A/N: In this chapter: Teaser for first floor boss fight. OC. Also, FIRST PERSON^_^

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Chapter 4: The Player

Kirito looked around the amphitheater; there were lot of players. There were three other players by themselves. Sinon was there, no surprise; the girl from the dungeon, wearing her red cloak; and another player, wearing a dark grey long tattered cloak, he couldn't tell much about that one. A player stepped up to the stage, he was kind of tall with blue hair and a blazingly charismatic aura. "Thank you for coming today. My name is Diabel and the job I chose was knight!" The crowd murmurs things about how there is no job system in this game. "Yesterday a party found the boss room in the dungeon." He looked to Argo, who was leaning against a column a little ways away and then to Kirito, looking a little annoyed at him. He then turned back to the crowd, "We need to defeat the boss, reach the second floor, and tell everyone in the town of beginnings that it is possible to beat this game. Everyone present here shares that duty." The crowd started clapping. "Everyone needs to divide into parties of six."

Before he knew it everyone but the players had formed complete groups he looked around then got up and walked over to Sinon. "Want to party up with me, you know just for the boss fight.

She looked around, "Do I have a choice?"

"No." He smiled, sending her the invite "We should add them as well." He gestured towards the two, cloaked players.

"Aww, do we have to?" She whined

"Yes." He scolded firmly

They laughed

"Hey can I join y'all's party?" Asked a player in a dark grey cloak. Kirito couldn't tell the gender of the voice and a shadow covered their face.

"Yeah I guess." Replied Kirito, he set a party invite to the player and went over to talk to the girl he had met in the dungeon.


Asuna stared at the ground. She didn't care what group she was in, she had no friends, except that blacksmith but… Her thoughts were interrupted by a male voice.

"Did you get left out?" Asked the voice.

"I didn't," she replied, "I just stayed out because everyone else seemed to know each other already."

"You're a solo player?" He asked. "You want to party with us?"

"You keep referring to yourself in the plural." She remarked. The boy gestured to Sinon and the cloaked player. She looked up. She looked up, seeing the blue haired girl she immediately said, "No, I don't like her."

"Come on," He said, "She's not bad once you get to know her, and he just said we can't beat he boss on our own."

"Fine," She huffed, "But if she's mean I'm leaving."


Sinon was all alone with the hooded player now that Kirito had gone to talk to that girl from the dungeon, Asuna, she thought maybe. "Sooo…" She said, not at all awkwardly. She looked at the party list that read [Sinon] [Kirito] [Arekkusu], "Arekkusu-sama…"

"Yes." The player responded, "How do you know my name?"

"If you look about here," She indicated a spot where she thought her name should be for him, "You should see your name, then just underneath it you should see two others."

"Oh," He/She said, "So… You're Kirito then."

"NO! I'm Sinon, Kirito is the boy over there"

"Oh," The player muttered, "Sorry."

"Good" She huffed.

A new name appeared under the girl/guy in the cloak's name: [Asuna] "So I'm guessing Kirito succeeded." Said the player.


I was having a great time chatting it up with Sinon when suddenly the guy on stage started talking again. "Okay, have you formed your parties? Then-

"Just a second!" said a voice from outside the amphitheater. A short man with spiky hair suddenly jumped over me, and bounded down to the stage. "My name's Kibaou and I've got a few things to say. Some of you here need to apologize to the two thousand who've died so far!

"Kibaou-san, are you referring to the beta-testers?"

"OF COURSE I AM, ARE YOU DAFT!" He yelled, "On the day this godforsaken game began, the beta-fags ditched us normal players, and all vanished! They took all the good hunting spots, all the easy quests, all the good loot, all the useful info, and left us to die, so only they could get stronger. I'm sure some of you here are beta-fags like them. If you're from beta you should get on your knees and apologize, and give up all the items and money you've horded." I looked at the ground, no, this couldn't be happening. I won't give up all my hard earned items. I looked over at Kirito and noticed he had a similar expression as I did. "Otherwise we can't trust them to protect us as party members, AND THEY SHOULDN'T TRUST US!

"May I speak?" asked a new voice. I opened an eye I didn't realize I had closed. A very large black man stood up and walked towards the stage. Egil! Oh good I liked that guy, because he was always so nice. "My name is Egil," Said Egil, "Kibaou-san, tell me if I have this right. You're saying that because the beta testers didn't take care of them many beginners died. That they should take responsibility, apologize, and provide compensation. Correct?"

"Yeah that's right!" Kibaou replied, indignantly.

"You got this guide-book, right?" He asked "It was provided for free at the item store.

"Sure I did. Why?"

"It was compiled by information given by the beta testers." He stated bluntly. "Listen. Everyone had equal access to this info." He said, hitting the book. "Even so, many players died. I thought the point of this was to figure out what we can learn from their deaths, and how that can help us defeat the boss." I let out a sigh of relief as I saw how expertly Egil had diffused that bomb.

"Then can we resume?" Asked Diabel. "The latest edition of the guide book was just issued, unfortunately there is no useful information on the boss. And only two players have received the one time quest. To his right he saw Sinon throw a glance over to Kirito, was there something between them? "We can, however, assume that he may have minions so we should have a contingency plan for that, and for safety reasons we should put tanks at the front and keep switching out, then when he's of balance send in high DPS fighters in rapid bursts. Lastly, items will be automatically distributed, and [EXP] goes to the party that defeats the monster. Whoever receives an item keeps it. Any objections?" No one answered. "Dismissed. We leave at ten tomorrow morning."


A/N: Arekkusu is an American who's real name is Alex, and does not have gender, backstory in 2 chapters

I had fun writing this chapter. They're gonnaget better… Promise. I'll try to describe stuff with more details and slowdown the pace a little, aside from dialogue formatting, that's the number one thing y'all review about.

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I still need a beta tester. If you would like early access or just feel like being a decent person P.M. me.

FIRST PERSON ANYONE?

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