I don't own Fire Emblem or SAO.
"Raaaargh!" a small purple haired girl shouted "Hi I'm Fae, guess what I'm the last dee dee?… Oh! Divine Dragon" Fae introduced looking up with her face beaming at Ray glad she had made a new friend though Ray however had a different reaction.
His expression… was blank "Hey can you move now!" a player shouted with the others having annoyed looks "Fae come on let's go somewhere else" Ray said walking ahead with Fae running along with her face still beaming.
Fae was short she was probably up to but slightly below Ray's chest and he could bet he might be able to pick her up "So what are we gonna do?!" Fae enthusiastically asked "Well… I'm gonna go find my friends and-" "Maybe Fae can help" the dragon girl offered interrupting Ray "Uhh… no Fae, it's fine just stay near me okay" "Okay!" Fae answered still not losing her enthusiasm.
"Where could they be?" Ray asked himself with Fae still at his side "Looking for someone?" a voice asked out of nowhere making Ray pull out his Bronze Sword and Fae put on a scary face, though it only made her look cute rather then frightening, and brought out her Divine Stone.
"Woah, woah calm yourself I just wanna help" the voice said again and a boy who had light brown hair and a red Thief cloak and brown clothes underneath came out of nowhere and Ray recognized him from playing the games "Matthew?" "The one and only" the thief said proudly "So you can help us?"'Fae asked and Matthew smirked "Of course, look who you're talking to. So your looking for your friends right?" Matthew asked, Ray sheathed his sword before answering "Yeah do you know them?" Ray asked still cautious while Fae was smiling.
"Yep his name's Inaho right?" Matthew asked and Ray was surprised he was telling the truth. While Ray knew he could trust someone like Matthew he couldn't trust the person who summoned him. "So… can you take me to him?" Ray asked and Matthew nodded "Of course follow me" the thief said running ahead with Fae and Ray following.
Inaho, Hibari and girl who had blonde hair in ponytail and had white and purple Troubadour clothing. The girl was none other then Clarine a hero Hibari had summoned though she was thinking she could take her back to the Summon Stone and try and get another hero that wasn't her.
"Ugh… where is that person we've been waiting for quite some time" Clarine complained tapping her foot impatiently making Hibari who was wearing Dark Mage clothes(AN: Fates Style Dark Mage), take a deep breath and let it out "It's only been five minutes Clarine can't you wait a little longer" Hibari said beginning to get fed up with Clarine's complaints "Hey cut it out you two I'm sure Matthew will be here any second… hopefully" Inaho said with the last word under his breath. Inaho had chosen to become an Outlaw because during the time he had played Fire Emblem Fates he grew to like the Outlaw class a lot.
"I would advise you not take that tone with me peasants" Clarine said with Hibari reaching her limit "Okay that's it! You know you are such a-" "There's Matthew!" Inaho shouted as quickly as he could to break up the argument Hibari and Clarine were about to have.
"Ray! There you are!" Inaho shouted as Ray, Fae and Matthew came running towards them. Inaho looked down at Fae then back to Ray and Matthew "Uhh…" "She's the one I summoned" Ray explained "You know if you guys had told me you could summon heroes from the games I would've been okay and got the game" Ray continued on finishing up expecting to see Inaho and Hibari smiling because they wanted it to be a surprise but instead they still had their same expressions.
"We… didn't know either" Hibari brought up "Wait…what? W-What do you mean you didn't know?" Ray asked wanting to get the full story "We just found out recently ourselves. It must've been the patch or update we've been hearing about" Inaho speculated but just shook his head out his thoughts "Excuse me I hate to interrupt-" "No you don't" Hibari said interrupting Clarine who just growled at her in response. Even though Clarine was summoned by Hibari it didn't mean she had to follow her every command.
"But since we've got your friend… and well… her" Clarine said gesturing towards Fae with it flying over her head "But shouldn't we get a move on to… wherever" the troubadour brought up "As much as I hate to admit it she's right we should probably get a move on and find a skirmish so we can level you up" Hibari suggested "Did you summon her?" Ray asked "Yes… unfortunately" "Hey!" Clarine shouted offended "Well we probably should get a move on" Matthew spoke up "Yeah Fae can't wait!" Fae shouted ready for anything.
"Hah!" Ray shouted killing a bandit by stabbing him with his Bronze Sword with his body disappearing. After his body disappeared and Exp bar came up with it filling up completely. When it filled up completely a tune played with the words 'Level Up' appearing above it then showed what stats increased.
"Uhh… let's see… HP… Strength and Luck. Not bad I guess" Ray said okay with the results he got while Hibari and Inaho were confused as to why he was levelling up so quickly. Inaho was Level 4 while Hibari was Level 5 but Ray was Level 6 with Fae being 3, Matthew being 3 as well while Clarine was only at Level 2.
"Okay you've got to be cheating" Hibari accused Ray walking up to him when he finished closing his menu after checking his weapon level "What?" the swordsman said confused "Yeah I'm with Hibari on this Ray are you cheating?" Inaho asked crossing his arms waiting for an answer.
"No why?" Ray asked but Inaho and Hibari didn't buy it "Then tell us how you're levelling up so quickly" Hibari asked wanting an answer "Uhh… because I'm a trainee" Ray deadpanned "What do you mean trainee?" Hibari asked "Essentially it's like a villager but not insanely weak from the start but still pretty weak-" "Mind getting to the point" Matthew asked "Right, anyways trainees are caped off at Level 10 then get two class options when they reach it" the swordsman explained but Hibari and Inaho and as well as Clarine and Matthew were curious as well.
"So what do you get?" Matthew asked but Ray just shrugged his shoulders "I don't know this class wasn't in Sacred Stones we'll just have to see tomorrow probably. I'm gonna log out now see guys" Ray said bringing up his menu but then hesitated when he looked at Fae "Hey Fae are you going to be alright when I log out?" Ray asked and the dragon girl nodded "Don't worry Fae will still be here when you get back" she assured making Ray smile and ruffle her hair.
"Alright, bye guys" "Bye" "See ya" is what everyone else said besides Clarine who didn't bother with saying anything as she followed everyone else.
"Wait what?" Ray said getting everyone's attention "What's wrong?" Inaho asked "Its… not letting me log out" the swordsman explained making Hibari and Inaho go to his menu.
"See look" Ray said pressing the log out button a bunch off times with nothing happening "That is a bit odd" Clarine admitted "Yeah no kidding" Matthew added in "I-I'm sure its just a bug that the update caused when they find it I'm sure they'll fix it" Hibari assured "Well I hope so" Ray said "Don't worry at least you get to stay here longer with Fae-Oh! Look a butterfly!" Fae said chasing after the butterfly she saw.
Everyone even Clarine giggled at Fae's childish personality "I guess staying here a bit longer won't be to bad" Ray admitted smiling at Fae who was trying to get the butterfly to land in her finger "Yeah we might as well- wait what the?!" Inaho shouted when everyone including Matthew, Clarine and Fae became enveloped in a blue light.
The group was transported back to the main hub area with nothing but confused looks on their faces.
"W-What's happeneing. Fae's sacred!" the dragon girl said hugging Ray's leg about to cry "Don't worry Fae" Ray assured looking around and saw that other players along with heroes were being transported.
"What in the world is going on here?" Clarine asked looking around as more players continued to transport in "I dunno but something tells me we're about to find out" Matthew said and as he did players along with heroes stopped transporting in.
Then three people transported in.
One had purple knight armour and blonde hair with what looked to be a giant staff of some kind in his right hand.
The other had dark blue robes and also had one on his head that covered one of his eyes.
The last one had light purple hair with red robes and a cloak of some kind that had white shoulder armour.
There were a bunch of whispers going around. Some saying 'Who are those people' others saying 'Is that who I think it is'. The one who had the dark blue robes was the first to speak up. "Players of Fire Emblem: Heroes Online. Me and my companions here welcome all of you. We come bringing all of you info on behalf of the company behind this game" he said then the purple armoured one spoke up "I'm sure many of you have noticed that something no longer works in you menu, the log out button" he brought up.
"Yeah what's the big idea!" a player shouted "I can't log out and I need to be somewhere!" another player shouted which was followed by an uproar of complaints.
The light purple haired one sighed and began to focus magic in his hand and shot up a lightning bolt that looked to be a dark pink colour that caused near dead silence "Pipe down all of you!" the light purple haired one shouted "Don't worry… this is how Fire Emblem: Heroes Online was supposed to be!" he continued on.
"What does he mean by that?" Inaho asked hoping for an answer and hoping it would be the one he wanted. Ray however looked at the light purple haired one closely "Hibari watch Fae" the swordsman said running up to the people who were speaking "What do you think your doing!" the dark mage shouted but Ray continued to run ahead.
"Now that I have-" "Cut the act Fomortiis!" Ray shouted at the light purple haired one pointing at him. But the person who he called Fomortiis started laughing with it turning more evil "HAHAHAH! Guess my disguise only carried me so far" with Fomortiis' face losing the soft look he had before and his face getting a more evil looking one.
"As a reward for seeing past my disguise I'll give the honour of duelling with me" Fomortiis said stepping off and staying a good distance away from Ray.
Ray nervously held up his Bronze Sword and ran up and slashed Fomortiis then jumped back when he did Fomortiis wasn't fazed with the words 'No damage' appearing above him.
Fomortiis got on evil look on his face and channeled energy in his hand and shot Ray with the same dark pink lightning from before. Ray was sent back with his HP falling to one.
"Be glad I spared your pathetic life. Now anyone else wish to challenge me?" Fomortiis asked but every single player shook their heads 'no' and walked backwards not wanting to suffer the same fate.
"Now let us continue" the purple armoured one started "Also be warned. If you die here you die in real life. So in order to avoid that fate and make it out alive you must conquer all the bosses on all the continents. Once you've done that the three of us await all of you on the Dread Isle" the purple armoured one finished up.
Then the one wearing the dark blue robes let out a dark chuckle "And don't think you can just come over to the Dread Isle and defeat us… because if you do a… surprise awaits you… HAHAHAHAHA! Try not to get killed!" he finished up teleporting out "We look forward to fighting you" the purple armoured one said teleporting "If you make it that far!" Fomortiis said teleporting.
After the three had left all the players that were gather started to panic and run all over the place as if they were trying to find away to get out of the game.
Luckily Hibari and the others got Ray and healed him up before getting out of the crowd and think off something… but mainly to clear their heads about the whole ordeal.
Inaho was pacing back and forth while Hibari was sitting down rocking back and forth. Matthew had his back against the wall with his arms crossed and his face deep in thought while Fae was near Ray looking over him while Clarine tending to his wounds.
"W-What do we do Inaho?"' Hibari asked her voice shaking "I-I… we… I… don't know Hibari… I just don't know" the outlaw answered feeling helpless "Done" Clarine spoke finished with tending to Ray's wounds but as she finished up a tune played with the words 'Level up' appearing over her head with her stats increasing.
"S-Sorry there's no way to turn that off" she explained with Ray waking up "Yay! Ray's awake!" Fae cheered hugging him "Ow… well that was stupid to do" he said sitting up "Yeah no kidding" Inaho said with anger in his voice "What were you thinking!" Clarine shouted "Okay I'm sorry! What did I miss?" Ray asked and Mattew went on to tell him about what the people said in how they had to conquer all the bosses if they wanted to make it out alive.
"Woah… that's… insane" was all Ray could get out "Ray, what do we do?" Fae asked he face full of fear "I-I don't know…
… this is perma death to a whole new level"
AN: Aaaaaand… done. So what do you all think. Before anyone asks yes there will be more heroes and it won't be restricted to the ones in the game. So instead of a tower there's continents and each continent will have bosses specific to that continent. So again any and all feedback is appreciated so til next chapter see ya.