Chapter 2

Kirito's P.O.V.

"So Percy should we get it." I ask.

"I don't see why not." Percy responds as we all take out a mirror.

"What th-"

Suddenly a flash of blue comes from all of the mirrors.

When the light died down I looked for my new friends but I could not find them, there were only other players in their place except for Percy he was still there. "but wait."

suddenly it hit him he looked at the new characters that are in front of him and sure enough.

Jokster Lv. 4

Super-Sized Mcshizzle Bad Boy Supreme Lv. 6

Klein Lv. 3

"No way" I thought then I looked down and sure enough I looked like how I did in the real world.

"Hey guys, umm, what happened to our skins." asks Klein.

"I guess this is what that red guy was talking about, this is his gift from him to us." says Percy.

"Seems like it and I guess this will be our home forever." says Connor.

Ploop!

"Oh what now!"

Geez I guess someone has a temper I just keep forgetting to tell you guys stuff. Heh, silly me. There is a way to get out of here. Do you guys and gals want to know?

"Yeah ya asshole!"

Finally someone responds to a question, thank you, by the way the rest of you are just so rude. Ok the way to get out is to complete all the levels in the castle Aincrad. Ok good. Got it. Ok bye.

Slorp!

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

"Guys come with me." I say then I look around," wait where is Percy?"

"Oh he is about to be totally motivational." say Connor and Leo.

Percy's P.O.V.

The moment he said that we were trapped here I knew that people would go to suicide, some people are like that you know if things are to hard the give up, but I had no idea that so many would try to do it! this is getting annoying this is like the 25th person that I have had to save! These people are idiots why can't they realize this.

"EVERYBODY…. SSSTTTOOOPPP!" I shout.

Everyone pauses waiting to hear what I had to say.

"You guys are complete idiots, what good will suicide do, he explained the rules and how to win so all we have to do is finish the 100 floors, and the more people we have the faster, better, and more people alive will be at the end of this all. And besides what about your family do you really want them to lose you forever? Just get through this, survive and you can tell a story to your children and grandchildren of all the adventure you will have. I do get where you are coming from." my voice starts to crack up a bit."Believe me I know, I just left my friends and my family behind and that is why we must win to get back to them to hold them tight and to tell them that we are all right and that we missed them. That is what I will fight for! So what will you fight and survive for?"

And just like that everyone started to think of what they have to fight for.

Kirito's P.O.V.

This guy was getting more and more amazing, I thought. He is like a real leader I mean he literally just commanded an entire group and he knew exactly what to say!

"He is doing it again, he surprises me every time he actually gets serious he is like a completely different person." Connor said to my right.

"What do you mean." I ask him.

"Well Percy may seem stupid and easy going, but in reality he is quite smart and serious, it is really surprising I know." replies Connor.

"Really?" I say as I think of what other secrets that Percy is hiding.

"Hey guys we should get going." calls Percy.

Later...

"We have to make a guild and survive this game." Says Connor.

"Well I would love to you guys but I have some other friends that are more my level in skill so sorry but bye." Says Klein as he leaves.

"Well I should probably get going." says Kirito.

"Where are you going?" Asks Percy.

"I am going to hit the road." Replies Kirito.

"Ok let's go Connor, Leo, so where are we headed?" Asks Percy.

"Wait you guys want to come with me?" Asks Kirito.

"Well duh."

"We are your friends after all."

"Yeah what he said."

"Really you guys, we are.. We are friends?" Says Kirito.

"Yeah man you are part of the demig-"smack!" Ow! That hurt what the hell- oh, oh right." Stumbles Leo.

(You idiot, you almost gave away our secret, we cannot tell him about the gods and monsters! it could destroy his perception of reality.) Percy says in ancient greek staring at Leo.

(Yeah, yeah I'm sorry it won't happen again.) says Leo sheepishly.

"What language are you guys speaking?" Asks a confused Kirito. "I thought you were American."

"Oh we are," laughs Connor "we just picked this up at camp."

"All right! So we were talking about going to the next village right?" Says Leo hurriedly trying to change the subject.

"Yeah we need to get stronger if we want to survive this game." Says Percy.

"So Kirito do you know a good way to level up?" Asks Connor.

'Well I do know a lot of quests that give you a lot of good gear and fast experience. You could also get it the usual way which is to say by grinding. but with the way that you guys are it is not going to take long till you are past the usual level for this floor and it will be to easy to kill monsters and it will take forever to level up after you reach that point." says Kirito.

"Then let's work hard to reach that point." says Percy

"Yeah!" everyone cheers.

In the real world

"I can't believe it."

Breaking news, the new and ever so famous Sword Art Online has just been found out to be a murder game. Reports state that people with the new game have had their heartbeat stop. Upon further investigation it was discovered that the game designer Kyaba Akihiko had made the game to have no logout button and apparently if you die in the game you die in real life. Also please refrain from taking the helmet of by force because it seems to kill them that way as well. Thank you Dianne and now…..

Annabeth shut off the news report and sat down with tears falling down her cheek and next to her was Calypso and Travis just staring in shock, while everyone else just stared at them.

"And there he goes disappearing on me again." Says Annabeth finally.

"Don't worry Annabeth," says Nico "if anyone can survive a game about sword fighting it is Percy. So the best thing to do is to just wait for them to return, and don't worry if it feels like he is close to death I will tell you so you can help him."

"Yeah you are right it's just "sniff sniff" he just always disappears on me." She says.

In the game

"ACHOO!"

"Geez! Percy what's the matter." Says Connor.

"I didn't even know you could sneeze in this game."says Kirito.

"Sniff I think someone is talking about me." responds Percy.

"Yeah probably not." Scoffs Leo. "looks who has a big head, sneezes once and thinks someone is talking about him, oh so sad how the mighty have fallen."

"Yeah and my dad has nothing to do with it." responds Percy rolling his eyes.

"Touché"

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"Hey guys what do you think is going to happen to the camp" says Connor uncharacteristically serious.

"In honesty Connor I don't know, I really don't know." responds Percy.

"Ah come on guys have faith in them and they shall have faith in us." reasons Leo breaking into a smile. making the two other friends smile back.

Kirito watches their interaction from the back while he wishes to get to know these three mysterious teens more, he knows that he could never be that close to another person, because he was a loner, he was never meant to be social.

"Hey Kirito, dude where is the next village that you were talking about." Percy said smiling at Kirito while nooging Leo with Connor's arm slung around Percy's shoulder both were also smiling at Kirito as well as looking at him expectantly. Kirito stared at them, then his face broke into a smile "Oh it isn't to far away maybe a half days travel across monster infested fields."

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"Sweet! a walk in the park with free exp, what a time to be alive!" Percy laughed, while Connor rolled his eyes and Leo's eyes danced with mirth."yeah a walk in the park for you, oh Crosser of Tartarus." everyone laughed at that except Kirito, never Kirito, well he laughed good naturedly but he didn't get it and that is what matters here. Anyway back the the story (cause if my boss knew I was here I would be in big trouble, promise to say nothing and you get a chapter sooner rather than later okay, deal) where were we? Oh yes they were laughing Kirito was out of the loop, yada yada yada annnnd monster attack, yay. while they were laughing Percy saw a small yellow creature with a red hood on behind a massive boulder, but before Percy could make a comment an arrow struck Kirito in the back forcing him to go down onto his knee. when he was struck Percy, Leo, and connor lept into action drawing their weapons Percy drew a strange sword that seemed to be made of a strange bone, Leo drew a skinny two-handed warhammer, and Connor drew a bow. they each glanced at each others weapon with raised eyebrows right before Leo and Percy charged while Connor ran around the yellow beings hiding spot looking to get a good shot. while Percy was weaving around the area being shot at with ease Leo was having a bit of a tougher time with it with an unusual weapon in his hands "what I would do for my tool belt in this game." Leo thought as he just barely dodged an arrow. As Percy got closer to the monster he could see its title.

Goblin Archer Lv. 7

As Percy was about to cut the goblin a new one, an arrow went wissing over his head and into the goblin's head, and another player rushed in front of Percy and stabbed it in the chest making it explode into multi coloured crystals. Kirito looked back at Percy who was right behind him and stuck out his tongue and laughed at Percy's pouting face. "You stole my kill," He whined good naturedly. After they had finished laughing Leo and Connor had tackled Percy from behind the back causing another round of laughter to come from the fast growing group of friends.

"So," Percy said when they were done, " I didn't expect this, since when have you ever used a bow before Connor."

"Well unlike you mister one trick pony" Connor snickered while Percy scowled and Leo fell down laughing, "since we were going into world war three, I decided to learn how to fight with as many weapons as I could get my hands on, and I discovered that I liked the bow as well as knives, probably my dad you know, and it just so happens that the class that I have chosen was thief which gives me a lot of leeway when it comes to weapons I can use swords, knives, and bows for some of them. oh and may I ask about that sword of yours." Connor finished with a raised eyebrow at Percy's hand.

Percy smirked, "monster drop" was all that he had said before he switched gears and turned to Leo with a quizzical eyebrow raised.

"What?" Leo said grinning making Percy roll his eyes before saying, "Well I guess you would need a weapon without your fire hands or sphere things but why a hammer?"

Leo laughed before saying, " Yeah well before I got over the trauma of losing my mother in a fire I had somewhat started, I was a bit wary of using it and remember I got the sphere's in Rome, so what do you think I used as a weapon before then in the adventure with Jason and Piper, well I used a bronze hammer that I could get from my tool belt, remember that thing, it has saved my life countless times, Oh! Did I tell you guys about the time with the wolves and tofu, oh it was frightening then, but now it seems hilarious. besides I chose blacksmith and they fight with hammers so there is that."

As Kirito filed all of this away into file cabinet labeled mysterious americans, he asks, " what do you guys mean by all of this, are you guys like extreme gamers?" he asked desperately trying to find out what was going on and what they were talking about.

Percy eyes widened (shit, what were we thinking talking about camp life. what should we tell him?) he cursed. Leo looked at Percy before saying (Well either we tell him that they are some games that we have played before or we could tell him the truth either way we can then talk openly about this stuff in front of him.)

(Well then men you know what to do, time to start up the we are demigods dance number.) said Connor with a huge smile on his face.

Percy smacks the back of Connor's head before hissing (no you idiot we will just go with the game idea.)

"Yeah" Percy said with a nervous smile, "something like that, we were just talking about some games that we had played" Kirito looked a bit skeptical but he did not press the matter.

"Alright anyway let's get to that village you were talking about!"

"YEAH!"

Well it came together faster then I had originally thought but I wanted to get it out before I get crushed by preparing for finals and other projects, anyway I will have to take longer this time because of all of this. As well during the summer I will also not have to much time to write because I got myself a summer job, so cheers see ya'll later.