Chapter 2: Sister and Friend

Sword Art Online

Floor 1, City of Beginnings

Dec-27-13 6:23pm

"Work you damn thing!" Equinox cried out as he relentlessly attacked his logout button.

It had been barely 30 minutes since Kayaba Akihiko had left and since then there had been many reactions to what he had said. Some scoffed and walked away, some others were flat out confused, some got angry and started to wreck the place only to stop when they realized almost everything were Immortal objects, and finally there were people like Equinox. In other words were: FREAKIN' THE FUCK OUT!

The people like Equinox were either running around screaming and praying to whatever deity they worshiped. Or were were pushing NPC's out of there houses or stores and then barricading the Hell out of the doors and windows. Then there was the final option spamming the logout button while swearing at it.

"I ain't dyin' here!" Equinox yelled. "I'm an American Citizen! I need to die like a typical American! Getting murdered by some random dude, having a stroke, a car accident, Hell I'll even take Cancer! But I do not want to get killed by some kind of virtual monster!"

Equinox was on the verge of becoming hysterical at this rate, or at least he was until he heard a familiar laugh. Equinox's eyes widened as he turned to look at the person before him. His face then slowly transferred from a crazed smile and a twitching eye to a face of sheer shock.

"Wow Corton! This has to be the one of the funniest thing I've seen you do in a while!" A familiar teen said with a wide smirk.

The person in front of him was a girl but not just any girl. She was his younger sister. Although the similar body structure was about the only thing that made them look related. Her sky blue eyes and blond hair was the thing that made people second guess themselves about the two being related. She stood at a 6 feet tall and had a was clad in green leather armor with a longbow on her back. She looked like a freakin' elf without the pointy ears.

"Alexia?" Equinox asked still in mild shook.

"Yeah?" The girl responded.

"Alexia Vertex is that you?" Equinox asked.

"You have any other sisters I don't know about?" His younger sister asked still with her smirk. "Wait! I know the answer! No you don't because you've lived with me, Mom, and Dad for 17 years."

Equinox said nothing but continued to stare at his sister. He then blinked when an idea came to him. He stared hard at his sister before asking her a very important question.

"How in the Nine Hells are you in this game!?" Equinox yelled suddenly.

"Well Teru knew that I've been trying to get into games like you so he sent a NerveGear to me." Alexia said with a confused face. "Why are you freakin' out anyway?"

"What! How are you not freaking out? Were trapped in a fucking Death Game!" Equinox yelled.

"A what now?" Alexia asked.

"Did you not listen to Kayaba Akihiko?" Equinox roared at his little sister. "You die in the game you die in real life!"

"Oh! Is that why everyone is freakin' out?" She said before blinking and then bellowing with a scared. "Wait! Did you just say if we died in the game then we died in real life!?"

Equinox winced. Is that what the people back at the town center. Everyone had been fine until he had said the same thing back at the City's center. He then had to go and yell that out. Now that he thought about it he as the one who started the panic.

"So what have you been doing?" Equinox asked trying to change the subject. Which seemed to work perfectly.

"Not much but I made a friend!" Alexia said now back to smirking.

"So where are they?" Equinox asked.

"Right behind you." A soft feminine voice said from behind Equinox.

Equinox yelped and spun around. There was a teen standing behind him with a bored look on her face. Equinox studied the girl before him and realised she was a strikingly similar to the Vertex family. A similar frame to the Vertex siblings with pitch black hair and violet eyes. She was dressed in black steel armor that was similar to a classical Medieval design. The difference being the fact that she did not have the bucket like helmet and instead what was more like a Viking Helm. As for her weapons she had a Hand and a Half Sword.

"The name is Bloody Mary but I go by Mary." She said. "And you two look nothing alike are you sure you're related?"

"Dear God, why does everyone ask that!?" The two siblings yelled.

"Well it's true you two look nothing alike." Mary said.

Before the two could continue to complain Equinox suddenly froze. He had also gain an expression that screamed Eureka. He then turned to his sister and newfound acquaintance and said what was probably the most hated phrase in the world.

"I have an idea!" Was what Equinox said.

"Is it a good idea or a Corton idea?" Alexia deadpanned. "Cause if it's a Corton idea I'm walkin' away."

"Are his ideas that bad?" Mary asked.

"Hey!" Corton whined. "But in all seriousness we should form a party and possibly a Guild."

"A Guild?" Mary asked. "Why would we need one of thoose?"

"Why not!" Equinox responded. "We're stuck here and if we do die when we are defeated then why not team up with people we know?"

"You know that's not a bad idea." Alexia said. "So how do you do it?"

"Well let me check." Equinox said before pulling up his Menu . "Okay we need a location to make a Guild Hall, a Player to make the Guild, and 2000 col."

"That's actually not that bad." Alexia said as Equinox closed his Menu.

"Yeah all we need is a place." Equinox agreed. "But on to the other matter. We need to form a party."

"I'm in." Mary simply stated.

"I don't know anyone else so why not!" Alexia said.

With a smile Equinox opened up his menu again and flipped over to Party/Guild screen. He then started to scroll through the list of players that were in the local area. After a few seconds he found the name Bloody Mary and invited her. He then started to hunt for Alexia's name.

"Where is your bloody name Alexia?" Equinox asked after a few minutes of searching. "I can't freakin' find it!"

Alexia coughed before muttering something.

"What?" Equinox asked looking up from his menu.

"I ripped your name off." Alexia said in a quiet voice. "I took your usual name and chose its opposite."

"Wait what?" Equinox asked.

"My in game name is Solstice." The now named Solstice muttered.

Equinox looked at his sister with a tilted head and a frown. Mary raised and eyebrow and shrugged. Solstice glanced to her friend and back at her brother. Equinox then grunted and went back to his menu.

"You're not mad?" Solstice asked

"Why would I be mad?" Equinox said. "It's just a name."

"Since when have you been so forgiving?" Solstice said.

"Don't you remember when Teru tried to do that?" Equinox says glancing up from his Menu. "I got angry at him and refused to talk to him for a month. A game without gaming with my best friend! And what did I learn from that? A name in game name is nothing but Data."

"Wow that's surprisingly mature for you Equinox." Solstice said before throwing herself at Equinox and catching him in a hug.

"Awwww sibling love!" Mary suddenly yelled making the two siblings yelp.

"Goddamnit Mary!" Solstice cried out. "You ruined the moment!"

"I thought you were doom and gloom!" Equinox yelled. "Why would you do that."

"After seeing all that affection I got hungry." Mary said simply. "So let's get food."

Equinox and Solstice shared a look and then nodded. After Equinox sent the party invite to Solstice the three set off on their first great journey. To find a place to eat!

30 minutes later...

"I'm so hungry." Mary stated. "Where is the infernal Tavern?"

"I know!" Solstice groand. "I need food!"

"Stop whining!" Equinox snapped. "You two have done nothing but complain for the past 30 minutes!"

"But I'm hungry!" Solstice whined while Mary simply nodded her head.

"That's it!" Equinox yelled drawing his Halberd. "I'm gonna hit ya so hard you're gonna… There's a Tavern!"

The next thing the girls knew Equinox was bolting pass them and was running towards the building he had pointed out. They then also ran towards the building and soon overcame Equinox and reached the Tavern long before him. As soon as they had opened the door they bolted towards the closest open table.

"Hey!" A man person yelled as the girls raced past him. "Watch it!"

"Wha...?" A second older man said as he stumbled from being hit by Mary. "Blasted kids have no respect theses days!"

"No one ever shuts the door." The NPC bartender muttered from behind his counter.

"I just bought that!" A woman yelled as her food flew from her hand due to Solstice pushing past her.

"My soup!" Yelled a man as his soup flew through through the air and landed on another player.

"WHO DID THAT?" The drenched player roared when they spun around drawing their mace.

"He did!" One player said pointing at the guy who had dropped the soup.

"Why did I even get up today?" The soup man sighed as the mace wielding man charged him.

The mace welder slammed the mace into the other man's face with a mean uppercut the the chin and sent him flying. The man flailed as flew through the air slammed into a table with a full party of players sitting around it talking about a hard quest. Said players stumbled back in surprise bumping into others. These players then turned, drew weapons, and attacked the party yelling something about their honor being stained.

"Bar Fight!" A man yelled suddenly as we drew his bow and shot the player next to him at point blank.

"What the Hell man I'm your best friend?" The player cried out.

"Sorry man heat of the moment." The bowman said sheepishly.

A few seconds later the room was in chaos. Most of the players were looked some form of combat while the two girls watched from their table with evil grins. Soon tables, chairs, and mugs were becoming airborne projectiles. Luckily the structure was an Immortal Object and could not be destroyed. The things inside the Tavern were a different story. The NPC bartender simply sighed and watched helplessly as his Tavern became a Warzone. The two girls then had to jump away from their table when glowing Greatsword slammed into the table shattering it.

"You girls run really..." Equinox said breathlessly when he walked through the open door only to take the blunt side of a great axe to face and fly right back out it.

Solstice glanced at Equinox's HP bar that was just under hers and winced as it plummeted. She then turned to Mary knowing that Equinox was probably going to come back and beat the Hell out of the guy who just hit him. They were soon proven right because a flash of purple light flew into the room and hit the Player sending them into the rafters of the Tavern. The girls looked up to see Equinox's Imperial Halberd impaling the man to the ceiling.

"How the Hell did I get up here?" The stuck player asked.

The rest of the people in the Tavern had stopped to stare at the Player trying to pull the Halberd out of his chest. They then whipped their heads around when they heard a growl from the entrance of the Tavern. Equinox was standing there with his dagger drawn and a sinister smile on his face.

"I'm only gonna ask this once." He started. "Where is the Player who hit me?"

"So it was you who hit me?" The player from the rafters asked. "Well I declare that there shall be a duel!"

"You want to duel me?" Equinox said blinking. "I just put you into the ceiling without looking! What makes you think you can win while I'm looking at you?"

"I don't think I know!" The player responded. "I, Semiblade challenge… What's your name?"

"Equinox?" Equinox said with a tilted head.

"I, Semiblade challenge the Player Equinox to a Duel!" Semiblade yelled.

"You do realize you have to send it in the Social Menu right?" Equinox asked.

"Now I do!" Semiblade said before doing just that. "You! Outside in five minutes!"

Equinox watched Semiblade struggle to remove the Halberd from himself only to give up. Equinox then grinned and walked to a position under Semiblade. He then threw his dagger at Semiblade. As Semiblade screamed the dagger bounced off the ceiling next to him and hit the Halberd. The Halberd then slipped from Semiblade's chest only to land into Equinox's outstretched hand.

"Thanks for holding onto my Halberd." Equinox said as the dagger landed in his other hand. "See you in a few minutes."

With that Equinox walked out the door with a devilish smirk on his face. Solstice grabbed onto Mary and then bolted for the door. The reason for this? Everyone else in besides Semiblade, who had somehow already got out of the Tavern, were returning to the brawl.

When the two finally got outside and managed to find Equinox they groaned. Equinox was smiling and standing across from Semiblade. When Equinox saw them he smiled.

"Solstice mind counting us down?" Equinox asked his younger sister only to get a sigh in return.

A/N: So it's been a while, ah? So to make it simple my computer blew up, I lost my data, I got writer's block, and I forgot about the story only to be Texted by a friend who likes it and was told to write more. So sorry people who actually like the story. Anyways onto another topic. I'm gonna say that the next chapter will probably take the same amount of time due to "life".