Chapter 12
Hey everyone here I am back with the next chapter for you all! So as always I do not own Sword Art Online video game, manga or anime what so ever, they belong to their original owners, but if I did own the Sword Art Online franchise, I would not change a lot. But for now I hope you all enjoy the chapter! Enjoy!
"Dame it...I'm fucking tired..." Nightmare breathed, looking at the players who where attacking the boss, which his grip tighten when he saw two players died.
"Men regroup and strike!" Godfree called out, which made Nightmare smile a bit to know he was still up and fighting, till he saw the boss went into the red zone, which made Heatclift who was defending, and Chills who was attacking looked and both their eyes widen.
"Everyone charge!" The leaders yelled, which everyone had responded to and attack the boss at the same time, giving the boss no more room to move till the boss exploded into millions of pieces, which made everyone hold their breath till the congratulations sign appeared, which lead to people sighing, or falling to the ground either sitting down, or laying down.
"H-hey...Kirito how..many people...died...?" Agil asked out of breath, which Kirito looked at the report, while sitting with his and his brother's family, doing what was asked with a menu telling him how many people died, which made Kirito's eyes widen.
"7...people died..." Kirito muttered, shocking everyone.
"What..?" Klien muttered trying to process what he just said.
"That is close to two digits..." Liz muttered, which everyone heard.
"It is less than what I thought..." Slade replied standing up, which Philia stood up leaning on his shoulder.
"It is good that a lot of people did not die...but still good people died!" Silica cried, which Phantom hugged her into his chest whispering it will be ok repeatedly.
"This game is getting more deadly every floor we advance..." Punisher claimed in stress covering his head.
"How can we make it...to the end like this...?" Agil muttered, and once that was said Yui and Strea started to shake, which Asuna hold them tightly, which made Kirito worried and taking a glance at Zoey who was crying into Rain's shoulder, while Nightmare was gritting his teeth, which Nightmare looked at Kirito and then he noticed Kirito starring at Heatclift which lead to Kirito widening his eyes which he stand up grabbing his [Elucinator].
"Kirito?" Asuna called, then Kirito charged at Heatclift with speed no one can keep up with, and once he did a immortal object sign appeared making everyone freeze.
"W-what commander?!" Asuna spoked in a panicked voice, as she was now standing next to Kirito, and seeing that message out, but then noticed Yui and Strea hiding behind her, then turn to see Zoey doing the same thing but hiding behind Rain.
"So I was right...you are Akihiko Kayaba, Heatclift, and Chills is your brother that we heard that helped you make this game, was I right Seth Kayaba?" Kirito questioned, making Chills have dark eyes, while Heatclift just had a amused look.
"Oh dear now do you mind telling me how you came to that thought?" Heatclift asked with a voice of wounder, while Chills glared at Kirito and Nightmare, while Nightmare had a hand into his coat.
"Simple you and your brother both use the advance system, since you two are game masters in our duel, poor choice to actually use the system like that if you did not wanted to be found, but the main reason was what would the creators of the game be doing, which me and Nightmare discuss, and he told me that the best challenge to a new version of gaming is to try it yourself, which then left me to fill in the dots." Kirito explained with a serious voice, which made Heatclift laugh a bit, and Chills was just looking at everyone.
"It seems it was, but in any case you are right I am Akihiko Kayaba, and Chills is my brother Seth Kayaba, and we are both the boss on the 100th floor." Heatclift told everyone, which shocked everyone.
"Makes sense really sounds like a story where the beloved hero becomes the enemy to all, while a unexpected hero who everyone hated at the beginning to save us all! But instead there are two heroes and two traitors, but floor 100 will be like on floor 74." Nightmare questioned, which Seth nodded his head 'yes'.
"Correct, and I see you found the so call 3 system girls, but Kirito you were not the first to noticed who me and my brother are." Chills told everyone, shocking them except for Nightmare who glared. "That is right, and the person was Nightmare, and all I had to do to keep him quiet, was to threaten him and his love ones." Chills added with a dark smile, caused everyone to gasp in fear.
"That is not fine Chills but I will let it slide...for now not really though." Heatclift stated, making Chills slump.
"Y-you betrayed us...fake our hope! I will kill you!" A man from the Knights of the Blood Oath called out and is about to attack till he was paralyzed and fall to the ground, which then everyone became paralyzed, except for Kirito who was shocked and was holding Asuna, Yui, and Strea close
"Shit! Messed up move." Nightmare muttered under his breath, which Kirito looked at him with a concern look.
"So what now? You two are going to kill us so we don't live to tell the tale?" Kirito questioned with a glare that can kill, which Heatclift smiled.
"No, but I will offer something, defeat me and my brother Kirito, you defeat me now you will have to fight my brother on the 90th floor, and if you win you all get to leave! But Nightmare did figure it out first, so we will leave the 3 girls in your care." Heatclift claimed with a smirk drawing his sword, causing Kirito to get angry with his black eyes flickering between gold and black.
"Hehe, Hahahaha haha!" Nightmare laughed surprising everyone by his action.
"What is so funny?" Chills questioned, when everyone gasp when Nightmare stood up, with his black eyes turned red.
"The thing that is funny is that you thought I would just let you attack my brother and my friends and family, well you have another thing coming! This in now two on two! And before you ask I had a crystal ready to use if you two tried anything." Nightmare yelled picking up both his weapons with a deadly smirk, which Chills just glare then smirk.
"That is right...we did research on you and Kirito...Ray Destroyer, or is it Kirito's last name in real life, I don't know, but still you are adopted either way you can't change who you are." Chills commented with a whisper that no one but Kirito and Nightmare heard, while giving a dark smirk, which Nightmare glared, which everyone but Rain and Kirito are confused.
"Hold on there Chills! Me and Nightmare might not be related by blood or family or anything like that, but I count him as my brother and he will always be family!" Kirito told Chills which made Nightmare smile.
"Thanks...Kazuto..." Nightmare whisper, as Kirito nodded his head.
"Alright then let's get started." Heatclift told them, as Chills got ready for battle.
"Kirito! Nightmare! Don't do it!" Nightmare and Kirito's friends called, which they turn to give a smile that was bitter.
"Klien I'm sorry for leaving you on floor one, but over all you are a great friend." Kirito told Klien, who had a few tears in his eyes.
"Klien I would like to thank you for watching Kirito when I was not around." Nightmare added with a small smile.
"Dame it Kirito! Nightmare! You can't go and die! You two still have to accompany me and Liz to a meal!" Klien cried out loud.
"Right..." Kirito replied with a smile, as Nightmare nodded his head.
"Punisher, Blade, Slade, Phantom thank you for sticking with me till now, over time you guys became part of my family." Nightmare told them, as the 4 were crying like no tomorrow.
"Liz make sure Klien does nothing stupid when you two get back to the real world you are his only light." Kirito told Liz who was facing the floor.
"Silica that goes for you too since Phantom at times can be a stupid and careless." Nightmare told Silica who was about to break down.
"Please don't die..." Silica whispered, which the gave a nod.
"We won't, Philia keep Slade happy..." Nightmare told her, which she gave a nod with some tears.
"I will!" Philia answered with a trembling voice, which Nightmare smile.
"Agil I know what you do, you help the lower level players so they can survive this game." Kirito told Agil, who was shocked.
"Papa..." Zoey called, which Nightmare looked at her with concern eyes.
"Yes, what is it Zoey?" Nightmare asked confusedly, which Zoey open her palm to show a silver necklace that has a bulky cross with three lines on each part connecting to the middle, with a skinny circle in the middle.
"Can you wear this always even when you beat them?" Zoey questioned, which Nightmare just smiled.
"I will, funny thing is I have the same type of necklace at my home in real life." Nightmare told Zoey giving her a kiss on her forehead.
"Please don't lose..." Rain whispered with a few tears.
"I will not lose, I will win." Nightmare told Rain giving her a kiss on the lips before standing up and getting his weapons out, then walked slowly to the middle of the room.
"Please don't lose as well Kirito..." Asuna told Kirito , as she shook a bit.
"Yes please don't lose Daddy!" Yui and Strea told him with some tears.
"I won't I have a lot to fight for before I die." Kirito told them with a small smile, but unknowingly to him Yui and Strea put something in his pockets, before he stood up and join Nightmare.
*In the real world*
"To interrupt your regular schedule program or Internet search we came with news of we can see what is in the game is in Sword Art Online." A news lady said, surprising a girl with black hair and green eyes and her mother, as they saw two palidens and two teens with black coats, and they looked familiar to the two.
"Kazuto...Ray..." They both whispered with tears.
*Back in SAO*
"So if we beat you will release every player in the game." Nightmare asked, which both palidens nodded their heads in a 'yes' fashion.
"Correct." Chills told them, which they all got into battle stance, which both Chills and Heatclift deactivate their imortality ability, leading them in the beginning of yellow.
"Well I have a request...me and my brother plan on not losing this battle...but if we die can you keep our friends and families alive for awhile at least..." Kirito asked, causing everyone to gasp, even the people in the real world gasp at Kirito's words.
"No Kirito don't!" Every one of their friends and families called out with tears.
"Hmmm...alright." Heatclift replied getting ready for battle, while everyone screamed both brothers names.
'Ok they know this system, so all I have to do is use my own skills!' Kirito thought with his black eyes turning honey gold.
"No it won't work." Nightmare told Kirito in a whisper, who looked at Nightmare confused. "We can't win without using skills from the system, but we can win if we are being unpredictable, or we use moves that will surprise them, understand?" Nightmare questioned, as Kirito nodded his head in a yes fashion. "Then let's go!" Nightmare yelled charging at Chills, while Kirito charged at Heatclift.
*put in music- swordland*
"You are not winning this battle Kayaba!" Kirito called charging at Heatclift with unbelievable speed.
"We will see." Heatclift complied as he brought his sheild up, only for Kirito to jump on it and turn in mid air and then attacking Heatclift in the back surprising everyone, except Kirito and Nightmare who smirked.
"Now is that what you suspect?" Kirito questioned with a glare.
"No...but now I will take you seriously!" Heatclift replied charging at Kirito.
*With Nightmare's and Chills battle*
"You will lose this time you beater!" Chills yelled trying to slash Nightmare, who kept on dogging and blocking strikes, till he striked at Chills legs, causing the paliden to scream.
"To bad I'm more confusing than anyone you will met." Nightmare told Chills, as Nightmare continued attacking Chills with unbelievable speed that no one can keep up with, while Chills kept on trying to defend from Nightmare's attacks which only worked a tiny bit making him fall in the end of yellow before red, as Nightmare was still at mid yellow after fighting Skull Reaper.
"You won't win! I will finish you and your friends off to keep my brothers dream alive!" Chills yelled with furious rage, which shook Nightmare when Chills made repeated attacks that made Nightmare go to mid red and causing him to fall to the ground, and once Nightmare got up his eyes were black to red.
"Aaaaagggghhhh!" Nightmare screamed with rage as his swords glowed with a dark coment blue with a hint of red and him not noticing all his mp gone, which he charged at Chills with a barage of attacks that were fast as lightning, but Chills used his sheild, as he hold a smirk of victory, till everyone was shocked except for Nightmare when Chills sheild was destroyed with Nightmare looking like he was about to elbow him, only for him to break Chills weapon, with Nightmare who was bent down before slashing up.
"Gggggaaaaahhhhh!" Chills yelled, as Nightmare was making a barage of strikes slashing Chills like no tomorrow with speed that is almost unreadable, but Chills hp never went down a inch.
"THIS ENDS NOW CHILLS!" Nightmare scream on the top of his lungs, as he slashed through Chills and shelthed both of his swords, which caused the marks on Chills to explode and have comet blue slash marks popping out repeatedly like no tomorrow with Chills screaming, till it came to the end, where Chills exploded and a glass breaking sound came, and once it was over dust was shuffling around, and Nightmare fell forward onto his knees and breathed heavily, with his eyes still red.
*With Kirito and Heatclift in their battle*
"Chills..." Heatclift whispered, which Kirito heard. "I. WILL. KILL. YOU!" Heatclift screamed charging at Nightmare who looked tired.
"Not today!" Kirito yelled blocking Heatclift from attacking Nightmare, which Heatclift got annoyed and tried to use his sheild, but was shocked when Kirito ducked under it and slashed Heatclift with a reverse vertical slash.
"You won't live after this Kirito!" Heatclift yelled, which Kirito glared blocking and dogging attacks, till Heatclift hit Kirito in the back with his sheild then attacked with speed and fury, causing Kirito to flip in the air, but he landed on his feet, and was breathing heavily.
"I won't lose not YET!" Kirito yelled, with both of his swords glowing gold then attacked Heatclift with great speed and aim attacking from every blind spot showing, as Heatclift not losing any health, till Kirito shot his right hand sword which turn into a pure black color and stabbed Heatclift in the heart, making Heatclift gave a hard cough.
"Y-you win Kirito...Nightmare..." Heatclift breathed before exploding into particals, which Kirito fell to the floor with a very tired expression, and once he looked at Nightmare he was lifting a hand out with a thumbs up, which made Kirito laugh and return it.
*Music end*
"Kirito! Nightmare!" Everyone they knew called the two brothers, while everyone else was cheering with joy, and their friends sat around the two brothers while having a few tears on their faces.
"So we are going home huh?" Kirito spoke, which everyone nodded their heads in a 'yes' fashion, but he noticed his two adopted daughters and only niece were sad. "Don't worry girls we hooked you three up to me and Nightmare's nerve gears." Kirito told them, which they soon smiled
"So this is it huh?" Klien asked, which soon everyone laughed a bit.
"Yea...Kirito can you tell me your real name?" Asuna asked with a whispered, which Kirito smiled.
"Yes my name is Kazuto Kirigaya and I'm 16 years old I think." Kirito answered back in a whisper, with a bit of confusion, which made Asuna smiled.
"Hehe...I guess I was right I am older than you...I'm Asuna Yuuki and I'm 17 years old." Asuna told Kirito in a whisper with a smile, which made him laugh confusing Asuna.
"You used your real name?" Kirito laughed and soon everyone did, except for Asuna who pouted.
"Mean!" Asuna exclaimed then soon laughed, until a bright flash appeared.
"What the-" Slade started, till a pain flash through everyone
"Aaaahhhh!" Everyone screamed, as Asuna was holding on to Kirito and her two daughters, while everyone else hold who they are in a relationship with, with Rain and Nightmare holding onto Zoey for dear life.
*Unknown location*
"Ugh...where am I?" Nightmare asked with a confused face only to see the sky and that's it for miles away. "Oh my glob it's the end of the world!" Nightmare screamed, then thought it over. "Well I think it is." Nightmare muttered.
"Dame it Ray! Be quiet I'm trying to...sleep..." Kirito whispered as he saw where they were. "Where are we?" Kirito asked confusedly, only to see Nightmare looking around to then see him pointing at something below them.
"That thing is it Aincrad..?" Nightmare asked confusedly, which Kirito slowly nodded his head yes, trying to figure everything out, then saw his house fall and gotten destroyed with the rest of the floor.
"Dame...I liked that house...the house that me Asuna, Yui, and Strea lived at..." Kirito told Nightmare who was also disappointed.
"Mine too...my house where me, Rain, and Zoey lived..." Nightmare agree, till a message appeared on both their screens telling them about a new skill made and unlocked for both of them.
"What the..?" Both started, to only turn around to sense someone or something by them and two of them.
"Interesting view is it?" Akihiko Kiyaba asked, as he was in his real life look of a lab coat, black like pants, brown hair and eyes, and next to him is a man who looked like a younger version of him, but with black hair and had a bit of a tan who is known as Seth Kayaba.
"I do not know if I should punch you two in the face, or let you explain what the hell we are doing here, and why you two are not dead, no offense though about it, but you did kill like over 4000 people my putting them in a death game." Nightmare claimed, making everyone step back.
"W-well how should I put this, I help my brother so he can see his dream, that was my goal, and that's it!" Seth exclaimed freaking out a bit.
"Fine, what do you have to say Akihiko?" Nightmare questioned with a glare, which shook the man, but then he calmed down and looked at the sky.
"I had a dream...a dream that in the world, no somewhere out there is a castle that I can call my own, where the laws of real life can not affect it in any way possible, not now not forever...I still want to believe it is there where ever it is, and that people can enjoy it..." Akihiko told the two young men, which they soon had sad expresions.
"Maybe it is..." Kirito replied with a bitter smile, which Nightmare nodded.
"Yea it might be...but I have to admit this place is close to a paridise, if you do not count the part of dieing in here you die in real life, then I might come here everyday." Nightmare told Akihiko, who smiled a bit, as did Seth.
"Thank you Nightmare, but we were impress that you and Kirito made your own skills by will, which the system made." Seth told the two brothers, who are now shocked to hear what he said.
"Y-you mean we made our own skills?!" they both shouted out in shocked, which both creators nodded their heads in a 'yes' fashion.
"Correct, now would you like to name your skills?" Akihiko questioned, making both brothers think.
"I think I will call mine, {Chaos Nova Strike Blast} that is what I want to name my new skill." Nightmare told the creators who nodded their heads.
"Alright then I will name mine {Stardust Holy-Dark Stream} will be mine." Kirito added with a smirk, which Nightmare rolled his eyes.
"Intresting names for the two first Original Sword Skills...by the way congraulations on completing the game you two." Seth replied with a small bitter yet sweet smile, which confused both boys.
"That's what your calling the skills?...well whatever." Nightmare shrugged.
"Well if you want to know why Aincrad is being destroyed the main server which is 5 floors below street level is erasing everything that this game has, while all the players that survie are heading home, but the people who died before you ask will never come back..." Akihiko added which both brothers looked sad at the news.
"I have a stupid question...but how are we standing in the sky?" Nightmare asked looking below his feet.
"We used the system to make it like a platform." Akihiko answered, which Nightmare gave a nod at the answer.
"Well it is time for us to go...brother..." Seth called out, which Akihiko nodded his head, and as they both walked off they turned into particals, shocking the two teens.
"So that was interesting..." Nightmare muttered shocked, which Kirito nodded.
"Yep...so time to go home right?" Kirito asked, which Nightmare muttered 'yes'.
"To see Sugu, and the rest of our friends, I could not be happier, what about you?" Nightmare asked, which made Kirito have a blank face.
"I guess...I really miss Sugu, and our friends, even though it has been like a minute or two." Kirito replied with a small laugh, which Nightmare joined until a light came around Kirito.
"I'll see you there Kazuto..." Nightmare told Kirito, who nodded, before disappearing.
"Hey! Who are you and where am I?" A voice that belonged to a man called, shocking Nightmare, as he saw a man in strange white, and blue clothing with black strips, and blue eyes, and hair.
"The Fuck is going on?" Nightmare muttered under his breath.
*In the real world*
'W-what is going on?! Where am I...Asuna!' Kazuto thought remembering everything that happened, so he took off his nerve gear and saw Ray laying in a hospital bed next to his bed still asleep, which he soon stood up slowly, until the door open reveling a nurse who was shocked.
"D-Doctor the patient woke up!" The nurse called out, with a doctor running into the room with a girl with green eyes who was younger than Kazuto, and a older woman older than both Kazuto and the girl.
'They came..." Kazuto thought with a small smile on his face.
*5 minutes later*
'Dame it that guy was tough like shit.' Ray thought taking his nerve gear off his head to hear someone crying, as he looked in the direction he saw a crying girl with black hair who was wearing a red jacket, causing his eyes to widen. "S-Sugu..." Ray croaked, making everyone's eyes widen, and caused Sugu to gasp, and hug Ray, making him to gasp and flinch in pain.
"O-oh no! S-sorry Ray!" Sugu cried, but gasp when Ray stood up and tried to drag Sugu who was struggling to walk to Kazuto, which she nodded her head and the three non birth mother family together and hugged each other, while the doctors gasp at Kazuto's and Ray's eyes, which both their left eyes are black, but Kazuto's right eye is honey gold, while Ray's was blood red, but their family did not real care.
'I will find you and get answers...Sumeragi...!' Ray thought with a glare which no one noticed, while still hugging his family.
To Be Continued...
Who was that guy, and what happened in SAO that made Nightmare or Ray act dark? What will happen now? Will Yui, Strea, and Zoey be ok? Find out next time! Ok guys now next will be a special about what happened, and if you seen where I got this, but if you don't look into Sword Art Online hollow realization, two I do not own the music played, and finally three I think that the SAO gang deserves a Original Sword Skill! But other than this I hoped you all enjoyed the chapter, other than this I will see you all next time Peace!
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