Chapter 17
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"This is going to be a close one!" Nightmare yelled, as he, Kirit, and Lefa ran through all the mobs without getting hit and ran through the cave's opening, which they ended up flying through the air, and activated their wings.
"*pant* *Pant* I'm going to kill you Kirito..." Lefa growled, making Kirito pale.
"W-what?! Come on we got out, a-and we made go timing, just ask Nightmare!" Kirito replied in a nervous voice, but as they look at Nightmare he looked green.
"I feel sick, and dizzy..." Nightmare grumbled, but Lefa grabbed his hand to calm him down, which barely worked.
"Calm down a bit Nightmare we will be there in a few minutes." Lefa assured, which Nightmare slowly nodded his head and flew straight on, but was a bit shaky.
"Wow..." Kirito whispered, which brought Lefa's and Nightmare's attention, as they saw the world tree, and looked at it with awe.
"Man, l-let's just hurry to that conference, and save the leaders." Nightmare told his adopted siblings, which they nodded their heads in agreement.
"Ok then Lefa lead the way!" Kirito told Lefa, who nodded her head in agreement.
"Right!" Lefa agreed, as they spead of to the conference.
*A few minutes later*
"Papa! I got the location of players around 68 Salamanders, and a few Sylths and Cat Sith's, and 1 pooka, and Undine." Zoey told Nightmare, who looked a bit surprised at the news, as were Lefa and Kirito.
"A Undine? That makes no sense, I don't see why a Pooka, or Undine would help." Lefa exclaimed, which Nightmare had a unknown glare.
"Kazuto, I got something just for a emergency for." Nightmare told Kirito, who was shocked from the voice Nightmare was using.
"U-uhh ok? But, what is it?" Kirito asked, which Nightmare smirked.
"What you were best at in SAO." Nightmare answered simply and easily, which shocked Kirito, till he had a big grin on his face.
"I'm in." Kirito stated, which confused Lefa.
"Now hold on, the attack will be in a few seconds, and I think if you head to Yaggdrai you will have a better chance at saving people! Then you have the fact that this is a Sylths problem not yours..." Lefa declared, which earned her two hits in the head by both Kirito and Nightmare, who looked a bit annoyed.
"Now hold on! Your problem is ours, we promise we will help each other out when needed, and we will!" Kirito told Lefa, which Nightmare agreed 10 fold.
"Yea, and you are not by yourself, so let's go with a plan, Kirito you take on the leader of this raid, and me and Lefa will protect the Sylths and Cat Siths, but if I go into battle there will be a good reason." Nightmare explained, which Kirito and Lefa nodded their heads in agreement.
"This will probably end in a crazy way right?" Lefa asked, which Kirito and Nightmare shrug their shoulders.
"Probably who knows, but now attack!" Nightmare yelled, as he striked a few Salamander, and equipped a second sword and sliced a few more Salamander, and then landed on the ground, till he noticed that Lefa, and Kirito landed on the ground, and everyone looked at him with wide eyes.
"Nightmare what the Hell!" Both his adopted siblings yelled at him, which he looked a bit down.
"One, the fuck! I thought we had a plan! Two, just go do the rest of the pl-" Nightmare started, till he saw a blue hair Undine that was familiar to him, which Nightmare flew in front of said Undine and glared at him, which the Undine raised a eyebrow at the looks of things.
"What do you want?" The Undine asked Nightmare, which Nightmare got both of his weapons ready for a fight.
"Time we settle this Sumeragi, and I want the truth about what you know about Nijiki." Nightmare told Sumeragi, which made Sumeragi look surprised, but then he glared and got his Kattana ready.
"So we did meet again, and we will find out who is lying and who is not, because I have a feeling you know where Nijiki is." Sumeragi declared, which Nightmare just glared even more.
"Then get ready you jack ass!" Nightmare shouted, till a few gasps got their attention, until they saw a Salamander just glaring at the two of them.
"Sumeragi, just leave the waste, and two you and I have to settle our battle." The Salamander told Sumeragi, who glared at him, before looking at Nightmare.
"No, I lost to this guy once and he knows something that I won't learn till I beat him Eugene!" Sumeragi told the Salamander named Eugene, who was shocked like everyone else, except Kirito, then a Pooka with silver hair came close.
"Then is this the guy Sumeragi?" The Pooka asked, which Sumeragi nodded his head.
"That is correct Seven, and I will end this fight here!" Sumeragi declared, which the girl named Seven looked shock for a few seconds.
"Alright, I wish you luck, Sumeragi." Seven told Sumeragi, who gave a grin.
"Now hold o-" Eugene started, till a sword pointed at him, and he saw Kirito in front of him, which made him glare.
"Now let's leave them be, but you are the leader here are you, and if you are by stopping this conference you will make a four way war, and I hope you are ready for a fight." Kirito told Eugene coldly, making everyone shock again.
"Fine then! You will be a Great Warm up." Eugene declared, making Kirito glare.
"Don't you dare mock me." Kirito stated with a bit of rage, which surprised Eugene, as they both got into fighting stance and were far from Nightmare's and Sumeragi's fight.
"Then show me what you got!" Eugene yelled as he flew at Kirito, who tried to defend with his sword, but Eugene's weapon went through Kirito's like a ghost and hit him, which made him flew to a wall.
"What the heck was that!" Lefa called out, until two women were next to her.
"That is Eugene's sword special skill, it can pass though the defense of any enemy." The leader of the Cat Sith's answered, making Lefa surprised.
"Alicia? And Sakuya? Man I'm glad that the Salamanders didn't attack you two." Lefa spoked in a now relived voice, which both leaders smiled.
"I would like to ask who these Sprigans are Lefa since you seem to know who they are." Sakuya exclaimed, which made Lefa became serious.
"Those Sprigans are the only ones with the skills and talent to save us from this attack." Lefa explained, which made Alicia and Sakuya look at her as if she was crazy.
*Back to Kirito vs Eugene*
"What kind of attack was that you fucking jack ass!" Kirito yelled, which made Eugene grin, as he striked at Kirito repetitively, while Kirito tried to defend which did nothing at all, but just hold a sword, which soon Kirito got tired and flew away while casting some magic, with Eugene close behind him, until a smokescreen appeared blocking everyone who was watching could not see.
"Hey coward! Where are you hiding!" Eugene yelled, until the smoke disappeared, which left the Salamanders grinning, but everyone else was staring in shock since Kirito is no where to be seen, until Eugene got stabbed from behind by a blue sword with a picture of a red dragon on it, which at this point everyone was stun from what just happened.
"You were saying there." Kirito growled and striked at Eugene, who was shouting in pain from every time he got hit, and then tried to defend, only for Kirito to knock the sword away and continued to attack Eugene, until Kirito made the final blow to kick and strike Eugene with both of his swords, causing Eugene to fall to the ground with a explosion, which when the dust settled a red flame was in the middle of the damaged ground, which then another explosion happened, making everyone look in the direction it came from.
*A few minutes ago- Nightmare vs Sumeragi*
"This ends here, I know you did something to the nervegear." Sumeragi claimed, which Nightmare growled in anger.
"Who are you talking about?! You think that I'm doing it! Well it could be you for all I know!" Nightmare yelled as he striked at Sumeragi, but he blocked one strike, but the second strike hit Sumeragi in the side which caused him to hiss in pain, which Nightmare used the time to attack Sumeragi again repetitively, making Sumeragi lose control over his wings for a second.
"I will not fail Seven!" Sumeragi growled as he raised his Kattana.
"Shit...he's pissed and I forgot to give Kirito his sword...alright I have to hurry." Nightmare whispered to himself, which he started going into his menu and pressing some buttons, as Sumeragi charged at him, until Nightmare was done and blocked the attack with a back slash and kick Sumeragi in the head, then twirl in the air and continued striking Sumeragi, until Sumeragi stabbed his Kattana into Nightmare's gut and punched and kicked him.
"Do you think what you did!" Sumeragi growled as he continued to hit Nightmare, but then he stopped as Nightmare cut Sumeragi, which made a explosion with something falling to the ground, which was a blue flame, and in the air is Nightmare who looks tired.
"Take that..." Nightmare muttered.
*A few minutes after the battle*
"Are you two ok?" Lefa asked as she was healing both her brothers, as Sakuya was reviving Sumeragi and Eugene.
"Yea...luckily nothing is broken." Nightmare joked, which Lefa rolled her eyes at the answer he gave.
"True, but we are in a game." Kirito grin, until two weird sounds came, which were Eugene and Sumeragi were back alive, and they stared at the two Sprigans.
"You two are good...you took down the best two players in ALO, and you took down some of the strongest in my army, humph...to think the Sprigans have someone like you two." Eugene muttered, which Kirito smiled.
"So will you leave and let this meeting go on?" Kirito asked, which Eugene thought about it for a bit then smirk and hold his hand out.
"Fine, but I want to have a rematch against you, and I want to battle your friend as well." Eugene stated, which made Nightmare and Kirito smirk.
"Alright you got yourself some matches, and two were brothers." Nightmare replied, which shocked everyone, except Lefa.
"Haha, then I know now if I find one of you I find the other." Eugene laughed, and then left with his army.
"Nice guy, a ass, but still has honor which I can respect." Nightmare stated, which Kirito agreed, but Lefa just laughed.
"Now that is over, why are you here, or better question how did you know a attack was going to happen?" Sakuya asked with a raised eyebrow, which Lefa got a straight and serious face.
"We found out that Sigurd was working with the Salamanders, but we don't know why." Lefa explained, which Sakuya frowned.
"I think I know why, there is a update that will players to be reborn, meaning the Salamanders made a deal stating, help me kill your leader and you will be my general or something like that." Sakuya replied, which Nightmare scowled.
"People like that don't deserve to be in anything." Nightmare growled, which Kirito agreed fully.
"You know, you gave me a idea, Alicia? Can you cast your mirror?" Sakuya asked, which made Nightmare and Kirito confused, but Alica was grinning.
"You bet, and I max it out." Alicia replied, making Sakuya smile.
*A few minutes later*
"Ow Lefa! What happened, your leader wanted me and Kirito to stay away since it was only your races problem." Nightmare asked Lefa, who smirk.
"Sigurd was banished from our home territory, and is now free from any area that belongs to ours." Lefa explained, which Kirito and Nightmare grinned like idiots.
"Now, I have a question now...like I don't know your skills you Sprigans have, what are you going to do now?" Sakuya asked, which Kirito raised a eyebrow, and with Nightmare tilting his head.
"Well we are heading to Yaggdrai to meet...someone, then after that I don't know probably travel around." Kirito answered with his voice becoming sad after thing a bit, and Nightmare's face darken, which no one but Lefa, and Sumeragi and Seven who never left noticed.
"I see...well maybe when you two do travel, you could head to our home territory and work for us, it's 3 meals a day and naps." Alicia exclaimed as she grabbed both of Kirito's and Nightmare's left arms.
"Or you can come to my territory and get a meal." Sakuya countered with a suducive voice, which made Nightmare and Kirito uncomfortable as she grabbed their free hands, but everyone was praying that both boys will be alright.
"Hey hold on! You two leave my brothers alone, they have girlfriends and you are trying to be suducive to them!" Lefa yelled, which Nightmare and Kirito gave her a appreciative, which Sakuya and Alicia looked shocked and embarrassed, but everyone else was surprised.
"U-umm..." Both leaders stuttered, which everyone laughed.
"Hey I want to ask if you two are going to do the legendary quest? Cause if you are can we join you?" Nightmare asked, which both leaders smiled and agreed.
"Of course you can, and we are, but it will take some time." Sakuya answered, which made Kirito and Nightmare depressed.
"We can hurry, but still it will take some time, but if you can wait-" Alicia started, but was interrupted by Kirito shaking.
"We don't have time! The people we have to meet we have to hurry to meet." Kirito explained with a dark look, which surprised a few people.
"Alright, we will hurry as fast as we can." Sakuya stated, which made Kirito and Nightmare smile.
"Ok, here is something to help with the problem, and taking care of my sister." Kirito told the two leaders, as a bag of money appeared, then gave it to Alica who was shocked, as she looked inside the bag and her jaw dropped.
"S-Sakuya! Look how much there is!" Alicia exclaimed, and as Sakuya looked in th bag she was shocked as well.
"W-wow thank you!" Sakuya told Kirito, who gave a smile, and nodded his head, and after a bit the Sylths and Cat Sith's left.
"Well, with that over with let's go." Nightmare stated, which Kirito and Lefa nodded their heads in agreement.
"WAIT!" A voice yelled, and as the three siblings turned around to see who spoke, who was Seven, but Nightmare looked at her with his eyes widening a bit, but Lefa was shocked like no tomorrow.
"Yes what is it?" Lefa asked still shocked, but Seven slowly walk to Nightmare.
"D-do you know where my sister Nijiki is?" Seven asked with tears on her face with a shaky voice, which shocked Nightmare as he looked at Seven even if they were in the game, but she had something in her eyes that was similar to Rain or in this case Nijiki.
"You look so much like Nijiki...you really are her sister...but when we were in SAO she never said anything about a sister, even when I asked she changes the topic." Nightmare explained, which Seven gave a sad smile.
"No wonder...we were separated by our parents, my father taking me to America, and our mother took Nijiki to Japan, I only found out by luck, when my father got a phone call from my mother about Nijiki, which surprised me, which I then called other family members, who explained what happened, and I left America to see Nijiki, but my father followed, and him and mom are still talking about everything, while I tried to find out how to make Nijiki wake up." Seven explained, which made Lefa have some tears, and the guys looked sad, but Nightmare looked worse like he was broken.
"A-alright...come on, we will explain what is going on, so let's go!" Nightmare told Sumeragi and Seven, who were shocked, as the three adopted siblings flew off, then Seven and Sumeragi hurry to catch up.
To Be Continued...
Now that Seven and Sumeragi are joining what will happen now? What will happen at Yaggdrai? Find out next time. Hey everyone I hope you like the story so far since we are getting closer to the end I guess, but until next time! Peace!
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