to Therealpower: I wanted Tryth to seem intelligent, and someone else told me to minimize contractions and slang, sorry, I will work on it.

The one versus one duals were easy enough. My opponents were little more than gun slinging American cowboys, who thought they were actually good at fighting. All I had to do was use Stealth until I got close, and then cut their head off. I told no one about Sterben, and him seeing Kayaba. It still scared me, and I had no idea why. 'Today is the Battle Royal' I thought. 'Ten way battle to the death'. This is going to be fun. I walked into the hospital room, lay on the bed without co planning about taking my shirt off, got hooked up, and entered GGO.

"Link start!"

I sat in the exact same chairs before, preparing mentally for the task at hand. My mind kept wandering back to Sterben, and I could not think properly. 'Ugh' I thought. 'Oh well, I am not good at forming plans, I am good at winging things' I noticed Sinon beside me, fiddling with her menu. As I was thinking, a pair of tough looking men walked up.

"Hey, beautiful, what's up?" One of the, said. I gave him a bored expression.

"How about you come with me?" He continued. I was about to speak, but Sinon beat me to it.

"Leave her alone" wow, even Sinon thought I was a girl. I hate this avatar.

"Shut it, you ain't my boss!" He said in his thick cowboy accent. I stood.

"Shut the fuck up, you gun slinging, mother fucking piece of shit excuse for a human" all three stared at me in surprise. "I am not going with you. Get out of my face" they grumbled and glared, but walked away.

"You have guts, girl" she whispered. I groaned internally.

"Sinon, can we talk in private?" I asked her, serious all of a sudden. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, but she nodded, and lead the way to a closed room. The inside was empty.

"Sinon, please don't be mad." I opened my menu, and flipped it around for her to look.

"Why should I be mad? Okay, you have a lot of Agility and Intelligence, and you have a super high level…"

"Look at my profile." I hung my head.

I am guessing she did, because she gasped. I lifted my head a fraction, and looked at her eyes. They only a moment ago had joy, and friendship. I had gotten her to actually speak to me.

"I can't fool someone I count as a friend, that is against my beliefs." I said, shame making my voice crack. "I am sorry."

"I am a friend?" She asked. I nodded, head still down.

"Please don't be mad" I said.

"You were honest." She said, finality in her voice. She sounded indecisive, but final. "And those people were jerks…." she said. "I cannot be mad at you. But do not think I will show you mercy in the Battle Royal" she walked out.

'Oh thank whatever! At least she didn't get angry' I thought.

"You handled that well" I turned to see Kayaba. "You did good, she will most likely stay your friend."

I nodded. "At least I didn't screw that up" he nodded.

"That Battle Royal is about to start, I would go out there." I ran out, not wanting to miss the rules. I made it just in time.

"Now, it is time! The Battle Royal!" Shouted the man on the screens. A map appeared behind him. "You will fight within this abandoned city, and the surrounding area. To the north, mountains, south, and desert. East, jungle, west, forest. You can fight anywhere within this area. Every fifteen minutes, a satellite will pass overhead, and will give you the locations of all other players, but only for a minute. Objective: be the last one standing! Good luck!" We were force teleported.

I spawned back in that forest. 'Ahh, that is where those maps were from'. I looked up, and saw a countdown in big black numbers, it was at ten, and going down. 'Sinon will go for the city, for its high grounds. I opened my menu, and under my objective, I saw all of their names:

Sinon

Tryth

Sterben

Angelgun

Donshoto

TheExorcist

KurosakiIchigo (wow, just why?)

SunDeath

Archerclassyeahboi!

Suckthis.

'Wow, those are some pretty creative names.' I thought. 'Let's do this!'

Sinon spawned. She was in the north, almost at the city's edge. 'Good' she thought. 'let's do this'. The timer ran out, and she dashed into the city, not caring about stealth. She quickly found the tallest building, and started heading up the stairs inside. 'Good this I upped my agi stat, or this might take forever' at the top, she walked around, and chose a room at random. She opened the door…

She saw someone standing there, waiting for her. It was 'Archerclassyeahboi!' 'Oh shit'

"I have been waiting for you!" He said, and was raising his SMG. 'Shit' she thought again, and dropped onto her stomach. As she was falling, she drew her own SMG, and rolled mid air, onto her back. She rolled across the floor, bullets punching holes right behind her. She stopped when the shots stopped, and the gun clicked, signaling it was out. She smiled. Standing, she raised her SMG. 'Die' she unloaded her clip. Archerclassyeahboi exploded into blue polygons. 'Overkill, but, who cares? It's not my Hecate, so it doesn't matter'. She sat, and took only a moment to collect her breath. Then standing, she walked to a window. This room was a corner room on the building, so there were two windows. She moved a desk to the center of the room, and laid down upon it. 'Now, they can't see me, but I can see them!' Then she got an idea. Everyone is allowed to have a primary, a secondary, and a tertiary. Primaries are usually rifles, and LMGs. Secondaries are pistols and SMGs, and tertiaries are grenades, mines, and such. Some people dual wielded pistols, and both pistols only took up their primary slot, allowing another weapon, but not many. For her tertiary, she had motion activated cameras. This allowed her to put a camera wherever she wants, and if anyone moves in front of the lense, a screen will appear in front of one of her eyes, showing what happened. These came in handy for a sniper, for they do not pay attention to their surroundings when looking for prey.

She set these motion cameras in all of the staircases, at the bottom, so if they were triggered, she would have a heads up.

Smiling, she went back to the room she had chosen. After setting her rifle on a bi-pod, she lay on the desk, and waited. 'I will win. I am strong. I am Sinon.' She had participated in the previous years' BOB. She lost in the first round, but then she had a bolt action Smith and Wesson. Now she has a semi automatic Hecate, that is an almost guaranteed kill in one shot, and where above the waist.

She waited.

After a few minutes, her watch beeped. She sat up, and tapped it. A map of the arena appeared, with ten dots. Most were in the mountains. 'Let that kill each other.' One was dangerously close to her. But if he decides to get within her view, he will die. She lay back down after looking a little longer, and resumed waiting.

Her earpiece beeped. A screen appeared showing a feminine figure without a large gun running up the stairs. She sighed. 'So, Tryth hunted me down? Okay, I will greet him'. She got up, walked into the hallway. She stood about one hundred feet from the staircase Tryth will be coming out. 'I said no mercy'. She thought. "Get ready to die" she said allowed, but quietly.

"Okay, I a, ready" she heard behind her. She whipped around and saw him there. 'Damn! I forgot he had a Stealth Skill!'