Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 6

When Sinon spawned back from her first match, she wasn't even smiling when she had won such an easy match against her opponent. He had been another all AGI-type run-and-gunner that didn't know how to use cover that well.

Basically, she thought to herself, another noob trying to hit the big leagues at being a pro player.

But as she looked up from where she was, she then watched just as Kommando293's match concluded and as she sighed and went to the table the two had been at, Kommando soon spawned as said, "Boy that was a good shot... blew his midsection in half for sure..."

He walked over to Sinon and as he sat down he suddenly laid down on the long seat as he looked up at the ceiling with his hands behind his head as he asked her, " So... what sort of opponent did you have?"

"Why?' she asked him. What was he trying to find out? If she was good? Her weakness's?

"Curious... my guy was a simple, balanced player, possibly had been leaning towards an AGI build..." said Kommando.

"You know.. for a pro player, you seem pretty laid back.." said Sinon.

"Well... I'm like that around my friends... its just natural to let your guard down when around those you know..." said Kommando. "So... what did you face up?"

Sinon looked at him before she sighed and said, "AGI-build Run-gun..."

"Ah... I was hoping to see one of those in the late rounds..." said Kommando when he then sat up.

"Sinon.. do.. do you know of any friends... who stopped playing VR after... sometime?" he then suddenly asked her.

She thought about her few friends and then shook her head. "No... I don't...."

He merely staid quiet and it made her wonder why he asked when she watched the screen show the next matches and as light shown around Kommando293, he said to her, "See you on the other side, I guess."

She nodded and then he was gone as she went to watching the screens. A sudden thought came to her as she realized that the only other person besides Kirito that she had been friends with in GGO was Shinkawa Kyouji, also known as Speigel in-game. She shuddered as she was thankful to be rid of him, especially after what he had tried to do to her in her apartment and especially since he had been with Laughing Coffin, a red-player Murder Guild from Kirito's SAO days.

She went back to watching the screen, as it came upon the map, "Rice Fields" and as she watched the match slowly begin, she wondered if she could trust Kommando more than her previous friend.

Kommando293 spawned in the middle of a rice paddy, he quickly got low as he began to slowly slosh his way through the water-submerged plants as then he stopped and brought up his rifle. He knew that regardless of being cloaked that the water would reveal his position regardless. But as he looked around the rather open fields of rice paddies he then got even lower as he half-swam half crawled through the water and as he kept his rifle up as he tried to see his opponent.

But as he looked around, he noticed that the fields were near a small village of huts and as he looked towards them, the place reminded him of none other than Vietnam.

And then he saw movement and as he stopped, he put every bit of his focus into his senses and as he froze in the cold water, he then heard the sloshing of feet as his opponent was just ahead of him near the village and as he opened his eyes, he saw that the berm that kept the water in the rice paddy was blocking his vision and as he slipped his rifle over his shoulder, he took up his bow and stood as he drew back a arrow at the same time and as he watched his opponent suddenly see him and bring up his assault rifle, Kommando293 released his arrow and as the gauss accelerators gave of a sudden loud btew! as it accelerated the arrow to Mach 7, he watched as his opponent was torn in half by the shot and as Kommando293 watched his victory appear, he put down his bow as he rolled his shoulders before sighing as he had hoped that would have been a longer match but he figured having some powerful weapons of new variety would often times take players off guard.