"Lois, where the hell are you?" Chloe asked impatiently on her cell phone the next Friday.
"Almost there, Chloe. Got stuck in some wicked traffic right outside Metropolis earlier," Lois replied as she kept her eyes on the road. "What's the hurry anyway? It's your surprise party. You're supposed to be the last one there."
"This has nothing to do with the party," Chloe replied. "At least, I don't think so? Lana said she wanted to show us something important."
"A new cheerleading move, maybe?" Lois asked, a little sarcastically. Lois didn't mind Lana, in fact she liked her a little, but the fact that Lana had been a cheerleader once upon a time, well, that just irked Lois to no end. As a rule, she disliked cheerleaders, even former ones. Which she supposed should have meant Chloe because of the stunt she pulled a week or so ago...but Chloe hadn't really been a cheerleader.
"Lois, come on. You know Lana quit cheerleading aeons ago. Could you cut the girl some slack?"
"I'm kidding, Chloe. You know me better than that. I'm not an out-and-out bitch. Well...not usually."
"Yeah, yeah, just hurry up and get here. Please?"
"Almost there," Lois replied, taking the only exit that would lead her to Smallville from the freeway. "Or, you know, not quite. Just exited the freeway."
"Lois!"
"Calm down, Clo. I'll be there soon."
Soon translated as twenty minutes later as Lois pulled up in front of Chloe's house. Lois honked her horn impatiently and watched Chloe speed out of her house, pulling on a sweater as she did so. Chloe hopped into the passenger seat and slammed the door shut, flashing Lois a bright, toothy smile. "Lana's getting impatient."
"Heh. Cheerleaders," Lois smirked as she pulled out of Chloe's driveway and started down the road to the part of the woods where Lana had asked them to meet her. "So, what's this big thing she has to show us?" Lois asked.
Chloe shrugged. "I honestly have no clue. I mean, lately with Lana, you never really know. France changed her."
"How so?"
"She's become a whole lot more like Clark," Chloe said offhandedly. "Take a right over there."
Lois followed Chloe's instructions and popped another piece of Nicorette in her mouth. "Maybe they really are meant for each other," Lois said, mostly to herself.
Chloe, though, with her superior eavesdropping skills heard Lois and said, "Please, with Zatanna now in the picture, I highly doubt it. Maybe I should just go on ahead and ask Pete Ross to move back here so that I could date him. I mean, okay, he had a thing for me, and he was nice. Knowing my luck, though, he'll probably end up falling for Lana too."
Lois perked up at the mention of Zatanna's name, needing to discuss her findings with Chloe before realizing that she hadn't spoken to her cousin about the new girl at all. No...she'd better talk to Clark first, she told herself as she asked, "What about that guy you were telling me about? That friend of Clark's? What was his name...Bart?"
"He was a dish," Chloe replied, smiling in spite of herself. "Maybe. Except, you know, Clark told me he's back in Central City. So...maybe not. Central City's like way too far away, and how many times has a long distance relationship worked anyway? Ooh, okay, we're here," Chloe said, pointing to a dirt road. "Just pull up in there. Lana wants us to meet her by the river."
Lois nodded and followed Chloe's instructions. Soon, the two girls had passed through a dense area of forest and found Lana waiting for them near the river. Lois immediately noticed that Lana seemed a little...off. She seemed more confidant than she usually did, and a little more sensual too. Lois cocked her head to one side, trying to figure out what exactly was different. A number of ideas ran through her head – Lana was on a drug of some sort, she'd finally lost her virginity, or maybe she and Clark were finally together. Lois decided that none of them were quite it and instead just greeted Lana cheerfully, giving her the benefit of the doubt.
The girls spoke for a few minutes, and Lana said something about celebrating with her two best girls, before pulling out what seemed to be a bottle of wine. Lana offered up two glasses of the drink to both Chloe and Lois, both of who accepted it and took a sip of the drink.
Lois smiled as the wine slid down her throat, cherishing the sweet, fruity taste of the drink. That was right before everything went black.
"Hey, you made it!" Clark said pleasantly as Zatanna stepped into the barn, holding a small wrapped box in her hands.
"Yeah, I wouldn't miss it for the world," Zatanna replied as she leaned over to kiss Clark on the cheek. She pulled back after lightly brushing her lips against his cheek and tilted her head to one side, smiling beguilingly the entire time. The date that Zatanna and Clark had had the night before had gone exceedingly well, Zatanna thought, even though she hadn't discovered anything new about him that night. She had tried a few times to cause little incidents that might have caused Clark to use whatever powers it was that he was hiding from her, but she found nothing anyway.
He was good at keeping secrets, she realized with dismay. No matter though...sooner or later all secrets came out anyway. It was really just a matter of time until Clark's came out as well.
The one good thing, though, that came out of their date was that Clark and Zatanna had pretty much solidified themselves as a couple. She made a mental note to herself to send John a 'Dear John,' letter, an irony which she found incredibly amusing in itself.
"What'd you get her?" Clark asked as Zatanna set her gift on top of the other ones. His breath was taken away as he peered into her eyes under the candlelight. Zatanna was definitely dressed seductively, in a skin-colored beaded and sequined slip dress with a flowy handkerchief hem, with metallic strappy sandals to match. Her lustrous black mane, shimmering in the candlelight, was wavy that night, framing her exotic face and making her seem so very ethereal and divine.
"Oh, just a little something. It's the first article ever written by Nellie Bly," Zatanna replied, her smoldering eyes glittering and her glossed lips parting in a beguiling smile as she answered his question.
Clark was pleasantly surprised by Zatanna's answer. She was a good gift giver, he realized. "Chloe'll love that. She's her idol."
"Yeah, I kinda figured that she would be."
"It must have been expensive though. How'd you get your hands on it?"
Zatanna replied with an ironic smile, "Magic. Look, I'm gonna go get some punch...did you want anything?"
"I'm good, thanks."
Zatanna nodded and smiled and then sashayed away, leaving the scent of ginger and jasmine in her wake. Clark watched her as she walked away, still thunderstruck by her beauty.
He didn't get a chance to watch her long, though, because as soon as she was out of his sight, the doors to the barn opened and in stepped Lana, Chloe, and Lois dressed, well...also dressed seductively. Which was very unlike them.
All eyes turned to stare as the three possessed girls walked into the barn, their movements dripping aggressive sexuality as they did so.
Zatanna, who was near the food table, suddenly lurched and fell on her knees, her eyes glowing and her abdomen hurting.
There were witches nearby, Zatanna realized. Homo sapien witches. And they were pure evil.
Writer's Note: Hey all....yeah, the blonde boy was a throwaway reference to Aquaman. I figured that since this is set in a universe that is different from the mainstream comics universe, he might have some differing powers as well. In lieu of that train of thought, I think you'll notice that I've given Zee some extra powers too...such as the ability to sense homo sapien witches. Not sure if she ever had that power in the first place...but hey...plot device. :-D.