The Supernatural World of Vladimir and Viktor, Chapter 50

The girls of Glinda's court processed the youths from Rose's valley in their usual cheerful and efficient manner. They fed them, Glinda interviewed each child, Professor Wogglebug examined them and finally Glinda sent them home with her magic belt. They would not remember their ordeal.

Only Dean, Eddie and Dorothy turned out to be adults changed to children. But, the professor had devised an antidote and administered it to them.

Dorothy decided she would like to return to the age she was used to. She agreed to be sent to the Vam San and work at their restaurant until Eddie found a place suitable for her to live. So, Castiel transported to St. Louis with Dean, Eddie and Dorothy in tow.

Anica and Monica took to Dorothy right off. They set her up in her own room and then started a tour of the residence and the restaurant. Somewhere in the process, Eddie found them and gave his farewells before Castiel took him, Dean, Vladimir and Viktor to Eddie's Indiana farm.

At home, Vladimir and Viktor immediately took Dean by the hand and led him to his Christmas present in the guest house end of the barn. On the way Vladimir explained that the gift was purchased when Dean was a seven-year-old boy so they debated over whether Dean would still like it..

They opened the door and there sat a shiny red dirt bike. Dean was not sure how excited he should be. "I'm an adult again and I have the car now, so..."

"You haven't seen our race track out back," announced Viktor. "Come on! We'll show you. It goes around the field and through the woods, and it has jumps and everything."

So they trudged out into the snow to check out the track. Dean had never had as much as a common bicycle in his youth. But, Viktor and Vladimir's enthusiasm was infectious. Dirt biking could be fun.

They walked to the field beside which lay a long plastic toboggan with long reins. Dean paused for a moment, wondering if the boys were conning him into pulling them along the path.

"Get in!" Vladimir said. "We've already tested it. It's safe. Sit up and put your hands on the rails."

Dean sat on the contraption with his hands on the side rails and Vladimir climbed in front of him. They both looked back to see Viktor struggling to get his dragon wings to pop out through his winter coat. After some funny wiggling motions by Viktor, they did finally push out and opened wide.

Vladimir held the reins up over his head and shouted, "Hold on tight! It starts kinda rough!"

Dean hadn't much time to consider what might be going on when he heard Viktor's wings flapping from behind. Two hands reached down from above to grasp the reins Vladimir was holding up.

Whomp! And off they flew along the snow-packed pathway along the field. Then came a curve that the boys had banked on one side to keep the toboggan from sliding off the path. Finally through the woods and back. By the time they started the second lap, Dean was convinced he was not going to die and settled back to enjoy the ride.

Viktor looked back, please to see their friend was having fun. He shouted, "Daddy says, 'you can grow old, just never grow up!"

In the house, Eddie led Castiel into the kitchen.

"I'm concerned about whether or not I totally destroyed Rose. If I didn't she could return, just like Hannah."

Inside the kitchen they saw it. The pink rose in the vase on the kitchen table. On seeing them, the plant suddenly disappeared. Eddie looked around.

"Did I just hear a woman's voice laughing?" he asked Castiel. "I was afraid after we reached the Vam San that I had left loose ends back in the valley. The flowers that were in the vases in the house, and the tall ones down the lane that Hank chopped down. They were not linked with the root system. Now I know I should have destroyed even the separated plants. Rose still lives...somewhere. We're likely to see both Hannah and Rose again someday."

"There's still a chance we can destroy them before they come back." assured Castiel. "If the goblins are still active, I'll find another one and find out where it goes now that Rose is not in the valley."

At night time Jill, Sam, Andros and Daniel sat in her car near Clara Mitchell's home. It was a night of a new moon so they were sure something was sure to happen this night.

This time Sam and Andros left the car to work their way to the graves, while Jill and Daniel remained to watch the house. It was a good plan. Not long after Sam and Andros disappeared into the dark, Clara left her house and prepared her huckster truck for a trip somewhere. She climbed in front and drove off in the direction of Washington.

Jill pulled onto the road after the truck was out of sight.

"I didn't think she'd be out on the road tonight if there was going to be danger," Jill told Daniel. "I could have placed a tracker on her truck and we could have followed by GPS monitor. If she goes far she's sure to notice car lights behind her."

"Where do you suppose she is going?" asked the elf.

"No idea. But she was in the area when those girls were killed in the middle of the night last year. Where she goes might give us a clue."

"Hmm," mused Daniel. "Pull over when you can. I can help."

Jill sped the car up and continued driving until they were close to the huckster, and then pulled over. "There are no crossroads for a long distance here. I can wait for a while and still catch up."

"Good," replied Daniel. "Wait here so I can find you."

He tapped the floor with his staff and disappeared.

Sam Winchester was beginning to think trying to reach the Marshall homestead from the back side was a big mistake. It sat on a hill with the headstones on the hillside behind it. From there the land lowered into a streambed packed with vines. Kudzu, Andros noted. Even without the large leaves that would appear in later months, it was a challenge to push through the dry vines. He lowered his flashlight and shook his head, sighing.

Sam asked Andros, "You wouldn't happened have anything new in your closet that would help us out would you?"

"Actually, Sam, I think I do."

Andros muttered in incantation and a flat metal toothed disk appeared and floated in the air in front of them.

"A circular saw blade?" Sam asked.

"Watch this. It's cool!" Andros caused the blade to spin and it began to produce a humming sound as it did. "You should probably stay behind me, Sam. Just shine the light on the vines."

The spinning saw blade tipped on edge and swept forward through the kudzu and the vines popped and toppled as it passed forward and back over and over. In less than ten minutes there was a path cleared through the mess in front of them.

The saw blade stopped and, with a few muttered words, Andros sent it back to his hall closet. Sam followed him up the path to the other side, where his flashlight immediately shown on the three headstones.

"I don't sense supernatural beings," Sam said. "They were here, but not now."

They looked up towards the old house, which was dark. Sam surmised that the three girls were asleep, or at least unaware of their presence. They hurried on.

At the graves, they learned why Sam did not sense evil entities: the huge green-top vegetables Daniel the elf had seen earlier were not there. Instead they saw three huge, deep holes.

"So...did they climb out of the ground and leave?" Andros asked.

"That would be my guess," said Sam. "And if they left and Clara Marshall left, I'm pretty sure they are in the back of her truck in search of more victims."

He shined his flashlight into one of the holes. "There's something light colored at the bottom. Bones?"

Andros looked in, too. "Yeah, looks like bones."

He muttered the words that produced the rope he had been experimenting with earlier. It floated at first then dangled downward as it lowered into the hole. He caused it to wrap around the material at the bottom and then lift back up with the bones in tow.

The bones were human. A skull, ribs, and some pieces.

Sam looked back down into the hole. "There are a lot more down there,"

He checked the next hole and the third. They were the same.

"I think they bring their victims back and drop them into the holes, then settle in to absorb their bodies over time," Sam guessed.

"What, Ms. Mitchell couldn't afford fertilizer?" Andros joked weakly.

"But why would Clara feed them anything at all? What good does it do her to help those creatures survive?" Sam mused.

He looked back up at the house. "I sense demons are up there."