AN: Hey everyone, I thought of a new title for this one as 'Dark Wolf' is only a temporary title. How does "The Enforcers" sound?

Dark Wolf

Chapter 2

-Kirito-

Smiling softly, Kirito stood gazing over the virtual fields and lakes of the first floor of Aincrad, Klein sitting next to him and another player they had met sitting with her feet in the water "When I look around I can't believe it," Klein said, awe in his voice "We're in a game bro…and Sinon." The redhead added hastily when the blue haired girl shot him a look over her shoulder before smirking happily.

"Whoever made it's a genius," Klein continued "this thing's amazing. Makes me glad I was born when I was.".

"It's not that big a deal." He said, chuckling in amusement but remembering the awe he felt the first time he had used the nerve gear.

"Cut me some slack it's my first full dive." Klein groused but you could hear the smile in his voice.

"It is pretty amazing Kirito," the blue haired Sinon said with a smirk at them "just because you're mister super slayer doesn't' mean the rest of us aren't getting used to this.".

Rolling his eyes he picked up a pebble and used a sword skill to throw it into the water causing it to explode, soaking the girl and causing her to yelp and fall in as he and Klein laughed happily.

"Damn it ninja boy!" the blue haired beauty groused as she squeezed the water from her virtual hair "That wasn't funny…same goes for you Pervert.".

"Ah come on Hawk Eye," Klein grinned "don't be like that.".

They had met Sinon earlier when the girl was trying to escape back to the city after losing all of her senbon she had earlier from selling her starter sword and used up all the starting col. She had explained how she had been trying to build up her thrown weapon skill but hadn't realized how hard it would be to recover the weapons at her low level. Nodding in understanding he had explained about how using pebbles would work until she could return to the city to sell some loot and get more senbon or knives as she grinned and got as many rocks as she could before joining them on their hunt. The trio made a rather effective team as he would set up the trap, Sinon would use her thrown pebbles of doom to attract the boar's attention making them charge, and then once the pigs were inside the trap Klein would stab them to death.

They had been playing and grinding for a few hours before taking a break and enjoying the sunset like skies that the world showed. As they played Sinon had dubbed him 'Ninja Boy' due to his all black clothing and his senbon, which she had tried to pickpocket a couple times much to his amusement, and when Klein laughed she had said "You have no room to talk Pervert" before they had labeled her as 'Hawk Eye'.

"Anyway," he said amused "you guys feel like doing some more hunting?".

"You know it!" Klein cheered before doubling over "But the thing is…I'm really hungry." As if to agree the redhead's stomach let out a loud gurgle.

"Too bad the food here only satisfies your hunger virtually." He said with a shrug.

"Yeah no kidding," Klein said before smirking victoriously and giving him a thumbs up "That's why I ordered a Pizza for five thirty! This game can wait till I get my pizza on.".

Chuckling he watched as Sinon and Klein got to their feet "Well after this I was going to go meet up with some friends from another game, you guys want to friend em and tag along?" Klein asked hopefully.

Freezing up slightly he looked away, having gotten used to Klein and Sinon but still feeling rather uncomfortable with a lot of people. "No, it's cool if you don't want to. I can always introduce you guys later." Klein said with an easy going grin.".

"Yeah, sorry." He said feeling embarrassed "Thanks anyway.".

"Hey it's no problem," Klein assured him "if anything I should be thanking you for all the help you gave me and Hawk Eye over there and someday I'll pay you back…virtually that is." The ginger added with his now signature smirk and a thumbs up.

Chuckling softly he swatted his friend on the shoulder "You cheapskate." He joked as Sinon walked over and gave Klein a high five as the red haired swordsman stepped away to log out.

Just as he and Sinon began turning away though they heard Klein's dumbfounded voice "What the…where'd the log out button go?".

"What do you mean?" he asked walking over "It should be the bottom of the main…menu…" he trailed off as he saw that Klein's menu really didn't have a log out button, a quick check showed that his menu and even Sinon's had the same problem.

"This is bad," he said seriously "you can't log out any other way then the menu as the nerve gear intercepts all communications…the only way we're getting out of here is if the game masters shut down the servers forcing a group log out, they fix the bug, or someone comes along and removes our nerve gear on the outside.".

"Well I live alone." Klein said nervously at the last bit of info.

"Same here." Sinon added nervously.

"I have a mom and a sister," he said thinking "and I guess if I don't' come down by dinner they'll…" before he could finish Klein had rushed over and grabbed his shoulders, an insane look on his face.

"You have a sister?" Klein demanded "How old is she? Is she single? What's she like?".

"Uh, she's into sports, and hates games and totally not your type man," he said freaked out by Klein's fanatically behavior "she wouldn't date a gamer if he was the last guy on…".

"Who cares I wanna…" Klein interrupted before being interrupted himself…by Kirito kicking him in the balls.

After a couple seconds of groaning and holding the kicked area Klein froze and said "Oh yeah, getting kicked in the balls doesn't hurt." Making Sinon face palm.

Before he could respond to his perverted friend's idiocy they heard a deep bell toll as they were forcibly teleported in a flash of blue light to the town square as the trio immediately dropped into fighting stances as he drew his straight blade, Klein his curved sword, and Sinon…a rock…he really needed to get that girl some new weapons.

As they looked around and saw the rest of the players getting their bearings the bell stopped tolling and the others were asking what was going on before one of them pointed out the flashing red 'warning' icon in the sky that quickly spread into a dome covering the entire courtyard before blood seeped from between the spaces, crackling with lightning as it took shape.

"Well that isn't ominous at all." he sighed, knowing that this wasn't going to be good.

As the blood formed a red robed figure he heard people muttering in fear while others claimed that it was probably the opening ceremony "Welcome players," the figure stated happily "I welcome you…to my world.".

"Kayaba?" he asked confused.

"My name is Akihiko Kayaba," the now revealed creator of SAO stated proudly "and as of this moment, I am now in control of this world.". Ignoring the mutterings of the other players Kayaba continued, opening up his own menu "As I'm sure you've noticed there's an item missing from your menu…the logout button. Let me assure you this is not a defect in the game, I repeat this is not a defect. This is how Sword Art Online was designed to be.".

"Is he serious?" Klein breathed in horrified shock.

"You will not be able to log out of SAO, nor will anyone be able to remove the nerve gear from your head. If anyone attempts to do so a transmitter from inside the nerve gear will discharge a microwave signal into your skull, destroying your brain, and ending your life.".

At this point half of the assembled crowd fully believed the robed Kayaba and were horrified while the other half thought it was all a bluff or a prank as they tried to leave only to get knocked back inside by an invisible force field around the courtyard.

"This is bull…right Kirito?" Sinon asked nervously.

"No…"he said softly as several nearby people turned towards them "the Nerve gear works a lot like a microwave and if the system is overloaded what Kayaba said could easily happen. Cutting the power won't work either as the system has an internal battery.".

Kayaba's powerful voice drew every eye back to the floating figure "Despite my warnings to the public, several family and friends of various players have attempted to remove the nerve gear…an unfortunate decision to say the least. As a result, the game is already short two hundred and thirteen players, deleted from both Aincrad and the real world.".

As everyone looked around in horror Kayaba pulled up a few dozen screens that showed various news channels "News channels across the globe are covering the situation so the chances of this happening again are minimal at best, I hope this brings you a little comfort as you try to clear the game.". As the screens began disappearing the last one swung to face him…showing his Aunt comforting his cousin off their taped off house as his cousin sobbed…the woman he knew as his mother and the girl he saw as his little sister were hurt…they were in pain because of this monster.

"If you die in this game you will die in real life as the nerve gear destroys your brain," Kayaba continued unconcerned "and the only way to escape my world…is to defeat all one hundred levels and clear the game. Right now you are gathered on floor one, the lowest levels of Aincrad. If you defeat the boss on this floor you will gain access to the second floor. Defeat all one hundred bosses and you clear the game.". As everyone began panicking Kayaba added one last parting shot "I have also left a little present in every player's item storage.".

As Kayaba said this his menu opened on its own and pulled up his inventory before displaying a mirror that appeared in his hand without prompting before he was engulfed by a bright light as was everyone around him. As he regain his bearings he heard Klein's voice behind him "You alright Kirito?".

"Yeah," he said turning around "I'm…what the?" he said shocked as Klein had changed. The clothes and headband were still the same and the hair was still red but now it was a lot shorter and the face was different, not so different as to not recognize that it was Klein but clearly not the same as before.

"What's happening?" Sinon said panicking as he turned and saw that Sinon looked the same only with brown hair and eyes instead of her bright blue.

"He's showing our true faces," he said in shock "the nerve gear scans the face of the person who wears it…and when you use it for the first tie you have to do the calibration test…it was all to get the measurements to show our real bodies.". looking in his mirror confirmed it.

Despite himself he couldn't help but snort when he heard "Wait a minute you're not a girl!" followed by someone else shouting "You're not seventeen!", the first voice deep and the second one extremely weedy.

He barely paid attention to Kayaba's continued speech about doing this to control the fate of a world he had designed as Kayaba 'wished them luck' before fading away as panic ensued. Grabbing Klein and Sinon's shoulders he said "Klein, go grab your friends and meet us in West Field where we started training. Sinon, you're with me, I have to message a couple people.".

"On it." Klein said with a nod, taking his serious voice and expression to heart as panic ensued and they bolted before the mob could get to them, Klein turning away to grab his friends as he and Sinon ran, him typing a pair of message as he went.

About ten minutes after getting to the field Klein showed up with five other players. First was a massive man with a curly mop of black hair, second was a tall skinny guy with a rather pointed chin and spiked black hair, third was a guy with a dew rag, a scraggly brown beard and a rather stocky build, fourth was a weedy looking guy with brown hair, fifth was a rather young looking guy who didn't have a trace of facial hair and work a leather helmet. "Kirito these are Dale, Kunimittz, Dynamm, Issin, and Harry one." Klein pointed to them in the order he saw them "I grabbed them like you asked.".

Before he could continue a booming voice called out "What's all this about Kirito?" as they turned to see a walking tower of a man who had a two handed axe on his back standing next to a short girl with brown eyes and curly auburn hair who was looking around nervously.

"Guys meet Agil and Argo," he said before introducing everyone else "they were friends of mine from the Beta.".

"I'm surprised you haven't run off to go solo yet Ki-buo." Argo said with a raised eyebrow "I expected you to want to go by yourself to not be slowed down so you could get strong enough to survive.".

Sighing he ran a hand through his hair as he looked around "If it wasn't for a certain…situation I might have done that." He said as Argo raised an eyebrow but Agil gasped in shock.

"You beat the tower, didn't you?" the giant asked amazed.

"Yeah, he said as he displayed his level to the group who gaped at him "I'm already a level twenty seven…training isn't going to do much on this floor and I'll be damned if I let my friends die here." He growled. If he hadn't been a higher level he might've run off with Klein to get stronger, maybe left if Klein insisted on going back for his friends, but he was already strong enough to solo the first floor boss, hell maybe the first couple bosses…he couldn't just abandon them…he had to get back to his Aun-, no, his mother as well as his baby sister…but they had family too.

"So what's the play Ninja Boy?" a shaky Sinon asked, nervously playing with her now brown hair.

"Most players won't start a guild until the third floor when it becomes free but I know a guy who can set us up with a guild now," he said seriously "we can get ahead of the curve as guilds have advantages over parties with how stats, col, and items are divided….added to that I have an idea that could save several lives.".

"What's that?" Argo asked confused.

"Not everyone in this game is cut out for fighting," he said simply "you for example Argo as while you can fight you prefer to gather and sell information.".

"What's your point?" one of Klein's friends, Dale, asked in confusion.

"There are other things they can do to help us," he said seriously "there are probably a few hundred children here too young to fight as well as many others who are just too scared or too unskilled to actually go onto the front lines to clear this damned game. So we bring them to our guild as they can master other skills. We'll need bases and housing so some can raise their construction skill, we need clothing, armor, and weapons so others can become tailors or smiths. We need healers and cooks as well. Then there are the children that are too young to actually fight, they can travel with groups through west field and other places to help carry loot out or gather rocks and have a teleport crystal when they get a full load to come back.".

Everyone was wide eyed at what he was suggesting "That would make us a power house of a guild early on," Argo said shocked "with me gathering info for the guild, and selling what we don't need for profit, as well as Agil bartering to make more money and you guys leading our fighters…".

"We're the best chance of clearing this game," he said seriously "so…are you guys in?".

"Like you even needed to ask?" Klein said with a grin.

"If you're leading us…then I'm with you." Sinon said with a nod as Agil and Argo threw in their support followed by Klein's friends.

"Alright guys," he said grinning "it looks like our guild is formed…now what are we going to call it?".

"Well we're going to be protecting our players and other innocents which will probably lead to us having to stop any PK players that eventually show and enforcing the peace…so how about 'The Enforcers' Agil asked which got enthusiastic nods from Klein and his friends while Sinon and Argo sighed and muttered 'boys' under their breath.

Shaking his head in amusement he drew his sword and held it skyward "The Enforcers it is!" he cheered before gazing at the large tower that signified what he thought to be the entrance to the next level "Now let's get to work…we have a lot of work to do and a lot of lives to save".

AN: I was originally going to have Kirito try to calm the masses after Kayaba made his speech but I figured it would be way too out of character. I was able to pull of Kirito making the guild as it was as before he only ran off by himself because he wanted to get stronger to survive…when now he basically dwarfs the boss so I tossed that idea out.