Author's Notes: I am in the process of updating my earlier chapters due to coming up with new ideas as I was writing the fourth chapter.
Chapter 1: Let the game begin (Devin)
When I woke up the morning of November 6th 2015, I did not expect to be trapped within a game and forced to fight to survive and escape. All I knew was my good friend Samantha was going to be unveiling her invention that had taken about two months in order to complete. I walked into my basement, avoiding the mess my sisters had made, and approached the back wall cautiously. Upon doing so, I pulled a remote out of my pocket and pressed the big red button on it. Suddenly, the wall in front of me began to crack. The wall where the crack appeared split open to reveal a vortex, which I then entered. A whirlwind of color flew by me as I was pulled through the vortex towards its end.
After exiting the vortex I was in a large, rectangular, room with walls that were an incredibly bright white...
...Hold on one moment, I noticed that I haven't introduced myself yet. However, instead of giving you a brief explanation of who I am, I am going give you a detailed description of myself.
Name: Devin S. Langelier
Alias: Sam James
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Personality: Smart, Creative, Strategic (Sometimes)
Info: His life seems to lead in two different directions. One is his normal life, while the other is whenever he is on an adventure with Samantha/
Other Info: Samantha is his, in basic terms, him from another version of reality, also known by some as a World Line, and tries to let as few people in his World Line as possible know this by using titles like "sister" or "cousin."
Oh yes! Before I forget here is some info on Sam and what she is like...
Name: Samantha D. Langelier
Alias: Alex James
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Personality: Smart, Creative, Strategic, and a bit short-tempered
Info: Her life is always filled with insane adventures, that usually begin with her slight mistakes and miscalculations, and usually involve Devin in one way or another. Sam is someone you do not want to anger under any circumstances. If you do, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! She has a tendency to burst into flames when this occurs.
Signs of Anger: It begins with her eyes turning red and glowing a bit. Her hair then begins to turn a shade of dark red, and also begins to glow. If not calmed down around this time, she will then burst into flames and attack whatever is closest to her. The reason this reaction occurs is unknown.
As the vortex disappeared behind me, a mix of sweat and some kind of oil filled my nostrils, and I noticed a set of blueprints on the giant monitor of Sam's computer. Just because I think you might need a little more setting explanation the room has a computer with a giant monitor in the corner farthest from a staircase leading up to the main floor of her house, where I currently was standing. The rest of the room is usually filled with Sam's countless inventions on display.
The white walls, normally really clean, seemed to have burn marks on them. In the center of the room was something being covered by a large tarp. I was going to look at what was beneath it, but Sam ran in and stopped dead in her tracks in front of me.
"Good to see you!" Sam exclaimed to me, sounding much more excited than usual, while crossing to the tarp and removing it. Underneath it was a table with two odd, yet familiar, looking helmets on top of it.
"Quick question," I began, walking up to the table behind her, "What exactly are these?".
"I can answer that easily." She answered, picking up one of the helmets, "These are a kind of memory storage device, which extracts your memories into it and replaces them into the head of someone of your bloodline after a time set by the wearer. Also, just so you know, Jamie will be joining us."
Name: Jamie A. Hadden
Alias: Olivia Denning
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Personality: Loner, (Usually) Friendly
Info: Jamie is a good friend of Samantha and will do anything to keep her alive and well. This is because when they met Sam had fought off a pack of wolves that were closing in on Jamie while she was walking through the woods one day. Jamie then said she would stick with Sam until the day that she needed to do the same for her. Not too long after that Samantha had talked Jamie into being a test subject for her most recent experiment.
Other Info: The experiment stated above involved Sam mixing Jamie's DNA, with that of a wolf to see if Jamie would be turned into some form of werewolf. Surprisingly the experiment gave her the powers of a werewolf, but she was able to control her actions within this form. This is a term Samantha coined a Half-Blood werewolf.
"Why are you just letting me know now?!" I exclaim to her as I hear the sound of loud footsteps behind me and saw Jamie coming down. Jamie is a year younger than us, but is actually a bit taller which feels kind of odd. Of course I am older than a friend of mine by a few months, and he is taller than me so I can't complain too much. I notice her nails slowly transforming back to their normal state, as well as a bit of hair receding from her hands. Meaning she must have transformed into her wolf form, and back to her normal form, at one point before heading down here.
"What happened?" Sam asked as Jamie walked up to us with a nonchalant expression on her face.
"I may have attacked your cat Sam." Jamie replied, looking ashamed of her actions.
"Again? Really? You need to quit attacking her when she hisses at you!" Sam exclaimed, trying to turn our attention to the experiment.
"Well she needs to learn not to aggravate me, or she has it coming!" Jamie counters as she tries to keep calm.
"So why exactly are you here?" I asked Sam, starting to think of how it took Samantha only two months to build these helmets.
I just noticed how little I talked of our appearance so I'm going to do that now. Jamie has brown hair and green eyes and normally wears long sleeves and pants due to hair that would make her look less than normal. Samantha has dirty-blonde hair, which she chooses to dye red for some odd reason, and blue eyes and usually has a sensible style to the way she dresses and will wear a labcoat and glasses when in the lab. However, when on any adventure she dresses in an almost normal fashion of jeans, a t-shirt, and an old pair of sneakers. One more thing about her clothing style, she will never wear a dress, skirt, or heels of any kind unless in disguise, or if under some kind of influence. Funny story, I once made a bet with Sam where she had to wear a dress, of course I won, and she was pissed at me after that happened.
Now on to me, I also have dirty-blonde hair and blue eyes. I like to keep my hair long, about to my shoulders, and I can usually be seen wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt. I don't really have any clothing guidelines like the other two, other then the whole sweatshirt thing unless in summer, so that's about it.
Where was I? Oh right!
"It's simple really," Jamie began walking towards me, and placing her hand on my shoulder, "She needed someone to monitor you two while you were out, and I was happy to do so.". Jamie began to examine the helmet, checking for anything that seemed the least bit odd, and when she found nothing mentioned that, "You never know if Sam missed something."
"So where are we going to?" I asked Sam, getting back to the subject at hand.
"Probably enough to place into the bodies of our descendants because I am unsure of how far we are able to travel." she answered picking up one of the helmets and turns a dial on the side that sets the year. "All we have to do is place it on our heads, set it, and turn it on not in that order." Sam continued after setting the year quite far into the future and placing it on her head. Jamie sat down at the computer and I sat in a seat next to Sam, set, and then activated the helmet.
Everything went black and I felt like I was falling slowly towards a ground that didn't exist. Suddenly I actually was falling, almost off a cliff, when I suddenly gained control of my body and made sure not to fall off the edge. Looking around I saw a field spread in front of me with the cliff right behind me. Then, out of nowhere, a boar suddenly began charging at me and pushed me a good few feet away from where I previously stood. Just now noticing the sword in my hand I began to slash at the boar until, for some odd reason, it burst into a bright light and disappeared.
I then noticed a town not too far from where I was and ran into it. Upon entering the town, I began to notice a few very odd things that I did not notice when I first arrived. First off, there was music playing that changed as I entered the town. Second, I noticed a weird GUI out of the corner of my left eye with a health bar and level, as well as the name Alex to the left of the health bar. Next, I had accidentally opened a menu by moving my hand in a downward motion. On the menu I looked at all the stats, items, and skills that I had just as a message popped up on my screen...
To: Alex
From: Dax
Subject: Are you alright?
Hey sis, sorry that I'm a bit busy in town. Are you alright by the way?
I saw that you took a large amount of damage, and thought that you
might need a bit of help. So, if you need it, let me know and I can
help you out with fighting because of my experience in the beta of SAO.
...The first thing to catch my eye was that he said "sis" which made me notice, for some reason just now, that I was a girl. Another thing, that also had to do with that statement was that he called me his sister, meaning I must be related to him. I had decided to send a message back to him, telling him I'm okay...
To: Dax
From: Alex
Subject: No need to worry
Don't worry, I'm perfectly fine and I think I can handle myself. Thanks
for the offer though. I just got into a town so I should be fine.
Just as I sent the message, something else sank in. He had said SAO, meaning Sword Art Online, which is an anime where people are trapped within a game where they cannot escape. I then started wondering how I could be within this death game. My next question was why, even if we set it for a year more than ten years into the future, we were in SAO which takes places in 2022. Just then two girls ran past me and toppled me over. Standing up, I chased after them as my head began to flood with the memories of whoever I was. I began to see memories of her parents, and noticed that I happened to be this girl's father but was unable to recognize who her mother was. I also recognized the two girls that had pushed me aside. The one on the left was Sam's daughter Erica, but in this case it was Sam herself, and the one on the right was Jamie's daughter.
"Hey!" I yelled to the other two as I caught up to them, "Why the hell did you push me over!". They turned to see me and took a second to exchange glances before Sam answered.
"Devin? Perfect! I located you much faster than I could have imagined." She exclaimed as she pulled me and Jamie's daughter, her name is Emily by the way, a good distance away before saying another word. "What exactly do you occurred to land us here?" She asked me as soon as we were out of earshot of anyone.
"How should I know, all I remember is turning on the helmet, and then waking up about to fall off the edge of a cliff." I answered, wondering why she thought I would have any idea. We took a few minutes to ponder what could have caused all of this, but ended up drawing a blank. "Also," I continued with another question to ask Sam, "how are we in 2022 when we had set the helmets much farther ahead?".
This stumped Sam and made her take a while to think, but was unable to come up with an answer to that question either.
Suddenly, along with the tolling of a bell, there was a large flash of light and we were teleported into, what looked like, the center of town.
We all began trying to figure what it was that just happened, when something that looked like a force field appeared in the sky with the words "System Message" showing within each hexagon-shaped panel of the force field. Everyone went silent as something that looked like blood dripped down through the force field and formed a giant empty cloak with hands floating above the ground.
