A/N: Hey guys something I want to point out before anything. I haven't seen the latest anything involving Sword Art Online, I have only seen the first two Seasons. and this series is gonna be a bit out of order. The first will be taking place during the Sword Art Online. Then after that Alfheim, and then after that Gun Gale. "SHOOT!" I smirk as i win the deciding match of Rock, paper , scissors. "Looks like I win little bro, I get to start playing first." My Baby Brother showed his opinion of my win with a rather rude hand gesture.
"Fine, but you better get off in three hours, so I can start one." He looked over his newly Dyed hair int the mirror.
"Your hair looks stupid." I joked as he turned around sticking his tongue out at me, [he's still such a little kid.].
"Whatever I'm watching some TV." He grumbled as he jumped down on the couch and started flipping through channels.
"OK, LINK START!" I watched as blue light come into my vision as I look around me in I guessed was the starting screen. a Key board flashed up and it asked what name I wanted to input as the name that would be seen in the game.[UGH! I hate it when I have to do this stuff I'm never able to think of something new each time.] I thought for a moment when something finally came to me. I brought my hands up to the board and typed 'Fenric' and pressed enter. A few screens the same height as me came up and gave options of how I wanted to look. I decided to just go with having it look like myself, a little thing my family likes doing with games, try to get your character to look like you as much as possible. I selected what color of the basic gear I wanted I picked the one that was black and the rest of the screens dissipated except the one in front of me and changed into a mirror and showed me how I looked. I was wearing the basic gear and I looked up at my face amazed that it looked exactly like me. My slightly tanned fair skin, my natural muted Red eyes and my black medium hair pushed back slightly and my dyed bangs on the side of my head white. " This. is. so. COOL!" I pressed 'OK' and felt everything around me transfixed into light.
"Welcome to Sword Art Online." I smirked as I looked around me amazed at how real everything looked. I am such a nerd for graphics, I saw in the corners of my vision were stats and my HP and EXP. bar, it kinda sucked that this game didn't have magic but I was OK because of how awesome this felt. I tripped falling on my face [well that's a good sign.] I thought to myself sarcastically. I rubbed my face feeling the sting.[That gonna be interesting in fights.] I got up and saw that I had tripped over a hammer. [huh?] I picked it up and saw I was outside of a black smith, I picked it up and walked inside and saw a girl standing by the counter talking to the NPC. I got closer and saw her Screen name pop up.
"Lisbeth..." The girl then turned around and looked at me slightly timid at first. "...u-uh sorry I just walked up and saw Your name just pop up. Her expression relaxed slightly and she then looked me in the eye and blushed slightly, I started rubbing my face slightly. "Is there something on my face?" She shook her head blushing slightly more.
"N-no its nothing." she then looked down at the hammer in my hand and looked surprised "Hey that the quest item for the quest here." I held it up [ah, minor quest.] I hold it put to her.
"Here you can get the experience, it should re-spawn in a little bit." She blushed again slightly.
"here how about we party up and we can share the EXP?" I blushed myself slightly and then got a smirk as I looked at the ceiling and then put on a serious face.
"Sure, but only if you tell your really a girl." She then blushed bright red looking at me surprised and then it suddenly shifted to anger.
"OF COURSE I'M A GIRL YOU DUMB-ASS! WHAT GAVE ANY INDICATION THAT I WASN'T?!" I suddenly felt very scared and now know very sure she was a girl.[not that i thought she wasn't].
"H-hey now, I was just joking with you, You are diffidently a girl, because right now I'm scared shit-less that you'll kill me." She puffed her cheeks slightly still looking irritated leaning in.
"So do you wanna Party up with me or not?" I replied with a nod and nervous smile. She then smiled and brought up her menu and a small screen popped up in front of me. *Do you want to join Lisbeth's party?*
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"Thank you Fenric-San." She smiled and turned back to the NPC. "We've brought your hammer for you." The NPC smiled.
"Why thank you. Here something for both of your trouble." He held up two Items one was a Mace and one was a sword.
"Which do you want?" I ask her as she looks like she began mulling it over.
"I'll take the mace." She reached out and took the mace, I did the same with the sword. I looked at what I was guessing the currency, had increased by a few hundred. I looked over at Lisbeth and saw she had gotten some as well.
"So how about we go get some heath potions or something?" I felt something tug on the back of my shirt and saw it was Lisbeth. "yes?" She held out a hand.
"Proper introductions. I'm Lisbeth." I smiled and placed my hand in her's.
"Fenric."
"Are you american?" I made a nervous smile.
"Y-yeah, but I live locally with my little brother." she raised her eye brow, but it went back down.
"Potions?" I nodded and we left the Blacksmith shop and equipped our new gear. We talked on the way to the Potions shop, we conversed about what sort of roles we wanted to play and wondered if any guilds were thought out leading up to release. We headed outside of the town of new beginning and decided to grind for a little bit. The first mobs were boars, I was able to take out a few without any problem, I looked up in the corner and saw Lisbeth's HP had gotten knocked down by half. I turned and run to her quickly and thrust the blade of my sword through its skull making it dissipate into polygons. I took out a HP potion and handed it to Lisbeth.
"Here drink up." I smiled.
"No it's OK." I frowned and pinched her nose making her open her mouth as I poured the healing mixture in her mouth. After she swallowed it and I saw the Bar reach back up to full. I smiled as she looked at me annoyed.
"What did you do that for?!" I patted her head and smiled.
"I don't want my first friend here to die on me." She looked at me surprised and blushed with a small smile forming on her lips. I heard a commotion coming from just over the hill. I gestured to Lisbeth and we went to see what it was. We saw two guys one wearing a bright red version of the basic gear another in the blue. We walked down and said hello surprising them slightly, and introduced ourselves. When the red guy in the bandanna saw Lisbeth he lit up and walked up and bowed to her.
"Hi, my names Klein, twenty two, single" I smiled feeling an odd urge to kick him in the balls. I ignored it at the most part and felt something odd and saw she was holding onto my arm giving the 'weird guy' look at Klein. Unfortunately for him he saw the look to and his head drooped and apologized right away, and Lisbeth said it was alright and just not to do it again. Again that odd feeling where I kinda felt glad she rejected him.
"Who are you?" The guy in blue gave me a odd look and I him.
"Kirito." I thought for a second and My eye's widen, I ask Lisbeth to wait a second and give Klein the 'I'm watching you' gesture and walk over to Kirito wrapping my arm around his shoulder.
"Kazuto?" He nodded confirming my thoughts and smirk as I give my friend a good hug. " I thought I recognized that Screen name." He smiled as I took a good look at his avatar. "You look weird." He deadpan and punched me in the arm.
"And I see you look like...well you." I smirked with a wink wagging my finger.
"You know my family, Immersion." We both laughed and added each other to our friends list, I sent a friend request to Lisbeth while I was at it and Klein. I got Lisbeth's back in a few seconds followed by Klein's.
"You want to grind with as? I was just showing Klein so basics."
"Oh yeah you were in the beta, Yeah sure, I'll ask Lisbeth?" After that we killed more boars for another hour and me and Lisbeth were able to get Level two and almost Three.
"What how are you guys already almost Level three?" I smirked.
'We were grinding for a little while before we met up with you guys." I gave Kirito a thumbs up because he gave me a few tips before I got the game and let me play a little of the beta. He returned it with his own and the other two gave us a look.
"You guys know each other?" We smirked putting our arms over each others shoulders.
"Yep IRL."
"That's pretty cool." Lisbeth Smiled making my cheeks heat slightly but I shook it off.
"Well I go to get going, I ordered a Pizza for Five Thirty." I looked at him kinda surprised he thought ahead like that. We waved goodbye as we began to head back to town. "What the?" We turned and saw Klein staring at his menu.
"what wrong?" I asked.
"Where's the log out button?" The three of us let out a collective sigh.
"Really man, it's at the bottom" kirito said, when Klein's face seemed to now look filled with worry.
"It's not there, the slots there but it's grayed out." I felt a slight panic as i opened my Menu and saw the same thing. I felt my breathing rag slightly but then take a deep breath. [hey, hey calm down, open space.] Lisbeth looked at me worried slightly.
"It's probably just a glitch you don't need to-" I was cut off as we were all enveloped in a blue light and appeared down in the Square. [WHAT THE HELL?!]. I looked around and saw the other were next to me and about what looked like every other player. I looked at Lisbeth and then Kirito.
"Fenric whats goin-" All of a sudden the Sky-box light up with red hexagons.
{WARNING WARNING WARNING, ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT TO COMMENCE} we all stared as the giant wall of red and saw what looked like blood begin seeping out and form into what looked like a grim reaper.
『Players, I welcome you all to my world.』The Square was almost deathly quiet at what was happening『My name is Kayaba Akihiko. Right now, I am the only person who can control this world.』『I think that most of you have discovered the fact that the Log Out button has disappeared from the main menu. This is not a bug; it is all part of [Sword Art Online]'s system.』[what?!] I felt Lisbeth cling to my arm and I felt her shacking. I wrapped my arm around her to try and steady her.『Until you get to the top of this castle, you cannot log out of your own free will.』
"BUT NOT EVEN THE BETA TESTERS WHERE ABLE TO GET THAT FAR!" Kirito yelled out.
『...also, the disruption or dismantling of the Nerve Gear from the outside is strictly forbidden. If these things are attempted the signal sensors in your Nerve Gear will emit a strong electromagnetic pulse, destroying your brain and stopping all of your basic functions.』
I felt as if my lungs stopped working as I tried to find air.『To be a little more specific, disconnection from an outside source of electricity for ten minutes, being cut off from the system for more than two hours, or any attempt to: unlock, dismantle, or destroy the Nerve Gear. If any of these conditions are met, the brain destruction sequence will start. These conditions have been made known to the government and the public through mass-media in the outside world. On that note, there have been several cases where the relatives or friends have ignored the warnings and tried to forcefully remove the Nerve Gear. The result...』My eyes widen as I imagined my brothers face as he watched TV and these Announcements appearing. My panic was replaced with a small sense of relief that he wasn't in here.『...regretfully 213 players have already exited this game, and the real world, , there is no need to worry about the bodies you left on the other side. As of this moment, all TV, radio, and Internet media are repeatedly reporting this situation; including the fact that there have been numerous deaths. The danger of having your Nerve Gear taken off has already all but disappeared. In a moment, using the two hours I have provided, all of you will be transported to hospitals or similar institutes and be given the best treatment. So you can relax... and concentrate on beating the game, But I ask of you all to understand that «Sword Art Online» is no longer a simple game. It is a second reality... From now on, any forms of revival in the game will no longer work. The moment your HP reaches 0, your avatar will be gone forever. And at the same time...your brain will be destroyed by the Nerve Gear. Players, there is only one way to be freed from this game. As I have said before, you must get to the top of Aincrad, the one hundredth floor, and defeat the final boss that resides there. All players still alive at that time will be immediately logged out of the game. I give you all my word. Then I will show you evidence that this is the only reality. In your inventories, there will be a gift from me. Please confirm this.』Almost simultaneously everyone opened their Menu's and I saw it too and equipped it. It was a mirror, I looked into it and saw my reflection. I looked around and saw that everyone else was glowing and in a small burst of light I felt Lisbeth clinging to me tightly.