Chapter 4
Hey everyone I'm back again with another chapter for you all, and this is where the changes start, now as always I do not own Sword Art Online, this means the characters from the anime, manga, and video game, but I do own my Oc's and where this story is going, other than this enjoy everyone!
"We'll lead the field boss into the village, it will be busy with dealing with the Mcps to notice us attacking." Asuna stated, which made everyone gasp.
W-wait hold on if we do that then the mpcs will die, and they are-" Kirito started, till he got interrupted.
"Alive, really they are just code, unlike us who are real and can die in real life." Rain stated, which everyone noticed she is wearing a maid type outfit of the Knight of The Blood Oath.
"That, maybe true but still." Nightmare replied.
"Are you ignoring us? We are top in command of the KBO and the clearing group." Asuna countered, while Nightmare gritted his teeth.
"That may be true, but your not the boss of me it's just a title, I have no need to be in a group that will pull this bull shit." Nightmare growled as he left, as Phantom, Blade, and Punisher nodded and left getting their work clothes on, as well as another guy who no one noticed.
"He is telling the truth you know, later." Kirito added leaving, as both girls are having steam come out.
"Hey Kirito! Nightmare!" Agil called out to the brothers.
"Hmm? Is something up Agil?" Nightmare asked, as Kirito was thinking the same thing if something was wrong.
"No it's not that, it's just you two and Rain and Asuna, used to be the best team on the 1st floor, even if only you two and anyway of two between you four your always the best team, but now all you 4 do is fight about everything." Agil stated.
"That maybe true, but I can't agree with their ideas." Nightmare replied, as Kirito agreed.
"But, I will admit I did not think that they would be top clearing badasses, in too command of the most powerful guild in the game." Kirito added, while Nightmare agreed nervously.
"I really didn't see it coming, ugh anyway we will catch you later Agil." Nightmare told Agil as the two left, and in a few minutes they came by a tree.
"Hey, do you think we can stay by this tree? You know to relax?" Kirito asked, as Nightmare and thought about it.
"I don't see why not, I mean it's our day off and hell we have tomorrow off to." Nightmare stated, as they exchange a smile, then Kirito lay down on the ground taking a nap, while Nightmare laied on the tree using his menu to make a book and a pair of Nike glasses appeared in his hands, then put his glasses on and started reading his book.
"And do you think you two are doing?" A pisses Asuna asked, with a pissed Rain next to her.
"Ow well I'm reading, while my brother is taking a nap, sssoooo why did you asked?" Nightmare asked, while he continued reading his book.
"Well I thought solo players like you two would be out leveling up!" Rain growled, as Asuna agreed.
"Yea, so get your asses up now and do something!" Asuna yelled, as the brothers just starred at her.
"You know today there is great weather here in SAO, the wind and the sunlight just feel right for many reasons, it would be a waste to spend it at a dungeon." Kirito stated, which Nightmare gave out a hum in agreement.
"But every day we waste here, is a day we waste in the real world." Rain whispered
"You can join if you want ok, but if you don't then so be it, besides we are in the world of Sword Art Online." Nightmare stated casualty, as Kirito knocked out, and Nightmare just read his book, till he saw Asuna going to take a nap, which made Nightmare surprised. "Dame didn't think she would take a nap right now." Nightmare spoke in surprise.
"I may have to agree, but I'm curious why did you not like the idea to use Npcs?" Rain asked with a eyebrow raised, as Nightmare put his book down and look straight at her.
"I'm going to answer your question with a question, you may agree that Npcs can be used on the field boss, but would you sacrifice players?" Nightmare questioned, which made Rain raised a eyebrow, till he continued. "Sure you can sacrifice the villagers, but what would happen is players that was not part of the clearing group was there? Heck let's talk about future plans! Will you sacrifice players till we make it to the 100th floor, and I mean would you have those players play bate so we can clear whatever is in our path?" Nightmare stated looking pissed, while making Rain speechless.
"I-I don't intend to do that! It will never come to that!" Rain replied a bit shaky.
"You and Asuna are not by yourselfs, you could ask for help, not take everything on by yourselfs." Nightmare declared yanning. "Well I'm going to take a nap, you can either stay or leave the choice is your." Nightmare told Rain putting his glasses, and book back where they were, before equipping them, and then went to sleep, as Rain looked around.
*some time later*
"Ugghh...man that was a good n-what the hell?!" Kirito told himself as he saw Asuna, Rain, and Nightmare asleep. "I did not think that they would sleep." Kirito added, as Nightmare woke up a bit tired.
"That was a good na-The Fuck!" Nightmare shouted, as he saw a sleeping Rain next to him, then noticed Kirito was awake. "Pretend this never happend?" Nightmare asked, as Kirito shrugged.
"I guess, but I still can't believe that they fell sleep here..." Kirito mumbled, as s few clears came by.
"Hahaha! As we work they get to relax!" A clearer told everyone in his group, as they passed by laughing.
"I can't believe it, ugh we will never hear the end of it..." Nightmare mumbled, as Kirito nodded a 'yes'.
"Well we got to stay here and watch them." Kirito stated, while Nightmare got up and sit on a wall, with Kirito following.
"I wounded how long they will sleep?" Nightmare muttered, as Kirito thought about it.
"Who knows. Let's hope it does not take till tomorrow." Kirito replied, as Nightmare agreed.
*During sun down*
"Got any two's?" Nightmare asked Kirito.
"Go fish..." Kirito replied.
"THIS GAME IS FUCKING STUPID!" Nightmare yelled, until they heard two girl like sneezes, as they turn to see Asuna and Rain up still tired.
"Morning, how did you two enjoy your sleep?" Kirito asked, as both girls had their eyes widen, and with them grabbing their swords, which caused the two brothers to jump behind the wall they were sitting on, while Nightmare picked up the cards they dropped.
"One meal..." Both girls muttered, which made the boys confused, as the girls nodded to each other.
"We will treat you one meal whatever you want." Asuna stated, as both boys nodded slowly got up and join the girls on heading to a restaurant, and as they entered people muttered 'are those two girls the top commanders of the knight of the blood oath' and 'who are those guys' and other stuff like that.
"Thanks." Rain muttered, which brought the boys attention.
"Yes thank you, for watching us, since now it's possible to die in a safe zone in a duel, many people would duel to test each other's strength and skills, but since you can die in a duel and if your asleep people can just use the asleep persons hand and manipulate the system so that a duel could happen, and with the increase in Pking it is very dangerous to let yourself be relaxed." Asuna explained, as Nightmare's eyes darken by the PKing, as Kirito nodded.
"No problem." Kirito stated, as Nightmare nodded.
"But the increase of death is really shaky." Nightmare admitted, as everyone at the table agreed, till they heard a scream.
"What's going on?!" Asuna yelled, as they all ran towards the center of town to see a guy hanging with a sword in his chest.
"Hurry and pull that dame sword out!" Nightmare yelled, as the guy was struggling to pull the sword out.
"Aaaaahhhh! Unmm...I got it you guys get under where he is, while me and Asuna untie the rope." Rain planned, as everyone agreed with the plan and went to do what they were assigned to.
"Don't worry we got you just hang on." Kirito told the guy that was hanging, while Nightmare just gave him a look that said really.
"Dude poor choice of words." Nightmare stated, as Kirito looked away realizing what he said, until the man hanging broke into pieces, making everyone around eyes widen.
"Anyone look to see if someone has a winners icon!" Kirito shouted, as he took a glance around, but noticed nothing.
"There is no one here!" Asuna shouted, as Nightmare picked up the sword, and the two climb the stairs to meet Asuna and Rain.
"Whats the meaning of this?" Kirito mumbled.
"Well the obvious way is that their was a duel, and the person died." Asuna stated.
"No...nobody has a winner icon." Nightmare growled with rage, making everyone a bit shock and back up.
"O-ok well then we can't leave this unnoticed, so we have to leave the front lines for awhile, until this is over, so no naps, none of that till this mission is done." Rain declared, as the boys nodded shaking hands with the girls.
"Fine...but if we find PKers, then I'm not going to promise that I'll keep them alive to go to jail." Nightmare declared in a dark venomous voice, making everyone gave a chill go down their spine in fear, while Rain and Kirito were in worried if something happened.
"Yeah, I'll help to but in my defense you guys took a longer nap than me and Nightmare." Kirito stated, which made both girls crushed Kirito's hand, as he yelled in pain, making Nightmare winced with a hiss sound.
"Man that's got to hurt..." Nightmare whispered to himself, as the girls looked at him, but he just whistled, and with that they went down the stairs to meet a crowd of people.
"Everyone did anyone see what happened a while ago, or about the person hanging." Kirito called out, as Nightmare face palmed, then Kirito after what he said, till a girl came up.
"Hello, my name is Yoko." The girl named Yoko came up.
"Hello, this must have been a bit dramatizeing for you." Asuna declared, as Yoko nodded.
"His name was Caynz, we used to be in the same guild, we came to town to get some dinner, then we lost each other in a crowd, until-until.." Yoko pause at the end then broke down crying.
"Did you see anyone at all?" Rain asked, as Yoko nodded.
"I thought I saw someone behind Caynz, but that person did not look familiar." Yoko declared.
"Sorry to make this sound bad, but does anyone want to kill Caynz?" Nightmare asked.
"N-no I don't think so." Yoko declared, as Nightmare took a glance at her, which then they decided to take Yoko to where she is staying at.
"Um...Yoko, if you don't mind tomorrow we would like to ask some questions.
"No I don't mind, and thank you for taking me to where I'm staying." Yoko thanked them as she went inside her room, as the 4 left and stopped by a fountain.
"So what now?" Kirito asked.
"Well we can examine all the facts we got." Asuna stated, as everyone nodded.
"But before we do that we should examine the sword." Rain added.
"That would mean we need to find a person that has a high detection skill." Kirito replied with a hand to his chin.
"Well me and Rain know a blacksmith who can help, but is very busy at this hour." Asuna stated, as everyone sigh.
"We can go to a merchant that me and Nightmare know, but he is probably not at his shop now." Kirito added, but everyone was depressed except Nightmare that no one had free time to help, till Nightmare grabbed the sword.
"Player made, name Guilty thorn otherwise know as the thorn of sins, not below basic sword but a decent sword for these floors." Nightmare told them, as the girls were surprised, and Kirito face palmed.
"I totally forgot that you are a merchant and blacksmith too Nightmare." Kirito stated with an embarrassing laugh, as the information surprised the girls.
"Wait...WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US?!" The girls screamed.
"No one asked, and two we better make room for someone helping us, cause I called a friend to see if he could help, and he said tomorrow he could." Nightmare stated, as everyone was speechless.
"Ugh...Whatever just tell us who made it..." Asuna muttered, as Nightmare rolled his eyes.
"Just check your additud...Grimlock made this sword, but still nothing weird about it to make someone die in a safe zone." Nightmare declared, making everyone wonder.
"Ok we will meet at the shop tomorrow, and I will ask a friend to come because she has abilities to help us." Rain declared, as everyone nodded.
*The Next Day*
"Kazuto wake up...Wake Up!" Ray yelled hitting Kazuto in the head with a pillow.
"Why did you wake me up Ray?" Kazuto asked a bit annoyed.
"Remember we have to get my friend that will help us, man your forgetful Kazuto." Ray sighed at Kazuto's memory.
"Well sorry, ugh lets just get your friend, where is he Ray?" Kazuto asked, as Ray just stared at him.
"He is actually on the 22nd floor and it is about an hour and thirty minutes till we have to meet Asuna and Rain." Ray stated getting ready, as Kazuto got ready to leave, as they left to the shop that Kirito and Ray went to on Christmas, but more upgraded the building is much bigger than before and some spots outside that you could eat, as they entered inside Kirito saw a familiar face in a waitress outfit, and something that shocked about what was on her left hand on her ring finger.
"S-Silica?! What?! How?!" Kirito asked shocked, as Silica looked at him and gave out a smile.
"Ow hello Kirito-San, Nightmare-San how are you." Silica questioned.
"We are fine Silica, but where is Slade?" Nightmare asked, as Kirito was still shocked.
"Ow he is coming down in a bit, and to answer your question Kirito-San I got a job here thanks to Phantom, to add with a job he helped me level up a bit higher than every common clearer, probably close to the top 30, but the best out of it all is that me and Phantom got married." Silica stated with a light blush, as Kirito smiled.
"Well I'm happy that you two found happiness." Kirito claimed, as Silica smile widen.
"Yea, we had a big celebration, but you were busy." A voice replied, once everyone turned to see a guy with a blue shirt, dark blue jeans, black finger less gloves, black combat boots, and a black coat with dark blue navy lines on each arm, he has tan skin, and black hair and eyes, with a sword at his side that was showing a grey silver and had a gold line at the back of it, it's handle was black, the part that is connected to it was gold with a blue gem in the middle, and atop of the handle is a fang tooth.
"Ow, there you are Slade are you ready or what?" Nightmare asked with a bit of a dark face.
"Yea, yea lets go." Slade replied, as he left with Kirito and Nightmare following till they rech the shop Kirito and Nightmare went to with the girls. "Really? A shop?" Slade questioned with a annoyed look.
"It's a dame meeting place for fucking crying out loud, why the hell are complaining!" Nightmare yelled a bit in a dark voice shocking everyone when they entered the shop, as Kirito and Rain noticed a Amber haired girl (Philia in her armor is SAO hallow fragment).
"Umm...hello?" Kirito called to the shocked girls.
"Hi..." The three girls Yoko, Asuna, and Rain said.
"Hello...I'm Philia." The Amber haired girl spoke, as everyone nodded.
"Hi I'm Slade, sorry about my friends outburst." Slade replied with a blush looking at Philia, as Nightmare looks a bit pissed.
"Whatever, now Yoko I'm going to ask, you had a guild right? Then we should probably warn them about this just in case someone is trying to target your guild, but before any of that do you have any idea when this started?" Nightmare asked Yoko, as she thought about.
"Well I believe it started when me and my guild, got a rare item, three of us decided to not sell the item, it was me, Caynz, and Smit decided to get rid of the item." Yoko answered.
"Ok, so what does that have to do with a sword making love with your friends chest?" Nightmare questioned with a bit of a laugh and a smirk, as everyone stared at him.
"The Fuck Nightmare!" The girls, and guys yelled, as Nightmare got punched in the face by Asuna, Rain, and Philia.
"Ooooowwwww, fine...just keep going with your story..." Nightmare muttered.
"Umm, well our leader Grindzilda got killed by a group of PKers, and with that the group disbanded and my best guess is that the person is targeting the people who did not agree to sell the item." Yoko stated, as Nightmare's face darken.
"By the way do you know a Grimlock?" Rain asked, as Yoko gasped.
"Yes, he was our guild leaders wife." Yoko answered.
"Ok, that's must mean he was devastated, lucky for you we can take you to your friend Smit, he works for the holy dragon alliance." Kirito told her, as Slade and Philia sighed.
"I hate those guys..." Slade and Philia muttered, then looked at each other and blushed, and with that they went to Smit's room.
"So are the saying true?" Smit asked with worry.
"Yes and we think that Grimlock is the killer, I've accepted my fate." Yoko declared, as everyone looked at her wide eyed, except Slade and Philia, and Nightmare who looked a bit suspicious.
"And your going to accept it?!" Smit yelled, getting up, as Kirito hold him back.
"No...wait it can't be him since no one can die in a safe zone, so it must be the gost of Grindzilda, to come and take us and bring us to the death!" Yoko yelled walking towards the window, making everyone look at her like 'What the Fuck?!', till they heard a fling sound, as Yoko fell.
"Yoko!" The girls yelled, as Nightmare and Kirito ran to the window, and saw here in a death way.
"Well bull shit on the gost part." Nightmare muttered.
To Be Continued...
What will happen now that, Yoko fell to her death? Who killed her? What the hell is going on? Find out next time. Ooooowwwww Clift hangher, anyway big difference in the anime now, but I hopped everyone had a great thanksgiving! But I will work on the next chapter, on both my SAO stories. Other than this I have to happy thanksgiving again and peace
Alternate Journey