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Snow Beast

Chapter three

A short time later they arrived at the lodge. They climbed out of the Snowcat and stood looking at the beauty of the area.

Sam smiled over at Dean their argument already forgotten

"It's beautiful." He said as he looked over the snow covered grounds.

"Sure is." Dean said as he spotted two women skiers returning to the lodge. "Hi." He said smiling over at them. They giggled and waved to him as they ran into the lodge.

Sam smacked Dean on his arm.

"Not them jerk…" He waved his hand in front of him. "This…this is beautiful."

"Oh yeah, that's nice too." Dean said as he tore his eyes away from the women and looked up at the snow covered mountain.

They grabbed their gear then headed for the lodge. Once inside they were shown to their rooms.

Their room

"Hey, while it's still light out I think I'm going to go and try out the slopes." Sam said as they unpacked. He could see Dean start to turn around to object but before he could speak he quickly added. "Don't worry mom, I'll stay off the advanced slope and I won't go off by myself."

"Yeah well see that you don't because I don't want to have to go out there and save your sorry ass, not the first night."

"Don't worry about me." Sam said as he put on his snowsuit and picked up his skies. "You just have some fun and I'll be back in a few hours."

"You stick with the group Sam." Dean yelled after him. "I'm serious Sam, you don't come back I'm not coming out there looking for you… And get back here before it gets dark."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Sam yelled back to him as he ran down the hallway.

Later

Dean took a shower then got dressed and headed down to the bar. The two girls he had seen earlier were sitting there and motioned him over.

"Hi, I'm Sheila and this is my friend Michelle."

"Hi." Dean smiled at them as he sat down.

"Where's your friend?" Michelle asked.

"He's out on the slopes."

"That's too bad."

"Well he should be back in an hour or two, before it gets dark."

"It never gets dark out there; they light up the entire mountain at night."

Dean looked around the lounge and noticed they were the only ones there except for the staff; he looked back at the girls.

"How many people are staying here?"

"Oh about twelve others, they're probably out on the slopes."

"Why so few?"

"I'm sure you heard about the disappearances. Most of them just went home. I guess it kind of shook them up."

"They why are you two still here?"

"We're careful." She smiled at him. "We don't go near the advanced slope or into the areas marked dangerous."

"We also don't go off by ourselves." Michelle added.

"So what are they saying around here? What do they think happened to these people?"

"I'm sure you heard all those stories about the creature out there." She laughed. "No one up here believes that. More then likely they went into the restricted areas and fell off the cliffs. It happens."

"Yeah, so I hear."

Dean looked out the window and up toward the slopes. He could see a group of skiers making their way down and hoped one of them was Sam.

Ski slope

Sam put on his goggles and looked down the slope. It looked at little too easy and he was itching to go over to the advanced slope and check it out but he had promised Dean he would stay away from it. It wouldn't hurt just to take a look he thought. He had promised Dean he wouldn't go down it, but he never said he wasn't going to go look at it. He turned around and skied the short distance to the advanced slope and looked down. Yeah this is more like it. He said to himself smiling. The area was deathly quiet due to the lack of skiers in the area and the fresh fallen snow. Sam shut his eyes and could just imagine sailing down the slope, no one around just him and the mountain. He knew he'd catch hell from Dean if he skied it and if he found out, and Sam didn't want to have to lie to him about it. He turned around and was just about to head back to the intermediate slope when he smelled it, a horrible sulfur smell. He shook his head in disgust and was about to leave when he saw something moving behind the tree line. He wiped the snow off of his goggles to get a better look. He could barely make out a large white hairy creature watching him from the other side of the slope.

TBC