Ten

It had taken all of Dean's strength to make the march to the woods and tell his friend of the upcoming doom that was to befall his forest. That afternoon, a team of bulldozers would come through and tear down the woods to make way for the upcoming shopping center. Puck, Sindri, and Lily had tried their damndest to make the destruction stop with the help of their human hunter friends, but to no avail. The woods would be toast by three pm if Dean did not come up with a solution, and soon.

Dean sighed as he stared at the edge of the woods. He could picture it so many years before where he had found a stuffed toy and gone on the journey of his lifetime to save a little girl from an ogress. He had made friends with fairies and traveled beyond the Land of the Fae to kill a monster beyond the borders of his world. He chucked to himself. It was one hell of a story and soon he would have no proof it ever happened. Plus, he would lose some very special friends of his forever. He could not let it happen! He could not.

Dean walked towards the edge of the sidewalk where he saw the troll Org hiding out in the shadows, carefully watching the humans nearby who were donning hard hats and pointing from clip boards to trees and instructing each other on what to do at three. Org sighed and walked away further. Dean opened his mouth to yell out something, but he determined he would have looked twice as crazy if he called to someone invisible than if he tried to stop the men from doing what they were being paid to do.

Puck came from the woods, unseen by the men working, and sat down next to Dean. The Fairy King sighed as well and looked upon what remained of his kingdom.

"All that I have worked to defend," Puck said. "It's hard to believe it will be gone soon."

"You can't talk like that." Dean said.

"It's not like you haven't tried," Puck replied. "Admit it though; you don't have any more ideas either."

Dean sighed again. It was the truth. He had wracked his brain for solutions and come up with no answers. He felt as though he was letting one of his best friends down and he had to admit that it hurt him deep inside.

"This Kingdom," Puck slid his dagger out onto the palm of his hand. He waved his hand and chanted something to conceal it from all human eyes, but Dean's. "This entire forest and my land is all that I ever wanted and now that I finally have it, I've let my father down and let someone else take it out from under me. I miss being young and fiery and full of fury when I needed to be. I personally think that becoming King has made me go soft."

"If it's any consolation," Dean smiled a little. "I think you've done a fantastic job with what the cards you've been dealt."

Puck smiled back at Dean.

"You know," he chuckled. "I never thought Lily would get over you. It appears though, that she has imprinted once more."

"Really," Dean was shocked. Sindri had explained that Fae had only one time in their life to imprint, two if they were lucky. "That's awesome."

"She thinks that I don't notice," Puck smirked. "But I have seen the way that Sindri and she are dancing around one another. She thinks I'll be mad, either that or he does. Personally, I'm super happy for them."

Dean smiled thoughtfully, but their moment was interrupted by four different people running over to the pair. Sam, Sierra, Christopher, and Miranda were all trying to catch their breath when they approached.

"Woah!" Dean shot up from the bench. "Where's the fire?!"

"Dean," Miranda said. "I tried to gather all of those who still believe in Somewhere. A few of them agreed to a plan that Sam and I came up with."

"I did the same thing," Sierra nodded. "Almost all of the kids my age were into the idea. They all grew up with that place and they'll be damned if they see it go."

Miranda gave her daughter a look for cussing, but she let it slide.

"Dean," Sam said. "We figured we could stage some kind of peaceful protest with the citizens of the town who chose to help us. The more people, the more of a distraction. It'll be like facing the ghosts of this town come back to save what's there's."

Christopher nodded in agreement with Sam's plan.

Dean saw the potential in the plan, but the word ghost struck another chord with his mind. He saw a better plan hidden within and he smiled.

"Puck," Dean smirked. "Gather all your people. I think I have an even better plan."

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Sindri and Rowan rode to the stream near the mountains to collect their thoughts. They had both sent their men to the outskirts of the land to watch for creatures bent on attacking the kingdom. The two Captains dismounted and led their horses to drink from the water.

"We can't fight this," Rowan sighed. "King Puck doesn't think we stand a chance."

"King Puck also thinks that I'm all that I seem." Sindri chuckled.

"Did you ever plan on telling him?" Rowan asked. "I know your past is something you never wanted to bring to light, but I'm sure he wonders sometimes where you came from."

"In due time," Sindri turned to face the mountain where a few wolves lingered, watching intently. "And I'm beginning to think that time has finally come."

Rowan gave him a confused look, but Sindri assured her that he knew what he was doing before he called the wolves to him from up high.

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At exactly two thirty pm the bulldozers started showing up, along with the protesters. Puck had gone back to Somewhere to handle the other half of Dean and Sam's plan. The two hunters, Miranda, Christopher, and Sierra all stood among the crowd and watched as the man in charge tried to subdue the horde. Dean looked over to the side and saw that Puck and a few of Sindri's men had joined in and were slowly making their way around towards the far reaches of the woods. Lily nodded at Dean and joined up with her brother. The pair looked so strange in human clothes.

The clock ticked on and at exactly three o'clock Sierra, Christopher, Sam, Dean, and Miranda all led the group of people to surround the woods, hand in hand and refusing to move for the bulldozers.

The fight was on.

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