Chapter 5:

Clark was reading a copy of Native American mythology inside his house when the telephone not far away from his couch was beeping loudly, jolted him from his ponderings.

Clark made his way to pick up the receiver but before he could manage to say a single word, a familiar man's voice said,' Clark?'

Clark answered, 'Yeah, it's me. What's the matter?'

'Make sure you reach my place in ten minutes if you want to rescue Chloe. And alone.'

A sudden realization hit Clark's head. "What? How can you do that, Lex? You-."

'If you don't, I'll kill her,' the threatening voice spoke again.

The man hung up his phone before Clark could say anything. The door was opened and Jonathan entered the house.

"Son, what happens? You look so pale.'

Clark couldn't care whether his face was pallid, all he wanted to do now was to save Chloe and prevent Lex from doing anything evil underhand.

Clark quickly related the whole phone call to his dad. Jonathan too, seemed troubled and perplexed.

'Son, I don't allow you to go. Stay out of danger, like your mother and I always told you. Maybe this time, he's up to something devil and maybe, we should just call the police.'

'Dad, I think we should not call the police. Nobody is going to believe us that the man who had appeared on the cover of the Fortune, Economist, and Time magazines is making a phone call and telling he is going to kill a girl. I am sure they'll not believe the story we feed them, far from it.'

'Probably you're right, son, but it's too dangerous for you to go there alone,' said Jonathan. He gazed his son with those troubled eyes again.

'But Chloe is in his hand, he's threatening to kill her. I cannot sit here to let him doing this awful thing again and again.' Clark was very nervous. His mind had the feeling of déjà vu whenever things such as this happened.

'I'll make sure Chloe is not at her apartment before I dashed to Lex's mansion.'

'Son, be careful,' said Jonathan, who was now eyeing his son shooting out of the house in less than a millisecond, seeing that there was no way for him to stop his son from rescuing a friend's life. He knew he had to do something, if only Lex Luthor was going to harm his son.