AN: Hi!
This is my first KP fanfic and I hope you like it. And I also hope that it doesn't have any resemblance to other ones as I haven't had a chance to go through them all.
All in all I am really a big Potterhead but I've loved Kim Possible almost as long as I've loved HP and it's definitely my favorite cartoon and Disney show.
Note that the characters can act a bit different than what you are used to now in the beginning and I don't know how or if it's gonna change later in to the story but this is after all a AU.
Also note that I'm from Sweden and my English is not perfect but readable. If anyone of you are a Beta and find this story interesting enough for you to edit it you are welcome to write a privet message to me about it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kim Possible so now everybody knows that. I'm probably only going to write that here as I intend to forget it sometimes.
Chapter one: A horse ride to remember.
Twelve year old (though she looked at least fifteen) Princess Kimberly Anne Possible of the Possible Kingdome was very nervous today as this was the first time she would be allowed ride along side with her Mother and Father, the King and Queen James and Anne Possible, through the town as they did every year to celebrate that the traveling market had come to their town.
Princess Kimberly, or Kim, was excited because this was the first time she would be allowed to go in to town as her parents had forbidden her to go there when she was only four and told her that the town was too dangerous for a little princess until she could ride a horse well enough to escape on if needed. So that had stuck her here in their big castle with only her parents and servants as company but no one in her age she could play with. Sure when she turned five her twin brothers came but they had been too small at first and then turned out to be too different to her for her too play with. This had made her pretty lonely as she often just was by herself which she preferred to the company the castle could provide.
Princess Kim had desperately wanted to learn how to ride a horse ever since her father had told her that she have to knew that if she ever wanted to get down to the town. But the horses in the stable was simply too big for her at the time so she asked and asked her parents for a pony every birthday of hers until she turned eight when she finally got, not one, but two ponies. Her parents had told her that they would see which one of them would fit her best and then give back the other to the seller. One was brown and the other was black and her mother told her that they were brothers as Princess Kim therefore decided to name them from her great great great grandfather Luke and his brother Rufus (the brown one became Luke and the black one became Rufus).
Kim had started her training from that very day with the masters of the sable and some guards, which her father had insisted would come with her every time she was out on the large meadow behind the castle. Kim still didn't know why he insisted on it but obeyed as it would for some reason ease her father's heart.
Kim who was a fast learner had soon learnt the basics of riding a horse. Luke had quickly become her favorite one as he seemed to like speed and adventure just like her while Rufus was more quiet and seemed to prefer eating instead of running. But she didn't want to give back Rufus to the seller in town as she couldn't bear to separate the two brothers, or that was at least what she told her parents. She really wanted to keep him so that maybe a friend, or the prince or noble one she would marry, would ride beside her someday though she never told anybody about that and kept that as her own little secret.
Now she was sitting on top of Luke and before her was her father on his horse Kling and her mother was on her mare Marion. The royal counselors led by the slimy looking Lord Monty Fiske which Kim had never liked were there too. There were about dossing guards with shields and swords surrounding them and they all were waiting for the gates of the wall that surrounded the castle to open. At breakfast her father had spoken with her and told her that there would be more groups of guards along the road that they would take through the town and if something should go wrong and they got separated she would seek up one of those groups. How something could go wrong though she didn't understand and she had voiced that to her father. He had just told her that this would maybe not be as she expected as she had only watched the market from the highest tower in the castle where you could only see the higher part of the town.
Every year she had looked down from that window in the tower she had seen all kind of colors, hear children play and people cheer as her mother and father waved to them all when they rode by. Everyone seemed so happy so Kim couldn't phantom why it wouldn't be as she thought it was.
"Are we ready Captain Director?" Kim heard her father ask as a woman with and eye patch over her right eye and a stern looking face came riding to them and halted her horse in front of her father.
"We are your Majesty." She told him with no emotion in her voice.
"Well then open the gates and let's get this over with." Captain Director turned her horse around and shouted at the guards on top of the wall to open the gate. When doors started to move Kim could hear the cheers of the people start to rise and when the gates were totally open the sound were so loud that Kim almost had to cover her ears.
When the horses stepped out of the gates they all were covered with a cloud of confetti in all the different colors that Kin hand seen from the window in the castle as the people of the Possible Kingdome threw it at them. Luke got a little worried but Kim just put a hand on his neck and he calmed down.
Kim could see thousands of people standing at the side of the road behind a rope that were to keep them back and not get it the way of the royal family, the guards and the horses. The people cheered loud when they saw her parents come, they cheered even louder when they saw her. Kim waved to as many as possible and when she waved to a couple of girls that was a couple of years younger than her they gasped and laughed as they waved the kingdoms flag that many had in their hands.
Kim also tried to get as much in of the town as she could. She noticed that the stone houses were often paint in blue, green, red or white and in every garden grew flowers in all kinds of colors or vegetables. The streets were as clean as possible and the stands of the markets contained everything from food to decorates. Kim almost couldn't take it all in, the music, the parades, the cheering, the playing and the laughter's. Everyone seemed so happy and it was all that Kim had expected it to be.
After about half an hour of this they were faced with another wall with closed gates. Though this was a smaller wall that the one around the castle Kim could see that this one had more guards on it which she thought was strange. When they reached the closed doors the cheers from the people had died down as the rope hat cut them off a few streets away. They stopped as more guards were placed in a larger circle around her mother, father, her, the counselors and the guards that had followed them from their castle. As they did this her father turned around in his saddle to face her.
"If someone of our guards tell us to run you get Luke up in full speed and stick close to the guards. Do you understand?" he said to her looking very serious and worried.
"Daddy, I don't…"
"Do you understand Kimberly?" He never spoke her full name unless he was serious, angry or worried. And his voice told her that he was all of those now.
"Yes father I understand." Was all she said as she felt herself preparing for whatever made her father act like this?
And even more so as he said "This is the part of where everything will not be as you expect this day and kingdom to bee." before he turned around in his saddle again to face forward. "We are ready when you are captain." He then said to Captain Director who just bowed quickly before shouting to her guards.
"Shields up! Swords out!" every guard raised their shield to protect them and the royal family while still holding the reins of the horses in the same hand as they took out their swords with the other one. "Open gates!" Captain Director shouted for a second time that day and the guards on top of this smaller wall opened it for them.
As the higher part of the town had shined with colors and happy smiles this was the total opposite. Even though the sun saw shining high up in the sky everything seemed dark and gloomy down here. The houses that were made of wood her were sparse and falling apart with mold and there was no color on the walls. You could also see big holes in the rooftops. The streets here were no real streets mad of stone as in the higher part of the town; here it was barely a street at all as it was just mud clamped down by wild skinny dogs that had been bound by rope at some fences and people.
Here there was no rope holding back the people, here there had been build a strong fence of wood that was higher than most of the people. Kim didn't think this was necessary as most of the people looked too sick and hungry to do anything as everyone looked to be only skin and bones. Even the children looked like they had only days to live.
There was no cheering here and barley any talking at all. It was just quiet and the looks the people were giving the royal family and their counselors were filled with so much hatred and told them that they were in desperate need for something good to happen or else something really really bad would happen instead.
Kim was in shock as she could never believe that this place had excited in her father's kingdom and he hadn't done anything about it. She couldn't look at the people as she was right now ashamed to be her father's daughter. She couldn't look forward as she knew as soon as she saw her father she would ride up to him and push him of off his horse in to the mud for letting this happen and that wouldn't be proper right now.
Therefore she looked up over the rooftops in to the sky as she tried to calm her temper. That's when she first thought she saw something move. She squeezed her eyes together and looked closely but didn't see anything where she thought she had seen it. She was just about to dismiss it when she saw it again and this time she saw it jumping from one rooftop to another. First she thought that her eyes were playing her some tricks but then she saw it again and she was now certain that it was a dark silhouette of someone jumping roof to roof.
She followed it and tried to get a glimpse of hem or her as he or she seemed to follow her and her family but it was hard as he or she was good at hiding in the dark. At last after a couple of minutes the sun shined up on the face and Kim gasped as it was the skinniest and most dirty face she had ever seen.
It was a boy that even though his eyes were sunk in and had big dark circles under them she could tell that he was in her age. He had dirty hair but she could see that it was blonde underneath it and she noticed that it was a little bit on the long side for his haircut as it kept falling in his eyes. She could now see his clothes as he had stepped out from the chimney he was hiding behind and she saw that they were just as dirty. They were also ripped in several places; his pants were so bad that she guessed he had ripped them up to his knees by himself. He also didn't have any shoes so Kim could see the mud reaching up from the tip of his toes up to the middle of his calves. But despite all this, when their eyes met for the first time he smiled at her. A big kind of goofy smile that Kim felt that she was getting lost in. So lost that she almost didn't see the growling big scary black dog with drooling jaws snap of the rope he was bound in and rush right to the crowd of sick people, jumping over the fence and her guards as the started to bite towards Luke.
Luke raised himself up on his back legs in panic and Kim had to take a hard grip around his mane so that she wouldn't fall of. Luke managed to hit the dog with one of his hooves as he was waving them around but the dog just got up and started to bark and bite towards Luke once more. In able to escape the dog Luke started to gallop right towards the fence which broke as he hit it with his chest.
Kim tried to reach the rein which she had lost her grip on when the dog first attacked but Luke was running so fast that she didn't dear to loosen her grip on his mane. She could hear people shout after her, probably her mother, father and the guards, but they soon died down as Luke sick sacked down the streets between the houses. He ran for what felt like over ten minutes but probably was only one or two when he came to a sharp turn where the mud was to slippery and he couldn't fasten his hooves.
No matter how had Kim's grip had been around his mane she couldn't hold on as both she and Luke tumbled to the ground in to and ally between two houses with a dead end in form of an wooden fence. Kim who had been thrown in to the fence felt a dizziness come over her as she tried to open her eyes. She felt the mud soak in through her blue dress that she wore but didn't care at the moment as she focused on trying to see.
When she heard Luke whine beside her she forced herself up on her legs and walk over to him to see if there were any injuries on him. All she could see were a few cuts over his body and one nasty one over his front right leg which meant that she probably wouldn't be able to ride him until it was healed.
Suddenly a door to one of the houses opened and Kim heard music coming from inside so she was just able to think that this was probably a tavern of some sort before four big men that seemed to be drunk walked out from it. Three out of them had big beards and greasy long hairs while the fourth had short hair with a big black mustache, they didn't seem very nice at all. Kim backed against the wall hoping that the darkness of the ally would hide her presents but unfortunately they weren't that drunk that they missed seeing Luke and soon thereafter spotted her.
"Look what we have here boys." The one with the mustache said as he saw her. "A little lady that seems lost here in the mud." He was getting closer to her and his three laughing friends were right behind him. "You don't seem to be from around here little girl, with that dress you even seems like you are from Uppertown." He said as he rad the blue silk of her dress through his fingers.
"Leave me alone! Kim shouted and yanked her dress from his dirty hands and slapped him across his large chin. She had done a little bit training in different fighting styles but she had barely begun in any of them. She knew that she could maybe take down one, or if lucky two of them by herself but not all four of them.
"You shouldn't have done that little lady." He with the mustache said, he seemed to be the leader of them. "You see we don't like people from the Uppertown crossing our part of the town to get a bit closer to the east rode. We know that they are so rich and fat that they could pay their rides to go around the kingdom instead of showing of their wealth to those who could barely afford a slice of bread a day. And you slapping me did not do you any favors. You will die tonight but not before we had a little fun with you." With that he snapped his fingers and his three friends were around him so fast that Kim didn't have time to react as they grabbed her and pinned her down to the ground.
Two of them were holding each one of her arms so hard that she knew that she would have bruises there in the morning. The third one was covering her mouth with his hand and held a steady grip on her head so that she could watch what the man with the mustache would do.
Kim tried to scream for help as she saw him rip of her long dress up to her knees but knew it was no use as the sound was damped down by the hand on her mouth. She started to kick him but couldn't get a good one in before he grabbed both her legs to separate them as he got down on his knees. She knew what he was about to do as her mother had explained what sex was to her when she was nine and that some cruel men would try to do it against a woman's will. Kim felt tears spill from her eyes as there was no way for her or anyone to stop this. She couldn't move, couldn't scream or hear any sounds of hooves from the horses of the guards or her parents that must be looking for her nearby. There was no way to prevent what was going to be done in any second now.
Suddenly she heard a smack and felt the grip of her left arm loosen just before she heard two more smacks and the rest of her upper body was free. Then she saw someone jump over her and hit the man with the mustache with what looked like a pole made of wood right in his face so hard that he tumbled backwards to hit the ground and seemingly be unconscious.
Kim only had the time to get a glimpse of her savior's backside as and what caught her eye was his blonde hair before she heard a roar behind her and understood that one of the men that he had hit first had woken up. She saw him jump over her and charge at her savior's back but he just managed to swing his wooden pole around to hit the man at the side of his head. Unfortunately the heavy man landed on her leg so hard that that she felt like the bones in her foot were crushed.
"Ahhh!" She yelled out in pain and tried to roll of the man from her leg but he was too heavy for her to budge. She saw a movement in the corner of her eye and looked up just to find her stare in to the brown eyes of the same blond boy she had seen on the roof just before the dog had attacked her horse. She only managed to stare at his face for a moment before he turned from her and started to push the man of off her. Together they managed to roll him so he landed with a loud thump beside her.
She just had to get one look at her foot to see that she wouldn't be able to stand on it for several days. It may not be broken but her ankle was definitely twisted. She looked up with tears in her eyes and saw the boy that had saved her was reaching out a hand for her to help her up. She smiled a little and was just about to reach out when she saw him be yanked away in the neck of his dirty shirt by someone behind him. She saw him being pushed up against the house of the tavern with one hand around his throat and the other holding a sword that was pointing tin to his stomach. The woman holding the sword was Captain Director.
She wasn't able to do anything at the moment thou as the next second her mother was rushing past the Captain and got down on her knees on Kim's left side, hugging her and telling her how relieved she was that they had found her. Kim watched her father dismount his horse but took only a few steps to them before he stopped. She could see that he was having a conflict with himself weather he should go to her like her mother had done, or go to help strangle the boy he thought had hurt her.
"How dare you boy defile her!" Kim heard the Captain scream at the blond boy who was shaking with fear and desperately trying to breathe. "Don't you know who she is? For your information that is the Princess and you and these men will all pay for hurting her!"
"What do you think sire?" Lord Fiske said as he still sat up on his horse behind her father. Kim hadn't even noticed that he had entered together with him. She also noticed that some of the castle guards had positioned themselves to guard the entrance of the ally so they wouldn't be disturbed. "Should we have them killed now or hanged later?"
"NO STOP!" Kim cried out to the Captain before her father had time to even blink as she finally managed to come out of her shock and release herself from her mother's hug. "Put him down Captain!" she demanded as she tried to stand up and succeeded with a bit of help from her mother. He wasn't the one who hurt me." She said and glared at the two men and Captain Director who stared right back at her. "He was the one who saved me." Now they were all shifting their shocked gazes between her, the boy and the three med that were still unconscious on the ground.
"A-are you sure Princess?" The Captain asked.
"Yes, please let him go now." The Captain turned to the blond boy, who was now blue in his face, and gently loosened her grip and set him back down on the ground. Immediately he fell down on his fours and started to take long, deep hacking breaths to get back some of his color. Her father stepped up to him as he stood up again with a bit of help off the wall.
"What is your name son?" her father asked he boy who looked more scared than ever to be talked directly by the man who could decide his death with a snap.
"R-Ron St-Stoppable." He finally managed to get out of his mouth but he didn't look anyone in the eyes as he spoke.
"Have you no manners boy?" Lord Fiske roared at him "Don't you know how to address your king?" Kim saw the boy named Ron cringe and hang his head in shame but that's when her mother put up a hand to get the Lord to be silent. She slowly led Kim to the wall on the other side of the ally as that was the closest so that she could lean on it and squeezed her hand before she walked over Ron. She put ha gentle hand on his shoulder, which he stared shockingly at, before she spoke with her soft mother's voice that she used to use on Kim or the tweebs if they were scared of something.
"Where is your parent's Ron?"
"M-My mother died when she gave birth to me and my father passed away three years ago after a long time being sick, eh… your majesty." He said and Kim could see even through the darkness that a little blush was creeping on his cheeks and big ears.
"Have you got anyone else taking care of you? Some relative's maybe?" her mother asked.
"N-No your majesty I don't have relatives that I know of." With that her mother and father gave each other a look before her father spoke to Ron again.
"How did you manage to save the Princess?" he asked.
"I saw her horse getting attacked by that dog on the main road and when it started to run in to the town in panic I tried to follow them…"
"How?"
"Eh, by the rooftops your majesty, though I lost them after a while. I searched them by trying to find the trails of the horse in the mud and when finally found them I follow them. When I came to the roof up there-" Ron pointed up at the roof of the tavern. "-and looked down, I saw these men, eh, harassing her so I just grabbed a loose plank from the roof, climbed down, sneaked up to them and hit them in the head." Everything was quiet for a while but eventually her father spoke.
"Captain, have these men tied up and wake them before you take them to the dungeon."
"Yes sire." With that the Captain bowed and started to give orders to the guards.
"Kim do you think you can ride with your mother?" her father asked as he had turned to face her. She just nodded.
"What about Luke?" she asked.
"Don't worry Princess; I will see to that he gets home." A lady with the name Amy who was another member of her father's consult and was quite good with animals. Kim nodded to show her gratitude. Kim, with a bit of help of two guards got up in front of her mother on her horse. She had a little trouble steadying herself as she couldn't grip the horse with her leg but she soon found a good position which felt like she wouldn't fall of with the horses every movement.
"You will ride with me boy." Kim heard her father say to Ron as he climbed his horse and reached out a hand for Ron to take. But Kim saw Ron hesitate.
"Erm… w-will I get hanged if I come with you?" he stuttered but her father just smiled down at him.
"No, you will get a nice meal and a nice warm bed to stay in for the night in the castle if you come with us."
AN: I hope you liked it! Please R&R