Natalie cursed when she awoke in some dingy old west building in a wet spot instead of the hammock she had crashed in while Loki sat nearby and read one of his favorite manga.

He didn't know why Natalie could read and speak Japanese, but she had gotten him absolutely addicted to manga. She had lost count the number of times she had been woken up to hear him giggle evilly over some new idea he had gotten from some of the more gothic series.

So the fact she was waking up in some dump instead of the bed she shared with Loki...and in her usual clothes no less, spoke volumes that something was up.

She had been in her bikini with only a sarong and a light sleeveless shirt on when she had fallen asleep.

So the fact she was now in her usual outfit and not in her vacation one told her she was in trouble.

Seeing Sam talking to someone she identified as another psychic dosed by Azazel (she was the only Winchester aware of the yellow-eyed demon's real name) she realized what was going on.

"Son of a bitch!" she swore loudly.

"Nat?"

"Sam, were you brought here without your knowledge too? I was on some no name island off of Florida when I woke up here," she complained.

"Wait, you just woke up?"

"I was on an uncharted island with no one else around with my boyfriend. And I most definitely was not wearing this outfit when I fell asleep in my hammock," she said dryly.

"Uh Sam, who is this?"

"Oh, sorry. Andy, this is my little sister Natalie. She's a part-time hunter too...though her boyfriend isn't."

"Her boyfriend lets her hunt?" asked Andy incredulous. With a hot girlfriend like her, he wouldn't want her anywhere near a hunt!

"My boyfriend is the pagan god Loki. I'm a known neutral among the supernatural communities despite being a Winchester by adoption. Though of course it doesn't hurt that my main back up is..."

She paused because she kept hearing this annoying little dog barking nearby. Sam paused when he heard it too, and it took them a few seconds to locate the origin.

Natalie kicked down the door to reveal...a Pomeranian?

"Hades!" she cooed and picked up the tiny dog.

Sam took one look at that dog and couldn't help his reaction. He started laughing, hard.

"What's so funny?" asked Andy.

"I know what that dog really is. Trust me, if you knew what he really looked like you would get a laugh too. Is that his disguise form you mentioned?" he said laughing.

Natalie nodded as she tightly held her dog. No one ever expected that the girlie little poofball was a hell hound bigger than most cars, let alone that he was so loyal to his human owner.

The look on Loki's face when he first saw Hades' disguised form had been priceless. Natalie still had it on her phone. The look on Crowley's face when he saw what happened to the big bad hellhound one night after he ran into her at a club... Loki still got the giggles from it.

When asked why a Pomeranian, Natalie gave Loki a simple answer.

The movie "Blade: Trinity". She had taken one look at the dog (which had been turned into a vampire by it's owner) and the idea of people underestimating Hades because of that look had been too amusing to pass up.

Loki, when he had seen that scene had laughed his ass off...then used it against an abusive dog breeder.

"So that's her back-up?"

"Don't diss the poofy dog," said Natalie. Hades barked from in her arms.

"Wait, if you woke up here, then how did he find you?" asked Sam.

Natalie fingered Hades' collar.

"Lo' spelled his collar so that he could open a one-way portal through the Pit. Only he can access it, and it lets him track my scent all the way back to topside and get to me even when we're separated. And you remember what Hades was like when dad (she spat out the word like a curse) tried to get rid of him."

Sam snorted.

John had tried repeatedly to ditch the hellhound when they were younger, citing that anything from Hell couldn't be trusted.

To the sibling's open amusement (even Dean, the perfect little soldier got a laugh out of this) Hades not only followed Natalie after being ditched, but he openly started to leave...presents...in John's gear. Some really foul smelling presents that John could never get the smell out.

More than once he sat down in a wet car seat (after Dean got the Impala and John got a new ride) smelling of dog piss and fur.

Eventually John gave up trying to separate them...though Dean had to step up his game in keeping him away from the younger two when he came back drunk.

Natalie was still holding Hades when the Acheri demon attacked. Instinct and hours of long practice against an experienced opponent (Loki) guided her body into a natural reaction to a controlled demon attack.

Her leg snapped out without dropping her dog and slammed into the Acheri's solar plexus, sending it flying all the way through a building into an iron spike from a broken rod. It screamed as it died and Sam stared at his sister in shock.

"How..."

"I haven't been just sitting on my ass with Loki. I've been learning a few things too. That was just the tip of what I can do," smirked Natalie.

"What the hell was that?!"

"Acheri. Low-class demon who disguises itself as a little girl. Annoying little brats too...can never hold their liquor," said Natalie before Sam could say anything.

"A what?"

"A demon," repeated Natalie slowly, as if soldier-boy was hard of hearing.

"What I want to know is why you were dragged into this. Last time I checked you weren't like me...are you?" asked Sam.

Natalie shook her head.

"Yellow-eyes only goes for the infants that are six months old. I'm four months younger than you, remember? He never bothered with me as far as we're aware. Though he might have gone after something else..." said Natalie.

Some demons picked up on Kurama, the demon in her gullet. If he wasn't terrified of Loki, then she had no reason to be suspicious of him like she was around Pit demons. He kept trying to get her to break the seal, but she never did...mostly because she didn't need his power to be an effective fighter.

She did worry a little at how easily the kitsune and Loki got along sometimes though.

Natalie was curled up against Sam, Hades between her and her brother. Hades sensed a demon coming near his master, and he bit Natalie who yelped loudly enough to wake Sam up from his sleep.

"What's going on?"

"Hades bit me! He only does that when... Sam were you asleep too?"

"Yeah. Your yelp woke me up."

"Yellow eyes must have tried to enter your dreams. Hang on a sec..." Natalie tapped Sam's head and snapped her fingers. Sam felt something lock into place.

"There. Now he can't get in unless you let him in."

"What was that?"

"Something Loki taught me. Let's me shunt him off into my head where he'll find a less than pleased girl who can kick his ass."

Actually she would let Kurama go at him...he hated intruders in her mind. But she wasn't admitting to having a demon in her stomach when her brother might take it the wrong way, or worse tell Dean and Bobby.

Natalie then noticed someone was missing.

"Where's that girl? Ava?" she asked.

Jake and Sam left to search for Ava. With demons outside they weren't safe. At least not without daylight to see black smoke.

Natalie would stay behind with Andy since he wasn't much of a fighter in case Ava returned.

"There you are! Where the hell did you disappear...to... why are you looking at me like that?" asked Natalie.

Ava's eyes turned dark almost completely and Natalie blinked. Something pushed her past the salt line, breaking it.

"Seriously? That's the best you can do?"

"You already killed my pet," sneered Ava.

"That's all I need to hear. Hades, sick 'er," said Natalie without hesitation.

"Your little puff ball?" snorted Ava openly.

Hades jumped out of Natalie's arms and growled deeper than that tiny body could do. Seeing Andy about ready to shit himself while he looked at Hades with wide eyes, the tiny dog turned into his true form. He knocked over the table in the process.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" shouted Andy in shock.

"No one ever expects the fluff ball," smirked Natalie.

Hades ripped Ava to shreds but left Andy alone.

"Nat what... Ava?" asked Sam.

"Ava. Tried to use her power on me but it didn't work," said Natalie.

"Set Hades on her didn't you?" deadpanned Sam.

"Now what makes you think that?" grinned Natalie.

"Because Andy looks ready to piss himself at the sight of him," said Sam.

"Who the hell would be afraid of this poofy dog?" asked Jake.

"And that's why he looks like a lapdog," cackled Natalie.

"I think I saw a road past the hill. Maybe if we make a break for it we might be able to get onto open ground and we can take Hades out of here," suggested Sam.

"Doable. But hanging on will be tough. Loki tried to take me horseback riding once and it was easier for me to ride Hades...at least he doesn't freak out when something unusual gets too close."

Actually the horse had sensed the fox and flipped out. It nearly bucked into her ribs, had she not moved in time.

As they headed towards the road, Natalie stayed close to Sam and kept Hades in her arms. Andy kept shooting the dog freaked out looks, but Jake couldn't believe that the tiny thing had done that much damage to Ava.

There was a loud snapping sound, followed by a thud. The siblings turned to find Jake with a sharpened piece of iron...and a dead Andy. It didn't take a genius to figure out he had killed the guy.

"Really? We're this close to open road and getting out of here and you choose now to try and kill us? Are you an idiot?" asked Natalie.

"I ain't dying."

"Yeah, no that time has passed. Since you clearly aren't going to listen to reason, I have no reason to keep you alive. At all. Sam, hold Hades for me."

Sam took the dog without question.

"I'm not afraid to hit a girl," said Jake.

"And I'm not afraid to kick your ass," replied Natalie. She took a stance, and Jake charged.

Natalie did a spin kick before she threw an uppercut to his head. Jake crashed into a tree. Sam stared.

"What...the...hell? Where did you learn that?" asked Sam, jaw dropping.

"Loki. He dropped me off in Japan a few times and they have some great martial arts schools. I know few kenjutsu moves too," said Natalie, kicking Jake in the stomach without looking.

"And you learned this stuff why?"

"Dance competitions. You'd be surprised how rarely people see martial arts moves in them, and yet Loki and I are the reigning champs for the past year," said Natalie shrugging.

Unlike Dean, she didn't make hunting her life. It was more of a side hobby at best. So while she was with Loki she tried anything that caught her interest. Martial arts, dancing, cooking, paintball tournaments... (Loki came out of that one looking like a reject from the sixties. Natalie laughed at his pouting face for hours). She actually got to enjoy her life traveling with Loki, instead of constantly searching for the next thing to kill.

Plus there was the fact that he had found her birth parents ghosts stuck inside the same seal that Kurama was behind, and had adjusted it so Natalie could learn from them.

Finally Natalie put Jake out of his misery by knocking him out.

"Let the demon have him. Come on Sammy, let's hit the road."

"You honestly scare me sometimes, you know that sis?"

"That's the job of the little sister...to give her big brothers heart attacks by bringing home questionable boyfriends," said Natalie grinning.

"Isn't that the reason why people say that having a daughter is the worst curse you could inflict on a man?" joked Sam.

"Exactly. Could you imagine John's expression if he knew that I was dating a pagan god who pranked him so bad that he had tears of joy when he 'killed' him?" snorted Natalie.

Sam paused, thought about that one for a moment before he started laughing evilly. There wasn't any love lost between him and their father either. Out of the three of them, only Dean had been safe from John's drunken rampages.

Once they reached the road, Natalie had Hades turn into his true form. She helped Sam get onto her dog and they took off.

Ten minutes later Dean and Bobby showed up trying to find Sam. They were unaware that Natalie had been dragged along as well.

Sam grabbed the first payphone he could find (they had woken up without their cells) and called Dean.

"Sammy? Where are you?"

"We're about an hour away from Bobby's."

"We?"

"Nat's here with me. Where are you?"

"Outside some ancient town. Was Andy with you?"

"Jake, the guy that we left out cold killed him. Exactly how long ago did you get there?"

"Fifteen minutes."

"We missed each other by ten minutes?!"

"How fast were you going if you made it to a town?"

"Dude, Hades is faster than the car. No wonder Natalie never bothered to get a license," said Sam. Natalie gave him a thumbs up while she fed Hades some rabbits she caught. The hell hound was happily crunching on some rabbit meat.

"Are you dissing Baby?"

"I'm saying if I had to choose between Hades and the Impala, I would choose the hell hound."

"You suck," said Dean.

"We'll meet you at Bobby's. Chances are we'll beat you there."

Which they did, to Natalie's open amusement.