This chapter has broke me. Two weeks of adding and changing and now it's over! I know my updates have been non existent but thank you everyone, especially the people who've been there since the beginning. Okay, I'll leave you to it. Hope it at least give you closure...over two thousand words of closure :)

The thing about having near unbreakable armour is that it gives the illusion of invincibility. It makes the wearer too confident and too self-assured because it seems like nothing can hurt them. It also makes them feel stronger than they actually are. So when something more skilled comes along they underestimate the competition and before they even realise how stupid they were...they're gone.

Unfortunately for Lisbeth and her army, they found this out too late.

Needless to say, Kirito and Asuna were a well-oiled machine of badassness. As soon as Lisbeth made her move Asuna strategically placed herself and Kirito near the edge of the arena so their backs were covered while the guy in question crushed his swords into the girls slowly weakening armour. Attack. Dodge. Let Asuna's weapon through. Repeat. They'd done it a million times with bosses much harder than these teens. Asuna relished Lisbeth's helpless expression that mirrored how hers had been less that twenty minutes ago. She smiled devilishly.

Karma's a bitch, bitch.

It was an odd sight. Four girls repeatedly bashing their gigantic swords over two figures that wouldn't go down. Kirito's plan was to just keep slashing until they all either gave up or their health went down to zero. With a huge swing of his swords he crashed into Lyfa's green knight armour with so much force it caused a dent to form.

"Lyfa. It's not worth this. Walk away!" Kirito shouted over the fighting. He realised the talking was pointless but maybe it would distract her.

"Why! So you can carry on your perfect life while we all rot in our own self-pity!"

"What are you talking about!?"

Lyfa laughed, putting Kirito off his guard. They were separated from Asuna and the others by a few metres now, "You have everything! Your soulmate, your future, a history that everyone applauds you for. You're the star of the SAO incident", she pushed her sword forward again, "You're perfect. And I'm…nothing. I'm the little one in the background that no one cares about."

Kirito paused slightly in shock, giving Lyfa a chance to drive forward, "I want to be perfect. That's why…that's why we need this", Lyfa gave Kirito a forceful shove, sending him into the force field at the end of the arena. Pain jumped through him instantly, making him cry out, "That's why I need this."

Kirito breathed heavily as he quickly tried to recover, "Needs a strong word", his expression turned pitiful and with an identical shove to the one Lyfa had just given him he pushed her back into a fightable position, "No one has a perfect life Lyfa. You're being naïve."

"I'm not being anything."

Their swords had come to a resting position, "You're being naïve. SAO made the rest of us grow up a lot faster. You've got a lot more you need to experience before you're as independent as the rest of us."

Lyfa suddenly looked sad, "I don't need a lecture."

"I know", he sighed and subtly fixed his hand around his weapon, "And that's why I'm sorry for this."

Lyfa didn't register fast enough as Kirito plunged his sword again into the dent of her armour. This time the armour broke and before she realised what was happening, there was a weapon going through her. She watched surprised as her health drained rapidly to zero.

She closed her eyes tightly, "I'm…sorry…too."

What should have followed was a mournful death. But of course with these girls and their wonderful items, they always seemed to have a trick up their sleeves.

Literally.

A small gem started glowing from Lyfa's left arm and Kirito could only watch as her health went up quicker than it had gone down.

Not quite registering what had just happened, he started to back away, "Asuna?" Kirito yelled, "I think we're gonna have a bit of a problem."

Asuna, who was standing on top of Silica while Sachi and Lisbeth attacked her from either side grimaced, "You talking out the oh so unfair stones of eternal health?" Kirito looked round as Asuna stabbed Silica with enough power to kill her, only to then have her health be utterly unaffected, "Yeah I already know."

"Any ideas?"

"Errm…help!"

Kirito (who was feeling more helpless by the second) jumped between Lisbeth and Asuna and pressed into Lisbeth until she started to move away. Lisbeth, not too happy with this then proceeded to slash at Kirito repeatedly. Her moves were clumsy but fast and while Kirito did his best to dodge one strike eventually hit him. He heard the sound of a sword hitting bone and in horror looked at his arm to see Lisbeth's weapon sunk into it. He pulled himself from it, subconsciously checking his unimpressive health bar.

"Asuna I need cover!"

"Yeah I need a sec over here!"

"Asuna seriously Lisbeth's in hulk mode!"

"Yeah well I'm fighting off the Siamese triplets from hell!"

Asuna struggled as she attempted to swing her sword through Sachi's knight suit. The black haired teen was the only one who hadn't had her armour broken through yet. No matter how hard Asuna tried it wouldn't crack. That was a problem.

"Should've given up when you had the chance", Silica said smugly, "Now we're going to destroy you."

"Shut up you little brat", Asuna screamed and stabbed Silica again. But it did nothing to phase the increasingly confident girl.

"You can't win."

"I can try."

Asuna threw her sword in a circular motion, hitting Sachi and Lyfa as she spun. Letting her rage build up she leaped effortlessly toward Sachi and impaled her sword through the armour. She heard another sword belonging to Kirito swish in from behind. Sachi's armour broke into pixels, much to her horror.

It was two against four again and everyone was putting everything into this pointless battle. Lisbeth hit Asuna. Asuna hit Silica. Silica hit Kirito. Kirito got Sachi, who flung back into Lyfa. Swords clashed, adrenalin soared and those Roman statues stood as though they were watching every move from the edge of the inescapable arena. All was intense and the end was indefinite.

"Why can't you give in?" Silica shrieked, "Why can't we ever win something?"

Asuna gasped in agony as Silica's sword struck her again. She couldn't think. Not with all these repeated attacks. Not when she could just close her eyes and…just for a minute…just to wake her up a bit…

No!

Asuna surged forward again. At this point willpower was the only thing keeping her going. Unfortunately, it was the only think keeping Kirito alive too. His health wasn't going up nearly as quickly as the girls and Asuna was nearing the point of hallucinations from not enough sleep. It didn't take a genius to figure out they were going to lose. Kirito and Asuna could both see it. Neither of them could stop it.

Clang.

Clang.

Clang.

The noise of metal on metal droned on. The two fighter's backs hit the force field again and again, bringing more pain. Asuna's eyes drooped and Kirito's arm felt like it was getting ripped off his weakening virtual body.

After god knows how long of back and forth fighting, both verbally and physically. Of Lisbeth's taunting and Asuna's yelling. Of Kirito's sword wielding and Silica's jabbing. The couple gave each other a look. It was a look that showed they were done. Finished. It was time to end this game.

Kirito jumped backwards from the fighting, grabbing Asuna's hand with him and rested his sword so he could lean over it. Asuna reluctantly did the same. They were now making no effort to fight back.

"Are you sure?" Asuna mumbled in the few seconds they had before the girls swords sliced right through them.

Kirito looked quietly at Asuna's sleepy face, "It's not worth this."

They clutched each other's hands and closed their eyes tightly, predicting their demise.

A demise that, as you would expect, never came to the two luckiest heroes in SAO.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"

Everything on the battlefield abruptly stopped. Lyfa and Sachi's swords stood paused over Kirito and Asuna's heads. The voice hadn't come from the girls. Or their two opponents.

It bellowed again, "STAY AWAY FROM MY MUMMY AND DADDY!"

Kirito and Asuna looked at each other with a surprised, knowing look. The girls had a knowing expression too, but theirs was mixed with fear.

"How the hell did she get here?" Lisbeth whispered.

"HEY! YOU'RE THE STRANGE LADIES FROM YESTERDAY!"

The girls all looked at Lisbeth as if she was the only one who could sort this out. Lisbeth screwed her face up in anger and turned to face the black haired child, "Yui. Your mummy and daddy are just playing a game with us. They'll be done soon, just go home."

Yui scowled at each of the four. She was still in her nightie with her bare feet standing firmly on the stone floor about ten metres from everyone. She glanced at her 'parents', who were in such a state of bewilderment they said nothing, then at the arena around her. Focusing on the statues, her scowl turned into a grimace, "I don't like this game."

The girls never got a chance to think of some witty reply. Everything happened very quickly. Kirito and Asuna could see Yui put her arm out and a second later blinding light filled the whole arena. They heard the girls scream and when the light faded all their health bars were the same as Kirito's. Yui smiled innocently and looked at Kirito and Asuna expectantly.

Asuna was the first to react. Grabbing her sword more firmly she went straight for Silica who looked so angry and confused it was no wonder she didn't react in time to see the sword slicing through her. As she exploded into pixels there was a look of pure loathing on her face.

Kirito, who was only now realising what was happening, threw himself forward to the remaining girls. Lyfa looked defeated. She moved a few steps away, dropped her sword and mouthed Do it to Kirito. He closed his eyes as he killed her a second time.

"I really am sorry", he said miserably. She nodded and looked away as her virtual body disappeared. Kirito thought he saw tears where she had been.

Yui took care of Sachi. Fire emerged from her little hands and blasted the teen down. She didn't look as innocent as she watched Sachi's remaining pixels dissolve into the air.

Lisbeth stood fearfully in the middle of the triangle that was Yui, Asuna and Kirito. They closed in until there was less than a metre separating her from them. Lisbeth bit her lip.

"This isn't over you know."

Asuna let Lisbeth see her sword glint in the sunlight, "Yeah, it is", she said sternly and pushed her sword out into the last opponent.

"Ne-never", Lisbeth smiled as her body dissolved, "Never."

As the last girl had her in game death scene there were a few moments of silence. Kirito let out a sigh of relief, "Is it…over?"

Asuna moved towards the edge of the arena, "One way to find out."

She took Kirito's hand and together they put their arms out to where the invisible force field had been. This time they went straight through. Asuna, not quite believing this, opened up her menu and was met with a look of pure satisfaction, "We can leave! Kirito we can go!"

Kirito opened up his own menu. The exit option was there again, "I don't believe it!"

He hugged Asuna then looking into her tired but ecstatic eyes he kissed her.

Yui coughed and Kirito pulled away, laughed and picked her up to join the group hug.

"Thank you Yui", they said together but Yui just smiled and continued to hug them.

Asuna opened her eyes to see the statues staring down at them again, "Okay can we please, please go now!"

Kirito nodded, "Yeah, this place is creeping me out and they might come back."

And so, hand in hand, they jumped from the arena to the grass below them and walked through the boring field. No one noticed the arena sink back down behind them. Their relieved smiles showed they probably wouldn't care if they did. The fight had ended, they (with a bit of help) had won and it was over. Finally over.


"There's still something I don't get."

It was a week later. Lisbeth and the girls hadn't been to school at all. Kirito and Asuna hadn't mentioned the fight to anyone.

"What?"

Asuna leaned down on her desk, not listening to the teacher and chatter around her, "What was something so detailed doing underground?"

Kirito glanced to make sure no one was listening, "The creator of SAO was crazy. You can't question everything he did."

"Still…I mean it wasn't finished was it? The statues and everything."

"I don't know. Maybe Kayaba stopped making it when he realised what he was going to do in SAO."

"I guess but-"

"Asuna!" Kirito grabbed her arm and gazed over at the group of girls that had just entered with hatred written all over their face, "They're back."

"Well don't stare at them they might see us!"

"Too late."

Lisbeth had just noticed them and with a smirk she turned away and continued her deep conversation with the girls.

"What are they planning?" Kirito asked fearfully.

"I have a feeling we'll find out soon enough", Lisbeth buried her face into the desk.

And they all lived happily ever after?

Well, until the next win Kirito's heart plot of course.