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      "And now, the fight you've been waiting for!  Ranka Noriega versus Kentaro versus A-kun!" C-chan cheered.
      "Who the hell is that in the ring?" ????? asked, having just awoken.
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      A-kun woke up and yawned.  The nap was just what he needed.  He looked at his clock and nearly screamed.  He was late for his match.  Luckily, he went to bed fully dressed as he figured he'd probably oversleep.
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      "How is he?" Belldandy asked upon stepping into the room.
      "His body is stable, but his heart�" Lina replied sadly, hands over her lap as she gave a worried glance at the man lying on the hospital bed, with oxygen mask and IV sustaining him.
      "I see�" Belldandy said as she stepped into the roomand sat down beside Lina on the guest bench near the window.
      They worriedly sighed as Kentaro mumbled out words in his pained sleep.
      "Kentaro is the only one who can reach Ranka now.  We need him or we'll have to kill her." Zelgadis stated.
      "Is that really necessary?" Lina asked.
      "If this 'Dark Lord' is as powerful as I think it might be, we may be facing something stronger than Phibrizo, Gaav and Zannifar combined." Zelgadis stated.
      "....." Lina responded.
      The fact that three of the five strongest Mazoku under Shabranigdo would pale in comparison to this 'Dark Lord' was something Lina did not like having to think about.
      "However, I do have a plan..." Zelgadis said, glancing at Lina.
      "Wha-" the girls gasped as Kentaro bolted upright in bed. "Ranka�"
      "Whoa, cowboy, you're not going anywhere!" Lina scolded.
      "I must see Ranka!" Kentaro growled, forcing his body out of bed.
      Belldandy laid a hand on his shoulder.
      "You must rest, Kentaro." Belldandy told him.
      He looked into the Goddess's eyes.
      "I need to see Ranka!" Kentaro insisted.
      "Kentaro, you're injured. You must rest and-" Belldandy began.
      "I'm all right�" Kentaro said, standing up despite all of the concerned looks.
      "I can't allow this�" Belldandy told him.
      "Please, I need to see Ranka�" Kentaro repeated.
      "................All right�" Belldandy relented against her better judgement.
      Lina and Belldandy began helping Kentaro out of the room as Zelgadis followed.
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      Ranma-chan stood in the middle of the ring.  She looked just about as she did when she was a he and he was possessed waaay back in the ADT Interlude 3 (Not Round 3, people).  She was smiling and staring at nothing in particular as if she were waiting for someone.
      As the Theme from Flashdance played, Ranka walked down to the ring where Ranma-chan turned and began speaking, "Ah, RAnkA-sAn, I'vE bEEn wAItIng fOr yOU.  MY AssOcIAtEs And I wErE wOndErIng If-"
      Ranma-chan got nothing more out as Ranka lunged and knocked her onto the ground.  Ranma-chan had time to blink before Ranka bit her in the neck, much like a vampire.  Everyone blinked.
      "It's always the quiet ones." Brock muttered.
      "Man, if it weren't for that sucking blood part, this would make a great lemon scene." ????? commented, pinching her nose shut as she frantically reached for the box of Kleenex to stop her sudden hentai-induced nosebleed.
      Suddenly, "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions began playing as Kentaro raced into the Arena and leapt into the ring.
      "Ranka!" Kentaro cried, hurrying to save Ranma-chan and hopefully Ranka as well.
      Ranka stood up from her victim and turned to Kentaro.  Kentaro was not expecting a fist to the stomach for his troubles.  Kentaro was also not expecting the vicious knee to the forehead, which sent him reeling.
      Ranka grabbed Kentaro and proceeded to pound the fighter with a vicious series of punches and kicks.  Kentaro stumbled backwards, then leapt back, regaining his balance.  Ranka charged and the fight was on. Kentaro was dodging only, while Ranka was fighting fiercely and scoring a few hits.  But each hit chipped away some of her possession and the true Ranka slowly began to emerge.
      Her attacks began to slow, and Kentaro began to feel that there might still be hope.
      "Why! Why won't you fight back!" she cried, her swings weakening as Kentaro ducked underneath one of her swipes and rolls back and ending a crouched stance.
      "Ranka�"
      "Why�" she cried as she slowly collapsed forward.
      Kentaro rushed forward and caught her.
      "Stupid fool�" she whispered, with a measure sweetness in her tone, before passing out, cheek leaning on his chest; Kentaro held her in his arms.
      "You're going to be alright, Ranka�" He whispered back, pressing his cheek on top of her head.
      "NO!" a fierce cry sounded from the far corner of the arena floor. Staggering from the doors, Keiya half-stumbled into view, bent at the waist, bleeding and extremely exhausted.  Despite this, his eyes burned with a defiant flame that screamed he'd never submit.
      "MASTER!" Keiya cried as a large rift opened up at the center of the arena and a large clawed hand emerged from the rift, rushing over to where Kentaro held Ranka. Kentaro lifted her up and leaped off seconds before the monstrous hand crashed on the arena floor.
      With Ranka pressed close to his chest, Kentaro managed to say a curse before he spotted a large rock spear rushing towards them.  If he didn't let Ranka go, it would hit her. He let her go just as the jagged edge of the rock pillar hits him and he falls back on the ground. Ranka was caught by Keiya and smiled.
      "NOOOO!" Kentaro screamed from where he sat on the arena floor.
      Keiya offered her up to the Dark Lord.
      Keiya laughed a truly evil and insane laugh as Ranka was lifted up over the center of the ring, the monstrous claw providing a backdrop as she gasped in pain.
      The arena floor began to break as energy was poured into Ranka's being. Kentaro was still spellbound with grief that he didn't notice Zelgadis land beside him and help him up.  Ranka spun to look at the retreating duo.  Energy was still pouring into her, but she was no longer gasping like a fish out of water.
      "Ranka�"
      "We've got to go!"
      Zelgadis leapt off with Kentaro just as the ground underneath them broke into hundreds of pieces and fell apart.  Suddenly, Puff Daddy's "Come with me" began playing as the red doors exploded off their hinges as A-kun shot towards the ring... and INTO the ring.  After struggling for a bit, A-kun pulled himself out of the hole he had made and faced Ranka as the ring went into autorepair to cover-up the damage.  Some golden CGI squares fixed the doors A-kun had exploded through.  Of course, they forget to make the doors on a separate cel, so the next person would have to explode through the doors too.
      "Hey, Ranka.  If Kentaro ain't your type, maybe I am.  How about it?" A-kun asked.  A voice in the back of his head told him he should have at least read the fanfic about her, but he silenced it by telling it that such a thing would be dishonorable.
      Ranka's eyes narrowed as she lunged from Kentaro to A-kun.  A-kun blocked Ranka's vicious punches and slid back from Ranka's high kicks.  Ranka lunged at A-kun only to find that the cocky author had once again slipped out of the way.  Ranka's attacks were growing less and less effective as A-kun's confidence was inflated due to his ego.  Ranka threw a ki ball at A-kun, which he knocked into the ceiling, accidentally hitting the sprinklers which instantly began spraying the ring with icy cold water.  Ranka blinked as she watched A-kun become A-kun-chan.
      "Hey, what about now?" A-kun-chan inquired as Smash Mouth's "Then The Morning Comes..." played.
      Ranka threw another ki blast at A-kun-chan, proving that she wasn't interested, not even a little bit.
      "Okay, okay, sheesh.  I get the picture." A-kun-chan commented, before flaring with a green aura and zooming behind Ranka before the possessed girl and punching her in the back.  Ranka stumbled forward, flaring with anger.  In fact, her outfit began to change to that of a sexy sorceress.  Outside of the ring, Lina Inverse wondered if maybe Ranka was related to Naga the White Serpent.
      A-kun-chan whistled as she watched the display.  Then, she noticed that the newly changed Neo Ranka was glaring at her with intense hatred.  A-kun-chan grinned maliciously.
      "Come on." A-kun-chan beckoned.
      Neo Ranka launched forward with incredible speed, but A-kun-chan easily surpassed that speed by glomping the sorceress.  Neo Ranka batted the hentai female avatar away, but A-kun-chan was undaunted.  Splender's "Yeah whatever" began playing in the background.
      "Hey, you can't say you weren't INTENDING to wear that outfit, especially after THAT transformation." A-kun-chan said, grinning evilly.
      Neo Ranka fired a blast of dark energy.  A-kun-chan raised both hands and caught the blast.  She struggled to hold the energy while the sheer force shoved her back against one of the ring posts.  With great effort, she threw the ki bolt up into the air.  A-kun-chan began panting heavily.
      "Okay, maybe I _AM_ underestimating you." A-kun-chan commented to the sorceress, swiftly realizing that taunting the Not-So-Happy Sorceress Who Was Able To Summon A Dark Lord wasn't the brightest thing to do.
      A-kun-chan flared with energy and lunged at Neo Ranka, throwing hundreds of punches.  The sorceress was prepared, but it was not enough to keep A-kun-chan from cutting her cheek.  Neo Ranka kicked A-kun-chan away, then touched the blood flowing down her cheek.  With rage obvious in her eyes, Neo Ranka raised her hand.  Out of her shadow came two figures that began to resolve themselves into recognizeable forms.  One was Kentaro and the other was A-kun-chan's male form.  Neo Ranka levitated up and away from the trio.  A-kun-chan glanced after her, but the copies were more important at the moment.
      A-kun-chan glared at the clones of herself and Kentaro.  Snorting, she prepared for the fight.  Without much warning, the Shadow-Kentaro lunged at her.  A-kun-chan watched her counterpart carefully, seemingly ignoring the Shadow-Kentaro until the last second, when she unleashed a point-blank Luminaire, blasting the Shadow-Kentaro backwards.  The Shadow-A-kun lunged at her, but A-kun-chan appeared behind him and booted him into the far corner, where he wound up kissing titanium, as his face met the turnbuckle.
      "If this is all you have, then I am sorely disappointed." A-kun-chan sneered.
      The Shadow copies stood up, both looking more than angry.  A-kun-chan grinned and gave the hand gesture that said, "Bring it on."
      They attacked simultaneously, almost too fast for a normal human's eyes to follow, but A-kun-chan merely slid out of the way and ki-blasted both into another turnbuckle.  Shadow-Kentaro flipped over the fallen Shadow-A-kun and attacked A-kun-chan futilely.  A-kun-chan seemed to slide out of the way of his fists.  Meanwhile, A-kun-chan was preparing a ki attack.  Before Shadow-Kentaro could even throw a traditional final futile punch, A-kun-chan blasted the Shadow backwards.
      "PFFFFT!  Could you do me a favor and actually _try_ to hit me?" A-kun-chan taunted.
      A-kun-chan noticed that Lina Inverse, Zelgadis Greywiers and Amelia wil Tesla Sailoon hadn't been sitting idly by this entire time.  They were busy fighting Keiya and some demons Keiya had no doubt summoned.  Behind them, A-kun-chan glimpsed at the sight of Sylphiel healing the real Kentaro. It was about then that an irate spectator threw a cup of hot cider at A-kun-chan and yelled, "WE WANNA SEE MORE FIGHTING!"
      A-kun, now male again, glared at the spectator and made a mental note to hunt the spectator down and teach him about respecting fighters before he caught sight of the Shadow copies in the corner of his right eye.  He looked to see the two doing a strange dance.  At the end, the duo fused into a single muscular form.
      "I am Kentakun." the massive human decreed.
      "That's nice, dear.  But I'm afraid I'm destined to win.  The Original always triumphs over the evil clones." A-kun told Kentakun.
      Kentakun shot forward, now flaring with twice the power that either Shadow copy had shown.  A-kun hastily leapt over the attack.  Once again, he felt like a heel for underestimating his opponent.  Measures would have to taken to make sure the copies didn't win.
      "All right, let's see if you can handle... THIS!" A-kun roared, flaring with a thick and bright aura of power.
      Suddenly, the aura turned bronze and A-kun's hair changed to black.
      "Let's rock." A-kun taunted.
      Before the fused shadow creature could blink, Super Human A-kun had slammed a fist into it's stomach and sent it flying.  As it slammed into the wall, it began to remember that half of it was a copy of A-kun.  It roared and became a Super Human as well.
      Super Human A-kun blinked.  That wasn't supposed to happen.  The two Super Humans attacked each other with power only seen on Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT.  However, slowly, the Fused Super Human Shadow Kentakun began to lose ground.  Super Human A-kun was too cheap of a fighter for Super Human Kentakun to battle effectively.  And the shots to the groin that the fused-Super Human was receiving weren't helping much.
      Super Human A-kun kneed Super Human Kentakun in the groin one more time, forcing the other Super Human to keel over while Super Human A-kun grabbed it's head and kneed it in the face.  As the Super Human Kentakun fell backwards, Super Human A-kun grabbed Super Human Kentakun by it's Super Human arm and flung it's Super Human ass to the ground.  Super Human A-kun powered up a blast to finish Super Human Kentakun off when suddenly, his body jerked and the bronze aura of Super Human status faded away and his hair returned it's normal color.  A heart crystal floated out of his chest and paused in front of him.
      The heart crystal made a pleasant chime before beginning a message, "BEEP!  Thank you for using Not TharzZzCo.'s Temporary Heart Crystal Rental Service.  Our product has made sure that your own heart crystal has been returned to you and that it is indeed authentic.  We thank you for using the Not TharzZzCo. Temporary Heart Crystal Rental Service and we look forward your patronage in the future."
      A-kun blinked as the heart crystal vanished, "You mean that wasn't MY power?  Here I thought when my Id released all my bottled up emotioned..."
      A-kun realized that he was normal now and that the fused Super Human was still Super Human.  He came to one conclusion.  He would need some new underwear and a good mortician.
      "Eeeep!" A-kun "Eeeep"ed.
      Super Human Kentakun grinned evilly as it looked up at ordinary A-kun.  A-kun dropped to the ground as Super Human Kentakun shot upwards at his previous location.  A-kun raced over to a corner and wondered what he could do to stop a fused Super Human like Kentakun.  Then, he hit the corner post and got an idea.  Super Human Kentakun laughed evilly as it descended towards A-kun.  As it drew near, A-kun grabbed the corner post, ripped it out of the ground and spun, smashing the corner post into Kentakun's face.  The Super Human flew backwards into the opposite corner post, it's face doing a rather impressive impression of a stunned goldfish.  As it began to recover, A-kun carried the post to the maximum extension possible.  Super Human Kentakun raised it's head as A-kun let go of said post.
      *TH-WHAM*
      "Oooh-hoo-hoooooo!  That's GOTTA hurt." A-kun commented.
      A-kun grabbed the corner post and did a few repeat performances.
      *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM* *TH-WHAM*
      Soon, Super Human Kentakun was no longer Super Human, Fused or alive.  Both Shadow-A-kun and Shadow-Kentaro lay in pools of Shadow blood.  A-kun tsked.
      "Wimps." A-kun commented helpfully.

      Over the ring, the DBZ security team had surrounded Neo Ranka and was in the process of talking with her.  Or at least Goku was talking to her.  Vegeta and Piccolo were powering up for some super butt-stomping, Gohan and Trunks were preparing for the inevitable battle and everyone else looked either bored, hungry or horny.  Or some combination of the three.
      "Come on, just give up.  Our powers combined can easily overwhelm your own, Darth Loogie, so just let the girl go and we'll all walk away fine." Goku tried to reason.
      "It's not working, Kakkarot.  Let's just kill her so I can go make up with Bulma!" Vegeta yelled, throwing a ki bolt at Neo Ranka.
      Neo Ranka managed to hold her ground-er, airspace before releasing a burst of power.  As the light cleared, it became painfully obvious that she had banished the security team to another dimension.  Literally, not that "Send you into another dimension" crap that the dubbed DBZ character talk about when they really mean the afterlife.
      While she had been distracted, Neo Ranka had still managed to complete most of the spell for unleashing the Dark Lord.  As A-kun's battle with the Shadow copies was winding down, she continued the spell.

      A-kun looked up at Neo Ranka.  It may not have been all of his own power that he had been tossing out before, but one thing was for sure.  He wasn't going to just give up.  Looking over at the fight between Lina and Co. versus Keiya and his demons, A-kun came to the conclusion that if Neo Ranka could make more shadow copies, he was going to need all the help he could muster.  While Lina and company could probably handle the fight themselves, even A-kun wasn't egotistical as to believe he alone could stop Neo Ranka.  And that meant the fight between Keiya and co. versus Lina and co. had to end swiftly.
      Flaring with power, he shot over to the battle and annihilated all of the remaining members of Keiya's lesser demons with a Luminare as Syliphiel finished her healing spell on Kentaro.  Fully healed, Kentaro quickly stood up and looked directly at Keiya.  Invincible or not, Keiya was in deep stinky dino doo-doo.
      "You." Kentaro began.
      Keiya almost wimpered.  In a few seconds, Kentaro had introduced Keiya's face and brain to the concrete.  Keiya did NOT get up.
      "Look, this is all fine and well, but we've got a frickin' super sorceress that's about to summon something that can kill us all." A-kun growled.
      "Damn!  Where's the rest of the security team when you need it?!" Lina growled.
      Unknown to the combatants, the rest of the security forces were busy trying to battle the Monty Python Killer Rabbit that someone had stupidly purchased from a TharzZzCo. vending machine.  Since it had been next to the Caffeine-O-Rama dispenser, the Killer Rabbit had access to toxic levels of caffeine, which seemed to make the situation even worse as, apparently, the Caffeine-O-Rama had ALSO been made by TharzZzCo. and the Killer Rabbit could now rend reality apart like an egotistical SI character hell-bent on getting either that stupid Ranma-Akane relationship to work or to make the ever-so-popular and ever-so-perverted Belldandy-Megumi relationship to finally work, again.  Drayko, the Head of Security, had been called in to deal with The Furry Menace.
      "Damn, this is Piss-ei Whataloon in the men's bathroom all over again.  Poor Shinji.  Gendo really deserved it though." Drayko grumbled.
      "WARPUYA!" the Killer Rabbit cried, now resembling a SD-chocobo, a rabbit, a cabbit and a Mokona.  At the same time.  But somehow all fused with Merv Griffin and Carl Macek.  So a being of extreme power, extreme cuteness and extreme evil.
      "Damn, you're one ugly mother." a power-armor pilot commented.
      "You're no prize yourself." the Killer Rabbit-Cabbit-Mokona-Merv-Macek-SD-Chocobo responded.
      Back at the ring, A-kun was trying to reach the now-twice-changed Ranka and failing miserably, despite the fact that Lina, Zelgadis and Amelia were casting Diem Winds to try and push A-kun closer.  Ranka had changed once more and was now flaring with more power than was displayed by both Super Human A-kun and Super Human Kentakun.  Combined.  She also had six wings sprouting out of her back, which began to worry just about all of the combatants.  Then, the Dark Lord crossed the threshold of dimensions, causing a power flare that sent A-kun rocketing back to the ground.  The once-Super Human coughed up some blood, but forced himself upright to stare at Ranka Zero who now had the outline of a large dark figure around her.
      "Dark Lord, eh?  Let's see you kiss this!" A-kun yelled, hurling a ki bolt at the Dark Lord-possessed Ranka Zero.
      The ki bolt flew up and struck the aura before disapating to nothing.  A-kun sweatdropped.
      "Uh-oh." A-kun commented helpfully.
      "%Darkness beyond twilight,
      crimson beyond blood that flows,
      buried in the stream of time,
      is where your power grows.
      In thy great name,
      I pledge myself to darkness.
      Let the fools before us be destroyed
      By the power you and I possess!
      DRAGON SLAVE!!%" Lina cried, throwing a massive ki blast at Ranka Zero.
      Just like A-kun's ki bolt, the mighty spell met with the aura and faded to nothing.
      "Dammit!" Lina yelled.
      "Hey, what about a Ra Tilt?" Amelia asked, having arrived with Gourry and Naga when no one was looking.
      "That wouldn't be strong enough." Lina told her.
      "What if we used a lot of spiritual attacks all at once?  Maybe we could disrupt the Dark Lord enough to get Ranka out of there and then we could go full out." Gourry commented in his rare bursts on super intelligence.  Everyone stared at him.
      "That... may just work...  Gourry, we'll need to boost the spell with your Sword of Light.  Sylphiel, Naga, Lina, cast the strongest spiritual shaman spells you know.  Lina, boost your spell as much as you can.  Kentaro, A-kun, toss your strongest ki attacks.  Focus all your power on Gourry's Sword of Light.  If this doesn't work, Lina, we'll need you to use the Laguna Blade." Zelgadis said.
      The team nodded without argument.
      Gourry pulled his sword and cried, "LIGHT COME FORTH!"
      The expected light exploded from the sword's hilt, sending bits of steel to the ground.
      "I gotta remember to remove the blade before I do that." Gourry commented with embarrassment.
      As Lina cast her Boost spell, A-kun and Kentaro began building their ki to their highest levels.  A casual observer would note that aura produced by both fighters was heavily tinted bronze and that their hair was growing darker than normal.
      "RA TILT!" Amelia and Zelgadis cried, unleashing the ultimate shamanistic spell.
      "ELMEKIA LANCE!" Naga, Sylphiel and Lina joined in, tossing as much power as they could into the spell.
      "After this, I think I'll have SOME PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!" A-kun added, tossing a massive ki bolt at Gourry's sword.
      "RRGGGGH!" Kentaro finished, tossing his own power into the mix.
      Gourry flung as much as energy he could into the super attack, sending tons of power at the newly summoned Dark Lord.  The too-large-to-even-describe-accurately blast of pure energy flew towards the Dark Lord.  As the energy flew towards it, the Dark Lord quickly realized, in a rare display of high intelligence and some common sense for the villian or designated bad guy, that staying around Ranka Zero wasn't the brightest thing for it to do as it hadn't finished drawing in all of it's power and a premature death would be more than embarrassing, separated from Ranka Zero and dodged the enormous blast.  Separated, Ranka changed once more, losing the sexy outfit for a simple white toga and four of her wings vanishing.  The Dark Lord, seeing that Keiya was dead and trying to possess Ranka again would probably provoke the heroes in throwing another massive attack, transformed into the most terrifying thing it could think of: A very large dark dragon with lots of spikes covering it's scales.
      "RANKA!" Kentaro cried, racing under her and catching her with a dashing slide.
      "Okay, Ranka is fine, but what the hell do we do about THAT?!" Gourry inquired.
      Kentaro picked up Ranka and raced out of the Arena, not wishing to leave Ranka open to another possession.  Meanwhile, the group thought heavily about the situation.
      "Hey, I've got an idea!  I'll distract it!" A-kun said, flying up into the air and beginning an attack run reminiscent to the attack of the Rebels against the first Death Star, only without the Death Star or the X-wings, A-wings or Y-wings.  Just a single moron and a giant dragon Dark Lord.
      "......." Zelgadis, Amelia, Naga, Gourry, Sylphiel and Lina commented at the heroic, yet incredibly stupid, act on A-kun's part.
      "Well, if we got some more fighters together, we _could_ toss another attack at it and annihilate it in one feel swoop, thus gaining at least a few more viewers for our series." Naga suggested.
      "Right, Naga, Amelia, Sylphiel, go get some more idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^helpful fighters and bring them here to help out." Zelgadis told them.
      Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" began playing as A-kun, in a brilliant display of stupidity-er, bravery, attacked the Dark Lord-turned-dragon with numerous ki blasts and spells.  The Dark Lord snapped at the avatar, but A-kun managed to dodge the creature's attacks.  By sheer guts, A-kun managed to keep the Dark Lord Dragon-thingy annoyed for at least three and a half minutes.  Then, after it decided that the Dragon thing wasn't working well, the Dark Lord transformed into a 16 meter tall non-descript demon with massive wings, but retained the tail. It's tail accidentally swatted A-kun across the arena, through eighteen walls and catapulted him six miles away.
      "Uhhhhh, okay." Lina said.
      Luckily, just before the Dark Lord could notice the Slayers group, Amelia, Naga and Sylphiel returned with some idiots-er, fighters that were available.  To be exact, Rhialto, Thor Odinson, Gavin, and Bombadil Goh.
      "Gavin, distract it!" Lina instructed.
      "What am I, a dog?" Gavin inquired.
      Lina's fireball encouraged Gavin to distract the Dark Lord-thingy.
      Gavin began spinning around it, "AAAAAYYY, BATTA-BATTA-BATTA-BATTA!  SWUH-WING, BATTA-BATTA!"
      The Dark Lord grunted as Gavin sent hundreds of ki bolts into it's hide.  Meanwhile, the Slayers group discussed the attack possibilities with the other fighters.
      "Our best attack would be a combined Dragon Slave.  Amelia, Zelgadis, Rhialto, combine your strongest spiritual spells on Gourry's Sword of Light.  If the Combined Dragon Slave fails, we'll want another big attack to slow it down while the rest of us recover.  Thor, if both attacks fail, we'll need you to finish it off." Lina said.
      "Right." everyone agreed.
      Gavin was still blasting the Dark Lord as Lina and the other three people with the ability to cast the Dragon Slave lined up.  Lina cast her Boost spell, then began reciting the Dragon Slave in time with the other three casters, "%Darkness beyond twilight,
      crimson beyond blood that flows,
      buried in the stream of time,
      is where your power grows.
      In thy great name,
      I pledge myself to darkness.
      Let the fools before us be destroyed
      By the power you and I possess!
      DRAGON SLAVE!!%"
      The four beams flew and struck the Dark Lord, sending it reeling backwards.  It's mass decreased roughly 45%, leaving it a mere 7.2 meters tall.  Of course, it was still rather large, thus Amelia and Zelgadis cast their Ra Tilts and Rhialto cast whatever silly spell he had.  Gourry absorbed the spells in the Sword of Light and sent the blast at the Dark Lord, who, having lost so much power, was just not that fast and was caught full on with the blast, reducing in size once again, this time, he lost most of his mass, leaving him at a mere 12 inches tall.  Thor walked up and squished it under his foot because it wouldn't do for Mjolnir to get dirty so soon after he had polished it.
      And thus, the Dark Lord was no more.
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      In another room, six figures sat and pondered the turn of events before one solidly declared what was basically on the minds of all six.
      "Well, sh!+."
      "Maybe we set our standards too high." one piped.
      "No, we chose the wrong opponents.  We've been picking on A-kun because he was being so snooty.  We've got to choose someone and annoy them." a second spoke.
      "Well, A-kun is in the hospital anyway.  Except for sending him the really bad tasting pudding, we can't do much without revealing ourselves and the fact that we used Ranma." the third said.
      The shadows shifted revealing that some of the conspirators had kleenex shoved up their noses.
      "And what a show that was." the fifth commented.
      "Narf!" the sixth said.
      *WHAM*
      "POIT!" the sixth declared before collapsing.

For previous chapters, go to http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/3968/death/animedeathmatch.html
or e-mail A-kun at akun15@hotmail.com

  Thanks go out to Kahlil Noriega. Though we didn't use half of the stuff you offered, we still used some to come up with an ending.

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