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

[yinsukin]

Medaka Kurokami

Medaka's gaze never faltered.  She listened intently to the small excerpt of the girls life.  Then, the vampire revealed her fangs and ears.  Medaka poked them.  "Oh those are so cute!"  She exclaimed before letting out a giggle.  She playfully plucked them for a few seconds before turning more serious.  "I see. 500 years is a long time.  But you say you managed to get used to it. Thats good."

Then, she moved her hands to her face, gently resting them on her cheeks.  "So then, why do your eyes look so dull?"

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

"Eh? Ahh, I mean, me and Oren never really talked about it," Breeze admitted to Mordred, before smiling apologetically to Oren. "But um, I mean if it's okay with both of you? I don't want to make either of you angry."

That was really the Exalt's main concern right now. That, and this whole shopping thing. If other girls really liked to do that, then Breeze had to get good at it! "If you think shopping would be fine, I'm up for giving it a try!"


Ron

Anne wasn't sure how she'd eat it? It was pretty simple how to eat it. Sure, it was a spirit of wind-blowing-past-leaves or something, but it shouldn't be a problem. Face covered in a clear something approximating gore, the horse-sized wolf changed shape to stand up on two legs as a big hairy barbarian of a man. Gripped in one of his hands was what remained of his prey, and he pressed it to Annabeth's face.

"Go on," he insisted in that deep, rumbling voice of his. "Eat before it gets away."

[Panda]

Dante

The half-demon glanced down at the golden bejeweled rabbit that had hopped over to him. While rabbits were normally cute, something about this little bugger was almost a bit...disdainful. When the thing started crawling up his leg, however, was when Dante decided to draw the line, quickly kicking it back to the tall girl.

"It would be pretty hard for this body not to be mine," Dante shot back, resting an arm on the guitar case, "Can't you tell by how nicely it turned out?"

"Besides," the half-demon continued, "You've clearly got a little something special yourself, and I doubt that rabbit was it."

[Kat]

Rikuyo

"What, ya scared? C'mon!" The redhead tried to goad Annie into eating that. Or rather scraps of what Ron-chan has devoured. "There's no other food here anyway.You've no choice other than going with empty stomache."

[SINIB]

Oka Kurosawa

Oka wrapped her arms around Jin's and walked closely next to him. She breathed in the warm, crisp, spring air and closed her eyes. After such a long and cold winter, having spring finally be here and in full force was a nice feeling. "So where shall you be taking me first?" The tall purple-haired girl asked her boyfriend. "Come on, don't keep it a secret!" She nudged him gently in a playful manner.

[Panda]

Annabeth

The Hunter's eyes widened as Ron pressed what was left of the spirit into her face, reflexively going into Ren as it made contact. Annabeth still couldn't say she was entirely sure about this, but between Rikuyo's goading, Ron's insistence, and the annoyance that the spirit itself provided during the hunt soon rendered that moot. Grabbing the thing herself, Annabeth opened wide and took a large bite out of it, swallowing a decent chunk of the thing before the taste hit her.

Annabeth's eyes widened a little as found herself somehow tasting what could best be described as a combination of wind and leaves and life. If aura had a taste, the Hunter was sure this would be it. A slight blush worked its way to her face as she continued to work her way through whatever was left. Had the Hunter Bern in less euphoric a state, she might have been embarrassed at the occasional muffled moan that worked it's way from her lips, but the spirit just tasted too good for her to care.

Oh man I am going to have to be careful not to get addicted to this stuff...

Before long, however, it was finished, the Hunter left looking at empty hands before eyes shining with a new hunger met Ron's, then Rikuyo's.

"...we're hunting more of those, right?" the Hunter said, "I mean, not much of a hunting trip if that's it."

With that, the Hunter sealed up her aura nodes again, pulling her aura inside and feeling for another concentration of it. Well, one that wasn't Ron or Rikuyo, but Rikuyo was a bit of a maybe in that regard...

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

"Well, I met with Breeze and we hit it off really well. Then we went on a hunting trip in the woods and had fun then too! Breeze saved me from a giant elemental abomination." She shuffled over to the fighter and leaned in to kiss her on the cheek before taking a few of the plants from her. Making her carry all of that was just asking for trouble, and breaking the plants would be troublesome. She wanted those for her salves.

Then she turned back to Mordred and gave her a nod. "But yeah, I'll share her. Are you sure you wanna pay for all of this though? Looks like a lot more when I'm not a stag."

[SINIB]

Archer

"Ah yes computers, a miracle surpassing even Noble Phantasm, a mere servant like myself is but powerles in in the face of them." Archer went along with Sakura's teasing. He then took a quick glance at the clock and notied that he'd been lounging around enough, there was work to be done. "Well if you excuse me ladies, Liseth didn't quite take to the tea, so I was going to get her some water. See you when you've finished your chat." With that the man in red left the room.

Sakura Matou

"Ciao." Sakura waved at Archer lazily as he left the room, closing the door behind them. With that, Sakura finally let go of Rin and whirled around her, now squatting next to her raven-haired sister. "Hey, so about Archer; I have a secret I'm gonna tell you." She said after making sure the room was soundproofed again. She leaned in close to her sister and whispered in her ear. "I don't think you've actually struck out with him. I'm pretty positive you still have a good chance with him if you want to try again. You didn't seem sure about giving up on him, so I thought I'd tell you."

[SINIB]

Misaka

Misaka flinched a bit as the stones clanged against her makeshift shield, glad it wasn't hitting her.

"Self defense isn't a crime anywhere, you idiot." She called down, taunting the woman from atop the ceiling. She was obviously not normal, possibly not even human. She directed the dumpster to slam into the woman in the yukata, trying to disable the leader. She was sure taking her out would stop the horde.

[Kat]

Mordred

"Uh, I guess I will just drain my card even more." Stacking more debts in the process, of course. "Yeah, let's go shopping. I will go and pay for all of this first, okay?"

Mordred packed all cans into bags on the floor, and lifted them with ease in spite of their combined weight. Well, nothing impressive, she wasn't some twig after all. "Wait here for me okay?" She quickly approached the counter, no one lined up so she was lucky and managed to quickly return to her companions who would probably get impatient and distracted if she had to wait in a line. "I'm done, everyone."

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

"Drain your... card?" Breeze asked, blinking in confusion from the reference even as she blushed and smiled from Oren kissing her. "Ahh, I'll make sure to pay you back for some of it when I figure out how, Mordred! Thank you."

So she waited a little while with the cute antler-headed shapeshifter, going on a little bit about how nice and pretty Mordred was. "... and she gave me her hair tie, so I gave her one of my bracelets!" the Exalt said right about when her fellow knight returned, holding the arm with the tie wrapped around it up for inspection. "So now we're going to be knights and ladies together."


Muramasa Katase

The shattering shields were unexpected. The defensive line faltered beneath the swordswoman who was attacking it. Then Katase's primary shell, the focal point of her frigid fury, was knocked down by the dumpster making a return trip from the other direction. This was a victim the demon sword had no experience in countering, and while her usual tactics would have been quite effective in removing the obstacle of the bar's proprietor the Muramasa blade was unable to utilize them with the murderous electric bitch present.

the lightning girl must die|kenzo was worth patience

She allowed her puppets to collapse and slowly dissolve into demonic energy when her favored shell was taken down. Muramasa Katase would wait until one of them was foolish enough to pick up her blade, and enact her vengeance more slowly.

we must approach this laterally


Ron

He grinned and chuckled at his girlfriend's response, and nodded to her question. "Of course we're going to get more. This is the best stuff. Besides, it's Rikuyo's turn to show us how it's done, right?"

Ron sent her an intimidating, challenging gaze only softened by his obvious amusement. Well, 'softened', since his grin was full of sharp teeth that could rip your tendons.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Lucy

"I wouldn't really call him a demon. Think of him more like an egg. A greedy, selfish little egg who steals all your money. But I guess I'll trust you. If you're lying, well..." The vast and terrible light of the Morning Star sang out of her body in a celestial chorus. It was anathema to any demon. Hooks and blades of holy light that at any other time would attempt to drag out any ghost or demon and banish it.

Then it vanished, and she gave a bright smile. "Well, I was actually hoping to talk to our friend here. I'm having a bit of a crisis of faith and was wondering if she could help me out."


Oren

The Fae listened diligently to Breeze as she told her about their entire encounter. While she spoke Oren whispered small songs of truth to the plants and bade them grow the fruit of the Garden, and they did. This money thing was going to be easy! People bought drugs all the time, and she had things even better than those.

"Well, you rescued me from a monster once, so you must be a pretty good knight. But, Breeze, if you ever meet a pretty lady who asks you to be a thorn knight you should say no, alright? You wouldn't like being one of those." She really wouldn't Oren was sure of it. Even she didn't like the thorn knights, and there were very few things that she didn't like.

[Kat]

Petra

"Oi, oi, you are summonin' some imps but use holy powers. Shuspicious... Maybe ya are like that wannabe Magus, fucking copycat... Ya need to repent, all of ya." She got reminded of someone that pissed her off enough for her to break his bones. And he didn't steal her money... but she owed him something, didn't told him about his body and thus cheated. Damn, she was angry. And Dante was closer of the two.

She tried to punch the whitehead but lost her balance and tripped, her face landing on the ground. "Owwwww"

[Elf]

Rin

Rin frowned at Sakura's words and stared at her.  She chuckled and asked, "What do you mean?  I haven't struck out.  What do you mean I have a chance?"


Forest

It had been a literal cluster fuck, but somehow the motley crew of fallen angel, historical hero, magic flaming fox, and vampire had managed to take down the fannybawbag and her funky.  So as soon as she didn't have to worry about shielding the other three warriors as they had fought, she had returned to the mall.  No bloody surprise that it was bedlam; the first thing she did was stop a poor bloke from trying to rip out his eyeballs with his thumbs.

Everyone's thoughts were in such chaotic, traumatized disarray that the feed back of it had staggered her.

She could see the horrors of the "truth" forced upon them in such detail that would fuel her nightmares for quite a long time.

There were so many and so much damage that she didn't know where to begin.  Attempting to erase the memories could be a ticking timebomb, however, helping creating defense and coping mechanisms was something she was willing to do.  So steeling herself, the blond vampire began to branch her mind to first soothe the victims' thoughts and to calm them.

Her own mind screamed at the strain, but she ignored it and pressed on.

[SINIB]

Sakura Matou

Sakura blinked. "With Archer, of course. Who else could I be talking about?" Sakura asked Rin. "Anyway, I talked to him earlier while you were out. Drinking, probably

She kept that bit to herself though.

"And I think if you so wanted, you two could become an item. He definitely cares about you, you know." Sakura took a deep breath. "It's up to you what happens, I'll support you 100% either way."