Opening File: Kim Possible
Kim Possible was an ordinary young girl leading an ordinary life. By her preteen years she was wishing to supplement her allowance, so she decided to start up her own babysitting business and set up her own website: ' ', under the slogan, 'I can do anything' to advertise her services. Soon after her site went live Kim was accidentally contacted by Mr. McHenry who was in trouble and was trying to contact a different group of heroes, 'Team Impossible', but because of a typing error he contacted ' ' instead of ' .' After the rescue, Kim's fame as a hero grew until she was being contacted for help by people all over the world, including governments and royalty, as a matter of daily activity.
This led to a long and successful career as a teenaged heroine and a success rate which only added to her fame. Kim usually avoids missions involving Grimm but had been trained to fight by taking combat classes, including having her Aura awakened and Semblance. She is on good terms with various law enforcement, government, and military agencies. For the most part, her schoolmates are aware of her work but don't do anything about it unless it somehow affects them directly.
At school, Kim is one of the most popular kids, the head of her cheer-leading squad and a straight-A student, rather than as a misunderstood outsider/underdog as typical of the genre.
Class File
Xxx
"There it is."
Tom pointed up ahead, straight at Avalon as everyone looked forward. Avalon looked the same but darker, more foreboding with a dark haze surrounding the island and blocking out the sun.
"What is that?" Eliza asked, covering her eyes as a strong wind slammed into the boat.
"Some sort of dark magic." Goliath narrowed his eyes. "Time is short. Eliza when we get to shore, take the boat back and try to find Cu Chullain. He has defeated Crom once and we may need him to do so again."
"While you go on a rescue mission of the other gargoyles." Eliza crossed her arms, not liking the idea of being sent back while the others did all the fighting but someone had to find Cu Chullain and she was best suited for it.
There was no way to know for sure if Cu Chullain could find his way to Avalon but Eliza hoped Avalon itself would guide her to Cu Chullain.
"Angela will take point since she knows the island best. We will try to sneak into the castle and free our brothers and sisters." Goliath turned to his daughter who nodded.
"If we are discovered I will hold off Crom." Arthur volunteered. "I've faced him before. I know what to expect."
"I will assist Arthur." Macbeth said, standing beside his fellow king.
"As will I. Former king or not I was made Arthur's knight." Griff said, patting on Arthur's shoulder.
"If something goes wrong I order you to flee or to hide. No unnecessary risks." Goliath said, making sure every gargoyle in the clan understood.
They all knew the risks.
They all knew what they might be facing.
But the thought of losing just one member of their clan, of their family was unacceptable.
So they planned on making sure everyone made it back.
Hudson knelt down next to Bronx. "Go with Eliza, boy. She will need someone to help find this Cu Chullain."
Bronx led out a whine but climbed back onto the boat with Eliza. The boat slowly pulled away from the shore, Eliza looking back as it vanished into the fog, her eyes meeting Goliath's before she was gone.
"Let's move. Quickly and quietly." Goliath said to everyone, reminding them why they were here.
Xxx
"This is it?"
Before Crom were three of the four maidens that were to be sacrificed for the ritual. All three were in chains and on their knees as they looked upon Crom who stared back down at them.
"Who are you?" Star asked as her wand was dropped to the ground.
Crom knelt down and picked up the wand.
"Hey! That's mine!"
"What is this toy?" Crom asked, carefully looking it over. "Crom senses powerful magic from it."
"That's the Wand of the Royal Family of Mewni!" Star said, struggling in her chains. "Like I said, that is mine!"
Crom looked back at her, a grin slowly forming on his face. "A Princess with magic? Crom didn't think there would be any left. Nice to know. A fine candidate, Harvester of Growth."
The Harvester of Growth bowed and knelt before his god. "Hail Crom."
"And what has Crom's Harvester of Night brought Crom?" Crom turned to Raven, narrowing his eyes. "This one has the putrid stench of a demon. A half breed..."
Raven glared back, choosing to remain silent while Star glanced to her. "A demon? You know my old boyfriend Tom? Does he have something to do with this?"
"A demon maiden." Crom chuckled. "Well, not what Crom was expecting but she will do."
Crom finally turned his eyes to Danielle who was struggling under the grip of the Harvester of Blood. "…What is this?"
Crom leaned in, sniffing Danielle. "This scent…You wreak of death and yet you are alive…"
"Tha i na leth taibhse, am Morair Crom. Faodaidh i gluasad eadar duine agus marbh. Leth beò, leth marbh.(Translation: She is a half ghost, Lord Crom. She can shift between human and dead. Half alive, half dead.)" The Harvester of Blood explained.
Raven glanced to Danielle, recognizing her from the lab she had awakened when she was dragged into this universe.
"A half human half spirit creature?" Crom's eyes widened as he looked down at Danielle with keen interest. "That is rare, even for the quarry of Crom. But there is something else…" Crom leaned in, now inches from Danielle's face as he sniffed her.
"Don't touch me!" Danielle barked as Crom took a long sniff.
"…What is this?!" Crom stood up, looking at the Harvester of Blood with his orange eyes blazing with the fury of a thousand suns. "Crom told you to bring four firstborn daughters! She is not a first-born!"
Danielle stopped struggling upon hearing what Crom said about her. "…I'm not?"
Crom backhanded the Harvester of Blood, sending him crashing into the wall. "What part of first born was Crom not clear on?! The blood in her tells me that she is a third born with two elder siblings! How could you overlook such a detail! You are the Harvester of Blood are you not?!"
The Harvester of Blood staggered as he stood back up. "Thoir maitheanas dhomh. Smaoinich mi-(Translation: Forgive me. I thought-)"
"You are not meant to think! You are Harvester of Crom, one of the four elite generals in Crom's army! You are not meant to think, you are meant to obey!" Crom raged as he marched over and grabbed the Harvester of Blood by the head, lifting him off the ground. "You are a tiny spirit in a suit of armor and your undead scent is similar to the girl. Crom has a rule of picking his Harvesters! They never indulge in personal affairs when serving Crom. You picked this girl for a reason other than Crom's orders!"
"Please, I-" The Harvester of Blood begged but Crom wasn't listening.
"You are not worthy of the honor of being Crom's general." Crom said, grabbing the Harvester's sickles. "Crom takes back what was offered to you."
As soon as the sickles left his hand the Harvester of Blood's armor shrank down and vanished, leaving only a tiny small green glowing ghost that was left curled up on the floor.
"Disgusting." Crom picked up the tiny form of Skulker and turned around, looking to Danielle who looked terrified now. "Though you are not first born, Crom sees potential in you. If you cannot be a sacrifice Crom can make use of your powers."
"No thanks." With Skulker not holding her down or enchanting the chains anymore Dani changed into her ghost form, easily going intangible and the chains holding her fell to the ground. "I am not going to be anyone's sacrifice or anything else."
With that said, Dani fired an ecto blast at Star and Raven's chains, freeing them instantly. Crom simply grinned in amusement as the Harvesters of Night and Growth quickly tried to subdue their prisoners.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven called out, firing a blast of black energy that hit the Harvester of Night head on, blasting her out of the throne room.
Star grabbed her want, spun around and pointed her want at the Harvester of Growth. "Rainbow Blast!"
A beam resembling a rainbow with hearts and winged bunnies blasted from the wand and hit the Harvester of Growth, blasting him out through the wall much like the Harvester of Night.
"Never send a Harvester to do a Crom's job." Crom crossed his arms, watching as the three girls faced him.
"What's this guy's deal?" Star asked, pointing her wand at Crom.
"He's a god, an evil one." Raven answered, gathering her dark based powers into her hands. "And it seems he wants to sacrifice us."
"You mean you two. I don't want to know what he wants with me." Dani replied, charging an ecto-beam.
"Either way, he's too powerful to face head on, even if we outnumber him. We need go." Raven continued.
"I've had my share of gods. A couple of them work for my mom." Star smirked. "Bring it, crummy."
"The name is…CROM!" Crom shouted, summoning a miniature sun. "CROM CRUACH!"
Xxx
"There it is." Angela pointed at Castle Avalon.
The Gargoyles along with Macbeth and Arthur managed to reach the castle without encountering any guards or obstacles at all.
"I know several ways in we can use." Angela suggested. "I don't think using the front entrance is a good idea."
"Agreed." Goliath nodded. "Tom, you have an idea where the Avalon clan might be hidden."
"Given that Crom can create suns and that heard him planning to use the eggs as gardening ornaments there is a garden that Katherine likes to look after in the courtyard." Tom answered, scowling at the thought of what Crom might have done to the Gargoyles he had protected since he was little. "Might not be safe for you and the other Gargoyles to try to save them. If he has a little sun keeping them all statues you all would end up the same."
"Perhaps if we remove that sun we free the Gargoyles before Crom even notices we're here." Arthur suggested.
BOOM!
Everyone looked up to see a part of the castle blasted away by a strange, rainbow colored explosion.
"I got a feeling he's busy." Brooklyn commented.
Xxx
(Doomsday by Atreyu Starts to Play)
"Dagger Heart Blast!"
Crom summoned a pitchfork and spun it in his hand, blocking and deflecting an incoming barrage of heart shaped daggers. Dani followed up with an ecto-beam but Crom easily dodged, charged at the girls. Raven summoned an energy shield, blocking the initial strike but Crom swung again, easily slicing through the magic. Star summoned a magical bazooka and fired at close range, blasting herself, Raven and Dani back but sending Crom crashing into his throne. Raven was the first to get up and she watched as Crom stood up from his ruined throne, looking annoyed.
"Crom tires of this game." Crom said, marching forward. "The first two are perfect." He held up the lamp around his neck. "The ghost child can be added to Crom's collection."
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven called out.
Star gathered magic into her wand, calling out her attack. "Rainbow Avalanche!"
Dani held out her hands, charging up the biggest ecto-beam she could make and fired at the same time as Raven and Star.
The three powerful blasts shot straight at Crom who simply covered his face, allowing the three blasts to hit him. The entire throne room exploded with the blasts traveling through the walls and out the other side of the castle. When the attacks ended the girls all let gasps of exhaustion as Dani changed back into her human form while Star looked to her wand and noticed it was low on magic. Raven in the meantime managed to keep her eyes on the cloud of dust before her with her senses on high alert.
The smoke cleared to reveal Crom…
Who now resembled half man, half serpent.
"No way…" Star's eyes widened in shock as she let out a stunned whisper. "No one can walk away that unhurt!"
Crom's body seemed to have suffered high degree burns but those injuries were quickly healing. New skin formed, stitching over the open wounds and the lizard skin cracked away, revealing newly formed human skin.
Crom no longer looked amused.
He looked…annoyed.
"Your shenanigans bore Crom." He said, holding out a hand.
There was a white light and the girls felt a mind numbing cold slam into their bodies. Luckily before the ice could reach their heads, a sword slashed down on Crom's arm, cutting into it. The evil god roared in pain and anger as he stepped back, looking at the wound on his arm before turning to the source.
"You…"
It was King Arthur, brandishing Excalibur and next to him was none other than Macbeth dressed in his combat gear with a lightning blaster aimed at the evil god.
"Kidnapping children now, Crom? I thought you would be above such atrocities." Arthur drawled.
Crom snarled, his nostrils actually releasing smoke as if he was breathing fire.
"When last we met I learned Excalibur could injure you." Arthur continued, holding Excalibur with both hands. "Do you dare face it again?"
"That sword can only hurt Crom if it touches Crom!" Crom inhaled and blew, releasing a blast of wind, snow and ice that covered the throne room in ice. "Harvesters, take the sacrifices! Crom will deal with the intruders!"
Roots came out of the ground, grabbing the frozen girls and pulled them away before either Macbeth or Arthur could grab them. Crom summoned a pitchfork as Arthur charged at him. The evil god easily dodged, stabbing at Arthur first but the king easily blocked the pitchfork.
"You dare to pollute Avalon with your presence?" Arthur asked, attacking again.
"Crom will go wherever Crom wants." Crom retorted, blocking or dodging. "But Crom will have a fun time with you as Crom's new play toy."
The god and the king clashed their weapons again but Arthur was not alone. Aiming his lightning gun Macbeth fired when he saw an opening, hitting Crom in the face who staggered slightly. Though he was not hurt the attack distracted him long enough for Arthur to slash him several times, leaving cuts all over Crom's upper body that started bleeding. Gritting his teeth Crom let out a roar, knocking King Arthur back.
He then threw a pitchfork at Macbeth before he could react, stabbing the man right through the chest. As Macbeth collapsed Crom turned to Arthur who managed to get back up.
"It takes a great deal of power to injure Crom." Crom said as he floated up into the air. "Crom gives you credit for that but hurting Crom also makes Crom…ANGRY!"
He held up his hand, creating a miniature sun that soon began to grow in size. It was so bright that Arthur had to cover his eyes. As for Macbeth he managed to pull the pitchfork out of his chest and looked up in time to see Crom ready to throw his own sun that was now the size of a school bus at Arthur.
"Arthur!" He shouted, standing up and running as fast he could.
Arthur looked up in time to see Crom throw the sun at him. He held out his sword, ready to fight and even die as a true king…
Only for Macbeth to slam into him, knocking him aside and for good measure fire his lightning gun at Arthur that knocked him further away.
"MACBETH!" Arthur screamed out.
Macbeth only smiled at his fellow king before looking up and taking the full brunt of the sun. 'Remember my friend, there is only one way for me to die and not even the sun itself can change that.'
The sun collided with him, blasting through the halls of the castle, until finally it shot out of the castle, across the island and fell into the ocean. Upon landing in the ocean it left an explosion that shot up into the air like a mushroom cloud, much like a missile with a powerful warhead.
And in a way it actually was a warhead.
(Doomsday by Atreyu Ends)
Crom floated down into the middle of the ruined throne room, looking around to see Arthur was gone. "The king thinks he has made a fool of Crom but he has yet to escape this God of Nature, Wealth, Sun and Fertility! Harvesters!"
The Harvesters of Night and Growth appeared before him and they looked…disheveled as if they had just been in a battle of their own.
"What has happened?" Crom questioned.
"Gargoyles, Morair Crom. Thug iad ionnsaigh oirnn agus theich iad leis na h-ìobairtean agad.(Translation: Gargoyles, Lord Crom. They ambushed us and escaped with your sacrifices.)" The Harvester of Night answered meekly.
"WHAT?!" Crom roared, his form becoming lizard like again, threatening to change into his true form because of his rage. "GARGOYLES HAVE TAKEN CROM'S SACRIFICES?!"
The Harvesters of Night and Growth trembled as Crom himself shook with barely contained rage…before seemingly calming down. "So a few have survived. No matter. We'll see how they fare when there is no night. My Harvester of the Night!"
"Seadh, a Thighearna Bho?(Translation: Yes, Lord Crom?)" The Harvester of Night answered frightfully.
"Bathe Avalon in sunlight." Crom commanded. "Send out the Bodach to cover the entire island. Do not let them escape to the ocean. Find the Gargoyles and then shatter their statues. I have enough in my garden and these must be made an example of for daring to steal from Crom. Bring the sacrifices back or you will suffer a worse fate than the former Harvester of Blood."
"Seadh, a Thighearna Bho." The Harvester of Night bowed in compliance.
"And in the meantime I need a new Harvester of Blood and two more sacrifices." Crom turned away, using his magic to repair the throne room. "Crom will not fall behind schedule."
"Ma dh 'fhaodas mi, a Thighearna Bho, tha tagraiche eile agam nam inntinn. Is dòcha nach eil i draoidheil ach tha i na ciad maighdeann san teaghlach aice agus na maighdeann.(Translation: If I may, Lord Crom, I have another candidate in mind. She might not be magical but she is a first born maiden in her family and a virgin.)" The Harvester of Night offered.
"Oh?" Crom turned around to face her. "And who would that be?"
The Harvester of Night grinned, recalling a young red haired woman in her mind.
Xxx
"My thanks, Sir Griff. If not for the fact that I remembered Macbeth was immortal I would have charged back in there foolhardily without any strategy."
"That's what Knights are for, Your Majesty. They help their King remember the finer details."
King Arthur hated to flee but it was only thanks to Macbeth that he was alive. He had found Sir Griff and the other Gargoyles who while having found their brothers and sisters could not do anything about the miniature sun keeping them in their statues, forcing them to flee.
But not before helping Griff rescue the three young girls that had been kidnapped by Crom's generals.
"He literally froze them." Hudson said, carrying Danielle whom he remembered from the battle with Billiam. "If we do not find something to warm them soon they could perish."
"We can't stay out here and not expect to be attack either." Brooklyn said, looking back to Castle Avalon and saw legions of Bodach emerging from it.
"And we've just been cut off." Brooklyn, who was carrying Star, stopped and pointed ahead.
The beach was crawling with more of those demons, ready to attack them.
"This way!" Arthur pointed into the woods.
Time was short and with the island swarming with Crom's demons and cutting them off from the beach, destroying any boats they could use they were forced to run anywhere.
But the question was how long could they keep running?
"Where can we hope to hide with those things chasing us?" Katana asked while carrying Raven.
"The cave I slept in. It can provide us with cover from the demons and I doubt Crom knows of it." Arthur answered. "Hopefully we'll have enough time to make a plan."
Xxx
The aftermath of Crom's sun hitting the ocean left a pillar of steam rising into the air. Not far from it, a body floated away from the steam. This body had been completely burned to the point it was nothing ashes and bone…
And yet there was something at work.
The body slowly began to regenerate as a form of energy raced through it. At first the regeneration was slow but new muscles and nerves started to grow around the bones, followed by new skin. The body floated through a mist that had suddenly appeared around it. There was no telling how long it traveled through the mist.
When it finally emerged from the mist, Macbeth was almost completely healed but had lost his armor, equipment and even his clothing to Crom's sun.
'Even the power of the sun cannot kill me…' Macbeth whispered in his mind, momentarily awakening before falling back into the realm of dreams.
His body floated down a river, coming near a dock where someone was waiting. That person reached out, grabbing him and carefully pulled him out.
"You've been through a great deal. I can see that." The person was none other than Master Monk Guan of the Jade Academy. "I would love nothing more than to allow you to rest. You have more than earned it but the world needs you, us to come together."
With that in mind Monk Guan picked the unconscious Macbeth him and carried him off the dock, heading to the Jade Academy.
Xxx
When Eliza emerged from the mist she wasn't sure if Avalon would take her directly to Cu Chullain. Having traveled all across the world from Avalon she knew it meant to take her places where she would be needed, not exactly where she wanted to go.
She only hoped she was needed somewhere close to Cu Chullain, or Rory Dugan as he went by these days.
…
"Good to see you again, miss."
Turns out she was taken exactly where she was needed and where she wanted to go.
Rory Dugan was waiting for her as her boat came ashore with a Shepard's cane in his hand.
"Rory." Eliza jumped off the boat to meet him. "I'm glad to have found you. We need your help."
"And I need help as well." Rory nodded. "I take it you might have heard of a problem calling itself Crom?"
"Yeah." Eliza nodded. "He's causing a lot of trouble."
"I figured as much. We don't have much time." Rory said, gesturing for her to get back on the boat. "We have to find this cane's owner."
"Why?" Eliza asked, taking the wheel of the boat.
"Only a true Shepard can stop Crom. A Shepard with twelve chosen and a hero to stand with him." Rory said, holding up the cane as it momentarily flashed with a magical light.