Keku, the Prince of Chaos

Ch1: Origin

Here I am, writing the Author's Note for another SAO fanfiction. I would like to say that I have been working on my other stories, but in truth, the only one I have really done is a bit on the Black-Clad Integrity Knight. Sorry, Internet.

"I'm sorry, I died as well." Kazuto smiled as he said the terminal words.

"Why are you sorry, we are going to be together forever, because we are going to die together."

These were the last words I had exchanged with Kazuto-kun, before the world of Aincrad had been completely destroyed.

Asuna POV

As I opened my eyes, I was assaulted by a bright fluorescent light above my head. The stark artificial light was like nothing I had seen in over two years, and I squinted as I stared up at it. I looked left, and saw a digital clock which was displaying the time.

10:58... 10:58! Aincrad didn't have a 10:58! The memories all flooded into my head at once.

"Ki... Kir... Kirito..." My voice sounded dry and hoarse, as if I hadn't used it in years... Was I... Was I back in the real world?

My eyes shot open again and my arms flew to my head, only for me to cry out in pain. My muscles were underdeveloped and underused. I fell back to the bed and stared at my hand, tears sprinkling my eyes. The hand that is in front of my face is sickly thin and as white as a sheet.

An alarm blares in the distance, but I disregard it in favour of continuing to stare at my withered extremities.

Time Jump: Roughly two months, after Asuna and her friends' rehabilitation.

Kazuto has still not woken up.

Kazuto Focus

Kazuto opened his eyes. This alone surprised him, as the last thing he could remember was getting stabbed by Akihiko, and then talking to Asuna on the edge of the world, watching Aincrad destroy itself. But that was not the main reason. He had discovered that he was chained to the ground, and appeared to be looking up to the top of a colossal bird cage, which he was currently in. However, said bird cage was sitting in a branch of an even bigger, massive tree, and Kazuto could see the branches winding up though the air.

"Asu... Asuna." A single tear slid down Kazuto's cheek, as the legendary warrior continued to stare up at the interlocking bars that made up his prison. He heard footsteps approaching, and a almost silent scraping. The footsteps drew closer as a gate slid closed once again.

"So, this is the legendary Black Swordsman, Kirito: Top level clearer, warrior, husband, but most importantly, the defeater of Kayaba Akihiko, and the beater of Aincrad."

"What do you want."

The mysterious man who Kazuto still couldn't see let out a soft laugh.

"Does it matter? Do you really need to know?" Kazuto strained his neck to try and look at the source of the voice, but the angle was slightly to high. He strained against his restraints. This time the man laughed loudly and freely. Kazuto heard a clicking sound and the cold cuffs split in half, freeing Kazuto. "Rise, Keku." (I) Kazuto sprung to his feet.

"What did you call m-..." Kazuto abruptly cut off after seeing the man. He was wearing a regal green cloak and had long blond hair. A small golden crown was perched on his head. However what surprised him was that he had long, pointy ears and pale green opaque wings hovering behind him. As Kazuto watched the green wings faded away and disappeared. He realised his mouth was open in astonishment and he closed it quickly.

"Keku, you are under my control." Kazuto was shaking his head with his eyes closed.

"No... No why the hell do you keep calling me that?" Suddenly his eyes snapped open, and he put his thumb and fore-finger together, swiping in a downwards motion. Nothing happened.

"Kekekeke. I am Faerie King Oberon in this world, literally the king, god and ruler of Alfheim, the faerie realm." He looked at Kazuto in the eye. "And you are Keku, the Egyptian personification of darkness, and my hostage. Or in the real world, Kirigaya Kazuto." Oberon nodded at Kazuto's thumb and fore finger, still pressed together in front of him. "As you may have noticed, you are not able to access the menu, but I can assure you, that everyone else can; I have simply locked your account."

Kirito was speechless. He was stuck, and judging by Oberon's words, in another VRMMO.

"I... Wh... How... WHY‽"

Oberon again chuckled at Kazuto's spluttering.

"As the head of the Virtual Division, I am in charge of the research into Virtual Reality and its potential as well. For the past two months, we have been subjugating the remaining 423 comatose former players of SAO to special signals to their brains, with amazing results!" He let out a maniacal laugh, bordering on the edge of crazy. "We have successfully developed a method of altering human emotion, complete control of the human soul!" The words echoed in Kazuto's head.

Altering human emotion... Control over the soul!?

"Which is why Keku, that I have woken you today. With our tests finally finished, and a almost foolproof method of emotion editing, the final boss of this game is finally ready to be incarnate! Behold! The final boss of Alfheim Online! Keku, the Prince of Chaos!"

Kazuto went cold.

Suguha Focus

Suguha had been shaken by the comatose Kazuto, and had spent every other day visiting him in the hospital. She often spent these visits with Yuuki Asuna, according to her, Kazuto's lover in-game. She found that slightly hard to believe, as her brother was a massive introvert. But then again, people changed when they went online, sometimes for better, m mostly for worse. In the Death Game... She was shaken from her thoughts at the sound of the door opening. A nurse walked in, who she had come to know as Nurse Aki. She had mousy blond hair and had a nice figure. She was reasonably pretty and had a feisty demeanour. However she always restrained herself while in the room with Kazuto, keeping her voice near a whisper.

"Asuna-chan, Suguha-chan, visiting hours are almost over. It is time to wrap-up." whispered the nurse. She smiled at the cute scene of Asuna holding Kazuto's hand and Suguha sitting across from her. Both girls nodded and looked back at Kazuto one last time. They both stood and walked from the room.

After riding her bike home and having a subdued dinner with her mum, Suguha sat down at her computer, breathing a sigh. She stared at her blank computer screen. Suddenly, it lit-up, a email notification popping up in the top right corner of the screen. She stared at it. Andrew? What could he want? She sat forwards and manipulated the mouse, clicking on the little button.

TO: Kirigaya Suguha, Yuuki Asuna
FROM: Andrew Gilbert-Millers

Suguha and Asuna,

Come see me tomorrow as soon as you finish school, it is urgent. It has to do with Kazuto-kun.

-Egil

Suguha sat frozen as she re-read the email several times. To do with Kazuto? What could it possibly be?

The next day...

Sugu could hardly sleep, and had trouble concentrating in class throughout the day. The obscure request from Egil ringing in her ears every time she tried to concentrate on what her teacher was saying. After class, she could barely suppress sprinting from class to her bike. She had all ready notified her club-president that she was not attending Kendo today. She was slightly put off from the strange request from the always sporty Suguha, but she agreed none-the-less. She arrived at the Dicey Caffé in record pace, bursting in through the door. Asuna was already sitting at the bar, and looked around at Sugu as she entered.

"How did you get here before me?" Sugu asked, panting, as she sat down at the bar in front of Egil.

"The SAO Survivors school is closer to here than yours." Asuna answered quickly. She turned to Egil. "Well anyway, what did you find on Kazuto-kun?"

Egil put a glass he had been polishing down and looked at Asuna and Sugu.

"Do you know the VRMMO Alfheim Online?" He asked staring at the girls in turn.

Asuna shook her head, but Sugu gave a firm nod. Egil looked at her in surprise. In answer, she elaborated.

"I started playing ALO when it came out." She gave a bitter smile at Asuna's look. "I wanted to know what excited brother so much all the time, and why he was so hyped about the genre." Egil nodded.

"Well then you would know about the massive update that came out yesterday." Sugu nodded. She had heard a bit about it, and how it would be introducing the end quest of the game, as well as the final boss. She was interested on how this tied in with brother. "Have you seen the trailer that came out yesterday?" Sugu shook her head. She had no knowledge of it, or the rest of the update. "Well then you would want to see this." He pulled out a tablet from under the bar and entered the pass-code. He then set it up on the stand. A video began to play. A deep male voice came from the speakers.

"Alfheim Online..."

It showed a video of a squad of fairies flying as comforting violin music began to play.

"The realm of faeries, centred around Yggdrasil, the world tree..."

A shot of the World Tree panned upwards, looking up to it's highest branches.

"The biggest update in the game's history..."

The music began to ramp up in intensity as the screen showed several battle scenes and spells being cast by various faeries.

"Has arrived..."

The music cut out as it reached its climax, with a scene of a completely black and purple throne room, a silhouette sitting at the end of the lonely hall. The camera cut out and reappeared in front of a pair of closed eyes, which flashed open, showing steel grey irises. A fierce beat of drums began as several scenes of fighting faeries in massive black halls appeared.

"Beat the final quest, and defeat Alfheim Online."

The drums final beat echoed out and petered off, the words Alfheim Online, Final Quest Update flashed into being across the screen. Once again, the steel grey eyes flashed on the screen. The video ended, Asuna and Suguha sitting in shocked silence, still staring at the tablet.

"Those were..." Suguha murmured.

"Kazuto's..." Asuna breathed, steadying herself on the bar. "Without a doubt, those were Kirito's. What is he doing in ALO?"

"According to the prompts from the video, I am guessing that he must be..." Asuna and Egil looked expectantly at Sugu. "He must be... the final boss." She almost whispered. She looked into Asuna's hazelnut eyes. "I have an AmuSphere Asuna, but you don't..."

"I can buy one." Asuna said with conviction. Sugu and Egil looked surprised at Asuna's certainty.

"Asuna, AmuSpheres are expensive pieces of technology..." Egil began.

"I assure you, I have more than enough." Sugu looked at her questioningly. "I er..." Asuna blushed "I have been saving up my allowance since I got back... To go shopping with Kirito-kun..."

Sugu took control of the situation. "Ok Asuna, we will meet up in-game in two hours. Ok?" Asuna nodded. "My user-name is Leafa, so PM me as soon as you get on."

Asuna nodded resolutely. "See you in-game." With that, they thanked Egil and left the cafe, each heading separate ways.

Such pain...

Keku sat on his crystalline throne, the Elucidator resting across his lap, while the Dark Repulser was leaning against the throne. He was holding his head in his hands, fighting with the massive headache that was building up. His memories visibly pained him as he sat there, shivering. He flinched every now and then.

Asuna...

(I) Egyptian personification of darkness and chaos. I wanted to use Erebus, the Greek god of darkness, but since there is already a story called/used that... Yeah.

Kirito's situation shall be explained more in further chapters, but I guess you call already figure out where this is going...

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Hope you had a nice read!

Fundindar