"Let the games begin."


Sam slowly opened his eyes, a groan leaving his lips as he sat up and began to look around, his eyes darting around the abandoned location as he got to his feet. Taking out his phone, he looked down at it, no reception, a frustrated look on his face, he puts it back into his pocket and lets out a sigh. Sam slowly started to make his way around, looking for any sign of life. A slow creaking caused him to look around quickly and grab a piece of wood, clearly ready to fight.

"Andy?"

A gasp left Sam's mouth, thankful that he'd found someone he knew, he was sure somewhere inside that this could be a bad thing, but right now, he just wanted to know what was going on.

"Sam! What are you doing here?"

"I don't know."

"What am I doing here?!"

"I don't know."

"Where are we?!"

Andy began to panic, clearly unsure of where the hell he was, and what the hell was happening.

"Andy, look, calm down."

"I can't calm down! I just woke up in freaking Frontierland!"

He had a point, if Sam wasn't a hunter, he'd have been very freaked out right now. Was this that plan the demon had for them? Put them in a random abandoned town? He wasn't sure, but he really needed to figure this all out.

"What's the last thing you remember?"

"Honestly? My fourth bong load. It was weird. All of a sudden, there was this really intense smell. Like, uh…"

"Like sulfur?"

"How did you know that?"

It was like a trigger, Sam suddenly remembered what he'd been doing, where he'd been, what he'd been up to and all he could think about was his brother.

"Dean."

"Your, your brother – is he here?"

"I don't know where he is. I don't know if he's…"

The thought caused a cold chill to run down Sam's back, what if Dean was dead? But he didn't have time to think about that, not really. He got distracted by the sound of a woman screaming, his mind instantly fell on Ellie, what if she was here too? She'd shown signs of being like him. Rushing away from Andy, he ran to where the noise was coming from.

"Hello?"

"Help me! Help me, please!"

"Okay, I'm here. We're gonna get you out, all right? Just hold on a second."

Sam bashed the lock off of the door and burst it open, it wasn't Ellie, he wasn't sure if he was thankful or scared by this fact.

"Ava?"

"Sam!"

Ava threw her arms around Sam and hugged him tightly, her eyes glanced away as she put on a show for them, her eyes meeting with someone hiding not too far away. Someone who instantly moved out of sight, someone who knew that was his main target was finally here.

"Have you been here this whole time?"

"What whole time? I just woke up half an hour ago."

Sam had to explain everything to Ava, before he introduced Andy and Ava to each other. Before he could explain anymore of what he knew, what he suspected a voice reached his ears.

"Hello? Anyone there?"

Miles watched a tall stranger in a military jacket for a moment, he was a worry he looked strong, he was sure he'd get him if he wasn't careful. Closing his eyes for a moment, he summoned a demon and took care of him, making sure it hung him somewhere they wouldn't be found. Rushing out from his hiding place, he ran into a blonde girl, she looked rather freaked out, clearly an easy target for later, of course he planned on getting rid of everyone until it was just him and Sam, then the fun would really begin.

"Are you alright?"

"I think so; do you know what is happening?"

"No I don't, I'm Jake. What's your name?"

"Lily."

"Hey, are you guys alright?"

Turning around, Miles watched Sam come over with Ava and the other weak link.

"I'm Sam,"

"Jake,"

"Lily,"

"We're alright, well as can be expected."

"Are there more?"

"No, not that I saw."

Sam went on to explain about the powers, how each of them had the same thing, all the same age, all had abilities. Miles' eyes glanced at Ava, then back at Sam, trying to keep as low key as possible. He put on a face that said this is insane, hoping that he'd buy it. Lily went on to start complain about how her powers had been awful and how they'd hurt her girlfriend.

"Hey, guys, please. Look, whether we like it or not, we're all here, and so we all have to deal with this."

"Who brought us here?"

"It's less of a "who". It's... more of a "what".

"What does that mean?"

Sam took a long pause, his mind telling him that these people wouldn't believe him, but he had to hope they would, after all this was a crazy situation and there wasn't much else he could use to explain what on earth it was. Plus, how else would they have magical powers?

"It's a ... it's a demon."


Bobby and I pulled up in our cars and got out. Dean looked panicked, not that I blamed him. This was the second time that Sam had gone missing, only this time there was proper signs of a demon taking him. Pulling out a map and paperwork, I walked over to Dean and handed it to him. It was pretty awful that I only saw him when people were in trouble, but I guessed that was what it was like in this world. Bobby opened the map and placed it on the hood of Dean's car for all of us to look at. The three of us leaned over and started to look for any signs that might link us to where Sam was.

"This is it. All demonic signs and omens over the past month."

"Are you joking? There's nothing here."

"Exactly."

"Well, come on, there's gotta be something. What about the, the, the normal, low-level stuff? You know, exorcisms, that kind of thing."

"That's what I'm telling you: there's nothing. It's completely quiet."

"This doesn't feel right."

Dean looked up at me, slightly confused.

"I know I haven't been hunting long, but… it feels like that calm before a storm…"

"She's right Dean, this feels like there is a whole hurricane of shit coming our way."

"Well, how are we supposed to look for Sam? What, do we just close our eyes and point?"

"It doesn't work, trust me, that's how I've been looking for Miles mostly."

Before Dean could reply, his phone started to ring, causing him to move away and answer it, it was Ash. I watched Dean for a moment as he argued with Ash on the phone, before I felt Bobby nudge me.

"How are you holding up?"

"I'm fine, sort of wish I'd brought Amber though… I know she's not even been training like you've been training me, but running off on this sort of thing without her, it feels weird… I mean I know she's with Jo and I have to give that beautiful couple time… but I've not seen her since I left there with you."

"I meant about Sam…"

Before I could reply to Bobby, Dean was back over hanging up his phone and putting it in his pocket.

"We're heading to the roadhouse."

"I'm fine Bobby, don't worry."

I told him quietly, as we all got inside of the Impala. I let out a deep sigh and shook my head, I wasn't alright… I was scared and I didn't like it one little bit.


The group stood around listening to Sam, confusion on their faces as he tried to explain what was going on. It wasn't hard to decide that he was a little bit crazy, after all demons, there was no such thing, was there? Miles decided that this was all moving far too slow for his liking and stormed off, declaring that Sam was insane and that he was better on his own. As he walked away, he heard giggling in a classroom and slowly made his way to it.

"Hello? It's all right. Don't be scared. Are you lost?"

There was no response, his eyes carried on scanning around.

"Hello?"

Miles looked around, until he heard screeching coming from the chalkboard. Turning quickly, he saw the words "I will not kill" written over and over again on the board. The girl appeared in the room, laughing. Her nails grow to form claws, and her face contorts.

"Get back!"

He shouted, just before Sam burst in and made the thing disappear. The rest of the group appeared in the room, and Miles kept his eyes focused on Sam, trying to not show a single ounce of emotion.

"That was a demon."

As the group moved out of the classroom, they all began to walk once more, Andy was having a very hard time dealing with it, practically rocking back and forth as they walked, his hands rubbing his head.

"Give me a minute. I'm still working through, 'Demons are real.'"

He uttered softly as he moved beside the others, it was then they came to a very rusty bell and stopped to look at it. Sam moved forward, the name caught his attention, he knew that name.

"I've seen that bell before. I think I know where we are now: Cold Oak, South Dakota. A town so haunted, every single resident fled."

The groups faces dropped as they all realized that they were indeed in trouble being here, haunted, ghosts, that was all just crazy, really crazy. One of the girls wanted to go, but Sam told her not to, trying to convince her to stay, that they needed to stick together, when she finally agreed, the group made their way to find iron, salt or silver. They needed weapons and that meant that this had to work. But as they made their way into a house, Miles noticed Lily running off, he glanced at Ava and gave her a small nod, letting her know that she had her first victim of the game too.

The group began to ransack one of the houses, Miles helped even though he wasn't exactly interested in helping anyone here, not even Ava, but she didn't need to know that until the time came. He glanced at Ava as Sam spotted her rubbing her head and looked away rolling his eyes, what an amateur, she wasn't in anyway going to win this, she'd be dead soon, he'd make sure of it.

"Where's Lily?"

The group rushed outside as they heard the girl giggling again, and found her dead on the water tower. It was a sight to behold, even though he planned to kill Ava, it was still a very surprising thing to see.

"Oh, my God! Okay, that's officially—Sam, she's dead! She's dead! You said we were chosen for a reason. That is not chosen! That's killed! Okay, we have to get out of here."

"Stop."

"What?"

"Lily was trying to leave. The demon's not gonna let us get away that easy. We've gotta gear up for the next attack."

This whole thing was getting crazy, moving away to go and cut the girl down, Miles didn't even look back to see what the team were doing. All he knew was that the next to die would be Andy or Ava, then it was the final showdown and he was going to make sure he was going to win.

"You know; I was just thinking about how much Dean would help right now. I'd give my arm for a working phone."

"You know; you may not need one. I've never tried it long-distance before, but do you have anything of Dean's on you? Like, something he touched?"

Sam looked at Andy and grinned, before realizing something else. His hands dug through his pockets and he pulled out a room key from Pierpont Inn and held it in his hand. Holding it out to Andy, he smiled knowing that it was something that you had touched.

"I have a better idea, Ellie."

"Ellie?"

"She gets visions, there is a higher chance of it getting to her than to Dean. Plus, there is a good chance she's in contact with Dean right now, or even hunting with him."

"Pierpont Inn?"

Sam's cheeks flushed a little bit, before looking away.

"Just get on with it."


The Impala drove around the corner toward the Roadhouse, none of us expected to see what had happened when we got there, it was gone, burnt to the ground. My mouth hung open, as I pulled my phone out of my pocket and dialed Amber. I watched Dean and Bobby walk around the debris a sad look on my face as they did.

"Hello?"

"Thank god."

"Elle, what's up?"

"Amber, the roadhouse is gone…"

"What?"

"We just got here, it's gone… I don't know where Ellen is… But – oh god Ash…"

"Oh my god… I need to tell Jo… Elle, please be careful."

Hanging up the phone, I moved over to give them a hand. In my whole time as a firefighter I'd never had to do anything like this, not on a place that I knew. My eyes looked at Ash's burnt body, sadness in my eyes as I did.

"Should we bury him?"

No one answered me, instead we moved away from the site and stood together, the three of us looking at the burnt remains of the bar.

"This is…"

"What the hell did Ash know? We've got no way of knowing where Ellen is. Or if she's even alive. We've got no clue what Ash was gonna tell us. Now, how the hell are we gonna find Sam?"

Bobby couldn't even finish his words; it didn't surprise me in the slightest. I didn't look at either of them, just looked at the smoke billowing up into the air. He was right, was Ellen alive? Where was Sam? A gasp suddenly left my lips, and I almost fell to the ground, if it wasn't for Dean catching me in his arms at the last moment. I let out a groan, my hands moving to hold my head as I tried to see what was in my head.

"Ellie?"

Dean looked down at me with worry on his face, Bobby was the same, as he moved over to kneel down beside us. Dean cradled me in his arms. and tried to help me in any way he could. My body started to relax after a moment, but that was as long as it lasted. My fists closed together as another vision came into my head, tears spiking my eyes as I did.

"Sam…"

"Ellie, what did you see?"

"A bell, with a tree on it… "

"Was it a tree, like an oak?"

"Yeah…"

"I know where Sam is."

Dean looked down at me with a grin on his face, before hugging me tightly. Standing up, he helped me up and into the car where I just leant back and closed my eyes for a moment, trying to deal with the pain. It was like a migraine, that was the worst I'd ever had before in my life.


Sam's eyes shot open, the demons words ringing in his head as Miles stood in front of him shaking him.

"Ava's gone."

The pair of them made their way outside to hunt for her, splitting up, Miles couldn't help but think about how this would be the perfect time to take Sam out, he'd heard him talking to Andy earlier about Ellie and that just made him want to blow the plan, kill him now and get it over with, but he didn't, he needed to make sure Ava was gone before anything else happened. He stayed in the shadows close by as he heard Ava scream, she was certainly a good actress, he'd give her that. She had that tall, long haired freak eating out of the palm of her hand right now.

Moving closer to the door, he listened to them talking, undefeated heavy weight champion indeed, he was the champion, he'd only let her live so far because he knew she'd come in handy the day Sam showed up and he was right, she'd been very useful, but now she wasn't anymore. Taking a deep breath, he slipped inside as she was about to attack Sam and snapped her neck, her body falling to the ground in front of him, his eyes looking up at Sam for a moment. The pair of them moved outside quickly, Sam was pumped up to get out, while Miles, not so much.

"I think we can go now; Ava was controlling the demon. We should be alright."

"No Sam, I saw that Yellow eyed demon, he said we had to play along, that we had to -."

"No Jake, listen. You can't listen to him."

"S-Sam, he's not letting us go. Only one. Now, if we don't play along, he'll kill us both. Now, I-I like you, man. I do. But do the math here. What good's it do for both of us to die? Now, I can get out of here. I get close to the demon; I can kill the bastard."

"We can do this together!"

"How do I know you won't turn on me?"

"I won't."

Sam slowly placed his knife on the ground, Miles stared back at him and then slowly placed his on the ground too, the pair looked at each other for a moment, then suddenly Miles moved and punched him in the face, sending him flying.


"We're on foot from here."

Climbing out of the Impala, the three of us got weapons and headed through the woods, my heart was pounding heavily, I just hoped that we'd get to Sam before anything bad happened to him. We moved quickly through the woods, trying hard to not fall over the branches that our torches couldn't see. My mind seemed to keep wandering to Sam, hoping he was alright, hoping he'd be okay.

"The clearing is up ahead."

Dean told us, we started to move faster, pushing ourselves to break out into the clearing. The stone path crunched under our feet as we ran around looking for Sam. The rain had started as we broke through the clearing as was starting to soak our clothing, causing it to stick to our bodies. My eyes scanned around, looking for any sign of life, but there was nothing.

"Sam?"

"Dean!"

My heart skipped a beat as I saw him, there he was, he was alright, it tried hard to stop the tears from welling up in my eyes. I came to a stop, desperate to catch my breath for a moment. But then someone appeared behind Sam, I knew that face, I knew those eyes, even in the dark.

"Miles, no!"

I took off running toward the pair of them, I watched in horror as Miles put a knife through Sam's back and then took off running. I glanced to the three men, before taking off after my brother, desperate to stop him and find out why he'd just done that.

"Miles, come back!"

I screamed as I chased him toward the woods, but by the time I reached the outskirts, he was nowhere to be seen.

"Sam…"

Turning around, I sprinted back toward where the Winchesters and Bobby were. I ran as fast as my legs would carry me, almost causing myself to go head over heel as one foot caught the other. I could hear Dean's words as I raced back to them, he couldn't die, no, he couldn't.

"Hey, look at me. It's not even that bad. It's not even that bad, all right? Sammy? Sam! Hey, listen to me. We're gonna patch you up, okay? You'll be good as new. Huh? I'm gonna take care of you. I'm gonna take you care of you. I've got you. That's my job, right? Watch out for my pain-in-the-ass little brother? Sam? Sam! Sam! Sammy!"

Arriving back, Dean was already clutching Sam tightly, tears streaming down his face. I dropped my gun and flashlight, as I covered my mouth in shock.

"No… no… Sam."

I felt Bobby's arms wrap around me, as I stood there staring at Sam.

"He has to wake up Bobby, make him wake up!"

I started to shout, trying to get out of his arms and get to Sam as tears ran down my face. I needed to make him open his eyes, needed him to stop messing around. My eyes travelled to look at my brother's handy work, and I knew my heart was ripping into pieces.

"I didn't get to tell him, make him wake up! Please…"

Bobby pulled me into his arms and held me tightly as I began to break down, tears running quickly down my face as I buried my face in his shoulder… Sam was dead, and my brother had been the reason for it.