Chapter 13: Good-Bye Ragnarök
Faiadrodo hovered in the air. "Not so fast!" Eric yelled as he activated his wings and took to the sky after Faiadrodo.
"Yes come at me." Faiadrodo said with a laugh.
"Gladly!" Eric roared as he started swinging wildly at Faiadrodo. Faiadrodo blocked a few hits and was to slow to block others. His HP was slowly dropping. "I need to strike harder!" Eric shouted as he picked up the speed and power of his slashes. Eric started aiming at where he was slashing. Faiadrodo started flying away, Eric flew after him.
"I will be defeated, I can see it now." Faiadrodo said as he landed on the ground. Eric landed on the ground and was closing in on Faiadrodo. "So I'll just bring you with me." Faiadrodo said as he swung his sword at Eric, Eric swung with the same pace and strength. Right before Faiadrodo and Eric's swords touched Faiadrodo's sword turned to goo and allowed Eric's sword to go right through it and when it was past the goo reformed into the sword.
'Crap! He can't block but now neither can I!' Eric thought as he tried pulling up his other sword but he wouldn't make it in time. Eric closed his eyes and felt his sword dig into Faiadrodo and heard him burst into triangles, But Eric's HP wasn't dropping.
"You can open your eyes now." Sinon said. Eric opened his eyes and saw that Sinon was standing next to him and had the sword she was using extended in front of him and it had caught Faiadrodo's sword.
"Whew, thanks for saving me." Eric said with a laugh.
"No problem, and here's your sword back." Sinon said as she handed Eric his orange sword back. Eric took it and smiled.
"We did it guys." Kirito said as him and Asuna stepped next to Eric and Sinon.
"Ragnarök self-destruction in 5 minutes." The computer announced as all the players bodies revived and was on the ground.
"Oh no, they were revived but they are offline meaning they will die when Ragnarök disappears, quick text the others to get online and send a message across the game forums!" Eric shouted. Asuna started sending messages while Eric, Kirito, and Sinon activated their wings. The three of them picked up some players and started flying back through the caves towards the portal. After 3 minutes many players were online and helping carry other players to safety, and while people could leave Ragnarök through the portal the other side of the portal wouldn't let people in. Kirito and his friends were standing in front of the portal. "There's just over a minute left and still 2 players left at the castle, I'll go save them." Eric said while breathing heavy.
"You're tired, I'm gonna come with you and help." Kirito said.
"Sinon, Asuna, Hunter, Silica, Klein, Lisbeth, and Leafa ya'll should go through the portal just in case we don't make it in time." Eric said. Klein, Lisbeth, and Leafa went through the portal and after Kirito talked to her Asuna went through the portal too.
"I'm sorry bro, you know I would help you, but I want to keep my stuff and not chance death." Hunter said.
"I know dude, go and be safe." Eric said with a smile as he gave Hunter a thumbs up. Hunter and Silica jumped into the portal, but Sinon stayed.
"I'm not gonna leave you, if you die so do I." Sinon said. Eric walked over to Sinon and hugged her. "W-What are you doing? We should not waste time, we need to go save those players." Sinon said. Eric lifted her off the ground and walked towards the portal. "Oh no! Don't you dare!" Sinon yelled trying to get away from Eric.
"Sorry, but I don't want to have to worry about you." Eric said as he let go of Sinon and gently pushed her through the portal. "Welp she's gonna kill me." Eric said as him and Kirito activated their wings and took off towards the castle.
"You did what you thought was best to protect her." Kirito said.
"Yeah, but now I got to worry about what she's gonna do to me because of it." Eric said with a gulp. Kirito just laughed. Eric and Kirito reached the castle and grabbed the 2 last players and took off back to the portal. "Time's running out! And my wings are almost timed out!" Eric shouted.
"Then we should go as fast as we can!" Kirito yelled. Kirito and Eric flew as fast as the game would let them and got through the portal at the last second. Eric and Kirito stood up on the ground as everyone around cheered.
"Ragnarök's over." Eric said with a smile. "Hey, where's Sinon?" Eric asked as him and Kirito walked over to the others.
"She already logged out, she looked mad." Hunter replied.
"Welp then I guess I should log off as well, bye." Eric said as he walked to the nearby hotel and logged off. Eric sighed with his eyes closed as he laid on his bed not even bothering to take off his amusphere. 'What a rough battle.' Eric thought. Suddenly Eric felt his amusphere get pull off, he opened his eyes and Sinon sat his amusphere on his bedside table.
"H-Hey Asada, me and Kirito saved those two guys and made it out alive, that's great right?" Eric asked nervously. Sinon punched his arm.
"Never pull that crap again got it?" Sinon asked as Eric rubbed his arm.
"Yup, got it, understood." Eric replied.
"But thanks for looking out for me." Sinon said as she hugged Eric.
'A punch in the arm is a small price to pay for a hug.' Eric thought with a smile. Sinon stopped and sat on his bed.
"Well Ragnarök's over now, ALO Is safe for the time being." Sinon said.
"So it seems." Eric said as he sat up on his bed.
"And it's still the weekend so we don't have school tomorrow." Sinon said.
"I have a sudden craving for some baked goods, I'm gonna walk to the nearby bakery." Eric said as he got out of his bed.
"Oh, get me something to?" Sinon asked as she watched Eric stepped to the door.
"Of course." Eric answered with a smile before walking downstairs and leaving the house. Sinon left his room and went to the living room to watch some TV. After a few minutes the door bell rung. Sinon paused the TV and opened the door. Two guys stood there, they were both tall. One had long purple hair, black eyes, a tattoo on the underside of his left wrist of a snake eating itself, he was wearing blue jeans, black shoes, and had a dark purple jacket with it's hoodie up. The other one had short spikey black hair, dark blue eyes, and he was wearing camo pants, brown boots, and a red T-shirt.
"I'm sorry we must have the wrong address." The guy with purple hair said.
"He might live here, just cause a girl answered the door doesn't mean anything. You know he might have a friend over or something." The black haired one said.
"Does Eric live here?" The purple haired one asked.
"Uh… yeah." Sinon answered.
"See?" The black haired one said.
"Well that's surprising." The purple haired one said.
"There a problem here gentlemen?" Eric asked as he stood behind them.
"Yeah there is, you didn't tell us you had a friend over." The purple haired guy replied as he turned around. Eric's eyes went wide.
"I didn't think ya'll would get here until a few more days." Eric said with a smile. "Welcome to Japan, Uncle Jimmy and Uncle Jason." Eric said. "How about all of us head inside?" Eric asked.
"Yeah sounds good." The black haired guy said. All of them went inside.
"Asada this is my uncle Jimmy." Eric said as he pointed to the black haired guy. "And that's uncle Jason." Eric said as he pointed to the purple haired guy.
"Nice to meet ya'll." Sinon said.
"Nice to meet you too." Jimmy said.
"What's your WIFI password?" Jason asked as he took out his laptop. Eric told him the password and got everyone a glass of water.
"So where are you two gonna stay?" Eric asked.
"Well we found a nice hotel to stay in." Jimmy answered.
"Good, Later on we can discuss the important stuff. But for now I wanna relax." Eric said.
"Alright, well me and Jason are gonna go settle into the hotel." Jimmy said.
"sounds good, bye." Eric said as they left.
"What important stuff?" Sinon asked as Eric grabbed the bag from the bakery.
"Well it's not really that important, I just label it like that. It's nothing really." Eric lied. 'I hate not telling her, but if she knew she might try to stop me from doing it. Laughing coffin must pay! I'm sorry Asada but I can't tell you yet, not until I know laughing coffin ain't a problem no more.' Eric thought as he handed Sinon some of the snacks he bought.
"If you say so." Sinon said. 'He is hiding something. But what?' Sinon asked herself in thought. Eric's phone started ringing.
"Hello?" Eric asked.
"Hey man, are you and Asada busy tomorrow?" Kirito asked.
"Asada, are we busy tomorrow?" Eric asked. Sinon shook her head no as she ate some snacks. "Nope." Eric replied.
"Cool, wanna join me and Asuna for a double date at the waterpark?" Kirito asked.
"…sure." Eric said.
"We are doing it tomorrow, can you come pick me and Asuna up at about 6:00am?" Kirito asked.
"Why that early?" Eric asked kinda shocked.
"That way we don't have that much of a line." Kirito answered.
"Makes since, at least make it easy on me and have her at your house ok?" Eric asked.
"Deal man, see you tomorrow." Kirito said.
"See you tomorrow." Eric said before ending the call.
"What did he want?" Sinon asked.
"We're going to have a double date with Kirito and Asuna at a waterpark tomorrow, that ok?" Eric asked.
"Of course." Sinon said with a smile.
"We should go to bed kinda early tonight, we're going to pick them up at 6:00am." Eric said.
"Alright." Sinon said. Eric's phone rang again.
"Hello?" Eric asked.
"Yeah, mind if me and Jason come over tonight?" Jimmy asked.
"I guess not, why though?" Eric asked.
"Well the whole hotel is being bug sprayed so we need to crash there for the night." Jimmy answered.
"Alright, ya'll can use my second guestroom." Eric said.
"Thanks, be there later." Jimmy said before hanging up.
"Now what?" Sinon asked.
"The hotel is being bug sprayed so Jimmy and Jason are crashing in the other guestroom tonight." Eric explained.
"Oh." Sinon said. Eric and Sinon went about the day like usual, and at 9:00pm Sinon went to bed. At about 11:22pm Sinon woke up after a nightmare. "I-I need a glass of water after that." Sinon said as she shook her head. She opened her door and went downstairs to find Jimmy and Eric at the table playing some type of card game and Jason on the couch typing away on his laptop. "Eric?" Sinon asked. Eric put his cards down and looked at her.
"Hey Asada, what you doing up?" Eric asked.
"I had a nightmare that's all, just coming to grab a glass of water." Sinon replied. Eric walked over to Sinon and hugged her.
"Alright well if you need anything let me know, I'll be up for a bit." Eric said.
"Thanks, what card game are you and Jimmy playing?" Sinon asked as Eric went and sat back down.
"Yu-Gi-Oh, It's an anime about a card game and a real card game." Eric answered.
"Wow, can I watch?" Sinon asked.
"Sure." Eric said. Sinon pulled a chair next to Eric and sat down, she saw in his hand he had some brown cards, purple cards, and one green card.
"These are monster, trap, and spell cards." Eric said as he noticed Sinon looking at them. Sinon just smiled and nodded. "This duel is over uncle jimmy, for I have all 5 pieces of the forbidden one." Eric said with a wide grin.
"Well that was an interesting match." Jimmy said as Eric laid down the 5 cards.
"Totally, hey Asada if you want I'm sure uncle Jimmy would be happy to teach you how to play." Eric said.
"I would love to teach a new player." Jimmy said.
"Well if it's no problem then I wouldn't mind learning." Sinon said as Eric got up and let her sit in his chair.
"Here I'll get you a cup of water and a good starting deck." Eric said as he walked off. Eric walked back after a few minutes holding a cup of water and a deck box. Eric handed Sinon the water and gave the deck to Jimmy, Jimmy shuffled his deck and the starter deck. "I'm gonna go chat with Jason, let me know how ya'll duels turn out." Eric said with a smile before walking to the couch. After Jimmy explained all about the cards and the rules, him and Sinon dueled.
"So if I understand this right I tribute my rainbow fish to summon; Summon Skull and attack your life points directly finishing you off." Sinon said.
"Indeed, you got me beat." Jimmy said.
"Hey Eric, I won my first duel." Sinon said.
"Awesome, what you think of the game?" Eric asked.
"It's really fun, I want to duel you now." Sinon said.
"Oh really?" Eric asked.
"Yeah, I'll beat you too." Sinon said with a smile.
"Getting cocky now aren't Ya?" Eric asked playfully as Jimmy got out the chair and let Eric sit down. Eric shuffled both decks and they started the duel. After a few minutes the duel was still going. 'Man she is a natural at this game, my life points are low, but if I can draw the last piece of the forbidden one I can win.' Eric thought with a smirk. Sinon drew her next card and smiled.
"I win." Sinon said.
"Nani?" Eric asked.
"I sacrifice my Giant soldier of stone and Summon skull to bring out Blue eyes White Dragon." Sinon said as she summoned him to the field.
"Oh no." Eric said with wide eyes.
"I attack your monster and destroy it and look at that the leftover damage that goes to your life points is enough to finish you." Sinon said.
"Game over, you win." Eric said with a laugh.
"Well it's been fun but it's really late and we have to be up early so I'm going back to bed, you should do the same Eric." Sinon said.
"I will shortly." Eric said.
"Thanks for teaching me how to play Jimmy." Sinon said.
"No problem, hope to duel again one day." Jimmy said.
"Goodnight everyone." Sinon said before walking upstairs. Eric smiled and stood up and stretched. Jimmy smiled at him.
"Oh not you too." Eric said as he noticed. "Having Kirito on my case is bad enough." Eric said remembering all the times Kirito has messed with him.
"I didn't say anything, but it is late and you should also head to bed." Jimmy said.
"Wow everyone's trying to send me to bed, at least you're on my side right Jason?" Eric asked.
"Go to bed." Jason replied. Eric gasped.
"Fine, I'm not wanted here." Eric said with a laugh. "Goodnight Ya'll." Eric said as he walked upstairs and headed to bed.