More Than A Rat

Author's Note: Welcome back! Once again, the past 4 chapters and maybe more have been made before you had a chance to review any of them! I do not own Sword Art Online or any of its characters.

*THUD*

The three impacted the ground. Kirito being on the bottom of the two lost the most health but was otherwise alive.

"Here, drink these." Kirito said as he handed Argo and Lis a healing potion.

"What the hell were you thinking Kii-bou? You could've gotten killed by us falling on you as well as the impact of the ground!"

"Relax Argo, I'm fine."

"We better get out of here soon. My shop's left unattended and for all I know, someone could be raiding it." Lisbeth said miserably

"Any ideas on how we get out?" Argo asked

"We could try running up the wall."

Both girls turned to Kirito

"You're insane..." They said in unison.

"Maybe, but it's worth a try."

After he said that, Kirito moved back and sprinted at the wall, jumping 10 feet away from the wall.

"Oh my god, he's actually doing it." Lisbeth said amazed at what she was seeing

Kirito suddenly slipped on a smooth piece of ice causing him to fall all the way back down.

"If I got more of a running start, I probably could've made it."

"Yeah, probably not." The girls said.

After a lot more failed attempts and emptied healing potions, Kirito finally decided to give up because it was getting too dark.

There was a problem though. They only had one sleeping bag.

"Hey! I didn't know we were gonna get stuck here! I normally sleep at inn's so it's not my fault I didn't bring one!" Yelled Argo.

"I don't really leave my shop often so I didn't think that I'd ever need one..." Lis said nervously.

Before thinking, Kirito said "I guess we all have to share one. My sleeping bag is surprisingly big, anyway."

After looking at the expressions that the girls were giving him and thinking about what he just said, his face turned a bright red.

"Oh geez what am I thinking. I forgot that you two might be the most unreasonable people I know. Argo with her prices and Lis with her way of judging people about their wealth"

After Kirito said that, the 2 girls looked at each other and silently agreed to slap him. Taking him by surprise, they slapped both cheeks and got into the sleeping bag leaving space in the middle for Kirito to get in.

When they awoke, they were confused to see Kirito not in the sleeping bag. They found him digging around the place.

"What're you doing Kii-bou?"

"Look at this Argo, I found that metal we were looking for."

"You did?!" Lis asked in a surprised tone

"But what's it doing down here..."

"It's not a trap after all. This is the dragon's nest."

"Well dragon's are nocturnal so it won't be long until it gets here..."

As if triggered by those words, they saw a dragon rushing down at an alarming rate.

Without hesitating, Kirito put the ingot in his inventory and slung the girls over his shoulders.

"Hang on to me you two!"

Kirito sprinted up the wall and landed on the dragon that had descended. After noticing that the dragon had something on it, the dragon quickly flew up in hopes of launching them.

Getting 3 teleport crystals ready, Kirito handed one to each of them.

"If you want to go back now you can! If you wanna try skydiving with me you can wait until I say to use them!"

After a moment of falling, the 3 teleported back to Lisbeth's shop and had her forge the sword.

After about 15 swings, the sword began to take shape. It took about 10 seconds for the sword to finish.

"Dark Repulsor. One of a kind. It's not even in the info broker's directo-"

"Got it!" Said Argo with a slight grin on her face

"Nevermind... It is in the info broker's directory. Take a few swings with it."

Kirito picked the sword up and swung the sword. Noticing how similar it was stat wise to Kirito's Elucidator, Lis thought something was odd

"Why did you want a sword of the same or better quality?"

Crap. Should he tell her? After all, she was the one to forge it and had gone as far as to close her shop so that she could go on this two day trip.

"I'll tell you as long as you promise not to tell anyone else."

"Okay, I promise I won't tell anyone else. I swear on my life."

"I have a unique skill. It's called dual wielding."

"Dual wielding? Well I guess that makes sense. But can't people already dual wield? It's just hat they won't be very effective because of the post skill effect, right?"

"Yeah, but this skill comes with a lot of new sword skills that I can use."

"How'd you get it?" Asked Lis

"I actually don't know. It just sort of... Appeared in my skill list."

"I'm not surprised it was given to someone as handsome as you Kirito." Lis said without thinking.

Did she just call him handsome? Why am I getting worked up over this... He's just a friend, right?

"Alright well thanks for all your help Lis. It was a pleasure to meet you."

Argo and Kirito left the shop. Wanting to test the sword Kirito asked Argo if she wanted to go with him to the 60th floor to test the sword out.

"I'd love to, Kirito!"

"You're in a cheerful mood."

Argo wanted to do anything she could to stay with him. She had actually started to notice that she had grown feelings for him.

The two teleported to the 60th floor and sprinted to the most secluded monster spawn area so that Kirito could test his dual wielding skills.

As they ran, Kirito ran into someone knocking both of them over. When he knocked the other person over, her hood came off revealing that she had an orange cursor.

Author's Note: Yo! I've decided that I'll be uploading new chapters by fives or tens so that you guys have something to read for a while as I get the next few chapters typed. Anyway, this concludes the 4th chapter of the fic.

Word Count (For those that are curious): 985 without author's notes