Chapter 4:
The Djinn
Sam and Ariel had decided to head back to the hotel for some research. Cas was sent on the mission to make Noah and Ariel's parents forget them. Noah and Dean were at the coroner checking out the bodies. Noah of course had to sit in the car.
"Do I really have to sit out here?" Noah said a bit grumpily. Dean grunted.
"Of course, what will the guy think when I enter with a child?" Noah knew the conversation was over so he slumped back into his seat. Dean went and entered the building.
"Ah, Agent Carlson. Here to check out the new bodies?" Dean nodded and followed the boy into a room. He walked right over to the drawer and opened it to reveal a young woman. She appeared to be somewhat short and was very pretty. Her body wasn't bruised or battered in the least. She was just pale. Like suffered blood loss pale.
"Come on, I don't have all day. How did this one die?" Dean needed to get back to the car. He promised Noah they would go to a restaurant and have a burger eating competition.
The man shook his head. "She was stabbed in the back and bled to death." Dean was a little shocked at what he had just heard. This is the third to have been bled out. It's like it's some sort of vampire thing.
"And uh who is this one?" The man looked at his clipboard.
"Charlotte." Dean looked at the girl again. He flipped her over and looked at her back. He put gloves on are started probing the wound, looking for signs of a vampire bite. He came up with nothing. It actually looked like a knife wound. Dean closed the compartment door, "Where is the next one?" the man brought Dean over to a compartment and opened it.
"This is Alex." Her body was a semi tall one. She had dark brown almost black hair that was up in a messy bun on the top of her head.
Dean inspected the body. "I don't see any wounds…?" Dean was confused he inspected it several times and not once did he notice anything beside a couple of small bruises.
The boy had grabbed his clip board. "She was also bled out." He moves some hair off her forehead and there was a very large gash. "Her head was slammed onto a pavement wall several times." Dean sighed. He only had one new clue, every person is bled out. It is just in a different way. He thanked the man and made his way to Noah, who was still sitting in the car.
Sam and Ariel were sitting in the motel room doing research.
"Okay here, write down all the important stuff I tell you." Sam handed Ariel a pencil and sheet of white lined paper. They both sat at the round crummy table in the middle of the "dining room". The chairs creaked when they sat and groaned and hissed when they were dragged along the dirty tiled floor. Sam pulled out his laptop and started look anything up that could have been remotely interesting.
He read for a while as Ariel doodled a small unicorn on the corner of the paper. He sighed and pushed his laptop back. "Nothing, absolutely nothing. We should try my dad's old journal see if he has anything."
Ariel nodded and smiled "I got something!" She held up the paper and showed him the unicorn. Sam smiled at her childishness. "Great Unicorn." He chuckled. He got up and grabbed his father's journal flipping through it.
"Okay I think I found something."
Ariel sighed a relieved sigh. "Oh thank god! I am so hungry!"
Sam noted how much she was like Dean. "You are a lot like Dean. So much it's kind of scary."
She smiled. "Okay so what have you got?" She leaned forward putting her pencil to the paper.
"Okay, So they are called Djinn. They are humanoid creatures with tattooed skin that prefer to live in large ruins with lots of places to hide. They feed on human blood and can poison their victims with a touch. Got that?" Sam looked up to the journal and saw Ariel scribbling on paper. She nodded as he continued. "The Djinn can read a person's mind to learn their deepest desires. The do not however grant the wishes like genies of lore, instead they send them into a fantasy universe. When Djinn access their powers either their eyes or hands glow blue or their tattoos extend down their arms. The Djinn will cause the person to die from their greatest desire. Whatever happens in the alternate universe shows clearly on the skin of the victim. Their weaknesses are silver and lamb blood. A silver knife dipped in lamb blood can kill a Djinn." Sam looked up. "Okay so you get all that written down?"
Ariel looked at him "Yup! Now can we go get something to eat please I'm starving!"
Sam nodded. They both exited the motel room.
"Hey Ariel? Why don't you go put a jacket on? I'm going to call Dean, See what they got."
Ariel Nodded and headed inside as Sam pulled his phone out and dialed Dean's cell phone number.
Ariel searched the entire motel room. "Dang it! Where is my jacket?" She probably searched it three times over and came up empty handed. She had decided to look in her suitcase one last time.
"Oh darling, looking for this?" A strong Scottish accent was heard. Ariel whirled around to find a middle aged short man with short brown hair. He was dressed in a black dress shirt with a black tie and jacket accompanied by black dress pants and shoes.
Ariel remained as calm as possible. "Who are you?"
The man just smiled "A very important man downstairs. So listen to me."
Ariel had tried to run to get Sam but ran into the chest of the man.
"I suggest you listen to me." The man takes a swig of some sort of gold amber colored liquid.
"I'm not going to listen to you if you don't tell me your name." Ariel smirked to herself. She now had a plan.
The man shrugged "Alright, My name is Crowley. I am in fact a demon. The King of the Crossroads."
Ariel smirked at the man "SAM!" She yelled hoping to get his attention. Just as Ariel had wanted Sam had burst through the door. No sooner though had Crowley disappeared. Were he was though there was a sword it was glowing red. It was very similar to Noah's. Ariel's was not glowing light blue and made very pure. Hers was glowing red and you could feel the evil of hell coming off of it. Ariel walked over to it and picked it up.
Sam watched her intently "Where did you get that?"
Ariel shrugged "Some guy in a fancy coat was here, He dropped it right before he disappeared and you busted in."
Sam thought a moment. A man in a fancy coat. "Huh. Okay. Well, leave that here. We are going to meet Dean and Noah at a restaurant."
Ariel grimaced. "We are walking aren't we?"
Sam nodded as he grabbed her coat and handed it to her. "So let's start now."