(A/N: Rewritten as of 6/17/13 same general story better writing (I hope))

As the monster shattered into bright glowing crystals the figure who had slain the beast sheathed his sword, looking intently at a status bar that had just popped up. Swords level up, level 7 reached. Kirito smiled "kickass" he said simply glancing at his status bar his health was hovering at a comfortable 96% his total level was 18 an impressive feat for the first floor.

If everything went well he would do something completely unheard of in all of MMO history (not that anyone really keeps track). His goal lofty though it may be, was to solo the first floor boss. Normally this would be impossible but due to his SSR rank gear and over leveled character he imagined that it would be possible. If all else failed him he had a teleport crystal stashed in his pocket ready for use at a moment notice.

Most people would call this a stupid and foolhardy thing to do, but Kirito was desperate to assist in clearing the game. If he appeared in public with his over leveled character and weapon he would be hunted for it and called a Beater or even a hacker. Though he could see why they would think that, his sword's current attack power was equivalent to something on the 7th floor at this point.

So here he was, standing in front of the great gate behind which the boss of floor one lay waiting. Glancing back at his health he saw it had regenerated to 100% and, with a determined look on his face, Kirito strode forward pushing open the mighty gate and holding his blade in front of him. He walked into the well-lit church-like Room; Kirito had walked around ten feet from the door when it happened, along the sides of the church columns of light burst up as monsters began spawning. A massive and final column burst into existence at the far end of the room revealing the boss himself.

Kirito closed his eyes for a second and took a deep breath. The boss's guards charged Kirito just stood there for a moment. Just before they were within range Kirito's eyes snapped open and he dashed forward in a storm of pixelated dust swinging his blade in a horizontal fashion his blade glowed a demonic black as he cleaved the monsters in ones hit directly by the deadly blade exploding into polygons immediately while the rest lost most of their health and were blasted backwards violently.

Thanks to a rare extra skill known as hurricane of steel that gave the player a chance to avoid the cool down time of a swords skill Kirito continued forward and finished the remaining guards off in a flurry of swings not wasting a sword skill on the weakened enemies. He then charged the boss who moved his axe down in a vertical motion attempting to slice Kirito in half.

*flashback*

The reapers scythe was moving down in a vertical swing the blade not but a blur, Kirito only had a few hit points left. Moving in a flurry of movements Kirito dashed to the side barely dodging the blade.

*flashback end*

Kirito sidestepped the axe with ease, it's slow and bulky movements were easily avoided he then jumped and landed on the wooden shaft of the axe which was now stuck in the ground. Kirito ran up it quickly right at the boss. Jumping and slashing at the boss's exposed face Kirito let out flurry of strikes avoiding using sword skills since he could not afford to freeze up.

He landed 8 good hits before using the monster noses as a kickstand and jumping over it with a flip. On his way down he held his sword out so it was parallel to the ground slicing through the monster's back as he went down. Landing he then dashed across the open ground before pivoting and observing the boss its first health bar was around halfway depleted only 3 more to go after this but if he got hit by the axe he would still take a considerable amount of damage even if his max health was 4,666 he did not want to take the risk

The monster roared in rage, repeating its charge, after 2 similar charges the boss appeared to realize it was just wasting its health. It only had 2 and a half health bars left and it was forced to change strategies. Kirito noticed the change in its stance and dashed forward not wanting to be caught unawares. Gasping he then slid to floor as the monster axe swung horizontally over him. Using his momentum he jumping up risking a powerful sword skill to damage the off balance boss.

"Hellfire surge" Kirito yelled as his sword was wrapped in an ominous red and black light flames running up the sides of his blade. He brought his blade down in a blur slashing deeply into the chest of the Kobold lord. The boss took an unsteady stepped back as its health plummeted and its health bars turned black indicating a rare status effect unique to Kirito's blade something he had unlocked when it reached level 5, it was known as the cursed statue effect, Meaning all the stats of the effected opponent dropped by 10% excluding max hp.

Kirito stood there frozen by the sword skill as the boss recovered although it only had 1 and ¾ of a health bar left the fight was not over. Kirito was surprised when the boss dropped his axe and drew a massive sword. The boss was not supposed to change weapons till it had only 1 health bar left. The sword skill cool down wore off just as the boss swung the blade. This time Kirito just barely dodged the swing dashing to the side.

Shit he just got faster Kirito thought angrily before dashing forwards and dealing a number of non-skill hits on the boss's legs before running up its back while dragging his sword behind him over the boss's back. He then kicked off of its skull and landed only to be immediately bashed aside by the boss's blade.

He went flying across the long room and only just landed on his feet. He then glanced at his health which was just above 50%. What!? It was more than 90% just a second ago. Damn his attack power is crazy! He looked up at the boss who was one his last health bar with only around 80% of it to go.

"No way in hell am I giving up now!" Kirito yelled angrily charging again at the boss "Nightmare raid" Kirito yelled activated another one of his custom sword skills. Kirito's speed picked up even more as he sped towards the boss. The boss then swung its blade down at Kirito who made no move to avoid as he accelerated towards it. At the last second right before the blade hit him Kirito vanished only to reappear in front of the boss's face attacking viciously. His blade was covered in what looked like red and black electricity that crackled maliciously.

As the boss made to slap Kirito aside with its blade he again vanished reappearing behind the boss this time slashing violently and then vanishing again. At a frightening speed Kirito then began reappearing, slashing and vanishing until the boss only had 10 percent health left before reappearing for good this time 10 feet in front of the boss frozen from the skill.

The boss roared in rage before charging towards the immobile player swinging down at a frightening speed its blade tore through the air directly at Kirito. Kirito just dodged to the side before dashing towards the unbalanced boss his blade glowing an intense combination of white and black. His blade blurred becoming only a flash of light as he stuck the boss twice as his passed by it. Stopping just behind it he stood up tall and spoke "Heretic's Cross" the two slashes left an afterimage on the boss forming a black and white cross. The boss let out a dying scream before shattering into polygons, and so it was that 1 month after the beginning of Kayaba's death game the first boss was slain by the black swordsman Kirito.

Kirito breathed out deeply as several popups appeared in front of him. Congratulations, he read, last hit bonus Black Dragon hide armor. Level up 17-21, sword level up 7-9 , other drops 30,000 col, 2 teleport crystals , 3 medium healing crystals, 20 obsidian throwing daggers , assassin's dagger(off hand weapon). Kirito smirks equipping the dagger into his empty off hand weapon slot and storing the daggers in his belt he then equipped the dragon hide armor distributing his skill points with one hand. Looking up he strode forward towards the second floor 'an amazing accomplishment, but I will not stop here' he thought to himself.

-Back at the entrance to the boss room-

3 figures came out of the shadows just beyond the open door

"What the hell!" one of the figures called out in a feminine voice

"Yeah what in god's name was that?" A gruffer voice agreed in a stunned tone

"That guy is on another level entirely both literally and figuratively" the feminine voice said again in awe "hmm? Argo what's wrong," the feminine voice called out to the last member of the trio "why are you being so quiet?"

The figure known as Argo responded in an excited singsong voice "That skill! That color scheme! That ridiculously forever alone approach! This could only be…" the girl paused grinning

"Who?" the other two called out desperately

"Why Asuna, Klein, this person could be none other than the one, the only," the girl paused for dramatic effect "Ki-bou." She finished grinning compulsively.