It had been a few days after the battle with Gangrel's forces. The army was running and looking for an escape route. Then, as it began to rain, Lucario was there with blade.
"I have no use for the saint, but I cannot let you pass this border." Lucario said.
"Okay, now it's my turn." Ranma said stepping up before hiei stopped him.
"Not so fast. I will fight him." Hiei said before seeing Lucario turn his back to Hiei. "Sorry, but I will not fight a fight that will break my guild's rules." Lucario said.
"And what rule is that?" Jexi said.
"Our guilds rule: we will only fight against people who use their own bodies and fists and feet. Never one who uses a weapon in battle." Pancham said. "It's our guild's most sacred rule."
"Pancham. Why are you here and not back at the guild?" Lucario asked.
"I'm sorry master. I wanted to get strong again so...I snuck off. Please forgive me." Pancham said bowing.
"Hmm." Lucario said as he looked at the group. "I cannot let you pass, but I will shelter you." Lucario said.
"Really?" Jexi asked.
"You returned a valued member of our guild. Please. Accept our hospitality." Blade said. "Consider it thanks for the fight we had long ago." Blade said to Kirito.
In the guild, many a familiar face was seen. Breloom and Primeape were sparring, and Gurdurr was there too, but he looked different.
"Gurdurr? What happened to you?" Ranma said.
"I evolved. It's Conkeldurr now." he said wielding too large concrete blocks in his hands. "Its nice to see you again, girly boy!" he said with a hardy laugh.
"We will stay until tomorrow, then one of us has to fight Lucario to get past him." Hope said as they sat down.
"Hey, Pancham's back!" shouted some voices as they saw smaller fighting types approach Pancham. Among them were Machop, Mienfoo, Tyrogue, Timburr and Scraggy.
"So, did you do it? Did you beat the great Ranma?" Mienfoo asked.
"Of course. It was so easy." Pancham lied.
"Liar." Most of the heroes said.
"All right! Dinner is now served!" shouted Sawk and Throh as they brought in large amounts of food and placed them on the tables. The guild members rushed to the tables and began eating wildly.
At the stage, a girl was dancing, and it was not Morgiana. Aladdin did his usual thing whenever he met a girl, and she blushed at the sight of it.
"Ah, see your friends taking a liking to Olivia." a Machoke said to Alibaba.
"Oh! Olivia's here? She's Regna Ferox's most valued treasure!" Basilio said.
"Yeah. We picked her up when she was running from those zombie things you guys call Risen." the Machoke said.
"Glad she's safe. Hey, kid! Give her some space and let her come over here!" Basilio said. Aladdin stopped and Olivia came over.
"Dancers invigorate fighters on the battlefield. I dont suppose…" Sir Robin said.
"She's yours. We were only sheltering her until we found some city we could drop her off in." Lucario said.
"I… hope I'm not a burden. All I can do is dance.. and I wasn't that good, if I'm being honest." Olivia said.
"Okay guys. To get outta here, we need to fight lucario, but even Seiya couldn't take him. Ranma is out of the question considering even a doped Pokemon couldn't take him out, and Hiei cant do it because he uses a sword." Hope said. "Wait, where is Ranma?"
"I think I saw him head to the Training Hall with Conkeldurr." Natsu said.
"Well, tell him Yusuke's fighting him." Hope said.
In the training hall, the two sat as they watched some fighting types fight. "So, Pancham decided to come and fight ya, huh?" Conkeldurr asked. "I figured he would do that. Kids been that way for a while."
"Yeah. I noticed." Ranma said as Jexi walked in. "Hey, guys. Yusuke's fighting tomorrow. We figured his Spirit powers might have a chance against Lucario's aura." Jexi said before leaving. "That's not gonna win. It doesn't matter what powers he got, Lucario's gonna overwhelm him." Conkeldurr said to Ranma.
"Well, make me stronger than." Ranma said. "I don't care what they say. I wanna beat Lucario myself."
"Ha! There's that spirit! Now, there's only one way you'll have a chance at beating Lucario, you'll have to master aura in the span of a night." COnkeldurr said.
"Let's do it." Ranma said.
The next day, it was still raining as a Plegian force fought the shepherds. Lucario waited for his opponent, as Yusuke and Ranma came up together.
"Hmm." Lucario said closing his eyes as he sensed something. "Something has changed within you, champion of Pugulis." Lucario said.
"You'll just have to see. I know Yusuke was gonna fight, but you mind if I help him?" Ranma said.
"No! I will only fight one. And the first one I will fight...is you." Lucario said pointing to Ranma. "If I were to fight the spirit user, I might be too weak to go all out against you after." Lucario said.
"Then let's do this." Ranma said.
(Cue song: Street Fighter IV Gouken theme)
The two started out at opposite sides of the field. The two quickly rushed at each other as both performed Force Palm on the other, forcing them back.
"I see. So that is what I sensed. You've become in tune with your aura." Lucario said. "And in one night. Not many people can do that in that amount of time."
"Yeah. I didn't have much choice. If I'm gonna become strong, I need stronger opponents. You're the undefeated warrior, so let's see if that changes after today." Ranma said.
Lucario Mega Evolved and the two warriors clashed at their full strength. Each not giving an inch as they fought against the other.
After a while, both were breathing heavily gazing down at the other.
"I must admit, you are the first to ever push me this far. Even if you don't win, you have won my respect. But...we must see this through to the end!" Lucario said as he gathered energy into his hands.
"My most powerful attack! Metsu Aura Storm!" Lucario shouted as he leapt into the air and began firing the attack before seeing Ranma gather energy into his hands.
"Aura Sphere!" he shouted, firing the sphere at the attack, both attacks cancelling each other out, catching both in the explosion. Both just stood there, motionless as the wind blew.
(end song)
"Hmm. My congratulations, child. It's not everyday, that someone with a large winning streak...falls." Lucario said smiling as he fell to the ground backwards.
"Look! It's over!" Natsu said as their fight was won. Ranma turned to the others and said nothing. Only pointed his finger to the sky, like fairy tail always did.
The other members of the Furious Fists guild watched the fight all the way to the end and were surprised by the results, except for Conkeldurr.
"You did good, kid. Not everyday you see someone you train surpass you like that." he said as he returned to the dojo.
As the companies fled, Chrom was lamenting.
"I cant belive Emm fell like that. And I was Powerless to do anything. Now I have Ylisse to rule and it is my fault alone." Chrom said.
Hope then came up to him, "I suppose even after our missions complete here will we have to see you through this. Lots of us were powerless too, but just because she's dead, doesn't mean we don't have anything left to fight for."
"We'll take down Gangrel and help you with anything else after that. After all, even if you lose, you need to pick yourself up and get back at it stronger than ever." Jexi said.
"You can count on us to help you, sire." Frederick said.
"Yeah, I would have been killed if it weren't for you." Nowi added.
"You even have my trust, man-spawn. You all were great enough to accept me as an ally." Panne said.
"And dont forget us heroes. You need us too." Luffy said.
"And every Lord needs one Guardian Angel." Pit said.
"And a little magic to heat things up." Natsu said.
"I'll risk my gears and servos to protect you like Jexi to the end." Megaman said.
"And we Royal Knights are always risking our lives to save the worlds. It's our duty to protect this kingdom of yours." Leopardmon said.
"Then we ride to meet Gangrel and Beelzemon at the field of battle, and all of us shall be victorious!" Chrom said.
"Indeed." said a voice as Lucario approached Chrom. "I have absolved our contract with Phelgia and want to establish one with Ylisse."
"Then let's go." Chrom said as they walked of to meet their people in battle.