MEGA VACATION!: Chapter 3: Ichigo Vs. Laharl

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Ichigo and Laharl stood there in their ready stances, each waiting for the other to make a move. Laharl took on a more relaxed stance and asked, "Hey, Orange, how about a little bet on this fight?"

Ichigo, ignoring the nickname, replied, "What's the bet?"

"Whoever wins gets the beach for a month!"

"You're on!"

And with that Ichigo raised Zangetsu and flash stepped behind Laharl. Before Zangetsu could cut the Overlord's flesh, Laharl dashed forward, turned around and raised his sword.

"Blade Rush!"

With that, Laharl dashed toward Ichigo, slashing diagonaly downward from right to left.

Ichigo raised Zangetsu to clash with Laharl's sword, the sound of said clash ringing loudly. Ichigo slashed again to counter, but Laharl dodged it with a back flip, landing several feet away.

Without missing a beat, Ichigo raised Zangetsu and shouted, "Getsuga Tensho!"

Laharl mimicked this action, instead shouting, "Wind Cutter!"

Ichigo's wave of blue energy and Laharl's wave of sharp wind collided and cancelled each other out.

Before Laharl could attack again, Ichigo said, "Looks like this isn't gonna cut it. Guess I should stop holding back so much."

"I'm glad to hear that you were holding back. Now I can start getting serious!"

Ichigo extended his right hand, Zangetsu extended, and gripped his right hand with his left. "Ban...Kai!"

There was a large flash of blue light, and Ichigo's outfit had changed, as well as his sword, which had become much thinner.

"Tensa Zangetsu."

Laharl looked unimpressed. "So you got a costume change. How does that make you stronger?"

Without a word, Ichigo flash stepped to right in front of Laharl and slashed at him. Laharl managed to dodge the attack, but he was left with a cut across his cheek.

Swelling up with rage, Laharl shouted, "How dare you defile my face! This is completely unforgivable!"

Ichigo sent another Getsuga Tensho at Laharl, who slashed at it right before it hit him and shattered it. Laharl jumped backwards and into the air, and held his sword so that the blade pointed behind him, but wasn't held in a back grip.

"Winged..." Laharl charged at Ichigo with what appeared to be a full-force attack, "Slayer!"

Ichigo blocked the initial strike, but the massive explosion that followed engulfed him in flames.

Back to Aaroniero and Cloud, they were both just sitting there, watching the battle.

Cloud leaned over to Aaroniero and asked, "Do you think they're a bit overdoing it?"

Aaroniero replied in both his voices, "This must be important to them. It's beach rights for an entire month..."

"Yeah, but to have the beach for a month, there has to be a beach..."

Laharl and Ichigo were at each other's throats, each one trying to hit the other, but they were both dodging as best they could.

"Getsuga Tensho!"

"Blazing Knuckle!"

Ichigo's black energy wave met Laharl's burning fist, but it seemed as though Laharl picked too weak of an attack this time. The Getsuga Tensho was overwhelming Laharl's flaming punch, pushing it back and making a crater in the sand.

Finally, as Laharl got up, Ichigo stated, "Looks like I'm in the lead."

"S-so? All that matters is if I win the fight, nothing else! Prinnies! Dive-bomb the redhead!"

Four Prinnies appeared and jumped into the air, aiming themselves at Ichigo, the only words heard being the mixed shouts of, "Dood!"

"I don't think so..."

Ichigo put his hand on his forehead and quickly swiped it downward, and the force of his Spiritual Pressure caused the Prinnies to be repelled back at Laharl.

"W-what? How could this happen?"

Laharl had no choice but to jump out of the way, the Prinnies exploding upon impact with the ground.

And then Laharl noticed Ichigo's mask.

"So, you finally feel like giving it your all, huh?"

"Yeah," replied Ichigo in his distorted voice.

"Then let's not leave it up to chance any longer! Let's both throw our most powerful attacks at the same time, and whoever's left standing wins!"

"Sounds like you're afraid to face me head-on."

Laharl's face switched to a nervous look.

"W-well, it's all about strategy. If I fight you head-on, I don't think I'd last long against this second transformation of yours. However, if we both gamble the bet on one attack, then it's fair game for anyone. So, do we have a deal?"

"Fine, I guess we can do that."

Both of them leaped into the air and raised their swords.

"Dimension..."

"Getsuga..."

"SLASH!"

"TENSHO!"

Both of them slashed at the air with all of their might, the sheer amount of energy Ichigo put into hit attack alone breaking his two sword beams collided and...blew up?

As the explosion reached both of the fighters, only two words escaped both of their mouths before they were engulfed in the explosion:

"Oh, crap..."

The explosion was massive. It was as though a beam from the heavens had struck the planet they were on, the beam being a mixture of red and black energies. It quickly faded, the people that were caught in it found laying down on the ground at the edges of the huge crater that the beam had left.

Cloud and Aaroniero had been quite literally blown away by the sheer awesomeness of the blast, and when they finally managed to get up, Clod asked, "Who won?"

"I don't know," Replied Aaroniero's high-pitched voice.

"Well, if they're dead it's their own faults for putting all of that power into that clash..."

After coming closer to Ichigo and Laharl, both of whom were unconscious, they realized that it was a tie.

"Well," Cloud remarked, "That settles that...do you want to get a burger or something?"

"That sounds like a good idea," replied Aaroniero in both of his voices.

And with that, the two aquaintences decided to go to one of the many burger joints that were in town.

(WELL, for those of you who may or may not be reading this, that's the end of this chapter. By the way, this was done on WordPad, unlike all of my other chapters, which were done on Microsoft Word 2007. That's right, my spelling and grammar are naturally this good!)