"Now, point and shoot." My father put his warm hands on my bare shoulders, and for the first time I shot a gun. Now here I am, holding him fifteen years later. Blood rans down my fingers, the room smelled like tears, blood, and rock salt, an old pistol roughly shoved in the back of my pants. My brother standing at my back firing and firing his gun, killing the thing that just killed my dad. I watched the bastard go down and go down hard, and my brother kept firing, over and over again I heard that gun go off. Until his hands were so soar and that he dropped the gun his hands were shaking and red. I looked at my fathers face his faced had relaxed, but there was still the of absolute inconvenience, like dying was totally not on his list of things to do today. He was funny like that, he made us a family taught us everything we knew, about how the world works. My brother and I, we were everything to him. My brother, he's been taking care of me since I came into this world, and so has my father.
"Iris, we need to hit the road, before his friends decide show up." Luke said motioning to the demon, the damn thing still twitching the evil in it is slowly draining back to the dark place it came from.
"Help me with dad." I murmured still clutching dads body to me. Luke snagged Dad's body from my arms, and for a moment I honestly didn't know how to react, just sat there arms open like a fool. Then my mind snapped back into place and I hopped up running after my big brother. He lied Dad down on the back seat of our old Camaro. He pulled himself behind the wheel, and I hopped in the passenger with a strange feeling, i never rode shot. Luke started the car, and sat there in my own little world. When I glanced over at my brother there was streams of where tears had fallen staining his cheeks. The road was wet so you heard the sloshing of the water hitting the sides of the car. We drove and I cried. The world faded for a long time and I finally fell asleep.
In my dreams, Dad had his hand on my back and i was standing there with Dads old rifle in my hands and at the butt of the rifle fitting snuggly into my shoulder. "Never take your eyes off your target, your bullet will go where your mind is, so focus. Stay sharp never doubt, never hesitate."
I pointed the gun at a little target an empty beer on top the motel's microwave. I'm shaking and I stare up at my Dad with with the innocent eyes of a six year with old loaded rifle. "Its ok, Iris." I nodded my little head black hair ruffling as I shook and fired off a gun for the first time.
"Iris, wake up. It's time." Luke said with that smile on his face that twitches into a frown every other moment, his eyes were red and puffy from the crying and I am sure my face was probably as close to mirror as an actual mirror right now.
He helped me out of the car, my entire body shaking from weakness. I felt that out of breath-ness you feel when you're out of tears to shed and I couldn't shake it. I saw the form of my father wrapped in white cloth, he was lied on a pier with salt sprinkled over his body. I pulled out two of my books, a mythology in Ancient Greek, a poem about a safe journey of a Hero to Mount Olympus, and the bible with every book in it, specifically the book of Mary, and I read a passage about the justice of God and his kindness to all creations. I drew a circle on the ground, on one corner I wrote a japanese sutra, the opposite corner I wrote a biblical passage in Babylonian, and in the middle I drew a feather. I brought two fingers to my lips and held my second hand over the mark.
"Over the stars, and into the Heavens.
To you I pay this last tribute,
To you I swear this final oath.
My Brother's life and Mine,
Our Hunt shall last from now
Till the day We die." As I said the Oath a cut formed on my hand and my brothers we allowed our blood to flow onto the Spell Circle, it started to glow bright. After, we committed our oaths, and bond between us formed forever. If one of us was in trouble the other would know. I felt this almost like a trigger in the back of my head, and I know Luke felt it too. We knew what was going to happen.
