I do not own Sword Art Online in any format, this is fan fiction.

The registration was done in the traditional way. Kirito signed the paperwork, and the entire castle was notified. The Order of the Blood Oath was now officially recognized. The staff also told him that since his was the only one to date that established the guild following the registration procedure to the letter, his guild would get a guild uniform, designed or chosen by the members. Kirito knew about fashion, as much as a wolf knew about deep sea diving, which is to say nothing at all.

Asuna jumped at the chance and decided to make the uniform based on the image of a Knight templar, white to signify purity and red highlights to signify the blood oath. Every member agreed on the design but Kirito said that the day he wore so much white, it would be for his funeral. So she made his the opposite red with white highlights. He hated it already, but he was not dumb enough to tell her that. The entire guild marched out of the building in their new uniform. The people around them could only stare.

"Now we return to the combat fields for Lizbeth to do her training under our esteemed vice commander." The other members wished her good luck, she was going to need it. If training to be a blacksmith was tough, after this being a blacksmith would be a sheer joy. They would have to quite literally pull her out away from it from now on. 750 monsters, that is how many she had to kill alone. In reality, it was her own fault,she was saying how she was a master macer, and that she should be an officer like Asuna.

Asuna clearly did not take well to empty boasts. She pushed her harder than anyone and then some. The floor was practically devoid of monsters and when Kirito saw her fall down on the ground, he decided to walk up to them. "So Asuna, how is are blacksmith doing? Any progress?" Asuna smiled and looked at Lizbeth. "We are about half way done." Lizbeth could not believe the reason she was actually letting her rest was so the monsters would reset.

"Good, you have a couple of hours, then we hit the floor boss." Lizbeth wanted to complain that she would need her rest, but the look in his eyes told her that he was not kidding, if she said anything she would more than likely be told to wait for the guild to finish the boss by themselves,and the next day she would have her training double of what she had done. She decided instead to get off her butt and finish the training already. Deep down she wanted to see Kirito fight.

It really seemed that all the floor bosses were indeed people he once called friends and some hab been close enough to call family. The guy who was the boss they were fighting was, in fact, the guy who had trained Kirito when he started in the royal guard. Even then he could never figure how something that looked like the child if a horse and a bull could be that could be that clumsy. His fighting style revolved around chaos, you simply could never tell where the next attack would come in, he almost looked like he was drunk, in reality, he indeed was a heavy drinker, but thank goodness he looked like he had not had a drink in a while, or the entire guild would be dead in a matter of minutes.

The way he looked he was more pissed than anything, and he simply would not say a single word, only his hateful glare and the tears in his eyes told the real story. He had loved her like she was his own daughter, and probably wished for her and Kirito to marry and form a family, with kids he would one day call his grandchildren, but those dreams were pretty much destroyed by the boy he trained into the warrior he was now. He would Swy no word for what word could he say to the man who made him feel so betrayed.

Kirito getting tired of seeing him act like he was, he dashed in and killed the floor boss with a move they were not expecting. He slashed downward and the air around the blade caught fire, and ,a large wave of fire in the shape of the slash went forward and incinerated the floor boss, then the wind behind it, cutting the floor boss to pieces. The others were completely speechless. The floor boss had been defeated, and if you could see her, Hel was smiling like she was very happy.

Asuna saw the attack and she could also see Urd laughing. She quickly asked her what was so funny? Urd said that kind of destruction usually made Kirito's sword very happy. Hel was not known to like showing mercy to her enemies, and the sheer viciousness of the attack made her smile, she was always concerned that spending so much time with Asuna, had made Kirito go soft. Good thing this attack showed her that simply was not the case.

Agil looked at the space where the floor boss had been standing, he could hardly believe it. Three health bars cut down in a matter of seconds. Diabel was simply proud that their commander was simply that tough, and Lizbeth realized that as tired as she was, Kirito probably trains a lot harder, to beagle to pull off an attack like that.

When Kirito activated the way to the next floor he got a message he was not expecting, it was from the Red King. 'To my loyal Black Knight, I send you the key to your old castle, now that you have a growing guild you will need it, keep up the good work.' Signed the Red King. Asuna looked at him hold a key in his hand. "Kirito what is that?" Kirito held the key for everyone to see. It had a number on it, the number was 25. "We won our very own guild headquarters. But there is a catch... It's on the 25th floor."

"Well who cares, we will reach that floor before too long! You all saw how our leader beat that boss. Now we train, recruit and make our guild one the best there is, and make the other floor bosses fear our strength." Kirito could only think that Diabel sure loved to make speeches. Maybe it was not such a bad idea to have him head the public relations of the guild. They all walked through the portal, only to see that a group of monsters was ready to ambush them.

"And people say monsters are not sociable, look, guys, we have a welcoming party." Kirito saw as several of the guilds just could not believe their luck. Kirito and the guild took care of the ambush quickly, but not that happy. All except Kirito wanted a hot meal, a bath, and a bed. They walked toward the first town and they were greeted by the town guard. They were asked if they needed anything? Lizbeth told them exactly what they needed and the guards gave them directions to where to go.

The manager of the local hotel welcomed him, it was rather strange for the others, till Kirito explained that they were a registered guild with their own assigned headquarters. The manager probably knew also that they were the guild that defeats all the floor bosses so far. They also got a very nice discount on their room, and food.

During the night Kirito went to look at the fields, and began to solo hunt monsters, Asuna knew that he would so she asked Urd to wake her up so that she could help him. The excuse she used was that otherwise, the EXP from those monsters would simply go to waste. Urd called it some alone time with her partner's future husband, which in turn made Asuna blush. 'Urd, seriously we don't even know if he even likes me! Or maybe he is already married for all we know." Urd rejected both notions one if he did not like her, she would not be with her at the moment. He did go throw a lot of trouble with her to help earn the right to be her partner. Second, she asked if he was married where is the wife then?

'Honestly, if he was married we could see it on quite clearly by Hel's own mood. I happen to know she secretly loves him too.' Asuna asked what did she mean by that too part. Urd clarified by asking if she did not love him then? Kirito was far too busy slashing monsters to even notice that someone was actually watching him. Hel, on the other hand, could see them as clear as day. 'Kirito would you mind stopping your attacks on the lizardman for a bit and look behind you,' Kirito said that in a second, he was about to beat him. The supposed Lizardman slapped him clear across the face when he said that.

The supposed lizardman was actually a very lean lizard woman and she clearly was offended when Kirito called her him. She was not going to let the hairless ape get away with that kind of insult, so, in the end, Kirito had to really fight this monster, because she was not trying to kill him anymore, she was trying to cut off his family jewels. Asuna saw the way the monster slapped him, and she figured that if she was insulted enough to do that, Kirito was going to need some help, so she came out of hiding and ran to help him.

"Don't you know better than not to insult a lady? I mean look at her, the long eyelashes, the makeup, even the silk gloves, give me a brake this is clearly a very refined lady and you think she was a guy all along?" Kirito simply had to ask right at that moment, who was she really helping here, him or the lizard? Of course, she was helping him but had to make sure he knew why the monster was so completely pissed off.

The fight was over and even dead the lizard still looked angry as her body broke apart. "Well thank you for the help Asuna, but what are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be asleep by now?" Asuna told him that she was there in case he did something stupid like he did with the lizard woman just now. The two spent a couple of hours fighting monsters and talking about their future plans for the guild, including their changes to the training regiment.

That is when she noticed something odd, it was something that she could not quite see, it was almost transparent but he could tell there was something there. Almost hanging over Kirito, something that was clearly feminine, because she looked like she was whispering in his ear. "Kirito, do you mind telling me what is Hel whispering in your ear?" Kirito looked at her and smile, "Nothing major, she was telling me I need to sleep regular hours, she always is worried about my health."

'See told you she loved him, now are you going to sit there and wait for her to declare her feelings first, or you are going to do something about it!?' Urd clearly didn't want her to wait much longer. But why did she want her to declare her love for him, and so soon? If she did not know any better she would have to say that Urd loved him too. "Kirito that reminds me why did you tell us not to ask where the meat of that meal came from?" Kirito decided to show her instead of just tell her. He took a rather slimy piece of meat from his inventory and threw it at her.

"No reason to tell them I used scavenged meat now is there?" She asked what did he mean by scavenged meat? He explained that sometimes he got some rather nice pieces of meat as an item after killing a monster. So, in other words, she and the others ate a meal made with monster flesh, as the meat in that meal. She threw it away and started to wipe her hands. "Ah, don't be so wasteful, that was a perfectly good frog leg."