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

[SINIB]

Oka Kurosawa

Oka held Jin close to her and stroked his hair while he fell asleep in her arms. She held him close to her and gently closed her eyes as well. He was warm and comfy, and...

Oka yawned.

Hers. He was hers.

She gave him a final kiss as she fell asleep as well.

[Kat]

Mordred

"Do you think I would go anywhere if the burning grudge within me didn't make me struggle and carry on? Not only he, many more people lost their lives because those leeches simply don't care. They give no damn about consequences of their actions, about people who get caught up in their games, they are nothing more for them than foods and assets!" Mordred starting ranting like a political activist who believed in her cause. "Why I fell for their deception that one time! Why I let it go away! Eating only animals, not wanting to hurt anyone? Lies! That thing only showed up in that area months later, murdering my mentor with no rhyme and no reason, with no shred of 'humanity' in it. But that beast could still think and hunt in calculated manner. Did it lost its mind or was that just all facade all along to lower my guard? I don't care, every single one of them will go down!"

After all she wouldn't be able to forgive herself if she stopped. Those whispers in her head, sometimes haunting in her dreams to avenge her fallen comrades and those innocent people, killing them all and reducing them to ash, were like a black beast haunting her nightmares during some nights. Mordred got so agitated that she really needed some moment of solitude.

"Sorry, I'm going for a walk. Stay here and don't follow me, I just need some solitude in a while."

[yinsukin]

Medaka Kurokami

Medaka looked at Shinobu's glistening golden eyes, as if searching for something.  Then, she looked down, clearly feeling a bit guilty.  "I know.  I know!  I know it can hurt people around me.  If something happened to me just now I am sure that at some level our roommates would be distressed.  Its just...."   She said defensively before trailing off.  She placed her hand on the blond's hand, stopping her rubbing motion.

Medaka looked into Shinobu's eyes once more, this time with a more longing, fearful expression. "I want to make you happy while I can.  This city is dangerous."  She said.  Her voice lacked its usual steadiness. Her hand shook a bit as it gripped the palm of the vampire.

Relius Clover 

Relius picked up the gems and inspected them.  "Hmm.  Yes.  I believe that this will be enough.  In fact, this may be even better than normal currency."  He held them up to the sky, allowing the limited amount of light to pass through the crystals.  "Yes.  This will be most useful to me."

[Thedoctor]

Archer

Archer shook hi head at Rin's antics. "Indeed, Rin is cute when she's flustered like this. you're always trying so hard to look respectable, makes it enjoyable to see you like this." He added to Sakura's comments, completely ignoring her question of how long he'd been there.


Kuro

As Kuro listened to Mordred's story she got a thoughtful look. She kept quiet throughout the speech waiting for the blonde to finish, when she finally did she said that she was going out on a walk, the white haired girl took that opportunity to speak up. "Mordred Wait!" She jumped the blonde who was rising up from the couch and shoved her back down, her own smaller body landing on top of the blonde's. With her face close to Mordred's, her eyes which were full of determination were looking straight into the blonde's.

"So a single vampire killed someone you cared for and now you're out to hunt them all down? I have one question for you. What if it had been a human, would you be hunting humans?"

[Kat]

Rikuyo

"Eh, don't be so picky, maybe if ya eat some spirits you'll Change sooner." Honestly, she's gonna love being like that like almost every werewolf, so why delay? "And ya won't run after Ron-kun? C'mon, if ya really taught him that ya should keep up pretty easily."

Oh, he barked about something. Maybe Ron found some spirit he'd like to eat. "Okay, I'm not gonna wait for ya, Annie."

[Kat]

Mitsuba

"They are probably off fighting some swamp monster roaming in open streets, so sometimes inhabitants have to take matters into their hands. You had a choice to back down, so I will stop by my own hands." Forget about property the damage, removing one of perpetrators out of the picture would stop this mess. And no way she would take on someone who outstripped her in direct confrontation, so she picked a target she could handle.

Mitsuba made her move, swiftly going into the direction of those shieldbearers. They formed a wall shield protecting those who slinged stones, but if she approached them enough careful, she could evade rocks and deflect them moving each step closer to them. Then they would "die" again as their shields would shatter like a fragile glass when hit by her sword and she would execute them swinging her sword efficiently. Such was the property of her Migiwa. Many ordinary objects wouldn't simply stand up to it.

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

So apparently Michael had to find exactly where he was going to have them train, if Breeze didn't find her way home before then. In the meantime he needed someone to go shopping so they'd have food when he did, so he sent Breeze to do that. The Solar had never done anything like that before, but she figured it was part of the training so she didn't complain. Besides, how hard could it be?

So, off Auspicious Breeze went into town, riding on an Oren steed that she didn't really know how to ride so she just kinda held on and hoped for the best. She wasn't really sure where they would even go to shop, so she had suggested the simple idea of 'wandering around until we find a place with lots of people buying food.'

It was worth a shot, right?

That part was pretty easy. They found a place really fast once they got back into the city! The hard part was that Breeze couldn't read any of the signs so she didn't know what things were, so she just wandered around a bit looking lost in her usual outfit and jeweled stuff.

Who would have thought people could put so much food in one place? And they were somehow keeping it really cold! It was kinda amazing!

"This must be some really neat sorcery ..."

[Kat]

Mordred

Gah, what she was thinking, slamming back into the coach.

"No. It's unavoidable that crimes happen. But simply won't tolerate someone dead treating the living
as some object of their games or a food source. I'm kin to normal humans, but those walking corpses should stay in their grave instead of making it worse for the living with their arrogance." She answered seriously the naive question. Changelings were humans after all, changed by the alien Others, but human nonetheless. Nobody would convince her that wasn't a fact. But something dead couldn't be human by definition. And she wouldn't tolerate vampires for what they indulged in. Ghosts haunting places didn't drain people or infiltrate society to live off it like parasites.

Mordred gently pushed Kuro back. "I'm going. I really need to calm down after telling all this. And we need some groceries anyway. Go check that PS3 if you would you like to."

The Changeling set off to the closest shop she found, only to find a stag parked in front of it. Damn, who even do that. Some weirdo, she bet. She ignored the odd sight and walked into the store. Some archaically dressed girl was gawking at fridges and muttering something about sorcery. Jesus, next time maybe paleolithic era people will drop into the city?

"There aren't a magic." She commented out of loud while picking up canned food from a shelf "It's completely mundane thing."

[Panda]

Dante

Dante allowed a chuckle, bemused both by the size of the glasses Petra had just filled and the girl's own enthusiasm for the contest to start. Part of him wondered if the girl was secretly some heavyweight or just someone who really liked a good drink before shrugging the internal query off. He couldn't exactly judge her for it even he felt like doing so, so he simply picked up his glass, cocking an eyebrow at the size, considering that she'd just poured straight vodka, without any juice or ice to dull the drink.

"Well, I guess I'll go first," the half-demon mused, tipping back his glass and chugging it down in one go, wincing a little at the burn, though less due to its intensity and more the sheer volume.

[Elf]

Rin

Now they're both teasing me.  Great.  He doesn't want to contract me, but he'll tease . . . Ass.

The magus wanted to go hide.  Or yell at them both.  Instead she felt her cheeks get hotter which probably meant they were getting redder.   She felt herself slump against Sakura and mumbled, "You know the two of you aren't being fair you know."


Gabriel

"Ohoho, I ruined the mood?" Gabriel asked with a smirk.  "You couldn't even walk.  You should be thankful that I 'ruined the mood'.  I doubt you could have taken much more of me."

[Panda]

Emily

"My my, aren't you rather confident," Emily shot back, finding herself swept along by the mood, "Maybe you're right, but how do you know I wasn't just holding back? I could have another trick or two up my sleeve you know. Maybe I just didn't want to risk wearing you out."

"Though, granted, without using said trick, I really did need your help getting to the bathroom," Emily admitted after a short pause.

[SINIB]

Sakura Matou

Sakura leaned against Rin with a smile and giggled a bit. "Hehe, but Nee-san, it's all true. You have alot of really cute points that'll make the guys and girls go wild." Sakura leaned down over Rin's head and looked at her upside down sister with loving and caring eyes. "So stop worrying, it's not really that weird to have never dated at 21 these days." Sakura's head jumped up with a start, now gazing directly at her brown-skinned Senpai. "Right Archer?" She finished with a cute little head tilt.

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

The blonde haired blue eyed Exalt with lots of muscle blinked, and turned to face the voice telling her stuff. Just from the sound she was clearly a girl, which meant a girl was randomly talking to her. This was always a good thing! So Auspicious Breeze smiled and tilted her head curiously.

"It isn't? Huh, okay!" Breeze said with a gentle shrug. "I guess I just don't know enough to tell the difference then. We don't have stuff like this where I'm from."

She turned around more completely and held her hand out to her fellow blonde. "My name is Auspicious Breeze; I'm kinda new around here. But you can just call me Breeze, okay?"

[Kat]

Mordred

The girl who looked distinctly foreigner had also an odd name. A pot calling a kettle black. "Huh, it's that a title you adopted or it's hard to translate? Don't worry, I have a guy's name, so I shouldn't be one talking. I'm Mordred, nice to meet you." 

The changeling didn't exactly plan to go hang out with anybody after the few last stressful hours, but it would be rude if she ignored her. So she shook her hand. "So you just dropped here? Well, I can help you out, if you don't mind." She just came here shopping, but really she couldn't ignore newcomers like that. She could sympathize with getting stranded in unfamiliar world, obviously.

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

"Huh? I mean we're all speaking the same language, right?" she asked the new cute girl, Mordred, while blinking her eyes in confusion. "Ah well, I guess you're right. Not important! Nice to meet you too, Mordred."

She'd never heard that name before so if it was a guy's name then oh well, didn't matter.

Breeze sighed. "Well, I've been here most of a day, I think? And I met a couple people, and we accidentally burned down a forest when some big bark monster attacked us. So then this guy who's really good at fighting offered to train me if I can't get home, so now I'm here trying to get 'groceries' which I guess is food, but um... I'm not familiar with how this works," she finally admitted after rambling a little to hide her embarrassment.

She didn't like admitting she didn't know what to do.