Arc 2; Alfheim Online, Ep 1; Return
While I had been resting in the hospital I was able to walk after a few weeks had gone by after the Death Game had been cleared early. My family was happy that I was alive and not a victim of death from the game. From those weeks I learned Kirito was alive somehow, but I was glad he is. However that was only the good news, the sad news I got was that Asuna as well as 300 others haven't even woken up. The good thing is that she is alive, but how she is like this is still unknown. Oh also my name is Jeffrey Jackson in the real world, and I do live in America. Though my family wanted to move to Japan for the other building of my Dad's Family company.
After a few weeks in the hospital he was able to walk again but he stumbles a bit a few times. Although there was someone he wanted to see for a long while. He gets to the door and the name of the patient showed 'Selena Knighton' in Japanese. As he was about to knock a nurse came out.
"Oh? Sorry are you visiting Miss Knighton?" the nurse asks him
"Yea, I know her from inside the game." He replies
"Very well, you may go in." She moves aside and he walks into the room as he could see the person on the bed and looking out the window, he goes over and sits on the bed and he looks at her.
"It's been two years since we have gone through the game… and now we are finally out." The girl says and he smiles
"Yea, I'm glad we are able to be here now." He tells her and she turns to him with a question.
"Since we are here, how about telling me your name." She tells him
"Right, my name is Jeffrey Jackson. I go by Jeff a lot." He tells her
"I'm Selena Knighton, I'm so happy to have met you Jeff!" She says happily
"Same to you Selena." He says to her then remembered something. "Oh I also think you sent a message to me just before the game ended, I wasn't able to read it when something really important happened." Selena blushed remembering she sent a message to him while Kayaba's identity was found out.
"Jeff… when you saved me from the moment I thought I was gonna die." Selena says which reminded him that moment when he took the hit and saved her. "That moment my heart raced like crazy…" Jeff blushed slightly realizing what she is meaning to say, but he knew deep down he felt the same way about her. "Maybe what I am trying to say is that I like yo-" she was silenced by Jeff pressing his lips against hers which honestly surprised her but she let it happen for the moment. They stop their kiss and they hugged each other.
"You know, back during the boss fight on Floor 75. I thought about you all the time, like I wanted to protect you inside the game and when I got back I'd do anything bring you back here, to the real world." Jeff tells her with a smile and she smiled also knowing how much she meant to him.
"I'm happy to finally have told you my feelings." Selena said happily
"Looks like the mushy stuff is over." a voice got their attention and the person that walked in was Philia or Kotone in the real world
"Were you listening the whole time?!" Jeff asks her blushing and Selena blushes also
"Most of it, in all honesty I knew you both liked each other so I helped give her a little push." She tells them with a grin.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Jeff asks himself as the two girls giggle at his expression.
-December 25, 2024-
When December came by, the trio were released from the hospital and as it came by Jeff's parents decided to give him three times the amount of gifts he should get because of being trapped in SAO. His birthday came and went days later, until Christmas and each year they do special traditions together. Jeff even invited Kotone and Selena over for the traditions, Kotone has light brown hair, blue eyes, wears a blue hoodie with a blouse underneath, a yellow skirt, black thigh-high socks, and white shoes. Selena has raven black hair, and light blue eyes, she has a black tank top underneath a red shirt, having a black jacket, wears jeans, and has white boots. Jeff gave Selena a special ruby necklace, and Selena gave him a special ring that had their first initial on it. After the events and their gifts Kotone went back home while Selena stayed and they went up to Jeff's room.
"This has got to be the best Christmas I've ever had." Selena said as they sit on the couch next to his TV and she laid her head on his shoulder.
"Yea, and I'm glad we get to be together for this tradition as well." Jeff says with a happy smile and Selena smiled also. "Sorry if my parents went overboard with giving me gifts, I am happy to have parents like that but I think they went too far."
"I think it's understandable, because they wanted to show their love to you after being unable to be here during being trapped in a game." Selena says to him as he hugged her closer to him.
"Can you both stop spying on us and leave us alone?" Jeff says and he turns to the door while the certain two ran away.
"Were your siblings watching us?" Selena asks him
"Yea, they can be annoying sometimes, but they are fun to be around with." Jeff tells her with a smile.
"Hey Jeff…" Selena had a thought in her mind that makes her blushing deep red. "Can we… do something just only once as a couple?" She whispered something in his ear and he blushing deep red as well.
"Um… sure, I think we could do so for one night." Jeff tell her. "You can use the bathroom just across from my room." he tells her and she blushes hoping that no one will see what she is going to do.
She walks into the bathroom and locks it so no one accidentally walks in. Jeff sits on his bed taking a deep breath nervous of what he is going to do with his girlfriend that he has been dating, in the middle of November. He takes off his clothes staying in his boxers and wearing a basic white t-shirt. As he waits he then hears his door open and close, he looks seeing his girlfriend with only her red and black bra and underwear on. She walks to the bed and gets in the covers as does Jeff. He was deeply blushing because his girlfriend's chest was pressing against him as he hugs her.
"You feel so warm." she says and has her hands on his chest. "I wanna stay with you Jeff… I love you."
"I love you too Selena." He says as the two later close their eyes and sleep through the night.
Days pass as Jeff and Selena get along as a couple although Jeff couldn't bring up that he was having nightmares about two certain people.
-January 20, 2025 (Dream)-
Up on Floor 75 Sakore watches the fight between Kirito and Kayaba looking to be one sided, Kayaba was gonna do the final blow on Kirito when Asuna took the hit causing her HP to hit zero and burst into shards, then the scene goes to Kayaba stabbing Kirito making his HP hit zero and Sakore shouting out their names. As he stood up something landed behind him, which he slowly turned around and saw the Skull Reaper. It pulled one of it's scythe arms back and swings at him going to kill him.
-End of Dream-
"Gah!" Jeff wakes up from his nightmare of seeing his friends dying, and himself almost getting killed by the floor 75 boss. He was breathing heavily scared having that kind of dream, and he wipes the sweat off him and heard his door open seeing one of the maids that help around his house.
"Master Jeff, I am to tell you breakfast is ready." The maid tells him as he looks to his clock being 7:20 AM.
"Thanks Ayaka, I'll be down in a moment." He tells her which she bows and leaves. Jeff's family has a large mansion built in Japan, his father is the CEO of their family company, his mom owns a bakery that makes tons of bread. His family has three maids to help around the house as well, who are Ayaka, Sayori, and Krissie. All three are the same age, Ayaka having bright blue dyed hair tied up in a knot, Sayori having raven black hair in a small ponytail, and Krissie having red hair reaching below her neck. Jeff gets up from his bed and gets dressed while seeing the view outside his window now that it is getting cold. He gets a dark blue shirt on, with a breast pocket, he puts on a midnight blue jacket, gets black pants on, and puts some socks on. He takes one last look out his window and sighed. "I better head downstairs before my food gets cold." He exits his room and heads downstairs to the dining room where everybody is at.
"So bro, what are you gonna be doing next?" Adam asks who looks similar to Jeff but only when he was 3 years younger since Adam and Maddyln were born on the same day and month 3 years younger than Jeff. Adam wears a light blue shirt with blue pants on, he has the same black hair and blue eyes like his older brother, and their sister has black long hair reaching to her back, light blue eyes, she wears a purple t-shirt with a red jacket on her, wears jeans and white socks on.
"Well, at the current moment people are still setting up a school for all the SAO Survivors. However I'm not sure if they'll begin while 300 have still yet to awaken yet especially…" Jeff stopped himself remembering how the nurse told him that Asuna hasn't woken up yet, and he knows Kirito or rather Kazuto in the real world has been visiting her in the hospital she stayed at and Jeff wanted to help do something, but he has no plan to figure out what to do and to help out.
"Right… that friend of yours while you were trapped…" Adam replied understanding what his older brother means
"Have you still not figured out why she is still unable to wake up?" Maddyln asks him
"No I haven't Maddie… I don't want to cause something that might trigger in her NerveGear. Yet me and Kazuto haven't been able to get an answer to this." Jeff replies to her
"Yea, but I'm surprised you haven't tried out ALO yet. I know I recommend it to you before." Adam tells him
"Yea, I know you did… but at the moment I need to find out some things first." Jeff tells him finishing up his breakfast and goes over to the living room and sit on the couch. While he sat on the couch wondering how to help Asuna wake up from the strange sleep she is still in, his siblings look at him concerned for him. Some time has passed until the doorbell rang and Maddie went to the door and opened the door showing two familiar girls
"Hey Jeff, your girlfriends are here!" She tells him and he jumps blushing
"Maddie that isn't funny! I only have one girlfriend, and the other is just a good friend of ours!" He tells her and goes over to the door, seeing the two girls. "Sorry about my sister, she can be a tease…" the two giggled at his red face
"It's alright, may we come in?" Kotone asks him
"Yes, please come on in. Please take your shoes off over there." Jeff says pointing to a spot near the front door. Once the two do so they go upstairs to his room with him and Selena sitting on the bed and Kotone sitting on the chair that he has at his desk. "I'm guessing you didn't come here just for the heck of it."
"No, we came by because we wanted to know if you found anything yet." Kotone asks him and he shook his head. "Figures… we've gone through so much and finally escaped that death game. It's surprising that Kayaba was with us the entire time when he first appeared."
"Yea, to think he was the Commander Heathcliff of the Knights of the Blood Oath." Selena says
"I knew something was not right from the beginning… on that day during the duel, I noticed how he was able to move his shield to block the attack. It made sense when Kirito, or Kazuto figured out his real identity sooner than we thought." Jeff explains thinking about the duel and the battle on Floor 75.
"Hey so anyway what about that AI data Kayaba gave to you after he disappeared? It seems odd for him to talk to you when he was defeated." Selena asks curious and Jeff gets up going to his computer and starting it up.
"I was confused about that also, however he did somehow upload the data of the AI to my NerveGear, so I was able to transport the data of the AI from my NerveGear into my computer to look through the data on this." Jeff explains as he opens some windows with data about the AI.
"Is it safe to bring it into your computer?" Kotone asks him.
"It should be, currently the AI is inactive right now. So I might need to find out how to start this up somehow." Jeff explains "Currently I have scanned that the AI would have activated before somehow, possibly when Floor 76 would be opened and unlocked to be teleported to."
"How would that be possible?" Selena asks him
"That I can't be certain about…" Jeff tells her and suddenly his computer made a noise
"Hey, it looks like you got an email." Kotone tells him and he goes through seeing that she is right, and the email was from Andrew who is also Agil. He runs a place called the Dicey Cafe, Jeff reads the message then scrolls to see an image of someone familiar.
"What the heck?!" Jeff couldn't believe his eyes at what he was seeing, it was really her. He reads the message of what is said. "I talked to Kazuto about this, and told him that this photo was taken inside the game ALfheim Online. He asked me to show this to you since you might have wanted to help him out." He reads Andrew's message and clearly has given him a task to fulfil personally.
"Then I'll make sure she gets out, If she is alive she would have left..." Jeff says he opens a drawer from his desk and takes out the game Adam recommended to him so his parents bought the game and headwear to play it. "Alfheim Online… Rct Progress… hmm…"
"I'm guessing someone with admin systems might have locked her menu to be able to log out. If I am right then I'm guessing they are keeping her there in a different game for some reason." Selena assumes
"Your right Selena, I am gonna agree with that… I believe she wasn't put there by accident." Jeff tells her and looks at the image to see that the expression Asuna is making looks to be sadness. "First I am gonna have to get some tips on how to get started from my brother… and I think I should have my dad make a meeting with the person that owns Rct Progress. Besides… a game where its ok to die shouldn't be to bad."
"Don't sound confident Sakore!" Selena tells him using his Online name
"Maybe I am risky at stuff." Jeff tells her inserting his NerveGear which is slightly old and a bit rusted up, but still in working condition. "I don't have time to transfer my data to the Amusphere, so the only way to play so by using the NerveGear." He transfers the AI data back into his NerveGear.
"Well if you are going in then so are we, no take backs!" Selena tells him and Kotone nods agreeing with her.
"I thought you might have said that, in that case I got two more incase you wanted to join in." Jeff tells them pulling out two more games of ALfheim Online.
"Luckily we got our headgear also." Kotone says lifting the backpacks the two brought and they pulled out their NerveGears.
"Then it's time we get some tips on how to start up." Jeff tells them about to start up a new adventure in a new game.
That is the end of the first episode of the second Arc, now I was planning on a couple of other things to happen. But anyway now the trio are gonna go into Alfheim Online and onto a rescue mission to save Asuna. What will happen to the trio while they travel into a new VRMMO? Find out next time as the adventure starts.
Edit; I did think this chapter was short so I decided to put in some romance for this chapter. Also I might change the story to M rated if you guys want something to happen. Hope you enjoyed this updated redo of this chapter!
Next Time; Land of the Fairies