"Link Start!"

-Connecting- Sight: Connected

Touch: Connected Smell: Connected

Taste: Connected Hearing: Connected

-SYSTEM ERROR-

"Your condition has gotten worse, we will continue treatment but we have reason to believe that it will most certainly kill you. We estimate that you have only one year, I'm sorry."

In the year of 2022, a game called Sword Art Online is released. Using a helmet that simulates a person's five senses called a NerveGear, a player is able to control their avatar first hand, using their brain.

Such technology holds a lot of value to a 15 year old girl by the name of Yuri Endo. While people might just be playing the game for the experience and fun that comes with it, Yuri plays for the chance to do things that she is unable too. At a young age, doctors found an issue with her lungs and immune system, they referred to this condition as terminal illness. Leaving her clinging to life with such a high chance of death, her parents start looking with urgency for a way to help her.

However once Yuri logs into Sao for its first launch, she finds that there is no escape from the virtual world, and with the illness killing her IRL, she becomes weaker. Her only desire goes from being cured, to saying goodbye to her family.

Can Yuri beat the game before time beats her to the bitter end?

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Sword Art Online, all credit for the anime itself goes to the original creators. This is simply a fanfiction; a figment of my imagination.

Sympathetic viewing is appreciated.

On with the story!