Chapter 9! Here's where more of the truth comes! :) Hope you like it!
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Chapter 9
Alexandria woke up to find herself tied to a chair. She looked around. It looked like she was in some warehouse taken out of a horror show. She tried to free herself, but she couldn't even budge the straps that held her in.
"I'd just stop trying, darling. You won't break free." a voice said from behind her. Suddenly a man appeared in front of her. A rather short man, with a british accent.
"Who are you?" Alexandria commanded. She thought the best way to stay alive would be to show no fear and that's what she did.
"Aren't you a bossy one?" he said. "Name's Crowley. I'm the king of Hell."
"This must be the 'boss'." she thought. Alexandria could feel fear building up in her stomach. Even still, she tried her hardest not to show it.
"Is that suppose to scared me?" she asked.
"No." Crowley said instantly. "... but these should."
Crowley ripped a piece of clothe from a small table and rolled it closer to Alexandria. On the table were a few knives, some tools which look like they had been used to torture someone already, and a small sword made completely of silver. She could only imagine what Crowley would do to her. The fear building up in her started to show.
"You're here because you have something I want." he started.
Alexandria was confused. She had no idea what she could offer the King of Hell. Crowley waited for a minute before giving up and explaining to her.
"I want you work for me. In return, I won't kill your new friends." he started. "With that being said, I think you know what I want."
Alexandria looked at Crowley with a questioning look. She didn't understand, still, what the demon wanted. Crowley started to pick up a knife with strange markings on it. He twirled the knife in his hand, unsure of what he had planned next.
"Don't test my patience, I'm really not in the mood." he said with a sigh.
"I don't know what you want. Why would you want me to work for you?" she asked trying to stall Crowley from doing any harm to her.
Suddenly, she felt a very sharp pain in her leg and let out a scream of pain. Crowley was getting frustrated. As he gave the knife a small twist, he leg go.
"The spell that bounds an Angel to me. The one that only God and you friggin' angels know!" he yelled ripping the knife from her leg.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" she cried as she breathed heavy from the horrible pain. Crowley gave another sigh and reached for the sword made of all silver.
"Maybe this will help loosen your tongue."
Crowley continued to cut Alexandria till he got the answers he wanted.
"I don't know any spell! Even if I did, I wouldn't kill for you!" she said though gritted teeth. The pain was overwhelming, and she hoped it would be over soon.
"Strange you say that. You certainly had no problem killed for Castiel." Crowley said.
"I don't care, the answer is still no!" she gasped unable to breathe properly from the pain Crowley inflicted on her.
Crowley stuck the blade in her side. Alexandria let out a painful scream. When the scream stopped, she looked up painfully to see another demon whispering to Crowley.
"How about this, I'm going to leave for a few minutes. When I get back, we'll talk some more." he said to the half conscious girl.
Suddenly, he and the demon was gone. A couple of lone tears fell down her face as she grimaced in pain. She didn't have the strength anymore to try to free herself from the restraints.
"Castiel..? Dad? Can you hear me? I need your help. I'm in a warehouse basement. Please, help me!"
~Meanwhile~
Sam, Castiel, and Dean went back into the barn to come up with a plan. Castiel had panic written all over his face. He could only imagine what Crowley would do to Alexandria. Dean could see his friend in pain of worrying.
"Cas, buddy. I need you to focus. Where would Crowley take her?" asked Dean.
"She could be anywhere, Dean." Castiel griped back.
Dean and Sam looked at Castiel in shock. They had never heard him yell before. Well, Dean had once, but not Sam. Realizing what he had done, Castiel apologized to the brothers, and walked to an area of the barn to think of a plan.
"I don't understand what Crowley would want with Alex." thought Sam.
He and Dean had grabbed a map of the area to look where all would be a place Crowley would use. Looking at it, they circled places they thought he'd be.
"Here's a corn mill factory. It's isolated, seems Crowley worthy." Dean stated.
"That is if he's still here." Sam added.
"You got anything, Cas?" Dean asked.
"Crowley is hidden from me, I don't know where he is." Castiel stated sounding more disappointed than ever.
It was obvious Castiel was worried about Alexandria. Dean could feel for him. He imagined how he would feel if it were Sam being taken. Dean didn't usually do what he would consider "chick-flick moments", but this time, he made an exception for Castiel. He walked to Castiel and gave him a one arm hug which the angel took with no resistance.
"It'll be okay, Cas." Dean said to the angel lightly.
Sam felt slightly awkward.
"There's no way these two aren't lovers." he thought to himself.
Dean gave Castiel a pat on the back and they separated.
"We'll get her back. We promise." said Dean.
Castiel thought to himself for a second. He knew the boys would do their best to help him. They always had, even when he felt like he didn't deserve it. He looked Dean in the eye and smiled.
"I know we will." he finally replied.
The three of them walked back to the map and looked for more places they would check out.
"Cas, why would Crowley want to take Alex? She doesn't remember anything." asked Sam.
"I would assume he'd use her for mass destruction, the same thing I did to her." he answered with a sigh.
"He will try to find a way to control her. If he's successful of that, and she regains her full power, she will be unstoppable." he finished.
"If it comes down to it, I know we can stop her. We've handled archangels before." Dean said with his usual confidence. Castiel let out another sigh in response and looked at the brothers.
"Trust me, Dean. You won't be able to stop her." the angel replied.
"Why not?" Sam asked.
"Because of her soul." Castiel said.
Dean's eyes widen with shock. He looked at Sam who returned a shocked expression back to Dean.
"I thought angels didn't have souls." stated Dean.
Castiel could see the two hunters were in need of an exclamation. He didn't particularly want to take a trip back down memory lane, but he looked at Sam and Dean and began to explain.
"When I created Alexandria, I have her stronger grace by bonding our grace, thus making her an archangel. When I did, I also created a human soul and put it in her. Technically, she is half human, but because of that, she is the strongest and most fiercest weapon created in Heaven."
Sam and Dean were enlightened by the new information Castiel was giving them.
"How does her having a soul make her the wonder woman of angel?" asked Dean.
"Who?" asked Castiel confused by Dean's reference.
"Nevermind, just answer." he said rolling his eyes. Dean made a side note to himself to one day teach the angel all his references.
"Well, for angels, we get our power from Heaven. The souls that go to Heaven, their power is distributed to the angels grace giving us our power. Just one human soul can provide strong power to all the angels of Heaven. If there are no souls going to Heaven, or an angel is cut off from Heaven, we lose our power. Alexandria has her own soul, that means..."
"She has a never ending supply of power straight from a soul." Sam finished, eyes completely in shock and amazement.
Dean was completely speechless to the new discovery. Castiel nodded his head to Sam.
"That's why it's imperative we find her before Crowley figures out the spell to control her." Castiel said.
The three men packed the impala and got ready to drive back towards town. They didn't think Crowley would be too far. Dean thought about what Castiel had told them.
"Hey Cas, you said you created a soul for Alex, how?" he finally asked.
"I took small portions of two souls. The strongest I could find, and conjoined them." he said.
Dean looked impressed by the answer.
"Two of the strongest souls combined. That must be one strong soul then. Whose souls does she have then?" he asked the angel.
Before Castiel could answer, he suddenly froze in his spot. He stared at the ground like he was concentrating as hard as possible. Sam and Dean looked at the angel. When he seemed to be out of his trance his eye widen in relief.
"Cas, you okay?" Dean asked.
"Sam, does the map show an abandon factory or warehouse near by?" asked the angel.
Sam looked and saw that there was only one on the edge of the next town over.
"Yeah, why? What's going on?" Sam asked.
Without an answer, Castiel reached over and grabbed both of the hunters shoulders. Suddenly, they were in the basement of some warehouse. They turned around to see Alexandria covered in blood with an angels blade stuck in her side.
"You heard my prayer?" she managed to get out. Castiel smiled slightly to her and untied her from the chair and pulled out the blade.
Sam and Dean ran over to her. She started to drop from the pain she was still in. Sam helped the injured girl.
"Are you okay?" Sam asked wrapping a cloth around her side where the blade was.
"I'm fine." she huffed out as she tried to bare through the pain. "We need to hurry! He'll be back soon."
"Cas! Zap us out of here!" Dean commanded keeping an eye out for any demons.
"I can't! She wouldn't survive it. Not like this." he replied.
They started to leave out the door when they heard foot steps walking back towards the room down some stairs. Crowley entered the basement and started to speak when he realized the room was empty. He stood in silence for a split second then gave a small grin before walking over to the wall that had a blood sigil on it.
"Guess you boys finally found the cheese." he said as he held his hands up to the sigil.
"Mando exercitus inferi. Resurgere a perditionis. Vitam peterent hostes!" (I command the army of Hell. Rise from perdition. Claim the lives of the enemy.)
As the chant ended, the building began to quake and a large amount of black smoke entered from the sigil and began to surround the building. Just like that, Crowley was gone.
As the four of them made their way to an exit, they were stopped. Castiel suddenly stood with a questionable look on his face.
"Something's not right!" he said. He suddenly had a look of pure terror on his face.
"Follow me! Hurry!"
Just like that, Castiel started running down the hall they were at towards a room. Sam, who carried Alexandria, and Dean ran after him and into what looked like used to be a cafeteria. The worried angel made quick work putting a blood sigil on every wall in the room.
"Cas, what's going on?" Dean asked demanding answers.
Castiel finished his last sigil before he answered.
"It's a trap. Crowley wanted us to find him and Alexandria." Castiel started to explain.
"He wanted me to kill for him. He planned to have me kill you when you found me, but I refused to work for him." Alexandria said still being held up by Sam.
"Now Crowley's released Hell's army on us. We're trapped in here." the angel continued.
Dean rolled his eyes. "For once, can we please have a little break?" he thought.
"The blood sigils will keep demons out until we think of something." Castiel finished.
"Cant you just white light them?" asked Dean in desperation.
"Some of them, yes, but not all of them." he replied with a sigh and looked to the floor.
"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Alexandria as she was hunched over holding her side.
The three of them stared at Castiel. They didn't understand why an angel couldn't handle some demons.
"There are too many." Castiel said to her.
"How many are there?" asked Sam wondering if he really wanted to know.
"I'd say about 3,000 demons and 30 hell hounds." Castiel replied.
Sam and Dean both suddenly felt nauseous from his answer. They wondered if Crowley maybe won this time. There was no way the hunters could take down 3,000 demons. Sam and Dean looked at each other with worry. They both knew it could be their last night alive. The two brothers knew that if they were going to go down tonight, they would go down fighting. Dean gave his little brother a slight smile and the two brothers embraced in the hugs they only gave when one of them had been gone for a long time. Castiel walked over to Alexandria, realizing the same thing. The two stared at each other in silence. Castiel place a hand on her shoulder. He remembered before she had been taken by Crowley that she had been scared. He realized now that he had gained her trust. Alexandria smiled to her father. She had finally met her true father, who was an angel of the Lord. She knew that was something to feel amazed by. Suddenly it hit her. Her eyes widen and she looked at the three men.
"I have an idea!" she exclaimed.
The three men turned her way.
"Castiel, you said you'd only be able to take out some of the army?" she asked.
Castiel nodded in response.
"How many could an archangel take out?" she asked.
"I'd assume majority of them." he replied.
He at first wondered why she asked, then realized immediately.
"No! I can't!" he protested. "You don't want this life."
"It's my choice. If I can save us and destroy the army, then it's a risk I'm willing to take."
Sam and Dean stood off to the side. They knew what Alexandria was asking. They also knew that getting back her full grace would return her memory. They had no idea how she'd react to that. Alexandria stood up and walked to Castiel. She held his hand and gave it a slight squeeze.
"Trust me. I'll be okay." she said knowing Castiel was hesitant to the plan.
Castiel looked over to Sam and Dean. He loved the boys. They were the closest thing to brothers he'd ever had. He closed his eyes and nodded. Slowly, he reached his hand and held the side of her face. Inches away from each others face, a pure white light shined form Castiel and then slowly dimmed a few seconds later in Alexandria. A few seconds passed and Alexandria turned around. All the cuts and blood that had previously been on her was gone. She looked at Sam and Dean, then back to Castiel. He looked into her eyes that seemed to ask if she was okay. She gave Castiel a smiled and nodded.
"Thank you, father." said the archangel.
She then turned back to Dean and Sam who still stood to the side witnessing the whole thing.
"Let's do this." she said with a smirk on her face.
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! There will be one more and that will end this "episode"! Please continue to message me or leave some comments on this! I really like hearing your opinions.PS: I'm currently working on my Supernatural version of an Angel episode. So BOLO for that! :)
