Cross Effects 3.0 - October 21, 2015—June 23, 2016

[SINIB]

Shirou Emiya

Shirou cocked his head at Sakura's antics. She was acting strange, although that wasn't really that odd, all things considered. His fiancee clearly needed some serious medical attention. Faust had been a doctor, right? Why hadn't he done anything about this? He clenched his fist in anger. Sakura couldn't have been like this without outside interference. He couldn't believe his sweet, loving little Sakura could have become like this on her own. She was stronger than this, the strongest person he knew.

She'd been through so much, why couldn't she just be happy? He didn't understand!

Shirou quietly nuzzled against Sakura and looked at the plush with her, staring intently into its eyes. They were cold and dead, some of the fabric that made up the eyes cracking from overuse and love. He stifled a shudder from the image that thought brought to mind. Other than that though, the entire toy seemed to been have kept in very good repair. The hair was all stuck in the right places and the clothing was clean and well kept.

"Sakura, when did you learn to be such a good seamstress? I never knew you could make some—one— like this."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Garou

So much for an introduction. Quickly, Garou dashed out of the way, spun and avoided the hail of needles, managing to avoid all but a few of them. Were they too fast? No. If one was careful, one could have noticed his body moved precisely, each needle controlled to hit the least vital and crippling parts of his body.

He was not caught unawares, far from it. But only a martial arts master would have been able to tell that technique of his.

The rest sliced and pierced him, sticking out of his hardened body and bones gruesomely or outright piercing trough his skin and flesh. But he did not give up, instead he leapt at an incredible height to strike the girl with a mighty talon kick to the face.

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

Noel grabbed her head. She felt like she had vertigo.

"Uhhhh... Hello... Alpha." She was apparently her friend, right?

ALPHA

"Noel?" As she got closer, she noticed Noel looked off-balance, and was clutching her head while she gave a weak reply.

Alpha got within touching distance and put a hand on her shoulder, in a supporting manner.

"Are you alright? How are you feeling?"

[Kat]

Petra

"Salt it, of course! God rewards those who think of the future, and I cannot let them rot if we don't sell them." Some people didn't fancy eating salted meat for too long, but Petra was a shrewd person. Salting some of the fish for the later use would be nice. "Let's see, I will cook a fish from each species on my own, you can take care of the rest." She proposed to Lumen.

[Arch-Magos Winter]

Rin

Well that was the most awkward thing ever, Rin thought as she ran the blow dryer, drying her long, raven hair.

Vanguard had offered to wash her back, and Rin had turned her down while Archer's cheeks matched his tail and mantle during the whole surreal affair.  She had dressed in some of the new clothing she got last night with Sakura, a pair of black  fleece lined leggings and a red sweater dress.  As she dried her hair, she looked at her former Servant and said, with a smirk, "I know who you are, and I guess we need to catch up before we go out there."

Most awkward thing ever was playing through Archer's mind again and again as he leaned against the wall, trying not to look directly at Rin at the moment, the faint traces of a blush still on his face.  The shower had been a little too long in his opinion, long enough for him to catch a few glimpses that still haunted his mind whenever he looked at Rin. Like her legs, and body, and the soap suds trailing down her smooth skin...

Oh wait, she said something? Archer came out of his mental revelry, meeting Rin's eyes and smirk with one of his own. "I suppose we do. It's been long enough for you to grow up a bit since we were last able to talk after all." She had grown up in all the right places, he could attest to that. "So what's been going on aside from you discovering a love of women?"

[SINIB]

Noel Vermillion

Noel quickly put on her headband. It had been stupid to take it off, she took in too much information, as always. As soon as she returned it to her head, she felt better. She just prayed that Kokonoe's engineering would hold up forever.

"Yea-yeah, everything's fine. I shouldn't have taken off Kokonoe's headband is all. I'm fine now."

How can a timeline like hers even be possible?

"So um, Alpha, how long have you been here?" She asked her…sister.

[Kat]

Mordred

"Everything's fine then, really? OK, I won't phone if you say so, but c'mon, take this." She reached for her small bottle with painkillers. "I don't know why your head hurts, but if it helped me with that fucking light, it should help you too." She didn't toss the bottle at Noel because she figured she could have been still too dizzy from the headache. She walked up to Noel, clutching the bottle in her palm "These are safe and not from some shady drugstore, so don't worry about that." Then she turned to Alpha. "It seems I didn't have to call, but thanks anyway, you look like a reliable fellow. I'm Mordred, Mordred Rhonwen."

[Thedoctor]

Oka

Oka came out of the changing room after a while with a grin on her face. She dumped a few clothes into a bin to be rehung, and returned with her chosen clothes. Pink short shorts, teal stockings, and a bubblegum pink shirt. And of course, cute underwear that had little hearts on it. After depositing them in the cart, she returned to an equally important issue.

"Now, I wonder if they sell hair dye here..."

Jin

Jin watched as Oka returned with a selection that could be described with the word cute, they did look like something seh would wear though. He almost didn't catch her comment about needing hair dye, but only almost, Jin hadn't risen to his current rank by lacking situational awareness. So he reflexively answered it.

"They should, I think I saw some when I got the cart- wait why do you need that?".

[Umbra of Chaos]

Erica

Blue eyes watched impassively as he managed to dodge quite a few needles. She would need to make sure he couldn't dodge, and that was quickly solved by him launching himself directly at her. Erica dashed to the side and as his foot cut through the black afterimages the Mantle twisted into Fists before slamming down on the stranger and sending him hurtling down to earth. But that was not enough. She would make sure.

The moment he had been struck one fist returned to neutral state while the other morphed into the Needle and released a barrage of needles upon his quickly falling form. As she opened fire the blue headed girl allowed herself to drop down and fall after her target with her unceasing rain of black projectiles.


Lumen

"No. That is one of the most blatantly unfair deals I've ever had offered to me. We cook together, we salt what we can actually carry, and we throw the rest back so we don't have to carry a net full of salted fish in hopes that someone will buy it." There was no actual anger in the Patchwork's eyes but there was certainly annoyance and impatience. She didn't come this way to get extra work dumped on her. If Petra insisted she was more than willing to just yank her meal out of the ocean and do it herself. 

[Kotomine_Rin]

Erica

Blue eyes watched impassively as he managed to dodge quite a few needles. She would need to make sure he couldn't dodge, and that was quickly solved by him launching himself directly at her. Erica dashed to the side and as his foot cut through the black afterimages the Mantle twisted into Fists before slamming down on the stranger and sending him hurtling down to earth. But that was not enough. She would make sure.

The moment he had been struck one fist returned to neutral state while the other morphed into the Needle and released a barrage of needles upon his quickly falling form. As she opened fire the blue headed girl allowed herself to drop down and fall after her target with her unceasing rain of black projectiles.

Garou

Garou was slammed mercilessly to the ground, violently smashed by the giant fist. He hacked blood pathetically, but despite that he still got back up. Only to be riddled by more needles, but luckily he rolled out of the way and prevented a complete skewering.

No matter how you looked at it, this was a completely one sided battle. So why was that man smiling?

He swung his arm forward, and quickly moved out of the way to avoid a fatal blow. The sound of needles falling could be heard. Did he deflect them? His movements were far too strange to tell. Where would he strike next?  For now, all he seemed to do was avoiding the hail of needles which grew by the second.

[Elf]

Corbin

"B-but Ayech Cue is secured..." the Soldier type muttered, "Besides, our orders are to reach Rally Point Theta...?"

Fuck.  Of course my hypnosis doesn't work on this guy.  I gotta figure out how to get better at it . . .

"Why aren't you with the Sarge, Beckett?" the Space Marine demanded of him.

Then, to add to the colossal shit storm that was becoming his day - and he hadn't even gone to bed yet - the vampire girl began to regenerate.  Those pitiless golden eyes, reminding him of one of those sharks he saw at the aquarium down town, looked at them.  He wagered she didn't really see them though.

She rose to her feet, completely healed.  The only sign of any trauma was that her clothing was torn, revealing quite the nice body underneath. 

"I am hungry now...." she said with an empty voice.

"Bugger it all," Corbin said before whirling on the Space Marine.  "You see that girl there?  She will bite into your thigh, which houses one of the largest arteries in your body and happens to be one of the few pieces not protected by this ridiculous shell you're wearing, and drain you dry if you stay here.  So snap out of your little PTSD disillusion and get the fuck out of here."


Forest

Forest stepped back when Rikuyo did.  The girl had already proven she was impatient, so Forest had to be patient.  Not that patience is my strong suit either, but she's so bloody powerful with those chi attacks.  It's easier to use that against her than to have her defend against me.

She took a slight stance, turning her body to the side to make herself less of a target and to defend more easily.


Rin

"I suppose we do. It's been long enough for you to grow up a bit since we were last able to talk after all," Archer replied with a blush still staining his cheeks.  Then he smirked at her and asked, "So what's been going on aside from you discovering a love of women?"

Rin felt her cheeks heat up even more and she threw a comb at him.  "I do not have a love for women!  And it has been a while so you need to listen before we go out there and you do something stupid.  I just need to figure out where to begin, because there is a lot to go through."

And I don't know how to tell you that Ilya died when you tried hard to protect her.
 

[SINIB]

Irisviel

"Of course I brought coffee, how could I fail a such a simple request from you?"

[Cherry Lover]

Rider

Rider watched with some concern as Sakura started intently into the eyes of her stuffed Shirou, wondering what she was doing, and why she was paying more attention to the stuffed toy likeness of her lover than to the real thing, who was sitting behind her. Looking at it more closely as she waited for Sakura or Shirou to react, Rider could see that it had been well-loved but, also, very well maintained. Despite the oddity of it, she couldn't help but be impressed by the quality of the obviously-homemade toy. It had obviously been a labour of love, a sign of just how much she missed the man she adored. And, having read her diary, Rider could understand why she had made it, and why, even now, it still meant so much to her. Of course, it could never replace the real thing, but nevertheless it had become a great comfort to her, and even with the real Shirou here it still provided her with that little extra comfort that she needed right now.

She could see from his actions that Shirou was also concerned about Sakura's behaviour, however, she felt he was better placed to make some effort to help his beloved. And, sure enough, he began to nuzzle against her, demonstrating his love for her, before speaking up.

"Sakura, when did you learn to be such a good seamstress? I never knew you could make some—one— like this", he said, his dislike of the way she personified the stuffed toy obvious to Rider.

"Yes, Sakura, he is very well made", Rider added, genuinely impressed by the quality of the work, and hiding her concern about Sakura's behaviour.

[Kat]

Julius

If it was meant to be a joke, it was certainly a twisted now. Now his clothes were tarnished by the stupid prank of the creature about which he was certain it wasn't a human. Assuming be came back, he would demand a compensation, and he had little doubt that freaks like him wouldn't survive what happened. "He's already getting on my nerves."

Lumen

"No. That is one of the most blatantly unfair deals I've ever had offered to me. We cook together, we salt what we can actually carry, and we throw the rest back so we don't have to carry a net full of salted fish in hopes that someone will buy it." There was no actual anger in the Patchwork's eyes but there was certainly annoyance and impatience. She didn't come this way to get extra work dumped on her. If Petra insisted she was more than willing to just yank her meal out of the ocean and do it herself.

Petra

"I *did* catch everything and didn't attract unwanted attention to us, but maybe you have a point. I cannot agree about throwing out everything, though. If you doubt that I can carry a barrel full of salted fish, then sorry, you are wrong." Petra answered Lumen's accusations regarding the unfairness of the deal. Then realized they forgot to bring tools for cooking. "Gosh, "I cannot gut and cut the fish with my sword. We got to find something for that."

RAGNA THE BLOODEDGE

"Alright, then, no time like the present. Let's get this over with," he said, walking into the oriental establishment. Hopefully, they had Won Ton soup.

He spared a look behind him, to see if she was coming, and stepped indoors. "For two," he told the person at the cash, and the exaggeratedly asian woman nodded crisply.

Noriko

"You know, it has been a while since I had Asian food. I may not look like some from Europe, but that's where I spent the majority of my life so far." The mage didn't know why she felt like talking about the past in a presence of a near stranger, but maybe she was just in a mood. And she certainly cooled down. Or rather didn't see the point in continuing their banter. "Though I don't know if the name of Europe tells you anything. There so many people from so many worlds here after all."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Toe

“Scary, scary.”

The demon was standing on top of the man’s head, literally getting on his nerves. Despite his immense weight, he was as light as a feather and had he not spoken up, Julius might not even have noticed he was there.

Then, he quickly hopped off and walked towards the corpse, or rather a piece of it, and grabbed it before eating it glutonoussly.

“Hmm... blueberry. *munch* My favouritest.”

And so he proceeded to eat what turned out to be a cake of sorts. Then, he turned towards the two as quickly as he had indulged himself and held out a piece. Friends need to share after all!

“Want some?”