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The Archery Skill

Chapter 3: The Bow


The dungeon was close now, it was larger than she had expected. It towered above her, reaching the sky, but that was to be expected, after all that sky was the next floor's ground. Asuna walked inside. It was dark. She struck a match and lit a torch. The preciously dark room was bathed in a warm glow, the dungeon was primarily blue stone brick with dark pink highlights, and had far fewer spider webs than a dungeon should. She saw a spiral staircase and began the arduous journey that lay before her.

Sinon was looking absentmindedly through her menu when she noticed something unusual in her quest log. "Hey Kirito-san," she said, "Do you have this quest?"

He looked at the quest she was indicating, "Let me check," he scrolled through his menu, "yeah."

"Do you remember the quest-giver"

"Nope"

"I think that the [Man With Torch] was the guy in the dungeon yesterday"

"But that would mean…" he trailed off

"Exactly. Do you remember seeing coursers above their heads."

"They were NPC's!" he exclaimed cheerfully.

"Uh-Hu" she nodded smugly.

"Well, that's a relief."

"Yeah it is," she sighed, "We'd better tell everyone about the boss room"

"Oh, good idea," he flicked open his friends list and started writing a message to Argo. She started walking away. "Where do you think you're going?" Kirito asked.

"I think you've repaid your debt, cant say its been the most interesting farming session," she grinned, "well, I might see you, I might not. Bye." The message [Party has been dissolved] appeared in front of both of them.


Asuna had been walking through the dungeon for hat seemed like ages, and not a single mob had appeared. She heard the faint sound of footsteps in the distance. Lighting the nearest wall sconce, a horn looking thing on the wall, and un-equipped her torch. She hid. The source of the footsteps approached. It was humanoid, but the room was too dark to make out the details, she sunk further out of sight. The figure stopped in the middle of the room. "Hey you," said a female voice, "show yourself" it was a player she got up, raising her hands to signal that she had no intention of attacking. The figure walked closer, into the light. She was a girl around the same age as her, maybe a little older, she had a rugged military look, and snowy blue hair.

"Who are you?" asked Asuna.

"Why do you care." The mysterious girl retorted coldly. Asuna had no reply. "Exactly"

"I'm Asuna, that's a very odd name Whydoyoucare-sama"

The blue haired girl reached down and pulled two things from the band on her thigh. Suddenly, she felt the bottom and hood of her cloak move and become pinned against the wall. "Don't talk to me like that." she said, walking off.


Sinon had seemed more hostile than usual, had he done something, Kirito wondered. He was walking alone, along the dank corridor of the floor-dungeon. He saw a warm yellow light ahead, as he got closer he realized it was torch, and it was being held by a player. He continued to approach the mysterious figure, he noticed more details about them, they were wearing a cloak, it was a sort of burgundy color and white pants or stockings, he couldn't tell, with dark red boots, and they were carrying a sword of some kind. "Hello?" he asked.

"Hi." The figure replied in a feminine voice

"We've already cleared out all the mobs today, so if you're looking to farm you'll have to wait till respawns"

"We?" she asked

"Oh, yeah, I was with this girl, cold personality, icy hair, and…"

"I know who you're talking about; she went that way," The player indicated a direction close to the path to the exit, "how long till respawns?"

"About eight hours, I'd guess"

"Oh well I guess I'll stay till then, those boars aren't very efficient"

"Cool, hope we meet again, I guess." And he was gone.


As Sinon walked through the dungeon she noticed an abnormality in the wall sconces; most were three meters apart but these were only a little less than one. She inspected them more carefully. Each had a thin metal wire attached to the back, and a hinge connecting it to the wall. She pulled one, it gave, but nothing happened. She pulled the other, same result. She thought for a moment, then pulled both, a secret door opened up, revealing a surprisingly well-lit room made of the usual dark-blue stone bricks. On each side of the door, pushed up against the wall, were locked chests, the far half of the room did not have a floor; it just dropped into a very deep pit that probably had a not so pleasant surprise waiting at the bottom. She walked in. The door closed. She was startled a little by this but preceded to attempt to pick the lock. [IMMORTAL OBJECT] appeared in front of the lock. "Hmm," she pondered. She looked across the room and noticed a metal fitting on the wall, about eight meters away resembling a key hole in the upper-center was a hole only about six cm in diameter. She had an idea. She slid her last throwing needle out of her thigh strap. And aimed, she only had one shot she breathed. In… Out… She threw the needle activating a thrown weapon skill [PINPOINT]. The needle flew true and struck its mark, two clicks were heard and the door opened. She looked in the chest to her tight in the chest were two items: [THE BOW] and [STEEL ARROWS x30]. She jumped up and down, she had found her weapon. She opened the other chest in it were two books [ARCHERY] and [FLETCHING]. "I guess I shoulder expected that" she said to herself, while equipping the bow and quiver. She opened the books and two unique skills appeared in her skill list.


A/N: Hope you enjoyed, sorry I'm late, some things came up.

I wanted her to get the bow last chapter but I wanted to post quickly so it was shorter than I had hoped. But I got it in this time so that's cool, right?

And I leave you as always with: Peace off ^_^