Uses a blue Dust crystal to create a Water Shadow

“Will do,” I said, palming a Dust crystal and then slamming it into my chest.

First was water, I thought, a plan taking shape.

Blue light glowed through the flesh of my chest, pulsating in tune with my heart beat as power flowed through me. It filled me in moments, like water filling a vessel, and then seemed to crash out through my skin, pushing its way out from the inside. In a flickering moment, the light of my Aura liquefied—and poured forth. I rushed at Carmine with all the speed I could muster, each step filling empty space with water until tons and tons of the stuff were bearing down on the Huntress.

And yet, even in the face of that oncoming flood, Carmine didn’t back down. Red eyes bore into me for a moment and then pain laced through me as she lashed out, meters of water turning to steam behind me. I stumbled for a moment but didn’t—couldn’t—stop; when my pace slowed, the water behind me simply swept me up, momentum pushing it forward. Even with the amount she vaporized in a single sweep of her arm, there was too much for her to stop completely and she could do nothing but brace herself as it rose up over her.

The ground shattered around us as she stood up to it, the water moving with all the speed I’d had when I’d first created it. She channeled her power through her body mere moments after the first contact, turning everything that touched her into more and more steam, hiding here momentarily from view.

Well, momentarily for me, at least. My clear sight lived up to its name in just a moment, unscrambling the refracted image within the mist, and I shifted, swimming through the very water I’d left in my wake. I’d expected that Carmine would be able to channel her Aura through her whole body, of course—Aura covers the body naturally, after all—but I still needed to be careful about touching her. I swam past her instead of into her, an effort of will causing some of the water around me to change direction just enough to allow it, and then I skid to a halt on the street, digging watery claws into the earth to slow myself for just a moment.