Path of the tamer
Disclaimer : i do not own anything from Sword Art Online, though i wished i did...
"Yukio-kun, me and your mother both have noticed your interest in these new nerve gear games, so as a reward for scoring top marks for your studies, we managed to buy one copy of Sword Art Online for you, hope you like it." Yukio's father said as he took out a box casing , labelled Sword Art Online, the cover photo was the iron castle Aincrad.
Yukio's face lit up with joy suddenly, excitedly he ran up the staircase, with the game in hand, shouting thanks. linking up the SAO system patch into the nerve gear system, while waiting for the system to upload, he was busy using all the social networks he had at the time, saying he managed to get the SAO game, many people were envious or congratulatory, some offered more than 3 times the original cost for the game.
"Beep beep." the machine emitted the beeping sound, indicating it was complete. Equipping on the Nerve Gear helmet, he shouted " LINK START!" the world around him instantly turned into a login screen.
A few questions appeared:
Language : Japanese
Age : 17
Gender : Male
After typing in the password and username, the game flashed into a character creation stage
In Game Name : Kaname
After choosing the first character customization he chose a blue haired, and gave it bishonen looks.
Among the original 8 possible starting weapons, he chose the double handed beginner sword, or iron longsword , which was the designated name for it.
After which he was teleported into the world of Aincrad, starting city , as he walked around he saw more a large number of other players, the graphics were also kick ass , nothing like the earlier generation nerve gear games, SAO was clearly in a class of its own. The NPCs running the stores looked really realistic as he went to buy some meat, only to be astonished how realistic it tasted like, following the cobbled path, he walked into a simple field, and ended up at field exiting Starting City he noticed a few mobs ravenous wolf unsheathing the long sword from his back , he tried charging and swung the sword wildly at a wolf to no avail, all it took was a single heat from the wolf for his health to fall into the yellow zone, focusing his energy into the sword he pictured himself jumping up and slicing the wolf, his sword glowed red, as he activated the skill, cutting the wolf, as it burst into small blue shards, signifying its death. A few exp was gained and some Col ( currency in SAO), as he began clearing off more wolfs, he finally noticed a white wolf amongst a pack of grey wolfs fighting each other, it was outnumbered 5 to 1... Kaname almost wanted to leave it there since there is no point in saving a monster... yet he just couldnt leave it there... as he charged up his blade one more time, he began fighting off the wolfs, together with the white wolf, the pack of ravenous wolfs were destroyed. The white wolf's health bar was in the red zone, Kaname who spent enough of his energy protecting the wolf just couldn't abandon the wolf here, using the starting potions provided from the game he poured it into the mouth of the wolf, as the wolf recovered, he offered it some meat from the NPC store earlier. After which he walked off back in the direction of the city, when the wolf chased after him, suddenly a screen appeared in front of him, accept white wolf as a familiar, yes or no. clicking yes, the wolf's hp bar appeared underneath his... the option for naming it was also available, he named it as Goldrin from the wolf demigod from the game World of Warcraft.
In his skill list, a new skill called Familiar communication appeared. Just as he was about to head back to town, a loud sound of a bell ringing could be heard, the world around him suddenly turned blue as he was teleported back into the city plaza, " a forced teleportation, i bet its part of the plan by the game planners to welcome us to the game." he thought... other players were soon teleported into the city plaza. The sky of the game, turned red, as a person dressed in red appeared.. he stated that the dissapearance of the login button was not a error, but was done on purpose, and that the only way was to leave the game was to complete the 100 floors, death would result in death in the real world, due to powerful wavelengths of the nerve gear. He also stated that 3000 players have already died due to their family members removing their nerve gear manually, in which their brain was microwaved. Global newsreports screens started to appear under the person's hands. As a way to get used to your new life, i have provided you a tool... everyone was given a mirror, at that moment they were transformed back into their original faces in real life, Kaname's face became Yukio's once again. ( for reference to how he looks like just go and search Okimura Yukio from Aoi no exorcist). around him people changed alot, a few celebraties were found amongst them, some good looking people in game became hedious looking, some girls became guys... the population of female members of aincrad clearly took a drop after this... and for all those guys who decided to "roleplay" as females, were all unlucky since their starting equipment was that of a female.
The whole plaza was filled with screams and complaints given by the players, but the admin with the red cloak would hear nothing, as he dissapeared from plain sight...
As the world plunged into chaos,
the world of Sword Art Online, has just begin for real...
please review, the more reviews i get the more inspired i would be to continue this story...
