Chapter 12

"I... might have to get used to this now.."

I thought with a bit of regret as Toru looked at me and gave a thumbs up. "I like the new look!" She said with a smile as I awkwardly rubbed the back of my head, a little flustered. We then heard the doors open after Diavels speech as we all ran into the room and took up our stances. I reached down to grab my sword from my waist but felt nothing. I looked down and remembered just seconds ago that I switched the strap and looked over my right shoulder, seeing the handle of my sword. A grim chuckle was then heard throughout the room as a red half circle showed up, I saw it and shouted at the people near it "GET OUT OF THE CIRCLE!!" as They looked at me and a crash came down from the ceiling, hitting most of the people nearby.

The dust settled as I saw at least Six players near death, I ran over to try and help them out as the dust settled, I then saw in-front of me, a giant scythe stuck into the ground. "Holy...Shit..." I thought as fear began to overtake me, I then heard a maniacal laughter as I looked directly up above me, seeing two red eyes at the ceiling.

I felt like I couldn't move a muscle, My body refused to move as I was too scared to move an inch. I gritted my teeth and forced myself to pick up a nearby injured player and ran towards the group. I then heard a hissing sound drop down and pick up the scythe, I tripped running as the injured player and I fell down and I looked back at what picked up the scythe. A health bar of Three separate bars appeared around the entity, as the name then showed itself.

"Fatal Scythe"

Was the name that the boss was called, three whole health bars and a quarter of our groups were taken out by its first move already. I felt terrified, the same scared feeling from the Kayaba Incident at the Town of Beginnings. I got up onto my feet as I had no choice but to fight, I looked at my hands as my hands were trembling a bit, I then heard Diavel's voice from behind me shout "Group One! Charge in!!" as the first group charged in, getting Fatal Scythes attention.

"T-This isn't supposed to be here..."

I thought to myself as I thought more "I-Illfang was supposed to be here... Not fatal..." as I felt a hand touch my shoulder and saw it was Sato. "Hey man.., Take a backseat will ya..." as Sato then ran in right behind the first group. "Sato! Wait!!" I shouted as Sato ignored me and began fighting Fatal Scythe, the first group did their job and dodged most of Fatal Scythe's attacks and dropped him down One and One Half of health.

I then grabbed the handle of my sword, feeling my hand still trembling as I tried to keep my thoughts off of my fear of death itself. "You can do this... You can do this..!!" I thought to myself with my eyes closed as I heard Agil shout from the battlefield, "Hey! Group 2 be ready to switch!!" as I opened my eyes. I exhaled out heavily and took a deep breath, exhaling once more and reassuring my mental state. I pulled out my sword as I shouted "GROUP TWO IS READY TO SWITCH!!" as some of group two were more scared than group one.

Agil shouted back "Get ready then!! SWITCH!!" as I ran forward, along with me were three others that ran into the danger zone. "Hey Give me a boost!" I shouted as one of the tanks then set up one of their shields as an extender. I jumped off the shield and swung at full force at Fatal Scythe, slashing diagonally onto his cloak, landing a bit harshly though. Toru ran up to me to help me up as Fatal Scythe let out a bellowing roar throughout the boss room.

Group one headed back as some of group two came forward, Sato stayed back as he was a bit exhausted from his fight. "We got this!" I shouted at the group as I stood back up and Fatal Scythe readied his scythe for a wide swing. I jumped out of the way seeing the red icon on the floor as Toru did as well, we then noticed a player jump out but not in time, getting cut in half by the wide swing. The players top half fell to the floor and shattered as their bottom half shattered where it stood.

"Shit..." I muttered as I looked up at Fatal, I heard footsteps as it was Kirito and the hooded figure running up to us. "Kirito, it's gonna take a while before we kill fatal.." I told him as he replied "Illfang was supposed to be here, Why isn't he here" confused. "I don't know, but for now we have to finish this fight.." I said as he nodded, replying "Right, we can do a four way combo with our group" as I nodded.

Both of our groups then ran towards Fatal scythe as I said "Toru you're with me!" as Kirito did the same, saying "Asuna! You're with me!" as they both nodded and understood. Our group dodged multiple fatal scythe swings as Kirito and I caught off a Fatal Scythe swing and parried it. Asuna and Toru then ran in as Asuna pulled out her rapier and threw a flurry of rapier thrusts as Toru threw a barrage of punches to match Asuna's flurry. They both then threw a single hard hit as it knocked Fatal scythe a bit, stunning him and dropping his health down to yellow.

"Switch in!!"

Both Asuna and Toru shouted as Kirito ran around Asuna and I jumped over Toru, both of us rushing at Fatal scythe, swinging like our life depended on it.

"HAAAAH!!!!"

We both shouted out as Kirito and I both swung a Vertical Strike, Fatal roared out as it lived on a sliver of health, "ONE MORE!!" I shouted as Kirito and I threw a sword thrust, along with Toru and Asuna throwing a piercing thrust and a hard punch. We all landed our hits at the same time as Fatal Scythe let out a bellowing roar once more, turning cyan and shattered into pieces. All four of us were tired as a giant text box showed up saying "Congratulations!" to everyone who participated in the bossfight. Everyone there got a large amount of COL and EXP, as for both Kirito and I, we got an extra boss drop item.