KP - A Most Unusual Halloween
AN: Well, here it is... the FINAL chapter!
Chapter Six: HalloweenKim slowly opens her eyes until the thought of Ron's condition at the castle makes her eyes fly open with such suddenness that it scares Rufus who had been standing on her chest. She says, "Rufus! Rufus? Where's Ron?" She sits up a little quickly which makes Rufus fly off and land by her feet.
Rufus is not happy and he makes an angry chattering noise while waving his tiny little fist as if saying "Hey! What is the big idea?" but is surprised to find that Kim is ignoring him with a worried look in her eyes.
Kim notices that they are back outside the house only this time she is laying down on one of those swing-bench things. She also sees that their bags of candy are with them as well at her but she doesn't see Ron right away and that worries her as the memories of the castle, and his grave injuries came flooding to her mind. She abashes herself for the use of 'grave' as she gets up, which makes the swing noisily creak and squeak very loudly.
She is still ignoring Rufus's angry squeaks as she starts to take a few steps towards the door when she hears a very recognizable groan coming from the yard where the grass was very tall and wild. She turns towards the sound and walks up to where the very old wooden rail creaks under her weight as she leans slightly against it.
Kim hesitantly says, "Ron?" and then her heart leaps as she hears Ron say, "I'm here KP" She smiles with tears forming in her eyes but not quite running down her cheeks as she sees him sitting up with his messy yellow hair standing out amongst the tall grass that was as high as his nose when he was sitting up.
Kim rushes towards the steps and scoops up Rufus in one quick motion with her right hand, transferring him over to her left as she grabs the support beam for the porch. She uses it to quickly turn and she leaps over the steps with Rufus squealing from the rough treatment.
Ron is rubbing his head and says, "Hey KP, did I just..." His sentence is cut short as he is tackled by Kim with her arms around his neck. He falls backwards to land onto the grass with his breath being knocked out of him.
Ron opens his eyes to see a worried, yet happy Kim staring down at him and she is running he hands over his head and chest rather quickly.
Ron starts to giggle as she rubs at his chest and says, "Hey, that tickles! Stop that Kim!" He feels her hands stopping. He looks at Kim whose eyes look right at him with that worry showing in her eyes and seem to be asking if he was really ok. He looks down at his shirt and sees that there is a hole in his shirt. The same hole that had two of Kim's fingers through it but surprisingly there was no pain.
Ron moves his hands to his shirt and says in awe, "That... that really happened didn't it Kim? I almost..." He trails off there, as he looks back at Kim and she nods before she says, "Yes, but the woman said it was both a trick and a treat for us."
Ron says, "What did she mean by that Kim?" He rubs his hand over his head and searches for where he'd been hurt when he fell down the slide.
Kim says, "I'm not totally sure about that myself Ron, but I think it has to do with our friendship somehow."
Ron says, "Our friendship? What do you mean?" as he lowers his hands down to run over his shirt and wiggling two fingers through his knave's shirt that had a hole in it.
Kim says, "I don't know Ron but she seemed to think our friendship could change the world." This makes Ron let go of the hole in his shirt and look at Kim questioningly. They stare at each other for a little while until Rufus squeaks and Ron looks towards the squeak in the grass as he says, "Rufus? Where are you buddy?"
Ron finds Rufus in the wild grass and he squeak-talks to Ron who seems to understand what he is telling him. Ron and Kim watch as Rufus even jumps up and down and points at the house.
Ron looks at the house and says, "Hey! The candy is still there! Boo-yah!" He hops up to his feet and runs towards the house while Kim is watching from the grass, not even standing but just kneeling.
Kim thinks, "I'm glad Ron is all right, he really had me scared that I was going to lose him back at that castle." She wipes the last remnant of a tear from one of her eyes and figures that she'd done enough crying for one night. She stands up and starts to walk towards Ron when he shouts from where Kim had been laying when she woke up.
Ron shouts, "Boo and Yeah! Kim! We got a lot of candy! That old lady must have decided to give us treats for that trick she played on us!" Ron picks up both heavy bags of candy and runs down the steps where Kim was at the foot of and holds out her bag.
Ron smiles at Kim and says, "Hey Kim, why don't go to Monique's party? I bet they're going to start that movie soon!"
Kim takes her heavy bag of candy and nods, "Sure Ron" even though she didn't really feel like going after a night of fright that she just had with the castle and everything but at the same time she didn't want to disappoint Monique for not showing up or hurt Ron's feelings because she wasn't up for a movie.
The two of them walk away from the house with their heavy bags of candy and they make good progress until Ron says, "Hey Kim, do you mind if we stop at my house and drop off the candy first? I don't want anyone to steal our candy at Monique's party."
Kim nods as she says, "Sure Ron" and was glad because Ron's house was closer to Monique's than her own was. She would be happy to put down the heavy bags of candy and she knew that she wouldn't be able to eat as much as Ron would, even though Ron would eat as many as he could and make himself sick like he did every year.
Even though she would share all her candy with her family except for a few candy bars that she planned to keep for herself. She planned to give the tweebs the most of her candy as a way of apologizing for tying them up earlier. She hoped that Monique had untied them before she left or she would never hear the end of it from the tweebs.
After some time of walking, they see Ron's house coming into view. After the castle scare Kim was glad to see a friendly place. What she failed to notice was someone peeking from Ron's house because Ron had asked her what she was going to do with her candy.
They walk up to the front of the house and then Ron stops before the door to turn towards her. Kim stops alongside him and turns to face him before she says, "What is it Ron?" Ron looks at her and says, "Hey Kim, um... I wanted to ask you something... about that castle thing."
Kim tightens her grip on the bag of candy in her hand and says, "Yes Ron?" Hoping that he was not going to ask what she didn't want to answer.
Ron says, "When I was... you know, hurt and all. I think we both said some stuff..." He looks a bit nervous even as the curtain by the door opens for a moment. He continues to say, "Did you mean it? What you said about saving the world?"
Kim looks at her friend in the eyes before she looks down, letting her eyes slowly take in Ron in his Knave costume from Everlot. She had to admit to herself that Ron been able to do more than she was able to in the game. She had been unable to help her friend in any kind of way at the castle, except to be there for him.
She was glad that it had not turned out to be his final moments like she had feared. Her eyes pause when she sees the hole in his knave outfit, which was all that remained from their experience since every sign of his injuries, including the blood had seemed to magically disappear.
Kim's eyes continue on up until her eyes meet his and she says, "Yes... Ron, I wouldn't lie to you during that kind of moment." She takes a breath and slowly exhales some of it before she says, "I meant every word."
Ron says, "KP... Thank you." His eyes showed how touched he was and neither one could move or say anything for a few moments.
Rufus, who is still in his knight's costume that Wade had made specially for him with a sword and all starts to tug at Ron's pant leg and points at the door with his sword tip as if reminding him that they still have something to do. Rufus then sheaths his sword before he crawls up and dives into his own bag of candy that Ron had been carrying for him.
Ron clears his throat and looks hesitant before he says, "Ahem, I guess we better go in KP. If we still want to make Monique's party on time." He steps back to let Kim open the door since he was holding two bags of candy and she was only holding hers which left her with a free hand.
Kim opens the door and saw that it was dark which she knew to expect since his parents were at a costume party of their own. As soon as the door is fully open she turns her head to say, "Come on Ron..." which was cut off as something suddenly leaps out of the darkness and knocks her onto her back!
Kim tries to push whatever it is off of her but finds that there are too many... somethings grabbing at her. With Ron's porch light off, it was too dark for her to completely make out what the dog-sized thing was that was on top of her but she knew Ron didn't have a dog because of his father's allergies.
Suddenly the porch light comes on and Kim can see what it is that is on top of her. She lets out a scream so loud that the entire neighborhood heard it and it frightened more than just a few of the young trick or treaters who thought her scream had been that of a ghost.
Kim started to hear laughing as Ron says, "Hey Kim! It is just Roachie! You remember him don't you?"
Kim remembered him all right, and she still was very afraid of big bugs as she was back when they had first encountered the cockroach. She tried harder to push Roachie off of her and struggled as she tried to avoid Roachie's licking of her face and with his breath, she was quickly reaching hurl factor.
Ron pulls out a camera and turns off the flash since the porch was bright enough before he snaps a few quick pictures with the digital camera that Wade had provided him. He then gets down on a knee and speaks in bug-talk to Roachie who seems to understand him and hop off of a grateful Kim.
Ron says in his normal tongue, "Hey Roachie, good to see you boy! Did you have fun guarding the house?" To which Roachie nods eagerly and then nuzzles Ron's hand that had been petting him when he got off of Kim.
Roachie speaks some bug-talk and Ron listens with a smile before he talks back in the same tongue even as Kim gets up onto her feet and says loudly, "RON! You had a big roach guarding the house? What were you thinking?"
Ron pets the roach and says, "What? Roachie was more than happy to guard the house from the kids who would trick out house because there was no one home to hand out the candy."
Roachie then says in roach-talk, "I even gave candy to nice trick or treaters while you were gone. It was fun, they thought my costume was really good." to Ron before Ron laughs and pets the roach again even as Kim shivers in disgust at the sight. Ron looks at Kim and says, "Roachie just told me that he answered the door and handed out candy to some of the nicer trick or treaters who seemed to think he was just a really good costume."
Kim shivers at the thought, "You mean he handed out candy to kids? And they didn't realize he wasn't a real one?"
Ron nods and says, "Why not KP? It is Halloween after all. A magical night where just about anything can happen."
Kim says, "I guess so Ron." as she remembers the castle and then says, "I am going to put my candy up in your house and then we can go to Monique's while Roachie stays here."
Ron says, "Be right there Kim! I want to say something to Roachie first!" to Kim's quickly retreating form into the house. He watches her disappear before he grins and leans to whisper in bug-talk, "That was a great job scaring her Roachie, thanks for the help!"
Roachie speaks back in bug-talk, "No problem! It was fun! If you ever need me to do it again, just let me know."
Ron shakes his head and chuckles before speaking in bug-talk, "Sorry, but that was a one-time deal buddy. Just remember this is between you and me ok? Kim would have our heads if she ever found out the truth."
Roachie nods and says in bug-talk, "You got it Ron! Do you want me to stay after you leave? I've been having fun handing out candy."
Ron says, "You can stay but only until my parents get home, then you've got to go home ok?"
Roachie nods as he smiles just as Kim comes back. Then the two of them look at Kim and she says, "Come on Ron, we still have to go to Monique's!"
Ron grabs the two bags of candy and says, "Be right with you Kim!" He dashes into the house with Rufus still eating within his bag of candy. He drops off the two bags in his room, which is right next to Kim's bag of candy before he runs down the stairs and past Roachie who was crawling into the living room where he turns on the TV after hoping on the couch.
Ron shouts to Roachie, "Have fun Roachie!" and he gets an "I will!" in bug-talk as his reply before Ron shuts the door with Kim waiting for him a couple steps away from the door.
Kim looks a little upset at Ron as they walk before she says, "Ron, why didn't you tell me Roachie was in your house? You know how I feel about him."
Ron looks away from Kim and says, "Sorry KP, I guess I forgot while we were talking about... you know, before..."
Kim's expression softens as she understands and says, "I understand Ron..." She reaches out and takes Ron's hand into hers. Ron looks surprised at the gesture and then he smiles, giving her a gentle squeeze, which is returned before they walk like that all the way to Monique's house.
Once they reach Monique's house Kim rings the doorbell and Monique answers it a colored, plastic cup of punch in her other hand. Monique smiles as the scene that she sees before is very much like the one when Kim and Ron saved the world from the Diablos.
Monique sees that Kim's sprite kin costume has been damaged a little as if she'd just had some kind of adventure. She then looks over Ron whose costume looked even more worn with a hole in the knave shirt that looks like she could stick 3 fingers through. She knew she'd get the details of any mission or adventure that those two obviously had later from Kim but for now she was happy that they showed up. She looks down and smiles for a moment as she sees them holding hands and wonders how long they'd been doing that for.
Kim says, "Hi Monique, we're not too late are we?" Ron says, "Did you start the movie yet?"
Monique shakes her head and grabs Kim's free hand before she says, "Come on in you two, the costume contest is about to begin! Kim tightens her grip on Ron's hand as she is dragged in along with Ron and before she knows it she is standing in Monique's backyard with Ron and bunch of others in costume.
Monique grins and says, "Good luck you two" before she runs off to where a Karaoke machine was that was hooked up to some big speakers. She grabs the microphone and says off to her side, "Let's do it Wade!"
Kim and Ron both drop their jaw and say, "WADE?" They both look to where Monique had looked and sure enough, there was Wade in a Wizard's costume just like the one his character wore in the game Everlot. They both look stunned even as Wade smiles and waves "Hey guys, you don't think I'd let you have all the fun do you?"
Wade pushes a few buttons at the controls he's at and gives a thumbs up to Monique who says, "Ok everyone! It is time for the costume party! First prize for the girls is a $50 gift card for Club Banana and for the guys, $50 in cash to use any way they want!"
This gets a loud cheering from everyone and after Monique explains the rules and how they are going get rate who has the best costume with Wade's help. The contest begins with Brick in a ghost football player's costume. Bonnie came as an evil witch, with broomstick and all. Tara came as the catgirl from DarkStalkers. There were a few others with good costumes as well and with each person that got announced, they would get cheers from the others in the party with Wade registering the level of cheering on the Karaoke screen.
When it came to Kim and Ron, they were announced as a 'couple' costume and the resulting cheering was so loud that it was easy to see (or hear) who the winners were going to be.
Monique looks at Wade and says, "I know that this is just a formality but... Wade, who is the winner?"
Wade says, "It was a close one but the winners were Kim and Ron!" He then pushes a button and their faces show up on the screen before it flashes "Winner!" in various colors. Everyone applauds except Bonnie who just storms off into the house, looking very much like an angry witch.
Monique runs up and says while still holding the mic, "To our winners, Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable!" Which everyone cheers to again before Monique presents them with their prizes. She then covers the mic with a hand and whispers, "I'm happy that you two won..." before she uncovers the mic and says into it, "And now it is time for Movie Fright Night!"
Everyone cheers and heads into the house but the words of the lady at the house and castle continued to run through Kim's mind as she thought about all the stuff that the two of them had done, all the good, all the bad guys that they stopped.
Kim stops just outside the living room where Monique was going to be showing the movie on her living room TV. The sudden stops makes Ron stop just a half step ahead of her since he was still holding her hand and he turns to face Kim.
Ron says, "Kim? Is there something wrong?" He looks at her as if he can sense something but he isn't sure what yet. The moment his eyes meet with hers, he relaxes as he knows that look. It wasn't the look of something wrong, but rather the look she got when she usually figured out something and the result was good. He had seen it in her eyes during a couple of their missions, and again when they stopped Drakken from taking over the world and they went to the prom together. This time he saw it again in her eyes but as when they went to the dance, he hadn't any idea about what it was that Kim had worked through.
Kim pulls Ron a little closer with a shy smile on her face and says, "I finally figured it out Ron. What the lady meant."
In the house but unnoticed by anyone was the old lady from the house as she was in the corner, hidden in the shadows but she still had a good view of Kim and Ron. She thinks, "Ah, I knew you'd figure it out Kim."
Ron looks at Kim and says, "What did you figure out Kim?" and wonders what that look in her eyes was for.
Kim says, "I understand what that woman meant finally. It wasn't until just a moment ago, that I figured out something." She then smiles at Ron and says, "It wasn't until I combined her words with our words at the castle that it came to me."
Ron still looked confused and says, "What came to you KP?" He didn't know why but despite his confusion, he felt calm as he waited for Kim to tell him aloud what he was already guessing in his own heart.
Kim brings her free hand up to lightly run her fingers through the messy hair of his and says, "Ron, what that lady of fate gave us was more valuable than all the candy in the city... Her trick and treat was to get us to open up to each other and help me realize something."
Ron says, "What did she help you realize?" as he leans closer until he can feel her warm breath upon him, and she can feel his.
Kim says softly, but just loud enough to be heard over the noise of the movie that was starting its intro credits, "Ron... you and I are meant to change the world for the better." She smiles as she brushes her lips against his and then says, "And as long as I have you by my side, there will never be anyone who can stop us from making this world a better place."
As soon as she finishes saying that, their lips meet in a very deep and loving kiss with Kim's free hand sliding around to draw him up close, feeling safe in the knowledge that as long as she had Ron. There was nothing that she truly couldn't do. With only Monique, the lady of fate watching with a happy smile at the sight of a perfect pair. Bonnie had also seen them kissing but she got so upset and disgusted that she crushed her cup in her hand, causing it to get her hand wet. Wade watched and smiled as he thought, "Even though that is gross, somehow... right now, it seems right."
After some time like that, Kim and Ron eventually break from their kiss and still holding hands, yet secure in the knowledge that even after they let go, the thread that bound them together in their hearts and souls would forever bind them and help them through whatever they would face in the future.
They sit down to watch the movie on the couch, leaning against each other after having had a tiring night and fall asleep. Sleeping through every scream and jumpy person on the couch with nothing but the smallest hint of a smile on their faces.
The End
Epilogue:
After the movie, Monique wakes up the sleepy couple and Kim walks Ron to his house where she gives him a tender goodnight kiss. Ron went straight to bed and had happy dreams about the two of them saving the world.
Kim walks home and finds the tweebs already asleep so she takes a few handfuls that she knew her parents would like on a candy dish and after grabbing about six bars for herself, she leaves the rest of her bag outside their bedroom door. She doesn't even bother changing out of her costume as she is still very sleepy and joins Ron in the dreamworld of happily saving the world together.
The oldlady of fate smiles in her home where she'd given Kim and Ron their trick and treat as she says, "That was one of my better Halloweens... I wonder who'll show up next year?" She rubs her hands and grins as her answer appears in her mind before she says, "Oh, they'll be fun... I just love giving couples my special trick and treats."
AN: Well, I hope you all enjoyed that story! I know I didn't answer all questions but then since when have any of the mysterious things that happen on Halloween done so? I can hear it now... Who was that woman? Where was the castle? Was it Everlot? Who hurt Ron?
I've decided to answer some of them. I'll tell you that the woman is not a character from the KP show. The castle's location was actually in the distant past for the old woman. I had originally imagined her as a young (20's) woman around that time. If it had been Everlot, then Ron wouldn't have had the tear in his clothes when they woke up would they?
As for the costumes... well, I figured that each of the costumes would fit them in some way. Though Tara I had a hard time so I chose a catgirl costume whose name I ironically forgot. Ron liked Kim as a spritekin since even though she had been small she still looked sexy. Ron never did get above Knave in the game since he really didn't have much reason to play after being discovered as a fraud and having no real skills for it anyway. Wade helped with the costumes after Ron came up with the idea so naturally why not be a wizard?
Doh: Thanks for your review! I'm glad you liked it and I hope you enjoyed this one as well.
qtpie235: As you can see Ron survived. The woman was just some character I came up with to move the story along. While the idea of Ron sending Kim to Everlot and scaring her with a fake scene like that without her knowing that she was really IN the game did occur to me, I felt that too many people would get it and thus seem too unscary. (Plus Kim would have probably beat the crap out of Ron for it later and I didn't want that.)
Warprince2000: Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it:)
John Chubb: I hope you liked this chapter and story. I planned to stop at chapter 6 to represent the thriple 6 idea that I was going to name the chapter but I tossed that name out after writing the chapter.
DV Eight: Thanks for the review, nice to know you thought it was creepy.
charizardag: Apparently I was too vague on their costumes. Ron was in his Knave costume from Everlot and Kim was in her Spritekin costume with Rufus in his Tunnel Lord costume (mini sized of course, tho I thought about having Wade make a human-sized suit for him but thought that'd be too silly.)
Harufu: Ron is a slacker, now Kim would have set up such an elaborate scene but he just uses Roachie to scare Kim as his plan all along. So, you were right about the ending being a smack yourself in the face kind of deal. lol!
The Incredible Werekitty: I'm glad you thought it was weird, that's what I was aiming for... lol!
Gundum M: I have no idea what you meant by your review but thanks for one anyway. :)