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Wolf is owned by Dark Wolf Knight3
Oblivion is owned by Urolutze
Roxas is owned by The 2 tailed fox
Artemis was roaming around the desert, wind was blowing in his face, he squinted as the hot air and the sunlight flashed in his eyes, but he blocked the sun for a moment to see a desert town, just in the distance, and Artemis walked over. The food there wasn't the best, in fact, the lower up towns in the plains had lower quality food that was better than what the desert towns had, but that was to be expected. Something that had struck Artemis as he left, he saw a young girl, distressed, and looked like she was about to have a heat stroke. Artemis ran to the girl.
"You all right there?" Artemis asked.
"W-water… I need water." She said.
Artemis opened his inventory and gave the girl some water, and she chugged it. "Holy crap, not even my buddy can chug that, if it were filled with beer, I mean, look at the size of that thing."
"Yeah well beer is different, I'm a desperate little girl looking for water." The girl said.
"What's your name?" Artemis asked.
"Ionea, what's yours?" She asked.
"Artemis. Now, I have a nice empire in the forest far by the spawn. Why don't you stay the night there?" Artemis asked.
"All right, but my teleport crystal doesn't seem to work here." Ionea said.
"No worries." Artemis said, picking up the girl from the ground and activating Demonic Empowerment and running to the forest.
10 minutes later
"Here we are, the SWC Empire. Let me introduce you to my friends." Artemis said. He led her to the SWC headquarters, where everyone was having dinner inside the dining room.
"Hey everyone, this is Ionea. I found her in the desert, and she was dehydrated." Artemis said. Ionea gasped when she realized a sibling of hers was in the room.
"Owen!?" Ionea said.
"Evaina!? You got stuck in here?" Oblivion asked, who he recognized her as his younger sister.
"I-I don't know what to say." Ionea said.
"Who is this Oblivion?" Kirito asked.
"Ah crap, well she's my sister, my youngest one in fact." Oblivion said.
"Oh, well that's not good, that she got stuck in here." Kirito said, Oblivion sighed.
"Don't worry we'll get you outta here, no sweat, even without Wolf, not that he cared anyways." Oblivion said.
"Well, we were gonna go back out to the desert to raid a Death's Hand outpost and I'm sure PK'ing isn't really your thing Ionea, but if you prefer to help us save the innocents of this game, then feel free to join us, but be careful, these players are trained strictly and harshly and will rip their fingernails off if they had to exit this game, or even worse than that." Artemis said.
"Oh, well, if that's what you're doing, then I'm going to stay here for now, because I'm not very comfortable killing others especially since we're in a death game." Ionea said.
20 Minutes later
"Well do I ever hate the hot air.." Oblivion said, tired out.
It was then, Artemis cast a heat resist spell, relieving everyone of the heat from the sun.
"There we go, so, we gonna mess this place up?" Lisbeth asked, already knowing the answer, but hoped for some kind of funny response from Oblivion.
"Yes, and thank god you didn't say fuck the place up, I prefer to keep my pants on for this mission." Oblivion joked, making Lisbeth laugh. They shook off the laughter and walked over to the outpost. Sinon was locked on to a few archers, and Artemis pulled out his bow and locked on to an archer. They shot, killing two at once, alarming the other DH members, giving Artemis the go for him to tell everyone one thing.
"Alright guys, let's break the wall keeping us out! And we will destroy PoH, aka the Hitler slash Trump, in FHO." Artemis joked.
They let out battle cries before charging the sandstone brick wall and swiftly breaking it with force, and Artemis, Wolf and Sinon started shooting at multiple DH members while the others who didn't have a ranged weapon went in on the offensive with their blades. Artemis later decided he wanted to cut through the DH members with his blades instead of straight up shooting them down, and Artemis put his bow away and grabbed the handles of his blades and unsheathed them, revealing Shadow and Hellfire, his signature blades forged in SAO. Artemis charged the DH members around the corner of the central tower and sliced at one with Hellfire quickly, cutting him before he even had a chance to react. Artemis swung Shadow at the man's chest, though he blocked it, Artemis already had Hellfire coming in through his head, melting his brain away, and he soon died. The thing about FHO was that there was full on blood and gore, and the pain reducers were down to 5. Artemis charged at the next one behind the one he just killed and swung both his blades at him at the same time, blocking a strike with Hellfire and at the same time, cutting off both his feet with Shadow, forcing him to fall down on the hot sand. Artemis decapitated the man quickly and charged the next one, in front of him, and as the man swung his blade at Artemis, though, was blocked quickly, and Artemis had already swung his blade into his waist, and soon enough, cut him in half. Artemis then sent his sword through the man's skull, killing him in an instant.
Later, Artemis realized the rest of the group had actually finished off the DH members outside. "Well shit, we got more than enough people here to finish this outpost off I guess, I only killed 8 before you guy's got the the other ones." Artemis said.
"Yeah, but without Asuna helping out here, it can get challenging." Oblivion said.
"Oh crap, I remember, she's pregnant, of course she's feeling sick too, in fact I'm wondering how she is in the real world now." Artemis said.
Artemis and Kirito sighed, "Well, on the brightside, she won't have to deal with labour pain, but I'm not sure how getting a baby surgically removed feels like so I guess saying that was pointless." Artemis said.
"She could handle it, she's gone through much worse throughout the course of playing these stupid fucking games." Kirito said, angrily.
"Um, Kirito, you seem a little mad…" Artemis said, worried he was going to get really angry.
"Well I am mad, I'm still mad about SAO and how it caused pain and death upon many people, I'm still mad about Suguo the little cunt who raped her in front of me, I'm still mad about Deathgun trying to get at SInon and killing Oblivion's friend and putting him under emotional stress, and I'm still mad about Johnny Black and the fucking ocean!" Kirito ranted angrily. "I don't even remember a thing about it, that's what is making me really fucking pissed." Kirito took a deep breath and sighed, "And I'm still mad that the pain continues, Suguo only raped Asuna because he had some kind of mental problem or some shit, Deathgun only tried to kill Sinon because he was still obsessed with murder, and now this!? Me and Asuna try and have a baby and she has to get it ripped from her!?" All his friends were drawing tears now, scared of what would come next. "And she might not even think Asuna is her mother, which saddens me the most, even if we get out of this game, I might not even have a child who believes I am it's father." Kirito said, he looked up and noticed all his friends were crying, and Kirito sat down, and contemplated.
Artemis wasn't crying however, he sat by Kirito and put his hand on his shoulder, making Kirito cry now. "To see the light of day, sometimes you need to look into the shadows." Artemis quoted.
"W-what do you mean by that?" Kirito asked.
"With every problem, there is a solution, and though a solution may cause another problem, even an endless loop will end when the earth is gone, and we are forced to create a new one." Artemis said, making his group of friends and Kirito stop crying and smile brightly.
"You're right, we can't sit here and dwell on the past, or even the future, we need to focus on this current time now or we can't keep the future from taking a dark turn. Now let's get into this outpost and, what!?" Kirito said, as the door to the outpost was opened and slammed against the wall, the group readied their weapons and soon DH members ran out the outpost and charged at them. Artemis killed two by swinging both his blades at them for they clumsily slipped on the sand, Artemis then charged another one and whipped Shadow towards the man's blade and while he did so, he already swung Hellfire at the man's chest, killing him. It seemed they were able to overpower the ones outside and they charged the inside, until they saw the place had another door and they were already getting on horses.
"Everyone! Get a horse before they all leave!" Artemis commanded. They all ran as fast as their agility scores would allow, charging the stables and getting horses by force. Artemis and Leafa were forced to ride on one horse, as well as a few others had to ride with another one. Leafa took control of the horse because she didn't have a bow, and so Artemis sat behind Leafa with his bow drawn and shot arrows at the DH members attempting to escape to their headquarters. Artemis knew it was either he let them escape, leading him to the headquarters, but the DH members would give the info to the leader. Artemis wanted to keep them from reaching their headquarters as he did not want the info to reach the leader. The group killed the rest of the DH members and they then retreated to their empire.
SWC Headquarters, Dining Room
"Well that was good, we didn't let all the extras away to their headquarters to report to the leader, so I will find the next outpost soon and we will raid it eventually." Artemis said.
"Well, after making dinner, I'm gonna talk to my sister, whom I haven't talked to, not even in a game or the phone for a while, and Lisbeth too of course, wouldn't want her to get excluded out of a conversation, she'd go nuts." Oblivion joked as he got up into the then started pretending he was talking to Asuna while he was cooking, "Hey Asuna, how was your day? Oh not very good, Yui kinda you know, slipped on my belly and it didn't feel too great." Oblivion said, doing a puppet voice for Asuna's quote on quote little speech.
"That would suck if that happened, wouldn't it Yui?" Kirito said, Yui popped out of her pocket and glared at him angrily, though, it made Kirito laugh.
"Ah see, we're still having a good time here." Artemis said, though his mood changed from happy to depressed, "I still wish Wolf didn't have to go, but it's for the best anyways."
"Well he's outside of FHO, we can't grieve about him, we might as well just have our own fun." Oblivion said.