A/N: School's starting soon, Chapters will be posted less often, Chapters will get longer. Almost all of my chapters are about 1.3k words, at about chapter 10 this will no longer be the case, for both fluff and length will increase.

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ThisIsTheGreatestUsername: I did mean beta-tester, for you see: Attention, readers. Welcome to my Fic. My name is Posiden666. At the moment, I am the sole person who can control of this story. I'm sure you've already noticed that this story changes between first and third person. But this is not a defect in the story. I repeat… This is not a defect in the story. This is a feature of "The Archery Skill." … This ends the official tutorial of TAS good luck to you to reader. ^_^ But seriously thx I'll try to make the 1st to 3rd person switches fewer, and less confusing.

Marcialhd: Thank you the mistake has probably been corrected by the time of this posting.


The Archery Skill

Chapter 7: The Boss and The Backstory Part 2


"Nee-chan, is that you?" I whispered.

The girl's eyes widened. "Alex?" She asked.

"Sissy!" I yelled, embracing her so tightly it was probably painful. She dropped her long sword and tower shield and hugged me back, "Alex. I missed you." I was crying now, tears streaming down my mask and making it a little hard to breathe and harder to talk. "I thought I'd never see you again," I exclaimed between sobs, "But how are you here, why were you a drop, I thought you were dead, I'm so s-sorry, I thought it was a game, I-I thought you were dead."

"I was." She said, "But then I woke up, and there was a man, he said he had hacked into the Cardinal and kept me from being deleted. He made one condition though."

"What was it," I asked, "I'll do anything to keep you alive!"

"I have to create a guild, with the sole intention of beating the game, and I have to name it: Knights of the Blood Oath. It has to become the strongest guild in at least six months or he'll drop the firewalls protecting me from Cardinal and I'll cease to exist.

"I'll help," Said Kirito, "I couldn't bear knowing I let someone die when I could've done something."

"Me too," Said Sinon, "But I expect to get a lot of benefits and privileges."

"I shall help as well," exclaimed Diabel, "Anything for the unity of the lead group."

She looked to Alex.

"OF COURSE I'LL JOIN!" Yelled Alex, "Was it even a question!"


Asuna blinked… her body hurt all over, informing her she was still alive. She tried to get up, but she had several [Broken limb] debuffs on. Kirito walked over to her, and sighed, "Glad to see you're awake… and alive." He threw her a health pot, which she caught with much difficulty.

Everyone else in their party, and Diabel, came over to the crater she was lying in, but she noticed a new face, a girl with blond hair, "Who's that?" She asked.

"IT'S MY SISSY!" Exclaimed Arekkusu, with so much excitement she thought the kid would explode.

"Anyways," Kirito started, "Were going to form a guild, focused on clearing the game as quickly as possible, we'd like to know if you want to join?"

"Yes!" She said, a little too quickly, "That is why I'm here, so if there's anything I can do to achieve it faster I will gladly die for it."

"Hopefully, that won't be necessary." Kirito joked.

Everyone else in the raid party was starting to wake up now, "Ok everyone," Diabel ordered, "To the second floor." Exhausted cheers were heard as everyone made their way to the dungeon exit, hoping the next floor would have a decent inn.


Sinon and the rest of the soon-to-be guild, were among the first to arrive at the inn. Kirito, being conscious of the fact that a large number of players would need to stay in the same inn as them, reserved only four rooms. Two were large two-bed rooms, one for Kirito and her because they were used to sleeping in close proximity to each other, and one for Alex and the new girl, because they were siblings. The remaining rooms went to Asuna and Diabel. The group then went to the local tavern to celebrate their victory.

"So we haven't actually gotten your name yet." Kirito said to the new girl

"Oh of course," Said the girl, "My name is Zoë!"

"I mean your username."

"Oh, that's also Zoë"

"Hmm," He said, "Not many people use their real name as their username." Stated Kirito. He sent her a party invite, which she accepted. A new name appeared in the party list, which now read

[Kirito]: 150/150

[Sinon]: 125/125

[Arekkusu]: 135/135

[Asuna]: 120/140

[Diabel]: 190/200

[HEATHCLIFF]: 400/400

"Umm, sissy," Alex whispered, "Your username is Heathcliff, also you have twice as much health as our tank."

Kirito reached for his sword, but was stopped by Sinon who asked, "Zoë, would you please explain why you lied to us, and tell us what your current level is."

"I-I don't know, I swear I thought my username was Zoë."

"EVERYBODY CALM DOWN!" Yelled Alex, attracting annoyed glares from everyone else in the tavern. "My sissy wouldn't lie about anything, ever! And Kirito, if you ever attempt to hurt her, I'll slit your throat faster than you can draw your blade."

"I'm sorry I wasn't thinking, you're right though, why would someone knowingly lie about something like that then accept a party invite, it doesn't make sense"

"Maybe the guy who saved her changed her name to avoid a database conflict with a dead player being alive." Sinon offered.

"That's a good idea, Sinon, thank you." Zoë said.

"Well, we can talk about this later, I think we are probably some of the best players in the game right now so let's form a guild and beat this game!" Diabel said, changing the subject.

There, they formed their guild. Zoë was, of course, the guild leader. And everyone else shared the rank of [Elite] and [Cofounder]. They maintained their party, for reasons of convenience, and spent the rest of the night celebrating on the victory over the boss, and the creation of the guild.

After they had finished their celebrations, and everyone was ready to sleep, they walked back to the inn and said their good-nights. Sinon and Kirito, were alone, in a bedroom, which again had only one bed. The boy's head drooped, "Seriously, why does this always happen to us?" He asked.

"I don't know, maybe you're just bad luck." She teased, "You know Kirito-kun, this might be fate." She stepped closer to him and hugged his arm.

Kirito turned bright red, but then wrapped his other arm around her waist, and faced her, "You th-think so." He mocked.

It was now her turn to glow crimson, she pushed him away and slapped him, "I-I was just kidding." She stammered looking away from him.

"Yeah I was too," He said, "I'll take the floor"

"D-Damn right you will!" She almost exclaimed, jumping into the bed and hiding under the covers.

He laughed quietly and lay down on the floor, awaiting sleep.


My sister and I stood in our room, which contained two beds, "So Zoë…" I said.

"Yeah?" She asked.

My mind flashed back to the first day of that horrible nightmare, before we knew it was a nightmare. We were standing in a field outside the Town of Beginnings, we had just finished clearing a pack of boars and were arguing about who had killed the most. "We don't need to argue," My sister said, "Why don't we just duel to see who's better."

"You're on." I said sending her a duel request [Half Loss Mode]

She smiled and declined, sending me a duel request [Total Loss Mode]

I hesitated, but only for an instant, then accepted. I thought we were just playing a game. I pulled myself out of my thoughts. I didn't want to remember it. I thought I had killed my sister. "I'm sorry." I whispered.

She looked at me, confused. Her eyes widened, and she smiled at me lovingly. She walked over and embraced me gently. I started to cry softly, and so did she. "Hey…" she said, "It doesn't matter anymore. All that matters is that we're alive, and together." She removed my hood and mask and began to stroke my longish black hair and kissed me on the forehead; she was humming the lullaby she always used to sing to me so I'd sleep, and my eyes immediately began to droop. She removed my cloak and carried me over to one of the beds and tucked me in. She began to move away, but I grabbed her wrist. "Sissy," I asked tears still wetting my cheeks, "Will you sleep with me tonight?"

"All right…" She said, turning off the light and snuggling in beside me.

I felt safe. I felt happy. I fell asleep.


A/N: I hope that answered your questions… Maybe.

Thanks again to my Beta tester Ph1n4l

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