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

[Panda]

Annabeth

To the Hunter's surprise, Ron managed to hamper the spirit enough that it got caught in the path of the knife. To Annabeth’s surprise, the attack actually seemed to do something. Perhaps this creature actually had taken damage, but wasn't affected in terms of maintaining its shape? The question was promptly blasted from her mind as a wall of pain smacked into her, the spirit smacking her hard enough to nearly dislocate her jaw and tearing into Ron as he kept it pinned down.

There was no time to check for injuries, but the burning pain was soon joined by the familiar sensation of her body pulling itself back into place. It was never a pleasant one, but usually a welcome one.

The Hunter pushed past it and the pain alike, focusing all of her aura available to get at the moment into her clenched fist as she moved in, the sheer amount of aura focused creating an almost grinding sound, her fist visibly glowing with the sheer aura, even to those who couldn't see normally see aura. Though Rikuyo's words fell on deaf ears, the Hunter hurried of her own initiative, sending the aura enhanced fist barreling straight for the trapped spirit.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Liseth

Well, with everyone gone she could start speeding up. Her cursor and fingers were moving as fast as the laptop could handle as she edited the values quicker than any normal human could. She was done in a few moments, and that just left her bored. So she decided to take a look around. She had a pretty good idea of the layout, and it wasn't like anyone would notice she was gone for a bit.

So she got up and took a look around. She gave the basement a wide berth because that kind of stuff creeped her out but any door that wasn't locked was fair game for her to poke around a bit. To an outsider's perspective something just moved through all those rooms so fast they couldn't even tell what was going on.


Lucy 

In a library a table had been commandeered for Lucy and her Messengers to play a game of Monopoly, although the girl herself didn't look happy. In fact, she looked pretty annoyed as the last of her money was levitated right out of her hands to join the pile that a cackling golden rabbit doll was lying down on.

Lucy pouted for a bit before noticing that the winner's pile of game money was pretty big, a bit too big actually. "Alright, who was the banker?"

There was a bit of silence between the Messengers. Then they all pointed at the golden one with gem encrusted button eyes. She grabbed the cheating little hellspawn by the ears and yanked him up before looking at the others. "Really? You made Mammon of all people the banker? None of you thought this was a bad idea? Unbelievable."

She tossed Mammon away and he let out a light shriek as he phased right through half the library and landed outside. With new orders in mind, the greedy Messenger went off searching for something more interesting. In the meantime the rest of the Messengers began cleaning up the game as their master took out her bible and skipped to her favorite parts.

It only took a little while for Mammon to return, albeit without one of his button eyes. She listened to his unintelligible squeaks and growls before letting him jump back inside her. A holy woman and some bullied demons stuck with some halfbreed in a drinking contest? Sounded like it could be interesting. So she closed her book and walked on out.


The walk was pretty fine. No one even tried to mug her this time! She made her way to a block of flats by the harbor with Mammon whispering directions to her from within. Then she saw them. They looked rather normal, really. The girl was pretty smashed but she was leading the halfbreed out of the building. Now was her chance!

"Hey, miss! You look pretty out of it. Sure you'll be fine? The demon man didn't put anything in your drink, did he?"


Oren

With all of her stuff off of her Oren shook a bit collapsing into goo. She stirred around a bit and surged up, stretching out and solidifying into her normal form. And then Oren's Fae form popped back out! Still completely naked but with her own set of antlers on her head. She stretched a little bit before smiling and holding out her hand to Mordred.

"Hey, I'm Oren! But you already know that, huh? Well, what's your name? Oh, and do you have some spare clothes. It's kind of cold, and I don't have anything on me right now."

[Kat]

Mordred

Oh crap, why she asked her to shift back? Clothes didn't magically appear out of thin air or anything. Now few people started staring at them. Or so she thought. She could never be sure about stalkers.

Anyway, she had to act quickly. She grabbed a large towel as this shop also sold cleaning products and the section also included such goods like articles and toilet paper. She hastily draped it over Oren and then extended her hand swiftly, her face reddening from whole situation. "I-i'm Mordred. Sorry, we will have to go buy clothes elsewhere. This is the best I can do at the moment..."

[Kat]

Petra

"He, he, what deemon. Pffttt. Unless ya tell me he's horny, don't you worrry, only thing he can kiss is my ffist." Wow, she was tall. Nah, she probably drank too much. She is just seeing things improperly. Petra felt a bit wobbly, but she wouldn't hold back against anyone up to no good.

[Thedoctor]

Shinobu

The ahoge had stopped it's odd movement, or perhaps it had never moved to begin with, yes that was more likely. Shinobu continued to gaze into Medaka's eye with the same intensity as she calmly answered the girl's questions, fully intending to satisfy the girl's curiosity.

"How hard it is? Well you get used to it, I will not say the initial period can not be a bit hard for some. As you have to get used to a...different lifestyle, it takes some time to get used to, time which I have had." The vampire paused for a moment, perhaps for dramatic tension. "I am over 500 years old after all."

"Oh there are some other changes too." She opened her mouth as her fangs were exposed. "You would get these..." Shinobu also pulled back her hair with her hands, exposing her pointy ears. "...And these."

[Aiden]

Auspicious Breeze

The former gladiator blinked as Mordred seemed to be getting kinda worked up about Oren not having clothes. "Is Oren being naked a big deal...? It's not like she has any ugly-looking mutations to cover up or something. Though, I guess Oren's right, it is kinda cold out... you're a good knight to try to help, Mordred!"

Maybe that was it? It was pretty normal to not wear a lot, or anything really, back in Ysyr! But it was really warm there, so that was probably why it was so comfy to wear nothing. She didn't feel too cold herself, though. Then again, her mistress did tell her she was a little weird about temperature. Oh well!

So Breeze ended up carrying most of the stuff until her partner in knightliness got done trying to cover up Oren.


Ron

The razor winds were tearing into the inside of Ron's mouth, and he was starting to consider the merits of changing to his rampant killing form to finish the spirit off. Well, more kill kill kill kill kill but that was about the gist of it. He wanted to kill it, he wanted the pain to stop, he wanted to tear into its sweet essence until there was nothing left but the warm taste in his belly of the best kind of meal.

Then Annabeth took advantage of the opening he was making, and the spirit's winds twitched and appeared to shudder. A sound like a death rattle echoed off the trees, whose faces let out incomprehensible groaning whispers of interest at the sight before them.

Or at least, incomprehensible to everyone except Ron, but he wasn't listening. He was too busy tearing into the opening his girlfriend left behind in the spirit's corpus, biting and ripping at it to consume as much as he could before it disappeared. Instinct told him this.

[Umbra of Chaos]

Oren

The Fae snuggled into her towel in no time at all. In fact, she managed to look more comfortable in it than most people did in their normal clothes as she wrapped herself in it. She seemed pretty happy with it. Maybe she saw it as a gift? "Thanks, Mordred! That's pretty nice of you. "

She leaned in a bit as if covering that short distance would help her examine the other blonde more. "You seem like a good person, so I'll share Breeze with you, alright?"

[Panda]

Dante

While the half-demon was perfectly capable of letting himself out, Petra insisted on following him. As amusing as it was, what greeted them outside was significantly less so. Well, she was cute, no doubt, though a bit on a tall side. It was what she said that had given Dante pause, at least for all of the slightest of instants.

"Hey now, come on," Dante shot back with a grin and a chuckle, easing the guitar case off his back, "You really think I would cheat at a drinking game?"

[Kat]

Rikuyo

Good boy. Kill it. Devour it. Make me proud.

Those thoughts persisted in Rikuyo's mind, the memory with which her soul merged affecting her strongly. Nostalgia, pride, kinship. Whichever wolf was chosen by the soul of the world to be the ideal image of wolves, clearly it would experience those emotions. And its and Rikuyo's mind coalesced into a union, so naturally she felt the same. Though she maybe would feel the same anyway. It was hard to tell. 

"Yay! Ya did it, Ron-chan! Sempai's proud of ya." She exclaimed happily as she observed the carnage unfolding before her eyes. But oh right, Annie also contributed. She walked up to Annie nonchalantly and slapped her on the back friendly.

"Ooooppsss, sorry, sorry, ya helped out too. Though he ain't gonna leave even a scrap for ya. Ir can't be helped, ya'll will get another chance. Still you're getting how things should be done, keep at it."

[Umbra of Chaos]

Lucy

"Demons are pretty big cheaters. And nah, I don't mean metaphorically. I mean, the guy is literally a demon. Or part demon. Something like that." Mammon crawled out of her back and immediately jumped on the guy's leg. He was probably just sniffing around for money, but it was pretty damning. Kind of. Usually proximity to someone as holy as the drunkard would start hurting him but he was perfectly shielded under his master's power.

She lazily pointed a finger and the bejeweled, golden Messenger climbing up the halfbreed's leg. "Yep. No question about it. Say, that body is actually yours, right? Rules say I have to exorcise you if you're just borrowing it."

[Kotomine_Rin]

Mobb Boss

After all the trouble lately, Mobb felt honestly relieved. Even in this stupid, stupid city, he could find refuge in a quiet life rary. Yes, this was pIrisherfect. Peace and quiet, and no annoying idiot to ruin, ruin, RUIN it again. He was happy.

But this happiness was short lived, for he could feel the tears welling up again. He was stuck in an annoying place, but worst of all, his boss was nowhere to b. found. Boss would've usually called him to reprimand him for his uselessness, but this time, he was nowhere to be found. He hated this, to feel so useless,so alone, without any order to execute, no boss to look up to...

He felt so alone. Even a book couldn't fix his breaking heart.

But his tears were equally short lived. His boss would've told him to cease things immediately, because there was no use to such tears. Crying was useless, he was still stuck here. He was stuck, unable to climb down  this tall ladder he had used to put back a book in its proper place. Yes, he did do that, and rearrange every other book according to the proper colors. This city was so very messy, he needed to fix it to a proper orderly way neatly. That's what boss would've said, he was sure.

But now, he was stuck. Luckily, an eggplant seemed to be reading just below. Maybe he could convince her to help him through this terrible predicament...

"Pshhhh! You there." He whispered, prepared to fulfill his mission no matter what. Yes, he knew that he would get down, for [LUCK] was on his side. No matter the misfortune, it would be met afterwards with even greater fortune! It was [FATE] to have him descend, just like it had been [FATE] to have met boss on that fateful day.

But he needed her help!

[Panda]

Annabeth

As the spirit finally died, the Hunter stood up, standing aside as Ron tore into the thing. Taking a moment to shake out her hand a bit, Annabeth turned as she felt Rikuyo approaching...that was odd. Sure, she'd felt the other woman approaching, but she felt a twinge of something else...jealousy? No...competitiveness? Shaking her head to clear the strange feeling from her mind, along with the urge to lash out at the other woman as she patted the Hunter on the back, Annabeth brought up her Ten once more, trying to take a moment to find that calm center within her.

Since when am I this jumpy? ...must be this place...or something...

"This is a bit new," Annabeth admitted, "Then again, so are a lot of other things. Ron's welcome to that one, though. He did most of the work and I'm honestly not sure how I'd eat that. Aura isn't something you can normally eat where I'm from..."

...Well, I'm sure someone's developed some weird Hatsu to do that, but that's besides the point.

[SINIB]

Jeanne

She heeded Shirou's command and stepped out of the elevator. She turned around to look at him while beginning to walk down the hallway. "While being frugal may been seen as a virtue, having a large amount of wealth and not using it for some good is a sin in of itself." The saint told him with a serious expression on her face. "So where's the room?" She continued with a bit more of a light tone.

Shirou Emiya

Shirou turned and waved the keycard at the door, unlocking it. "Right here." He answered her question, walking into the room. It was a small room, with only a single twin-sized bed and a small shitty looking television. He walked over to the couch and sat down in it, beginning to take out the alcohol.

"Huh..." He just came to a realization. "We don't have glasses, do we?" He asked.

[Kat]

Mordred

Huh, it was just a towel though. Nothing to be grateful about. The weird shifter leaned in as if she wanted to have a better at look.

"What, I'm already her second girlfriend? Wow, she really tries to build a harem..." Mordred remarked. This could get out of way at this rate. "And Breeze, people this parts don't go around naked, it's a cultural thing. You dress fine but for summertime, that is. You're really not feeling cold? I could buy you winter fashion, but I won't insist. Oren probably needs clothes though. I could buy some clothes myself too. It's what girls these parts like to do, buying new clothes."

[Kat]

Petra

"You're clearly not normal, you renege, rege-, fuck, your liver just can't die." Petra complained. If she knew that beforehand she wouldn't ever challenge him to a drinking game. "But you know, what kind of exorcist runs around with pet demons? Suspicious both of you..."