The Start of New Beginnings The Winter Dungeon Ch 8, a sword art online/ソードアート・オンライン fanfic

A/N: Guess who lied~ I did. I was business with schooling, studying, soccer, and stuff. So I'll make them as soon as I can. I'll also be using some content from the video game~. It has given me some great ideas. Shall we go to the story!

Disclaimer: Don't own it, moving on

Sword Moves

One-Handed Sword (Kirito's Elucidator)

-Sharp Nail- A Sword Skill that consists of an upward right to left diagonal slash, followed by a left to right horizontal slash, ending with a downward right to left diagonal slash. An alternative execution of the skills consists of three vertical slashes. *Combo 3*
-Vertical- A simple sword skill slashing vertically *Combo 1*

One-Handed Curved Sword (Leafa's Sword)

-Treble Scythe- A high-level curved Sword Skill that consists of three consecutive sideswipes while spinning like a top.*Combo 3*

Long-Bow (Sinon's Bow)

-Exploding Arrows- An arrow engulfed in flames, split into several smaller flames mid-flight. The smaller flames hit the target with rapid succession, causing a big explosion.

Katana (Klein's Katakurenai)

-Hiogi- (Scarlet Fan) Upward, downward, then thrusting combo.

Ch. 8 The Real Life Problems

"Klein! Let go of me... Ahhh!" Yelled Kirito, while Klein grabbed his neck in a head lock. "Yaa! Is having fun such a problem!" Replied Klein, rubbing Kirito's head. Asuna, Silica, Liz, Leafa, and Sinon just stared at him laughing. "Hey Klein," said Liz between laughs. "We should start heading for the dungeon now."

They were heading for the winter dungeon. It was only their second time going to this place. The harsh weather has stopped them from going any further into the area. But a quest was set to that area, and a rare metal could be found. New monsters were still to be discovered there, and they wanted to be the first to experience it. Kirito and Klein too the lead, swords drawn. The rest of the group followed close behind.

"Klein..." Said Kirito, taking small steps into the next hall. "Do you hear that?" Klein looked around the room, "ya, something is here.." Replied Klein. But before he was able to tell the rest of the group, it attacked. A giant Yeti jumped out and grabbed Klein. "Ahhhh!" Screamed Klein, in no position to attack it. "Damn it!" Yelled Kirito, ready to attack the beast. "Start with observation! I'll get Klein!" Said Kirito to the second group that followed them. Kirito pointed his -Elucidator- at the Yeti, and prepared to use -Sharp Nail-. He lunged forward, and attack its arm, trying not to hit Klein. But the Yeti evaded the move and swept its arm around and smashed Kirito into the nearby wall. "Kirito!" Yelled Leafa, pulling her sword out and running towards the Yeti.

Leafa reared up, and evaded another incoming swing from the Yeit's hand. Then charged in with a -Treble Scythe-. Striking straight in the stomach, it took minor damage. It let go of Klein, who fell to the ground with a hard thud. "Damn... That things grip is really strong!" Said Klein, standing up, picking back up his -Katakurenai-. Kirito was also recovering from his hit, and looked at the Yeti. 'That thing is pretty fast for it's body structure...' Thought Kirito "Everyone! Attack smart, it's reflexes are quick." Said Kirito, standing next to Klein and Leafa.

Sinon pulled her bow out, and was ready. She fired -Explode Arrow-s at the Yeti. It relied back, taking some damage. It suddenly brought it's foot up, and slammed it into the ground. Causing the ground to shake. Everyone's weight shifted, they lost their balance and some started falling to the ground. Others were able to hold their ground, but before they knew it. The Yeti was upon them, both fists in the air aimed straight for Kirito. He was able to activate a -Vertical- to make the blow a bit less damaging. But he still took quite a blow. He tumbled to the group, his health entering the yellow.

Klein gripped his Katana even harder, and charged it up. He charged towards the Yeti's left foot and unleashed -Hiogi-. The Yeti fell to his knee, grabbing it in pain. Everyone saw it, and knew it's weak spot now. All they have to do it attack that spot now. Kirito got up from the blow he had to take, and charged up for his -Vertical Arc-. With a grunt, he swung his arm around. And launched the projectile towards the Yeti's knee. It was a direct hit, and it fell down. Kirito saw this moment as a time to attack, and said. "It's low! Attack!" Everyone charged at the Yeti, attacking it with everything they could.

It blew up into a million polygons. Everyone was tired, and sat down breathing hard. Kirito was the the one that took the most damage. Asuna noticed his state, and said the spell for healing. He was back to full health in no time. "Thank you Asuna..." He said, as he stood up. "That Yeti was very strong... I don't know why I couldn't do that much..." Said Kirito, grabbing his side. Asuna went up to him, and helped him walk. "It's okay Kirito-kun, maybe today is just not your day. It happens to all of us."

Everyone started moving deeper into the dungeon. They didn't fight that many things while going further in. Which they thought was weird, considering that if you were going deeper into the dungeon. You should be encountering more and stronger monsters. But in this dungeon, it was the very opposite. There were less monsters, and less monsters every step of the way. They had finally encountered the boss room. Now that they were here, they didn't know what to expect. Is the boss going to be easy like the dungeon was? Or is it going to be like every other boss fight.

Kirito and Klien pushed the door open, their swords drawn. It was a dark room, the torches flickering on very dimly. Nothing seemed to be in the room, but they wanted to be cautious. As they walked into the room, a sudden warning appeared in front of their screens. "Wah! What's Hap..." said Kirito, his avatar turning into small particles. And soon after disappeared from the game. This continued happened, till everyone had finally been logged out.

Kirito woke up, stunned by what just happened. "What just happened... Was there a system update?" Kirito got up from his bed, and went downstairs. He grabbed his jacket, and left the house. Before leaving, he messaged everyone to meet at the park. Kirito got onto his motorcycle, and went off to the park.

When he got there, everyone was waiting for him. "What happened to the game? Did the servers crash?" Asked Rika. "I'm not completely sure what happened to them, but it seems like we weren't the only ones to be effected. The entire world is unable to play by the looks of it," said Kirito, looking at his phone.

He scrolled through all of the news articles that are coming up rapidly. Everyone trying to get a scoop or their take on the what might be going on with the virtual reality games.

"Looks really bad, no one knows what's going on. What should we do?" asked Klein. There was no answer for some time. The truth was, no one knew what exactly to do. What could they have done? There is nothing they can do in this situation, they're just going to have to wait and see what the creators are going to do.

They all decided to just hangout today, since they couldn't go online anymore. They first went to the arcade, playing the racing games. Rika always won when it came to those, she was so good at them and nobody could beat her. Maybe it was because Keiko was just too short to be able to fully reach the gas pedal. Who knows.

Klein and Kirito played ice hockey against each other, always going back and forth on the scoreboard. They hit the puck so hard that they could have broken the entire machine if they tried. Asuna watched them as they played. Klein and Kirito had just finished their close game, Kirito winning with a winning hit into his goal leaving Klein sobbing in his defeat.

Kirito walked over to Asuna, letting of a little laugh due to Klein's defeated looked. "Asuna, you're not going to play anything?" he asked, standing beside her. "I don't really want to admit it, but I don't come here often. This is probable the third time I've been here," she said, looking the opposite direction trying to hide her embarrassment.

Kirito laughed a little bit, then started laughing a lot louder. With a pout on her face, she said "Hey! Don't laugh at me! Just because I play virtual reality doesn't mean I come and play more games. I have a life unlike you!" She slapped on the shoulder, even though it had no effect on him.

After Kirito's laughing calmed down a little bit he said, "come on now, you're here now so let's go play game other games." He grabbed her arm and dragged her off to one of the many games that the arcade had to offer. They tried shooting games, hitting games, luck games. Everyone had a really good time, even though they weren't able to play ALO for that day.

However, they didn't know what would be in store for them the next few weeks. Because starting that day, a new evil had arrived.

A/N: It's time to start introducing more OC characters and original story plot! It's been one entire year before I have finally come back. So let's have a good December!