How long has it been now? Like a month again? Or more? Too lazy to check.

As said in one of my other stories (though the chapter might easily be posted after this): I just finished watching ALL of RWBY in like one sitting. Okay, multiple sittings because I had to eat and sleep but aside from those I was watching it almost continuously. The animation is pretty terrible but it gets better in the later volumes and you get used to it. I really like the intro songs from the first two seasons, not sure why though. (In that exact wording)

And so, I'm considering writing an RWBY fanfiction 'cause I want more RWBY... maybe not though, because I have absolutely no clue what to write it about and I'd probably get so much wrong. Any ideas would be welcome.

Also, can someone tell me if Neopolitan (from RWBY) can actually speak? I can't remember a single time she speaks.

(1st person, Jun)

"Let's find Asuna," I say quietly as we walk out of the teleport gate, slinking off into the shadows of the alleys in Algade and activating [Hiding].

Kirito nods and activates his [Hiding]. Since we were in a party, we could still see each other without our [Detection], though we were semi transparent.

People were still gathered around the teleport gate, we look around, seeing Asuna sitting in a corner extremely gloomy. We walk up behind her and I tap her on the shoulder and whisper, "Follow."

I continue to hold her shoulder as she follows us since she can't see us and we walk into an alley.

Kirito and I deactivate [Hiding] and Asuna jumps in surprise. "How?" she asks quietly.

"We killed it, and then decided to see how people react to us 'dying' and pretend to die," I say.

I cover Asuna's mouth with my hand as she tries to scream, "You killed that thing?!"

"Well yeah, it barely had any HP left," I say. "Still, it killed 5 people in several seconds!" she exclaims.

"So when do you plan to reveal that you're actually alive?" she asks.

"Probably when they next try to fight the boss."

"I guess that's fairly reasonable," she agrees.

"Until then we'll probably just grind all day. The monsters here are stronger than the monsters on the next floor and give more XP so we'll be on this floor. If you ever need us just message us," I say.

"Alright," she says.

We pull our cloaks back on and turn to leave when she says, "One last thing."

"What?" Kirito asks.

"Don't die. Please, promise me you'll make it out of here," she says.

"On one condition. You make it back too," I say.

She nods.

"Till next time," I say and we leave the city to a dungeon we had found with ridiculous spawn rates. It was also easily the most dangerous place currently discovered in Aincrad.

About a week later, they were ready again.

"This boss defeated us last time. But we can't back down now. We're half way out of here and we're not giving up!"

"Once the boss reaches around 3% of its HP, its defense is very low, however its offense jumps through the roof. We must have all our highest damage skills cooled down at that moment so once it reaches that mark we can kill it instantly before it can do anything."

Reasonable. That's what we basically did after all. I distracted it for a few seconds and Kirito killed it before it could attack him.

"Alright, let's begin!" Heathcliff yells and pushes open the door.

"Now?" I ask Kirito quietly.

"Let's wait till they start wondering where the boss is," Kirito answers just quietly.

Which only took a few seconds.

The raid group walked to the end of the room to where the now empty throne was.

"Uh... where's the boss?" someone asks. Everyone starts looking around and talking among themselves. Asuna was trying to hide her snickering and mostly succeeding. Kirito and I walk to the front of the room and go into our inventories.

We nod and at the same time unequip or cloaks.

"You wanna know where the boss is? Right here," Kirito says, brandishing Elucidator, his LAB.

Some of the people didn't seem to get it. "It's the LAB you morons," I say.

Some, actually, most members of the DDA didn't look particularly happy to see us.

"Well, since you're all so ready for a boss fight. Let's go fight the 51st boss. We got lucky and found it with just the two of us in a week," I say.

People still seemed to have not left their stupor. And Asuna—and Heathcliff, who she had perhaps told—was now surprised too, probably because we managed to find the boss in just a week with one party.

"A giant centipede? Really?" Asuna asks as we walk into the boss room. The boss was—just as Asuna said—a giant centipede and was called [Great Centipede].

"It's not very strong. We could probably have killed it with just the two of us if we tried," I say. We had scouted it and fought it a bit, deciding spending the amount of healing items we would end up spending on it wasn't worth it.

"The legs are easy to remove, and while they regenerate after about 5 minutes, it's pretty much helpless if you can get rid of most of them on one side. Then you can just smack its side repeatedly. It's not very armored either. Either it has some tricks up it's sleeve once its HP gets low or Kayaba just decided to give us a really easy one after the 50th one," I say to the whole group.

And about 10 minutes later it's down to the last bar and not a single player had dropped below half yet.

And then spines come out of its body all along it.

Seriously? It's not like we're just gonna walk into them for- Wow. I jump to the side to avoid a spine that launches at me. Okay. That's a bit more threatening.

It seems someone had gotten hit and it had poisoned him, but he wasn't losing HP too fast and the damage done wasn't particularly huge either. According to the icon next to his name though, it could only be cured if the boss died and it lasted a long time, so if you got hit, you were poisoned for the rest of the fight. For me, it probably wouldn't even be able to counteract my battle healing completely, but for someone with it lower leveled and little HP it would mean that they would need to heal fairly often.

I activate [Linear] with one of my swords and stab it into the boss's side, ripping it out and then slashing with a [Horizontal] with my other sword. Thanks to having two swords to use sword skills with, I could chain long combos with short cooldowns and PMDs because I could start one sword skills right before the previous one finished, thus overriding the PMD. With the number of skills I had at my disposal thanks to my high level and both rapier and longsword skills, it took a while before all skills were on cooldown.

However, it did need to be timed well since I couldn't use two skills at once and there was a very short moment between finish of one skill and the PMD.

I keep slashing away at the boss, chaining various skills together.

Most people were poisoned by now, but the boss was almost down to the red just a few minutes after reaching its last bar. And when it did reach the red, nothing happened. Oh well, time for it to die.

I unleash my highest damage, longest combo sword skill with one sword and just as it finishes, I chain it together with my next strongest with my other sword.

Along with Kirito and everyone else unleashing their strongest skills, the boss didn't take very long to die at all. Only about 10 seconds.

I got the LAB, which was a spiny shield that could shoot its spines every 30 seconds. As a shield it was pretty good, but as for the rest, it was just interesting that it was a long ranged weapon. Kayaba seemed to really want me to use them, huh? First that tiara, then my swords which can turn into a bow and then this shield which can shoot spikes. Not that I planned to use it. The spikes did barely any damage and spiky shields which didn't shoot were fairly common and there were much better ones. The shot spikes together did less damage than a single good throwing knife and the poison only lasted 30 seconds, doing very little damage as well.

It was called [Great Centipede's Chitin].

The 52nd boss was also fairly weak. It was a large tiger simply called [Great Tiger]. While it was fairly fast and did considerable damage, it had no damage over time, low force, and low health so it was fairly easy to defend from and anyone hurt would just hide behind tanks and heal.

It was currently at around the red and chasing after me, repeatedly lunging and missing. The weakness of cats was that they jumped and changing direction mid jump is hard.

I would run and whenever it jumped, I would jump to the side and strike it. I was going around in circles and letting other people attack it was it passed them without letting any one person to build up enough agro to have it switch targets, thus it futilely chased me while being slowly chopped down. Actually it was dying fairly quickly and the person to get the LAB was Kirito. The LAB this time wasn't very interesting, but required a very specific build which used a rarely used weapon. Specifically, it was claws. Claws were a weapon type, but a rare one because of how little damage they did per hit and how little range they had. They were the only weapon type which was dual-wielded. While Kirito and I dual-wielded, for Kirito it was a unique skill and for me it was a unique weapon.

However Kirito and I did know a certain rat who would pay a hefty price for what was by far the best weapon of the type she used.

It was called [Great Tiger's Claws] and interestingly enough, it inflicted a [Bleed] DoT even though the tiger did not. It also gave a large bonus to a users [DEX].

The 53rd boss was a giant snake called [Great Serpent]. I'm noticing a trend with the names and bosses.

This one was massive. It was about 70cm thick and 12m long and fairly scary. It has giant fangs and anyone bitten was given a very scary poison DoT. It could lunge very quickly and had great force behind its attacks, but once it start lunging, it couldn't really change direction and so it wasn't too difficult to dodge. Another way it would attack would be by slithering around someone and attempting to crush them. It had tried to get me like that multiple times, but I had managed to get away every time.

It was currently at about 10% HP on its last bar and hadn't undergone any major changes during the fight, just got a little faster and harder hitting. Of any boss we had fought thus far however, it was the most 'attack its side and it can't hurt you' boss. Sure it could sliver around you but, it was easy enough to notice it starting to do that and you could get away.

Tanks would shift out from taking its lungs but, it took considerable time after each lunge to lunge again so tanks were able to swap out fairly easily. After the first person got bitten everyone took antidote potions which protected them from part of the poison's effect, making it not nearly as scary.

It was Heathcliff's turn to tank and he brought his shield forward, allowing it to bite down on it, and then jamming it in so that it couldn't easily get back, then he attacked it with his stronger sword skills, nearly finishing it. I dealt the final blow and this time, for pretty much the first time, I think I actually stole the LAB.

"Would you like it?" I ask Heathcliff.

"I was out of high damage skills and stuck in PMD, I didn't earn it," he replied, so I kept it. I guess he didn't care for it since it was a dagger, which I doubt he needed since he had plenty of money. The dagger was called [Great Serpent's Fang] and was a fairly good dagger, though it was mostly interesting thanks to the insane poison effect. The poison suppressed healing and being hard to cure, which made me not want to sell the dagger just so it wouldn't get into a PKers hands. Another interesting thing was that it could be used as a throwing dagger, but had a light chain attached to it that allowed it to be pulled back, meaning that I could conceivably make use of this.

The poison was unique in that it did some constant damage as well as some damage based off the targets HP, so while it was more effective against things with low HP, it would still be good against bosses.

54th was the [Great Ape] and it was a giant gorilla. It moved on all fours, but its legs were comically small compared to its arms, which were balled into giant fists and packed a massive punch.

If you attacked its side it would swing an arm at you and if a bunch attacked at once, it would leap into the air and slam down, stunning all surrounding players and flinging them away. This boss nearly managed to kill one of the tanks when it stunned him but he was too heavy to be flung away. Thankfully he was pulled away right before dying at just 10% of his HP left.

We decided to surround it outside its 'attacking me' range and whoever was behind it at any given point would quickly move in, use his best burst damage attack, and retreat. As it turned to face its attacker, the next person would attack. The boss ended up pretty much helpless. I hear a pack of small hunting dogs could keep a large bear occupied this way but, thanks to the way SAO worked, we were able to kill it this way instead of just occupying it.

The LAB was once more Kirito's and this time it was called [Great Ape's Fist] and it was a large, two-handed warhammer. A very large one. It had the interesting ability that if slammed into the ground with a [Vertical] while in the air, it would stun nearby opponents briefly.

55th was the [Great Shark] and it was a pain because it had to be fought in the water where its mobility far exceeded ours. To make it fair however, it was extremely weak in turns of stats. To fight it, we formed a wall of tanks in the direction where the water got deeper and thus the shark was and stayed where we could stand, then whenever it approached we could attack from behind the tanks.

It had managed to steal a few weapons but, they were all retrieved once it died.

It had been fairly easy to kill and hadn't really managed to hurt anyone. I got the LAB, which was an item called [Great Shark's Tooth Necklace]. It was a simple string with a single, small shark tooth hanging down. It allowed breathing underwater, as well as protecting your eyes from water.

56th was the [Great Eagle] and—just as the name suggests—it was a giant eagle. It had by far the lowest HP compared to other enemies on its floor, being a bird but, it had the annoying ability to fly out of range of almost all attacks. I was many times tempted to reveal my swords' special ability of turning into a bow but, the amount its HP dropped by every time it swooped in to attack made me decide not to.

I had several times used the fang though in order to keep it poisoned.

When it attacked it would either swoop in to try to pick someone up—which it had even done to me once but, it had decided to drop me when I slashed and stabbed at its stomach—which was when we would attack or it would dive with its beak and then everyone with shields would put them up and everyone without would hide underneath.

Once it reached its last bar, the front edges of its wings turned to sharp metal and it would swoop in trying to slice with those instead of diving. This made it die faster because we could attack it in all its attacks now instead of half. When it eventually died to Kirito combo when it picked him up, it gave him a LAB called [Great Eagle's Feather], which was a one-handed longsword with a slightly odd shape. It was a good one at that, though not as good as Elucidator. While technically a one-handed longsword, it was much lighter than Kirito preferred, so if I didn't have my swords it would be pretty much perfect for me. It also gave a large [DEX] boost.

57th was the [Great Skeleton], a skeleton nearly twice as tall as a person who wore full plate armor except for a helmet and wielded a giant claymore.

The main weakness of the skeleton was that it had an extremely long pause between attacks. The attacks had ridiculous power however and it had a very large amount of health and armor. The attacks had so much power that blocking them was nearly impractical and required more than one tank to block a single blow. If a more [DEX] focused character got hit, they could easily die in one or two hits.

It had a variety of sword skills at its disposal, including all the greatsword skills available to players at this stage and then some.

It had several weak points however, including a few kinks in its armor and its head. Once everyone who could started attacking the head, it didn't survive very long.

Kirito got the LAB and rather unsurprisingly, it was called the [Great Skeleton's Claymore] and it was a high stat greatsword without any really interesting abilities.

58th was the [Great Ghost] and it was a ghost with a greatsword. While it didn't have nearly as much armor, health, damage, or sword skills as the [Great Skeleton], it was a huge pain to kill because it had this annoying thing where it was invulnerable except for while it was attacking.

On top of that it could disappear, appear somewhere else, and attack almost immediately and it would also randomly reset all agro and start attacking random players instead of the tanks.

Thankfully it died in just a few hits and once we realized what it could do, we distributed the tanks around. Any tank could easily block its attacks so as long as there was a tank near everyone it would be fine.

Eventually it died to Heathcliff as it appeared right in front of him. It probably dropped some weapon or maybe some item which gave a nerfed version of its ability.

I'll ask Argo to keep an eye out for it being sold.

59th was the [Great Rex] and it was a giant rex with pure black scales. It was fast, powerful, fairly armored, and had high stats all around, however it had nothing really special about it. It was dumb too, so having it attack who we wanted it to was fairly easy.

In the end, it ended up being a fairly difficult fight thanks to several different AOE attacks, including a stomp and a roar, that would stun and damage nearby people, making it difficult to attack.

Once it finally died to Kirito's strongest non-dual wield skill it gave him [Great Rex Scale Armor], a black piece of light-mid chest armor with good defense for its weight and level.

60th was the [Great Wyvern]...

Will they beat it? Will they die? Find out next week[month] on Dragon Ball Z[Duo of Darkness].

I know it's horrible of me to leave off on a cliffhanger when I update this infrequently but I don't feel like writing a big, proper fight right now and I want to do that for this fight.

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