Dreaming Blade

I own nothing from SAO, nothing at all.

VR-1-SAO - Prologue

In a small enclosed area called a 'room' located in a Tokyo apartment. A teenage boy woke up in the middle of the night, to be greeted with a newspaper notifying him that the first VRMMORPG 'Sword Art Online' would be released in one hour. Being a lucky beta tester, albeit not a great one, he already had access to the game, so there was no need to rush to get the game from the place selling the game. He quickly made a small breakfast, ate it, and by the time he finished eating, fifty minutes passed. Rushing to get into the VRMMORPG, he grabbed the helmet titled 'NerveGear' and placed it upon his head, pulled down the visor, closed his eyes and muttered two words.

"Link Start."

When he allowed himself to open his eyes again, he was told his beta account and current account were now synced and after that, five words appeared on the screen notifying him that he was indeed inside a virtual world now.

Welcome to Sword Art Online!

As soon as the white light faded away from his vision he look up into the sky and blinked a few times. He looked to his left and saw his basic starter health along with his IGN taken from the beta test, 'Syandana'. He looked around and saw only seven other players. Probably because the other players lucky enough to get the game were still making their accounts. Syandana lifted up his left arm and moved it downwards and a status window with his information and current Sword Skills available to him. Some of the Sword Skills he saw included 'Slant', 'Vertical', 'Horizontal', and 'Uppercut'. Knowing that getting a head start in levels compared to other players was very beneficial to him, he looked in his inventory, saw his one handed Curved Sword, equipped it to his left, dominant hand and dashed towards the fields.

Arriving at the field, Syandara quickly saw particles being formed as the 'Fenzy Boars' were being spawned. Frenzy Boars were identified due to their high EXP gain but low damage and health. Upon seeing the first Fenzy Boar, Syandana activated 'Slant' and quickly annihilated the unlucky boar.

"Wait, did they get stronger, is it because the game is in it's official release, all the mobs got buffed?"

He felt that the boars got buffed since beta, but thought very little of it as it wasn't a very big deal for him. Anyways, Syandara trained like this still the sky was orange.

Syandara was exhausted. It was probably 2 PM in the real world, but he didn't mind. He liked it here more anyways.

Hard to believe this whole thing is just a virtual world, but here is where I can shine. I'm not bound by adults here, not bound by anything! I can be anything here! A blacksmith, a merchant whatever I want! I wish I didn't have to deal with the real world, and just stay here for the rest of my life, but then again, I don't want to worry my parents, I'll log out for now.

Syandara slid his hand through the air in front of him again, and brought out the status window, and lo-

There wasn't a log out button.

"What the hell? Where's the logout button!? I take it back when I thought I wanted to stay here forever! LET ME OUT! No wait, I should be able to message the GMs!"

That button was gone too.

Syandara closed his eyes

The GMs don't intend to lock us in here until we clear the game, do they? If they do, I swear I'll sue them as soon as I get a chance, or is it just me who is having this log out bug?

When Syandara opened his eyes again, he was back in the Town in Beginnings. Along with every other player, all 10 thousand. Chatter was everywhere, Syandara did not like it.

Suddenly, a large coated figure appeared and stated

"Hello dear players, Welcome; to Aincrad, my castle."

Chatter was even louder as this point, Syandara was breaking at this point. The tone of the coated figure was a deep voice, and the way he spoke as similar to the stereotypical 'God'.

"I am Akihiko Kayaba, the creator and owner of this world. I am the only one that can control and manipulate this world."

Kayaba Akihiko? The creator of both SAO and Nervegear, why is he addressing all of us? Is it to tell us this is a bug?

"I assume that almost all of you have noticed that the log-out button is away from your status windows. I assure you, this is not a bug in the system but a feature. There is no easy way to log out of this world and no one outside can log you out either."

No way, this isn't a bug? So this is reality for us? All 10 thousand players? All of us, trapped?

At this point, everyone was yelling and screaming, complaint about how this goes against law.

"If someone does try to remove the Nervegear externally, the Nervegear will discharge a strong electric signal to attack your brain, and ending your life. 213 People have already lost their lives because of this."

Kayaba then proceeded to show news reports of the incidents.

The commotion was at it's peak now, it was to be expected, this wasn't a game. This was a death trap. Also, he already murdered 213 people, that's a record murder time for such a large amount of people.

"However"

"There is a way to get out of this game, clear the game, all 100 floors, and beat the final boss. You will all be logged out after that"

Syandara, gripping his hands, sweating was about to break out and wail like a little child

WHAT? You can't expect us to clear the game! It took us Beta Testers 2 whole months to reach level 40, which is crazy hard. This is insane!

"This marks the end of the starting tutorial, I wish you the best of luck in clearing the game and goodbye."

Just like that Kayaba disappeared.

No. This time, I won't cry; I won't ask for help, I'll just be bothering other people.

As soon as Syandara thought this, he felt another player put his or her hand on Syandara's shoulder.

"Hey, you seem like a beta tester! Could you help me clear this game? I'm a noob here."

Syandara thought otherwise.

"I... don't think it would be a good idea to party up with me... I was among the weaker beta-testers."

"It's alright. Let's just go."

"I guess..."

"Alright, what's your name?"

"My name is Syandara. Yours?"

"...Just call me PoH".

Little did I know, that person I met would be my greatest enemy yet in this game.

A/N

My greatest concern making this is whether I will continue it... I always lose motivation and come up with some other thing...

Anyways, thanks for reading please review.