Sword Art Online Ep. 1

      Blake burst open his bedroom door, threw down his bag, and jumped into his desk chair. His hands was like lighting as he quickly logged into his computer and turned on the "SAO Live Stream," now all he had to do was wait until the launch. He opened up one of his game cabinets and grabbed "Sword Art Online" his hands twitched as he opened the box, the game dropped down on the floor, "Oh no, please don't be broken," he picked it up, rubbed it off and popped it into the computer, where a little box popped up that read, "Please put on your FullDrive as we wait for launch," he put it on his head and laid on his bed waiting for the countdown to end, 3....2.....1. Blake smiled, "Link Start!" Colorful lines rushed passed his face as he closed his eyes, he heard the the wind blow, and he opened his eyes.
     Blakye was utterly shocked, here he was inside a video game, it felt like a dream, this was unbelievable. He looked down at his hands to see the fingerless gloves and light armor that he had requested for his character, he was going to play the stealth role, and do in person what he had been doing at a computer screen for so long. Blakye went into his inventory and equipped the sword that had been given to him as a starter weapon, he would eventually get a dagger, but keeping a sword on you was never a bad idea. "Now to find the others," he said running towards Starter City from the grasslands, killing low level boars every encounter.
    When he reached the city, he was now a level higher, he walked around the streets and found Nero and Lynn near the shopping area, "You guys can't possibly have enough money already."
     "Those boars have a good bit of money in them," Lynn shrugged before waving around his new short sword, Blakye walked up to the shopkeeper and scrolled through the weapons, he found a cheap longsword with good attack damage. The three took a moment to examine their weapons before examining each other, Blakye noticed that Nero was a girl, and even though he looked like one IRL, it disturbed him a little, Lynn's character had brown hair tied in a ponytail, Blakye himself was noted to have longer hair than in real life, but nothing else out of the ordinary. Commotion erupted from passerby's, "There's no log out button!" people shouted out, Blakye quickly went into his menu and tried to log out, he pressed the blank button several times to no avail. The three ran to the center of the city when the sky went red, a giant figure appeared in the air, "I am the Cardinal, and this is my realm," the players looked on in horror as the emotionless figure continued, "I had a vision of a world, my world, where people's lives would be in my hands, that world is Sword Art Online."
      "There are no respawns, if you die in this world, you die in real life. There is no way out, thousands of players have already perished from family members who have foolishly unplugged the helmets," news screens popped up of players from around the world that had died in game, titles like, "Video game kills players," and, "Video game disaster leaves families devastated," Blakye's eyes grew wide from the screens that showed mothers holding daughters and medics transporting bodies.
     "I've placed an item in your inventory, please use it instantly," all the players went into their inventories and took out the new "mirror" object. Blakye clicked on it and was surrounded by a light, he looked back down to his face, his real face staring back at him, he looked over at Nero who's body had been morphed to look like his, Lynn's hair had been spiked instead of put up. "Oh and there is one other thing I should mention, there is only one way out of this world, if you can beat the floor boss on this floor, you'll go up to the second, and so on, these floors go all the way up to 100, the final boss sits on that floor." Cardinal took a pause, "That is the only way to escape Aincrad, good luck and have fun," and with that the Cardinal disappeared.