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[color=9e005d]"Sorry Cap'n, as the Goddess of these waters, I must make sure as little of these guys make it past here. Would be bad if they start rampaging through the city and hurting people."[/color] Atheni replied to the crashed ship's admiral. Her words held a flair of grandeur as she spoke, somewhat theatrical as well. But no one could deny the confidence in her stance and voice. Nothing was lost yet. If anything, this whole situation was very exciting,

It felt somewhat jinxed. The youkai's onslaught grew larger, more overwhelming. While uninterested in boarding J's ship, she kept herself close to it. She fought off her fair deal of monsters with some ease, all things considered. She was in her element. A stab of trident there, a crushing blow of ice chunks right around the corner, a monster trapped in ice then shattered with a trident's swing, another youkai pierced from icicles erupting from the frozen floor, and the dance kept on until the odds felt against the water Magical Girl.

Considering how quick the ice was forming, Atheni judged trying to melt the ice under the gate would be a hard task. Submerging the portal would be less ideal than destroying it somehow. A task that could be done with the ship and the group of magical people aboard. She could join them in an attempt to destroy the gate, but as she said earlier, she got to make sure monsters don't reach the city. There would probably more fun to be had in blowing up legions of monsters anyway.

[color=9e005d]"You guys go on ahead and destroy that gate. I'll hold the fort."[/color]

A pillar of ice erupted from underneath, rising the inheritor of Poseidon's powers high above where she had a grand view of the battlefield. Wow, that sure was a lot of monsters. Those who tried to pursue her by climbing the pillar were quickly decimated as spikes would shoot out from the pillar as soon as they were holding on to it. In a show of spinning her trident all around her for a few seconds, Atheni then lifted her weapon above her head in a final spin before stabbing the pillar she was standing on with the shaft of the golden trident. 

A shockwave of energy emerged from her position and spread around the bay. Seconds later, the frozen bay rumbled as if the epicenter of an earthquake had struck their location. A colossal wall of ice rose from the frozen waters, its shape as if a tidal wave was caught frozen in the middle of its tracks, blocked the straight path from the gate to the closest coast in a crescent shape around the portal's area. 

Atheni wiped sweat off her forehead and sighed. Whew, that took a lot out of her. Glad this battle took place directly on the bay. She wouldn't have been able to do this much. Controlling an already-existing mass of water was way easier on her than both creating and manipulating it. No way she would have been able to create a tidal wave in the middle of the city anyway.

Now let them come, or not. Either way, she's more of a nuisance and a distraction to the monsters' path of chaos. The others will surely find a way to break this assault before she runs out of juice. For the moment, she'll be content enough to impale any monster trying to make it past her wall of ice, whether they try to climb it, go around it or fly overhead. This frozen tidal wave will serve both as the city's shield and its spear.