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Summary: Two high school students are part of the ten thousand in Aincrad. What will happen to them and what is their fate?

AN: New anime, love it, a must see, but I know that I need to balance out my story writing and finish some of the others so the updates may be slow.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, though I wish I did.

POV #2

Coming home from the my summer studies I couldn't be more exhausted. The IB programme and teachers piled on projects, essays, and finals all into the span of about three days. Needless to say I got a total of about 4 hours of sleep this whole week. Starbucks, like always, has been my saving grace. I thought I would be starting to ease up on my work since I'm in my Freshman year, but it is much to the contrary.

The one thing I could look forward to is my NerveGear waiting at home for me. The new MMORPG Sword Art Online went official today, so I can blitz past all the gamers in line and go to my Beta tester exclusive helmet. Since I've been at the top of the leader board for the other MMO's they'd chosen me as one of the Beta Testers. Normally, I would lose all of my items since it's no longer Beta, but I found a way around it.

As my feet carry me into view of my house, I feel rejuvenated and sprint to the door. As soon as i reach it I punch in our code and kick the door in. I survey my living room and notice that everyone's shoes are gone already, they didn't say goodbye before moving out I suppose. Recalling how the driveway was empty, I dash into my computer room. Machines from the days of old, Macbooks, custom PC's, old dell laptops. All are considered obsolete, but they are used just as much as my NerveGear helmet. I put the helmet on a pedestal, literally, it even has it's own spotlight. It's perfectly shiny and the visor has not even the tiniest speck of dust on it. The red streak has lost none of its color even after a year of use. The developers of Sword Art Online gave me this helmet in person, and have even signed it for me!

I pick up the helm, and run up to my room. I find my hammock and lie down. I slip the helmet on and press my finger to the sensor on the left of the visor. the red, blue, and green LEDs lit up and start to blink as the visor comes down over my eyes. "Sage Modified Operations Initiated. Welcome back Louie Dean. Boot SAO?" I look at the "yes" function and the game starts to boot.

The world materializes in front of my eyes, and the system calibrates itself to my "modified" settings. Immediately, I open my inventory to check if I have everything. Some of the minor items have expired, but my swords, armor, shields, and potions seem to be there. I check my Character Menu, but something's off. All of my skills are there, but my level is still registered as "1". Rage fills my every fiber, and I draw my starter weapon, a basic short sword.

"MONTHS. OF. CODING. AND. SLEEPLESS. NIGHTS. WASTED. RAAAAAAAAH!" I charged my default skill, and as my sword turned light green I initiated my attack. An unfortunate boar had wandered into my attack path, and my sword descended below its snout, and rose sharply through its skull. I lift its entire body and fling it towards a nearby boulder. The NPC's body hit the virtual stone and disintegrated into its individual pixels. A "victory" screen appears in front of me, and it claims that I have gained a blank amount of EXP. I hit "accept" with the hilt of my blade and look at my Experience bar. It rises to level 2 and keeps going. It rises to level 3 and keeps going. It rises to level 4, and keeps going. After level 5, it stops.

"Well that's more like it!" I exclaim to myself outloud. I proceed to adjust my Attribute points and select the skills that have just become available. Dancing blade, Tower of Strength, Pinstrike, and Break. They will make do for now. I am proficient in polearms, one handed, two handed, and shield. Soon I can get my unique skill back.

I close the menu and see a girl staring at me out of the corner of my eye. I draw my starter weapon and face her.
"Leave this place." I command her, not trusting anyone. There is a period of silence as we stare into each other's eyes. She reminds me of one of my old friends. I can't help but wonder if it's really her.

"You're funny!" she says, snapping me back into the virtual reality. She runs at me and extends her hand. The female player stops just far enough for me to meet her hand. I stand there, still in an attack stance. I can't take it anymore, and I lower my weapon. This person is too familiar for me to threaten. I start to raise my hand to meet hers, but she attacks me with a hug.

Shocked, I awkwardly return the favor, and our difference in height doesn't help me.

"I know who you are." She says after a few seconds. "No one else has this kind of aura to them."

"Aura? Just exactly who are you, and who do you think I am?" I say as I break away, untangling her blonde hair from my sheath.

"Tell ya what mister tough guy, lets train first and then we'll talk."

"Why can't we do both?" I respond.

"Are you sure you can handle that?" She said, running off into the dense hunting grounds of the first floor.

We aggravate many of the NPC hostiles as we run through the fields, screaming and laughing. After a few minutes we stop, panting.

"Why did you take off like that?" I inquired between deep breaths.

"That's why..." She replied in like manner, pointing at a mob of hostiles.

We ready ourselves for combat, and I choose Scarlet Edge. Scarlet Edge was the first sword I got during beta. It's about a meter long, and is one handed. The blade is serrated and each tooth is bright red. All of the other metal is jet black, and the handle glows red. Despite its looks, its only moderately strong. It is quite fast, however. I also take out Scarlet Defense, Scarlet Edge's matching shield. It too, is serrated, and follows the same color scheme. I quite like the unusual star shape of the shield, very useful for disarming.

I look over to my companion, and see she's pulled out a blade that is about 3/4 of a meter long, and it shines whiter than snow. The blade is curved, and she holds it along her fore arm. In her other hand, she grips a small buckler.

The legion of pigs rush us, and they go straight into a meat grinder. The woman was swirling around, using her shield to stun the boars and then slicing them with her blade. I take my eyes off of her, and focus on my enemies. One boar goes for a ram, and I promptly strike it down with my shield. I crouch behind Scarlet Defense, which was still stuck in my second kill, as another boar vaults over me. I stab it from underneath, and toss its body aside. I yank my shield out of it's meaty support and raise my right hand while covering myself with my shield hand.

"DANCING BLADE" I announce as I activate the skill. Everytime I move my blade, it contacts the flesh of a boar. I use my shield as a saw, dragging more boars within range of the next strike of my sword. After the skill wears off, I straighten myself. More than 25 NPCs lay dead. The rest were aligned perfectly.
"This is too easy," I proclaim as I activate Pinstrike. I punched the first boar with my fist, and sent it flying into the others. The 4 boars hit a tree and disintegrated into pixels along with the others that were already on the ground.

I look over to my companion and see that her left flank is completely open! I dash towards her and take out a boar who was fixing to impale her with his horns. She killed the last one with her blade.

We fell to the ground, watching our experience points go up. I hit level 7, and allocate my points. She turns to me and begins;

"It's me, from high scho-"

We began an involuntary teleportation to the Town of Beginnings. Once there, we received a message from the game's creator.

"Hello everyone, I am Akihiko Kayaba and I am the sole controller of this world. You all seem to have realize that you cannot log off, well that is no bug in the system. There is only one way for you to get free from this world and it is to clear all 100 floors of Aincrad. But there is one catch to this game, if your avatar dies in this world you will die in the real world. Sadly, there have been about 213 players that didn't believe this message and have already died. Well this system announcement will end with me giving you all a small gift. The gift shall appear in your inventory right about ...now."

I checked my inventory to see what new item I had, and I discovered a mirror. I felt myself become heavier, get a tad taller, and my hair turned a lighter shade of black. My avatar now looks exactly like me. Five foot nine inches, two hundred and twenty pounds. Dark skinned, brown eyed, every scar and every detail, perfectly mimicked.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I SPENT THREE HOURS CHOOSING MY AVATAR IN THE BETA AND YOU COULD'VE JUST DONE THAT LICKETY SPLIT?!" I yell. I look over to my left, to where my new friend was. She'd shrunk to about five feet four inches, and had become a more reasonable weight. Her hair was still just as blonde, and her eyes were bluish-gray. It was my friend Austin. I took a quick look around and saw that some of my friends had also made it into the game.

"Crap," I thought to myself, "I wish they were safe back home..."

"The floors are very difficult,but some other beta testers and I have made it into the upper forties in about a month. We're definitely getting out of here alive." She said to me.

"I know that Austin, but it's not us beta testers i'm worried about... WAIT A MINUTE! YOU GOT HOLD OF THE BETA?"

"... Yes"

"HOW?!"

"My dad is friends with... people."

We are one of the few calm ones in the mass of panicking players. We know how to beat the game, and get everyone out, but we can't do it alone.

End of chapter 2!

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