Chosen Destiny
Chapter 3

Authors note
To me this is getting stupid. This is the fourth post and if anyone wants me to write more please review, otherwise I'm abandoning this story. The real point is why should I continue if no ones reading it?


Kim looked at Ron in shock. How could he, her best friend, betray her like this. 'Ron?'

'No one will hurt you KP, go down the stairs.'

'It's quite alright Miss Possible, Ronald is telling you the truth.' Came an English voice from the ground floor.

Dashing the tears from her eyes she walked down the steps. 'Why Ron please just tell me why.'

'Something very important is happening. As much as I loathe this, it was the only way you knew I meant it.'

'By betraying me?'

'Believe me it hurts me a lot more than it hurts you.'

'What makes you think I'll ever believe a word you say again.'

'There is a reason behind everything I've done today. Now is when you find it out.' He walked past her and handed the crossbow to the one eyed man. Before sitting next to her on one of two chairs that had been placed there.

'Hello Miss Possible and welcome to the temporary watcher headquarters.' The elder English man smiled at her, 'I am Rupert Giles, this is Buffy Summers.' He gestured to the short blond woman who smiled. 'You've already met Faith and Willow.'

'Hello Kimberly.'

'Short time no see Kiddo'

'and this is Alexander Harris'

'Just call me Xander. Um what do you like to be called?' He glanced at Ron who Kim noticed kept his mouth shut.

'Kim's fine Xander. Now that I know where I stand, or sit, would one of you,' she included Ron in her question and he flinched, 'mind telling me what the hell is going on?'

'It is quite simple Miss Possible, sorry Kim, early this morning the people you met in this building were underground where Sunnydale once was.'

'You caused the cave in?' Kim asked

'In a matter of speaking. As Willow has told you, you are a Slayer. You have been chosen to save the world from the forces of darkness.'

'I do that every other day.' Kim threatened

'So do we. Your foes are a variety of carnival clowns. Your blue skinned foe Draken is nothing compared to the true enemies of humanity. A Slayers destiny is to rid the world of vampires, demons and all the forces of darkness. You have been granted strength, speed and exceptional healing to aid you.'

'I have to fight demons? Get real! They don't exist, your all wacko.' Kim almost laughed. Memories of her nightmares crept in the shadows at the back of her mind.

'They do exist KP.' Ron said in a sad voice. 'Your nightmares, remember you told me about them in kindergarten. Where you're a different person and you have to fight the men with big teeth. Every potential Slayer has them. They're the memories of past Slayers. Every Slayer inherits them.'

'You knew about this?' She demanded.

'Yes, for about five years now. My uncle told me about them and began my training as a watcher.'

'What's a watcher and what do you mean your one?'

Rupert Giles coughed, 'A watchers job is to guide the… a Slayer. They are the Slayer's guardian and protector. His job is to teach you about your strengths and remind you of your weakness.'

'And how's Ron and Rufus involved in all this. Where is he anyway?'

'My nephew is continuing the family tradition, he is currently your watcher. Ronald's pet is his assistant, as for where the infernal rat is I have no idea.'

'I do.' Said Buffy Summers, 'DAWN!' She bellowed loud enough to shock Kim onto the back legs of the chair.

'WHERE'S RONALD'S PET RAT THING' The blond woman shouted at the office in the corner.

A slightly taller brunet came out of the office 'He's a hairless-mole-rat and he does have a name you know!' She was cradling the hairless-mole-rat in one arm and scratching him under the chin. Rufus waved to Ron before grabbing Dawn's finger and shaking it. 'Aww he's so cute!' She laughed before heading back into the office.'Always the same. Everywhere we go he attracts girls faster than a grotagogth demon attracts bad face hair.' Ron moaned.

'Moving swiftly on,' Mr Giles interjected, 'You are a Slayer and Ronald here is your watcher. You were brought here to be evaluated.'

'And what happens to me if I fail these tests of yours?'

'To you Kim? Why absolutely nothing If however you are not skilled enough or simply require more extensive training then Ronald will be relived as your watcher and another assigned. Due to recent events that might prove to be a problem…'

'Hang if I fail Ron loses his job! What kind of people are you?' Kim exploded.

'It's the only way KP. If I'm not good enough its you who will suffer.' Ron calmly explained. 'My uncle is a lot better at running things that the others, they would have insisted you were tested with an actual vampire. Hell they might even have let you die if you failed.'

'Indeed. Since the recent events the Watchers council has had to rethink its policies and the activation of all surviving potential Slayers has further complicated the situation.'

'Surviving Slayers? Someone's trying to kill us… I mean you?' Kim asked.

Ron answered 'You were right the first time KP, "us". Three harbingers came for you two weeks ago. You were lucky I stopped them.'

'Ronald! You never told me about that!' Mr Giles jumped up.

'Sorry uncle, I was busy.'

'How did you stop these "harbingers" Ron. Some special monkey ninja trick?'

'No. My dart gun and a sharp knife they had was enough.' He pulled a pistol from the small of his back.

'You were the one who shot me in the butt!' Kim cried out.

'I was surprised he hit, there ain't much to aim at.' Faith joked before a red dart embedded itself in her neck. 'I take that back.' She said pulling it out.

'Sorry about that Faith.' Ron said before the woman hit the ground and fell asleep. He was quickly disarmed by a snickering Xander

'You're a good shot kid. I wouldn't want to be you when she wakes up.' The man said.

'I don't like people making fun of Kim that's all.' Ron smiled at Kim. Without thinking she winked a thanks to him before remembering that she was mad at him.

'If there are no more distractions, or guns for that matter, it is time for the evaluation. Willow you first.'

'She's overconfident, cocky and complacent in academics. Too intelligent for her own good. Just like Buffy was at her age. 'cept for the good in classes stuff .'

'Hey!' The blond exclaimed.

'Sorry Buffy it's true. Unfortunately she doesn't believe us. She wants to for her friends sake but she spent so much time convincing herself that her dreams were just that that she might not accept the way things are until it's too late. '

'It's my turn now, I watched the fight she had with Faith.' Buffy spoke up. She looked down at Kim and their eyes met. In that second Kim found out all she ever wanted to know about Slayers. This woman was battle scared, If the people Kim had fought so far were any indication the woman in front was the oldest Slayer there and it had left a mark. 'She's fast, sloppy and relies on one form too much. Faith was stringing her along. She thinks she good, an attitude like that will just get her killed. I would say she should stay with us and train with the others but then there was that dive.' The woman's eyes bored into Kim and she had to look away. 'An act like that in desperation and anger went against commonsense and it was foolhardy. If it hadn't worked Faith could have killed her, if the fall didn't do it for her.'

'But it did work! And I won!' Kim forced herself to match that gaze.

Seconds seemed to pass like hours as their eyes locked.

'Pure luck Kimberly, you surprised Faith and then gave up your advantage. Your only mistake.'

'What?'

'There was no way you could have won, the fact you took down Faith was enough to convenience me you're good enough. Just remember, never give up the advantage no matter how small.'

Finally blinking Kim gently nodded 'Yes, thanks.'

'There is one thing,' Willow stood up. 'When I looked through her mind I couldn't find anything about Ronald. For someone so close that's was a mystery, in fact there was nothing to indicate he even existed in her mind.'

'What? He's my best friend?' Kim burst out. Looking at Ron she saw the pain on his face. A sight she was getting far too familiar with.

'I now think I know why. Ronald has been with Kim for so long that they are no longer separate. I tried reading her aura a moment ago and found that it blends with his. With some training that could be an advantage.'

'Blends?' Ron asked.

'Yes, very much like twins in a way. You have been through so much together that you have become two sides of the same coin. Even if you didn't pass the tests we couldn't have done anything about that.'

Kim felt a little uncomfortable about that but reassured at the same time. 'Okay so what happens now?' She asked Mr Giles.

'It's past midnight and a lot of us have had a long day. We have arranged some transport back to Middleton for you, once there I'm sorry to say you'll be on your own for a while. Too many things are happening right now and I don't know how safe this place is going to be. Ronald has a phone number for me in an emergency But the best thing you can do now is train.'

Xander picked up the to Kimunicators from the desk and gave them to Kim and Ron, 'Time to go kids, I'll get Dawn and Rufus.' With that he walked to the office.


In his room Wade began to panic. He was going over the information he had on this Faith woman when, between one web page and the next she was erased from every record. Police: no file, Prison service: no file, FBI: no file. Everything from birth records to current dental records were simply gone. Someone had cleaned her background to such an extent that even Kim's website had no record of the mission.

The contact from L.A.P.D. was also gone as well. In fact there was no evidence that the person who gave them the mission existed themselves.

He was looking for any evidence of who could of done it when Kim called. 'Kim your not going to believe this. That mission your on just erased itself from the internet, totally!'

'How?' She looked haggard and there was something about her eyes Wade couldn't place.

'I don't know Kim. Someone a lot better than me must have done it. I can't tell you how or why, sorry Kim.'

'Never mind Wade, I can find out this end.'

'Right and I'll try to find out how they did it.'


'So this was all a set up, even the mission?' Ron flinched at Kim's tone. They had gotten a ride with Xander and Dawn in a old convertible.

'Yes, Willow did the whole contact Wade thing and then when we got there she pulled the rug from under him.' Ron admitted.

'What I don't understand is why Ron? Why didn't you just tell me?' The plain honesty in her voice cut him like a knife.

'I can see that conversation, "Hi KP!" – "Hi Ron" – "Say you know those bad dreams you have?" – "Sure Ron." – "Well you see they're actually memories of your ancestors who were chosen to save the world from vampires." – "Oh my god! Of course! So no big then." – "No but it's your turn now" – "Cool! Now give me a sharp stick and tell me where to point it." Is that how the discussion would go?' Ron tried to be enthusiastic about it all but he couldn't bring any humour into his voice

'No way I'd think you were insane!' She laughed before realising what she had said.

'You wouldn't believe me. You still don't. Things are never what they seem Kim. It is your destiny to fight those things that no sane person believes in. I can never tell you how sorry I am that I didn't tell you, now you know why. One day I hope you can forgive me but it will be a long time.'

'Then start now. Look me in the eye and tell me this is a joke.' Kim sounded serious but there was a catch in her voice.

He did as she asked and almost became lost in her green eyes, they were so innocent. Something that was lost in the cold eyes of Buffy, the oldest Slayer. 'I just told you I would never lie to you again, so I can't. It's true. You, Kimberly Anne Possible, are a Vampire Slayer.'

Kim's jaw slowly fell as he saw realisation dawn in her eyes.

'I am your watcher, Its my job to train you, to teach you how to fight the nightmares and to ready you for whatever you face. Save for school stuff you know what I'm like with that.'

A half smile played about her lips. 'So what can you teach me.'

'A few little things. I might not be good with languages and all that book stuff but I am a master of the monkey stile of martial arts and black belt in at least three others. How else do you think I was able to keep up with you?'

'You could have told me.' She pouted

'Then you would have asked why. Which leads us back to…'

'I get the picture Ron.' She pouted even more, Ron loved it when she did this to get her own way. 'Is that it? You're a great fighter?'

'No I know a little magic.' He held his hands up when she turned so fast that he wouldn't have been surprised if her head fell off. 'Nothing big, I can float pencils and I know some healing spells but that's about it.'

'All of it Ronald Dean Stoppable. All of it!' She demanded.

'Okay, If I concentrate I can call a magic sword called the lotus blade and I know a shockwave spell. Aside from one curse that's it I swear.' He let his hands drop.

'What's a magick shockwave?' she looked curious.

'First of all its "magic" not "magick". I mean do you put a "K" in at the end of music?'

'I guess not.' Kim looked embarrassed.

'As for what it is, think of it as a long range punch. I send it to someone and I might as well be there with a baseball bat hitting them.'

'That sounds useful.'

'It is but I've never been able to get it to work right. That curse I told you about, well it brings bad luck…' Ron looked at his feet.

'No way! All those times you tripped up in the middle of missions and stuff was because you cursed yourself!' Kim began to laugh and Ron tried to fight down a smile.

'Yes.' It wasn't long before they were both laughing.


In the front Dawn had given the sleeping Rufus to Xander and was driving most of the way. When their two passengers began laughing Dawn caught Xanders eye and they silently laughed at the two on the backseat.

End chapter 3