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

[Kat]

GAROU XIII

Garou frowned. He didn't trust that chef one bit, for all he knew he served dead people or some messed up crap. Not that he cared as long as it tasted good, but he had the feeling he'd be the one being served. He didn't know why, but that chef just smelled like trouble...

A crystal clear glass of mineral water rested in front of him, reminding him that despite his earlier drink, he was still parched. He carefully picked up the glass, as if it was an explosive that had to be handled with extreme care and brought it to his nose. He sniffed at the clear, fresh water to make sure it was not poisoned. It wasn't.

Finally, he brought the glass to his pale lips and took a hesitant sip. His crimson eyes shot wide open beneath his sunglasses, as if someone just shoved an ice pop in his ass. An overwhelming feeling of freshness overcame him as he kept drinking. It looked like water, smelled like water, tasted like water, but...

"Pwaaah...AMAZING!!" He gasped, grinning massively. He  exhaled deeply and took yet another sip of the water, this time much longer.

"Holy shit, you have to try this. It's like, I dunno how to explain it. It's not regular tap water, this shit great! It's like it was holy mineral water from the ice of a sacred mountain!! I've never had water this good!!!" He cried out in joy. 

He slammed the glass down and looked away for a moment, but he couldn't hide it much longer. Tears started rolling down his face, tears of bliss!

Petra

Garou, who beforehand was quite skeptical of the restaurant to put it mildly, was now overjoyed about something as banal as mineral water. To be honest, it looked heck of suspicious considering that too much water flowed from his eyes. To the point the white part of his eyes got deflated!

"Garou, something's wrong here!" Petra exclaimed in a worry.

"Please, don't worry." That moment, Tonio Trussardi emerged from his kitchen, reassuring that nothing bad was happening to Garou, apparently.

"Huh?!" The sudden appearance of the chef startled Petra somewhat. "Y-you! What did you make Garou drink?!"

"Please calm down. His eyes will only be that for a little while. I have a lot of confidence in my food. I will never give my customers something that will harm them. That mineral water is from a mountain that originally was in Africa, transported over here just like many people and other places. It is melted snow from 500 years ago. And it has the effect of washing away and cleansing the eye, while relieving one of insomnia. The reason why you are not crying is because you had a full night's rest last night." The chef explained to Petra, wrongly assuming she also drank the water.

[Kat]

Lumen

The Patchwork shook her head and let out a light chuckle. "No, nothing like that. I don't need any sustenance at all. I can survive off of nothing forever, but I don't think that's really relevant right now. Is there anything you want done or want to do, Mitsuba-san? You may not have work for me right now but I can always help you out with unofficial things. It's no trouble for me."

Mitsuba

"I don't thing I have any errands for you. It's not likely I will run out supplies today, even with lots of customers. But it's nice you are eager to help out anyway." Well, Mitsuba had matters she would like to handle sooner or later, but she wouldn't reveal that she wanted to gain some more information on this Forest person in a front of someone she barely knew. Heck, she wouldn't tell even if she had known Lumen for a while. However, as she recalled the events of this day, she obviously remembered that this accursed priest wannabe and his new ginger companion probably were up to no good and ready to stir shit in the district because they were too braindamaged to realize that upsetting that scaly guy living in the tower wasn't the best course of action for them and anyone around.

"Wait, maybe there's something you could handle for me. You see, when I was out in the city, I ran into two guys who were open about wanting to go to that tower and challenge its inhabitants. I couldn't care less if it was only their lifes at stake, but if they upset a dragon or more, things will quickly get nasty for everyone involved. If you see a blond guy who looks like a priest passing by, accompanied by fellow who was half grey half ginger hair, I wouldn't mind if you made them, ekhem, reconsider their decision." The unchained clearly implied that if Lumen saw them on their way to the tower, then she should stop them and rough them a bit if they were stubborn about it.

[Kat]

Theodore

Theodore calmly pulled off his phone out of his eye and put it back in his pocket. Strangely enough, the hole was completely hollow and didn’t seem to bleed anything at all. Even stranger was that it closed, swirling back to its original shape. 
The sleeping mask dropped back on his eyes and the demon nodded before walking up to the girl. 

For a second, the world seemed to bend and contort around his fingertips, as if reality itself was being warped. It was a disgusting, eerie sight of something that simply should not be. And yet, for as short as it was, it was.

A grenade launcher appeared in Theodore’s hand, along with ten explosive rockets. They were neither summoned nor created. No, it was as if he had simply made them be, as if they were always there. It was no different than hacking into a game’s console to make certain items appear.

While talking, the demon locked and loaded  one of the shells, moving slowly and deliberately as if to show the girl how to use the weapon. 

“The RPG-7 is reloadable and based around a steel tube, 40 millimeters in diameter, 95.3 centimeters long, and weighing 7 kilograms. The middle of the tube is wood wrapped to protect the user from heat and the end is flared to assist in blast shielding and recoil reduction.

As with similar weapons, the grenade protrudes from the launch tubes. It is 40–105 millimeters in diameter and weighs between 2.0 and 4.5 kilograms. It is launched by a gunpowder booster charge, giving it an initial speed of 115 meters per second, and creating a cloud of light grey-blue smoke that can give away the position of the shooter. The rocket motor ignites after 10 meters and sustains flight out to 500 meters at a maximum velocity of 295 meters per second. 

The grenade is stabilized by two sets of fins that deploy in-flight: one large set on the stabilizer pipe to maintain direction and a smaller front set to induce rotation. The grenade can fly up to 1,100 meters; the fuze sets the maximum range, usually 920 meters, like this.”

Then, he pointed the gun to a faraway parked car. For a second, he seemed to be smiling, only to pull the trigger and launch the grenade at full speed to the vacant vehicle. A massively loud, vibrant explosion decimated it along with its surroundings, enveloping it in flames of destruction.

Then, he turned to the girl and looked at her blankly, looking far less enthousiastic than when he fired the weapon.

“Any questions?”

Rikuyo

"Whoaahhh..." She couldn't help but look at the devastation wrought by the magical gun of the sorceror like a child looking through a window of a toy shop at the thing she wanted for Christmas. She really, really, really wanted to blow up something with it.

"Oi, I just put that odd firebomb in the pipe and push the button, right? Lemme try it~" She looked at Theodore with puppy like eyes, eager to get her hands on the weapon of destruction and explode stuff on her own.

[Elf]

Rin

Rin couldn't force a smile on her face when Sakura and Archer entered the kitchen.  She wiped her hands dry and looked at them.

"Sakura, could you lower the wards long enough for me to leave, please?  I need to go for a walk, and so I'm not in anyone's way," Rin said, forcing her voice to be pleasant and adding a bit of a smile. 

She planned on being out long enough to return when everyone had finished with dinner so she wouldn't have to put up with the sight of Sakura with Shirou and Archer. 


Gabriel

"My question is, why you are being so insistent about it, Erica?" Gabriel asked before sipping his coffee.

"Truthfully, if I would have seen Emily alone I would have probably approached her, but I have this unfortunate tendency to not do something that someone wants me to desperately do."


Saber

Thank goodness that this Uber apparently exists in Nexus, the former King thought to herself as she was being driven back to the city proper.  Forest had told her about the Service, how it worked, and even put the "app" on Saber's cellular phone for her.  She wondered how the driver was paid, but apparently it linked into Saber's bank account, and it was much more cost efficient than hiring a Taxi.

She realized she was in a conundrum.  She realized she should turn this Julius person into the police, and there was the fact that woman had been killed at Irisviel's palace.  The body had been taken care of, but something about the whole situation didn't sit right with Saber.

Neither did the sight of Sakura breaking down at the sight of me, she thought with a snort.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Theodore

The demon handed the girl the bag full with RPG shells on one hand and the gun on the other. He looked utterly disinterested, almost bored, but after a while his lips almost curled upwards ominously.

”Yep. But don’t forget, you only get 10 shots so make them count. Don’t forget, this is our little secret. We’ll keep in touch.”

Finally, he turned his back on her and walked away, waving lazily. One had to wonder why did he go to such lengths for her. He didn’t really have a reason to humor her after all. Either way, authorities would probably show up here soon, so it was best if he didn't stick around.

If he had to explain himself, he would say that he did it because he was bored.


Garou XIII

Garou kept sobbing uncontrollably, quite literally crying his eyes out.

“You don’t understand! There’s no way you can understand! This water is…waaaaaaaaah!!”

Tears were now dropping like waterfalls, making his eyes shrivel and sink back into his skull like dried prunes. And then, and then…

His eyes became moé. A reinvigorating feeling coursed into his veins, as if he had been reborn. He never felt so awake in his whole life!!

“Holy shit, I can see! I’m not even tired anymore, it’s like my body was just filled with liquid energy! Look!”

Garou then proceeded to flex and show off his pecs before doing some pushups.

“HAha, this is amazing!”

[SINIB]

Shirou

Shirou smiled at Ruler and pulled himself up, bracing himself against the woman's arm. "I think we'll have a lot of fun. Ah, um, a bit off topic, but do you mind me asking a kind of confidential question?"

[Panda]

Dante

While the demon hunter couldn't have claimed to have anything approaching a normal life by human standards, this was getting strange even by the half-demon's own standards. After all, if walking out the door was going to send him somewhere that most certainly wasn't Fortuna City, then wouldn't it have happened earlier? No, this had to be something new.

If nothing else, at least this place still had pizza places, though not any that Dante recognized. Deciding that he might as well go for a stroll now that he was already outside, even if it was somewhere entirely new. Besides, he'd had the good fortune to pack Rebellion in the guitar case, and everything else fit neatly under the coat, so none but the most curious would be spooked by the sight of weapons.

Before long, the half-demon found himself wandering through a rather curious mall, not only with regards to some of the stores he passed on the way, but also with the fact that nobody seemed to be sparing him a second glance, even with-

Dante soon found his train of thought derailed by the appearance of a downright gorgeous woman with almost floor-length lavender hair. Though he spared a moment to wonder about the curious hair color. The curious woman made her way to what seemed like a bike store of some sort, though the bikes looked a bit odd. Deciding that he might be in the market for a set of wheels himself, and really looking for an excuse to try his luck with her, the demon hunter followed her in.

"Hello there, lady," Dante said as he approached, "Well, this is a day of new experiences. First I end up in wherever this place is, then I happen across someone like you."

[Panda]

Emily

The Changeling kept a level expression for the moment, not sure how to deal with the woman's insistence. As much as she wanted to point that out that the woman wasn't making a hit or miss process any easier with her insistence, she wasn't sure whether she should keep playing along or not.

"I mean, it's not as simple as that," she said to the Spirit Vessel, before turning to Gabe, "That aside, I must admit to being a bit curious if that applies to more situations than this one."

[SINIB]

Sakura



Sakura smiled at Rin warmly and nodded immidietly, without a second thought. "Of course I can, do you mind if I send a bug with you so you can contact me if you need help?" Sakura asked. "They'll stay perfectly still, you won't notice a thing."

Of course she'd do it regardless, but it would be better if Rin was a willing participant in the matter.

Then she turned to answer Archer's question. "Oh, Shirou and Jeanne? They're out in the backyard sparring. Rider's out shopping still, too."

[Thedoctor]

Kuro

She shruged at the overly serious speech Mordred gave her, she yawned a bit at the end, it was rather philosophical, but at the same time it was a rather drawn out way of saying she'd go on despite the odds. This was why she teased her to begin with, maybe she'd let it slide this time.

"That's true Mord...So which direction is it?" The white haired girl asked the blonde as they walked out of the store, and out in to the open again.



Jin

"Maybe...I'm not so sure actually." Her butt pressing against him was fairly distracting, and to be honest he just wanted to enjoy the pizza right now, it was a lot better than he had originally thought it would be.


Jeanne

She easily kept steady as Shirou braced himself against her arm while pulling himself up. Jeanne nodded at his comment about them having fun while practicing, her body language making it pretty obvious that she enjoyed it even if she didn't answer it verbally.

"Not at all Shirou, feel free to ask."



Shinobu

"Yes, I believe so. This city has a far higher concentration of supernatural beings in one place, than the world I came from." She paused to consider her options, She couldn't get donuts right now unless she stole them, Medaka most likely would not appreciate that, and she was not in the mood to fight her right now. There was that organization though, Elites was it....

"Have you heard about this group called the Elites who supposedly run this city?"

[YOLF]

Yamanashi

"Buh... this blows."

Down a shopping avenue in the Asian Special Ward, a man in an haphazardly put-together suit ruminated on his concerns, on slow steps towards his intended destination. His lamentation drew the scrutiny of a couple who passed him and hurried to move away, the sound of it making him twitch. He snapped his head back with such speed his gelled back hair was ruffled, but he only caught a glimpse of animal ears as they entered a store to avoid his gaze.

Yamanashi Kento choked down the extremely average envy and mediocre disapproval that welled up in him. Curse people with an actual love life, his grizzled and bruised heart said. And don't just sleep with her because she has fox ears, you maniac. Seriously, sometimes it felt like it was harder to find humans than demons in this place. But then, that was part of the reason why he was going where he was going.

He turned a corner into a main street and stopped in front of the door to what was by all accounts a humble and respectable drinking establishment. The yakuza had found this place a little while ago, and it had quickly become his new (and private) solace spot, away from the increasingly annoying bluster of the Kuzumi-gumi main grounds. Now, don't get him wrong, he loved his boys and his mam wouldn't let him say otherwise, but they were rowdy idiots that made it very hard to experience any peace and quiet.

And with the emerge of dragon boss man, the grudgeful cooperation with the triads, and all the demons stalking what used to be their streets, the Kuzumi-gumi hadn't gotten any less hothead lately.

Yamanashi looked up towards the hanging CLOSED sign and swept a hand past his forehead and over his hair to keep it back. He was pretty much a usual... almost. Incognito of course, he hadn't made a point that he was with the Yakuza, not when he came here especially to get away from the headaches of the job and the family. The proprietress shouldn't mind him coming in and sitting down for an early start. It wasn't that strange an hour regardless of the message on the door anyways.

He entered and briefly waved up in the air as he noticed the owner, smiling roughly. "Oiiii, Mitsuba-ane!"

His step tensed as he began to move towards the counter, but stopped short as he recognized she wasn't alone. His words died on his lips in a mumble as he stumbled in righting himself, seized by apologetic need. It was one thing to come out of hours, another to barge in and possibly violate propriety because of a poorly timed whim.

"Ah, sorry, didn't mean to interrupt," he mouthed, avoiding the metal-like eyes of the other woman, even as he noticed the beautiful but strange contour of her face. "Please do not mind me."

And with that, he sat down on the counter, turned away from them and failing to whistle inconspicuously.

[SINIB]

Oka

Oka watched Jin's face carefully as she pressed her behind against him, and it was clear it was more annoying than arousing right now.

ok.

She smiled as she climbed off of him and sat down the other way after she pulled her wet panties back over her slit. She leaned against his chest and began to eat, taking care not to let their genitals to touch. She absentmindedly waited for Jin to fill up on the food, so they could get back to business.

[Thedoctor]

Archer

So Rin wanted to go out, a bit of fresh air might actually be good for her. He thought as he heard what she said. Then Sakura informed them of where the others were.

"Ah I see..then" Wait.

"Jeanne?" He asked her, confusion clear on his face.

[SINIB]

Irisviel von Einzbern

Irisviel went to her room and laid down, picking up a book and reading it. She pleasantly hummed a little tune as she read, clearly enjoying it.

[Kaze]

EMIYA SHIROU

Shirou watched the priest walk in a circle around him with trepidation. The sight reminded him too much of the first time he had met Kotomine Kirei in that awful church back in Fuyuki. His plan to steal the clothes of some guards struck him as cliche, but that didn’t necessarily mean it was a bad idea.

Then Darcy asked about his magic. Shirou frowned, debating what he should reveal. Magic was something every magus was intensely secretive about, and while he himself wasn’t like the average magus, he liked to keep his cards close to his chest.

“In layman’s terms, I can make swords - powerful swords - and shoot them at people. It probably sounds rather strange, but it’s true,” the freelancer said, deciding to be honest but vague. “In case we do encounter dragons, or Shendu himself, I can make swords designed to kill dragons, too. But what about you? What are you capable of?”