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

[Kotomine_Rin]

RED

The mace clashed with an arm, and for a second one could almost make out its shape as if it was a red shimmer of energy. However, his leg was grabbed, and soon, his body was in the girl's clutches and was dragged along the floor back towards her.

Suddenly a rock hit her, breaking into dust and staggering her, but aside a bruised shoulder that bled, the damage was mostly minimal. The fat man tried to hit her, but his fist struck nothing and stopped short right behind her, as if he had just tried hitting a metal gate. There was a shimmer for a split second, he might almost make out the hands that came for him and grabbed his arm, his face, and raised him high up in the air.

The stench of blood was enough to make her want to puke, but she had gotten used to it. After all, she was just a weapon, it wasn't the first time she saw things like these. It also wasn't the first time she had failed to save someone. And yet, when she looked at the little boy looking up in blank horror while another man's body was covering him, her face started to feel wet.

Ah, right. That man just hit her, so she had to be bleeding. That was all, nothing more.

"How could you... all those people... killing them and acting like it's nothing..."

Her voice was trembling, her entire body was trembling. And yet, there was nothing but fury in her words. Without a second thought, she slammed the skinnier man on the ground with impossible strength, three arms strong enough to shatter concrete easily were now punching him into the ground over. And over. And over.

[yinsukin]

Parker, Kuma and da boss

Kuma's eye's widened, when he realized his attack didn't do any damage.  A shimmer marked the sight of a strange distortion and before he knew it, he was being held up by some invisible force in the air.  He squirmed inside whatever was holding him, but to no avail.  Whatever had grabbed him was too strong.

"PARKER!" he yelled.

A loud thud accompanied Parker's body slamming into the concrete.  He managed to avoid any serious damage by morphing his back into a shield.  Then, he crossed his arms together into an X, tucked his legs in and morphed his arms into another shield.  Whatever was attacking him repeatedly stuck his shield, sending a painful shock through his body.  Each shock traveled through his body, putting increased strain on his bones.  His wrists were already fractured, his chest would follow suit.  If this kept up, he was going to die.

As the blond approached the door, she heard Kuma's cry.  She slammed the door open, only to be treated to the sight of Kuma helplessly floating in the air.  For a second, she stared at the sight, unable to believe that a small child was able to handle her boys like this.

"Put him down" she ordered.

[Kotomine_Rin]

RED

She crushed the enemy again, and again, and again. Whether he broke or not was irrelevant, she'd just wail down on him until she was satisfied, until her heart stopped aching and her brain stopped trembling.

But just as she was about to deliver a final blow, her branch stopped in mid air. She had just felt it, someone else had come. The door had opened, and her voice, her orders were clear. Her rage was unlike anything in the world, but despite even that, she stopped and turned to face the newcomer.

Strong.

The bear-like man wasn't so lucky though, because he was so close to her. She obeyed the order and slammed him down the ground with her entire force, shaking the shop by its foundations and sending a shock wave that threw the dust and rubble away from her.

"Did you do this?"

[yinsukin]

Kuma, Parker and Da boss

After a while, each strike was accompanied by a crack.  At this point, he was numb to the pain.  Genuine fear was setting in, the idea that this was the place he was going to die.  Just as hope faded and fear reached its peak, he heard a voice.

The pressure stopped.  As he streched out in his cretar, he realized something.  Every bone in his body was already broken.

"Boss!  You do care!" Kuma yelled with childlike glee.

And then he was thrown into the floor.  The ground shattered beneath his body as his back violently took the brunt of the fall.  Blood erupted from his mouth as a sharp pain flooded his brain.  "Ack!"

Heels clacked on the ground as the blond approached the girl.  Her eyes were seething with a fiery rage, even as her steps remained calm.  Her hand balled into a fist.  "No, they killed those people," she said, moving forward with a soft step.  But I am their boss, so they are my responsibility."

[Kotomine_Rin]

RED

The girl glared at the woman, her eyes turning wide and her head tilting to the side.The air shimmered and distorted around them, for a second you might catch a glimpse of a clawed hand floating behind the girl's hair.

"Then you are responsible for what they've done." She said flatly, but there was no mistaking the emotion in her eyes. She sent the entirety of her branches at her to tear her apart limb from limb.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Vanguard

The warrior sighed and just looked over the kitchen. Orderly appliances, spices, and both spacious and neat enough to work with. He opened the fridge and looked for the vegetables, took whatever green he could find, a knife, and started cutting and dicing them. First the carrots, then the celery and finally... the onions.

But the way his hands and movements seemed to flow from one stance to another, the way his blade would come down gently yet cleave the ingredients without fail...

It was like witnessing a god of cooking working in his pantheon.

"What meats do we have?" He asked her with about as much worry as you'd normally worry about an ant crawling on your shoe.

[SINIB]

Sakura Matou

Sakura crossed her arms and shook her head at him, thoroughly unimpressed with his parlor tricks. "What in the world are you asking? Did you seriously start preparing ingredients without knowing what we were cooking?" Sakura asked him sarcastically, shaking her head. "Surely you know at least that much, attempting to challenge me as you did."

[Thedoctor]

William

It was almost hypnotic the way she devoured the slice, the sheer level of joy was quite spectacular. She barely had time to finish her request before he was on it and brought it closer to let her have a second bite.

"I could feeding you all day if you're gonna keep looking that damn cute while eating."

[yinsukin]

Da boss

The blond woman's pupils darted to the side, glancing at the distortion in space.  Its no wonder those two couldn't deal with her.  This would be hard to fight without knowing about it ahead of time.  Just as her eyes came back to the girl, she struck, sending all of those things towards her.  The claws shot right through her, peircing her body.  However, instead of blood, smoke emmitted from the holes made by the girl's attack.  Her entire body then morphed into a body of smoke and flew like the wind to the crater that Kuma was in.

Kuma laid flat on his back, painted in blood and dirt.  That red body fluid leaked from his nose, mouth and eyes, dripping onto the floor.  He looked up at the ceiling, his breath heavy and labored.  Just as he was about to open his eyes, a cloud of smoke covered the crater.  Then, it all began to gather in one spot, forming a thick cloud that resembled a person.  In a matter of seconds, it began to change, returning to the blond woman he calls boss.

Kuma's lips curled into a smile as he said, "Hey boss."

The blond mirrored his smile, letting her cigarette drop to the floor.  "Kuma, don't worry about calling me boss.  You know my name."

"I'm going to die right?"

"Yeah, but don't worry, ill take your last breath."

The blond leaned in and locked lips with the ugly bear looking man.  She halted her breath, allowing the man's final exhale to flow into her body, along with some blood.  She pulled away from him and watched as the life slowly drained from his eyes.  He looked back at her and whispered something before going limp.

I'm sorry Hazel, I messed up.

The blond woman flashed her fallen comrade a weak smile.  "Well looks like I messed up too I guess.  You had one more in you."

[Kotomine_Rin]

RED

The girl's eyes flared, the enemy turned to smoke and vanished like air only to come back to the fat man. They talked for a moment, it would've been easy to attack her again then. But she didn't, or rather, she couldn't. Her rage slowly slipped back and she looked at the two with confusion. She had hit him because he was a bad guy, she had only wanted to break him. She didn't want to kill him.

And yet, why wasn't he moving anymore? Why did it look like he was dead after so little? He was a murderer, so why did her chest hurt so much when she saw what she had done? Beating an enemy should make her feel good, so why wasn't she smiling?

It's your fault.

The shimmering stopped and vanished, the color of her skin slowly faded into the sickly paper white color it usually wore.

"Why?" She asked the girl sadly. "Why did you have to do this? I didn't want it, I didn't want to kill anyone. I..."

She looked at the man's face, then at the other man, and she realized that the murderer wasn't him or anyone else. It was her.

[yinsukin]

Hazel

Hazel ignored the girl.  Instead, she sat over her comrade's corpse and whimpered, allowing a steady stream of tears to fall down her face.  All that could be heard from her were whimpers and small little cries.

Meanwhile, Parker's eyes began to open.  While all of the bones in his body were broken, it seemed his powers were still working.  His back shifted to its normal shape.  Then, he turned his head to the girl.

"Young lady, will you help me?"

[Kotomine_Rin]

RED

The young girl gulped and looked down, fiddling with her fingers in a sad, nervous manner. The man's voice almost made her jump, but it didn't help against the feelings that shook her.

"I... I don't know. I don't know how." She muttered. She didn't really know how to do much, or anything at all. Aside breaking things, she wasn't really good at anything, so she at least tried to help people by breaking things that hurt them. Usually, if someone could smile, it would be enough to help her smile. But how could she smile after something like this?

"It's fine if you hate me."  She finally added, talking to the girl sadly. "I hate me too. But he is hurting, what should we do?"


Vanguard

"Is this backtalk I hear?" He spoke up, and for the first time he sounded truly, terrifyingly menacing. It might not be apparent, but one could easily visualize himself on the table from the way he was expertly chopping the vegetables. "I think that was backtalk. Quite bold, in fact. Quite foolish as well. It is your duty to offer me the ingredients so I may prepare them. This is nothing more than a basic salad, an appetizer if you may." He said as he mixed and turned the different vegetables in a bowl, then chopped turnips in the bowl.

[yinsukin]

Parker

The whimpering stopped, but Hazel was still staring at her fallen comrades body.  She rested her butt and hands on the floor, staring at the body in silence. 

"If it were any other member of our gang, you would have had to die.  If you had killed me, Kuma wouldn't have rested until your head mounted on his wall." he said, reaching out to the girl.  "But right now, the boss needs me."

He looked to his boss.  It seemed like she was getting a little bit better.  At the very least, she didn't seem to mind the girl's presence....for now.

[SINIB]

Sakura Matou

"But this meal doesn't call for a salad, Vanguard." Sakura informed him, exuding a terrifying and menacing aura dwarfing his. "And isn't the su chef supposed to aid the head chef, and not randomly prepare things on their own like a village idiot? Were you raised in a barn, perchance?" She asked him.

[Elf]

Forest

"Trade vampire secret," Forest answered as she reached up to smooth a lock of hair that had fallen into her face out of the way.  "And if you can copy my powers if you are aware of them, this is one secret I'm keeping to myself!"

She then looked at him and sighed.  "If something like that pops up again, please do let me handle it before you go kicking random shop boys," she said with a roll of her eyes as she looked at him. 

Oh.  It got small again, she thought almost absently before shaking her head.



Rin

"But to beat him, I'd probably have to kill him," Rin said with a sigh and a shake of her head.  "And that's not something I'd want to do.  Taking a life, even an un-life I guess, is a major responsibility.  However, as for treasure goes, I can just ask Sakura for pretty much anything and she'd get it."