Sword Art Online: Unforeseen Content
Save File: Winds of Change
-Floor 61 Forest of Confounding Darkness May 2nd 9:32 PM-
Klein and the rest of Fuurinkazan crouched down, trying to find get their bearings together. The guild of six was surrounded by shadow wolves, creatures that only come out at night, and in packs.
"This is getting bad." Dale said, getting worried.
"Don't worry." Klein said with a smirk. "We've got the owl eyes in the sky."
"Ninja Blade!" A barrage of shuriken rained down upon the shadow like creatures.
"Ninja bird you rule!" Issin said happily.
"And don't you forget it." Falcomon said coming in. "The path back to the city is all clear, now let's go before they respawn."
"You heard the bird, let's go!" Klein ordered, running off. The six ran off, unaware, a grey colored flame soared through the sky.
-Floor 61 Selmburg inn 9:42 PM-
"Well that went fabulously." Dynamm sighed as their food arrived at their table. "You had to owe Asuna the flash a favor didn't you?" This was directed at Klein.
"Hey, I missed out on the last Digimon recon thing, and she covered for me." Klein shot back. "Plus if this Digimon is real, we need to find it, or we're all in trouble."
"Alright, alright." Kunimittz sighed. The problem was a sword wielding Digimon had been challenging opponents all over Aincrad. When one would lose against him, he would take whatever weapon the player was using. The latest sighting of him was on Floor 61, and Klein was asked to go find him. Feeling he shouldn't do this himself, and they wanted partners too, the rest of his guild decided to tag along.
"No luck huh?" Asuna asked the party of seven walking up.
"Girl, how'd you get here so fast?" Klein asked confused.
"I live here in town now." Asuna explained, she then sighed and turned her head. "So our wandering swordsman slips from our grasp once again."
"So how's Silica doing?" Klein asked genuine concern in his tone.
"She's still upset she doesn't have a partner." Asuna explained. "But I agree with Taiki, she's bound to get one."
"Lucky girl." Dale said with a bit of jealously in his tone.
"Guys, I'm sorry OK." Klein insisted yet again.
"We get it, you can't have everything in the world." Kunimittz admitted.
Noticing the time, the players decided to head home for the night. However, when they got close to the teleport gate, Klein paused a moment, and looked to the sky.
"What is it?" Falcomon asked concerned.
"I thought I heard something." He admitted. However, then the guild heard a scream of fear.
"Let's go." Klein ordered, with Falcomon nodding.
The two ran off and found themselves in an alley, to discover a young girl was crying her eyes out. She was clad in a brown cloak and they could make out long blonde hair.
"What happened here?" Klein asked confused.
"Some monster bird took my brother." She cried, grabbing Klein. "It looked like a big fireball, then just scooped him out of the sky."
"Fireball bird?" Klein groaned. "As if we didn't have enough troubles."
-Floor 33 Hyrok May 3rd 6:13 AM-
"Why are these meetings always at my house?" Taiki gripped with a yawn. Asuna and Klein had summoned the other Data Defenders, as Silica had called this unofficial guild, to his house. Taiki and Agumon were going to call the team the Third Generation Digidestined, but Asuna gave a very convincing argument, with her rapier. Plus, it was way too long.
"Because, I don't trust Kuradeel and I'm 80% certain he's been following me to my house." Asuna explained sharply.
"Ok, ok." Taiki groaned, taking a sip out of his coffee.
"The problem is, the Digimon the girl described sounds really familiar." Agumon admitted. "I just can't put my claw on where though."
"The weird thing is, I feel the same way." Taiki admitted.
"Joy, so no Digimon you know right off the top of your heads' is responsible for this?" Kirito asked confused.
"Maybe it works for that swordsman Digimon?" Silica offered, half asleep herself. "And it's delivering worthy opponents."
"I wouldn't rule that out." Agil admitted. "Some of the victims have come to my store, wanting replacements, and they said he targeted them not long after they won a duel."
"But where's a big bird suppose to hide?" Lisbeth asked confused.
"Maybe, we just need some bait." Taiki said with a smirk, looking right at Kirito. Strangely, Asuna approved of the wicked smirk on Taiki's face.
-Real World, Odaiba High School: 12:03 PM-
"Still no word on those missing Digimon?" Cody asked Davis as he took a look at his D-3. The second generation team was presently sitting outside in the grassy fields of the school for lunch.
"No, Izzy sent Tentomon out, and he reported nothing." Davis explained.
"What do you think we should do TK?" Yolie asked, turning to the veteran. "You've got the most experience with Digimon."
However, her answer passed right over his head, as TK had fallen asleep, right under the tree.
"Jerk." Yolie said, about to slap him awake, when Ken stopped her.
"Don't there have been problems at home." Ken said with a whisper.
Kari nodded, then continued. "We found him about to fall asleep on his feet this morning, apparently, Matt got into another fight with his mom and dad." Everyone nodded remembering TK mentioning his and Matt's parents getting back together about a year after launch date. However Matt wasn't thrilled about the arrangements. Something about how his mother wanted Matt to get a real job, not just worrying about his band.
"It lasted until about 2 AM from what TK told us." Ken explained. "About three hours after Matt got home last night."
"Uh, I wonder what Tai would do if he was here?" Cody asked confused.
"Then maybe, we should stop asking that." Davis said, somewhat uncertain.
"Davis, what do you mean?" Kari asked confused.
"I'm saying, we stopped Kimeramon and Daemon, and the original team wasn't there to hold our hands." Davis explained. "Look I'm not trying to sound insensitive but maybe-."
"Maybe we should be doing something ourselves." Cody finished. Davis nodded, with the others agreeing.
TK mumbled in his sleep, something on the lines of: "Great idea Davis."
"I think we should start at Primary Village, maybe Elecmon can shed some light on the subject." Kari suggested.
"Hey yeah." Yolie agreed. "Maybe if the Digimon are being deleted elsewhere, he might know where all the data's coming from."
-Odaiba General Hospital 1:12 PM-
Joe Kido walked through the halls of the hospital, as a part of his internship. This was the next step in becoming a full-fledged doctor, local errand boy. He went to College in the morning, and went to the hospital in the afternoon. His task at the moment was replacing all the IV bags for various patients.
"Ok, Mrs. Kudo's is done, next on the list is." Joe said, as he checked over the list of new IV bags needed, he paused, seeing it belonged to Tai. The eldest of the original team sighed, "Let's get this over with."
He walked into the room to see his longtime friend in a comatose state. The intern sighed and walked through the door. "Hi Tai, how are things?" Joe asked, expecting no response. He sighed again. "Things haven't been the same since you entered the game, and we've all been trying to hold our own, but it's just not happening."
Tai's response was total silence.
"I really wish you were here, you always had an idea." Joe said, exchanging the bags, and then smirked. "Good or bad." As he exited the room, Joe overheard something strange coming from the others doctors.
"Yeah, the guy legitimately started sniffing her hair and put his finger inside her mouth." One said, horrified. "My buddy out at the Tokyo branch saw him and kept out of sight."
"So what did she do?" The second, a girl, asked.
"Nothing, the girl's one of those SAO people." The first explained. "And get this, he's works for RECT."
"The software company, with people like everywhere?" The female doctor questioned horrified
"The things people do." The first doctor explained. "Apparently, her dad is one of RECT's head honchos too."
"Huh," Joe said shocked. He then turned to Tai's room. "I wonder if Tai knows that girl in the game?"
-Aincrad Floor 52 Warrior's Trove 3:03 PM-
Warrior's trove was one of the most popular places in all of Aincrad. Here, one could practice new Sword Skills, provided they were at least level 50. A large training area stood over a cliff, as players of all ages trained for the higher floors. However another popular trait amongst this land, was dueling in the nearby arena. And among those dueling right now was:
"Go Kirito!" Asuna cheered loudly from the stands.
"A little louder, my hearing's still intact." Taiki joked with a smile. He and the other defenders were presently watching Kirito win. The idea was simple, Kirito wins several duels, and it would attract the Digimon that kept abducting players, and hopefully, lead them to the mystery swordsman.
Kirito, with Elucidator still in hand, dealt the finishing blow to his twelfth opponent. Kirito sighed as the victory banner was shown.
"Alright, another win in the bag." Silica cheered as Pina let out a satisfied roar.
"You think that's enough wins to attract our bird of prey?" Kirito asked, rotating his arm. "I've been dueling my butt off."
"Hey wait a minute, where is it?" Lisbeth asked confused.
"Where's what?" Kirito asked.
"Dark Repulser, the sword I made you?" Lisbeth shot back agitated. "I don't think I've seen you use it since."
"There's a reason." Kirito explained weakly.
"Which is?" Taiki asked, sounding interested.
"There you are ma'am." Kuradeel shouted somewhat infuriated. Kirito silently thanked Asuna's stalker at that. Kuradeel still made Kirito's skin crawl, but it's not like he would admit it.
"Kuradeel, what is it?" Asuna demanded irritated.
"I want to know why you are shirking your duties again." Kuradeel demanded.
"I'm not shirking anything," Asuna insisted infuriated. "I'm simply checking into a possible Digimon lead."
"Again with those accursed creatures." Kuradeel shouted angry.
"Oy stalker, standing right here." Huckmon shot back.
"Be gone from my sight demon." Kuradeel demanded fearfully. He pulled out a massive two handed broadsword.
"Someone compensating for something." Taiki snickered. The older humans started to laugh too.
"I don't get it, what's the joke?" Gaomon asked.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Silica admitted.
"No matter." Kuradeel insisted flustered.
However it was at this moment, Gaomon, Renamon, and Falcomon tensed up. With Falcomon shouting: "Incoming!" It was here, a massive bluish grey flame swooped down, and grabbed Kirito. However, Taiki and Agumon were shocked at the appearance. The bird Digimon was a massive creature was roughly the size of the arena they just exited with a fanged duckbill.
"Was that, Birdramon?" Taiki asked horrified of fighting a friend. Everyone, minus Kuradeel, instantly ran ahead.
"Not exactly." Asuna explained, looking at her digivice. Taiki slowed down to look over her shoulder.
Saberdramon
Level: Champion
Attribute: Virus
Type: Giant Bird
Attacks: Black Saber, Mach Shadow, Night Roar.
"Ok, didn't see that coming." Taiki admitted. The others ran as fast as they could, with Falcomon flying a little bit ahead. However their efforts were wasted, as Saberdramon was too fast.
"Oh come on." Kirito sighed. However it was then he remembered something. He quickly summoned his menu, and equipped some iron picks. As Saberdramon flew off, he dropped a few every so often.
"Ok, hope that leads the others to where ever I'm going." Kirito sighed, seeing the apparent destination of a large circle of trees near the cliffs. He could faintly make out several players moaning as they approached. Saberdramon dropped Kirito right into the arena. As the ex-beta tester got up, he noticed some cages, each containing captured players. Not far away from that was a large pile of swords, clearly the one's that had been taken. However presently, Kirito was face to face with a demonic man clad in orange, yellow, and dark purple shogun armor. In his armored hand was a long sword.
"I take it, you're the one stealing swords from other players." Kirito suggested, as his Digivice activated.
Muysamon
Level: Champion
Attribute: Virus
Type: Wizard
Attacks: Shogun Sword, Ninja Blade
"Of course human." Muysamon chuckled darkly. "My master has promised me worthy opponents, in exchange for using the data of my fallen foes' weapons."
"Master." Kirito grunted, standing up. Now it was all starting to add up. This master must be the same mystery Digimon who ordered all those Betamon be captured. "You wouldn't happen to know his name would you?"
"Of course I know, but if you want that information." Muysamon chuckled, pointing his sword at Kirito. "You'll have to win it in a duel."
"Gladly." Kirito said, going into a stance. The two opponents charged, swords out. The attacks collided, with Kirito breaking off first, and dashing to the side.
"I must admit human, your reaction time is phenomenal." Musyamon said, wiping his mouth. "I've never encountered a human quiet like you."
"I get that a lot." Kirito said smugly, charging Horizontal Square. He charged at his opponent once again.
"Very well human, Shogun Sword!" Musyamon charged himself, and the attacks collided. However Kirito broke off and pivoted, spinning around and slashed Musyamon. He repeated that three more times.
Kirito smirked at Musyamon now on his knees, but his victory was short lived, hearing his opponent laugh.
"Not bad." Musyamon chuckled darkly, as blue flames covered his sword. "But not good enough, Ninja Blade!"
"Oh crap." Kirito groaned as his opponent got closer.
"Thanks for the trail Kirito." Huckmon said, running ahead of the others.
Their victory was short lived as a voice from above shouted. "BLACK SABER!" Saberdramon came rushing in, claws first.
"MOVE!" Falcomon was the first to react and got directly in the way of the attack. "AYIEE!"
"FALCOMON!" Klein shouted horrified. The owl like Digimon landed to the side, hard. He weakly tried to get up, while doing so Falcomon grabbed his right wing in absolute agony.
"My, my wing, it hurts." The Digimon winced, dropping to his knees.
"Ok, that chicken is about to be deep fried." Asuna said enraged, as her partner nodded.
"I'm willing to bet Kirito's close enough for me to go for it." Huckmon said eagerly.
"Agumon, give it another go." Taiki suggested, with the lizard nodding.
HUCKMON DIGIVOLE TO BAOHUCKMON
RENAMON DIGIVOLVE TO KYUBIMON
"And, still nothing." Agumon sighed as his new friends switched to their champion forms. The two four legged Digimon ran at high speeds, aiming for their opponent.
"Still, what are you hungry or something?" Lisbeth asked concerned.
"I don't know, ever since I came to Aincrad, I haven't been able to Digivolve." Agumon explained.
"Maybe it's Taiki's digivice." Agil suggested, prepping a spear. "It's all different than his old one."
"I don't know, maybe." Taiki suggested, uncertain himself.
"Burning Flame!" BaoHuckmon tossed a fireball from his mouth.
"Fox tail Inferno!" Kyubimon launched the fires from her tail. However Saberdramon took to the skies and narrowly avoided them.
"Here, this should help." Silica said, as Pina released a healing wind from his mouth, aimed right at Falcomon's injured wing.
"It's numbing the pain, so that's a start." Falcomon groaned.
"Dude, I'm sorry." Klein apologized.
"Don't be, I just tried to help." Falcomon insisted.
"That's what we like about you ninja bird, you always got an eye on us." Agil said with a smirk, while Gaomon nodded in agreement.
"Kodengeki!" Kyubimon tried her electrified head butt on Saberdramon who dodged the attack. The viral bird grabbed the fox with its talons, and then threw her to the side.
"Oy, leave the throw rug alone, Fif Cross!" BaoHuckmon's claws lit up with flames and charged.
Saberdramon took to the skies and flapped its wings. "Night Roar!" A barrage of fire coated feathers aimed right at our heroes. Everyone tried to get out of there, however.
"Ah, my wing." Falcomon stopped for a moment, and grabbed it in pain. However, it was that moment, Klein grabbed his partner. The two were hit, and sent flying over the cliff.
"Got it!" Klein quickly grabbed a branch of the side of the cliff, barely getting it in time. In his one hand was the branch, the other his partner by the claws. "Alright, I'm going to swing you up, so you can get help." However it was clear Klein's grip was slipping.
"What about you?" Falcomon asked concerned.
"I'll be fine, after all, I'm just some idiot who camped outside the store to get a copy of SAO and no one would really miss me." Klein groaned, as his fingers began to drop. He then swung the owl Digimon up, and intent of saving him. "I guess I go out, like I started, worrying about a friend."
"Not yet!" Falcomon insisted as Klein's digivice lit up.
FALCOMON DIGIVOLVE TO PECKMON
Everyone turned to see a large ostrich jump up over the cliff with Klein attached to his leg. It had yellow feathers with orange tail, crest, and wing tip feathers. It was clad in his own version of Falcomon's ninja outfit, as well as a yellow scarf.
"Ok, now I get what you meant by patience." Klein joked as Silica's digivice lit up.
Peckmon
Level: Champion
Attribute: Vaccine
Type: Bird
Attacks: Spiral Claw, Kunai Wing, Thousands Beak, Burning Spiral
"Now let's take him." Peckmon smirked.
"But your wing." Lisbeth began.
"I don't need it to do this!" At incredible speeds, Peckmon rushed at Saberdramon, he extended his talon and shouted. "Spiral Claw." The appendage spun at incredible speeds and struck Saberdramon right in the side. The viral bird cawed in agony as the attack connected.
"Hey wait for me." Klein said, running up to his newly digivolved partner.
"Then get on." Peckmon ordered, stopping. Klein drew his sword and got on his partner's back. "Ready?"
"Let's do this." Klein said determined.
"Then let's." Asuna began.
"No." Kyubimon stopped her. "This is their fight, let's help Kirito."
Asuna realized she was right and ran off.
"I'll stay here and help." Silica said, implying Pina's healing powers. The others nodded and ran off to help.
Kirito continued to clash swords with Musyamon. The two broke off and jumped back several feet. The combatants started to breathe heavily, neither was getting an edge.
"This fight is taking longer than I expected." Musyamon admitted, exhausted.
"Yeah, and it's a shame you're so evil." Kirito admitted with a smirk.
"However." Musyamon began, regaining his composure slightly. "I noticed your stance is off in some places, as if you are contemplating something."
"Maybe I am." Kirito said, pointing his blade. "But I'm not ready to use it." His weapon glowed blue and slashed forward. The swords connected once again. Kirito charged a sword skill and tried for Horizontal Square again. However Musyamon was quicker and blocked it before he got to the second spin.
"Not going to fool me again." The demon chuckled.
"Funny, I just did." Kirito chuckled, as his sword lit up again, this time a vibrant blue color. "Rage Spike!" The attack pierced the blade, destroying it.
"Kirito." The black swordsman turned to see Agil and Lisbeth run up with their partners.
"Took you long enough, what's going on with that big bird?" Kirito asked.
"Klein and Peckmon are dealing with it." Lalamon answered.
"Great." Kirito sighed, keeping his eyes on the now fallen Musyamon. Then he realized something: "Who's Peckmon?"
"Here's another one for ya!" Klein delivered a barrage of stabs while Peckmon thrusted his neck forward constantly with the shout of: "Thousand Beaks!"
Saberdramon was hit hard, however they weren't done yet.
"We have to finish this." Klein said noticing their opponent wasn't falling.
"Well since one attack of mine still can't be used." Peckmon winced, feeling pain in his wing still. "Time for plan B."
"What's plan B?" Klein asked confused.
"Burn him." Peckmon smirked. He charged forward again for a spiral claw, only this time flames engulfed it. "Burning Spiral!"
"With a little boost from Samurai's Honor!" Klein charged a sword skill that turned his katanna's blade orange.
"Mach Shadow!" Saberdramon turned into a powerful black flame arrow and charged. The two attacks collided, and the opponents appeared behind the other. Silica could only watch as the three combatants stood still.
It was hear, Klein broke the silence. "Damn that was fun." Saberdramon fell over, cawing in agony, before turning into data. Klein carefully got off his partner as Peckmon turned back into Falcomon. The two looked at one another and chuckled.
"That was awesome!" Klein said, pumping his fists into the air.
"Indeed." Falcomon agreed, trying to ignore the pain in his wing.
"Guys, over hear." Agil called out. The remaining players and Digimon ran off to see Kirito pointing his blade at Musyamon. The players he had captured had been released and long since been teleported away.
"What's going on?" Taiki asked.
"Now hold up your end of the bargain, who's your boss?" Kirito demanded.
"This being I work for goes by the name." Musyamon began. Only for a knife to hit him square in the back, deleting him. Everyone looked up to see Kuradeel with another in his hand.
"Thank goodness I showed up when I did." Kuradeel said prideful and arrogantly. "Who knows what that monster would have done to you ma'am."
Asuna glared at the man, and then at Huckmon. "You go for his kneecaps, I got his eyes."
"Deal." Huckmon said as they pounced the guy.
"NO!" Kuradeel scream of absolute agony could be heard for miles.
-Unknown area 11:23 PM-
Argo slowly stirred, seeing the mystery man typing away at the holographic keyboard. She was presently chain up in a cage, among her captives were other players and Digimon.
"Don't bother talking to him." Argo turned to see a white ferret like Digimon with gold rings around its body and a single gold earring. He was chained to a wall, despite his small body. "When he gets like this, no one can talk to him."
"So," Argo struggled. "What's he after?"
"Something called Cardinal, whatever that is, and he's using data from this world to access it." The creature said, then turned to the girl. "I'm Kudamon by the way."
"Argo." The girl said. It was then she noticed something, a stray iron pick on the floor near the cage door. "Any chance you know how to pick a lock?"
And here we go, chapter 5. Like I promised, this wasn't updated on a holiday. I'm going to try to get one more update in for this chapter and a few other stories of mine before November 20th. Simply because I'm going out of town that weekend. Also a quick shout out to Okami Princess who came up the idea for Argo to partner up with Kudamon. So see you next time and leave a review, I'm always open for new ideas. Except for how Lalamon's going to digivolve, I've got that already planned out.