This is a non-profit fan based parody, Sword Art Online is owned by A-1 pictures, Aniplex USA, and Reki Kawahara. I do not own any of it except for my OCs

Finally I got my copy of SAO, I have been waiting for it to come in since I preordered a copy. I know my friend Norman is going to be logging in as soon as he gets home so I better get myself on. I go to my room and plug the game into my nerve gear and after I layed down with the nerve gear on my head I said "link start!" The loading screen popped up and when it asked me to put in my name after thinking for a while I put in my avatar's name. " I guess Azreal will do good for this situation". When it was all done I spawned in the spawn point and looked around. "Wow way more people than I expected." While looking around I saw a guy with short black hair running out of town, with a taller redhead quickly following after. Hmm that guy seems to know what he is doing so might as well go take a peek at what they are doing. Quickly I set my sword to be used by my left hand instead of my right and set out to find out where they were heading.

By the time I finally got them back in my sights they were in a field and the redhead was just knocked off his feet by a boar. From what it seemed the boar rammed him straight in between the legs and he was sprawled on the ground just rolling on the ground. Then I heard the black haired boy say " You know Klein, pain isn't simulated in this world." Then the person apparently named Klein said back " Oh, your right Kirito but that boar must be a field boss or something!" Apparently Kirito was a beta tester and is showing Klein the basics. From where I am standing they can't see me but I have a good view of what they are doing. I watched as Kirito picked up a small rock from the ground and when he pulled it back behind his head a little it started to glow a faint red. He then threw it like someone would in the real world and it flew and hit the boar leaving a bright red mark on it.

"You see Klein everything in this game uses system guided skills. All you have to do is start a skill and then let the system take over." After I heard that I decided that it was time for me to start farming some of these low level boars. So I leave towards an open field and start grinding for Col, and experience.

Near the end of the day I have leveled up quite a bit and got some Col to hopefully get me a new weapon. That's when I started to feel a weird sensation when I looked down I saw that I was being teleported to a location. When the teleport was over I saw I was back at spawn along with all the other 10,000 people currently in game. That's when the sky started to turn red with hexagons with the word warning in them. I started to look around and take in my surroundings I apparently spawned beside Klein, Kirito, and another guy named Slayer.

That's when Kirito noticed a giant glob of red coming out of the sky. The glob took the form of a human. The human who I thought must be a game developer said " I am Kayaba Akihiko, and as you might of noticed the logout button is missing from your menu. This is not a bug it was designed to be like this." When I heard this I opened my menu and noticed that the logout button was indeed missing. After I checked my menu Kayaba continued " From this point on death will be permanent, so if you die in game or if someone from the outside world pulls off your helmet, the microwave chip inside your nerve gear will fry your brain. And you won't need to buy revive crystals because they will have no effect whatsoever. And I have given each of you an item that will be in your inventory."

I saw everyone around me open their inventory and I did the same and all I found that was new in there was a small handheld mirror. Then a bright flash appeared in front of me and instead of my avatars created appearance my appearance was back to normal, my hair was now longer that covered my dark green eyes. Luckily for me I based my avatar's height and build off of my own so it didn't really change. When I looked around I noticed that Klein's hair was a shade of red instead of pink and it was shorter and spikier. And Kirito's appearance was very different his chin wasn't as pointed and his long hair was shortened. That was when Klein started ranting about how this was possible, and Kirito simply stated " When you first got the nerve gear it decided the scan and you had to calibrate it right? I am betting that he used that to set our in game appearance to our real world appearance."

After that statement Kirito made I finally remembered they were traveling with another person and when I looked at him he was staring in shock at me. That's when I relived that it wa my friend from the real world. "Axel?" " yeah it's me Norman, I should have realized that your username was familiar so you used slayer?" Then Slayer asked me " So where did you you come up with your name?" After thinking long and hard I replied with a shrug "Well it was the first thing that came into my mind when I chose it. So when it did come to me I decided to use it, so my name in here became Azreal."

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