This is my major project, the story that I have been waiting for the proper inspiration. Unlike my other stories this one is not a Naruto story. This is obviously an SAO story. After some thought I have decided that I needed to rewrite this in order to make some more sense of later events.

Disclaimer: I own very little and SAO is NOT something I own. The only name I own is Robert.

Kings of Insanity

Chapter 1: My Brothers and the Black Swordsman.

Here in Aincrad there are many people that were here since the beginning, the original 10,000 and what not. This story is about seven of these people.

A girl and her friends were walking around a low leveled area and were laughing at each other's jokes. 'My name is Alice Cathey, and I am the 'official' guild leader of the Kings of Insanity. The guild consists of Robert Robinson, our jack-of-all-trades if you would; Lucas Howard, our black-smith; John Robinson, our DPM in boss fights; Laurence Blankenship, our tank; Logan Smith, our potion-mixer; and Joe Cathey, our stealth master and my actual older brother. We are number one in the rankings, our guild symbol is hidden in their eyes while I have it on my shoulder, and no one knows that they are the ones who have been known to help clear bosses while the Knights of the Blood-Oath were fighting.

All six of my brothers were beta-testers and they have been friends since they were all in high school. When they got the game for real, I asked if I could play as well and my older brother agreed and I started playing. The first day was going awesome, I mean my brothers were all so powerful and they knew exactly what to do, then came that moment when we all learned that if you die in the game you die for real; that was the first time I saw all of them pissed at the same time. Not long after they started clearing floors like it was nothing. They even made the guild for the sole purpose of protecting me.

Even now that I'm hanging out with my friends I notice my big brother hanging back, keeping an eye on me. Joe's character was wearing a black cloak, hiding most of his appearance, but by looking closely I saw that he had his dagger and usual armor on, his black jacket was covered by weird looking symbols, and the cloak. His brown hair was short and his eyes were watching my every movement. My friends were all low leveled, just like me. They all noticed my brother but didn't mention a thing, it was something that everyone had gotten used to by now; one of my brothers was always watching me when I went out. They only got involved when we ended up in over our heads. It helped that as guild leader most people assumed I was a higher level than I actually was, most didn't want to mess with a member of the Kings. Anyways I suppose I should describe my own appearance, I was wearing a blue jacket over a white shirt and held a katana at my side on a belt that held up my white pants. My boots were black. The shoulder of my jacket mirrored my arm in that the symbol denoting me as a member of the Kings of Insanity was in plain sight. My long brown hair was tied in a ponytail.'

"Hey Alice, I think that the monster we are hunting is a little further in." My friend Liliana said as she pulled me back to catch up with our party.

"Oh, sorry guys." I said as I caught up and drew my katana. I looked up to the corner of my sight and noticed that Liliana had taken some damage. "Hey Liliana, when did you get hit?"

"Oh, during that last battle, I didn't think it was that bad so I am gonna let my health regeneration take care of it." She replied.

"You should be careful sis." Liliana's brother Ian said. He and Liliana both had similar appearances; I guess being twins in real life was part of that. They both had black hair that covered an eye. Ian's hair covered his left eye and Liliana's covered her right. Their clothes even matched, they both wore black shirts and black pants. The main difference between the two was their weapons; Ian used a rapier and Liliana used a long sword and a shield. The two were my closest friends outside of the guild, and my usual party out here.

"Hey, guys, look it's the creature we are hunting." I said as I pointed at a lizard like creature standing on two legs wielding a club. We had gotten a quest to eliminate this creature for some odd reason or other. Every single second that we waited was a second that the creature could turn its head and see us. I drew my arm back and rushed at the enemy. "Hiōgi." When I got close I swung up, then down, and finished with a thrust that knocked the creature back a small bit. Liliana came forward and threw up her shield and stopped the creatures attack from hitting me before I was able to back up. Ian and I came up and slashed at the creature in an x shaped formation. Liliana finished the creature off with a downward swing of her longsword. "That was easy."

"It only seemed that way because we were able to sneak up on it to begin with. I seriously don't even know how you got that sneaky." Ian said as he sheathed his rapier at his side. As the three walked back to the quest-giver they swore that they were being followed by multiple people.

End of Alice's POV

"Damn it, why now?" Joe muttered as his Hypersense allowed him to see the PK guild that was following Alice and her friends. He quickly sent out a message to the others and switched his dagger for a katana that Lucas had made for the group when they weren't using their own unique skill based weapons. As powerful as he was; he was the one in charge of making sure that no one learned anything about the guild. He then saw the PK guild leader drop down in front of Alice.

"Hey little girl why don't you and your friends just drop your stuff and run away, we might even let you live." The slimy looking man said as he brought out a one-handed axe and smirked.

Alice looked up and noticed that the cursors above the men were red. 'Shit, PK-ers.' "What do you want; we are low leveled so you won't get anything good." Alice said as she slowly drew her katana. "You do know what this symbol on the shoulder of my jacket means right?"

"Yeah, that's the symbol for the Kings of Insanity. What do you think that just because you're wearing that I am gonna be scared?" The man then smirked. He drew his axe back and went to slice Alice when the axe was stopped by a katana that was pure blue. He saw that the blade was being held by a man in a black cloak. "Who the fuck are you?"

"My name does not matter, all that matters is that you were about to attack my little sister. I hope you and your boys have said your prayers, because I was just the distraction and time waster." Joe said as five other people in black cloaks teleported into the surrounding area and stood around the PK group. "I suppose I can tell you who you're facing at the moment. You are facing the Kings of Insanity." Joe then cut the man five times in rapid succession and watched as his health bar slowly dropped to zero. "It sucks that we're gonna be orange for a while, but we can handle it."

All the others in cloaks suddenly drew their weapons and began to cut down the rest of the PK-ers. The five teleported out of the area as soon as the people they killed hit the ground and shattered. Alice looked at her brother. "Thanks bro, but why did you guys go orange instead of just knocking them out?"

Joe looks at her. "Cause they attacked you. Had they went on their way and targeted someone else we would have let them live." He then fades away from sight.

Ian looked at Alice. "Those guys are scary sometimes Alice, how do you manage to stay alive with them?"

"They would do whatever it took to keep me safe, so that is how I survive… unfortunately that does not mean that I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. Do you know how scary it is to piss just one of them off?" Alice said, shivering there at the end, remembering how the training session after the first time she snuck off ended.

In town…

Robert was dragging Lawrence behind him as they went towards the info-broker that they knew. "Quit your bitching man, its only gonna hurt for a little bit… okay it's gonna hurt for as long as she wants. Just be happy that Logan is coming along as well otherwise Allissa would be helping in the pain. You knew that I was gonna have to negotiate a price for the information. So suck it up and shut up."

"You traitor." Lawrence said as he unequipped the cloak that was being used to drag him down the street. He was wearing a grey sleeve-less and black shorts as he took off running. He only got so far before he was field kicked by a woman wearing a jacket that had a fur hood. Her brown hair was in a ponytail and the smirk on her face as she kicked the running male. "Ow, I think I failed to escape."

"I also took your teleporting crystals so that you couldn't run. Take your beating like the tank you're supposed to be. Later Sierra, don't kill the guy, just carry on." Robert said as he walked off, his black hair in a tied in a ponytail as he unequipped the cloak he was wearing. Underneath he was wearing a pair of black pants and a red shirt, a skull necklace with red eyes, and a pair of sunglasses on. He smirked as he walked away, hearing the sounds of his friend getting his ass kicked by the info-broker. He had negotiated for the information on the location of a quest with a high reward and the price was to bring Lawrence to the next meeting for the sole purpose of getting his ass kicked. A fair price to be sure.

The short and loyal assistant of Sierra's walked up and sent a list of the guys they had just killed. "The list you requested."

"Thank you Allissa. Why don't you go and help Logan, he was looking for a shop to sell his weaker poisons to." Robert said as he looked over the list of PK-ers. 'So many people are starting to get desperate. We need to get out of here sooner rather than later.' He then proceeded to teleport away back to the mansion. "Ah, opulence, I has it."

A few days later…

Alice was walking around the Town of Beginnings when she remembered that she hadn't sent a message telling the rest where she was going. 'Shit, I completely forgot to tell anyone that I was heading out today. Hopefully none of them have noticed.'

At the mansion…

"Joe, where is Alice?" Logan asked.

"She should be around here somewhere why?" The sneaky little man replied.

"No one's seen her today." The silence that followed was one of brief anger.

"WHAT!?"

Everyone came running into the room. "What the hell is going on?" Robert asked.

"Alice left without telling us."

"Let's go and collect the little brat." Was Lawrence's reply.

With Alice…

Alice was walking around the field on the first floor when she ran into two people. The first was a guy with a black jacket on and the other was a girl with a red and white outfit. "Ouch, meanie, you should watch where you're going." Alice said as she looked up at the guy.

"Sorry, uh my name is Kirito." He said as he helped her up.

"My name is Asuna." The girl said.

"I'm Alice." She then noticed that Asuna was a member of the Knights of the Blood-Oath. She smirked quickly. Only Kirito noticed.

"So, what are you doing?" Kirito asked.

"I am trying to run from six people that scare me." Was her reply, unfortunately sending the wrong message to the two.

"Don't worry; we'll protect you from these scary people." Asuna replied briefly.

A sudden large amount of killing intent crashed down on the three, Alice in particular. The three looked around and saw six people in black cloaks. Kirito and Asuna noticed that each one was an orange player. Kirito and Asuna drew out their weapons as Alice shrunk in on herself. "So this is where you went? Alice I hope you are ready for your punishment." One of the men said.

This is the end of the rewritten Chapter 1. I would like as many honest reviews as possible, mainly due to the fact that this is a rewrite my first story that has nothing to do with Naruto. I will also say that one problem that many seemed to have was just how powerful the characters were and I have decided to that maybe I did make them a little too overpowered, that doesn't mean that they are going to be weak…just not as strong as in the original.