I open my eyes as excitement fills me. Today is the day Sword Art Online is finally released. I lean myself up smiling at the thought filling me with even more excitement then my eyes drift over to my clock on my bedside table. Shit I slept in!
I jump out of bed quickly getting into uniform and running down the stairs already brushing my teeth. Mums already in the kitchen making breakfast and humming some crappy 90s song probably. "Mum why didn't you wake me up!" I mumble with my toothbrush still in my mouth and I place it on the bench and rinsing my mouth with water I drank from the tap.
"It's daylight savings honey you have plenty of time before school" I stop on my tracks with a mouthful of bacon in my mouth. I chew quickly then swallowing staring at her "Are you serious!?!?" I demand face palming myself groaning "Nope"
I stare at her with anger then sprint out the door why does my mum always make that same lousy joke. Lucky for me school isn't too far away but I'm a gamer not a marathon runner I gasp as I run towards my school.
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RING! I pant for breath as I make it to class on time just my black hair with the one red stripe gets in my eyes as I brush it to the side. "Hey Ryuko" West whispered next to me smiling as class started "Hey" I smile "You playing tonight?" I ask him looking at him.
"Yeah so is Sam and Lizzie" I smile nodding focusing back on towards the teacher hoping there wouldn't be too much homework so I could play Sword Art Online longer.
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RING! Finally home time. This time I take the bus home to get home quicker rushing through my front door as I got to my stop. "Hey mum!" I yell running up stairs smirking to myself as I see the cover next to my nerve gear on the desk inserting the disc and putting the nerve gear on my head "Link start!"
A variety of colours rushed through me as I entered the virtual reality world with a women's voice greeting me and asking for my username. To make it easy I decide to do my first name, Ryuko I enter as I get to my character selection. I wanted to make my character different from other people but then again I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it.
I scroll through a few and decide on one with midnight blue hair and customised it with my trademark, my red stripe and decide on light armour. Next I choose a weapon I got through a few none sparking interest since they were all low levelled weapons. I ended up picking a fairly short sword so I could be agile in battle.
I spawn into a large town that looked like the town square. There were boys and girls and all sorts of shops around and a large water fountain in the middle. I was amazed with how real the game looked it was much better than the TV screen that I was used to playing on I think raising my left hand in front of my face wriggling my fingers and noticing I was wearing a red glove.
Strange I think as notice that it wasn't on my right and and that nobody else was wearing one.
I open up my log screen scrolling to my stats looking through them.
Name: Kyuko - Level 1
Gender: Female
Dominate Hand: Left
Weapon: Sword - Level 1
Armour: Light armour - Level 1
Strength: 2
Stamina: 12
Speed: 6
Stealth: 4
Skill: 5
Magic: 1
Block: 5
Defence: 1
Accuracy: 2Strange, I haven't selected what stats I wanted it was as if it had selected them based on my personal preferences. I smile back in out and scrolling to my friends list checking to see if West, Sam or Lizzie was on. I frown seeing them all offline closing the log screen.
As I look around at the town and its people deciding to head out of town to earn some money and XP to do some grinding. I jog through the familiar streets exiting the town and heading into some empty field where no one should be able to find me for the time being.
The place was filled with level one boars which was perfect to level up a few levels I think raising my sword from it's sheath and sprinting at the boar slashing at it hitting it in the side of the body expecting it to be a clean swift kill surprised as my sword bounced off the boars skin like it was made of steel.
I stumble back falling over as the boar turns toward me, this wasn't like how I expected. Suddenly a boy with dark hair leaps past me wind gushing in my face as she kills the boar with one strike making the boar explode with pixels
"Are you alright?" the boys asks leaning down and offering a hand as I take it and lifting me up "Yeah just surprised" The boy takes a step back cracking his fingers looking at me "Well be careful out there" he says just about to run off "Wait" I say grabbing the boys arm holding him back.
He raises an eyebrow looking at me with surprise turning around "Umm" I hesitated blushing slightly "Could you teach me how to play?" He looks and me smiling "Sure" he say standing there "But could you let go at me first"
I look and where my hand is blushing again "Sorry!" I say as he tells me to follow him towards another boar "Now fighting is a lot different than just swinging your sword wildly" He explains unsheathing his sword "Since your only level one you can't do anything really skilled" he explains going through different combos.
"Now let's try shall we I'll go first" I nod looking at him and watching what he does. He faces the boar running at it a lunging. I watch I sword as a blue light trails behind his sword as he finishes the boar off in one blow. "Now you go, remember don't just slash do what feels natural and it will trigger a combo or a basic attack" I nod and begin to face another boar that just spawned in and unsheathing my sword and holding it in my left hand.
I run at the boar breathing in the fresh simulated air as I slash down at the boar feeling my body move for me I notice a red light trailing behind my sword and my red glove glowing as I finish the boar off in one slash. I smile as the boar evaporated into pixels. I look back at the boy "I did it!" I smile at him and he responded by clapping his hands and walking over.
"I didn't expect you to kill it in one slash, good job... uh" he stops trying to remember my name "Ryuko" I smile at him "You?"
"Kirito" he responds shaking my hand. "I'll send you a friend request" I say going through my log screen and and sending him a friend request. He accepts it and smiles at me.After he accepts he shows up on my friends list and I notice that West, Lizzie and Sam are already on and are at the town square "I have some friends back at the town square, you can join us if you want" I say to him lifting my head up from my log screen "I would but I promised my sister that I wouldn't be on too much and help her with her kendo so I'm going to log out now"
I nod as he opens up his log screen and going to the menu "Bye" he say scrolling down "See ya" I say a little disappointed. He continues to scroll making it awkward until he asks "Uhh do you know where the log out button is?"
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The Girl with the Red Stripe
FanfictionRyuko is normal teenage girl that goes to high school. She wakes up in the morning she eats she goes to school then she games. The year is 2022 and Japan has created a device call the nerve gear which lets you play games in a virtual reality. Altho...