Chapter 4
Barn
Chloe awoke early in the morning the next day and decided to start her journey towards Avalon to find Martha Kent. Not having had any breakfast she had bought some bread with the little money she had packed with her clothes. Deciding to stop for lunch near a water stream in the forest she was walking through she took out the bread and sat on a fallen over tree. She took out her magic book and opened it.

As she was looking through it for the various spell there were inside it. She stopped when she reached a spell to locate people. She decided to try the locator spell. She needed to find out if Martha was still in Avalon or if she had moved.

"Mostrarme il sentiero ho bisogno di trovare per prendere a Martha Kent" (show me the path I need to find in order to get to Martha Kent) Chloe read the spell from the book. before her a map appeared on a scroll. she picked it up and saw a green point that indicated her position in woods then an arrow into which direction she had to head in order to get to the blue point that indicated Martha Kent. "this should work" Chloe said smiling then frowned "Why are they in the Luthorkingdom?" she asked herself then.

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LuthorKingdom, next day,
"We're almost there." Whitney said looking at Lana who was riding next to him. Both prince and princess were surrounded by guards who jog it was to make sure nothing happened to the prince and princess.

"I still can't believe Chloe hit me. After all I did for her. After everything my father has done for her. All she had to do was behave and she would be taken care off for the rest of her life. how many people in this worlds wish for the very same thing." Lana ranted.

"You might not want to hear this Lana. But I think she was right in escaping. you kept her prisoner all her life, She never did anything to deserve that." Whitney said to her getting a little tired of Lana being so upset about this, but mostly because she never told him about Chloe.

Lana looked at Whitney a bit shocked to be disagreed with. "She was being cared for well. I'm sure my father had a good reason for keeping her locked up."

Whitney was about to comment when they approached the castle. "We'll talk about it later"

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"Clark, good to see you" Lex said as Clark was walking towards Lex's chambers with two guards escorting him.

"Hey Lex" Clark said greeting his friend. "You sure have a lot of guards in this place."

Lex smirked and said "It's my fathers wish. He wants to come over powerful, while really it's necessary because he has a lot of enemies." he paused waving for the two guards who were escorting Clark to leave them.

"You must not be looking forward to take over the Kingdom after your dad passes away." Clark stated.

"Walk with me Clark." Lex said walking towards the courtyard. "It's as much the taking over the kingdom that I don't like. it's the reputation people already have of me because of my father that I don't like. That's the difference between you and me Clark. You have a father with a good name and many friends I have one with a bad name and no real friends."

Clark was silent for a few seconds then said "At least you get to lead your own life. What I mean is, you decide for yourself on what to do with your life. not your father."

Lex smirks "Believe me he tries. But no matter what he does I'll never be like him. For one thing I have a good friend who saved my life." Lex pauses and then adds "You know I could have sworn I saw that wolf about to take a bit out of your leg."

Clark a bit uncomfortable with the question just smiles "I guess I was just lucky that didn't happen. what about you, how's your arm?"

"Healing nicely." Lex responded then seeing a group of people on horses approach he smiled and said "Come on Clark, there are some people I like you to meet."

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Chloe was walking on a road now, according to her magical map she had at least an half an hour to walk until she would reach the border, which she had not yet have any idea on how to get across. she couldn't very well tell them the truth, they would never believe her. And even if they did she trusted the Luthors as much as she trusted the Langs.

´I need to take a break and think up a way to get past the border without drawing attention. maybe there is an invisibility spell in the book. Chloe thought to herself and looked around to see if she saw anyone before sitting on a stone that stood out of the ground and getting the book from her bag.

"Ok, let's see what is useful this time" she said to herself opening it and flipping through the pages. she stopped when she saw a spell she had wanted to try out before but decided against it. It was a spell to astral project your spirit to any place you wanted.

"Invito gli spiriti a muovere il mio spirito attraverso il tempo ed il palce, me porta a vedere la faccia di Clark Kent." (I call upon the spirits to move my spirit through time and palce, take me to see Clark Kents face' a white light came out of Chloe and shot into the sky.

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LuthorKingdom
"Princess Lana, Prince Whitney, good to see you." Lex said to the two as they both climbed off their horses.

Lana and Whitney smiled at Lex "good to see you too" Whitney said to Lex then looked at Clark who was looking at Lana in a way that disturbed him. "Who's your friend?" he asked Lex.

"Oh, this is my friend Clark Kent. Clark saved my life yesterday." Lex replied.

Clark smiled sheepishly in his typical Clark Kent way. "It was nothing, it's an honour to meet you two" he then said his eyes not leaving Lana's.

Lana just smiled at Lex and then looked at Clark who was looking at her in a way that made her blush slightly. "It's nice too meet you Clark, thank you for saving Lex life. the castle would be boring without its Prince Lex to give it some spunk."

A light glowed and appeared next to Clark the light then glowed more brightly and suddenly a beautiful blond woman appeared.

Clark was smiling at Lana then he felt someone next to him. he saw Lana gasp and turned to look at what she was gasping next to him.

Chloe was standing there for the first time in 9 years seeing the man she had prayed to be alive be alive and starring at Lana Lang. she stood there letting it sink in that Clark was definitely alive and apparently into Lana Lang whom she had always been jealous of. But nothing Lana ever had had hurt her like this. ´God he's alive. I knew it, I knew he would be alright. but why do I care if Clark likes Lana? I should just be happy that he's alive. he was my best friend. there wasn't anything else between us. But then again we were what 8 years old since we last saw each other. a lot could have happened between us in that time. God look at him those arms, those beautiful eyes. his tall form. Get a grip Chloe. wait Lana is here? What the hell is she doing here. I have to get back to my body Chloe thought to herself.

when she spoke it was like her voice was a soft angelic echo. "I'm sorry. I have to go, sorry about the bruise Lana. Bye Clark...Lex" she said vaguely remembering Lex from her 8th year birthday party.

"Ringrazio gli spiriti per guidare me qui, adesso gli chiedo di ritornare il mio spirito a dove appartiene" (I thank the spirits for guiding me here, now I ask them to return my spirit to where it belongs) Chloe spoke and she glowed white bright white again before her spirit turned back into a ball and shot into the sky.

Clark stared at where the young blond had been just moments ago. "wait!" he said but spirit ball then shot into the sky. "Who was that?" he asked out loud looking at Lex since she mentioned his name as well.

"She looks familiar but I can't place her in my mind. But whoever she was she seemed to know us." Lex said. "Princess Lana, care to tell us who that woman was just now?"

"Chloe" Lana whispered then remembered she wasn't supposed to tell them anything. "I think she's one of the maids back at the castle" she quickly covered her slip.

"That would explain why she looks familiar to me. But not how she would know Clark." Lex said looking at Clark who was looking at the sky again.

"I feel like I know her...but I can't place her. I did live in LangKingdom before my mom and dad moved here...It's weird, I know I'm supposed to know her but I can't place her in my head. I'll ask my mom and dad about it later" he told Lex. "But how did she do whatever she did?" he asked the others. "Is she dead or something?" none of the others spoke obviously not knowing it themselves. "I wonder who she was" Clark thought out loud thinking hard. suddenly a flash of him and a young blond girl rose in his mind. they were in a barn. not his barn...his old barn. then everything went dark.

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"Clark" a sweet voice called. he was tired and didn't want to open his eyes.

"Clark" the voice called again, he opened his eyes to look into a pair of bright green eyes. "hi Clark, long time no see." the voice said. Clark blinked his eyes and noticed the eyes belonged to a young blond girl.

"It's about time you woke up." the girl said. "Although you looks cute when you sleep." the girl added.

"Who are you?" Clark asked the girl.

"You don't remember?" the girl asked sad.

"You're that woman. the one who appeared just now" Clark said sitting up and looking around.

The girl nodded and her suddenly the girl was gone and the young blond woman stood before him. "that's good Clark, but what's my name? Your parents made sure you wouldn't remember me, to protect you. But even if you didn't remember me I always remembered you. You were...are the reason I'm still alive. You know who I am, it's still inside of you. all you have to do is remember" she sat beside him on the bed he was on. she touched his face looking him deeply in his mind. "Chloe?" he whispered leaning forwards to kiss her. their lips almost touched "Clark" Lex's voice said loudly by his ear. suddenly Chloe was gone and he saw Lex's worried face looking at him. he sat up and looked around.

"Take it easy Clark, you fainted." Lex said to him.

Clark looked at Lex as if to ask him Where did Chloe go?

"She's gone Clark, do you remember who she is?" Lex asked him.

"Chloe, her name is Chloe." Clark told Lex. "I need to go home" he then added.

"Wait Clark, are you sure-" Lex started but was interrupted by Clark saying "I'll be fine" before running off.

"That was weird" Lana said to Lex.

Lex didn't argue with Lana on that. instead he wondered where he knew Chloe from, was it really a made at Lana's castle? something was telling him that there was a lot more behind all of this.