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The Scarsboro Terror

Chapter two

Scarsboro Park

Dean slowly drove through the park while Sam studied the map.

"Okay, go up this road a little then turn left. There's an old mine a little ways up the road." Sam's fingers traced the route on the map.

Dean pulled over in front of the mine. They both got out and went to the trunk where they removed flashlights, crosses, holy water, a flame thrower, salt guns, and a gun loaded with silver bullets. Not knowing what they might need, they decided to be prepared for any possibilities. They then went over and pried the 'Do not enter signs' off the front of the mine. Dean looked at Sam as he tied a string to a tree outside of the tunnel.

"Be careful; don't touch any of the support beams. This place looks like it could come down at any moment."

Sam nodded as he followed Dean into the tunnel letting the string unwind behind them so they could follow it back out if they got lost. They carefully made their way into the tunnels looking for any sign that something had been staying in one of the mine shafts. The further they got the narrower the passage ways got, a clear sign of former cave-ins.

"I don't think there's anything in here." Sam said as he shined the light around the tunnel.

"Yeah I think you're right, might as well cross this one off the list."

They carefully followed the string out to the entrance of the mine.

"You know Dean, there's like a zillion mines and caves in the area, the odds of us coming across the right one…" Sam looked out over the area then back at Dean. "How do we even know what ever this thing is, is hiding in one of these caves?"

"We don't….but since we're here..."

"Dean…" Sam shook his head and looked away for a few seconds before looking back at his brother. "Dad's trail is growing cold….we got to start looking for him."

"What do you think we're doing Sam?" Dean spun around to look at his brother. "What's the matter? Don't you think I want to find Dad too?"

"I don't know anymore. It seems….well it seems all you do is search through papers for….for these strange deaths to investigate. I think we should devote one hundred percent of our time looking for Dad."

"Hey, I didn't look for this case, we just walked into it, and anyway we're still on Dad's trail Sam, but he'd want us to help these people out along the way."

"We can't protect the world from every evil thing Dean…as much as Dad might want us to… as much as we might want to."

"But we can sure as hell try." Dean gave Sam a small smile. "Come on….we're here, we might as well see what's going on." Sam shook his head slightly and got back in the car, Dean jumped in the driver's side.

"Okay where's the next site?"

"Just drive I'll let you know."

Later

"Okay which road?" Dean asked when they came to a cross road. They had been driving for about twenty minutes each lost in their own thoughts. "Okay Sam which road?" He repeated then looked over at Sam who had his head back leaning against the side window sound asleep. "Yo Sam!"

"What!" Sam jumped at the sound.

"Hey Bro I can't have you dropping off like that while we're hunting."

"Sorry." Sam sat straight up in the seat. He knew his brother was right. Both of their lives counted on them both being fully alert. "Sorry." He said again looking over at Dean.

Dean nodded. He knew Sam was exhausted from his lack of sleep and also knew nagging him about it wasn't going to get him anywhere.

"Which road?"

"Um…." Sam looked down at the map then at the surrounding area. "Turn left."

They drove a short way down the road to the cave. Once there, they grabbed their equipment and headed into the cave. They shined their lights around the entire area looking for any sign that the cave had been used to commit the murders, but found no sign of any kind of disturbance. When they were just about to leave the cave they heard sirens racing past the entrance. They quickly ran outside and watched as the police and an ambulance rushed by, then pulled over further down into the park. They quickly jumped in their car and followed. Once they were close to the area they pulled over and looked through the glove compartment until they found the fake IDs they were looking for, they then headed toward the scene. They could see that the police had surrounded a body lying between some rocks. One of the officers at the scene seeing them walked over.

"What are you two boys doing out this way?"

"We're um…..students from the university…uh….." Dean started.

"We're geology students from the University of Montana. We're studying the rock formations in the caves around here." Sam quickly stepped in and finished Dean's sentence.

"Can I see some IDs?" They handed the officer their fake IDs which he studied then handed back to them. "Well you two shouldn't be out here, it's dangerous. Haven't you heard about the murders?"

"Yeah…we heard something on the news, but we knew this park had a lot of caves and we needed to do our work." Dean said.

"We had been in a cave working when we heard the sirens. What's going on?" Sam asked.

"A hiker found another body…Look, I think you boys really should head back to the university, the park isn't safe."

Dean glanced over at the body which appeared to be covered in a white net.

"What's that?" Dean said attempting to move closer.

"That, is none of your business." The officer stepped in front of Dean. "Now I suggest you boys head on back to the university." The officer told them before turning and going back to the crime scene.

"What is that?" Sam said as he too looked at the white coated body.

"I don't know. I've never seen anything like it before."

"It looks like some kind of netting or something."

"Yeah, I wish we could get a sample of it."

"Well we can't just walk up and ask for it."

"I know that dummy. Let's let them think we're leaving then hide up in the hills and wait till they go, maybe we can get a sample of that stuff after they clear out."

They drove off and hid the car then snuck back to the area and hid behind some rocks and watched through binoculars as the police worked the crime scene. Dean checked out the area around the body with the binoculars.

"Like those guys said, the body had to be placed there, there's no sign of blood anywhere near the body."

"And no tracks leading to the body." Sam put down his binoculars and looked at Dean. "You think it could be aliens?"

"Could be. Maybe they take the victims up in their ship, and then when they're through experimenting with them, they just toss them back to the ground."

"But that white stuff…what's up with that?"

"Maybe it's some kind of fungus or something."

"Dean if we're dealing with aliens…we don't know how to fight them."

"Yeah, there is that small problem."

"Well I'd say it's a rather large problem…"

"Well I'd still like to check out some more of these caves and mines; they'd make a perfect place for something to hide out in."

"I'm sure the cops already thought of that."

"Yeah but they're not the Winchesters." Dean grinned over at Sam. "They might have missed something."

Sam looked over at his brother.

"You know Dean the cops are pretty thorough. Is there is anything in these caves I'm sure they'd find it."

"Yeah, but they're looking for a human…we're looking for signs of….well something else."

"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Sam shook his head as he grinned at his brother.

"Sure am." Dean grinned back. He wasn't lying. He did enjoy hunting, it was something he did, and he did it well.

"Well it looks like they're going to be down there for quite a while; we might as well get comfortable." Sam turned around and leaned against a rock as he stretched out his legs. Dean watched for a while before he too turned around and rested against the rock.

Three hours later

Finally the officers packed up and left the area. Dean and Sam waited to be sure they weren't coming back then hurried down to the crime scene. They immediately went to the area where the body had been and searched for any signs of the white substance.

"Here's some." Sam called over to Dean as he used a twig to pick up a sample of it.

Dean leaned down and looked at it closely.

"It looks like a spider's web." He said looking back up at Sam.

TBC