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Chapter 17

They had almost searched the entire cave before they reached the part Chloe was held in. Her body was hanging limply from above and a pool of blood had formed around her feet.

Cuts and welts were all over her body but luckily the blood had dried so that she wouldn't lose anymore of it. Chloe was still unconscious but Lex had the feeling that she was only pretending.

All three rushed to her side to free her and while Clark looked around for the enemy Lucas loosing the ties.

During this Lex was speaking words of comfort but nobody of them noticed how Chloe's eyes opened and begun to glow red. The earth underneath them begun to shake and stones were falling all around them.

Chloe was lying in Lex arms as she suddenly begun to fly in the middle of it all, controlling the stones so that they would fly at all three men. But lucky as they were they could jump away every time a stone was nearly hitting them.

Lex was more confused then ever by Chloe's behavior. 'I taught she loved me but then why is she trying to kill us?' thoughts like this were running through his mind while he ducked under the stones.

"Why are you doing this Chloe… why do you want to kill us? Stop it please I can't believe that you would do something like this!" cried a desperate Lex.

Chloe was confused the bald man seemed so caring and loving but she couldn't remember him. For a fact she couldn't remember anything and that was really scary.

Chloe knew that she didn't needed to be afraid of them but still there was this voice in her head telling her to kill him. This voice was accompanied by feelings of fear and pain.

Pain shot threw her system, memories and pictures were bombarding her and there were voices… so many, many voices and through it all she tried to control her powers.

Sure she was strong but even she couldn't take it and broke down and with her all the stones that were still flying around.

Lex saw the look that the princess was giving him and the others and in this second he knew that she couldn't remember any of them.

He had learned to read her very well over the last few days and he also saw fear glittering in her eyes but also a little bit of trust towards them.

Clark and Lucas saw this also and because of that the trio tried all the more to reach her. They were five feet away as suddenly every movement stopped and the blond fell on her knees.

Lex was the first one to reach her and took her in his arms trying to comfort her. He also saw how the memories returned and they both gave each other a smile and then kissed each other in a short tender way.

While Chloe was being held by Lex a feeling of safety overcome her and as he lent down and their lips meet for a short sweet kiss all memories returned to her.

What no one of them noticed was Adam Black coming towards them. He was angry because this hadn't been his plan but he could care less because now that they were here he would just kill them…ready or not.

I mean he was the most powerful druid and the princess wasn't nearly in a state to win against him. He collected all his leftover energy and threw it at the party in front of them.

What he didn't know was that because of the two lovers being together again a shield had formed around them and their friend to protect them.

So all his focused energy bounced of the shield and was thrown back at him. Fire was pouring through his entire body. He died a short but painful death and the only thing that was leftover was a little bit of ash.

Four people were looking on with satisfaction as he burned to death knowing he would never return again and suddenly Lex remembered where he had heard from Adam Black.

His mother had told him that Chloe's mother in order to protect her daughter had focused all her energy to spellbind him into this cave and that he swore that someday he would return and then he would have her daughter and after that kill her.

Lex was so happy that he was able to safe her but he wished he had come sooner to spare her all the pain.

"Lex what has happened is in the past we can't change that and I'm not mad at you or anything like this I'm just happy that you came in time to safe me from him! Thanks a lot my prince!"

A smile was overtaking Lex face as Chloe called him her prince and he knew that he would be thankful every day of his life to have such a woman…no soon wife in his life.

This time their lips meet in passion and just after Lucas AND Clark were shaking them slightly they stopped. They all looked at each other and suddenly every one burst out laughing.

As their laugher had died down they made their way out of the cave to ride home with Lex carrying Chloe all the way to the horses.

All the time he looked at her with this soft smile on his lips that she loved so much and her last thought before she fall a sleep in his arms was: god how she loved this man!

End

The Epilogue is coming soon!