Darkness Enters Heaven
Chapter 1
A winter forest before the first snow is surrounded with ground fog and darkness except for a small ball of dim light glowing in the eastern horizon. A hand slowly reaches out of the fog then grabs a tree, another hand, another hand, another hand, another hand, another hand, another hand and another hand appears and grabs a tree. Slowly four men pull themselves out of the fog. They all are wearing backpacks. In the distance they hear hell hounds howl.
"Sam, this was the way to Heaven through purgatory not Hell, right?" Dean asks.
"Yes, the reaper told us all the way to go to get into Heaven." Sam replies.
"There are no angels to keep bad memories and evil out of Heaven," Cass states.
"You made me human to go to Heaven's Hell." Crowley complains.
"You wanted to be a free man not free demon. You didn't need to come with." Dean replies.
As Sam pulls out a small flashlight out of his pack Crowley retorts, "I'm human! I have no power why the hell would I stay where demons and angels are swatting us down like flies!"
Dean is about to say something when Sam interrupts. "Get a room both of you or shut the hell up!"
Both Dean and Crowley become quiet. Cass smiles and pulls out a small flashlight. The other two follow suit. All four start scanning the area as the sound of hell hounds get closer.
"Bridges," Sam informs as he points with his light up above them.
"Great, how are going to get up there?" Crowley asks.
"Climb," replies Sam as he hooks his flashlight to his belt loop and starts climbing.
"Bloody hell," Crowley cusses as he hears tree limbs cracking under Sam's weight.
Cass, Dean and Crowley look from Sam's tree up to the ancient rope and wood plank bridges. The bridges connect at a massive tree house in an immense tree. Areas of the bridges and tree house looks rotted and in bad shape. The three guys hook their flashlights to their belt loops and start climbing as fast as they can.
A branch from Sam's tree breaks off but he keeps climbing. The branch hits a hell hound. After the hell hound yelps Sam smiles, laughs and continue to climb.
In no time the four guys are on their bridges. It's colder and it's raining making the bridges slick. Each guy has their own way to cross their bridge. Sam takes long strides with each foot placed as close to the ropes as he can. Dean has the flashlight in his mouth running across his bridge with his hands gliding over the rope.
Cass looks up and states, "This would be so much easier if I had wings." His bridge is super icy so he slides across his bridge.
Crowley holds his flashlight in one hand as he slowly and carefully crosses his bridge while cussing like a sailor. His bridge is in the worst condition of all the bridges.
Sam and Dean arrive at the tree house at the same time. They look back and see demons trying to cross their bridges.
The posts connected to Sam's bridge are rotted. Sam quickly kicks the posts and they break. That bridge drops from the tree house side and swings down dropping the demons down to the hell hounds. Sam smiles and yells, "Hounds, come and get them!" There are sounds of bodies hitting the ground, screaming and hell hounds attacking the demons.
Dean pulls the out his purgatory weapon and cuts the ropes. The bridge breaks and demons fall to the ground. Dean laughs and yells, "Watch out below." There are sounds of bodies hitting the ground and hell hounds yelping then growling.
Cass gets across next. Demons start to cross his bridge. He starts laughing and pulls out his phone. He starts recording the demons slipping and sliding off the bridge. "I have to put this on You Tube."
"You have a You Tube account?" Crowley asks as he gets across and his bridge collapses under the weight of the demons.
"That collapsed a little too late," Dean comments as he slices the ropes of Cass's bridge.
"Oh, bite me, Dean." Crowley retorts. "It's my spells that are keeping the demons in their bodies and the hell hounds attacking them.
"We do appreciate that." Sam replies. "Let's get into the tree house then discuss things."
The four enter the tree house. The area of the tree house they entered looks like an abandoned tavern. They sit around a table by a window.
Cass, are you sure this is Heaven?" Sam asks.
"Yes, it's what happens when there are no angels to keep scary imagination twisted with memories of war, torture and abuse entering heaven." Cass replies. "We all need to think of good memories. We don't need to relive anyone's torture memories or torturing memories." The last to words he looks at Crowley and Dean.
"I was a demon." Crowley defends himself.
Dean doesn't replies. He doesn't like to remember what he did in hell.
"Where do we have to go?" Sam asks.
"We need to get to the garden to take charge of heaven but I don't know if it'll work." Cass responds.
"Why not, you have an angel's grace." Dean states.
"It's not mine," Cass answers.
"It doesn't matter. What I read all you need is the one who lost his grace to the spell that banished angels with a grace." Crowley informs. "After entering the garden you must take charge of heaven for the angels to be able to return to heaven."
"So they'll get their wings back?" Sam asks.
"Not quite. For angels to get their wings they need to earn them back. They need to do good to humans," Crowley answers.
"Like in 'It's a Wonderful Life'," Sam replies.
"I watched that," Cass responds. "It's the reason Meg called me Clarence, right?"
"Yeah, Cass it is," Sam replies.
"Oh, my God can we just get going again," Crowley insists.
"We should before someone claims heaven," Dean says.
The four get up and leave. They start moving up the staircase encircling the tree house. Dean starts singing 'Stairway to Heaven'.
In the trees around the tree house Abbadon her demons are trying find a way to get to the tree house. There are Bart and other angels trying to get across, also.