Sitting on the baloney far opposite of Timothy and his group was Shia, Sago, Izumi, Naveen and a young female half-breed. She had long black hair that was blue near the end, amber colored, wearing a green dress and a maroon like scarf around her neck. She looked more cat like than human as her fur on her face, upper arm, and legs was white with a light blue tint to it. While the fur on her ears, arm and tail was black.
"That Isabel is quick." noted Izumi
"Yeah, but the power of her attacks is lacking." noted Sago
"Having power doesn't always mean you'll win." reminded Naveen
"Yeah I know that." frowned Sago
"Things are about to heat up with these two." noted Shia
"Yeah…their both probably about to move in for close range combat." agreed Naveen
"Most likely, but this battle will soon be over." smiled Izumi
"Hay Akyo who do you think will win?" asked Shia
Shia looked at Akyo as she stood beside her looking out at the area as Isabel and John continued to fight.
"I'm not sure…their both good." replied Akyo in a soft voice.
"Just take a guess." urged Shia
"Well…I would say Isabel with her last jutsu." smiled Akyo
"Nice guess." smiled Shia
"Yea you've got some good insight." nodded Izumi
"Looks like you've got you've got a good assistant." replied Naveen
"I know." smiled Shia
….
Back down in the arena Isabel and John dashed toward each other and their weapons clashed sending out a few sparks. Isabel quickly began swinging her short sword at John who had a kunai blocking her strikes. John barely managed to block her strikes and quickly flipped backwards away from her.
"She's just as quick up close." noted John
He suddenly stopped and looked up as a crescent moon shaped wave of water headed toward him. He quickly jumped up as the attack hit the ground with a splash, but was suddenly startled when Isabel appeared in front of him.
"Your mine!" shouted Isabel
She swung her blade at John, but just as her blade was about to hit him he suddenly dispersed in a cloud of black smoke. Isabel was sent reeling toward the ground by the force of her attack, but she managed to land on her feet. She looked up at the cloud of smoke as it floated above the ground. It floated toward the ground and suddenly began to reform and John reappeared.
"That was to close." huffed John
"You got lucky…if only I was a little quicker then I would've got you." retorted Isabel smiling.
"Yea, but you missed me. Your a lot faster than me…so I'm going to have to finish this up now." replied John
"You can try, but you won't win." assured Isabel
Isabel got into her fighting stance and dashed toward her with her blade posed ready to strike.
"This is it…I have to finish this now!" shouted John
Isabel got close to John and swung her blade at John, but just as she was about to hit him he dispersed again in a cloud of smoke. Isabel looked around as the cloud of smoke suddenly surrounded.
"Ha this want work John…I know you can only stay like this for ten minutes tops." noted Isabel
"Yea your right, but…" stopped John
All of a sudden smoke from the surrounding cloud began to fill the dome. Isabel covered her mouth as she felt the smoke starting to burn her throat as she had started to breath it in. She felt her eye's start to burn and water from the smoke as she suddenly began to cough.
"But it'll only take you less then five to pass out." chuckled John
"So that's your plan to suffocate me." coughed Isabel
"Yeah…since I can't beat you head on." replied John
"Your not going to beat me." coughed Isabel
She quickly made several hand sighs, before slamming her hands onto the ground. A stream of water suddenly shot up around her and into the air drenching the entire field. She looked around coughing as her attack had cleared the air, but the cloud of smoke suddenly engulfed her again.
"It's no good." said Isabel as she continued coughing.
Isabel continued coughed as she felt her lunges burning from all the smoke she had inhaled. She feel to her knees as he vision began to get blurry and then she passed out.
"And that's that." said John he suddenly reformed from the cloud of smoke.
He looked down at Isabel as she laid down on the water drenched field, before looking and noticing Dachi walking toward them.
"Well looks like I won." smiled John
John waited for Dachi to check on Isabel and declare him the winner, but he was suddenly distracted by a sudden blast of cold air. The blast of chilled air sent a chill down his spine causing him to wrap his arms across his chest.
"Where did that come from?" wondered John
Just then it hit him and he remembered Isabel's fight with Sasha and how she froze the water. John turned around and saw that Isabel was up on one knee smiling at him with her hands on the ground. John was just about to jump, but he found himself unable to move causing him to look down and see that his feet were frozen solid.
"Gotcha." smiled Isabel
"But how…you were out cold." questioned John
"That's what you thought." laughed Isabel
John quickly created a few hand signs before bring his left hand up to his mouth and taking a deep breath.
"Fire Style: Fire Blast!" shouted John
He fired a huge stream of fire at Isabel which completely engulfed her in a eruption of flames when it hit her. After a few minutes of John cut the stream of fire and when the fire died down he saw a small dome of ice where Isabel was.
"What in the world." woundered John
Just then a stream of water shot from the dome of ice and it hit John completely drenching him in the prosses.
"Not good." panicked John
"Not for you anyway." laughed Isabel
John looked at the dome of ice and saw that it had started to melt revealing Isabel underneath it.
"Looks like it's over with now…I've got you right where I want you." stated Isabel
"I forgot that you could use ice style jutsu." replied John
"I didn't think you forgot, but since you did it made my set up much easier." noted Isabel
"What do you mean set up?" asked John
"From the very beginning I started setting up our fighting. I began drenching the field with water for a technique that I was going to use as a last resort, but once I noticed that you had forgoten about me being a ice style user then setting you up for a early fall was easy." explained Isabel as she stood up.
"Its not over yet." retorted John
"Yes is." nodded Isabel
"And you say this because?" asked John
"Well it does feel kinda chilly right about now." stated Isabel
"What's that got to do with anything?" questioned John
"Well earlier I used a jutsu known as the Ice Style: Deep Freeze. It works by using the surrounding water to lower the temperature of the atmosphere. With that I can instantly freeze any water and since your drenched…." smiled Isabel
"You could easily freeze me." finished John
"Yep that's why I'm giving you the chance to give up or else I'll freeze you solid which will leave you incapable of fighting. Either way you'll lose." stated Isabel
John looked at Isabel as she smiled back at him contemplating his options on his next move.
"Well I'm fast, but she's faster. Before I even get a chance to make a move she'll freeze me solid." thought John to himself.
"So what's it's going to be?" asked Isabel
"Fine…you got me. I give up." huffed John
Isabel watched as John raised his hands which was the signal that he had given up.
"Alright this battle is over and the winner is Isabel Umi." announced Dachi
Isabel looked around as the crowd cheered and applauded over her victory. She then looked at John who was smiling back at her and then he nodded his head.
"First battle is over and the next match will be held in a few days and it will be between…." stopped Dachi
The screen to the large television came on and the pictures of the remaining genin appeared on screen. They began to shuffle around and after a few minutes of being shuffled all, but two of the pictures disappeared the two being a picture of Karin and Lars.
"The match is set and will be between Karin Kumai and Lars Kumai so until then farewell." announced Dachi as the crowd exploded into cheers.
…..
Meanwhile back on the balcony Ash, Pikachu, Misty and Brock were all cheering for Isabel and John.
"Now that was good." stated Ash
"Pika." nodded Pikachu
"Yea I though John was actually going to win that though." said Brock
"I did to, but Isabel managed to pull out the win." replied Misty
"I knew that she was going to win." stated Timothy laughing.
They turned around and saw that Timothy was still looking in the book until he sudden threw it over his head. The book suddenly burst into flames and was burnt leaving nothing behind.
"Ah…nothing interesting in there anyway." huffed Timothy
"Chu." agreed Kachu
"How did you know that she was going to win?" asked Ash
"Let's just say she's one of the special ones." Timothy replied
Nina and Nikita both floated off of Timothy's shoulder and Kachu jumped out of his lap as he got to his feet and stretched.
"What do you mean?" asked Misty
"I'll explain it to y'all later, but let's get going. I'm starving." urged Timothy
"Yea…that chilly dog didn't hold me off long." agreed Jamie as he stood up.
"Kero." yawned Kerobolt as he also got to his feet.
"Well let's go back to Lori's house…she wanted to do some more training." mentioned Alice
"Chu…Pika…Pi." said Kim
"Ok." agreed Ash, Misty and Brock
They all headed down the stairs of the balcony and headed to the exit of the coliseum.
To Be Continued…
