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Author Notes: Ok, this is my first story, it is designed to be consisted of three different stories, each a chapter long. The first story will be an alternate version of episode 3 of the anime. Beware, my writing is not very good, and has mediocre grammar. Please review this story, and let me know what you think. Stories will be updated once a month about, until all three are up. All stories are free standing from each other, and just require the anime, so all fans can read them. Each story will be a "what if" like theme, where some things happen slightly differently. An extra second, one conversation, one different move, all possibilities. Also each story will not use the same premise of the other stories. After all three are up, I may make the most popular one, or if any one gets enough positive reception, I will consider extending it. All these stories would technically be the first chapter, and I will treat them as such. Also I will borrow some skills (artes) from other series that tend to be wide spread skills. That'll be all for now, enjoy the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of/from SAO or it's characters.
I glanced around, as we walked through the futuristic floor 27 dungeon. The area was fragmented into large, blue green, aquamarine, or turquoise tiles. I sighed, "we shouldn't be up this high, only floor 25 would be good, Ducker" Ducker was a playful person, and was seemingly quite energetic. He had bright blonde hair, and wore a yellow cloak to match it. He had the build of a thief like character, and tended to be rash. "It'll be fine" Ducker assured me, but I was worried of the traps that started appearing on this floor. Tetsuo swiftly backed Ducker up. He was a forward for the Moonlit Black Cats and was supporting. He had brown hair, which contradicted his purple armor. He wielded a mace, and was the only other forward for the guild. He is a cheerful person, and also had a small shield in addition to his mace. "C'mon Kirito, it'll be fine, why are you so cautious anyway?" Sasamaru laughed, "Looks like Tetsuo got you there, Kirito" Sasamaru was easygoing and cheerful. He had brown curly hair. He wielded a spear and has green armor. "You're too easygoing" I replied "this a death game, remember?" Tetsuo rolled his eyes, "that doesn't mean we can't have fun, you know." There was one other person in the group. Her name was Sachi, she had blue medium length hair similar to Sasamaru, but her hair was strait instead of curly. She was timid, and suffered a paralyzing fear of death. She wielded a mace, and had armor to match her hair. The leader, Keita had gone to buy a guild house. He had brown hair, and was somewhat serious. I liked his ideals, they could reform the assault team's attitude. The assault team that they don't know I'm part of.
My mind remembered when I met this group. I was on floor 11 and they were cornered without any teleportation crystals. They had been hunting some Cursed Lizards when they found a high level mob called The Goblin King, but when they killed it about 40 Goblin Swordsmans appeared, and although they were twice the level of the little dark green monsters, they were outnumbered 8:1. They were far from any safe zones, and to make matters worse Tetsuo was heavily damaged, and no one else could do front line. With their healing items expended death was certain, as there were still about 30 left, still outnumbered about 8:1 active player. I heard screams and found the cornered against a cliff.
Rushing in I started attacking, as a solo player I had experience with these types of battles, and was 4 times the mobs' levels. I started attacking with my beast and bash skills. Beast caused my blade to glow red, and when I made contact it would kill about 5 and send other adjacent goblins flying about. Bash however made the blade glow blue, and had the "pierce" suability which let me cut down about 7 a time. After about 10 seconds the Goblins were gone, and I saw what the real problem was. In front of me stood a creature a taller and broader than a goblin. About double there average height of 5 feet. It had green skin like the rest, but it had teeth extruding out at all angles. There was an absolute bloodlust in its red eyes, and carried a large axe. I glanced at its cursor, which revealed two health bars. Goblin Sentinel was its name. On its hip there was a dagger, colored purple, clearly poisonous. It was wearing brown armor with red stains going through it. Then, it occurred to me, this was a floor sub boss, around level 20 I'd say.
We both sprinted in to fight. It was swinging its axe horizontal, right for my head. Slanting my blade I parried upward, causing it to overthrow, pummeling trees as it swung out of control. However, the durability of my sword halved. "Dammit, I need my main sword" I said to myself. I activated my newest skill, Great Beast. It required multiple hits, but did 4 time the damage and knock back of a regular beast. Vertical. Horizontal. Down diagonal right, down diagonal left. The skill activated on the defenseless mini boss, blasting it into the cliff, while dropping 75 percent its hp. As the sword skill cooled down, my blade shattered into bits, and I had to get a new sword out fast. Five seconds later the boss charged at me, just as I hit the equip button. My blade materialized in my hand, just in time to deflect the hit upwards. This time the Goblin sentinel grabbed the dagger, and released the axe, which flew into the cliff, pummeling a boulder. It charged me, fast as it could, scratching me with the edge of the dagger. I notice my HP dropped about 25 percent. "Powerful bastard" I mumbled. It charged again, but this time I was ready. I ducked under it and attacked it with a bash skill. The upwards blue crescent pierced its armor, and its HP hit zero. Bursting into a series of shards I stood, and looked through my rewards. 10,000 col, 5,000 experience, shadow blade, a one handed longsword, better than my current one. With a grin I looked up, smiling at the group. "Need some help?"
They invited me into their guild, just for that, and I will be leaving once they are independent, or I thought I would be.
"Kirito, umm, can we talk real quick." I was snapped out of my daze by Sachi. "Ummm, sure" we stopped for a second, the awkward silence was broken by a shocking question. "Is the reason you are so cautious because you helped to clear this floor" Sachi said quickly, not even breathing. I was stunned by the words, not expecting her to know, but remaining calm. "Yeah, Sachi, do me one favor, keep a teleport crystal ready, if a secret door is found, the room may be rigged, be ready to warp out." She just nodded, and did what she was told.
About five minutes later, just that happened. Ducker found a secret door, a large square room, with a lone treasure chest in the center. Without heeding my warning, Ducker opened the chest. The room turned red, "Sachi" she nodded "teleport, Taft" she yelled, but nothing happened. I had to act quickly. "Beast" I activated the skill and struck the ground in front of Sachi. The blast of air sent her flying. "Go, find Keita, and tell him everything about what happened here." I screamed as she flew through the door, closing behind her. I looked ahead, just as monsters started to appear.
There were too many to count, just two kinds of monsters, all out leveling Ducker, Sasamaru, and Tetsuo by about 2 levels. Two kinds of monsters appeared; Dark Dwarves, and Granite Elementals. The fight began, and there was little incident. I was double the level of the monsters, so there was little danger for me, but not the same for the others. First was Ducker, a Dark Dwarf knocked him down from behind. Four of them surrounded his body. After two blows from each, he rippled and exploded into shimmering shards. Then was Tetsuo, who was hit by a Granite Elemental, he was knocked back and exploded into a set of shards. Sasamaru saw this, activating a mid-level sword skill he charged the Granite Elemental that killed Tetsuo. It drove into the monster's chest, but didn't kill it. Still standing it looked him in the eye. It raised its hand and struck him, killing him instantly. Only I was left of the four who were trapped. I was bashing through a series of monsters, either or, just the same. My blade glowed yellow, "Lightning Blades" I accelerated to the speed of Asuna's linear and cut everything down in my path. My consciousness went to the back of my mind and everything went black. It was purely survival drive, no thought as I blazed a trail through the hordes of monsters. When I came to the entirety of the monsters were gone, and the room was clear. I saw a small window. Col: 50,000 EXP: 50,000 Level Up, 50-51, skill up Longsword: mastered, new skill: Sword Rain Beta. I know I should be excited, but I just can't. Three are dead, and I could have stopped them. Opening my menu, I swiftly left the Black cats, and with that, I pulled out a crystal. "Teleport Floor 28" I was engulfed in blue light, and vanished.
-Meanwhile-
Sachi was blasted against the wall, but was already in tears she saw the door close in front of her, and knew this may be the end for some of her friends. Crying she pulled out a crystal. " Teleport, Town of Beginnings" she shouted, still crying. She appeared in the middle of the starting city. Running through the town towards the estate area. She ran into Keita as he was walking out of the building, holding a deed to a house on floor 11, as it had begun to be like home. Seeing Sachi crying Kieta begun to expect the worse. What happened, calm down Sachi, and just speak.
Still hyperventilating she began to speak. "We, went to go collect some col, but Ducker suggested to go to floor 27, so we could get more," Kieta scowled, trying to remain calm at how foolish Ducker was, "in the middle of the labyrinth Ducker found a secret door, with a treasure chest in it. He opened it and the room went red. I tried to warp, but the crystal wouldn't work. Kirito used Beast on the ground, throwing me out of the room. He told me to tell you, and the door closed." She was in tears yet again, with Kieta looking straight down. After about five minutes he opened the guild member, and saw five names: Kieta, Sachi, below them there were three names, greyed out; Ducker, Tetsuo, Sasamaru. His eyes began to water. "They're dead, Ducker, Tetsuo, Sasamaru, all dead." Sachi gasped, and her eyes began to water, what about Kirito?" Keita looked away "His name isn't there, he left the guild" At that moment Sachi remembered something. "Our shared inventory window" Sachi exclaimed, opening her menu. Keita shot her a glance that said he would want an explanation later. "He's not here, she saw something, three sets of items, the equipment of the other guild mates, and 100,000 col."
There was a message from: Kirito, to Sachi: Here are their equipment, grave is on floor 27. Buried their armor as a token. Goodbye. Notice: User-Kiito has withdrawn from shared inventory tab. Sachi read the message multiple times, with tears flowing like a river. She showed the message to Keita, who was just silent. "Sachi, let's go see their graves, it has coordinates." They arrived there about 1 hour later, and found three graves, along with a note: I couldn't save them: I'm sorry. That was all that was written. "Well at least he is alive, but how did he survive, and not the others?" Sachi, was backed into a corner, but finally she said "He is level 50, I don't know why he did, but I don't care, I still care about him" Keita wore a suspicious grin toward him. "How do you know all this, Sachi?" Next she explained everything, their night together, the shared inventory tab, him saving her, being the beater, everything. Keita just stood there, stunned, "he had no right..."
-7 Months Later, Floor 35, Christmas-
"So, Argo, we heard you could help us locate someone." Keita and Sachi were there, talking to the notorious Argo, the information broker. She had whiskers, and was an EX beta tester. "It would depend on why you needed to find them, and would cost 10,000 col" Argo said, pulling up a contract. "Very well this is acceptable" Keita said, confirming the contract. "Who do you want to find?" Argo began "OK, His name is Kirito"
Ok, that conclude story one,please review this story, and give me as many suggestions. If I extend it there will be a chance to submit OCs, but please don't jump the gun on that. As I said prior, my writing is not very good, especially compared to some other authors who write SAO fanfiction, so please, have some restraint, but don't censor yourself completely. The next story is being worked on and may be out within some measure of time. The next stories will be about the same length, maybe off by a few words. Please review, and give me any ideas or suggestions you have. Yes, I know my writing isn't good, and is a little bland, but hopefully I will improve across the next two.
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