Disclaimer: Don't own Sword Art Online or almost anything I guess... except for my OC's and the story itself I guess.

The amazing cover art was drawn by Airenee!


The world of Sword Art Online, castle of Aincrad. It's been a little more than a year since the players that wanted to try out the new game on the Nerve Gear got trapped in a giant death game.

A strange virus is affecting monsters and making them develop artificial intelligence. What can monsters, that can even use strategy and elemental attacks, do to humans? Will the humans die off without completing the game? And it this the only effect of the virus?


Torn apart and put back together

Floor 35. Forest of Wandering.

*panting* grrrr...

"Look! There they are, Vorus!" a blond male shouted out, pointing at a group of Feathered Little Dragons and making another male stop.

"Are you crazy?!" the stopped black-haired male whispered loudly. "Do you want to scare them away? Do you want to let a five floor exploration go to waste, Ceracus?"

In the pitch black night Feathered Little Dragons stood out with their rather bright colors. The color was a pure one and none had the same. Green, yellow, red, pink, blue. All shone a little in the night, as if small stars landed in that dark forest.

But in the day, as they flew around the sky, they shone even brighter, as if their light was competing with the sun's. But they needed sleep and settled in the thick forest for the night. They flew in the sky too much to have energy to find a better hiding place. And that was their downfall.

Five little dragons, gathered in a tight circle, seemed to be concerned about one of their kind, but as humans were spotted, the healthy feathered dragons growled and showed off their sharp teeth to the players, while eyeing them with their hostile, shining, inverted-colored eyes.

Gruuuooh... Hnnng...

"Alright, you know the plan, right?" the dark-haired human asked quietly, eyeing back the monsters and slowly reaching for his sword.

"Yes, yes. I'll get the cages ready... But, Vorus, don't you think that maybe this game doesn't work like Pokemon do?" Ceracus seemed to pity the creatures, as he searched his items for cages meant for these Aincrad monsters.

"You got a better idea? Don't go soft on them!" Vorus raised his voice, but seeing that the feathered dragons became even more alerted, he tried to whisper again. "They don't have feelings. They don't feel pain. It doesn't matter how we treat them. Now get ready. I'm going in!"

Without letting Ceracus say anything else, Vorus swooped in with his long sword, which, even in the night, shone with a green light, that was well coordinated with Vorus' slightly green armor.

I-it huuuurts...

Every single but one of the little dragons were alerted and took to the sky, swooping around with agility, trying to avoid the green blade and also trying to get the players away from one of the hurt creatures.

"H-hey, Vorus–"

"Shut it! Just ready the cages! We don't have time for anything else!" Vorus became more and more furious every second as he couldn't land one hit on the agile creatures flying in the sky. His jumping skills were also poor.

Ceracus gripped the wooden cage, that he got out of his inventory, tighter and took a step back, surprised by how quickly Vorus became enraged.

W-what's happening... I feel l-like I'm being t-torn apart and put back t-together...

Ceracus' attention was fully diverted to the strange dark blue dragon left further away on the ground. It seemed like it... glitched. It looked like someone was drawing multi-colored squares on it that appeared and disappeared constantly. Why would such a thing glitch? It's not even doing anything.

*slash*

The yellow dragon was knocked down and screeches from the ones that were left flying were far louder than the one that was actually hurt. These creatures seemed as if they had been programmed to always stick together and help one another. Not many monsters have that.

The health of the slashed monster quickly went down, as Vorus inflicted a couple more hits, constantly keeping an eye on its health bar. It would soon reach red.

Mom? Is that you? Y-you're hurt...

The screeching turned even louder as the monsters kept flying by Vorus and slashing him with anything they could use. Usually claws left markings on exposed skin patches, which weren't that many. Sadly, they couldn't use more powerful attacks, because they would probably accidentally hurt the yellow dragon on the ground.

With accidental slashing making just tiny scratches, a few dragons even started biting Vorus, throwing out their wish to not be in the hurt creatures place. That was the last straw for the green player.

"Ceracus! What are you doing! Use your hammer for crying out loud! You know these creatures pack a punch!"

And yet, Vorus's health was nowhere near the little yellow dragon on the ground, under one of his feet. He kept pushing it into the ground, so that it wouldn't escape.

The swinging hammer easily knocked away the biting monsters and Ceracus, seeing that the health of the yellow dragon, still being slashed by Vorus, will deplete fully pretty soon, grabbed it from under Vorus and stuffed it into the cage.

The Feathered Little Dragons that were left screeched at exactly the same time, sending a sort of shockwave through the players. A stun took over their bodies, at least for a minute or so.

But there was enough time for the still flying dragons to swoop down to the cage and knock it straight out of Ceracus' hand. Sharp teeth quickly tore apart the wooden cage and the yellow dragon, though still weak, flew out, purring thankfully to the rest. Again, the whole weyr retreated to the dark blue little dragon and carefully started flying away with it, grabbing onto it with their paws.

Aaaah! L-let go! It hurts!

Finally the blue dragon started letting out normal monstrous noises and painfully screeched, as it was being carried away.

A few more seconds and the stun wore off, making the players finally able to run after the weyr of little dragons.

A sudden flash of bright blue light made the dragons disappear. It was a natural thing in this forest, so the players went straight after the dragons, going to another patch of the forest as well. But, even though the dragons should have been on the other side of an invisible portal, there was nothing but dark forest, with no bright colors of any sort. Not even colored feathers. Just simple forest monsters, ready to attack the two players if approached.

"Wh-where did they go?" Ceracus couldn't believe his eyes. And Vorus was simple enraged.

"Five flucking floors for this?! Five flucking floors filled with high-leveled monsters and we have nothing to show for it?!" Vorus started slashing the trees around with his sword and quickly got the attention of monsters that did not want their home to suffer.

"Vorus, calm down. We don't have time and health to fight these monsters. We need to get back to town and stock up," Ceracus held down Vorus' right arm that held the green blade and calmly explained. "I marked the yellow dragon. We should see it's path. And it's definitely not here."

"So where else can it flucking be?! Can you even see the path of a flying monster?!"

"I-I don't know. But maybe they just got back at the same time we entered this part of the forest," Ceracus suggested.

"...You're saying they can trick humans?" Vorus' outburst seized for a little, as he tried to cope with the idea.

"Or just got lucky. Either way, let's get back," without wasting any more time, Ceracus jumped back to the previous forest area. Vorus soon followed.

And yet, there were no signs of the brightly colored monsters. No paths, no feathers. Flying creatures can't be spotted after all. Or maybe too much time passed since the yellow feathered dragon was marked.


"Just a while longer. We need to find a safe place in this forest," a voice filled with motherly love quietly echoed through the darkness as they've been flying in almost complete silence for ten minutes. Only painful groans and pants, that tried to help the dragons that tried to catch their breaths, could be heard before.

"But Ninomeena is in so much pain, mommy," a young female's voice was drenched in pity.

"I think we should be fine if we land here. There is no way those humans could have tracked us down," a fatherly figure made a decision and finally, the weyr of five brightly colored little feathered dragons landed on the dark, cold ground once again.

The dark blue one couldn't open her eyes. She couldn't fully understand what was going on, or even who was talking. Talking... she never understood any other language, except growling before. And that language she heard along with tiny flapping wings sounded humanish. How could that be.

The pain paralyzed her entire body. She wanted to move, she wanted to growl, but only quiet whimpers left her throat.

"Ninomeena, hang in there," something soft rubbed its face against the dark blue dragons'. It was warm and somewhat calming.

Something bright started shining and Ninomeena could see it even through her closed eyes. After a moment, the pain started receding quickly and the dark blue dragon could finally breathe with ease. Finally, she could open her eyes.

Immediately, the colored dragons jumped to her face, to make sure she's alright. Yellow, pink, red, green dragons with eyes colored as if they were opposite to their feathers' colors.

"Ninomeena, can you understand me?" the yellow one with worried violet eyes inquired.

The dark blue dragon could only nod. A new language which she immediately understands. How could this be?

"Try saying something, dear," the same yellow dragon encouraged her, with all the others eagerly waiting for the result.

"I... I can talk... Like a human?" even though Ninomeena heard those words leaving her mouth, she still felt dumbstruck.

"That's right, Ninomeena. Our whole family was changed from simple monsters to intelligent ones. You were the last one to undergo the change and it seems you suffered the most as well, but I believe you just need some rest and you will be fine," the yellow one nudged her forehead against Ninomeena's cheek.

"But you shouldn't reveal your intelligence to humans too much, Ninomeena," the green dragon with red eyes advised, as he patted Ninomeena with his right green wing.

"Yes. Humans don't seem to have noticed how monsters are changing for now. That just means we have the element of surprise," the red dragon looked into a distance with a smirk. His green eyes flickered. It was obvious this one wanted to fight.

"Y-yes. But that doesn't mean we should really attack humans," the pink one quietly objected to her brother.

Ninomeena listened to those dragons and felt like she both knows everything and nothing. She somehow recognized them. She knew that the green and the yellow dragons were her parents. They were a little bigger than the others as well. So that leaves the red and the pink one. A brother and a sister.

But this word - "Ninomeena". It's a name, right? Do the other dragons have names as well?

The dark blue dragon guessed it doesn't really matter. She knows they are her family and that's enough. Family means that they all stick together, help and protect each other.

"Try moving more, dear," the mother yellow dragon encouraged Ninomeena once again.

"A-alright," the dark blue little dragon carefully stood up and started walking around her family, observing both them and her surroundings. Five brightly colored feathered dragons, hiding for a while in a dark forest, until the youngest one to undergo the transformation is ready to move on.

Ninomeena stretched her wings and looked at her dark blue feathers before flapping and taking to the air. Everything seemed normal. She flew around a lot before this transformation, so there wasn't a problem.

The other four dragons joined Ninomeena and the green one took the lead. All the others understood without questions that they just need to follow.

"Serouso, no wandering off this time, got it," the green fatherly dragon warned someone in the group. From the looks of it, that was meant for the red one, because he growled a little and looked away.

"Serouso," Ninomeena quietly repeated the name, to remember it, but the red dragon had keen enough ears to hear it.

"What?!" he seemed irritated. It almost made the dark blue dragon flinch, but she kept her cool.

"I just repeated it to remember it better. I don't know any names here but my own. Well, and yours now too," Ninomeena explained herself.

"Oh, dear, you don't really need to know our names," the yellow one giggled. "You should just know what we are to you from a family's position. But if you want, I can introduce you to everyone. I'm Fayerin, your mother," she seemed to bow a little as she kept on flying with her head turned to Ninomeena. Then she pointed one of her short arms to the green one. "He is your father, Carith. You already know your older brother's name, so all that's left is Lilomeena, your twin sister," she smiled back at the pink dragon.

Ninomeena felt a bit lost. She never used names. She never even understood the concept, but as she does now, they seem to be rather important, if everyone has such different ones. And yet, even though there were only four, it was hard to remember them all immediately.

After a while, the darkness started receding as the sun started peeking out on the horizon. Ninomeena felt tired, but didn't want to complain. She wanted to be the same as her family, meaning she had to be as strong as them as well.

But she was still interested in where they were going. But could she ask that? It felt strange, understanding that everyone around her probably knows where they are going, except her.

The dark forest far bellow them kept brightening. Humans here and there were fighting monsters. Ninomeena spotted a human that seemed to be dangerously cornered by three giant and furry monsters. She almost felt that she would like to help, but the human drank some kind of potion and got back to fighting. A few slashes later, the monsters dispersed into bright-colored dust and vanished completely, letting the human get a little breather.

Ninomeena smiled a little and calmly flew on. She couldn't understand why she cared if a human would be killed or not, but now everything was fine, so it wasn't really a concern.

But Serouso spotted her concern and didn't seem pleased. With a sneer he looked down and scoffed. He understood Ninomeena has to learn how things work in this world much sooner, than anyone in their family, before she does something stupid.

The red little dragon flew to the green leader and whispered something. Everyone spotted the movement in their group and everyone's eyes were fixated on the two dragons in the front. Carith nodded and looked back at Ninomeena.

"We're landing," he ordered and dived down, with the rest of the dragons following him.

The forest was almost over and the horizon was kind of over as well. Ninomeena couldn't help but think she and her family were trapped in some sort of giant dome. Or maybe the world just isn't so big.

The five dragons landed near the edge, where there was a little opening in the forest and everyone but Ninomeena stood behind Carith. Before the dark blue dragon understood she should stand behind him too, Carith summoned a some sort of green hurricane attack from his mouth and aimed it right at Ninomeena. The little one flinched and quickly jumped away, but the hurricane attack still scraped her.

"We are fighters, Ninomeena," Carith seized his attacks and started explaining with a serious and harsh voice. "We train, we fight and we survive, whether we are attacked by monsters or humans," the green dragon's wings started glowing even brighter green and he quickly dashed towards Ninomeena, flying just a little off the ground.

The dark blue dragon didn't know what else to do but evade. She stared at the rest of her family with terrified eyes. Fayerin and Lilomeena both looked concerned and scared for Ninomeena's health, but Serouso seemed to enjoy this little fight.

"Attack, sweetie!" Fayerin finally shouted, as Ninomeena hit her back to a tree after an unsuccessful evading and Carith was going in with another Leaf Wing attack.

Ninomeena could barely breathe and she could hear her heart beating almost deafeningly, but she still heard her mother. But-but to attack father...?

There was no other choice. Ninomeena's front claws started glowing dark blue and, as she jumped with the last energy her tired, newly transformed body had, she slashed Carith's back as the green one slashed the tree where Ninomeena just was.

Carith groaned quietly and landed. As he turned his head back, he watched Ninomeena tumbling on the ground, after she tried to fly to get away, but her wings didn't listen.

But suddenly, Ninomeena felt her body regaining strength. She looked at the side she spotted glowing from. Yellow and pink light spread from her mother and sister to her.

"She was far from getting killed," Serouso growled as he observed how Ninomeena's health bar slowly regained it's green color.

"Serouso, be nicer to your sister," Fayerin scolded her son as the last of her healing was passed to Ninomeena. Healing was easy for the yellow dragon, but Lilomeena transformed only a few days ago, so she still didn't get a good hang of her skills and abilities and felt tired. Fayerin noticed her daughter's fatigue and nudged her gently. "It's alright, dear. Your healing powers are much greater than mine and you will soon be the top healer in our family. Practice makes perfect."

Lilomeena smiled and nodded. She needed to get ready to heal Ninomeena again, if their father would try to fight her again.

But Carith seemed pleased with the dark blue dragon's attack. The scratch on his back still glowed red as nobody healed him for it to go away immediately. The attack didn't inflict any status ailments, but it did knock off at least around a tenth of Carith's health. Of course the green dragon did much more damage, but Ninomeena was far behind her father with the level she had, so it wasn't a surprise.

With the intelligence these dragons had acquired, they could even train and level up, not like other monsters.

"Serouoso, scan!" Carith ordered and as Serouso's eyes started glowing brighter green, the green dragon walked back to the rest of the family, leaving Ninomeena separated once again. But she didn't want to take any chances and immediately sprinted to her family.

Fayerin gently patted her dark blue daughter's head and whispered. "Don't worry. If you get hurt - we will heal you. We won't abandon you, even if it looks like we have, alright?" the yellow dragon assured Ninomeena, but that made her even more worried, as she understood there was more hardship to come.

"A few Blood Deer are heading our way. They seem hungry," Serouso smirked, at first still looking to the forest with his shining eyes and then at Ninomeena, once the shining stopped.

"Perfect. It will help your level immensely, Ninomeena," Carith seemed happy. The dark blue dragon understood that her father doesn't really want her to get hurt too much. He just wants her to become stronger. Serouso on the other hand...

But before more thinking could be done, the approaching Blood Deer jumped into the clearing. At first they looked like calm, docile creatures, even with their giant, sharp horns. But as they bared their always blood-covered fangs there was no question whether these creatures were carnivores or not. Their brown fur with golden swirls looked rather beautiful, but who cares, if you'll be killed by beautiful creatures or ugly ones.

"Beat them, Ninomeena. We will help you if you get in trouble," Fayerin and Lilomeena smiled at the dark blue little dragon and, together with Serouso and Carith, took to the sky, leaving Ninomeena in the mercy of three Blood Deer.

The dragon gulped, while the hostile deer pawed the ground and breathed out furiously. If they were as intelligent as the dragons, they would probably sneer at the little creature. Or... not even try to attack her, understanding what power she might be hiding.

One of the deer dashed towards Ninomeena, with its horns glowing red. The dark blue dragon concentrated, as she breathed in deeply and flapped her wings hard, so that they would boost her higher than the deer could reach her. The deer didn't even touch Ninomeena, while she slashed its head, leaving a red streak of rising crystals on its forehead.

The deer didn't seem to be very pleased by the inflicted damage and turned around to get ready for another assault. Ninomeena saw that only a fifteenth of its health went down and understood the battle will be long. There were two more Blood Deer waiting after all.

She needed something to inflict damage over time, so she wouldn't have to damage each deer herself. Not one of the dragons will help her in any way, except for healing, so she had to inflict all the damage herself.

Poison... Sounds the best. But how can she inflict it.

Like through fog, an image of an attack that summons poisonous rain, floated around in her memory.

"Concentrate, Ninomeena," the dark blue dragon started talking to herself as she closed her eyes and kept her distance in the air away from the Blood Deer that kept eyeing her and waiting for the moment to strike. She hoped they couldn't jump as high as she was.

Suddenly, without her wish, her eyes shot open and an orange light could only be seen, instead of the forest and the hostile monsters inside it. Ninomeena started panicking.

"Am I going blind?!" she thought as she moved her head around quickly, trying to escape the orange light. "J-just don't move down. They are still there and you know it," Ninomeena tried to calm herself and once she started breathing slower, she felt some sort of power leaving her body and going up, forming into something above her. But she couldn't see what it was. What form could that strange stream of power take?

And then, when the stream started getting smaller, the orange light started dimming and finally gave Ninomeena back her sight. She found herself at the same place in the forest as before - a few meters off the ground, with three Blood Deer on the ground staring up. But... not at the dark blue little feathered dragon.

Ninomeena looked up as well and found a ceiling of black clouds just a few feet above her. Minor lightning streams appeared and disappeared each second. Dark rain was ready to pour at Ninomeena's command.

"I-I did this, huh?" the dark blue dragon smirked and gestured downwards with her paws. Dark blue, not transparent raindrops fell down in a small radius, but each deer quickly got affected. A poison icon appeared on each of their health bars and the HP slowly started dropping. But Ninomeena got poisoned as well.

But she didn't care for that for now. She felt something still hiding, some more abilities lingering in her memories. Ninomeena felt like there was something more in the clouds. The lightning? Could she possibly control it? The deer seemed lost. They never saw such attacks before. They just seemed to get more and more exhausted as time passed, but their blood-thirsty eyes were still fixated on the dark blue dragon.

"Alright, Ninomeena. Concentrate once again. Even if you get blinded again, don't get scared," the female dragon noticed she had a strange habit of talking to herself, but as long as she was encouraging herself and not making herself panic, it was fine.

She was once again blinded by an orange light. Cracking of thunder was heard just above her and soon, lightning started striking the ground. Startled Blood Deer started a ruckus, but couldn't just flee from the battle, so all they could do was try and avoid the lightning, jumping from one place to another with their long legs.

But that proved to be too difficult. One after the other, the deer got struck multiple times and got paralyzed. Ninomeena could no longer hear their startled noises, so she wanted to stop the attack. But once again, it was not in her control, like with the clouds. The lightning had to achieve a certain goal, but who knew how long would it harm the area and the monsters in it, until it finally reaches the goal and stops itself.

And then Ninomeena understood what the limit was. This giant, uncontrollable attack, had to hit her too, before it could stop and give her back her eyesight. The dark blue feathered dragon's body got paralyzed as well and she fell to the ground, with her wings still frozen in flying movement, as they were risen for another flap the second Ninomeena got struck by lightning.

The Blood Deer seemed eager to attack, seeing their victim paralyzed on the ground, but they were just as paralyzed and their efforts were in vain.

But one thing was for sure: the deer got paralyzed earlier, so that meant they would get out of the paralysis earlier than Ninomeena as well... Unless she gets healed.

"Wow. She is super strong," Lilomeena whispered, hiding with the other little dragons further away in the trees.

"Still, not enough to take them out before she gets into such a vulnerable state," Carith sneered both at his daughter that couldn't win, and at the deer that will hurt her soon. "Be ready to heal her when her health goes down," he warned Fayerin and Lilomeena.

"Yes, father," the pink dragon nodded and so did her mother.

The paralysis proved rather weak, or at least at this level, it only immobilized its targets for a minute. The Blood Deer shook their bodies, quickly getting back full control, and all ran straight towards Ninomeena with their glowing horns. Running in circles, they kept scraping the paralyzed dark blue dragon and leaving red wounds with crystal-like blood floating out.

Ninomeena kept enduring the hits, watching her health bar that quickly depleted, both from the monsters attacks and from the poison. The Blood Deer were still poisoned too though and their health was almost gone. But as long as there was at least a little, they didn't give up. Or maybe they didn't know, how close to death they were. But it wouldn't matter. They didn't have any healing abilities and the poison wouldn't let them get out of this battle alive.

But finally, the Blood Deer that first attacked Ninomeena and got scraped by her claws, dispersed into gorgeous crystals and after a few seconds, the other two followed. Only then the dark blue dragon understood that her paralysis was gone some time ago. Just that the pain given by the her opponents made her completely lose her calm and collected mind. She just curled into a ball and endured the hits until... she won.

The EXP on her level bar quickly climbed and the number that just was 15, changed into 16 and even 17. These monsters had a far higher level than she did, that was obvious. And yet, she still came out victorious.

"Oh yeah!" Ninomeena cheered and flew up to the sky, trying to find her family and waiting for their kind congratulations.

Fayerin and Lilomeena welcomed her with open arms, healing her at the same time as well. Carith seemed proud and even Serouso had an impressed look on his face.

"I've never seen such summoning," Carith admitted when the females separated. "But you can't fight head on when you are using your summoning attacks. That means that you have to be protected when you are at your most powerful state. Well, the rest of us are close-combat fighters mostly, so that won't be a problem," Carith gave an almost invisible smile and looked at Ninomeena's stats. "I see you leveled up nicely. Monsters have less need for EXP to level up and I think that makes us superior," then the green dragon started whispering, like he was saying something forbidden. "Might even mean that the game was created for us and not for humans," nobody could hear what the oldest of the dragons just said, but they understood that Carith just didn't want them to hear. It was simply something he had to say into the world and not let it stay in his head.

"Ninomeena, I think you've had enough training for today," Fayerin smiled at her blue daughter and glanced at the others. "And those humans tired the rest of us out as well. We should get back home. You've been there plenty of times, but only now will you completely understand where you will be. That always surprises me the most after this transformation," the mother yellow dragon slightly giggled, probably remembering how Serouso and Lilomeena acted in that situation.

The little feathered dragons flapped their bright wings and took to the air, flying straight towards the sky. Ninomeena was last of course, watching the rest fly ahead. They flew into the seemingly endless night sky. It was hard to fly almost vertically. But where were they going? The dark blue dragon, shining just a little in the night sky, in comparison to her other family members, couldn't understand at all. But once they were high enough, Carith suddenly vanished into a bright light and each dragon that followed vanished the same. Ninomeena felt scared, but wasn't about to not follow her family, so she closed her eyes and continued flying.

Floor 47.

A strange sound, as if something shattered into crystals, was heard by her fluffy ears and as she opened her orange eyes, a night sky welcomed her again. But this one seemed different. It wasn't completely clear anymore and had a few clouds.

Ninomeena didn't see her family up ahead anymore, so she looked down and gasped out of surprise. Multicolored flowers, a few of which shone in the darkness, replaced the maze-like rather creepy forest. A few bright colors were moving and the dark blue dragon understood it was her family.

"They aren't keen on waiting it seems," Ninomeena sighed out loud and dived down. She wanted to know how they got here after all.

The dark blue dragon flew as close to the flowers as possible. So many different colors, shapes and sizes. A few flora monsters could be seen as well, but most didn't even pay attention to the passing little dragons. A few humans could be seen too. It seemed no one was afraid to spend their nights in this flowery meadow.

There was a light red colored brick path in the middle of the meadow. It ended on a little hill with a pillar in the middle and from then on, no human paths could be seen. No humans as well. Almost at the edge of the meadow, the dragons descended near a cave that had flowers growing all around it, so it wasn't very visible. From certain angles, you couldn't even think there was something there. It seemed like a little curve of the flowery earth.

The cave was small, but good enough for a family of dragons that curled up next to each other to get some sleep. Even Serouso, though on the side of the group, was leaning against his mother. It seemed like Fayerin was the center of the circle, with all the others lying around her.

Ninomeena felt a strange feeling in her heart. The feeling of safety, love, happiness. She could never feel these things when she was a semi-mindless monster. Why did she suddenly change? Why did anyone suddenly change? What's the point of all of this?

But the little dragon knew no one could possibly answer her. Or at least no one had a good enough clue out of all the intelligent, formerly mindless, creatures she knew.

Well, it seemed it didn't really matter. For now Ninomeena just wanted to get stronger and unlock all of her powers. Seemed like the closest and most interesting goal she could try to achieve.

But, of course, she had never imagined how hard it would actually be.


That's the end of chapter 1 ^.^

Always loved SAO, but only now came up with a decent story.

But honestly, I'm surprised how little info about Aincrad there is. I didn't and won't have any other choice, but to imagine new monsters, floors, etc. But this is fanfiction after all. Imagining stuff is what it's all about ^.^ That's why I can include elemental attacks, which are magic, I guess... which doesn't exist in SAO, at least for players and I couldn't fully understand its deal on monsters.

But no, I didn't want to pick Alfheim, if I wanted to use magic. Need this world specifically.

Reviews are more than welcome ^.^ Critique, suggestions, praise and similar. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter ^.^