AUTHORS NOTE: Yay! I had a snow day on Monday! That's one of the great things about Michigan, snow days:)
P.S. I'm using the Hell Hounds Lair guys in this chapter, but I'm making them be in Nebraska instead of Texas. You might be seeing them later in this Merman Dean verse:)
P.S.S. I use the term Glasgow Smile in this chapter. I realize that some people don't know what that is so I'm going to explain it quickly. Its when someone is cut from mouth to ear. It can either be done to leave a horrible scar or to rip your whole mouth open while the victim screams. I know nasty, but it had to be explained.
Chapter 7: Hell Hounds Lair (Deans Pov)
"So did you find anything?" Bobby asks as I enter the hotel room. I hand him the business card with the drawing.
"This was carved into a tree." He looks at it then hands it to Sam. "Now if you two don't mind I need some tail time." Bobby nods and I head into the bathroom. Lately whenever we stay at a hotel for long periods of time I 'go merman' at least two times a day. It makes me feel more relaxed and I can think better that way. I start the water, pull the drain, and take off my clothes (AN: Sorry ladies, I know we all wanna see/read about a clothe-less sexy Dean, but I don't write detailed naked stuff lol. But you all gotta admit that Dean Winchester is one of the sexiest fictional characters ever). Once the water fills an eighth of the tub I get in, taking off my necklace and setting it on the side. I feel the familiar tingling of my tail appearing and I rub the scales on my side gently.
As the water eases my mind I begin to think. What the hell did that Luc guy want, if he wanted to try to declare me as his mate he would have done it already right? I know he wouldn't have told me about the symbol just to be nice.
"Dean?" I hear Sam ask outside of the bathroom door.
"Come in Sam." He opens the door, looks at me for a moment, then grins. "What?"
"You actually look comfortable in a bathtub, look at that thing." I roll my eyes.
"So you're actually talking to me without a bitch face?" his face goes from joking to serious.
"I admit I was over reacting…"
"Um, hell ya." He gives me an annoyed face.
"But you were over reacting too." He sits down on the closed toilet seat with papers in his hand.
"I wasn't over reacting; I just want to keep some things private in my life." He looks me in the eye, I can tell that he wants to say something but he stops himself. "What?" he shakes his head.
"Never mind, look at these" he hands me a towel to dry my hands. Once they are dry he hands me the papers.
"A Tulpa?" I ask after a few minutes.
"Ya, it was used for meditation. Twenty monks would meditate really hard and what they wanted as a whole would come to life, think about what a couple people reading this from a website would believe." I nod and flip to the next page.
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"They have this stuff up on their website, the whole Kuchisake-Onna legend being here." I look at the second page that has an interview from the only witness on it and read it out loud.
"It says:'Me and my friend Justin were walking home from school and decided to take a detour through the park when all of a sudden this woman with asurgical mask stands in front of us. She asked Justin if he thought she was pretty; Justin being the nice person he is said yes. She took off her mask, showing her mutilated face. She came up closer to him and asked 'what about now', took out a fucking pair of giant scissors, and cut his face.'" I look Sam in the eye.
"Keep reading Dean."
"I screamed but no one came, I tried to use my phone but there was no signal. When nothing worked I tried to get Justin out of her grasp but she pushed me aside and kept cutting away at his face. When she finished she looked at me, then poofed into thin air." I stop, not wanting to read anymore of this.
"They also say that the Kuchisake-Onna is afraid of 'sharp objects'." Sam states and I chuckle slightly.
"Yes, she uses a sharp object on people yet she 'fears them to death'" I laugh at my own joke, and Sam rolls his eyes.
"Ya well that's what people believe so the Tulpa is afraid of them."I nod.
"Well" I pull the drain to the tub, "we should start getting ready for this thing."
+++++++Time Skip+++++++
"Are you getting anything on the EMF?" Bobby asks me. We decided to hunt this thing in the middle of the night, trying to avoid people as much as possible.
"Nope, nothing." As I put the EMF away I hear a rustling in the bushes. "Did you two hear that?" Sam and Bobby nod. When I walk over to the bushes to find out what's there two guys pop up. "Who the hell are you two?" they have computers with them, and one of them has a satellite looking thing in his hand.
"I'm Ed, and this is Harry." Sam and Bobby come up behind me to hear their introductions.
"You two are the writers of the website?" Sam asks, and they nod with pride.
"Yes" the one with curly hair says, "And you three should leave here."
"And why is that?" Bobby asks, clearly amused by these two nerds.
"We're doing a dangerous job" Ed replies.
"And what exactly is your job?" The guy named Harry answers.
"We're paranormal investigators." Bobby snorts at the stupid title. "I would suggest you three leave before the ghost comes."
"Oh you mean the Kuchisake-Onna? We're here to 'investigate that to'" Sam states in a mocking tone.
"Hmm, amateurs" Ed snorts.
"Ya ok…" I start to say, but the air suddenly turns cold, my breath looking like smoke. "Shit." I take my machete out, causing the nerds to jump back.
"HEY! What the fuck are you doing!" Harry yells, looking at the knife with fear.
"Sam, Bobby; keep these two assholes here would you?" they nod as I walk towards the center of the path. A woman in a long trench coat and surgical mask appears in front of me, her right arm behind her back.
"Do you think I'm pretty?" she asks, stepping closer to me. I point my machete at her and she backs up a step, fear showing through her dead eyes.
"Hell no."I thrust the knife into her chest, but instead of her poofing into thin air the area around the knife lights on fire. The mask comes off to show her bloody glasgow smile. Her eyes widen and her mouth opens wide, her jaw coming down to touch her neck as she screams. Her whole body goes up in flames and then she's gone. I turn around to face the others. "That's it?" I ask Sam and Bobby, but just as Sam is about to answer the two assholes start screaming. They run from behind Bobby and Sam and run down the path like chickens without their heads.
"Hopefully we won't have to worry about them again." Bobby mutters in relief.
"Dean the legend that everyone believed stated that she was afraid of sharp things, that's why it killed her." I nod.
"So should we destroy the symbol?"
"I'll do that, you boys head back to the hotel, I'll meet you there." Bobby states.
"You sure?" I ask.
"Just get going ya idjits."
"Ok we're going, jeeze" Sam says with a laugh as we walk down the path. After a few minutes I feel Luc's presence again.
"Sam, why don't you go on ahead." He looks at me with confusion.
"Why?" I look him in the eye.
"Sa…" But I'm cut off by a voice behind me.
"Listen to your brother Sammy." I turn around to face Luc.
"Who the fuck are you?" Sam asks, stepping forward.
"Sam, just back off ok." I didn't want Sam to meet a dominant, especially this creep. "Luc, leave my brother out of this." Sam looks at me.
"Dean who is this guy?" I sigh.
"He's a merman Sam." He narrows his eyes for a moment. "Sam just get to the car" I hand him the keys to the impala, "I'll be there if a few minutes ok." Sam gives me a look that says 'I'm not leaving you with him'. "Please." He groans, scowls at Luc, and then walks away. "What do you want now?"
"I just want to congratulate you on defeating the Kuchisake-Onna" he states with a small smile on his face.
"Ya, I guess I have you to thank don't I?" I don't want to admit it, buts it's true. His smile widens and he steps closer to me.
"Well you shouldn't be thanking me."
"I don't want to be thanking you, but you found the symbol." He takes one step closer, and I take one step back.
"I didn't find it, I put it there." God damn it! I knew he was up to something.
"Why the fuck would you do that?" he steps closer , and I take out my gun.
"Dean you know you can't kill me with that thing." The next thing I know the gun is knocked from my hand, and my arms are held behind my back. "I needed to get you here." I try to fight him, but I can't move for some reason.
"Let me go!" he starts dragging me through the woods.
"I'm sorry."
"Sorry for fucking grabbing me and dragging me into the fucking woods?" I feel a burning in my neck, and my whole body feels cold.
"For that." My head feels like its spinning, and everything goes black.
AUTHORS NOTE: I hope you guys don't hate how this chapter ended! Now I know that Dean seemed weak in this, but he will redeem himself in the next few chapters. I'll try to update within the next two days but I'm not making any promises. I'm taking the ACT on Tuesday and I'm going to prepare for that, I'm trying to get between a 27 and a 30 lol.
P.S. I started writing the next story for this verse and will put up the first chapter when I finish this story, Someone everyone knows will be in that one;)
Next chapter: Luc's an asshole everybody lol. Dean learns Lucs motives and fights back.