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

[Elf]

Corbin

"I do have to go back in later tonight," Corbin said as he headed to the kitchen.  "So, do you eat real food?"


Rin

"The version of you that I summoned did.  Like minutes after I found him after he wrecked my living room he told me I should hide in the basement while he won the war for me.  I got so pissed I used a Command Seal to make him obey me," Rin said with a laugh.

[Lycodrake]

Lycodrake Aptera

"I've mostly moved between neighborhoods carefully while finding places to stay the night dry and warm." He let her continue.

Something she needed to do? He stood a little bit, his tail lazily swaying. "Oh, perhaps I can assist you in those tasks, then? It would be nice to do something different than wandering around trying to find answers, and the company would be appreciated."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Count Greyskull

Thankfully, Forest came back, thus sparing the lucky skeleton of his first rejection in a thousand years. Now, the first thing he’d need was clothes… good clothes! Clothes fit enough for an unforgettable date.

But before that, there was something very important. He tapped the two on their back lightly and spoke softly.

“HEY! YOU STILL HAVEN’T GIVEN ME YOUR NAME!”

[Thedoctor]

Shinobu

The vampire followed him to the kitchen, matching his pace to walk next to him. "I can consume normal food but it does not sustain me. my taste buds are still intact though. How about you?"

Archer

Archer stopped pacing at that, not saying anything for a while. When he finally spoke again a good 20 seconds had passed. "I can think of a reason why he would say that..."

[Elf]

Forest

Fore raised her eyebrow at Greyskull making an effort to tone himself down to the two women.  She matched his step and said, "Hi, I'm Forest."


Corbin

"I actually do need to eat food too.   Actually, I'm starving," he said as he started to make a bowl of cereal.


Rin

Rin watched as Archer stopped pacing and fell silent.

Then he said, "I can think of a reason why he would say that..."

"Oh, I'm not surprised.  Enlighten me then," Rin said with an arch smile.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

During the travel to the warehouse they moved at a relatively slow pace but Oren did maintain a respectable distance from the pair. She did say that she would move faster than him after all, and she didn't steal the flesh of a bold-faced lying Fae. She had standards.

The Great Stag had only began to pick up speed when the warehouse was in sight. To the untrained eye she was barely even a blur as her strength and otherworldly fleetness allowed her to accelerate towards the building at absurd speed. Before her charge the metal was torn asunder and the white beast gracefully bounded towards a large amount of empty space.

There she fell apart into black liquid and began to transform, however, it was rapidly growing in size compared to the previous ones. Even as it shaped itself and pushed back a few pieces of equipment it still stayed as a swirling pool of potential even as the duo approached the warehouse.

 

[Thedoctor]

Shinobu

The vampire leaned on one of the counters as she watched him prepare some cereal for himself. He behaved pretty mundane for someone who was supposedly older than her. To be honest she was a bit curious about how old he actually was. "So Corbin...How long have you lived?"

Archer

"No" He flat out rejected her with.

[Elf]

Corbin

"I was born around the Third Crusade," he answered as he watched her lean against one of the cabinets.  "Hey Shinobu, would you like a bowl?  Or I might have some doughnuts from yesterday around here.  Might be kind of stale though."


Rin

Rin gritted her teeth at his flat out rejection.  "Fine," she said before the tea kettle started to whistle.  She grabbed it off the stove and poured it into the freshly prepared tea pot with loose leaf tea.

As it began to brew, she looked at the steam rising from the spout and said, "So, do you still want to contract with me or not?"

[Panda]

Annabeth

The Hunter followed along, not particularly caring about the distance that Oren kept from them and knowing enough about the speed of that stag to know that the distance didn't particularly matter. When they came close to the warehouse, the Hunter took a quick peek inside to find Oren in the process of transforming once more. Deciding that now would be their chance, the Hunter looked down to the wolf and nodded ahead, indicating silently that they should keep going.

Once they were reliably out of sight of the warehouse, the Hunter looked down Ron once more, carefully considering things.

"Well, I suppose we should find your wallet now," Annabeth said simply.

[Aiden]

Ron

Ron was really putting his new form through its literal paces, circling around Annabeth every so often while sniffing everything and trying not to get drawn into the urge to chase horned prey runner and sink his teeth right on in. Besides, what if he got sick or something?! He didn't know where the creature had been.

Well, besides a clothing store. And then a warehouse, now that she had gone right in there. Either way, he had reasons not to chase her. It had nothing to do with hoping for more ear scratching from tasty red lady.

His head perked up at the mention of 'wallet.' He approximated a nod, took another sniff of the air and the pollution and grease and meat and okay his mouth was salivating now, stop it.

So he barked, and started running off in the direction he was pretty sure he had been at last night before he... blacked out. Off Ron went toward the river bank, upstream from the Nexus Docks, weaving through peoples' legs and looking back to make sure his companion hadn't fallen behind. All that was left of the people he recalled before the black out was...

... a trail of blood, and dried scraps of something that may have been meat or bone at some point. Torn fabric could be seen here and there, as well as a ruined pair of shoes. The wallet was open inside down on the pavement by the shoes. There was no sign of the bodies.

swallowed what he could, into the water, washing the scent off, quiet time now

Ron froze, his hair standing on edge, at the sight before them. His mouth faintly recalled the juicy flavor as he realized he was lowering his mouth to an old scrap of flesh.

[Cherry Lover]

Rider

Rider sat next to Sakura during what Rider felt was a slow and leisurely trip to their destination, smiling as she saw the sweet girl fall asleep on her beloved's shoulder, holding his hand gently. Shirou, too, seemed contented, looking out at the city which was his new home with wonder, gently squeezing Sakura's hand as he did so. Finally, though, they arrived at their destination. Sakura, who was still sound asleep on Shirou's shoulder, was gently awoken, her inane reply to Shirou's comment causing her to giggle and Rider to smile amusedly.

“Let’s go”, continued Sakura and, as suggested, Rider climbed out of the taxi, leaving Sakura to pay the driver.

"OK, where should we go?" she asked as her master got out of the car, a happy smile on her face.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Darcy Hugh

Darcy shook his head and smiled sadly.
«I’m just a humble servant of god looking for a place to sit. Won’t you make an exception for a handsome man like me? »

[Panda]

Annabeth

The Hunter followed along, easily keeping up with Ron as the traveled along the docks, the sharp smell of the salty air reminding her of the docks back in York New, a far cry from the sands of Meteor City and the streets of Zaban. Shaking her head to derail that train of thought before it was too late, Annabeth soon found her job done for her as they came across a rather grisly scene, with a trail of blood scattered with the shredded remains of what might have been clothes once and the odd scrap of dried flesh.

Too much blood for more than one person, the scraps...eaten?

Frowning as she decided to leave that mystery for someone else, the Hunter crouched down, gingerly plucking the wallet from the ground before giving it a cursory once-over.

"Looks like everything's in here," Annabeth noted matter-of-fact, "Don't know about any personal effects, but..."

The Hunter trailed off as she spotted Ron lowering his mouth to one of the remaining scraps of flesh. Allowing a sigh, Anne crouched down and scratched him behind the ears once more.

"Looks like you went through quite a bit when you lost this," Annabeth noted, "I get the feeling I won't be the only one who needs a drink."

[Aiden]

Ron

The werewolf stayed frozen for a moment, his mind refusing to process the implications his senses and tattered memories were pressing on him. He probably would have remained still like that even longer if not for the twitch his body gave when it registered someone touching his ears. Ron's fur slowly relaxed so as to lay flat on his back, and he let out a little whine of approval.

I definitely need a drink, he agreed internally, though honestly Ron could stand to stay like this a little longer. He turned his face up to his drinking partner to be, and licked at her tasty fingers. Mmm.

[Thedoctor]

Shinobu

The Third Crusade was almost a millenia ago, maybe he had grown weak with old age or something. Supernatural creatures tend to get stronger with age right? at least the immortal ones usually. Trying to figure out how it worked here took up most of her mental processing att the moment making her miss the second part of his statement until the word doughnuts finally broek through the haze.

"DOUGHNUTS!!!"

Shinobu suddenly cried out loudly and rushed Corbin at super speed. Once she reached him she grabbed his shirt and shaked him. "Where?" She demanded to know, continuing her shaking of him, back and forth with no care for his safety.

Archer

Rin practically spat her dissapointment over his rejection and then went over to pour her finished tea over into her cup, still obviously fuming about it. After seemingly calming down for a bit she asked him yet again if he wished to contract her or not. Archer sighed and told her. "I don't know Rin, I don't really enjoy being interrogated all the time."