Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 1

Sinon watched the Wastelands through the scope of her Hectate 2 as she was positioned on a high bluff that overlooked a small, burned out section of the city. Her scarf was wrapped around her and she wore her normal GGO clothing with an attached energy shield on her belt next to her spare .50 cal ammo.

The sands was whipping her cyan colored hair around as her face was hardened and as she slowly moved her rifle to the left, she saw nothing out in the open of the Wasteland as the sun was slowly setting once again. She had been laying there for about two full game hours now and as she looked around, she was disappointed that she hadn't seen even a single player out here randomly walking around or fighting someone else.

She sighed and as she slowly got into a crouch, she looked around before she went to her teleport crystal.

"Teleport to City."

And then in a blinding flash of light, she was in the City, as some players commonly called it. It was massive, having multiple levels that created a Elite Level, the Common Level, and the Underworld that was way down below and filled with some of the more sleezy and more nefarious players in the GGO servers.

As she looked around the portal pad she was on, she then began to walk from the pad as her sniper rifle was already returned to her inventory along with the rest of her weapons and gear. She slowly walked along the sidewalk as she was walking to her usual game bar that she used to meet her squad and also see what news have been going on in the GGO world.

She walked past talking players and whispering groups and as she looked at the game bar, she slowly walked in as she looked around. It was a interior full of lights and LED strips of various colors, but mostly purple, as several screens had been spread out across the large bar and as she slowly walked to a table and sat down, she was about to get herself a drink when suddenly she heard someone say, "Look.. its the Stalker again..."

She stopped as she turned to see three players in various gear looking at a TV and she looked at the screen as she saw movement flashing along with the flashes of gunfire.

"I hear he's called the Bow Hunter.. and the Waste Stalker..." said another player as he pointed to something flashing on the screen. "I mean, besides the rifle and sword, that's one of his main weapons and it powerful for a bow!"

"I wonder how there is even a bow in a game... of course, this is on the American server so he may have either glitched it or somehow made one." said the third player.

"I dunno.. He has his own forums over there and I managed to catch him once." said the first player.

Sinon, who never really cared about these sort of things, was surprised when a player she knew from her squad walked over and said, "Hey, Sinon. Still looking for something to happen out there?"

"What's with those three?" she asked, although she didn't really care.

"The Stalker? Legendary American GGO player? Can't blame them for being awestruck." said the man as he sat across from her.

"Legendary? With a glitched weapon?" asked Sinon.

"Actually, it's not."

This brought the attention of the trio, who looked at the player and the second asked, "What do you mean?"

"I met him once in the American GGO server. He told me that he and one of the devs had actually come up with it. Its called a "Gauss Longbow", which gives him the name of Void Bow.. and the Predator..." said the player before he looked to Sinon. "You might find him a challenge for once."

"I doubt it... a bow can't beat my rifle." she said as she bought her drink and took a sip.

"Its got some impressive range... Apparently, its range goes about 2,000 meters before dropping off..." said the player. "And that's not even counting his other weapons.."