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The Cavern of Death
Chapter nine
They made it back to the bar in a little over an hour and Dean forced the man over to his car. He tied the man's hands behind his back and pushed him into the passenger's seat of the car and then jumped behind the wheel. He reached under the dashboard and hotwired the car since he no longer had his keys. When he got it running he put his arm on the back of the seat and looked over at the man.
"Okay, now I need to get hold of that stuff they used to paralyze me."
"Frank will kill me if I do that."
"Well if Frank is one of those men that I tossed into that cave, he might not be alive to kill you till we get back there, but I am alive and believe me I will kill you if you don't do what I tell you. My brother's still back in that cave and if anything happens to him, you're dead." Dean held a gun up to the man's head to prove his point.
He meant every word of it and the man could tell.
"Okay…." He said reluctantly. "Head north."
The cave
"Why don't we just pull those two men over to the passage way where that thing is, then when it comes out it'll more then likely grab one of them." Jerry said.
"Look, I don't blame you for feeling that way but we can't just …just feed them to it." Sam knew that if the men forced the issue there was little he could do. He looked back and forth between them knowing that only a short time ago they wanted to feed him to the creature to save their lives and now with Dean gone there was little he could do to stop them. The bleeding had stopped but not before he had lost enough blood to make him significantly weaker then the others. He knew if he had to choose who would die next he too would choose the men that had put them in there but he hoped it didn't come down to that.
"Why not? They were feeding us to it?"
"That's right, they didn't give a damn that that thing in there was eating us, so why should we try to protect them?" Gary spoke up.
"It seems that that thing chooses who it wants on its own anyway, I don't think you'll be able to influence it. We can only hope my brother gets back before it gets hungry again."
The car
"Okay pull over here." The man told Dean. He pulled the car over in front of an old run down apartment building. "That's Frank's apartment up there on the third floor. He has more of that stuff in there."
Dean reached over and untied the man's hands.
"You're going to take me up there….and don't forget you try anything, you're dead." Dean tucked the gun into his coat pocket but kept it trained on the man.
They went up to Frank's apartment but it was locked. The door was made out of flimsy wood and with one kick Dean had it open. The man pointed to some vials lying on a table and Dean read the label then stuffed them into his pocket. He recognized the name of the drug on the label; it was a drug animal control officers used to tranquilize animals that they couldn't control. Dean then saw his and Sam's wallets plus their jewelry and keys lying on a table next to the bed. He grabbed a bag lying nearby and emptied it then threw the wallets and jewelry into it; he then grabbed the man and shoved him in front of him.
"Let's go…we're heading back to the cave."
The cave
Sam and the others watched in horror as the creature once more oozed its way into their cave, the man that had been inside of it now completely dissolved. They all backed away from the thing wondering who it was going to choose next. The two men that Dean had tossed into the cave still were unconscious and the creature ignored them and started to head toward Gary. His eyes widened and he backed up till there was no where for him to go.
"No….please no!" He screamed in terror.
A slimy arm of the thing reached out toward him and after touching him pulled him toward it.
"Nooooooo!" The man continued screaming as he was drug across the floor of the cave.
Sam not knowing what else to do began shooting at it with the shotgun Dean had dropped down to him. The pellets disappeared into the creature and didn't seem to affect it. Sam then spun the gun around and began slamming the butt of the gun into the arm like thing that was holding onto Gary. The creature reacted by tossing Gary out of its arm and grabbing onto Sam. He fell to the ground trying desperately to grab onto anything to keep from being sucked into the thing. He knew he couldn't expect help from any of the other men and he didn't really blame them, they were terrified. His blood smeared the floor as he was drug into the creature which immediately surrounded his body in its slimy mass. He tried to fight his way out but knew it was useless. As the thing drug him back into its lair, his only thought was that now Dean would now be alone.
TBC
