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The other thread still has some pages left but at Flere's advice I'm going...
The other thread still has some pages left but at Flere's advice I'm going...
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The other thread still has some pages left but at Flere's advice I'm going to open the new thread now. Attached below is a link to the original thread and all chapters. Check back regularly for new chapters and interesting posts on world building!
Special Thanks to Flere and Headmade-sama for all of their support in this fic. And to the rest of you lot who have become my source of free entertainment and my stress relief valve.
The Previous Thread For those masochists who want the full experience.
Official Conclusion of Last Thread (Last Author Post) For continuities sake.
Previous Snips AKA- The Story So Far
prologue - "The Mage and the Swordsman."
chapter 1
chapter 2 - Part 1
chapter 2 - Part 2
Chapter 2 - Part 3
(Posted in Following Posts)
Chapter 3 - part 1
Chapter 3 - part 2
Chapter 3 - part 3
Chapter 3 - part 4
Chapter 4 - part 1
Chapter 4 - part 2
Chapter 4 - part 3
Chapter 4 - part 4
Chapter 5 - part 1
Chapter 5 - part 2
Chapter 5 - part 3
Chapter 5 - part 4
Chapter 5 - part 5
Chapter 6 - part 1
Chapter 6 - part 2
Chapter 6 - part 3 - "Hammer and Heart, Split Moon."
Chapter 6 - part 4 - "A Pact of Blood Between Air and Fae."
Chapter 6 - part 5 - "Arrival in York, An Incident Ensues, Gunpowder Plot, The Captain and the Pirate Prince."
Chapter 7 - part 1 - "Millia's True Colors, York Escape!, The Daring Prince, the Winged Flash."
Chapter 7 - part 2 - "Meeting a Prince, Meeting a Postman, A Faerie Reveals herself, Sir Dunwell Arrives"
Chapter 7 - part 3 - "Execution, Battle of Skiesedge, Farewell to a Knight."
Chapter 8 - part 1 - "PoppopBoom!, the Luckless Princess , A wild Silicia Appears!"
Chapter 8 - part 2 - "Eve of the World Tree Raid."
Chapter 8 - part 3 - "A game of Crowns, A Incident in Albion, Midori the female swordsman."
Chapter 8 - part 4 - "Goodbyes, Mob Violence, We're Family"
Chapter 9 - Part 1 - "Tarbes Side Quest"
Chapter 9 - Part 2 - "Arrival in Tarbes, Goodnight Louise & KoKo"
Chapter 9 - Part 3 - "So Cute, Pixies Attack, Where's Yui?"
Chapter 9 - Part 4 - "Yui alone, the Shaman and the Yearning Knight, the Healer's Cottage.
Hints of what is to come. Glimpses into the future of the fic.
Snip-1-"Yui! No boys!"
Snip-2-"Some simple rules for dating my daughter."
Snip-3-"A demographic Problem"
Additional Resources. I.E. Random Stuff Added by the Fic Author about the Fic World
Tentative Force Chart
Character List
ALfheim Bestiary
Halkegenia Offline- The occasionally ongoing, less well written Omake Compliment to this Fic (Feel Free to offer suggestions.)
Set - 1 - "And now for something completely different"
Set - 2 - "Kirche has competition"
The other thread still has some pages left but at Flere's advice I'm going to open the new thread now. Attached below is a link to the original thread and all chapters. Check back regularly for new chapters and interesting posts on world building!
Special Thanks to Flere and Headmade-sama for all of their support in this fic. And to the rest of you lot who have become my source of free entertainment and my stress relief valve.
The Previous Thread For those masochists who want the full experience.
Official Conclusion of Last Thread (Last Author Post) For continuities sake.
Previous Snips AKA- The Story So Far
prologue - "The Mage and the Swordsman."
chapter 1
chapter 2 - Part 1
chapter 2 - Part 2
Chapter 2 - Part 3
(Posted in Following Posts)
Chapter 3 - part 1
Chapter 3 - part 2
Chapter 3 - part 3
Chapter 3 - part 4
Chapter 4 - part 1
Chapter 4 - part 2
Chapter 4 - part 3
Chapter 4 - part 4
Chapter 5 - part 1
Chapter 5 - part 2
Chapter 5 - part 3
Chapter 5 - part 4
Chapter 5 - part 5
Chapter 6 - part 1
Chapter 6 - part 2
Chapter 6 - part 3 - "Hammer and Heart, Split Moon."
Chapter 6 - part 4 - "A Pact of Blood Between Air and Fae."
Chapter 6 - part 5 - "Arrival in York, An Incident Ensues, Gunpowder Plot, The Captain and the Pirate Prince."
Chapter 7 - part 1 - "Millia's True Colors, York Escape!, The Daring Prince, the Winged Flash."
Chapter 7 - part 2 - "Meeting a Prince, Meeting a Postman, A Faerie Reveals herself, Sir Dunwell Arrives"
Chapter 7 - part 3 - "Execution, Battle of Skiesedge, Farewell to a Knight."
Chapter 8 - part 1 - "PoppopBoom!, the Luckless Princess , A wild Silicia Appears!"
Chapter 8 - part 2 - "Eve of the World Tree Raid."
Chapter 8 - part 3 - "A game of Crowns, A Incident in Albion, Midori the female swordsman."
Chapter 8 - part 4 - "Goodbyes, Mob Violence, We're Family"
Chapter 9 - Part 1 - "Tarbes Side Quest"
Chapter 9 - Part 2 - "Arrival in Tarbes, Goodnight Louise & KoKo"
Chapter 9 - Part 3 - "So Cute, Pixies Attack, Where's Yui?"
Chapter 9 - Part 4 - "Yui alone, the Shaman and the Yearning Knight, the Healer's Cottage.
Hints of what is to come. Glimpses into the future of the fic.
Snip-1-"Yui! No boys!"
Snip-2-"Some simple rules for dating my daughter."
Snip-3-"A demographic Problem"
Additional Resources. I.E. Random Stuff Added by the Fic Author about the Fic World
Tentative Force Chart
Character List
ALfheim Bestiary
Halkegenia Offline- The occasionally ongoing, less well written Omake Compliment to this Fic (Feel Free to offer suggestions.)
Set - 1 - "And now for something completely different"
Set - 2 - "Kirche has competition"
Triggerhappy
Stick with Trigger and You'll Make it Through
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Halkegenia Offline-Set-1
"I think that's him." Alicia squinted into the distance. A formation of red winged Faeries was approaching from the east. Sakuya watched as the figures resolved into the distinctive forms of heavily armored Salamander knights. Their sullen red armor marked them as members of the Salamander Lord's personal guard, said to be among the most powerful players in the game. The minimum qualification to join their ranks was to slay a flying dragon single handedly. They escorted a smaller figure garbed in dark robes and light body armor.
The Salamander Lord and his escort set down on the perimeter of the Arrun tower, the knights taking up a parade stance as their leader stepped forward, removing his helm as he approached. Sakuya blinked, this was supposed to be Lord Mortimer, the Elder brother of General Eugene? She had seen screen caps before but still she was surprised. He looked younger than the General, of course that may have been deliberate on his part, after all, charisma was not a vanity that a Leader could afford to ignore.
Sakuya smiled as the Salamander Lord Approached. "I'm glad you could join us Lord Mortimer, you cold blooded lizard."
The Salamander Lord barely seemed to acknowledge the remark. "And I should be so lucky to have the company of the Bottle Fairy of the Sylphs and the Lackadaisical Black Cat of the Cait Syth."
Sakuya tilted her head to the side, "I must confess, I thought you would be taller in person."
The stoic knights who stood to either side of their Lord, cringed fearfully. A vein erupted above Mortimers left eye.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MIDGET WHOSE SHORTER THAN HIS KID BROTHER, HUH? HUH?! WHO? I'M NOT SHORT YOUR JUST FREAKISHLY TALL YOU BEANPOLL!" As one, the Salamander Knights piled onto their Leader restraining him from charging the other two Faerie Lords. "I'LL SHOW YOU TINY, WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU THEY'LL NEED A MICROSCOPE TO FIND WHATS LEFT! THEN WHO'LL BE LAUGHING?!"
Lady Sakuya blinked owlishly. "Well . . . I didn't expect that."
Alicia for her part was bouncing excitedly on the balls of her feet. "Ooh, ooh, this is going to be so much fun!"
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"Kirito-kun." Lady Sakuya said. "You're exactly the person I wanted to see." The Sylph Leader smiled warmly as the black swordsman entered her office. Alicia Rue and the hunter KoKo were already seated, and with Kirito's arrival, they were all in attendance.
"Mmm." Kirito nodded, "Novair said you had a job for me."
"That's right." Sakuya said, becoming all business. "Reports have been sent by the Palace of an incident that has occurred near the Grammond lands. Apparently a raid boss has been spotted making its way out of the forest and eating cattle at night. I shouldn't need to tell you how essential it is that we resolve this issue quickly."
The Spriggan boy gave the Faerie Lord a severe nod. "You want me to take out the raid boss?"
"Not just yet." Sakuya said, "For now, you'll head out with Alicia-chan and Koko-san to investigate."
"KoKo-chan here is one of our best hunters, so she'll definitely know all about the boss." Alicia said knowledgeably. "I'll be coming along to show the flag." As she finished speaking, the girlish Cait Syth's nose began to twitch faintly.
Sakuya nodded in agreement. "It is essential that the people of Tristain see us taking responsibility as a community for the issues our arrival has caused. You are to meet with Count Grammond who will offer his assistance in any way possible. I will leave it to you discretion on whether the boss can be safely neutralized with the available forces, don't hesitate to send for reinforcements."
Kirito nodded, "Understood, Lady Sakuya." He turned and smiled to Alicia and Koko. "We won't be together long, but I'm honored to be partied with such auspicious members of the Cait Syth, Alicia-sama, KoKo-chan."
The Sylph Leader gave a smile that faltered for just a second, her nose twitching, before redoubling. She raised the sleeve of her elegant green Yukata to conceal her amusement.
"Kirito-kun, are you wearing cologne?" She asked, struggling to conceal a hint of mirth.
"Eh?" Kirito looked startled and then smiled sheepishly. "Perfume actually. Yui found out that you can give gifts to someone when you haven't seen them in a long time, so she's been experimenting for . . ." He hesitated. "For when we get Asuna back."
"Still, she didn't need to make you wear it." Sakuya said, "I must confess, the sent is lovely, but it doesn't suit your image at all, Kirito-kun."
The Spriggan boy frowned, but his protest was cut off by a soft purring from behind him. Kirito nearly jumped out of his skin as slender arms enfolded him from behind and a small warm body pressed against his back.
"A-Alicia-sama!" Kirito stuttered. "What are you doing?!"
By way of answering, the Cait Syth leader rubbed her nose against the side of Kirito's neck and giggled. "I'm not sure. You just smell really nice!" And with that he felt the small leader snuggling her face down against his neck.
"Alicia!" Sakuya said, shocked by her fellow leaders forward behavior. Certainly they had played games with Kirito back in ALfheim, but nothing had been meant by it. Now, with real consequences, this sort of behavior was unacceptable in a faction leader!
Suddenly, KoKo was clinging against Kirito from the side, eyes faintly watery and nose twitching furiously. Her tail lashing about.
"KoKo! You too?!" Sakuya had risen from her desk and was on the verge of calling for guards, preferably Sylphs, because whatever had happened was effecting both Cait Syth.
"Well, he does smell nice." The woman said dreamily. "Like . . . Like I want to . . ." Suddenly the hunter's mouth opened wide, and needle like fangs closed slowly down on one of Kirito's ears.
>>
In the garden of an inn with a fragrant olive tree, Kirigaya Suguha, Leafa, was enjoying her day off, and at the same time was getting to know the cute little girl who lovingly referred to her brother as 'Papa.'
Yui really was the sweetest little girl she had ever met, and despite her misgivings over the arrangement at first, Leafa was rapidly starting to view her fondly like the little sister she had never been blessed with.
"Yui-chan? You got permission to use those from Mari-san, right?" Leafa asked from her seat in the shade cast by the olive tree. With KoKo off on a mission, and her students attending to their own jobs until evening, Leafa had nothing to do for the time being but sit here in the shade and enjoy a warm cup of tea.
"Mmm." Yui nodded. "I asked, she said I could use whatever ones I like as long as I only take a few of each." The girl carefully collected the flowers she had picked and carried them back into the shade where she had laid out the grinding stone and other implements. A double handful of perfume bottles sat empty to one side, and about the same number of bottles lay filled beside Leafa.
As Yui went to work, Leafa examined some of Yui's ingredients, one of them, a lush green looking plant with many tiny flowers, stood out in particular to her.
"Yui-chan? What's this one?"
"Nepeta Cataria." Yui responded happily.
Leafa took an experimental sniff. It had a faint smell, but nothing really amazing. "Why did you pick this one?"
Yui frowned and seemed to give the question some thought. "Without access to an external database I can't be sure, but Mari-san said some ingredients enhance the effects of others, so I've been experimenting. I used it in the perfume I gave Papa today, and it smelled really nice. But I haven't isolated it as a key ingredient."
"Hmm." Leafa said. Well, this wasn't a chemistry class, Yui wasn't mixing household products. It wasn't like there was any harm, right?
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"Mama, Papa, look at this one!" Yui shouted from ahead of her parents as she raced up to look through the shop windows. The Tristanian Capitol, even the Noble district, was a crowded and noisy place compared to the streets of Arrun. That just seemed to make it all the more exciting to Yui who was bursting with energy now that she had her Mama back.
"Don't run off Yui-chan!" Asuna called.
"I won't, Mama!" Yui said in a sing song voice.
"Kirito-kun, we need to catch up with her!" Asuna said, turning to her husband.
"It's probably okay." Kirito said, smiling, "As long as she stays in sight we can get above the crowds to get to her."
"Kirito-kun!" Asuna said indignantly.
"Let it be an adventure for her." Kirito said easily, besides, with his speed, combined with the two new swords on open display on his back, the former "Beater" of Aincrad was confident that he could intervene in any trouble his daughter got into on their little excursion.
"You spoil her you know." Asuna observed with a hint of irritation. The quirk of his wife's lips and the way she glanced out of the corner of her eye let him know she wasn't entirely serious.
"And you never let her have any fun." He jabbed back. Yui was just turning the corner when she recoiled, falling back in surprise.
"Yui-chan!" Asuna raced up to her daughter, Kirito close behind. Thankfully, Yui was unharmed, rubbing her head absently the former SAO mental health AI was thoroughly focused on something just out of sight around the corner.
"Yui-chan! Are you okay?" Asuna asked as she reached down and began to check all over her daughter for any signs of injury.
"Un." Yui nodded, "I'm fine." She said, still rubbing at her forehead with a smile.
"Are you okay?" Another voice called out. Kirito and Asuna looked up to see the cause of Yui's spill. A small, black haired boy, rubbing at his own forehead and an older woman with light brown hair leaning over him with concern. The woman was well dressed, Kirito thought, definitely a noble woman.
"I'm okay, Mother." The boy said with a smile, standing up quickly. "I'm sorry, shouldn't have run ahead like that!" The boy bowed slightly to Yui, "I hope you're alright too." Yui nodded to the boy as she brushed herself off. "That's a relief!" The boy said.
"And this is why we don't run in crowded streets, Son." A kindly sounding older man with black hair and mustache said from beside the boy's mother.
"I know. I'm sorry, Father." The boy said respectfully. "But the sights and sounds of the Capitol are always so exciting! I just couldn't help myself!"
The man nodded and turned to Kirito and Asuna. "I hope you'll forgive my son for his excitability." The man said, he carried himself with a relaxed military posture and an eye patch over his left eye spoke of time in battle. Both were very at odds with the smile on his face and relaxed tone of his voice.
"It's no problem." Kirito said, feeling mildly perplexed. "Nobody was hurt. It should just be a lesson to both of them to be more careful. Isn't that right, Yui?"
Yui nodded again, "I'm sorry, Papa." Kirito wasn't particularly angry, like he'd said, there was no harm down.
"You shouldn't make us worry in the first place." Asuna said as she straightened out Yui's hair.
"Sorry, Mama." The girl looked chastised. Few things really seemed to embarrass or fluster Yui, but being told off by either of her 'parents' was certainly one of them.
"Mama, Papa?" The boy's mother asked.
"Is there a problem?" Kirito asked, of course he should have known better than to ask. Both he and Asuna were much too young to have a child who looked as old as Yui.
The older woman smiled warmly. "No, not at all! It's wonderful that you've taken her in! It's the same with our own Son. A relative of my husband's you see."
"You don't need to being telling strangers our life story Dear!" The black haired man grouched.
"Don't be like that Dear! I asked the question in the first place." The woman leaned down towards Yui and smiled. "You're really lucky to have such a beautiful Mama and handsome young Papa."
Yui's expression brightened and she nodded in complete agreement.
"Come along Dear, we'll be late for our appointment if we don't hurry." The man said to his wife.
"Of course! How could I have forgotten?" The woman bowed apologetically. "Please excuse us."
"N-no, not at all." Asuna said, bowing back. "I hope we haven't kept you."
The boy and his mother continued past Kirito, the boy's father pausing briefly at Kirito's side. "Uhm, can I help you?"
The man eyed the swords on Kirito's back, for an instant, Kirito was certain he felt an overwhelming killing intent. And then the man smiled. "I like your style, boy." The man said and then set off, chuckling, after his family.
The whole incident left Kirito feeling very nonplussed as he watched them depart until Asuna called for him to start walking before she and Yui left him behind. The last thing he heard as he followed after his wife and daughter was the boy's excited question. "I hope we have time left over to go see the little Mage!"
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"I think that's him." Alicia squinted into the distance. A formation of red winged Faeries was approaching from the east. Sakuya watched as the figures resolved into the distinctive forms of heavily armored Salamander knights. Their sullen red armor marked them as members of the Salamander Lord's personal guard, said to be among the most powerful players in the game. The minimum qualification to join their ranks was to slay a flying dragon single handedly. They escorted a smaller figure garbed in dark robes and light body armor.
The Salamander Lord and his escort set down on the perimeter of the Arrun tower, the knights taking up a parade stance as their leader stepped forward, removing his helm as he approached. Sakuya blinked, this was supposed to be Lord Mortimer, the Elder brother of General Eugene? She had seen screen caps before but still she was surprised. He looked younger than the General, of course that may have been deliberate on his part, after all, charisma was not a vanity that a Leader could afford to ignore.
Sakuya smiled as the Salamander Lord Approached. "I'm glad you could join us Lord Mortimer, you cold blooded lizard."
The Salamander Lord barely seemed to acknowledge the remark. "And I should be so lucky to have the company of the Bottle Fairy of the Sylphs and the Lackadaisical Black Cat of the Cait Syth."
Sakuya tilted her head to the side, "I must confess, I thought you would be taller in person."
The stoic knights who stood to either side of their Lord, cringed fearfully. A vein erupted above Mortimers left eye.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MIDGET WHOSE SHORTER THAN HIS KID BROTHER, HUH? HUH?! WHO? I'M NOT SHORT YOUR JUST FREAKISHLY TALL YOU BEANPOLL!" As one, the Salamander Knights piled onto their Leader restraining him from charging the other two Faerie Lords. "I'LL SHOW YOU TINY, WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU THEY'LL NEED A MICROSCOPE TO FIND WHATS LEFT! THEN WHO'LL BE LAUGHING?!"
Lady Sakuya blinked owlishly. "Well . . . I didn't expect that."
Alicia for her part was bouncing excitedly on the balls of her feet. "Ooh, ooh, this is going to be so much fun!"
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"Kirito-kun." Lady Sakuya said. "You're exactly the person I wanted to see." The Sylph Leader smiled warmly as the black swordsman entered her office. Alicia Rue and the hunter KoKo were already seated, and with Kirito's arrival, they were all in attendance.
"Mmm." Kirito nodded, "Novair said you had a job for me."
"That's right." Sakuya said, becoming all business. "Reports have been sent by the Palace of an incident that has occurred near the Grammond lands. Apparently a raid boss has been spotted making its way out of the forest and eating cattle at night. I shouldn't need to tell you how essential it is that we resolve this issue quickly."
The Spriggan boy gave the Faerie Lord a severe nod. "You want me to take out the raid boss?"
"Not just yet." Sakuya said, "For now, you'll head out with Alicia-chan and Koko-san to investigate."
"KoKo-chan here is one of our best hunters, so she'll definitely know all about the boss." Alicia said knowledgeably. "I'll be coming along to show the flag." As she finished speaking, the girlish Cait Syth's nose began to twitch faintly.
Sakuya nodded in agreement. "It is essential that the people of Tristain see us taking responsibility as a community for the issues our arrival has caused. You are to meet with Count Grammond who will offer his assistance in any way possible. I will leave it to you discretion on whether the boss can be safely neutralized with the available forces, don't hesitate to send for reinforcements."
Kirito nodded, "Understood, Lady Sakuya." He turned and smiled to Alicia and Koko. "We won't be together long, but I'm honored to be partied with such auspicious members of the Cait Syth, Alicia-sama, KoKo-chan."
The Sylph Leader gave a smile that faltered for just a second, her nose twitching, before redoubling. She raised the sleeve of her elegant green Yukata to conceal her amusement.
"Kirito-kun, are you wearing cologne?" She asked, struggling to conceal a hint of mirth.
"Eh?" Kirito looked startled and then smiled sheepishly. "Perfume actually. Yui found out that you can give gifts to someone when you haven't seen them in a long time, so she's been experimenting for . . ." He hesitated. "For when we get Asuna back."
"Still, she didn't need to make you wear it." Sakuya said, "I must confess, the sent is lovely, but it doesn't suit your image at all, Kirito-kun."
The Spriggan boy frowned, but his protest was cut off by a soft purring from behind him. Kirito nearly jumped out of his skin as slender arms enfolded him from behind and a small warm body pressed against his back.
"A-Alicia-sama!" Kirito stuttered. "What are you doing?!"
By way of answering, the Cait Syth leader rubbed her nose against the side of Kirito's neck and giggled. "I'm not sure. You just smell really nice!" And with that he felt the small leader snuggling her face down against his neck.
"Alicia!" Sakuya said, shocked by her fellow leaders forward behavior. Certainly they had played games with Kirito back in ALfheim, but nothing had been meant by it. Now, with real consequences, this sort of behavior was unacceptable in a faction leader!
Suddenly, KoKo was clinging against Kirito from the side, eyes faintly watery and nose twitching furiously. Her tail lashing about.
"KoKo! You too?!" Sakuya had risen from her desk and was on the verge of calling for guards, preferably Sylphs, because whatever had happened was effecting both Cait Syth.
"Well, he does smell nice." The woman said dreamily. "Like . . . Like I want to . . ." Suddenly the hunter's mouth opened wide, and needle like fangs closed slowly down on one of Kirito's ears.
>>
In the garden of an inn with a fragrant olive tree, Kirigaya Suguha, Leafa, was enjoying her day off, and at the same time was getting to know the cute little girl who lovingly referred to her brother as 'Papa.'
Yui really was the sweetest little girl she had ever met, and despite her misgivings over the arrangement at first, Leafa was rapidly starting to view her fondly like the little sister she had never been blessed with.
"Yui-chan? You got permission to use those from Mari-san, right?" Leafa asked from her seat in the shade cast by the olive tree. With KoKo off on a mission, and her students attending to their own jobs until evening, Leafa had nothing to do for the time being but sit here in the shade and enjoy a warm cup of tea.
"Mmm." Yui nodded. "I asked, she said I could use whatever ones I like as long as I only take a few of each." The girl carefully collected the flowers she had picked and carried them back into the shade where she had laid out the grinding stone and other implements. A double handful of perfume bottles sat empty to one side, and about the same number of bottles lay filled beside Leafa.
As Yui went to work, Leafa examined some of Yui's ingredients, one of them, a lush green looking plant with many tiny flowers, stood out in particular to her.
"Yui-chan? What's this one?"
"Nepeta Cataria." Yui responded happily.
Leafa took an experimental sniff. It had a faint smell, but nothing really amazing. "Why did you pick this one?"
Yui frowned and seemed to give the question some thought. "Without access to an external database I can't be sure, but Mari-san said some ingredients enhance the effects of others, so I've been experimenting. I used it in the perfume I gave Papa today, and it smelled really nice. But I haven't isolated it as a key ingredient."
"Hmm." Leafa said. Well, this wasn't a chemistry class, Yui wasn't mixing household products. It wasn't like there was any harm, right?
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"Mama, Papa, look at this one!" Yui shouted from ahead of her parents as she raced up to look through the shop windows. The Tristanian Capitol, even the Noble district, was a crowded and noisy place compared to the streets of Arrun. That just seemed to make it all the more exciting to Yui who was bursting with energy now that she had her Mama back.
"Don't run off Yui-chan!" Asuna called.
"I won't, Mama!" Yui said in a sing song voice.
"Kirito-kun, we need to catch up with her!" Asuna said, turning to her husband.
"It's probably okay." Kirito said, smiling, "As long as she stays in sight we can get above the crowds to get to her."
"Kirito-kun!" Asuna said indignantly.
"Let it be an adventure for her." Kirito said easily, besides, with his speed, combined with the two new swords on open display on his back, the former "Beater" of Aincrad was confident that he could intervene in any trouble his daughter got into on their little excursion.
"You spoil her you know." Asuna observed with a hint of irritation. The quirk of his wife's lips and the way she glanced out of the corner of her eye let him know she wasn't entirely serious.
"And you never let her have any fun." He jabbed back. Yui was just turning the corner when she recoiled, falling back in surprise.
"Yui-chan!" Asuna raced up to her daughter, Kirito close behind. Thankfully, Yui was unharmed, rubbing her head absently the former SAO mental health AI was thoroughly focused on something just out of sight around the corner.
"Yui-chan! Are you okay?" Asuna asked as she reached down and began to check all over her daughter for any signs of injury.
"Un." Yui nodded, "I'm fine." She said, still rubbing at her forehead with a smile.
"Are you okay?" Another voice called out. Kirito and Asuna looked up to see the cause of Yui's spill. A small, black haired boy, rubbing at his own forehead and an older woman with light brown hair leaning over him with concern. The woman was well dressed, Kirito thought, definitely a noble woman.
"I'm okay, Mother." The boy said with a smile, standing up quickly. "I'm sorry, shouldn't have run ahead like that!" The boy bowed slightly to Yui, "I hope you're alright too." Yui nodded to the boy as she brushed herself off. "That's a relief!" The boy said.
"And this is why we don't run in crowded streets, Son." A kindly sounding older man with black hair and mustache said from beside the boy's mother.
"I know. I'm sorry, Father." The boy said respectfully. "But the sights and sounds of the Capitol are always so exciting! I just couldn't help myself!"
The man nodded and turned to Kirito and Asuna. "I hope you'll forgive my son for his excitability." The man said, he carried himself with a relaxed military posture and an eye patch over his left eye spoke of time in battle. Both were very at odds with the smile on his face and relaxed tone of his voice.
"It's no problem." Kirito said, feeling mildly perplexed. "Nobody was hurt. It should just be a lesson to both of them to be more careful. Isn't that right, Yui?"
Yui nodded again, "I'm sorry, Papa." Kirito wasn't particularly angry, like he'd said, there was no harm down.
"You shouldn't make us worry in the first place." Asuna said as she straightened out Yui's hair.
"Sorry, Mama." The girl looked chastised. Few things really seemed to embarrass or fluster Yui, but being told off by either of her 'parents' was certainly one of them.
"Mama, Papa?" The boy's mother asked.
"Is there a problem?" Kirito asked, of course he should have known better than to ask. Both he and Asuna were much too young to have a child who looked as old as Yui.
The older woman smiled warmly. "No, not at all! It's wonderful that you've taken her in! It's the same with our own Son. A relative of my husband's you see."
"You don't need to being telling strangers our life story Dear!" The black haired man grouched.
"Don't be like that Dear! I asked the question in the first place." The woman leaned down towards Yui and smiled. "You're really lucky to have such a beautiful Mama and handsome young Papa."
Yui's expression brightened and she nodded in complete agreement.
"Come along Dear, we'll be late for our appointment if we don't hurry." The man said to his wife.
"Of course! How could I have forgotten?" The woman bowed apologetically. "Please excuse us."
"N-no, not at all." Asuna said, bowing back. "I hope we haven't kept you."
The boy and his mother continued past Kirito, the boy's father pausing briefly at Kirito's side. "Uhm, can I help you?"
The man eyed the swords on Kirito's back, for an instant, Kirito was certain he felt an overwhelming killing intent. And then the man smiled. "I like your style, boy." The man said and then set off, chuckling, after his family.
The whole incident left Kirito feeling very nonplussed as he watched them depart until Asuna called for him to start walking before she and Yui left him behind. The last thing he heard as he followed after his wife and daughter was the boy's excited question. "I hope we have time left over to go see the little Mage!"
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It's playing off a joke from previous thread, how Kirito and Wrath/Bradley both have a dedicated wife, being a badass that uses two swords, and have a small child that's not human.NeoSeether said:
Triggerhappy
Stick with Trigger and You'll Make it Through
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At least Argo has a ready made excuse for her fear of dogs now.Vaermina said:You know I can totally see the endless cat jokes getting on the nerves of various Cait-Sith after awhile.
...
Somewhere, somehow, Argo manages to fly to the lowest branches of the World Tree.
And can't get down.
Somewhere, somehow, Argo manages to fly to the lowest branches of the World Tree.
And can't get down.
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- Oblivion
And the dogs have an excuse to chase her.Triggerhappy said:
Beyond their ability to fly? (which suggests the 'cat stuck on tree' part will never happen, as Cait Sith can fly. Barring sudden inability to fly with wings running of power anyway)Bradley McCloud said:
Not sure where FMA comes into it, but definitely catnip!Bradley McCloud said:
Well, with Dref it had to be either a slash-fic or a stab-fic.Flere821 said:[1]... Upon re-readng, did I really just suggest a slash-fic outcome with Derf?
Yeah, that was pretty bad but I'm too lazy to hit the Watch Thread button/link
All the Faerie races have wings and can fly.themwarlord said:Wait, I thought they used dragons instead of actually flying? (Forgive me if I'm wrong, as I usually skip reading details such as the unique capabilities of the races
Maybe they have a growth spell? Well... considering Louise, I guess probably not actually. Well, no way to neutralise the person then I guess.
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- Somewhere
That does raise an interesting point. Still, Sheffield makes an effective Big Bad, so she'll probably still show up.Angelform said:
Triggerhappy
Stick with Trigger and You'll Make it Through
- Location
- SoCal
Wait, if a void familiar is killed, it's possible to re-summon, right?LockedKeye said:
Triggerhappy
Stick with Trigger and You'll Make it Through
- Location
- SoCal
That's what I meant . . . You get a new one. This would have interesting and also horrifying implications for later arcs.Felix3D said:
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- Oblivion
It could also end up amusing if Louise makes a level 1 disposable mob into a familiar and just keeps re-summoning a different version of the same type each time it gets squished by accident.Triggerhappy said:
Or it could end up in her summoning another online game world.
Triggerhappy
Stick with Trigger and You'll Make it Through
- Location
- SoCal
No what I mean is. If Sheffield ends up as a boss and gets killed. That leaves the position open for another summoning, either by Joseph or his successor.Vaermina said:It could also end up amusing if Louise makes a level 1 disposable mob into a familiar and just keeps re-summoning a different version of the same type each time it gets squished by accident.
Or it could end up in her summoning another online game world.
- Location
- Third planet from the star named Sol
- Pronouns
- He/They
That's not happening since 1, the Seed wasn't released. 2, it was clearly stated in the prologue that VRMMOs were set back by decades because of ALO. Sinon isn't being summoned.Bradley McCloud said:
mdkcde
"Emotions are prohibited"
- Location
- Nani Sore?
In canon this happened to Julio. After Joseph and Sheffield kill themselves, Julio woes Yosette, a.k.a.Tabiclone into loving him, thus making him the prime candidate as a void Familiar. So he is not only a broken Mind of God, he can now control mobs if this happens on this fic, and I hope it will. Julio will become a broken tier, specially if summoning the world tree counts as a failure and Louise gets another go at the summoning ritual.Triggerhappy said:
Imagine that...
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I was going to keep my mouth shut. Sometimes it's best not to give the author ideas...BF110C4 said:
Edit: especially since he's a true genius. The idea of him as the Myoz is terrifying.
mdkcde
"Emotions are prohibited"
- Location
- Nani Sore?
I like my dead villains to remain dead or unable to act directly.
It is the punishment he deserves, there is a lot of new and interesting things going on. Aincrad might actually become real, with an actual castle on top of it.
but he won't enjoy it, he won't feel it because he is a ghost. He can only watch people experiencing it... forever.
It is the punishment he deserves, there is a lot of new and interesting things going on. Aincrad might actually become real, with an actual castle on top of it.
but he won't enjoy it, he won't feel it because he is a ghost. He can only watch people experiencing it... forever.
Inverness
The Foxiest Wife
The same also applies to Saito after Tiffania summoned him.mdkcde said: