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

[Cherry Lover]

Rider

Rider sat there patiently, watching her adorable master lying there, seemingly peacefully, and continuing to attempt to communicate with her through their mental link. Finally, after what seemed like far longer than it likely was, Sakura spoke.

"Senpai...? Rider...?" she began, "I'm sorr-"

Shirou, however, rightly cut her off mid-apology, pulling her into a tight hug and telling her that it was not her fault, begging her not to apologise to them. Rider, of course, fully agreed with him, and decided to add her support.

"Shirou is right, Sakura. This isn't your fault, please don't apologise", she said with a kind smile.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Lumen

The diving being eventually descended onto the ground and let go of Gabriel before bringing her attention to the person who had just been on her head. "I'm no more grumpy than anyone else would be if they had their head stepped on. Anyways, I'm Lumen, and since you're a new arrival it'd be best for Gabriel to explain the whole thing to you. I'm rather sure he's been here longer than I have."

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

Sakagami Kenzo

The demon nodded firmly. "Okay!"

Then he stood still, waiting. Not moving. Not attacking. Waiting. He looked kinda stressed, worried even.

"Um, y-you can go." He said with a shaky voice, almost timidly.

"A-ah, is that fine?" Akatsuki started pointing her guns rather hesitantly at him. Usually, during practice, there'd be a loud siren announcing the start, and a flare, and a radio transmission, and her comrades, and everything. In this situation, she wasn't feeling to comfortable. Nevertheless, she raised her naval guns to point at him.

And immediately pointed them back down.

"Ah! Aaaah! Hold on just one minute, I have to go put this away!" She says, going through the required technical procedures required to remove naval firearms from their slots. "I'm sorry, I don't have any practice rounds on me, any shot would have been lethal!"

She walked off for a bit, dropped them behind a particular looking tree, and walked back to her beginning position.

She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, made fists with her hands and exhaled.

"Kenzo! Here I come!" She exclaimed, opening her eyes. As she did, her feet sunk, ever so slightly, and she was off. Running at a speed unexpected for a child, she burst at Kenzo, hands up, protecting her head, and lept around ten meters away from him, her left side in front, her right side winding up a small fist.

And she struck down, with the weight of many tons, with the force of a naval warship.

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

ALPHA

Alpha got out of that shoddy dude's"habitat", for lack of a better word, and started walking her way down the street aimless. At some point the buildings would have to break and let her see the horizon, let her figure out where she really was.

And so, did the lonely Murakumo start to wander.

[Elf]

Corbin

What a bloody shite night that was.  Frost held court, then there was that almighty awful light thing that happened, and apparently some police station blew up . . . Bugger it all to hell.

The ascended dhampir yawned as he walked into the gas station to prepay to fill his Triumph.  He rubbed the back of his neck, wandered around before grabbing some combos, a package of Twinkies, and a bottle of that "Mexican" Coke made with real sugar and not that frutose corn syrup crap.  It wasn't the Dinner of Champions, but he had gotten a good nip on one of the vampire whores on Eighth before that fucking shit with the multiple fake suns that made him want to violently vomit appeared. 

Apparently some bloke with white hair and a red coat, which apparently there were a lot of wankers running around like that with some super power around Nexus, took it out with some magical sword.

Whoever that was, maybe the Elites should put him on their payroll.  Like that cop with the magical sword that's apparently Excalibur.  Rumor has it she's kind of an incompetent bitch unless she's fighting something.  Join the Elites, you can fight monsters all the time, Corbin thought as he paid for his "meal" and enough to fill up on petrol.

On the way out side he felt his Vampire Sense "ping" and ping it did.  With the force of an angry god.  He turned and spotted what looked like to be a very lovely teenage girl talking with a prepubescent girl with a severe Gothic Loita complex.  Both vampires were blond, the one with the the pig tails so old that her power seemed to be a weight around her, and the teenage one feeling like nothing he'd felt before.

As he filled up his bike, he couldn't help but over hear the ladies's conversation.   Sighing, he put the nozzle back into place and sauntered over to them.  He smirked, leaned over, and said, "Look I get the whole people who have fangs are people too sort of thing, but you keep all of this talk up and someone will freak the fuck out."


Gabriel

Gabriel sighed and said, "I've been here less than 48 hours, but I have a general gist of what this place is.  It's called the Nexus, a gathering place for a multitude of dimensions and universe.  Things get pulled here but apparently they can never leave.  Supernatural exists, so on and so forth, and you were probably sucked here for reasons unknown."


Forest

Forest nodded and said, "Yeah, I can regenerate.  Broken ribs, while annoying, heal surprisingly quick.  Regrowing a limb takes some time."

"I can too, but sure." Rikuyo agreed to the conditions. "Wanna attack me first too?"  The girl got into a stance and Forest nodded.  She didn't take a stance, instead she kept her form loose and free, almost dancing on her feet as she lifted her hands.   

She closed the distance between them and threw a punch right at the girl's midsection.

[Kat]

Lumen

The diving being eventually descended onto the ground and let go of Gabriel before bringing her attention to the person who had just been on her head. "I'm no more grumpy than anyone else would be if they had their head stepped on. Anyways, I'm Lumen, and since you're a new arrival it'd be best for Gabriel to explain the whole thing to you. I'm rather sure he's been here longer than I have."

Gabriel

Gabriel sighed and said, "I've been here less than 48 hours, but I have a general gist of what this place is.  It's called the Nexus, a gathering place for a multitude of dimensions and universe.  Things get pulled here but apparently they can never leave.  Supernatural exists, so on and so forth, and you were probably sucked here for reasons unknown."

Petra

The saint jumped off from the woman's head, feeling the ground firmly under her feet. Now that she could take a closer look at her, she looked quite weird. Her skin below her head looked as if painted in different colours. Was she some sort of delinquent like Lazarus' more agressive sister? But she certainly was more polite. She listened to the man's explanations silently, commenting after he said that she probably ended up here for unknown reasons:

"No, I think it's not a sheer coincidence I'm here. A magically powerful construct went kaboom while I was around, and besides, maybe it could be also God's will that I ended up here. Only He knows for sure. Eh, whatever, I cannot idle around like that, gotta find a Ma-" She suddenly paused, feeling that she was actually hungry. Could it be? "Wait, I have a body now?"

[MissingMandible]

Corporal Mathew Blackburn:

"Corporal Blackburn of the 833rd Harlech Infantry Regiment," Mathew said, keeping his eyes trained on the pair while taking a step backwards toward the door.

[Kat]

Rikuyo

Rikuyo wasn't most skilled martial artist. In fact, she relied more on her overwhelming power than finesse, but it didn't mean she didn't try to pick up something. She had picked up basics of Monkey Kung Fu and maybe it was good opportunity to test it out. Stone Monkey, a style that relied on exposing your body to hits in order to spot and exploit openings of an opponent that would rush to hit her, worked particularly well with her hardy body. She tried to block the punch with her arm and the moment she blocked Forest's punch, trip her with a low kick.

[SINIB]

Sakura

"Buh... Buh..." Sakura blubbered. "…I'm sorry." She said again, holding her plush close to her face and taking a deep breath into it, taking in all his essence. It was calming. She felt a lot better. She was safe. She was fine. Everything was fine. She grabbed Shirou's much larger hand and felt the callouses on it. He was here. He was hers.

Shirou

Shirou sighed audibly, his entire body visibly releasing an enormous amount of built up tension. He returned the motion and took a hold of Sakura's hand, reveling in the feeling of her equally calloused hand. He wondered whether she had kept up archery in these past three years.

He felt bad, he should have been here with her, the entire time. He didn't really know where here was, but...

He didn't particularly care. It meant he was here with her, and that's all that mattered. He wouldn't leave her side or rest until she got better.

Oka

Oka led Jin around the store, ignoring the strange looks that the people around her were giving her. She hoped she didn't get thrown out because she had no shoes. Wormy trailed behind her, and eventually chittered annoyedly. "Oh, um, did I introduce you to my friend, Wormy?" Oka was flustered. She felt rather bad for ignoring Wormy for so long. She'd have to make him his favorite food as an apology.

[Thedoctor]

Jin

As Oka led him around there, the strange looks she was getting irritated Jin a bit, couldn't these people see she had run into trouble? Her pet had started making strange noises too, Jin wasn't too sure about what it wanted. Oka suddenly stopped looking quite flustered and asked "Oh, um, did I introduce you to my friend, Wormy?". Jin shook his head and said. "No I don't believe so". He walked over to the strange animal called Wormy and crouched down to pet it, it's skin felt really hot to his touch. "you're nice to Oka right, I can see she cares for you". He said while continuing to stroke it's back.

After a short while he stood up and asked the cute girl he was shopping with. "Hmm would you like clothes that are comfortable to move in but not too form fitting?". The girl did appear to be energetic and the outdoors type. Jin hesitated just a bit before asking his next question. "I-I guess you need underwear too. Are you uh okay about buying that with me here?"

[Cherry Lover]

Rider

Rider frowned momentarily as Sakura ignored their statement and blurted out another apology in between her tears, before putting on a fake smile to avoid upsetting her master further. The fake smile quickly turned into a genuine one as the adorable girl held the stuffed Shirou to her face, inhaling its scent and visably calming. Then, she took hold of Shirou's hand, causing him to sigh before returning to a calmer, happier state as he enjoyed the moment of affection with his beloved.

Rider sat there and watched for a few moments, feeling content that Shirou and Sakura could be together like this. She knew that, as long as Shirou was here for her, Sakura could cope with just about anything the world could throw at her. Finally, though, she spoke.

"Sakura", she said, softly, "should we finish breakfast?"

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

"You should work on that. People can only afford to fail if they have nothing to lose, and I think you might have a lot to lose if you fail too much." Despite the ominous implication her words the ae was quite cheerful on the man. Eventually she stood back up and walked off him before holding out a hand.

"Come on! Anna's waiting for us and I need to tell her I won."


Lumen

The Patchwork stifled an amused snort at the mention of god's will. People could really be incredibly silly if they were allowed to develop on their own. She crossed her arms over her chest before considering what Petra had said. At least it     wasn't the strangest thing she had seen. "Well, if you are, you might as well get something to eat. I'm sure Gabriel must have seen somewhere like that we could go to and have something. It won't take too long anyways."

[Kotomine_Rin]

GAROU XIII

Garou was about to go forward when he turned around and noticed the girl had finished all the helloweeners off. For a moment, he seemed troubled, then annoyed.

"That was unnecessary." He grunted in an aggravated demeanour.

Darcy Hugh

The priest looked at her silently for a moment, then nodded and got up. "Uh, do I need to strip now?" He asked, not bothered at all by the possibility but genuinely curious.


Sakagami Kenzo

Kenzo smiled and braced himself as she removed her limiter and took a combat stance.

He knew it was selfish, but he wanted to feel her strength at least once, and so he took the punch head on. Her small body burst with speed and her fist shot at him with power unlike anything he could have imagined. His mouth gaped open with pain, ribs cracked and his body shot back, crashing into a clearing of trees and  smashing them down.

For a moment, he stopped moving, clearly not okay. One might wonder if he had gone unconscious, catatonic. But he was indeed fully conscious. His red hair stood down, covering his eyes and losing the fluffy spiky properties of earlier.

And tasting a coppery flavour, chuckled and stood back up. This strength, this power... and a faint mutter would become a defiant roar.

"Yes, that's what makes an opponent worth fighting! You...you... YOU ARE THE DESTROYER I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!"

The demon took an animalistic stance and bared a set of fangs. Claws grew out of his nails, muscles bulged, swell and compacted like stone, skin stretched to its limit and turned into a dark red colour and his eyes and hair glew like fire. A single horn sprouted from his hair, black as charcoal with fiery veins as bright as the fires of hell itself. His resemblance was now much more beastly, inhuman than ever before. Like an imp, an ogre.... or a demon.

The demon lowered his stance, ready to leap, and it roared once more.

"ONIC BURST!!"

And like a flash of lightning he leapt at the girl in a terrifying burst of speed, faster than any normal creature, a red flash baring its claws and clenching them into a fist to attack without mercy or restraint, like a hungry beast unchained after a thousand years, going for the girl's stomach.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

The dark haired girl shrugged her shoulders. Her movements still had a good amount of energy in them but she was already showing disinterest. Almost like a cat who had finished with its toy. "It doesnt' matter, but you can! You just have to do it when we make it back to Anna."


Erica

The Spirit Vessel blinked at the meatshield's behavior but still didn't refrain from firing at the last of the retreating gangsters. As Erica spoke the sound of needles whistling through the air added some sharpness to the deteched tone of her voice. "It was completely necessary. They were killed to serve as a message and cease their actions. Their deaths perfectly fulfill both of those requirements."

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

As he filled up his bike, he couldn't help but over hear the ladies's conversation.   Sighing, he put the nozzle back into place and sauntered over to them.  He smirked, leaned over, and said, "Look I get the whole people who have fangs are people too sort of thing, but you keep all of this talk up and someone will freak the fuck out."

Rachel Alucard

"Oh? And so they will "freak out" more to our specified language than to the foolish coat that seems like it's trying to eat you? Or, are you afraid that a "freak out" would disrupt the perfectly groomed bangs of yours, and tousle your hair? Away with you, boy, for I have no interest in conversing with a boy who fears every consequence to every action. A man should not be so fragile-minded, else he should stay home and depend solely on his mother. Begone," she said in one, large sitting, not even deigning to turn away from her previous target of attention.