Ranma was having kinda similar thoughts, 'Damn, her aura, I just can't explain it. It's outta this world.' He then smirked, 'Of course it's outta this world, she's from a different dimention after all.' He then spoke outloud, "Say, how about we make this intersting?"
"Oh how?"
"Simple, Anything Goes, meaning you can use any technique short of killing and crippling techniques, unless you can make them so that they don't kill or cripple."
Julia smirked, this sounded like a Tournament of Arms almost. "Anything?"
Ranma nodded, "Yep, from punches, to Ki, to weapons, to cheap shots, dirty tricks or anything like that."
Julia was internally thrilled, she loved fighting and putting down fighters who liked to play dirty. "Deal. Ready?"
Ranma nodded and then Julia was on him with a fast and strong left punch to his face. Ranma twisted his head out of the way, as soon as the fist was by his face he grabbed the outstretched arm and using that to hold her for a moment, he pulled her in close and elbowed her in the throat. Julia retaliated with a knee to Ranma's gut, which knocked him up into the air and away from her. Julia grimaced, 'He's a lot better than I thought he'd be.' She smirked, 'This is my kinda fight.'
Ranma tucked and rolled in the air and landed on his feet wincing, 'Damn that hurt. Oh well, Benji hit harder.' He knew she was holding back, so was he. Neither one was using any Ki yet. Ranma knew that to win he had to drain her Ki first. He charged at Julia, who in turn charged him and she jumped into the air, Ranma smirked, he'd teach her not to take him on in the air. He jumped up to follow her, as soon as the two met, they were exchanging blows. Ranma blocked a powerful kick to gut and winced when he felt how hard that was. 'Damn, and she wasn't even using Ki to enhance it.' Still, he didn't let that get him down as he grabbed the leg before Julia could retract it, using that he pulled her close and landed about twenty fast and strong punches right on her chest.
Julia blocked what she could, but found that he was as fast as she was, if not faster, she wasn't totally prepared for this onslaught. She was impressed that none of the blows were hitting anything sensitive. She had to bite back a yell as Ranma grabbed her hair to throw her to the ground. 'Cheap shot.' She grimaced, she had agreed to this type of battle and it seemed that the kid was used to fighting in this type of enviroment. She landed on her feet, Ranma landed a few feet away from her. "Not bad." She commented before she charged Ranma again, she used a low kick to feint him out, he took the bait and jumped it, but then Julia elbowed him right in the cheek while he was in mid air, knocking him back several feet, surprisingly the kid landed on his feet.
"Not bad yourself. I haven't had a fight like this since I fought Herb." Ranma smirked as he flowed forward like water, then he jumped up and over Julia. She turned around to block what was coming and was surprised when he swept her off her feet, then before she had hit the ground, he kicked upward into the lower part of her back and sent her flying up a bit and back.
Julia got up and into a stance all the while smirking at him, "I gotta admit, this is the best battle I've had in awhile."
Ranma smirked, "Yeah, but maybe we should quit messing around then."
"Oh?"
"You and I both know that we're holding back, a lot. So how about we quit playing around and really start fighting huh?"
Julia smirk broadened into a grin, "You can tell huh?"
Ranma nodded while taking up a new stance, "You and I haven't used any Ki yet. So let's get a bit more serious." He blinked when he saw a whole lot of sports equipment behind Julia, hockey sticks, American footballs, softballs, bats, and a net. 'Perfect.' He smirked.
On the sidelines everyone was impressed to one extent or another. Gar, Tirga, Brianna and Sheila couldn't believe that a human could match up to the Armsmaster. Though Sheila was less surprised than the other three, having seen Ranma fight in the past. Nabiki and Nodoka were highly impressed. Nodoka hadn't seen a fight like this in a long time and Nabiki hadn't thought that anyone could matchup to Ranma in a fight, no matter what, considering that he had taken down Saffron, a person that Colonge had said that she couldn't take on in battle and hope to win. In the tree Genma and Soun were flabbergasted that a mere woman could be that good. Happosai just nodded, this was a battle for the ages. "I wonder what will happen next?"
Back on the field both Julia and Ranma were preparing to go at it agian, this time, not holding back much if anything, after all, they weren't trying to kill each other.
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