Coliseum of the Stars
Spoilers: Season four
Disclaimer: Don't own. Wish I did. It would definitely be better if I did.
Rating: Pg-Pg13, mostly for non-graphic violence, i.e. Clark fighting the bad guys. No foul language as I don't use it myself.
Pairing: Chlark, but it doesn't come into it's own until the middle-end of the story.
Need to know: This picks up where season four leaves off. Yes, I have read the new spoilers and know this isn't how it goes, so you can consider it slightly AU. I had to write this anyway. Clark has used the stones to build the FOS (fortress of solitude). He learns to use all of his abilities. The occupants of the space ship, who look like a mix between a human and a rat, are actually alien slavers who have come to earth, using the meteor shower as a cover for taking a few humans without anyone realizing it. These slaves are to be used as prizes in gladiatorial games as prizes to be won. (Slaves are worth a lot of money. Duh.) Lana is immediately kidnapped as she is the first to be seen. Chloe is also found by them, walking around, dazed by the explosion in the caves. Running out of time and worried about being discovered, the aliens throw them both into the ship and launch back into space. This is where the story picks up.
Thanks to Maria and Ranae, my sisters, for their help and encouragement.
P.S.: this will be a long story, but I have it half way done already and just need to work out a few kinks so I should be posting once every day or two. This is my first story so feedback, constructive criticism, and suggestions are all very welcome and will help to make this story better. Oh, and it will switch view points fairly often.
Ch. 1
Chloe woke up with a splitting headache. She reached up and touched her forehead. When she felt something wet, she immediately pulled her hand back, both because of the wetness and because of the pain that she felt when her hand had touched what seemed to be a small wound on her forehead. When she looked at her hand she saw a spot of semi-congealed blood about the size of a dime on the palm of her hand.
"Crud," she thought, "Well, at least it's not too bad, considering most head wounds bleed considerably more than wounds on other parts of the body."
Chloe jumped up off of the floor she had been laying on, when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw movement. Looking closer at what had startled her, she saw Lana. Lana seemed to be waking up. Chloe watched as Lana raised herself into a sitting position, lifting her face from the cold floor to look around.
Lana shook her head to try and clear it of the multitude of cob webs that seem to have taken residence in the skull and immediately regretted it as the ache in her head, neck and back tripled. After the pain subsided, Lana looked around, trying to get an idea of where she was and what was going on. Her eyes settled on Chloe, who appeared to be watching her with equal interest.
"Chloe?" asked Lana, not sure if it was really Chloe after what happened to her today.
"Lana?" replied Chloe in an equally skeptical voice.
"Where are we?" asked Lana, taking a good look around the room for the first time since she woke up.
"What makes you think I know where we are?" replied Chloe.
"Maybe because you were awake when I woke up?"
"I only woke about a minute before you did. I have no idea of where we are. The last thing I remember is being dragged down to the caves by Lex and then there was some kind of an explosion, and then I woke up here." Chloe explained, deliberately leaving out the part where she saw Clark in the caves, surrounded by a white light, and then, after grabbing something, disappeared right before the explosion.
"What about you, Lana? Do you remember anything that might give us a clue as to where we are? What's the last thing you remember?" Chloe asked, switching into investigative reporter mode.
Lana looked down and awkwardly shifted her leaning position into a sitting position while favoring her wounded leg slightly. Looking around the room to collect her thoughts she took her time in replying.
"The last thing I remember is being in the helicopter Lex put me on to get me out of Smallville. All the sudden, meteors started falling around us. The pilot took evasive action, but one of the meteors hit the helicopter and sent it spinning to the ground. When I woke up, the pilot was dead. I crawled away from the crash site, which took me towards one of the meteor craters. Curiosity getting the better of me I stumbled to the top of the crater and looked inside." Lana paused at this point, trying to decide where or not to continue with her story, as she was having a hard time believing that the rest of the story actually happened.
TBC.