Mai Hiro sighed softly as she walked into her kitchen, her dog Nina hot on her heels with her tongue lolling from her mouth. She looked down at the dog and smiled softly as she prepared her evening dinner. Once done, she set the bowl down, refreshed the water and headed into her room.<br/><br/>She sighed softly as she sat on her bed holding the headset in her hands. For a while she stared at it. She was trapped in the first SAO game when it came out, so now that the second game was out she was kind of nervous to play. Afraid that she would be once again caught in the madness that was SAO. With that, Mai laid down and put the head set on. She went through all of the standard things, like creating a character and making the username MaiMai as usual. When she was finished and spawned in the center of the main city, she checked her inventory and saw that everything that was promised to her was in there. She had once again beta tested for the new SAO game and was promised the best bow, arrows and armor that the coins could buy. So at the beginning of the game she was all set.<br/><br/>Mai looked around to see if she saw any familiar faces but sadly found none so far. She decided to walk around a bit and search for some of her friends that were trapped in the game before. It was odd that she would want to go back to the game even after she was stuck in it. But she couldn't help herself, none of the survivors could. It was as if the game was calling to them somehow.