Midori was in the kitchen making herself some food. After getting off work early, she decided to head home and spend some time with her kids, only to remember that they were gone.

"Ironic isn't it," she plopped down on the couch while eating a salad. "The one day I'm home early and my kids are gone. One at the gardens and the other at therapy." She turned on the TV to find something to watch and pass the time as she flicked through channels.

"Nothing good to watch at this hour?" she asked herself. She then stopped herself as she heard the doorbell rang through the house.

She raised her head at the door wondering who would come by at this hour. Judging the by the clock she saw on her phone, Suguha nor Kazuto would be back until afternoon. Curiosity settling inside her, she put aside her food and remote and walked over to the door. She looked through the peephole and hummed as she saw someone she's never seen before.

"Um…can I help you?"

"Yes….miss Kirigaya, sorry to come by but I was hoping if I could talk to Kazuto and Suguha." Asuna apologized clapping her hands together.

"Well…neither of them are here at the moment. Who are you?" Midori asked.

"Oh right, where are my manners?" the chestnut reminded as she bowed her head to Midori. "My name is Asuna Yuuki, I meant Kazuto in SAO awhile back. I wanted to say thank you for freeing everyone but since he doesn't seem to be here…"

"Well if you want, you can come in and wait for him till he comes back?" Midori says as she gestured to her to come in.

"Are-are you sure? I don't want to be impose on you or anything."

"Nonsense. Any friend of daughter and son is a welcomed in our home." The adult says while smiling at her.

"Thank you for your hospitality." Asuna walked inside with Midori closing the door and headed off to the kitchen.

"Leave your shoes by the door and then come this way, I'll make some tea."

"Yes ma'am." As Midori left, Asuna sat on the step and took off her shoes and laid them against the wall. She then received a ping from her phone, taking it out and looking through her messages she received two.

Rika: We've reached the park, most of his friends are here but they shouldn't be too much trouble. Can we start soon? Keiko is very eager to meet with her new playmates and she's starting to get a little irritated on waiting any longer.

Asuna simply giggled at her friends message. Knowing that they were very eager to test out their new skills, she sent them to follow the girls while sending Sinon to meet Kirito.

Ping! Speaking of which…

Sinonon: I'm at the hospital, what do you want me to do?

Asuna replied to both messages as she typed in her words to both contacts.

To Rika/Liz: Make sure you're deep inside the park and Liz keep her from going overboard as usual.

To Sinonon: Go ahead and introduce yourself to him. Hold back your strength will you, he's still recovering.

After reading over her messages, she sent them as she stood up and strolled over to the kitchen and instantly her texts came back faster than thought.

Rika: Good, call you later.

Sinonon: Understood.

Putting her phone away, she licked her lips in anticipation for the results of her group's playdates. As she proceeded to stroll over to the kitchen she had one thought on her mind that would keep her smiling and entertained.

"Have fun everyone."

Suguha and others were in the park exploring the entire field before them. All of them staring in awe at the multiple fields of different flowers. All of them blossomed to the fullest and not a single one dead or wilting in process.

"Wow." Sachi says as her sister wraps an arm around her. "I've never seen so many flowers in one place."

"I know….it's so pretty here." Strea added.

"Let's see…." Kotone looked at the map in front of her as she was studied it. "….this place has a bunch of wisteria type flowers. There is a Wisteria dome, Wisteria falls, Wisteria tunnel….you name it they have it." She finished.

"Oh I want to explore the White Wisteria Tunnel and Falls." Sachi exclaimed putting her finger on the designated spot.

"Well if we want to do that then we go right which is….over there." Strea said pointing to the path not far from them. "What about you Suguha?

"I'm going through the Wisteria Trellis and maybe visit the floating flower beds." Sugu then turned to Kotone who was still looking through the map. "Having trouble?"

"I can't find anything to pick."

"Then go with Suguha, just go through the flower stage with her and explore from there." Strea suggested.

"Mmmm." Kotone was still having trouble on what to pick but decided to just go with it. They'll have the chance to explore the entire park eventually. "Okay. I'll go with Suguha."

"Excellent, we all meet up at the Tochigi Tea House for break and then explore the rest of the park before leaving sound good?" Strea suggested. Everyone agreed at this and headed off their separate ways to explore the beautiful garden.

As the four them split, Rika and Keiko came in view watching and observing their movements. "This just got better." Rika says in amusement. She turned to Keiko and couldn't help but laugh at the younger girl's pout. "Why the long face?"

"I wanted to play a game with all four of them and now I can't." Keiko pouted and crossed her arms and Pina let out a small screech agreeing with her master.

Rika wrapped an arm around Keiko and pulled her close. "Now don't be sad, you can still play with them." She raised her hand towards the two paths and continued. "And this time, I'm letting you pick whoever you want to play with. And whoever you don't pick you get to play with them next time. Does that sound fair?"

"Mmm, yeah it does sounds a little better." Keiko says replacing her pout with a smile. "So I can pick who I want?"

"Yep." Keiko hummed as she looked at both paths deciding on who to follow before she beamed with energy and pointed east. "I'm gonna follow the ones that went into White Wisteria."

"Then I'll go straight ahead." Rika pulled Keiko into a hug before letting go. "Be careful."

"Hi! You too." Keiko was about to run off but Rika quickly grabbed her arm and whispered a few words in her ear.

"Go ahead and let Pina join in on the fun." Keiko's grin grew wider after hearing those words before she cheered and ran off to her new playmates. Happy at her friend's excitement, Rika turned and headed straight for the Wisteria Trellis following Kotone and Suguha, her smile becoming cruel and sadistic.

Back at the hospital, it was quiet. Peaceful. Cars strolling through the parking lot, entering or leaving, birds chirping and sun shining brightly down on it in the clear blue sky. Peaceful right?

Wrong!

Inside, Kazuto is in the hallway with Sinon as they both stared each other down neither moving a muscle and were thinking about one another.

"Sinon. Whoever she is she's strong and was sent here to find me from Asuna. Not only that but the air around us feels very dull and all the people are missing, not to mention there's sound coming from down the hall. What's going on?" Kazuto was brought out of his thoughts when he felt something grazed across his cheek.

He grunted in pain as Sinon twirled a throwing needle between her fingers before speaking. "You wide awake? You've been staring into space worried about the people right, well for now I think you should worry about yourself." She stated before she stopped twirling the needle and threw it.

Kazuto quickly moved his head right avoiding the needle and then quickly move backwards as Sinon appeared in front of him and thrust her right arm forward needle in hand. Sinon threw a few strikes at him aiming for his head, he dodged them all before grabbing her wrist. Kazuto pulled her forward with his left hand and then grabbed her forearm and flipped her over his shoulder throwing her into a random room.

Crashing against the bed, Sinon was stunned giving Kazuto time to quickly run and find the exit. As he raced down the hallway, he turned his head left and right into the other rooms expecting to find anyone, but nobody was there. All of the rooms were empty, and people were nowhere to be seen, as if they all vanished.

"It doesn't make sense, I don't hear anything, no sound coming from here at all. Where is everyone, did I pass out and trap myself into another nightmare." He asked himself. He ran down the hall and found the elevator and pressed the button only to look up and see weird numbers and letters on the top of the doors.

"Well the elevators don't work that's just great." He said as he looked down the hall and heard footsteps clapping against the floor. "Dammit." He cursed as he quickly jumped over a desk and hid himself underneath leaning his back against it.

Sinon was down the hall looking for her target as she had her hands clasped behind her back with a grin on her face, one full of fake kindness. "Black reaper~~ come on out~~." She called as she looked into a random room only to find nothing and continued walking.

Hearing the footsteps getting louder, Kazuto absolutely went still to keep quiet. He heard Sinon come walking through up to the desk and stopped moving. She looked over the desk and moved closer as she searched around the area.

"Are you over here?" she asked pressing her hands on the counter and pushed herself up against the desk. Leaning over she looked around and found nothing but the chair and computer, a few papers, and sticky notes but no human. "I guess not." She shrugged her shoulders before leaving and continued her search. Her footsteps growing soft as she disappeared.

Leaving his hiding spot and looking up seeing if she was gone, Kazuto stealthily walked out and looked at the map near the elevator. He was searching for any other exits since the elevators were out of order or in this case not working. He then looked at the fire escape routes and saw two leading to the stairs on separate ends of the building.

"Okay, now I just need one that goes to the parking lot. Problem, one leads to a garage and the other leads to the back." He had two options here. A, go to the back or B, go to the garage.

"So A or B…B." he thought to himself. He quickly looked back at the map before going right back to the way he came and found the exit to the stairs. As he ran down the steps he thought about his sister and the others feeling that something similar happened to them.

"I hope you're alright Sugu." He thought worriedly as pushed the metal handle and made his way down the steps.

"*gasp* Kazuto!" As on cue, Suguha suddenly felt a pang go through her chest and looked behind her in alert only to see Kotone admiring the large pink Wisteria tree that stood tall before her.

"What was that?" She asked herself as she looked around the area seeing nothing but trees. It was weird. One second she was walking with Kotone and the next she came to sudden stop at her brother's voice in her head. She could've swore that it was him.

The way she heard his voice it sounded full of worry. Did something happen over at the hospital, did he have a breakdown, was he in trouble? All these questions running through her head ended being left unanswered as Kotone called out to her.

"Suguha come on, I wanna see the Large Wisteria Trellis."

"Right, sorry. Let's go." She replied as she walked ahead leaving Kotone confused before running after her. As they did neither of them noticed the trees behind them slowly dying or that Rika was behind them holding an item in her hand floating around diagonally.

"Let's test this out shall we…" she trailed off as she curled her hand into a fist and threw the giant 6-sided single color cube dice high into the air and smiled as her eyes glowed and a pink aura surrounded her body.

Over with Sachi and Strea, Keiko was walking towards them with her cube in hand as she hummed playfully to herself. She quickly stopped herself and turned to Pina giving her a command.

"Go hide in the tree real quick, we're about to play a game right now." Her pet gently nused her nose before flying upwards and hid in the tree. Keiko then threw her cube up into the sky and her eyes quickly glowed red before fading back to its original color and walked over to the two siblings.

Sachi and Strea were enjoying the white Wisteria before them until they felt a sudden chill go through their bodies freezing their movements.

"Strea."

"Yeah….I feel it too." Both siblings looked up at the trees seeing nothing out of the ordinary leaving them confused.

"Hello!" That sudden cry of excitement startled them as they turned around and saw Keiko waving at them. "I finally found you, now we can play our game."

"Game? Strea who is this?" Sachi asked turning to her sister for answers. Strea remained silent as she narrowed her eyes at Keiko and inspected the little girl from head to toe.

"Where have I seen you before?" she was interrupted when Keiko spoke again, this time pointing her finger at the sky.

"If you look upwards, you can see that the little toy is working. Gray sky, wither trees, *giggle* and no people to interfere our game."

Sachi and Strea both widened their eyes at the gray sky before them and the dead trees around them, plus no people around them. They were the only ones there.

"Sachi…"

"Strea what's going on?"

"We're about to play our game." Keiko answered her. "Oh! I almost forgot. Pina! Time to Play!" Keiko called out and then let out a high whistle. Pina screeched aloud announcing her presence before flowing down in front of its master. "Alright Pina, First game were playing…..Tag!"

Pina suddenly glowed as its form became covered in blue aura and started growing. Pina's feet, claws, head and wings grew large about the size of a boss monster as it continued glowing. The light died down moments later revealing Pina in her monster form. Instead of two eyes, it had four with two arms and legs and two sets of wings and tails.

Both Sayuri sisters looked up at Pina in shock at seeing the small monster transform into something so huge. As they stared at the giant bird, Keiko simply called out to them in excitement. "You better start running, because I'm it."

As those words left her mouth, Pina screeched in agreement as it raised its foot towering over Strea and Sachi alerting the two out of their shock. "Sachi, Come on!" Strea shouted as she grabbed her sister's hand and pulled her out of the way before Pina's foot stomped on the pavement causgin the ground to break and rubble to fly out.

Sachi and Strea started running up along the path out of the White Wisteria Falls and onto the West Gate Shop. As they ran they saw all the trees and plants around them withered and dead, even the pavement was a little darker than usual.

"Strea what is this?"

"I-I don't know. That girl, she seems familiar but I can't tell where…"

"Worry about that later, we need to outrun her giant friend before it finds us."

"Yeah." Both girls came across the West Gate Shop with the door wide open. "This way." Strea ordered her sister as they both ran inside the shop and quickly went into a room and hid themselves. They both heard loud rumbling footsteps and remained quiet as the footsteps quickly came to a halt, Pina's foot stopping at the door.

Keiko came inside and looked around the shop. "Oh, we playing hide and seek two? Wonderful. You hide, I'll seek. Stay outside Pina!" she shouted in excitement as she started to walk around the store and down one of the aisles as Sachi and Strea look through the door.

"Okay, so what do we do? We got one girl looking around and her pet out front guarding our only way out." Sachi asked.

"I'm sorry Sachi but I can't focus right now. I'm trying to figure out what is going on with the environment, why we're being chased by a giant bird, how we're being chased by a giant bird, who that little girl is and what happened to the people around us!" Strea listed off her fingers in frustration.

"Okay Strea calm down." Sachi ordered her placing both hands into her sisters and grabbed them gently. "We can think about all of that later okay, for now let's just focus on figuring out how to get out of here."

Following her sisters instructions, Strea took a few deep breaths and calm down before speaking. "Let me try something…." She trailed off as she went into her purse and took out her phone.

"What are you doing?"

"Calling Sugu and Koko." Strea said as she dialed Sugu's number only to receive no answer as it went straight to voicemail. She then tried to do the same thing with Kotone's number and receive nothing but static on the opposite end. "Aw, it seems wherever we are it's blocking the phone signals. I can't seem to get a hold of Sugu or Koko."

"You mean the flower shop? Maybe there's some concrete or metal within the place?" Sachi thought as strea pulled the map out from her purse and located the West Gate Shop. As she traced her finger over the spot, they both looked upwards and realized that the roof was indeed made of metal.

"Well you were right about the metal sis, as long as we're in here we can't call Sugu or Koko for help." Strea says gritting her teeth while putting the map away.

"I hope they're both okay."

"I hope so too sis." Strea says as she grabbed her hand and squeezed it gently with her own. "But something tells me they are in the same predicament as us."

Out back at the Large Wisteria Trellis, both Kotone and Suguha were standing across from Rika, staring at her as she crossed her arms under her bust and planted her chin in her right palm. She was looking at them as if she was inspecting them like she was judging them based on their appearances but she already knew who they were.

"Let's see….black hair, dark grey eyes, childish look and…" Rika narrowed her eyes at Suguha, specifically her chest causing the other girl to yelp in surprise and cover her chest in embarrassment. "….a lot bigger than me…you must be Suguha Kirigaya."

"Why'd you stare at my chest like that you creep?"

"Sugu calm down, it's not like she was observing you or something." Kotone said reassuringly before Rika turned her attention to her.

"Brown hair, blue eyes, blue hoodie... you must be Kotone codename Philia." She finished as Kotone glared at her. "…..Asuna said you were paranoid and that you bark a lot but I'm not seeing either." She muttered to herself.

"Who the hell are you and how do you know about us? More importantly what happened to the world around us, answer me now!" Kotone threatened making Rika laugh.

"Ahahaha, there it is. That's the paranoia she was talking about." Rika covered her mouth to stifle her laughter as it died down. "So you must be the girl she has so much fun torturing."

"She?"

"Who is she?"

"It doesn't surprise me that you don't remember me Kotone though it does seem a bit rude of me to not introduce myself to your friend here." Rika said as she brushed a strand behind her ear. "I am Rika Shinozaki, codename Lisbeth." she introduced making sure she said her avatar name to rile up Kotone.

"Rika?" Suguha repeated in confusion while Kotone had a different reaction.

"Lisbeth!" She shouted in alarm and suddenly rushed at the girl. Pulling a dagger from out of nowhere she gripped the handle sideways before swinging across at Rika. The said girl expecting this reaction merely tilted her head sideways the knife missing her cheek by an inch and she just pushed Kotone away with two fingers pressed against her shoulder.

"! What the—" Kotone looked back at Rika in surprise.

"What! Didn't expect me to dodge—I'm not as useless as you think I am. Weapon or not I can hold my own." She says placing a hand on her hip.

"Who are you?" Suguha asked her as she approached carefully and stopped once Rika turned her attention to her.

"All will be revealed in time but right now I'm here for an assignment and that assignment includes you two being guinea pigs."

"Guinea pigs? What for?"

"Oh nothing much, just a little experiment me and my friend are doing nothing personal. You see that cube up there?" she explains pointing her finger upwards with the other two following the direction and saw the random cube changing colors every few seconds while rotating in midair. "That cube is the reason for this little experiment, and who better to test it out on than you two. A paranoid brunette and a top kendo specialist."

"That cube must be the reason behind the withered trees and empty area. When we saw Rika, everything completely felt void of life up to now and I feel like my life is being drained along with it." Sugu thought inspecting the area around her.

"Oh don't worry about the place." Rika started, noticing the discomfort on Suguha's face. "The cube only dulls the area it captures and puts it on a dimensional plane different from its current one, it does not suck or drain your life energy while were in here. As of this moment bystanders are passing by this area but all they will see is the tree and not what is going on now." She finished.

"Now I think that's enough chit chat don't you think?" Rika then materialized her weapon in her hand which was a black mace, dropping down into her hand and gripped it tightly. "Who wants to go first?" Rika asked them before licking her lips in a seductive manner.

Kotone jumped up and thrusted her dagger towards Rika, the latter dodging with ease and the blade went past her. She went for a few more strikes towards Rika but she kept dodging them and she was barel moving her body, only her head. On the last strike as the dagger went past her face, Rika grabbed Kotone's forearm and pulled her forward before sending her knee straight into her stomach.

The impact stunned Kotone as she coughed up spit and her face met concrete as Rika lifted her leg and slammed her heel on the Kotone's back crashing her into the ground before kicking her in the stomach sending her tumbling away towards the fence.

Suguha came from behind and attempted to hit Rika with a punch but the latter simply grabbed her and pulled her close until their noses were touching. "Cute." Was all Rika said as Sugu became a stuttering mess before she jumped back and helped Kotone up.

"Okay so how do we-Kotone what are you doing?" Sugu started and then shouted at her friend who jumped into the off limits area and searched around the trees hoping to find a branch that wasn't dead or withered and luck was on her side as she saw one randomly laying against the tree on its side.

"Here take this." Kotone ordered as she tossed the branch to Sugu who was confused before noticing the branch coming towards her and caught it with both hands before inspecting it.

"What the-?" Suguha was in confusion as the branch she was holding was a long harden wooden thick stick. It was about as long as her kendo stick.

"Worry about that later, for now focus on the fight." Kotone said pulling another dagger from the heel of her feet and gripped it.

"Okay seriously, how many daggers do you have?" Suguha asked in disbelief seeing the younger girl with another dagger that she's had within her clothing.

"Less talking, More fighting." Kotone said twisting around both daggers before rushing after Rika with Suguha in tow. Rika in return just smiled at them before rushing to meet them head on.

Kazuto was in the garage of the hospital, stealthily moving around as he went from car to car finding his way out. The entrance was a few parking spaces away as he could see a daylight, he was almost there but he couldn't celebrate yet. As he ran over to the open space he heard the door go off and heard footsteps in the garage.

Quickly sliding behind a car, he ducked and leaned against a black van looking over to see where his pursuer was walking to. As he leaned up a little more to look over the hood of the van, in slow-mo a bullet went pass by him and hit the mirror of another car right next to the van and shattered.

Kazuto quickly ducked his head on instinct waiting for anymore bullets that may come by but only silence rang through the air. "What was that, a bullet?" he whispered to himself as he looked back to the shattered side mirror.

He quietly walked over to the other side of the van and peeked his head out looking for anything that could be a threat. On instinct he pulled his head back as another bullet passed him and hit the window of the car behind him shattering the glass instantly.

"Come on Kazuto, make this easy for yourself. Come out so we can talk and I don't have to kill you." Sinon announced as her voice echoed through the garage.

"Dammit, just when I'm so close. I can't just walk out there and leave, from the look of things she seems to have the upper hand on this. I got to find a way to get through the garage without getting hit!" he thought as he looked at the shattered mirror from the first shot.

He saw the bullet etched into it as he narrowed his eyes. He then looked down at the broken pieces of the mirror and picked up a shard by the tip making sure he didn't cut himself. He slowly lifted above his head and over the hood revealing the shard before a shot rang through the garage and a bullet went the shard shattering it.

"Okay let's try this." He said as he quickly threw a shard in the air away from the before a bullet went through and shattered it to the ground. As he ran more shots went off and he could swear he could feel them pass by as he quickly jumped over to another car and hid his head.

"I wouldn't try that if I were you." Sinon teased as she reloaded her sniper rifle. "As long as I can hear your footsteps you can't escape." She finished reloading and planted her rifle on the roof of the car before looking through the scope.

"See and hear me huh?" Kazuto said as he looked around his area. His eyes then stopped on a emergency alarm switch on the wall in front of him. "This should do the trick." He said as he slowly moved over to the wall grabbed the handle and stopped.

"Wait a minute, I don't know if this is going to work." He said mentally thinking back to the monitors and elevator. Hearing only the sounds of beeps from them and seeing weird numbers appear on the elevator, well it wasn't like he really had much choice in this situation. "Screw it!" he pulled down the lever and to his luck the alarms in the garage did go off as red lights flashed around and the siren sounded off in the garage.

"Tch. What's going on? None of the alarms should be able to trigger because of the cube." Sinon muttered to herself as she got off her scope and off the roof the car before sliding and hid behind it.

"Kazuto." She muttered as she saw the boy running up the park garage through the chaos. "Smart boy." She said as her gear suddenly disappeared and she slowly walked over to the exit.

As soon as Kazuto got outside he stopped running and looked around his surroundings in shock, all the trees around the hospital looked so dead and withered. The sky above him was now grey and the air felt so dead as if it was void of life.

"What the hell is going on here?" he asked before Sinon came from behind walking slowly with her hands clasped behind her back.

"It's my cube. We are within another dimension at the moment as long as the cube is active, but this one is different from the ones Rika and Keiko have." She explained.

"Rika and Keiko, who is that?" he thought in curiosity before going back to his main objective. "So how do I stop it?"

"Do you really expect an answer for that?" Sinon asked with a deadpan expression.

"No but it was worth a shot." He answered calmly while shrugging his shoulders before glaring at the teenage girl. "What did you mean when you said this cube is different?"

"Well my friends are using their cubes to trap your friends in certain areas, while mine is active until I give it the order to shut down."

"My friends…..what do you mean my friends?" he asked carefully.

"It's as exactly what I meant, Rika and Keiko have your friends trapped and are dealing with them right now like I am with you." Sinon stated.

"…Call them off.." he growled as his hair foreshadowed his eyes.

"And why would I do that Black Reaper?" she asked him before feeling something pass by and graze her cheek. She slightly winced at the cut before turning around and saw one of her needles from earlier embedded in the wall behind her. Turning back to the boy in front of her, her eyes widened in shock.

Kazuto was glaring at her as he gritted his teeth in anger. She couldn't his hands since he was wearing fingerless gloves but the sides of his face were partly covered with black veins stretching all over mostly around his right side and his eyes were now black scalera and red iris.

"….Either you call them off or I kill you where you stand….." he growled. His voice sounding a bit deeper as well from the current change.

Sinon kept a calm persona as she inspected the new change on her target. On the inside, she was a little angry at Asuna for not telling her that her target had something like this inside him but at the same time…she felt a little shiver go down her spine.

"Weird that I am feeling….bliss for this boy. He seems a threat to me but at the same time I feel as there is something wrong with him." She thought to herself. As she stared him down, she could see that his fingers were twitching and that the black veins on his face were moving back and forth as it he was fighting for dominance.

"I see…you don't have full control of your gift do you?"

"…Gift?..."

"Not important right now. In time you'll understand why you have what you have…..and maybe you might be the one person that I can relate too…." She said taking off her blazer and dropping it to the ground.

Kazuto was confused at her actions before his eyes widened in shock as she saw the black veins on her left leg stretching up to her arm and up to her face stopping just below her eye.

"What the?"

"Allow me to demonstrate the power you have within you." she announced as aura engulfed her body and the ground beneath her cracked from the amount of power she was releasing.

"!" Asuna immediately felt the two shifts of power as she paused in the middle of drinking her tea. First she was in shock at feeling Kazuto's and her eyes widened in disbelief when she also felt Sinon's skyrocket as well. Midori seeing this thought something was wrong and spoke.

"Is everything alright dear?"

"Oh yes ma'am everything is fine." Asuna said but internally she was sighing in exhaustion because of what Sinon was doing.

"Sinonon, you better not injure him that much."

Looks like Asuna wasn't the only who felt it as Keiko suddenly stopped her movements in the store. She was searching for her two playmates until she felt Sinon's power suddenly expand.

"Oh~~ Looks like Sinon-nii is getting all serious. Her playmate must be really good." Keiko says before clapping her hands together rapidly in excitement. "I wanna meet them." She says before remembering what she was doing and her smile changed into a pout. "But I can't, I'm stuck here with two people who won't even play with me!"

"Come on out, will you! It's getting sooooo booooooooorrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiinnnng~" she shouted as she comically waved her arms.

Not far from behind Strea and Sachi looked at her with different expressions. The former with curiosity, the latter with a deadpan expression.

"Is that how I act?"

"No…you act more childish than that."

Rika was laughing as she dodged attacks from Kotone and Suguha. They both came at her again this time with Kotone above and Suguha aiming low, as she was about to block their attacks she felt two power shifts increase out of nowhere stopping her momentarily.

Kotone and Suguha took advantage of her small pause and struck at the pausing girl. Unfortunately, Rika noticed as blocked their attacks. She grabbed Kotone's arm and threw her over her shoulder before kicking her square in the stomach and sent her flying into the trees, while she pushed Suguha back with her mace.

"It seems Sinon is getting serious…..odd she doesn't really go all out against someone unless…." Rika trailed off as she thought back to Sinon was fighting and simply laughed in amusement.

"Hahahahaha, oh that is great. Sinon is actually having trouble dealing with her target. Hahahaha." She laughed covering her arms around her stomach.

Suguha was confused at Rika's words as she stared at her. "This Sinon person is having trouble with her target?...!*gasp*" Her thoughts were interrupted as she suddenly felt a pang in her chest and was met with a vision.

The vision took her to Chiyoda Hospital and she saw all the dead trees and grey sky but that was not important to her right now. As she turned around she saw two figures in front of her. She saw a girl with indigo aura flowing around her body and then turned her eyes to the second figure and her eyes widened in shock and fear.

It was her brother Kazuto and he was in that state. She saw the black veins from earlier except they were now up to his face and his eyes looked so evil, his aura was so cold.

She was suddenly back in reality as she faced Rika who was still laughing and Kotone was slowly getting up but was holding her stomach. Suguha suddenly realized something, Sinon must've been the girl that she saw with her brother and the girl in front of her must know her.

"You know her….don't you?"

"Hm?"

"You know what I'm talking about!" she shouted in anger pointing the stick threatening at her.

"Hmhmhm, I'm sorry *giggle* but I can't take you seriously*giggle* with that stick in your hands…..hahaha—Whoa!" Rika laughed then ducked as Suguha suddenly threw the stick at her.

"Whoa!" kotone shouted afterwards as she dodged the stick too and saw it embedded the Wisteria Trellis hard. "Whoa! She threw so much force with that stick that could've literally taken one of our heads off."

Rika turned back to Suguha only to find the girl suddenly in front of her as she was tackled to the ground. Sugu kicked her mace away and straddled Rika wrapping her legs on hers and grabbed both of her wrists planting them on the sides.

"You are lot stronger than you look." Rika commented.

"What do you want with my brother!?" Suguha shouted in anger. She wanted to know how to get out of this place and find her brother to keep him safe.

"What makes you think we want your brother, other than the fact that he's cute like you?" Rika asked making the girl above her blush. Sugu quickly shook her head losing the blush before she returned to glaring at the girl below her.

"You people obviously want something from him. You're toying with him after he got out of SAO, and he's already got enough on his plate. So I will ask again, What. Do. You. Want. With. My. Brother!?" she growled tightening her hold on Rika with each word. Suguha didn't receive any answer as the brunette just stared at her with a predatory look in her eyes.

As Rika stared in Suguha's eyes, she licked her lips seductively at her and suddenly wrapped her legs around Suguha's waist catching her off guard and pulling her down until both noses were touching.

"What are you-?" she was cut off as Rika leaned in and pressed her lips firmly against hers shocking her. Sugu was left frozen as she felt herself losing strength and slowly released her hold on Rika.

Rika not wanting to let go anytime, pushed Suguha on her back and straddled her. Dominating the kiss, she grabbed the blushing girl's wrists pinning them above her head and placed her own free hand on Sugu's cheek holding her in place.

Suguha felt herself losing feeling in her arms and legs as she tried to break free. The longer the kiss remained, the less she had control over her body. She didn't know why but she felt her body go completely numb as soon as her lips connected with Rika's.

"My body feels like…it's on…mmmm" Suguha couldn't help but moan as Rika gained total control over the kiss and massaging their tongues. Moments later both lips parted for air leaving behind a small trail of saliva. Sugu's face blushed a deep crimson as Rika licked her lips in anticipation.

"Who knew you were such a good kisser too."

Author's Note: Okay...that was um...something towards the end there. I'll be honest I did not expect it to end like that but for some reason it feels natural to stop things right here. I know I said no author's note this time but please hear me out as I have a short announcement. This was suppose to come out before the start of April but I got sick and was confined to a bed for the entire week and for that I am very sorry for not updating it sooner. I'm not sick as much as I was earlier but I can barely move my body so I'm not at a 100% yet but I still have enough energy to write my stories.

Again sorry for posting late, and I hope you've all enjoyed this chapter. I'm thinking about putting up a poll on which world group should enter first when I combine them together. Choices will be ALO, GGO, SAO or have someway to combine them all together into one huge world. Again I am thinking about this so i'm not sure if I will put it in the poll or not but I probably will. Poll will be on the profile page.

Read, Review and see you next time.

HellLaser descending back to Hell.