Chapter 4: Beacon Hills
He was almost positive he was dreaming because no way in hell would he have Katy Perry as a ringtone. But when the insistent sound didn't fade away, he rolled over and opened his eyes. And there on the bed table next to his bed was Sam's phone, screen lite up and Katy Perry blasting. He groaned, next time he pulled a prank on Sam he would have to remember that he was the light sleeper.
He reached out and picked up the phone, seeing Bobby's name he decided it was Sammy's turn. He threw the phone at his brother. Who groaned from the impact and sleepy patted around his chest until his hand found the phone.
"Hello?" He heard his brother say as he tried to bury his head under his pillow. Hopefully whatever Bobby wanted could wait and he would get a few more hours of sleep.
That hope was short lived when his pillow was suddenly ripped away. Sam stood just off to the side of his bed, eyes down and a frown on his face.
"It's bad, isn't it?" He asked pushing to sit up.
"Kids." Was all he said before he started moving around the room throwing their stuff into their bags. Dean took a second to watch, he wanted the detail. But Sam didn't look to be in the mood. So, he just hopped off the bed and started gathering his stuff.
They fell silent as they finished packing up, then they left the room and headed for his car. He didn't even bother opening his trunk just tossed his bag in the back seat and hopped in the car.
"Where to?" He asked.
"Beacon Hills." Sam said, pulling put his phone, Dean waited while his brother searched the town." It's only about two hours from here, if we hurry we can get there fast enough to see the crime scene before the local cops clean it up."
Dean just nodded and started up the car.
"Tell me the details." He said, pulling onto the highway.
Sam was still looking at his phone a frown on his face, "It appears to be an animal attack on a school bus. The bus is still on school property, a janitor found it this morning and called the cops."
Fuck, Dean thought, he hated it when it was kids, it was always harder, both emotionally and physically, because the people involved where always more protective and carefully when it was kids. He sighed.
"Plus," Sam added, breaking him from his thoughts, "There may kids missing. There was supposed to be more on the bus, but there are no bodies. Bobby says the local cops are still trying to track down, where they missed the bus or were taken from it."
"Man, I hate when kids are involved" Sam voiced his earlier thoughts.
The fell silent again as Dean drove and Sam looked over his phone. He reached out and turned on his radio, notice Sam's head shake as AC DC came through the speakers.
"Hey, Bobby got any ideas?" Dean asked.
"Not really, he couldn't get enough information over the phone." Sam said, still locking over his phone.
"Great." He muttered. Not only was it a case involved kids, they had no real information to even start going over.
Again, they fell into silence.
"Dean, this could be something bigger." Sam said after a few more minutes.
"What do you mean?" He asked
"This town, it has a history of weird animal attacks going back years, as far back as the 40's as far as I can tell, but in the last couple years things have escalated, I mean there are stories here about kids and adults alike being found with their throats slit and tired to trees, or strange symbols found on or around bodies. I mean the local high school has had a number of staff killed off in the last three years alone." He looked over to see Sam scrolling through more articles.
"Fuck, there is a report of people being killed by a sword, and people seeing Ninja like people walking around town and just disappearing."
"We should call Bobby back, see if he can join us in town." Dean said, because the part of slit throats sounded ritualist and he had no idea about fucking Ninja's and swords. They might need back up.
"Yeah, I'll call him."
(2 hours later…. Beacon Hills)
Both of them were on edge as they pulled into the small town, Sam and Bobby has been calling each other back and forth for the last hour or so, adding to the long list of strange events that has happened in town. And so far, they had an equally long list of possible things that it could be.
But so far the evidence pointed to multiple bad's in town and it seemed like maybe they were fighting each other.
Dean sighed and pulled into the first cheap hotel he saw. He left Sammy in the car as he walked into the office and got them room. Thinking about it he asked for two, Bobby wouldn't want to share with them. The man behind the counter didn't even ask any questions, just took his card ran it and handed him a card.
Then he back at the car, grabbing his bag and headed into their room.
They didn't bother showering, they didn't have time. Instead they rushed to get changed, into their suits. Then he fumbled around his bag to find his FBI badge.
Being done first he left the room. Outside he found a convenient store across the street, he hurried across the street bought a cheap burrito and two cups of coffee. But the time he was done and back to the car, Sam was already sitting in the passenger seat waiting for him.
From the hotel it only took them about 10 minutes to find the school.
The bus could be spotted from the street, he noticed as he pulled into the parking area, whoever attacked it took a risk of being seen.
He also noticed the crowd around the bus, police and civilian alike. He groaned this was going to be a hard one. As he pulled into the first open parking space, he noticed an old battered blue jeep.
As him and Sam got out of baby, he looked at Sam, "Is that duct tape holding the tailpipe up?"