Alright, back this series now. This is start of the Fairy Dance Arc and where Ash will meet Leafa, aka Suguha. Where? When? I haven't figured out for sure, but I will at some point. Now for this chapter I have no idea what to really do, but I'm gonna try doing most of it being from scratch and other parts of it will be different.

Also, Alfeim Arc may not be one of my favorites, but I like Leafa and we're gonna fix this arc and make it at least if not slightly better. Again, I don't own Sword Art Online or Pokémon, but if I did, I would've tried to make the old SAO better and Ash would be the champion already.

Bendy Plushie: Question of the day. Which Shonen harem is your favorite?

Naruto Shippuden
My Hero Academia
Black Clover
Hunter x Hunter

Leave your response in a review down below.

Everything was finally finished. Sword Art Online was no more and now everyone could rest easy knowing they're safe. As for one black-haired boy in particular, he was happy that it was all finally over and was back in the real world relaxing on a hill. After getting back, he was exhausted, and the ground felt like a long-lost friend to him.

"Uncle Ash?" He heard as he opened his eyes and saw a black-haired little girl in front of him.

"Hey, Yui. How are you?" He asked her with a smile on his face.

"Amazing! Mommy said lunch is gonna be ready!" She then tells him.

"Really?" He asked before she got up.

"Yeah, come on, Uncle Ash!" She says as she happily pulled his arm.

"Okay, okay, I'm coming." He says as they head down to a little house and head inside.

"About time you got up. What took you so long?" An orange haired girl asked after seeing him.

"Sorry, Asuna. The grass was just so comfy it had me glued to it." He tells her.

"Well, go sit at the table. Food's gonna be ready in a minute, Ash." She tells him while standing in the kitchen.

"Alright." He says as he walks over to small table and him and the little girl sit down.

When he got there though, he found something off. He saw there were only three chairs but the table they sat at looked like it could sit four people. He seemed confused as to why there were only three chairs and there wasn't a fourth one set up.

"Hey, Asuna?" He asked the girl who put the food on the table.

"Hmm? Something wrong Ash?" She asked him.

"Nothing I was just wondering… where's Kirito gonna sit?" He asked her as she looked surprised.

"What do you mean?" She asked him.

"Well, he's eating with us, isn't he?" The boy asked her again and she looked confused and concerned.

"Ash, don't you remember?" She asked him as he looked confused. "Kirito… Kirito died." She told him as his eyes then filled with shock. "He's been dead for months now. Remember, he died on the seventh of November." She told him before he got up from his seat.

"N-no… n-no stop playing with me Asuna. It's not funny." He tells her as she looked even more concerned.

"I'm not making this up, he's not with us anymore Ash." She kept telling.

"No, no, no, no… that's not true… that's not true… he's still here…" The boy kept saying as the windows began cracking. "He's not gone…" And he began stumbling backwards

"Ash, are you feeling okay?" The girl asked him.

"Uncle Ash, what's wrong?" The little girl then asked him.

"He's not dead… Kirito's not dead… HE'S NOT DEAD!"

(Real world)

He then woke up in his room screaming then hyperventilating like crazy holding his chest. Sweat trickling down his head, his heart beating like there was no tomorrow, he looked out his window seeing the clouds go by as a means of calming down and looked as though he was in despair. He then shook his head and placed his hands-on top of it as if he was in pain.

Then he looked at his phone for a second while still heavily breathing before grabbing it in an instant and dialing a number on it. "No, no, no, no, no, no… pick up, pick up, pick up pick-" He was muttering to himself before hearing the dial tone stop.

"Hey, Satoshi? What's going on?" He heard from the other side as he sighed in relief.

"Thank goodness…" He says.

"What? What's wrong?" The boy on the other side asked.

"Sorry, Kiri… I-I mean, Kazuto… I just… I… I needed to know you were still alive." He told him.

"Still alive? Satoshi we just talked a day ago. What brought you to believe I wasn't still here?" The boy on the phone asked again.

"I-I know, but… I… I had this… nightmare and-" He was saying until he got a flashback of another black-haired boy getting slashed by a white-haired man which caused him to grunt.

"Wow… that does sound kinda scary. What happened in that nightmare?" The boy known as Kazuto asked him.

"Well… I uh… I don't really know if I wanna talk about it." He tells him.

"Um, okay… well I'm still alive if you wanted to know. You don't really have to tell me if you don't want to." Kazuto tells him.

"I know, sorry for calling you like this. Goodbye." He tells him.

"No worries, if you need help, I'm here for ya. Goodbye." They then hang up and the boy was once again alone.

It had been months since SAO had been completed and the remaining who survived that nightmare have now been freed and now lived peaceful lives… at least that's what people expected. One of those people was Satoshi Ketchum. In Sword Art Online, he was known as Ash or Swordsman's Ashes as people would call him.

He was the one who also defeated Akihiko Kayaba who created the death game and as such he released all of those remaining. But during that battle he saw something that traumatized him, and even after knowing that his friend was still alive, the memory still never left him which made life in the real world not so easy.

Unfortunately, not all of them ended up getting released. Some were still stuck in their Nerve Gears and at the hospital for an unknown reason. People are still trying to find said reason for why, but so far they had no luck. Ash -or known as Satoshi- got up from his bed and looked at the clock. 10:31 A.M. Seeing what time it was made the boy sigh.

"Gosh dang it, I overslept again." He says as he rubs his eyes. "Why does this keep happening?" Then recalling the last few times, it happened.

(Visual)

Ever since SAO ended, Ash was finally back into the real world and when he did return, his mother was relieved to find her son was still alive. He was happy to be back as well, seeing his mother's smile after so long couldn't make him any more happy than he already was. He thought it was all over and things could go back to normal.

Though not everything went back to normal. When Ash got out of the hospital, him, his friend Kirito and everyone who got out of SAO had to a special school that was supposed to help them get back on track and through real life again. But that wasn't the bad part.

Ash started having nightmares during certain nights. Some days he didn't have those nightmares, but others they tend to appear. This caused the boy to oversleep some days and not end up with him awaking late in the daytime which he didn't tell Kirito or any of his other friends because he didn't want them to worry about him.

(Visual over)

Although, the nightmare he had was different than any of the other ones he had. Sure, they were somewhat traumatizing, but none had made him relive memories such as what happened during the battle with Kayaba. He looked at him computer screen and saw tears running down his face. He quickly wiped them and sat back onto his bed.

'Why… why did that have to happen?' He thought to himself before…

"Goodbye…"

He gasped from having a sudden flashback. He remained sitting where he was, frozen in place unable to move. The memory of what happened back then still haunted him to that day. Even if he knew that Kirito was still alive, he could never forget what had seen. He shook his head to try and get rid of those thoughts and got up before heading to his door.

'They'll stop soon… they have to.' He thought to himself before he opened the door and left down stairs. 'But, even so, I'm not gonna let those thoughts drag me down… they're just memories.'

Chapter 13: Never Forget

In order to take his mind off most of what happened, Satoshi decided to take a walk into town. In a short sleeved blue jacket, a black shirt with long white sleeves, navy blue pants, some normal red and white sneakers, and a red and white hat. He was wondering where to go since he seemed to just be meandering around. However, his mind was still in the gutter and he still wasn't able to take his mind off what happened that morning.

'Dang it. After so long, why now? Why did that memory have to just show itself after so long.' He thought to himself as he wandered the sidewalk.

He stopped walking and stood in place before moving his hands up to his head to massage his templates. Not giving up, he still tried to find a way to take his mind off what was happening and took a look around. He then spotted something up ahead… the cemetery. There lied his lost family members, a place that hadn't seen in so long. After a moment of staring, he then made his way over and decided to visit his deceased brother and father.

He walked in front of two gravestones; both reading the names: Red and Ashura Ketchum. He had his head down with his bangs covering his eyes looking depressed as he stood there for a moment trying to figure out what to say.

"Hey… dad… brother… i-it's been a while hasn't it?" He asks while looking at the two graves. He stood for a moment before sighing. "I-I'm sorry I… haven't been here lately, I just… w-well, things got really complicated after, the release of SAO. People entered it, they found they couldn't log out, ten thousand people were trapped inside of it, and I just happened to be one of them." He says with a bit of a chuckle then went silent as if a response was gonna come up.

The moment of silence went for a minute before he tried to think of what to say next. "I-I think I'm starting to get back on track with the real world again, but… I have been having these nightmares happening back to back so… I h-haven't exactly gotten used to living out here just yet. I'm more used to living in the virtual world than I am when it comes to the real world, and sometimes I miss the times I spent in Sword Art Online." He says while trying to hold a smile.

"I don't exactly want to go back, but… there were actually some fun times in that game that I could never forget. I-I don't know if I could actually want to go back there… but those memories are… s-sorry I'm rambling a bit." He then says as he puts his hand on the back of his head.

Then a black-haired boy riding a bike was passing by before he stopped and looked over seeing him in the cemetery. He was about to get off and go talk to him but then saw the two graves he was in front of and stayed where he was staring for a moment. He then decided to leave him be and continued on to his destination.

"… I made a lot of new friends after it all ended though. We do hang out sometimes but, I think school is keeping us busy so… I don't really see them as much outside of school." Satoshi pauses for moment to think. "Mom is glad to see that I'm back, she was overjoyed to know that I managed to survive. I wouldn't really know what she'd do if I wasn't here, but I'm glad I'm still here too. I'm sure she still really misses you two… and… I miss you too." He says while still looking at their graves with a sad smile.

He felt something go down his cheek and touched his face where it was, finding he was crying while talking. "S-sorry, it's just… I-I haven't talked to you two in years so… i-it's still hard living in the real world." He says while water formed in his eyes. "I have to go but… I'll be back soon. Bye, love you guys…" He then says before turning around to walk away. He stopped after a few feet away and looked back at them… "… It was great to see you again." before he continued to walk away.

(Timeskip)

After he had his meeting with his father, Satoshi decided to meander around a bit more before he went back home. On his way, he came to a stop when he reached the game store. He saw some wallpaper that looked like it was advertising a new game about fairies. The game just so happened to be for this thing called the Amusphere. He was confused because it wasn't until just now, he had heard of said console.

He read what it was called, and it appeared to be a game called… "Alfeim… Online?" He says under his breath with some confusion.

Curiosity go the better of him and he decided to head into the store. He took a look at one of the boxes for said game and it looked like its wallpaper did, fairies on the cover but a different pose. He read the back of the box and it looked pretty interesting, but as he was reading it, it felt like the game itself was like Sword Art Online in a way, which did peek his interest.

"Looks cool, but… what's an Amusphere?" He asked himself.

"You haven't heard?" He heard a voice before turning to see a girl that looked younger than him with black pixel shaped hair. "It's one of the new consoles in the market. Didn't come out that long ago." She told him.

"Uh… Oh, really?" He asked her before looking back at the box.

"Of course, it does kinda work like those things back in the day called NerveGears, least from what I've heard. Except, they say it's more safe to use." She tells him. "O-oh, are you gonna buy that game too?" She then asks seeing the box in his hand.

"Well… I was just taking a look but, I think I might try it out." He tells her.

"I was thinking of trying it myself. Though, to be honest, I'm not really into these kind of games. But, I kinda want to see why my brother likes them so much so I figured, 'might as well give it a try'. Besides it kinda looks fun." She then says as she grabs a copy herself.

"Oh, I see. Though doubt this is gonna work on a NerveGear." He says as he was about to put it back.

"I don't know, they say that this new console works like one. Hang on." The girl then pulled out her phone before pulling up a browser. "Okay… um… it says here that it's backwards compatible with one. So, it probably will work." She told him.

He looked back at the game and thought of it for a moment. The thought of going back into VR was a nostalgic trip for him, but when he thought of it, there were parts of the Virtual World he did end up missing. Thinking of going back into a game that sounded like Sword Art Online sounded like something someone didn't want to do but, if no one could actually die IRL, then it didn't sound all too bad.

"Are you okay?" He heard which snapped him out of his trance before looking at the girl.

"… Uh… T-thanks for… telling me…" He tells her before.

"Sure, no problem… Uh… see you around." She then says before heading off.

He watched as she leaved before looking back at the game he was holding. He held it firmly in his hand as he was thinking. 'Should I try this?…' He hasn't gone back into Virtual Reality in a long time, the reason he entered in the first place was to escape the real world… 'Well… here goes nothing.' He then had his mind made up.

(Another Timeskip)

After getting the game and a few gear then setting it all up, Satoshi was about to head back into the virtual world, when he stopped at picking up his helmet. He started to stare at it with an uneasy look on his face as he was hesitant to put it on. He sweated a bit after remembering his last experience with the Nerve Gear, and the memories were flowing back into his mind.

He wanted to go back in, to try and re-enter the virtual world once more, but there was something that was keeping him from doing so. 'This isn't Sword Art Online… It's not gonna trap you inside it.' He kept telling himself in his mind.

But he still felt hesitant to do so. Even if he knew that going in wouldn't mean he'd be in a death game once more… his body was still telling him not to do it. After a few more moments of staring, he put the helmet on his head and laid down in his bed looking up at the ceiling. Sweat trickled down his face after it put it on and got in position before he swallowed his saliva.

"Here we go…" He then closed his eyes. "Link… Start." Then the startup process began.

(Entering Virtual Reality)

Touch: OK
Sight: OK
Hearing: OK
Taste: OK
Smell: OK

Language: Japense
Application: Alfeim Online
User: ******
Password: ******

Welcome to Alfeim Online

Ash then appeared in some kind of place that looked like he was in the sky. "Please enter your gender and the name you wish to be classified as." He then hears a voice before seeing a virtual keyboard appear in front of him.

"Okay, here I go…" He then says before he enters his name as Ash and his gender in.

But when he pressed the enter, it made a buzzing noise and it confused him. "I am sorry, but someone has already chosen that name. Please consider another name for yourself." He then hears which got him annoyed a bit.

"Figures…" He figured that something like this would happen to him. He then thinks for a second and tried adding in another name. "A$h." Enters, but again that buzzing noise appears.

"I am sorry, but someone has already chosen that name."

"Oh come on!" He then tries a bunch of other names.

4sh, A5H, A2, 4$H, even XvX_A$H_XvX, but nothing worked. All he kept getting was the buzz noise and the woman saying- "I am sorry, but someone has already chosen that name. Please consider another name for yourself." And it got annoying over time.

"Come on, there's gotta be something!" He yelled to himself being annoyed.

He then began to think… he had to have some way of choosing a new name for himself but still having some reminder of the name he used back then. He was thinking of putting in Swordsman's Ashes, but… even if he was called that from SAO, it's more of a title rather than a username. He put his hand to his chin and thought about what his name could be.

"… *Sigh* Please work…" He then began putting in the name.

Ash-17

He then entered it in and finally there was no buzzing noise. "Are you sure that this is the name that you wish to call yourself?" The voice then asks as a yes or no option showed up.

He hit yes and was relieved that it was finally over. "Thank god…" Then what appeared to be a group of avatars appeared before him with transparent wings and different colors.

"There are nine races of fairies to choose from. Please select which race you wish to play as." The avatars started rotating in a slow motion as he looked through the different races.

He came across one race that appeared to be in black clothing with black wings. "Maybe this one…" He said to himself… but then when he thought about it… "Nah, that's Kirito's style. Not mine that's for sure." He then went through a few more before seeing one with blue clothing, hair and wings. "Maybe this one?" He then clicks it and an info card appears before him.

"Are you sure this is the race you'd like to play as?" He then read the card as it catched his interest a bit.

"Undine, huh?" He then thought about it for a bit. "Well, I am one for blue." He then hit yes.

"You have selected Undine. Your character's avatar will be selected at random. You will now be teleported to your hometown in Undine Territory. Enjoy, player." He then hears before a bright light engulfs him completely.

The light then died down as he uncovered his eyes, everything seemed to be a blur at first. 'Alright, now I'm here. I should be in somewhere called Undine Terri-' He was thinking to himself for a second before he saw something, he never believed he'd see.

The Town of Beginnings… just the sight alone shocked Ash to the core. He looked down at himself and found he was in the outfit he was in at the beginning of Sword Art Online. He looked utterly shocked and walked forward a bit before coming to a stop and turning to look back at the teleport gate in the center of town.

'W-what?… H-how?… W-why am I here?… How am I here?' He was thinking to himself as he was starting to relive some memories back then before-

"Hey-" Someone tapped his shoulder before he jumped and turned around. He saw what seemed to be someone with blue hair, eyes and attire and pointy ears. "Uh… S-sorry about scaring you like that. Are you okay?" He then asked.

Ash was about to answer, but then he looked around. He wasn't in the Town of Beginnings, but instead what appeared to be a city that was filled with more people having blue for their hair color, eye color, and outfits in general while some were landing down with wings. He then looked down at himself. He wasn't wearing the outfit he wore at the beginning of SAO and seemed to be in an entirely different type of basic blue armor.

He then sighed in relief before the man who was talking to him asked… "Uh… are you feeling alright?" The man asked getting a little concerned.

"Huh?… Uh, y-yeah… Yeah, I'm fine… I'm fine." Ash tells him with some uncertainty.

"… Alright, then." The man then says before walking away weirded out.

Ash then looked around before taking a few steps away from the entrance in order to view it. Even the center of the town looked nothing like the teleport gate to the Town of Beginnings. He then attempted to open up the menu, but it didn't appear to be working. So he tried with his other hand and it worked. Looking at his stats, he was shocked to find he had the same stats from SAO.

He then looked worried for a second before going to the settings and checking something. "Be there, be there, be…" He stopped when he found the once blank log out button now saying the words Log Out. He pushed it.

Are you sure you wish to log out?

Yes
No

He saw he still had the option to leave and felt relieved. "Thank goodness." He then presses the no button.

He looked around for a second before beginning to look through his skills. All of them seemed to be gone and what seemed to take their places were other types of skills. He was a little disappointed that he didn't keep Aura Burst, but he couldn't have everything. He then went into his items and found everything was question marks. It must have been due to them not being in the game at all.

He scrolled down them to see if he could find at least one item that he could've kept. But all he found just so happened to be a mirror. Curious of how he looked, he selected the item and then the mirror appeared in his hand. He looked at himself, seeing his face looked roughly the same, with barely any differences in facial features.

But his hair was in a different style. It was still spikey, but in a different way (Think of Hyde's hair from Under Night In-Birth except blue without the black part). The most notable part was how his eyes and hair appeared to be blue now, along with the elfishly pointy ears. Although, the color wasn't really surprising considering what character he picked to an avatar. He then put the mirror back in his inventory and wondered what to do now.

Seeing how his items didn't seem to transfer, he was very disappointed, but beggars couldn't be choosers. He thought that it was probably best to clear it out and pushed the trash button.

Are you sure you want to delete all your items?

Yes
No

He took a minute and thought about it. He was hesitant since it took him forever to get all those items. But, since he wasn't even gonna be able to use them, he didn't have any other reason to keep them. Let alone were they even recognizable at this point. It was a tough choice, but in the end, he went with the only option.

Yes

Item storage has been cleared

Tough choice, but one he had to make. He didn't have any other reason to keep them so it was all he could do. "Back to the drawing board… what do I do now?" He says to himself before he looks around. Then he saw some more players land down with wings. 'Woah, that's looks cool. Wonder how I can fly.' He then thinks about what he could do.

This was a game that includes flying as a game mechanic, so there had to be some way he could learn to fly, maybe in a tutorial or something. Then he realized that he didn't actually get a tutorial as people would get at the start of a new game. Usually for games like these there should be an NPC that offers to show how to play, but he didn't have one appear at all which confused him.

"Hey, excuse me!" He then says going over to a group of four players. "Did you guys get a tutorial when you first started this game?" He asked them.

They looked at him and were a bit confused. "Well, yeah. There should be an NPC somewhere around the center of town that shows you a tutorial. Didn't you see it or something?" He asked him.

"N-no I didn't. I don't know what the NPC looks like." He tells him.

"It should just be over there if you're looking for it. Blue hair, long dress, can't miss it." One of the girls tells him while pointing towards someone at the entrance.

The boy sweated that he didn't see it when he first logged it and now felt stupid for not seeing it at first. "T-thanks." He then decides to walk over to the NPC. "Okay, now how do I do this aga-WOAH!" He jumped when the NPC suddenly turned to him.

"Greetings player, and welcome to Alfeim Online." The NPC says while bowing. "Would you like to go through the tutorial?" She then says before an option saying yes or no pops up and he presses yes. "Which tutorial would you like to go through?" Then several options popped up.

Fairy Races
Items
Spells
Sword Combat
Bow and Arrow Aim
Skills
Flight Control
Ariel Combat

Ash sweated at seeing all the options and didn't know which to choose from. Items, and sword combat might be something he would already have the hang of, but the skills in Alfeim Online would definitely be different from SAO. Also, he didn't expect there to be so many different tutorials, which meant he would be there for a while. He checked the time and it seemed to be 5:54 P.M. in real world time. He figured that he might have time to check out some new tutorials.

"Aw, the hell with it." He then pushed one of the options.

Flight Control

"Okay, we will be transported to another area shortly." The woman then says before they started to glow in just like a teleport crystal and disappeared from town.

They then appeared in a forest like area and far from any city. Most likely a testing area for players who are new to the game to test out and practice new controls, and the space was probably for in case flight wasn't on his side. That being said he turned towards the NPC that started talking.

"Oh right, I forgot to ask but which kind of flying do you prefer?" She then asked.

Controller-Mode
Hands-Free-Mode

"Huh?" He was confused at what it meant. Then when he thought about it, if he were to be fighting in the air, he would need to use his hands, so he decided…

Hands-Free-Mode

"Very well. Firstly, you must activate your wings. It's simple, really. Just imagine your wings appearing on your back and they will take form. Try it." The NPC says.

"All I gotta do is imagine them?" Ash asked while not getting a response. "Right, she's an NPC." He then says to himself before thinking… and thinking… and after some time, he heard a sparkling noise and looked behind to see his wings appearing with a symbol. "Woah, that's cool."

"Good job, now we can move onto step two." The NPC then states. "Now this next part is gonna be hard to explain. Turn around for a moment." She then says as the boy seemed confused at first before complying and turning around, then feeling something on his back. "Now, do you feel where my hand is? Focus and imagine new bones and muscles spreading out. Then once you've done so, try moving them." She tells him.

He gulped before trying to do what she said and closed his eyes. After some time, the wings began to start twitching and seemed to be moving. "That's it, keep trying." She says in a cheerful tone. "You're doing great." The wings then began to spread out more and were fully out. "Perfect! Now try it again, without my help." The NPC then moved her hand away.

"Ugh, okay." Ash says as his wings fell.

Then he tried again, with a bit of grunting he managed to get his wings up again. However, as he was doing so, he was still having trouble as they kept twitching, but after a little bit he was able to get them up in the air no problem as he then sighed and felt more relaxed. Then, he attempted to control them as he began ascending into the air

"Excellent work! You're getting the hang of it now. Keep it up." The NPC told him.

"Hey, I'm actually doing it!" The boy says with glee as he stopped ascending and stayed floating in one place.

"Now we're gonna try to attempt moving around in the air. Move your body in a certain direction to begin movement." The girl then states.

"Really? Shouldn't be too hard the-AHH!" He then attempted to move around in the air only to lose control and start flying around crazily. Stopping, then going, stopping, then going, then to come face first with the ground. "… *Sigh*… this is gonna take a while."

To be continued…

Finally finished with this thing. I'm not dead if you all are wondering. I'm just really lacking motivation and all. And yes, right now Ash did meet his future pairing, but not entirely. The pairing remains AshxLeafa. I might do one where he gets with Sinon, but for now this is the pairing.

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