I walk in the Valley of the Shadows of Death
By: Bed of Thorns
Episode 3
Stone Cold
On the shores of California near San Diego to be exact the wind was airy and the night was crisp. The full moon hovered over the series of cliffs in Cabrillo National Park.
The roaring ocean crashed onto the cliffs. The caves and cliffs were almost being flooded by the high tide.
A group of teenage boys around 16-18 who were partying that night were settled up on one of the cliffs. Three of them Damien, Storm, and Al all decided to explore the national parks caves.
The three teenagers all made their way to the only cave not flooded as they entered they noticed the cave.
It was dark by the shine of their flashlight. The boys all saw that the cave had small bats hanging on the ceiling. The cave's walls were stone and rugged.
"Look at this" Storm called from the west side of the wall. The rest followed him and saw finger nail marks all over the walls.
"What the hell?" Al asked blinking as he reached out and traced the marks.
"Gentleman what are you doing in my home?" a cool haunting voice rang out. The gasped and jumped and turned around.
Storm's eyes were shut tight in fright before he heard terrifying screams. Yelling he ran out opening his eyes and only seeing darkness.
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Dean, Sam, Kali, and Seth all sat inside the diner. Seth was taking a bite of his burger, Kali was sipping her drink, Dean was watching Kali, and Sam was looking out the window.
Kali looked up "what?" she asked Dean. Dean was about to say something when his cell phone began to ring. He lifted his finger at her signaling one moment and put the phone up to his ear.
"Hello?" he asked through the speaker.
"Dean is that you?" a frail female voice asked over the phone.
"Yes who is this?" Dean asked raising an eyebrow as he watched Sam and Kali watch him closely.
"It's Brenda Walters you helped me out with my sons spirit a year ago?" Brenda said over the phone.
"Oh yah I remember sorry about that. What's the matter this time?" Dena asked sitting back.
"Well today I was reading through the newspaper and I found something up your alley. Today Storm McMillan came forward and told the police about the disappearance of two boys now he said that they were in a cave. A team of police officers went inside and never returned" Brenda explained.
Dean looked at Sam "are you still in La Jolla, California?" he asked.
"Of course" she said.
Dean shuffled a napkin "we will be there" he said and hung up his phone.
"Another job" Sam asked his brother.
Dean nodded "yah we are going to California."
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It had been a 15 hour long drive. The gang was quite happy to arrive at a small Red Roof Hotel outside of La Jolla.
La Jolla was part of San Diego. It was a really nice place near the beaches. There were many cars and limos that passed by.
"Thank god we are here" said Dean who unlocked the hotel door and walked into the hotel room.
It was a plain white room with badge carpet and two small beds with red comforters. There was not much to it there was a small bathroom in the corner.
"So what should we do first?" Sam asked. Dean rolled his eyes at his brother. Typical of him tot think about work only.
"Uh get food?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"I am not hungry" Seth offered who then got a pillow thrown in his face by Dean.
"Shut it Seth" Dean growled. Seth caught the pillow and set it down while shaking his head.
"I am 18 years old and more mature than you" he said in utter amassment. Kali smirked as she sat down on a bed and turned on the laptop.
"So who is sleeping on the bed?" Kali asked pointing towards the two beds.
"Well I figured Kali and Seth can occupy each bed tonight and then we can take the beds tomorrow night and so on and so on until we leave" Dean said opening his army green duffle bag and peered inside.
"That sounds good" Seth said getting out his black book bag.
Kali had noticed a few things about him. One is that he rarely speaks when he does he usually means what he says. He was complicated he was sarcastic and most of the time quiet, cold, and well mysterious.
Another thing is that he always wore black and a silver pentagram around his neck on black string as well. He was quite the looker with black hair in his eyes and the cold black eyes. H was tall, about 6'1 with a thin but muscular and pale skin. He was quite a good looking guy.
Kali shook her head and sighed this wasn't a time to be admiring how hot Seth was.
Seth looked over at Kali who had sighed and shook her head before watching her laptop computer load.
Seth had noticed a few things about her. For one it looked as though she was in charge of both Dean and Sam he had confirmed this when Dean was checking out a beautiful young woman in the bar and Kali dragged him out of there by the ear. Another time Sam wouldn't eat because he wasn't hungry and all Kali had to do was glare at him (which was pretty scary) and Sam began eating.
He also noticed that she was a fighter. The way she defies Dean with everything she got was another clue.
Seth took a moment to admire her looks. She had dark brown (almost black) hair that went passed her shoulders; she had large brown eyes and pale skin. She was small 5'3 and had small curves and was a normal size. Her outfits were mostly jeans, a black zip up sweater and black shirts. She wasn't gorgeous but she was not absolutely ugly either.
Dean watched Seth stare at his younger cousin for a moment. Dean watched a look of concentration spread on Seth's face and a stormy look of interest appear in his eyes.
Dean looked over at Sam who was watching Seth. Sam looked at Dean and raised an eyebrow and a look of horror had spread on his face they both knew that things were suddenly getting complicated.
Dean coughed and quickly Seth looked at him and gave him a small short smile before he began to unpack.
Kali who was oblivious to the whole thing was checking at her e-mail and saw there were about 6 e-mails from Marie all telling about what was happening around town.
Seth took out a pack of cigarettes and went outside to smoke and Sam then Dean followed him out.
"Seth we want to set a few ground rules" Dean said. Seth took out a cigarette and put it between his lips before lighting it with a black lighter.
He leaned against the wall and folded his arms "whatever" he said as he watched them with intense black eyes.
"There are only a few one of them is that whatever happens in this group stays in this group understand?" Dean asked raising an eyebrow.
Seth simply nodded before Sam spoke up "the second and last is that Kali is off limits" Sam said.
Seth then raised an eyebrow "Excuse me?" he asked.
"You heard Kali is our cousin she is like our sister and we will do anything to protect her. You stay away from her" Dean said forcefully.
Seth pushed himself off the wall and looked at Dean and blew smoke in his face "I do what I want when I want I will obey the first rule but the second" Seth raised an eyebrow "we will just have to wait and see" he replied before leaving them both and walking back inside.
When Seth entered the hotel room h heard the shower running and figured that it was Kai taking a shower.
"Kali when you are done we need to go visit the witness Storm" he yelled through the door.
"Fine then" she yelled back and continued on washing her hair.
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Dean drove his car up to a small brick house on a street in a pretty average neighborhood outside of La Jolla.
"Seems pretty normal to me" Kali said looking at it with not that much interest.
"Well this is California" Sam said before opening the door and stepping out of the car. Kali, Dean, and Seth all followed his lead as they stepped out of the car and followed Sam towards the front door.
Dean reached out and knocked on the door and waited a moment before a small young girl with flowing blonde hair and the brightest green eyes Kali had ever seen looked up at him and smiled "hello there" the young girl who had to be no older than 8 greeted them.
"Hello there we were wondering if a Storm McMillan lives here." Sam asked giving the young girl a smile.
"Andy who is that at the door?" a deep voice called out. A young man around Kali and Seth's age came into the clearing and looked at all four of them his gaze lingering on Kali.
Dean coughed after a moment "Hello Storm I am Dean and this Sam, we are with the DA and I was hoping that you could tell us what happened?" Dean said getting straight to the point.
"Sure but who are they" he said pointing at Seth and Kali.
"They are just tagging along, this is Kali and Seth they are interns" Sam explained.
Storm watched them for a moment, his dark green eyes boring into them. "Sure come on in" he said after a moment and let them inside the house.
Storm had dark green eyes and was about 5'8 with a strong built. He had dark brown hair that was neatly trimmed and was wearing a red shirt with dark blue baggy pants.
"Can I get you something to drink?" he asked them as he led them into the living room which had so many knick knacks it was making Seth's head heart.
"No thank you" Sam said before he sat down on the floral printed couch. Kali sat down next to him as Seth took the spot next to her. Strom took the spot right in front of Kali on a love seat and Dean stood behind Kali.
"So why don't you begin" Dean said looking at Storm.
"Well it started a week ago. It was Saturday and there was this big senior party at Cabrillo which is a national park near La Jolla, it has cliffs and caves that we like to explore in. Well later that night after a few beers me, Al, and Damien all decided to go into one of the caves that wasn't flooded because it was kinda raining that night" Storm stopped and looked at Kali and smiled who smiled back.
"You are not going to believe the rest" Storm said shaking his head in disbelief.
"Try us you may be surprised" Seth spoke up for the first time.
Storm nodded and looked at Kali again and began to speak once more. "We entered the cave; it was dark until our eyes got adjusted to the light. Inside the cave I saw finger nail markings on the walls, I showed the guys and then someone behind us spoke it said 'Gentleman what are you doing into my home?' of course I didn't turn around immediately because Al and Damien began screaming before I turned around and shut my eyes in fright I saw . . . snakes and that was it" Storm said then shivered and looked at them.
"We believe you Storm" Kali said leaning in and looked into his eyes "I believe you and we are going to figure out what happened to your friends" she said giving him a small smile and looked at Sam who nodded.
"So what do you think it is?" Kali asked them as all four of them piled into the 67 Chevy Impala after giving Storm Dean's cell phone number in case he remembered anything else.
"I am honestly not sure I have never heard anything like it over here before maybe a talking snake?" Sam offered shrugging.
Dean turned on the car and began to turn onto the street. "Well whatever it is it's been there for awhile I mean the finger nail markings? We need to go into that cave" Dean said after turning onto a turn pike.
"We should at first do some research before we do anything remember the officers? We need to tread lightly" Sam replied.
"We should draw up some police reports about disappearances in the past near that cave in Cabrillo" Seth said.
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The gang was inside the motel room once more and was all doing their own things.
Seth was polishing his Beretta Hand Gun. Sam was son the laptop taking Seth's idea about disappearances in the past. Dean was drinking a beer and checking voice mails and Kali sitting on her bed.
Dean looked over at Sam when he was done "so anything that could help us?" he asked his brother.
Sam nodded "yep right here" he answered which got Kali's and Seth's attention that both got up and walked behind Sam with Dean.
"Ok now there have been reports since the time of Cabrillo disappearances of people exploring the cave that Storm's friends disappeared in. The story is basically the same. People enter the cave; people do not come out of cave. Some of Cabrillo's sailors went into the cave and never returned it was recorded in one of the ship's chroniclers. There have been two survivors both dead but have the same story as Storm" Sam finished looking up at Dean.
"We need to get inside that cave" he said. Dean nodded and sighed while taking a sip of his beer.
"Dean I was looking through Uncle John's journal and I was thinking what about Gorgons?" Kali asked.
"Yah but there is no such thing in the states" Dean said looking at Kali with interest.
"Yah but think about the snakes that Storm saw could have been a glimpse of the gorgon's hair. It has to be immortal for it to survive that long" Kali insisted.
Sam looked at Dean and shrugged "she has a point we should at least were glasses or something for caution" Sam said. Dean sat down and lounged in his chair.
"Let's see then" he said.
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Dean, Seth, Kali and Sam stood outside of the cave. Earlier that day they went to a local Wal-Mart and bought cheap reading glasses which they were wearing now.
"It says in Dad's journal that the only way to kill on is by beheading it" Sam commented.
"Why is she here again?" Dean asked pointing to Kali.
"Remember last time you tried to get her to stay away?" Sam asked raising an eyebrow. Dean rolled his black eyes before turning to Kali.
First sign of danger you are out of there understand?" Dean asked Kali.
Kali nodded "of course" she said, but Seth saw her crossing her fingers behind her back and smirked.
"Seth, Sam and I will go in first, Kali you stay behind and watch our backs" Dean said before they all entered the dark abyss of the cave.
It was dark and Sam turned on his flash light and looked at the walls and just like Storm had said there were fingernail markings on the walls.
"These are human markings" Sam commented.
"We should get to her lair" Dean said as the gang went through the cave.
The gang was silent as they reached a large chamber. It had a waterfall that lead to a small pool and blood on the ground. There was a lounging chair and some art work that had not been put up yet was leaning on the cave's walls. There were large parts of ships.
"These ship parts have to be as old as the bloody dark ages!" Sam exclaimed as he began to look over the ships parts.
"Very good human" a dark but chilling voice rang out. The gang turned around and saw the gorgon.
The gorgon was about 5'8. She was wearing a ragged looking toga and the snakes for her hair hissed and snapped at them. Her face and skin was olive and her eyes were a menacing large and yellow.
"Thank you I thought he did well my self" Kali said accepting the compliment. The gorgon hissed.
"Ahhhh eyewear very clever tells me who figured out what I was?" she asked.
"It was all her idea" Dean said pointing an accusing finger at Kali who glared at him and swatted him in the head.
"Clever child" she said acknowledging the young child's cleverness.
"Now you must all die" he said before lunging at them.
Kali hurriedly moved at her way but the gorgon grabbed at her throat and grasped her, holding her against her.
"Your cleverness is going to get you killed" the gorgon hissed and made a grab for her glasses but Kali stepped on her foot and Gorgon shrieked.
Kali turned towards Dean "Dean the blade now!" Kali shrieked.
Dean got out a long dagger that was about the length (handle included) of her arm. "Catch Kali" he shrieked as he threw it towards her.
Seth watched with interest as he took out his Beretta Hand gun and began to shoot at the Gorgons who shrieked in pain and irritation.
Sam looked at Dean and they both began to gang up on the gorgon, taking his arms and legs and trying to hold the struggling Gorgon down.
"Good Bye Gorgon" Kali and then taking the dagger with one swift cut the gorgon's head rolled to the ground.
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Kali and Storm stood outside of the motel room.
"So you figured it out huh?" he asked, Kali nodded and gave him a smile.
"Yah it was some physco all along but we are keeping this a secret we don't want to alarm the city" Kali replied.
"Kali we have to get going" Dean yelled from the car.
"Better get going be safe you here?" Kali asked. Storm nodded and Kali entered the 67 Chevy Impala and drove off.
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In this chapter I wanted to start to show how protective Dean and Sam are over Kali and Seth's bad ass exterior. I do not want to make this some mushy gushy love shit story. I want plenty of action and adventure and a bit of the mushy stuff. So if you are worried this is going to turn into some cheap romance novel. Fear not my loves for I will make sure it doesn't turn out that way.
Gorgons as you can tell are a lot like Medusa well duh. They have been around in mythology for thousands of years. They have done a good job of hanging around for thousands of years and never being forgotten I thought it would be cool to have them in here. Now Gorgons are immortal, Medusa was in fact a mortal.
Gorgons are known for turning people into stone which is quite true t urban legend. I borrowed the idea of having to behead one to kill one by the simple fact that in mythology the hero Perseus had cut off Medusa's head which killed her.
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