I have a reason this is late. The snow that covered most of the northeast of America cancelled School, so i did what anyone would do.
Sleep, play video games, and eat.
Anyway, im glad people are liking this so far.
On to the story.
(Edited)
Our heroes and assorted assholes stood around Pyro's shop looking at weapons. Fayden, Gorsen and Herc were discussing weapons with Pyro, as Laz Kirito and Sinon looked at guns for Kirito.
"I'm confused about the specs for this assault rifle, i mean, this things ginormous, so whys the caliber of the bullets it fires smaller than submachinguns?"
"I'm confused how someone like you can dodge bullets like a ghost and not know that. You converted from another game, what did you play before this one?"
"Nothing special, just one of those typical fantasy games, is all."
Laz, who is leaning against a wall, interjects at this moment.
"To answer your question, back in the old days America made the M16, it was made to pack a bigger punch and be more accurate, but with a smaller caliber. Kinda like how a smaller caliber sniper can do can do about the same damage a shotgun with a slug at close range does."
"Oh."
"You have no idea what any of that means do you?"
"Uhh"
Laz pushed from the wall shaking her head.
As the three walked through the shop looking around Sinon was talking about Kirito's options.
"Now that you have three hundred K you can buy pretty much any gun you want, it all comes down to what you want and what you think would work best for you."
"Yep, Pistols, Smgs, shotguns, assault rifles, LMGs, sniper rifles, explosives-"
"Hey, sorry to interrupt, but what are these?"
As Sinon and laz looked they saw a rack filled with small rods with holes on one end.
"Oh, those are Photon swords."
"Photon?"
"Its a beam of light that cuts things. Photon sword is the official name but people call them laser blades, beam sabers, and something else I can't remember."
"Light Sabers." Laz interjected, going through her inventory.
"Oh cool, you can use a sword here?"
"Oh you can use a lot more than a sword," Laz started, "Knifes, machetes. Pretty sure someone uses a fire-axe in the clan."
Sinon looked over at Laz.
"Really, they aren't to common from what I've seen."
"Oh, well, yeah, over here they aren't used, but people go crazy over melee builds over on the American servers. And the rage made when someone gets killed with a sword is not something to pass up on."
"Why don't people use them over here then?" Kirtio asked.
"Well, it's a sword, you have to get close and if your crazy enough to got that close you'll get shot full of holes."
"That, and us Americans have no sense of self-preservation at times."
"So basically its good as long as you get close enough."
"Yeah I guess, but even with your skill with dodging if there's a full auto gun firing-ugh" She stopped talking as Kirito picked up the Light Saber and walked towards the counter.
"Guess he just wants to use a sword." Laz said as she started following, Closing her inventory.
"*sigh*, why does everyone do stupid stuff. "
As Kirito walked to the counter he heard Fayden very adamantly talking about weapons.
"NOOOO, KATANAS ARE SHIT AGAINST ARMOR. Flesh? ill give you that, but they are worse than shit if you try to chop someone with armor on. All swords are."
Gorsen replied with hands behind his back, thumbs up to the other guys.
"What about Lazer Katanas?"
The look on Fayden's face turned from annoyance to full-fledged indignant anger.
"OF COURSE A FUCKING LAZER WOULD GO THROUGH ARMOR YOU DU-"[mute]""
As Fayden continued ranting while walking around, thinking everyone could hear him after he accidentally muted himself, Kirito walked up to the counter and placed down the sword.
"Ahh, one of these. Heh, haven't sold one of these since Pyro bought all the red bladed ones for 'Clan activity's' "
After going through the buy request Kirito pulled out the sword and turned it on.
It was exactly like a light saber in every way shape and form.
"Ahh, so you have joined the light."
Everyone wiped around to see...Fayden holding a cup to his face in the dark.
Fayden wiped out his hand and a red light saber burst out, covering him in red light as his coat glowed a dark bloody red.
"Join the dark side. We have bacon."
Gorsen and Herc moved to his flank and pulled out red Sabers as well.
"Ah, we outnumber you young jedi, what will you do now?"
Sinon, sighing in exasperation, face palmed.
"What are you doing?"
"Can you not see, I, am a sith lord, yeesssss."
"To be fare, you sound like Bane from Dark Knight."
"Shut up Gorsen."
"Bitch i'll stab you."
"Bring it, skrub lord."
As the three started attacking each other, Sinon, Laz, Kirito, and Pyro where sweat dropping.
"He is the leader of the Wraiths?"
"*sigh* Yes." Was both Sinon and Laz's replies.
"So, now that you have a main, you need a sidearm and equipment." Sinon started, trying to get through the day without another incident.
"Since the B-O-B is in a week we can go dungeon crawling for some better loot, but in the mean time we need to get usable weapons and armor."
"How much money you got Key?" Laz asked leaning over to look at Kiritos inventory.
"Uhh Key?"
"Everyone has nicknames, Even Fayden is a nickname. He swapped his tag to it."
"Oh, well, I have...two hundred k."
"Well that makes sense with Pyro's Fresh spawns discount."
"Hmm, that's good enough to buy most non-special pistols, if I were you, I would go with more accuracy and less stopping power." Sinon told Kirito.
"Actually, if Keys going for melee, the best two options would be a powerful high damage pistol like a revolver or hand cannon to weaken the target for the killing blow, or a fast firing weapon to stun and mess with there aim." Laz said moving to look at the pistols.
Sinon looked at her with respect, while Kirito thought of that.
"Wow. That...makes a lot of sense. How much do you know about gun strategy?"
"Well, i really only use pistols or heavy machineguns, but i do coordinate the raids and I've gained a good eye for this kind of stuff key. So, since you don't have the money for a hand cannon, i would suggest one of the Glocks that is modded for full auto."
"Oh, ok, uhh, whats a glock?"
"Oh, only the most well-known semi automatic pistol after the 1911. Its kinda boxy on top with a regular handle. I would tell you all the factoids about it but i know it would go over your head."
Sinon, deciding to take pity on Kirito, handed him one.
"Once you buy it we can go to the range."
(0-0)
At the firing range the group were getting ready to teach Kirito how to shot a gun.
"First, you know how to hold it?"
Kirito responded with a 'i guess' as he held it in his left hand and closed his left eye.
"Its lighter than i thought."
"Thats cause it a 'plastic gun'" Laz replied, air quoting.
"The recoil isn't to bad on it, well, when you're not shooting full auto."
As Sinon finished, Laz lightly slapped his arm.
"Both hands on the gun, and both eyes open Key."
"Oh, ok."
Aiming the gun at the target, Kirito gained a surprised look on his face.
"So right now you should be seeing a green circle in your field of vision."
"Is it suppose to be shrinking and expanding like that?"
"Yep, it's called the bullet circle, your offensive assist system. Your bullets will hit at random inside the circle."
"How do i increase my accuracy?"
Fayden took this time to finally do something useful.
"There are a few ways. Get closer, fire more bullets. As your stats go up it will naturally get smaller, luck will make them have a higher chance of hitting your target. But for now? Be calm, lower your heart rate. Think of it not as a gun, but as an extension of yourself."
At this point Fayden pointed his Glock at the target.
"It's all in your mind to. Think you'll hit, will the bullets to be more accurate, and it will be so."
Fayden pulled the trigger and very rapidly all the bullets in the magazine fired out into the target.
"Of course," Fayden started, slapping the return button absent mindedly with his gun hand, "It could all be bullshit and im imagining things, but it works for me."
Fayden finished of as the target got to them. The chest up to the jaw were shredded.
Resetting the target Kirtio aimed the gun, and tried to take Fayden advice into account.
"This is harder than I thought."
Kirito concentrated, everyone else also waited with bated breath, or eating chips. Dammit Fayden.
Then Kirtio took the shoot. Fayden snorted at the look on his face, gaining a nostalgia trip from remembering his first time shooting as the target moved towards them.
"No way, I missed?"
"Of course you did Key, you don't have anime protagonist skills. It takes time to get the hang of it."
(0-0)
As they left Pyro's Fayden pressed a button on his wrist.
"So, I hear from Sinon that you want to join?"
Kirito looked at him with a determined look on his face.
"I do, and it doesn't seem like it would be to hard either."
Fayden gave a shit eating grin.
"Confidence, I like that, well, if you keep up and get to the bar I'll give you a fight."
The Rhino, a large motorcycle with massive wheels rolled up to Fayden. On it were some holsters on each side for weapons. It was painted red and black and had a spike on the front, much like a Rhino would have.
"See yah."
Fayden got on and floored it, weaving between traffic.
Sinon looked on.
"How are we going to catch up? He knows you're a fresh spawn. Why would he, wait, he's Fayden."
Kirtio looked around, and saw a three-wheeled buggy for sale. Grabbing Sinon with a "I know what to do." Kirito pushed her onto the seat and hopped on.
He pushed the buy button and Speed of the platform they were on.
"Better hang on!"
As he drove down the access ramp and passed some cars he saw Fayden driving nonchalantly, as if waiting for them. As Fayden looked back he saw them, grinned and gave Kirito a nod, then he drove off While Kirito caught up.
"Wait a sec, these are supposed to be ridiculously hard to drive, only a few people i know can handle them so how come you can!"
"Oh, well i use to play a lot of racing games back in the day." Kirito answered swerving around the bus, nearly bumping into Fayden.
"Why hello there, having a good time Sinon?"
Kirito looked back at Sinon and she was hugging onto his waist, then she started laughing.
"This is awesome! Go on, punch it, beat Fayden!"
As Fayden and Kirito drove away everyone else stood at the railing watching the drive on.
"Sooooo, should we call Cody to bring around the VTOL?"
"Yeah Gorsen, I'm not driving back."
"Thats just 'cause your a shit driver."
"Herc, im going to castrate you."
(0-0)
Two Players stood at the entrance to the FireWater. Both Where wearing heavy armor which looked like bomb suits.
These were Flame and Frost. Twin brothers that thought it would be cool to be a duo. Both use heavy Lmg's but Flame uses a flamethrower and Frost uses modified version that sprays liquid nitrogen.
"So, do you think that Fayden is going to crash through the front door with the Rhino again?"
"Probably. If he has the money he does it."
Just as Frost finished they saw Fayden turn of the Highway followed by some kid with Sinon on the back of his three-wheeler.
"Should we move?"
"Probably."
As the two on bouncer duty moved away from the entrance, some people who wanted inside thought they could get in.
Fayden rammed through them and crashed into the bar, doors being destroyed.
As Kirito pulled to a stop he looked at the wreckage.
"Is he...going to be alright?"
"Hmm, oh, well in the city your health doesn't go down, so people do reckless thing like sky diving and dramatic entrances."
As Sinon got of the bike and walked to the entrance, the twins moved back to the door.
"Hello Sinon, is she with you?" Flame asked, gesturing towards Kirito.
"Yeah."
"Well, go right in ladies." Frost answered.
After they walked in, Kirito admiring the armor the twins wore, Flame asked a question.
"Was that person a guy or girl?"
"I don't know. And I don't want to find out."
(0-0)
"OWWWW."
Fayden sat up from the wreckage of his bike, it despawning and the repair request popping up in front of him, Tornado helped him up.
"Dude, Killa almost got caped by Deathgun."
Pressing the yes option on the repair request, Fayden walked away with an "OK" before swinging around.
"WHAT?"
"I mean, I saved him, but still."
"...WHAT?"
"Jesus, he logged of, he'll tell you what happened after he feels safe again. I don't know."
"Ok, I didn't expect that, at all."
"So, whose the kid with Sinon?"
"Kirito, and im pretty sure he's a guy. Like, seventy percent. Oh, and he wants to join, get the pit ready."
As Tornado walked of grinning and ready to watch, Sinon and Kirito walked up to him.
"So, you made it. Well. Once we get all the casualsl out we can begin!"
"Casuals?"
Sinon answered Kirito with a sigh.
"He means all the people who aren't above a certain level."
"Oh, so what are we going to do then?"
Fayden held out his arms as lights turned on, showing a maze of traps and leftover marks of many a gunfights.
"We fight, in the pit!"
I never said i wasn't a terrible person and never did cliffhangers.
Anyway, i have two question for all of you.
First, what about my story draws you to it, as opposed to others.
Second, because of the way you play these games, in the SAO universe, is it possible for blind, mute, and deaf people to see, talk, and hear in the games? To me, it seams like you can, i just want some more opinions.