'Single-Sword'.
"Hello, there." I turned and saw a girl with long pink hair, red shirt and skirt, with brown boots.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Raven? That's the name you choose?" The girl chuckled.
My mouth dropped when I realized the girl was Mika, I was about to ask her what was she thinking when she grabbed me by the wrist and dragged me into a nearby alley. I ripped my wrist out of her grip. "What the hell!" I yelled, but she just chuckled. "Two things, one, what's with the new body?" I asked, pointing at her chest which somehow grew.
"You like?" She asked, twirling around.
I rubbed my head wondering how someone like her and someone like me are related.
"Never mind that question, two, what were you doing?"
"I was training, duh."
"Training?"
"Yup, now come on you need EXP." She said, grabbing me again.
Town of Beginnings, West Field
Mika dragged me to a field outside of town to fight some monsters. "All right, go fight and meet me at the safe point over there when your to the contorls, got it!" She ordered, but I can't believe I followed it.
The monsters were boars it took me a while to learn how to fight and it didn't help when the boar's rammed my crotch. I checked my Health and level, both being in the upper-right corner, my health was 250 while my level was 1.
'Pain in my ass.' I thought getting up from the ground. I decided to go back to town when I got taken down by a boar. 'Freakin' Pig!' I thought drawing my broadsword but I felt something. I sheathed my blade and it started to glow blue, the boar charged at me but I drew my blade slicing it in two and when it disappeared a screen popped up which showed what I earned.
30 gal, 24 EXP, and two items and after I closed that screed another popped up, I guess I learned the controls and found a skill to use. 'Finally." I thought and started walking to the safe point I saw Mika with two guys, one had long red hair and the other had long black hair.
"Oy, who are you two?" I asked, entering the safe point.
"You now that guy?" The red-haired guy asked Mika, who just nodded. "Sorry 'bout that guy, my Klein, nice to meet ya." He said putting out a hand which I shook, then I looked at the other guy.
"Hello, my name is Kirito." I nodded and remembered I need to check the time so I opened the menu and saw it was 5:25.
"Oy, Mika, we need to go home soon." I said getting shocked looks from Kirito and Klien. "What?" I asked and wound up getting punched by Mika. "What the hell?" I asked, trying to keep my guts from spilling out.
"Two things, one!" Mika yelled, holding two fingers up. "In the game, I'm Mikoto!" Call her Mikoto here, okay, got it. "Second, act like you don't know me, got it!" I smiled at that one.
"No problem." I chuckled while Kirito and Klein looked clueless.
"I've got it." Kirito, Mikoto and I looked at Klein. "You two are lovers who live together, right?" I think I'm going to hurl, but Mikoto started laughing like a maniac.
"You... You... You actually think we..." Mikoto said inbetween laughs.
"We're twins." I stated before covering my mouth.
"No, Ash for once I'm glad you here because I want you tell all the guys on your team about this!" Mikoto then kicked Klein in the crotch so hard that I grabbed my own by habit. Just then a bell rang and I was blinded teleported.
Town of Beginnings square
I looked around and saw thousands of player on all sides. "A forced teleport?" Kirito asked himself. I was going to ask what was going on when the sky turned red with warning signs. Then red liquid came out of the cracks and formed a large body covered by a red coat.
"Attention, players. Welcome to my world." Everyone began talking, when I remembered the one who created this world was made by Akihihko Kayaba. "My name is Akihiko Kayaba and as of this moment, I am the sole person who can control this world." Mikoto opened the main menu and looked terrified. "I'm sure you've noticed that the logout button is missing from the main menu. But this is not a defect of the game. I repeat... It is a feature of Sword Art Online." I checked the main menu to see if it was true and it was.
"You cannot logout of SAO yourselves and no one on the outside can shut down or remove the NerveGear. Should this be attempted the transmitter inside the NerveGear will emit a powerful microwave, destroying your brain and thus ending you life."
He's joking, right? There's no way someone would do something so... So... Insane! "He's right that the transmitter's signal work just like a microwaves. If the saftey were disabled, it could fry a brain." Kirito stated.
"Then, if we cut the power..."
"No, the NerveGear has an internal battery." It's not right keeping us trapped in his game.
"Unfortunatley, severals players' friends and families have ignored this warning," Kayaba continued. "And have attempted to remove the NerveGear. As a result, two hundred and thirteen players are gone forever, from both Aincard and the real world." Two hudred and...! He's lying, he has to be! "As you can see, news organizations across the world are reporting all of this, including the deaths. Thus, you can assume that the danger of a Nervegear being removed is now minimal. I hope you can relax and attempt to clear the game."
That bastard traping us in some kind of sick fantasy. "But I want you to remember this clearly. There is no longer any method to revive someone within the game. If your HP drops to zero, your avatar will be forever lost and simultaneously, the NerveGear will destroy your brain." No... If we die here then... We die in the real world!? "There is only one means of escape, to complete the game. you are presently on the lowest floor of Aincard, Floor 1. If you make your way through the dungeon and defeat the Floor Boss, you may advance to the next level. Defeat the final boss on floor 100 and you will clear the game."
I'll finish this game, find that bastard and beat him into a bloody pulp. "Finally, I've added a present from me to your storage. Please see for yourselves." I opened the menu and checked the inventory. He's right there was a gift from Akihiko, a mirror. I equiped it and it showed me, my reflection, but then I was blinded by a flash of light. When I opened my eyes I saw a boy about my age with short black hair and a girl's face, but what struck me as odd is that the boy wore the same clothes as Kirito. I felt the mirror in my hand, checked it and saw... me, the real me.
Black messy hair, light brown hair, Z-shaped birthmarks on my cheeks, I touched my face to make sure it was real, it was. I was looking at Ashton Satoshi Ketchum, the real me. It hit me, the dude in front of me was, "...Kirito?" I asked in a shaky voice. I looked around and the same thing that happened to me and Kirito happened to everyone else, some were ordinary guys but some chose to play as... Girls, biggest mistake they did and I'm the one suffering, well there were a few real girls like eleven or thirteen.
"Ash, am I dreaming?" I turned and saw Mika, my stick of a sister, shaking like leaf.
"Sorry, Mikoto, you're not." I said, sadly. I looked at Kirito and said," So, that's the real you, huh?"
"You're Raven?" He stuttered, pointing a shaky finger at me."Yup, what about Klein?" I asked and saw a man with small stubble on his chin and light brown hair. "Hey, there." I chuckled, waving a hand at him, but he just stood there, mouth hanging by a theard.
"Y-y-your Raven?" He asked pointing at me, "And you, your Kirito?" He asked, moving his finger to Kirito and then moved his finger to, "Mikoto?" He asked, getting a nod and chuckle from my sis.
"Sorry for the act." She said, scratching her head.
"How is this possible!" Klein screamed, lucky Kirito filled us in.
"That scan... The NerveGear covers your head with a high-density signaling device. So it can see what you face looks like but our hieght and body shape..."
"When we first used the NerveGear, it had us calibrate it, right?" Klein asked and he was right I had to do the same.
"Why do this?" I asked with venom dripping from my words.
"I'm sure he'll tell us." Kirito said, pointing to Kayaba.
"Right now, Your probably wondering, 'why?' Why would Akihiko Kayaba, developer of Sword Art Online and the NerveGear, do all this?" Tell us, not like it'll make me hate your guts less. "My goal has already been achieved. I created Sword Art Online for one reason... To create this world and intervene in it." Now I hate that bastard even more. "And now, it's complete. This ends the tutorial for the official Sword Art Online launch. Good luck, players."
Kayaba disappeared, along with the warnings, leaving this world silent. I looked at the ground and only thought of one thing, 'I'm getting out of here and then I'm going to kick Akihiko's ass!' Then the crowd screamed cursing at the creator of this world and crying for help.
"Guys follow me." Kirito said, grabbing Klein by the shoulder and dragging him. Mikoto and I followed him to the towns exit. "Listen to me, I'm going to the next village right now. Come with me." Klein and Mikoto were confused, but I agreed with him.
"He's right, if what that asshole said is true then the only way to survive is to become stronger as soon as possible." I stated and Kirito nodded.
"Raven's right, the resources within a virtual MMORPG, in other words, the money and the EXP we earn, are limited. The fields surrounding the Town of Beginnings will be soon hunted clean." Kirito stated. "To do this efficiently, we should head to the next village now. I know all the paths and dangerous areas. Even at level one, I can get there safely."
"I'm sorry, Kirito." Klein muttered, "But I can't go with you. you see, I spent a whole night in line to buy this with my friends from the other game. They're out there in the plaza. I can't leave them."
Kirito was lost in thought when Mikoto tapped my shoulder. "Ash," she whispered. "We need to stay here. If we leave then... one of us, or even both of us might..." She muttered, I guess she's worried about herself and me.
"Sorry." Klein said, snapping Kirito from his thoughts. "I can hardly ask you for anything else, can I? So don't worry about it you guys, go to the next village. I used to run a guild in my last game. I can use what you taught me to get by!"
"All right. Then I guess this is goodbye here. If something happens, send me a message."
"Will do."
"Okay, goodbye, Klein."
Mikoto started pulling my sleeve but I pulled away. "I'm coming with you." I said to Kirito.
"All right." We started walking but Klein stopped us.
"Kirito! Hey... Kirito. You were actually pretty cute. That's my type." I both shivered and chuckled when Klein said that.
Kirito smiled and said, "And that unkempt face of yours suits you ten times better." I was smiling at what they were doing.
"Raven!" Mikoto yelled. "You'd better be careful out there!" She yelled before running away.
"Don't worry, Raven, I'll take care of your sis for you." Klein said before chasing after Mikoto.
I looked at Kirito and we walked away on our way to the next town and our first loss.
Chapter 2 and beyond are going to be in 3rd person, so watch out for updates on The White Knight of SAO, see ya.