Cross Effects 3.0 - April 13, 2015—June 23, 2016

[Umbra of Chaos]

Urthemiel

The Old God almost looked bored as a barrier wrapped itself over his skin. A glyph of warding formed under him and his hand was charged with mana. A meaningless display but it did add a bit more weight to what he was about to say. "Lady Einzbern, was this person already inside your home? If he is an intruder I would gladly deal with him for you."

[Elf]

Rin

"I suppose it might sound weird, but I'm a mage. That's might be why I ended up here, weird places attract abnormal people." Noriko confessed openly. "I'm setting up my own practice in this city, so feel free to ask me for a favor if you need something."

Rin stared at her for a moment, her and tightening on Sakura's coat, before she shook her head with a sigh.  "Geeze, if we were home and you came out in the open like that . . .  Well, it just wouldn't go well for you."

Then Vanguard brought over a very busty blond woman who had looked as if she was missing an arm.  She looked over at Sakura and swallowed.  Her sister's fist was clinched in a fist and the doll-pleasant smile vanished from her face from a split moment. 

“Excuse me," Sakura said, sounding like her dark counterpart, “What do you mean, new employer? You wouldn’t happen to mean that large armor there, would you?”

Armor-san shoved two of his fingers in the poor girl's mouth before he said, "Yes, I am afraid the large armoured one would be the employer. Now, if you excuse me, I would like you to relieve you of that lady over there. I have uses for people like her. That is, unless you wish her to stay. You seemed to get along with her so wonderfully, would it not be cruel of me to split off my master from her new friend so soon?"

Rin gave Sakura's shoulders a little squeeze and said, "Armor-san, you just can't go around picking up pretty girls at your whim.  It makes you look like a deviant."  Her expression took a feline slant as she prayed that this would work off Sakura's black mood.  "Is there something you're not telling us Armor-san? Sakura wouldn't be too happy if you're building a harem."


Forest

The Camaro's engine roared to life and Iron Maiden poured through the speakers.  Forest said, "Honestly, probably the best thing to is put up feelers for others to find your sword, Kenzo."


Saber

"W-why the heck are you here?" Saber's doppleganger said as she pointed at Saber, "Is that some grudge for me stalking you back then?"

Saber glared at the other woman and said, "I am doing what this city has tasked me to, protecting it.  If I held a grudge for you stalking me, you would not be standing there."  Saber started to guide Lancelot away, so he didn't see this "Mordred" and lose his sanity.

[SINIB]

Sakura

Sakura sputtered in shock. “What.” She asked flatly without a hint of amusement in her voice. “What. Did you just say?”

She tried to calm down, she really really did. She didn’t want to make a scene, not here, not now, especially not now, not with Rin here. So she bit her lip, and attempted to hold in her anger, at least for long enough to...long enough to what? She wasn’t sure. She just knew she had to wait for as long as possible. So after a bit she turned away, fighting back tears as she stormed away with Rin in tow.

“Stupidstupidstupidstupid.” She muttered to herself as she stomped about.

[Elf]

Rin

Rin followed Sakura as she was half drug away.  Rin sighed as Sakura began to berate herself and she pulled the curvier girl into a hug.  "No, Armor-san is an idiot.   You're not stupid, you're my sister after all," she said, giving Sakura a tiny squeeze.

[YOLF]

Shendu

The air ignited, consuming fire erupting from the demon sorcerer's hand towards his targets. The blast should've instantly annihilated worms like those... had it not been blocked. In the second before destruction flew from his claw, something leaped from the male's shadow, and a wall of flame manifested between them and the doom that should've struck true.

Shendu's eyes smoldered to attention at the interruption as he glimpsed the obstacle, and after a second discerned the interloper even amid the element of its birth. A mere fire spirit dared to get in his way? A whisp of this world would defy him so openly in the element that was his as well? The blast of combustion from his hand widened into a pillar to burn through the thickest fortress walls, and heat rays shot from his eyes to join it. He would blow through this opposition with brute force.

[MissingMandible]

Lone Wanderer:

"Ah, yes. I'm trying to find a jar that has part of my brai - ah, there it is!" Jeremy stated while picking up the baby-food jar that had L'il Jeremy in it. The glass container was a lot smaller than the one the gray matter was initially placed in, but this was far more convenient for travelling.

Remembering that not everyone was "In The Know," the Lone Wanderer attempted to cut off any possible negative reaction from his new host, "Don't freak out! It's part of my brain. It was an operation without consent; I was lucky that I didn't turn into a gibbering manchild."

A few moments later, a streaking mass slammed from the heavens above, crashing onto the ground. When the snow resettled, a woman's lower body was sticking above the ground as if to make a euphemism literal. "The fuck?"

[Kat]

Saber

"W-why the heck are you here?" Saber's doppleganger said as she pointed at Saber, "Is that some grudge for me stalking you back then?"

Saber glared at the other woman and said, "I am doing what this city has tasked me to, protecting it.  If I held a grudge for you stalking me, you would not be standing there."  Saber started to guide Lancelot away, so he didn't see this "Mordred" and lose his sanity.

Mordred

"I doubt that, I'm so used to stronger opponents that I would manage to get away. Don't take me too lightly, 'Saber', overcoming odds is my daily bread here.", she glared back at her mini-me. She didn't want to pick a fight, but her pride didn't let her admit a defeat too easily. "But I'm sure you ain't my fetch, so I don't have any bone to pick with you. I just want people to stop mistaking me for you. I'm my own person, with my own achievements." 

***

Rikuyo

"We should part. I've something personal to do." she offered. Rikuyo wanted to find this woman called Forest. As Richard's rival, she should have learned her nemesis is dead. After all, it was as close bond as a close friendship, in  a way. Part of her wanted also to see why Richard was so focused about fighting the woman.

***

Noriko

Everything happened way too quickly. She could sympathize with the purple haired girl's clear annoyance at Noriko's roommate bringing some hulked out armor fetishist. But, she soon realized the armor is actually empty inside. Was it animated by some kind of magic? Maybe a work of necromancer that preferred working with inanimate objects rather than corpses? "Seras, I know you are unemployed, but it's kinda reckless to hire yourself to such suspicious thing so soon."

[SINIB]

Sakura

Sakura shook her head, visibly upset by this development. She hadn't thought about it that way, but Rin was right: she did look stupid. She looked like a spoiled little child who threw a tantrum when things didn't go her way.

Sakura tearfully turned to Rin, eyes full of water. "I never change! I've always been the stupid one, the one nobody cares about. First—our parents—I don't even want to say their names, then Grandfather and Shinji, only you and Senpai ever truely cared about me...well, Rider does too... I've always wanted to be more like you, you seem so...smart, cool, cute...everything that I'm not! I'm sorry, I'm just unloading on you, this is..." Sakura leaned against the cart. "I'm the worst." She said calmly, in complete contrast to her previous attitude, as if she was just stating a cold hard unchangeable fact. "I'm just the worst." She reiterated before falling into a silence, absently staring at Rin.

[SINIB]

Rachel Alucard

The ancient vampire looked up at the woman who had approached her with distaste, an expression unbecoming of her physical appearance. She laughed, nay, chuckled at her drunken approach.

"Do I need assistance? No, I'm perfectly capable of caring for myself." She said with a voice far older than that which she appeared to be. "You,however, look to gravely need an adult. What on earth are you doing about, child? Don't you know it's dangerous in the streets, or is that a level of cognition that you are incapable of attaining? "

[Panda]

Emily

Emily allowed a moment to stare at the little girl, her still-hammered mind taking a few moments to process what she'd said, before something managed to get through the pounding in her head.

"Yeah, this place isn't exactly...nnnnniiiiiiice...to people, I'm...aware of that much," Emily said, unable to keep from slurring a bit, "I'm just trying to...to clear my head a bit."

"Besides," the Changeling continued, "I'm not as drunk as you..." Emily cut herself off with a drunken little giggle, "Oh, who am I kidding. Yeah, I prooooooooobably shouldn't be going around by myseeeeeeeelf."

With that, Emily's legs finally decided to take matters into their own hands at this point, guiding her to lean up against a wall for support.

[Panda]

Seras

Any reply Seras might have had for Noriko was stifled by Vanguard's fingers in her mouth. Deciding to try to fix this, Seras grabbed onto the fingers with the only hand available to her at the moment, pulling at the fingers and pulling her head back. It would be a matter of what would give out first, his grip or her teeth.

[Kat]

Noriko

Her 'insurance' struggled pretty pathetically against the weird armor. She made right choice when she didn't agree for getting sired by her back then. Still better fate than dying, but perhaps she had to improve her asset. An investment, so to say. "Seras, could you calm down, please, I want to talk a bit with Mr. Armor. Your resistance keeps him occupied." she asked Seras in a bit condescending tone.

[yinsukin]

Roxas

"Where are you going?" Roxas asked curiously.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Vanguard

Vanguard removed his fingers from the woman's mouth in a slick motion, turning to the redhead woman.

"Oh?" He said with a tint of curiosity.

[SINIB]

Irisviel

Irisviel held in laughter when Towuh entered the room dressed as some stranger. She was confused as to exactly why he chose to take this form, but she had strong suspicions that he had done something rather nasty to the girl she had just healed.

You owe me~ She thought to him before responding to the noble. She shook her head, “No, I don’t think I have seen him before.” Wires came out of her dress, swirling around her in a beautiful hypnotic pattern. “But I can get rid of him myself, I couldn’t possibly allow a guest to do such busywork.”