I don't own Sword Art Online in any format, this is a fan fiction

The truth hit Kazuto like a ton of bricks, he had been living with his aunt the entire time, and this family had been lying to him the entire time. He had to find out by making his own computer and earning his own money by making money by filling forms for a local computer company, he actually was one of the best employees that the company ever had, and as he continues to work he earned a lot of respect from the people of the company.

As a gift for the long hours he placed he was given a very special nerve gear, this one did not need to be wired or to be connected to an outlet or be recharged, it was said the thing was made by the creator of the nerve gear thinking that this would allow people to play longer, but the thing was too expensive to mass produce so it sat on a shelf right next to another one just like it.

The owner of the company gave it to him, with the blessings of its creator, Kayaba Akihiko. He was so happy to receive it, Kirito was a major fan of the way Kayaba did his programming and his development of the nerve gear. When he announce to the world that he was making the first ever true virtual MMO, Kirito made a deal with the owner of the company, he said that he would work for free for a month if he gave him a copy of the game and access to it as soon as it was ready.

For the owner it was a pretty nice deal, he would save a lot of money and the game would be practically free for him since his company made it. As the month finally came to an end Akihiko himself presented him with his copy of the game. It was going to be launched and he would be one of the 100 beta testers, he told the company owner that he would spend as much time as he could, and try to find all the bugs in it so that the game would be a success.

Kirito was the name of the character he made, and Kirito was known to be one of the most ruthless fighters during the beta, he managed to clear 90 floors of the 100-floor castle. His family worried that he was spending too much time in the game, and too little time taking care of himself. But as the month long beta was coming to an end, he met someone he never expected to meet, a golden dragon, and the dragon talked to him.

"You love this place, don't you invader. You enjoy being in our world so much you hardly leave it, So why don't you become a resident of this world and be happy? I can give you that chance but the only thing you need to do is to manage to touch the top of my head. But I will not make it easy for you, I will evade all the time, so are you up for it?"

Kirito was an expert swordsman, he could use any sword, be it double handed to single-handed, from using only one hand to dual wielding a pair of swords. He took on the challenge and after three long days he won, and that was when the dragon kissed him on the forehead. Where the dragon kissed him a crest appeared and a light wrapped around him and finally when it stopped Kirito was fast asleep, inside a massive egg.

The dragon was named Alicia, and she had done something not one of her kind ever tried before, she adopted him as her own son. In the real world Kazuto went into a deep comma, nothing the doctors tried could wake him. The company told them that they would pay for his hospital and medical bills, it was the least they could do, for their most respected employee.

In the game, Kirito forgot about his life before, and he was born from the egg as a small dragon, and he and his mother lived together. Alicia was a very caring, and supportive parent, with her he learned to take a human form to be able to be in the towns and not scare the people, or cause one of the invaders to try and challenge him for a few scales of his body.

Within monster, society was a position of honor and that was to be in the castle guard for the red king, no one saw him or even talked to him, but he had his ways to make sure the people that served him knew exactly what he wanted, and his word was law. Kirito ended as a low squire and in less than a year he managed to be the Commander of the castle guard, and the best warrior to serve the red king.

The black knight was the right-hand man of the Red King, and everyone in the castle knew two truths. The first was that the Black Knight did not appear unless there was a problem that had angered the Red King enough that he wanted this person to suffer the consequences of his actions, and the second truth was if you decided to fight against the Black Knight he would show you no mercy, and it would end in your death.

The Black knight was his chief of the guard, his enforcer of his laws, and the one to pursue criminal bosses that believed that they could do whatever they wished, and the King would never notice, the Red King would always notice. Case in point there was this criminal group that tried to get money from the merchants in the many commerce districts on the higher floor towns.

They threaten them with everything from ruining their reputation to actually causing physical harm to their loved ones. When the Red King found out that someone was extorting the merchants of five towns, on the higher floors of the castle. He screamed for the Black Knight to do something about it, or so help the castle he would, and everyone that was even slightly connected to this criminals would die.

Kirito in his black armor, you could not even see his eyes, the whole armor had an almost intimidating feel over it, and he used it with great precision. He walked towards the merchants that were being threatened and he demanded to know who was demanding money for protection from harm, that he threatened to cause. One merchant knew the identity of the criminal boss, but he did not want to say who it was, it was his brother in law after all.

Kirito was not going to take a no for an answer so he took out his sword and put it on the man's kitchen table. "Refusal to answer is high treason, and the punishment for high treason is the death of everyone in the family of the traitor, so let's try this once more. Who is the scumbag who is threatening the merchants in this town and the towns on the floor about this one and below?"

The man did not want to say who it was and at this time his own daughter arrived from the market with some groceries. Kirito saw that he needed to make sure the point was well understood and that he was not kidding around. With his sword in hand he pointed at the man's daughter and held his sword ready to strike and as the sword came down, the man screamed that it was his brother in law, his wife also came and could not believe it, her brother was the one that was threatening the business on their town.

He put away his sword and walked away without saying a word, but the woman begged him to at least listen to her brother before punishing him, that he must have a good reason, her brother was a kind man, there must be something that forced him to do that. "There is no worse case of blindness, than the person who refuses to see."

He walked into her brother's house and kicked the door open. It was clear that the man was drinking heavily. "Black Knight, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit, come right in. Join me for a friendly drink, relax." Kirito told him that he knew that he was the crook demanding money from the merchants. "So one of these worms, finally grew a backbone, true I demanded money or I would make them see hell, so what of it? I am not sorry one bit, and there is nothing that you can do to make me stop, as soon as I find the snitch I will kill him and his whole stinking family."

Kirito told him if that included his own sister? That was when he ordered his thugs to come out of hiding, it was clear he hoped for him to accept the drink, which was no doubt poisoned, and the thugs would kill him, if his thugs could kill the best warrior in the castle, there would be no one that would resist him and he could get money from the rest of the towns in the castle.

A psychologist and a psychiatrist began to think about the real reason why this patient did not even try to wake up, no matter how much they tried to wake him, one made a mistake of trying to remove the nerve gear, but his heart rate began to drop at an incredible rate, it was a miracle that they managed to put it back on him. One said that maybe, just maybe he actually loved the other world a whole lot more than he did the one he was born in, that he would actually consider that one deep down to be his real world and this place was just a place in a dream.

The doctor looked at him and he said that that would mean he had more reasons for being over there and returning to the real world, and that made no sense, a kid his age was bound to have friends, a girlfriend or even relatives that he would miss, there was no way he was that detached from the real world. His aunt heard him and she began to cry, as he stopped crying she began to say, that it was true, his real parents were dead, and she had been lying to him his entire life. Maybe he was happier in that world, but it also means that she would never be able to apologize for the way she lied to him.

The doctors told her that she did what most wouldn't even consider doing, most people would just let the kid be taken by the government operated an orphanage and let the kid end up in an unknown home, it was not her kid or her responsibility. So what she did was merciful and kind so it was just a matter of explaining to the kid, that she did it not to traumatize him, and that he would feel like she felt, like he was a member of the family.

Kirito continues his position of the leader of the castle guard all the way until the end of the Beta and beyond it, it was only until the official launch that the Red King, ordered him to join with the invaders, and watched them closely, that he was now except the morality system, so if he saw anyone or knew of anyone through his investigation that had killed anyone in the castle, he was permitted to end that invader's life. The Red King told him that as far as they would know he would always be a green player.

When he asked what a player is? The Red King laughed and told him that was what the invaders called themselves, they actually believed the castle was a game. "But who will take care of our normal security, your majesty?" The Red King told him not to worry he actually managed to train his subordinates rather well. So there was nothing to worry about, hearing that made Kirito relax and asked if he could at least see his mother a few times, The King smiled and told him that he could use the secret path in the tower.

With a move of his hand, the King changed the look of Kirito's armor to make it look like what other players would wear, but he was still dressed in all black. "Now my Black Knight, ensure that my castle is murderer free, and let them fear the consequences of killing anyone in my castle. But you must know that you must not reveal your true identity to anyone, your subordinate will take the role of the Black Knight"

He was sent to the town where the other players would appear at the start of their adventures. The town was no different from every other day for him, but the day in the other world launched the game, Kirito had to pretend to be just a normal Beta, for everyone around him this was an exciting new world they were entering for Kirito it was just another day in the flying castle Aincrad.