"Just.. Be happy?" Dean asked, flexing his right arm now that it was healed.
"Yes, isn't that what a person normally does in this situation?" Saliene said. Dean nodded.
"Yeah, but we're still kind of dealing with the world possibly ending, so there's that." He replied. Saliene smiled, placing her hands around his waist, standing in front of him. He was noticing now that Saliene had let go of her fear about being with Dean, she didn't feel so cold to the touch anymore. It was more of a refreshing feel to him, like a cool breeze on a hot day.
"Yeah, and you've got me. So there's nothing to worry about." She breathed, leaning in for their first "real" kiss. Sam turned his head away, smile twitching but there.
"Wait.." She said, turning to look at Sam.
"Are you sure you're okay with this?" Saliene asked him. He returned his gaze over to them, standing side by side with each other. This was going to be weird, Sam thought. But I want Dean to be happy. He added in his head.
"Uh I did just try to get you to turn me into a Vampire for it to happen, so yeah I think I'm alright with it." He agreed, making a joke. Saliene laughed but Dean just looked confused.
"You WHAT?" He asked.
"It was nothing, just wanted you to have somebody." Sam replied, not really knowing what else to say. Dean was still iffy but decided it was okay, he would have done the same thing for Sam. In fact...
"Sam, could you maybe, leave us alone for a few minutes?" Dean asked. Sam's smile widened.
"Sure man, no problem." He said, walking backwards until he felt the door knob, then turning to leave.
"There's something we still need to talk about.." Dean said. Saliene scoffed.
"Are you kidding?" She asked, but she was still smiling. Dean sighed.
"No it's, I couldn't bring it up until we were.. You know." He said. She nodded her head.
"Alright, what's on your mind?" She asked. He cleared his throat.
"Uh well, if we want this to work out in any kind of positive manner.. There's something that may have to change." He said. Saliene's eyebrows rose, waiting for him to finish.
"My mortality." He said. She gasped slightly.
"You want me to make you into a Vampire?" She asked him. He nodded his head.
"Yes, Sal if you don't then I have to lose you in the end.. And I can't bare that happening to me again. Then you wouldn't have to babysit me either, I'd be just as strong as you." He argued. She shook her head, looking torn.
"No Dean, I can't do that to you. You'd be leaving your brother alone. Where ever humans go after they die, Vampires don't. We don't ever die, really. We reincarnate. I've "died" a total of four times in my life. We stay non-existent for so long, then we come back. It's a horrible thing, honestly. To go through that long expanse of nothingness.." She trailed.
"But if you turned me you wouldn't be alone, you wouldn't have to go through that anymore." He persisted.
"Did you not hear what I said? You'd be LEAVING Sam!" She cried out. Dean's eyes grew wide and he flinched at her words. They were true, and he knew that. He be picking Saliene over his own brother.
"Sam knows that!" He shouted as he realized it.
"Or he wouldn't have said yes to us being okay, can't you see that?" He asked. She was shocked, he was right. She thought. But, but how could Sam bare knowing one day he'll die but his brother and Saliene will still look as they do now? They'll be sixty or seventy years older, but won't even look it.. She wondered.
"You're right, Dean.. I guess he's okay with that, somehow, for you." She said.
"For your happiness.." She realized. Dean nodded at what she said, agreeing that's exactly why Sammy would do this.
"Could you at least do me the favor of waiting? Wait until we defeat Chastenhezorum.. Then I'll do it" She said, grim in tone.
"Alright but what for?" He asked.
"Don't you want to enjoy your humanity for a little longer, what's the wait gunna hurt?"
"So what kinda devil do we get to tango with today?" Dean asked. He, Sam, and Saliene were all gathered in her study again, going over possible jobs to pass the time until Aster returned in three days. Saliene was going over major incident reports within the state, sitting at a computer she had at her main desk.
She was still wearing her red dress from before, and now wore matching red flats on her feet.
"Well let's take a quick look." She said, typing on the keyboard.
"Here, a shadow man in Beaser Park, Ashland. Uh, disappearances by a Halfmoon lake, maybe something.. What's this..?" Saliene breathed, furrowing her eyebrows together at a a list of incident reports on the screen.
"What is it?" Sam asked, intrigued.
"This," She said, clicking on the link to the page.
"Strings of deaths on Madeline Island, that's part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore." She commented. Sam and Dean were lost, not being locals. She sighed.
"Big Bay is part of that island. These deaths all happened near the Big Bay Lagoon.. Oh no." She exclaimed. Sam and Dean exchanged a glance.
"What is it now?" Dean asked her. She shook her head slightly, unable to believe what this information was telling her. Blinking hard as if she were seeing things and still shaking her head, she continued.
"I, I don't know quite yet, give me a minute.." She said, typing furiously. Sam and Dean watched as she pulled up locked info that only one or two high up feds would know about what happened, like they were trying to keep a secret or something.. But she was able to break right in. Dean figured she was using her powers to do it, but she might just actually know how to hack into things, he wasn't sure which.
"Alright, this isn't going to make anyone feel better, but I know what it is." She breathed. The two brothers waited for an explanation.
"Okay so, on Nelco, before the war, one of the Kingdoms that supposedly died out had you know normal Nelcians going about their days. But as you both know most Nelcians don't look human, right? Wrong. Nelcians all have a human form, but they also have what's called a TCF, or Turn Creature Form. EVERY Nelcian has one, no exceptions. This Kingdom I'm talking about, Vonoarr Kingdom it was.. The Vonoarrtarians, they had wild looking TCF's." She explained.
"They were a mix somewhere between a lion, a demon, and a bull. These things can get up to six, seven feet tall and are about five or six feet wide.. They MAUL people, break them up into tiny bits of flesh and bones with their horns. These reports I'm looking at guys, these people were just, torn apart. Most of them couldn't even be identified. And some of the coroners.. Say if they didn't know better, it's almost like a giant "bull" attacked them." She finished, light in tone of voice, like she was telling a scary story.
It worked on Sam and Dean, they had chills going up and down their spines.
"But, they're supposed to be extinct, right?" Dean asked, smiling. Saliene nodded slowly.
"Yeah, well it looks like this is the one that got away." She said. Sam nodded in agreement.
"So how do we kill it?" He asked. She laughed hysterically, actually falling to the ground.
"Oooh, I'm sorry I do apologize," She began with a huge grin on her face, bright eyes aimed at the ceiling.
"But, kill a Keldagash? You have GOT to be joking." She laughed. Sam shook his head, looking worried.
"You guys don't get it. There's a reason no one cares about the Nelcian races that are extinct, they were like your world's China. They were unbeatable, and even though we were all "allies" we knew one day there would be a fight world wide and they would eliminate us all. All thirteen of those Kingdoms were the strongest Nelcian Gods any world has ever seen, only weak against each other. That's how it was made to be. Twenty Nelcian races, race B is weak to race A, and like wise ten times over. The strongest ones took themselves out, twelve so it was six on six." She said. Sam was horribly confused.
"Wait, if it was six on six, how did the thirteenth race die off without an opponent?" He asked her. She looked at him surprised, she didn't think either of them would catch that.
"Oh yes you're right, number thirteen.." She trailed, giving the moment suspense.
"Was Sealecoa (Seh-Leh-Koe) Kingdom. Home of.. The Hainyur Serpents." She finished. Dean half smiled, nodding his head in sarcastic happiness.
"Wonderful, more big ass monsters to slay." He said.
"No Dean, Hainyur means "trickster" in English. And they aren't very big, no larger than an average human I suppose.. But they're, they're more like," She couldn't think of what to compare them to at first, but suddenly it hit her hard.
"They're like mermaids, that like to break your heart.. And then your body. They literally WRING you out like a towel in the water and they swim through it, inhaling it through their gills." She breathed. Dean had a nice image of some chick turning monster and trying to kill him already in his head, so this new one didn't seem so bad.
"And they're definitely extinct, right?" Dean asked. Sam followed his brother's gaze to Saliene, waiting for the answer.
"Yes, but to my knowledge only a few minutes ago so were Keldagash. So my word is no longer a trustable thing to listen to on that information. But I still know a few things about it." She replied.
"Well, then how did they die?" Sam was the one to ask this, both Dean and Saliene looking at him as he did.
"Tunderbair Ebaten." She told him.
"Also known as "Thunder Beast". It came from one of the eliminated Kingdoms, Tetrosetair. These Thunder Beasts looked like giant birds made of lightening, if you could imagine such a thing.." She trailed.
"They were the Hainyur's weakness, and likewise the Keldagash could trump the Thunder Beast, and then of course the Hainyur were strong against the Keldagash. Water over ground, ground over electricity, electricity over water.. Vicious circle they had going on." She finished. Dean couldn't believe his ears, these things were crazy and just seemed to love war.
"Do all the people from your home planet like to kill everything in sight?" He asked playfully, Saliene didn't take it so.
"No Dean.. That's why this is so shocking, I never would've expected Nelcians to kill humans.. After Aster beat the I.M. Nelcians sought to make peace with the humans, since a human was the one who helped her beat him." She told him. Now he was really confused.
"Then why are they all PMS-ing so hard over here huh? I don't think any girl could get that pissed off, or at least I hope not.." He said.
"I don't know. But if it is something, or someone, we'll find out." She said.
"Well, here we are on ass-freezing Madeline Island. So where to now?" Dean asked, driving the group in his car. They were driving on Big Bay Road, and they could all see the Lagoon off to the right of the road up ahead. Pulling up to it Dean stopped the car off the side of the road and they all got out.
"Never mind." He said quietly to himself, walking up to the murky water. They all stopped within a yard or two of the pond.
"So all the attacks happened in the area and then the bodies were found in there?" Sam asked.
"Why in a lagoon, is there anything to that?" He asked Saliene. She took a moment but eventually she slowly nodded her head, concentrating on the answer.
"Yes, there is. Keldagash only appear in what could be called "unpleasant" areas to be in. No one really ENJOYS being around a swamp or in a desert. But those are the kinds of places where this thing likes to sleep at night, not to mention eat." She finished. Sam felt uneasy inside, but for obvious reasons didn't share his unease.
"Look at this," Saliene said, striding up to something on the ground a few feet away. Sam and Dean followed her to a spot where the earth was dented in. A foot print. Or paw print, rather.
"It looks like the kind of print a six foot tall lion-bull would make, doesn't it?" Dean asked them. Saliene nodded in agreement.
"Unfortunately, yeah it sure does." She sighed, hands on her hips. She had changed out of her dress and was now in nice fitting blue jeans, a deep green t-shirt and a black fir-lined jacket with piraty-looking knee high boots. Her dark black hair was flowing slightly in the small lake breeze.
"One thing I'm not gunna miss," Dean began.
"Is being cold. That's for damn sure." He breathed. Sam looked at him with an expression Dean couldn't read.
"Yeah, fuck the cold." He tried to stay positive for his older brother, trying to hide how his leaving their species forever was affecting him. Dean was going to become something they had hunted for years... It's not like he could forget that. But he wouldn't let it drive him mad. He wanted Dean to be happy with his life, and this was the only way Sam saw that happening.
Dean nodded to his little brother's strange comment, unsure what to make of it.
"Hey guys, do you uh, see what I'm seeing?" Sam asked, staring off at a single tree a few yards away. On the bark was what looked like blood smeared on it in the shape of letters.
"I'm going to look." He said, walking off. Saliene gave Dean a worried look before the two started after him. When they reached it Sam was reading the writing, though it was pretty messy.
"Okay, I think it says something to the effect of.. "Devils Ca-l-" that's all I got." He said.
"So what, "Devil's CALL?" Dean asked. Sam pondered this for a minute but shook his head.
"No, I don't think it's that.. I can't tell what the letter after the 'l' is but I know it's not another L.." He trailed off.
"Devils Cauldron." Saliene said plainly. Sam and Dean both looked up at her.
"What's that?" Sam asked her.
"It's a place, it's up at the North-Eastern tip of the island, off the shore in the waters." She replied.
"Then let's go see this place."
"Doesn't look like much." Sam gauged from the shore, staring off at the odd colored water.
"Yeah well, we'll see about that." Saliene said.
"Guys! Come over here!" Dean called from a ways behind them. Jogging back to where he was off in the distance kneeling in the sand. Upon reaching him Sam and Saliene saw that there was a picture in the sand.
"Did you want to show us your artwork hunny? Because we're kind of working right now." Saliene joked.
"I didn't draw it, the thing did. But what I don't get is why it would just up and tell us where it is..." He trailed off.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked him.
"You see this image? It's a Devil tail pointing to a kettle. That's where it is. Devils Kettle, not Cauldron. But can you see how this doesn't make any sense?" He asked them. Saliene nodded yes.
"What are those markings under the picture?" She asked, giving it a closer inspection.
"K.L., T.G., F.D., R.C... These are the initials of the victims." She realized.
"Their spirits must have led us here so we could kill what killed them. They want justice." She said, the boys nodded with her words.
"Yeah.. Only problem now is, how are we non-mermaids supposed to gank the un-gankable?" Dean asked.
"'Scuse me, what do you kids think you're doing?" A woman's voice called out from behind them. The group turned to see a girl in her early thirties standing in a police officer uniform. She had long, curly dark brown hair with light brown highlights, beautiful perfect peachy skin, curvy features and lastly deep, deep blue eyes. The gang gulped at the sight of her. They didn't even hear her pull up, all noticing her police cruiser parked a few feet away. She looked like she could be nice if she was off duty. Unfortunately Dean and friends didn't seem to have such luck today.
"Just checking out the sights with my boyfriend here," Saliene said, taking Dean's hand in hers.
"And his brother. This wouldn't happen to be off limits would it? It's only the shore, I mean the road's right there." She said, pointing to it behind them. The officer followed her finger tiredly and then looked back at her face.
"You mean you didn't see the 'Road Closed' sign just over there?" She said, pointing in the opposite direction of road, where indeed a sign was placed that said just that.
"That road only goes one way, unless you all illegally drove in from that way." She finished, pointing over to where Saliene had before. She gulped again, caught. The officer smiled softly at them. dropping her arm back to her side.
"Well I suppose I can let you off with a $200 parking ticket and pretend you didn't ignore the law. But I ever catch you folks back here again you're going to the mainland jail with me, you hear?" She asked. The group nodded their head's in agreement.
"Good, I'll be right back then." She said, walking back towards the car. All three of our group stared with mouths gaping and eyes widened at the officer as she walked away. All looking right at..
"I find it funny how we are all outwardly staring at her ass and neither of us has the balls to admit that we are." She said quietly, still staring herself.
"Uh huh." Dean mouthed, not breaking his gaze either.
"I wonder what it, feels like." Sam said dreamily. Dean and Saliene both snapped out of the stare to flip their heads in Sam's direction.
"You what?" Dean said questioningly. Sam gulped in response, suddenly aware that those words had actually left his mouth.
"I uh, I don't know where that came from. Sorry." He replied. Dean and Saliene exchanged a look but said nothing more. The officer began to talk back towards them, so they all averted their gaze to the ground and their feet.
"Here you go, have a nice day." She said, handing Dean the ticket. He took it and smiled plainly, holding it up for the officer to see as they walked away. Getting in the car and driving off. They group was silent for a long while, until the area couldn't be seen even by Saliene anymore. Sam gasped.
"Did I seriously say that back there?" He asked the couple. They shared another look before responding.
"Uh yeah Sammy, you did." Dean told him. Sam shook his head in disbelief.
"Why.. Would I say something like that? It's like I couldn't help myself." He murmured.
"I think I know why." Saliene breathed. They both turned their attention towards her.
"I think officer Sexy Bitch is a Hainyur Serpent." She tells them. Dean's eyes widened at the remark.
"You serious?" Dean asked her.
"Yes I'm afraid so. I may be partial to women, especially curvy ones, considering I've loved them in the past now and again, but their's no way Sam would ever say that about a woman, or at least not out loud." She said.
"You sure know my brother then.." Dean replied. She nodded.
"I watched you two for a while, like the Nelcians do to this planet. After you were sent to Purgatory I couldn't think of any way for you to be able to make it out by yourself, so I intervened at last. I almost did numerous times in fact, but you made it out more or less okay every time until then." She told him. Dean understood, her immediate liking for him and randomly saving him now making sense.
"I see. So you think it was there to find its mortal enemy like we are?" He asked her.
"I hadn't thought of that but yes that sounds exactly like what it's doing." She said back.
"Then why don't we just let her kill the son-of-a-bitch?" He asked, looking at Saliene.
"Well we could but we have no Thunder beast to sick on it after wards and we also won't have a Keldagash to kill the Thunder Beast after that if we let it kill the Keldagash.. Screw this damn circle weakness thing.." She fumed.
"Either way guys, we gotta stop it. So pick, do we want to try to kill the Keldagash, or the Hainyur?" Sam asked them. They were quiet for a minute or two before responding.
"The Hainyur." Saliene said. The boys looked at her.
"What? Her ass got my boyfriend's attention, that's just unacceptable." She said coldly.
"But let her kill the bull first, fuck fighting that thing, it's enormous."
*Author's Note: Hey peoples! :3 I spent pretty much my whole Sunday and my Saturday night finishing this for you lovely fans, so I hope you all like it ^^
I thought it was time to spice things up a bit in the plot, enjoy!
~Super