CHAPTER 2 NEW CAMPERS?!
Kim jumped down from the chariot before it even came to a landing. She ignored Annabeth's screams from behind her. Instead, she rushed towards the male whom she had distinguished as a monster.
Studded gauntlet connected with a storm spirit which moved in to defend Dylan, and it was turned to dust the moment the fist connected. Kim swung around, aiming a leg at his abdomen, but once again, a storm spirit was in the way. The blade at the back of boot sliced through the storm spirit with ease, sending another storm spirit into the Underworld.
"Damn it, face me like a man!" Kim said, and jumped backwards. She landed beside the coach, who was now beaming with pride.
The coach's cap had flown off revealing two short horns protruding from his hair. "About time you lazy rascals got here."
"Sorry coach. Bad weather." Kim replied with a grin, not letting down her guard around the assembling storm spirits. "So who are we extracting here?"
Coach pointed to Piper and Leo. "Those two. And the boy over there might be a special one. He showed up in my bus with no reasons. Not to mention he has no memories."
Kim raised an eyebrow at that. "Are you sure, Coach? He might be a spy, for all that we know." A precise punch to her right shattered three storm spirits in one go, and another kick sliced through another two.
"Trust me, there's only one monster in the group, and that's him." Coach told the redhead. "Can't believe I didn't see through all that..."
Dylan laughed maniacally. A dark aura began to form around him, and the wind began to pick up speed. The three student grabbed onto the railings with their lives, looking at the scene unfolding in front of their eyes in pure shock.
"That's... that's Kim Possible right?" Piper was the first one to say something.
Leo blinked, and nodded in confirmation. "I know she can do anything, but isn't this something off the plane of logic and science?"
"Shut up, Leo." Piper told the ark haired boy.
Meanwhile, Jason's head was pounding. The images of the storm spirits, the fighting. The words he had exchanged with Coach Hedge. He knew those were important links to tell him who he was, and why he was here. But no matter how hard he tried to piece the puzzle together, he couldn't piece the whole picture.
"Half-blood..." He mumbled. He didn't even know why he said that, but he knew he redhead was one.
Kim dashed forward once more, studs and the blade connecting with more storm spirits, sending them back to the Underworld. Anger was evident in Dylan's eyes, but Kim paid no heed to the ring master now. She had to vanquish his minions first.
One last punch, and the final storm spirit dissipated into dust. Kim looked up at the hovering storm spirit. "Your turn."
But Dylan merely smiled. One flap of his jacket, and the wind howled in rage. Kim was caught off by the sudden force, and skidded across the skywalk. Gauntleted hands gripped the railings.
Coach crashed into the railings next to her, being the metal. But he held on tight. "Get him, you rascal! Or I'd get him myself. This is my job after all."
"Yes, let the old man play..." Dylan said with a smirk. "Or is the goat too old to play? That he needs a kid to look after his hooves?"
Coach balled his fists at the words. His baseball bat morphed into a club of some sort, more of a branch since there were still green leaves on them. He was prepared to lunge at them when Kim pushed him back.
"Kimberly!" He said in a heats tone.
Kim shook her head. "No coach, this is my fight. I have to prove that I'm worthy. Bring the kids to Annabeth and Butch. Then return to camp."
The coach looked into those olive green eyes and realised that Kim was serious. He lowered his club and nodded. He turned, and grabbed Leo, who was nearest to him. "Come on, boy, let's get the hell out of here."
Leo still held onto the railings with dear life, even though the coach had a firm grip on him. From past experiences with the short man, there was no guarantee that he would let Leo all into the canyon. "To where?!" He wailed over the wind.
"Camp Half-Blood." He answered gruffly. "Let that damn railing go." He ordered Leo, who refused to listen.
Butch brought the chariot down, as near to them as possible. Annabeth reached out one hand for Leo, another gripping the side of the chariot. Her blonde hair was going in every direction, making it difficult for her to see what was going on, but she trusted Kim. She knew that Kim would cover them.
Leo looked at the extended hand and took it. He released his hold on the railing and the gilt pulled him up into the chariot and dumped him unceremoniously beside Butch. He groaned upon impact, but said nothing else.
Coach Hedge went for Jason next, but he was too distracted to notice the hand. His eyes remained glued to Kim and Dylan. The fight was trying to trigger something in his brain, but he didn't know what it was. The coach grumbled something about demigods, then pulled Jason by the collar and dumped him onto the chariot.
The wind chose that moment to rage even more. A shrill scream pulled Kim from her fight with the storm spirit. One look to her left, and she saw Piper going over the railings. Muttering something under her breath, she headed in the same direction and jumped down after the younger girl. She could hear Coach yelling her name, but she could care less about that now.
She twisted her body, hoping to gain more speed so she could reach the girl faster. She did, after pushing herself off from the side of the sloping canyon. She pulled the girl to her, who ceased to scream when she felt secured arms around her. Kim pulled out her grapple gun, and fired it at the railings, hoping the wires were long enough.
Piper opened her eyes, and saw fiery red mane and olive green eyes. She clung onto Kim, who smiled down at her, reassuring her that everything would be alright. Suddenly she found herself not dropping, but the wind was still howling around them. She looked up, and saw that they were dangling from a thin wire.
"What..." She never got the change to finish her sentence.
Storm spirits emerged from all sides, and Kim grunted as she pushed a button on her grapple gun. The line began to retract, but it was too slow, in her opinion anyway.
Damn, I need to get Wade to get this thing o retract faster.
One spirits came in too near, and was quickly dissipated into dust with one swing from her leg. The others chose to stay at a distance. Dylan was silent. He wanted to tear the teen into pieces there and then, but he wanted to take her down in style too.
Butch manoeuvred the chariot closer, and Annabeth reached for Piper. Piper accepted the hand, while Annabeth couldn't resist the urge to roll her eyes at the redhead.
"Can't you use your demigod abilities for once?"
Kim grinned. "Do I need them when I have this grappler?"
"Do you go everywhere with that thing?" The blonde asked, meaning it as a tease.
"Of course." Kim replied, and jumped back up to the skywalk.
Dylan's form was shifting, but the redhead could still see the arrogant smirk on his face. He waved, and more storm spirits appeared around him, seeming to form from the moving air around them.
"Fight your own fight, coward!"
He smiled, and motioned to his minions. "As you said earlier, why depend on my own skills when I have minions to order around?"
"Who is you master?" Kim demanded. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see Annabeth pulling Coach Hedge into the chariot despite his complaints.
"Don't have one." He replied casually. But Kim knew he was bluffing. There was no storm spirit like him who didn't have a master somewhere.
"Kimberly, we need to leave now!" Annabeth's voice cut through the wind.
But since when did thins went in their favour?
A storm spirit got close enough and blasted lighting at Jason's foot. The blast sent the boy tumbling in the chariot, and the others screamed in fear, except Butch and Annabeth of course. The blast completely burnt off one of his shoes,and left his foot black.
Annabeth blinked at the sight. "You have got to be kidding me..." She muttered, shaking her head.
Butch looked at the one shoe Jason was wearing, and said something which Annabeth didn't need to hear. "He's the guy with one shoe." He pulled on the reins, tying to gain some control over the pegasi.
"Kimberly, let's go!" Butch yelled this time. The pegasi were getting tired after wrestling with the wind for so long. If they stayed here any longer, they were going to break the chariot, and Will wouldn't be happy about it.
Dylan's form was humanoid now. He looked like an angel, dark wing-like structures sprouting from his back, and the lightning flickers in his cold, cruel eyes. "My mistress calls me back. However, I can't return without a souvenir now, can I?"
Funnel clouds appeared above his head, and with one flick from his wrist, he had Coach Hedge in the air. The short man was struggling against the air current, but he was not strong enough to break free. The funnel clouds swallowed him up.
Annabeth was ready to jump after the coach, but Butch held her back. She glared at him, but Butch shook his head. The blonde sucked her teeth, and willed herself to let coach go for now. They could always go back for the coach. But she couldn't lose Kimberly now. Especially when the redhead seemed fixed to save the coach.
"Butch, down!" She ordered the male who nodded and brought the chariot to a descent. She grabbed Kimberly when she was close enough, and ignored whatever the redhead was mumbling about. Which was mainly on how the chariot wouldn't be able to hold their weight, or something a long the line.
Butch brought the chariot into a sharp ascent when he saw Annabeth's grip on Kim. He pulled at the reins, and the pegasi let out an irritated neigh before flapping their wings.
Dylan's maniacal laughter echoed off the walls of the canyon, until he too disappeared into the funnel clouds and the clouds gave way to the blue skies.
" So, that's the end?" Leo began to say.
Lightning flashed, and the chariot shuddered. White flames were licking at the wheel, and slowly making its way up to the chariot.
"Will is going to kill us over this..." Butch mumbled, trying to gain control over the pegasi.
"Left wheel's on fire!" Jason yelled.
"You jut have to open your big mouth, Leo!" Piper screamed at the male.
Leo shrugged. "Not my fault!!"
The wind roared, and dark shapes formed in the clouds behind them. More storm spirits were headed in their way, except, they looked nothing like the storm spirits from before. These looked like stallions.
"What?"
"Anemoi, which are storm spirits, appear in different forms, depending on how chaotic they are. Hold on, this is going to get rough." She turned to Butch. "Now!"
As a response, Butch flicked the reins, and the pegasi put on a burst of speed. The chariot blurred, and the three kids felt the world around them crumbled into darkness. When things came back to normal, they found themselves in a completely different place. There was no skywalk, no Grand Canyon.
A cold grey ocean stretched out to the left. Snow covered fields, roads and forests spread to the right. Directly below them was a green valley, like an island of springtime, rimmed with snowy hills on three sides and water to the north. They could see a cluster of buildings like ancient Greek temples, a big blue mansion, ball courts, a lake, and a climbing wall that seemed to be on fire.
But before any of the newcomers could express their awe, the wheels came off from the chariot and they began to plummet out of the sky.
Annabeth and Butch tried to maintain control while Kim held the three younger teen together in a group hug. The pegasi laboured to hold the chariot in flight pattern, but they seemed to be exhausted from their burst of energy, and bearing the weight of six people was too much. Not to mention the uphill fight against the wind earlier.
"The lake!" Annabeth yelled. "Aim for the lake!"
Kim looked up at Annabeth. "Are you insane? The impact force would kill us!"
Butch pulled at the reins. "You'll never know until you try, right?"
The next thing they knew, numbing coldness surrounded them. Kim, Butch and Annabeth quickly swam to the surface, no wanting to encounter the creatures that lurked in the murky depths. None of them seemed to remember that they had passengers with them.
Before the three could dive back into the lake, the three newcomers were tossed onto the shore, shivering and gasping. Kids rushed forward with blankets and blowers, while several others dived into the lake and cut off the wrecked harnesses from the pegasi.
There were at least twenty campers milling around. The youngest was maybe nine, the oldest perhaps nineteen, all clad in orange T-shirts.
"Annabeth!" A guy with a bow and quiver on his back pushed through the crowd. "I said you could borrow the chariot, not destroy it!"
"Told you not to dive into the lake..." Kim mumbled.
"Kimberly." Will nodded in her direction.
"KP?" A voice the redhead knew too well called out. The crowd parted to reveal a freckled blonde and an ebony haired beauty.
Kim slapped herself in the forehead. "Can this summer get any worse?"
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So, yeah, that's for now. Ron and Monique are at Camp Half -Blood, who would've guess that? Anyone want to guess who is Kim's godly parent?
