Magicus Ensis Art Online
Magic Sword Art Online
HP/SAO x-over
Asuna/Kirito HP/Argo
Ready! Steady! Ruin!
Entering Sylph territory Harry's senses were on alert. His skills were either too rigged as he had basically ripped all his skills from SAO and shoved them into his new avatar and boosted his other race skills through the roof or these guys had some shite stealth skills.
It was most likely the former but quite possibly the latter. He could tell they had their eyes on both him and Kirito. Although they were more focused on him due to his very high mana points.
"Just so you know. Fighting Sylphs on their home territory will mean that we get a buff against all intruders. It is unknown what invaders get but…"
"…This is your stronghold. It's a retarded or even broken game system if people of a nationality don't get a benefit of some sort."
As they entered Swilvane they were met by four older players. Leafa paled "They're the Thunder Platoon. Four of the most powerful members of the Sylph's definitely and quite possibly in the game."
Harry and Kirito snorted. Strong yes. Strongest in the game…They hadn't met these two. "Who are you noobs? What are you noobs? Because you sure as hell ain't Sylphs. What the hell do you think you're doing with them Leafa?"
"I said I'd help them out. I completely forgot I was meant to be partying with you."
"Just ditch them and join us then."
Harry's temper reached boiling point "How about you don't be an utter cunt and bully her. If she said she'd help us then let her. Don't want to damage the idea that senior players aren't completely dickish to new players."
"Do you know who you're talking to?" Retorted the leader. Harry snorted and widened his throat as he sucked up some bile and spat it at the man's feet.
"No. Don't know. Don't want to. Don't wish to. That bile and phlegm at your feet is my maximum limit of respect for you." Harry replied screw this buff the Sylph's get he would beat the crap out of them.
"You like me more than your spit I hope." Replied the man.
"Nope. Less. I like my infant godson's shit laden diapers than I do you." A crowd had gathered. The majority of them seasoned players they didn't like Sigurd and his buddies but they knew that these strangers were about to be curb stomped.
"All right I challenge the pair of you to a four on two duel."
"Accepted and to the death. Right here, right now. We win, Leafa takes us to the heart tree. We lose we find our way."
Sigurd accepted the duel request as did his buddies and the ground dissolved. They rematerialized in what could only be called the gladiatorial arena. "Well that's a new one…You want to go first Kirito?"
Kirito declined "You started it. You finish it."
Harry nodded. The counter appeared and began counting down from ten. Harry made the last changes to his kit and he idly began to wonder how he should flatten this asshole.
The horn bellowed and Sigurd rushed forwards. Sword outstretched. "Turbine Ignis!" Called Harry pulling out a firestorm spell. The observers stared and waited for the mana to drop. It didn't.
"He's not a Salamander what is he?"
"Did you see that fire spell!"
"I didn't see a wand!"
"Nor any symbols!"
Sigurd jumped away, his health dropping slightly from the aftereffect of the supercharged fire spell. "Beir slita fimm groenn vindr!" Five boomerangs appeared and they shot towards Harry.
Harry ducked one, dived another, dipped another, dodged and dodged again. "Dodge a bludger. Dodge one of these…Thankyou Wood." He thought.
Unfortunately he saw them regroup and come at him again "Seriously! This is like the quidditch game back when I was twelve." He groused as he flipped over the blades. He idly noted that they were gaining momentum.
"What is this Quidditch?"
"Insane game played by even more insane people. Literally played some twenty to thirty meters above the ground at Zero-G. Six people throw a basketball to each other. Two more hit rubber orbs with mechanic tracking devices on them. With enough force to crack skulls open."
Kirito snorted "Let's not forget the walnut sized one you had to catch."
Harry groaned "Don't remind me." He smiled as he found himself next to Sigurd. "Hello friend. Shame you're not wearing brown pants or red because everyone's gonna see you bleed."
Harry grabbed Sigurd, the boomerangs surged around and shot towards Harry. Harry grabbed Sigurd and bodily flipped himself over the man. It was practically comical.
The first vacuum blade took Sigurd's hand off at the wrist. "I AM YOUR FATHER!" Kirito boomed across the arena.
Another removed the remaining part of the arm clean off. "He clearly needs his other hand to take things in hand."
The next two caused deep gashes in Sigurd's chest and the final took the man's head off "Looks like he's a head shorter than normal. Now whose next?"
Hayate was swiftly defeated. The guy was decent with a sword and dagger but his speciality was buffing his team mates. It was barely a fight, Harry split him in half with a "Kazekiri!" (Windslash). The next two decided to jump in together, it was allowed but was frowned upon.
Harry grinned at them "I may actually have to put some effort into this." With that he jumped backwards drawing his sword. H2 also known as Harry 2 from SAO, he was again part of Klein's guild and was the main DPS and Healer of the group. He blanched when he saw the sword.
"Those two have lost." He said aloud attracting the attention of a player names Yugao, named after the anime character from Naruto.
"Why is that Hari-san?" Hari grinned "The guy they're fighting…He's SAO. He's a clearer. One of the best. The scariest one as well." Yugao gulped "Is that why he's being serious then? I heard him lose his temper and insult Sigurd-Sama."
Hari chuckled "He's not even playing with them. This is him trolling us. I doubt he's even taken any damage." They looked and true to his word the Unseelie avatar had taken no damage.
"How is that possible?"
"The guy is like lightning without his armour. He spent three years training his speed and agility in heavy armour…He's fighting with it on to give those poor buggers some sort of 'forlorn hope' to beat him. I saw him carve up twelve player killers in SAO with nothing but his bare hands, a length of rope and a dagger; clad in nothing but his underwear. He's known as the Witch King for a reason."
People paled. They had heard of the Witch King. He was an internet and gaming legend. Harry popped his neck and replaced his heavy armour with light travelling kit "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!"
Harry and Kirito left the arena to find a score of armed Sylph warriors were waiting for them. They parted to reveal a tall woman armed with what could only be described as a Warleader's kit. "One should kneel before the leader of a nation."
Kirito gave Harry a look that said 'I'll deal with this.' "One would but the problem is we have a grievance against you and your nation. We couldn't take all of you but I like our chances of injuring but we don't wish to do that."
She smirked "Well you did just thrash four of my best men."
"They were little bit of a dick. We were asking for an escort. They didn't get the message and my friend who is hare trigger violent at the best of times reacted."
"He certainly displayed considerable skill."
Harry snorted "That wasn't skill. That was me trolling. Hell not even trolling. You may not have heard of me but people WILL have. I'm ex-SAO." That simple sentence caused everyone to gulp.
"You survived SAO! How?"
"It certainly wasn't by drinking tea and basking in sunshine. Now we're grabbing our guide to Yggdrasil and we'll be off." Soon enough Leafa, Kirito, Harry and Recon were heading out of Sylph territory and on their way to the World Tree."
Recon left them and the trio and they headed off.
(World Tree)
Asuna sat in the cage as she tried to shy away from Nobuyuki who was smiling sadistically at her "My love. Those two peasants have no chance of getting to you. Where you are is impenetrable."
Asuna snorted people had said that about the Laughing Coffin camp and yet Harry, walked in and promptly started butchering every member in sight. Then again…Not many people had his height, physique and disregard for his own wellbeing.
"Your friend the 'Witch-King' he's troublesome. Because if my sources are correct and he's free then he will pose a very big problem to my plans." Asuna grinned "If he's free…You're going to be dead."
Nobuyuki looked at her "How do you know that?"
"He's all but flat out told me that he'd killed at least fifteen people."
Nobuyuki gulped and hastily left "Don't worry my love. In a matter of days, they won't be able to help you at all."
(With Harry)
They entered the close town. All towns were neutral in the game at least according to Leafa. "It's almost three am. We can carry on but my Avatar will become deadweight."
"Leafa-Chan what is it that you do?" Harry asked curiously.
"School student. I finish at three fifteen, clubs and homework I get on for about half past six."
Harry nodded "Rehab, finding work, writing, and programming. Same for my friend Kirito. Shall we say tomorrow meet up here between six thirty and seven? Not wanting you to skimp on your education."
Leafa nodded "You remind me of someone. Anyway I'll see you two later."
Kirito and Harry nodded to each other and Harry logged out leaving Kirito to spend time with Yui.
"Harry oji-san has gone?"
"Yup…Has stuff to do later on."
(Real world)
Argo and Harry woke up. "How did it go?" She asked. Harry groaned. "Better than expected. Already killed four mid-level Salamanders and four powerful Sylphs."
Argo stared at her boyfriend "Already?" Harry nodded. "Game runs off a stripped-down Cardinal system." Argo stared at him, nodded and wrapped her arms around him.
"Explains why I took to the system so quickly…You did something didn't you?"
Harry smirked wolfishly. Considering she had seen him shapeshift into a wolf a couple of times allowing for his godson to ride on his shoulders. "Yep…Kirito and I did something."
Argo groaned "It's always you two. What have you done?"
Harry sighed "Remember when I got stabbed, rematerialized and helped kill Kayaba." Argo nodded "Turned out Kayaba was a squib and knew who I was…When he died, he and I had words. He told me that I, I and some hundred others were prisoner in the game and he provided me with some sweet admin privileges. It got me free and I logged out."
Argo nodded "Kayaba was born magical with a hardly any access to his magic and a squib…He built Cardinal and SAO. When we won, he confronted you and why he let you use the office of the Master of Death."
Harry nodded "I spoke with death. Kayaba is dead, Death has his spirit. But she allowed Kayaba to keep a copy of himself on the internet providing he didn't create a new body for himself…Other words were exchanged and through him, I found out that AO was on stripped-down Cardinal. He helped myself and Kirito hack the system. I got a much more fitting Armour of Terror, apparently, my Ring hasn't been discovered yet and Fell Beast well I had to choose. Armour and decent sword or Fell Beast."
"You took the Armour and sword. Which was…Morgul?" Harry nodded getting Argo to shake her head.
(Yuuki household)
Yuuki's Shouzou and Kouichirou sat in the elder Yuuki's office. Laptops and Tablets open all over the place. A plate of food prepped by the made was joined by mass takeout boxes. Bottles of beer were also accompanied by a glass of beer.
Shouzou and Kouichirou Yuuki looked like night and day. Shouzou was a tall man impeccably dressed in not designer clothes but you could definitely tell that he got his things tailor made.
Kouichirou was of similar height but slim as a rake with very a very sharp face. A face that would have been pegged as British Gentry if he had been born there. But he slummed in jeans and a shirt.
Shouzou wanted to give the impression that every moment was something to be utilised. Kouichirou believed moments were to be savoured. He dressed in a suit at his father's company but right now he was in jeans.
They were scouring all of Sugou Nobuyuki's reports and files. And in so far they had found nothing aside from a file called 'Project Anima'. Unlike most of the files this one was locked with a pretty good passcode in a language that Kouichirou could only work out as some sort of amalgamation of Scorpion, Swift and Cardinal.
"Nobuyuki's got this file locked up tight…I can't break this." Stated Kouichirou.
Shouzou stared at his son "Keep trying. I have found several transactions that I signed off for a 'secret project'. Something I did so heartily because Nobuyuki's plan seemed to work and so far it has but…"
Kouichirou looked at his father, harsh blue eyes looked into weary brown "But what?"
"Ever since I have met Kirigaya-Kun's friend Evans-san practically frothing at the mouth at Sugou-kun. I couldn't but be suspicious. Especially at the fact that he said 'Release Titania willingly or I'll bring you down.'
Kouichirou stared at him "Bring him down…That's a rather interesting word choice but does he mean. Bring him down as in Sugou; who I am not a fan of personally or bring everyone associated with him down as well. Furthermore do we even know if he is bluffing."
"I fear the look in his eye showed that he could and possibly would bring down RECT if he has any concrete proof that we're involved with the eight hundred trapped players. I paid for all surveillance in the hospital including audio in my daughters room to be sent here. I replayed that data later on and heard from Evan-san's mouth directly 'I'll let you think about the sort of person I am. Is it A) Someone who doesn't know the meaning of give up. B) Someone who doesn't care for the aftershocks of his actions. C) Someone who'd rather burn the world for a friend. D) One of those. E) All of them. Choose wisely. Because I'm coming at you.'
Kouichirou held out a tablet "I've done some research on him and got his address. He lives close to the hospital. I could call him."
(Harry's house)
"A Yuuki Kouichirou called…Asked about hoping to meet you at some point today."
Harry nodded "And…"
"I told you'd see them at lunch." Harry nodded and placed their rigs on the tables. Neville was asleep on the couch. Teddy was curled up next to Harry and they were both on the bed and covered with two blankets.
Kirito had woken up and left earlier on. Harry groaned held his godson in such a way he was able to roll over and leave him undisturbed.
The night passed quickly and soon enough Harry's alarm clock went off. Argo twitched as she heard a murmured "Reducto." She smirked as the clock detonated and Harry rolled out of bed.
Harry jumped in the shower and cleaned himself and Teddy up. Soon enough Harry was in front of his computer screens typing, scanning for potential work and replies to his CV's. As for his typing it was just the opening title of 'Sword Art Survivors: Memoirs of the players'.
It was quickly looked like it was going to be a boring day when his phone rang.
"Moshi, Moshi, Evans Hari speaking." Harry said and his eyes widened "Interviews? Interviews about time in Sword Art…Yeah. Once I've sorted something out…Of course I'll give you a call."
He hung up and checked his email and in his inbox was an email from 'ForzareHellsBells gmail. Com' requesting for him to contact him.
Soon enough half eleven rolled around and Harry with much whining from his Godson left his house, turned down the alleyway and dissolved into smoke. He reappeared in an alleyway outside of RECT HQ.
Harry flicked his wand and his ragged t-shirt changed into one of a work shirt with a tie loosely done up. His jeans repaired themselves and he cast a charm on his black Loake shoes to make them glisten. He turned his hoody into a jacket just in case they were going to a fine dining restaurant. If they were, Harry idly changed his jeans into black suit pants. He clicked his fingers again and donned the jacket.
Where initially they looked rather baggy, it immediately tightened giving him the look of a wealthy, an extremely wealthy at that young man. Harry concentrated.
His relation to the Black family was thin. But it was enough. His hair lengthened and soon enough it was long enough to tie into a ponytail. With that he entered RECT. The receptionist and security guard tracked him as he walked over. "Potter, Hari for a lunch appointment meeting."
The woman at the front desk looked at him "ID?" Harry shook his head and he concentrate. He pulled out his wallet "All you need to see. Just give me what I need without a problem."
The woman scowled at the young man in front of her as Kouichirou and Shouzou descended the stairs. Kouichirou noticed Harry and his eyes widened, he murmured something to his father and made his way over. "Hari Evans or Hari Potter correct?"
Harry nodded at the man, he was about three to four years older than him. Harry soon enough himself in a hug from the man "Agriatou for clearing the game."
Harry chuckled "No…I didn't strike the killing blow."
"But you helped protect my sister did you not?" Harry shrugged.
"Kinda but then she upped her speed and master her rapier and became one of the biggest DPS's in the game despite not having a clue at what she was doing to begin with."
Kouichirou chuckled at that "I want you to meet the people who are the heart and soul of RECT."
Harry quickly found himself shaking hands with the Board of Governors and Yuuki Shouzou and the others "What is it that you do Evans-San?" Asked one of the Governors.
Harry sighed "Programming and reconnecting."
"Reconnecting?"
"SAO veteran…Currently doing some thinking about releasing a group of memoirs." The group stared at him "You were SAO?"
"Yup, Frontline, Beater, Guild Leader. For your information we were called the Ringwraith's." The group stared at him.
"Kouichirou-san, you didn't ring me to just talk about my success in SAO did you?"
Shouzou sighed "No. We need your help. I did some researching into Nobuyuki as you suggested and I discovered something called Project Anima…Do you know anything about it or might entail?"
Harry's eyes hardened "I hope it's an Animus Machine…But my bones are screaming at me no."