KP - A Most Unusual Halloween
AN: This isn't going to be for much longer, so I hope you've all been enjoying this story so far. :)
Chapter Four: Oh No!Kim and Ron walk up a very old house on the edge of town, and it wasn't one that Kim was familiar with but then she couldn't be expected to know every home in Middleton could she?
Kim walks up with Ron on her right side and says, "Are you sure about this Ron? It doesn't look like anyone even lives here."
Ron smiles and nods, "Trust me KP, I heard that a new couple just moved in here and that they are very generous with their candy on Halloween. They're a couple that just loves to restore creepy old places like this and then sell them for a big profit."
Kim just stares at Ron and thinks, "If you put as much energy into your schoolwork as you did into finding the best houses for Halloween, then you'd be a honor student Ron." Her thoughts were interrupted when Ron pressed the doorbell and played the Adams theme song for a few moments, which gave Kim the chills.
There is no response to the door right away and Kim says, "Well, I guess there is no one home. Let's go Ron." about ten seconds after the doorbell was rung.
Ron shakes his head and says, "Give it a minute Kim, they might be old and slow in getting to the door. Do you remember Mrs. Blaster?"
Kim sighs softly and nods as she remembers how the old woman of like 85-something took a long time and because of that, lots of kids would run out of patience with her and leave before getting any candy. Those who stayed would remember her as the lady who always rewarded patience with a huge handful of candy while others would not even take the time to get the candy from such a slow person.
Ron shakes his bag to emphasize the amount of candy that they'd already scored that night and it was a heavy sound with a bag that was bulging at the sides. He smiles at Kim and says, "I think this night has been our best haul yet!" before he lets the bag settle beside his leg.
Kim nods as her hands were hurting a little from her own heavy bag and says, "You're right Ron, you are the master of collecting Halloween candy in all of Middleton."
The porch light comes on suddenly and they both turn towards the door with Kim closest to the doorknob. The black curtain pulls back and since the room inside is dark as well, they can't see who it is but for some reason Kim's sense was telling her to get out of there.
Kim glances at Ron who holds up his heavy bag and says, "Trick or Treat!" She worries that they might be getting into trouble, but a part of her reminds herself that she is Kim Possible and that there isn't anything she can't handle but she stays on guard nonetheless.
The door slowly opens and an old woman's voice is heard, "Ah, looks like we have some trick or treaters tonight. You two are brave ones to approach a old house like this on a this night." The hairs on Kim's neck begin to stand up at the hidden meaning that is being picked up from the woman's words. Ron of course was oblivious to her words or that he was taking it in as the Halloween thing.
The old woman couldn't be scene at all since the inside was dark and the door was still only marginally opened. Just enough to allow the old woman's voice to be heard and still keep her in the shadows.
The old woman says, "I think you two deserve something special..." which makes Ron hold out his bag even more in anticipation of the huge handful of candy that he hoped to get. The old woman finishes by saying, "Yes... a very special treat."
Kim had been staring at the small dark opening for the entire time, trying to peer into the darkness to see what she looked like when she thought she saw a sinister pair of red lights sudden appear and just as she is able to shout, "Look out Ron!" the door suddenly swings wide and a pair of mechanical hands grab at Kim, dragging her in.
Kim hears Ron yell "KP!" just before she is drawn into the darkness and the last thing she remembers before she feels something bump her head is the sight of a pair of mechanical hands like the ones that had grabbed her going after Ron and that he wasn't budging an inch. A part of her was thinking "Run Ron! Don't let them get you too!" while another part of her was thinking in a smaller voice, "Don't leave me Ron! Save me!" and that smaller voice knew that Ron was not going to leave her side, even if it meant capture, at least they'd be together which touched her more than she'd ever let Ron know.
(Later)
Kim slowly opens her eyes and rubs the back of her head and softly moans from the small, yet painful bump that was back there. She then opens her eyes quickly as she realizes that she could move once again! She looks to her right out of habit and there, looking quite peaceful with his eyes closed, was Ron.
Kim was still in her sprite kin costume and not looking any the worse for wear after having been grabbed by those mechanical arms. She moves over towards Ron and just as she touches him, he comes to and opens his eyes.
Kim says, "Ron, are you ok?" Her eyes show a bit of worry in them and waits for his answer.
Ron says, "Yeah, I'm ok KP. Are you all right? The last thing I saw before getting grabbed was you hitting your head."
Kim rubs the back of her head a little and says, "Yeah, and it looks like the same thing happened to you." She reaches out as if to find where the bump on Ron's head would be but he moves away from her hand and says, "Where are we Kim? This doesn't look like the house we were just standing outside of a minute ago."
Kim looks around and sees that they appear to be outdoors somewhere but she didn't recognize it. She looks up at the sky and all that she can see are some very dark clouds. With the sky as dark as it was she couldn't even tell what time it was though she figured that it was still night since it hadn't felt like she had been out for very long. After a few moments she looks at Ron and says, "I don't know where we are Ron, it doesn't look like any place I've been to before."
Ron looked at Kim and says, "What do you suppose happened to that old lady?" before she turns towards him and says, "Ron, I don't think there was any old lady. I think this was all a trap!"
Ron looks around and says, "Hey! Where's the candy?" He looks around some more harder, getting up to look around the tree even as Kim stands up and says, "Ron! I hardly think this is the time to worry about our candy!"
Ron stops where he is and turns to face Kim as he says, "Kim! I worked really hard all night to collect that candy and now some old lady is probably eating it all up!" He crosses his arms in a pout, "Man, this is so unfair."
Kim sighs and thinks that Ron is over reacting as usual and that he's completely missing the important thing. The fact that they were both stranded somewhere unknown to them in nothing but their costumes and since she was wearing a Sprite kin costume and Ron was wearing his Knave costume, they didn't exactly have a whole lot of things to keep them warm in the night forest.
Kim blushed a little as she recalled her survival training and recalled how one of the ways to keep warm in such conditions was to share body heat. She wondered for a moment if Ron would object and figured that if it came down to their survival, then he would do it without hesitation.
Kim starts to look around, looking for some wood to create a campfire but there wasn't any on the ground any bigger than twigs and the branches were all much too high for her to jump and grab. She didn't think her costume would withstand climbing up the rough bark of the tree like normal clothes would have been able to and she didn't want to start running around in nothing, even if it was only Ron because she knew he'd be trying not to look the entire time like the gentleman and good friend he was.
Ron says, "Hey KP, lets get going. I want to go back to that house and get my candy back!" He uncrosses his arms and starts to walk in a direction.
Kim doesn't know which way to go and she didn't have her Kimmunicator with her since she had no pockets in her costume or she would have asked Wade, so she just starts to walk along with Ron. She wondered when anyone would start looking for the two of them. She figured that her parents would start to worry when she didn't show up for her curfew but they also knew that she'd be with Ron she could add another extra hour before they'd start to worry, maybe sooner if Wade tried to contact her on the Kimmunicator that she left at home.
After about an hour of traveling through the forest it seems that they are coming to the edge of the forest where they can see the forest thinning out and opening to some spacious land. Once they reached the end of the forest they could see that the sky was still in a dark cloudy state and what little light there was coming from what appeared to be a castle coming from one of the hills only a half-hour's travel by foot.
Kim had to wonder now, just where on Earth were they? It looked somewhat like a castle from overseas but if that was the case, then Kim and Ron had been out for far longer than she thought unless magic was involved.
Ron surprised her by saying, "Come on KP, the sooner we get to that castle, the sooner we can get home!" Her surprise was short lived though when Ron added, "And then we're going to get our candy back from that old lady!"
The two walk towards the castle for some time and when they stand before the castle with its drawbridge up, Ron says, "What a big castle huh Rufus?" When there is no response, Ron looks down and says, "Rufus? Buddy?" But the silence continues and Ron then starts to pat himself and finds no sign of Rufus before he says, "I forgot! This costume doesn't have any pockets!"
Kim is concerned too as she had come to really like the little naked mole rat as well. She walks up and says, "Maybe Rufus didn't get grabbed at the house with us because he was so small... he could be trying to get help to us as we speak."
Ron looks at Kim and says, "You really think so, Kim?" He feels Kim putting a hand on his shoulder as she gives him a comforting smile and says, "Yes, I really do. I bet you that Rufus misses you as much as you miss him. We'll see him again as soon as we get home."
Ron nods and puts on a serious face for a few moments as he says, "Then let's get into this castle so that whoever's in it can help us."
Kim can understand Ron's attitude as she silently thinks about how Rufus was probably captured at the house as well but that the old lady didn't deem it worth her trouble to send Rufus along with them or that Rufus was hurt. That last part she didn't want to think about as it made her sad and the last thing he wanted to do was make Ron any more upset than he already was.
Kim looks up at the castle and says, "Now to get into a castle with the drawbridge up and a big moat." She looks the castle over from every point and wishes that she had at least some of Wade's gadgets to be able to climb the wall but she also remembered how flimsy her dress was and didn't want to be naked by the time she climbed to the top.
Ron cups his mouth and shouts, "Hey! You in the castle! Open Sesame!"
Kim puts her hands on her hips and says, "Ron, I don't think that's really..." before she is cut off as the castle's drawbridge starts to lower slowly until it comes to a rest right at their feet.
Kim looks surprised while Ron looks a bit smug and he says, "See KP? Sometimes all you have to do is ask and they'll let you in."
Kim frowns and says, "Come Ron, let's go in." She starts to walk forward while Ron is still smiling as he starts to fall into step along with her.
They walk into the castle, which seems surprisingly quiet for such a well-lit castle and this makes Kim a bit nervous as she wonders where everyone is. The castle it lit with a lot of torches burning everywhere, creating a lot of light for the entire place. There is so much light that it seems to create the illusion of dancing flames on the clouds above it that threaten rain but had yet to drop so much as a single raindrop.
Kim was under no illusions that it could start to rain hard any moment and she did not enjoy that thought because how her costume wasn't exactly meant to handle a hard downpour and when she really thought about it, neither was Ron's probably. She blushed for a moment as she thought about how the two of them would look all soaked from the hard rain.
The two of them walk into the courtyard and since they'd both been in castles similar to the one they were in, they knew where to head. When they both reach the relative safety of the inside they look around and still don't see anyone.
Ron says, "This is way creepy Kim. Where is everyone?" Kim was wondering the same thing and says, "I don't know Ron, but the castle was lit-up so someone must be home. Let's continue walking, we should find someone." She silently adds, "I hope." as the hairs on the back of her neck had been standing on end ever since the beginning of this adventure.
After a few minutes of exploring they see a flash of lightning and a loud, almost deafening boom immediately following which meant that the lightning had been very, very close. They move towards one of the windows and see that it raining very hard and the rain was so intense that it was putting out all the torches in the courtyard, one by one until it left the courtyard in total darkness.
Ron steps back and says, "Just when you thought this place couldn't get any worse, it has to start raining too." He leans against the wall where an elegant looking tapestry was hanging and the wall underneath it gives way, causing him to cry out as he loses his balance and falls through and into secret opening that is sloped downward.
Kim cries out, "Ron!" as she makes a grab at his flailing hand and misses as he becomes engulfed in the tapestry as he had apparently tried to grab at it with his hand on it but all that he ends up doing is ripping it off the wall.
Ron falls down the stairs and goes down a few steps before apparently hitting a switch or trigger somewhere along the line that causes the stairs to turn into a slide, causing him to slide down very quickly out of Kim's sight and yelling the whole time.
Kim dashes to the opening and yells "RON!" A moment after he disappears she frowns and looks around for a second, grabbing another tapestry which was the only nearby thing available before she dives forward as she uses it as a slide to protect her bare body parts and discovers as she is sliding down that her wings are actually useful enough to help direct her around the corners.
The moment that Ron's yelling stopped, she became concerned because even with all the control she had, she knew that Ron had no control and was probably pretty bruised from hitting the walls as he would have gone around the sloping corners, but the speed at which she was traveling at was even more worrisome.
Kim slides down into a room with only two torches for lighting and even they were just barely casting enough light for her to see. Still, she assume that Ron must be ok because she didn't see him in the tapestry until her hand pulled back after finding something sticky in it. She moves closer to one of the torches as she looks for an opening and gasps as she sees blood on her fingers.
Kim softly says, "It is ok Kim... it probably happened when he hit one of the corners. He's ok..." She tightens her hand with the blood still on her fingers and adds, "He's got to be." She thinks, "Where are you Ron? It isn't like you to wander off if you know I'm coming."
Kim kneels down as she notices something in the light and it looks like something had been dragged, and her eyes widen for a second as she realizes that Ron didn't get up and walk away, but he'd been dragged away and since she didn't see any signs of a struggle she had to assume he was knocked out.
Kim follows the trail to a wall and frowns, "No one takes my Ron! This is personal!" She starts to explore the wall, looking for a way in so she can rescue Ron. She eventually presses on the right stone which makes the wall slowly open up before her and she walks cautiously through it. She sees that there are a few torches lit up that are spaced enough apart that if she were with Ron, he'd say that the corridor looked very spooky and she would have agreed with him.
Kim's heart aches a little as she hopes that Ron is ok and misses having him around her in situations like this. She needed him to ground her and keep her focused in situations like this with his silliness.
Kim walks through the corridor a little quickly, wanting to catch up to whoever took Ron but she couldn't go too fast because of the poor lighting or she might trigger a trap or run into the wall and hurt herself. She wanted to be at her best to help Ron, she knew that he would do the same for her.
Kim reaches the end of the corridor and finds that the exit is closed. So she begins to search for the trigger before she can hear voices that are very muffled coming through. She pauses and presses her ear to the wall, hoping to be able to catch what they were saying but only when the voices on the other side got loud enough could she catch any of it.
Kim thinks that the voice must be moving about because she hears, "Intruder" and "Dealing" and "You" with the last word sounding very sinister. She tries to hear more but the voices get very soft and she can't hear any more stuff until suddenly there is a very loud yell of pain that could have only come from Ron!
AN: What a quick chapter writing huh? Well Halloween IS coming up soon so that is why I'm rushing chapters here. Doesn't look good for Ron does it? Well before you rush judgement, keep in mind that this is a Halloween story. There, I've said my piece.
The Incredible Werekitty: Well, as you and the others now know by now what Kim and Ron's costume is. I thought about the ones everyone suggested a number of times and believe me, they were ALL good ones. :) I've actually thought about writing a KP story that involves the FF world... I wonder if I should tho.
Armorblade: All those who guessed Spritekin, give yourselves a pat because you were right:)
Jessica: Did anyone untie the tweebs... hmms That's a good question for later. grins Either Monique did it before she left or they were still tied up by the time everyone got home... lol which do you think is more likely?
John Chubb: Well, you guessed right about the costume but no, she isn't going to shrink... though I had considered it.
Ace Ian Combat: Who said Wade didn't get the measurements from Ron? lol! I'm sure both Ron and Wade know Kim's measurements pretty well by this point as they probably get stuff for her all the time.
Warprince2000: Was this fast enough of an update? 7 whole pages long too:) Tops my usual 6 page limit, lol!
ajap2003: Nah, I'll just let you read it along with everyone else here. :)
Gundum M: Really now? Now that you've read this chapter, were you right?
IncrediRaider8: Thanks for the nice review, it seems like it was a guess for either FF or the Spritkin outfit by everyone... I'm glad to see such creative guesses:)
doh: Nice guess, but maybe I'll write a FF story with all 3 in costume... if I get enough support for that idea.
Emerald Dark Knight: ROFL! I liked your ideas! Kim as Shego, Ron as Drakken, and Rufus as Commodore Puddles! I wonder how the real Drakken, Shego and CP would feel about their arch-foes dressing up as them for Halloween! LOL! Now that might be a good idea for a Halloween sequel!
qtpie235: Hey, I'm not pure evil! It isn't like I used the cap or anything to turn evil! Wade is still your friend, but he's also good friends with Kim and Ron after all.