CHAPTER TWO

It was a quiet night at the Kent farm. All was quiet, which was pretty unusuual, considering that the Kent farm was in the town of Smallville, Kansas where nothing was normal or as it seemed. The Kent farm had been quite a buzz the past few yars, especially once that crazy symboln had been burned into the face of the Kent barn, and when the symbol was burned into the field of the Kent farm. It had been a crazy year in Smallville.

But for now it was quiet. Jonathan and Martha Kent slept soundly upstairs in their room. The visitor from Metropolis, Lois Lane, was also asleep upstairs. All this was going on while the Kents' 18-year-old son, Clark, slept soundly on the living room couch. Clark had been sleeping very soundly this night. The fact that he was able to was a miracle in itself. A lot had happened this year in Smallville, and it all had to do with Clark.

Clark Kent was not an ordinary young man. Some would say he was very "special." To Clark, that would be a matter of opinion. Clark Kent was actually a strange visitor from another planet. He was in fact Kal-El of Krypton. This fact had separated him friom his family and close friends. This fact explained a lot about Clark. He had abilities far beyong those of mort al men. He could run faster than anybody, was stronger than anybody, could see through things, was invulnerable, could shoot fire from his eyes, and could hear thing better than any hound dog. This fact had embarked him on a crusade to find the three crystals which were from his home planet. The spirit of his biological father, Jor-El, had told him that these stones contained the knowledge of the universe, and most importantly, the knowledge of his home planet, Krypton. But Clark didn;t worry about it so much, after all Krypton was destroyed. Jor-El told him that if the crystals were found by humans first, it would lead to the world's destruction. So that gave him a little incentive to find the crystals. But he wasn't worried about it. Right now, he'd rather dream of Lana.

He was trying to dream of Lana when suddenly he heard something! Imeediately, he stumbled out of his sleep and awakened. He could;ve sworn he hard a voice saying, "It's coming, Kal-El." It sounded like the voice of his biological father, Jor-El of Krypton. What was coming? Was there anything he could do to stop it? He immediately rose up and looked about to see what exactly was coming. He was not only awakened by the voice but also by a series of colored light. Then, as he looked around, he saw the television set flcker on, and produce nothing but static. He also looked to see the alarm on his dad's grandftaher clock go off. The hands on the clock were moving all over the face of the clock. What was making these clocks go off? Clark wondered. He also saw all the lights in the house flicker. Then, a fire started in the fireplace. What the heck wasa going on? Was this some sort of warning from Jor-El?

Clark then turned to see the radio go off, and he heard nothing but static. Even with his super-hearing, all he could hear was static from the radio. All this electric jumble was beginning to scare Clark a little bit. And after all he had been thorugh the past four years, not much scared him anymore. As he was trying to piece what was going on in his head, he saw his dog, Shelby, move toward the front door, and stand on top of it, clawing at ti, and whining.

Obviously, his dog, Shelby, could sense what was going on, and could sense that it was not normal, especially for Smallville.

Clark arose from the couch and started to walk to the front door, still trying to piece together what was going on. In his head, he could hear the voice again.

"It's coming, Kal-El. It's coming."

What was coming? he asked himself. What was going on with the electricity in the house and why was Shelby acting weird. Maybe if he went outsuide and could see where all the colored lights were conming from, he'd get his answers. He looked ourside and saw many colored lights such as red, blue, and yellow. He didn't know to make of it. So, he pushed Shelby aside and opened the door. Clark didn't get any answers, but he got something.

As he opened the door, a huge white light engulfed him and Shelby and seemed to engulf the whole Kent farm. This light was grander and lighter than anything he'd ever seen before. It almost defied description. Clark couldn't see anything beyond the light, but there had to be some darkness at the end of the light. It was 1:46 AM, though the way the clocks were working or weren;t working right now, he wouldn't have been able to say what time it was. So, Clark just walked through the light to see what it was.

"It's coming."

That voice kept saying that. WHAT WAS COMING? Maybe he'd find the answers at the other side of the light.

Then, in a flash, Clark Kent was outside his house. He was surrounded by yellow, blue, and red light. He looked upward to the sky and saw what looked like . . . oh, what was it called? Northern Lights? Chloe had told him what their official name was. Oh yeah, Aurora Borealis. It looked like one of those. It seemed to be traveling through the sky just a piece of light.

He wondered what this strange light in the sky was supposed to mean. Was it a warning of some kind? Was something deadly coming towards Smallville? If so, what was it? As Clark looked upward, he heard Shelby barking nonstop at the light. He wondered why Shelby was abrking at it. Apparently, he sensed something wrong with the light, as well.

As Clark continued to look upward, he saw the light forming three different colored streaks of light: red, yellow, and blue, start to coalesce together. At that moment, Shelby ran inside the house, as if retreating from something. What was Shelby running from? It was just a light.

"It's coming."

Then, Clark began to look up again and saw the streaks start to coalsesce and again and form a triangular shape, similar to the triangular shape that was a symbol from his homeplanet. Then the shape condensed itself into an orb of light. Then, the orb of light released a wave of destructive force! Then, Clark was consumed by it!

Then, Clark immediately woke up! He was relieved to see that he was still sleeping on the couch, and that nothing strang was happening. It had almost seemed too good to be true. This, after all was Smallville. He also noticed that he was drenched in his own sweat. It must have been only a nightmare. A truly intense one, at that. Then, soon after he woke up, his parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, rushed to his side.

"Clark! Clark! It's okay! It was just a bad dream." confirmed his mother.

"You scared the daylights out of us, yelling like that." said his father.

Clark was barely getting his bearings after waking up from that horrible nightmare. Clark didn't know what was going on. He was glad that everybody was allright, especially his dog, whom he saw clutched under his mother's arm. But apparently he had been yelling all night. But he wondered what had he been yelling?

"What?" Clark groggily asked.

"You kept screaming 'it's coming' over and over."

It's coming. That's what the voice inside Clark's head kept saying to him. He thought it was Jor-El's voice. But maybe it was himself speaking what he faered, only amplified in his thoughts. It scared Clark and confirmed what he had feared and dreaded - - that something was coming for Smallville. If something was coming for Smallville, what was it?

Space. It is a big place. It was also very peaceful place at this moment in time. Space was home to billions upon billions of stars and millions of planets. But there were rubble of destroyed planets. Planets such as Krypton, Argo, and the like. But there were many planets that still continued on. Planets such as Mars, Apokolips, Jupiter, and most importantly, Earth.

But space was also home to space trash such as metes, asteroids, and such. One such meteor was floating through space. Then, in an instant, the meteor burst into many pieces, small meteorites. Then these meteorites, as if on command, started on a course, and began making their way towards a small moon and its neighboring planet.

That planet was Earth.