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The Spirit of Arrow Lake
Chapter two
Dean and Sam left the building, got in the car, and decided to look for a motel for the night.
"That's all I need, spiders everywhere." Sam rolled down the window and left the fresh air blow across his face. His heart was pounding as he remembered being trapped in the pit as a kid, hundreds of spiders crawling all over him.
Dean laughed.
"He didn't say spiders everywhere Sam. He said their main concern were bites." He looked over at his brother. "Hey, don't worry about it. If there is a Sasquatch out there spiders will be the least of your problems."
"Spiders and Bigfoot, just the way I wanted to spend my week."
"Hey." Dean punched Sam on the shoulder to get his attention. "It'll be fun…riding the rapids, camping, fresh air…."
"Avoiding spiders and chasing a Bigfoot, who could ask for anything more?" Sam added sarcastically.
"You know you've been a pain in the ass lately. What's your problem?"
"My problem is I should be getting ready for law school… I should be with Jess. Not running all over the country chasing monsters."
Dean felt a little stab of pain at Sam's words.
"I know you should Sam, but Jess is gone, she's dead. But I'm here… and I need you to help me find Dad."
Sam nodded and swallowed the lump in his throat.
"Sorry." Was all he could say. He knew Jess's death wasn't Dean's fault, but it hurt him to know that his girlfriend was gone and he'd never see her again.
Later
Once they found a motel they went to a nearby diner to eat.
"Okay." Dean leaned forward so the rest of the customers couldn't hear him. "The thing you got to know about a Bigfoot is that you never want to fight one, you won't win. If you fight it, it will kill you right away instead of taking you back to its lair."
"Oh, so it's better to let it drag you to its lair where it can eat you alive instead of having it kill you outright?"
"Damn it Sammy will you pay attention and stop getting all smart ass with me. If they take you back to their lair you might get a chance to escape dummy. If they kill you outright…well…you're dead."
"No kidding." Sam smiled at Dean. "Well actually I think I'd rather be killed outright then taken back and become lunch while I'm still alive."
"And the autopsy report said that pieces of the victim's bodies were in each other's stomach."
"As if it made them eat each other's bodies. What's up with that?" Sam wondered.
"I don't know. I never heard of a Bigfoot force feeding someone."
"Maybe we're not dealing with a Bigfoot. Or maybe it's some kind of hybrid."
"Or maybe it kept them alive and wanted to fatten them up."
"But the bodies were found only days apart. I could see it doing something like that if it was going to keep them for weeks but…" Sam shook his head.
"Who knows, maybe it was going to keep them but then…got hungry."
"Well if we got some kind of rogue Bigfoot running around we need to stop these people from going out there."
"How do we do that? If we tell them they'll think we're nuts."
"I know and if we try to stop them they'll just go without us."
"So I guess we go and try to stop this thing from making lunch meat out of us or them."
"I guess we don't have a choice. Let's just hope your crossbow works."
"Don't worry about my bows, just worry about your aim. You'll probably only get one shot, you miss, you're dead."
The next morning
They arrived early at the take off point and leaned back on the car while they waited for the others.
"You know I still don't understand why no one saw or heard anything." Sam said as he looked out over the lake.
"Yeah, I've been thinking about that too. It's as if everyone passed out at the same time and I never heard of that happening with a Bigfoot."
"It's the spirit of the lake." A voice behind them said. They turned around and looked into the face of a wrinkled old man.
"What did you say?" Dean asked.
"The spirit of the lake, he's taking his anger out on the people who violate the lake."
"What do you mean by that?"
"The factories, the people who go out on these tours…they pollute and destroy the beauty and peacefulness of the lake. They've awaken the spirit and he's angry."
Dean and Sam glanced at each other.
"Angry enough to kill?" Sam asked.
"They have devoured the lake and he will devour them."
"But these camping trips are regulated by the park service. No trash is to be left behind and nothing disturbed. Why would a spirit guarding a lake take revenge on campers? They're not polluting the area."
"This lake and river belong to the many generations who have fought and died here. It is for them alone and not some weekend tourists. The ancestors have called upon the spirit of the lake to rid it of these people and the spirit has heard."
A few minutes later
A car pulled up next to them but the occupants didn't get out. They sat in their car looking out over the lake.
"Are you sure the money is still there?" Rob asked his partner Mick.
"Where else would it be? I buried it at the second camp site last time I was here."
"Well it better be there. I don't want to be spending all this money to go on a damn camping trip and then find out its not."
"Don't worry about it. We get the money, take one of the rafts and we're out of here."
"What if someone tries to stop us?"
"Well then that will be there little mistake now wouldn't it."
A short time later the guides, Alex and Dave, pulled up with a family of three, a man Walt, his wife Gale, and their fourteen year old son Kyle. They all got out of their cars and the guides motioned for Dean, Sam and the two other men to join them. Dean and Sam both looked back at the old man who had been talking to them.
"You be careful out there on the lake and rivers. The spirit will be watching and waiting for you. And he may try to destroy you."
TBC