Magicus Ensis Art Online
Magic Sword Art Online
HP/SAO x-over
Asuna/Kirito HP/?

Takes place just before the beta testing and after Voldemort has bitten the dust. Voldemort died when Harry was 17 in 2022 so he was born 2005. Yes it's AU in terms of alternate time stream but that's all.

The beta testing month had finished too early for Harry's liking. With the help of Kirigaya Kazuto or Kirito the pair had managed to make it to the ninth floor with Harry reaching level eighteen and Kirito twenty two. The two boys had become close friends both inside and out of the game.

Kirito lived only three streets away so when he wasn't Link Diving at home he was talking video games and school or Link Diving at Harry's. It made Harry uneasy at how many similarities the two had. Both had been raised by their Aunt and Uncle; both had a hard time making friends although Harry's was by manipulation of his relatives and Kazuto by choice, both took up gaming to compensate for the lack of friends.

Harry had studied Japanese Language/Literature and Computer Programming/Sciences allowing him to write articles of the games he had beta tested. The companies he had written articles for gave him a percentage of the game copies bought and an exclusive version of the game and free download for all the DLC's. He had beta tested Fallout 5, Dishonoured 3, Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands 4 to name a few.

Three companies didn't contact him again after he wrote an honest review about their game's the main problem of the games were; Lack of clear objective, crappy dialogue, clunky or even glitches in the combat controls where your character hit the opponent and did no damage and they counter attacked knocking your health down by half. When the companies audience representitives called Harry about his less than stellar opions the eighteen year old had explained 'If you send me the game expect it to be played fully and a 100% truthful objective account of the game. If you don't like it then don't send me the games'.

It endeared him to some companies and not to others, Harry had shrugged and that was when Kayaba Akhiko rang him asking him to beta test Nerve Gear technology and Sword Art Online. Harry's article on the game had been stellar and with help from Kazuto and another beta tester by the name of Andrew Mills the article gave the game some serious fan following.

Akhiko had responded by bolstering the amount of first wave players from 10,000 to 20,000. Harry grinned to himself the moment he had sent the article to Akhiko, Harry appreciated a good job to be done well.

Three months passed as Harry waited for his Sword Art Online game to be delivered along with #0002 Nerve Gear headset with the first one going to Ahkiko himself, Kazuto received number 3 as he had made a significant contribution to the five page glowing article on SAO.

Soon enough on the Sixth of November 2022 twenty thousand people across Japan shouted as one "LINK START!"

Harry quickly entered his original username and password despite being a Beta tester it granted him no favours from Ahkiko who had reset all the beta accounts on the account of 'Giving everyone a fair chance'.

Harry found himself in the exact same spot he had first materialised in during the beta test. Following the winding path through the town he made his way out of the gates interacting with NPC's as he had in the first time around. All players started with 1000col, by the time Harry had left the town he had made 3000. The NPC's he had visited were gamblers and he effortlessly cleaned them out.

"Yo! YOU! With the black hair!" Someone shouted, harry spun around to find himself staring at a man, slightly taller than he was looking absolutely frantic.

"Yeah? How can I help? I can't help if you don't tell me." Asked Harry curiously, he wanted to help and he would help this guy the same amount Kazuto had taught him just to utilise sword skills and that was it.

"I'm looking for my friend Klein…He said he'd meet me in Aincrad with four others only…"

"You can't find him and you're unsure of how to play this game…I can't help you find your friends but I can give you a bit of help with the fighting but we are going to have to move…I'm Hari by the way, eighteen and a beta tester and gamer." Harry said with a grin getting his new companions jaw to drop.

"You beta tested this? And other games? What other games? I'm Kakuzu by the way, twenty two and a chef." Kakuzu explained holding his hand out which Harry shook.

"Fallout 5, Dishonoured 3 they are two of my personal favourite games."

"You're Evans Hari! The nicknamed 'Brutally honest reviewer' Arkane Studio's, Obsidian Entertainment love you as does Argus but you're despised by Nintendo and Bandai."

Harry snorted "Bandai only hate me because I panned Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Empires 7. Those games were so bad they butchered my first Chinese novel that I taught myself to read and let's not even get onto what they did to the Gundam series as a video game to cross it over. That was a good series."

Kakuzu stared "You know Chinese?"

Harry nodded "Japanese; all the main dialects, Chinese, Mandarin, French. Kind of important to learn the language of the country you live in…I'm from Britain originally."

Kakuzu stared "Aside from your skin tone, I would never have guessed although you mispronounce one or two words but aside from that yes you're pretty fluent. Now about the combat training."

Harry nodded and they made their way out of the town and into the fields "We are in a Safe Zone meaning we cannot take damage but we can deal damage to monsters. We also don't feel pain whilst in this area so you don't need to worry about being hit the balls."

"Hit in the balls?" Suddenly Kakuzu doubled over as a boar slammed into his testicles.

Harry snorted and dispatched the boar with an idle sweep "See what I mean?"

Kakuzu got to his feet "I see what you mean by not feeling pain but kami that wasn't pleasant."

Harry was surprised it had taken him five boars to get the horizontal and vertical techniques sorted compared to Kakuzu who got the techniques down with two boars "That's all there is to it."

"I'm going to log out...Have dinner arriving at five thirty." Kakuzu said noticing the time was 5:25.

Harry grinned he had eaten a massive amount of food before logging in. He had set up a small mountain of food allowing him to log out and in with minimum time lost.

Kakuzu nodded and pulled up his menu readying himself to log out "Hari, can you check your systems sections because something isn't right."

Harry did so and his eyes widened "Oh shit...Meaning lack of Log Out?" Kakuzu nodded.

Suddenly the pair began to glow, Harry looked at his level and grinned as the pair had been talking and killing boars he had reached level 2. All 20,000 players arrived in the town sqaure "Follow me." Ordered Harry as he shimmied past atwo players he vaguely remembered from the Beta testers they had spent the monthe trying to get to floor five.

"Kirito!" Harry shouted and the black clad teen looked up to see his neighbour and friend making his way towards him with a new player. Klein; who had been training with Kirito recognised Harry's companion and the four exchanged hand shakes and friend requests were given and accepted.

"Have you guys noticed the lack of a log out?" Whispered Klein not wanting to disturb any of the other players.

Harry and Kirito nodded and eyed each others levels, Kirito was on level three almost four with Harry on two almost at three "Hari, same plan as the Beta? You get the Reaper Blade and I get Anneal."

The reaper blade was a one handed sword with the base stats of Durability:3 Accuracy:4 and Sharpness: 2 with upto eight stat enhancers was easily the second strongest sword on the first floor marginally weaker than the Anneal: Durability:4 Accuracy: 3 and Sharpness: 4 but was more accurate than the Anneal.

Harry nodded "Yeah same what level were boars in the Beta?" He asked curiously he had been upto his eyeballs in a DLC for Fallout 5 at the same time.

"2 to 3 why do you ask?" Asked Kirito curiously.

"I found level 3's and 4's and that was on the East side."

Kirito shrugged "Maybe it's different for the sections of the city as I found 2's and 3's."

Suddenly the sky turned red and a red substance began to drip down taking the shape of something not too dissimilar to the Grim Reaper except it was red.

"Welcome SAO players to my world Aincrad. My name is Akihiko Kayaba congratulations on getting one of the 20,000 first wave copies of this game. You may well have noticed that the log out button is unavailable, I want everyone to know that this is not a glitch..." Harry tuned out the speech, Kirito saw the distracted look in his friend's eye, he'd fill Harry in on it later though he thought he saw the guy's green eyes harden almost as if Life or Death situations were common.

"Hari, we need to get the mirrors out."

Soon enough Harry's avatar shifted into his real world self and he pumped the air regardless of the changes he still didn't require glasses. The barrier surrounding the players suddenly lifted; Kirito and Harry were already moving "Kakuzu, Klein if you two are coming you need to leave now...Soon all the fields around here are going to be barren of monsters, we need to head to Horunka village." Said Kirito looking at the pair.

Kakuzu gulped "Thanks but we can't..."

"Your friends? We forgot...We're friends so we can keep a track of each other. Send a message and we'll come to help if we can." Harry said and with that the dark haired teens turned and ran.

The pair landed in the village and headed towards the NPC house for the Anneal blade "What's wrong?" Asked Kirito without prompting seeing the daughter open the door when she was normally on the sofa.

"My daughter's ill she needs medicine that requires the ovule of a Nepent. In return for the Ovule, I'll give you the Anneal Blade which has been in my family for generations." Said the girl's mother.

Kirito nodded and accepted the quest, the pair left and dashed into the forest. Harry grinned and whooped as he relearnt two skills from the beta test 'Switch Hands' and 'Double slice'. Switch Hands allowed him to swap his weapon from right to left or vice versa on a whim and coupled with Double slice allowed him to launch two strong sword skills dealing twice as much damage as one strike. In the Beta he had gotten the skill high enough for him to take the appearance of duel wielding.

"Double Slice and Switch Hands?" Kirito asked as he launched a devestating Horizontal bisecting two more Nepant's dropping two ovules.

"Yup and you do realise we have just gained twenty four Ovules." Harry commented as the last Nepant vanished. The pair were now level 8's pushing on 9's.

"They make a nice cash sum." Kirito retorted as they headed back to the house.

Harry nodded and stiffened slightly his gut was telling him that someone was tailing them and they were planning to jump the pair "Kirito head to the house now. Don't worry about me they're probably after you and the Ovules. Remember they probably don't know this is PvP outside NPC houses." He finished with a whisper.

"I'll wait for you." Kirito said before dashing towards the house.

Harry unsheathed his blade "Come out I know you're pathetically trying to conceal yourself from me."

Three teens emerged, Harry noticed that they hadn't equipped themselves with better armour or weapons. Heck even the store bought level 5 blade with 5's across the board that he had purchased, was better than their level 1 blades and then he saw the names.

Kiabou: Level 2 500/500
Hayate: Level 2 500/500
Akio: Level 2 500/500

"You can give us your equipment and we'll let you live...We out number you 3 to 1." Demanded Kiabou sounding like a petulant rich kid who was given everything he could want.

Harry smirked at them "Okay let's say I refuse..." With that Harry rushed forwards; reared his head back and headbutted Kiabou shattering the boys nose, before landing a heavy knee strike to the gut.

Kiabou bounced twice and landed flat on the ground his health dropping to 250.

Hayate and Akio rushed forwards swords glowing with sword skills prepared, Harry's sword and hand began to glow with an emerald green light "Horizontal! SWITCH HANDS! DOUBLE SLICE! DIAGONAL!" Harry shouted.

The first attack was a critical hit reducing Hayate to 75 health, Akio stopped as the sword vanished from his victim's right hand, reappeared in his left hand and the sword began to glow and then Akio screamed as the blade ripped through his avatar's sword arm.

Harry eyed his icon which managed to remain green and Kiabou and his team turned orange "That'll change back in a few hours. Two free illegal moves to go before you complete a quest to clean it. As for the arm, I don't have a clue."

Kirito was outside the hut when Harry reappeared "What happened?"

"Muggers or attempted...Broken nose, destroyed arm and critical hits in no particular order. All three are alive and now let's get the Reaper Blade."