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

[MissingMandible]

Lone Wanderer:

"What do you think of the design?  I made it myself."

Jeremy turned to face the newcomer. The other man's clothing was...eccentric to put things mildly. The various shades of purple, mauve, black and white all pooled together in a display of color Jeremy had never seen before. However, assuming how a person is by their clothes can have lethal consequences.

'Be polite and friendly when meeting new people, but always assume that they have a means and the will to kill you until proven otherwise.' A maxim hard etched into any wastelander's psyche.

Jeremy reached out his right gauntlet in an attempt for a handshake. "It's certainly something. Are you the owner of this store, Mister...?"

[SINIB]

Jeanne

What went wrong? it would be easier to talk about what didn't go wrong. Jeanne shook her head at the thoughts about that war, she didn't really want to think about, not now when she couldn't even have any liquor. "This means we have a mission, a mission to find proper liquor so that I can bestow the divine truth upon you, as taught since the days of the apostles."

With that the blonde woman forcefully pulled her two companions out of the kitchen and into the hallway. "Beware, this a daunting quest like no other, all of us may not return, but fear not. Even though we may walk in the valley of the shadow of death, we need not fear any evil, for the LORD is our shephard."

Sakura Matou Sakura wrapped her arms around Shirou and Jeanne and pulled them closer to her, simultaneously grabbing their plates and cups with her shadow, pulling them in and depositing them in the kitchen thereafter. "Senpai." She said simply and quietly, rubbing her face on him. She felt tears coming down her face, but she wasn't sad. Having dinner with Shirou again…

It just made her so overwhelmingly happy she couldn't help herself.

I get it, you don't want to talk about it yet. She pulled Jeanne closer to her still, and patted her on the head. "Don't worry, We'll make sure you can feel some alcohol in your blood again.

After that, Sakura let go of them, and began walking to the kitchen. "I need to go make Rin a plate of food, I'm sure she'll be hungry when she gets home. She could tell Rin was doing something odd, but it didn't feel like she was fighting, so she wasn't going to interfere. "I'll be right back!"


Once she got into the kitchen, she quickly and expertly took out a plate, laying food out on it in an appealing manner. "Archer, can you pass me the cling wrap?" She asked, pointing at it next to him. She was getting a bit worried about him. She could feel his mana slowly dwindling away.

[SINIB]

Oka

Oka stopped short.

"What?" She asked Rider unnecessarily sharply. "Sorry."

"What?" She asked again, this time more calmly. Her purple eyes were full of shock and confusion. She felt something akin to betrayal. Not that Rider had done anything wrong, obviously, but she'd…

But she'd just wanted a normal girl she could normally be friends with, and finding out otherwise was just really disappointing.

It made her feel really sad. She slowly turned around, and without looking at Rider, simply said "Oh, I see…"

The two girls walked silently along the sidewalk, Oka sitting down on Wormy and riding on him for a while. Rider followed along with a guilty looking expression, wondering why the girl was so upset. After all, she called her Pokemon her "friends", so why would Rider being sort-of like a Pokemon be an issue? Yet, she could tell that the girl didn't want to talk right now, so she remained silent, simply following along behind her until she calmed down a little.

Meanwhile, Sylveon trailed behind Oka and walked next to Rider, trying to get her to hold onto his ribbons and comfort her. He liked Rider, he didn't like seeing her sad. Glad of the comforting act, Rider took hold of the offered ribbons, smiling slightly at the kind act from the creature.

Eventually, Oka made a clicking noise at Wormy, and he immediately stopped and turned around, allowing Oka to safely get off.

"I'm sorry about that." She said. "So, what's your world like? Is magic real in it? Who is your master, and what does she look like?"

[Kotomine_Rin]

Theodore

After a while, the anomaly had finished roaming the streets. There was no one intresting to see, nowhere left to go or anything fun to do, so he just fell in the corner of an alleyway. He clutched at his chest, but his fingers quickly dissolved into black goo along with his face, as if his body was a melting plastic doll.

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Vanguard Tohuw Theodore  It's consciousness was struggling to stay afloat, keeping it's body's hivemind, its legion under control and unity. Order.

"Haaah...damn..." He panted, lying on the ground pathetically in such an humiliating position. Was this what that demon had planned for him? The fate that he had reserved him to avenge her??? Foolish, he would not be bound by fate. This meaningless, disgusting world, he had to destroy it and build it anew. His ending, his fate. He would change it. He would-

Not yet.

The humanoid form was dripping down like glue, barely keeping its form or resemblance. However, even with such a deformed, unsightly face, the demon managed to smile. Yes, he was in control. He still had control. Control. It was his body, his soul, his servant. He was the master, like hell he would not let a mere demon make a mockery of him.

You keep up with me.

The black grotesque mass burst into a bulbous form of tendrils, erupting like a fountain everywhere only to reunite and make his shape anew. Meaningless, meaningless, MEANINGLESS!

And from the shadows of the alleyway, a young man emerged, walking in a haggard, empty fashion. But for as dead as he seemed, one thing did not yet change. He was alive. He was HIM!

[Thedoctor]

Jin Kisaragi

And thus the beast stood once more, though it's form was a battered shell of it's former glory, it stood. The rage was unrelenting. The monster declared it's intention, no the meaning of it's existence, to overcome him, overcome Justice. There was no overcoming Justice, only darkness awaited those who tried.

With that the hero stood firmer than ever before, his resolve was unquestionable, like a mountain standing the test of time. Then the hero slashed the ground infront of him, creating a line.


No words needed be spoken, the meaning was obvious.


Thus he met the monter's onslaught with his just sword. Halting the blow with his unyeilding will.


 the line hadn't been crossed.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Alarice

The Ahamkara's skull opened its jaws to reveal the blonde's royal visage. She grasped the staff with one hand before bowing deeply. "I am grateful, Lord Greyskull. I will inform you of whatever problems I see transpiring across this territory and will carry out justice in response to any crime."

The jaws of the dragon slammed shut with terrifying speed as the Chosen turned around and left the theater. She really needed to begin doing something of use. That entire situation had just felt suffocating.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Sakagami Kenzo

After forty three jugs of sake and lots of excessive touching, Sakagami Kenzo still didn't seem very hindered. Such an amount of water would drown a man, let alone alcohol, but the oni seemed to be fine. More than fine, actually, he was enjoying himself. He had drank so much and plenty that his kimono had started to slip off, revealing more of his generously tailored muscles and gleaming skin.

Carelessly and joyously, Kenzo brought Katase closer to his chest, much closer. Her head was practically touching it, and without any effort he lifted the girl up again with one armto drag her god knows where with a tight embrace, but not without carrying another jug of sake for the journey and chugging it halfway at once.

"Hahahaha! C'mon, let's see what else is in this place!!"


GAROU XIII

Garou's fist moved out of the way of the blade. There was no question or room for any doubt, one of them would fall. Garou did not even try to stop or meet the strike with his own. He moved to avoid his sword and deal a powerful punch at his stomach, but in exchange for such a thing his chest had been cleanly carved in turn, puncturing his lungs as well.

No matter how you looked at it, it was a foolish, reckless move without any consideration for his life. No matter how many times he would be struck, no matter how many times he would be laughed at, no matter how many times he would be cut, no matter how many times he would be raped, he would never stop. Not until there was nothing left of him.

Both opponents were knocked back, and the monster quickly regained footing.

"IS THAT ALL YOU CAN DO, HERO!?" He roared before charging once more.

[Aiden]

Muramasa Katase

The touching stopped surprising Katase somewhere around jug twenty seven. It was pleasant enough, and it was just her replaceable puppet shell anyway. It wasn't as if the giant man was crude enough to paw at her handle or try to remove her from her sheathe, or something barbaric like that. So she kept up with him as best as she could, managed her shell's giggling when one of Sakagami Kenzo's touches tickled her, and absolutely did not run her fingers along his wonderfully exposed manly chest.

Her puppet let out a little squeal when he picked her up again, and rested her head against him while wrapping one of her arms around him. The other arm was carrying her empty sake cup, which she soon just dropped to the floor. "Oh, very well, you silly brute," she murmured against him in surrender.

Perhaps they even had tea? Tea would be nice. This was nice.


Ron

"That sounds like a question I should probably leave to her to answer," he said after a moment of thinking - with food in his mouth. He was a werewolf, not a barbarian, after all. Then he blinked as a question occurred to him. "Hey, you know something about people like me, right? Do you know if I have to worry about silver?"

It just hadn't come up; he didn't have any jewelry to test it with, and he didn't want it to kill him from within like a poison if he cut himself with it. Or something like that.

[Kat]

Rikuyo

"Uh, yeah, silver's bad news for ya. Ya won't heal quickly if you get hurt by it, only like a normal bloke. But I don't have to be on guard like you. Iron won't be good against me like against some youkai too." Apart from spirits dwelling in the forest, there were also ones of flesh and blood. She'd ran into few, but knew much less them about than werewolves.

"It's like I'm odd one. But ya know, ya also are much, much faster and stronger than your average grunt who can't get silver unless they steal. Most folks are too scared to stand up to a werewolf with a calm heart, so just owning some silver weapon won't do much if ya can't use it. Hey, do you know any other odd skill than what your teach taught ya? Some of your kin can do such stuff like talk with rocks or become a dude or a woman."

The last one pretty confusing. She only liked guys just like how it should have been, but still was attracted to someone who used such powers. Rikuyo could never know if a werewolf she had one night stand wasn't walking as a woman another day.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Sakagami Kenzo

Kenzo chuckled and took a few steps into the house place, but suddenly realized something was wrong. Very, very wrong. Oops, he didn't even notice! How silly, silly indeed for him to fail to notice that his jug of sake was so light. Had he finished it without noticing? Most definetely, he must have taken yet another sip between steps. So before doing anything further, he quickly walked back and grabbed three more jugs! No, four! He tried to grab one more, but it seemed his hands were full...

Aww

After a bit of walking, they found themselves in a strange kitchen. All sorts of spices tickled his nose, and it looked tidy and nice to look at, which he liked a lot. However, what caught his attention immediately was a strange white thing with a door. He walked up to it and looked at it with curiosity.

"Huh? How strange, what a small room! I have never seen something like this..."

But just as Kenzo was about to open the door, he realized something terrible! His hands were occupied, they were full!! This was bad, really bad... He couldn't put the sake down without spilling some, and that would be terrible. However, he couldn't put Katase down either, or else the sake would still spill! Crap, crap, craaaap...

And then, an idea! Kenzo didn't need to free his hands and drop the sake, for he could use his feet. Yes! This was a perfect plan!  Kenzo stretched his leg forward, moving it to reach the door handle with his toes. However... he just couldn't do it. With such huge jugs and Katase being just as large, to move in such a way would surely make him lose balance and drop a little sake! It was hopeless.

Awwww

Kenzo turned sourly towards Muramasa and asked, trying to remain cheerful but still somewhat dissappointed.

"Hey, you know something about this weird box thingy?"

[Kotomine_Rin]

Theodore

The boy pulled his hoodie in annoyance, trying to find something intresting. Anything would be better than this empty boredom at this point, it was simply unbearably annoying. Having nothing to do but walking around emptily made him feel nothing at all. But as he roamed around again and again, nothing seemed to catch his dull eyes.

But suddenly, that did change. It wasn't amusing, exciting, intresting, painful, despairing or hopeless in any way, but he did end up noticing a familiar sight. His almost feminine features almost could have smiled if the fact that this was the closest thing he had to a relationship wasn't so sad. Well, at least she hadn't died yet. It would have been a waste of his time back then if he used it to look at some soon to be dead loser.

It was almost relieving, almost.

A child seemed to be clinging on her, but it definetely wasn't one. Just because you look like a kid doesn't make you one, idiot. It was actually kinda creepy for such a creature to pose as a human child. Lying and tricking people like that is something only a douchebag would do, no one who would resort to such things could be up to any good.

Of course, that didn't apply to him. After all, he was human. But finally, when he considered his options and realized he had nothing better to do, he decided to keep wasting more of his time. He could afford that for now, even if he could die any second.

"E-excuse me, do you have a moment?" He asked, finally revealing himself and walking up to her with a seemingly concerned yet nonchalant voice, one that his eyes did not reflect at all. The concerned part that is, there is plenty nonchalant in his eyes.

[Thedoctor]

Shinobu

The pair of humans that were with the white haired woman were mages too apparently, as going by their demonstrations, well the man didn't demonstrate for some reason. That might mean he's the cautious type or just really bad. The blonde vampire nodded to the white haired girl. "Yes, I was only making an observation...as for the clothes." The vampire paused there for a brief moment.

Shinobu then grabbed Medaka's arm after the blue haired girl walked up next to her and pulled it to her chest, clinging to the arm while slightly rubbing against it. "They enhance her incredible cuteness to new heights, so yes Medaka-chan~ I made them." The vampire was back to the bubbly behaviour, showing affection for the blue haired girl.

[yinsukin]

Relius Clover

Relius smiled politely.  He glanced at his customer.  His appearance screamed veterinarian.  He was young, fit and had a very noticable scar on his head which seemed to indicate some sort of trauma.  But rather than focus on his physical appearance, he focused on analyzing the soul.

The shape....  Its human.  Yet there is something off about it.

"I am pleased that you can appreciate my rather niche tastes.  Come on inside.  Its a bit cold out here."  He said, continuing his polite tone.

Medaka Kurokami

Sakura's comment allowed her to gather the first consistent piece of information about magic she had gotten since she arrived here.  Each mage seemed to have their own specialties.  But Lorenzo had told her that one time that magic was a manifestation of the heart.  What does that mean for Sakura?  At this point, she couldn't help but feel lost.  Yes that answers one question but then who made the clothes?  Unless these are some fancy shadow clothes or something, she would assume it was like a specialist in a RPG or something, only using specific types of powers related to that element.  Once agian, her thoughts were interrupted by Shinobu. 

"They enhance her incredible cuteness to new heights, so yes Medaka-chan~ I made them."  She said, clinging to Medaka and showing her affection in that bubbly voice.

Medaka's eyes widened.  Her face turned red.  "Did you just read my mind?  Have you been doing that the whole time?!"  She screemed. 

[SINIB]

Misaka

Misaka was confused. She somehow had ended up in a completely different city? How? Had Kuroko finally managed to slip her something? But why would she be in another city even if that was the case.

She scratched her head. "Um… Nexus City. Ok. Can you tell me about this Nexus city?"

[SINIB]

Shirou Emiya

Shirou wrapped his arms around Sakura lovingly when she pulled him closer, enveloping her and slowly stroked her head. "Sakura…" he whispered to her back, as soon as he heard her call him her Senpai.

He loved hearing that from her. It made him want to jump for joy, having the ability to be near her, to hold her, to touch her, after these years felt like such a great privilege to him. She was his cute, wonderful, intelligent wife to be. His lips curled up slightly at the thought of being married to the girl of his dreams. Sakura Emiya. It felt weird to imagine her having that name. It made him feel tingly inside and his cheeks feel warm. "Sakura Emiya." He mouthed the words out silently. He couldn't wait for the day it would become a reality.

He nodded as Sakura left the room to make up a plate for Rin, leaving him alone with Jeanne. He turned to face the woman, smiling like an idiot at her. "You're really lucky to have her as your master, you know that?"