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Chapter 6: Never Trust a Monkey!

"The monkey temple should be just over that ridge," Maxwell said.

Kim noticed that Ron shuttered at the mention of the temple, so she asked, "What's the mater, Ron?"

"I have issues with monkeys," he replied, "It all started with my first summer at Camp Wannaweep. I had to bunk with the camp mascot, Bobo the Chimp."

"You were afraid of a chimpanzee?" she asked.

"Yes," Ron said while shuttering, "That was one crazy monkey. Now I hate 'em. I'll never trust a monkey."

"You, of course, realize that chimpanzees are actually part of the ape family," Fiske interjected, "They aren't monkeys at all."

"APES! MONKEYS! What's the dif? They all hold stuff with their feet, man! We're talkin' freaks of nature!" Ron shouted.

"Get a grip, Ron," Kim said.

"Don't you think you're a bit old to still be afraid of monkeys, Ronald?" Maxwell asked.

"Yeah. So?"

"Never mind," Max said, rubbing his temples, "Monty, Battes, let's take a look at the temple and decide where to start."

The three men left Kim and Ron alone together. This would give Kim an ample opportunity to talk to Ron more about her old job as the Shadow Fox. But first she needed to know why he'd been snapping at Fiske.

"Ron, why've you been acting so hostile towards Lord Monty Fiske?"

"KP, his lordship is five hundred miles of bad road. Trust me."

"He has a royal title."

"Which you can buy on the internet," Ron said, "He's "bad road". I can feel it."

"Monty Fiske is world renowned archeologist and scholar," Kim said as the three other men began to return.

"Bad road," Ron said, then turned to see Fiske glaring at him, "Ah, Monty, old chap."

"There's a fork at the entrance of the temple," Maxwell said, "We'll have to decide which way to go first."

"Why not both ways?" asked Kim (she already knew their would be a fork).

"I don't follow you," Maxwell said.

"You, Lord Fiske, and Battes could go one way, while Ron and I go the other way. I'm sure you have walkie talkies. That way we could check both ways at once and stay in contact."

"Yes, Ms. Possible. That would work. Why didn't I think of that?"

"If I knew, I'd tell you," Ron said.

Ron only got a glare from Fiske for his joke; Fiske then said, "I feel good about the left path. Max, what say we take that way?"

"I have no preference, so yes," Maxwell said, "I'm on Chanel 2, Ronald."

"Gotchya," Ron said, turning on his walkie talkie, "Well, KP, shall we?"

As they walked down the path Kim decided to tell him, "By the way, Ron..."

"Monty didn't hire you just for photography. Right?"

Kim was surprised Ron figured her out, "Um, yeah. How'd you know?"

"Interrogation training helped me learn how to read people. When you admitted to being the Shadow Fox, I knew you weren't telling me everything. But I didn't want to pry. So what is it Monty wants you to do?"

"He wants me to get a jade monkey statue for him. Why he doesn't want your uncle knowing of it is beyond me. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner."

"A monkey idol? Sick and wrong!"

"You did have a point, Ron. Fiske gives me the creeps. He even showed me a map of the temple. How he got it, I don't know."

"Wait here, Ron," Kim said after they walked down the tunnel for a while, "I'll get the Jade Monkey and the Shadow Fox will be dead forever."

Kim knew that their were booby traps, but didn't know witch ones. The tunnel was now lined with giant monkey statues. Some were standing on all fours with their heads as low as possible, others were standing tall, and a few were even sticking out of the walls as if they'd been hanging on to something on the ceiling.

Suddenly, fire shot out of the nearest monkey's mouth. Kim heard Ron shout her name, but she was okay. With a series of flips and jumps, Kim cleared the fire that shot out of each monkey's mouth when she got to close.

"I'm okay, Ron," she called back, then noticed that the fire had burned her hair shorter, "For the most part."

She only took two steps forward when the trap door beneath her opened. Kim cried out. She heard Ron call her name again, but she was more focused on what lay before her. The Jade Monkey.

"I'm fine, Ron," she called back up, "and I've found the idol."

"Cool," Ron called back, "I'll be there in a moment."

The idol was across a large crevasse with only one rickety bridge leading to it. Kim stepped closer as Ron fell through the hole, and saw rows of spikes.

"Spikes. It figures," she said, "But, gee, where are the snakes?"

As if on cue, snake emerged from holes in the floor.

"I was just being sarcastic!"

"Don't worry, KP," Ron reassured her, "they won't hurt you, unless they feel threatened. Let's just get across that bridge one baby step at a time."

"Okay," Kim said, starting to walk across.

It seemed like forever before they got to the idol. Kim took it off the stand, hoping there wasn't some pressure switch underneath it. As she heard the grinding of stone against stone, she groaned. There was always some pressure switch.

"Run, Ron," she said, and gasped when she turned around.

The snakes were now all over the bridge. Well, not all over it, but enough to make Kim flinch. She hated snakes, with a passion. For once in her life, she froze.

Fortunately, Ron didn't. He grabbed her arm and pulled her across the bridge. Kim wasn't to pleased with this turn of events. She looked up, and saw what the switch had done. The ceiling was collapsing.

When they reached the opening, Ron helped Kim get up first. Then he jumped up himself, not quite making to. Kim helped him clime the rest of the way up.

"I feel so welcome here," Kim said sarcastically.

Little did they know, a monkey named Chippy watched the whole thing. He went to relay the information to his master. There was something about that man with the Shadow Fox. He thought it was a bad idea for his master to kill that other man. But he couldn't question what his master decided.


The moment you've been waiting forwill be here by February 16th. In Chapter 7: Mystical Monkey Power, Ron will finally fight Monkey Fist. Until then R & R Ch 6.