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

[Elf]

Rin

"I am too actually, and I want to see if Faust has any usable gems.  And I might need to get some hypodermic needless," Rin said with a sigh.

[SINIB]

Wormy and Oka, Best Bros of CE

Oka leapt off Wormy knowingly. This was a wild pokemon, and a dangerous one at that. It had the powers to talk and transform, potentially interesting. Maybe she should catch it. Haunter caught her in midair and held her up in the air with its ghostly powers.

Meanwhile, wormy began to glow with the brightness and heat of a hot summer day. This light was different than the mute flash, it was more like the light of the sun. As he began to do this, a white orb began to grow in the air above him, growing larger and larger as the seconds ticked by.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Tohuw Balagan and the soon to be conquered sun.

Kuh-

Tohuw was getting annoyed. Very annoyed. This shitty brat wasn’t listening at all! She summoned a ghost thingy and kept running away, picking up speed. Of course, this wasn’t a problem for him, he just followed along. But damn, he was putting way too much effort into this.

Then, a giant orb of light appeared over him, intense as the sun. It was pretty damn hot, normally he’d be in trouble due to the intense light. Luckily, he explicitly carried a bigass umbrella, so all it did was annoy him really.

Altough this was probably going to do something nasty to him. He couldn’t tell if the light would come and pierce him or if the sun would burst into flames. Annoyingly, he waved his hand towards the sun. A wave of multicolored light pierced the sun and spread inside. About a few seconds and that annoying lightshow would be as good as his.

Smiling affably, he called out one last time.

“Hey, can you please stop? I’m just trying to talk.”


Femguard

Oi, why are we walking?

The woman looked around vividly, taking yet another deep breath and enjoying the multitudes of forgotten smells and sensations. She could feel the earth beneath her feet, the wind blowing on her soft skin. It all felt good. Very good.

Then, she lowered her stance and allowed the silver light to dance before her once more. It swirled, collected around her legs and feet. For an instant, her muscles bulged before compacting like stone, begging for release.

A mighty stomp, an erupting surge of force created refraction, and her body burst forth with energy and power unlike anything one could witness. And suddenly, her body became as light as a feather and took flight. The wind blew on her face with great intensity, the distance between the girl and the earth growing by the second. She could see the world, the city, the trees, the people. It was all so small, so beautiful. She smiled and laughed, a joyous hearthy laugh unlike anything he had shown since he came in this city.

“Hahahaha… this is FUN!”

[Thedoctor]

Gintoki
 
Gintoki's speculations about her wanting his precious body fluids wasn't completely unfounded. Except she not only tried to seduce him, but asked for his public. "Oi, what are you thinking? People are probably watching us." Gintoki frowned. Maybe she would restrain herself if she realized they are in the public. What an awkward situation it was.

Shinobu

"This is not a particularly filled place, can you see anyone here?" Indeed the two people that had followed them into the shop were no longer there and even the shopkeeper was nowhere to be seen. "I am not against moving this to somewhere more private if you desire more privacy.But please calm down Gintoki I do not really enjoy forcing myself on people, it is much more enjoyable if both are willing".

[Kat]

Noriko

"Yeah, who else could it be?" Noriko didn't fathom that her pet had any more associates. She didn't look like someone who socialized extensively after all. "I finished whatever Vanguard wanted of me and honestly the sooner he knows the better. Do you know where he is?

[Panda]

Emily

Emily's interest piqued at the mention of a guest, but the Changeling decided that she might as well take a while getting back. After all, they didn't have anything to eat and it would stand to reason that Mordred was probably more than a little hungry by now.

"Yeah, everything's fine," Emily said, "I'll be heading back in a bit, probably gonna grab some groceries on the way back. See you then."

With that, Emily hung up, slipping her phone back into her pocket-

-when a blinding flash of light went off behind her, the Changeling having her back turned to the source being the only reason she wasn't blinded as well.

Turning back around, Emily found herself looking upon a rather strange sight. The worm-thing from before now had a massive glowing glowing orb of light above it, and the girl was being held up by a new creature of inky darkness. The strangest thing about the situation, however, was the fact that the dog from earlier had been replaced by a similarly attired...man? Between the hair, the heels, the outright flamboyant attire, and the monocle, Emily wasn't entirely sure anymore.

However, the more pressing matter was the massive ball of light floating above the worm-thing. That aside, it registered to Emily that, if the girl had wanted to harm her, she could have done it when her back was turned. With that in mind, the Changeling took cover behind a nearby mailbox, trusting that the purplehead wasn't aiming and her, but still not particularly feeling like being out of cover for whatever happened next.

[SINIB]

Oka

Oka reacted within a split second of the counterattack, throwing out a third pokemon, her Sylveon. She was getting ready to use the finishing move. The strange attack had innterupted the solarbeam, but that was no matter anymore. As the old one shattered, a new one appeared directly overhead, instantly raining a death beam of light down from the sky. She ignored its pleas to talk, talking could wait until she'd captured the rare pokemon. "Hyper Voice!" She yelled out, and Sylveon responded without a moment's hesitation, releasing a piercing otherworldly sound directed at the now man.

Oka was extremely excited, she'd never found a legendary pokemon before.

[Kat]

Mordred

"She's heading back to the apartment too." Mordred told Bellitanus. "I think we should go there too without further ado." Though she wondered if the dragon fancied vegetables. Mordred herself took more and more liking to meat. "I think I'm too tired for cooking, so I will let my roommate handle this. I hope you don't mind that."

[SINIB]

Erica

The construct deflated slightly but mechanically placed the chunk of meat on Noel's plate. Her relentless pace came to a shuddering halt when to the relief of the owner of the buffet she finally stopped eating. Although her bright eyes dimmed and drifted down to look at her lap Erica's voice was steady.

"I'm sorry about being so focused on eating. It is difficult for me to divide my attention. Custom in these situations for the participants to get to know one another, correct? Then it would be appropriate for me to begin. I have no hobbies but I do enjoy eating as I have never had the opportunity to try food before this time. Usually I am not so hesitant in my speech and actions but it is difficult to speak my mind with you. It hurtsme to see you uncomfortable or upset and I never wish to be the cause."

Noel

"You should just act natural, you know, be yourself. Pretending to be someone you're not isn't good for you. But as for my hobbies... I like shopping online and cooking, but nobody will eat my food..."

[Panda]

Seras

"No, not really," Seras admitted, "He went off looking like he didn't want to be followed, and I needed a new shirt to hide my arm, so...yeah."

[Kat]

Noriko

"Oh, I see..." Man, she was useless, Noriko thought. Now, what she would do? Vanguard nowhere to report to, and she had nothing to do. She hated staying idle like that. Maybe a little walk would help.

[Kotomine_Rin]

tOHUW bALAGAN

That sniveling imbecile completely ignored her words. Nay, instead she kept attacking him. A second beam readied above the first, but the small interval of time was enough for him to direct the one sun he animated and deflect the deadly ray with his own, barely. However, he wasn't prepared, and the suddenly of it all distracted him momentarily.

Because of that, he did not notice she had summoned more stinking pets. One of the screamed shrillingly. An ear drilling sound pierced the demon, loud beyond compare. An immense pain invaded his body, black goo bursting from every pore of his body as his form shifted and twitched erratically, trying to hold itself together.

"I SAID STOP!!"

And then, it burst. The human form Tohuw Balagan had was no more. Instead, all that took its place were hundreds of pitch black tendrils, smashing into each other, molding and intertwining into dozens of different forms. Part of them formed human faces and limbs before shifting back to tendrils, others took aspects of animals and plants, some even grew into pitch black insects and worms.

All those forms, shaped chaos and disharmony, was rooted to the demon's being. And it kept shifting, swirling disgustingly in a grotesque black mass of putrid tentacles bloating and bubbling like fluid one moment, and turning solid and compact the next.And the shapes kept swirling, mixing and fornicating like worms, until a grotesque blob could be made out, a serpentine mass of goo. Disgustingly so, horrifyingly so, snapping sounds could be heard from within. And then, a grumbling.

And then, something else burst from the floating blob. A bust, a pitch black torso of almost humanoid resemblance. Its consistency was as gooey as the rest, its hair actually a mass of black tendrils. One of its tentacles held a pristine ruby cane, and his whole body was shielded by a parasol.

And hundreds, nay, thousands of eyes opened up. Each belonged to different creatures, be it animals or even humans. One could daresay there was not a single color of the spectrum that was omitted. Behind his one retained feature, the monocle, a large and unsightly eye opened. But it was not like the others, no. Instead of an iris, a face could be seen inside the eye. And inscribed in that face was pure and unadulterated hatred.

(ಠ_ಠ)

And it spoke.

You cockroaches trying to play rough? I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THIS SHIT WORKS PAL!

And dozens of iron spikes appeared and flew at incredible speed from all directions, aiming for the girl.

[Kat]

Noriko

Having nothing better to do, she went for a talk, carrying a bag with the clothes and supplies she bought. Going back to Seras would took a while, so she wasn't in a hurry. This city was full of new things to experience, just a little stroll like this could reveal something interesting.

After a while, she stopped near a buffet. Her sensitivity to the supernatural alerted her again to a presence of someone that wasn't one of teeming masses of mundanes that still were prevalent even in such odd city like Nexus. The blond haired and blue haired girls were eating and chatting. It could be rude to intrude, but the mage did not care about niceties getting into the way of discovering new things. Oh, she would be nice to them, of course.

"Good morning." she greeted everyone inside after entering the place. She took a seat close enough to the women, but enough apart from them to not arouse suspicion. Then she ordered food. It would be so easy to just scrutinize them, but she resisted temptation for now. She liked a challenge.

[Panda]

Emily

Of all the things that Emily had expected to deal with when she'd woken up, this was not one of them.

Run.

In fact, this was quite possibly one of the last things that she'd expected.

Run.

The Lovecraftian horror before her slammed on all the alarms the Changeling still had, screaming at her to run. Run as fast as possible, run anywhere, just run.

However, when the Changeling tried to activate that familiar Contract once more, she found herself faced with the next horror of the night. She was almost dry on her Glamour supply, and certainly didn't have enough to utilize that Elemental Contract. With her heart pounding at a mile a minute, Emily ran full tilt away from the scene, looking back only one to see a hail of iron spikes swarming towards the girl.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Judas Priest

This is the story of a man named Darcy. But to begin, let’s take a look at what people call Nexus City.

Among many things, Nexus City could take great pride in the fact it housed the strangest and oddest folk one could face. Vampires, werewolves, leprechauns, all lived in harmony under a banner of peace and togetherness.

Sure, you could stumble on a few murderous rampages or two, perhaps a madman trying to cleanse the world from impurities or a demon king with a penchant for world domination. And of course, the loansharks…

But if one took everything into consideration, Nexus City was quite the lovely place to live in. That is, if one makes a living out of killing said vampires, werewolves and leprechauns. But not the loan sharks, you don’t want to mess with them. You have no idea what some are ready to do.

At first, business was booming. One simply needed to look at a street corner to find a decent contract or two. Money, cash, greens, dinero, asswhipes for the filthy rich! Cash or credit, but preferably cash. A wonderful philosophy for some, and a rather deadly one! It is simple math really.

Contract+Bullet to a poor unliving sod’s head=Money

Money=House+TV+Food+Booze+Ladies.

House+TV+Food+Booze+Ladies=Party

Party=Happiness

That is what the good, honest, respectable and hardworking folk need. By that logic, who could blame a gun for hire or two to go down the Eldorado? Not Darcy my friend, not Darcy. Although he wasn’t exactly a gun for hire either.

Perhaps the better term would be cross for hire. No, that sounds more like the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ thing. For a man of god that lad was supposed to be! And he was indeed, although that man had a different idea of the Christian god. An idea that made most Bible thumping, holier-than-thou folk rather displeased to the idea of having anything to do with him.

Not that he cared.

After all, getting to blow zombie brains off and getting PAID for it, all in the name of the Lord? Well, just try to fucking stop him.
Wealth, fortune, money… he had everything he wanted. He was happy.

But everything changed when the Hamara nation attacked.


Darcy took a stroll trough the streets, hoping luck would smile on him at least this once. Barely five dollars left, five dollars away from being officially penniless. He was meant to have a big contract that night, a chance to make some good pocket change. A chance in a lifetime.

But it seemed lady luck did not agree with that. Those damn suns or whatever the hell they were made it impossible for him to find his contract, the deal was off. Thanks a lot, Hamara.

What the hell is so special about this saint anyway? He grumbled bitterly as he kicked an empty can.

A can that was supposed to be in his hands, drunk with delight. Yet another day without any fruits for his labour. If only there was any labour. Maybe if he played a bit, he'd be a bit lu-

A crash sent him tumbling back ass first to the ground. Perfect, this day was starting just great. If he was any unluckier he'd have fallen headfirst and snapped his neck. He shook his head and opened his eyes to gaze upon a rare beauty. Luscious velvet hair, a pretty face and two great personalities. Make it three. Honestly, if he had to pick one word to describe her, it was gorgeous. He kinda felt bad for her bumping on him, goddamnit!

You know, maybe lady luck wasn't so bad.

Wiping the dust off his priestly robes, he smiled and got up, holding his hand out to the girl to help her up.

“Hey, are you okay?”