Alright, Chapter 4, I'm planning on being more active with this story over the weekends. Don't expect to see too many updates over the week days.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sword Art Online. Sword Art Online belongs to Reki Kawahara. I only own the OCs, weapons, towns, and skill names.

A Challenger

1 month later

These days I've been practically waiting for the people to find the Boss Room. I'm anxious because at any given moment I could get a message about the Boss Fight and details about what setup to use. Another reason is that we still don't have a full party, so far it's, Kyo, Seiko, Tarou, Aiko, and I. Still only 5 out of the 7 we need. I can't just go out yelling, 'We wants to join my party, I need 2 more!' being one of the better known players, that would no doubt lead to someone trying to kill me.

"What should we do today guys?" I asked everyone, since we were all just sitting in the Inn.

"I'm bored, I'm bored, I'm bored!" Same old Aiko.

"Maybe we should go do some more grinding." Seiko suggested.

"We're already 10 levels above the floor average, these monsters won't do us any good." I denied.

I stood up, "I'm gonna go take a look around town. Anyone wanna come with me?"

Kyo: Bor-ring.

Tarou: *Snore*

Aiko: No thank you.

Seiko: I'll go.

In -Aldridge Town-

"Hey, Seiko. You know, I just now noticed. This is the first time in a while it's just you and me again."

"Yeah. It really takes me back. This is nice."

"We should probably buy some new gear for the raid. We don't want to rush in there with terrible gear."

"You're right. Hey, just like when we first met, you bought me some gear and we went training in the fields."

"I wish we could go back to those days, where it was just you and me."

"You do? I do too." A small blush appearing on her face.

"Hey Seiko."

"Yes Yuusuke?"

"Would you want to g-"

"Yuu!" Oh come on!

"I challenge you to a duel Yuu!" Some random girl comes up to me on the street and challenges me to a duel. Just great.

"Why me?" The girl had long snow white hair and lilac eyes. Her outfit consisted of yellow and red. She wore a yellow scarf, red t-shirt, and a leather jacket that stops at the bottom of her ribcage. She wore fingerless black gloves, matching her black jeans and knee high combat boots. If this were real life I'd call her a minor thug.

"You are the top player in the game leaderboards Yuu, I want to prove to everyone that I am better."

"Can't we just say that you won and you can leave me alone."

"Oh, backing out are we? Coward!"

"Ok, I guess I'm a coward then. You can take top spot. Keep the attention off me will you?"

"Attention? That's what your afraid of? Wait, hold on, are you saying you don't want to be top player?"

"That's exactly what I mean. I don't care about top player or anything. I just want to clear this game, to keep my friends safe."

"Ugh! You're making it really hard to hate you!"

"Fine, if you want a duel, I'll duel you then, just don't do -Death Match-, I don't think anyone would be happy if one of us died."

"Fine then, we duel with -First Strike- mode."

"Great, let's get started."

She sent the duel request. I accepted and chose -First Strike- mode. The battle countdown started, 60...59...58.

"Go Yuu!"

"Thanks Sai!" I said back.

"Looks like you've got fans, Yuu. Hehehe."

"I don't count anyone as my fan. They're all my friends."

"Keep it up with this big talk, you'll need it to soften the blow to the head I'm going to give you." The white haired girl said as she pulled a sword bigger than herself from her back. How the heck did I not see that.

5...4...3...2...1...GO. She dashed at me, the giant sword behind her. With the sword in this position, the only logical attack she can go with is a slash from the side. She got closer and closer. I still hadn't moved yet. Wait...wait...wait...Now! I sidestepped to the right and jumped to the left. I went straight over her sword and slashed the side of it. The giant buster sword split in half, and I flicked her in the forehead.

Congratulations
Winner: Yuu

"When, what, how did you do that?!" The snow haired girl looked more flustered than ever.

"A side swipe was the only attack you could go for with your sword in that position, it's too long for an uppercut slash so that was your only option. I took advantage of that and slashed your sword in half. The first strike was the flick to your forehead."

"You...you truly are the better swordsman. The rightful place of Top Player lies in you."

"Actually, I think you could be a really good fighter yourself. I'll buy you a sword to make up for the one I just broke. Sai and I were headed there anyways."

"I guess you do owe me a sword. I will tag along. Just this once."

"Great, come on Sai!"

"Coming!"

At the market

Yuu: So I should call you Rikku?

Rikku: That's about right.

Sai: That's a great name.

Yuu: Ok lets see here. I'll get a -Hell's Shadow-. Let's see here, the best selection for Sai is the -Reverse Clock-.

Rikku: What?! That costs 100,000 Col! There's no way you can afford that.

Yuu: Here you go Sai, a -Reverse Clock-.

Sai: Thank you Yuu, this is an amazing rapier!

Rikku: H-How much Col do you have left after that?

Yuu: 587,300 Col.

Rikku: 0_0

Yuu: Ok, Rikku, your last sword was ineffective because, although it's attack stat was amazing, it was too large for you to use. So a great sword for you would be -Falchion-. It's a Two-Handed sword just like your last one, but it's shorter by a fair amount.

Rikku: It's 250,000 Col.

Yuu: Here you go.

Rikku: The stats on this sword are better than I've seen on anything else.

Yuu: Don't worry about it, now I have to pick up some gear that I ordered for the party too.

Rikku: You ordered weapons for your party as well? How many other people are in your party?

Yuu: 3. Aiko, Kyo, and Tarou.

Rikku: And how much does that cost you.

Yuu: Don't worry, I paid for it beforehand. 500,000 Col in all.

Rikku: Where did you get all this money?

Yuu: Well, I'm 15 levels above the average level of this floor. So I went out looking for Boss Room as well as do some mapping. So I went and found 4 dungeons. So I had to explore and map each one to see if one of them had the Boss Room. None did, but I ended up fighting a Mini-Boss at the end of each dungeon.

Sai: You fought 4 mini-bosses on your own!? Are you crazy? What if I had lost you?

Yuu: Well, on the way back I got attacked by some PKers, I disarmed each of them like I did Rikku, and sent them all to jail. I collected 10 bounties from the jail for capturing all of them.

Rikku: Y-you...did all of that...in one night...what...level are you right now?

Yuu: Umm, lets see here. I am level 45.

Rikku: You're 25 levels above what the average for the floor is! You could take on the boss alone!

Sai: Don't give him any ideas Rikku. This dunce will do whatever it takes to prevent losing lives. He took down the floor one boss alone while it was in berserk mode.

Rikku: I...I...can't take...all this power...at one time!

Sai: That's why you're joining us and making sure this idiot doesn't do anything stupid.

Rikku:W-what!?

So that was Chapter 4 of this story. So many things you can do. I guess that leaves it for now. PM me or leave a review on what I should do with this story. I love taking all your recommendations. For now, it's TheDemiGeek, out!