The water continued to swirl around the island as it began to increase in speed, turning into a literal whirlpool.
Of course, the sky didn't darken or cloud over or anything, since it was simply a painted ceiling. But she found it rather boring that this was the best he could do.
Sure, he could make all that water spin really, really fast, but it didn't matter how fast it spun if she would never ever get pushed into it.
Diva walked sideways, simply trying to get a different perspective on things as opposed to attempting to flank him.
In fact, they were already rather far apart from each other and she stood by that pool of freezing cold water while he was standing beneath a palm tree.
But the guy wasn't moving! What was up with that?
She sighed and shrugged at the same time before regaining a happy demeanor.
"Oh well. Guess I'll start-"
Her words ceased as something could be pulling at her ankles from behind.
However, he hadn't moved at all, and his weapon wasn't shining or anything, so what was the deal?
"Doesn't matter." She reminded herself while pulling away from whatever had been holding onto her ankles and approached him.
This guy was no fun at all.
Even when he attacked, it was never direct.
"Swipe streamers at me. Get your little invisible goblin to grab my feet… you're boring." She stated while dragging her sword along the sandy ground.
In an instant the thing dragged itself through the sand and blasted all of the particles in its path towards the man with the strength of a jet stream.
She couldn't see how he managed to block the attack, but wasn't interested.
It took only a tiny bit longer to flash behind him and swing Bleureine at the man, sending several petals from it in the process.
Though he blocked the sword swipe with the weapon, several of the petals made it through the guard and sliced at the sides of his arms.
As he grunted in pain she was already moving towards him again, and struck out at the weapon itself.
Though the man somehow managed to keep the thing from flying from his grasp, she'd only done so because he would have tried to hit her away with it otherwise.
The hilt of the sword slammed itself into his chin and sent him flying through the palm tree he'd been standing by.
Diva yawned as he struggle out from under the collapsed tree.
There really wasn't anything to do that would make this fun.
She didn't even wait for him to get out from under the tree before flashing over to him again and raising her sword.
However, this time he had his weapon free, and snapped it at her, causing the girl to hop back several yards to escape its ice-enhanced reach.
But while she avoided the attack, it had put her back over by the small pool of water again and this time the things that grasped at her ankles were much more aggressive and actually pulled her off her feet, and into the pool of water.
Surprisingly, though she struggled against it the water was actually holding her still, as if she were surrounded on all sides by some kind of immovable clear diamond.
Luckily for her, though she never thought about it, the small crater was not deep enough for her to be drowned in as a result, but she felt the water turning into tendrils and forcing its way through the holes in her "suit".
She scowled, if only for a moment.
"What a lecher." Diva remarked before wrenching the sword out of the water and swiping it through the air, causing several blade-like petals to cut down through the water along the length of her body enough so that she could jump out of the water, and land a safe distance away.
He'd already gotten out from under the tree, but she wasn't impressed by any of this.
"Scary, scary!" She spoke, feigning seriousness.
"You can do stuff with water! Isn't that neat? Too bad there's…um, none of it right here." Diva taunted in her own childish way, gesturing to the several yards of nothing but sand around her.
The man's arms apparently weren't cut very deep, since he didn't seem to have much of a problem lifting the weapon again.
"You sure 'bout that babe?" He asked her, using the annoying pet name at the end.
She gripped the sword and lunged at him, but as she chopped down through the air nearby him he only backpedaled and though she soon swiped several more of the petals at him, before they could reach the man he dove into the water, which had magically made itself calm wherever he'd gone under, and wherever he came up.
"Sorry, chica, but you're gonna have to come up with a better trick than pretty petals or the slut suit to get through this." He announced while raising his weapon, the movement immediately, almost simultaneously mirrored by the raging waters surrounding the entire island.
"Let's see just how much stronger ya are. Maybe if you survive it I'll let you be a touch-doll again."
Her smile disappeared.
She didn't like this pervert pretending he owned her.
"How about quadruple penetration huh? See if you can take this!" As he yelled out his annoying-innuendo-filled declaration Mizu swung down with his weapon, and the four tendrils of water that had formed out of the "ocean" surrounding the small island descended down towards her and struck all at once at her position.
But she was way too fast to get hit by them, and simply jumped up through and across the air, in-between some of them, towards Mizu.
She'd kill him. He'd lose. He'd die. This would stop.
That's the way she figured it, but he sunk back down into the water and she had to actually strain her whole body just to make it back onto the island and not get swallowed up by the whirlpool that surrounded it.
Unfortunately though, as she landed, Diva instantly noticed that the places where the tendrils had hit the island, long pools of water now stretched into the mass of sand from the ocean around it.
"Darn." She thought to herself.
"Hahaha! You see it huh? I'd thought you were a retard but I guess you're kinda bright after all."
Her gaze returned to him. She held no signs of any kind easy-going appearance.
"Sure ya can move around an' dodge me, but ya only have so many places ta go before you're running around in nothin' but water. Wonder if vamp's can actually do that. Guess we'll see soon enough."
After that, tendrils began forming everywhere and it was all she could do to avoid them, let alone attack the cowardly jerk.
She doubted he even knew where she was and was just hitting random places, but that just made it that much harder for her to dodge.
In less than two minutes, Diva was standing on a mound of sand barely sticking out of the whirlpool that had consumed the rest of the area.
The room was too big for her to jump from wall to wall in order to dodge, and there was no way to make it to either exit before she'd get pulled under.
"Love to keep you alive, but there's only enough room for one person here. Time for you ta go hear Davy Jones' singing."
With that, the whirlpool around her quickened its pace and soon waves began to rise out of the water.
But they soon became much more than waves. They became walls; swishing, drowning walls that rose up high enough to completely box her in.
"See ya in a hundred you little bitch." He said casually before the "walls" collapsed in on each other and crashed down like a giant tsunami block.
The sand was completely washed away and her bones broke under the pressure as the water pounded its way down onto and past her before finally the whole torrent had returned to the normal whirlpool and she was lying, broken, on a small, hovering set of blue petals.
"Ha. You still got enough juice ta-"
"You want to hear some singing hm?" She asked him as if he hadn't said a word, cutting him off.
"If that's what you want, I'll sing for you."
She opened her glistening blue eyes and the small set of petals jolted out into a massive screen, spreading out across the water and making a "floor" of glowing blue endlessness.
They stretched up the walls, covered the ceiling, and cut the man off from his "water supply", instead forcing him to sit in a simple chair.
As they did, the "floor" beneath her brushed up, like leaves blowing in the wind, and helped her up to her feet.
"I don't like you. But I hope even you like this song, I get kind of personal about it." She spoke before taking in a deep breath.
A second later, she began singing.
Two seconds later, she literally lost herself in the song.
Three seconds later, she heard a lot of screaming as the world of blue crashed down on them.