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Roxas is owned by the 2 tailed fox
Time: Day of the first Deathgun attack
Game: Gun Gale Online
Artemis sat at a table in the bar Deathgun was expected to attack a pro player of GGO. Artemis knew already that there would be someone in the victim's apartment, with a drug that would cause heart failure. When Deathgun shoots the screen, that would give a signal to the one in the apartment to kill the victim.
Artemis messaged the group already to get to the bar, but they'll need to lay low by wearing a hood over their eyes, that way Deathgun won't recognize them.
After two minutes of waiting, Wolf, Oblivion, Sinon and Roxas soon walked in with their heads down and wore hoods. They eventually sat down once they found Artemis, sitting at a table with a drink in front of him.
"So, what the hell are we doing here? Waiting around for someone to get crazy drunk and shoot up the place, only for them to get fucking wasted? Cause I can do that!" Wolf asked.
"It has to do with my prediction, see that man over there, with the metallic skull for a mask, he's the one I want you all to watch," Artemis replied.
They waited a moment before, the man, obviously pissed at something, walk over towards the screen, and raised a gun, saying, "You lied, you lied to ME!" He said with increasing volume. He shot the screen with his, soon to be famous, type 54 Black Star. Seconds later, the man keeled over and disconnected, startling everyone at the bar, he began a speech about being Deathgun, and that the gun he wielded was called that very same name, and that it had the power to kill irl, just like in SAO.
The group and left the bar upon Artemis's signal. They walked out and were soon followed by Deathgun, but they were not bothered as the man walked out and bought a horse and left the place far behind.
"So you were reincarnated? I'm still curious to know how you knew that was going to happen." Roxas asked when Deathgun was out of sight.
"It's gonna take a lot of explaining so I ask that you're ready for a long story." Artemis asked. Roxas simply nodded and allowed Artemis to continue. "I was run over by a semi-truck and multiple other cars on the road in another universe. Just so happens that it happened in this universe in 2017, but by the time I was reincarnated, it was 2022, before SAO was launched. Anyways, I was killed, and soon after I was in what seemed like purgatory, until a figure started speaking…"
*Flashback*
"Unfortunately, you are dead." A booming voice said. "But your story isn't over yet."
"Who are you? Show yourself!" Caleb yelled, startled by the loud voice. "What do you mean my story isn't over yet?"
"I am the one you are yet to believe in, Caleb. Now, I give you a choice, one I give to every newcomer. You either go to what humans call Heaven, or, you may be reincarnated to a world of your choosing. If you die there again however, you will be sent here again and have to choose another universe." The figure said, coming into view, who was God himself.
This was weird for Caleb, as he might have pretended to believe in God, he never did, but he never heard in church or read in the bible about reincarnation, or more specifically, God giving such a choice to anyone.
Caleb, as soon as he heard God ask him what he wanted to do, knew exactly where he would want to go, as he planned it in his head many times.
"All right, I choose reincarnation. However, I wish for a few conditions before I go. First, I'd like to be born in Japan, and to have a white family, like mine. I'd also like to keep my current memories." Caleb said. God's eyes widened at each proposal, but let Caleb go on. "Second, I'd like to be pre-programmed with sword fighting techniques of every variation. Thirdly, and lastly, I'd like my family to be rich and, caring, unlike many rich families."
God smiled even wider with every proposal. 'This is a smart one, he seems to know exactly what he wants., God thought. "And, where do you wish to go?" God asked.
"I want to go to a Sword Art Online universe, where Suguha Kirigaya, and Shino Asada both got trapped in SAO. Oh, I forgot, I'm gonna need to be able to speak English, and Japanese. That is all." Caleb said, happy with his decision.
God smiled, and said, "Deal."
*Flashback Ending*
"And that's how it went between me and God, so if I die again, I'll be going somewhere else." Artemis explained.
"Interesting." Roxas replied.
"Well Kirito is going to be diving into GGO, due to the Deathgun incident we just witnessed. All of it was real, the man on the screen died of heart failure live on a VR show that we just saw as Deathgun shot the screen." Artemis explained.
"How long until that?" Oblivion asked.
"Two days, or so I remember it being two days." Artemis said.
"Well, I don't feel a lot for playing GGO today. I did promise Lis I'd talk to her about something." Oblivion said opening his menu. Artemis grabbed his arm and spoke.
"Be here, 5:00 sharp in two days." Artemis said.
"All right, I'll put a reminder on my phone about it." Oblivion said, as he logged out.
Artemis looked towards the others and said, "Well, all we can do is figure out how we can get Kirito set up for GGO, and the third BoB."
Time: One day after the first Deathgun attack
Place: Caleb's house
Kazuto was training with Caleb, who was training Kazuto with his God given gift of Sword Mastery, making Kazuto stronger than the Kazuto that Caleb knew from the SAO anime, whether it was in real life, or just a game.
"This one meets my weight standards, could I use this one?" Kazuto asked, holding a big longsword.
"Alright but make sure it doesn't break, as that one is one of my favorites, and they did cost a ton." Caleb said, as he reached out for his katana. "Now we can either cut down some bamboo, or we use these instead and spar in here."
"Actually, a spar would be nice. It'd give me a reason to go on the defensive." Kazuto said, smirking.
"As you wish." Caleb said, also smirking, and passing Kazuto a wooden cylindrical practice sword, while he himself picked up an estoc shaped practice sword.
The two sparred in the sword dojo. It was Caleb who won, twice, but, once Kazuto got the hang of what he was doing, he won a round, and they ended off there.
Time: One day later.
Game: Gun Gale Online
"There he is. That's him for sure." Artemis said, pointing to Kirito, with his GGO avatar. Kirito, unlike his other avatars, this one seemed more feminine than the others, as the avatar had much longer hair, and a slightly feminine body structure.
"That's his new avatar?" Sinon said, laughing.
"It's apparently a rare model, especially since this account is transferred rather than made," Artemis replied.
The group walked over and talked to Kirito. Upon Kirito recognising them (Even with the group using new accounts) he asked, "Now can you guy's explain why you're using new accounts?"
"Goofball, because all of our shit from SAO might get fucked up." Wolf said, smirking.
"All right, now how do play? Where can I get a weapon like you guys have?" Kirito asked.
"Well, we can either gamble, or we could let you borrow a pistol and we can go hunt. But if it gets desperate, we can go and PK someone from a rival squad. Upon winning the first two BoB tournaments, we have plenty of rivals." Artemis said.
"You're kidding, so you form a guild in SAO and ALO based upon killing PK'ers, but here we are in GGO and you guy's are PK'ing." Kirito said, frowning.
"We only kill our enemies, not innocents. Besides, a ton of people PK in this game anyways, it's not like we're gonna be wiping out entire armies of PK'ers, even though mostly everyone here is a PK'er." Oblivion said.
"Yeah and besides, those fucks need to learn to play nice anyways." Wolf said, still smirking.
"Okay so basically we just PK for fun in this game?" Kirito asked.
"No, almost everyone here is a PK'er so we can't take any chances." Roxas said.
Kirito simply nodded to this and looked to Artemis and gestured him to pass him a pistol for him to use. "Shit, I don't have an extra one but someone else here should." Artemis said, looking through his inventory.
"Here, take this one. It's my spare Five Seven, I always keep a spare." Oblivion said, handing Kirito the gun.
"Five Seven? Why'd they name it that?" Kirito asked.
"Well that's the size of the bullets you'll be using with the pistol. 5.7 millimeters." Oblivion said. "So what will it be? We gamble? Or hunt?"
"I don't want to be losing money, so I'd rather hunt." Kirito said.
"Well this is different, in my world, you went and won the Untouchable game, rather than going hunting." Artemis said, chuckling as he opened a trade window, "Here, have 500 credits, that should be enough for a go at Untouchable, that way you don't lose money.
"If you're sure." Kirito said hesitantly. He walked up to the Untouchable game, and started it, he charged through dodging the bullet lines Artemis had told him about, and he seemed to get the hang of dodging, he saw that he passed the 8 meter line, he knew that he had to dodge before he saw the lines, meaning he had to, per se, predict the predictions. He slid under a bulletstorm from the animatronic, and then as he got within 4 meters from the end, he saw that the animatronic was out of bullets, "Looks like you're out of bullets," he said, before seeing a blue light coming from the end of the revolver that the animatronic was using, he jumped over a hail of lasers, flipping in mid-air and landing on his feet next to the animatronic, touching it and winning 302000 credits.
"Wasn't that easy, Kirito?" Artemis asked, "I never played that gambling game, but you seem to have won it, by the way no one has ever beaten that game, I bet I could, but I've never tried."
"Not very hard if you know what you're doing," Kirito replied, "I still want to go hunting though," He said laughing.
"Well, first, let's get you a weapon, I already know what suits your fancy," Artemis said, he walked Kirito over to the store, and showed him the photon swords, "They're light, but they get the job done," Artemis said, smiling.
"They seem to work like a regular sword, I'd like one," He said.
He paid for a black hilted, purple bladed photon sword. He began to practice with it, for he knew the BoB was coming up in a few days, and needed to be comfortable with this light a blade, before entering.
Artemis decided to buy one as well, thinking it would go well with his revolver, knowing that he had enough strength to wield the 500 S&W Magnum in one hand, as he'd been training Strength and Agility, almost exclusively.
His was a red bladed, black hilted sword, and he decided to go and train Kirito, because, with his god given sword mastery, he was able to wield any sword comfortably, even if it happened to have a weighted hilt, rather that a well balanced sword, as he prefered a balanced sword, to a sword with a heavier end, he could still wield any other weighted sword, but it wasn't as comfortable.
3 Days Later
Kirito and Artemis trained in game, almost non stop, monster hunting and PK'ing scattered among many duels. They only stopped when it was time to eat or sleep.
It was 2 days until qualifiers started and now everyone in the group was training.
"Whew, that was a lot of training to do, but we're not done yet, as we still have the qualifiers to win, and there is a lot of faces we've seen before, but only 3 we haven't. We don't know how much they've improved, also, might as well say it, Deathgun's real handle is Sterben. Now that we all know that, we can see where he is on the map, however, when we won't see him when he is using an Optical Camouflage. Also if you live alone, you must be careful not to be shot by his type 54 Black Star, as that is the gun he dubbed Deathgun, it will kill IRL. I know this as, someone will enter your apartment or home and watch the stream, and when you are shot, he will inject a lethal drug into your system, ending your life, but don't worry, if you survive this, which is why we are working together, we will go to each other's house, but especially Sinon's, and that's because she is a target, but we can either kill her early game or we can protect her until the end."
"How do you know this? I know you are from another world and know what will happen but are you saying she will die without us?" Wolf asked harshly.
"No, only without Kirito, but we can protect her even better with all of us there." Artemis replied.
"Why only with Kirito?" Wolf asked.
"If Deathgun knew there were more than one person in their house/apartment, they wouldn't go for it because they wouldn't know if one were awake." Artemis said.
"Unless they look in the windows." Oblivion stated.
"Why would they do that?" Artemis asked.
"Dude, they are emotionless killers, I'm pretty sure they don't give a crap." Oblivion said. "Let's keep going so that we can Kirito for the next BoB."
"All right, so we all go to Sinon's place? Should we arm someone to guard the place?" Wolf asked.
"Sure, I'll do it, and if I see them, I will most certainly kill them." Oblivion said, suddenly with a blank expression.
"Um, Oblivion, you okay?" Artemis asked, due to the fact that he knew Oblivion didn't have an emotionless and black side, but it so seems he does.
Oblivion didn't respond, until 5 seconds later, he quickly shook his head and said, "What?"
"What were you thinking about?" Artemis asked.
"Long story, I'll tell you later, let's go." Oblivion said as he started to walk. Soon the rest followed Oblivion.
The group went out to look for some monsters in a forest. Upon entering, they heard loud roaring type noises. They went off to investigate the sound and found a Tyrannosaurus-Rex looking mother fucker. The group started hailing the dino with bullets, but only until they saw another guy come with a white bladed photon sword and decapitated the beast.
"No fucking way, that's a rival. Let's go kill him guys!" Artemis said, getting up and started shooting in the direction of the rival, but stopped upon seeing bullet lines towards them. The group fell back and then got back up when the bullets stopped shower over them. Everyone pulled out their weapons and chased the rival group.
As the group showered bullets towards the other group, another T-rex looking thing started chasing them and Artemis pulled out his photon sword and jumped towards the thing and chopped it in half. Artemis then caught up to the group who were still hailing bullets towards the rival group, and then Artemis ran towards the rival group as their Agility stats weren't high enough to outrun him and Artemis took three swings and killed them all with his photon sword. The group stopped to recap.
"Now Kirito, are you getting the hang of it?" Artemis asked.
"Yeah, I should be able to make it far in the tournament." Kirito replied.
The group went on and bought a vehicle on the way and went to register for the next BoB. Artemis would then expect Deathgun to show up on a bridge and kill someone, but Artemis wouldn't let that happen…