An Aegyptian Battle

The Water Iramasha had a small smile on his face, as the garment that he wore on his head blew slightly in the desert wind, the long rag flowing past his head. Around his body was merely a white cloak; it wasn't anything special, but it kept the height off and covered most of his body from the suns harmful rays. He was cloaked in the garb of the people of the sands; as it was, his very own people. This man... the only truly visible feature on his body beyond his large collar were his eyes, his clear blue eyes that had seen millenia pass, had gone through the greatest pains and the greatest freedoms one could ever expect.

However, there was something else. From behind his seated form, his right leg laid flat on the desert sands, and the right with its knee pointing straight up, he looked quite strange with the two strands of water behind him that were flowing in large tendrils at his shoulders from the Nile, directly behind his seated form, past a small ridge that he was seated on. He had seen the man coming, and decided to head him off; after all, he could sense the raw amounts of POWER this one was giving off; something that felt like it could harm the people of the nation that he was bound to protect. After all, these were his people; this was the land that he had inhabited in the Before time. In addition, his back was now directly facing the Nile River, which was not only one of the highest sources of nature energy in the entirety of water sources due to its natural cycles, was also the birthplace as the one known as James Mizumuzi; the man that was now sitting before the foolish green-hair walking around the desert without any protection.

"Good day, my good sir." He said simply, his eyes focusing on the one who had approached his river's face, his eyes slightly narrowing. "How is it that I can help you on this cool day?" James himself could barely feel the heat; although it looked like he was wearing thick sheets on his body, they were very effective at keeping him cool. "Have you come to end my boredom?" He asked simply, his eyes flashing slightly at the prospect. That was one thing the water iramasha could not stand; boredom. And that was what he was going through right this moment. Boredom.

Boredom.

James merely blinked at the man as he spoke to him, an aloof look of disbelief inhabiting his eyes. Is this guy for real? He thought to himself as the man before him spoke, maintaining his position on the ground without moving a single inch. He wasn't entirely sure what he was going to do about this, but he slightly flexed the glove on his right arm; the one that maintained his gems, very, very important gems, including the one that was completely unique, unlike anything else in existence... his water gem.

"I'm sorry, dear sir; if you had wanted to find me, you could merely have looked anywhere around the nile river. After all, it is a special place of water, unlike any of its kind." He said simply, the tendrils at his shoulders starting to twitch a small amount as if with aggrevation... or with mounting excitement. However, James stopped himself before going on a tangent about his birthplace; as it was, he merely looked up at the man, continuing his speech. "That's a darn shame. If you're going to try destroying this place.... this place in particular... I'll have to put you on Ice." He said simply as the water behind him suddenly LEAPED into the air, before separating from its maintained form, turning into a variety of falling water. The water kept being pulled up from the nile in such a way, as gallons shot out, beginning their descent towards the ground as James' left leg became straight again, level with his right, before both pushed down, making him stand up.

"I'm not going anywhere." He said calmly as the water that was falling to the ground all froze; large spear-like shapes of ice falling down all around the two of them, as James reached up his right hand, gripping the cloth around his head and throwing it off, allowing it to be blown away by the desert winds. He took a deep breath, his head moving back as air filled up his entire body, before he threw his head forwards, his mouth opening wide.

"SHEEN... FOSS!" He announced, his voice deep and powerful as from in front of his body, a huge pressing wave of extremely cold nature energy flew out, freezing the area 25 feet around with his mouth as the center point of the blast, going forty miles per hour at Stefan, who was 10 feet away from himself. Anything the blast hit had whatever it came in contact with frozen to 300 degrees below zero, requiring 300 pounds worth of force to break out of. James reached a hand over, as he gripped one of the ice spears, feeling its ice molding around his hand as his hand became a ball of frozen with a spear sticking out of it. "Now... Are you sure you want to continue?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at his opponent and wondering what exactly they were doing here...

James merely blinked at the man before him; it was obvious he didn't care very much for his well-being as ice shot down, cutting the outer parts of his body several times in small places, ripping up his clothes at the very least; and James thought he saw blood here and there as he prepared his attack. James watched as his ice passed through Stefan as the man took a stance, his palm facing James. He blinked as he leaped back, feeling an extraordinary amount of power gathering in that single hand. He threw himself back, touching down onto the nile river as the water iramasha threw down both of his hands, making contact with the water's surface as his eyes flashed, looking up as all in front of him on the shoreline, the water shot up into the air with a great splash, going higher and higher and higher, before suddenly it all froze, as James' eyes flashed, knowing from the spears around Stefan that he had just completely shattered all the ice covering his body as he fired a huge amount of energy towards the nile river.

However, James wasn't going to allow his birthplace to die so easily, as he felt his ice hardening immensely as James' nature energy inhabitated it. He grunted physically; he was the water, and the water was he; so he could feel as that massive blast SLAMMED against it, James grunting from the sheer amount of effort it causted before the thing finally EXPLODED violently, destroying the barrier as massive chunks of ice flew everywhere around the desert. James was slightly drained from doing that; however, he remained calm as he pushed off the water, using his special ability as he SHOT up into twenty feet in the air, like a dolphin; however, he had not required any time to build up momentum, instead using the nature energy in the water to propel himself as he flipped and spun majestically in the air, taking a deep breath as he looked down below himself at all the wreckage caused by this person. He smiled slightly; the man had made a bad move. The Nile was filling up the massive hole that Stefan had made... that led right back to himself.

James smiled to himself, as in his spinning he began to gather all the ice around from his destroyed attack, as he brought it all in front of his form as he reached the climax of his leap, as his right foot came forwards, connecting with the mass of ice in front of him. It shot out from his foot, as it slammed behind where Stefan had been standing, a miniature comet as it were around 50 feet in radius that slammed down behind Stefan, before it suddenly shifted as James' nature energy that had frozen it moved out. The entire thing burst back into water, the water flying everywhere in a torrent as James connected back on the Nile, drawing the water towards himself as it totally swaped where Stefan had been standing from behind himself.

As soon as James touched down onto the surface of the water, he vanished, reappearing in front of Steafn. IN his ahnds was a trident spear made of ice that he thrust forwards, aiming for the man's collarbone, and eventually his head, as James swung out his right foot, feeling the head of another spear head appear where his foot was, as he brought the foot forwards, attempting to slam it into Stefan's side as he vanished back again due to the surface of the water; this time reappearing behind Stefan a good ways away as he took a side step around Stefan, his trident slamming into the water as he performed a Nile Spray Stream... in the Nile itself. Pretty epic, no? He thought it was very interesting as out of the water shot a cylindrical column of the stuff, 5 feet in radius, as James quickly side stepped three more times around Stefan, his trident repeatedly slamming into the water as he manipulated it to slam on Stefan over and over again as he leaped into the air above Stefan's head once more, landing on the Nile's surface as he twirled his trident around his hands expertly; wondering what Stefan would do now. This will be... interesting. He thought to himself with a smile as he waited to see what his opponent would do. After all, James had nearly hit him with a comet, made a stab for his collar bone out of NOWHERE, slammed a bladed foot into his side at the same time, and vanished again before slamming four large attacks of water into him from either side that would most likely bruise him as well as completely soak him.

I think that's enough for now. James thought as he stopped his twirling, snapping his wrist straight with his trident pointing at his side at the water next to him, a small smile on his face as a single drop of water reached the edge of his trident from the desert sun, before falling off the tip and dripping into the waters of the Nile, its one and only true h0me...

James made a tch noise of irritation as the entire body of Setefan vanished; looking quickly, he reaffirmed Stefan's location as he began flipping back on the water, his eyes closed as he sensed what the man was about to do. As the mask formed on his opponent's face, his eyes widened again as he suddenly stopped his flipping, skidding on the water's surface. He blinked, his eyes closing as he created a shell of ice where he stood, all around his body, a good ways out onto the Nile as with a huomongous explosion noise, the ice and the surface of water around it was completely obliterated, nothing left behind as the ripples and waves shot all around the Nile.

And James was blinking, now ten feet under the Nile's surface as he had... fallen into the water, avoiding the attack as it impacted his ice shell, and shooting down as fast as he forced the water to allow him to. As it was, he winced as he felt a great burning sensation on his right leg, taking a big breath of water as a small amount of Nature Energy entered his body, quickly going down to the third degree burn on his leg and fixing it up as he stopped losing Nature Energy.

James lay under the water for a little while; he had chosen not to purify the Nile yet, and as such, it wasn't clear enough to reveal James' presence. In addition, the nature energy of this extremely rich river prevented his opponent from sensing him, which was to James' advantage as he reached a hand back. If that's how he wants to play it... He thought to himself as his grip tightened, suddenly around the handle of his blade... Sakibo; whose name meant Cat's Paw.

As he brought it out, he felt himself shoot out under the water, moving at an impossible speed until he ended up looking right through the surface of the water like it was glass at Stefan. Suddenly, without any warning at all, twenty small cat like paws of ice shot out of the water. However, these were no ORDINARY cat paws of ice shooting out of water; they each had enough compacted ice that would spread five feet all around whatever they impacted with... which would most likely be Stefan.

Right after these shot out, James found himself spinning around in circles, Sakibo held at his side and a wide smile on his face after using his blade to fire out his seishin's namesake attack. He had leaped up high into the air like before, but this time, he had brought a large spout of water with him... in addition to a plume of it that rose up in an instant past Stefan, as it hardened into ice, leaving just James and the tendril. "No more of THAT." James said simply as his blade came towards Stefan's neck, his reach small so the curved inside of the blade just above the hilt, a cresecnet-moon hole as large as a man's neck, shot towards to fit with Stefan's. However, as he did this, James maneuvered the water, as it shot up around his opponent... and attempted to freeze his feet solid.

If this worked; which it should, considering how a level sixty Hadō draining on one's body in addition to a surprise attack should make an opening, the next thing the water would do would be to drag Stefan's now unable to dodge form straight down into the water. If it didn't work and he managed to escape... well, even with his speed, there was very little chance of that; James had already seen his trick once and it wouldn't be working how he wanted it to a second time. That's what happens when you rush... He thought calmly to himself as he began flipping at Stefan, whether now in the water or still in the air, as he brought the blade down vertically, aiming to bisect him down the middle.

Then he flew back, gripping the sides of the ice formation he had made around the combatants; even with a roof above their heads. "This is a bad spot for you..." He said as 9 suddenly, without any warning, nine large spikes of ice suddenly shot out at Stefan from all sides, attempting to pierce him. they weren't on James himself, but were on several sides of him as they suddenly reeled back again. "Not done yet..." James said with a smile as suddenly as the spikes flexed themselves, something Ice shouldn't normally be able to do, all the spikes infused with nature energy as they stabbed at Stefan again, twenty times each, James watching and blocking anything that Stefan tried to do to him with all nine of the spikes. His attack lasted for a little over fifteen seconds, and then he was done, as he felt himself sliding into the ice, blending and becoming one with it, then back out again, a smile on his face.


James said as without warning, water shot all up the hotdog-ended like ice structure he had made, completely covering it before iwth a snap of his fingers, it all tunred to ice and suddenly shut down on Stefan.. from every side, leaving James standing on a plate of ice on the air, smiling calmly to himself as without his knowledge, ice went down his spine and up to his head... forming cat ears and a tail. Let's see if he can react fierce enough to THAT... James thought as he laid in wait, before blinking and leaping back a good twenty feet, just in case the vizard, as James now knew he was, tried anything funny...

James' eyes widened as his opponent drew his own blade... from a cane. A cane? Seriously? Is he some decript old man or something? He wondered to himself, an eyebrow twitching in irratation as he remembered the old people in his own life; the things they had done, the horrors... and he shook his head, refusing to give those thoughts credit as he refocused on Stefan yet again.

He blinked in surprise as Stefan began spinning, wanting to back away from his opponent but not having anywhere to go as he waited on the inside of that shell of ice, his eyes narrowing. Seems he's stronger than his mossheaded appearance leads you to think... He thought to himself as he bit his lower lip, as he faded back into the ice and performed his aforementioned flip.

He widened both of his eyes as he saw Stefan obliterating his Lazarus Burial. Alright, what now? He thought as he prepared himself, taking deep breaths as Stefan vanished. Where did he- He blinked as he caught sight of the man again, seeing nine swords begin carried by him. James could see him, fifteen feet away from himself, as he swallowed, preparing himself for his opponent's assault.

Nine sword style? He thought to himself, as Stefan drew down that cursed mask of his once again. As he performed his bicycle kick, James smiled widely; he was under the water, and he could feel the power ripping through his veins as he side stepped, the sword in his hand smashing into the blade as it was knocked far off course, flying away from himself.

As Stefan vanished, James felt the currents in the water shifting as his gaze looked down to where Stefan was. These attacks aren't going to work... He thought calmly to himself as he realized that he wasn't using it long range this time, but instead was using a cutting maneuver. Carp. He thought to himself as he threw himself back with all four limbs, pressing against the water as he winced, feeling a skin deep but very long scratch appearing over his chest and upper stomach area.

As he flew back, he saw Stefan coming at him once again, as in his other hand he felt another blade forming, a blade of ice, supercompressed and extremely dense. HERE WE GO!!! He thought, feeling as if his blood was boiling as he began to match Stefan's blows, his hands and upper arms gaining many scratches and marks as he kept breathing water, his wounds slowly sealing themselves up as he felt a small amount of nature energy being lost, causing him to wince slightly as Stefan finished, going away from himself.

He blinked, his body flipping so that his head and body were facing down at Stefan as the latter threw three blades at him, strong and fast. However, James was in his natural territory; he merely smiled as he held out a hand. ”Do you think Ice is all I can do?” He asked him as he moved his hand around in a circle under the water, as out of his hand a HUGE current went down, scuppering the direction of the blades as they suddenly were diverted, flying far away from James.

As he felt Stefan going above him, he sighed, looking up at him. Again, that won't work. He thought to himself as this time he merely smiled. Abraham's Inspiration. He thought as he clapped his hands together at an extraordinarily fast pace, as he moved them away from one another, looking as if he were dragging some large weight. As it was, he was merely pulling the water, as it seperated completely, creating a HUGE gap in the Nile's surface and looking like an abyss had just formed as the water parted, the blades moving away from James and going right past himself.

As they passed himself, he merely sighed. Even if I can't see him... He thought as his gaze intensified, closing his hands in a clap as the water rushed back to normal with a great SPLASH. The currents do not lie. He thought to himself as he sensed Stefan's blade falling; however, it had Stefan's reiatsu. I can feel the shapes of what is in the water. He thought as his eyes switched to beneath himself once more. He crossed his actual blade with Stefan's, as it froze onto Orochi, shooting a trail of ice that went around the Monsuta member's hand, freezing it to himself so that he was unable to store it back in the container, leaving him with Orochi AND his Zanpaktou, as James laughed to himself.

”A release? Fine then.” He said as he held both arms out before himself, as his left eye changed, going from its normal red to matching the deep sea blue of the other, as his entire body became encloaked with his silver-blue aura, as he realized Stefan was now far above himself. He brought his arms back, the aura surrounding him as he suddenly burst out of the water, flipping into the air before slamming own self onto the water's surface as he seemed to slip off it like it was an ice rink. ”River Current's Return: Flow Forwards!” He announced as he felt himself gaining speed on the water, using his Water Slide that made EVERYTHING that he walked on feel like an ice rink.

He smiled as he held up Sakibo, spinning it in circles above his head as he activated its true power. Above the two fighters, for miles around, the clouds began to change color; and then, with a crack of lightning, a great torrent of rain began to fall, as James was laughing. He was enjoying this immensely, as he leaped into the air, followed by a great spout of water as he reached his left hand down, having long since abandoned that sword from before, as he reached his hand down, grabbing out a spear of ice and looking at Stefan.

”The weather... is also my domain.” He said as another bolt of lightning whipped near James' face, illuminating it as his sea blue eyes narrowed, and he shot himself forwards, chucking the spear at Stefan as he did so. He stopped dead in front of the Vizard, as the water behind him shot up above his head, as it turned into tons of spikes, shooting down on him as he attempted to slice up the Vizard; and at the same time, a great pillar of water shot up behind his opponent, as James snapped his finger, the water shooting out five great panels from its surface, James landing on the top panel as the other panels shot out around himself, each five feet in length and width, spinning as he looked at Stefan.

He threw one hand forwards, as a panel shot out, aiming right for the Grand Vizard as it flipped itself vertically, acting like a plate about to slam into him. Another slid in from behind Stefan, as they pressed together, trying to sandwhich the vizard as James chuckled to himself, another panel appearing in front of him as it turned into a ball of water, before hardening into ice.

James caused the remaining panels, himself, and the ball to all vanish at once with a Chaos warp, as he instantly reappeared two feet behind Stefan, before thrusting his left palm forwards, shooting the ball of ice right at Stefan as it shot out, before completelly surrounding him... and closing in. This ice was infused with James' nature energy; it would be much harder to cut with his sword... IF it were the same amount of sharpness as before, that is...

James moved back on his panel, still having one remaining as he thought to himself, feeling the rain all around himself. It was a regular monsoon now above the Nile River; James was using his manipulation of his Return to its maximum effectiveness. There was a light smile on his face as well, as he bent his neck to one side, cracking it. ”Oh yeah. My title's the Aqua Cat.” He said, as his tail swished from behind himself. ”What's yours?” He asked Stefan with a smile, waiting for his response...