A/N: I'd like to get a few reviews for this idea before I write a whole story about it. Here's the sample/prelude.
KP: Shadows.
Chapter 1 - The Loss of a Friend.
Kim was kneeling beside Ron Stoppable, her lifelong best friend, partner, and only real romantic interest, trying to keep him conscious. Ron had just saved her from a shot with a weird black beam courtesy of a sneak attack by one Doctor Andrew Lipski, better known as Doctor Drakken. Ron stared up at Kim, barely having the strength to talk.
"Kim...stay alive...even if I die...Live your life...don't be afraid...of the shadows."
With that last string of words Ron lost consciousness, Kim quickly set about checking for a pulse and breath, but she couldn't find either. She started performing CPR, ordering Wade to call for an ambulance. By the time the ambulance arrived, he was dead. The strangest thing about it was that there was no signs of death, by all indications his body just stopped functioning. They had taken his body to the morgue.
Kim arrived home less than four minutes after the incident. Jim and Tim attempted to cheer her up, make her mad, elicit any form of reaction from her; but they failed. Kim walked into her room and lay down on her bed, she instantly broke down into tears.
'It's not fair, I've never done anything wrong, except maybe make one or two lies. Why did Ron have to die when we were just learning about how we felt? Drakken's never used lethal weaponry before, why should he start now?'
Her thoughts continued along that path for almost twelve hours, not moving from her bed. She didn't even notice the shadows of her room warping and changing then finally pulling from the wall and wrapping themselves around Kim's left wrist, forming a weird black bracelet with a pair of blood red stones on the top and bottom of the bracelet just as the sun went down. She suddenly hears Ron's voice in her head.
'I may not be able to be with you in the flesh, KP, but I've still got your back.'
Kim jumped a good four feet into the air when she heard Ron's voice in her head. Kim looked over herself, noticing the black seemingly jeweled bracelet around her left wrist. She didn't know where it came from but she had seen Ron with one a few days ago.
Little did she know why it was he had crafted this Shadow Ring, a Metal class Art capable of bending the shadows and darkness around the wearer into whatever the wearer needed, but it was also a cursed item, Ron said he had destroyed it. She tries to remove the bracelet but couldn't, it was like it was a part of her arm.
Ron had told her about his Art crafting, after all, due to the powers he had inherited from fighting against Lord Montgomery Fisk, also known as the villain Monkey Fist, he was forced to undergo some rather strange training in the mystical arts, such as enchanting. Ron's powers had grown considerably since his training at Yamanouchi, he had told her about it when they started going out after the Prom. He had said that he wanted to make Kim some enchanted jewelry, just in case she had to fight something like Monkey Fist by herself.
Seeing how Rufus was also endowed with the same powers as Ron and Monkey Fist, he hadn't worried about it much in the past. However, last month he started having nightmares about himself dying, he told Kim to be careful, many, many times over the past few days. He had decided to give Kim the four pieces of jewelry that contained mystic energies. They were all Stone class Arts, empowered with the same magic that had been released when the four Jade Idols were shattered. Ron had made them so that Kim would be capable of wielding the Lotus Blade that was given to him by the master of Yamanouchi should she ever have to.
Kim breaks into tears again. She and Ron had only been dating for less than two months, she numbly got up and dressed herself, foregoing her usual outfit for something darker, she had a couple pairs of tight black jeans, Ron had asked her to buy them just after they started dating. She also grabbed one of Ron's mission shirts, they had been keeping at least one set of mission clothes at each other's house should they need them. Kim hugs herself, still in shock and with tears streaming down her face.
Jim, Tim, and Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Possible watched as Kimberly came down the stairs from her room. The Possible family had never seen her crying like this, they had always thought of her as invincible, part of the reason the twins messed with her so much. Even though both Drs Possible knew she was human, they had never seen her this disturbed or upset. Kim walked down through the living room and out the front door, not caring that it was after her usual curfew. Mr. Dr. Possible followed his daughter outside only to see that she had vanished. He quickly runs back inside and tells his family that she had vanished.
'Where there is Light, there must also be Darkness.'
That statement echoed inside of Kim's head as she watched her father go back inside. She hated doing this to her parents, but she had to see Ron's body one last time. Kim had known her father would follow her outside, she didn't want to talk to him so she used her cheer skills to launch herself into a nearby tree. Kim drops down and begins walking toward the Morgue, where Ron's body is. Kim didn't know what to think anymore, her life-long best friend, and true love of her life, was dead. She didn't know if she could go on living like Ron had told her to. The thought of saving the world didn't seem so appealing anymore, not without Ron there to make the reality of what she did easier to accept.
'Sure, I'm Kim Possible, I can do anything, except live without him.'
Kim started crying again, it started as sobs and then became steadily worse. She came to a stop in front of the Morgue, almost four miles from her suburban home. She went up to the desk and rang the bell. An elderly gentleman walked up, seeing her standing there he didn't even bother asking. He already knew why she was here, to see the latest addition to his collection of dead people. He motioned for her to follow him, she complied.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day when a world famous hero would end up in my morgue. I am sorry for your loss. It should never have happened."
Kim nodded numbly, her body working on autopilot. She couldn't think anymore, it was all too real, Ron, the guy she loved was really dead. The old Morgue keeper pulled the door that Ron's body was behind open, but Ron's body wasn't there, instead there was a puddle of green ooze. For the first time that night her spirits rose, maybe they were wrong when he was pronounced dead, maybe he's still alive.
The old keeper was startled, he was sure he put that boy's body in this freezer, corpses didn't just turn to liquid in an instant. The keeper quickly left her to report the boy's missing body. Kim dropped to her knees and prayed silently that Ron was really alive. She then felt a pair of warm arms wrap around her body, she looked over her shoulder, a strange black creature was holding her against itself in what could be described as a loving embrace. Then she heard its voice, .
"Ron has ordered me to protect you should he ever be unable to do so. I am Otrix, a Shadow. I won't blame you if you scream."
Kim notices how similar the shadow's voice and Ron's voice are.
"I need to go home, Ron may still be alive."
Otrix makes a noise of agreement, wrapping itself around her neck and transforming into a cloak. Kim quickly leaves the Middleton Morgue and runs home. She quickly enters the house and almost flies up to her room to get the Kimmunicator. Her mother sees Kim dashing through the house and hears the door to her daughter's room close with a bang. Dr. Ann Possible walks up to the door of her daughter's room and knocks on it. Kim's voice can be heard from within.
"Where did I put my Kimmunicator, I know I brought it home."
Kim's mother opens the door to her daughter's room and sees Kim, wearing a strange cloak and wearing the same out fit she had on when she left, digging through the pockets of clothes she had taken off before leaving earlier that evening. Her daughter's signature blue Kimmunicator and Grappling hook gun were sitting on the night stand.
"Kimberly, I think what you're looking for is on your night stand."
Kim blushes a bit and reaches over, picking up her Kimmunicator, calling Wade Load, the technology master of her world saving team. Wade's image appears on the screen of her little palm top communication device. He's looking slightly down.
"What's up, Kim?"
"Where's Ron, I was just at the Morgue and the one of him that died was a Synthodrone."
"Whoa, whoa, calm down Kim, your eyes are starting to turn red."
"Just tell me where he is!"
"Calm yourself Kim, it's currently in Asia, no wait, Europe, damn, it's moving too fast for me to keep track of, even with the chip. And the strange thing is the chip's picking up vital signs similar to the ones the chip in you is reading..."
Kim growls rather bestially, interrupting Wade.
"Why and how the hell did you chip ME?"
Kim's mother clears her throat.
"Actually, I did the chipping, Kimmi-cub, during your last inoculations."
Kim bristles at that, she slowly turns towards her mother. When she finally says something it comes out in a choked sob.
"Why?"
"Because we were afraid of losing you. Wade told us how he chipped Ron after he joined your team as the tech. I felt it was a good idea, at least we would know whether you and Ron were still alive when you didn't come home at night."
Kim sighs, she feels defeated, violated, and like a caged animal. Her own mother putting a microchip in her so that she could keep tabs on her. She looks at her mother with an angry look in her eyes.
"And where exactly did you put this chip?"
"Next to your spinal chord, right below your skull, exactly the same place Ron's w-is."
Kim closes her eyes, lifting the hood of her cloak over her head.
"I'm going to search for Ron. Don't try to stop me."
Anne Possible sighs and closes the door, locking it. She couldn't risk her daughter taking off in that state, she would be let out for breakfast in the morning.
'I have to find him.'
That thought echoed loudly inside of Kim's mind. She quickly opens her window and jumps out, landing perfectly on her feet, Grappler and Kimmunicator stowed in her pockets, she dashes off into the night.
The following morning when Kim's mother comes upstairs to check on her she finds a note and the microchip that she had implanted in her own daughter stuck to the headboard.
Hey, Mom.
You won't like this, but I have to find Ron...I can't give up on him...I must find him, even if it means going against you, Dad, my brothers and the rest of the family. I warned you not to try stopping me. Drakken is going to pay, don't even try finding me, I won't let you. Putting this microchip in me was probably the biggest mistake you'll ever made. I don't know if I will ever be able to trust you again.
Sayonara,
Kim Possible
Dr. Anne Possible read the note and broke down crying. Dr. James Possible came into the room after he heard his wife crying. He leans forward and reads the note, noticing the chip implanted in the headboard of his daughter's bed. Dr. James Possible rubs his temples, he may have just lost his only daughter because he wanted a little peace of mind about her safety.
Dr.
Drakken's Lair, 500 miles away.
Shego and Dr. Drakken are sitting next to one another on the sofa watching a little TV in the den of their most well hidden lair when they hear a light tapping sound from behind them. The two villains turn around and their eyes widen in shock, there, standing in all her dark glory was Kim Possible. Shego recovers first, making a slightly sarcastic sounding comment.
"What's with the look, Princess? I didn't know you did Goth."
When Kim answers her voice is strangely calm, even though one look into her eyes would tell you she's pissed beyond belief.
"Where is Ron."
It's more of a demand than a question. The tone of her voice sends Dr. Drakken running across the room in a scared panic. Shego only stands up, not realizing the threat that Kim now poses.
"What makes you think we know? Last time I saw him was on TV, after you two foiled our last plan."
A black sword appears in Kim's left hand as she takes a step towards Shego and pointing the sword at Shego's chest, only an inch away from stabbing through her heart.
"Last time I saw Ron was when he saved me from a black beam that someone fired at me. The Ron that did that was a Synthodrone. Where is the real Ron Stoppable."
Shego shrugs, turning back around and sitting down while avoiding spearing herself on Kim's sword.
"Wouldn't know Kimmie, I only just got home after trying to find a side job to earn some extra spending money, take it up with Dr. D."
Kim thinks about how easy it would be to lob off Shego's head right now, one slight swing and her greatest foe would be toppled. The sword vanishes from Kim's hand and Kim disappears into the shadows. When Shego turns around again she finds Kim gone.
"Now that's how to make an exit, I'll have to ask her to teach me that one. Hey, Dr. D, Kimmie's gone, you can come out now."
Dr. Drakken peeks around the corner of a nearby corridor.
"You sure she's gone?"
"Positive, besides, you know Kimmie wouldn't kill us. It's not her style."
Dr. Drakken walks back into the room, timidly looking all over for Kim and jumping at even the slightest sound.
"Shego, do you know how she got in here?"
Shego shrugs nonchalantly.
"Dunno, maybe the new getup comes with a teleporter or something, I didn't hear her leave. Have you been plotting behind my back or something? Kimmie said that her sidekick was replaced by a Synthodrone."
Dr. Drakken simply shrugs.
"I haven't really done anything besides take a shot at her with my Shadowblaster, and the Synthobuffoon saved her from it."
Shego and Dr. Drakken go back to watching their show as if nothing had happened.
'If not them, then who?'
Kim's mind was in turmoil. Sure, Shego was a villain, but they both had too much respect for one another to lie to the other one. Besides, Otrix said she wasn't lying, and he would be able to tell. Kim sat in the void of darkness that was her new home. Otrix had brought her here after they had questioned Shego. Otrix warned her that they were about to reform at the lair of Dr. Edmund Demenz, better known as Dr. Dementor. Kim stood up and prepared herself to land and fight Dr. Dementor's henchmen.
Kim flew out of the wall behind Dr. Dementor, landing softly in a combat stance and with a black staff formed in her hands. Kim's voice comes out almost ice cold.
"Dr. Dementor, I would like a word with you."
Dr. Dementor's eyes widen in fright as he turns slowly. He relaxes when he sees the fiery haired Kim Possible standing behind him.
"Nice look, Kim Possible. Before I answer any questions can I ask you one thing?"
Again Kim's voice sounds so cold it almost freezes the glass of water on Dr. Dementor's desk.
"Go ahead."
"How did you get past all my security?"
Kim smirks coldly, raising her staff.
"Didn't have to. Where is Ron Stoppable, my partner."
Dr. Dementor attempts to discreetly summon his minions and activate his escape tunnel. Kim shifts her staff into a chain and throws it, wrapping it around Dr. Dementor's body, pulling him towards herself.
"Where is HE."
Dr. Dementor suddenly realizes just how much danger he is in, his fiery young foe must be possessed or something. He quietly mumbles.
"I - I don't know, l - last time I saw him h - he was on T - TV with yo-you."
The chain around Dr. Dementor fades away and Kim harshly kicks him back over to his control panel.
"Don't bother calling your guards, by the time they get here I'll be gone."
Dr. Dementor looked over his shoulder, she wasn't there, he didn't even hear her go. Dr. Dementor shook himself off and sat down in his command chair. He shudders and speaks to himself.
"Whatever that was, it wasn't Kim Possible."
Dr. Dementor went back to running his complex, randomly shivering as he went about his daily routine.
'Not Drakken, not Dementor, Monkey Fist would have killed him instead of replacing him, even Rufus didn't know it had happened.'
Kim's eyes suddenly flew wide open, Rufus, of course. Otrix decides to make a comment.
"Yes, that should probably be our next stop. Prepare to reform again."
Kim stops her pacing and prepares herself to be thrown from the void again. A few seconds later she dropped from the roof of Ron's room and landed beside Rufus' cage. Rufus wakes up and looks up to see Kim standing there in a cloak and black clothes. He quirks his head to one side, he hadn't seen her or Ron for two days, he was starting to get worried.
"Hm ha, Wha's wrong?"
"Ron's gone...I don't know where he is, want to come with me to find him?"
Rufus nods, opening his cage and climbing up onto Kim's shoulder, slipping into her hood.
"Hm. Hm. Otrix?"
Otrix answers in a whisper.
"Yes, Rufus, It's me."
Rufus nods and settles into the hood, beside Kim's cheek. She hears Ron's mother start to open the door. She quickly falls into the shadows around her feet, disappearing from Earth and reappearing inside of the Void. Rufus quickly climbed down to Kim's hand as she hugged him gently to her waist.
"Rufus, I've already checked on Drakken and Dementor. Monkey Fist wouldn't replace his arch-foe, me, maybe but not Ron. Who else do we know that uses Synthodrones?"
"Hm. Henchco. Hm."
Kim nods and puts Rufus back inside of her hood. She prepares to drop from the Void again, starting to get used to having Shadow powers. Kim walks out of the exterior wall of the Henchco main Headquarters. She walks around to the front entrance and enters the building. She summons a shadow based whip and walks up to the front desk. When she talks to the receptionist her voice is calm.
"I'm here to see Jack Hench. What floor is he on."
"I'm sorry miss, Mr. Hench isn't here today."
Kim nods and turns to leave.
"If he shows up tell him that Kim Possible is looking for him, also tell him to watch his neck."
As if to emphasize her point she uncurls her whip and snaps it at the wall, leaving a four inch deep slash on the wall. Kim leaves the building and vanishes into the shadows, reappearing up on a nearby ledge, beside a gargoyle. Pulling her cloak tightly around herself she puts her hood over her face and leans forward. A whole night and no sign of Ron, all her normal villains are claiming innocence to this crime. It doesn't fit Senior Senior Sr.'s style, he wasn't a science guy, he was an extortionist. Kim sighed, she sat there, behind the gargoyle on the side of a building in New York City, she fell asleep in that position with Rufus curled up in her arms.
Ron's
Prison.
Ron wakes up on his cot. He'd been there for over a two months. He had kissed Kim and then was knocked out as he headed home from Kim's after dropping her off after the prom. The next thing he knew he was here, where ever here was. Rufus wasn't with him and now he was glad he had crafted those Jade Trinkets of the Monkey for Kim. He didn't know why it took her so long to realize that he wasn't there. All he knew was that whoever had him prisoner wanted him to create an artifact for herself. Her voice sounded like Bonnie's voice but it wasn't possible, Bonnie was mean, but not that mean. Besides she didn't believe in magic.
He had carved out one wooden artifact for his captor, but he had purposely only given it a weak enchantment, a weak wind charm. Now his captor wanted him to create a weapon for her. She had told him that he would never escape her prison. Ron knew Kim would come...but it was only a matter of time before she forced him to create something big. Ron had attempted to summon the Lotus blade, but wasn't able to, he could only hope that Kim or Rufus had it.
He was sitting here with his latest craft, a Stone class project. He shook his head, the kind he really wanted to make was an Energy class Art he could use to escape this prison. Ron had enchanted all forty of the gemstones that he was given, he would only need to use five to craft the weapon for his captor, whom he had yet to see. She had also given him a enough string to make a lanyard four miles long, Ron could only grimace at what he was about to create, a whip that could slice through steel, not a good sign. The only reason he knew it was a female that had him captive was because of the small hands that slid the food into his room and the soprano voice that gave him his orders.
He knew that Wade had implanted a microchip in the back of his head, he had asked Wade to do it, just in case something like this happened to him. Ron sits down in the Lotus position and meditates, chanting softly to himself, forming his little side project, causing the stones to float around his body in a circle. Several of the smaller diamonds and sapphires that floated around him began to link together, forming a necklace of sorts, held together by mystical energy. He only had one shot at this, he had to make it work. The necklace floated up and then down around his neck, sinking under his shirt and forming a black line around his neck, perfect. He named his new Artifact the Choker of Shadows, the only real element he was capable of perfectly manipulating. True, he was a Mystical Monkey master, but that had nothing to do with his elemental powers.
Elemental powers, now that made him think of Kim, her elemental powers had yet to surface. He could only hope that Otrix, a Shadow that he and Rufus had given a physical body, had been doing his job. Ron used the powers he had put inside of his Choker of Shadows to manifest a sword then will it into various weapons. Good, it all works, he'll escape from this hell yet. He quietly disperses the shadows he had gathered at his hand. He began to make the whip, weaving in the five Diamonds of Cleaving he had enchanted, they were the biggest five gemstones that were among the ones he was given. They were woven into the handle, making them relatively useless unless the whip was coiled then released into a strike.
A/N: Yeah, Like I said at the beginning, this is a test chapter, more will come, as long as my muse sticks with this fic. She's been slightly temperamental as of late.
