Myrtlle Beach Battle!

James looked out over the beach, stepping out of the water. Literaly, his right foot came down onto the shoreline, his left just on top of the surface of the water. He doubted anyone would notice it, but was fairly glad there was no one around. He reached his arm above his head, pulling it with his left hand, stretching it out. His red and green eyes looked out across the beach, back and forth. He brought his arm down again, sitting down indian style on the sand. Hmm. None here, either. He thought quietly within his head, sighing. Looks like none of them are here, either. Darn it. Why are they so hard to find? I seek them out, but I just cannot find them. These other Nature Iramasha; they must be finding it incredibly difficult. Like I did when I first awoke, alone, no one to help me. No idea what I was doing or what I was. I need to help them break that, if nothing else.

"Oi." He spoke out, lining his words with Nature Energy. He was making sure that there wasn't any here he couldn't sense, but his voice would reach to anyone with a high density of spirit pressure of any type. He had sensed something, and figured on a whim to search it out, as he had nothing better to do on this cool night. "Is anyone there? I'm afraid I can't find anyone, but this night will be quite lonely in any case."

He looked up at the clear sky, the sky still visibile. That's one thing I love about the ocean. you can always see the stars, no matter where you are at, or what you're doing. He sighed once again, turning around to see if anyone answered his summons. If they did not, he would simply walk back into the ocean, and vanish once more around the sea...

It is late, the beach is silent and the waves are wild. Of the coast is Eriko riding his air board surfing through the waves. While he isn't adept at surfing, he enjoys most enjoys most extreme sports. Normally people would not be surfing at night, but at night and at certain points of the day, the tide rises and the waves are perfect for riding. Using his all purpose air board his cuts through waves with ease...kind of.

"Surfers must spend years practicing this stuff because this is in no way easy." he says trying to hold balance while still riding curls. As the current one dies down Eriko starts making his way to another, much larger wave. He rides toward the top of the wave and begins trying to grind across the top. He has a good time riding but begins losing his balance as the waves die down a little...he falls into the water soon after.

Eriko swims back up to the surface after a few minutes. He shakes the water off his head and looks around for his board, which he sees a few meters away turned upside down floating water. He swims toward his board quickly and flips is back up before hopping onto it and getting back to his feet. The board then propels itself back to the beach. As he reaches the shore line, Eriko sees someone who gives off a spiritual signature. Standing on guard, he rides toward the other young man.

James blinked, looking between the two of them. Well... this is... odd. He decided, examining them with his eyes. The man who had been surfing looked funny, that was for certain. However, James didn't know that much about modern fashion, considering that until recently he had been stuck deep underwater. He looked over at the other man, who was wearing a shirt with a certain character on it. Shino... He thought, scrunching his eye brows and tightening his lips just a little. Shino? What's that? I've never heard of THAT before... However, he approved of the man's blue hair, nodding as he opened his mouth in answer to the mans question.

"I am James Mizumuzi of the Nature Iramasha, Type Water. Also Southwest Warden of the Vanguard. I cannot speak for this other man." He paused, waving his arm to indicate he was speaking of Eriko. "But I was looking for an energy signature. An energy signature that I do believe was YOURS." He finished his answer, bringing up his right hand in a fist and laying it out and laying it in front of Izumi, pointing it flat directly at him. He then lowered his hand, placing it in his pocket and continuing. As he did so, a small ring of the water from the ocean was drawn to him, moving in a rim around his body on the sand, not soaking in.

"I felt your energy, seeming to call me out. And I really would appreciate it if I didn't waste this night. So." He paused, bringing out his left hand. He pointed with his pointer finger at the ground, jabbing the air three times. His finger generated three large droplets of water that hung there, suspended. "Here is what I would recommend. I don't think any of us would like to waste this beautiful night, running on the beach, or riding waves the same way we could any day. No, this day is special." He continued, twirling the fingers in his right hand around, still pointed at the droplets. However, his eyes were level, still examining the other two. The droplets were moving around now, circling around each other, and brushing off one another at an even pace.

"So. What I would like to propose is this: I can sense your two energies. It would seem that ALL of us have some that we need to burn; if we kept it in too long..." He stopped, moving his fingers sporadically, causing the droplets to move awkwardly and slam into one another. "However, I would like to suggest a mock battle of sorts: A way to refresh our batteries and keep us all sharp, so we all have something to benefit." He closed his fist, and the droplets shot up, moving in front of each of the men. James reached out, grabbing his own and breaking it, sipping the water back into himself from his hand. He lowered his hand again, bringing out his right, flexing his fingers. "So, Gentlemen, What do you say?"

Shino, eh? words echo in Eriko's head as he recalled the writing on the longer haired man's shihakushou from the Shinigami training academy. He spent six years of his life their but did remember the face of the person in front of him, though he hadn't returned to Soul Society in years . Considering he's spent the last 200 years away from Soul Society for the sake of setting up post in the human world, or course he would be out of touch with events of new people taking up positions in the Gotei 13's ranks.

"Strange running into one of the Academy instructors out this late. You guys rareky every leave Soul Society let alone come to this side. " He walks over to his near by travel bag and digs a towel out of it. "I was out hear surfing at night."he wipes his face and his hair as he speaks, carefully to only speak when his mouth isn't smothered by the towel "At this time of the year the waves around this area get pretty towering and as a surfing fan, I came out practicing so I wouldn't have to worry about the beach being crowded." he said now lightly pressing the towel to parts of his body. "My name is Eriko Katsuragi, former 2nd Squad 3rd seat of the 13 Court Guard Squads."

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James nodded as Erko introduced himself, and reached his arm behind him, over the waters of the ocean. He snapped his fingers, and suddenly with a small SPLOOOSH his Seishin Buki arose. He grabbed it with his right hand, gripping the risen hilt and holding the blue sword aloft before him. He brought it before him, holding it with obth hands at chest level, facing the mtwo other men in a triangle formation as he watched Izumi prepare himself. So... he has the same rank as a captain, eh? And a person who's rank was rearly that of a lieutenant... yes... this will be quite interesting. He deciding, bringing his chin down in a nod... as strange cat ears of water popped up on his head, 4 inches tall, and a tail ran down just above his waist, twitching and swaying from side to side.

He kept his game face on; he himself wasn't aware of the change, as usual. However, it would look mighty bizzare to the other men gathered. In any case, James finished his nod, holding his Seishin into the air above his own head, his arms fully outstreched above him.

"Sakibo, Let the Current Flow!"

These words were purely for effect; he could have run his Nature Energy through the sword without saying them, as it wasn't any kind of release. However, it still had the same effect, as a silverish-blue aura began to exude from Sakibo. Then he tensed up, bringing Sakibo down with only his right hand on the hilt, hlding it pointing out from himself at his right side. His foot touched the water, and he vanished, seeming to teleport as he appeared, 10 feet out at sea. He was still facing the men This... should be interesting... He thought, reflecting on what he had seen Izumi’s Shikai do, dragging the water towards it and absorbing it. Hmm… While the Nature Energy MIGHT be poisonous to it, I highly doubt it. In which case, looks like I’ll either have to overwhelm him… or use Ice. He strategized, bringing Sakibo up to his left side. A large amount of water stream up and around Sakibo, completely surrounding the blade in salt water. He swung it diagonally, using Sakibo to both freeze and rush the water out, throwing a 10 foot waave of sharp ice at his opponents, large enough to hit them both at its edges.

As he brought it down from the slash, he created a large tapestry of water, directly in front of him. He began cutting down, freezing the tapestry of water as he did so. As he did, he sent out smaller slashes of water, and he cut rapidly, sending many out at his opponents. He sliced in different spots, throwing 23 of the small slashes at Izumi and 12 at Eriko, both of whom he kept tracked by their reiatsu. Then, he dropped control over the rest of the frozen tapestry, dropping it into the water. Then James spread his arms across, like an angel about to take flight…. And fell backwards into the ocean. As he hit, he instantly felt himself become fully awake and alert, ready to do battle, his stamina restored. He thought that he would give them a bit of a shock, and smiled as he performed a single downstroke with his legs.

He was thrown bodily, flipping and twirling like a dolphin, up to 20 feet in the air, still visible by the moon and stars of the ocean. He swung vertical as he approached the height of his dolphin-like leap, Sakibo still held firly in his right hand at his side. He performed an upward stroke, affecting the water below. He summoned up a Tidal wave, 5 feet across and 10 feet tall, that slammed into the coastline where the other two men had stood, drawing them into the ocean if the had not already come for a swim…

The water began to rise, the waves multiplying in size from his energy. He began his descent, twirling as he threw water droplets off of himself, throwing the discarded droplets of water to the side. In the end, it lacked a purpose, as he was still about to reach the water again, but it still gave him a rush as gravity took over. He hit the water in a perfect dive, going deep under, snapping his fingers. He was pushed upwards, and as he arose above the water, so to did two large tendrils of water, looking like moving spikes, to his sides. He took a combat stance, moving Sakibo’s hilt to the right, gripping the pummel with his left hand. The flat of the blade was facing his chest, and he was able to see just over the blade, keeping watch from his opponents. His weight was evenly distributed between his feet, his right foot back a bit, his right foot in front. He was waiting, seeing how they would react to that assault…

Eriko's eyes shot open and immediately focused on the tidal wave imposing its way toward him. He quickly jumps to the bag he had with him and slings it over his shoulder before jumping into the, air avoiding the large wall of water. Had the beach not been empty and instead filled with people, this tidal wave would have washed away everyone on the beach. Such reckless abandon amazed as well ticked Eriko off. "Such a fool, pulling out the big attacks so early on. This is only supposed to be a mock battle not a fully on fight." He says to himself as he stabilizes his footing using Reishi to stop on air.

He turns his attention back to James. As a water elemental he had much power, but from their current situation, he could tell that James had no sense of subtlety. "Personally I prefer not to fight someone who I know and have no reason to fight other than an overzealous spar. I'll let you two have it out while it out." he says as begins waiting for the water to recede. He was still wearing his swim suit and hadn't had an opportunity to change before being attacked. He also feels that two water users would be at a disadvantage fighting him, who specialized in lightning and electricity.

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