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

[Umbra of Chaos]

Liseth

The entire situation seemed to be going rather well in Liseth, opinion. That is, until Rin crushed her glass in her hand which carved it up pretty badly. She distractedly noted that the bright red color meant that the blood was coming from the capillaries but soon became much more focused on the fact that no one else was reacting. The fear that the brunette was a bit unhinged and that she had made a pretty large mistake was beginning to creep up on her.

However, that was soon replaced by utter bewilderment as the gem glowed. A feeling which only grew as Rin's flesh knit back together and her glass reassembled itself. It was so strange. Liseth's powers always felt natural to her. They were just ways that the universe functioned and worked. The levers and pulleys that governed the unseen things. But this, this was just odd. Just watching it made her spine tingle a bit.

Regardless, seeing as Rin was apparently a gem wielding mage it would be best not to sound like a dumbstruck idiot when she asked a question. "Sure, you can take all the gems if you want. Just, don't do that ever again. Not unless you absolutely have to."


Oren

Oren was beginning to realize that this was not going to work as the staff beat on her chest a second time and sent her flying straight through a tree. The wood predictably snapped like a twig considering her speed and weight and she submerged herself in the ground once more. Well, almost submerged herself. Her head was still sticking out and she let out a contemplative growl that almost sounded akin to a "Hmmmmmmm."

Charging at him from the earth didn't really work. He just tossed her around with her own wait, and if he could do that she didn't really want to run right at him. His staff was long enough to poke at her eyes and even if she was fast she wasn't quick enough to cross the distance before he could react or agile enough to just leap out of the way. She remembered that from last time a dragonslayer with a big spear gouged out her eye. That hurt a looooooooooot! And he might shoot those things into her mouth and that would probably hurt too.

Well, she could probably outlast him. She just needed to make him move. So the rest of her sank beneath the earth and she swam around a bit in leisurly circles before diving deep. Then she simply moved directly under Michael and swam straight up. Instead of going full ramming speed she maintained a comfortable pace that would just have her head surge up to bite at the stick man.


Erica

The construct caught the phone and formed a pocket in her shorts that just managed to fit the phone in. "I am aware of this method of communication. It is not beyond me to utilize it to communicate. If that is all I will be taking my leave. Do not die. I would find it an annoyance to be incapable of fulfilling my end of the contract and receiving my allotted souls."

She turned away from the multitude of souls and the Mantle spread out into two large wings. Without another word she flew off and began to make distance. Once she had gained significant distance she would return to the earth and resume her search for anomalies. At this point it was all that she could do.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Sakagami Kenzo

The oni nodded eagerly, but suddenly looked troubled, much like a child who realized he just caused mischief. "Indeed! Oh, forgive my rudeness."

Immediately, the demon bowed down vigorously, humbling himself before the great presence as he showed every bit of heartfelt gratitude at her acknowledgement. Not once did the thought of killing her to take the sword for himself cross him, for to force himself on such beauty was a grave sin that could only sully her blade.

No, for even if he loved her, he needed her feelings to blossom naturally. To know eachother was the first step to a relationship, even a child knew that much.

"My name is Sakagami Kenzo, pleased to meet you!"

[yinsukin]

Medaka Kurokami

Medaka raised an eyebrow at Sakura's comment.  Then she blushed lightly when she realized how she was acting.  However she quickly composed herself.  This was how Shinobu displayed affection.  Even if it wasn't, letting her play like this seemed to make her happy and thats all that matters.  Still, even to that end, did she always allow people to touch her like this?  She certainly did more invasive things to others but....

Medaka's thoughts were interrupted by Shinobu letting go of her. The vampire walked up to the snow haired woman, apparently named Irisveal and commented on how she apparently wasn't human.  As she approached her, a new pair of clothes appeared on her body.  Was that Shinobu?  Or was that the mages that surrounded her?  Everyone seemed to use magic differently and no one had explained anything.

Medaka walked next to Shirou so she could get out of the way.  She glanced at the couple.

 "You guys are mages correct?  What are your specialties?"  She inquired.

[Aiden]

Katase

Hmm. Well, he's even polite. I suppose you can't judge a sword by its sheathe, the sword-woman concluded in the delay between his apologies and introductions. Her bright blue eyes seemingly lit up from the man's earnestness.

"I am Muramasa Katase," she said with a little bow at her waist. "I'm likewise pleased to meet you, Sakagami-san. I admit, I'm also quite pleased to meet someone else from Japan here. Wherever it is that here may be."

So far, so good. Let us see what his intentions are, shall we?

[Elf]

Forest

The blond vampire slid the phone into her pocket and said, "We have someone coming on the way, but we may want to find someway to make them more docile when the Black and White comes.  NPD, ah, Nexus Police Department, is really short handed.  If I hadn't been the one to call, then chances are they wouldn't send someone to come take care of something as petty as this."

Truthfully, if Julius hadn't been there, she would have slipped the four wankers a little hypnotic suggestion to turn themselves in. 

And maybe soil themselves for the literal shits and giggles.

She heard Julius talk about Ben Franklin in a fairly present tense and bit her lip.  That meant he was from the late 1700's, a century that wasn't a good one for her.  Filled with severe heartbreak and the reason of several of my many hangups and neurosis, she thought to herself (or so she thought).

"He was also a bit of a randy fellow too, but his mark was left on the world, especially in his home country,"  Forest said, "He's even printed on some of their paper currency.


Rin

Rin smiled as she gathered up the napkins with her blood and set them in the empty glass.  "Feuer Frei," she whispered as she activated a very small elemental spell from her crest.  With the remnants of the alcohol in the glass, the bloodied napkins caught fire and quickly burned away.  It wouldn't do any good to have someone get a hold of her blood; they could curse her with it or try to reverse engineer it to see how the Tohsaka mage craft worked.

"I'm sorry for the kind of grisly display, but it was something small I could show you.  However, my magecraft is kind of dependent on my blood, so the sight of it, and the pain of letting it, isn't really anything new to me," Rin said with a lopsided grin and a snort.

She smiled as she gathered the gems, her aquamarine eyes gleaming. "But I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.  So thanks, Liseth."

[Panda]

Emily

Emily gasped as she felt Gabe somehow swelling further, that delicious friction growing stronger as he continued to thrust into her, his length throbbing with every passing second. Then, just a little bit after she started to catch her breath, she cried out as he hilted himself into her, bending forward as she felt that hot rush of his essence pouring into her, filling her up and leaving her feeling all the more aware of his length buried deep in her folds. To her curiosity, he seemed to be glowing again, quite literally.

Wordlessly, the Changeling reached up to embrace him.

[Elf]

Gabriel

Spent, Gabriel fell into Emily's arms.  His chest rose and fell sharply with each breath and his ink-black hair had fallen into his face.  His violet eyes lifted to hers as he felt her arms wrap around him and he smiled.

Taking a deep breath, he chuckled and returned the embrace.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Liseth

Any remaining tension in Liseth's form eased out of her body at the magus' casualness. This seemed to be going pretty well! And people said that money couldn't solve your problems or bring you happiness. It seemed to be working pretty well for her. "You're welcome. So, uhh, do you wanna do anything else? I can throw enough money around here to make a lot of things happen but I dunno if you're interested in that."

[Elf]

Rin

Rin watched as Liseth relaxed even more and smiled at the girl's idea, her eyes gleaming. 

"I think Duke would probably be interested if you started throwing money around," Rin said with a chuckle, "Now, what about you though?  Have you warmed up?"

Liseth had been shivering earlier, and she wasn't exactly dressed for this weather after all.

"And maybe finding a place for you to stay might be a good idea."

[Aiden]

Gadreel

"I see there is a great deal for you to catch up on then, Sir Julius," the angel said with a smile. "While we shop, I shall speak of some of the advances in electricity over the centuries ... and, oh, how has the situation with Napoleon developed by your time? I know Europe was in quite an unfortunate sorts around then."

He knew, because Gadreel had been the one to slay a cell of sorcerers who had tried to subvert Napoleon into an instrument of their secretive agenda to suppress human intellectual development. Why, their compatriots had assassinated at least three men who had invented a European printing press before it could be marketed in any way, because they had sought to suppress the spread of literacy across the continent.

Gadreel could do with less of this sort of excitement. His eyes diverted momentarily to Forest as he caught echos of discontent seeping out from her mind, even if the contents were beyond him to grasp.

"Ah yes, the currency... inflation would offend your sensibilities greatly, I fear."

[SINIB]

Misaka Mikoto

Misaka wasn't quite sure where she was. She'd taken a turn into an alleyway to take a shortcut back to school, and then suddenly she'd found herself in a completely different place. The weather was different, even the season felt different, as she was left shivering in her summer uniform. And the architecture seemed very un-Academy City like. She hurried over to the first person she saw, a blond woman wearing a pink coat and an umbrella.

"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am? I honestly have no idea where this is."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Darcy Hugh

Darcy shrugged and laid back to relax. "You have a weird sense of humor..." He noted, taking another one of his shots but swirling it and glancing at its contents absentmindedly rather than drinking them down like before.

"Forgive my tactless question, but are you perhaps a native of this place?"


Sakagami Kenzo


Kenzo smiled politely and nodded before straightening back up. "I must say, it's rare to see a beautiful flower like you tread these parts. What brings you here?" He asked gently, unable to hide his cheerfulness. However, what his eyes were directed at was not the girl, she was a worthless existance that had already bored him.

What his eyes focused on was the true her, the blade. It was so beautiful...

[Aiden]

Katase

Oh dear; I feel a little exposed like this, the sword confessed to herself as she recognized the familiar sensation of being observed. Just how much awareness did this giant possess to recognize what the true object of value here was? Katase wasn't sure if she should be flattered or concerned by the attention, assuming she wasn't just imagining it. The words, certainly ... the palm of her shell's right hand rested on the tip of the handle.

"I'm afraid I don't rightly know," she admitted as she straightened herself back up. "I can't quite say I know where 'here' is right now."

[SINIB]

Archer

The man in red merely continued eating his own delicous food, seemingly unconcerned with what had happened. "Yes." He simply answered between bites. "You'll have to figure out what it means to you by yourself. That step is important and not one I can help you with." He put his utensils down as he took a drink instead to quench his thirst.

"I'll just say it'll help you understand yourself better."


 
Jeanne

That was intense but it looked like it was over now. Her master had freaked out over seing Shirou's pained look, however he already appeared better to her. Jeanne felt Sakura grab hold of her hand again as she sat down, she didn't fail to notice that Sakura was observing the two men like a hawk. "Don't worry It doesn't look like Archer had any hostile intentions with that." She tried to calm Sakura down by speaking gently to her.

On the other hand master, you never answered my question~

Shirou Emiya

"I see." Shirou said calmly, not betraying how he felt about that answer. "I'm sure I'll figure it out soon enough." He said as he began to eat his food, before he noticed what Sakura was doing. "Sakura, I'm fine, don't worry about what just happened." He told her, trying to calm her down. "Let's just have a fun dinner."

Sakura Matou

Sakura squeezed Jeanne's hand reassuringly. Don't worry, I'm ok, just a bit worried about that. Archer wouldn't do anything bad. He saved Senpai after all. She sighed as Shirou also began to comfort her.

"Do I really look that bad?" She asked the table.

On the other hand master, you never answered my question~

Oh, right… She said somewhat unenthusiastically before she mentally prepared herself and her voice got significantly softer. Yeah, I wasn't expecting it, but it was fun! She said with a good amount of cheer, but underneath it all, there was a twinge of sad nonenthusiasm.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Sakagami Kenzo

Kenzo nodded in understanding and hit the palm of his hand with his fist to show his understanding.

"I see! Well then, you must be lost. in that case, I would be honored to show you around, does Muramasa Katase mind sake?"