Thanks Allifox. I am glad that you are enjoying this so far and I don't know if you have gotten this far yet or if you are still making your way through the story. I feel like I have put ParaNorman on the backburner for a while and have focused more on other projects along with uni' work that just seemed to start pilling up before I even knew what was happening, but now the uni' work is starting to get under control and I can see a light at the end of that tunnel. I can see me just focusing on this project, but I keep saying that with everything that I work on. I really don't mean, but sometimes I get an idea for one project one week and then have to work on that for a while until I need to start focusing on the stories that I really need to do in order before I can do anything else in the series.
So if there seems to be gaps between different things in ParaNorman please don't shoot me as I do try to reread over everything that I have written to try to remember what it was that I was leading to. I do have a plan that is written out but that is the basic bare bones from the characters to the main plot, but every story has minor plotlines that also help with and I feel that I am quite bad at doing and forgetting all about it after not going over a project for a while.
I don't know if anyone reading this has noticed that this is part of a series with ties in with other projects (much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe). ParaNorman and the Nightmare of Halloween is leading up to something big and Norman and Jack Skellington will make appearances in future works that I have planned with the basic barebones like I do with all planning, but knowing me that will all be scrapped and changed when the time comes to getting them written.
So I think I will end rambling on and get ParaNorman and the Nightmare of Halloween worked on before doing anything else.
Warning this chapter has scenes of violence.
I don't own characters from ParaNorman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Supernatural, the Avengers (or all of Marvel) and Doctor Who (but I wish I did but I don't (sad face)). I do however own Julian and Seth (well this version of the God. I didn't come up with him I just based him of the God from Ancient Egyptian mythology.
Chapter 11
"What the-!" Dean shouted as he pointed his rifle at the massive white furred Werewolf that was pinning the man in the suit. He was not the only one to freeze. He glanced over at his brother. Sam looked confused, he didn't know if he should attack the Werewolf that happened to be Julian or the strange creature that was holding Norman.
The man that was under the Anubid began to chuckle with that thick German accent of his. "Ah, Julian it is good to see the true you! It has been too long! I sure hope that Nightshade is treating such a good boy like yourself well?" the man chuckled only to stop as the white Werewolf put more weight down on the trapped Anubid and Wereset. "By that I take it she is not doing a good enough job at leading you and that brainless Ghoul?" Seth asked after a second of silence. He kept staring at Julian's yellow eyes that stood out more thanks to the white fur of his wolf form.
"Don't speak about Nightshade like that Seth!" Julian snarled. The two Hunters flinched at how normal Julian's voice sounded even with him being fully transformed into his Wolf form, but Julian was not paying any attention to them. His main focus was on Seth. He and Edward had been given cuffs that could hold any Pagan God at bay, they had tested them on Thor, much to his annoyance to make sure that they worked. And they had worked. Thor's power had instantly been locked and the two members of UNIT had been given the handcuffs to use when they grossed paths with Seth again. The cuffs unfortunately were in his cars boot. So to get to them he would need to get off of Hazel to get to the car and get to the boot. And he knew from past experiences with Seth that something that can take only a few seconds can turn into a disaster. He was after all the God of Chaos.
Seth began to chuckle again but he fell silent when he heard the clicking of two rifles. He strained his neck to get a good look at the two Winchesters and began to laugh once again. "Oh this is just golden! The two most feared Hunters in North America along with the Shadow Wolf! This must be my lucky day!" he laughed looking at the two of them. His yellow eyes then flicked only to Sam Winchester.
The taller man within a matter of seconds was trembling where he was standing as he stared at Seth. "Sam what's wrong?" Dean asked trying to get his brother out of the spunk that he was in without letting Julian's back being exposed. He didn't know why he was defending the Werewolf, but they had trusted Julian and more importantly the teens seemed to trust him for a man they had just meet.
Sam didn't respond. He just kept staring at the yellow eyes of one of the most powerful beings in the universe. These yellow eyes haunted him. It was nothing like the Yellowed-Eyed Demon that they had been chasing since he was six months old. This was much worse than those eyes that had been in his nightmares as far as he could remember. The nightmares had changed to being that of the Cage after he was freed and then that changed to a pair of red eyes watching him. He couldn't make out the red eyes that watched him or the black shadows that seemed to form around the huge wounds that had been caused by his time in the Cage as Lucifer and Michael talked and made up their family. It had only been a few weeks ago that the two Archangels along with Adam had retuned from the Cage. This was a new age for the Hunters in that they knew that they all had an Angle to look out for their back. Lucifer had decided to travel the world to see the beauty that humans had made and to try and find a better way to redeem himself in his fathers eyes. Michael was rebuilding heaven with their fathers guidance along with Adam aiding him with things he didn't think of.
"The Boy King!" Seth rasped only to laughing again. "I have to admit it to Azazel! He does have some grand plans! To bad that you didn't go with the plan that he had set in motion! If you had said yes to Lucifer sooner you would have set in motion a series of events that would make even the end of the world as a bad Hollywood movie! But instead you said yes when you did and you talked to Lucifer like a bunch of girls braiding their hair! I would have loved to see those two at it! After all it was my brainchild that it all started!" Seth stopped laughing enough to say what he needed to say to Sam Winchester. "You should be glad that you stopped them from fighting otherwise, something much older than myself and them would have made a massive return!" he said in such a low voice that Sam was having problems to hear what was being said.
"Sam don't listen to him! He puts these stories in your head and causes trouble where he goes!" Julian shouted over the growing banging of thunder. He looked over at the younger Winchester as he kept all of his weight on the Anubid who was putting her weight on Seth keeping him trapped. "Sam whatever he is telling you is just a lie!" he said. The Werewolf had not heard what they had started and what they had ended.
Seth once again started to laugh from under the pile. "The Shadow Man has no idea what has been happening! Or did you hear what was happening but didn't take action to help the Winchesters?" Seth asked as he looked at Julian who was not letting go of his emotions. The Werewolf had great control over his emotions as he didn't lose himself in the beast.
Julian snarled as he kept his weight on Hazel who was starting to fight against his hold. The Anubid started snarling and biting at his furred hand but he kept it well away from Hazel's sharp teeth. Julian snarled back at Hazel but he had allowed his attention to move Seth who took the opportunity to get up from the pile that he was trapped under. Faster than anyone could process he transformed. The strength of his beast form flung Hazel off of him and into Julian who ended up trapped under Hazel who took the chance to fully transform. The Anibid may have been much smaller and lither than the Werewolf but the sudden movement had caught Julian by surprise who was now trapped under Hazel. The Aniubid did not waste any time to snarl in his face and allow siliver to splatter the fur on his muzzle.
"He's right Julian! We had started the end of the world! I had released Lucifier from his Cage in Hell!" Sam shouted at Julian who tried even harder to get up from under Hazel as Seth finished his transformation into his true form. Sam had dropped his weapon at the sight of the Wereset in his true form. The yellow eyes glared down at him as he stood before the God of Chaos. Sure they had taken down Pagan Gods that had a need for human sacfirices to gain their power and they had never faced a god much older than some of the Pagan Gods that had come from Europe with the European settlers to the collonies. No Hunter had faced a God from the Ancient World, but they all knew the stories that had come from these worlds. The worlds where monsters and men were always fighting. Then something had changed the monsters and men were fighting together to get rid of Chaos, with Seth being the most powerful of them he was sealed away with the words of the Gods but from the mouth of a man.
Sam felt his knees buckle underneath him. Had they somehow allowed Seth to return to the mortal world after he was banished all those years ago? Had they once again started the end of the world? Could they stop it? He heard a snarl followed by a wet snapping to see Julian standing above the other Werecreature. The white fur of his muzzle was strained red with blood and the teeth that he showed in the snarl that he was given Seth had bits of flesh stuck in them. Sam looked down at Julian's feet to see the dead Werecreature who a second ago had been trying to rip his face off. Its throat was torn with blood seeping out of the wound that had been inflcted upon it by Julian's teeth and by the sheer power that the Werewolf had in its jaws. That alone caused Sam to back away from the Werewolf. They knew that Werewolves had supernatural strength, but there was something off with Julian. He seemed to strong for a Werewolf.
Sam's mind was going at over a hundred miles per hour as he started to put everything together. He remembered upon arriving to the Inn where he and Dean had meet Julian that there had been a change in tempurture and the atomposhere. Julian gave off the impression that he was a happy man who went to every party that he was invited to. He had also started to see that Julian was a spy espically with his car being an Aston Martin. That alone made him think that Julian was a spy like James Bond from the films, but there was something that was still nagging at the back of his mind. His brother had felt the same problems as him but they had not said anything with the two teens sitting the back of the Impala. Then JUlian had transformed without the aid of the moon to transform. They had heard of Werecreatures of an much older house that could transform at any time, but they had been killed off by the more wild Werewolves that could only transformed into a white Werewolf. The Werewolf that Julian was, was nothing compared to the Werewolves that the Winchesters had come across in all their years of hunting. Julian looked more like a wolf than a man. He still stood up on two legs and had fingers instead of paws. There was still an intellcutal mind behind the yellow eyes that glared at Seth with so much hatred.
Two of the teenagers did not seem shocked at all. The fat chubby kid that they had learned was called Neil was jumping up and down as if he was in a sugar rush. Norman, who was still in the hold of Oggie Boogie had a defiant look in his face. The other teens didn't look scared at all when he looked at them all. What had these kids been doing that they were not afraid of all these supernatural creatures.
The only girl of the group walked up to Seth. Never mind that she walked right past the white Werewolf who reached for his rifle that he had dropped during his struggle with Seth and Hazel. With a whirl that he had only heard in science fiction films the rifle was ready to be fired at any given moment. The blonde stopped just before Seth. She stomped her heel into the ground and gave a huff as she glared at the God of Chaos. Sam couldn't believe how brave and stupid that she was being as she glared right at Seth with so much hatred for one person. It was the same look that Dean had given the school bullies when they had decided to pick on the new kid. It was the look of an older sibling looking out for their younger sibling.
"Listen here you! That is my brother," she shouted at Seth with her finger pointing towards Norman, "and I wont let you do anything with him!"
Seth only stared for a second. His yellow eyes were wide in shock at the bravery that this human was showing. He pulled back his lips to show her his sharp teeth and that quick smile caused the blonde hair human to jump back as he raised to his full height. The Winchester brothers had recovered from his taunting's to pick up both their guns and were aiming it at him. He turned towards Julian. The white furred Werewolf had taken a protective stance in front of the other teenagers but the way he was positioned that allowed a quick access to the young teenager in front of him and protect her from anything he might do. Such heroic nonsense. It was something that he would need to take care of before he could take out heroes like the Avengers and many others one by one until there was no one who could stop him.
The God of Chaos took a step closer to Courtney. Courtney gasped in fear as Seth towered above her. Her gasp got louder as Seth's furry clawed hand grabbed her jaw and forced her to look at him. "You are a brave one, Courtney Babcock! And you are foolish like all of your kind!" he told her. Her eyes widened in fear at him knowing her name, and this caused him to chuckle deeply in his throat. He loved to look into the eyes of a human as they showed fear of him.
"Seth release her! This has nothing to do with her! So let her and Norman Babcock go! They do not fit into your plan of destroying the world like the supervillain that you are!" Julian snapped as he kept his rifle aimed at Seth. He hoped that the new features that had been added by the Moonray would work on the God. He knew that there would be no flaw in any of the works that the AI created, but they still had little knowledge of Seth. They only knew what he could do from his brief introduction during the Second World War where he had made an alliance with HYDRA. Then for seventy years he and Leatherback had just simply disappeared. It had only been a few weeks ago that they had made a return and had crashed back into the world.
That was what had caused them to come into the light after the post war years of keeping their heads down while helping the Doctor and UNIT with aliens in the UK and other European countries right up to the 1990s before they had helped less and less. That once again changed when Kate Stewart had taken her fathers place as head of UNIT and they were now a part of UNIT but they were their own team with a few other members based all around the world.
Julian had gone to Blithe Hallow to seek out the hero who had saved the town and to get to the bottom of what had really happened a few months ago. His spy tactics had brought up a lot of information rather quickly. He had learned that Norman Babcock had always been an outcast for his abilities to see and speak to the dead. He was just glad that he couldn't control the dead, that fell to Nightshade who had to train for years not to let that part of her to take control.
Edward, he had gone in a fun adventure where he kept getting shot by Hunters all throughout Asia as he followed Leatherback all the way to Japan. The Ghoul was heading to UNITs base there and had still not told Julian as to why he was heading there, but he knew with all the years that they had been stuck together that Edward had a growing feeling as to why Leatherback has gone to Japan. He hoped that the two of them wrapped their missions quickly and got back to doing something that was needed their attention; like bringing Seth into jail.
Nightshade was no longer on earth. The last message that either him and Edward had gotten from Nightshade was that she had meet up with the Doctor only to get abducted by the Daleks. Julian had wondered why Nightshade and the Doctor where working together with the Daleks. He knew that it would be a great report to read, well when Nightshade decided to write up her report. Nightshade hated reports. It was as simple thing that everyone that knew Nightshade knew. It was as clear as day.
Seth looked back at him with those yellow eyes that looked into what had become of his soul. The ghost that he had became just wanted to flicker out, but the solider and the Werewolf that he had been born as just stood their place. He had looked down the barrel of many guns either from enemy spies and soldiers to Hunters who shot anything that resembled the supernatural even if they were both on the same side. Hunters normally just shot first and then asked questions never.
"Oh he's just the first of many actually Julian and I have to thank you and poor Hazel for leading me to him!" Seth said. He still had Courtney jaw in his hand. A perfect way of keeping a hostage to keep the Werewolf and the two Hunters at bay.
Julian snarled. The fur on the back of his neck prickled up as he felt dread in his stomach. It was a feeling that he had many times during missions. It had saved his and Edward's lives so many times that he had to thank the Wolf so much for the ability to sense danger a mile away. Right now it was clawing at his stomach as he looked towards Norman. "He is only a boy! He poses no threat towards you!" he snapped at Seth when he knew what the Wereset was thinking of doing.
Seth kept a grin on his face as he pushed Courtney into Julian. Julian caught her and instantly pushed her behind him to shield her from Seth with his body. "He is just a boy who got lucky in saving his town! That is all he has done! He is not a threat to you!" Julian said taking a step closer to the Wereset. He didn't look down at Hazel's body as he walked towards Seth. "I am the biggest threat to you here along with the Winchesters! Don't take this out on a innocent boy! A boy who should be worrying about exams and getting into university, not worrying when you are going to take a shot towards him!" he shouted at Seth.
The only response that he got was laughter from Seth, Dracula and the sac that was filled with bugs and holding the ever struggling Norman. Seth took a step closer to Julian and Julian had to take a step back not to be within inches of Seth's face. "You are expecting me to do a monologue so you can find out what my plan is so that you can stop me?" Seth stated as he kept focused on Julian.
He could see Sam and Dean Winchester in the corner of his eyes. He knew that he needed to get rid of them as quickly as possible so that they didn't cause any problems to him and his plans. Already a plan was forming in his head. It was basic, and he knew that with time he would be able to improve it. He just needed to right time to strike. He knew that he just needed to take one of them out and the other would not be far behind. He had connections with witches who could put a curse on them and he also had a business partnership with HYDRA. HYDRA was looking to test new technology that combined both magic and technology and he was sure that a Winchester would be a prized guinea pig for that test. He didn't know what it was and he didn't care how it was done. He just wanted to get the chance to get the Winchesters out of his way.
Julian smirked at Seth. "Wow! You know how we work! Damn that means that this is going to be harder than before!" Julian said as he walked closer to Seth. This time the two Werecreatures were muzzle to muzzle. The Ghost and the God were so close to each other. The two of them were snarling at each other and it was taking much for them not to be tarring at each other. "But humour me! Why do you want a teenager? Who can only see the dead?" Julian asked as he kept his rifle in his furred hand. He felt more protected with the weapon that he had for years in his clawed hands. Sure he had all the abilities a ghost like a poltergeist along with that of a Werewolf with speed and strength. But that was not enough to take a fight to Seth.
Seth smirked and puled back as he looked towards Julian. His yellow eyes then jumped towards Norman who was now being held by both Dracula and Oggie Boogie. The two had both taken an arm of the small town hero. "Alright! I will humour you Julian! Just so I can see you try and stop me!" Seth smirked back at Julian.
"I am not going to kill Norman Babcock!" he began. His smirk grew larger when he heard the sister sigh in relief. "No I am going to turn him into a weapon against you Julian Wolffang. He will be broken and put back together in the image that I want him to be! The same will be done to all children with abilities. I don't care if they are humans, Ghouls, Wendigos or any other creature they will be trained to be my soldiers and used to fight against the Avengers and all other heroes!" he said smiling like a kid in a candy shop as he saw Courtney grab Julian's furred arm.
"That is not going to happen, Seth! I wont allow you to restart the Night Wars!" Julian snarled pushing Courtney further behind him. He started to flicker like any ghost would do and the next thing he knew Dean was standing right beside him.
"You think that you can safe the boy by yourself?" Seth snorted back a laugh at Julian. "You are just as stubborn as Nightshade!" he snapped back at him.
"Yeah and just like Nightshade I am a wild card!" Julian snapped.
Dean jumped slightly at the sudden howl that Julian was sending into the air. The howl sent a shiver up and down his spine. Normally hearing a Werewolf howl always felt him with a small sense of fear and dread, but this howl was nothing like those ones. This howl seemed to pierce right into his Soul, where it gave him courage to stand before the God of Chaos and his allies. He glanced over to his brother to see that the same thing was happening to Sam. All doubts that had been put into his brothers freakish head was being removed as Julian howled at a moonless sky. The howl seemed to last forever and now that he looked at Seth and his allies he could see that many of them were freaked out at the howl.
He should be freaked out by the howl but for some mad reason he wasn't. Sending a silent prayer to Castiel to get his winged butt to Blithe Hallow as quickly as possible he focused on planning a way to get Norman away from the vampire and the sac of potatoes. He knew that Sam was doing the same beside him.
The snapping of a twig caused the howling to stop. Julian's head lowered from its howling position to look directly at Seth.
"Was that it?" Seth asked.
"No its just the beginning!"