Disclaimer: We do not own Sword Art Online
Oblivion is owned by Urolutze
Roxas is owned by The 2 tailed fox
Ellerin is owned by Nakashima Hatsuharu
Wolf is owned by Dark Wolf Knight3
1 Month Later
Two young girls were surrounded by high level monsters, and the oldest of them lunged out with her two handed sword, however she was intercepted by one of the monsters, knocking her back.
"We're done for, Philia." The younger one said, as she raised her one handed sword into a defensive stance. "There is no way out of it this time."
"We have to try Strea!" Philia replied angrily, she wasn't angry at her however, she was angry at herself for putting them in this situation.
"FURY WARRIOR!" A battle cry came from the bushes, and they both felt themselves done for, however a player wielding a greatsword in each hand leapt from the bushes, smashing the ground as he leapt, "HEROIC LEAP!" Artemis called out as he landed, smashing away at many a foe, though anyone who has seen him fight before would have realized that he was moving at a much slower pace than with his one handed weapons.
As he finished the last of the monsters he turned to the girls, rage still flaming in his eyes, and Philia noticed this, and with a burst of speed, rushed Artemis, not knowing who he was. Artemis easily blocked and refused to retaliate, "Beautiful fighting style." He said, as she unleashed flurry of attacks.
This stopped her movement, "Obviously not, I haven't landed a single hit on you." Philia said, and she redoubled her efforts.
"Try not using as much of a wind up on your attacks." Artemis advised.
Philia, unconsciously listening, unleashed another flurry of attacks, and even though Artemis could have blocked all of the strikes, he let one hit, knowing he wasn't your average fighter.
Just then Oblivion burst through the bushes and slammed Philia back. He unsheathed his sword, he was smacked upside the head by the flat of Artemis's greatsword, "Dumbass!" Artemis exclaimed.
"I was only protecting you, I didn't know you wanted to take them yourself." Oblivion muttered.
"Take us yourself? We're you coming to kill us?!" Strea exclaimed.
"Oh my fucking god Oblivion! You made them suspicious of us!" Artemis said, disappointed.
"They were attacking you, what else should I think, that you and them were training?" Oblivion asked.
"Actually, that was exactly what I was doing, after she attacked me, of course." Artemis said smirking.
"You were doing what? That explains why you didn't fight back." Strea realized.
"I have a feeling that if he fought back, both of us combined wouldn't have a chance." Philia also realized.
"Well, I wouldn't be so sure of that after a bit of training, besides, after spending a month repairing the SWC empire, I'm a little out of practice, and I'm used to dual wielding longswords, I mean it's easy to learn when I'm only relearning what I already know."
"Wait, that large attack by the Death's Hand guild was against you?! And you won?!" Philia fell back as she realized who she attacked, "I'm so sorry, it will never happen again Artemis!"
Artemis laughed and said, "Don't worry about it, besides I came out a little loud, and you just got into of a deadly situation, let's go back to my headquarters and get to know each other a little better, Philia and Strea." Artemis said, surprising them.
2 hours later
"I'm always thought you wielded longswords, not greatswords, Mr. Artemis." Strea said.
"I do, I just got these from my friend, whom I thought dead, anyone who got a weapon from Wolf take them out so we can show them, as for you they are the strongest weapons you have, but for me, they are equal to my longswords." Artemis said. Everyone drew their own weapons they got from Wolf, and in turn introduced them.
Artemis went first, "These beauties are Cataclysm and Apocalypse, they each have both Life drain and Rage fire enchants on them, like my longswords, which, unlike my greatswords, have one enchantment on each."
Oblivion went next, "This is my longsword, it's name is The Devourer, it has the life drain enchant and, as you can see, looks like a daedric sword, and this is my shield, The Flame Bearer, it uses a fire enchant to reflect all strikes that hit, bathing my opponent in flame."
Nero decided it was his turn to introduce his weapon, "This is Double Death, based on Darth Maul's Lightsaber, it uses the necrotic plague to dissolve my opponent's little by little the more I hit them the faster they die, however, little hint, the chance of survival depends on how much willpower you have, as if you can survive the pain for long enough, you can survive, only if you get away that is."
Ellerin drew a dark purple staff with a bat resting a top of it holding a black colored gem and told them, "This is my staff, Black Shadow, it is imbued with dark magic, and is a dark magic conduit, allowing me to summon demons and other dark creatures to my side, as well as drain the life of my enemies and use it against them."
Sinon was last, "My bow, Sapphire Shadow, is a bow that will kill with a single arrow, it was given by my boyfriend."
The two girls were shocked, neither of them had seen weapons like these before, "Those look evil, how did you get them exactly, or rather, how did your friend get them?" Philia asked.
"I made them from steel, however I used a unique forging style, the way of the netharie, it uses magic to forge the weapons into unbreakable masterpieces." Wolf said, entering the room.
"And this is Wolf," Artemis introduced.
The girls cowered slightly in fear, "He's your friend? He looks like evil incarnate!" Strea exclaimed.
"Death incarnate, thank you, and as the god of death himself, I'd like for you to not call me evil, as I continue to prevent the zombie apocalypse." Wolf said before turning to Artemis, "As a god, I'd think you'd know not to trust everyone, but then again, you only trust people when you can understand them."
"God? What do you mean, god?" Philia asked.
"It's a long story, one you wouldn't believe until I show you my power." Artemis sighed, he then gestured them to follow him.
"Are you really sure about this?" Oblivion asked.
"Completely, I didn't expect to meet them here, I thought I would meet them in ALO, and that is my hint that I knew of them before." Artemis replied.
Artemis reached his training area, "Now I'm going to cast a couple spells not programmed in the game." Artemis said smirking. He first unleashed his dragon wings, and said, " This one allows me to fly, yes they may look demonic, but I assure you that I am not a demon." Artemis then used his explosive fireball, there is one in the game, just no where near as powerful, he threw it far into the distance, and it exploded, leaving a large mushroom cloud, and seconds later they felt the shockwave. "Yes I know that one is in the game, but it is nowhere near as powerful as that." Artemis then uses his signature, Fire Storm.
After the spectacle, he then turned to the people watching, "Well? What do you think?"
Philia and Strea were amazed at the power Artemis contained, Philia stepped forward and asked, "Are you sure that it's safe to use these powers?"
"Well, to be honest, probably not, but I only use such powers when we're in an emergency and when everyone's out of the way." Artemis said.
Philia nodded, but then, Artemis noticed something strange, Oblivion asked, "What's wrong?"
"The other you, he seems to be, unconscious, or he's not responding to me, I'm trying to talk to him through telekinesis, but, even if he was unconscious, he should be able to hear me, but, then again, he is unconscious…" Artemis said. He then opened a portal to his universe, "I'll be back, I just need to make sure he's okay." Artemis went through the portal and saw Owen lying on a hospital bed, with a Nervegear on a side table, he used telekinesis to tell his nurse that everything was fine and that he wasn't there to cause harm.
"He's in a coma, the Nervegear should have killed him, but, that thing he's wearing, I thought it was going to explode, but, but…" The nurse was about to keep going with her stuttering.
"The amulet saved him." Caleb said.
"But that's impossible." The nurse said.
"Is there any symptoms to be aware of?" Caleb asked.
"No, other than an extreme case of memory loss." The nurse said.
Just then, the door behind them opened, a girl walked inside, it was Lisbeth, or preferably Rika, the one of this universe, she had a vase of flowers in her hand, she asked the nurse, "Who is this?"
"I have no idea, he showed up after coming in through some strange… Portal." The nurse said.
"So, you know who he is, right?" Rika asked.
"He was a friend of mine, in my universe, out of all the versions of him I know, I know this one the most." Caleb said. "Now I'm not even sure he'll remember me." Suddenly, something struck Caleb, maybe the hospital had a Medicuboid, or maybe another hospital did, besides the one Yuuki was using, as she would have been in the Medicuboid at the time, or later on. "Do you have a device called a Medicuboid? Or do you know of any hospitals that have one?" Caleb asked.
"We got one not too long ago, another hospital is testing it and it seems to work well." The nurse said.
"Um, sir, can I ask what a Medicuboid is? I'm kinda worried for what it exactly is and if it'll kill him." Rika asked.
"It's a full dive rig, used in hospitals only, if we put him on it, maybe it'll help him recover his memory." Caleb said.
The nurse thought for a moment, she came to a conclusion later and said, "Might as well try, he's the only one who survived a Nervegear blast actually, it's quite impressive that he's still alive."
Caleb nodded, and opened the portal back to his universe and walked through.
"So, what's going on?" Oblivion asked.
"He's in a coma, he died in SAO but the amulet saved him from the Nervegear blast, they are gonna put him on a Medicuboid." Artemis said.
"Oh no!" Lisbeth gasped as she heard the news, but then, they heard Ellerin, she was running towards them, and as she reached the group, Ellerin said, "Wolf and Sinon have gone missing, it's been about a day since anyone last seen them."
"Oh yeah, I forgot that time moves very differently in other dimensions," Artemis said laughing.
"But wait, it was only a few minutes for us, why has it been so different for them?" Oblivion asked.
"It's because you were in the field where I teleported, as within the 2 meters from where I port dimensions, there's a field that stays in time with the other dimension, due to the dimensional rift being torn, but anyways, where were they last seen?" Artemis then directed his attention to the girl standing before him.
"Exiting the capital, they were heading to the dark forest, where people say they have seen people disappear, right into thin air, it's full of high level mobs, and the boss's lair is also said to be there."
"Oh shit, I'm gonna head after them, Oblivion, get the others, I'm getting Kirito and Asuna." Artemis ordered, and he opened the portal, and entered.
"Kazuto, Asuna, Sinon and Wolf have gone missing," Kazuto came down stairs, and looked at a frantic Caleb.
"Missing? How?" He asked.
"They left into the Dark Forest, and that's the last we heard from them, now go get Asuna, we need her too." Caleb was in a panic.
"The Dark Forest?! This is serious! Asuna, please go downstairs, tell Yui, to take care of Hope!" Kazuto was truly scared for his friends.
"Why? Is something wrong?" Asuna asked as she came downstairs, she then saw a panicking Caleb.
"Sinon and Wolf are missing in the Dark Forest, we need to find them!" Kazuto relayed Caleb's message.
They soon got ready and left through the portal, as they arrived, they saw the group of friends waiting for them, "Let's go," Artemis said, he was gruff, he never felt so utterly determined in his life.
As they stalked through the Dark Forest, Artemis saw a flash of blue, and looked and saw a someone lying dead in the bush, it was Sinon, "Dead?" Artemis sighed softly, before turning to punt a rock as far as he could, breaking a toe in the process. He screamed as he fell to his knees.
Softly, but growing louder, was the sound of wings flapping, and he wiped his hand across the bloodied grass, he then inspected the wound, it was a stab wound, and it was made with a knife that had spikes on it, almost serrated, the sound of wings grew louder, and he turned to see a figure dropping from the trees, and he smiled.