Cross Effects 3.0 - June 23, 2016—April 02, 2018

[Aiden]

Forest of the Past

Forest wasn't surprised when the new goon arrived with the shot gun already ready to go.  She managed to dodge most of the blast, but some of it cut through her side, lead pellets entering her body.  White hot pain flashed through her as her body pushed out the pellets before starting to heal.

Before another shot could be fired, Forest rammed her fist in the poor goon's face as her knee made contact with his groin with uncomfortable force.  The goon's eyes widened in almost comical pain before Forest wrenched the shot gun out of his hand, covered his mouth with her hand, and sunk her fangs into his throat.

Liam

The man's nose snapped sideways from Forest's punch, and if his testicles weren't pulp now they would certainly feel like they were in a moment once the adrenaline stopped. Despite the feelings caused by Forest's feeding he still was trying to scream in pain and alarm past her hand. It seemed the agony was all the worse for the effect she caused him in light of that.

Liam came up the stairs soon after, walking on past only to end up with a door opening by his side and a man with a pistol firing a few bullets inside his side. He'd seen that coming, of course, and moved to avoid them. It was the other one behind him, while Liam concerned himself with cracking the fella in the knees that he took a bullet.

Right to the jaw. Lucky hit. After a moment where he should have fallen though, the vampire did not. His corpse-flesh refused to surrender its blood, the cold and still fluid retreating into the rest of his body since he did not give it permission to leave. It didn't even sting. With a good chunk of the left side of his face missing he swung the bat into the shooter's shoulder, cracking that too, and then drove his foot into the knee.

Screams followed. He sunk his teeth into the man to fix the mess he made.

Nobody died this time.

[Aiden]

Mitsuba

Mitsuba stroke her chin as she watched what this too inquisitive person had to offer. "So no payment in advance? I don't think I should take any challenging contract from you until I'm sure I can get paid for more difficult jobs." If he was untrustworthy to the point that he wouldn't be willing to pay for a contract performed, then she shouldn't perform what she considered a difficult hit for his first contract. But if he paid for the first hit, then she would consider taking a more bothersome contract.

Muramasa Katase

Katase had what she believed to be a more refined perspective on the matter at hand here. As a sword she had much wisdom to offer when it came to business like this! As such:

if he doesn't pay, we just kill him and take it out of him ourselves

A super-majority of damned souls within her demon steel agreed on this course of action.

[Aiden]

Neptune

Oh no he didn't. At first she'd been surprised at that he was an angel and had wondered where his wings were at. But then the horrible terrible truth had dawned. She couldn't believe it. No she didn't want to believe it. But it was here, right infront of her, shoved in her face. So she had to face it. No matter how painful it was going to be. But she would succed because she was the heroine.

"Timeout, timeout. That's just not allowed. You can't be worse than Noire. Being the awesome heroine that I am I can't won't allow this evil to take over. You need to have some fun, like right now and I'll help you with that. Just look at you, you've made go all serious and break character."

Gadreel

"... wait, what did I say that upset you so?" Now he was frowning, looking quite baffled at her and glancing about as well to see if she was truly talking to him in this manner. "What evil do you speak of? I am having plenty of fun right now. In fact you landed on me at just the right moment to draw me out of some... admittedly long-delayed brooding." The exile motioned to her with his hand as if it were self-explanatory. Because to him, it was.

"So for that I thank you. No need to become uncharacteristically serious on me for it." He brushed at her hair with his fingers.

[Panda]

Emily

With their little outing ruined, the changeling couldn't really blame Liseth for retreating back into the NEET Fortress. For that matter, she found herself tempted to join her girlfriend there, but she knew she couldn't afford to fall to temptation, strange as it sounded to the Spring courtier in her. Nonetheless, she managed to resist the temptation to hide away at home and decided to go for a nice walk herself. In light of the warmer weather, Emily had decided to stick with a light spring dress with a light floral print, not something that would stick out too much.

Well, not that the changeling had to try to stick out. Handy at some times, a pain at others.

Leaving her hair loose, the changeling opted for simple sandals as she went on her way, not caring too much about the stares she ended up drawing on the way there. All the same, the changeling found herself holding back a laugh as she wondered just how Liseth would feel about it. She seemed all too happy to make liberal use of a can of mace drawn from her pocket the last time someone came onto her when her girlfriend was around.

Managing to put that memory aside, the changeling made her way to the nearest park, not bothering too much to cover up her Mantle. After all, in a place like the Nexus, an attractive woman with the scents of spring and rejuvenation about her leaving the ground unusually verdant where she walked was hardly out of the usual, though the flowers did get a bit annoying at times. Like, that was just a bit too much.

Allowing a small sigh as she finally reached the park, the changeling made her way to a bench a decent way in, nice and secluded, at least as much as could be managed in a place like this. Relaxing at the bench, she found herself wondering about the curious turns her life had taken since she'd gotten here.

[Aiden]

Mordred

"So, shall we go somewhere more private? It seems Sakura is okay with hanging out with the guy." The changeling proposed to her girlfriend. A place like this was certainly too public for such talk.

Auspicious Breeze

"Mmhhmm!" She nodded to Mordred, squeezed her hand, and started leading her out of the restaurant by one of the exits on the sides. If Mordred wanted to talk about it somewhere else, that was fine. Even if Breeze wasn't sure what this was about it wouldn't be anything too bad, yeah? "Anywhere you want, then."

[Elf]

Forest of the Present

Forest rolled her eyes at the little guy's display.

"Fine, I'll pour and you'll drink and pay.  Sounds like a deal," she said, turning back to Anastasia.

"Is it really just my imagination or you used some magic?" the young woman asked. "If you used it unknowingly, then it's no good. You should learn basics of basics even if you don't want to be a mage. No reason to risk some mishap."

Forest just shook her head and replied, "Nope, I didn't use any magic.  Maybe you're sensing some of the wards I had paid to set up here.  Not much, stuff like to keep the projection wall clean for the most part."  Forest gestured to the pristine white wall behind the stage for reference.


Rin

Rin eyed the pirate and sighed.  She then shook his hand and said, "Well good luck to you in finding your treasure or whatever."  I'm not saying it was nice to meet him, because it wasn't.

Then she felt herself blushing at Joe's words and looked away.  "Um, maybe to get some tea or something cold to drink?  Out of the sun," Rin said before looking back at him with a smile.


Gabriel

Gabriel managed to keep Annabeth steady as he guided her down the street.  A frown marred the exquisite gothic perfection that was his face as he looked down at her.  Her eyes were slightly glassy and her words slightly slurred.

As much as he enjoyed sex, he was responsible and shagging someone when they were sloppy drunk while he was mostly sober seemed like he was taking advantage of her.

He eyed her and asked, "Where do you want to go?  I'm just not going to lead you elsewhere and bend you over, you know."


Forest

Yes, Forest was aware that bestowing an orgasmic bite to someone who just had his testicles kicked was very dirty pool.

Did she care?

Not with that wanker.

Her hand muffled his scream and before she pulled her fangs out of him she put him to sleep.  It wasn't a gentle suggestion.  She "programed" his mind to go to sleep, which honestly wasn't that hard considering the fact he had a broken jaw and maybe even a ruptured testicle.  Or two.

More gunshots rang out and she spun around to see Liam feeding with a big chunk of his face missing.  She grimaced as she watched him feed.  Not at the feeding itself, but the fact that part of the left side of his handsome face was missing.  She made a tiny gesture before doing a mental sweep of the rest of the floor. 

[Aiden]

Sakura Matou

Sakura nodded. "That's fine." She said to him, beginning to tap her foot as she waited for her food to arrive. "Give me your phone, I'll put in my phone number."

She also noticed her order had finally arrived.

"Thank you." She said to the waiter, looking up at him as he placed her plate in front of her.

Ron

Oh, right. The phone issue. Damn his luck for the thing breaking a little while back. He winced. "Well, about that... I haven't gotten around to replacing my phone yet. I got into a bit of a scuffle, you might say. That'll teach me not to skimp on the quality of the case. So um, I have a home number. If that will do."

[yinsukin]

Joe

That blush never gets old.

Joe smiled back at Rin.  "Yeah, I could go for some tea,"  he said with a lethargic sigh. "Besides, you have some explaining to do."  He directed them away from the park and towards a commercail area.  The nice thing about this city was that they literally have every type of shop imaginable.

[Panda]

Annabeth

Even as she was, she didn't miss the frown, sending one back in turn.

Hmph. I've still got Nen, so we should still be in the buzzed territory.

"I thought you were supposed to be taking the initiative," the cowgirl remarked with that little frown still on her face, "That aside, I don't know many places, so I'm kinda relying on you."

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

Then the dark haired girl grabbed the child and tossed her onto her shoulders. "What?!? You've never heard of the Fae before? That's scandalous. You must have had pretty bad parents. Or dead ones. You never got told stories with fairies in them before?"


Meti

Any issue that she would have had with falling instantly turned into rapid stammering as she was carried. Her sword had slipped right back into its sheath and her reddening face was in her hands until they had landed and she was let down.

But Vanguard's questioning quickly cleared that up. Her sword slipped into her hand thoughtlessly and she gave him a blank look. It wasn't cold, or hostile, or even happy. Just empty. "The guns were not damaged. That was your only instruction."


Lucy

Hmm. Bored. She already ate all of Gaddy's food. And turned all the drinks into wine. Lucy had already drank it all, gotten unspeakably drunk, might have killed someone, and healed herself of the severe liver poisoning. Wow. Now that she thought about it she was really in a slump.

It was definitely time to go out now! So a few of the Messengers made things just a bit messier before dressing her up in one of Gadreel's oversized shirts and some short shorts before wandering out into the Nexus


It took her all about five minutes to find her next target. They were even leaving behind a nice trail of flowers for her to follow! They better be interesting. She could do some pretty nasty things besides plain tricks to people who wasted her time.

So she pretty much sauntered over to a redhead that was surprisingly appealing. All secluded too. That was nice. Then she sat herself into the bench before moving over to lie down and rest her head in the redhead's lap. She seemed like the looser type! "Yo."

[Kotomine_Rin]

RED

With a cookie in her mouth and her body tossed behind the horned girl, no one could tell just what her expression was like.

"I don't know. I've never met my parents..." She sort of mumbled, confused. Honestly, she didn't even know if she had any. The first time she remembered opening her eyes, she was in a jar. Anything else felt kinda fuzzy in her head. Bah, it probably wasn't too important. People often called her devil and monster, but don't they have parents too? In that case, surely she wasn't a demon or a monster.

She held her friend by the horns and pulled her head back so she could face her.

"Can you tell me? Pleasetellme!"

[SINIB]

Shirou

As soon as Shirou saw the girl's cute stare, his heart melted. He knew, deep down, that she was trying to manipulate him, just like Sakura always was when she stared at him like that, but that didn't matter. He simply couldn't resist that cute, sad, puppy-dog look that Sakura gave him. As much as he tried to fight it, he couldn't help but give in, the girl's words only acting to provide a rationalisation for the decision he'd already made. Still, he wasn't going down without a fight.

"Well, I suppose I could maybe", he said, obviously saddened by her upset state. "Do you have one that I could look at, to see if I like it?"

Oka Kurosawa

"Mhm! Of course I do!" Oka said, pulling out another pokeball from her bag and throwing it out, releasing the eevee contained within.

Eevee let out a cute noise, and pranced around the two. Oka reached down and scratched him behind his ears. "I assume you want a male eevee, since the females are more than twice as expensive."

[SINIB]

Sakura Matou

Sakura nodded. "That's fine." She said to him, beginning to tap her foot as she waited for her food to arrive. "Give me your phone, I'll put in my phone number."

She also noticed her order had finally arrived.

"Thank you." She said to the waiter, looking up at him as he placed her plate in front of her.

Ron

Oh, right. The phone issue. Damn his luck for the thing breaking a little while back. He winced. "Well, about that... I haven't gotten around to replacing my phone yet. I got into a bit of a scuffle, you might say. That'll teach me not to skimp on the quality of the case. So um, I have a home number. If that will do."

Sakura Matou

"Oh." Sakura said, somewhat taken aback by somebody not having a cell phone in this day and age. She quickly recovered however and nodded. "Yeah, that's fine with me." Sakura pulled a piece of paper and a pen out of seemingly thin air, and scribbled down her number.

"Here you go." She said, handing him the paper with a flourish. Showing off was fine, right.

[SINIB]

Erica

"Thank you!" And she sounded grateful. Really, truly grateful. She seemed to have an absolute and unshakable faith in the fact that Noel's food would be excellent. "...Should we be going now?"

Noel Vermillion

"Sure." Noel said. "Let's get going, then." Noel said, turning back towards her cart. "We'll need ingreidients, right?"

[yinsukin]

Relius Clover

Relius put down the mug, resting it on the table.  His piercing eyes directed their full attention to the assassin.  "Well then, we may be at an impasse.  You see, if you fail, you will become more of a liability than an asset.  Therefore, I need to ensure that you can get the job done."

The scientist rested his chin on the back of his hand as he lazily redirected his gaze to the window.  Beneith his mask, his eyes cataloged every inch of visual stimuli displayed through the limited view of the window.  After a few seconds of scanning, he found a piece of the environment that... inspired him.  His lips stretched into a malicious grin as he returned his attention to the assassin.  "I believe I have a solution to our dilemma, so long as you don't mind taking a prerequisite job."