Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 18

Sinon slowly felt the soft bed sheets around her and at first thought she was back at her home after taking her nervegear off. She almost gave a sigh of relaxation as she moved around the bed but as she felt her body clad in her armor and with what felt like her bow and quiver next to her, she instantly knew where she was instead of her apartment.

She immediately sat up and looked all around her.

Her bed was at least two Kings size beds put together with lavish bed sheets and fluffy pillows. It had its over screen of silk to shut her off from any peeping toms around her bed and as she picked up her bow and quiver of arrows, she put them on her back as she slowly, ever slowly, crawled to the silk and parted them to look beyond.

Before her was a set of double doors of DarkSteel with the images of a heart for handles to pull on. A lavish dresser with mirror was placed towards the right as it sat silently with a small, plush stool for someone to sit on. On the left, there was what looked like an armor stand next to a large door that was made of glass that lead onto a balcony from the looks of it.

Suddenly, she heard the main, double-doors opened and she looked up as her tears perked up and she watched a girl, around her age, slowly appear and then close the doors behind her as she wore a elegant, red dress and red hair cascaded down her back as she had noticeably yellow eyes as she looked at Sinon.

"Princess, I see you are awake." she said as she gave a small bow.

She looked unarmed to Sinon as she slowly slid out from the bed and as she looked around the room some more, she saw outside and her stomach fell out at what she saw.

She was on what would be the fifth and highest point of the castle from what she could see as her portion was on the face of the keep itself. Below her was a huge courtyard with trees of bones and blood color as she couldn't see anything else down there for the moment. Past the inner wall with its towers, she looked down into a courtyard like the one in Kirito's castle but it was larger and her heartbeat seemed to stop as she could see the large army of dark-grey skeletons training down below with several commanders leading them as there as also several barracks that had been set up. Skeleton Archers were patrolling around as just beyond the castle there was both a huge arena and a large village.

"Are you alright, M'lady? You seem panicked." Sinon jumped at the girls voice as she watched two, vampire wings stretch out from the girls back.

"Stay back!" Sinons bow came up with a strung arrow as the arrow glowed with power.

The girl stopped as she shook her head as then suddenly she held her hand up and Sinons bow was wrenched from her hands and she watched as the bow and all of her arrows floated over to the girl in a glow of red as the girl sighed as she said, " Looks like the Prince has forgotten to disarm you..."

"Who are you?" asked Sinon as she backed herself in a corner.

"My lady, I am one of your Handmaidens, Sanginium... perhaps it is best of you to get into something more.. suitable to your new position from that armor of yours.." said Sanginium as she began to walk over towards a closet Sinon hadn't seen.

Sanginium opened the door and as Sinon managed to lean over and see what was inside, several dresses and clothes were hung up on frames as several boots, high-heels, and shoes were on the floor within it and as Sanginium looked around the closet for the right clothes, she then found one as Saginium then took out a white and green dress as she held it up to Sinon for her to see.

To Sinon, it looked like a very princess dress but it also looked like something that a warrior princess would wear. The skirt was short but long enough to cover her knees while the main body was a corset-like part of green. The sleeves were only long enough to cover her elbows and then stopped there. From there, the dress part ended as there was two vambraces for her forearms, a small breastplate, and what looked like a armored hood of iron cards for her to wear.