A/N: To all you wonderful reviewers thank you so much; it's always nice to
not get flamed. Anyways if you read the reviews you probably figured out
that KimberliAisha is my psycho friend who help start this alteration on
the Power Ranger reality, I'd also like to note that she helped a lot with
the end, for some reason I couldn't figure out how to end this chapter.
I'd like to say to one of my readers that, no Kim isn't replacing Kendra. I kind of figured it would be alright to say that I'm bumping up everything that happen in PR by two years, I'm not changing anything in the plot, it's just they have slightly better video games and window programs. Trust me you all will find out why later. So I better start the story before you guys tell me to shut up.
P.S. The words between the *'s are voice over, but I'm sure all you smart people could've figured that out without my help.
Kimberly the Vampire Slayer Chapter 2
"You're late Tommy."
"Well, Sha I had trouble fin-"
"No you didn't," she said interrupting him. "But we won't talk about why you're later than usual, at least not right now." She grabbed his arm dragging him in, and placing him next to the original pink ranger. "Everyone sit and prepare to watch one of the scariest movies of all time, in wide screen." She plopped down next to Rocky and signaled for Tanya to hit play.
About an hour later the guys were bored. Jason, Tommy, and Zach were tossing a ball around; Aisha and Trini were talking, stopping every so often by Aisha turning towards the screen screaming 'Oh come on!' Kim, Tanya and the rest of the boys were playing poker on the floor. Kat, being the only one never to see 'The Exorcist' before, was completely engrossed in the movie.
Everything was pretty normal, except for Tommy glancing at Kim for the 38th time of that night, and having Kim look back at him precisely a second after he turned away. For Trini and Aisha, the only observant members of the group, it was great entertainment.
The doorbell rang and Kim rose to get it, "Pizza's here." She flung the door open to be met with not only the acne covered face of the pizza boy, but also three vampires, one holding the struggling boy by the neck.
"Can the Slayer come out to play?" hissed the one holding the teenager. Kim leaned over and looked around the corner, checking to see if her friends were occupied. Seeing that the room full of ex-superheroes were too self involved to realize the innate danger outside she turned to the vamps.
The one to the right showed of his fangs in a grin, and the left one mumbled about cashing in big. 'Oh, so there's a demonic hit out on me. Goody.' "Okay let's do this fast; if that pizza's cold Rocky is going to have a fit."
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A loud crash rang through out the apartment. "What the hell was that?" Tommy jumped up slipping into fearless leader mode, and was quickly followed by Jason. When the group reached the source of the sound, the were greeted with the sight of Kim bent down with three extra large pizza boxes in one hand, and helping the pizza boy up with her other hand.
"Kim, what happened?" Jason asked grabbing the pizza boy's other arm.
"Oh, you know," she said waving her hand around.
Eyebrows drawn and arms crossed, Tommy stared at her, "No, we don't." Kim sighed and looked at the pizza boy pleadingly, trying her best to not let anyone from the group notice her look. "I uh tripped. When um, I was, you know, gettin' her, uh her change." Tommy's face darkened as he saw Kim's smile twitch as she shook her head and let the kid keep the few dollars he was going to hand her. Rocky shot forward and grabbed the pizza from the girl and almost everyone followed him inside.
Kim moved to go inside, but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder and a deep voice laced with concern. "What's goin' on Kim?" She turned to look at familiar brown eyes.
"It's nothing Tommy." She stepped towards the door, but he stepped into her path. His callused hands gently cupped her face and he bent down to look at her cinnamon eyes.
"Kim you can tell me anything, what's going on?" Her eyes shut as she inhaled the chilly night air and his unmistakable sent of rain and sweat. Shaking her head she smiled sweetly at him.
"Please believe me. Nothing that concerns you is happening Tommy. Don't worry."
"Don't worry?" His hands dropped from her face to lay lifelessly at his side. "Don't worry?"
"Yes, Thomas, don't worry. I'm a big girl, remember?" She turned grabbing the door handle.
"I always worry about you, Beautiful." She sighed and turned towards the tall martial artist.
"That right was given up three years ago." Not seeing his flinch she left outside on the porch of the ground apartment.
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She slowly walked into the over crowded buildings. In one corner she saw three young teenagers going through different back flips and dance steps. She noticed the added arcade games to the right. She also saw three old friends and a newer friend, Trini, Billy, Adam, and Tanya, sitting at a familiar round table. At the bar she saw a short smiling man serving a fifteen year old an orange colored drink. "Ernie!' Kimberly smiled as she reached the bar and leaned over to hg the stout owner. "I thought you gave this place away."
"I did, but I couldn't stay away." He smiled and returned to his work behind the counter. "So when did you return?"
"A few days ago. Hey Ernie can I have a kiwi-strawberry smoothie?" He grinned as he grabbed one of the blenders. He watched her at her oblivious old friends.
"Anything for you Pinkie." Her head whipped around with one eyebrow delicately raised, he just returned it with one of his all knowing smiles. "You know after you left nothing seemed the same."
"Oh I don't know." She disregarded what he said with the wave of her hand, "Everything seems okay to me."
"Ok, sure, but when you left it was as if an energy left and everything changed. Your friends," she turned to look at the ones sitting down talking, "this place, the mall, heck, it even seemed like the Power Rangers lost something." Kim was thankful that Ernie couldn't see the shock written all over face as she heard his last words. "Here's your drink, Kim."
Composing herself she grabbed the drink and paid the man. Walking over to her friends, Trini and Billy gave her a big smile and moved over so she would have a seat between the two. Turning towards Billy she said, "You ever get the feeling that Ernie knows more than he's letting on?"
"What do you mean?"
"He called me Pinkie and said even the Power Rangers seemed to change when I left." Adam started choking on his drink and Tanya unconsciously pounded on his back until he was able to breath correctly again. The other three bent over to make sure he was okay.
"Well," Billy said bringing their attention to him, "if anyone figured it out it would have been him." Their eyes expanded as he went on, "How many times has he seen us convenient run out of here right before an attack was broadcast."
"Ok change of subject." Trini turned to Kim, "How long are you staying?"
"Well if all goes right, just a few months. Then I'll be in merry ol'London for a few weeks, and then hopefully back her permanently. Or Sunnydale, or maybe LA."
"What's in Sunnydale?"
"Oh just this girl name Buffy, she helped me out a few summers ago. We became pretty good friends after that." She returned to her smoothie until Billy asked,
"What's in LA?"
My cousin and this guy Angel, he's Buffy's ex. He helped me out a couple months after I met Buffy." Trini leaned over looking at Kim.
"And what exactly did you need so much help with?"
"I'll tell you later you Trini."
"Oh do any of us get to hear what's going on?" She turned around to see Tommy and Kat standing right behind her.
"Hello." She turned finishing the last of her drink. Tommy stared at her back waiting for an answer. "I'm sure everyone will find out in their own time, Thomas," she said with an air of formality and calmness, not usually associated with her, "But I'm running late and I have to leave." She turned towards Kat with a strained smile plastered on her face. "Here, you can have my seat Kat." Kim quickly walked off leaving the group a bit surprised.
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"Billy, how many patents are you working on?" Jason asked as he picked up a small blinking cube emitting a low whistle.
"Forty-six, why?" Billy sat down at one of work benches in the small lab. Trini sat down across from him turning around to look at the computer program he was in the middle of setting up.
"I still want my flying car Billy," she said. Zach dropped down next to Jason as the man sat down on the ground.
"So," he said looking up at Trini, "four out of five ain't bad. Where is our little Kimmy?"
"She said she had something to do with Nigel, but she'll try to get here as soon as possible."
"Do you think Kimmy's alright?" Trini just rolled her eyes as she got up to go get a drink. When she came back she discovered the having a complex conversation on the art of spying.
"So you're going to follow her around for the next week?" She sat down taking a sip of her soda, "Isn't that against the law?"
"It's only against the law if she finds out," Zach quipped. Jason shook his head as the other two stared down the boy.
"Oookay. Guys I really think you should relax, you're talking about Kim here. You remember, the girl who threatened your life Jason in third grade, because she thought you were pickin' on Billy." Jason nodded rubbing his upper arm reminiscing about a past bruise. "She's strong and she'll tell us what's going on when she's ready." She turned to leave but stopped with a giggle saying, "Or at least me."
"What did you guys do to her in Geneva?" Billy asked.
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Stake in hand she ran down the darken streets of Angel Grove. The vampire stayed five steps in front, never gaining or losing his pace. She leapt over downed trash cans and boxes in her pursuit. "You ran track in high school, didn't cha?" Kim screamed at him as the blond vamp ran towards Angel Grove's park.
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Aisha kicked the side of the '95 Honda for the second time that night. "Just work you stupid piece of-Ugh!!" Picking up her purse she turned away from the car. "Last time I let Rocky fix anything of mine."
Figuring that her work was only about two miles from her apartment, she decided to walk. She didn't have time or the patience that night to wait for a tow truck. After the wonderful day of annoying costumers, who couldn't decided where they wanted to go for a week, complaining to her about the most bothersome subjects about their vacations; which most weren't even leaving for until the next year, she just couldn't handle waiting in the dark for some hairy driver who was probably going to hit on her.
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"Will you stop already," Kim yelled running through the wooden section of the Angel Grove Park. She chased down the short overly cute vamp throughout the park. "Ah come on, be a good little evil demon and stop!"
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Taking her normal short cut, Aisha treaded through the park, in a slightly grumpier mood, the ex ranger wasn't prepared for a body to come flying in front of her halting her path. "What the HELL?"
A short brunette slid from the shadow of the trees into Aisha's view. She stood breathing calmly as she smirked at the fallen body. "We could've did this the easy way, but noooo you had to run." As the man started to stand she took two large steps forward and kicked him into a tree.
Aisha stepped forward, brining Kim's attention to her, "Kim?"
"Friend of yours?" was the only warning she received. Acting on instinct Aisha performed a perfect roundhouse into the man's temple sending back into the tree.
Kim flicked a piece of wood into the man's heart. She turned to Aisha smiling, "Thanks."
Aisha never really heard her as she watched the man turned into dust landing on the ground in a small pile. She watched as the dust particles slowly blew away as the breeze got a bit stronger. "Kim?"
"Yeah."
"What was that?"
"Aisha," she felt a gentle hand fall onto her shoulder, "that was a vampire."
"A vampire? Like blood sucking, parasitical living-dead, vampire?"
"Yep," Kim said turning away from the finally resting place of the creature.
"Kim," Aisha turned following the girl out of the park, "Why were you chasing a vampire?"
Sighing Kim looked at the other girl, "Let's call Trini."
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The three young women sat around the apartment's living room sporting Trini taste for simplicity in soft whites and tans thrown around. No one said anything as they just seemed to look at each other speaking through their eyes instead. Aisha, never the patient one, spoke first. "Ok Kim, start talking."
"Shouldn't we get the others?" Trini asked.
"No." Kim's voice was strict and final, "I love all you guys, but telling you two is a bit more important to me. I'll tell them later."
"Basically, you don't want Tommy bugging you about this yet."
"Right," Kim said smiling at Aisha. "Anyways, I'm the Slayer." The other two women blinked and leaned forward.
"What's a slayer?" Trini asked.
"Well," Kim started leaning back, "the Slayer is a girl destined to fight vampires and demons until she dies. Not exactly the longest life expectancy." They looked at her for a second.
"You're serious, aren't you?" Kim just nodded. Aisha shook her head, "That doesn't sound very good," she said speaking more to herself than the others.
"How'd you become the Slayer?" Trini asked.
"Well-"
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*It started a few months after I went to Florida; near the end of May. We had practice since 4:30 in the morning with only a breakfast and lunch break. So I was a bit tired and mad when we finally got out, but I decided to stay; to perfect one of my floor acts.*
"Kim, ya'll comin'?" A lanky red head asked with a strong Southern accent as she turned away from the large group of gymnast.
"No, I'll catch up with you guys at-?"
"Olive Ga'den."
"Ok, give me a few minutes."
"A'ight Suga'," The girl shrugged turning to leave, "goin' call that cute boyfriend of hers." The group walked out the large glass doors of the gym.
Kim turned around doing a series of flips and simple floor maneuvers, finishing up with a handless cartwheel she stood up looking at her reflection in one of the wall mirrors. Sighing, she started a complex kata Jason had taught her back when she was fifteen. Once done she gave her reflection a respectful bow. Her eyes snapped open as she heard the large room fill with clapping.
"I heard you were good, but I was not expecting that type of performance."
Kim stepped back eyeing the man rarely. Her muscle tensed ready to attack if needed. "Who are you?"
"Nigel Darcy," the man said with a slight tip of his head, "your watcher."
*Nigel and I weren't exactly best friends to start of with. And I really don't think I had the patients or the time to deal with his schedule and proper actions.*
"YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT?!?!"
"Become the Slayer; fight vampires and destroy demons." Kim sighed as she slumped down against the large mirror her head hanging low. "It's a great honor to be the Slayer; in you is the power to save countless lives. To find out your destiny of becoming a great hero must be a great shock to you, but I assure-" she interrupted him with the shake of her head.
"No, you'd be surprise how familiar I am with saving lives." She stood up and grabbed her duffle bag.
"So you believe me?" She nodded her head heading towards the door. "Excuse me, Miss Kimberly, where are you going; we need to start training immediately."
"I'm already late to meet my teammates and I still have to change into real clothes," she answered.
"What about your training?"
"I'm training for the Pan Global." She turned to him waving her hand around, "I'm really sorry, but I don't think I have a lot of time to train with you, but I'll be there to fight whenever you need help. Plus you're already said I was good."
"Yes but, Miss Kim-" She ran to the dorms tossing a 'See ya' stopping what the middle aged British man was going to say.
*For a few months it was just wake up early and go to practice. At night I would go; well I guess you could say hunting, and I was arguing with Nigel most of the time.*
The two stood outside in a graveyard. The newly forming dew stuck to the bottom of their shoes as they walked around the quiet cemetery. The only thing to be heard were the harsh whispers from the small brunette, "You couldn't wait five minutes; I was talking to Tommy."
"I believe Kimberly the vampire is a little more important than you flirting on the phone."
Eyes rolled around as she gave the older man an exasperated sigh, "I was not flirting with Tommy," she pause thinking about her words, "that much. Plus I haven't talked to him in a week and it's not my fault I only get to use the phone at eleven. Anyways, the vamp hasn't even risen yet; it'll be like playing with a putty."
"A what, Kimberly?"
"Never mind," the ground shifted and moved as pale hands clawed through the newly overturned ground.
"Like cockroaches." She bent down next to the struggling undead.
Kim bent down and grabbed the fang creature by the hand; with a cheerful hi she yanked the vampire from the softened ground. Quickly, without thought she plunged her stake into his heart, and pulled it out as he turned into a pile of dust. "I'm going to go patrol the campus grounds, them I'm going to sleep. Is there anything else you want to bug me about?"
Nigel remained silent as the slayer marched her way through the old headstones, muttering softly under her breath aggravating watchers who needed a woman dead or alive at this point.
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"So basically; it was just more vamps, more demons, and more pigheaded watchers telling me what to do all the time. I didn't get a break from all that until I came down for Christmas."
Trini handed Kim a tissue as she noticed the now visible tears and running nose. "I can't believe you went through that alone Kim."
"I wasn't alone," as sarcasm spewed from her mouth, "I had Nigel."
Aisha looked over at her "You know Kim it doesn't sound like you like the guy very much. So the question is why are you living with him? "
Kim smirked, "Nigel is like that little boy next door that spits gum in your hair, and won't leave you alone, even when you say you've come down with the bubonic plague," she scoffed out, "trust me I've tried."
"Oh."
"He just grows on you, know what I mean?"
"Like fungus?"
Kim nodded at Aisha, "Exactly."
I'd like to say to one of my readers that, no Kim isn't replacing Kendra. I kind of figured it would be alright to say that I'm bumping up everything that happen in PR by two years, I'm not changing anything in the plot, it's just they have slightly better video games and window programs. Trust me you all will find out why later. So I better start the story before you guys tell me to shut up.
P.S. The words between the *'s are voice over, but I'm sure all you smart people could've figured that out without my help.
Kimberly the Vampire Slayer Chapter 2
"You're late Tommy."
"Well, Sha I had trouble fin-"
"No you didn't," she said interrupting him. "But we won't talk about why you're later than usual, at least not right now." She grabbed his arm dragging him in, and placing him next to the original pink ranger. "Everyone sit and prepare to watch one of the scariest movies of all time, in wide screen." She plopped down next to Rocky and signaled for Tanya to hit play.
About an hour later the guys were bored. Jason, Tommy, and Zach were tossing a ball around; Aisha and Trini were talking, stopping every so often by Aisha turning towards the screen screaming 'Oh come on!' Kim, Tanya and the rest of the boys were playing poker on the floor. Kat, being the only one never to see 'The Exorcist' before, was completely engrossed in the movie.
Everything was pretty normal, except for Tommy glancing at Kim for the 38th time of that night, and having Kim look back at him precisely a second after he turned away. For Trini and Aisha, the only observant members of the group, it was great entertainment.
The doorbell rang and Kim rose to get it, "Pizza's here." She flung the door open to be met with not only the acne covered face of the pizza boy, but also three vampires, one holding the struggling boy by the neck.
"Can the Slayer come out to play?" hissed the one holding the teenager. Kim leaned over and looked around the corner, checking to see if her friends were occupied. Seeing that the room full of ex-superheroes were too self involved to realize the innate danger outside she turned to the vamps.
The one to the right showed of his fangs in a grin, and the left one mumbled about cashing in big. 'Oh, so there's a demonic hit out on me. Goody.' "Okay let's do this fast; if that pizza's cold Rocky is going to have a fit."
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A loud crash rang through out the apartment. "What the hell was that?" Tommy jumped up slipping into fearless leader mode, and was quickly followed by Jason. When the group reached the source of the sound, the were greeted with the sight of Kim bent down with three extra large pizza boxes in one hand, and helping the pizza boy up with her other hand.
"Kim, what happened?" Jason asked grabbing the pizza boy's other arm.
"Oh, you know," she said waving her hand around.
Eyebrows drawn and arms crossed, Tommy stared at her, "No, we don't." Kim sighed and looked at the pizza boy pleadingly, trying her best to not let anyone from the group notice her look. "I uh tripped. When um, I was, you know, gettin' her, uh her change." Tommy's face darkened as he saw Kim's smile twitch as she shook her head and let the kid keep the few dollars he was going to hand her. Rocky shot forward and grabbed the pizza from the girl and almost everyone followed him inside.
Kim moved to go inside, but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder and a deep voice laced with concern. "What's goin' on Kim?" She turned to look at familiar brown eyes.
"It's nothing Tommy." She stepped towards the door, but he stepped into her path. His callused hands gently cupped her face and he bent down to look at her cinnamon eyes.
"Kim you can tell me anything, what's going on?" Her eyes shut as she inhaled the chilly night air and his unmistakable sent of rain and sweat. Shaking her head she smiled sweetly at him.
"Please believe me. Nothing that concerns you is happening Tommy. Don't worry."
"Don't worry?" His hands dropped from her face to lay lifelessly at his side. "Don't worry?"
"Yes, Thomas, don't worry. I'm a big girl, remember?" She turned grabbing the door handle.
"I always worry about you, Beautiful." She sighed and turned towards the tall martial artist.
"That right was given up three years ago." Not seeing his flinch she left outside on the porch of the ground apartment.
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She slowly walked into the over crowded buildings. In one corner she saw three young teenagers going through different back flips and dance steps. She noticed the added arcade games to the right. She also saw three old friends and a newer friend, Trini, Billy, Adam, and Tanya, sitting at a familiar round table. At the bar she saw a short smiling man serving a fifteen year old an orange colored drink. "Ernie!' Kimberly smiled as she reached the bar and leaned over to hg the stout owner. "I thought you gave this place away."
"I did, but I couldn't stay away." He smiled and returned to his work behind the counter. "So when did you return?"
"A few days ago. Hey Ernie can I have a kiwi-strawberry smoothie?" He grinned as he grabbed one of the blenders. He watched her at her oblivious old friends.
"Anything for you Pinkie." Her head whipped around with one eyebrow delicately raised, he just returned it with one of his all knowing smiles. "You know after you left nothing seemed the same."
"Oh I don't know." She disregarded what he said with the wave of her hand, "Everything seems okay to me."
"Ok, sure, but when you left it was as if an energy left and everything changed. Your friends," she turned to look at the ones sitting down talking, "this place, the mall, heck, it even seemed like the Power Rangers lost something." Kim was thankful that Ernie couldn't see the shock written all over face as she heard his last words. "Here's your drink, Kim."
Composing herself she grabbed the drink and paid the man. Walking over to her friends, Trini and Billy gave her a big smile and moved over so she would have a seat between the two. Turning towards Billy she said, "You ever get the feeling that Ernie knows more than he's letting on?"
"What do you mean?"
"He called me Pinkie and said even the Power Rangers seemed to change when I left." Adam started choking on his drink and Tanya unconsciously pounded on his back until he was able to breath correctly again. The other three bent over to make sure he was okay.
"Well," Billy said bringing their attention to him, "if anyone figured it out it would have been him." Their eyes expanded as he went on, "How many times has he seen us convenient run out of here right before an attack was broadcast."
"Ok change of subject." Trini turned to Kim, "How long are you staying?"
"Well if all goes right, just a few months. Then I'll be in merry ol'London for a few weeks, and then hopefully back her permanently. Or Sunnydale, or maybe LA."
"What's in Sunnydale?"
"Oh just this girl name Buffy, she helped me out a few summers ago. We became pretty good friends after that." She returned to her smoothie until Billy asked,
"What's in LA?"
My cousin and this guy Angel, he's Buffy's ex. He helped me out a couple months after I met Buffy." Trini leaned over looking at Kim.
"And what exactly did you need so much help with?"
"I'll tell you later you Trini."
"Oh do any of us get to hear what's going on?" She turned around to see Tommy and Kat standing right behind her.
"Hello." She turned finishing the last of her drink. Tommy stared at her back waiting for an answer. "I'm sure everyone will find out in their own time, Thomas," she said with an air of formality and calmness, not usually associated with her, "But I'm running late and I have to leave." She turned towards Kat with a strained smile plastered on her face. "Here, you can have my seat Kat." Kim quickly walked off leaving the group a bit surprised.
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"Billy, how many patents are you working on?" Jason asked as he picked up a small blinking cube emitting a low whistle.
"Forty-six, why?" Billy sat down at one of work benches in the small lab. Trini sat down across from him turning around to look at the computer program he was in the middle of setting up.
"I still want my flying car Billy," she said. Zach dropped down next to Jason as the man sat down on the ground.
"So," he said looking up at Trini, "four out of five ain't bad. Where is our little Kimmy?"
"She said she had something to do with Nigel, but she'll try to get here as soon as possible."
"Do you think Kimmy's alright?" Trini just rolled her eyes as she got up to go get a drink. When she came back she discovered the having a complex conversation on the art of spying.
"So you're going to follow her around for the next week?" She sat down taking a sip of her soda, "Isn't that against the law?"
"It's only against the law if she finds out," Zach quipped. Jason shook his head as the other two stared down the boy.
"Oookay. Guys I really think you should relax, you're talking about Kim here. You remember, the girl who threatened your life Jason in third grade, because she thought you were pickin' on Billy." Jason nodded rubbing his upper arm reminiscing about a past bruise. "She's strong and she'll tell us what's going on when she's ready." She turned to leave but stopped with a giggle saying, "Or at least me."
"What did you guys do to her in Geneva?" Billy asked.
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Stake in hand she ran down the darken streets of Angel Grove. The vampire stayed five steps in front, never gaining or losing his pace. She leapt over downed trash cans and boxes in her pursuit. "You ran track in high school, didn't cha?" Kim screamed at him as the blond vamp ran towards Angel Grove's park.
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Aisha kicked the side of the '95 Honda for the second time that night. "Just work you stupid piece of-Ugh!!" Picking up her purse she turned away from the car. "Last time I let Rocky fix anything of mine."
Figuring that her work was only about two miles from her apartment, she decided to walk. She didn't have time or the patience that night to wait for a tow truck. After the wonderful day of annoying costumers, who couldn't decided where they wanted to go for a week, complaining to her about the most bothersome subjects about their vacations; which most weren't even leaving for until the next year, she just couldn't handle waiting in the dark for some hairy driver who was probably going to hit on her.
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"Will you stop already," Kim yelled running through the wooden section of the Angel Grove Park. She chased down the short overly cute vamp throughout the park. "Ah come on, be a good little evil demon and stop!"
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Taking her normal short cut, Aisha treaded through the park, in a slightly grumpier mood, the ex ranger wasn't prepared for a body to come flying in front of her halting her path. "What the HELL?"
A short brunette slid from the shadow of the trees into Aisha's view. She stood breathing calmly as she smirked at the fallen body. "We could've did this the easy way, but noooo you had to run." As the man started to stand she took two large steps forward and kicked him into a tree.
Aisha stepped forward, brining Kim's attention to her, "Kim?"
"Friend of yours?" was the only warning she received. Acting on instinct Aisha performed a perfect roundhouse into the man's temple sending back into the tree.
Kim flicked a piece of wood into the man's heart. She turned to Aisha smiling, "Thanks."
Aisha never really heard her as she watched the man turned into dust landing on the ground in a small pile. She watched as the dust particles slowly blew away as the breeze got a bit stronger. "Kim?"
"Yeah."
"What was that?"
"Aisha," she felt a gentle hand fall onto her shoulder, "that was a vampire."
"A vampire? Like blood sucking, parasitical living-dead, vampire?"
"Yep," Kim said turning away from the finally resting place of the creature.
"Kim," Aisha turned following the girl out of the park, "Why were you chasing a vampire?"
Sighing Kim looked at the other girl, "Let's call Trini."
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The three young women sat around the apartment's living room sporting Trini taste for simplicity in soft whites and tans thrown around. No one said anything as they just seemed to look at each other speaking through their eyes instead. Aisha, never the patient one, spoke first. "Ok Kim, start talking."
"Shouldn't we get the others?" Trini asked.
"No." Kim's voice was strict and final, "I love all you guys, but telling you two is a bit more important to me. I'll tell them later."
"Basically, you don't want Tommy bugging you about this yet."
"Right," Kim said smiling at Aisha. "Anyways, I'm the Slayer." The other two women blinked and leaned forward.
"What's a slayer?" Trini asked.
"Well," Kim started leaning back, "the Slayer is a girl destined to fight vampires and demons until she dies. Not exactly the longest life expectancy." They looked at her for a second.
"You're serious, aren't you?" Kim just nodded. Aisha shook her head, "That doesn't sound very good," she said speaking more to herself than the others.
"How'd you become the Slayer?" Trini asked.
"Well-"
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*It started a few months after I went to Florida; near the end of May. We had practice since 4:30 in the morning with only a breakfast and lunch break. So I was a bit tired and mad when we finally got out, but I decided to stay; to perfect one of my floor acts.*
"Kim, ya'll comin'?" A lanky red head asked with a strong Southern accent as she turned away from the large group of gymnast.
"No, I'll catch up with you guys at-?"
"Olive Ga'den."
"Ok, give me a few minutes."
"A'ight Suga'," The girl shrugged turning to leave, "goin' call that cute boyfriend of hers." The group walked out the large glass doors of the gym.
Kim turned around doing a series of flips and simple floor maneuvers, finishing up with a handless cartwheel she stood up looking at her reflection in one of the wall mirrors. Sighing, she started a complex kata Jason had taught her back when she was fifteen. Once done she gave her reflection a respectful bow. Her eyes snapped open as she heard the large room fill with clapping.
"I heard you were good, but I was not expecting that type of performance."
Kim stepped back eyeing the man rarely. Her muscle tensed ready to attack if needed. "Who are you?"
"Nigel Darcy," the man said with a slight tip of his head, "your watcher."
*Nigel and I weren't exactly best friends to start of with. And I really don't think I had the patients or the time to deal with his schedule and proper actions.*
"YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT?!?!"
"Become the Slayer; fight vampires and destroy demons." Kim sighed as she slumped down against the large mirror her head hanging low. "It's a great honor to be the Slayer; in you is the power to save countless lives. To find out your destiny of becoming a great hero must be a great shock to you, but I assure-" she interrupted him with the shake of her head.
"No, you'd be surprise how familiar I am with saving lives." She stood up and grabbed her duffle bag.
"So you believe me?" She nodded her head heading towards the door. "Excuse me, Miss Kimberly, where are you going; we need to start training immediately."
"I'm already late to meet my teammates and I still have to change into real clothes," she answered.
"What about your training?"
"I'm training for the Pan Global." She turned to him waving her hand around, "I'm really sorry, but I don't think I have a lot of time to train with you, but I'll be there to fight whenever you need help. Plus you're already said I was good."
"Yes but, Miss Kim-" She ran to the dorms tossing a 'See ya' stopping what the middle aged British man was going to say.
*For a few months it was just wake up early and go to practice. At night I would go; well I guess you could say hunting, and I was arguing with Nigel most of the time.*
The two stood outside in a graveyard. The newly forming dew stuck to the bottom of their shoes as they walked around the quiet cemetery. The only thing to be heard were the harsh whispers from the small brunette, "You couldn't wait five minutes; I was talking to Tommy."
"I believe Kimberly the vampire is a little more important than you flirting on the phone."
Eyes rolled around as she gave the older man an exasperated sigh, "I was not flirting with Tommy," she pause thinking about her words, "that much. Plus I haven't talked to him in a week and it's not my fault I only get to use the phone at eleven. Anyways, the vamp hasn't even risen yet; it'll be like playing with a putty."
"A what, Kimberly?"
"Never mind," the ground shifted and moved as pale hands clawed through the newly overturned ground.
"Like cockroaches." She bent down next to the struggling undead.
Kim bent down and grabbed the fang creature by the hand; with a cheerful hi she yanked the vampire from the softened ground. Quickly, without thought she plunged her stake into his heart, and pulled it out as he turned into a pile of dust. "I'm going to go patrol the campus grounds, them I'm going to sleep. Is there anything else you want to bug me about?"
Nigel remained silent as the slayer marched her way through the old headstones, muttering softly under her breath aggravating watchers who needed a woman dead or alive at this point.
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"So basically; it was just more vamps, more demons, and more pigheaded watchers telling me what to do all the time. I didn't get a break from all that until I came down for Christmas."
Trini handed Kim a tissue as she noticed the now visible tears and running nose. "I can't believe you went through that alone Kim."
"I wasn't alone," as sarcasm spewed from her mouth, "I had Nigel."
Aisha looked over at her "You know Kim it doesn't sound like you like the guy very much. So the question is why are you living with him? "
Kim smirked, "Nigel is like that little boy next door that spits gum in your hair, and won't leave you alone, even when you say you've come down with the bubonic plague," she scoffed out, "trust me I've tried."
"Oh."
"He just grows on you, know what I mean?"
"Like fungus?"
Kim nodded at Aisha, "Exactly."
