Hello there SAO fans! This story is co-written by Desiak Black and myself, but we will be posting on my channel so theres no confussion. He's better in spelling and grammar then me as well *chuckles*
So this is the first chapter of a long series! We hope you like it!
'Sword Art Online' was created by Reki Kawahara, This is a non-profit story. All Orginal Characters are created by Desiak Black and Myself.
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Chapter 1: A New Story
The intensity of the heat of the flame resided over the players with great threat and fear… The ground creaked with every step. The drippings of the wax spilled over from the lighted candles high above the ground on cratered pillars. If sound was made, it was hard to hear from the players breathing, and hearts pounding out from their chests, the anxiety was taking over…
A loud screech echoed from the room over filled with darkness and revulsion… The mirroring walls of respite and the monster that lived within its walls, only contained by numbers and writing that consist within the terrifying and horrific death game known as…
Sword Art Online.
Fire barreled over head as Eden tried to collect his thoughts amis the chaos around him. His blue eyes darted around seeing the poor army of eight that he had stumbled into a boss room with.
'Why were they so stupid?!' Eden shook his head. Trying to chase out any thoughts of doubt he had while letting his instincts take over.
His body started to shake, adrenaline taking over, or at least what this world's substitute for it was. He didn't know what to call it but it felt real almost. The swordsman never really felt it before this moment. The fire, grunting, and the insatiable roar of the aerial boss above, words had begun repeating, drumming in his head like a beat.
'Survive, survive, just survive god Dammit.'
The boss room of the 4th floor was a cave like structure, spiraling endlessly upwards only to be topped with what he could guess could be a nest. The walls were smooth and glossed over with some type of oil. Though, the brutal creator of this room left edges that could be used like a staircase to get to the top.
'No, that would take too much time, and with only eight people, I have to help the others…'
A darker skinned man stood out from the others with his iron shoulder plates, and broader body type. Taller than the rest, he tried to take control of the men as the monster flew up.
"We need Defensives now! If we can't block his attacks, then there's no point in trying to get out of here alive!"
Just as the man gained sight of what could be the possible boss, a aerial fire breather with feathers grey like storm clouds swooshed back down for another sweeping arc of the ground floor.
Eden saw the soaring fire breather come plummeting down, knowing that only one person can hold his ground in fight like this.
"Desiak!"
A tall broad man appeared from the darkness in a sprint, trying to gain loss ground of what could possibly be the last moments of the players in the room. He stood in front of the darker skinned man in front, grabbing his shield from his own back.
"Let's see how strong you really are!"
The tall black haired man got to one knee as he planted his shield's pointed bottom down to the wooden floor beneath him, leaving the silver surface tilted at a 70 degree angle.
As he got the attention of the beast, Desiak yelled out, "Everyone run, now!"
Desiak's voice just made it to the group before the boss swooped down to face Desiak personally. The beast recoiled its feathered neck before bursting its head forward with an unhinged jaw letting liquid fire spray towards Desiak's shield in a condensed beam. The party broke into a sprint, making haste to the slick glossy walls of the room. The pillar of fire hit him like a truck. After the initial shock he visibly tensed, letting out a battle cry that made each of the eight receive chills.
"Desiak!" Eden called out, before turning around to realize that he was at the base of the staircase that led up above the nest far overhead.
'Looks like we're getting a bit of luck.'
The swordsman took a last look at the now dome of fire around his party member before starting up stairs, seeing this was a chance to get to the boss's back. It was a long shot but it may be a weak point for him to attack at. Eden started up the mock staircase, each passing second his new ally was burning in an inferno beneath him.
The swordsmen sprinted up the ledges as he let out a exhausted sigh, cursing beneath his exhaled breath…
"Dammit..."
Flash Back: One Week Earlier…
The sun was already beginning a reddened descent over the city of the 3rd floor where Eden was told to meet up with different guilds to take on the 4th floor boss. People had lost the initial excitement after the first three victories, and people were losing their patience for organized raids.
Eden had some-what long hair that went over his eyes. It was a dark brown that spiked above his forehead. He had sharp blue eyes that caught the attention of others quickly. A height no bigger than 5'10, thin, but toned throughout. He wore a blue cloak that went down to his feet, and over it he wore a black vest with silver outlining the whole vest. On his arms, he had leather bindings wrapped around it, but leaving his hands open. He wore similar leather bindings for his boots, with a leather belt.
After reaching this far southern pocket of the town Arkile, Eden saw the meeting place described. It matched the same style of the town, 'A Rickety'. Brown tinted, more styled after a western art, but put through more of a modern look in a med-evil type of era.
The swordsman looked up to the top of the building described, checking the name.
"The Lucky Shovel..."
He had whispered the name to himself, thinking outloud. His mind stopped thinking over this place, it was shit, and that was a compliment. He finally decided to head for the door.
Eden reached for the front door only to have it slammed into his face. The swordsman cursed under his breath checking his face for any injuries, an old habit of the real world. Injuries weren't permanent here, he could lose a hand and as long as he had something to heal himself with he'd be fine.
He sighed realizing how stupid he must've looked.
After a quick moment of dusting himself off, Eden looked up to see a normal lengthen woman with short boyish green hair holding back laughter behind two bright red blushing cheeks. She looked young, probably around sixteen or so from Eden's perspective.
Her armor was limited to a regular sized bright blue cuirass covering her breasts and a pair of gauntlets currently covering her mouth. The boy snapped back to reality realizing he was staring at her.
"O-oh, s-sorry."
The girl canted her head, her bangs falling over her nose and onto her shoulder.
"Y-You're- sorry?" She stifled a giggle before going on, lowering her hands from her mouth since the initial scare has worn off." I bashed a door into your face!" She jutted her thumb to the door at her left, before looking up to see he was looking down toward his boots.
The green haired girl's face turned red seeing she may have hurt his feelings.
"Oh no, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hurt your-"
She stopped as the swordsman kept his head down, brushing himself past her to walk into the bar, leaving her blinking trying to make sense of him.
Eden pushed himself into the bar, the immediate scent of an authentic saloon hitting his nostrils like a train. It didn't help that everyone in the bar turned towards the late comer only to see a teenager with a twisted face looking almost like he just smelt vinegar.
The swordsmen exhaled taking into the new smell like it was water he was having to breath, simply accepting it. His blue eyes adjusted to the new scenery of the dark dust filtered room to see every single damn eye on him for a moment before turning back forward towards a dark skinned man at the center of the room standing.
"Now that enough have arrived we can begin." called out the dark skinned man.
Eden counted a total of forty heads in total before attempting to find a seat, it seemed as though somebody from every walk of life was here. Men, women, undecided from their looks. The swordsman's train of thought was interrupted by a new voice that called out over the crowd of mumbling voices.
"Talon let's get this thing started!" came a voice from the crowd that Eden couldn't match a bobbing head to.
The dark skinned man, named Talon by context, sighed at the outcry of an attendant of his meeting. He seemed fairly strict considering this -was- a meeting for business.
Eden guessed the black man was named Talon, or at least his alias. His real name honestly didn't matter.
Talon started himself again, his eyes wavering over the crowd as he spoke trying to obviously get a feel of everyone's reactions. "I'm glad we've gotten so many of you, it truly startled me that I didn't hear word that we were going to the fifth floor after the first week alone."
A wave of understanding moved through the crowd.
At this point in the speech Eden had found the last empty seat, to his luck it was behind a heavily plated man with only a single shoulder pad. The man turned around with a hardened expression, he seemed to fit in perfect with the western feel of Arkile. That mirage was broken as soon as the man whispered, his jaw slacking as though he was chewing tobacco. This to Eden's knowledge wasn't a feature in SAO. He could be wrong.
"Hey kid..."
This tensed Eden, already disliking the interaction, but to be called kid by a guy that looked the same age as him suddenly brought up the urge to fight him.
"What." Eden said in more of a mono tone voice, straightening himself in his chair making himself seem larger than the height he was, hopefully unnoticed.
The man not even paying attention to Eden's movement went along with what he was saying.
"You uh, you ever hear of a..Chupa-cobra?"
Eden's blank expression said for him that he didn't care. The thought rose that he had even gotten the name wrong. Eden suddenly was trying to find a reason to not look at the man. After another second of awkward silence between the two, Eden turned his head to ignore the inferred cowboy, leaving him to his own thoughts of mystical creatures.
The tall man furrowed his brow seeing Eden turned him away. But his tough cowboy act played on, at this point throwing a southern-American accent into the fray.
"Oh, I see, I see...To good for Ole' Dessy." Desiak continued on for a moment mumbling what Eden could only think was a curse.
Eden got at least a name, Dessy...A terrible name.
Once Eden got his focus back on Talon the guy started again.
"This is how we're going to do things." He stopped for a moment seeing no objections rise from the crowd.
"It's not my place to push you all but we need to get back on track with these bosses. It's a week in and we haven't even found where it is."
Eden leaned into his chair, crossing his arms over his chest in a more relaxed position as Talon continued.
"We'll be splitting into parties five parties of eight; we'll start in a few days with mapping out the area. Once we find him, we'll call everyone back to plan this." Talon started to grow quiet,
the saloon followed his tone.
"Now everyone send me a friend request, and start matching groups."
Eden scanned the room seeing parties forming, friends with friends, a few couples selecting people from a line. Couples usually fought well so far, knowing each other's movements is an advantage during fights that need people to switch lead roles frequent-
"Tally!" Desiak stood on a table, getting the attention of others as he stood there courage's and free, "I have chosen for you to be with me!"
Eden's train of thought was interrupted by two loud voices yelling to one another, as he turned to see Desiak high fiving Talon.
"I will gladly accept your noble and most honorable invite Dessy!" Talon was equally excited to see him and it seemed Desiak had already sent an invite for the party that Talon was in the process of accepting.
Eden, off in his own world, analyzing which group would be the least in his way. Getting a better look at Talon and Desiak, they were both roughly the same size.
Desiak was well over six foot, possibly 6"3. His armor was odd to say the least; he wore a silver cuirass that seemed heavier than the standard one people had at this level. Along with that, he had a triangular shoulder pad on his left shoulder, also silver. As for his lower body he was fairly ordinary. A bit of heavy plate on his thighs covering grey pants and some silver boots rounded at the tip with plate. Eden's eyes tried to get a glimpse at his weapons, only to see a shield and the handle to what he could only assume was a lance from the circling hilt that protected it's user's hand, much like a rapier.
Talon was easier to see, his armor was dark green attire, a simple cuirass, sphere, with spaulder shoulder pads. It was ordinary to see this with people out in the hunting grounds fighting with it.
The guy would be able to hold his own in a fight.
"Hey...kid." Desiak had secretly snuck to the seat right next to Eden while he was trying to figure out Talon.
A tick mark formed over Eden's head as he closed his eyes ignoring the guy to his right as best he could. They were the only two sitting down in the saloon. All of its inhabitants had been moved to the edges of the room, talking amongst themselves in groups. Mostly about tactics, and who could do what.
"Okay listen, I'm goanna cut you a deal." Dessy had dropped his cowboy persona, defaulting to what Eden could only assume was his normal deep tone. "You accept that invite, and I won't send it again."
Eden opened one eye to see Dessy had already taken the trouble of sending the party invitation. He closed his eye again before speaking.
"I'm a soloer. I'll be fine." Eden stated bluntly.
Dessy pursed his lips, stumped. Before trying from a different approach, "How about you press okay." His tone suggested he was annoyed, but that hardly fazed the swordsmen, he didn't think this guy could hurt a fly let alone go through with a threat.
"I'm fine. I don't need obnoxious people like you intervening with my time. So if you don't mind, please see yourself out." Eden said in a blunt voice, trying to let his point get across as he crossed his arms.
Desiak stayed quiet before quickly grabbing Eden's hand attempting to force the swordsmen too unwillingly to push the accept button.
"Just push it!"
"No!" Eden tried getting his hand back pulling at his arm with his free hand as the two had a tug-o'-war over it.
Talon blinked once, twice, knowing that Desiak was like this, but the idea of personal space apparently exist in the single shoulder padded man's mind.
"Don't be a little bitch!"
"Who are you calling little?!"
Eden gave a final tug of his hands, only to fall back in his chair. Desiak took the opportunity of freefall to yank Eden's arm forward pressing the 'Accept Invite' button. Eden was flung to the ground, his agility allowed him to catch himself to a knee before standing up glairing daggers at Desiak, who was rubbing his black hair beaming cheerful grey eyes to the swordsmen.
Flash Back Ended
'Where'd the boss go?'
Eden's thought had a moment to settle in before he was interrupted by the roar of wings whooshing a foot away from his face.
The boss in the time Eden took to climb the stairs had flown back above the nest and had descended down on Eden's side of the circular room. As the beast barreled down the tower like room the wind behind it created a massive force that brought Eden to his knees on the ledge when it had flown by, swallowing hard, and tensing up due to the appearance of the boss. Now knowing where it was, he got to his feet drawing his one handed sword.
He had to time this perfectly...
Desiak panted as he rested his head on his shield, his health bar lowered significantly to almost half health. The boss soared right over Desiak who was still recovering from the earlier attack that Eden used as a diversion. Desiak visibly tensed as the boss went a foot over his head flying past him to start back up the wall opposite to Eden's.
Eden whispered a curse under his breath only to have the beast take an immediate right turn flying along the surface of the slicked walls, circling around for a few turns.
The group was looking in terror as they tried to pinpoint where the boss was going to go, he was simply too fast. The dark skinned man, now known as Talon, had taken the time to run out his spear in hand to Desiak's side, breaking a healing crystal to regenerate their defender's health. Desiak was still panting; sweating from the heat and damage he just endured.
"Where'd Eden go?" Talon broke out trying to look around the room for the swordsman only to have him pointed out by a tired Desiak.
Desiak stood up slowly, eyeing Eden immediately through a glimpse of his sword he had just drawn. Even with the few candles floating in the air, it was enough to cause its reflection. Desiak acted as thought they had mapped out this boss fight days in advance, his voiced confidence lying to the group as he yelled out.
"Alright, were going to need all the defenders with shields knelled down in the front, and the rest in the back with me!"
Talon, taking offence to Desiak's orders to his men, he turned around towards him and spoke with a bit of a bark in his voice.
"Des, these are my men, and your one of them. They don't need to have orders from you, they need to have orders from me," He said with a bit of urgency, trying to show that he had some type of leadership left, and stability.
Desiak turned around, pulling out his lance, gripping it tightly in one hand. "You may be the one who started this," Desiak said walking face to face with Talon, "But we're the ones finishing it."
Talon blinked, shocked, letting Desiak make sense of his response on his own.
Desiak nodded at Talon, addressing the group next. "Get ready! If something goes wrong with Eden, we're all that's left!"
The group rushed to position now with a second wind, a voice yelled from the moving people.
"Yeah! We've got this!"
Desiak couldn't help but grin,
'Maybe we're gonna live?'
Eden had begun timing when the beast would fly below him, on the third time going around Eden jumped. He was in freefall for a moment before raising his sword over his head, letting it glow blue showing he was about to activate the 'Stab' ability. His sword followed through piercing into the boss's right wing. A significant chunk of its health went down leaving two bars left for the group to deal with.
Down below they were in position as they watched the boss's health start dropping as if they were all attacking. They were amazed.
"Talon, we could really use you about now."
Desiak spoke calmly to the spear wielder at his left who nodded in reply.
Talon was the only one who bothered to level up his hate skill. The man stepped aside from the huddled group. His spear glowed green. Getting to a throwing position, his spear started to glow brighter as he thrusted his arm forward sending the spear flying toward the boss.
Eden struggled to stay aboard his new ride, it bucked like a horse in the air, writhing, attempting to shake off Eden.
'I will not let this thing be the end of me…' Eden started to think as he held on, "I WILL END THIS!"
Eden roared out as he grabbed onto the edge of its wing to start driving his sword deeper into the boss's flesh sending up small fragments that represented blood.
The boss's wing went limp sending the two into a freefall.
Talon's spear landed in the boss's head affectively taking out another chunk of the steadily decreasing health bars. They were down to the last one and the boss was in free fall.
Eden started to lose his grip.
He quickly ripped out his sword from the beast and started regaining some balance. Enough to stand up on the beasts back. As a last ditch effort before he crashed to his death, Eden lept using the boss to launch himself to a ledge of the staircase.
Eden gave out a yell in the effort as his body flew to the ledge.
Desiak looked up, seeing Eden leap from the boss's back and towards the ledge, another burst of energy coursing through him. Like someone turned his blood to sugar.
"Fuck yeah!" He looked over the group, patting a shield bearer's shoulder as the boss came closer to them. "This is all on us!"
The beast came to a climatic crash, denting the floor into a concaved crater.
"Attack!" Desiak ran in a sprint, his lance ready to pierce the boss's head, his group following with their own battle cries.
Eden's body hit the ledge taking a section of his health out on impact. His arms scraped along the ledge, coming down to his fingernails. When he finally got a grip, Eden struggled to bring himself up. When he finally got to his feet, he looked down towards the group that was slaughtering the boss that couldn't do much anything without flight. It was drooling out liquid fire from its mouth. Unable to breathe it out in a torrent like before since Talon had repositioned his spear to skewer the boss's mouth shut, like a toothpick in a sandwich.
Talon grinned, driving his spear in the boss's muzzle, twisting it around as the group sliced and stabbed away at the beast. Its health bars overhead were just about out by the time Eden had decided.
As if the beast still had some fight left in him, he swung his hard skinned tail around hitting a few of the party along with Talon down to the ground. The other men backed away, starting to shake in fear.
"Someone! Help!"
The monster had Talon in a grip, giving it the ability do whatever it wanted.
"I've Gotcha!" Desiak said running in, but was knocked back by the monsters roar, not allowing anyone to get anywhere near the thing.
'This is my kill.'
Eden leapt from his ledge that nearly cost him his life to get to, to only go into a free fall towards the beast. Eden's hand tightened around his sword's hilt as he plummeted towards the group.
'I have to prove who I am…'
His sword glowed blue as a sword ability took effect.
'And this is the only way!'
As the monster was starting to charge up the remaining power it had left and strike Talon that laid underneath its tail, Eden's body fell into a pattern even in mid flight, lurching his bodyweight to the slicked wall, his feet skidding along the glossy stone before he pushed his feet off it, spiraling his body with his sword overhead to pierce the beast from the side giving him the final blow.
As the boss let out a dying cry shaking the room, it's health dropped the last inches of life, until Eden thrusted his sword once more into the carcass, the four bars began to slip away, shutting it up at the moment.
A moment of disbelief passed over the group, stopping them all in their tracks, catching some off guard as they stood there in awe that it was over.
Desiak put his lance over his back as he stepped over the boss's tail that disappeared into colorful ambers that all creatures turned into when they were killed.
The sign appeared,
'Congratulations!'
Appeared overhead, Eden took a moment to just stare at it. A screen popped up showing a rare item only given to the person that defeats the boss with the final blow.
"Wolf Tail Necklace?" Eden said out loud. It was a silver chain with wolf tails surrounding the whole necklace with a pendent of a wolf in the middle. When he read the description, it said:
'Wolf Tail Necklace: +10 Speed, +10 Strength'
Eden clicked the 'Accept' button, and equipped it to himself.
He grinned to himself as he looked around at the others. The men were celebrating with each other, enjoying their victory.
"You alright you crazy fucker?" Desiak asked with a grin as he walked over to him.
Eden let out a glamorous sigh with a small grin, "Yes, I'm just fine."
"How did you know that the back was a weak spot?"
Eden shrugged, acting modest, "I-It was a lucky guess."
"You looked like you had no difficulty with fighting that thing! I mean seriously, what level are you?"
Before Eden had time to even comprehend his answer to Desiak's question, Talon walked up with the rest of his party, "Well ya both did well! I knew you too would work out good together as offence and defense!"
Eden and Desiak looked at each other, and as Desiak grinned Eden only rolled his eyes looking back towards Talon.
"Were going to head out to tell the rest of the groups that we found the boss and defeated it!"
"We-" Eden tried asking in a questioning tone, but before he could finish, Desiak elbowed Eden in the shoulder and shot him a glare.
"You guys coming with us?"
"Sure! We will-"Before Desiak could finish, Eden intervened and gave a chuckle.
"We? I don't know where you're getting this, 'we' thing, but I'm a soloer. I work alone."
Desiak and Talon both looked surprised, "But were on a party together? Why not just stay a party?"
"Because, I knew if I worked together in this situation, it would only progress the boss fight faster. So for my best interest, I would pair up with someone that had a useful skill set, and I knew Desiak had the best Defense."
Talon and Desiak were both in shock.
"Thank you both for your time, and Desiak," Eden said looking at him directly, "Keep up on that leadership trait you have, make a guild or something, you can be really useful on the front lines."
"Well, what about me?" Talon looked at him angrily.
Eden looked at Talon ready to say something, but stopped himself and started to walk away.
"See you guys on the front line." With that, Eden left, walking towards the new founded steps towards the door to the next floor.
"What's that guy's problem?" Talon asked hurt from Eden's reaction to his question he asked.
"Well… I don't know, but it's worth figuring out," Desiak said out loud in more of a questioning tone.
Talon laughed, "Yea go ahead! You heard him, he's a 'Soloer', and they're usually only in for themselves…"
Desiak frowned looking back watching Eden walk into the door, and disappearing from the area.
Well, that's are first story for Sword Arts Online: Wolf's Tail! ^^ If theres any concerns, likes, or anything at all, please review! It's a new story, so if you could help us out, that would be great by reviewing our story!
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