Disclaimer: See Chapter One.
The Powers Around Us
Chapter Seven
"My bedroom is down the hall, you can lay him down in there," Wyatt instructed as he orbed them all into the hallway of the Manor. He looked down at his unconscious baby brother and struggled to keep it together as he fought to breathe. Whoever had done this was going to pay dearly!
He brought Chris his room and lay him down on the bed. He tried to heal him again, but, just as it hadn't in the Underworld, it didn't work. What was wrong with him? Wyatt couldn't even find any injuries, at least, not physical injuries. Suddenly inspired, he dove into the connection between them, searching in vain for something that could explain his brother's state.
Meanwhile, in Wyatt's room, Dean was checking Sam over with a studied eye, trying very hard not to let the fact that this was his brother affect his ability to find out what was wrong with him. Seeing no tangible injury, he gently tried to rouse Sam.
His younger brother groaned and feebly opened his eyes a crack. "Dean?" he said faintly.
"Yeah, Sammy, I'm here," Dean assured him.
"It's Sam," he replied, smiling weakly.
Dean smiled sadly. "Yeah, whatever. What happened?"
"Demon…" Sam said dimly, starting to lose his grasp on consciousness. "Took power… Chris said… part of our… soul…" With that, he slipped back into unawareness.
Dean rushed into the room where Wyatt had gone with Chris. "Wyatt," he said, noticing that a woman and a man had joined him. "Is it possible for someone to have taken their powers by taking their souls?"
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"It doesn't make any sense!" Wyatt yelled in frustration as he flipped through the Book of Shadows in the attic. "Why would he take theirs souls if all he wanted was their powers? There are much easier ways to steal someone's powers."
"Well, if it's easier to steal powers that way, then wouldn't it be easier to get them back?" Dean suggested.
"That's stands to reason," Wyatt conceded. "I know there was an entry in here about souls! I'm not Chris, I don't have this thing memorized!" Suddenly, the pages of the book began turning on their own until it was open to the entry he was looking for.
"Does it do that often?" Dean asked, eyeing the book with a suspicious and apprehensive look.
"Yeah, Grams, Grandma, and Aunt Prue don't sit idly by even in the afterlife," Wyatt said dismissively. "Listen to this: A soul is the very essence of a person, incorporating all attributes of that person. If a soul is taken from said person, either completely or partially, that person can only survive for a certain amount of time. That means if a soul is stolen, any powers that person had would go with it."
"It also means that Chris and Sam don't have much longer to live," Dean pointed out.
"Not if I can help it," Wyatt stated.
Tbc…
Ya'll didn't think it would be that easy, now, did ya? I'd say they're going to have a hell of a fight ahead of them. : )