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

[Kat]

“Yet you don’t even apologize despite the accident being YOUR fault? PEH, all because of you, now my clothes are beyond salvation. Just how exactly do you intend to take responsibility for your mistakes, and fix the mess in the first place, permy?!” She would ask, notably closer with all accompanying smell that her brief residence within the confines of a dumpster had imparted unto her, with all the wonderful qualities of decay, rot, and corpulent matter caking her back.

"OH NO" he exclaimed as the monster approached him. She was too close, far too close for his comfort. He was molested, harassed by her foul bodily odor. He was the victim, she dropped that banana peel off her body after all. He had to act quick. He rolled to the left, tripping the woman once again, ending up at the wall of the alley. Hopefully he would stood up before she regained footing.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Kenzo and Vanguard

Ow ow owww!

Kenzo was rubbing his throbbing head, whining while his mind blurred for a while there. He didn't *owww* even realize where he had just landed, or what was going on. Shaking his head painfully, he looked up at the purplehead, now giving him the death of all glares. Her eyes were freezing cold, death and hatred seeping from her pupils as she scowled at him. In response, his eyes were trembling and ears were drooping. You couldn't look more like a kicked puppy even if you tried.

And on that day, someone's heart got brutally shattered.

Looking at her with the face of a sorry puppy, he bowed so deeply his face touched the ground ala Kowtow. He had hurt her by accident, so he had to apologize! And so he did!

"Sorryyyyyy! I didn't mean it, I really really didn't mean it! I didn't mean to hurt you ma'am, it was just an accident ma'am! So please, please forgive me!"

In response to this ridiculous display, he received a swift karate chop to the head

"Could you cease that infantile mewling? If you have no business with her then leave." Vanguard scowled icily in turn, his time too precious to be wasted on such pathetism. Although that child could be of use. Not many could boast being as quick as he was. But he simply had no time to waste, and his master probably shared such an opinion.

"Let's go Sakura."

[LFR Tsar]

Sibyl

And once more, the man had proven ever slippery as he would seem too averse to the idea of paying off a debt, thought the vampiress. Had she been given free reins, and had Gintoki not spun along the ground, her heels would’ve married the albino’s most precious commodity betwixt his loins. The prey, white haired, feeble of heart, work ethics and general bravery has fled her with the fleet feet of a hare, to which found him actually bringing the woman coming for the floor once more, which at this point, one may think that those two were magnets for trouble.

She found herself stumbling and dancing around with a considerable effort in spite of the inevitable fall, in trying to keep herself from actually making loose with footing, yet it was to no avail. Her soles made slip against a layer of that same thick blackness before giving out with momentum, and to an end most unfortunate. She found herself falling backwards into a peril unknown, comfy, and oddly rigid with width. The Tremere yelped out with a sputtering shriek when gravity decided to rein her in and take its due.

Gintoki’s face would meet the two lumps of meat attached to Sibyl’s rear gaining collision against him most unintended.

[Kat]

Gintoki

Enough. Enough. Enough. Why the fate hated him so much. Why her stinky butt landed on his precious face. He had to act, otherwise he would perish ignobly. Overcoming aversion, he planted his hands on the woman's hips and hurled her with his full strength. "Go wash in a river or something, damn it!" Whom Sybil perceived as a coward now turned into a violent yaksha.

[Thedoctor]

Shinobu

Having had enough of her temper tantrum Shinobu decided to come forth from the shadows. So she did, launching herself out of the shadow in what she believed to be a graceful jump, however she had miscalculated the height of the roof and the top of her head hit it.

"OUCH" she shreiked, falling down while landing on her butt.

"What is that even made of?" she said while looking at he roof.

 Oh I see the two of you are still alive, good joob" she smiled at them.

[SINIB]

Sepulchure

Sepulchure ignored the insult. It was true, after all. He’d sold his soul to the darkness in order to obtain power. “...Correct.” He said after a pause. “So, what are you planning?” The Doom Blade muttered incoherently, too angry to care about the antics of this much less powerful creature that had addressed it.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Tohuw Balagan

Tohuw grew a grin and revealed a full set of shark teeth. Something gleamed in his eyes, something ulike anything ever before.

“Well, first of all, I need a makeover. AND a monthly subscription to Shonen Jump. Hey Seppy, what color suits me best? I’ll go with pink, okay?”

With that fabulous mane of his, his party mane, he would crush that sniveling worm with STYLE! Yes, yes, everything was perfect. Perfect. Perfect…… Hm, maybe I can give him my phone number! Yes, this is a great idea! That way, he can be my friend! Genius! Thought Tohuw while rubbing his chin in a pondering manner.


~Some time later~

“I’m late!”

My name is Sukisaki Saki. I am sixteen-year-old Fish Tank Top Academy student. Once, I was a completely ordinary highschool-student until I…

“Oh no! I won’t make it in time!”

So I ran, rolling up the stairs of that abandoned hotel, going forward like a true hero, not backing down! Ganbatte Sukisaki Saki! Finally, I reached the highest floor of the really high hotel! Kicking the door open, I opened wide her eyes to a horrible display! The seitokai had been murdered, dozens of dead bodies littering the room and piled up neatly! And to make things worse, their socks were upside down!

“Eeeeeeeeeeeeh!?” I yelped. But then, I saw him. My senpai. Immediately, I calmed down and ran up to him! Oh, he was always so kawaii with his super awesome monocle and tie and cape and, and!

“Toe! Toe! We have big trouble!” I yelled. To that, my manly and beautiful and amazing senpai raised an eyebrow and glanced at me with his beautiful vacant eyes. So cool!

“Oh? Can’t you see I am reading? What could possibly be so important to interrupt my reading time!?” He asked. It's like he really didn't care! So cold, so cool!

“My hair, my hair is pink! Oh no, what will I do!?” Without even taking his eyes off his magazine this time, he answered “Who the fuck cares lol?”

“Haven’t you watched any anime!? Dying your hair is bad in nippon!”

I almost felt like pointing out his hair looked pretty pink too. Darn, the more I thought about it the more he looked like me. Maybe its because he loves me~!

“Bitch I don’t watch harem crap. I only look at THE MANY QUALITY WORKS OF SHONEN JUMP!!”

“Oh, wow Toe-kun! You are amazing! I love Shonen Jump! Uhhh, what’s a Shonen Jump?”

“They are only the best manga publisher of all time!?”

“Oh wow, they have so many amazing series such as Naruto, One Piece, Dragonball Z, Runouri Kenshin and-“

“Look, if I kick that guy’s ass, can you shut the fuck up and let me read my manga?”

SO COOL!

“Hmm, but I can’t go all out unless I am provoked. Why would I go after some random dude who hasn’t done anything to me?”

Hmm, that was a good point. While the suns out there were annoying, it was nothing personal enough to make him involve himself personally. I mean, its not like they insulted him or anything. Or maaaybe....

“Um, senpai. He said, and I quote, Lol Toe, you can only fight in children’s card games.”

“Why…”

Uh oooh. He was getting piiiiiiiissseed. It was always really scary to see him get mad like that, so I decided to hide under the table.

“WHY!? WHY YOU’D GO… THAT FAR! WHY WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING SO TERRIBLE TO HURT ANOTHER LIKE THAT!! WHY MUST IT BE CARDS!? NOBODY COULD USE THOSE CARDS AS WEAPONS! IN OTHER WORDS, YOU’RE SAYING I’M A FOOL WHO CAN’T TELL 2D FROM 3D, RIGHT!? I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOUU!! I! WILL! KILL YOU!!”

"Ooh, you're soo cool even when you're angry Toe-kun!" Sukisaki said with an overjoyed tone. Damn right he was, damn right. Now, it was time for the opening credits to roll. One, two, three! JIBUUN WOOOOO


Of course, none of that actually happened. There was no Sukisaki Saki, nor was there any really high hotel. It was just a play he was playing out in his head! He was trying to figure out a way to murder whoever was responsible in the BEST. WAY. EVER. But then, Toe had an idea! A play, a play, of course! He had seen it, a theater was brimming with that light as well, an excellent way to do a few stretching exercises. Besides, such place was probably guarded. It would be a shame to greet the patron of this act without a suitable bouquet.

"Basically, I'm going to go there and kill them until they cry! There, any questions Seppy?"

[MissingMandible]

Lone Wanderer:

Just like that, all logic got thrown out the window. How does one just leap out of shadows? There is literally nothing to them aside just light sources being blocked...

Rather than going down that rabbit hole, Jeremy turned back to Tenma. "I'll help you rebuild it later, Tenma," He began, "But what do we do now?"

[Emperor's Hammer]

Victoria Ashworth

As I was browsing the computer parts, I found myself immersed in the variety of parts for sale, and begun to select only the very best so that I could create my own computer. It would likely come in handy when I worked on some of my bigger projects, so I decided to go with a high end custom PC than the ones that they were selling, as they likely might be strained by the specialized software some of my creations might take to run properly, such as the railgun I had been planning back before I left, or perhaps trying to recreate some of Tesla's inventions.

As I was looking at some of the various operating systems to determine which would be better to run my computer on, it seemed that a girl had approached me from behind, and said,

Noriko

"Fancy to meet someone from the same world. Don't worry, my lips are closed about your condition."

I immediately was snapped out of my distraction and turned to look at the girl, quickly checking her aura to see exactly how I should react in this situation. As it turned out, the girl was a mage, which explained how exactly she was able to so easily be able to tell that I was a member of the Kindred. However, this did not mean I could just say that I was, after all there were likely to be others around, as this was a public place. Reaching out with my Technomancy, I found that the girl had a phone, and with it, I had the phone send itself a text message, saying the following:

Watch what you say, Mage, as there are likely to be those of the uninitiated around. If you want to discuss anything beyond the normal, we will need to move elsewhere. Here is my phone number, 1-423-5997

With that done, I gave a different response verbally, just in case we were being eavesdropped on, whispering back to her "How could you tell that I had stunted growth, and was not just a child? After all I didn't give off any signs of it," faking a bit of a shocked expression as I did. I had to be able to convince any possible eavesdroppers that this was the case.

After the text sent, I simply waited for the girl to check her phone and see the message I sent. After all, it was the more important part of our conversation.

[Kat]

Watch what you say, Mage, as there are likely to be those of the uninitiated around. If you want to discuss anything beyond the normal, we will need to move elsewhere. Here is my phone number, 1-423-5997

With that done, I gave a different response verbally, just in case we were being eavesdropped on, whispering back to her "How could you tell that I had stunted growth, and was not just a child? After all I didn't give off any signs of it," faking a bit of a shocked expression as I did. I had to be able to convince any possible eavesdroppers that this was the case.

Noriko's phone, placed in a pocket of her denim jacket beeped, and she reached for it in reaction. A message appeared on the phone, seemingly from the diminutive vampire. She must have had ability to read auras and was aware of existence of Awakened ones. And she hadn't met a one able to manipulate technology in that way. Who knew, maybe it would be worth to chat with her a little.

"My relatives are doctors in the relevant field. Picked up from them the knowledge how to recognize it" She said in a hushed tone. A lie, but it didn't matter. I do not mind a chat, but let us meet later, outside Emporium, she replied to the message. She casted a spell to alter her aura to suit more what she said than what she actually thought. Noriko could not afford being seen through by a vampire who could read her emotions. Preferably she also would pick a meeting place most advantageous for her. In case she had to deter some scheme against her.

She was also aware that Seras would follow her like a good pet of hers. But extra precautions didn't hurt.

[Panda]

Emily

As if everything already pressing down around her wasn't messing with her already, now there was some bitch in annoyingly loud armor clanking over to the growing scene. All she really wanted was to get away from all this, away from this chick holding her up, away from this armor bitch droning on about the outright obvious and sounding like some wannabe white-knight, and away from-...actually, that little girl was pretty nice, if a bit grating. After all, she easily could have ditched the drunk Changeling while she was nodding off.

Regardless, the Changeling decided that it was most certainly time to go. With that in her alcohol-addled mind, Emily dazedly called up the Glamour for the Contract and invoked it, seemingly vanishing into thin air as the wind that was 'Emily' rushed away from the area.

[Elf]

Forest

The walking suit of armor chopped Kenzo before admonishing him. 

"Could you cease that infantile mewling? If you have no business with her then leave."

Forest scowled and went over to lift Kenzo up on is feet.  She said, "He was sorry, he didn't mean anything about it."  Her eyes narrowed at the suit of armor as she put herself between it and Kenzo. 

"You go getting violent with someone who doesn't deserve it again, Tin Man, and we'll have words," Forest said as she petted Kenzo's hand to reassure him, "You okay, pop . . .  Laddie?"

I almost called him "poppet".  He's not my poppet.


Rin

Sakura stated she wanted to go, but Rin looked towards the group that literally ran into them.  As she looked, she noticed that there was a mirror by some of the racks of clothing, and they all had reflections.  Except for the tall blond.

The magus winched as Vanguard chopped the exuberant redhead as he profusely apologized.   

"Could you cease that infantile mewling? If you have no business with her then leave."

"You go getting violent with someone who doesn't deserve it again, Tin Man, and we'll have words," the blond said in her odd accent as she petted the redhead's hand to reassure him, "You okay, pop . . .  Laddie?"

With her stepping forward, Rin could clearly see the blond lacked a reflection.  She tugged on Sakura's sleeve and said in a sharp whisper, "The blond who's acting like a British Shirou, she doesn't have a reflection."


Saber

Saber winched and replied, "No, he is actually a close friend of mine and a previous knight of mine.  You remind him of an old enemy; which is no fault of yours, but he is  . . . unbalanced."

She sighed before eating a fry and taking a sip of soda through the straw.  "He was the man I was carrying out earlier.  That is why I wanted to make sure he was secure before speaking to you.  Do you mind telling me what happened?"

[Knick]

Suiren

Suiren was simply silent at the declaration, her hand had lowered. And then she shook slightly. It was a light tremble. Slowly she sat up, and her body continued to tremble, her hair hiding her face.

Then the sound came out, it was soft and melodic at first, beautiful and mesmerizing at the same time. And then, as Suiren raised herself to her feet, and her laughing got louder and louder, until it was filling the clearing, it echoed off the trees, creating a bizarre canopy of sound.

“Hahahahaha, This is a fucking joke isn’t it.” She laughed jovially. “What-What a great fucking joke. Hahaha!” She laughed to the heavens, brushing her face, wiping way the tears that came from her near hysterical laughter. “Such a-hahahaha- I can’t ev-hahahaha!”

And so she laughed.

Just

“It… it started one day. One day, this boy, he looked onto the old man, the old man they took care of him every day, which taught him and told him stories.  It was one day, and one simple question when he said it. The boy looked up at the man, and he spoke, “Why are we different from the others?” He has curiously. The old man froze, before he looked down at the boy in shock. There was something different about him, a different presence, almost as if the boy had somehow changed overnight.

Eventually the man answered, “Because we are human.” The man answered truthfully. The boy nodded, satisfied, and they returned to their day to day. But the older man’s look of unease never vanished. And that day was the last the boy ever saw the man again. It would remain calm, calm until another year later, although he would ask many other questions to his new caretakers, a question like that was never uttered again, until the day the Brothers and Sisters came.”

At that Just went quiet, looking at the boy-thing, gauging it.

[SINIB]

Sakura

With her stepping forward, Rin could clearly see the blond lacked a reflection.  She tugged on Sakura's sleeve and said in a sharp whisper, "The blond who's acting like a British Shirou, she doesn't have a reflection."

The hair on the back of Sakura’s neck immediately stood at attention. She grabbed Rin and pulled her behind Vanguard forcefully. “Remember how I told you the Nexus is dangerous?” Sakura whispered quietly in perfect german. “She’s the problem.” She said, reverting to japanese. “We need to leave right now!” She said in a quiet whisper, so only Rin could hear her as she dragged her away. “No protesting!” Returning to german, she addressed Vanguard. “If they make any funny moves, kill them. They’re dangerous, I need you to make sure we get out of here without incident, okay? If they follow us, kill them!” She said with a hint of anger. Meanwhile, a small ant crawled into the redhead’s shoe.

[Elf]

Rin

Rin frowned as Sakura went from German to Japanese.  Even though she used German in spellcasting, she wasn't exactly fluent in it, but Sakura's angry tone and her grabbing Rin and pushing her behind Vanguard let her know enough.  She looked over Armor-san to see something like pain flash through the blond's eyes before her face became a sardonic mask complete with one eyebrow lifted.

"Wait, what's going on here?  They don't look dangerous . . . "

The blond called out and said, "Your power of observation let your friend with the magnificent head of hair know that yes, I am a vampire.  No I'm not going to eat you, and I'm not easily killed.  Yes, most vampires are magnificent gets, but what you are doesn't make you who you are."

"Come on, Kenzo, let's go find the stuff you need, okay?" the blond said, smiling at the redhead and turning away from them.

In English, Rin muttered, "Why is a vampire helping someone who's special needs?  If she wanted to eat him, why go through all this trouble. . . "