Chapter 2

It's been one month. 2000 people have died. At least Jax and Summer were still alive. But of course the first floor still wasn't cleared. And still no signs of Summer's friend. "I hope to find one of my friends at this meeting."

"I hope so to Summer I would love to meet them. Joining our party might not be such a bad idea." Jax said

"Yeah… Wait you'll still party with me after I find my friends.?" Summer asked. She expected Jax to leave after they found one of her friends.

"Of course. We've been together for a month. I'm not going to just leave you now." Jax said and he smiled at her

They got to like a share of bleachers with a stage in front and a man walked up. "Hello everyone, thanks for coming." And again Summer lost interest but then she saw that person who looked like Weiss.

She walked up to that person and tapped her on the shoulder. The girl looked at Summer. "Weiss is that you?" Summer asked

"Ruby?" Weiss? asked. "Is that you? Because you are correct. Me and your sister have been looking everywhere for you." They hugged and Jax came over

"Hello you must be one of Summer's friends. My name is Jax." He said extending his hand out to Weiss?. She took it and shook his hand.

"Jax, thank you for taking care of my friend. My name is Winter." Winter let go of Jax's hand as three windows popped up for her. They were a party invite, a message from Raven and a friend request from Jax. She accepted the party invite and the friend request and sent a message to her friend. "So Jax you've been the one keeping Summer from us."

"Oh come on we've been trying to find you too." Summer said.

An arm grabbed Jax and he was suddenly bombarded by tits. "Thank you for keeping my sister safe."

"Sis let go of him." Summer managed to wrench Jax out of her sister's arms.

"No problem, Miss Bg Tits or do you have another name you want me to call you?" Jax asked

"Oh you flatter me but call me Raven." She said and extended a hand for Jax to shake which he accepted.

"NIce to meet you." Jax said and sent her a friend request. Also a party invite which she accepted

"This makes it three." Summer said. "Where is your partner Raven?"

"I don't know. Luna sent me a friend request when we were teleported to the plaza. We found each other and we exchanged info but i haven't seen her since."

"So she might be…" Summer started but Jax stopped her

"We can check the Monument of Swordsman when we're done here." Jax said. Summer nodded at that

"So everyone listen up. The beta testers have given us guide books. It also has tips on the first 20 bosses." The man on the stage said as the four listened back in. "Send the weaker players first. If a player asks for Col two seconds after meeting you… front lines. If they hijack conversations to rant about their political views… front lines. If they ask female players for pics of their boobs… front lines." A lot of people booed at that. "Now, people, I think there are some valid points being made here. Now it says when Ilfang's health gets into the red he switches from his Axe and Buckler to something called a Talwar at that point we should initiate a strategy called 'The Final Solution' and I'm just going to stop reading. Jesus who wrote this thing?" Jax let out a small chuckle as he had helped writing that part. "Alright so the guides a bust but It'll be fine I'll come up with a great plan."

"Like what?" A burly voice asked

"Well...we could...umm… I'm open to suggestions."

"Woah we could like group up and…" Someone started

"And hit till it dies." Someone finished and then the two people high fived each other

"That's… a good start but let's hear some other suggestions." The man on the stage said

"I'd like to hear more about this 'Final Solution'."

"Fuck it group up." The man said

"A party join request from Luna…" Jax said and looked at the other three. He hit the accept button. "Looks like we don't need to check the Monument of Swordsman."

"That's good now we just need to wait." Summer said

"Alright get plenty of rest tonight people we leave at noon." The man on the stage said.

A lot of people groaned at that. "Noon that's so early."

"Ahh alright how about 1 o' clock."

"one. Dude c'mon"

"Fine we leave at the crack of 2:30 i guess. Lazy butts crap I've got to set my alarm.

"Why don't you go to the inn? I've got to talk to someone" Jax said as he left them

Jax

"Kirito how you've been." Jax said walking towards a boy about his age with normal gear

"Hmm," The boy named Kirito turned towards Jax. "Well if it isn't the second best beta tester."

"I've made it through more floors than you." Jax said. They then shook hands

"So who is your partner for this raid?" Kirito asked

"I have four. A group of girls that said they all know each other in real life." Jax said. "What about you?"

"A girl named Asuna." Kirito said. "Look it was great catching up with you but I'm going to try and get a couple more levels before the raid. See you

"Yeah catch you later dude. Contact me later if you want to catch up." Jax said and smiled

"Will do" Kirito smiled and walked out of the bleachers towards the town. Jax sat down and looked up towards the sky

"Someday I will reach the top of this place." he said

The girls

"Should we head to the inn me and Jax are staying at?" Summer asked the others

"We should try and grind." Raven said

"I mean I'm probably the weakest one here. I'm level 13." Winter said and she opened her menu. "Luna seems to be 16."

"Me and Jax are level 20." Summer said

"I'm level 17." Raven said.

"Alright let's go." Summer said.

They did that until late. Well everyone except Jax and Luna

Jax and Luna

Jax just got up and was walking back to the inn when he had the feeling that someone was following him. He then turned an alley and spoke up. "Come out now."

"Well I thought my sneak skill was pretty good." A girl said and she walked out and she was quite mysterious. The only thing that he was sure of is that this was Luna

"So we finally meet Luna." Jax said as he walked towards her

"I guess so." Luna said.

"Why didn't you reveal yourself to the others?" Jax asked "They are quite worried about you."

"I'm better on my own." Luna said looking away.

"C'mon you can't really mean that Luna. Even though it might just be for this boss battle we're a team and I'm going to protect you no matter what." Jax said

"I can take care of myself." Luna said looking back at Jax

"I know but what if you get out numbered and overpowered. You might think but you don't need to do everything alone." Jax said as he touched her shoulders. She shook at the touch but didn't pull away

After a minute she spoke. "Alright I'll trust you for now."

"For now, I accept." Jax said and smiled at her.

They went to the inn. Jax tried a bit of small talk though Luna provided no or very little input. They went up to what used to be only Summer's room. Jax sat in a chair while Luna layed down on the bed. They mostly sat in silence while Jax sent a few messages to a few people he knew. A few hours went by all of a sudden a message came up to Jax.

It startled Luna "What's that?"

"A message, Luna. Calm down." Jax said as he opened the message. He read it.

"Hey Jax rumor around the old info broker grapevine is that the boss is not going to use a Talwar, it's going to be an Odachi. Sincerely your pal Green." the message read

"Well that's a problem." Jax said.

"Why?" Luna asked

"Well an Odachi is a bit longer then a Talwar which means it'll have more range and do a bit more damage." Jax said. "We're in for the fight of our lives."

"One of many." Luna said.

"No doubt about that." Someone from the doorway said. The two looked to see it was Raven

All of them

Raven, Winter and Summer walked in. Winter was now level 16. Raven was level 18. Summer was still at level 20. "We should get some sleep for tomorrow." Jax said

The other were more surprised by the other girl. "Who is this?" Summer said

"I thought you knew her in the real world. This is Luna." Jax said, sounding confused.

"Hey girls." Luna said, sounding a little sheepish.

"Wait is that really you?" Raven said approaching here and then just pulled Luna into a hug which Luna was not expecting.

"Raven, please." Luna said and Jax just laughed. The other hugged Luna as well.

"Alright. Sorry to break this happy reunion but we got a big fight tomorrow." Jax said. The four looked at him and nodded. "Let's get some sleep and get out of tomorrow alive."

Jax left the room and the inn. Jax told Green to meet him on the edge of town.

"Green you here." Jax said when he got there.

"How could I not when you ask me to." Green said. They gave each other a hand shake as a greeting.

"Are you sure about the Odachi? Are you sure it's not going to be like the beta?" Jax asked.

"Yeah." Green said. "You got people you want to protect right?" Jax nodded

"But how did they get access to knowing he had an Odachi?" Jax asked

"A couple info brokers went into the boss room and saw it was strapped to his back." Green said

"So we're in for a good fight." Jax said smiling. "Thanks Green."

"Hey how about payment?" Green said.

"I never said I would pay you." Jax said. He then started running. He knew Green wouldn't keep up with him. When he got back to the inn he sent a message to Green that told him if he was serious on the payment for the info he got tonight then the next time he would pay double. He then got a knock on his door. He opened the door and saw Summer.

"Raven is snoring too loud. Can I sleep in here?" Summer asked.

Jax nodded and yawned. They both got in the bed with their backs to each other and both fell asleep. Jax knew this was going to be a difficult fight but he was going to protect these girls no matter what.

A/N: Sorry this took me so long to write. Trying to get inspiration is hard these days. But anyway I have a poll on my profile page so please vote. I will continue this story until I close this poll