Author note. Italics will be Translate from the mangled Latin. Regular dialog will be in English.
Chapter 2: Kim's awakening
Kim Possible woke up to a raging headache and a tree root in the back. Sitting up and looking around she realized that she was definitely not in Drakken's lair anymore. And judging by the large tree's around her, she wasn't even in the US anymore.
"Where the heck am I" paramount question in her mind.
After sitting for a few minutes she saw a man on a cart with a small burro coming up the path she was laying on. She stood and waved the man down. As he pulled up, Kim noticed that he was staring at her strangely.
"Ummm, Hello. Can you give me a lift to a town or something?" Kim asked the old man.
"Qui id vos nar tene era?" asked the man in a language Kim didn't understand but vaguely recognized as a mangled form of Latin. She did some mental adding and translation, silently thanking her interest in the old language. Kim finally came up with "What did you say young lady?"
"Sorry. I asked if you could give me a lift into town." Kim asked again.
"Certainly. Grab your equipment and climb on," was the reply.
"Umm. What equipment?"
"WHAT! You were wandering around out here unarmed!" The old man seemed shocked by this. "There are bandits and marauders all through here." He lifted a longsword to show that even he didn't go about unarmed.
"Come on. Get in." He waited until Kim was aboard before setting out again. "Where are you from anyway? And how did you get this close to the capital without getting robbed or worse?"
Kim thought about it for a minute. She really did have no idea how she had come to be where ever she was. As she pondered over her answer, the cart came to a bend in the path and was suddenly swarmed by a large number of cloaked men.
"Okay Gramps. Hand over your valuables and all that." The old man slowly handed over his longsword and small pouch of coins.
"The woman too old man" the bandit jeered.
As one of his men reached for Kim she growled out "Not in this lifetime pal," and her hands and eyes burst into red flame.
At the sight of the small woman who now seemed to hold fire in her hands and stare at him with twin fireballs, the bandit group's courage fled and they soon followed. As Kim turned back to the old man she saw him looking at her in awe.
"What?" Kim asked, puzzled by his expression.
He slowly lifted his sword into a position where it acted like a mirror and pointed to her reflection and to her hands.
"WHAT THE HECK!" Kim looked down at her hands that burned with brightness that rivaled the sun. As the pain in her eyes registered she saw the fire dim and slowly die out.
"Where are you from, young one?" The old man's question startled Kim out of her amazement.
"What? What do you mean?"
"You are not from here. That much is obvious from your manner of dress. But to be surprised at the Will Flame? That is something no one on the world would be surprised at."
"I'm from a world called Earth. Why? What is this world's name?"
"We call this world Xan'ai. Come. If you do not know the Will Flame then you must be trained. I will take to you to the Tower of Goba Justi. They will train you there."
"Okay. How far away is this Tower anyway?"
"Not far. It is in the city of Almea, just at the bottom of this hill." And with those words they exited the forest that had hid the world from Kim's eyes. The sight that was spread out before here was amazing. A large city was dominated by a central tower. The city stood next to a river in a large valley and seemed to sparkle in the noon sun.
"We should make the city by nightfall. I will bring you before the council tomorrow morning."
Kim nodded and thought back to her last memories before arriving in Xan'ai. What was Shego doing now? Was she okay? Kim felt a strange stir of worry for her longtime enemy. She had a feeling the last image of Shego reaching for her with panic in her eyes would haunt her for a long time to come. As she wondered what happened to them both the cart headed down the long hill and toward the city, and the unknown.
Ok. That's the end of Chapter 2. Next up is Shego's entrance into Xan'Ai.
And if you can figure out the origin of the name of the Tower, please forgive me. I had a brain fart when it came to the name.shuffles in embarrassment
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