Jesús: "And…I'm back…another chapter so let's get to it." [Disclaimer] "I don't own the RF series, or anything that I hint to in this story, everything is completely fan-made so don't kill me."

Ch. 3

Raguna POV

I've been training in the Green Ruins for 3 days now. Tomorrow is the day of the tournament, I can't wait. Using Linker must be amazing.

-Next morning-

"Raguna Wake Up! You Got 10 Min. Before You Have To Go To School!" My mom called out to me knocking on my door.

"What! Ten Minutes!" I yelled and got dressed right away. "Sorry mom kinda slept through my alarm." I said when I got to the dining room to eat breakfast.

"Well you better hurry you're down to five minutes." She said

"What? Five minutes? I'm not too hungry, I need to leave now. I know I'll take Kin with me." I said as I picked up a sandwich and ran out. "Come on Kin!" I said and got on Kin to get to school faster since I could ride Kin and she ran three times faster than me.

I made it to school right on time some of the other students looked at me amazed and scared of the fact I had a Silver Wolf.

"Don't worry. Is well trained." I said to everyone as I tied Kin up on a nearby tree and went to class.

There were five classes a day and to my great luck first period was history. Worst subject. Meh, I didn't care, I had a feeling something was going to happen today.

"Well Hello class!" the teacher called out on her cheerful happy-go-lucky tone. "How was everyone's break? I hope awesome. But the fun has just begun, school is back." She said and everyone in the class groaned. "Aw…I see, you didn't miss the best teacher in the world?"

"I did miss Mr. Ray." One of the boys in the class said referring to the PE teacher and everyone laughed. Even the teacher.

"You little rascal. I should give you detention for that, but I won't…" the teacher said jokingly "…Anyway, I have some news today. We have a new student that will be joining us from today forth. Please come on in." the teacher said and in walked a girl.

Everyone looked at her. The girls amazed with her long red hair. Some of the guys said that she looked Cute. Every other student, not just guys, said she looked "cool"…kinda makes me wonder what they meant.

"Hi…Cinnamon…" the girl said and bowed her head.

"Hey Raguna!" I heard whispering from behind me. "Don't you feel like you've seen her before?" Uzuki asked.

"Now that you mention it, yeah. But trust me, I'd remember a girl like her." I said with a smile on my face I didn't know I had.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Uzuki asked, she sounded a little angry.

"I just mean her personality seems easy to remember." I said nervously covering the fact I did find her a bit cute.

"Well everyone, this is Cinnamon Weiss (A/N: pronounced like "Vice") her family just moved into this city and by what her school record said, this is her first time actually going to school. But her IQ is above 200" The teacher said surprised "So everyone please look after her. Let's see your seat will be…"

'Why do I have the feeling is gonna be near me?' I though

"…Um, Raguna can you raise your hand?" she asked

'Called it! Why does this feels like an overused Cliché?' I said and before I got to raise my hand Cinnamon was standing next to my desk.

"How did you know it was him? Do you know him?" the teacher asked

"Sort of" Cinnamon replied

"Well then get the seat to his right." The teacher replied and the class continued/started.

After four classes there was only one more to go…Math, or "Mental Abuse to Humans."

"I just wish school was out already…" I said

"Calm down. What are you so in a hurry for?" Uzuki asked

"I want to get ready for the tournament." I said

Soon enough the class started. The teacher right away said hello to Cinnamon since it was the first time meeting her and then went on with class.

'Man I don't understand this' I said to myself tapping my pencil.

"You have to divide 32 by the square root of 16 and then subtract by 8." I heard a voice.

"Huh?" I said looking in the direction of the voice, Cinnamon was looking at my paper.

"Also #3 is wrong you got 13 the answer is -13. Other than that everything else is right."

"Um…thanks…" I said and made the correction I was told and noticed she was done with her work. 'What a weird girl. She must really have an IQ of at least 200 to answer this so quickly.'

The bell rang soon after that and I packed my things up quickly.

"Ready?" Uzuki asked

"Are you kidding me? I wanted to be out of here as soon as I got here." I replied

"Excuse me…" we heard Cinnamon's voice

"Yes? How can we help you?" I said

"Father told me to go to the Downtown Square. Can you help me go there?" Cinnamon said

"Sure. We're going there anyway." Uzuki said

"I wonder why they decided to name it "Downtown Square" you have to go up a hill to get to it." I said and Uzuki laughed, Cinnamon stayed quiet.

"What's wrong? That's was pretty funny wasn't it?" Uzuki asked

"Fun, Action or words that make someone smile. Yes, it was fun." Cinnamon said. Uzuki seemed a bit irritated

"Well then let's go. We don't want to be late. At least Uzuki and I don't" I said and we all walked to town to go to the square.

Once in the square Uzuki and I said goodbye to Cinnamon and went to the contest.

"Oh yeah, Cinnamon do you mind looking after Kin while I'm busy?" I asked before she went to the stands.

"Ok…" she replied and Kin went to her.

"Alright everyone. Are you all ready for the PVP Tournament of "Dungeon Crawl"?" the announcer said into the microphone "All contestants please come over here onto these beds and take your positions."

I got to the bed with my number. There were 16 people on the tournament. There it was the helmet known as Linker, I would be able to use it and probably even win it to play my videogames from now on… (A/N: if you haven't noticed or don't know. "Linker" is a reference to the "Nerve Gear" for the Anime/Manga "Sword Art Online" or SAO for short.)

"Alright everyone. Once I say go everyone will randomly spawn somewhere in the digital world of "Dungeon Crawler." We, the non-contestants will be able to see everything that happens in the game on the screens next to each corresponding bed. Each player will be disqualified when their life reach 0 and they will come back here. Now contestants please say "Synch" to enter the starting menu and you can make your avatars. I'll give further explanations in a second." The announcer said

"Synch!" I said and went into the virtual menu. It said to put in the basic info such as Gender, Name, and then it sent to the Character outlook screen. I tried to make the character look as close as possible as I was in real life. After that I was sent to the Weapon selection screen, there they had many choices, but I couldn't find Dual-wield swords. "I guess I'll use this one." I said to myself and chose the regular sword, a light broadsword.

"Alright everyone can you hear me?" I heard the announcer's voice "This is a special microphone connected to the system so people outside can talk to you. I will make a count down and when I say go everyone say the words "Full Dive" and the game will start. Once in the game walk around the whole area looking for the other players and try to take each other down. I keep you all on track of who is been eliminated. Good luck everyone and may the best player win. 3…2…1…GO!"

"Full Dive!" I said and then everything went bright.

Jesús: "So yeah. Done, as you can all tell from the small author note I made when talking about the Linker this chapter. I have been watching SAO and am really into it. I thought, "this is a new generation many years in the future of the original characters so why not." Anyway, hope you all enjoyed and come back next time for a new chapter and the start/end of this tournament. Please leave a review telling me what you think of the story either so far or as a whole and see ya!"