Chapter 11
Luthorkingdom, woods,
Chloe still sat on a fallen tree thinking about what to do now when she heard someone scream. quickly standing up she began to run over to the place she heard the scream come from.

Running hard she stopped suddenly when she spotted a young boy she estimated about 11 years old. The boy looked at her scared as he said "please help me. They won't leave me alone"

"Who's they?" Chloe asked the boy coming closer to him until she was just in front of him. she looked down at him and asked "who's after you?"

"My step dad and his men. They make me do things I don't want to do" the boy said to her his voice still scared.

Chloe looked up and around for signs of people. She then heard someone yell "Ryan, come back son. You know you can't hide from me. I'll find you."

"Don't worry Ryan. MY name is Chloe. I won't let him take you" Chloe said to the boy trying to comfort him.

Chloe then saw a man who's voice it had been calling for the boy appear from a bush. "There you are." he said when seeing Ryan. Chloe protectively stood in front of the boy blocking the man path to him.

"Get out of the way woman, I don't want to hurt you, I just want my son." the man said.

"He's scared and doesn't want to go with you. besides you must be his stepfather not his real father." Chloe said to him.

The man glared at her and whistled loudly, 3 other men shortly appeared in the small open place in the woods when hearing their leader call for them. Chloe looked from left to right seeing the men come up next to their boss.

"Am I supposed to be impressed or something now?" she said to Ryan's stepfather.

"I don't care if you're impressed or not" the man said "All I want is the boy, but first I'm going to fk you. After I'm done my men can have you while I leave with the boy."

"Sorry to tell you this but I'm really not interested in you, or your men. Now I'm giving you the choice to walk away quietly and none of you will get hurt. Or you could stay and get hurt." she flashed them a cocky smile.

The men laughed amused by her and then one of them leaped forwards. Chloe moved towards him and placed a hard roundhouse kick in his stomach doubling him over, she then gave him an uppercut sending him to the ground.

The others watched dumbfound at how a woman could take on a man. "What?" Chloe asked innocently at them "I warned him" she added.

Another man jumped forwards and swung a punch at her. Chloe ducked and punched the man in his groin. then stood straight again to the mans wide eyes his hands clutching his balls and she pushed him backwards with one finger on his head. "who's next?" she asked them smiling amused.

another man came at her with his arms spread intending to grab her. Chloe sprang aside only to have her feet being swept from beneath her by the first guy she had fought. landing on her but she rolled aside just barely avoiding a kick that was aimed at her stomach. flipping herself up she came at the man who had hoped to kick her in her side when she was down and swung a punch at his jaw which he blocked by grabbing her fist in his larger hand and then twisted her arm so her back was against him. she could feel his arousal against her back and disgusted by him she brought up her leg and kicked the man in his face so he let her go. she then sprung forwards at the other man jumping in the air her feet aimed at him she kicked him with her feet against his chest until she lost her speed in the air and fell to the ground. Flipping quickly up she saw to her satisfaction that the man had crashed against a tree and was now on the ground in front of it unconscious. turning around she was just in time to see a punch coming at her. she flipped back her feet hitting the guy against his head hard and then sprang forwards punching the guy in his stomach a few time and ended her combo with a nice placed roundhouse kick in his stomach making him take a few steps backwards. the man angry lunged at her again, ready for him she rolled towards him and used his own strength against him as she lifted him up and send him into the guy who was still clutching his groin from her hard punch to it. walking at them she gave the man a hard kick against his face sending him KO and looked at the other man who cursed at her while still holding his groin while the other man was still on top of him.

"that will do" a voice said and she turned around to see the man hold the boy in a headlock. the boy seemed the try and break free from his stepfather grip but wasn't strong enough to succeed.

"Hey I'm not the one who sent your goons at me" Chloe said as she was trying to think up something to free Ryan from his stepfathers grip. "Just let the boy go and I won't come after you"

"You think you can take me" the man said.

"Hey, I'm not the one hiding behind a child" Chloe replied. "but seeing as what I did to your men you should be scared of me."

The men tightened his grip on Ryan and the boy whimpered. "I'm not scared. I'm smart" the man said ignoring the boy's whimpers.

Chloe glared at the man. "Let him go" she tried again only this time her voice sounded more dangerous.

"No" the man said simply and Chloe bladed her hands into fists then an idea occurred to her and she closed her eyes as she whispered something in a language the them man didn't understand but when the ground around them started to shake and blue lights began to form in front of Chloe he said "what are you doing" his voice scared.

The blue lights formed a ball which hovered in front of Chloe dangerously. Chloe opened her eyes and looked at the scared man who held the boy who was looking amazed at what was happening. she smiled and the shaking of the ground had stopped and only the blue ball which was shinning brightly remained. "Let him go or I will put this inside you and make you explode" she threatened him smiling at her own bluff, this was just a ball of energy from the earth which she could use to light a room or to recharge her magical battery. it wasn't dangerous, as far as she knew anyways. but he didn't know that.

The man gulped then let go of the boy. "ok now make it go away" he said to her.

"Ryan come here" Chloe said her voice kind. the boy walked over to Chloe and took her outstretched hand, not afraid of her.

"I did what you asked now make it go away" the man said obviously scared.

Chloe laughed "This ball is harmless. it's just an energy ball I conjured up from the earth." she reached for it with her other hand and touched the ball which made her hand glow she closed her eyes for a second enjoying the feeling of power that was joining her own "Sonno" she then said and as the blue ball had disappeared a yellow one appeared from her hand and shot at the man hitting the stunned man in the chest. the man immediately fell to his knees then to the ground asleep.

"wow, that was amazing" Ryan said to her. "You beat those guys and then just took my stepfather out with one word."

Chloe smiled "Well I had to save you now didn't I. Are you alright? He didn't hurt you too much did he?" She worried asked him inspecting him for bruises.

"I'm, fi-" he stopped when a blur suddenly stopped in front of them and a young man looked at them. "ne" he finished.

"Chloe" the young man said then looked around and asked "what happened? Are you alright, who's this?"

"Hi, Clark, I'm, fine. This is nothing, just a little disagreement. And this is Ryan." she replied.

"Hi" Clark said a bit uncomfortable but not showing it.

"You're a little late though. not that I needed your help. but it would have been easier." Chloe said playfully looking into his eyes then averting hers when remembering him and Lana kissing.

Ryan looked up at her as if he was reading her then turned around to see one of the men up and coming at them "watch out" he said and pushed them both to the ground.

As Chloe looked at why they were on the ground she saw Clark sending the man who she had punched in his groin flying hard against a tree and dropping unconscious.

"thanks" she said getting up and dusting herself off. "We should head back, do you think your parents will mind if Ryan here stays with us?" she asked him.

"No, they'll love the company. You still haven't told me why there're after him. Or are they after you?" Clark asked.

"That there is Ryan's stepfather who was using Ryan here for something. Ryan ran away and didn't want to go back. I ran into him and well helped him" Chloe answered him then turned to Ryan "what was he using you for?"

Ryan seemed uncomfortable with the question and Chloe sensing this looked at Clark for a moment before saying "It's ok, you can tell us when you're ready to." he smiled at her and gave her a hug.

A bit surprised Chloe didn't respond to the hug immediately but after a few seconds did. when they let go of each other Chloe looked at Clark and said "let's go"