I do not own the characters named herein from Disney, and am only using them for a tale meant for entertainment purposes only.

Kim Possible: Dark Moon Rising

By LJ58

20

Adam smiled as he stepped into the Possible household, and nodded to the adults.

The twins were at home this time, and both studied him, but said nothing.

"Boys," he nodded at them.

"Is Kim with you," Ann asked.

"We'll be meeting her at my cabin. You have the time off?"

"Yes. I hope you don't mind, but we have to bring the boys. Even they aren't old enough to stay on their own," Ann told him.

"Of course. Just so they understand that on the Moon night, they need to stay inside, and away from any of us. Still, considering your….family, it wouldn't hurt for them to understand certain realities. After all, they may someday have a new sibling that needs their support."

"Oh," Ann rasped. "So, if we did have another child…..?"

"Ann," James looked horrified.

"They would be a wolf," Adam nodded. "There are some cases where the cub might be Norm, but more often than not, they are born wolf. They simply don't manifest until around sixteen. A lupine puberty, if you will."

"I just thought we should know everything," Ann told her rattled husband.

"A wise, and practical decision," Adam told her. "Shall we go?"

"So, we'll be following you…..?"

"Yes. I favor keeping my truck. It has certain…..tools I require now, and again," he smiled.

"No problem," James assured him. "We can follow you in the van, and…"

"Can we ride with you," Jim and Tim both asked as they eyed the man that had showed up to dramatically change their family of late.

"Boys," Ann frowned.

"I don't mind," Adam smiled at the adults. "It's been a while since I was around cubs, but I think I can manage."

"If you have to stop, don't hesitate," Ann told him. "And, boys….."

"We know," the teens sighed.

"Just behave, Jim. Tim. This is….very serious for all of us right now."

"Jeez, dad, we're not feebs. We can be mature."

Which made both parents gape, and shake their heads at them.

"Cubs can surprise you, can't they," Adam smiled. "Even when you think you know them."

"Especially those two," Ann told him.

"Kimberly has told me some stories," he said, watching as locked up the house after they stepped out, and then set a security system that was quite impressive.

"I'll bet she hasn't told you the worst."

"I don't mind spirit," Adam assured James. "Now, shall we get going? It's a long road, and we still have a lot to do."

"We could have just flown….."

Adam looked grim now.

"I don't fly."

"Ever? But how….?"

"It's a….personality issue. I don't fly," Adam told her. "So, shall we go?"

The Possibles loaded up, and followed Adam, who had both twins in the front seat, asking questions nonstop as they grilled him. Unlike most, they were somewhat astonished that Adam Starke didn't seem to mind, and was even patient with some of their queries, answering them in ways they didn't think of themselves.

As they drove east, they had time for a lot of questions.

KP

The phone rang in the dark room as Ian Darke studied the latest copy of a very hard to find grimoire, still hunting his answers.

"What," he snapped, knowing the caller, but despising the interruption.

"Have you see the news?"

"Why would I bother with such pointless bickering," he demanded of the caller, wondering why he chose to waste his time.

"Turn it on."

"Why would…..?"

"Turn it on," he was told.

He walked into the next room, eyed the television he seldom ever switched on, and thumbed the remote. He had to hunt for a channel with news broadcasting, and gaped as he realized he was staring not only at Possible, but at her family. Including a mother he had been certain had been dying when he had last seen her.

"Impossible," he spat, listening to the replays, and speculation over the ridiculing of his might, and power. "She dares…..?"

"Your value is compromised, Lord Darke," the voice growled. "I think it's time we took another tact with Possible. Before your bungling causes even more harm to our cause."

"Our cause? I was following the grim path before you were ever born, pretender! I underestimated her once, but next time….."

"There is no next time. I will handle the bitch. I will handle her my way."

"Your witless ploys will not defeat this one," Ian spat back. "I faced her claws and rage. I felt the power in her. I know her heart now. She may even yet turn to our cause, if we just find….."

"You will do nothing. Fool. Didn't you pay attention to anything? She absorbed the bite of a blood leech, and shrugged it off. She faced you, and brushed you off. She is growing, Darke. Continuing to evolve. I believe…..she may be in touch with the bitch-goddess herself!"

Ian tensed.

"All the more reason to….."

"Not make mistakes. Stand down, and stand back. I will manage this one. She requires….care, and subtlety. If I require more bungling, I'll contact you."

Ian cursed, flinging his phone with such force it all but shattered, even as the sheetrock in the room cracked, and broke under the force of the disintegrating phone.

"Bungling," he swore. "Dismiss me like a charlatan? I shall show you subtlety," he spat, and went back to his books.

There was only one reason the Possible matron had survived. She was the Druid matron, as he had guessed. Which confirmed Kimberly was her successor, and already growing beyond her, as expected of their kind. Annoying guardians of nature. As if their way were any better than his own.

Well, he would ensure they had cause to remember him as more than a pretender before he was finished.

Still, if she could manage a leech, perhaps they needed something more….formidable.

Flipping pages, he went in search of a true threat. One that would finally wipe away even those smug, annoying druid bitches from his world.

KP

Kim smiled as they unpacked in the somewhat cramped cabin, but wasn't worried over space.

"You actually go naked," Jim and Tim muttered.

"So," Kim asked with a grin.

"Well, Shego would be hot, but….you and mom? No, thanks," he huffed.

"We're not asking you to watch, boys," Ann found herself laughing at her sons as Adam, James, and Shego were outside just then while they unpacked, and cordoned off pallets for their stay.

"Just make sure they didn't pack any cameras, mom," Kim told her. "The last thing we need is the wrong kind of pictures getting out."

"When you say wrong," Tim murmured.

"Any picture is the wrong kind, young man," Ann snapped at him. "Got it?"

"Got it," Tim cringed back from her.

"Don't worry, boys. You'll still have fun. There's a whole mountain out there for you to explore."

"And not one laboratory," Jim muttered.

"Or hardware store," Tim added.

The two redheads sighed, and rolled their eyes.

"And you wanted them along, why," Kim asked.

"Well, we couldn't leave them at home."

"Oh, right. Talk about weapons of mass destruction," she smirked at her brothers.

"Hey," they both complained. "We're not that bad."

The redheads both eyed the pair again.

"Who knows the police, and fire chiefs in three cities by name?"

"Mom," Jim grumbled. "That was…..before."

"We're really improving our inventions these days," Tim added. "We haven't had anything explode in…"

"Weeks," Jim suggested.

"Months," Tim tried.

"Right," Ann and Kim both drawled skeptically.

"Let's just finish up, then we can go out, and get the tour from Mr. Starke. Whom I suggest you listen to, boys," Ann told them.

"She's right, Tweebs. Games aside, we're out in the wild, and there are things out there than can hurt you. Even kill you."

"You mean besides you," they asked Kim dryly.

"Ha, ha. I mean real wolves, well, natural wolves, and bears, or the topography, or….."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just because you're some kind of hotshot super spy, don't think we're less capable than you," Tim told her.

"Yeah. Anything you can do," Jim started, then frowned. "Well, anything natural you can do, we can do better."

"And with style," Tim smirked.

"Right," Kim sighed, and walked out of the cabin. "All yours, mom."

"What was that," the boys demanded, not quite catching what she muttered after that.

Kim only smirked as she went in search of Shego, and found her looking west, toward the high falls where they knew the ridge hid a buried lab.

"You okay, Shego?"

"Yeah. Just….remembering."

"Well, just remember where you are now, and why. You beat the odds. We both did. And we're both good at it. So relax, and let's enjoy the next few days while we help my parents catch up."

"And your brothers?"

"I'm hoping we can find a place to lose them in. Cave. Pit. Isolated shed we can nail shut."

"Right. The usual. You know, we could carry them up to the falls, and see if they survive going over like you did."

They heard footsteps hastily running off, and both turned to grin at one another.

"Think that will buy us some peace and quiet from the wannabe nature scouts?"

"For at least ten minutes. Maybe," Kim predicted.

"Listen, on a more serious note, I'm worried about what happens next, Kim. You can bet we tweaked that freak good when you put on your little show earlier. You can also bet he's not going to like it. At all."

"Especially if he's back from wherever my little EM bomb sent him. Which, I hate to admit, sounds likely if he's half what Betty describes these guys can be."

"Yeah. In short, utter freaks."

"Granted. We just have to stay sharp, and remember one thing."

"Yeah?"

"We've both beat worse," Kim smiled. "Now, if there is nothing else, I'm going to do the meditation thing," she told Shego as she lifted her top, pulling it off. "Adam suggested it's going to be very handy for the preparation I have to do for this…commission."

"Should I join you, or guard you," Shego asked earnestly as she glanced around.

"Their Tweebs, Shego. Not much you can do about them. But they do have to get used to…. Well, all of this. So, your call."

"I'll just watch from the bank. I'm still not into the cold water thrill you get, even if I do have comet powers to help heat me up," she added as Kim grinned.

"Softie," she accused.

"We'll settle that after you meditate," Kim was told.

Kim only smiled, and continued stripping before she left her clothes folded on the side of the bank before stepping into the creek that was almost neck deep when she sat down in it, letting it flow around her as she focused her mind as she had been taught, and closed her eyes to seek her other side once more.

They still had a lot to talk about.

KP

Shego sat cross-legged on the bank of the creek, watching Kim as she meditated, but still wearing only her panty as she let the sun warm her bared green skin.

"We have to….undress," Ann grimaced as she eyed her daughter, sitting in the creek naked, and staring at nothing as her lids slowly drooped until her eyes were all but closed.

"It helps you get in touch with the world around you. And the wolf inside you," Adam told her. "I'm not joking. And, it helps to get comfortable with your own skin, because let's face it, when you do change, you won't be wearing much else," he smiled at her

"Well, in my day….." James paused, and frowned as Adam and Ann both eyed him. "Nope. I've got nothing."

The twins gaped at that.

"No way," Jim exclaimed.

"Dad, without a story?"

"Boys, behave," Ann sighed, fighting her full-body blush, but not well. "And, I believe this is supposed to be a lesson."

"It is," Adam nodded, pulling off his own customary flannel shirt, and showing an already hairy chest of hard, flat muscle. "For all of you," he nodded at the boys. "It's discipline. You master the body, and mind, and then everything else falls in place. For you two, in particular, you will need that discipline when you first face your wolves, just as I taught Kimberly. You let it run wild, or try to repress it, and it only leads to trouble. Shego can tell you that one."

"Oh, yeah," Shego murmured quietly, eyes still locked on Kim.

"You learn to hone your focus, and your discipline, and you can do anything," Adam told them.

"Well, after all the hours I've logged in surgery, I believe I can manage this."

"I hope you're right, Mrs. Possible. What about you, sir?"

"Well, to be honest…."

"Dad can be scatterbrained," Jim rasped in an aside.

Adam said nothing to that as he only smiled while they all finished undressing.

"All right, sit."

"Not in the creek," Ann asked, sounding grateful.

"Not yet. I doubt you are quite ready for that level," Adam told her. "First, we get you in touch with your own selves. Then, we learn to connect beyond that self. I'm going to give you a shortcut, since our time is curtailed here. Ready?"

"Ready," James nodded, sitting beside his wife, and smiling at her lean, shapely form.

"Focus, James," Adam growled, flashing suddenly sharp fangs. "You, too, boys," he added as the pair continued to look at Shego, but tried not to look at the other women around them.

Much.

"First, deep breaths," Adam instructed as they began.

To Be Continued…