A young woman who appeared to be very tall with bright red hair and red eyes drew out her sword eyeing down a boar just outside of the Town of Beginnings on Floor One, she had spent the last few hours farming iron and along the way killing any boars she was aiming to becoming a blacksmith like she had in the beta test. Ray got into a fighting stance and waited for a moment before charging forward her long sword quickly hit the boar in the back doing critical damage to it. She smiled proudly as it's health quickly dropped down to zero, and in a bright blue flash of light the boar had vanished dropping down some loot. 

Ray could feel her stomach starting to growl knowing that she hadn't eaten anything in the real world, Ray was to excited to get SAO and managed to pull some strings with a friend of hers to get a pirated copy of SAO. Deciding to logout Ray pulled open the menu by swiping her hand, she looked down to see there was no logout button. "What the heck?" Ray muttered to herself and close out the menu before waiting five seconds before trying it again, and saw there was no button still. "Maybe it's because of the pirated copy?" Ray said to herself, before seeing a bright flash of blue light as she was transported back to the town square of the Town of Beginnings. Ray looked around seeing probably over a thousand other players maybe even more.

Then the sky started to turn red, seeing the words. 'Warning, System Announcement.' Ray could feel her body starting to tremble as she watched red ooze seeping out of the cracks in the sky and then the red ooze quickly shifted into a giant hooded figure. In a loud booming voice Ray heard the voice of Kayaba Akihiko, what he was saying made Ray even more scared hearing things like 'The logout button is not a bug', 'Dying in game will result in death in the real world' and 'If someone takes off the NervGear in the real world your brain will be fried'. The young woman dropped down to her knees tears running down her face as she started to think about her family, and her half sister back in the real world. Ray looked up to see the news feeds in the real world.

Then Kayaba Akihiko said he had a gift for everyone, Ray doing just about what everyone else was doing Ray opened up her inventor by swiping her hand in the air, seeing that there was a mirror in there and clicked it. Ray felt it drop down onto her hand seeing her avatar in the mirror, which she took awhile to remake her beta avatar. Then in a bright flash of blue light Ray closed her eyes from the intensity, and then it faded. Ray looked back at herself. Her hair instead of a bright red was now white as snow, and her eyes instead of red as well they were now a bright blue and her body was much smaller instead of a woman in her thirties Ray was now back to her real world appearance which made her tremble even more.

Ray looked around seeing and hearing the panic in people's voices as Kayaba Akihiko finished his announcement and disappeared. "I have to get out of here or find someone." Ray said to herself as she stood up wiping the tears off of her face and started to make her way out of the town square.