Above the Atlantic || Lyca || Training

The sun had been steaking the inhabitants of the archipelago of San Andres, one of the departments of Colombia. The sea had been unusually quiet today, but now the sky was starting to be covered by threatening dark clouds and the waves pulled further back. A true seafarer knew it; A storm was brewing.
The locals had gone back to their settlement, but there were still a single person standing on the beach. It was a busty tan woman, staring into the horizion. She was wondering why she had travelled back to this place, after all these years... Well, it was hard to resist the urge to return. Even considering everything that had happened here. The woman with crossed arms walked down to the water's edge, noticing that the water almost touching her feet.

God, she missed it... Bathing. Swimming. Things like that. But if she took another step out, her clothes would get wet... And she didn't want other spirits to find the former Tercera Espada bathing naked. Though, they didn't know anything about her and her former life. She took a step out and instead of touching the water, she started to walk on the air. Further up, farther away from the shore, above the ocean. She put her right finger in one of the three holes on the upper side of her sheated Zanpakuto and slowly drew it out of it's sheat. She held it in a reverse grip, lifted high up in the air, almost like she was going to show it to someone. "Ute, Tiburon!" At once when she had spoken these words, water shoot up from surface betneath, surrounding her like a cocoon. The water started to spin around briefly, before a white spike-like protudion stuck out of it. It swiftly cut the cocoon in half, making the water fall back in the ocean. Back, a completely changed woman was standing. She wore a skimpy miniskirt and something that looked like a bone-bra. In her right hand, she held a huge pata-like weapon shaped as a sharktooth. Her golden hair was also much shorter and not to mention messier.
Tia Harribel slowly spun around one time, gathering sea-water around herself. She could sense it. This storm, would be be the perfect occasion to train.

With the dark clouds setting in and the wind slightly increasing, Lyca was nor bothered. The beach of the archipelago of San Andres had been her training ground of choice. She had heard training camps at the beach were fun, up till now she had not once had the opportunity to fight something, hardly fun. As attempt 24 shattered into pieces she decided to rest, the gauntlets were wrapped around her hands and fasten tightly. A bored gaze over the water as she felt that something crucial was missing, she had always been better in learning through fighting. Maybe she should have just found a vizard somewhere. Suddenly Lyca saw a colum of water rise from the ocean.

Lyca tried to see what was happening and saw a figure in the distance, Lyca grabbed a rock and with her full power smashed it towards the figure. "That should get its attention".

The water around the Former Tercera Espada almost danced. In a stasis like this, it was almost like she didn't need the world outside. But... Unlike other times, something was stirring. Like she was being watched? Before she knew it, something with considerate force hit the water around her. As the water's resistance made the object stop, Tia risked no harm at all. But rocks didn't fly like that out of their own... Someone or something had thrown it at her. Whoever that someone was, he, she or it now had her full attention. The water that had ran around Tia fell back into the ocean and she turned herself towards the beach. Whoever the one that threw that rock was, it would only be logical if it he or she came from the beach... she thought has her green eyes scanned the area for intruders. As Tia was quite far out into the ocean, land looked so small. But she could see it. It was a small silhouette of a person standing at the beach. So it seems like someone has decided to keep me company. Someone had thrown a rock at her, so she would return the favour, albeit more violently.

Grabbing the hilt of her pata with both hands, Tia pointed the huge shark-tooth shaped sword straight at the intruder at the beach. La Gota. she said. Water started to flow out of the gill-holes on the pata, surrounding the the huge tip. As the water shoot forewards a immense speed, aiming for the beach. At this range, La Gota wouldn't be the best move to use, but it could trigger a reaction at the best. How the enemy countered a move was always nice to know. The Former Tercera Espada continued to fire at least five more of War Drops towards the person at the beach, before stopping. Now, she just had to wait and see... Would this battle be to her advantage or disadvantage? Only God could tell.

Lyca saw a swirling water blast heading for her, and on closer inspection 5 more were following. Bending backwards she let one pass over her, pushing of from the sand she could just dodge the water from tearing her leg of. The sand made it hard to put her full force into the jumps, if she haden;t used a platform of her reaiatsu to push of she would have been hit by the water lances following the first two. She faced the direction from where the lances had appeared staring at the figure above the water. She wondered if it would come over, with the speed the lances had and the distance between the two of them these were child's play to dodge. Though that pesky sand did make it a bit harder.

Lyca was wondering if she should release her zanpakto but decided to wait a little. The figure seemed to test her, and this might prove a fun trump for her.

Tia observed the dancing figure on the beach. Judging the movements and the long red hair, the one that threw the rock at her was a woman. She had evaded her cascade of water bullets well, but that was no surprise. On such a distance, La Gota was literally useless. But it was a nice way to see the girl's moves. But she was appearently holding back much. Judging the girl's reiatsu, she was either an arrancar or a "mock-arrancar" as her former leader had called them. "I do wonder what she is doing here, but I can use this for my advantage." she thought, before Sonido'ing away from the ocean. She landed close to the girl. The girl was very petite and relatively young-looking. Pale too, at least compared to herself. "Your name, girl." The words were uttered softly, even through she did seem demanding. This was mostly about the honor she had seen others utilize, mainly shinigami. "This will be a spar, if you are up for it." she said and pointed her pata at the girl. Killing her would be for no use, this will just be training. I can try out that new technique I have in mind, if the girl can handle it." she thought as her green eyes eyed the girl standing in front of her. Tia proceeded to move her pata in a more defensive stance, covering a majority of her upper body and lower face, not letting the girl away with her eyes. "Koi." she said, in an attempt to make the girl move first.

(Sorry for the sucky post. T^T)

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