Chapter 4

Dec. 11, fl, 3 outside boss room, 10:30 am

We were now outside the boss room. A group of players dressed like samurai found it early this morning. Their leader was a guy with reddish colored hair. He wielded a katana much like Saya. His name was Klein, I think. Kirito, Asuna, and that guy Heathcliff, were also here as well as Saya and I. We push open the big double doors, and walk in. The room lights up. I look across room and see a centaur. I see that it is wearing a dark-colored robe like mine. It also has a scythe in its hands. It has 5 health bars and is named The Reaper. It starts galloping towards us.

"Attack!" Yells Heathcliff. I guess he was gonna lead this fight. We all rush in and start attacking it. I swing at it and my scythe slices through its side. After about 5 minutes I look at its' health , it had only lost half a bar. We pull back and it starts charging directly at Kirito. He does his best to dodge but, the boss lands a hit. Its' scythe goes right through Kirito's arm, causing him some damage. Kirito turns and slices the boss in the side. He then pulls back and switches with Asuna. She runs in and rapidly stabs the boss in the chest. She quickly pulls back. Heathcliff yells attack again.

We all charge in and deal some serious damage . It quickly hits ground with its' scythe. It sends out a shockwave that sends us flying. The shockwave even killed 3 players. The boss now had 2 and a half health bars left. Saya and Klein run in and start attacking. It tries to slice Saya in two, but Klein blocks it. Seeing an opportunity to attack Saya deals it some damage. It sends out a another shockwave, that knocks Saya and Klein back. Saya and Klein had dropped it health down to a bar and a half though.

" We almost have him, attack !" yells Heathcliff.

After a few minutes more the boss had red health. I active a sword skill. I gather a little energy in my scythe before releasing it. The wave of energy goes right though the boss, causing it to shatter in to pieces. A box pops up. It says you have a won rare item. It was called The Reaper's scythe. I quickly equip the weapon. It was the same scythe the boss was using. " She killed the reaper and took its' weapon." Someone yells. I start laughing

." Yes, So I guess that makes me the reaper now." I saw this as opportunity to make players know my name. "I am the shinigami, Mizore The Reaper and it my job to stop pkers. So pkers beware, because Death will come for you." With that I turn and head to the 4th floor portal.

fl, 4 Tsurihausu town, 12:53pm

I step out of the portal and look around. I see the treetops, and a bunch of wooden buildings built around the branches. I see a sign that says "Tsurihausu the city of trees."

"Wow what a cool town don't you think?" Saya asks.

I turn to her" yea I guess it is kinda cool. Hey Saya gather up the guild. We need to see what they can do. Message them and tell them to meet us outside the town south side, in 30 mins. I'm gonna go look for an inn for us to say at."

"Yes ma'am" Saya replies pulling up her menu. I walk off through the town. Saya was right, this town is really cool. It's made up of tree houses of all shapes and Sizes, even multilevel ones. I find a place to stay and walk in. "Excuse me but, do you have two available rooms?"I ask the npc inn keeper.

"Yes, we do. Please enjoy your stay at the bird's nest inn." she replies.

I look at my clock and realize I had to go meet my guild. Once outside the town I see a raven sitting on a rock, it was an enemy. A monster that could be killed. I was about to kill it, when I get an idea. I heard there was a beast taming skill in this game and raven is usually associated death. So it would make a great pet for a shinigami. I heard that all you had to do was feed the monster to tame it. I pull out some food I had in my bag out. I snuck over and faced it. I put the food on the ground in front of it.

It flies over and lands by the food. It eats a little, then keep's eating till it's all gone. It flies over and lands on my shoulder. A little box pops up and says. "Congratulations best tamer! You have tamed a dark raven. You have learned the following skills. Familiar Recovery - A skill specifically for Beast Tamers. This skill allows the user the ability to heal a pet. Familiar Communication - A skill specifically for Beast Tamers. This skill allows the user the ability to understand and communicate with friendly creatures."

I look over at my new little friend. Over its' head I could see a health bar and the words dark raven. I also see a pink symbol. You know the ones that mean male or female. This one was female. I look at it stats and see a button that says " change name."

I click it and think to myself. After a moment or two I think of a name and type it. "I gonna call you death, you like that girl?"

I heard death's thoughts. "Yes I do! I love it!" she says. Death and I run off to meet the rest of the guild.

fl 4, outside of town, guild meeting place 1:20 pm

"So Saya are they all here?" I ask as I run over to her. "

Yes my lady, and got a dark raven chasing you. Shall I kill it?"

" No don't this is my new pet. I tamed it, her name is Death" I reply.

" oh ok, well anyway, here is our entire guild." Saya says. I turn and look at them. We had a total of 15 people sign up. 10 boys and 5 girls.

" Hello guild mates, I am your leader Mizore and this is my sub-leader Saya. We welcome you to Shinigami. Here in shinigami we have only two goals. Goal one is to clear this game at all costs. Goal two is to stop players from pking each other. I don't tolerate senseless killing. There is already enough death in this game with players being killed by monsters. We don't need more death, therefore stopping pkers is of greater priority. Shinigami guard the after life and protect the balance of the world. As a Shinigami you must only kill if you have no other choice. If anyone does not agree with what I just said raise you hand."

Two players raise their hands, a girl and a boy. "You may leave, any one else?" No one else raised their hands. " Okay good. Now how many of you joined cause you thought Saya and myself were cute?" All the boys but Two raised their hand. I figured that what happen. "Okay just let me point something out. If you thought you could join just meet girls then, you're dead wrong. I wont kick you, though as long as you fallow my lead. I'm gonna come down and talk to you all. I want your names, choice weapons and any reason you joined other than because I'm cute."

After a few minuets I come to the last 3 members. "Hello I'm Senji, my weapon of choice is a kusarigama." He pulls out one of those small scythes connected to a chain" I joined because the name sounded cool. But now that I know you're gonna stop pkers, I want in even more. My girlfriend was killed by a pker." Senji says.

" That's an interesting weapon choice. But effective for a Shinigami. So, I welcome you to shinigami ."

The next one was a girl. " My name is Hikari, my weapon of choice is a dagger. The reason joined was because I needed a guild."

"Welcome to Shinigami Hikari." I say shaking her hand.

The last one was a guy. "I'm Yukikai, my weapon of choice is a katana. I joined because, I wanted to have friends whom I could rely on." I look at Yukikai.

"We are more the friends here in shinigami. So I welcome you to the family." I back up and start looking at the guild. "Okay, now all of you have various reasons for joining. I think, we have a good team here. Now I want you all get as strong as possible, so we can stop pking. If you have to kill say a small prayer of forgiveness for them. And most importantly remember our motto. Death has come for you. Pkers beware. These ate last word you shall hear, when the Shinigami comes for you. Now, we must do a quest to make us an official guild. Now onward to floor 3!"

fl, 4 Tsurihausu town, The Fried Acorn Tavern, 8:25 pm

We successfully completing the quest to become a guild. We were now celebrating. Saya holds up a cup in air." I propose a toast to our new guild and more importantly to our fearless leader. Without her I would not even be here. She saved my life and is my best friend. She gave the me courage and drive to beat this game. I owe her my life, and I'm glad that she is our leader. So on the count of three, let's raise our glasses to leader Mizore the Reaper. Ready...one...two...three."

Everyone raises their glasses and yells. "Kanpai!"

I stand up and address my guild. " I'm very glad you all appreciate me so much. I'm glad you guys are willing to help me with my goal. I wish I was not trapped a game, but I'm glad I met all of you. I consider you my family as well, as my guild. I Guess all I'm trying to say is, I'm so thankful that I have such a wonderful family here in SAO." I sit back down and think to myself. "I may be trapped in a game but, at least I have a strong guild and a strong family I can rely on. Maybe being trapped in this death game wont be so bad after all."

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