I tried to keep it a little complex but failed and it ended quite big. Well take it as a stage build-up for upcoming stories.

Again, I owe nothing. Characters of supernatural belongs to CW.

Main Characters: Dean, Sam, Castiel and Adam.


Notes: I'm not from U.S.A like the story setting is, so if there's a geographical mistakes/objection regarding the time-span, place name or anything else, please notify me.


2. THE LOST BROTHER

Ever since that speeded apocalypse and Crowley having Dean and Sam to work for him, new dark truths were coming out. The existence of purgatory was one of them.

There had been a major incident since Crowley had died.

A small town, New Portland in Maine was overrun by a large swarm of supernatural creatures. Possibly Vampires, Werewolves and Ghouls! Some media person had captured the shot of a so-called Werewolf. The picture was blurry, of a tall agile creature jumping from a 7 storied high building onto a car below. Apparently the car was breaking apart. The general populace summed it up as rubbish but Bobby, Dean and Sam recognized that the blurry creature was indeed a Werewolf. Intriguing thing was that whole town had disappeared. Local county police had closed the traffic and whole town was sealed under feds.

Dean tried to compose himself off the pain of guilt by trying to look very interested and engaged in hunting supernatural. He tried to justify that Adam's soul must be somewhere in heaven. He can't be in that pit. Michael said that too, right? Adam is not in here anymore. May be it was just an empty vessel, an empty body. Yeah! Empty body of flesh and Blood! Blood of a Winchester...

"Dean!" Sam shouted at him. Apparently Dean was thinking more about Adam ever since that deal with the DEATH than before. Whatever he thought ended with him justifying to himself that Adam is not left somewhere.

Dean looked at Sam with surprise.

"Did you even hear a single word I said?" He inquired, looking suspiciously at Dean.

He continued with frustration, "If anything is bugging you, tell me straight!"

"Sammy, nothing's buggin' me. I'm fine 'kay!" Dean replied bitterly.

Damn this 'Winchester's hiding' habit. After all they suffered these past years of their lives, they still haven't learnt lessons. It would take only one to start saying the truth. But no one seems to understand that.

"Okay!" Sam repeated after Dean, still looking with suspicion.

They packed their necessary belongings and left Bobby's for Maine.


They highway was deserted as usual and it was really dark outside. It might be 8 of night probably. Dean was driving and Sam was searching for more lore on Alphas.

They had discussed earlier that large swarm can only means one thing-Alphas. Sam however pointed out that Shapeshifter Alpha was killed by Crowley; Vampire Alpha was probably captured by minions of Crowley somewhere and they were yet to meet the Skinwalker, Werewolf, Ghoul and Wendigo Alphas. So they might meet a group of alphas.

The silence was awkward. Dean was pensive as usual. Suddenly they saw a shooting star across the sky in the direction of Maine. Both Dean and Sam were curious at the co-incidence. They both knew that sometimes falling stars also mean falling angels. They were worried for Castiel. Castiel appeared behind them.

Dean shuddered as usual when Castiel appeared on back seat.

"A warning won't hurt you know?" He said bitterly.

"I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm fine. And yes that shooting star is not normal. However it is not any angel either." Castiel finished his sentence.

"Then what is it?" Sam inquired.

"I don't know." Replied Castiel as usual, "That's what I intend to find out too."

Dean wanted to ask Castiel if everything was fine above, but he controlled his curiosity. He probably knew that it was bad.

"I'll go ahead. You contact me once you're there." Castiel disappeared.

"He so needs to learn to say goodbye." Dean said bitterly. Sam smiled hiding his own pain.


They drove in silence for quite some time. It was weird, but both of them felt something warm and fuzzy inside them.

Dean suddenly broke the silence, "Hey Sam..."

Sam almost jumped at this sudden interaction. He looked at Dean curiously. Dean was still looking at the driveway.

"How do you feel?" He asked softly. Some force from inside of him was forcing him to confess his present ordeals to Sam. So he tried to talk.

Sam looked at Dean with anger but quickly calmed his rage. For some unknown reason he wanted to say the truth.

He started speaking, "I feel fine Dean. I don't remember anything from my time down there. I know that I've demon blood inside me and I used them in my past but I'm fine now. I don't feel sudden urge to drink any. I also feel this heavy burden of soul and guilt." He flinched at the word guilt but quickly recovered.

It was quite more than Sam was feeling. Dean looked at him coldly but thought to himself, at least now he isn't lying about anything he says. He went to pensive mode again. He was slightly sad that Sam couldn't remember anything from down there. It's good, but then he can't confirm if Adam was down there too. May be it would feel better if tell Sam about his guilt dreams and about the deal with DEATH.

"Hey Sam..." Dean started calmly, "You know when I asked Death to bring me your soul and Adam..." Sam flinched again on the word 'Adam' and Dean noticed.

"...back, he said only one. But may be Michael was right. May be Adam's soul was not there when Michael possessed his body. He might've returned heaven. I know it's stupid to think that way but his soul can't be down there right?" saying, as he turned, Dean regretted saying these lines.

Sam was looking at him with horror and tears in his eyes. Sam now knew that 'this' guilt was chewing Dean and maybe was eating him too. He looked away towards the window.

Dean's eyes went red, tears were starting to form. His burden of guilt was now doubled, seeing Sam's reaction. He wanted to scream. Would screaming have helped him?


It took roughly 3 hours to reach the town's outskirts. They found Castiel in front of a motel by the highway. Town's main entrance was at 15 minutes drive; however they knew that it was surely blocked. They parked the Impala at the motel, booked a room and took an alternate route from seaside. It was past 12 of midnight. Castiel told them that the falling star was nowhere visible, he lost its tracking.

"You know, I can take you all inside that town in mere seconds." Castiel offered.

"No thanks! Cas! I'll pass. I'll walk as long as I can." Dean replied sarcastically. He hated Angel Zapping, well technically flying at light speed as Cas explained. Dean hated flying.

They entered the main town through a small harbour. The town was really empty. There was no sign of living beings, not even a dog or crow.

Suddenly they saw a group of creatures jumping through the buildings of the town.

"They are werewolves." Castiel confirmed.

"Werewolves?" Dean stressed on the alphabet, s.

"Yes! 13, 14... No! There are 25 of them."

"Twenty five?" Sam said in utter disbelief. It was the largest herd they've ever actually seen. Dean too was looking in horror mixed with surprise however followed. Soon they reached a Diner. They saw a tall elderly man in midst of the crowd of werewolves.

"He must be an alpha." Sam exclaimed.

"Yes he is", confirmed Castiel.


The Alpha was like waiting for the rest of the herd to join the meeting. He started speaking, "Welcome my children. I thank you for all the preparations you made before 'we' reached here. As you know, others of our brotherhood are also present here. We had our differences in past, we even now don't mix well, but it's all past behind now. Because now my children we are getting ready to get the prize of our lifetime. The Beta gate of Purgatory has been found. Thanks to our brothers..."

Alpha Werewolf raised his hands in the direction of...

Dean and Sam quickly recognised the Alpha Vampire. Apparently he was free from Crowley's goons. They saw some other leader like figures, may be Alphas of other monsters. Sam was breathing fast.

"Be Calm, Sam! I cannot cloak our position if your blood starts to pump this vigorous, Alpha Vampire will detect us." Castiel warned bitterly. Sam bowed, tried to calm himself.

Alpha Vampire came to the front with his kind standing right behind him. It looked as if whole town had turned supernatural.

Alpha Vampire spoke, "Good evening my children! As my brother already said, we are getting ready for something massive. We are tired of the war between Heaven and Hell, they seems to include us, even though we are not a part of them." He continued, "My children have found the beta gate and the preparation to open it is complete, thanks to you." He finished his sentence pointing at Werewolves.

Dean, Sam and Castiel understood where the townspeople were. They were the sacrifice. Horror swept across their face. That was enough! Alpha Vampire had heard the heartbeats of Sam and Dean. He looked at the terrace of the flower shop, where the Winchesters and Cas were hiding. His children got the message telepathically. Suddenly dozens of Vampire jumped at the building followed by the Werewolves.

"What the hell, so now you guys are best chums?" Dean remarked. Castiel didn't have much time, he grabbed Dean and Sam and 'flied'. The Vampires and Werewolves got confused.

"Leave them my children; we still have more work to do. They will not bother us for some time." The Werewolf Alpha ordered. In the truth, he was not detecting Winchester's presence.

Far away from the centre of the town Cas appeared with Dean and Sam at a seaside cliff. Sam was alright but Dean was all dizzy. He looked really sick.

"I'll check for the gate's location. You guys wait here; I'll call you when I've found that." Castiel ordered and left.

Dean was still sick. Sam broke the silence, "So... what's the plan? We can't fight or kill all of them."

Dean looked at Sam with affirmation. Sam however was standing with his back on Dean.

"Last time something like this happened; there was the demon army. These guys are not demons but they are as deadly. And we don't know what will happen if they succeed to open the gate." Sam continued. Castiel just arrived from recon.

"Supernatural creatures don't have a soul like humans; however they have a dark essence, like we angels have holy essence." Castiel provided the insight, which made Dean and Sam jump. However they were listening to him carefully. Cas continued, "It's not that different from a demon's soul, only difference is the power. In all of the creation, you humans only have a unique soul; when you die, your soul may become a ghost. Further twisted it becomes Demon's soul. Bitten by these creatures human attain basic animalistic instinct and loose humanity, so their souls also attains such properties. You can't call them souls anymore. That is what might come from that gate."

"Hey Cas, Death wanted me to learn more about souls. Can you help me? You seem to have much info." Dean asked hopefully.

"I don't know more than this Dean. I'm sorry. I learned all this only by being with you. Heaven don't know about the source and reason for souls. May be Lucifer envied this uniqueness. We angels don't have soul like humans. We are direct energy offspring of our father." Castiel replied sighing.

Even this much information was too heavy. They all remained silent for few second before Castiel spoke again, "I've found the gate's location. I'm sorry to inform but they've already killed all the residents of this town to use their blood."

Dean and Sam looked disappointed. They need to keep the gate closed.

"There will be a ceremony to open the beta gate. If we can kill and spill the blood of one of each creature during the human blood offering, the gate will be permanently closed for eternity. Each creature's blood will lock the gate individually."

"That's sweet!" Dean replied enthusiastically. He continued "So how many kinds of monsters are there?"

"There are Vampires, Werewolves, Shapeshifters, Ghouls, Wendigos, Chupacabras and Sirens." Castiel replied. "We can close the gate with seven locks."

"By the way Cas, why does this gate is called the 'Beta' gate?" Sam asked curiously.

"There were 7 gates in the mortal plane that connects to the Purgatory. 4 of them were destroyed. Alpha gate is somewhere in Africa and Gamma is in Indian subcontinent. There are 7 gates for Hell and Heaven too. You closed one gate earlier. There locations are still hidden and forgotten." Castiel replied bluntly.

Dean spat, "You're telling us this now?"

"You asked me just now." Castiel simply stated.

Both Dean and Sam patted their foreheads in disbelief. Castiel looked puzzled. He didn't understand human ways. He doesn't know the importance of telling things on the order of requirement.


Dean, Sam and Castiel arrived at the gate. It was on a beach. It looked like old temple of Greek architecture. Had anyone seen it for first time, it would've been a tourist spot, not a gate of Purgatory. The Alphas were standing around the gate in half circle. Their offspring were standing around them in crescent shape. They must be around 210, according to Castiel, 30 monsters of each kind. They all were in a trance like state. The Alphas were chanting some spell.

"It sounds like Old Egyptian." Castiel said, recognizing the language spoken by the Alphas.

"Very good Castiel! That was an interesting fact! Now can we focus please?" Dean replied irritatingly.

Generally Sam would've snorted or smiled on Dean's such comments. He however was quite, too quiet. He had not laughed even once since Dean told him about Adam. Had Dean noticed that?

Dean and Castiel grabbed one monster of each kind from the herd, who were still in trance. However once out of the trance they put up a strong fight. They had a hard time subduing them. Finally after 25 minutes they had collected 7 vials of blood, each holding bloods from each kind of monsters. Now they had to wait.

The Alphas finished their chanting and raised their hands; the underlings brought a big cauldron filled with human blood from the townspeople in front of them. They soaked their left hand in that blood and pointed towards the gate. Each one had made a weird symbol with fingers.

"wpi", The Alphas commanded.

There was a minor earthquake and the blood from the cauldron started to rise in a thin stream of seven and hit the door. On the door the blood stream followed a maze like pattern. Suddenly the door was open, the blood still falling inside the door. The Alphas were still standing with their hands raised.

Dean looked at Castiel for signal. They would get only one chance before the herd attacks them. Castiel was about to give signal but stopped looking at a bright mist above the gate. It was shining like an angel. Castiel was confused as it was not any angel.

Three misty tentacles erupted from that mass and went inside the opening gate. And chaos ensued.

As if the time was flowing slowly...

Castiel signals Dean to throw the vials...

Sam blocks Dean abruptly...

Dean turns to look at the gate...

A figure is hanging from the tentacles...

Sam and Dean utters... Adam!

Adam?


Chaos continued, wind was blowing like a vortex pulling everything towards the gate... blood from the cauldron was still feeding the gate.

A large purple coloured smoky mass erupted from the gate and tried to grab Adam however was deflected by the mist. Dean and Sam ran towards the mist, seeing them Alphas signalled their underlings. Castiel appeared in the middle of chaos and threw a dozens of creatures off the ground.

Dean took the moment and threw the monster blood vials onto the gate. The smoky mass was still on the process of exiting the gate when the gate closed with a loud thunder severing the mass flow. The blast threw everyone on the ground knocking several monsters unconscious.

Seven glowing glyphs appeared over the gates fading slowly, confirming that the gate was rendered useless for all eternity.

The mass solidified into 3 aristocrat looking figures. Alphas bowed before them for a brief moment before turning to Dean, Sam and Castiel. However before anyone could've done anything, the glowing mist pulsated, sending some waves which started to disintegrate the underlings. Seeing that, the Alphas fled with the newly arrived aristocrats. The remaining herd followed their fathers.

In few moments there were only Dean, Sam, Castiel and Adam. The mist had deposited Adam on the ground.

Adam was still unconscious. As Dean and Sam came towards Adam slowly, the mist above again pulsated, sending few light waves. Suddenly the mist retracted and left the place with a glow like shooting star and went out in the sky.

The Winchesters were unsure about anything that happened there other than the gate. Dean, Sam and Castiel were still watching the star or whatever it was, vanishing over the sky.

"What was that Cas?" Dean asked in annoyed-surprised-confused tone.

"I-I don't know. It felt pure and holy but even then I was uncomfortable to look beyond its protective layers. I felt 'pain' in my eyes." Castiel replied in the same puzzling voice.

Sam wondered; an angel felt pain to look at that thing.

"Was that God?" He asked.

Castiel replied, "No."

"Whoever that was I don't care..." Dean broke their conversation, looking at his youngest brother.

Adam, he looked around 21 something. His clothes were torn, he looked sickly. He had dark circles around his eyes. His whole body was filled with bruises and cuts. He was lying like being nearly dead.

Dean slowly came to him, raised Adam's head into his arms. Sam was beside him.

"Adam!" No reply.

"Adam?" Dean shook his head a bit. No Reply

"ADAM", finally Dean was out of patience.

"Adam! Can you hear me? Come on kid answer me. Adam! Hey! Buddy, it's me Dean, your brother. Come on bro! Open your eyes... please. Cas! Heal him right now." His voice was starting to get coarse. Dean was crying for his brother. Sam was looking at Dean and then Adam, tears were starting to fall.


And there goes chapter 2. Thanks all for reading. I know, that you were expecting Dean and Sam to find a way to save Sam, but my story flowed this way. It has a reason, so don't worry. Explanation always comes after the question has been proposed. Please give reviews both +ive and -ive. Next Chapter - 3 - My Big Brother.