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

[Kotomine_Rin]

Sakagami Kenzo

Kenzo widened his eyes in surprise to the child's resolve, but then he smiled softly. She almost reminded him of her, with those fierce eyes of hers. He looked up absently for a second before directing his gaze to meet her own.

Which one would come on top? A human's sword that was meant to protect or a demon's sword meant to sever, the Oni couldn't help but feel thrilled.

"I wasn't planning on that, dear." He replied gently, and suddenly the air around them changed.

Kenzo's now grayish brown skin turned into a vibrant red while his muscles hardened and compacted into a bulbous pillar of strength. His features seemed to contort and shift into those of an animal, but his form seemed as human as it had always been.

Nails turned into claws, mouth into a monstruous maw filled with sharp canines like daggers while black horns slowly erupted from his forehead. His hair grew exponentially and turned into a scalding white hue, as if they had turned into a scorching blaze, a demon's infernal mane floating freely. Unchained and unbound.

He grabbed hold of his shirt and opened it, letting it lie down like a mantle to reveal a massive chest filed with scars. A crimson aura seemed to emanate from the red oni and his cursed sword. He took a simple swordfighting stance and stood his ground.

"This time I won't hold back. If you have any hidden tricks up your sleeve, any concealed abilities or secret techniques, I suggest you use them. I will let you draw the first strike."

[Kat]

Theodore

Theodore's face almost lit up, but not quite. It didn't shift much at all really, but he seemed a little happy about her enthousiasm. At least that would explain his unsettling smile. He didn't even remove his two eyes blindfold when presenting his own telephone, as if he could clearly see trough it, or those eyes were his own.

"Oh, it's called a telephone. You can use it to talk to your friends without having to breathe the same air they do. This one in particular has up has  a Gorilla Glass 3 protection on the front and back and a metal frame in Gunmetal Black. On the front is a 5.5-inch QHD display and powering it is a MediaTek Helio X10 with 3GB RAM and 3100mAh battery. The phone also packs a 21 megapixel Sony IMX230 sensor on the back with PDAF, 4K video and 120fps slow-motion capture. On the front is an 8 megapixel shooter that can take all sorts of pictures. Isn't that cool?"

Rikuyo

Now the weird man started chanting at her in speech that she couldn't comprehend. Must have been one of those mage types after all, they also blathered incomprehensibly when they casted their spells. What if he tried to jynx her? There was only one, direct solution.

She tried to punch the man right in the face, shouting: "No spells here, you damn wizard!"

[Kat]

Lumen

"I can be subtle enough if I need to so no one should be coming after me and there aren't really a lot of things that can hurt me. I can prove it if you want. All you need to do is hit me with anything that isn't your fists. They won't hurt me but it would probably be bad if your hands broke, right?" The Patchwork stood up with open arms as she waited to get hit. She didn't really need to be so obvious but in some ways it was reassuring. Knowing that some things would always stay the same didn't stop you from checking every once in a while out of baseless worry and she had way too much of that not to see what would happen.

Mitsuba

"No, I won't go along with that. See, hitting people just to test their strength is plain stupid. If you don't have necessary strength you will just get beaten up by troublemakers. I guess I don't have much choice anyway. I'll hire you for now, and you fail, then I will just find someone else." The unchained replied honestly to the supernatural. Mitsuba didn't like the way how the multicolored woman tried to get her hit her, but she didn't have much choice at this point. She simply decided to give her a benefit of doubt and fire her if she failed in her duties.

"By the way, if you can recognize vampires and werewolves, that will be helpful. They are like kind of plague of this city and I don't wanna tangle them with my place. No draining of my customers, no fits of berserk rages. If you are sure you spotted a one, just kick them out." It was a common knowledge that vampires and werewolves were good for nothing troublemakers, at least for those who had stayed long enough here.

[Elf]

Forest

The only real difference between Forest's hand and any other 19 year old girl's would have been the calluses and the fact it was cool.  However the chill could have been easily chocked up to bad circulation or the fact it was 20 degrees outside and she was only wearing half gloves instead of something covering her fingers.  She on the other hand felt a rush of nervous excitement as the absurdly attractive fallen angel held her hand.

She mused when was the last time she had held hands with someone like this and reasoned it was when Gabriel was a child.  She'd offer her arm from time to time as a gesture of politeness, but just walking and holding hands was an unfamiliar concept at this point.  There was a sharp pang as she bit the inside of her cheek, a nervous tick she never outgrew.  At least I'm not playing with my hair and giggling. So that's good, she thought to herself, or at least she thought she did.  Or hoped she did.  And then she remembered she had established a bit of a mental connection and well bugger.  Gadreel might have heard it.

Once they were clear from the food court, Forest kept her senses open as she guided him back to the cosmetics store.  She sent, Even if there aren't any specials, I really don't mind splurging on something nice.  Also, thank you again back there.  Part of me hopes that Kuro somehow beats Mordred.  Lord and Lady, it would be absurdly bad if she found out what I am.

Which is one of the reasons I wanted to give a fake name if introduced.  My real name isn't exactly common for a woman and holds a bit of . . . notaraity. 

She studied his long hair and said aloud, "For a shampoo or conditioner, I'd recommend something with anti-breakage at least.  And no sulfates.  I read on line they're like the devil for your hair."


Gabriel

The hybrid smiled at Emily's answer only to notice that Erica was crying.  Frowning, he reached over and handed her a napkin.   "Here," he said simply. 

Then he answered and said, "I'd like companionship and maybe a co-conspirator honestly.  Someone who can help me in some of my endeavors."

[Kat]

Mordred

"Kid, maybe you wouldn't be so cheeky if you sparred with me. I wouldn't hit you, but I would make sure you know whose better at fighting here. Get five years older and then we can talk about training you for reals." The changeling retorted to the obnoxious kid, after she shook Gadreel's hand. She frankly had too soft heart seeing as she hadn't ditched the white haired brat yet. "But arm wrestling sounds like a better way to prove who is the boss. Ya won't even budge my arm, kiddo!"

[Thedoctor]

Kuro

The white haired girl maintained a smirk on her face as she took a seat at the the table where the previous arm wrestling had taken place. She put her arm in postion on the table, waiting for the blond woman to take the challenge. "Are you sure about that Blondie? I won't go easy on you just because you bought some food for me."


Jin

The Eevee was enveloped in a brigth white light and was then replaced by a pale blue creature with icicle shaped ears.  "Whyu-uu" it said, as it tentatively looked at them. Oka walked over to it and stroked it's chin, while doing so she also hesitantly asked him about the stay here being "permanent".

"Yeah...Don't be afraid to ask Oka, I'm here."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Theodore

It seemed the girl wasn’t keen on hearing a lecture. Sadly the fact he was wearing a blindfold meant the poor demon couldn’t see the fist flying at him and would be squarely punched in the face. It would only be logical.

But logic did not apply to him.

Theodore swiftly intercepted her fist with his hand and grabbed it in a burst of energetic speed uncharacteristic of his appearance.  Dropping his phone, he immediately twisted her hand using her momentum to perform a rotational wristlock. Before the girl would even be able to tell her wrist was hurting, handcuffs appeared in his hand which he immediately put on her hand before inserting the other cuff inside a nearby wall.

He sighed at the dumbass that was now by all means stuck to a wall. “That wasn’t smart, idiot.”

[Cherry Lover]

Rider

Rider smiled as she reached out and gratefully took her master's gift.

"OK", she said with a nod. "And, thank you."

With that, Rider turned around to go and find the shop. As she did so, she pondered how much she should really spend, very rapidly coming to the conclusion that Sakura would derive far more pleasure from seeing her enjoy herself with the bike of her dreams than she would from the money spent on it. As such, she decided to just splash out, and buy whatever caught her eye with no regard for the cost.

[Panda]

Emily

The Changeling looked curiously as what looked like tears dripped from Erica's eyes, but Gabriel had already retrieved a napkin and handed it to her before she could think to do something similar. Emily admittedly found it a bit odd, not thinking they'd said anything particularly upsetting but not knowing if the woman thought otherwise.

"Well...to be honest, I'd probably be looking for companionship and...I guess someone to talk to," Emily admitted, pausing for a moment before deciding to keep one last detail to herself.

[SINIB]

Shiro

Shiro sighed at the two. "Well, then do you want something new or do you want to have deer? I'll even cook it." She turned to breeze. "It's the best food, that the people of my hometown eat!" Shiro puffed out her abundant chest. "I was even worshipped there." She said with some pride.

[SINIB]

Oka

Oka smiled at Jin and grabbed his arm. "Can we get pizza?" She asked him "Pizza would be good. Have you ever had tauros meat? It tastes really good."

[NinjaQ]

William

He took a moment, making sure that there wouldn’t be any attack on the clearly impatient dragon’s part as his muscles relaxed. With a momentary glance down, William kicked his shoes against one another in turn to knock off anything that may have been stuck there before moving forwards, being sure to keep an eye on the dragon’s actions while he climbed up, using what foot and hand holds he could find to bring him up to the back of the impatient one, not wanting to miss a chance to find some information in this bizarre.

[Thedoctor]

Jin

Taurus sounded like it was some type of bull, although he couldn't really trust that, the name may be misleading. As Oka grabbed his arm, he pulled her closer to him. "Oh so you plan to make me pay for the food too?" He whispered teasingly to her.

[SINIB]

Oka

Oka looked at him with a wry smile. "Nah." She said. "You paid for lunch, so it's only fair that I get dinner."

[Aiden]

Gadreel

There was no mocking intent behind the fallen angel reaching up to his long red locks and twirling them around one of his fingers as he could imagine Forest might. Truly. The smile on his face refuted any such malicious intent on his part.



Auspicious Breeze

"Ohh, so you're a goddess!" she said when the foxy girl told her she'd been worshiped. She had met a few gods and goddesses before and they always seemed pretty wary of the Chosen of the Dawn at first, but Auspicious Breeze did her best to win them over with her charms! If she didn't have to punch them, anyway. "Pleased to meet you."

Then Breeze thought more on the food point. "Did they give you fish and rice and other good things?" she asked, grinning at the thought of it. "Oh, but they mustn't have cooked it for you if you had to learn how to yourself ... okay! I'll try it!"

She nodded to her.