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

The two weeks flew by. Harry and Akio had been rushed off their feet. During the first three days of the Beta Tests, there were several crashes that forcefully ejected people from the game. Thankfully, the security measures Harry had talked about at the convention were true and did safely work.

But that was only the beginning of the trouble. They had been notified of several accounts of account theft, game lag, unequal strength monsters and several thousand complaints of the fact that people couldn't immediately select 'White Council Wizard' as an immediate starting class for being a human.

However, other people commentated that they liked the idea of only being able to start as human, but at some point being able to become a practitioner.

On the other hand, people had said they didn't like the fact that they had been forcibly changed into a member of the Vampire Courts. So Harry and his team had logged themselves in to the game, and had begun to get to work to improve player satisfaction.

Suffice to say, they succeeded. Of course there were grumblings and rumblings but these things were mainly to do with the fact that the initial gameplay had portrayed one thing such as the playground of 'Storm Front', 'Fool Moon' and 'Grave Peril' but upon getting the game found that they could not play in those areas. But they were pleasantly surprised at how lifelike the Non-Playable Characters were and how much the Dresden Files Universe felt very much like the real world.

People loved the feeling of the ale of McAnally Bar. Everything just seemed so right. Meanwhile Harry, had set up three characters, Harry loved the books and had decided to be a little bit of a dick. He created Donald Morgan, and made him virtually unbeatable.

Harry had also created other members of the White Council, but they were out of the way at this particular moment in time, right now he was browsing the streams of code, he was looking for something…There.

He had it. Someone was trying to hack his property! The guy was pretty good but Harry…He was better. In the time, the guy had gotten past the firewall and into the section of development that revolved around character classes and races. Harry had broken into the computer himself, he shook his head "Kibaou, it is my pleasure to send you down." Harry said to himself, he had nestled a programme into Kibaou's computer before he entered the Dresden Files Online Game.

(Game)

Harry entered the game "Kibaou! By order of the White Council for breaking the third and fourth law of magic you are sentenced to death."

Kibaou was playing a rather powerful kinetomancer with a very slight aspect of mind magic paled. He had been dabbling but nothing dangerous "Someone found my hack…Bollocks. I thought I'd hidden it."

"If I refuse to come quietly?"

Magical duels were available to everyone and anyone, to activate them most people started with 'I challenge…to a duel.' This was another shortcut, to deny an interactive NPC.

Not many people realised that Harry was playing them. Charlotte was possibly the only one, she was also one of the first Wizards of the game. Based on her stats, she lacked the power of some of the more stereotypical wizards i.e. McCoy, Dresden or even Morgan. Her skill sets lay in Psychomancy, Verisimilomancy, Veils and Holomancy.

The names were one of the small print things that Butcher insisted on having in. Furthermore, the types of magic people could use should they become a Wizard completely depended on their original skill sets. That is not to say Charlotte's character who was more like Molly Carpenter could not learn magic like Harry's character, but it would take her a long time.

Kibaou and Harry entered the middle of the street and a thin blue barrier jumped up between them and the surrounding buildings. Harry didn't want to trash his game…that much.

The duel began, Kibaou completely forgot or rather he didn't care that he kept breaking the Laws of Magic. They weren't properly enforced but after a while if the same offenders kept doing something like, using magic to kill someone, transfigure people into objects more than three times then the 'Grey Cloaks' who were the admins in disguise came crashing down on them. "FUEGO!"

Harry sighed, ducked. Stamped his foot and the earth slammed into Kibaou's legs breaking them. There was a bang, Harry shot Kibaou in the chest and calmly cut his head off with a sword.

(Real world)

As, Harry cut Kibaou's head off, Harry logged out swapped with Akio who assumed her character of Anastasia Luccio.

Harry deleted Kibaou's account and had to resist not deleting system32, he stopped and then deleted it anyway. He would not allow anyone to interfere with his game.

(In Game)

Kirito and Asuna had become Wizards as well. Kirito becoming rather skilled in brute force magic in earth magic and possessed no short skill in shadow magic to the point where he could effectively teleport from shadow to shadow.

Asuna on the other hand took to using kinetomancy, two hidden blades and a pistol, there was a slight hint of electric and lightning magic although that was due to the by-product of the speed she was travelling at.

(Real Life)

Harry grinned. He couldn't be happier. He left work, he was off to get some shopping and plan the first three expansions. The game had taken off brilliantly, there team of ten were taking it in shifts to observe the game and so far, it seemed everything was turning out okay.

He used magic, but not that much anymore. Too be fair, magic had caused him no end of grief. He still used it, but he was rusty.

He may have been rusty but his senses had been heightened. They had been heightened exponentially so. He felt the incoming sensation of apparation.

"THERE HE IS! STUN HIM AND GO!"

In those crucial seconds, were all that Harry needed to draw his wand and shout "Atsugai!"