Stars shimmered against the dark night sky and only a few clouds moved across the night. Everything was silent in the dark above Sioux Falls. Someone shouted, "Of course I'm running!" shattered the peace. The Shifter, Alex, sprinted down a muddy forest lane with demons right on her tail. She was on the phone to Sam and Dean who where quickly heading her way but they were still minutes away. If only they had told Alex that. Somehow the pack had grown with some demons merging into the group from the forest. "Damn it, Dean! Hurry up!" She screamed into the phone.

"We're coming!" Dean shouted back.

Alex looked back and the demons had narrowed the gap between her and them. Go to the house by yourself, Alex. You'll be fine, Alex. She groaned. You won't need the knife, Alex. Bullshit, Dean, bullshit, she thought. Alex darted into the trees beside the forest in order to lose them, all the while relaying her information to the Winchesters. That knife would really come in handy right now. She had wasted all the bullets in her guns trying to get out of the house that they suspected as a demon hide out and boy were they right. A good troupe of 15 to 20 demons were camping there ready to do a blow for Lucifer but it sure felt like a hell of a lot more with them pursuing behind her.

She dodged in and out of the trees, only bumping into a few because of the darkness. Out from the shadows emerged some demons, she was surrounded. Demons filed from the group to reinforce the circle. "Damn." She muttered under her breath.

"What's going on?" Sam's voice asked from the phone.

"She's trapped," one demon told them.

"Like a rat." Another finished with a snarl.

"Alex, we're almost here. Hold on." Dean reassured her.

"Hurry up." She mumbled. A demon charged, much to the annoyance of the others, but she sank her knife into its head before it could deal any real damage. She stood at the ready and, after a moment, the demons charged. She sank her knife into many of them but reinforcements kept coming.

There was an intense white light that caused Alex to immediately shield her eyes and almost drop to the floor, stunned. She heard many quiet thuds and some shouting. Then everything was still.

After a beat, she cautiously removed her arm and blinked away the bright light in her eyes. Her vision was blurry for a few seconds; she could see lumps on the ground. When her vision returned her mouth dropped. Around her the demons had collapsed to the ground in small heaps with smoke pouring from their hollow eyes. Her eyes darted around at the surroundings trying to figure out where the light came from and what happened. The scene reminded her of what happened to Pamela when they contacted Castiel for the first time little over a year ago. Her eyes were scorched out by the angel's true form. Could that be what happened here?

Alex stood staring at the scene for a long while. She snapped out from her trance and moved among the dead demons staring at their burned out eyes. She thought that an angel definitely did this. It's what angels do, they smite or they used their true form to kill them, either way she was grateful at whoever killed them. She heard a twig snap and she instantly turned on her heels and held out her empty gun at Sam.

"Whoa, easy!" Sam exclaimed, holding his hands up defensively.

Alex breathed and put down the gun. "Sorry, Sam." She ran a hand through her hair, "thought you were a demon."

"It's fine." Sam said holstering his gun. "I'm glad you didn't shot."

Alex shrugged, "I had no bullets anyway."

Dean appeared from the forest. His eyes immediately fell onto the dead demons in the clearing. "The hell happened here?" He asked loudly, bringing Sam and Alex's attention back to the hollow-eyed demons.

"Wow," Sam exclaimed noticing it properly for the first time.

Alex shrugged her shoulders and picked up her dropped phone. She felt a harp pain in her leg but ignored it. "They charged at me and there was this white light. When I got my vision back they had dropped dead. I didn't do anything." She told them. "And their eyes-" Alex moved about the piles of bodies.

The brothers nodded, they noticed it too. "It's what an angel does to smite a demon, or if you see their true form." Sam said looking at them. He rubbed his chin.

"I bet it was Cas keeping an eye on you." Dean spoke with a chuckle, moving among the demons and examining them. He knelt down and nudged a demon. "Definitely angels... Great. " He added sarcastically.

"Well, whoever this angel is. I like them." Alex said approvingly. "I'd be dead right now." Pain thundered up her leg, she flinched inwardly.

"Yeah but they might've been after you," Sam said, "it could have been one of Zachariah's people."

"Or not." Alex said with another shrug. Another jolt of pain shot through her leg and she clung onto Sam for support. "Ah!"

"What is it?" The brothers asked at once.

Alex felt down her leg. She felt something warm and swore under her breath. Why didn't she notice before. It must've been the adrenaline from the chase. "Damn demons got me."

"Are you alright?" Sam asked.

Alex paused for a moment. It was burning because of the silver knife a demon must have used. "Yeah. I'll be alright. And don't worry I won't bleed over the Impala, I'm already healin'."

"Ok," Dean breathed, "since you're gonna be alright we should head to Bobby and talk about the stuff there."

Alex nodded enthusiastically whilst rubbing her leg. "Who knows what's still lingering out here?" She really didn't want to be out here any longer than needed.

The three of them moved though the forest and Alex filled them in on what happened in the house. "Inside there was a load of demons all speaking about their plans for taking out the city for Lucifer. I interrupted their weird kind of ritual thing and they got really pissed. Some scarpered the hell out of there and the rest chased me out."

"What was in their ritual?" Dean asked curiously.

Alex shrugged, "I dunno, they ran me out before I could get a look."

The three reached the Impala and they set off for the hospital. "Once we've talked to Cas about this angel that might be gunning for us, it'll be a good idea to return to the house and see what the demons were doin'." Dean said.

Sam and Alex agreed with silent nods. "The ritual looked pretty big but that might have been for just show." Alex stated, "We'll find out soon enough anyways."