1st place winner of the Romance 2015 Pokemon Watty Awards --- "Falling in love only can bring pain. Love can only be stolen from you right as you realize it. Or maybe right before." She was fifteen and a kid-genius. She was fifteen and living a life no child should, but so many do. She was fifteen when the accident happened. Her life would never be the same. Leaf Verde was a fifteen year old girl when she hacked her Pokémon Red game and fell across a failsafe. One that took her into the game. Once inside the virtual world, Leaf Verde is ordered to clean up the mess she made. All of the imported hacks. She will embark on a journey that she never could've imagined back when she sliced through codes in her room all alone. It wasn't too long until she found herself falling for the fictional world of numbers. But as destruction encroaches and the truth is revealed, nothing will ever be the same. The feelings the girl held for the world, Can and will be used against her. "And I was too late to save him, too late to realize."

Chronicled from the point of view of its leader, a minor guild becomes trapped in the virtual reality MMO Sword Art Online and is faced with the insurmountable challenge of fighting its way out of the game and into reality. The guild is called The Mayans and consists of four core members: Dakota, Izak, Rianna, and Jada. The four meet many friends and overcome countless challenges while working toward their goal of achieving freedom from the game turned nightmare. Will they all survive the death game, or is their fate to sacrifice themselves in a noble attempt to escape from the clutches of Akihiko Kayaba?