Chosen Destiny
Chapter 2

Authors note
Two posts and no reviews. Have I done something to offend people? Or is it that no one reads this story? If it's that bad tell me, I'll either fix it or ditch it.


Kim found herself in her own room, outside was the same old view and inside everything was the same but none of it felt right. Walking around the empty house things began to have more meaning. A book was somehow more than a story and the T.V. wasn't working. Another thing that wasn't working was Kim's brain, it excepted the strangeness with almost clinical detachment.

Struggling against it Kim found a small dart on the table. 'That hit me?' Between blinks she remembered the dart and the falling unconscious but not why. 'Something strange is going on here.'

A polite knock on the door shocked her. Half running to the door she wondered who it was. On the other side stood a woman with long red hair, she was dressed in a almost medieval velvet dress. 'Hello?'

'Hi. My name's Willow. Can I come in Kimberly?' Her hair was a darker red than Kim's and she was only a few inches shorter.

'Why would you want to?'

'We need to talk and it's a lot more comfortable inside.'

'Alright.' Kim lead Willow into the living room. 'What do you want to talk about?'

'This really.' She gestured at the house. 'When you look around what do you see?'

'My home, with a stranger in it.' Kim answered with venom.

'I see a memory of a home, outside is a memory too. In fact all of this is in your mind while your sleeping.'

'Are you telling me this is a dream? Then how are you here, I've never met you before.'

'No you haven't. This is a sort of interview, you passed the test with Faith and now we want to know more about you.' Willow smiled before walking over to the bookshelf.

Again memories flashed before her eye's. Memories of the knock down drag out fight with Faith 'An interview? How?'

'I'm a witch and looking through your mind is as simple as reading this book.' She pulled a book from the beginning of the shelf

'A witch, whatever. Going to turn me into a toad? Get real.'

'If you insist,' she opened the book. 'Ah. What can you tell me about "DNAmy"?

Kim fell back onto the sofa. 'N… Nothing.' She stammered as everything about the mad genetic scientist flashed before her.

She was still shaking off the feeling when Willow spoke. 'Ugh twisted. Basically creating demons through genetics simply because she wanted real life plush toys? Freaky.'

'How did you know that?' Kim stood up quickly.

'That memory burst I triggered. I see them too. Lets move on shall we.'

'Wait! Everything I know, everything I remember and you can just read it like that.'

'And the fun thing is that by the end of this I should know you better than you know yourself.' Despite the cheer in her words she looked just as uncomfortable at that revelation.

Kim tried to stop her but there was no way to fight. The woman read her way from one end of the shelf to the other. Every friend and foe was scanned save for one. 'Well that is interesting, you don't even know where your memories of Ronald are. He's not on the shelf.'

'If I have anything to do with it you won't find him. If this is an interview what's it for? You owe me that at least.' Kim tried to salvage some dignity from the situation.

'Your right I do, and I am sorry about all this. This morning you found yourself here.' Without any warning the house vanished and they were sitting on Kim's sofa watching that mornings fight with Shego. 'Something happened to you here. You changed.'

'You know about that?'

'Sweetie I was the one who made it happen. This isn't the best place to talk about it but what happened here has effected you life forever.' She looked away and nodded. 'I'm sorry to say your interview is over.'

'If this changed me and you did it then you can fix it. Undo whatever you did.'

'All I did was unlock your potential. The change came from within you, you are a Slayer and from what I can tell you're going to be a damn good one at that.' Then her face blanched and things began to get darker. 'I've got to go now, something's coming. A slayer memory. I'm sorry about that but I can't stop it.' And she vanished as the darkness shattered and Kim faced a nightmare.

'AHAAAAAAAAAA!' Bolting upright Kim hugged her knees to her chest as the shock of the nightmare left her. 'If I ever have a nightmare like that that again it will be too soon, way too soon!' Standing up she took stock of the smallish room she was in, it was kind of dusty and unused. The furniture was cheap and bulky, everything screamed hotel room. It wasn't hard for her to guess where she was.

'KP! KP was that you?' A voice came from the floor.

'Ron! Thank god your okay, where are you?' Kim knelt down.

'In some old hotel room, it sounds like your above me.'

'I am, hold on I'm coming down.'

'How?'

'I'll tell you that when I figure it out myself.'

'Great!'

There were two possibility's the first was the door. It was locked when she tried it. 'Hello?' She asked just in case.

'Yes?' Came from the guard on the other side. It sounded like another woman

'If you don't let me out right now I'm coming through this door'

'Good luck, we've braced it against the other wall, not even slayer strength will do you any good.'

'I don't know what slayer strength is but try this for size.' Kim kicked and pounded on the door with no effect finally she charged it from the other side of the room only to bounce off.

'Told ya!' Came from the guard.

'Thanks.' Kim didn't try to hid her sarcasm.

'Don't mention it'

Mumbling to herself Kim went for the second option, the window. They had left it unlocked for a very good reason. She was on the top floor and a jump to the ground from here would certainly kill her, but she wasn't planning to reach the ground just yet. Hand standing on the rail she looked down and saw the window to Ron's room was also open, Thanking the luck gods that these people were almost as incompetent as the henchmen she was used to she flipped into the room below.

'Whoa KP since when could you do that?' Ron jumped back as she landed almost on his toes.

'This morning. What happened to you?'

'I was just waking up when I saw you hit the ground. That Faith woman has an army of girls KP. Two of them followed a red head woman, they were carrying you. Three others dragged me to my feet and took me here. I was worried, it's been an hour KP.'

Rubbing her backside she said 'Feels longer than that.'

'What's up with your butt?' Ron asked his eyebrows rising.

'Somebody shot it with a dart gun.' Kim grunted, this was not a good mission. 'Where's Rufus?'

'Grabbed along with our Kimunicators. They tied him up and put him on that destroyed counter, with the Kimunicators.'

'We need them to call Wade and get the cavalry here pronto.'

'I'm sensing planning time.' Ron smiled

'My door's harder to get out of than a bank vault, How's this one?'

'Locked and I think guarded.'

'Then we knock real loud. On three we ram it.'

'Destruction, subtle.' Ron smiled at his weak joke.

'Ready? One. Two. Three.' They both crashed into the door, splintering the frame and shocking the two guards. One who looked like a goth and couldn't be any older than Kim herself recovered quickly and pointed what had to be a crossbow at them. Kim watched Ron roll across the floor taking the girl's legs out from under her.

The other guard had a samurai sword and came after her. It was a short fight as Kim kicked the sword from the other girls hand before delivering a round house kick to her gut. The guard bounced off the wall straight into a snap kick that floored her.

Kim span around to help Ron and was amazed as he used the butt of the crossbow across the other guards head, knocking her out. 'That was fun.' He said before inspecting the weapon.

'You really are getting good Ron.'

'It's your bad influence KP.' He cocked the crossbow like a shotgun before firing into the wall. 'Nice. A pump action crossbow with a bunch of pointy things in the top.' He cocked it again.

'Those pointy things are called blots Ron. Are you sure you can use that.' Ron's record with weapons was never what you would call competent.

'Never know until you try KP. So let's try now .' He pointed down the corridor as two more girls, both armed with swords this time came out of an elevator and were heading straight for them. Kim somehow knew what to do with her sword, acting on pure instinct she pointed the blade at the one charging her and listed all the moves she could do given the space. Two swords clashed in the air and again and again. Sparing a glance she checked on Ron who had caught the other ones sword on the stock of the crossbow and was kicking at her legs.

Her opponent used that time to push her back against the wall, Dropping her sword Kim danced around her and punched as hard as she could, determined to finish the fight fast and help Ron. The other girl was just too fast and moved out of the way, Kim's fist went through the wall with a crash.

Ron pushed his opponent into the floor with enough force to wind her, a quick back hand was all reminder she needed to stay down. He saw the other one kick Kim out of the wall before scissor kicking her away from her sword. Thinking fast he aimed and fired the crossbow with pin-point accuracy.

Kim ignored her sore arm and focused on the girl in front when Ron's crossbow bolt shattered against her bade, knocking it out of the attackers hand. Seizing the opportunity Kim kicked the girl twice before punching her in the face and winning. 'Good shot Ron!'

'I was aiming for her legs.' He admitted looking away.

'Never mind, it worked. We should take the stairs.'

He only nodded in response. Kim picked up both swords but only kept the first one. They scampered down the stairs but found no one else nearby. Eventually they made it to the first floor. Kim glanced round the last corner before the flight of steps that lead to the reception.

She shook her head, 'There are five of them down there. Including Faith. I think one of them is called Willow, I'm not sure about the other three. One's a blond woman about Faith's age and the other two are men. One with an eye patch and the other is as old as my dad.'

Ron checked his weapon before cocking it silently 'So what do you suggest.' He said in that cold voice she had only heard once before, that morning when he warned her to be careful.

'I go outside, you distract them and try and get them to follow you back inside. I rush in through the main doors and grab Rue and the Kimunicators and you meet me outside when you give them the slip through the same window I'm about to go out of.' She headed back to find a room they could escape from.

'Good plan, but I have a better one.' He reached out with his free hand and held her arm.

'What?'

'I follow you down those stairs.' He said, Kim could see some sort of immense pain behind his eyes.

'There's five of them armed with god only knows what. We'd be slaughtered!'

'True, even if they're unarmed Faith and Buffy could beat you senseless in a heart beat. So after you. Please KP this is hard enough already.' With that he pointed the crossbow at her. 'You have to trust me on this.'

End Chapter 2