I was on the plane and almost every student was shouting field trip repeatedly as the plane took off. The students weren't all like this until Jake started shouting field trip to the left of me. He was excited because he had never been to Japan. All the students were going to be staying at a hotel. The whole class was excited and I couldn't lie I was very excited too. The problem is after we land we will be taking buses to place to place and we will only be in my town for one day. I planned on spending that entire day with Sugu. But the rest of the time was going to be with the class on tours. Even though I knew Japan. We would get a few hours of free time each day and I planned on using that for playing the Japanese version of Alfhiem.

The plane bumped and I clenched onto my chair. I still was afraid of planes, but with Jake it was a little better. He was very cheerful and never let a conversation die. He took the window seat next to me. On the other side Shiro was sitting down at the end so he could talk to me. He constantly kept me distracted from the plane by talking about Alfhiem and some of the unique quests he has went on. Alfhiem was controlled by a program that would create randomly generated quests. It was a system that made Alfhiem unique from other VRMMOs. It always had something new to do and with the fact that players get some form that is unique to them once they hit max level made the game a whole lot more popular then it was. It seemed there wasn't a day when something new wasn't found in Alfhiem. The game went up the list to number one in popularity with second being GGO. Alfhiem was also one of the hardest games to be the best at because there are so many things that are unique that players can obtain.

It was hard to find a story in alfhiem that can be heard somewhere else. Shiro is the only person who I know who has tried to do a quest that has been completed. Apparently there is a cabin in the frozen region. In this cabin, there is a girl looking for company and there was no adventure that could satisfy her need for company. That is until recently on boards there was a post that an adventure had complete the mission and has gotten the only legendary halberd that there is in alfhiem for the time being. Shiro uses halberds so he has tried to do the mission that the guy has completed hundreds of times and got rejected on his final time.

On my side I told Shiro about SAO. He wasn't one of the players so he had just heard about it. So I told him about all of the stories that I had about that game. All, but one. The plane ride didn't nearly take as long as the last time, or at least it didn't seem like it. We were already off the plane and we had a volunteer take my bags to the hotel the school was staying at. The hotel had the same look as the dorms… except it had white walls and floors… my favorite. I made my way to the elevator and to my room. The class had nothing planned for today so I planned on going straight to Alfhiem. I got help from Jake my roommate to help me in bed as I put on the headset. I logged in. everything was replaced with the world of alfhiem and I had a target. I had to get people for my new guild

Once I got into the game I instantly made my way to the boards. I wanted to see if there were any rumors that could lead to a quest that no one has completed yet. There was something interesting that I had found on that board. There was a strong player that stood by a tree at three. This player was referred to a Zekken and had a special skill where she strikes once and hits eleven times.

I quickly made my way to the tree because it was already two-forty-five

Luckily I was able to make it. Zekken was a girl she was the imp race and she was fast.

She took people out so fast I would blink and she would already be on the next fight. Her health never went below 80% and she had composure. I was getting excited. Fight after fight I kept getting closer until I was the next one to battle. I just had to wait as she mopped the floor with a player. I was on my Japanese account so I was on a character I was comfortable using unlike the American one. I checked my equipment as she destroyed her opponent. It was my turn now I equipped a sword in my left and a small one handed crossbow in my right.

The prize for beating her was her skill. I planned on winning at taking that skill I walked up to her and she saw the look in my eyes and smiled.

"So how do you want to battle" she smirked pulling down her screen.

"Standard rules" I replied readying my weapons. She laughed and replied with an ok as she started the timer.

The timer clicked slowly as we stared into each other's eyes. Once the timer finished she was the first to charge. She took note that I had a crossbow and because of that I would have a hard time close up. What she didn't know is that I don't care if anyone tries to fight me close up. I can fight that way too. She slashed vertically and I used the steel end on my crossbow to block. While our weapons clashed I took a swing at her from my sword. She jumped back but the blow was able to take fabric from her armor. I didn't score any damage, but I left a message. I was better then anyone she has faced so far. I wasn't going to lose to such simple tactics.

She looked at the torn fabric and her smirk got bigger. She got into a ready position and gave me the "bring it on" gesture. She was enticing me to fire at her. I couldn't lie her smirking cocky attitude made me want to fire at her so bad that I did it. I fired, but she didn't move from her spot. She cut the arrow through the middle as it came near her and let me say crossbow arrows don't go slow. It was an amazing feet if you were able to cut one while it was fired at you. Once she cut the arrow the two pieces went off course hitting two different spots of ground behind her making a cloud of dust that covered the field. I fired another shot, but this time I followed the arrow if she planned on blocking the arrow she had me to deal with this time. charging at her I loaded another arrow because reloading wasn't a problem for small crossbows. She dodged the arrow by sidestepping to the left and charged at me. I swing down she dodged it by ducking. She stabbed, but I didn't dodge. I took the blow on purpose. The blade went through my side. She wouldn't be able to move now. I charged a skill and plunged my blade into her knee going all the way through and lodging the blade into the ground. I locked her in place. She took her blade out of me, but it was too late. My cross bow was

Already pointed at her heart. I fired. This would have wine me the duel, but she cut her leg off so that she could move. She rolled dodging the arrow. Charging her special skill and lunged at me. I didn't want to go out like this so I whispered

"Shark drake mode" a blue aura covered me and shaped into a shark like cloak. I then took her blade with my teeth. Charging an ice skill through my crossbow. My bow took on a form and was covered in the same cloak as me.

I was going to win this time she had no leg to dodge this one and if she wanted to leave she would have to drop her sword giving me the match.

System disconnected. I read in front of my face.

The world of Alfhiem was pulled away from me forcefully and I was force knot the real world. I took of the headset and sat up.

There was a teacher with the headset's port in his hand

He stood there with a sorry look on his face.

"Sorry, but it's lights out"

I didn't realize what time it was and had forgotten about lights out... Crap.