Paragons: Hero Killers: Sakimoto Tsuru The Bloody Rain

The first of the Hero Killers that attacks the Paragons and she makes one hell of an impact.

Sakimoto Tsuru, at first glance, appears harmless, just a tiny, petitie looking girl in an Orca themed black and blue wetsuit right? Yes, but she's also a dangerous, dangerous young woman with the devastating power combination of Hyetokinesis and Hydrokinesis. She can create, shape and manipulate rain, a liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated, ie. become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. Forms of rain include drizzle, light showers, downpours and monsoons.Along with being able to
create, shape and manipulate water, inorganic compound with liquid, gas (steam, water vapour), and solid (ice) states, including changing them from one state to the other. By combining these abilities,she is able to create storms by pulling moisture from the air to affect the weather around her and cause devastating rains of blades.

Picture a city wide torrential downpour but instead of just pounding rain, it's raining essentially bullets.

After some build up by the White Queen and some mysterious assassinations, she comes to London and prepares her power. After some preparation while hiding underneath the Bay, she starts up her rainstorm which gradually turns into a torrential downpour, and then from there begins gradually morphing into a monsoon. Needless to say, this sudden rain of bullets devastates London, resulting in a number of deaths, mass destruction, multiple wounded and even some of the students and supers being wounded. It only gets worse when she begins using her hydrokinesis in conjunction with the rainstorm, affecting weather patterns over multiple locations around the world as a side effect, to use the London Bay to flood the city.

Starchild is one of the heroes durable enough to handle the nightmarish rainstorm and she flies out from cover to figure out what's going on. She discovers Sakimoto floating in the sky, drenched in rain as she manipulates the water in the city.

After a brief exchange of words, Starchild attempts to attack to blitz her only for Sakimoto to liquefy her body on impact, resulting in Caroline only hitting water. With all of the rain and water around, she is easily able to reform herself. Despite her best efforts, even Starchild is unable to lay a hand on her while Sakimoto uses the excess water around her to smash the superheroine into the streets and buildings. Sakimoto even closes in at one point and strikes her body and sends shockwave through the water in her body, dealing internal damage to the superheroine.
The fight continues with Sakimoto having an edge on her. She decides to make a massive tornado of water and smash her with it but the water splits down the middle and flows around Caroline instead before Sakimoto gets kicked in the face and sent flying out of the building she was fighting Caroline in. Varatrx the Atlantean helps the heroine to her feet and they get caught up while Sakimoto tries to recover from the shock of someone making actually landing such a powerful blow on her, even breaking a few teeth.
She tries to lash out with a series of water blades but Varatrx stops them and sends them right back at the hydrokinetic. She fends it off easily but then Starchild blitzes her again. Sakimoto is confident her attacks will pass through again but notices something's wrong with her just before Caroline lands multiple punches on her and sends her flying down the street.
Sakimoto figures it out after that: The Atlantean was manipulating her viscosity with her own hydrokinesis: The resistance of fluids to change shape, influencing spraying, injection molding, and surface coating. In everyday terms (and for fluids only), viscosity is "thickness" or "internal friction", thus, water is "thin", having a lower viscosity, while honey is "thick", having a higher viscosity. Put simply, the less viscous the fluid is, the greater its ease of movement (fluidity). By manipulating her viscosity, she makes it more difficult for Sakimoto to transform, thus, the heroes can actually hit her now.
Additionally, there's water EVERYWHERE now and even the more experienced heroes will tell you this: Never Fight An Atlantean In The Water.


Finally picking herself back up, Sakimoto begins breaking out her bigger tricks and powers, but when even that isn't enough to defeat the two of them working together, she goes all out and reveals the power to summon The Grim Water, a darker, detrimental nature; that which damages, destroys, and consumes anything/everything they come across, representing the hazardous destructive side of water, which in turn ignores most of the limitations and weaknesses of the normal water. In essence, this is about solely controlling the negative powers of water. A water that even Varatrx is unfamiliar with and can't adapt to like she can normal water. Her own hydrokinesis is only barely able to hold it off.


Cali uses her magic to finally stop the rain, allowing the heroes to start moving freely. Amelia immediately goes to the roof, takes aim and launches a series of arrows across the distance between them. Sakimoto swats aside most of them, catches the last, smirks at her...and then gets a real shock when the arrows burst into electricity. Due to how closely connected she is with water, this obviously hurts like hell. Cali uses her magic in unison with Varatrx's hydrokinesis to repel the Grim Water, and then from there, she and Caroline finish off Sakimoto, with Varatrx even cutting off her left hand with her arm fin, and Caorline beating her down.

Despite how horrific her crimes were, and Varatrx wanting to just finish her off, Caroline elects to spare her, cauterizing her wounds and then Varatrx and Cali cleanse the water and move it out of the city.

Sakimoto is apprehended and locked up in a military facility for treatment and interrogation as the pieces of her attack are picked up...