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

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

That's a knight, huh? Fighting for good reasons, helping people, being nice to ladies? All the things that basically made you a good person to begin with? The things that she was pretty sure she was Chosen for?

I could do that. That's what this power is for.

Auspicious Breeze clenched her hands into fists and pressed them together at the knuckles. Her mouth turned up into a grin at that, and she nodded to Mordred. "Then I guess I'm gonna be a knight, then! Oh hey, we can be knights together, then!"

I'll definitely be mistress' knight - when I get back.

Denial was a sweet breeze, pulling sand along to cover our losses beneath the dunes.

[Kat]

Auspicious Breeze

That's a knight, huh? Fighting for good reasons, helping people, being nice to ladies? All the things that basically made you a good person to begin with? The things that she was pretty sure she was Chosen for?

I could do that. That's what this power is for.

Auspicious Breeze clenched her hands into fists and pressed them together at the knuckles. Her mouth turned up into a grin at that, and she nodded to Mordred. "Then I guess I'm gonna be a knight, then! Oh hey, we can be knights together, then!"

I'll definitely be mistress' knight - when I get back.

Denial was a sweet breeze, pulling sand along to cover our losses beneath the dunes.

Mordred

"Yeah, you surely behave like a knight. It's also popular among knights to romance ladies for whom they fight. We are both ladies and knights, so I can be your lady and knight and you can be my lady and knight. That's fine arrangement, right? Oh yeah, and there is another tradition that knights and ladies sometimes practice"

Mordred untied her hair and presented her hair tie to Breeze. "Sometimes ladies give something they wear to knights that are nice to them, as a good luck charm."

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

"Haah, then it's settled!" Breeze agreed in excitement, feeling the warm light of the morning sun surge through her at the thought. "Oh, it's gonna be so great. We'll go around fighting monsters, saving other cute girls, showing them a good time if they aren't already seeing someone...!"

She had to resist the urge to squirm, because then she wouldn't look cool at all.

The hair tie, though, that was new. Auspicious Breeze accepted it, but then glanced up at her own pretty short hair. She couldn't really do much with it, the way it was. She'd have to grow the hair out a bit first. But anyway, what could she give Mordred in return? Not the choker - that wasn't her's to give anyone, ever. But maybe... knights needed armor, right?

She removed the gold-and-blue bracelet from her right arm, wrapped the hair tie around her wrist like a bracelet to replace it, and held the bracelet out to Mordred. "To keep your arm safe; a knight needs some protection, right?"

Breeze could block with the other arm anyway. Or her bare hand if she honestly needed to.

[Kat]

Mordred

For a second, she really felt something radiating from Breeze, and it wasn't something unpleasant. Her aura reminded her of a sun during warm but pleasant day. Mordred was really sure that she wasn't a fellow Changeling, so there must have been another reason for that.

The Changeling didn't exactly need more armor, but it was a nice show of affection from Breeze. "That's really nice of you, I will gladly accept it!" Mordred smiled, putting the bracer around her wrist in same manner as Breeze. "And huh, you are into poligamy? I was raised in a country where people usually date one person a time, but again it's not my country. If you insist then I won't really mind..." For first time during their meeting she flushed a bit. Jumping from being someone single to being a part of a triangle, quarter or even whole symphonic orchestra would be daunting for her, to put it mildly.

[yinsukin]

Relius Clover

"Really? I see, so they contain that sort of magical property?"  He said, still examining the gems.  When he looked up, he realized the doll was walking away.  "If you find yourself ever to be broken, be sure to come by, I might be the only person in this whole city who can fix you."  He said politely.

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

The Solar nodded when she saw the bracelet on Mordred's arm, and pressed the arm with the hair tie on it next to her's to compare. "It looks really good on you, too! Just a little loose, but not that much. You're all slender and pretty, you know that?"

Then her new friend started making "Polygamy...? Oh, you mean like a harem! Yeah, those are really common if you have the silver to handle it. 'Cause you need to get lots of nice things for all of them, you know?" she said, as if she were happy to get the chance to explain something. "And you need the time to spend with them, and you can't do that if you're really busy and that's just sad."

Let it not be said that Breeze can't pick things up from context clues. Even if she couldn't tell you what a context clue is, she could do it in spirit!

Then she calmed down a bit, and looked to Mordred's blushing face more closely. "Plus, ah, it goes both ways you know?" she said to her, because it really was only fair that way. "Don't let me hold you back. If any ladies we help want to have some fun, go for it!"

[Kat]

Mordred

Oh, so she was raised into being pretty open about freedom of relationship. Mordred decided to be content with pursuing Breeze for now. She shouldn't jump headlong into a lake, but rather test waters first. "I'm sure with your positive attitude you'll earn enough coin to buy gifts for people you like. Thanks, I don't really plan to get my own 'harem', but I guess I will be a part of yours. I'm your lady, after all."

Mordred's mood and atttitude improved steadily, as if bad memories of today washed away. Probably she wouldn't be so forward if the first impression she had of Breeze wasn't good. And the charming behavior of Breeze only reinforced that impression. To the point she maybe forgot about something...

"Right, there is your errand. Don't worry, I will help out you with this quest, my fair knight."

[Panda]

Annabeth

"Truth be told, I'm not sure how I'd go about eating a spirit," the Hunter admitted, giving Rikuyo an odd look, "Never had to deal with them much. Though I suppose I'll have to start getting used to it once this First Change thing is over and done with..."

Noting that the woman had a point, the Hunter went into Ren, focusing her aura into her legs to speed up even more so than usual to allow her to catch up to Ron, who was back to being a cute wolf. Looking around for a bit, the Hunter realized Ron was in Zetsu, so either he was hiding from something or looking for it. While the Hunter had to admit that Ron had her beat in terms of mundane senses, she still held a decent advantage in terms of her sensitivity to aura. Pulling her own aura into herself and going into Zetsu, Annabeth needed a moment to push past the almost oppressive feeling permeating the forest pressing down on her anew, feeling innumerable eyes boring into her back that she knew she wouldn't find.

Pushing past all that, the Hunter soon realized that the general buzz of the forest around them made it quite easy to pick out anomalies, and it wasn't long before she spotted what Ron seemed to be looking at...in the trees? No, not quite...the possibility boggled the Hunter's mind a little, but it seemed that the wind itself carried the high aura concentration that had caught Ron's attention. Somehow, the wind itself was their prey.

Frowning, the Hunter decided to wait for now. She'd noticed something of a pattern when it came to the forms Ron took, and the form he was in now was not the one he took right before pouncing on his prey. Perhaps the wind itself was their quarry, but the time to strike had not arrived yet.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

The stag waited a bit outside the shop. She was kind of patient, but the city rubbed off poorly on her like this. It was kind of like walking into a sea of disgusting ooze that clung to your skin. But she could wait. Well, at least for a few minutes. After those few minutes Oren started to get impatient again and moved to the door.

She bit down on the handle and pulled it open and trotted in. One of the silly humans tried to make her leave but she just tapped his head gently with her own and he backed off. Then she was allowed to move around and go wherever she wanted to. It was a little exciting.

The Great Stag had taken to shopping with ease. A stack of snacks, meats, plants, and a few objects made of silver and cold iron (she tested them in private herself) were perfectly balanced on her back. Now all she needed to do was find Breeze which wouldn't be that hard. She was pretty distinctive.

It only took a moment and she'd found her with another cute girl! Oren supposed she might feel betrayed if she cared about that kind of thing, but she didn't. Instead she moved over next to breeze and licked her ear to say hello.

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

Oh, Mordred was a bit ridiculously cute. Her own harem, really? That was a bit much for Breeze, but she had just made it expected and she did have her mistress' example to draw from so she could probably do it! Right?

No time for doubts, just gotta be confident! Or at least look it. Same thing, I guess!

Breeze smiled to her fellow knight, and bowed her head slightly. "Ah, you honor me, miss knight!" the Exalt said to her, hoping she got the whole thing right. She wasn't even sure if 'miss' was the right word to use, but she did her best to look certain of it.

She was going to try this thing she'd seen some sorcerer do when greeting her mistress before, where he held her hand and kissed the back of it. Unfortunately, she only got about as far as taking Mordred's hand in her's before hearing Oren's hooves clapping against the floor. So Auspicious Breeze sighed, smiled, and reached back to pet the head that licked behind her ear. "Hello, Oren."

Then she turned around and saw how much food the shapeshifter already had. "Hwuh?"

[Kat]

Mordred

She tried to kiss her hand, right? Whatever were her intentions, she got interrupted by something that she noticed before the shop. That stag was Breeze's pet? And likely trained if she picked up food on her own. She wouldn't be surprised. Goats could shoplift after all.

"Wow, that's your pet? It looks smart. Look at all that food it picked up. Guess I will pay for that too before the someone thinks your Oren is shoplifting." The animal looked quite adorable. Maybe she should pet it. "Uh, can I pet your stag?"

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

At Breeze's confusion the stag just made a rumbling kind of sound, kinda of like she was laughing. Then she licked her nose too. But the Formless One was quickly distracted by the other girl. The other blonde thought she was a pet? How scandalous, but she supposed she wouldn't mind being Breeze's pet either.

She trotted over to this other girl and started to rub her head against her side. Petting was good. She would get it from her one way or another.

[Kat]

Julius

The battle was well fought. He didn't learn which was the spirit that aided him and Sir Gadree in their bout, but even if the spirit did some property damage, he was letting it get away with that this time.

As for him, he was genuinely shocked that the woman he saved caused this atrocity. He felt responsible for his failure at discerning her true nature back then, and did his best to help Ser Gadree track her. Her henchman was formidable indeed, and the main obstacle in their mission. But finally, they managed to strike down that person and her bodyguard retreated.

"I apologize. The truth is that I aided this woman without knowing the extent of the evil that lied deep in her heart. I'm truly sorry." Julius sounded genuinely remorseful as he turned to Ser Gadree, expressing his responsibility for the mess that his actions indirectly caused.

[Thedoctor]

Shinobu

"Hey!! I am not green!" the vampire shouted out in protest at the blue haired girl's statement while being pulled into a hug. As the girl hugged her, she took the time to reattach her torn off arm. Medaka did make a fair point, there wasn't such a great of herself passing away, the said couldn't be said for the blue haired girl however, especially with her nature that could be exploited.

"The same can not really be said for you unless...you became my vampire minion. My lastest would certainly think acquiring one in a revealing school girl uniform like you would be a true goal worth striving for." Shinobu teased her while hugging her back.


Jeanne

"Of course I'll protect her." She smiled back at him whil patiently waiting for him to pay for the room. After he had done so she then pulled him into the elevator. "So you picked the smallest room you could find, you're a frugal person at heart, aren't you Shirou?"

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

The former gladiator couldn't help but giggle at how kissy Oren was even looking like that. She was somehow still a cute girl as a whatever she was! Stag, okay, that was the word. Stag Oren was pretty great.

"Ah, yes, I think she looks pretty eager for it," Breeze said to Mordred, trying to restrain more giggling. Goats were thieves, huh? Hope they didn't like to cut thieving goats' hooves off! That'd be really sad. "Though I'm not sure if all this is what we needed to get..."

She tried to see if the pictures on the food containers were telling enough, but Breeze didn't have much luck there. It made her sigh. "These don't look like the letters mistress was teaching me at all..." she muttered to herself.