Chapter Fourteen: Frozen Tsunami

Jinny's P.O.V.

My battle with Boris was intense, as all of our battles were. I had never met him before we turned, but he was rather serious about completing his goal: killing me. I fired waves of water at him and he fired large icicles back at me, the icicles nearly freezing my water as soon as they touched. He couldn't freeze things just by touching them, he had to actually touch something with his ice to freeze something. He'd be practically impossible for me to beat if that weren't the case.

I entered my "Element Drive", which was what Kazane and Sanda started calling it, and prepared myself for his next attack. He entered his Element Drive as well, which wasn't all that different from mine. He just became really slick and could stick to ice if he chose to, his skin becoming so cold you'd think he was a corpse. His hair also almost looked like ice with how slick and hardened it was, not to mention his body was also a bit harder. Punching him like that was the same as punching a block of ice, just not as easy to break unfortunately.

He encased his arms in jagged ice blades and I smirked, waiting for him to attack. He began skating toward me, creating ice in his path to do so, and he reached me in seconds. I pressed my palm against the ground and a huge geyser of water shot up directly behind Boris. This not only cracked and destroyed all of his ice, but it threw him off and he went flying. I jumped out of the way and kicked his back, making him faceplant into the ground, waving and kicking my foot on the ground. "Damn that's cold!" I thought to myself.

He growled and rose to his feet, dashing at me and swinging his arms around violently. I avoided them skillfully, parrying them a few times, and I managed to get behind him, palming his back and firing a stream of water from my hand, which sent him flying yet again, or so I thought before I saw my stream start to freeze. I increased the force of my stream, cracking the ice and slowing the freezing process, but it began to freeze faster and I had to jump out of the way before it would start to freeze me.

I encased my body in water and used it to fly into the sky, looking down at Boris who now had my giant, frozen stream of water floating in the air. He had a wild smirk on his face as it broke apart to form hundreds of thin ice needles, and all of them floated around him.

"Tch..." I prepared myself for his attack. He fired the needles at me all at once, as I expected he would. I did my best to swiftly dodge them all, but I still got cut a couple times. Thankfully the ice didn't freeze any part of my body. If it did, he'd be able to control that ice on my body. I was still a much better fighter than this guy from what I could tell, but I never underestimated anyone.

As soon as the icicles were all behind me, I summoned a wall of water to capture them all and they all began melting instantly due to the heat of the sun. It was still summer, so thankfully it was still relatively hot outside. I controlled the wall of water, now much bigger thanks to all the melted icicles, and bent it to my will, forming a massive wave of water. I then looked at Boris with a smirk and he scoffed in return. The difference between him and I was that he was much too cocky. Once he learned how to do everything he could with his element, he stopped his training there, thinking he could kill me with just that. He's barely elevated himself at all since our first fight. The hundreds of ice needles from a moment ago was the biggest thing I'd ever seen him pull off.

I sent the giant wave of water directly at him, to which he began surfing toward it on a stream of ice. I smirked, thinking he was a fool, until I saw him start swirling around the wave and freezing it with the ice at his feet. The entire wave didn't freeze, only what his ice touched, but I was still heavily impressed. He surfed around the entire thing and jumped toward me as it crashed into the ground, enough water to form a small pond if it didn't spread out so much. He encased one of his arms in an ice blade again, swinging it at me, and I fired a stream of water from my hand toward the right to propel me away from him, and he grabbed the stream with his ice encased hands, allowing him to freeze it slowly, sliding down it like a zip line toward me.

I made water appear around myself, my water swirling around me like a buzzsaw, and I rolled to him and he jumped away quickly. I cut through my now frozen stream of water with ease. Even if his ice could freeze my water, I could still make my water dense, sharp, or forceful enough to break through his ice. I caught myself mid air, Boris falling to the ground. He still didn't even know how to fly like this. I took my chance and flew to him quickly, firing water streams from my hands to propel me and I kicked his body with both my feet, sending him flying and crashing into the ground. He moved fast however, forming a sheet of ice in his path and a cloud of mist formed as he slammed into it. I have to admit, despite that he refused to grow any stronger, he was smart and quick on his feet.

I knew he would use the mist to his advantage, so I formed a wall of water in front of me and one behind me for good measure, waiting for him to attack. I knew moving out of the way wouldn't help since he could also sense my location. Our methods for sensing other people were the same, so just as I could sense exactly where he was in the mist, he could sense the liquid in my body to tell him where I was all the same. However, I suddenly felt several exact copies of his body all around the mist, thinking to myself, "Son of a... He's making clones!"

I sensed all of the bodies moving at once. I wasn't prepared for this. I had to focus completely if I wanted to find him. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and meditated. The water around me that was keeping me in the air formed into a sphere around me as I focused so hard I could sense even the tiniest drop of a liquid. I could tell exactly which of the bodies was him now. None of his ice clones moved the way he did, not to mention they were made completely of frozen liquid, and he was only 70 percent liquid. I opened my eyes as he stopped moving, knowing exactly what he was going to do next. His figures of ice started flying out one after the other, all hitting my water wall and starting to freeze it, but I didn't move.

Soon enough the water wall was completely frozen and I could sense the real Boris coming. I imagine he was expecting to fool me due to the fact that the figures were consistently hitting the wall still, making it bigger, but I still knew exactly which one was him, and I took a stance, a ball of water forming in my hand. I sensed Boris become one with the wall of ice and move through it. Just as I could make my body water, he could make his ice, and become one with it. He bursted through the wall and as soon as I saw him, I flew at him, pressing the ball of water against his chest.

His eyes widened as he saw me and I gave him a simple smirk. "Looks like I win again, Boris." I fired a heavy stream of water from my palm that almost instantly made him crash through the ice wall and into the ground before he could do anything. I hit him with such force it made the ground crack and it formed a small crater, the ice wall falling to pieces.

I panted heavily. Having used so much focus and power in one instant took a lot out of me. I noticed Boris floating in the small pond of water in the small crater I had just made, his eyes rolled back. I had won and could kill him right now if I really wanted to, but that wasn't how we did things. I simply turned away and looked back at the wall of water behind me. My eyes widened a bit as I saw my reflection in the wall of water. I hadn't even realized my water was now the same color as my eyes, a deep blue color. Not to mention in my reflection, I noticed my eyes had a faint glow to them.

The glow faded as I lost my focus and my water returned to its normal, clear color. I shook my head, sighing as I let go of my Element Drive and simply floated in my ball of water. I bounded Boris with my water before deciding to head back toward the mansion, a cloud of darkness and flashes of light just above it.