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Snow Beast

Chapter four

The Lodge

Dean watched as skiers began returning from the slopes hoping Sam was among them. He was starting to panic when they all returned except Sam.

"Excuse me." He said to the girls as he got up and started heading for the door. Right when he reached it Sam walked in. He stood in front of Dean his chest heaving, his hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breath.

"Where the hell were you?" Dean whispered.

"I…I saw it….I saw it Dean." Sam managed to get out between breaths.

"You saw it? You went up to the area I told you to stay out of didn't you?" Dean was angry. Sam had been out there by himself with out anyone around to help him if he needed it. "Damn it Sam, why do I even bother talking to you? You just do what you want anyway."

"I just wanted to look at the slope…I didn't ski it." Sam said as he stood up.

"Maybe not but you went off by yourself didn't you? I told you to stay with the group Sam…. I swear next time you get yourself in trouble don't expect me to come looking for you, because I'm not."

"Will you stop bitching for a minute and listen? It's was just like in Dad's journal Dean, I smelled this horrible smell and then I looked over to the tree line and there it was."

"It saw you?" Dean leaned forward so no one could hear.

"Yeah, it looked right at me. It watched me for a while then it started coming out of the woods toward me. It was huge Dean, at least nine feet high, maybe higher. That sucker could move for how big it was."

Dean shook his head.

"You know Sam if that thing had gotten a hold of you…"

"Look I know it was stupid to go off by myself but I just wanted to check out the slope."

"Yeah it was stupid. I'm glad that you at least see that."

"You know Dean you should talk. Remember when we were after that shape shifter and I told you not to go in the sewer by yourself and what did you do…went right into the sewer by yourself."

Dean gave a little smile.

"But I don't have to listen to you…I'm older."

Sam smiled back.

"That's bullshit, and you know it."

"Not in my book it's not….Well, got any idea on how to trap this thing?" Dean said changing the subject.

"I don't know, but we got to get these people out of here."

"How do we do that? We don't have any proof this thing exists, and we can't just go up to them and say 'there's a big hairy beast out here killing people' they'll think we're nuts."

"Yeah I know… I guess the only thing we can do is get up there and try to get rid of it before it hurts anyone else. Maybe one of us can act as bait and lure it out into a circle of fire then kill it."

"Well tomorrow I'll go with you and we'll see if we can spot this thing…Then we'll figure out how to lure it to us and kill it."

The next morning

"How do you want to do this?" Sam asked Dean as they sat in the lounge having breakfast.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we're going to have to go up to the advanced slope and …well I know you've never skied anything but intermediate slopes before so I was thinking that you could take a snowmobile up and I'll meet you there."

"Snowmobiles aren't allowed on the runs Sam, you know that."

"That's because there are usually too many people up there and they don't want people running into each other. Well that's not a problem now, there's hardly anybody here. I'm sure no one will say anything….What do you think, you in?"

"Okay we'll try it, but first we need to go back to the room and pick up our guns and the lighter fluid just in case …"

Later

Dean got a snowmobile while Sam rode the ski lift to the top of the mountain where they met then headed over to the advanced slope.

"Okay, let's see if we can lure this thing out and see what we're dealing with. We'll each take a side but don't get too close to the tree line stay out in the open." Dean looked at Sam. "And if this thing comes after you, you get your ass down that mountain and don't look back; I'll be right behind you. Remember we just want to check this thing out and figure out some way to trap it."

They spent the next few hours going up and down the slope hoping to draw the creature out. They were both tired and decided to head back to the lounge to get a little rest then head out again later in the afternoon.

When they were half way down the slope the creature suddenly darted out of the woods and swiped its arm across Dean's chest knocking him off the snowmobile.

"Dean!" Sam screamed as he watched his brother's body fly off the vehicle.

TBC