Railgun Online. Book 3, Phantom Bullet

GIRL!!! GIRL!!! Wait... GUY!?

"Raaarrrrrggggghhh!!!" The cries of the large plant monster rang through the bright sunny landscape of New Aincrad's lower floor..

"AIEEEE!!! DON'T LOOK DON'T LOOK!!!" Silica cried as she was lifted into the air upside-down by one of the monster's vines, causing her skirt to flip.

From down below, the hunting party that consisted of Klein, Lisbeth, Leafa, Touma and Mista stared with sweatdrops going down their foreheads.

"Eh..." Touma muttered. "She get's like this a lot doesn't she.."

"You have no idea." Lisbeth muttered, drawing her mace and shield. "Alright! Let's take it down!"

Everyone else nodded and drew their weapons, letting them glow as they activated their Skills. Ever since the unveiling of New Aincrad.. the old Sword Skills system had been reintroduced to the game as a way to appeal to new players, and give something new to old players, while also pleasing the number of SAO veterans who were playing. The skills may have been slightly different, but they were skills nonetheless.

A few slashes and hacks later, and the monster dropped Silica, who leapt away as her tamed small feathered dragon Pina swooped down and healed her with a bit of it's magic breath.

"You ready back there Kamijou!?" Said Klein. "We need a nice finishing hit!!"

"Right!" Touma held up a studded gauntlet with spikes growing out of the knuckles,  in one large burst of speed, he shot forward and rammed a punch right into the monster's venus flytrap head. The monster burst into polygons.. defeated..

Like Asuna, Touma was one of the few people who used his real name as his in game name, as he really didn't  think it mattered much whose name was who IRL or IG.  With the introduction of Sword Skills in the Aincrad patch of ALO, he had also become one of the first players who mainly used the much coveted extremely new  <<Hand To Hand Skill>> not called Martial Arts, because that was already an existing skill. This skill allowed one to perform Weapon Combat Skills of extremely high power without weapons, and even parry bare handed..  There was even a Vorpal Punch based off the Sword Skill <<Vorpal Strike>>.

Lisbeth had forged most of his armor, much like she did with Klein. He had a red chest plate, braces and shoulder pauldrons, and some red armored faultds and black boots and gloves.. and his secondary weapon other then his gauntlet was a long two handed sword.. one which he didn't use because he wasn't too decent as a swordsman.... not that Mikoto didn't often try to change that.."

"Well.. " said Silica, twiddling her fingers in slight embarrassment, her cat ears twitching. "That was something.."

"Where are those three by the way?" Leafa muttered. "Kirito usually has em all crying for mercy in an instant!"

"Where do you think?" said Lisbeth with a smile, pointing up at the top of a large grassy hill, where Kirito was sleeping next to Asuna, who was sitting and watching the sky with Yui resting on their held hands..

Kirito had changed his inventory since his first excursion into ALO, he now wore a long black coat with fur lining the high collar.. and he possessed a black one handed long sword.. one of Lisbeth's best works.

"Those two.." said Mista. "Honestly, they're always wandering off together. Lovebirds.." (Kuroko, the only one in this harem who has absolutely no romantic interest in Kirito XD )

"Where's Biribiri though?" said Touma. "Even when Kirito and Asuna wander off, she's usually the first one cutting into a monster with the possibility for a rare item drop.."

Klein frowned. "You just logged in.. almost forgot. She's over there.."

Klein pointed at a spot under a shady tree where Mikoto was sitting crosslegged, her eyes closed. She had also had a wardrobe change since her first time in ALO. her cat tail now had a cute black ribbon tied around the end.. her gold chest plate had a Ankh shape on the front. Her black sleeveless shirt had golden outlined highlights and her sides were exposed this time instead of her stomach.. she wore two long gold came down like a belted scarf and had black lightning bolts going down each rectangular fabric. she wore pitch black high knee socks, and black leather gloves that were cut off at the fingers and went all the way up to her elbows.