Romance Arts ~Sword Arts Online

Master Of Darkness

Inside the brown colored stone filled round plaza, thousands of players stood around the tall solo bell tower,  the bell tolled as the blue colored sky turned red with the word announcement, blood came through the cracks of the announcement windows,  they turned into a black robed game master,  he didn't show his face as he began to speak to the crowd of people.

The Game Master : welcome to SAO. I'm Riku Saker, I created this world, as some of you may have noticed you can't log off. It isn't a bug,  it is apart of the game,  for I've made it so, the only way out is to go to the final level boss and kill them. You still can respawn if you die, however, for those that have difference looks in real life to the avatars you made,  your real life self will turn into it. All the players looked shocked as the master continued to speak. I've given you money to start off and an item, I'll be watching all of you. Good luck and Goodbye. He vanished, and the other players screamed at each other and ran around. As for Winnie, he left the plaza alone but was stopped by Lyra and her group,  she invited him to her party and it was love at first sight if you asked Aleena and John. They all went to an item shop for weapons and healing items,  there they met Sean,  Paul,  Ringo,  and Dhani, his avatar looked like George but he told them that he did that out of honor of his father and since that is how he really looked that way in real life, he wouldn't change. Sean was shocked that his dad was here for he died when Sean was five, he stared at John with love and confusion.

Meanwhile, Lyra and Winnie were getting to each other better, Aleena watched happily from the shadows but something in the air felt weird, that something else was about to unfold.