Chapter 21
Avalon, castle,
Just outside the castle Clark stopped walking and turned towards Jason. "So let me get this straight. Chloe is taking this ancient test and can't be disturbed because then she'll fail and won't be able to defeat the demons force. I'm her knight and she has some long lost brother out there and we have to defend an entire kingdom?"

"That about covers it, yeah" Jason replied smiling at the nervous young man.

"So no one has an idea on what her brother is supposed to look like?" Pete asked Jason.

Jason shook his head "no, that's why no one really expected Chloe to be the one to fulfil the prophecy." Jason replied.

"This is just great" mumbled Clark as he entered the castle.

A beautiful young woman approached them and said "My name is Kyla, which one of you is her highness brother and which is her knight?"

"Uhh I'm suppose I'm her knight" Clark started "but as for th-"

Jason interrupted him "Her highness brother isn't among us. We have no idea who the prophecy could be talking about."

Kyla nodded at him "I see." she said to them "well at least we have her knight here...the brother will come when it is time." she said to Jason. then to Clark "Knight of the princess, we don't have much fighting experience but we have gathered our weapons and await your command."

Clark stood there a bit nervous not sure what to do, his eyes darted to the people behind Kyla waiting for him to lead them, feeling a determination rise in him not to let them or Chloe down. There weren't many people left in Avalon, he remembered it being much more crowded but he knew he was going to have to survive with what he had.

"There is a hole in the wall, it's how we got through. I was you 15 and Pete there to guard that hole and not let any demons or Langkingdoms troops through. Then I..." Clark continued giving orders to them.

----

Langkingdom, just before the Avalon border,
Lana Lang looked out over her army that counted about a 1000 men, or demons. DemonWhithney landed in front of it.

"When we enter Avalon I want you to kill everyone you see in there. That witch has returned to the her evil empire to regroup before annihilating us all. we cannot let her gather enough power to accomplish this. we must defeat her now!" Lana shouted and DW spread his wings flying up and led the army behind them by flying forwards through the hole in the wall.

Surprised to see the people of Avalon seemed prepared Lana quickly used her newly gained power and held her hands out throwing fire at the upcoming man. she then recognized one of them as Pete, a servant who was befriend with the witch Chloe. she aimed at him and threw fire at her with her hands.

Pete fired and arrow with his longbow at the large demon with the princess he knew as Lana Lang on top of it and then quickly picked up his shield as he saw fire coming at him.

Lana looked annoyed at Pete and then saw an arrow stuck in her pet DW's wing. "to the castle" she said to him and he flew ahead towards the castle.

Clark watched a bit further from the border then most because his reaction to the crystals in the wall as DW flew with Lana Lang towards the castle. he then quickly focussed his attention back at the battle ahead of them knowing he had to insure the safety of these people first before he could go to the castle. Even if it meant Chloe would fail her test these people were his responsibility and he knew Chloe would be able to handle herself against Lana and DW. With a blur he ducked a demons claw attack and span around the demon snapping its neck and let the body drop dead to the ground not waiting around he sprinted towards then next demon quickly finishing that one off as well.

As well as he was doing he knew there were too many soldiers and demons and that they couldn't win this fight, still he knew there was hope because there was still Chloe's brother that had to come. He still didn't know if he believed in the prophecy but he did know Chloe's mother had visions that always came through so there was a chance that this prophecy was for real as well, it had been right so far.

----

Avalon border with Langkindom,
"sir, we've discovered a hole in the wall not far. and there appears to be some kind of battle with civilians and demons and Langkingdoms soldiers behind it." Roland reported to his prince.

Lex nodded and rode on his horse to his small army of men that counted about 300 soldiers, plus himself.

"Men there is a battle up ahead in Avalon where the civilians are defending themselves from Langkingdom who as you know has collaborated with the demonic realm Acathla. They do not know we have come to Avalon and therefore we will have the element of surprise and we will have them trapped from all sides. Let go kill us some demons!" he said smiling as his horse staggered and he held his sword high in the sky. the men shouted their weapons also raised before following their prince towards the hole in the wall.

----

Avalon, border,
Pete stabbed a demon through his head but then was thrown to the ground another demon on top of him and about to put his claw to use and kill Pete.

Closing his eyes expecting death her heard something tumble to the ground and then a heavy body wall on top off him. opening his eyes he pushed the headless body of the demon off him and looked at a man in armour and a bald head. he knew that man from somewhere. "Prince Lex" he then said more then a little surprised to find him here and to think that he was just saved by him.

Lex looked back at the dark young man and smiled briefly before turning back to a soldier from Langkingdom attacking him. he blocked his sword attack with his own and then countered an attack which was blocked by the soldier. the soldier then crumbled to the ground and he saw Pete again his sword in the soldiers back. Pete pulled the sword out and glanced briefly at Lex before facing another demon.

Clark was still killing demons or knocking out Langkingdoms soldiers before he noticed a change on the battlefield. he saw soldiers from Luthorkingdom killing demons and Langkingdom soldiers. As he punched a demon hard in the gut making it stager back he spun and landed a hard kick against the demons head hearing the snap of the demons neck he jumped high off the ground to get a better view of the battle he spotted Lex fighting on a horse ยดWas Lex Chloe's brother? he wondered. he then turned in the air knowing now that Lex and a small army was there he could go to the castle and take out Lana and DW before they interrupted Chloe's test.

----

Avalon, castle,
Lana landed in front of the castle and stepped off DW. She pulled the arrow out of his wing. and looked at the wound. Another arrow scraped against her cheek as she looked up at the castle in front of her.

Her hand quickly to her slightly bleeding cheek she searched for the shooter spotting an old woman up on the tower with a bow in her hand and another arrow ready to fire she raised her hand and threw fire at the old woman who quickly ducked behind the stone.

"Lana" a voice said and she turned around to see Clark.

"Clark" she said in a sweet voice. "you shouldn't have come" she then added in a more threatening voice. "Kill him" she ordered DW and not giving him more attention she turned and entered the castle.

Clark sped after her but his path was suddenly blocked by DW, he bumped hard against the demon making it take a step back. not giving it time to recover Clark delivered hard punches in the demons stomach and finished his move with a roundhouse kick in the demons stomach making it stumble backwards but it quickly recovered and roared with rage before flying at Clark slashing his claws at him.

Clark jumped backwards avoiding the attack and countered with a hard kicked against the demons head making it crash to the ground. As Clark landed he saw the demon already getting up. He drew his sword and swung it at DW. DW held up its arm and the Clark was suddenly holding a broken sword in his hands.

"It's stronger then before" he thought out loud as he tossed the sword away and stood ready in fighters stance again, ready for the demons attack.

Lana smiled as the few people in the castle ran away from her as she threw fire at them. She headed up the stairs she knew would lead to the old woman who had hurt her cheek.

As she reached walk higher up the stairs confidant she was going to make the old woman beg her for mercy before she would burn her alive. she didn't expect another arrow coming at her as she turned the corner almost at the top of the tower. she threw herself to wall and barely was able to miss contact with the arrow. "you old hag" she said angry throwing fire around the corner. she heard a thud and looked around the corner to see the old woman sitting on the ground, her bow next to her. she quickly reached for it but Lana threw fire at it putting the bow on fire. the old woman withdrew her hand and looked at a spear standing across from her. Lana smiled and took the spear in her hand. she then with her other hand threw fire at the tip making the iron hot. The old woman looked at her not scared but with a defying glance in her eyes as she were to say, just get it over already.

Irritated with the old woman Lana stopped heating the tip of the spear grabbed it with both hands and pushed it through the old woman. she then stepped back smiling at the old woman's pain. the doors then flew open and Lana looked at Chloe.

Quietly Lana stepped back as she noticed Chloe only had seen the old woman dying on the ground.

"oh my-" Chloe started but then quickly pulled the spear she had put in the old woman out and placed her hands over the wound and Lana could see her hands were glowing yellow and that the area of the old woman's wound was also glowing.

Lana made a fireball and held it on top of her hand then when she was about to throw it the old woman sucked in a breath and said "behind you" Chloe spun around quickly and held her arm up with a glowing green force field surrounding it. Lana quickly threw her fireball but it was too late and she could see as her fireball bounced against the force field and then disappeared. "you!" Chloe said angry to her.

Lana smiled "Hi Chloe do-" she didn't get the change to finish her sentence because Chloe waved he hand and sent the spear next to Lana and then hit her hard in her side making Lana tumble out of the tower window.

"And stay the hell out of my castle!" Lana heard Chloe yell as she tumbled out of the window, she was caught however before she hit the ground by DW and angry steered him back towards the window holding out both hands and throwing fire with all her power at Chloe.

Chloe held her hands out in front of her and created a force field that stopped the flamed before it even reached the castle wall. When Lana stopped she dropped her force field and orbed out of the window and on top of DW. One hand yanked hard at Lana's hair as the other wrapped around her throat. she then orbed with Lana to the ground.

Lana moved her elbow hard back to make Chloe release her but all she hit was air because Chloe already had released her and as Lana turned around to face Chloe she made sure her hands were raised to throw fire at her.

Chloe was read for her and held up on hand to created a force field. while she looked up to see if the demon would be coming at her. as she was about to created a force field to stop the demon she saw a figure jump against the demon in mid air and then the demon fell to the ground with the figure on top of him.

Clark crashed to the ground on top of the demon and then was thrown off it by the impact of the hit. He got up and looked back where he could see Chloe "Clark catch" Chloe yelled at him then something glowing green flew at him. he caught it and to his amazement saw it was a sword made entirely out of magical power. he could feel the magic inside it as he held it and turned to the also standing demon ready for it again.