Stalagmite but Stalagwont. (private)

Chyone was there to practice her abilities, learning recently during her cero and bala training that she had more potential than even she realised. And so it was time to improve upon the abilities she used more often, with a natural affinity with ice, that was a good place to start. She had learnt before that there was no need to go looking for trouble, simply waiting for a few days, practising and playing around with her abilities, which was why they were battling in an area covered in ice statues of herself. A few hollow came and went. Well. They came. None went. She tried fighting with them, practising aim, practising various ways to kill them, but they posed no danger. There was no drive to become stronger, no life threatening situation that forced her powers. And so she came up with a genius idea, a dangerous idea, but if she came out, she would come out magnitudes stronger. She hoped. Maybe just a little. Or she would die. But to force herself to become stronger, she would need to force herself to live. So she increased the reiatsu she put out. She fired cero into the sky, threw ice around. Even let hollow live so they could run away and bring reinforcements. And eventually, after consuming dozens of hollow to keep herself in power for when he arrived, the challenge, and it was by pure luck that he was the exact power level as her. She would have been screwed if a vasto turned up.

An arrancar, obviously, his power level was definitely not high enough for a vastocar. This was a rare treat in Hueco Mundo, having only seen two others in all her time there. But this suited her perfectly, never having had the chance to lock horns with one, it was almost a shame to kill someone so rare a sight, but wrong place wrong time and all that. He had not wasted any time with threats, going straight for the attack and taking her by surprise, her hand to hand was lacking in skill. Luckily, he had kept his sword sheathed, not able to swing it well due to the statue right next to her, his fist lashed out, and connected with Chyone's face, sending her spiralling backwards...

The arrancar followed this with several more waves of energy, her last two clones disappearing under his onslaught, one caught by an energy wave and the other had her head chopped off. The arrancar had removed her clones for now. And she left them there. Using them too often would be ungraceful, her form and looks were not to be used lightly. At the end, it left the arrancar on top of a large statue and her hiding behind one of them. He moved down towards her, she threw a low wave of water at him that he simply jumped over, diving onto another statue and pushing off of it. He went straight to another, a tendril of ice shooting up that he used for a cat leap, grabbing onto the statue above her and swinging around, she looked up as he swung around it, having sent more ice where she saw him last hoping to cover him. Her face turned, watching the sword slice past her head and bury into the ice, he flicked it, a chunk of ice hitting her in the head and knocking her back as the blade whistled inches away from her face. This was getting far too close for her comfort, rolling into the reflection in the statue, the arrancar was still holding onto the statue but dropped down as she disappeared. Looking immediately behind him to see her jump out at him from the adjacent statue, in those few seconds, she decided she needed a new tactic for that. As he dropped to the floor, the ice from the statue slipped under him. His leg coming around to kick her away, but his other one sinking into the floor, causing him to sink down and the kick went along the floor, pushing off and coming back up out of the ice. Straight into her attack, her own foot connected with his side, slamming him into the statue, then spinning, and throwing the statue, with the arrancar flying forwards into another one, with him between them.