(On Hold) Sword Art Online: The Line Between Reality

World Of Swords

As the two words were spoken, Henrik's vision exploded into a multitude of different colors, almost as if he were staring at a rainbow. Many system checks zoomed into view, before quickly turning green and zooming back off the screen. A language option suddenly appeared in his vision. Henrik hesitated. While his first language was english, he had moved to Japan to take this job, which meant he had to rapidly learn japanese so he could actually communicate with its inhabitants. After a while of thought, Henrik chose english. Best to stick with what you know. The system immediately translated all japanese in the system to english, while converting in-game voices to english, through some highly confusing technology that Henrik did not care to know, and probably couldn't if he tried.

Eventually, a flash of bright blue invaded his vision, before it shattered into shards as it allowed Henrik to view the virtual world around him. It was overwhelming. Each building was perfectly framed and the street felt like real cobble, with dirt blowing calmly over the rustic floor. Everything indeed looked much more, medieval, than he expected it too. It didn't make it any less exciting.

Henrik had already created a rather simple character for the occasion, he wouldn't be here long after all, he had a job to do. Which is why Henrik put his username as an ordinary, but unique name; 'Hare'. This was his codename in the Japan Defence Force but, they wouldn't mind if he used it, would they? His character was an average height male, around 6'0" with shaggy brown hair and black eyes. His clothing was nothing special. It was just a plain blue long-sleeved shirt and black trousers and boots, the shirt held a flimsy steel chestplate to provide some sort of defense, albeit not much.

Before Hare could peer around the area more at anything unusual, a boy with midnight black hair that reached his shoulders ran past him, bumping Hare on the way, his sharp onyx eyes staring straight forward. That was until two shouts reached his ears, both from two people, but one significantly louder than the other.
"Hey, yo-WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING, IDIOT".
The second shout obviously came from Hare himself, but it seemed to completely bewilder the black eyed boy. He turned around in confusion before the brown haired boy stormed up to him and grabbed him, the black haired raising his hands up in shock and closed his eyes, braseing himself.

He did this for a few seconds, before a chuckle of laughter came from his right before a slighlty deep, but smooth voice, spoke to him.
"Okay, you can stop that now. You look like an weirdo, especially since I'm not even going to touch you".
The boy opened his onyx eyes only to see a brown haired boy standing there, a grin on his face, while another boy, maybe man, quickly ran over to them in a hurry.
"You look like you know your way around here", the man gestured to the surroundings, "you were in the beta test, weren't you?". The man spoke quickly, with the boy only muttering a yes. The red head cheered before placing a hand in the boy's shoulder, not noticing how uncomfortable he was "It's my first day here, and as I said you seem to know your way around, sooo... " His forefinger shot out at the obsidian haired boy, pointing right at him, while Hare only watched in amusement.
"I need you to help me! Please!". The boy seemed to not know how to respond, and seemed to still be in a state of suprise, which only increased as the red-haired man put his hands together and started begging before he introduced himself and pointed at his face,"My names Klein!".
The boy finally relented, as the man smiled in glee, before the boy introduced himself.
"I'm Kirito".
He smirked, until suddenly a voice surprised them both, as they coincidentally forgot about the boy who partly started all this.
"Now that that's over..." Hare put out his hand as he spoke.
"I'm Hare. I need your help like this dingbat over here." Hare gestured behind him at the red haired man, now known as 'Klein', who let out a "hey!" in response. The onyx eyed boy known as 'Kirito' nervously shook his hand, who noticed that the boy held a strong grip, increasing his worry further.
"So, your not going to, uh, hit me? ". The boy spoke as he scratched his head.
Hare only stared with a blank look, before he put Kirito's worries to bed.
"I already established that, though I guess I didn't partake in the conversation, huh?". Hare flashed a toothy smile, while Kirito announced his plan, with Klein still staring in slight shock at Hare's appearance.
"Right, first we need to train and kill some monsters to gain some EXP (experience points) so we can level up, all right?"
Klein nodded with a smile while Hare rolled his eyes and walked forward, holding a smirk and a quick wink as he spoke; "Hope I don't leave you guys in the dust, I'm not to keen on babysitting".