How is everyone doing? I apologize for this chapter taking so long I was lacking the motivation to write but I manage to power through it and finish the chapter. While writing I had a couple of ideas come to mind for a new story I want you all to vote on.
1. In SAO Kirito and Asuna find a child that recently lost his parents in-game so they take him in and raise him.
2. Kirito and Asuna are married and have a family their son is a gamer just like they are. With this story, the games in the story would be final fantasy 14, Elder scrolls online and maybe some more.
Thank you all for taking the time and reading the chapter and I hope you all enjoy it. Please let me know what you all think of it in the comments but please no flames.
I don't own Sword Art Online nor RWBY
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Team JNPR sat in the Beacon Cafeteria eating lunch after the day with the encounter with Wyverns as they sat and chatted among themselves Ruby rushed in leaving a trail of rose petals sitting in front of Jaune scaring him.
"Jaune! I got a question about ALO!" She said looking at him with excitement in her eyes.
"What is it?" He asked taking a drink of his soda as the rest of the team walked up sitting down on the opposite side of the JNPR.
"Are there scythes in ALO?"
Jaune sat there thinking for a minute as he took a bite of his food all the while Ruby looked at him with hopeful eyes.
"I don't know if they do or not. Liz or Argo may know though." Jaune finally answered
"Who?" Yang asked joining in the conversation.
"Liz is a friend of Kaz's and one hell of a blacksmith her work is the best both in SAO and ALO. As for Argo, she's an info broker. Sure her prices are a bit high and steep but it's always good. She will never sell info that she hasn't check out personally."
"Want to go ask them after classes?"
"Ruby have you forgotten we have to study today?" Weiss asked in an annoyed tone.
Ruby groaned in displeasure face-planting on the table.
"Studying can wait! This is a life or death situation!" Ruby replied to Weiss.
"Sorry I got to train with Pyrrha today," Jaune replied eating
Ruby let out another groan this time of disappointment before a hand was placed on her shoulder.
"Don't worry Rubes I'll go with you," Yang said giving a thumbs up.
"Oh, are you two are going into Vale today?" Jaune asked the sisters.
"Yea I was planning on going back to the bakery before logging into ALO," Ruby informed him
"Do you mind going by the hospital and making sure Sora is alright? He said something about blood tests today."
"Why does he need to go for blood tests?" Blake asked looking at the group.
Jaune shrugged his shoulders.
"Maybe the crash injured him more than just his legs," Ren said unsurely.
"We'll ask him once we see him," Yang said as Ruby nodded.
After classes, Yang and Ruby got directions to the hospital Sora was in and followed them to their destination. A fifteen-minute walked Ruby and Yang stood in front of a massive hospital that towered over them.
"This place looks more like a hotel than a hospital!" Ruby said in awe as they stood outside looking at the grand entrance of the building under the large flat roof as people drove to the doors picking up patients that were being discharged.
Inside the building took them aback even more as they saw the elegant and luxurious lobby where the check-in desk sat against the wall with chairs and couches in the center on a large beautiful rug with a set of stairs on the other side that lead up to the second floor and elevators in the very back.
"This place is amazing," Yang commented looking up at the chandelier above the center of the lobby earning a nod from Ruby.
Ruby looked around before laughter got her attention and she turned to look down a hallway seeing Sora being pushed down the hallway by a girl with short black-brown hair smiling and the two sisters walked up to them.
"Hey, Sora!" Ruby called out to him as they stopped in front of him.
"Hey, you two, what you two doing here?" Sora asked looking at the sisters curiously.
"We were wondering if you wanted to join us in ALO to find Rubes a scythe. Or at least to see if it's possible." Yang said.
"Sure I'm in," Sora agreed earning a cry of joy from Ruby.
"If you need another sword I'll be glad to help out!" The girl that was with Sora commented grinning.
"Shouldn't you be resting in bed?" Sora asked looking at the girl.
"Ahhhh! You worry too much Sora! The doctor said I can play as much as I want today and that's just what I'm gonna do!" The girl said proudly crossing her arms nodding.
"Ummm...who are you?" Ruby asks pointing at the girl.
"Oh! Sorry about that! Name's Yuuki Konno!" She told Ruby cheerfully smiling at them.
"I'll see you all on ALO!" Yuuki called out running towards the elevator and going up.
"Alright, let's get going!" Ruby said leaving the hospital while Yang pushed the wheelchair sora was in following Ruby.
"Is that a hospital? It sure doesn't seem like it." Ruby asked walking backward-looking at Sora.
"Oh, it is a hospital...Just a very special one." Sora said cryptically confusing them.
"Most hospitals are to help people get better...that one is where people go to die," Sora said sadly frowning.
"So those people leaving..." Yang started.
"They're going home to die." Sora finished for her
"Wait! So Yuuki is dying?" Ruby asked frowning afraid to lose her new friend.
"For a bit, everyone thought she was but recently thanks to her aura waking and experimental treatment things are looking bright for once in her life," Sora explained.
"That's good now let's hurry back and get on ALO!" Ruby said excitedly before rushing back to Beacon using her semblence leaving Yang and Sora behind as they sighed before Yang waved goodbye to Sora before giving chase after ruby while Sora smiles chuckling to himself before going home.
Ruby and Yang walked through the town of Ryne looking for Sora stopping in the center of the city.
"I wonder where he is?" Ruby asked looking around at the different players.
"How about we try there?" Yang asks pointing a thumb at a building with players going in and out earning a sigh from Ruby.
"Now isn't the time for a drink Yang!" Ruby said exasperated but it fell on deaf ears as Yang walked towards the building and walking in as Ruby follows her with a sigh.
Inside the building, players sat around talking and drinking while others were at the quest desk picking some up while some people left passing Ruby and Yang while they looked around and found Sora sitting in a corner booth across from a cat sith who had blonde hair and whiskers on her face before walking towards them.
"It's a sweet deal, you tell me the info and I'll check it out for you as payment and tell you if the info is good or not." Sora tried to convince the cat sith as she sat across from Sora crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow.
"Kii-boy told me about you and how you manage to find trouble." The replied with an accent and a smile tugged on her face.
"Hey, Sora! Who's this?" Yang asked standing next to the booth with Ruby.
"This is Argo the best damn information broker in the gaming world. Sure she charges a fortune but the info is always good since she checks it out herself." Sora explained waving a hand at Argo.
"So you two are the ones that want a scythe eh?" Argo asked studying the sisters.
"Yep! Do you know where to get one?" Ruby asked excitedly leaning towards Argo.
"You have to have one made they aren't enemy drops," Argo explained making Ruby look down sadly as if Argo told her there weren't any more cookies.
"Good news: Lisbeth agreed to make one for you Ruby. Bad News: She's missing a very vital material and it's really rare which brings us to here and now." Sora informed Ruby who perked up and Argo sigh.
"I told you; It's just a rumor I have no way to confirm it or not since it's a really powerful monster," Argo replied looking back at Sora.
"Which is why we will go check it out for you and tell you if it's true or not and what monster it is!" Sora told her earning an enthusiastic nod from Ruby and a thumbs up from Yang.
"Fine; Rumor has it there is a monster to the far northwest that will guarantee a blade for the scythe but be careful and don't go dying aye? I can't lose my three newest customers." Argo told them with a grin as Sora stood up.
"I wouldn't be too worried Argo. Ruby and Yang are huntresses in training plus we'll have Zekken with us." Sora told her which made her raise an eyebrow as the three friends left and went to the teleporter.
Once in the meadow the three friends took the air and started to fly as Yang and Ruby followed Sora Ruby spoke up.
"Um...Whose Zekken?" Ruby asked earning a smirk from Sora as he looked back at her.
"One of the greatest sword users in ALO," Sora replied as they stopped and hover over a crowd of players watching two people battle and one of them looked familiar an Imp character that looked vaguely like Yuuki except with long purple hair.
"Is that Yuuki?" Ruby asked as they watched her fight gracefully dodging her enemy attacks before disarming him and getting his health in the red in two quick flowing attacks.
"Yep it is in-game, she earned the nickname Zekken which means "Absolute Sword"
"How did she earn that nickname?" Yang asked as they watched another player step up for a duel.
"She won 68 -" Sora started to say before seeing her easily defeat the Salamander player.
"69 PVP battles in a row," Sora explained.
"But aren't they afraid of dying in real life?" Ruby askes earning a head shake from Sora.
"Yea they are sure they're just rumors but no one is crazy enough to test them out so as a precaution PVP battles now are similar to the battles in Beacon. Where the match ends if your health goes to red or if a player is unable to keep fighting." Sora explained as the crowd dispersed and Yuuki flew up to them.
"Hey! You three ready for an adventure?!" Yuuki asked them smiling.
"Question is are you?" Sora asked making Yuuki scoff.
"I'm always ready," Yuuki replied before the group of friends flew northwest.
In the cave, the group of friends walked through large tunnels that seemed to go for miles or end in dead ends. The only enemies seen were slimes and Lizardmen who were defeated easily.
"Uugh where is this thing?! I need a new weapon this ax will be the death of me!" Ruby complained as Yang patted her shoulder.
"Don't worry I'm sure we'll find the enemy soon!" Yang said encouragingly.
"Hey! We found the boss room!" Yuuki's voice echoed from ahead in the tunnel.
"Shit...it's the boss room." Sora followed up as the sisters ran ahead to enter the largest room in the massive cave system.
In the cave, they saw Sora and Yuuki back to back looking around cautiously and on guard.
"Do you see it?" Sora asked while Ruby and Yang ran up to them.
"No, not yet...Did someone beat us to it?" Yuuki asked tilting her head before a barrier covered the entrance locking them into the room.
"What's that?" Ruby asked looking at the semi-transparent barrier.
"That just means the boss battle is about to happen," Yuuki said nonchalantly.
Behind the group of friends, something fell on the opposite of the cave making the ground shake and kicking up a massive amount of dust and making them cover their eyes before it settled and they look in front of them as four red glowing eyes stared at them from the darkness.
"No way...someone HAS mess with ALOs data!" Sora said fearfully as he backed up slowly.
"What do you mean?" Yuuki asked curiously.
"That monster only appeared in SAO and from what I heard it wiped out a large percentage of the players who were on the assault team to free everyone from the game," Sora explained as a tail swiped clearing the dust and debris revealing a massive monster that looked like a skeleton bug with each bone sharp as a sword its bottom jaw splitting in half.
"A Skull Reaper!" Sora yelled as it raised one of its' scythe-like forearms.
"Move!" Yang yelled pushing Ruby out of the way as she dove and Yuuki rolled out of the way and Sora jumped back.
Yang rushed head-on at it with her fist drawn backward as she punched the monster however it did very little damage as it hissed in annoyance at her before flicking its tail at her as it cut her body in multiple places before she rolled on the ground standing back up dazed. The skull reaper lunged at her however Sora intercepted the attack blocking it with his spear.
"That was close," Sora said as the Skull Reaper hissed pushing against the spear making Sora lose his footing before it moves its head up tossing Sora into the air before slicing at him with its forearms.
As he fell to the ground he blocked an attack with his spear making sparks appear from the hit before drawing the weapon back.
"Fatal thrust!" Sora called out as the spear jabbed at the Skull Reaper at inhuman speed hitting its head before it spun around knocking him into a wall canceling the attack.
"Hey ugly! Over here!" Ruby taunted getting its attention. It turned to look at her as Yuuki went for a thrust however it hit its forearm sending sparks flying chipping a little off.
"I have an idea but I need you all to keep it distracted for a few seconds!" Sora yelled to the girls who nodded.
"Alright my turn!" Yang yelled running towards the Skull Reaper a red aura appearing on her fist as the monster tried to slice at her with its scythe-like bones however she jumped and duck avoiding them getting closer the skull reaper tried to swiped her away with its tail once more however she counted it with her punch as it broke some bones off making it roar in pain before it started to circle them as if a shark who found its next meal waiting for the perfect time to strike.
"Sora whatever you're doing now its a good time to do it!" Ruby yelled tanking a headbutt from the massive monster by hiding behind her massive ax.
They looked to Sora who has runes floating around him as he chanted something before his eyes snapped open and he pushed his hand out a dark blue wave washing over the monster making it shudder slightly.
"There! Now, let's give it our all!" Sora yelled picking up his spear where he planted it in the ground before rushing towards the monsters' head as it kept circling them.
"What did he do?" Yang asked confused as Yuuki cheered.
"He lowered its defense it won't last long so let's go wild on it!" Yuuki yelled following Sora before Yang followed her.
The Skull Reaper kept low to the ground as it rushed the party and as it got closer Ruby jumped up smashing the ax blade into its head making it jerk its head up roaring in pain shaking it wildly as it tried desperately to dislodge the ax.
"This went better in my head!" Ruby confessed as she hung on for her life trying to get it to dig deeper.
The Skull Reaper in its final desperate attempt started to run right towards a wall to knock Ruby into it however Yang appeared a familiar aura on her fist.
"Oh no, you don't!" She punched the Skull Reaper making it stop dead in its tracks the Ax sinking in deeper as it roared.
"Hurry! The spell won't' last much longer!" Ruby yelled out as she eyed the monster health showing it being eaten away from the attacks as the symbol of defense down had 10 seconds left counting down.
"Fatal Thrust!"
"Mothers Rosario!"
Sora and Yuuki yelled at the same time. Yuuki using her famous 11 hit combo on it and Sora following it with lighting fast jabs making the skull reaper head and upper body snap backward leaving it upright in a rigged and stunned state.
Ruby took the opportunity and stood on the handle of her ax with one foot on the blade before she used all her strength and weight to make the weapon slice straight down through the monster before she hit the ground hard rolling before Yang stopped her and helped her up in time to see the Skull Reaper explode into hundreds of thousands of glass particles.
"We did it!" Yuuki yelled excitedly high fiving Yang while Ruby cheered and she got squealed when she noticed she got a prompt that told her she got a material called "Skull Reapers rib".
"I'm just glad it wasn't the same one from SAO still isn't it weird?" Sora asked crossing his arms after he dismissed the prompt showing the yuld and exp he earned turning to the others.
"What do you mean?" Yuuki asked as Ruby and Yang celebrated in the background.
"I never seen a monster, unique or not, behave like that. The way it acted, studied and counter our attacks...it was like it was sentient." Sora explained frowning slightly.
"And whoever is messing with the data of ALO who knows how many more are like that?" Sora asked himself frowning.
He was snapped out of his thoughts when Yang put an arm around him.
"You're thinking too much about this we'll figure it out right now let's go back to town," Yang told him and he sighs in defeat nodding.
"Yay! Let's go!" Ruby yelled excited at the thought of her new weapon running out of the cave.
"Ummm...should we tell her we got an item to teleport us back to town?" Yuuki asked looking at Yang who giggled.
"Nah let her go besides I don't think we can catch her now," Yang said giggling as Sora looked as well chuckling.
Back at the town Sora and Yuuki left to go talk to Argo after telling Ruby and Yang where to find the blacksmith and Lisbeth. Currently in the blacksmith shop, Ruby and Yang sat at a table waiting as the Liz worked on the scythe talking to each other.
"We need to tell Ozpin and the others that someone is messing with monster programming either that or they added an A.I that learns to make things even more difficult either way bad," Ruby commented earning a nod from Yang.
"And if it's the normal monsters then it'll be even worse for players," Yang added before someone walked up to them. They turned to see a pink hair player with hair clips in her hear wearing pieces of armor over her dress.
"Lisbeth! Is it ready?!" Ruby asked excitedly as she jumped out of her chair.
Lisbeth giggled before nodding pointing to her counter were a new weapon laid. It was a scythe, a vine of red roses intertwined around the black handle the head of it was white with the edge of the scythe blade being black.
"It was my first time making a scythe but I think I did a pretty good job at it," Lisbeth said proudly as she smiles crossing her arms admiring her work as well as Ruby and Yang.
"It's perfect! I'm going to go test it out!" Ruby yelled happily snatching the scythe before running to the teleporter.
"So much for logging out right now," Yang said with a sighing before giving chase after her sister.
There you all go I hope you all enjoyed it and looking forward to the next chapter. Once again I apologize for taking so long and let me know what you thought for the story as well as vote for the new book. Thank you all for reading til next time take care and have a good one!