Cross Effects: Rebirth (2.0) The RP

[Knick]

Tokiomi felt a jolt when turning onto the block where his hotel was, a signal for intruders managing to deactivate the bounded fields protecting his workshop. Dropping his bag he took off into a sprint. It was not long before he reached the hotel lobby where he was greeted by the old woman who ran the front desk.

“Oh, welcome back young man. Your sister and her friend showed up and I sent them to your room.” She said to Tokiomi smiling.

Tokiomi frowned, sister? Could it simply be someone that resembles him? No, it could be many things due to the nature of this city. Thanking the old lady he ran to the elevator and took it up to his floor. It does not matter who they are, they still broke into his workshop so he has to treat them as a threat. 

When he arrived he immediately noticed the deactivation of all his bounded fields. That was fast, granted they were not his best barriers, but even then to take them all down so quickly.

Biting his lip he began to focus the prana contained in the ring on his right hand. Opening the door he slipped into his room, before quietly moving down the hall. He noticed small amounts of ice, indicating one of his traps were activated. Seems whoever they are where able to break out of it though.
 
Reaching the open door to the main room, Tokiomi took a deep breath and grabbed his right arm with is left, preparing to use the powerful fire spell stored in the ring. Entering he saw the two of them in the connected room, his workshop, looking around and discussing something.

Two girls it looked like, one with hair color similar to his and another with red hair. And he could feel faint magical energy around them, definitely magi.   

Moving up as quietly to the doors as possible he raised his right arm began to speak. “I would expect more courtesy from a fellow Magus, to break into my workshop and home with no prompting. Rather improper, if you ask me”

The burning hand and the prana coming from the ring made the threat apparent. “Now, would you please tell me of the reason of your intrusion?” No matter how politely he spoke the chill and bite in his tone was obvious. After all to break into one’s workshop is one of the greatest insults to a magus.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Grigori watched with a smile on her face as Karna closed in. The barrier around her changed from the shape of a spear to a solid wall, but Karna's strength could not be denied. His lance cut through the barrier, and cut off both of Grigori's hands. The strike towards her hamstrings was stopped by Grigori altering the barrier. The wall that was being cut through so easily had shrunk to the size of a shield and was flooded with extra mana. It began to block the strikes, but every hit left a crack in it. She began to gather mana, and the moment the barrier broke a blast of wind launched Grigori several meters away from Karna. She was just outside of the magic circle.

"Boom."

The circle was filled to the brim with mana, and fired a beam of energy with enough force to wipe armies from the face of the earth straight towards Karna.

[Alice]

Rin and Mille

"Sorry for violating your private space, sir, but we did not know whether you were friend or foe, and our present situation made it so some impropriety was necessary." Mille said all this with her cheeks almost as red as her hair. She turned to Rin, expecting the taller girl to poke fun at her for allowing her weakness to show through in such a way, but Rin seemed... preoccupied, to say the least.

He looks like... No, it can't be! Rin put on the best poker face she could and gave a polite bow.

"My apologies as well for violating your workshop. As my apprentice here was trying to say, this invasion was prompted by unusual circumstances." She straightened herself up, ignoring the indignant squeak of, "Apprentice?!" from Mille. "My name is Tohsaka Rin. My companion is Millie Garrison."

"Mille, not Millie," Mille muttered to herself.

"We were sent by the Magus Association to this dimension to investigate the source of the dimensional rift that lead us here. Would you happen to know any information about the rifts?"

Rin kept her eyes squarely on the oddly familiar young man, for she needed answers. Namely the ones that would come with the revelation of his name. So much so that Mille sulking next to her didn't even register.

[Kurogami]

A little over an hour ago something strange began to happen in Minato's dorm. Holy Grail Lucifer suddenly started releasing a strange light for almost a minute, then again about half an hour later. Now Minato is staring at the offending object and pondering what to do about it.

First, switch to something else, that high and mighty attitude you get with Messiah is annoying.

Minato's eyes widened slightly for just a moment before he wordlessly switched to Orpheus.

That's better, I prefer it when you don't give a fuck.

...

Though, isn't this about the point where something bad happens?

As soon as Thanatos made that unwise statement, one of the few people allowed through his front door walked in.

A large muscular man with a large mustache, one that made it just as apparent that it was unwise to mess with him as it was that he was very old.

"The Eternal Elder, what would make them send you?"

The old man with a very, very large mustache grinned.

"Why I volunteered, my old friend."

Minato just sighed.

"So, what suicide mission did you pick me for this time?"

[YOLF]

Uchiten

Hidden behind a spell of concealment, Uchiten smiled at the escalation of the fight below between the sorcereress that stenched of death and the golden warrior with the radiance of the sun. His familiars watched alongside him with various degrees of excitement. Shi looked comically pumped at the exhibition, like a fan watching a wrestling match. Homura looked positively anxious and in expectation, tail wagging from side to side, showing an almost innocent, fanged smile. Zan was the only one notably quiet, but his gaze was entirely focused on the events they were observing.

The onmyouji and his familiars were standing on air high above the streets, supported by a platform of wind. One of Uchiten's hands was set in a simple seal, straight and close to his chest, simultaneously supporting their foothold and hiding their presence.

It would've been easier to hide (not that this was hard) if his familiars had returned to their astral forms, as minus Homura the youkai were not particularly skilled at that kind of control of spiritual energy, but the specter had asked them to accompany him and had no intentions of now ruining the enjoyment they were sharing in. Homura herself was too caught up in the fight to even erase her presence herself, thus it necessitated Uchiten to include the entire group in his spell.

Well, not that it was particular worrisome even if they were detected. It was simply that they had just arrived at this place they had learned was called Nexus City, and so were still unfamiliar and ill prepared to truly enjoy the boon of struggling with the powers it harbored.

Uchiten licked his lips in consideration of what the city had to offer.

A little caution was just par for the course.

[Knick]

"Tohsaka... Rin?" He muttered as he lowered his hand letting the spell disperse harmlessly. His face was as stone, having a poker face as good as Rin's.

But inside Tokiomi was confused. There has never been a member of the Tohsaka named Rin. But there was something about her that he just couldn’t place, she was familiar yet not, how odd.

On top of that she had a perfect poker face and let no emotions slip though as she talked, minus the brief shock she had when she saw him. Something he should expect from a magus.

Her ‘apprentice’ on the other hand was an open book. She is incredibly expressive and earnest from the looks of it. He embarrassment at being caught trespassing and her annoyance at being called an apprentice invading her features with ease. In all honesty it was adorable, even though it was somewhat pitiful for a magus in such a situation.

But even still, they said they were from the Magus Association and from another dimension. Probably different from his own due to Rin’s existence, and honestly he has dealt with stranger things since arriving in this city.

“Wait. Did you say you investigating a dimensional rift?” He looked at them shocked for a moment before sighing and face-palming, letting his poker face fall at the complete annoyance of his own failed experiment. “Did I really screw it up that badly that it is affecting other dimensions?” He muttered into his hand.

“Well I suppose I should introduce myself as well. I am Tokiomi. It is a pleasure to meet mages from the association.” He bowed with grace and elegance. “Especially such lovely ladies as you two”.

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The fact that potential friends where fighting was the first thing Phoenix realized, and so Phoenix became distracted from the golden king and gaia child and focused to the energy and emotions surging from the city.

Phoenix’s head turn north west, where there was a massive amount of clashing emotions and surges of power, mixed within the emotions where feelings of enjoyment, calm, and others that are alien to Phoenix. Igniting its flames it took to the skies and entered the clouds as it moved to the conflict.

Moving above the clouds in the sky above the fight Phoenix allowed its flames to burn, growing in size until it was as large as it could be. It could feel the presence of three powerful people, one of which was hidden along with multiple entities that where tied to it, and Phoenix was unable to tell specifically where they where.

And so Phoenix began to go about ending the fight between the two it could find. With a flap of its wings hundreds of spirits where born, tasked with one simple command, to stop the to be friends from fighting.

And so over 300 firebirds dived towards the street, the sky emptied of clouds by the energy emanating from Phoenix, to stop the fight no matter what.

[Arch-Magos Winter]

"What do you mean?" Modred honestly asked Lawrence. It did not register on her mind to wear underwear since no such things existed in her age. The Holy Grail only gave Servants knowledge that was necessary, though it could possibly be that due to her botched summoning she was given less information than she should have received in a normal Holy Grail War.

"Errrm..."

Go on and tell her

'DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW AWKWARD IT IS TO EXPLAIN THIS!?'

Just do it you fucking pussy.

"...You know what, fuck it, it doesn't matter." Law found a cashier and purchased the clothing, leaving the PS3 behind for the moment. Honestly, he'd need cash for other, more important things. Like food. And fixing his car. No matter how much Mordred would grumble about leaving that behind, it just wasn't worth it for him.

Pussy.

'Shut up. It's not like this'll matter, or she's wearing a skirt.'

You're still a pussy.

With that Law started to browse through the food court, settling on getting both Mordred and himself a couple slices of pizza to go. It wasn't much but Law was starting to feel the crash coming on from staying up for the last few days. He felt like utter and total shit, and without question he was going to after this immediately go and find some cheap as shit motel to crash in. Never mind that he had a few thousand in spending money, from the wallets of a few of his killers (Turns out drug pushers do carry a lot of dough), he wasn't going to waste it on something he didn't need at the moment.

Handing Mordred the paper plate with her slice on it he started munching on his.

[Brahmastra]

Grigori watched with a smile on her face as Karna closed in. The barrier around her changed from the shape of a spear to a solid wall, but Karna's strength could not be denied. His lance lance cut through the barrier, and cut off both of Grigori's hands. The strike towards her hamstrings was stopped by Grigori altering the barrier. The wall that was being cut through so easily had shrunk to the size of a shield and was flooded with extra mana. It began to block the strikes, but every hit left a crack in it. She began to gather mana, and the moment the barrier broke a blast of wind launched Grigori several meters away from Karna. She was just outside of the magic circle.

"Boom."

The circle was filled to the brim with mana, and fired a beam of energy with enough force to wipe armies from the face of the earth straight towards Karna.

The blast should've ate Karna alive and left nothing but dust, but such was not the case. Faster than the eye could catch, Karna's spear had been thrown into the air, his hands now cradling his treasured bow, Vijaya, cocking a weird, dagger-like arrow in a light-purple color. Aiming towards the approaching beam, a single word slipped from his lips, in a gentle whisper.

"Mohini."

The arrow surged into the beam, instantly nullifying it completely, before crashing into the ground. An invisible, sound-less pulse radiated throughout the area, as all magic within a considerable radius of a mile cancelled and was made useless. The magic circle in the ground was left null, the female Magus's shield collapsed and the firebirds, magical phenomena by the troublesome bird of the sun, were blotted out. The few that remained would no longer be an issue, being deprived of their power.

As soon as the Mohini had been fired, Karna grasped the spear spinning in the air, primed it on his bow and fired it without any flaws in his aim towards the now-exposed Magus's midsection.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Grigori watched as Karna's arrow nullified not only the beam, but also the circle itself. As her barrier faded and Karna fired his bow at her Grigori began to call upon her magic once again. This was no ordinary magic. Grigori was replicating one of the spells of the Elemental Lord of Wind. A being who embodied hurricanes, gusts of wind, and lightning. Grigori raised her stump and began to draw upon her reserves to power the spell.

"Let the judgment of the heavens fall."

An enormous bolt of lightning fell from the sky aimed at Karna, and the sound of thunder was loud enough to shatter eardrums. It was weaker then the beam, but it was still extremely powerful. Grigori just managed to grin before the lance bisected her, and her top half fell to the ground.


"That's going to be hard to heal."

[YOLF]

Uchiten

An alarm sparked inside Uchiten's head as his eyes caught the unusual arrow the warrior had cocked into his bow, for all of a milisecond. Then it was set loose with a brief mystical whisper, and the pulse that followed made his composure vanish as his magic was blown away.

Him and his familiars were falling back through the air, presences exposed and weight no longer supported by anything.

"What the heeeeeeeell???" Homura cried as she waved her arms, put off by the sudden fall.

With an accompanying groan, the larger of the two onis tumbled through the air towards the floor. Zan, on the other hand, righted himself after less than an instant, and directed his fall to the rooftop below them. Uchiten allowed himself to fall back facing the sky as he processed what had just happened... and soon began to laugh heartily.

The sword wielding oni was the first to land, hitting a rooftop much closer to ground level in a slight crouch that cracked the building beneath him. Shi followed, outright breaking the roof in a spiderweb pattern around him as he touched down on a low crouch using his closed fists for support. Steadily floating after slowing herself with her magic, Homura came down with barely a sound. The kitsune started dusting imaginary dust off her clothes while mopishly grumbling under her breath. Immediately after she regained her poise, she was startled by the falling of lighting on the battlefield and looked on in awe. Shi too, was watching again.

Only Zan uncharacteristically paid no attention to it and looked up.

Uchiten was still falling, hanging upside down and focusing on the fight with a grin on his face. When he approached his familiars, he suddenly slowed and turned himself around to a standing position, gracefully touching on the concrete of the building with his shoes. Before any of the shikigami could say or do anything else, his arms came up, and he began to clap at the two engaged in combat.

"Magnificent! I was not expecting to see a technique like that. This fight is proving great! Please, show me more proofs of your power!" he exclaimed loudly.

Homura looked on for a moment, and then spoke out to no one in particular, a tone similar to a complaint finding its way into her throat.

"Uchi-sama is starting to get excited again..."

Shi tilted his head at her. Zan simply smirked sharply in reply.

[Knick]

Phoenix watched from its place in the upper stratosphere. No, watched was a bad word to describe it. Phoenix simply knew what occurred, it could not see the images, but it knew what happened to its spirits, to its children.

As its children faded away, the mana which maintained their forms having dissipated, it watched as the woman friend called down lighting, and the sun friend launched a pointy stick, humans are always so cute with their toys, and bisected the woman friend.

Then he felt something, the hidden entity was reviled. Phoenix focused on- wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG, WRONG!

It was wrong, it should not be there, darkness, evil, cruelty, all of which flowed through it like how fire and life does for Phoenix.

And yet it was happy, so happy, excited, and joyful. It was wrong, that combination should not exist, and there should be hate, anger, SOMETHING NEGATIVE. But no, Phoenix had to simply look away, not able to comprehend such a thing. So wrong, it made Phoenix feel cold. It made a sun feel cold.

Phoenix looked away, trying to get away from the cold. The ones around the cold were better, they were dark, but the negativity was there, annoyance, anger, and other things. It could understand them. Phoenix once again felt warm, the cold having left its feathers, they were weird, but not like the cold, they were normal compared to the cold.

It focused once again on the fighting friends. Getting away from the group with the cold, the ones tied to the cold. Phoenix had to stop the fight, before the friends hurt each other. And so, from up in its spot in the upper stratosphere phoenix streamlined its body, and DOVE.

Igniting its wings to propel itself faster than could be followed, faster than it could with just its wings, it shattered sound and split the air around it. And then, in a moment Phoenix met the street between the friends.

The street broke and a shock-wave was sent out that shook the buildings. When the dust cleared Phoenix stood in the middle of the crater, the earth molten beneath it, with nay but a scratch. It stood between the two, its wings stretched out and its flames dancing around it forming a wall. Its intent was clear, to stop the combat.

Friends should not fight after all.

[Elf]

Gabriel smirked as he pulled a couple of tissues from his nightstand and leaned over to gently wipe off La Folia's face.

"She's not mad at you.  She probably thinks I took advantage of you and . . . " He frowned as he wiped the pearly, white liquid from her face.

"Something else is bothering her."

******

Forest pulled off a bit of spaghetti from her hair with a sigh as she found Henry with the poor girl on the fourth floor, the dormitory.  Henry looked a little gaunt, but his mind was quiet to her and she relaxed.  She stepped into the room, barely making a sound despite her heavy boots.

"You look like you've seen a ghost," she said.

Then she heard her door bell ring and scowled.

[Puck-Chan]

The sound of her exhaling heralded her arrival. She seemed more composed than what her footsteps earlier from above had suggested.

"You look like you've seen a ghost," Forest remarked upon her examination of his face.

Henry replied with a small smile, "I'm just a little tired. It's a long nigh--"

A doorbell cut him off. Visitors at this late night? Odd, but there isn't much what Henry knew of this place's operations.

"Only one person," he spoke as he felt the life force existing from below, "I'll keep an eye on her. Take your time."

[Elf]

"Thank you," Forest said as she shook off more sauce and old noodles.

I might have to take a quick shower.  The garlic in this is starting to make me itch, she thought with a grimace.

"Hopefully I won't be too long," she said with a sigh before heading to see who was wrapping at her chamber door.  She got to the main floor, opened the door and looked up.  Normally she didn't have to look up to make eye contact, but the person darkening her doorstep was over half a foot taller than her.

"Hello, may I help you?" she asked, staring up.

[MissingMandible]

Songbird let his guard down. That is a big no-no for a being who's one job was to be just that - a guard.

With his eye lenses shifting to red, he  ran across the roof top towards the front of the house. That was where the buzzing sound came from, an annoying chime much like what the Bad Men used they were about to put him through another indoctrination session. Looking over the edge of the building, the Man-Bird could barely make out a silhouette down below.

Songbird's eyes became floodlights, bathing the man below in a red glow. Even Songbird can see that something was off with the person, how he was holding himself and his general demeanor. He was a potential threat...

Letting loose a high pitched screech, the Man-Bird swooped down to the ground below, landing behind the visitor.