Crossover Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online: Hollow Fragment ❯ Errors Filled End and a New Journey ( Chapter 1 )

If you are reading this, then you are in the ‘spin off’ to my Sailor Moon Online story, Sailor Moon/Sword Art Online crossover, based on the video game of Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment, giving an AU events of Sword Art Online universe starting with different version of events of the Floor 75 Boss room and which I have been following on YouTube and whatnot, giving me a good idea on the events of the game. So, if you want to know what’s going on, you have to read Sailor Moon Online until chapter 7 in which where this story takes an AU turn from that story, folks.

I DO NOT OWN Sailor Moon, Sword Art Online, Accel World, Digimon series, and anything/anyone that comes from these and other stories that end up in this fanfiction! Sailor Moon is owned/licensed by Naoko Takeuchi and its various studios and publishers and Sword Art Online is owned/licensed by ASCII Media Works, A-1 Pictures Inc., and its various directors/publishers including Reki Kawahara and Tomohiko Itô!

Warning: This story contains intense violence, blood, possible gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including mind-control and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and mature adult themes/situations!

Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in this whole story!

Sailor Moon Online: Hollow Fragment

Chapter 1: Errors Filled End and a New Journey

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“How long has it been since I’ve been here? About two years, but it is hard to keep track of time despite the ‘internal clock’ that we can call up. Anyway, my name is Serena Tsukino, but I also known by another name: Sailor Moon. Yep! I’m the world famous soldier of love and justice! Just don’t go blabbing it out, okay? I’m going to get it by Pyro once she finds out when I come back. What am I talking about? Well, currently, I’m trapped in a virtual prison known as Sword Art Online. Sword Art Online. It was supposed to be the first VRMMO for the NervGear, the first mass produced and full function Full-Dive virtual reality system in which a human being can ‘dive’ into virtual reality. It was really awesome and I easily managed to get one of the ten thousand limited copies! How? Well, I am the niece of the creator, Akihiko Kayaba, the guy who developed the NervGear itself!

Before all of this, he was the most awesome uncle ever! He always called me his ‘little princess’ and he let me behind the scenes. And in fact, I was the first one to Full-Dive using the first completed NervGear ever! Awesome! I remembered those times well. My uncle was like a second father to me. He seemed so gentle and kind like he couldn’t ever hurt a fly. But then on THAT day… that horrible day, it all changed and I learned the deep horrible truth about my uncle and the dangerous nature that he had hidden away from the world even from my family and I.

November 6, 2022. It is a day that haunts my nightmares. It was the day that Sword Art Online officially starts and I had gotten one of the limited ten thousand hard copies. My brother, Sammy, was a former beta tester of Sword Art Online, but he wasn’t joining me on the official version that day since he had a doctor’s appointment and couldn’t be around for the start. He had bragged about beta testing the game and I had joked around in which I said that I would beat the official game when he and the other beta testers couldn’t. Little did I know, I would never see him, my mom, my dad, my beloved friends and Sailor Scouts, and my wonderful prince… My Darien-kun for these two long years.

I logged into Sword Art Online and given my avatar name of Usagi in which I started to venture out and despite the bits of knowledge that I had gotten from seeing the development and talking over with my brother, I was still a noob to the game, but I was probably doing better than most new players. When it got late, I wanted to log out of the game only to find the log out button missing! What was going here? Is this bug? No way! My uncle is excellent with his work! He would never let anything like a log out glitch, which is a big glitch, happen, but I would learn that it was no glitch. All of the players, minus me, were teleported into the square of the Town of Beginnings or Starting City as it is also called. I was teleported into a nearby inn. When I got out to a porch, a massive GM avatar appears and my Uncle Kayaba’s voice comes from it! I wanted to scream out, but a terrible dread made me unable to and what happened horrified me to the core.

Uncle Kayaba, in the GM form, explained that lack of a log out button wasn’t a glitch! No log out button WASN’T a glitch! He said that it was exactly how Sword Art Online was made! I had hoped and prayed that my uncle was kidding or this was some kind of big gag, but it wasn’t. This horrible act wasn’t a gag. And what was worse, he said that any attempt to remove the NervGear from our hands will activate a ‘kill switch’ in which the safeties are disbanded and microwave emitters of the NervGear will fry our brains in which two-hundred and thirteen players were already dead from family and friends attempting to remove the NervGear from them! And not only that, if any of us die in the game, our avatar is deleted and the NervGear will fry our brains anyway! And also, there is only way to escape and that’s by clearing the game! A game that the beta testers may or may not have gotten to one-tenth of the way during the whole SAO beta tests! I couldn’t believe that this was happening! How? How could he do this?!

To show his point that this is our new reality, he forced our avatars to look exactly like what we did in real life and then he explained that his only goal was to create a world of his own design and that he could control! That’s insane! Complete and absolute insanity! I don’t think that any of my enemies as Sailor Moon were this level of nuts! I was in complete disbelief and I knew that I was trapped! I mentally screamed for my family, my friends, and Darien to help me… save me from this nightmare. All I wanted for this to be a nightmare and I wake up with my kindly uncle, my loving family with bratty brother, my best girlfriends and sisters, and the love of my family, but it wasn’t a nightmare. It was real despite me being in a virtual reality. My uncle had committed an unbelievable evil and now, I, along with the remaining ten thousand players, were trapped in a virtual world with no way home. And I had no one and I was completely alone.

For the first three days, I lingered like a zombie or something. I don’t know get why he did this, but I knew that my… Kayaba wasn’t kidding about dying for real if you die in the game. From what Ami-chan said about that NervGear, I knew that what he said was true. The NervGear could kill a person is the safeties were removed and that meant if you died in the game, you die in real life. I had hoped that Ami and Trista could break the NervGear’s and the game’s hold on us, but I knew better. Ami had the ‘wisdom of Mercury’ on her side, but it doesn’t mean that she can’t be stumped and Kayaba was that rare one in a million genius that can and did stump Ami-chan. I felt all alone… powerless and helpless. However, Darien and the others managed to reach me through my real body back home. I could feel them and somehow, I saw them with the ‘real me’. They begging and shouting at me not to give up and praying from my return home. Then I knew I couldn’t stand around! I was freaking Sailor Moon! The champion of love and justice! I had gotten against the most horrible odds that the universe threw at me and I managed to beat them! I can’t let this beat me! My determined renewed, I spent the last of Cor, the money for SAO, on items and equipment and rushed out into the world, but it wasn’t just to survive. No, I had to find out the truth about why Kayaba did what he did and if necessary, I have to stop him once and for all.

Well, easier said than done. During the first month alone, two thousand people died. Two thousand! It was horrible and I knew every one of them was blood on Kayaba’s hands. I did the best that I could to save as many players as possible, but I couldn’t save them all. I kept pumping up my level and stats to become strong enough to protect the surviving players as best as I could while finding a way home for all of us. One day, I saved a female player who collapsed from exhausted and handed her to another player that managed to come in. What I didn’t know is that they would become two of my best friends in here for the around two years stuck in this virtual nightmare. I met them later on when they came upon me taking on the boss of the first floor by myself. Why was I doing that? Well… I kind of actually stumbled into the boss room and I didn’t know that I could retreat because I thought that like bosses of other games, you couldn’t retreat from a boss fight. *sweat drop* It was a miracle that I had survived enough for the improvised boss raid group to arrive. After the horrible battle where good people die, including the leader of the group, Diavel, a former beta tester, things seemed to get worse when the players learned that I was the niece of the madman that trapped us in here.

A jerk named Kibaou tried to turn the players against me and the other beta testers, but that guy that helped me that exhausted female player to safety, Kirito, another former beta tester who knew my brother during the beta test, did his best to turn the player’s hatred towards himself and making himself get the label ‘beater’ which is a combination of beta tester and cheater, which meant a beta tester that kept vital information for his or her own selfish benefit, but that’s exactly the opposite of what Kirito is. I, the female player that I helped save, Asuna, and another guy, a large axe-welder named Agil, realized the truth and also made a ‘plea’ to my ‘case’ with the other players. In the end, a lot of the other players believe that I was more of a victim of Kayaba’s ‘madness’ like the rest of them through there are those that still hate me just because I’m related to Kayaba much like that Kibaou jerk and I would have plenty of other enemies that wouldn’t like me for other reasons. Lucky me.

Afterwards, Kirito and I put each other in friends’ list since we ‘outsiders’ would be best to stick together and that was my first of the few precious friendships in SAO. Later on, I befriended Agil, who would be a well-known merchant, Lisbeth, a blacksmith, Silica, a young ‘beast-tamer’ and her Feather Dragon, Pina, Argo, another former beta tester like Kirito and ‘information broker’, giving information expect information on beta testers for the right price giving her the name ‘The Rat’, Klein, leader of a guild of top players and he is also Kirito’s best friend other than myself in SAO, and finally, most of all, there was Asuna, the girl that I saved in the first floor dungeon. Over time, the three of us, Kirito, Asuna, and I, would become famous in SAO. Kirito, the infamous ‘beater’ also known as the Black Swordsman, Asuna would become known as Asuna the Flash, due to her lightning quick rapier attacks, and I was known as the ‘Valkyrie of Mercy’ or simply, the ‘White Valkyrie’ because I would work my butt off saving as many players as possible and I had a unique skill known as Medic, which gives a powerful Battle Healing skill more than other players and the ability to transfer that ability to allow them to recover their HP and save their lives.

Other than my friends in SAO, very few know my player name. Why? It is because of those jerks like Kibaou. Just because I’m Kayaba’s niece, they need an ‘outlet’ for that rage and I’m their target since Kayaba isn’t around or so we thought at the time. And they would do anything to get their hands on me. I couldn’t risk any one’s lives for that so I kept my player name a secret and used a special cloak that I had gained from a rare one-time quest on the first floor to hide my face. There are also ‘criminal players’ also known as ‘orange’, due the player cursor turning orange if you commit a crime against another player in SAO, or ‘red players’ in which red players have same orange cursors as ‘orange players’, but there is permanent for one thing and they are Player Killers. Let’s just say that I’m a real ‘thorn’ in their side and they would love to get rid of me.
However, despite the majority of the players being on my side, even though it is stupid, I am still a living reminder of our imprisonment by Kayaba and it made things ‘awkward’ despite them greatly respecting me. I knew this and I didn’t want to cause any more pain to the other players as Kayaba already did to them, so, I decided to remain a solo player much like Kirito… until he got forced into the Knights of the Blood, a powerful assault team guild led by one of the strongest players in the game other than myself, Kirito, and Asuna: Heathcliff, who had a unique sword skill, Divine Blade. Heathcliff always seemed to concern me despite him being a noble guy and I felt that I knew him from somewhere. I always had a bad feeling about him and I was right especially when Kirito dueled him and he somehow moved faster than the system allowed. Now, I knew that there was something wrong with that guy and I learned how much soon enough. When the seventh-five boss was defeated, where fourteen players died, Heathcliff was exposed as my uncle, Akihiko Kayaba!

Now, exposed, Kayaba planned to wait for us at the final floor, but he had decided to give Kirito a ‘reward’: A chance to end the game by fighting him and if he won, the game is over. However, I knew that Kirito didn’t stand a chance since it was my uncle that created the Duel Welding Skill, a special unique sword skill that Kirito had that allows the player to use two swords and two sword ‘special attacks’, and its combos. I had used a GM console that I found in a special dungeon on the first floor and special privileges that my account allowed me to use to get over there and protect Kirito and Asuna though it took my body in the process and I nearly died in the process. Whoops! However, thanks to my friends, the Scouts, giving me their strength, I had overcome the system and I was back on my feet, but… *sweating nervously*, I also kind of unconsciously and somehow transformed into Sailor Moon, basically revealing my ‘double life’ to my two best friends in SAO and a large group of other top players! Yipe! Pyro is so going to kill me, if I survive SAO, once I get back home and she hears about this.

However, I don’t have time to worry about that right now. Right now, I was face to face with the uncle that betrayed me in all sorts of ways and fashions. An uncle that I used to love like a second father and who I thought could do no wrong. Well, not anymore. I’ve realized what kind of heartless man that he truly is now and I plan to stop him once and for all and make him pain for all the deaths that he caused and all the pain and misery that he gave us all just for his stupid ‘death game’. I had gained control over the system and using the power of my Silver Crystal to lock him out for the moment though I can’t get us back home, in which Kayaba made sure that not even he can get us home, created my own version of Dark Repulser, a sword that Liz made for Kirito, and now, I was prepared to make the madman that my uncle… No, Kayaba is get his long overdue justice…”

November 7, 2024, Sword Art Online/Aincard, Floor 75 Boss Room

Right now, we find ourselves within the boss room of Floor 75 of Aincard, the setting for the virtual world of the ‘death game’ Sword Art Online, where we see Sailor Moon facing off against Heathcliff, now exposed to be her uncle and the person that trapped them in this world, Akihiko Kayaba, gripping her two swords, Elucidator and her Dark Repulser, with Dark Repulser generated through her new GM-like ‘abilities’, while Kirito, Asuna, Klein, and the other survivors of the boss monster raid watches in which Sailor Moon has just turned the pain absorbed down to minimum levels.

Kirito yells out, shocked, “Shit! I think that she just took a blow to the head!”

Asuna asks, “What’s wrong?”

Kirito says, “The pain absorber is what limits pain signals are sent to our brain when our avatars are damaged. If set to minimum levels, our real bodies could suffer real damage because the brain is being fooled that we are getting injured!”

Klein says, stunned, “You’re kidding!”

Heathcliff tells Sailor Moon, “Very bold and completely unlike you, my dear.”

Sailor Moon responds, her virtual face wet from her virtual tears, “You can thank yourself for that. For two long years, I’ve shed these tears for all of the innocent people that you murdered for the sake of your stupid game! All those good people… all those lost lives… their lost futures… I can… I can… I CAN NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!!” Sailor Moon, completely out of character, charges at Heathcliff and strikes him with a heavy blow with her new Dark Repulser and Heathcliff blocks with his shield, but the force was so powerful, Heathcliff roars out as he is flung into the wall which greatly cracks from the impact and the words ‘Immortal Object’ appear in violet windows, but they then shatter as quickly as they come. Heathcliff regains his focus in time in order to avoid a side slash from Sailor Moon using her Elucidator which cut a huge trench into the virtual stone wall causing more violet windows with the words ‘Immortal Object’ to shatter.

Heathcliff is also amazed and he asks, “So, is this power what I see before me the power that you possess? Is this the power of your Imperium Silver Crystal?”

Sailor Moon says, “You should worry about yourself, murderer!” Once again, going completely out of character, Sailor Moon unleashes a barrage with her two swords, using the same Duel Welding Skill that Kirito has due to her Mimic skill, but unlike with Kirito and Heathcliff just moments ago, Sailor Moon combines it with powerful kicks in which she lands a powerful kick to Heathcliff sending him into the ground. Heathcliff rolls and leaps to his feet only to get cut in the face four times by Sailor Moon’s Linear causing his health to drop a little as well as causing him to stumble. Sailor Moon follows that up with a knee thrust that slams into Heathcliff’s shield, but the force is so strong that it sends Heathcliff skidding back a bit.

Heathcliff says, “This strength… it isn’t just yours, is it?”

Sailor Moon says, “No! It’s the strength of the man that I love and my best friends who are waiting for me back home! You can’t win!”

Heathcliff says, “We are going to have to see about that, my dear.” Heathcliff attacks Sailor Moon in which she blocks Heathcliff’s sword with her sword, but she takes a powerful blow from Heathcliff’s shield and knocking her to the ground, however, Sailor Moon turns the tables with a spin kick that sweeps Heathcliff off and his feet and down to the ground in which Sailor Moon rolls backwards and away from her opponent before she leaps to her feet.

Sailor Moon says, “This is the mighty Heathcliff, huh? What a joke if you ask me. Stay down.”

Heathcliff gets to his feet and he says, “If you are trying to insult me, it isn’t working.”

Sailor Moon says, with tears of anger in her eyes, “Insult? I wouldn’t go low as you did, Kayaba. All this for a stupid game! A fucking game! I thought that I knew you, but it looks like I never knew you at all. And now, I see you for what you truly are. A rotten control freak! You had it all and you had to throw it all away from a stupid worthless game that you wanted to control! But seeing you as you are now, I can believe it. The only way that you can keep people in your world is for you to imprison them in it, but then again, this world is empty and worthless much like you are.” Heathcliff’s eyebrow twitches and he doesn’t respond at all instead he attacks Sailor Moon with more fierceness than before through he doesn’t show it in his expression.

Klein says, “Wow. I never that she was such a gifted speaker.”

Agil says, “Doesn’t seem to have affected a guy like him.”

Kirito says, “You’re wrong, Agil. She just struck him right at the core.” Everyone looks at Kirito and he says, “She just hit Kayaba right where it hurt and it hurt him even more because his own formerly beloved niece just said it to his face. Personally, he deserved every single word especially what he did to Usagi.”

Klein says, “You got that right. Anyway, let’s get in there!”

Kirito says, “No, Klein. This is her fight and her fight alone.”

Asuna says, stunned, “Kirito!”

Kirito says, “I don’t want her to die and I know that she won’t die. However, this battle is personal to her. I can tell. She has been suppressing the core of her pain, grief, sorrow, and her anger with her determination for two long years and now, she is letting Kayaba have right now.” As the other players look on as Kayaba and Sailor Moon continue to fight, the duel turns into more of an all-out brawl with Sailor Moon combining Duel Welding with martial arts kicks, punches, and throws in which she is somehow using the ‘strength’ and combat knowledge of her fellow Sailor Scouts to fight against her formerly beloved uncle while Heathcliff manages to use his Divine Blade Skill to barely hold on against Sailor Moon’s assault, nicking her at multiple points in the fight, causing her to winch in pain since the Pain Absorbers at a minimum levels, and showing that he can use unarmed combat with punches to the gut and a punch to Sailor Moon’s face at another point. But neither Sailor Moon or Kayaba back down at all as they continue to give it their all with Kayaba having an impassive and cool expression and Sailor Moon having a completely out of character deadly determined expression on her face.

Asuna thinks in her mind, “Usagi, please…” Kirito was about to say something, but then something strange happened in which Kayaba is preparing to strike Sailor Moon, however, his body starts to ‘glitch’ and starts to look like static when a television is suffering from poor signal and then time seems to freeze as a big ‘tear’ forms in the fabric in the form of the virtual world.

However, only Sailor Moon, who is just as frozen as everyone else, thinks in her mind, “What’s going on?” However, she doesn’t have time to think about as everything seems to return to normal and Sailor Moon goes onto the attack in which Heathcliff seems to now be hard pressed to defend himself in which Sailor Moon notices her strikes causes Heathcliff’s form to become more ‘static-like’ and she thinks, “Wait! What’s going on with him?” However, the need to defeat him and end this ‘nightmare’ overpowers this thought and her assault manages to ‘break open’ Heathcliff’s defenses and seeing her chance, Sailor Moon impales Heathcliff with her Dark Repulser, but then another ‘rip’ in the virtual world surrounds the two of them and Heathcliff seems to vanish! Sailor Moon’s form becomes a bit static-like for a brief second and she asks, stunned, “Did… Did I just win?”

Kirito shouts out, “Usagi!” Sailor Moon turns to face Kirito, Asuna, and Klein, who comes over.

Asuna says, “Usagi-chan, you did it! You won!”

Klein says, excitedly, “Way to go, girlfriend! That was awesome! You just won!”

Sailor Moon says, “Yeah…”

Klein says, “Hey, girl! Come on! Don’t get excited all at once! You just defeated the last boss! You won the game!”

Kirito tells Klein, “Klein, you just realized that she just killed her own uncle, right?”

Klein responds, nervously, “Oh, yeah.”

Sailor Moon thinks in her mind, looking at the two swords in her hands, “Did I really do it? Did I really defeat Kayaba?”

One of the other players asks, “Did we really do it?”

Another player says, “The game is finally cleared!”

A third player roars out, “How is that so surprising? The White Valkyrie is Sailor Moon after all! The champion of love and justice! Duh!”

A fourth player shouts out, “It’s over! We won! We survived and the White Valkyrie just beat the final boss!”

A fifth player yells out, “We’re finally free!”

As the players start to cheer, Sailor Moon says, looking deep in thought which is completely out of character for her, “No… No, something is wrong.”

Everyone looks at her and Klein asks, “What do you mean?”

Sailor Moon asks, “If this is the end of the game, shouldn’t there be some kind of ‘system announcement’ that tells all of the players that the game has just been cleared?” There are quite a few gasps and plenty of wide-eyed players as they listen for the announcement that Sailor Moon mention, but all they hear is silence.

Klein asks, “Aren’t you overthinking it?”

Kirito says, seriously, “I don’t think so. If anything, we should be started to logged out by now. Kayaba said himself that if we defeated him, we would be released from the game. Usagi… Sailor Moon just beat him, so, we should be leaving the game right now… All of us that survived up to this point, but nothing are happening.”

Asuna says, with a nod, “You’re right, Kirito-kun. I have a bad feeling.”

Klein asks, confused, “What’s going on here? Why hasn’t it ended?”

Kirito says, “It should have ended. Despite the heartless villain that he is, Kayaba had some kind of sense of honor and I could see it in his eyes that he wouldn’t lie like this.”

Sailor Moon asks, “How can you be so sure, Kirito?”

Kirito says, “He had some kind of weird sense of honor, Usagi. If he didn’t, why would he give me the chance to end the game so early? And in fact, he could have frozen me too and killed all of us to keep his secret. Yet, he allowed himself to be exposed and planned to just trap us to allow himself time to get to the top floor of Aincard.”

Sailor Moon says, with a nod, “You have a good point, Kirito.”

Klein asks, nervously, “Kirito, what should we do now?”

Kirito says, “I’m in the dark as you are, Klein. The game is continuing and it shouldn’t be. We, all, saw Usagi… Sailor Moon struck the final blow.”

Sailor Moon says, “But there was something off about him during the final part of the fight.”

Everyone looks at Sailor Moon and Asuna asks, “Off?”

Sailor Moon says, with a nod, “During the final part of the fight, all of us were frozen, including him, and the game seems to be ‘glitching’ including him.”

Kirito asks, “Glitching?”

Sailor Moon says, with a nod, “At some points, he became all ‘static-like’ like… like when there is no good signal on a television and when I hit him, it seemed like my hits pass through his body.”

Kirito asks, “Are you sure?”

Sailor Moon responds, nodding her head, “Yeah. I could see it, but I was so focused on beating him, I didn’t give it any mind until now.”

Kirito thinks in his mind, “Is it possible that the game is… malfunctioning? It can’t seem possible since it was run flawlessly without a hitch for two years now, but based on what Usagi just said, it seems like there was just a ‘glitch’ in the game during her fight with Heathcliff.”

Klein asks, “Hey, Kirito, what do we do now?”

Kirito says, “I’m not sure. For some reason, the game is still continuing despite Sailor Moon’s… Usagi’s victory over Kayaba.”

Asuna asks, concerned, “So, we still have to fight?”

Klein asks, stunned, “Hey, are you kidding me?”

Agil, a tall man of African American descent, shouts out, “Kirito, a door just opened!”

Kirito says, “The door to the next floor…”

Sailor Moon asks, “What do you think that we should do Kirito?”

Kirito responds, “What can we do?”

Agil asks, “What do you want to do?”

Asuna asks, “Kirito-kun?”

Klein says, “Hey, Kirito…”

Kirito says, “I think that we need to move on.”

Sailor Moon says, with a nod, “I agree. I believe… I know that our answers are at the top of Aincard. We can’t do a darn just by standing around here. We need to find out what’s going on.”

Kirito says, with a nod, “You’re right, Usagi.”

Sailor Moon goes over to the other players, who are confused as why the game hasn’t end due to Sailor Moon’s victory over Heathcliff, and she yells out, “Everyone!” When everyone looks at Sailor Moon, she says, “I know that you are confused and scared on why we haven’t been freed since I beat Kayaba. I don’t understand it myself. Something is going on here. Something really weird and standing here isn’t going to help us. I want to go home and restart the life that my own uncle took from me with the people that I love most and I also want to get all of you home too. While there are plenty of you that might disagree, it is a member of my family that has caused us all this suffering for the past two years and locked us in their virtual prison and I intend to take the responsibility of getting as many of you home as possible. You’ve known me as the White Valkyrie and I’ve helped a lot of players as best as I could. Now, please, I need for you to trust me, okay?” The other players look at each other and for them, it was a given. Not just because she is Sailor Moon, but what she did or tried to do for them over the past two years as built plenty of respect and admiration for her. The players nod their heads in agreement and Sailor Moon says, with a smile, “Thank you for your trust. Something has gone ‘wacky’ in the game and we can’t just stand here. We need to find a place to regroup and figure out what’s going on. We have to get to the next floor and get into town. It will be a safe area and there, all of us can try to figure out something.”

Kirito says, “Good idea, Usagi. We need time rest, regroup, and think.”

Asuna says, with a smile, “I agree.” Klein and Agil nod their heads and all of them head off to get to the next floor.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“I’m glad that the other players trust me, but I wouldn’t blame them if they didn’t since… you know. Well, the members of the boss raid force made from the members of the assault team, the few hundred of surviving six thousand players that go into the upper floors and clear the game including yours truly, which survived that horrible battle with the Skull Reaper followed Kirito and I into Floor Seventy-Six in which then things got even more weird even for this game…”

November 7, 2024, Floor 76, Grassy Field

Kirito, Asuna, Sailor Moon, and the survivor of the boss raid force for the Skull Reaper are looking around the grassy field of Floor 76 as they prepare to head for the main city of this floor.

Klein says, with a sigh, “So, this is floor seventy-six, huh? I was hoping that we could log out if we just went up the stairs.”

Sailor Moon says, “I don’t think that it would be that easy, Klein.”

Klein nods his head, opens his player menu, and he asks, confused, “Huh? What’s this?”

Kirito asks, “What’s wrong, Klein?”

Klein asks, “Somehow the characters of my items have become corrupted. What’s going on?” Immediately, Sailor Moon and Kirito open up their player menus and look at their items.

Sailor Moon says, “Mine too! Many of my items have become messed up.”

Kirito says, “Same here Usagi.”

Asuna says, looking at her player menu, “Kirito-kun! Usagi! It’s not just the items that have become strange! Look at our skills!”
Klein asks, “What’s this? What happened to my skill data?”

Kirito says, “Some of my skills are lost too.”

Sailor Moon says, “I’ve lost a good chuck of skill data too.” Sailor Moon asks, “What the heck is going on?”

Asuna says, “Some of the skills have vanished, but our levels seem to be okay.”

Sailor Moon says, looking over her player menu, “Not mine. Something weird has happened to my data. It puts my level… Whoa! Fifty levels higher than it should be?!”

There are multiple gasps and Klein asks, shocked, “What?”

Kirito asks, “Are you sure?”

Sailor Moon says, with a nod, “My level should be close to around yours and Asuna’s, Kirito! But it is saying that I’m fifty levels about what I should be… Hold on! What’s this? There is a new button on my menu.”

Asuna asks, “A new button?”

Sailor Moon says, nodding her head, “It says ‘Henshin’? That means ‘transformation’.” Sailor Moon pushes the button and a menu prompt comes up saying ‘Release Henshin’ with a yes and no buttons in which Sailor Moon pushes the ‘yes’ button in which she yelps as she glows and transforms back into Usagi including her hooded cape in which the hood is down to show her face.

Asuna yells out, surprised, “Usagi, you changed back!”

Usagi responds, “I did?” Usagi looks over herself and she says, “I did!” She then feels something in her hand and she looks to find her Eternal Transformation broach in which she asks, “My broach? But how?” Usagi says, “Okay, this is getting weird for even this game!” Usagi looks over her player menu and she says, “Well, other than my skill data being all funky still, it seems like my level, health, and stats has returned back to where it should be.”

Kirito says, “It seems like when you transform into Sailor Moon, you get a big power boost.”

Klein says, “This is all really strange.”

Agil yells out, “Kirito, there is something wrong with teleport crystals!”

Everyone looks at Agil, Usagi asks, “What’s wrong?”

Agil responds, “Usagi, we can’t seem to teleport down to the lower floors.”

Usagi asks, “Huh?” Usagi then takes out a teleport crystal that she has in her outfit and she says, “Teleport: Lindarth!” However, nothing happens at all and she asks, confused, “What’s going on here?”

Asuna asks, “Usagi… Kirito-kun, what should we do now?”

Kirito says, “We can’t stay here. The game has become unstable and we can’t back to the lower floors.”

Usagi says, with a nod, “We need to get to the main town in this floor and into the safe zone.”

Kirito says, nodding his head in agreement, “Right, Usagi.” Kirito shouts out, “Everyone, we need to get into the main town of this floor and into the safe zone! The game has become unstable and we need get to safety before something lethal happens!”

The other players nod their heads in agreement and Asuna says, “You’re right, Kirito-kun. Our goal is to clear SAO and get back home!” Asuna says, to everyone, “Let’s go everyone!” The other players cheer and nod their heads in agreement in which they press onto the main town of floor 76.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“Asuna was a born leader! It isn’t surprising that she is second in command of the Knights of the Blood Oath… Well, she is actually the commander now since Heathcliff was actually Kayaba and… he is now missing in action. Doesn’t that also mean that Kirito’s membership into the Knights of the Blood is void since Heathcliff cheated in that duel? Personally, I think the answer is yes, but that’s not important right now. Anyway, with the system as it is, I was also afraid of using my GM ‘abilities’ that I had gained during my battle with Heathcliff if I had still had them I thought, but I wanted to make sure that the pain absorbers were back to normal. I found that I did have my ‘special privileges’, though they might have been a bit ‘spotty’, and I reset the pain absorber back to maximum. However, Kirito and I agreed that because the game was so ‘wacky’ now that it might be too dangerous for me to use my GM privileges, so, I reset it so that only I could open it. A real drag, but it is for the best. We want to get out of here alive and it won’t be that way if this game collapses on us and all.

Anyway, we managed to arrive at the main town of this floor, Arc Sofia, in which I had wondered about activating the teleport gate since we can’t go back to the lower floors. However, we decided to do that to show that we are still making progress in the game, but we decide to send warnings to the other players around the current situation and warn them about coming up means that they are stuck here for good. But after arriving, things took a turn for the surprising…”

November 7, 2024, Floor 76, Arc Sofia

Inside of the main town of the floor, known as Arc Sofia, Kirito, Asuna, and Usagi are standing in the plaza containing the teleport gate in which Kirito notices something in his player menu.

Usagi asks, “What’s wrong?”

Kirito says, “One of the items that’s corrupted is glowing. I’m going to see if I can make it into an in game object.” Kirito takes the item in his item box and materializes it, but it comes as a white ball of light forcing them to cover their eyes in which the ‘white ball’ goes a bit away from Kirito and then transforms into a person. When everyone is able to look again, they see a little girl, probably looking 5 to 8 years old, with long flowing black shoulder length hair and wearing a simple white dress and no shoes.

The little girl says, “Phew! I finally got out!”

Kirito and Asuna yell out in unison, shocked, “Yui!”

The little girl looks at Kirito and Asuna and she says, running up to hug them, “Mommy! Daddy! It has been a long time!”

Usagi’s jaw drops and she yells out, “Wait a minute! Mommy? Daddy?”

Kirito and Asuna become nervous and Asuna says, nervously, “It… It… It is kind of hard to explain…”

Kirito says, “It is a big of a long story, Usagi.” Soon after, Kirito and Asuna then explain that this little girl, Yui, is their adopted daughter and in fact, she isn’t human, but AI designed for mental counseling of the players.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“Holy crap! I can’t believe that Asuna and Kirito have a child! Well… she isn’t really their biological daughter since you can’t have babies here… I think. Anyway, when I learned Yui’s story, it horrified me since I knew that only one person could have forced Yui to be unable to help the other players as her programming made her out to do: Kayaba. I shouldn’t be so surprised, but I still can’t believe at how heartless he is! He even makes his own creations suffer just for the sake of his ‘death game’. Anyway, before the system could delete her, Kirito had turned her into an in-game object which will be added into his NervGear’s local memory, but based on what Kirito told me, we were worried when Yui was able to come back in this form. It means that the game is suffering from ‘bugs’. Will the game hold enough for us to get to the final floor and get everyone out of here? Since I couldn’t get back to the lower floors, I hope that the other players will be all right without my help.

Anyway, after I had met Yui, she started calling her ‘Auntie’ since I am so close to her ‘mommy’ and ‘daddy’. First, I’m taking care of my future daughter when I was just fourteen and now, I’m an aunt at… eighteen I think. Man! I’ve been stuck in here so long that my memory is getting a bit rusty and that scares me. However, I know that Kirito and the others are experiencing the same thing as I am. Hopefully, we can get back home before we lose too much of ‘ourselves’ in here. Well, as we were trying to figure out what’s working around here, another familiar face popped up.”

November 7, 2024, Floor 76, Arc Sofia

It has been a few hours since Yui ‘arrived’ and they decide to set up in the inn where Agil plans to make his new shop since he is stuck here and can’t return to his shop in Algade, the main town of Floor 50 of Aincard. Right now, Usagi, Asuna, and Kirito are together and discussing their current situation when they hear footsteps coming towards them and they look to see a young teen girl with fluffy pink hair with white bands to keep her hair out of her eyes, pink eyes, and wearing a dark red top with puffed sleeves and a flared skirt of the same color as well as a pure white apron over that and a red ribbon atop her chest.

The teen girl says, “There you are. I’m glad that you are okay.”

Asuna asks, surprised, “Liz? Why are you here?”

The teen girl, Lisbeth, the mace using expert blacksmith of Lindarth, the main town of floor 48 of Aincard, responds, “Why am I here? Isn’t there another way of saying that, Asuna?”

Usagi tells Lisbeth, nervously, “Liz, there is a problem.”

Lisbeth asks, “Problem?”

Usagi responds, “Once you are up here, you can’t get back to the lower floors.”

Lisbeth gets to the teleport gate and she yells out, “Teleport: Lindarth!” Lisbeth vanishes for a second before reappearing in front of her three friends and she says, “Don’t scare me like that. It seems to be working…” Lisbeth turns around only to find that she hasn’t left Arc Sofia and she has a look of what’s known as ‘deer in the headlights’.

Usagi says, “We’ve already tried it, Liz. It started with the teleport crystals and they are the same.”

Lisbeth starts to cry anime tears and she says, “That means that my Lisbeth’s Smith Shop is…”

Usagi says, nervously, “Um…”

Usagi makes a motion for Kirito to say something and he says, nervously, “We know that it is hard for you and it is hard for all of us, but there must be good things here in floor seventy-six.”

Lisbeth asks, weakly, “How good is it?”

Usagi tells Lisbeth, with a kind smile, “There has been more rare materials that you can make more rare weapons and with your skills, you will be able build a bigger and better shop, Liz!”

Kirito says, with a nod, “Usagi is right, Liz.”

Lisbeth says, “Well, the drop rate for items must be different since this is the front lines.”

Usagi says, with a smile, “You will be able to find and create some awesome new stuff in no time!”

Lisbeth says, with a smile, “Yeah, you’re right, Usagi! I’ll find the right place for Lisbeth’s Smith Shop Number Two in no time!”

Usagi says, with a kind smile, “I’m sure that it will be great!”

Lisbeth asks, “By the way, you do know that you don’t have your hood on, Usagi?”

Usagi says, nervously, “Well…”

Asuna says, with a slight nervous smile, “It’s a long story, Liz.”

Lisbeth says, with a smile, “Well, I want to hear it. I haven’t heard from my favorite customers and best friends since I heard that you were going into that boss room!”

Lisbeth races off to create her new shop and Kirito, Asuna, and Usagi give a sigh of relief in which Asuna asks, “Should we tell her the truth about you, Usagi?”

Kirito responds, “The whole of the boss raid force is up here and they saw everything, Asuna. It is best that we tell her now and not let someone else tell her later.”

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“It was great that Liz is joining us up here, but like the rest of us, her skill data had also suffered as much as we have. And it is seems like other players aren’t immune especially as other members of the assault that weren’t part of the boss raid were joining us on Arc Sofia. Guilds like the Digital Knights and players that weren’t associated with guilds like Agil, Kirito, in which Asuna decided that since Heathcliff cheated in his match with Kirito, Kirito is a solo player once again, and I… Basically, other solo players and then some. They were suffering ‘wacky skill problems’ as much as the rest of us which got me concerned. What if this freaky ‘glitch’ is happening all over Aincard? This made me want to get the heck out of here as fast as possible, but the problem is that while are levels, health, and the majority of our stats is fine, this freaky ‘skill glitch’ puts us in the real bind. It is like starting over again in the Town of Beginnings!

Well, the good news is that the word got out and by the looks of it, non-assault team players, other than Liz, are going to stay on the floors below this one for the time being. That’s good news through it doesn’t mean that everyone heeded our warning…”

November 8, 2024, Floor 76, Field

In the fields of Floor 76, Usagi, wearing her special cape, but no longer having the hood cover her face and head, and Kirito are battling against huge bee-like monsters, Death Stingers, in order to build up their levels and rebuild their skill points in which they just finished another monster which shatters into data polygons.

Usagi asks, “Been a while hasn’t it?”

Kirito says, with a nod, “Yeah, it has. It is too bad that Asuna couldn’t join us.”

Usagi says, with a nod, “Yeah, but she is a bit busy. With what’s happened, she needs to take command of the Knights of the Blood Oath.”

Kirito says, nodding his head, “With Heathcliff revealed to be Kayaba and what happened back there, their moral is suffering and Asuna is the only one that can bring them back together.”

Usagi says, nodding her head, “And add in this situation… What a headache!”

Kirito responds, “What can we do now? All we can do is get to the top floor and beat the game.”

Usagi says, with a nod, “Right.” Usagi asks, “Anyway, I heard you and Asuna talking about something since you removed you from the guild since basically Heathcliff ‘cheated’ in your match with him, what was that?”

Kirito says, “Asuna wants me to be a solo player again because she wants me to be a liaison between the other guilds and the Knights of the Blood Oath.”

Usagi asks, “Liaison?”

Kirito says, “With Heathcliff… the ‘glitching’… and the whole situation, the other players are confused… scared… and we don’t want it to end up like the first day…”

Usagi hugs herself and she says, drolly, “Don’t remind me.”

Kirito says, “Sorry, Usagi.”

Usagi says, “No problem, Kirito.” As they prepared to continue on, a small blue feathered dragon creature flies up to them and makes a sound like ‘kyu’.

Usagi and Kirito ask in unison, “Pina?” Soon after, a 14 year old girl with brown hair in two pigtails held by two ribbon and wearing red clothing/armor runs up to them.

The young teen girl says, “Pina! Why did you go…? Oh, Kirito! Usagi!

Usagi and Kirito ask in unison, stunned, “Silica?”

The young girl, a young beast tamer known as Silica, says, with a smile, “Long time no see, Kirito… Usagi.”

Usagi asks, surprised, “Silica, what are you doing here on the front lines?”

Silica says, “I heard that something happened at the front lines. Since Kirito and Usagi were on the front lines, I was concerned about them. I’m glad that you two are all right.”

Usagi tells Silica, “But Silica, it’s dangerous if you aren’t an assault level player and we can’t take you back down to the lower floors!”

Silica says, with a nod, “I heard from other players that you can’t get back to the lower floors once you are here. I’ll be okay. I’ve been working hard since we met over a year ago. I can help you and Kirito out!” Usagi and Kirito look at each other and sigh in which they decide to escort Silica back to town, but they agree to allow her to help.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“I was shocked that Silica would come here! She is one of the ‘middle class players’. Basically, a player that stays on the floors below the front lines and earns enough to survive and keep up their strength to make sure that they keep their ‘status’ as middle class players. Yeah, I know. The second reason seems dumb, but you know hard core MMO players through not all of them are like that. I mean, there are about one thousand players that never left the Town of Beginnings out of fear of dying! And who can blame them? This was supposed to be a fun game, not a war for survival! Anyway, Silica was a beast tamer, a term given to a player that managed to tame a tamable monster in the game, and Kirito and I saved her lives after she got separated from her group and her best friend, the Feathered Dragon, Pina, was killed. However, it is a good thing that she is a tamable monster, because, unlike us, she could be revived and we helped her do that. She really looked up to Kirito and I and she is a good friend.

After we had gotten back and introduced Silica to Lisbeth, Asuna, Agil, and Klein with Klein teasing Kirito about Silica’s ‘admiration’ which earned quite a few glares from Kirito and I, Asuna wasn’t too pleased about another ‘female friend’ other than Lisbeth and I, but we explained about what happened and the reason that Kirito helped Silica in which he explained that she looked like his sister back in IRL, who I had found out is actually his cousin since he was adopted by his aunt and uncle after his parents died when he barely a year old. Let’s just say that earned a few giggles from Lisbeth and Asuna leaving Kirito none the less embarrassed. Poor Kirito. Guy can’t catch a break!

Speaking of Kirito’s sister, we would be in for quite a surprise…”

November 10, 2024, Floor 76, Arc Sofia

Inside of the inn where Agil has set up his new ‘shop’ in Arc Sofia, Kirito, Asuna, and Usagi are walking in.

Asuna says, “Thank you for your help, Kirito. You, too, Usagi.”

Usagi says, “We’re glad that we can help.”

Kirito asks Asuna, “How is your guild doing?”

Asuna says, with a sigh, “They are still recovering from the fact the commander is the monster that trapped us in here.”

Usagi says, with a nod, “I understand.”

Kirito says, nodding his head, “I agree, too. However, with game like this, we have to get out as soon as we can, but I’m not sure if we are in any condition to venture in the maze just yet. We have our levels, health, and the majority of our stats, but with our skill data so messed up, we may be in no condition for a boss even if our levels are so high.”
Asuna says, “I agree, Kirito-kun. We need to work as fast as possible to rebuild our skills to a decent level before we tackle the boss.”

Usagi says, “Until we find the boss that is.”

Just then Silica’s voice shouts out, “Kirito! Asuna-san! Usagi!” The three of them look over to see Silica, with Pina on her shoulder, coming over to them.

Usagi asks, “Hey, Silica, what’s up?”

Silica says, “Agil-san says that there is a rumor of a fairy near Arc Sofia.”

Kirito asks, “A fairy?”

Agil, wearing a shopkeepers outfit instead of his ‘battle outfit’, comes over and he says, “Yeah. I heard from other players that they have seen a fairy as tall as one of us in the forest of Arc Sophia.”

Usagi asks, surprised, “A fairy that’s the size of a human?”

Agil says, with a nod, “That’s what they say, Usagi.”

Kirito asks, “A quest?”

Asuna says, “Maybe.” Asuna asks Usagi, “Want to investigate Usagi?”

Usagi says, with a nod, “Okay.”

Silica asks, “Can I come?”

Kirito says, with a kind smile, “You need to build up your level and your skills, Silica. You are suffering from the same ‘bug’ as we are.”

Silica says, with a sigh, “Yeah.”

Asuna says, with a warm smile, “Don’t worry, Silica-chan. You are making incredible strides! I’m sure that you will be able to join us soon!”

Silica says, with a wide smile, “Thank you, Asuna-san!” Pina gives a kind ‘kyu’ as if to say ‘thank you’. Silica says, “And Pina is thankful that you cheered us up too, Asuna-san.”

Asuna says, with a smile, “Well, thank you, Pina-chan!”

Kirito tells Silica, “Please tell Yui-chan that we are out with her auntie and we’ll be back soon.”

Silica says, with a nod, “Okay!” Kirito, Asuna, and Usagi then head out to investigate this ‘fairy’ after Agil gave them the details on where the sightings of this ‘fairy’ were seen.

November 10, 2024, Floor 76, Forest

At a forest near Arc Sofia, Usagi, Asuna, and Kirito are looking around for any signs of the so-called ‘fairy’.

Usagi asks, “You think that a human sized fairy girl would be easy to find?”

Kirito asks, “What makes you think that the fairy is girl?”

Asuna tells Kirito, “Of course it is a girl, Kirito-kun! Why wouldn’t it be?” Kirito wanted to argue, but Asuna’s gasp causes him to stop in his tracks. Asuna yells out, pointing to a location, “Over there!” Kirito and Usagi look over to see what looks like a young woman with long blond hair tied up in a flower-like headband, white and green collar around her neck, white and green clothing with brown boots, small green fairy wings coming out of her back, and she also has elf-like pointed ears. When she hears Asuna, she turns around to show her green eyes.

Her eyes widen when she sees Kirito and she asks, “Big brother, is that you?”

Asuna, Kirito, and Usagi are shocked by this and Kirito asks, surprised, “Brother?”

The fairy girl runs over, grabs Kirito’s hand, and she says, “We’re able to finally meet big brother!”

After a few seconds, Usagi shakes out her stupor and she asks, “Huh? What’s going on here?” Asuna and Usagi look at Kirito, who gives a look that says ‘Don’t look at me’, while Usagi looks at the ‘fairy girl’, she sees that she has a green cursor which signifies her as a player.

Kirito says, “You must be mistaken. I can’t be your brother and my little sister… doesn’t have a chest that big.” The fairy girl gives an irritated look and smacks Kirito down to the ground.

Asuna asks, shocked, “Kirito-kun?”

Usagi tells Kirito, “I know she isn’t an NPC especially since her cursor is green.” Kirito looks at the fairy girl, with her hands crossed against her chest, and he sees the green cursor.

Kirito says, “Yeah… I can see that now.”

The fairy girl says, annoyed, “We meet after two years with me only seeing your body in the hospital wasting away and all you can do is harass me big brother! Geez!” The fairy girl also says, with flush cheeks, “Anyway, who said that I couldn’t have a growth spurt! It has been two years! And also, this avatar has no reference to reality! It’s me! Suguha! Suguha Kirigaya!”

There is a moment of silence and Kirito shouts out, flabbergasted, “Sugu?!”

Asuna asks, curiously, “Sugu?”

Kirito responds, “That’s the nickname for my little sister.” Asuna gives a major gasp and she looks back and forth between the fairy girl and Kirito.

The fairy girl, who is supposed Kirito’s younger sister in reality, Suguha Kirigaya, responds, “It really is me, big brother! Don’t you remember how you quit kendo after two years and grandpa really let you have it until I cried and say that I would train for both of us? Or that embarrassing time…?”

Kirito yells out, frantically, “Okay! Okay! It’s you, Sugu! It’s you!”

Asuna says, “Maybe I should hear the rest of the story to make sure of that she is your sister, Kirito-kun.”

Kirito yells out, nervously, “Asuna!”

Asuna says, with a giggle, “Just kidding, Kirito-kun!” Asuna and Usagi share giggles at Kirito, who is groaning in embarrassment, in which the fairy girl looks at them curiously.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“Whoa! I can’t believe it! Kirito’s younger sister is here! Soon enough, we found out that her avatar looks different from ours is that her avatar came from a VRMMO game known as Alfheim Online. It is a VRMMO for the Amusphere, a new Full-Dive system that came out after all of NervGears were recalled after this whole nightmare, what the public is calling the ‘SAO Incident’, started. Suguha, or Leafa, as her avatar is called, told us it is safer Full-Dive system in which they said that nothing that happened to us can ever happen again with the Amusphere. One year after we were trapped on Sword Art Online, Alfheim Online came out and it made me and Kirito quite suspicious. Just one year after we were imprisoned in the game, a brand new VRMMO comes out?! I’m not genius, believe me, but even I know that it takes WAY longer to create a game. Well, we have got more important things to worry about… like how a character from another game and a different Full-Dive system came here?!

Leafa said that she came here through a ‘system hiccup’ when she logged in to Alfheim Online, ALO for short, but I can’t be sure. However, if she is right, then is it possible that this Amusphere isn’t as safe as these new people claim! And also, how did they develop this new Full-Dive so fast! Sure, they must have taken inspiration from Kayaba’s NervGear, but it shouldn’t have taken so fast to create a new one. Could the new Amusphere be so similar to the NervGear that it can trap players from other games in here?! Oh, man! This is freaking me out! We’ve got to complete this game or thousands more people could be trapped in here! I don’t know if my heart can take such shock! I couldn’t live with myself if more people that weren’t part of this nightmare became trapped and died because of what my… Kayaba had done!

And it seems like my worst fears are coming true when we went back to town to introduce Leafa to the others…”

November 10, 2024, Floor 76, Arc Sofia

As Kirito, Usagi, Asuna, and Leafa entered the main plaza and prepared to head for Agil’s inn when Asuna sees something in the virtual sky.

Asuna yells out, “Usagi! Kirito-kun! Up in the sky!” Everyone else looks up and they see what looks like a rip form in the virtual sky and they see a person falling through the rip before it closes causing her to fall towards the ground.

Kirito runs in the direction of where she could hit and he yells out, “I’ll make it!” Just before the person hits the ground, Kirito manages to catch this person in his arms just in time and Kirito breathes a sigh of relief. Usagi, Asuna, and Leafa run over and they see the person to be a young teen girl of around 15-16 years of age with short black hair with chin-length bangs with small white ribbons tied in each bang and she is wearing green armor and black armor with a red scarf.
Usagi says, “Nice catch!”

Asuna asks, “Who is she?”

Kirito says, seeing a green cursor, “I don’t know. However, she has a green cursor which means that she seems to be a player.”

Asuna asks, “Have you seen her Usagi?”

Usagi responds, shaking her head, “No, I haven’t. I’ve been around Aincard quite a few times and I would know her face.”

Asuna asks, “Then who is she?”

Kirito says, “We’ll know when she wakes up.” Soon after, they find a bench to put her down on and slowly, she manages to come to her senses and Kirito, Asuna, and Usagi, with Leafa remaining to side, since she is a newcomer to SAO, try to figure out who she is, but the young girl can’t remember a thing.

The young lady says, “I can’t seem to remember anything around the time that I got here. Even if you said I fell from the sky, do you expect me to believe that? And your clothing is suspicious.”

Usagi asks, a bit annoyed, “What? Do I look like a suspicious person?”

Kirito says, “Easy, I don’t think that she is from the game.”

The young lady asks, “Game?”

Usagi says, a bit nervously, “It is a long story.”

Asuna asks, “Do you remember anything? Even your name?”

The young lady says, shaking her head, “No.”

Usagi says, “Wait! I know!” Usagi says, bringing up her player menu, “Make a motion like this. A screen should appear in front of you and it should have your name on it.”

The young lady asks, bringing up her player menu, “Like this! Wait! What’s this? Sinon? Is that my name?”

Usagi says, “Kind of.” Soon after, Kirito, Asuna, and Usagi start to explain the situation to the young lady, who has the player name of Sinon.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“Sinon has completely lost her memory or at least so much of it, she doesn’t who she is in real life. How horrible! This is the worst situation to be in here! Hopefully, we can keep her safe until we get out of here! We had to explain the whole situation about Sword Art Online, Aincard, the NervGear, and thus to Sinon and despite her ‘cool attitude’, I can tell that she was shocked about being in a virtual ‘death game’ where dying here means to die in real life! And without any understanding of Sinon’s situation of how she got into SAO, we can’t be sure at all that she isn’t in the same straight as we are. Could she be like Leafa? But if she is, how come she lost her memory and Leafa didn’t? My brain hurts! Oh, man! This is getting weirder and scarier than ever before!

Well, the surprises never end as some days after Sinon’s ‘appearance’ on SAO, I was to be the biggest shock of them all…”

November 15, 2024, Floor 76, Arc Sofia

Today, we are inside of Agil’s inn/shop in Arc Sofia where we find Usagi, Kirito, Asuna, Silica, Leafa, Lisbeth, and Sinon are assembled together and they are discussing something together.

Usagi asks, stunned, “You want me to start my own guild?”

Asuna says, with a smile, “I think that you would be perfect for it, Usagi. You showed that you were such a leader after the battle with the Skull Reaper… and the commander…”

Usagi responds, nervously, “I just wanted to make sure that the other players in our group were somewhere safe at the time.”

Kirito says, “I think that Asuna is right, Usagi. You would make a great guild leader.”

Usagi asks, “What about you?”

Kirito responds, “Not my thing, Usagi, you know that. And since I’m a solo player again, Asuna wants me to remain independent of the guild and be a liaison with the other guilds. It only has been a week and now, the news has spread that Heathcliff was… is Kayaba. So, you can expect faith in the Knights of the Blood Oath to have suffered from this.”

Usagi asks Asuna, “How is your guild doing?”

Asuna responds, “They are doing okay, but moral has suffered upon learning that our commander was none other than the man that put us in this prison.”

Kirito tells Asuna, with a smile, “I know that you will be able to do a good job, Asuna.”

Asuna says, with a warm smile, “Thanks, Kirito-kun!”

Lisbeth says, “By keeping Kirito as a solo player, you are making sure that he looks less biased. Clever, Asuna.”

Lisbeth smirks and was about to say something when Klein barges into the room in which he shouts out, “Hey, Kirito!”

Everyone looks at Klein and Kirito asks, “What’s up, Klein?”
Klein says, “Well, a group of strange players just arrived in town.”

Usagi asks, “Strange players?”

Klein says, with a nod, “Never seen them before in my life.” Klein says, with a smirk, “Through they were a sight since they were eight pretty young girls and just one guy.” Lisbeth, Asuna, Kirito, and Usagi sigh at Klein and his ‘Casanova’ attitude.

Kirito asks, “Other than that, what made them so ‘strange’?”

Klein says, “Well, all of them seemed to be high level and probably just as strong as any member of the assault possibly rivaling you, Asuna, and Usagi.”

Usagi asks, surprised, “Really?”

Klein says, “The thing is: They act as if they know about SAO, but they have never been a part of it until now and they are asking questions of the other players in which they are looking for one player in particular.”

Asuna asks, “Who?”

Klein says, pointing to Usagi, “Usagi.”

There are looks of surprise and Usagi asks, “Me?”

Klein says, “Yeah, but other than those of us that survived being part of the raid group that attacked the boss of Floor Seventy-Five, no one else other than Silica, Lisbeth, Leafa, and Sinon know that you are Sailor Moon. Don’t worry, no one that talked to these people mention a thing about that. Trust me, after what you did for us, there is no way we were going let you get hurt.”

Usagi says, with a smile, “Thanks, Klein.”

Lisbeth says, “I still can’t believe that you are Sailor Moon! THE Sailor Moon! One of my best ‘girlfriends’ in SAO is a famous super-heroine.”

Usagi rubs her head, nervously, Kirito tells Lisbeth, “There are reasons that she kept it secret and she only revealed because she didn’t have much of a choice including Kayaba exposing her to us.”

Lisbeth says, with a nod, “Good point, Kirito.”

Kirito asks, “Anyway, Klein, you were saying?”

Klein says, with a nod, “Oh, yeah. The thing is, the players that were put of the Skull Reaper raid party only mentioned you as the ‘White Valkyrie’ and they seemed to be surprised and they didn’t seem to know beforehand about your ‘exploits’ here in SAO.”

Many of the others got curious and Silica asks, “They didn’t know about Usagi as the ‘White Valkyrie’? How can that be?”

Kirito asks, “Do you have an idea what these ‘strange players’ look like?”

Klein says, “Well, four of the girls look to be eighteen. One of them had short blue hair and blue eyes…” Usagi’s eyes widen at that ‘remark’ and Klein says, continuing, “The next one had long flowing blond hair and the same blue eyes as Usagi and the third one had long raven hair, violet eyes, and when she hear about Usagi as the ‘White Valkyrie’, I think heard her remark ‘Meatball Head’ or something…”

Usagi then grabs Klein by the collar and she asks, stunned, “Are you sure, Klein?”

Kirito asks, curiously, “Usagi?”

Klein responds, a bit nervously, “Y-Yeah, I think so…” Klein then yelps as Usagi throws him to the ground, unintentionally, and runs out the door causing Klein to ask, when he regains his senses, “Hey, what’s up with her?”

Kirito says, “It sounds like that she might know those people that you were describing.”

Asuna asks, surprised, “Usagi does?”

Kirito says, “Let’s go find out.” Soon after, Kirito, Asuna, Leafa, Lisbeth, Silica, and Klein, after he gets to his feet, decide to race after Usagi, who is searching the area around of Arc Sofia around Agil’s inn/shop.

Usagi thinks in her mind, “It can’t be! It just can’t be! How could they get here?! I know that it can’t be possible, but I have to see! I have to know!” Usagi keeps running around Arc Sofia until she reaches the area of the plaza where the teleport gate is and she is looking around.

But then she hears a gasp from behind her and female voice asks, “Serena?” Usagi whips around to the source of her voice and her eyes grow wide at the sight of nine familiar people in front of her.

The first person is female of 18 years with short deep blue hair, blue eyes, and wearing an aqua-blue open kimono with slits in the legs area to show white stockings and brown sandals on her feet.

The second is another female of 18 years of age with long flowing blond hair, red bow in the top center portion of the rear of her scalp, blue eyes, deep, full, and lovely pink colored lips, and she is wearing an yellow armored bikini-like top, silver armored shoulder pads and elbow pads, white fingerless fighting gloves, a short skirt that covers only up to the top of her navel and down to one-quarter of her thighs, revealing quite a bit of mid-drift, and black high-heeled open-toed sandals. On her right shoulder, there is a small silver version of the Feathered Dragon from SAO with jade colored eyes.

The third person is yet another female of 18 years of age with long flowing raven hair, violet eyes, deep, full, and lovely ruby red colored lips, and wearing tight fitting samurai style armor to show her lovely feminine body’s curves and lines while making it not look obscene.

The fourth person is yet another female of 18 years of age with deep brown hair tied in a ponytail by a pink band, green eyes, and she is wearing something that looks a lot like Leafa’s clothing, but it is light leaf green where Leafa’s outfit is dark green and pink where it is white on Leafa’s outfit. She also is wearing a pair of high-heeled ankle boots and she has no sword strapped to her waist.

The fifth person is another female, but unlike the first four, she looks to be 16 years old with deep violet hair that goes to her shoulders in a ‘hime cut’, violet eyes, alabaster skin, and she is wearing something similar to Lisbeth’s outfit expect that all of the parts that are red are pink in color and where it was white, it is silver. The armored plates on her outfit are violet in color, she has violet fingerless gloves, and she has violet colored combat boots on her feet with duel daggers strapped to her back.

The next person is another female, but she is looks to be around 20-21 years of age with short dirty blond hair, blue eyes, deep, full, and gorgeous pink lips, golden loop earrings in her ears, and she is wearing a tight fitting brown shirt with long sleeves, a silver armored breast-plate over the shirt, black armored shoulder pads, elbow pads, wristbands, black fighting gloves over her hands, greenish-brown baggy pants, and black combat boots on her feet. Around her waist, there is a black belt for a sheath for a short sword similar to the Space Sword of Sailor Uranus.

The seventh person is a female about the same age as the last female, 20-21 years of age with flowing aqua-blue hair, aqua-blue eyes, deep, full, and gorgeous pink lips, and she is wearing a sky-blue bikini top breastplate with choker on her neck, she has an long armored skirt that goes up to the bottom of her navel and down three-quarters of her thighs, there are white armored arm-guards going from her wrists to just below her shoulder blades around her arms, and black thigh-high armored high-heeled boots with leg-guards and on her legs with wings on the side of each ankle. In her hands, she has a silver trident.

The eighth person is a female that looks to be in her twenties with long flowing dark green hair that goes down to her kneecaps behind her back with a bun tied on top, dark skin, dark pink-red eyes, deep, full, and gorgeous ruby red lips, and she is wearing an outfit similar to Sailor Pluto’s sailor fuku expect instead of a bow with a heart jewel, she has black chest armor, black armored shoulder pads and kneepads, she has black armored kneepads, and she has a dark green staff with a dark ruby red orb on top.

The final person is a male of about 22 years of age with short black hair, blue eyes, and dressed in a black version of Prince Endymon’s outfit with a powerful looking one handed sword in a sheath to match.

Usagi rubs her eyes and she asks, stunned, “Is… Is it really you?”

Just then the raven haired woman tells Usagi, with a smirk, “Who do you think it is Meatball Head?” With those words, Usagi’s eyes start to tear up and she then tackles the people knocking a good amount of them to the ground while hugging the brown haired one.

Usagi says, with tears streaming down her eyes, “It’s you! You’re here! You’re actually here! I can’t believe it! I can’t believe that you are here!”

The brown haired woman says, with a smile, “Yeah, it’s us! You’re acting like you haven’t seen us in forever!”

The raven haired one yells out, annoyed, “That’s because she has been trapped in here for over two years! We may have seen her body in the hospital, but she hasn’t seen us in what, to her, could be like ‘forever’! Geez!” While the raven haired woman shakes her head, Usagi looks at the man and her eyes widen in which she uses her hand to touch his face.

Usagi says, weakly “D-Darien-kun…”

The man tells Usagi, with a warm smile, “It’s me, Meatball Head. I’ve missed you.” Usagi leaps onto the man’s chest, starts to cry on his chest, and she hugs him with all of her might causing him to winch due to her strength stats.

Usagi asks, weakly, “But how?”

The blue haired woman responds, with a warm smile, “It’s a long story, Serena.” Usagi nuzzles her face on the man’s armored chest and he hugs her gently as Kirito, Asuna, Leafa, Lisbeth, Silica, and Klein arrive on the scene.

Klein was about to say something, but Kirito put his hand on his mouth and he says, after he removes and in a quiet voice, “Not yet, Klein.”

Klein asks, “What’s going on here Kirito?”

Silica asks, “Who are these people Kirito?”

Kirito responds, with a smile, “I think that these are Usagi’s friends from home.” There are multiple gasps from the group, but Kirito makes sure that they stay quiet for happy reunion between Usagi, her friends, and the man that she loved in two lifetimes after being apart from them for over two long years.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“I can’t believe it! I absolutely can’t believe it! They’re here! They are actually here! My friends… the girls… the Sailor Scouts… and my love… my Darien-kun… are actually here in SAO! Even though I had already been through so much, there is that fear that I would never see them again and also, I would forget them! But now, they are actually here! They look different… older, but then again, two years have passed since I’ve been stuck in this nightmarish prison and you don’t age beyond what you look liked when you started in SAO. I can’t believe that they found their way here, but I’m so glad to see them! I’ve missed them and Darien-kun so much! However, I’m concerned on how they got here into SAO! You can only get here through a NervGear and that’s dangerous! I really hope that this isn’t what I think it means! If anything happened to them because of this…

However, I learned on how they got here after we got back to Agil’s shop and they learned what the situation was… Through Pyro was less than pleased when she heard about what happened just before they arrived…”

November 15, 2024, Floor 76, Arc Sofia

Within Agil’s shop/inn, we find Agil, Klein, Kirito, Asuna, Leafa, Silica, Lisbeth, Sinon, Usagi, and the ‘new arrivals’ assembled together with Raye, who’s avatar name is Hino, in this case being ‘less than pleased’ with Usagi at this moment.

Hino yells out, strongly, “I can’t believe you, Meatball Head! You just transformed in front of a huge crowd like that!”

Usagi winches and she thinks, drolly, “I knew that this was going to happen.” Usagi says, weakly, “In my defense, I was about to die.”

Hino shouts out, “Then you try not to get yourself killed!”

Usagi responds, “My two best friends were about to be killed! What did you expect me to do?!”

Lita, her avatar’s name of Makoto, responds, “Okay! Okay! What’s done is done and we can’t change that.”

Hino sighs and responds, “Geez, Meatball Head. You are going to give me a heart attack one day with all the worrying that I do for you.”

Usagi says, “Sorry.”

Hino responds, “Well, like Lita… Mako said: What’s done is done. Just don’t worry us to death again.”
Usagi responds, nervously, “I’ll try.”

Ami, avatar’s name is Mizuno, says, looking at Leafa and Sinon, “I’m surprised that someone else from ALO got onto here.”

Leafa says, “I’m amazed that you, girls, are the ‘Great Nymphs of ALO’, eight of the strongest players in the game.” And Leafa says, looking at Makoto and Amara, avatar name is Haruka, “And I can’t believe it is you and Haruka, Makoto.”

Makoto responds, “I can’t believe that you are the sister to someone trapped in here, Leafa.”

Hotaru, avatar’s name of Tomoe, says, looking at Sinon, “But what about her? You said that she fell from a ‘rip’ from this virtual sky.”

Asuna says, “Sinon has no memories of how she got here and she doesn’t even remember her own name in which her player menu only showed her avatar name.”

Usagi says, with a sigh, “Well, we can really relate to Sinon on forgetting her name. I’ve been used to Usagi for so long that I only recognized the girls from their voices, not by them calling by my real name.” Darien, avatar name Mamoru, and the Scouts are shocked by this statement.

Mizuno says, “Well, it shows this world isn’t completely stable at the moment.”

Usagi asks Mizuno, a bit nervously, “Do… Do you think that using my powers caused this world to become unstable?”

Hino says, “We don’t think so, Meatball Head.”

Usagi asks, “How do you know?”

Mizuno says, “On the day that you fought Kayaba, Michelle or Michiru, in this case, couldn’t use her Aqua Mirror to see into this world while we were getting the basic data, we had a feeling that something was wrong. So, I had checked the SAO servers, which are now under RECT Progress control, the people that also run Alfheim Online.”

Asuna asks, surprised, “RECT Progress?”

Kirito asks Asuna, “You know about that Asuna?”

Asuna responds, a bit nervously, “Yes, Kirito-kun. It is a division of the RECT in which my father is CEO.”

There are gasps and Mizuno says, “Ah! You must be Shouzou Yuuki’s daughter! Ami-chan said that she heard about you since RECT took over the SAO servers since Argus folded.”
Usagi asks, shocked, “Argus folded?”

Hino says, with a sigh, “What did you expect to happen, Meatball Head? Anyway, after this ‘SAO Incident’ started, Argus was in huge trouble since Kayaba vanished as soon as this nightmare started. Argus had to pay for the nose for this ‘mess’ that he caused and they folded sometime after SAO started in which RECT brought it over and brought it into its Full-Dive division which is probably how they developed ALO about one year since SAO started.”

Kirito says, with a nod, “It makes sense. You said that ALO was similar to SAO in many ways.”

Minako says, with a smile, “Other than that fact that you can log out and if you die there, it won’t really kill you.”

Hino slaps herself in the forehead and she shouts out, in an irritated tone, “Seriously, Mina-chan?!”

Minako says, nervously, “Oops.”

Lisbeth asks, looking at Asuna with a smirk, “So, our ‘Flash’ is a rich girl, huh?”

Asuna says, nervously, “It…”

Asuna shrugs her shoulders in defeat and Usagi thinks in her mind, “Damn it! Don’t you care about all of the lives that you ruined, Uncle Kayaba?” Usagi, who is sitting on lap of Darien, avatar name of Mamoru, nuzzles him greatly.

Mamoru asks, “Is something wrong?”

Kirito says, “Usagi… has been through a lot during this past two years.”

Asuna says, with a nod, “Despite what Usagi believes, many of us believe that she is one of the greatest victims of SAO. It has been hard her as it is with all of us here.”

Kirito says, “We have seen so much death and Usagi and I, who knew Kayaba the best, have known in our hearts that dying here is true death. We have seen much of it. Many good players have died before our eyes.” Mamoru and the others look at Usagi and all she can do is to give a sigh and nod her head weakly as she tries to struggle against the tears as the horrible memories in which Mamoru hugs her greatly.

Asuna says, with a weak smile, “Kirito-kun is the first friend of Usagi-chan in SAO and one of my best friends. It is because of that bond that we share with each other that we managed to gain some happiness here.”

Lisbeth says, with a grin, “Yeah! Those guys are like the Three Musketeers and it isn’t surprising that they are three top players in SAO!”

Hino says, “I’m still surprised by that. Meatball Head is a hard core gamer and she is a good player. She does well in games, but she isn’t a great player.”

Usagi says, annoyed, “Well, excuse me, Pyro.” Usagi sticks out her tongue at Hino and Hino glares back in which this earned a few giggles and smiles from the others.

Kirito asks Mizuno, “You were saying that you may know why the game has become unstable?”

Everyone looks at Mizuno and she says, with a nod, “Before all of us came here, I investigated the servers and it was there I had noticed some tampering.”

There are looks of surprise and Agil asks, “Tampering?”
Mizuno says, with a nod, “Yes, but the tampering isn’t as big that it can’t be noticed and it wasn’t with the server directly. It was with the router.”

Klein asks, “The router?”

Kirito says, “It is the way that we got into SAO via the NervGear transmitting our minds here and it is the way that we are going to get out and have us transferred back to our bodies.”

Mizuno says, “That’s right. Somebody didn’t want to do anything that could upset the servers and SAO too much, but it looks like that they wanted to alter where ‘data’ coming out of SAO goes into.”

Kirito says, “Mainly us, the players.”

Mizuno says, with a nod, “Correct, Kirito-san. And I’ve found that there has been recent ‘tampering’ in which someone from another server was trying to extract something or in this case, someone from the SAO servers. I believe that it was players.”

There are gasps and Kirito asks, “Was it the day that Usagi and I fought Kayaba?”

Mizuno says, with a nod, “Correct, Kirito, but there is something else that happened.”

Usagi asks, “Something else?”

Hino says, “I’m a miko and I can sense things that most people can’t with my spiritual senses. I went with Ami-chan into the servers to check them out, but the instant that I went into the room, I was hit with a tidal wave of powerful emotional energy. It was so much that I couldn’t take it and I blanked out.”

There are more gasps and Mizuno says, “I was shocked and surprised and I quickly got her out of there.”

Hino says, “After I managed to recover, I told the others that it felt like a tidal wave of human emotions. I felt pain, despair, anguish, sorrow, and a lot of other negative emotions which I sensed due to my spiritual senses and it really knocked me out. Whatever that tampering did, it caused the stored emotions of the players in the game to be unleashed.”

Haruka says, “It is like the game was like a balloon storing those emotions and whatever tampering that happened caused the balloon to ‘pop’.”

Asuna asks, “So, you are saying that all of the powerful emotions that we have felt throughout the game are causing it to be unstable?”

Hino says, “That’s the theory that we are working on, Asuna-san.”

Kirito thinks in his mind, “Just like Yui-chan… I hope that she is okay. She seems to be just fine, but I had better make sure.”

Agil says, “That might explain what’s going on here, but it doesn’t explain what happened to Kayaba.”

Makoto asks, “What did happen to that ass?”

Michiru says, “We can’t be certain. The ‘glitch’ caused by those events during that day could have destroyed him, sent him into another part of SAO, or something else. We can’t be sure of anything and if he is on another part of SAO, he might be trapped as well, but this is all theories and we have no evidence to back any of them up.”

Hino says, “Right now, we don’t have time to worry about him. Our main focus should be getting to the top because the ‘glitch’ might have caused a bit of a ‘re-set’.”

Klein asks, “Reset?”

Kirito says, “We weren’t originally supposed to fight the final boss before the one hundredth floor of Aincard, Klein. This ‘glitch’ could have caused the game to ‘reset’ to its original settings in that regard and once we beat the final boss, we can still be freed from the game.”

Asuna says, with a nod, “I agree, Kirito-kun. It means that we have to get there as soon as possible.”

Lisbeth says, “Yeah, but all of us are still suffering the loss of skill data even you, Kirito, and Usagi.”

Kirito says, “It doesn’t matter, Liz. It is just numbers and not our true strength.”

Asuna says, with a smile, “Kirito-kun is right. And now, we have Usagi’s friends to help us.”

Makoto says, with a grin, “Yep!”

Usagi asks, “But the way? How did you get in here?”

The others look at each other and Mizuno says, “We used our ‘ventures’ into ALO, since it is similar to SAO, which is most likely due to the RECT gaining access to all of Argus’ technology, in order to figure out its programming in which we thought that we could figure SAO’s programming and thus, figure out a way to disable the code that sends the signal to the NervGear to disable the safeties on the emitters that kills the user. However, progress was hard on that due to many reasons and we felt that it might ‘stalemate’ like our research into the NervGear. I have to admit that Kayaba is one of the few rare geniuses to stump me.”

Minako says, “Which we were shocked to find out.”

Mizuno says, “So, we decided to also figure out a way to get into SAO, but using NervGears was dangerous and the Amusphere can’t be used since its design and programming, through similar to NervGear, will most likely not be accepted by the programming of SAO. Then we decided to create a way in via the Medicuboid technology.”

Asuna asks, “Medicuboid?”

Sinon’s eyes grow wider as the term sparks something in her memories and Mizuno says, with a nod, “It is a Full-Dive technology designed for the medical industry though right now, it is only being used for terminal ill patients and it is still being tested.” Soon after, Mizuno explains about the Medicuboid, which is also considered third generation Full-Dive technology.

When she is done, Klein asks, “Hey! Hey! Isn’t it kind of dangerous to use a machine that uses stuff stronger than the NervGear?”

Trista, in her avatar of Setsuna, responds, “We modified the units that we have created security features similar to the Amusphere and security programming that won’t accept certain dangerous ‘code’ from SAO which made us unsure that we can get into SAO for that reason, but since the programming has similarities to the NervGear, we managed to use our ‘Full-Dive pods’ to enter SAO since we are here.”

Mizuno says, “Through we can’t be certain that our pods won’t reject certain parts of SAO’s programming.”

Usagi says, “Girls, you and Darien-kun shouldn’t have put yourselves at risk!”

Hino tells Usagi, “Hey, Meatball Head, seeing you waste away in a hospital where you could die at any die is any better?”

Makoto says, “You are our best friend and our princess! We can’t help it if we want to save your life!”

Mamoru tells Usagi, hugging her, “And I would rather die than see you waste away in front of me.”

Usagi smiles warmly and lovingly at Mamoru and she then asks, “What about your bodies?”

Mizuno says, “Don’t worry. Our pods put our bodies in a special ‘stasis field’ in which we are like in suspended animation.”

Minako says, with a grin, “So, this beautiful bod will be good on the outside as it is in here!”

Setsuna says, “They are in a special room in Juuban hospital where only Saeko and a few others can access and Artemis is watching over us.”

Hino says, “And while you are here, your mother will be watching over your body since Saeko managed to get special permission for her to remain there.”

Usagi says, with a solemn tone, “Mom… Dad… Sammy… They must be worried about me.”

Hino says, “No joke, Meatball Head. But they are hoping and believing that you will come home to them.”

Usagi says, with a smile, “Then I shouldn’t let them down.”

Makoto says, “No joke, girlfriend.”

Asuna says, with a smile, “All of us wish to go back and this is just another reason to keep going forward.” The others nod their heads in agreement and Usagi can’t help herself to nuzzle herself on Mamoru since she hasn’t seen the man that she loved for over two long hard years.

Narration (Usagi’s POV)

“It was wonderful to see my friends and my darling Darien-kun, again, but I am scared in the way that they managed to get in here. However, I do have faith in Ami-chan and Trista-chan and their abilities… Oops! I should say Mizuno-chan and Setsuna-chan since it is the name of their avatars, but then again, the girls are used to calling me Serena not Usagi through I can’t help to wonder about calling myself that after Pyro’s ‘bunny comments’. Man! She can be a real pain something! But I still love her all the same. I never felt so happy in a long time and I know that with the others to help me and the others, we’ll all be able to get out of this ‘death game’ soon.

I’m really glad that it wasn’t my transformation into Sailor Moon that caused the whole of the game to go wacky, but I’m more concerned than ever. Someone was trying to hack into the game and most likely, they were trying to get to us! Who? And why? Well, whoever they are, they left us with a real mess. The game is still going and it might still unstable, so, we need to get out of here and out of here quick! Well, that’s easier said than done! Our best bet is to get to the top floor and beat the final boss, but we have over twenty floors to go and it isn’t going to get any easier even with my friends and beloved here to help us out!

Plus, there is the mystery of Sinon, too! Who is she? How did she get into SAO? She might know the answers if she can get her memories back! However, she is drawing a major blank so far. It seems like the way that she got in here caused her to lose her memories. I hope that she will remember who she is soon. Plus, what happened to Kayaba? It looked like I defeated him, but he didn’t ‘vanish’ in the way that other players do when they die. Is it possible that he is still alive? Does he know what’s going on? Something tells me that the best way to find out is to keep going and reach the final floor! And I know with all of my friends, we’ll get there and get home to everyone that’s waiting for us!”

End of Chapter 1

And that’s the start of the brand new story, everyone! Remember, Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment is an AU story of Sword Art Online anime/manga in which something happened to prevent Kirito/Kazuto winning the game and the players had to continue on, so, this story is an AU version of my ‘Sailor Moon Online’ starting from the point where Sailor Moon fought against Kayaba. So, if you want an idea of what’s happening in this story, you have to read that story up until Chapter 7, folks. However, you are going to see plenty of similarities and differences from that story and this one, everyone! Please read and review and tell me what you think, but no flames please! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!