What if the first attempt to escape the first floor failed? Heroes die, survivors carry on and attempt to clear the game. Will feature characters from various SAO series and will not follow canon.

Using all his power, Kirito was barely able to save the lives of his guildmates, but his guilt of putting them in danger drove him to leave them anyways. However, he did not have to return to be a solo player, as there is someone who will always stay by his side. "Nothing is your fault," she assured him as they left together. (Kirito x Sachi)

Sword Art Online is an MMORPG world, the first of its kind. 10000 people rush over to play it, and a special 1000 of them were lucky enough to be beta testers. It is revealed that this game isn't much of a game, all our young Mc can do is keep on running. His speed is unmatched but can he run away from hell and back into his own problems? This beta got some interesting times ahead.

Re-imagining of the 2018 video game Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet. Many years have passed since Kunai Muuno last heard from his childhood friend, and now she calls up asking for him to play Gun Gale Online with her. A dark past with VRMMOs keeps Kunai away from them, but this time has to be different... Kunai joins GGO hoping to find peace with what he has been running from...

Cyber Nexus Online, one of the many VRMMOs created from The Seed package. A futuristic world of swords, guns, androids, and everything in-between. Follow the adventures of one of the game's veteran players Tae, as well as the friends he makes along the way.

A rewrite of my story I Will Not Bow, going through Aincrad floor by floor. Sword Art Online was a revolutional game, with Ren being one of the ten thousand people logging on. But when the game turns into a deadly nightmare, he will have to fight for his freedom, making friends of all sorts along the way. Will he make it out, or die trying?

In one universe, Argo is delayed from starting a quest on the 22nd floor by a scam involving smuggled potions. In this universe, she isn't. One week later, Kirito and Asuna rescue her.

The story is based on the game SAO integral factor in where you roleplay as a player trapped in the death game along 10,000 other players, the story goes with fanmade plot points, some changes were made as well as dialogues, the story is based on (You) the main protagonist and your partner Koharu Honda, will you be able tu survive along with her and your friends and return home?

On the morning of her 21st birthday, Sinon plans to take her own life. She can't stand the nightmares, and all she wants to do is forget. Will she go through with it?

Hosaka C. Tomo and Kirigaya Kazuto were beta testers for Sword Art Online, going by the screennames "Argo" and "Kirito." Even before SAO's death game, they were friends of an eccentric sort. Despite their quirks and misgivings, they have each other's backs. Whatever form that might take. Nonconsecutive episodic short stories. (KiriArgo Week 2021)

A Knights of the Blood member's brief yet horrifying encounter with evil drives him to take action against those who have wronged him, leading to the creation of a team dedicated to weeding out and eliminating player killers. However, he eventually discovers that his true enemies may lie where he least suspects them to.

A young boy is forced to become the next Integrity Knight, but he is determined to choose his own fate, and even the Axiom Church might not be able to control him forever.

Of the ten thousand players trapped in the game of Death, four went unrecorded, their story unremembered, a legend that may not be quite how you recall… this is that legend… Original story written by Reki Kawahara Fanfiction Written by Will, A very Nerdy Clarinetist

In an attempt to reconnect with Kazuto, Suguha purchases a nerve gear and a copy of SAO so that she might understand her brother's world. But Leafa becomes one of the ten thousand people trapped in the game, and the stakes are suddenly so much higher. And the more things change, the more things remain the same…

Remnants of the Death Game still linger within ALO and New Aincrad. One such remnant is still within the digital prison, unable to return to the mortal realm, forever trapped and doomed to suffer for eternity. That is, until Kirito and Asuna are informed of their existence...

"Going into a dungeon? Fighting monsters? And getting dirty?" The merchant in silks laughed. "Why do that when you can hire mercenaries to do the job?" Kazuto Kirigaya doesn't like fighting, he likes making money. Much safer than swinging a sword at monsters, yuck! Besides, that was what his fearless Asuna was for anyway. KiriHarem (Argo, Asuna, Sinon)

After the First Floor Boss Fight, Kirito deals with Kibaou in a different way. This leads to him meeting a number of Players who play SAO in their own unique ways. AU which diverges significantly from Canon. Chapter 2 and 3 up

Kirito, Asuna, Jaymes, and Koharu continue their progression up the lower levels of Aincrad and embark on the Elf War Campaign with their new friend Kizmel. Up ahead lies three new levels, more fighting between the DKB and ALS, a new party member from Asuna's past, a dangerous enemy of the elves, and a rising of players that seek to make death part of the game.

The tale of the Black Swordsman, a mischievous Rat, and the water Shinobi; before they were renowned by those names by both sides of the coin before they were faced with a monumental task, they were just Beta Testers, misfits. The story of Kirito, Argo, and Nagi began long before the Death Game and the memories throughout Aincrad.

Tired of spending a life studying to reach an empty future, Asuna enters Sword Art Online, a world of swords and airships, to gain some measure of freedom. When she is trapped, she throws herself into building a new life for herself, as far from what her parents intended as she can. Meeting a dark swordsman sets her on a new course, in Aincrad's skies...

"I will ALWAYS be with you… Kirito…" Asuna and Kirito belong together no matter the game, world, or AU. They've gone through so much that even doesn't quite meet the outsider's eyes and yet they always prevail no matter the situation and no matter the cost. Note: I accept requests, just don't expect them to be done right away XD (ACTIVE since JUNE 13th)

In an Aincrad where bows were added to the game in the beta-test 16 year old Akira Miller is trapped in the world of Aincrad with his girlfriend Kya and younger sister Aki. After tragedy strikes in game he's saved by the famous Asuna Lightning Flash. After this the Black Archer is born, with his friends the Black Swordsman and Lightning Flash they'll fight to beat the death game

Kirigaya "Kirito" Kazuto had every intention of playing Sword Art Online as a solo player. When he unexpectedly makes friends on launch day, the resulting bonds and friendships will forever change the fate of Aincrad as the lone wolf becomes a pack leader. To survive and escape the Death Game, Kirito and his friends will need to be unbreakable. Steadfast. Unyielding.

Just when they believe their lives would return to normal, Kirito, Asuna, Jaymes, and their friends are plunged into a new game that mysteriously fusion of other games. With only their best weapons, currently equipped armor, and skill of the highest proficiency brought over, the first order of business for the separated friends is to survive and reunite in a brand new game.

What happens when you put a 'bloody fool of an Englishman' in Sword Art Online? This, apparently. Based loosely off Integral Factor at times, but I'll probably be making my own story later on.