Chapter 2- The New Death Game
In this chapter Mikael as entered Gun Gale Online to find Sinon and bring an end to Retribution's twisted plan, while he is there he begins to make allies but at the same time he makes enemies. Also Kirito reach a call that brings him into the mess also. The question is will Mikael and Kirito be able to survive this death game or has the brothers luck run out.
The Hunter- Mikael POV
I awoke on a platform in my brand new avatar. It felt straight to be in a brand new avatar after spending so much time in my SAO/ALO avatar. It took me a while before I began to move away from the platform. My avatar felt lighter then my previous one but it only took a moment for me to get used to. Once I was used to it I heard an alarm go off before a massive screen appear in the sky. A symbol was shown that I didn't recognise but soon after it appeared it cut to the new face of Retribution. "Retribution" I growled at the screen. "Ladies and Gentleman I am sure you are all aware of what is going at the moment with Bullet of Bullets and the whole Gun Gale Online. Simple enough you are all trapped in here with only one way out. Well technically two ways now" he told us. I was surprise that he mentioned there was a second way to get out but figure out that it was going to be a way that I wouldn't like. "The first way is to find me and beat me, the hard way as I liked to call it. However, the easy way is find me the player who goes by the name Mikael or Sabre or any other sword related name. If you find him then bring him to me and I will realise you all but be aware I know what he looks like so if you bring me someone who isn't him then there will be severe consequence. And if that isn't enough to motivate you then all me to show you something" he said before picture of all the best players in Gun Gale Online. The last picture was Sinon or her GGO avatar captured which caused me to feel a mix of emotion from anger and rage to sadness and emptiness.
After that Retribution appeared again and said "I have given you your ways to get out and if you want your Bullet of Bullets to continue then you will do what I have asked and with that I bide you all the best of luck." The screen then disappeared as I then heard what sound like a uproar as people in the near the town started shout and began planning what to do now. It was strange but familiar as it seems that Gun Gale Online had that completely turned into Sword Art Online and Drake had turned himself into Ahikiko Kayaba. Suddenly felt hatred flow through me at the thought of how much like SAO this world was turning into and how this all could have been avoided if I had just taken care of when I had the chance but I was weak and let him go. 'No you're not' I heard an all too familiar voice say to me. It was the same voice that talked to me back in Sword Art Online when I needed help. "So you have returned then" I asked it. "So it would seem" it replied to me. "So what exactly are you" I asked it. "Well I would be you conscious" it told me. "My conscious" I replied. "Yep that me" he responded. "How does that work" I asked him. "Well the amount of emotion that you felt when you learnt that you were trapped inside Sword Art Online must have create me as a way of stopping you from going completely insane and committing suicide right then" He told me.
"Wait then how are you here now" I asked him. "My guess is that Project Ascension must have react in a way that caused me to show up again" he told me. It made sense since Project Ascension worked on thought and emotion and when I saw Sinon It must have trigger something. "So now what" I asked it. "Well I believe that we have a bad guy to take down. So let go be a hero" he replied before fading away. 'God I really don't like being called a hero' I thought to myself. I began walking to where I heard the noise and saw massive group of player gather as I hid in a back alley. "You heard what he said, all we have to do is find him or the player and then this world can back to how it was before" the player standing in front of everyone shouted. It strange because that player reminded me a lot of Kibaou by the way he was getting everyone to push toward one goal that would have severe consequences. "I ask all of you will you help in finding these players and making wish they never came to this game" he shouted as everyone else cheer and roared in agreement. They then all separate into group and went their different ways. After they were all gone I sighed in relief that none of them had seen me otherwise I would have some explain to do. I took a minute to take the whole situation in as not only was I now hunting down Retribution but now I had some competition or allies depending on whether they will help me since now I'm being hunted.
I lean against the wall as I thought about what to do next. I check my inventory to see that had no weapons on me so I made it my first thing to get myself some weapons as well as some practise with them since these players would have more experience than I do. I then pushed myself of the wall I tried to figure out where I would get weapons when I was then interrupted by someone say "Hey are you okay." I turned around to see two girls, one with dandelion hair and the other one with lavender hair (These are Philia and Strea but I using their appearance from SAO: Hollow Fragment and not their ones from SAO: Lost Song). I was shocked at how easily I was discovered but knew it was my own fault for being too relaxed. "Oh I'm fine I was just watching the speech that was going on" I told them, still worried that they might figure out I was the player Retribution is after. "Oh yeah that little thing so, are you going to join them" the dandelion one asked me. "Me nope, I have only just started to play this game so I would just hold them back" I replied to them. "I don't think so from your appearance you look really strong" the lavender hair one told me. She looked at me in full detail. "Strea what have we said about trying to flirt with every player we meet" Dandelion one said. "Oh Philia it fun the way they react to it and beside what I was saying was true he does look like a capable player" Strea replied. "Fine Strea but I have warned you, so any way what are you doing here" Philia asked me.
"Well I was looking for a place to buy weapons since now it seems that if I want to get out of here I will need to find that player" I told her. "Oh we know a place nearby that sell weapons we can take you there" Strea told me. Philia looked surprise that she had just said that and said to her "Strea we shouldn't just help him like that for all we know he could be that other player that guy is looking for." "Well why don't we ask him his name and see if it a blade related name" Strea responded. "Okay, what is you name" Philia asked me. I thought for a minute before I said "My name is Sliver." "There Philia he is fine his name isn't blade related" Strea told her. "Not yet show me your player info" Philia demand. 'Oh no if she sees that she will know that I am the player everyone is hunting' I thought to myself as opened up my player menu. As I did I noticed that my name didn't say Blade anymore but now said Sliver the name I told them. I then moved my player screen toward her as she looked at it. "Very well your information checks out. Come on we will take you to get the weapon" she told me before the three of us starting walking off somewhere.
The Legend- Kirito POV
I found it strange that I haven't heard from Mikael in a while since he said that he would have said if Sinon was okay by now or would have least logged back on to tell me himself. I eventually decided to log off to get in contact with him in the real world. Once I logged off my phone began to ring. I picked it up and saw that it was Kikuoka Seijirou who was calling me. I found it strange since he has tried to contact me since the end of the Gun Gale Incident. "Hello" I said into the phone. "Ah hello kirito I glad that you picked up. I need your help with something" Seijirou asked me. "Uh what is it" I asked him. "It would seem that something has happened to Gun Gale Online has I have received report that a player has made impossible for players to log out and a few have said that player who have died in the game have died in a similar as with Sword Art Online. This player is reported to be similar in appearance to Death Gun" he told me. I was completely surprised but then It dawned on me that was probably the reason Mikael logged off so quickly since Sinon was on GGO for the Bullet of Bullets tournament. "Okay so what do you want me to do" I asked him. "Well it would seem that a new player had logged on and it just so happens to be your brother, so do you mind telling what you know about this situation" he asked me. "About one month ago there was a player called Retribution who threatened Alfhiem Online. He wished to harm my brother because back in SAO the two of them were in Laughing Coffin. Mikael was teamed up with his sister however my brother eventually quit Laughing Coffin and helped to get rid of them once and for all. That meant he was forced to kill Retributions sister. So now it seems that he has captured Sinon in order to get at my brother since those two are going out" I told him.
"Okay so this incident is all about your brother and a player. Well I need your help in fixing this" he said to me. "How do I do that" I asked him. "Simple I going to set a room in the hospital for you to log onto Gun Gale Online. Unfortunately, you will be using the avatar you had before" he told me. I was worried about going back into another death but then I realised that my brother who I have only know for a month was now going to sacrifice his life and I couldn't let that happen. I don't want to lose him. "Okay I will do it" I told him. "That good the room will be ready in two hours so please be there by then" he told me before hanging up. I then thought about all that was going on and how afraid I was about entering a death game again but I need to put that aside for my brother. I then began to make my way to the hospital.
The end of chapter 2 and the introduction of Philia and Strea as well as the team up of Mikael and Kirito. This chapter took a while to write due to what I had going on as well as the fact I am writing multiply stories at once but don't worry I will get another chapter upload next week. In the next chapter Kirito enter GGO again, Mikael takes on the unstoppable game as well as we discover abit about his past as a gamer while we learn about that player who wants to take Mikael and Retribution down.