Daige's StoryBook of Sword Art Online
Ch 2: Duel and Boss Battle
Me and Kirito were talking at the tea shop. "Man I just wanna go home," I said.
"So do I" Kirito replied. After talking for a little bit me and kirito went our separate ways. I saw Tasha buying a room so I crept up behind her and yelled BOO! Big mistake out of defence she super kicked me into the wall. "Ow that rea-" I was cut off by Tasha saying Daaaaaige with look that meant punishment. "I'm sorry." I squeaked.
"Die one hundred times" she yelled as she threw me up in the air and started kicking me. She kicked me outside. I jumped up on the roof and went to sleep only to wake up on a couch.
"Huh?" I said and went back to sleep.
Tasha's POV
Two Weeks Later.
"Hey Komi," I said leaning against him. "Are you ready to teach me? I asked
"Yeah, Tasha but first I need to do something." He said running towards the door but someone opened the door and Komi bumped into them. It was Daige! Daige stood up and started walking away when Komi grabbed him and said; "It's not nice to bump into someone and not apologize."
"What!" Daige yelled. "If it's anyone who should apologize, it's you because you bumped into me!"
"Oh Yeah?!" Komi yelled. I watched the whole thing go into place as Daige offered Komi a duel request.
"Accept my duel?" Daige asked.
"Sure!" Komi replied. "No!" I interrupted.
"Huh?" Daige said.
"Stop, please." I said.
Daige's POV
I pushed the guy outside, so we could duel. People stood around to see the duel. "So early?" Someone said from the crowd. "Right? Why is there a duel?" I pulled out my silver speed-type sword, Dark Impulse. The other guy, which I identified as Komi, pulled out his battle-axe. I got into a fighting stance and so did he. Komi charged at me, taking a massive swing with his battle-axe. I blocked it with my sword, and slammed a mighty blow into his face. Komi stumbled back, due to the power of my blow. I charged at him, giving him a kick in his knee, causing him to fall on the ground. His health neared yellow. When I went to attack him again, he swung up with his axe and sent me flying after it connected with my chest. I was now near the yellow zone too. Grunting, I got up to see Komi running towards me. As he ran he jumped and he thrusted his axe at me as he was in the air. It was a split second choice. I just barely dodged the blow, and by reflexes, I swung my blade across his face. With that last attack, I had won the duel. I sheathed my blade and walked towards Tasha and we walked away.
Two Weeks Later
I was level 27 and tasha 18 she didn't talk or hunt much since the duel.
We were stuck here on floor 1 because we couldn't find the boss room that's why we were having a meeting. Please end well I thought. I saw Kirito and sat beside him. "Hey Kirito." I said.
"Hey, Daige." Kirito replied. A guy with blue hair came in and said; "Okay, now that everyone's here, let's get this meeting started. I would like to thank everyone for coming. My name is Diago and in this game the job I rolled was knight!" People started laughing. Some guy said, "Dude there's no job system in this game!" Then Diago said somethhing.
"Look do you wanna hear this or not?" Everyone stopped laughing. "Right anyways, here's the deal our party found the boss room found at the top of the tower. First we need to defeat the boss and get to floor two, the next step is to tell everybody waiting in the town of beginnings that it is possible to beat this game! Fact is its our duty as the most capable players here do you agree or no?". Wow this guy has potential to be a great leader I thought everyone started clapping even Tasha. I had a smile on my face so did Kirito. "But first, we need parties of 6!" I looked around
"Wha?!" I said quickly, people were already making parties by the time I looked at Kirito, he was forming a party with a hooded girl. So I formed one with Tasha and asked kirito if we could join his party.
"Sure." He said.
"Alright looks like everyone's teamed up!" Diago then said. Asuna that's a nice name I thought. "Now then-" Diavel was cut off.
"Hold on a second!" A guy with spiky orange hair said. He started jumping down stairs one leap at a time and then said, "My names Kibao got that?!"
"Weirdo." I said, quietly.
"Before we take on the boss, I wanna get something off my chest. We all know about the two thousand people who died so far, right? Yeah, well some of you need to apologize to them right now!" Kibao shouted. A guilty expression formed on my face.
"Kibao I think I know who your referring to you mean the ex beta testers, right?" Diavel asked.
"'Course I mean them. The day this stupid ass game started, the beta guys vanished! They ditched us beginners! They took all the good hunting spots, they grabbed all the easy quests too! They were the only ones getting stronger in here. This whole time they ignored us like we were nothing! Grrrr! Hell I bet there's some of them here! C'mon out beta testers we should make them apologize to us and we should make them all give up there money and the items they've got! They can't expect the party to trust them if they don't trust us! Why should we?!" I saw Kirito shaking. No I thought. I'm not gonna let my friends get bullied by some weirdo with spiky hair.
I stood up and said,"I'd gladly give up all my money and my items if you can beat me in a fight!" I said. Kibao just stared at me. "Thought so." I finished and sat back down and then, some big black guy said, "Can I say something?" And walked up to Kibao. "Hey names Agil. Kibao, right? I wanna make sure I'm on the same page. You say the ex beta tester's should be blamed for the rookies deaths because they didn't help the and you want them to apologize and give up their money and winnings, I leave anything out?"
"No you didn't." Kibao huffed. Agil pulled out a small guide book from his pocket.
"The item store hand these out for free. Its a guidebook. You got one didn't you?"
"Sure I got one. So what about it?"
"You know who were handing these out? The ex beta tester's. Listen up, everyone had equal access to this, even so, players still died. Now, I didn't come here to point fingers, I came to learn from those player deaths. NOW, I'm here cause I wanna learn how to defeat the boss." With that Kibao and Agil sat back down and Kirito thanked me.
"Your welcome." I said.
Diago spoke.
"Can we get back to the meeting now? For info on the its all in here the latest issue of the guidebook you just heard about. According to the book the boss' name is Il Fang The Kobold Lord also he'll be surrounded by his minions, The Ruined Kobold Sentinels. Il Fang carries an axe and a buckler he has four health bars once the last one reaches red he switches to a curved type weapon called the Talwar. Te can change the patterns of his attack too. That's it for the briefing as for the distribution of the loot money, it will be divided equally among everyone the party that defeats the boss, gets the exp and whoever gets an item gets to keep it. Any objections? Good we leave tomorrow at ten in the morning. Meeting adjourned, people." Asuna left leaving everyone to talk to each other
Next morning Kirito was talking about how we're the backup and how we fight the minions I'll use a Sword skill while Asuna switches with Kirito while I do the same with Tasha. But then Asuna asked, "What's a switch?"
"Okay, level with me is this the first time you've been in a party?" Kirito asked.
Suddenly, Tasha said, "I don't know either." Me and Kirito stopped walking. I groaned. Kirito sighed.
Time Skip Outside The Boss Room
Diago said, "Listen up everyone, I've only got one thing to say to you. Let's win!" Diago opened the door to the boss room and we walked in. Il Fang jumped in front of us as the lights turned on. We charged at the boss. Our party went at the minions. Kirito fought the minion and then, yelled "Switch!" Asuna came in and said, "I'm on it!" hitting the minion with impressive skill and then killing it.
"Wow." Me and Tasha said. She didn't need us. We were smiling.
"Sorry about that." Asuna said. We fought the minions. The guidebook was right! It was getting a different weapon. Then, Diago said "Leave it to me!" but that's wasn't the plan I thought. Wait that's not a Talwar, that's a Nodachi! This isn't like the beta at all!
"Nooo!" I said, running towards Diago but he already got hit. "No." I whispered, and I ran to Diavel. "Why would you charge him alone like that?!" I asked him. Then Kirito came and gave him a healing crystal. "The last attack bonus." I said. "That's what you wanted!"
"Uh huh." Diago said. "Please," he said, "Defeat the boss for every one!" he said before he died and shattered into blue-green shards. Kirito's look was one of when you lost someone important. That's how much of an impact he made. "NOOOO!" I yelled. I looked at Il Fang and yelled again. "I'm gonna kill you!" Me, Kirito, Asuna and Tasha were gonna charge at the boss. "Let's go." I said charging a Sword skill. So did Kirito. Me and Kirito attacked but he blocked. "No!"I whispered.
"Switch!" Kirito said. Tasha and Asuna jumped and tried to attack. "Asuna!" Kirito yelled.
"Tasha!" I yelled. Fang swung at them, but, they ducked the sword cut off Asuna's hood. Kirito was stunned by her beauty. "Pretty." I whispered. Tasha and Asuna hit with great force but that was not enough. Kirito went into battle with Fang but he got hit into Asuna, blowing them away. Fang was gonna kill us all but, Agil hit his sword back. "Thanks." I said.
"We can hold off this guy 'til your health comes back." Agil said and they attacked. But we're overpowered. Kirito hit Il Fang before he could hit Agil and the others. "Daige! Asuna! Tasha! help me beat this sucker!" We ran at him. "Haaaaa!" We all yelled. We hit simultaneously, and Kirito hit him again and again before finally killing him."We won, awesome!" I said to Kirito. Agil said,
"That was some fine swordsmanship! Congratulations! Today's victory was all because of you and Daige."
"No." We both said, but everyone cheered us on. Than Kibao yelled.
"Stop cheering! Why'd you do it?! Why'd you let Diago die?! You could of told us what technique he was gonna use. Then, Diago didn't have to die!" Then some guy said.
"I know why! They knew because their ex beta testers! Think about it! They knew the boss' attack patterns! They knew but they kept it from us! There not only ones either! come on out" I just smiled, because of their false accusation. While Kirito started laughing devilishly.
"So you think I used to be a beta tester?" Its not cool to put me in the class as those noobs. At least 10 of them were like me."
"What did you say?" Kibao said angrily.
"You heard me." Kirito said. "Most of the thousand people that scored a slot in the beta were rookies. They didn't even know how to level up. Hell! Even you guys were better than they were. But people like me, were nothing like them. During the beta, I got to floors higher than all the other betas ,that's a fact. I knew about the boss because, I faced tons of stronger monster with stronger skills on higher floors. I know tons more things too things. You can't even imagine more than any info broker."
"What the hel!"l Kibao said, "if that's true, your worse than a beta tester. Your a god damn cheater!
"Yeah!" People started saying he's a beta tester and a cheater.
"He's a beater!" Someone screamed.
"Yeah." Kirito said. "A beater. I like that. Yeah, you can call me a beater, just don't confuse me with those beta noobs." He equipped his bonus clothes and walked up the stairs. Asuna ran to Kirito.
"In the battle, you called me by my real name." Asuna said.
"I wasn't trying to be rude. Did I pronounce it wrong?" Kirito asked.
"How'd you even know?" Asuna asked.
"If you look right about here," Kirito pointed beside his head, "you'll see another HP gauge."
"Kirito. Your names Kirito." She pointed at me. "your names Daige, and her names Tasha."
"Yeah." I said.
"Oh, I'm so dumb!" Asuna said, "it was there and I didn't even know." I sighed as I started to leave. Someone said something to me.
"Hey you, with the speed-type sword!" He pointed.
"Yeah?" I answered.
"Earlier, you used a skill with that sword, and immediately you used another without the sword skill stun."
"So?" I said annoyed that there was so many questions being asked.
"Your not a cheater are you?"
"I don't care what you say." I said as I walked away, Tasha following me.
"Your a beater!" Everyone except Agil and Asuna roared. I just left with Tasha.
That's it for this chap. Hope you enjoyed