This is an OC Fan Fiction of SAO Anime, but Kirito and others still appears in this story. I also added new unique skill for my OC Char and change some of the game system. If you don't like the OC Category or the changes, read at your own risk. And also please leave a review because it will help me a lot to improve my stories. And I don't own SAO in any way.

Sword Art Online: Is This Reality ?

Sword Art Online. A VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) game played through a virtual-reality helmet that stimulates the user's five senses. A thousand players were selected from a giant pool of a hundred thousand. Those lucky ones, including me, were allowed to experience the dream-like days in the beta test until the official opening of Sword Art Online.

I rushed to my room right after breakfast, put on my Nerve Gear around my black, shoulder-length hair. I closed my eyes and hid my crimson-red iris, collapsed myself into my bed, and started to login as 'Sanada'. I opened my eyes and found myself inside Sword Art Online, inside Aincrad, the virtual world in SAO. I could see my hands and move them. I smiled and rushed through other player and quickly went to a forest dungeon on the first floor.

I quickly went to a dungeon to raise my level and get some Col (currency in this game). I went through it easily as the game allowed us beta-tester to keep our equipment and levels obtained in the beta-test. After I defeated some boar and collected the loot and raise a level, I wanted to get back to town to sell the loot and buy some healing crystal. When I was walking in the forest, I heard a girl's scream from behind a tree. I went there to check, and found a girl being chased by a wild bull. "Run!" I shouted loudly and quickly defended the girl from the bull. I got a heavy damage and about 40% of my health point was lost. I quickly bashed the bull and got it stunned. Then prepared a sword skill and released it which given the bull a lot of damage and killed it.

"Are you all right? Can you stand?" I said while offering my hands to her. "A-ah, thanks, um…" she replied then took my hands.

"Sanada, call me Sanada. We better get back to town now, the monster will get stronger and more violent at dark"

"Ah, please wait Sanada-san!" she replied and searched her inventory, "Please, take this... and my name is Rin" she healed me with a healing crystal. My HP was fully restored.

"Thanks, now let's get back to town before late" I smiled and pull her hands up.

We walked to town and searched an inn to get some rest, but something unusual happened and it's where the trouble began. A mass Teleportation, everyone were teleported to the starting town hall, including us, and a mass confusion began. I could hear everyone's complaining.

"Hey, I didn't do any teleport here!" one man shouted.

"Well, is this a glitch?" said another.

"Hey! I couldn't find the log-out options! Hey, GM, is this a joke!" yelled the big bearded-man.

"Log-out option?" I opened up the menu and searched for a log-out button, but I couldn't find one.

"Hey, Sanada, I think I've missed the log-out button, do you know where it is?" Rin grabbed my shirt with a scared face and voice.

"It is usually in the "Option Menu" but I think it has disappeared, maybe it's a bug?" I replied while double-checking the menu.

Then suddenly, a big red-hooded figure came out from the sky and started to talk "Welcome to Aincrad, players, as you probably have noticed, I, Kayaba Akihiko, creator of Sword Art Online, have removed the log-out button from your Option Menu. Well that is not a glitch; this is how it is meant to be." The others shouted and complained to him. Why did he remove it? What is his purpose? And other question like then were shouted at him.

"I just want to know, this is my purpose, to create a world like this. The only way to log out of this game is to get to the 100th floor of Aincrad and to defeat the boss that resides there. Remember that there is a boss on each floor that you must beat to advance to the next floor. Also the next thing I have to tell you is, if you die in game you die in real life too. The Nerve Gear, as you can see, is connected directly to your brain, so if it realizes you died in the game, it will instantly melt your brain by sending a large amount of electromagnetic waves, thus killing you in the real world. But also trying to take the helmet off will kill the wearer."

New reports appeared about this death game and a warning not to remove the helmet from the real world appeared around him "Here is the proof that I am not lying. People have been warned not to try and remove it and your body will be moved to nearest hospital, so you should be safe. But until you defeat the boss in the 100th floor, you're all stuck in here. And I also give you a goodbye present, please check your inventory."

After saying that, he disappeared. All players then opened their inventory. "A mirror?" said I confused. Then everyone appearances' changed. Changed to how they look like in the real world. Everyone became scared, some players shouted hysterically.

"Hey, Sanada, were you not scared?" Rin asked me.

"Well, if what he said is true, then our only choice is to advance forward, right? So, how about get to the next town and get a sleep there? So we can farm some Col and raise level faster."

"But, I…" she answered slowly and scared "I'm not that strong."

"Don't worry; I'll protect you, so, no need to be scared."

Then she nodded and grabbed my hand tightly. And we travelled to the next town.

-Chapter 0 END-