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This is a work of fanfiction and is not to be taken literally.
------Introduction------
A little while later the group was considering packing up and calling it a day. That was when a strange boy walked down the beach with a small gold dragon perched on his shoulder. He approached Shiva and handed him a slip of paper.
Shiva scanned the piece of paper with his eyes, "Lip, huh? You're challenging me?"
Lip nodded, "That's right."
"Fine by me, a sparring match sounds like a fun idea about now," said Shiva. A grin was forming on his face yet again, "You know your handwriting is terrible and so is your spelling for that matter."
Lip shrugged, "That isn't important. Are you ready now, or am I going to have to come back later?"
"What do you think?" answered Shiva still grinning.
------A Day at the Beach Part 2------
This new turn of events certainly didn't look good from my perspective. This was going to be a battle between the two people with the biggest egos I know. One of them was the character of my friend from the school Anime Club back in my world and the other was simply the character that my brother made up. As far as I knew, this could go either way. I probably would have felt better if I didn't have to be around to watch it happening.
"You know this guy?" asked Ranma, apparently noticing the way I was acting about Lip's appearence.
I struggled for the right words to answer the question, but said the first thing that entered my mind, "I know him alright." I mentally smacked myself over that one.
"Considering you're Crystal's cousin from California, it's amazing how many people you seem to know from around here," noted Ukyo.
A majority of the teenage group from Ranma 1/2 had stuck around on the beach to watch the fight between Shiva and Lip. The adults had gone, with the exception of Mr. Panda who was still trying to get at what was left of Shiva's lunch.
I mentally smacked myself a second time before looking over to Crystal for some help. She was watching the two combatants stretching on the beach with a look that suggested she was hoping the two of them would kill each other. Well she did want Shiva out of her apartment and if my memory was serving me correctly, my brother had designed Lip to be Crystal's older brother which would have explained things. One thing was for sure, she wouldn't be very helpful at the moment.
"That is a bit odd," agreed Ranma. "How is it that you seem to know so many people around here?"
Again I struggled for a suitable answer for that question. This time I got lucky and actually thought of something useful.
"Well a couple years back I got involved in a student exchange program and I stayed at the Masaki House for about a year," I stated, recalling the fanfiction reference Shiva had made when he had first shown up. In fact it was the same fanfiction he had been referencing from when he mentioned me kicking him into orbit. It also occured to me that in that fanfiction I had used myself as a character instead of using the character of Crystal.
My attention was turned as Mr. Panda dashed by with a large slab of meat in his hands. Behind him, in full chase, was Mr. Turtle. A few seconds later Mr. Panda ran by again in the opposite direction, still being chased by Mr. Turtle. Shiva didn't seem at all concerned that his lunch was involved in this mess which was rather odd.
"So what kind of match is this supposed to be?" asked Shiva when he had finished stretching.
Lip smirked, "This is an all out fight, so I wouldn't try holding back if I were you."
"This should be fun," said Shiva. He had a big grin plastered to his face.
"So, is that Lip guy any good?" asked Ranma.
I sighed, "That all depends on how you define good."
A second later, Shiva and Lip vanished in a blur of motion. They were moving so fast I could barely tell what was going on.
[Larry POV]
Shiva and Lip were throwing punches and kicks at each other all the while avoiding the other's attacks. They appeared to be evenly matched, although neither one of them was actually taking the fight seriously at this point. Both were moving very quickly, but they were also currently making sure there was a show for the audience to watch.
"You're pretty good," noted Lip, "but you sure as hell aren't taking this seriously."
Shiva grinned, "Well neither are you."
"If this continues, they could be fighting all day," said Ranma.
Crystal nodded, "They haven't even hit each other once. They just keep going around swinging at each other, but nothing happens."
"They seem to be trying to give us a show while they aren't taking the fighting seriously," said Mousse.
The tides turned as Shiva finally landed a kick to Lip's gut, sending him flying back several meters on the sand. Of course, this like everything else so far, was just for show. Sure, Shiva was starting to be more serious about the fight, but both of them were still messing around with each other, trying to throw each other off.
Lip then landed a punch to Shiva's jaw. With an unpleasant crack, Shiva relocated his jaw and went back to fighting Lip. This managed to turn a few stomachs.
*~*~*~*~*
The fighting went on slowly for a long time. The sky grew dark and eventually most of the crowd left, with the exception of Rachel and Crystal who fell asleep where they were on the beach rather than going on a late- night wild goose chase for Crystal's apartment. Even Mr. Panda and Mr. Turtle eventually decided to call it a night.
*~*~*~*~*
The fighting continued with very slow progress through the course of the night. The sun rose in the morning, which led to a two hour breakfast break between the combatants. Rachel and Crystal joined them for breakfast at the beach shop and then returned to their spot on the beach. A short time later the audience returned to watch the progress of the fight. The fight started up again and the progress continued to go slowly.
[My POV]
"This is getting kind of old," I noted boredly.
Ranma shrugged, "Every time one of them gets a hit in the other gets a hit and then they just go back to dodging each other again. The rest of the time we can't even really see what they are doing to each other."
"This would be much more interesting if BOTH of them would take it SERIOUSLY!" shouted Crystal loud enough that both Shiva and Lip heard her and stopped fighting altogether.
Lip asked, "So you really think we're not taking this seriously?"
Shiva agreed, "Are you absolutely sure?"
Crystal pointed at Shiva, "You are barely even trying, and believe me, I know how you fight!" She then pointed at Lip, "You haven't even gone Super Saiya-jin yet!"
I sweatdropped mentally. Apparently Crystal knew as much as I did about the characters of Lip and Shiva, but unlike me she could say something without sounding suspicious.
"Shall we take this a step further?" suggested Shiva grinning like a maniac.
Lip shrugged, "Suit yourself, but this time I ain't going easy on ya."
Lip's hair suddenly flashed gold and his eyes turned green. A golden aura that almost looked like fire surrouned his figure.
[Larry POV]
The only thing that could be seen of the two fighers were blurs traveling across the beach and the sky. The action certainly did get faster. Shiva and Lip were constantly skidding on the ground and creating large craters in the sand. There was also the small matter of when one of them would crash into the water and cause a large wave to crash to shore. A rather interesting light show also went on from time to time.
*~*~*~*~*
[My POV]
It was about a half hour to lunch time when Lip decided to go a step further and switched to Super Saiya-jin level two. At that same time, Shiva dove into his picnic basket. Lip hesitated for a moment and then dove in after him. The sounds of the fight continued from the depths of the basket.
"All in favor of getting rid of those two, say 'aye'," said Crystal.
"Aye," said Crystal, Ranma, Akane, Ryoga, Ukyo, Mousse, Shampoo and myself. The Kuno siblings were still trying to watch the fight, not aware that it had quite suddenly switched location.
Crystal lifted up the picnic basket and kicked it out to sea.
"So who wants lunch?" asked Ukyo.
Shampoo stated, "Ranma have lunch Shampoo."
"Ranma is going to have lunch with me," countered Ukyo.
A second fight broke out between the two of them. This fight involved an odd assortment of kitchen implements flying through the air.
"Well this certainly has been an odd couple of days," said Ryoga.
I sighed, "I just want to get away from the beach..."
*~*~*~*~*
[Larry POV]
[Larry: Why do I have to be the one that goes inside of Shiva's picnic basket to continue YOUR story?]
[Rachel: Simple, you're an announcer. It's your job.]
[Larry: Nowhere in my job description did it mention jumping into picnic baskets that lead into other dimensions.]
[Rachel: Well, you weren't working for me before. You want to keep your job, don't you?]
[Larry: (mutters) Curse you and your damn logic!]
[Rachel: (grins) Now, that's a good boy.]
Meanwhile in the depths of Shiva's picnic basket, the battle between Shiva and Lip continued. Lip had escalated to becoming Super Saiya-jin level three and yet both he and Shiva still seemed to be evenly matched. It was also incredibly dark inside of the basket, not that it stopped them from going all out.
"I'm surprised you've survived this long," noted Lip.
Shiva grinned, "You didn't seriously believe you could win against me, now did you?"
There was a very loud unpleasant sound form somewhere else in the picnic basket. It was a loud high pitched shreak that stung both fighters' ears, considering both of them have heightened senses that are much more sensitive than the ears of your average human.
Once his ears stopped ringing, Lip asked, "What the @#$% was that?!"
"I have no idea," replied Shiva once the ringing had left his ears.
Lip growled, "This is your picnic basket, how can you not know?!"
A shape moved in the distance.
"And while we're at it, why don't you try telling me what that was too."
Shiva thought about that for a few seconds. A light bulb materialized above his head when he finally remembered, "That looked just like the sandwich I made five years ago, only it was a bit moldy and I don't remember it having claws, legs or teeth back then."
"You actually keep track of your food?" asked Lip disgustedly.
Shiva shrugged, "I don't remember eating that sandwich. Besides, from what I hear, you Saiya-jins don't bathe very often so I wouldn't talk if I were you."
The shape in the distance started towards the two fighters and it glowed a sickening shade of green. Lip transformed to Super Saiya-jin level four and took a shot at it. The thing in question screamed its horrible scream again before avoiding the shot and taking off into the darkness of the basket again and again a severe ringing shook the ears of both fighters.
Lip muttered, "I guess we'll have to have a rematch. There have been too many interuptions as it is already, but this is by far the most bizzare."
Shiva shrugged, "Perhaps you can call when you are in the area again."
Lip instructs his dragon, "Freeze time so I can kill that thing."
The dragon performed its task with ease. Shiva ceased moving as Lip took off after the creature in the dark. The creature also wasn't moving. Lip blasted it into small particles that couldn't possibly regenerate themselves and then time resumed.
*~*~*~*~*
Shiva and Lip jumped out of the picnic basket only to land in the waters of the vast ocean. Both of them couldn't quite comprehend how this had happened, but apparently it had occured while they had been inside of the basket.
"The tide must have risen and carried us away or something," suggested Lip.
Shiva looked at the side of the basket, "No, that's Crystal's footprint."
"We'll finish our match another time. I've got to get some lunch," stated Lip and then he flew off into the distance. *Ping!*
Shiva started swimming in the direction he assumed would lead him back to shore, dragging his picnic basket along for the ride. Shiva said to himself, "Crystal is going to be sorry she did that."
*~*~*~*~*
[My POV]
I was sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn on my lap. I was munching on the popcorn and looking out into the hallway at the fridge.
"Shouldn't we do something about what you and Shiva did with the fridge? And what about the door?" I asked Crystal who was in her usual spot sitting cross-legged on the other side of the table.
Crystal frowned, "Why should I be blamed for that?"
"Because you are the one that threw it at Shiva in the first place," I answered.
Crystal shrugged, "That's just a minor detail. This whole mess is entirely his fault."
"I wonder when he'll be back."
"Hopefully he'll go somewhere else so I don't cause anymore damage to my apartment."
"So you do admit to causing the damage to the door and hallway?"
"Oh shut up."
*~*~*~*~*
To Be Continued...
------Introduction------
A little while later the group was considering packing up and calling it a day. That was when a strange boy walked down the beach with a small gold dragon perched on his shoulder. He approached Shiva and handed him a slip of paper.
Shiva scanned the piece of paper with his eyes, "Lip, huh? You're challenging me?"
Lip nodded, "That's right."
"Fine by me, a sparring match sounds like a fun idea about now," said Shiva. A grin was forming on his face yet again, "You know your handwriting is terrible and so is your spelling for that matter."
Lip shrugged, "That isn't important. Are you ready now, or am I going to have to come back later?"
"What do you think?" answered Shiva still grinning.
------A Day at the Beach Part 2------
This new turn of events certainly didn't look good from my perspective. This was going to be a battle between the two people with the biggest egos I know. One of them was the character of my friend from the school Anime Club back in my world and the other was simply the character that my brother made up. As far as I knew, this could go either way. I probably would have felt better if I didn't have to be around to watch it happening.
"You know this guy?" asked Ranma, apparently noticing the way I was acting about Lip's appearence.
I struggled for the right words to answer the question, but said the first thing that entered my mind, "I know him alright." I mentally smacked myself over that one.
"Considering you're Crystal's cousin from California, it's amazing how many people you seem to know from around here," noted Ukyo.
A majority of the teenage group from Ranma 1/2 had stuck around on the beach to watch the fight between Shiva and Lip. The adults had gone, with the exception of Mr. Panda who was still trying to get at what was left of Shiva's lunch.
I mentally smacked myself a second time before looking over to Crystal for some help. She was watching the two combatants stretching on the beach with a look that suggested she was hoping the two of them would kill each other. Well she did want Shiva out of her apartment and if my memory was serving me correctly, my brother had designed Lip to be Crystal's older brother which would have explained things. One thing was for sure, she wouldn't be very helpful at the moment.
"That is a bit odd," agreed Ranma. "How is it that you seem to know so many people around here?"
Again I struggled for a suitable answer for that question. This time I got lucky and actually thought of something useful.
"Well a couple years back I got involved in a student exchange program and I stayed at the Masaki House for about a year," I stated, recalling the fanfiction reference Shiva had made when he had first shown up. In fact it was the same fanfiction he had been referencing from when he mentioned me kicking him into orbit. It also occured to me that in that fanfiction I had used myself as a character instead of using the character of Crystal.
My attention was turned as Mr. Panda dashed by with a large slab of meat in his hands. Behind him, in full chase, was Mr. Turtle. A few seconds later Mr. Panda ran by again in the opposite direction, still being chased by Mr. Turtle. Shiva didn't seem at all concerned that his lunch was involved in this mess which was rather odd.
"So what kind of match is this supposed to be?" asked Shiva when he had finished stretching.
Lip smirked, "This is an all out fight, so I wouldn't try holding back if I were you."
"This should be fun," said Shiva. He had a big grin plastered to his face.
"So, is that Lip guy any good?" asked Ranma.
I sighed, "That all depends on how you define good."
A second later, Shiva and Lip vanished in a blur of motion. They were moving so fast I could barely tell what was going on.
[Larry POV]
Shiva and Lip were throwing punches and kicks at each other all the while avoiding the other's attacks. They appeared to be evenly matched, although neither one of them was actually taking the fight seriously at this point. Both were moving very quickly, but they were also currently making sure there was a show for the audience to watch.
"You're pretty good," noted Lip, "but you sure as hell aren't taking this seriously."
Shiva grinned, "Well neither are you."
"If this continues, they could be fighting all day," said Ranma.
Crystal nodded, "They haven't even hit each other once. They just keep going around swinging at each other, but nothing happens."
"They seem to be trying to give us a show while they aren't taking the fighting seriously," said Mousse.
The tides turned as Shiva finally landed a kick to Lip's gut, sending him flying back several meters on the sand. Of course, this like everything else so far, was just for show. Sure, Shiva was starting to be more serious about the fight, but both of them were still messing around with each other, trying to throw each other off.
Lip then landed a punch to Shiva's jaw. With an unpleasant crack, Shiva relocated his jaw and went back to fighting Lip. This managed to turn a few stomachs.
*~*~*~*~*
The fighting went on slowly for a long time. The sky grew dark and eventually most of the crowd left, with the exception of Rachel and Crystal who fell asleep where they were on the beach rather than going on a late- night wild goose chase for Crystal's apartment. Even Mr. Panda and Mr. Turtle eventually decided to call it a night.
*~*~*~*~*
The fighting continued with very slow progress through the course of the night. The sun rose in the morning, which led to a two hour breakfast break between the combatants. Rachel and Crystal joined them for breakfast at the beach shop and then returned to their spot on the beach. A short time later the audience returned to watch the progress of the fight. The fight started up again and the progress continued to go slowly.
[My POV]
"This is getting kind of old," I noted boredly.
Ranma shrugged, "Every time one of them gets a hit in the other gets a hit and then they just go back to dodging each other again. The rest of the time we can't even really see what they are doing to each other."
"This would be much more interesting if BOTH of them would take it SERIOUSLY!" shouted Crystal loud enough that both Shiva and Lip heard her and stopped fighting altogether.
Lip asked, "So you really think we're not taking this seriously?"
Shiva agreed, "Are you absolutely sure?"
Crystal pointed at Shiva, "You are barely even trying, and believe me, I know how you fight!" She then pointed at Lip, "You haven't even gone Super Saiya-jin yet!"
I sweatdropped mentally. Apparently Crystal knew as much as I did about the characters of Lip and Shiva, but unlike me she could say something without sounding suspicious.
"Shall we take this a step further?" suggested Shiva grinning like a maniac.
Lip shrugged, "Suit yourself, but this time I ain't going easy on ya."
Lip's hair suddenly flashed gold and his eyes turned green. A golden aura that almost looked like fire surrouned his figure.
[Larry POV]
The only thing that could be seen of the two fighers were blurs traveling across the beach and the sky. The action certainly did get faster. Shiva and Lip were constantly skidding on the ground and creating large craters in the sand. There was also the small matter of when one of them would crash into the water and cause a large wave to crash to shore. A rather interesting light show also went on from time to time.
*~*~*~*~*
[My POV]
It was about a half hour to lunch time when Lip decided to go a step further and switched to Super Saiya-jin level two. At that same time, Shiva dove into his picnic basket. Lip hesitated for a moment and then dove in after him. The sounds of the fight continued from the depths of the basket.
"All in favor of getting rid of those two, say 'aye'," said Crystal.
"Aye," said Crystal, Ranma, Akane, Ryoga, Ukyo, Mousse, Shampoo and myself. The Kuno siblings were still trying to watch the fight, not aware that it had quite suddenly switched location.
Crystal lifted up the picnic basket and kicked it out to sea.
"So who wants lunch?" asked Ukyo.
Shampoo stated, "Ranma have lunch Shampoo."
"Ranma is going to have lunch with me," countered Ukyo.
A second fight broke out between the two of them. This fight involved an odd assortment of kitchen implements flying through the air.
"Well this certainly has been an odd couple of days," said Ryoga.
I sighed, "I just want to get away from the beach..."
*~*~*~*~*
[Larry POV]
[Larry: Why do I have to be the one that goes inside of Shiva's picnic basket to continue YOUR story?]
[Rachel: Simple, you're an announcer. It's your job.]
[Larry: Nowhere in my job description did it mention jumping into picnic baskets that lead into other dimensions.]
[Rachel: Well, you weren't working for me before. You want to keep your job, don't you?]
[Larry: (mutters) Curse you and your damn logic!]
[Rachel: (grins) Now, that's a good boy.]
Meanwhile in the depths of Shiva's picnic basket, the battle between Shiva and Lip continued. Lip had escalated to becoming Super Saiya-jin level three and yet both he and Shiva still seemed to be evenly matched. It was also incredibly dark inside of the basket, not that it stopped them from going all out.
"I'm surprised you've survived this long," noted Lip.
Shiva grinned, "You didn't seriously believe you could win against me, now did you?"
There was a very loud unpleasant sound form somewhere else in the picnic basket. It was a loud high pitched shreak that stung both fighters' ears, considering both of them have heightened senses that are much more sensitive than the ears of your average human.
Once his ears stopped ringing, Lip asked, "What the @#$% was that?!"
"I have no idea," replied Shiva once the ringing had left his ears.
Lip growled, "This is your picnic basket, how can you not know?!"
A shape moved in the distance.
"And while we're at it, why don't you try telling me what that was too."
Shiva thought about that for a few seconds. A light bulb materialized above his head when he finally remembered, "That looked just like the sandwich I made five years ago, only it was a bit moldy and I don't remember it having claws, legs or teeth back then."
"You actually keep track of your food?" asked Lip disgustedly.
Shiva shrugged, "I don't remember eating that sandwich. Besides, from what I hear, you Saiya-jins don't bathe very often so I wouldn't talk if I were you."
The shape in the distance started towards the two fighters and it glowed a sickening shade of green. Lip transformed to Super Saiya-jin level four and took a shot at it. The thing in question screamed its horrible scream again before avoiding the shot and taking off into the darkness of the basket again and again a severe ringing shook the ears of both fighters.
Lip muttered, "I guess we'll have to have a rematch. There have been too many interuptions as it is already, but this is by far the most bizzare."
Shiva shrugged, "Perhaps you can call when you are in the area again."
Lip instructs his dragon, "Freeze time so I can kill that thing."
The dragon performed its task with ease. Shiva ceased moving as Lip took off after the creature in the dark. The creature also wasn't moving. Lip blasted it into small particles that couldn't possibly regenerate themselves and then time resumed.
*~*~*~*~*
Shiva and Lip jumped out of the picnic basket only to land in the waters of the vast ocean. Both of them couldn't quite comprehend how this had happened, but apparently it had occured while they had been inside of the basket.
"The tide must have risen and carried us away or something," suggested Lip.
Shiva looked at the side of the basket, "No, that's Crystal's footprint."
"We'll finish our match another time. I've got to get some lunch," stated Lip and then he flew off into the distance. *Ping!*
Shiva started swimming in the direction he assumed would lead him back to shore, dragging his picnic basket along for the ride. Shiva said to himself, "Crystal is going to be sorry she did that."
*~*~*~*~*
[My POV]
I was sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn on my lap. I was munching on the popcorn and looking out into the hallway at the fridge.
"Shouldn't we do something about what you and Shiva did with the fridge? And what about the door?" I asked Crystal who was in her usual spot sitting cross-legged on the other side of the table.
Crystal frowned, "Why should I be blamed for that?"
"Because you are the one that threw it at Shiva in the first place," I answered.
Crystal shrugged, "That's just a minor detail. This whole mess is entirely his fault."
"I wonder when he'll be back."
"Hopefully he'll go somewhere else so I don't cause anymore damage to my apartment."
"So you do admit to causing the damage to the door and hallway?"
"Oh shut up."
*~*~*~*~*
To Be Continued...