ALO: The Rangers
I don't know what to do write now so I'm gonna write.
I am too impatient to wait for what you people think about 3rd person so I'll write this is first person and depending on how much people like 3rd person the next one might be mostly 3rd person.
Chapter 3: Legrue Corridor
(1st person, Sinon, January 21st, 1:03pm)
There was a loud crash from the direction of the tree Leafa was in.
Uh-oh...
I few seconds later a very angry Leafa walked in front of us and said "Who put me in a tree?"
"I did." I said.
"Who admits to that kind of thing even?" asked Leafa curiously.
"Well it was either that or blame it on Kirito, and I didn't want to do the latter." I answered.
"Why did you do that? You're supposed to watch the person's avatar, not stick it in a tree! And why didn't you stop her?" she asked Kirito.
"Didn't feel like it." Kirito said in a lazy tone.
Leafa made some annoyed sounds and finally just drooped and said "Oh whatever, your turn to log out."
"You can go first." Kirito said to me.
"Right..." I said, but nonetheless went into my menu and pressed the log out button, hoping that when I logged back on I wouldn't be in any strange situations.
The world faded out and then the real world returned to sight.
I took off my NerveGear and head downstairs to get some water.
I was logging back in about a minute or two after logging out so hopefully nothing happened to me yet.
"Link start!" I said and the usual checks happened.
It took me a moment to asses the situation I was in but basically Leafa was trying to position me in the same tree I had put her in.
I pretended to not have logged in and then when she wasn't stable pushed on her, sending us both to the ground.
"Close enough." I said, my goal being to push only her off.
"Oh come on!" said Leafa.
"Kirito why didn't you stop her?" I asked, knowing that the answer would be something like 'Well I didn't stop you, did I?'
"Well I didn't stop you, did I?" he asked, exactly the same thing I thought he would say.
"Ugh. Whatever." I said.
"Sucks that our wings are still not functional." Kirito said.
"We can't fly over the mountain and going around takes too long so we have to go through the cave system there and we can't fly there anyway, speaking of which, we are nearly at the mountain, why don't we just walk there?" asked Leafa.
"Sure, let's go." Kirito said.
"Aren't you going to log out?" I asked.
"Nah, I get the feeling that if I log out I'll find myself in a tree." Kirito said.
Well he didn't help me or Leafa, so that means we should leave him alone as a neutral party, but... he's probably right.
"Okay, let's go then." I said.
"Right." Leafa said.
We all started walking in the direction of the mountain, half an hours walk away.
Along the way we encountered some monsters, which were dispatched with ease by Kirito's or Leafa's swords, but the trip was mostly uneventful.
"And we're here." Leafa announced as we reached the entrance to the tunnel.
"I noticed." I said sarcastically.
"Why do you two get along fine in the real world but not here?" Kirito asked.
""I dunno."" we both answered at the same time.
"Whatever, let's get going then." Kirito said and walked into the tunnel, leaving Leafa and I to follow.
"It's dark in here." Leafa said.
To that Kirito responded by chanting "ας δούμε στο σκοτάδι"
Instantly the whole tunnel lit up and Kirito's and Leafa's irises started glowing green slightly, seeing as I also had night vision, mine were also probably glowing.
We walked along the tunnel and suddenly Yui said "There are 12 players behind us, they seem to be following us."
Leafa pushed us into a recess in the wall and chanted "κάνει ένα άυλο τοίχο σαν τον τοίχο δίπλα σε αυτό" and a semi-translucent wall appeared in front of us.
"Keep your voices to a whisper or the spell will break." she said in a whisper.
We stood quietly when Kirito whispered "I see something there, I think it's a red bat."
Instantly Leafa jumped out and chanted a spell I didn't hear that created a boomerang shaped white projectile that flew forward and slashed the bat in half, it shattered like monsters do when they die.
"Run!" she said and started running along the tunnel.
We followed her and I asked "Why can't we hide again?"
"That was a fire element tracer, which means we're being followed by Salamanders and they already knew we were there because we destroyed their tracer." she explained.
Just as she finished explaining the tunnel opened up into a gigantic cavern with a lake filling most of it, in the center was a large island with four bridges leading to it and a city on it.
The walls were covered in various colorful glowing crystals making it a quite beautiful sight to behold.
The tunnel we ran out of connected to the bridge and we ran along the bridge, trying to reach the town.
Just before we did a yellow spell flew past and hit the ground in front of us, causing a rock wall to raise and block our path.
"Can we swim around?" asked Kirito.
"No, the monsters there are high level and it is insane without an Undine with you." Leafa said.
"Is it more insane then fighting twelve people?" I asked.
"Fighting twelve people isn't even insane by your standards." Leafa said.
"Normally yes, but in this case we haven't been playing this game more then a few hours and I don't even know any magic." I said.
"Whatever, fighting is easier then swimming around." Leafa said.
"Leafa, can you stay back with Sinon and heal me, we'll just get in each other's way if we both try to fight." Kirito said.
"Sure." Leafa said with a nod and took her hands of her sword.
A few moments later a party of 3 tanks and 9 mages ran out of the tunnel and onto the bridge, stopping in formation a little ways away from us.
Judging by the difference in equipment on the mages it looked like 3 were healers and 6 were attack mages.
"Well, let's go." Kirito said and ran forward.
Immediately the 6 battle mages started chanting and 6 fireballs flew at Kirito in two rows of three.
I got 3 arrows ready and fired, my arrows shooting through 3 of the fireballs and causing them to explode in midair.
Just as the remaining 3 got into range of Kirito's sword it flashed in a perfect arc and slashed them apart and causing them to explode a little ways away from him, causing him almost no damage.
Then he ran forward and slashed out at the tanks, who raised their shields.
The sword hit shields and the tanks hp dropped considerably and they got pushed back several feet.
Obviously surprised by the force behind a katana held in one hand they nearly lost formation.
Unfortunately this was not enough to break through because the 3 healing mages started chanting and moments later the tanks were back at full HP.
The attack mages chanted and fired again, this time much closer to Kirito, I didn't have time to shoot even 3 of them.
Kirito jumped back and was launched backward, landing near us, by the explosion.
He ran forward and jumped at the tanks, focusing his attacks on the central one.
The tanks HP dropped to near zero before they managed to switch out.
Kirito kept attacking the tanks then the healers healed them then the battle mages attacked Kirito.
The question was, would Leafa's or the enemy healers' mana run out first, and at this rate it looked like Leafa's.
Kirito said something to Yui and Yui flew over to us.
"Leafa, use your remaining mana to shield Kirito from the mages' next attack." Yui said.
"Um okay, but are you sure?" she asked.
"Just do it." Yui said insistently.
"Alright." Leafa said and then started chanting "να γίνει ένα εμπόδιο και να αφήσει τίποτα μέσα"
A bunch of blue butterflies flew from Leafa's hands and surrounded Kirito, forming a bubble.
Then the mages fired their next attack and Leafa's mana started draining instead of Kirito's HP.
Suddenly Kirito's mana dropped down to nearly nothing and the remaining fire formed a tornado.
Once it cleared, where Kirito had just been, stood something that looked almost like Gleam Eyes.
The Salamanders froze and then panicked. Well, can't blame them, that was our first reaction upon seeing the Gleam Eyes.
Kirito swept out with the great sword and instantly killed all three tanks who had lowered their shields at some point.
Then he charged forward and with his other hand killed two mages, picking up a third and eating him... ew.
At this point Leafa received a message from Recon which read "Be carful, S"
Moments later all but one of the Salamanders were dead.
He picked up the last Salamander and threw him to where we were standing.
Then in a swirl of dark mist the Gleam Eyes vanished and was once more replaced by Kirito.
He walked over to us and Leafa asked "Was that... you?"
"Yeah." Kirito answered.
"You ATE some of them." I said.
"I think so, they tasted like over cooked meat." he said jokingly.
We gave him a 'look' and he said "Just kidding, they didn't taste like anything."
"Okay..." I said.
"Anyway, let's ask the one that's still alive about why they sent us." Kirito said and walked over to the mage on the floor.
"Tell us who sent you." Kirito said to the mage.
"N-no." said the mage.
"Fine, how about this, if you tell us you can have all the stuff we got from the rest of the group." Kirito said.
"Really?" asked the mage.
"Yes really." Kirito said.
"Okay, I'll talk." the mage said.
"Seriously?" Leafa whispered to me.
"Did Kirito just bribe him into betraying the Salamanders?" I whispered back.
"I think so." Leafa answered.
"So why were you going after us?" asked Kirito.
"The orders came from pretty high up, they said you were interfering with some plan, I don't know what they didn't tell me. They said we were going after group of a Cait Sith a Spriggan and a Sylph so at first it seemed like overkill, but they said that you're the guys who took out Kagemune's group it didn't seem as such overkill, though clearly it wasn't enough." said the mage.
"Do you know anything about this plan?" asked Kirito.
"No I don't, that's all I know. You weren't lying about the stuff were you?" the mage asked.
"Nope." Kirito said and traded all the stuff, letting the mage walk away happily.
"Okay, well it seems something is happening." Kirito said.
"Let's get to town, Recon sent me a message that looks cut-off so I want log out and call him in the real world maybe he'll be able to tell me." Leafa said.
"Okay." Kirito said and we walked into town.
Leafa logged out and then a few minutes logged back in.
"He says that Sigurd was a spy for the Salamanders and that the Salamanders plan to attack a peace meeting between Sylphs and Cait Sith, possibly killing both leaders and getting an immense amount of money. Sorry, but I need to go help, even if this game won't be around much longer. Go on to the world tree." Leafa said.
"You kidding? We'll help, it will be fun and it won't slow us down by more then a few hours anyway, we have about a week." I said.
"Okay, thanks, well let's go, the meeting is taking place in Butterfly Valley and it is 40 minutes away so we gotta hurry, we gotta get there before the Salamanders so we can get the lords out." Leafa said.
"Right, let's go then!" Kirito said and we started running, though instead of going straight relative to where we were originally going we made a 90° turn and head along one of the other two bridges.
We ran as fast as we could without Leafa falling behind, the reason we were able to move so fast is because while there was no [Agility] stat in ALO, it went off of what you were used to, which meant that because Kirito and I had ridiculously high [Agility] in SAO we could move ridiculously fast here.
Just before we reached the exit there was a bunch of cave trolls and Kirito said "We don't have time for this, Sinon we need to go faster." and grabbed Leafa's hand.
Then he ran forward at a much faster speed and I followed after, the world turning into a blur.
We ran through the cave trolls, dodging them and ran out of the cave and... off a cliff.
We all instantly started flying and Leafa said "You just took like a year off my life."
"Let's get going, we don't have time to stand around." Kirito said.
Leafa and I nodded and we all flew forward at high speed.
About 35 minutes after we started moving and the meeting place was in sight we saw a huge swarm of players flying there as well, and they were closer then us.
"68 players flying in formation and 14 more on the ground." Yui said "The 14 are probably the peace meeting and the players in formation are the Salamanders."
"Right, well, let's go faster!" I yelled and Kirito nodded.
We both accelerated to as fast as we could go and flew towards the meeting point.
The Salamanders reached the meeting point seconds before us, but they stopped and hovered over the meeting point.
Seconds later Kirito and I landed on the ground with enough speed to create a giant dust cloud around us, trying to be as badass and scary as possible, though it would be hard to intimidate 70 players with 2 people.
After the dust cleared we saw Salamanders, all dressed in red armor floating there.
About 10 seconds later Leafa landed behind us and near the peace meeting, her landing was a lot softer though.
"Leafa? What are you doing here? And who are your friends?" asked Sakuya, the Sylph lord.
"We came, because Recon told me that he overheard Sigurd telling Salamanders where this meeting was going to happen. That's my brother and his girlfriend and if they put their mind to it they can probably beat that whole group of Salamanders to a pulp, though they probably won't cause they're lazy.
There she goes, insulting us again.
One of the Salamanders chanted a spell and a fireball flew at us.
I drew back my bow and fired at the fireball all in a fraction of a second, destroying the fireball and earning gasps of surprise from all surrounding players.
"I didn't know there was a Cait Sith archer this good at shooting..." said the Cait Sith lord.
"How could you not know about an archer this good of your own race Alice?" asked Sakuya.
"I don't know..." Alice answered.
"Oh come on, what I just did isn't even that hard." I said, getting annoyed.
Then Kirito said "We'd like to talk to your leader."
One of the Salamanders, not wearing a helmet and wearing the fanciest armor with a fancy looking sword flew forward.
"What's a Spriggan doing here?" asked the Salamander, deciding that I wasn't that surprising since I was a Cait Sith and thus no more surprising then Leafa.
"I have a proposal to you, here are the terms, you leave right now, and we don't slaughter all the Salamanders here." Kirito said.
The Salamanders burst out laughing at a threat that two players would kill 68.
"Fine, I guess you choose 'get slaughtered'." Kirito said with a sigh and disappeared, appearing behind the nearest Salamander who has mysteriously in two halves now.
The Salamanders instantly stopped laughing and I found it hard not to laugh at their sudden change of heart.
The leader though, who had not laughed at first and was not frozen now said "I have a different proposal, we have a one on one duel, if you win, I leave. Does that sound good to you, eh... what's your name?"
"Yes, and my name is Kirito, what's your name?" asked Kirito landing on the ground.
"Eugene." said the general.
I heard the lords behind me mutter something, perhaps having heard the name before.
"Already, well, let's fight then, I don't have all day." Kirito said and flew up to level with the Salamander.
"Start when I fire this arrow." I said and drew my bow.
I fired the arrow and Kirito disappeared, appearing sword clashed against the Salamander's.
Strike after strike at ungodly speed Kirito kept the Salamander just barely being able to block.
Finally Kirito stopped and flew back a bit and Eugene took his chance, flying forward he slashed down with his great sword.
Kirito put his sword up to block and... the sword went right through Kirito's sword without harming it and hit Kirito on the chest, sending him flying into the ground and putting his armor to use for the first time.
Kirito slammed into the ground next to me and his HP dropped to half.
"Oh come on, that is so over powered." he said quietly and stood up.
He flew into the air and said "Nice sword, what's it called?"
"The Demonic Sword Gram." said Eugene.
"Oh? Demonic you say? You're not the only one here with a demonic sword. Muramasa attack!" Kirito said and his sword glowed purple and was shrouded in black and transformed into a raven which flew forward and slammed into a blocking Eugene, then after being blocked it passed through him without harming him and flew around again, striking and just barely being blocked, then phasing through and attacking again.
Meanwhile Kirito began to chant "οι σκιές γίνονται λεπίδα μου σφυρηλατηθεί από το σκοτάδι"
Once he finished his mana instantly dropped to zero and a sword that looked like the spinning blades form earlier appeared in his left hand.
He held out his right hand and the raven flew back transforming into a sword and landing in Kirito's right hand.
"This general is screwed." I said bluntly.
Kirito with two swords was unstoppable.
Kirito flew forward and both swords started lashing out at ungodly speeds, and while one sword at near this speed Eugene was able to barely deal with, with two he was getting hit, a lot.
Kirito flew back and Eugene charged forward, Kirito first blocked with his shadow blade and the sword passed through, then just as Eugene smirked he raised his Muramasa and blocked the sword, and because it could only phase once per attack the Demonic Sword Gram was stopped by the Demonic Sword Muramasa.
Kirito spun round and unleashed a deadly barrage of attacks on Eugene, dropping his HP to zero and sending him flying to the ground.
Kirito flew over to where the general's flame was and moved it over to the meeting area.
Then he chanted the revival spell and Eugene appeared.
"As per our agreement, I will order my men to retreat, you are very good at fighting, I rarely lose." Eugene said.
Then he held out his hand and said "Good fight, let us fight again sometime."
Kirito shook his hand and said "Yes, let's fight again sometime."
Then Eugene flew back up to the Salamander force and yelled "Retreat!"
All the Salamanders sighed—perhaps hoping for a fight—and retreated.
And 10k words in story two :)
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Spell guide:
Group night vision: let us see in darkness
Pronounced: as doúme sto skotádi
Fake wall: make an intangible wall like the wall next to it
Pronounced: kánei éna áylo toícho san ton toícho dípla se aftó
Shield: become a barrier and let nothing through
Pronounced: na gínei éna empódio kai na afísei típota mésa
Shadow blade: shadows become my blade forged from darkness
Pronounced: oi skiés gínontai lepída mou sfyrilatitheí apó to skotádi
That does it for this chapter and see you later.
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