Prologue Two - The Team Unites, and then some.

I woke up, quite satisfied even with the knowledge of all the weird recent events on The World Seed. But really, I woke up to the sound of a chat beeping madly. I look at the chat :

Kiri! Hurry up! Who's this "colleague"?!

No one.

Oh really?...

Mhm.

Well, anyway, hurry up! I wanna show you this other game. We could make a party so you could follow me there without getting lost! :D

Huh.

You just woke up, didn't you? You don't usually sound so... non talkative. ._.

Yes, I just woke up. But it could be that you are too hyper.

Eh.

I'm right, now let me get some breakfast THEN I'll come online.

Okay! :D

Wait, what is your race?

Caucasian.

No! On ALO!

Oh, Spriggan.

Knew it, okay, thanks. Be on in a few minutes.

I shake my head with a smile on my face, it's plain old Sakuya again. And yes, my name is Kiri. Don't like it? I don't care, deal with it.

I walk out to the kitchen, mother cooking breakfast and dad reading the news paper. My baby sister is sitting in her highchair throwing eggs everywhere. I duck under an incoming shot of eggs.

"Whoa there," I say, walking up to the four year old and whispering in her ear, "Hit dad's nose and you get a cookie."

I stand up straight and start fixing myself a plate of bacon, eggs, sasuage... You know, average breakfast foods. I turn back around to see a shot of eggs, airborn, and heading right for dad's face. BULLS EYE!

Nina, my baby sister, bursts out into laughter as dad begins to sputter and fume in new found anger. "Don't. Do. That. Nina." He says curtly through clenched teeth.

I hand dad a napkin, "Might want to clean up a bit." I say with a smirk.

He swipes the napkin from my hand, grunting in response.

"You're welcome." I say, then I inhale my breakfast. I swipe a cookie from the pantry and put it in Nina's lap before heading back down the hall, rubbing crumbs off my palms.

Okay, I'm coming on now.

"Link start!" And I enter Alfheim. My character opens her eyes, and I blink a few times so my vision gets a little better.

When I look around, I see that Draig is still keeping us in the air, but Erik is asleep - Oops, I mean afk - on my lap.

Well, his head is on my lap, and the rest of him is sprawled out across Draig's back fur.

I grind my teeth, how dare he... Erik's going to be harshly chewed out for this when he comes back. But for now, I play with his cat ears.

I start with playing at his ears of course, but then I get bored and start playing with his hair. Curling it in my fingers or just stroking it. Making it stick up or just making it fall in his face.

"What are you doing?" My concentration, or trance, is broken by a pair of feirce, slitted, golden eyes staring back at mine. I jump up, my hands flinging into the air and my tail poofs up.

"Nothing~!"

"..."

"Heh, I wasn't doing anything..." My face burns a bright red, and this sigh makes Erik laugh and get back up.

"Look, if you want to play with my hair you could just say so." I look away from him, puffing my cheeks out.

"I wasn't playing with your hair." I say deffiantly.

"Then what were you doing?" He asks, taking a step closer.

"Nothing."

"Sure you weren't."

"I wasn't!" And to desprately change the subject I add, "Look! The world tree!"

Erik sends me a side along glance as he turns but goes along with the subject change with a smirk and says, "Yeah, almost there."

He walks up to Draig's head and whispers something, and the behemoth starts to decend to the city at the base of the world tree; Arun. Draig soon reaches a level where he spreads out his wings to full length and lands safely.

"Wanna race to the gate?" He asks, hopping off Draig's back just after I do.

"Uh..."

"C'mon, it'll be fun!" He insists, smiling again with a flash of his Cat Si fangs.

"No." I turn to Arun and begin to walk.

"That was long, and boring!" Erik complained, quite irritable after having to walk so long with me.

"You could've run ahead, I told you you should but nooo!" I rebut, sending him a glare.

"I wanted company! I was lonely! And, no offense to him, but dragons don't cut it!"

"KIRI!" Someone yells, and tackles me to the ground. Erik tries to catch me, and he does, taking my shoulders in his hands as he appears behind me.

"Hiya Saku- Renge." I say, squeezing Sakuya's virtual shoulder. (O.e...)

"Kiri? Uh, whos that?" Erik asks, and I come up with a swift answer. But not swift enough.

"My-" I start...

"Her real name!" Sakuya squeals, a bright smile appearing on her face, then she holds out her hand, "And I'm Renge. Ren for short. Nice to meet you...?"

"Erik." He answers, taking her hand firmly and shaking it.

"This is your colleague huh?" She says, giving me a sly look. She smirks, and whispers in my ear... "More like boy friend..."

"HELL NO!" I yell at her, my cat eyes narrowing daggers at her.

She just smirks, like she has some hidden plan now.

"Anyway," She says, and she opens up her menu to send me a friend request and a part invite. I accept both.

But when I open up the party, I see three other people on it!

"Yeah, there are a few people I'd like you to meet." Some people step out from where they were. Wherever they were...

Sakuya points at the smallest, which is a boy.

"This is Tskune, a guy I met in SAO which turns out to be in the same class as we were in school." Tskune waves at me. (Pronounced : Skew - Nay )

"The two twins over there is Yuki and Takashi. Both amazing swordsmen/women, and a pain in the ass to beat in battle." The twins walk over and Yuki shakes my hand vigorously, and takashi just nods silently like most men, besides Erik, do.

Then the last person on the party is Erik. Wait, WHAT!?

"I put him on just for you," Sakuya says, with a broad grin. ...I want to kill her.

"Then you can play with my hair whenever you want, Kiri." He says with a smirk.

"I WAS NOT PLAYING WITH YOUR HAIR! AND DON'T CALL ME KIRI!"

"Then what should we call you?" All of them chorus.

"Amaya."

And that was the meeting of the whole team, ... and Erik. "Hey!"

Soon after we headed to new games and things. Like : Fairy Quest Online. That was the first one.

Fairy Quest Online was another game like Alfheim, and yes it did have fairies. But you aren't one, we are simple elves but we are in search of the Inaria's lost Fair Folk. And whomever finds them first gets to become an almighty god of the Inarians.

I have followed Sakuya everywhere, and look what you drag me through. Yet I am still with you, and what does that say of me?