Chapter 8 – Clash of power

Dyra glanced at Gohan and wondered if he was going to put up much of a fight, she needed to scout the planet, and this was supposed to be a recon mission. Hopefully this shouldn't take long. She looked at his stance and judged whether it would be easy to break him. Or whether just leave and run. She got nothing from him; he was hiding his abilities yet again.

Gohan on the other hand was having trouble of his own; he wondered what this girl's intentions were. Should he just attack her? She didn't look dangerous, but she carried a look of arrogance and pride plastered on her face, just like Vegeta. That could mean trouble. And hadn't Earth had enough trouble that would cover the amount of time that most other planets would only have in a thousand year time period?

"What are your intentions?" Gohan abruptly repeated his question, angered by his thoughts.

"Why should I answer you? I am royalty and I shall not be treated this way by a commoner!" she declares.

"So another member of the over spoiled royalty class to threaten our planet is it?" he mocked her.

"Shut up!" she told him her anger rising.

"Not used when others don't do what you say, you won't get that privilege here. Giving orders is something that only true leaders do, not spoiled rich brats," he told her, with mock increasing in each word.

"Shut your mouth you filth, I will not be insulted by the likes of you," she yelled at him.

"Well then, you shouldn't have come to this planet then, not the planet that I defend," he told her in a calm mocking voice which drove her beyond the limits of reason.

"SHUT UP!" she yelled and fired a ki Blast that could have shredded a mountain.

Gohan was expecting something like this and deflected it upwards. The ki blast left the planet and dissipated. Gohan looked at her with a look that meant that he was ready for battle at any moment. She rushed at him in response.

The battle started as any battle should, the opponents circling each other and firing random attacks once in while to test the opponent's skill and measure it with your own to determine whether you had the power to strike the opponent as many times as possible to quickly end the battle. Only after that really did they charge at each other.

Dyra attacked with a combo of three punches and three kicks followed by one of her trademark ki blasts.

"Elysian Cannon!" she yelled and fired a purple blast from her cupped hands.

Gohan deflected her hits and countered by leaving an after image and kicking her in her back and blasting her to the ground.

"I am sorry to say this, but that was way too predictable," he told her.

She got up and dusted herself and thought about it, it had been predictable, and she actually wondered why she bothered doing it.

'Let's change tactics shall we?' she thought to herself.

She got up and fired a huge blast at Gohan and at the very last moment she used the afterimage technique and kicked Gohan with all her might in his gut. Gohan was surprised and didn't react fast enough and took the kick in his chest instead. He hit a mountain wall and left a crack in it.

"You have an interesting style, never seen any like it before," he yelled over.

He then pulled himself out of the wall and rushed at her. When he was close enough he stopped and fired a volley of ki blasts, she dodged them, he fired anther volley, she dodged them again, he fired yet again, and again she dodged. She laughed and taunted him.

"Talk about repetitive; you've got no style whatsoever," she told him.

Gohan smirked and told her to look around properly. When she did, she saw that over a hundred ki blasts were coming towards her. She was too slow o dodge them and took them head on. She fell to the ground with bruises and cuts. She got up hurting all over.

She looked around and saw Gohan nowhere in sight; she looked around again, this time wildly.

"Show yourself!" she yelled.

"Are you looking for me?" he asked from behind her.

She turned around quickly and took a small dash backwards. She pondered whether she should use her power-up technique; he was too powerful for her to handle like this. She decided that it was best, she dusted herself and smirked at him. She had a look of pride and arrogance yet again in her face.

'She's up to no good. Better be careful,' Gohan thought to himself.

"I have yet to show you my true power, but for now my power up technique should do, you stand no chance against me. I admit you are strong, stronger than me in my normal status, but you stand no CHANCE!" she yelled as a blue aura enveloped her.

Gohan felt her power skyrocket. It was much larger than his right then. But he had a few tricks up his sleeve. Gohan put his fists to his side and summoned power using the technique that was taught to him by his father while they trained together in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. He felt the power from within him and yelled.

"Kaioken!" he exclaimed as a red aura engulfed him, his power was far beyond hers now, but she didn't know that. However she was stunned that he also had a power up technique. She rushed at him with the giddy feeling of power that the power up was giving her. Gohan wasn't much better; he never had much practice with this technique.

He also rushed and they both threw punches and kicks at each other.

Dyra couldn't believe how strong this guy was; he seemed to have endless energy reserves. He did not seem like he was getting tired at all. The mere thought of it made her angry and she pushed more power to each of her blows that were deflected. Finally she was able to get a punch through. She hit his gut and followed with a blast that sent him flying.

Gohan stopped himself and smiled. 'This girl is way tougher than android Eighteen!' he thought to himself.

He also rushed at her and kicked her in the gut, followed by an uppercut, but she managed to block it and grab it using its momentum to toss him. He stopped himself and blasted her in the face. She quickly got over the pain and also blasted him, but Gohan countered with his own and a beam struggle took place. They both pushed more power into it and it exploded, making them crash against opposite mountains.

Gohan looked at her and felt bad for holding back on such a worthy adversary; he pulled himself off the wall and addressed her.

"Let me not fool you anymore, you are a very powerful adversary and you've put me in some tight spots already, but I am holding back," he told her.

Gohan once again put his fists at his sides and powered up the higher form of Kaioken (AN: Notice that I will not use the Kaioken x … like in the series but instead just Kaioken and of course Super Kaioken). The aura around him flared and rushed around him. He yelled:

"Super Kaioken!" She couldn't feel energy but she knew that he had gotten much stronger.

"Your theatrics don't scare me, I will show you power!" she yelled.

She stretched her arms and powered an energy ball in each, concentrating them, making them more powerful. She cupped her hands together and pushed forward.

"ELYSIAN CANNON!" she yelled.

"MASENKO HA!" he countered.

The beams fought each other with increasing aggressiveness and it didn't look very good for Dyra, she was becoming exhausted, Gohan on the other hand looked like he was having fun. Finally, the beams exploded and once again they were thrown like dolls against the wind.

Dyra got up, she was hurt all over, she had never had so much excitement in her life, and she realized that she loved the warrior's life more than anything else. She lived for moments like this. Finally she decided that she would show her full power to this alien.

"Listen, this is the most wonderful battle I have ever had, and I must show you how powerful I truly am. I won't hold back anymore, if you are still holding back, please don't do it any longer. This is it, my true POWER!" she yelled.

She pushed herself beyond her normal limits; the wind started blowing around her, the ground beneath her cracked. She was enveloped by a purple aura; her muscles became bigger to adjust with the power gain and her hair became blood red. Her pupils became black and her power skyrocketed. (AN: Isn't this familiar?) Gohan was impressed; she was as strong as Picollo.

"You were right, I am holding back. But no more, I will show you power!" he exclaimed.

Gohan once again put his fist to his side and summoned his power from within; he summoned that which is legendary in part of his heritage. A golden aura engulfed him. His heir became spikier, turned also to a golden colour, his eyes turned teal and power grew and grew far beyond hers.

She stared in awe. This man was as strong as her father.

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