Alfheim 2
Chapter 2: The Beta Test
Hiro just stood behind Yui blushing as Yui spoke to Suguha, "So Suguha. I am Yui and this is my annoying brother Hiro. We live down the street and we were just introducing ourselves to the neighborhood because we just moved here."
Suguha smiled and said, "Well, would you like to come inside for some tea? My mom makes some great tea."
Hiro whipped out his cellphone and said to Yui, "Hey sis, mom wants us home see?"
Yui saw the message from mom and she turned to Suguha and said with a frown, "Awh! Well Suguha I hope to see you around soon to talk some more cause you seem interesting, plus we didn't exactly get to know each other."
Suguha then finished staring into Hiro's eyes "I agree, see ya." She then closed the door as she walked into the kitchen where her mom said holding a cup of tea, "Who was that?" Suguha answered concerned, "Oh, just some new neighbors introducing themselves is all. They seemed really nice really."
Her mom then smiled and said, "Well maybe you'll speak with them later or something cause you gotta get ready for school tomorrow." The rest of the night Suguha just went to bed after dinner and went to sleep.
In the Yamada household Hiro and Yui were eating dinner as Hiro seemed more nervous than usual. Yui asks him, "Are you ok Hiro? You seem a bit on edge."
Hiro finishes dinner and answers her, "It's that girl. Suguha. She was really pretty. I wished I could get to know her better." Hiro then got up slowly and put his dishes up and went to bed, Yui finished under her breath, "Don't worry brother, I'll make sure you get to know her better."
What really happened is that Suguha wasn't home because of school taking up most of her time so she hasn't been able to be home for Hiro and Yui to finish introducing themselves. Yui was sad as she couldn't talk to Suguha and help Hiro out.
It came time for the Beta Test of Alfheim 2, Hiro was already up at Gaming Central and was already in the game. Suguha made it not ten minutes later and entered the game as well.
Each player was assigned a certain cubicle to play in using the NerveGear. After each player had the NerveGear on they had to go through a simple Beta intro that let them choose their character avatar, name, and race. Hiro went under his old ALO name Hirada, Suguha did the exact same with Leafa.
In the game, the Beta was rather large and near completion, only that the New World Tree isn't finished yet. The New World Tree is supposed to be like Aincrad and have 100 floors to where if you reach the very top you'll recieve the best weapon in the game, Diabolos.
The entire team of ten testers were grouped into 2 per team, being five teams of course. Each team was assigned to take on a certain dungeon and the boss of that dungeon with limited skills, weapons, and items. Hirada was teamed with someone named Yusuke, and they were assigned to take on the Undead Grave with the boss Grimmsley. Each player's level was set to 10 exactly and couldn't level up, each enemy was within the Lv. range of 5-8. The boss was Lv.10 also.
Hirada and Yusuke were a pretty good team considering, Hirada's amazing ALO skills were definitely put to the test in this dungeon, as were Yusuke's. Hirada was euipped with a long one handed sword called the Demon Tail which was a good sword for his level, Yusuke was euipped with a broad two handed sword called the Sword of Kings, a pretty powerful weapon but rather slow. Hirada's quick agileness made up for Yusuke's slow power, which was the inteneded purpose of the way they were equipped.
Suguha's weapon was the same origin as the Demon Tail but it was called the Fairy's Soul and her partner's sword was the opposite as hers which was called the Steel Breaker. Their dungeon was the Holy Asylum with the boss White Knight Lawrence.
As Hirada and Yusuke came to the boss' room Yusuke turned towards Hirada and said with his hand held out, "Here, it's been nice playing with you man! I hope to meet you in the actual game when it releases ok?"
Hirada shook Yusuke's hand and said, "Sure thing! I will keep this same name and meet you in the Central Park ok? Let's go kill this boss!"
They then got ready for battle and went into the room prepared for a tough fight. Once in the boss' room they were shaken to their core as the ground beneath their feet shook terribly and the boss Grimmsley came from a platform rising out of the ground.
Grimmsley was waving a sword twice as large as the Sword of Kings as he pointed it at the duo and said, "You have made it to the boss of this dungeon. My name is Grimmsley, let's fight!" Grimmsley then made a cool fight stance and was ready for battle.
However in the Holy Asylum Leafa's partner had parished two rooms ago and had already been evacuated. Suguha had to face the boss alone, she was really close to keeping her partner alive before a Holy Cleric came from behind a pillar and finished him off.
Leafa prepared herself with all the buffs she was allowed to use in this Beta whichwas Protect, Shell, and Strength Up. She then went into the boss room alone with hopes of at least standing a chance. She walked into the room hesitantly as the door closed behind her a giant light started beaming down from the sun symbol on the ceiling as the light revealed the boss White Knight Lawrence. He had a pure white version of what looked like Leafa's sword with a different hilt, called the Purifier.
Lawrence stood there and said, "Well, it seems your partner wasn't able to make it to my lair and challenge me. It seems my difficulty level will have to be lowered to Lv.8, my stats will also be lowered to make it a fair match. So, let's begin the battle and end the Beta shall we?"
Leafa drew her sword and said, "Ready when you are!" That will be the end of this chapter as of right now. Who will defeat their assigned boss? Find out in the next one Chapter 3: Beta Bosses.