The story takes place right after the season 10 finale, after Dean killed Death, the Mark of Cain was removed and Darkness was released into the world. I mentioned before, new characters will be added and thrown in the story and I will bring back several former characters from the show in the upcoming future.

Chapter 2 Before The Darkness- The Hunter

Superior, Nebraska

Sam and Dean sat in the Impala as the gigantic black smoke continued to grow engulfing everything and sight and was heading straight for them. Neither of them have every seen anything like it after all the monsters, ghosts, demons and other things they had to deal with as hunters. Both were scared out of their wits although neither tried to show it that much.

"Dean, what the hell is that!" cried Sam, nearing shaking in the car.

"I think it's Darkness, Sam!" said Dean.

"Darkness, what the hell is darkness suppose to be?" wondered Sam.

"Death told me about it, it seemed before God created the world, He and the archangels battled Darkness, some kind of destructive entity, but couldn't defeat, so He sealed it away and made the Mark of Cain as lock to keep it sealed, then gave it to Lucifer who then passed on to Cain, who as you know passed it to me!" explained Dean very quickly and thoroughly. "But since the mark disappeared from my arm, I guess it released the Darkness again" Dean continued. "I still wonder how did that mark got off my arm, Sam what did you do?" Dean asked suddenly suspicious of Sam.

Sam with a guilty look just said, "Dean, we were trying to save you, how could I have known" he said.

Dean didn't need to ask any further as he could have guess that damn book again. That book that got Charlie killed, that he warned Sam to burn as it was evil. Then again, what did he just do, he wondered. Dean remembered that he came close of killing is own kid brother, the brother he had sworn to always protect growing up, who he sold his soul to a crossroad demon to bring him back from the dead, the same little brother he would die for and today he nearly killed him. Then he did something he never thought possible, he killed Death. What does that mean, what will become of the world now?

Then there is this Darkness, what will this Darkness do the world, and to everyone in it? Dean didn't want to think about, but knew it could be much bigger than the apocalypse, bigger than anything they ever encountered and it was all their faults. He didn't have time to think any longer as the smoke gigantic smoke known as darkness was now heading very close to them and he couldn't do anything about it. Their car was stuck, if they got out there was no place to hide, the first time there are actually doomed. They can feel the car shake as the smoke now surrounding their entire car and they can't see anything but blackness on their window shield and all they can do is close their eyes fearing the worst.

Some time earlier Lebanon, Kansas

Ava Renshaw just came of out of the La' Dow's supermarket with a bag of some food it drinks that she bought for the long trip she was about the take. Looking about she didn't really care much for this very small town where there seems to hardly anyone around it pretty much looks like dull place to live. She didn't want to stop in this backwoods town but she was running out of gas and decided to stop by the nearest town to the gas station and then she decided to get some snacks and drinks before heading back out on the road in her large van.

Ava been driving around for couple days now and had been in New York, and now wanted to return to her hometown in Montrose, Colorado to see her parents whom she hadn't seen in a while. After her last mission as a hunter, she believed she deserved a long break. Maybe she would head out to California after finishes her visit, she always loved the idea of going to Los Angeles. Ava drove on in her van wondering about her past five years now.

She is a very beautiful woman with flame red shoulder-length hair, neatly styled, blue eyes, lips covered in red lipstick, her nails painted raspberry red, and looked pretty much like a girl next door. No one would dream such young pretty woman could be a hunter and not a hunter of deer, or moose, but a hunter of monsters, demons and other supernatural creatures.

But hunting went way back in her family, in fact both her grandfathers, her father and uncles were hunters. She takes some pride about being the first female in her family to take up the family legacy despite concerns from her parents. Neither of them wanted her to be a hunter, but have a more normal life due to their own backgrounds. Her father was raised a hunter and often hunted with his father and brothers. As for her mother, hunting was man's domain in her mother's family and her mom would often be at home helping her own mother run the family store, look after the home and younger siblings while her father, Ava's grandfather would go off hunting sometimes being away for months.

Ava's own father retired from hunting after her parents married and decided to settle down working a regular job and trying to give her a more normal childhood. However, her childhood was hardly normal as her parents still decided to expose her early on about hunters, and supernatural creatures and prepare her just in case some dark spirit, demon or any evil supernatural creature decided to descend on their home. While she was playing with dolls, stuff animals, learning how to swim, piano lessons and going to school like most little girls, she was also learning about ghosts, demons, vampires(kill them by chopping off their head, not by a stake like the movies), werewolves, witches and any supernatural creatures that existed.

She also learned about Devil's trap, how to perform exorcisms, talisman( to protect you from getting possessed), how to use salt, iron, holy water etc while growing up. When she was ten, she was taught how to use a crossbow and a year later was taking out to the shooting range to learn how use a firearm, and had her learn martial arts so she wouldn't be helpless in the cruel and dangerous world. By the time she had finished high school, Ava was typical teenage girl who loved shopping, had posters of her favorite band, liked going out with boys, but she also knowledgeable in almost everything supernatural, was skilled shot, and had a black belt in both karate and judo.

She was definitely tougher than she look. One such boy learned that in the form of her high school boyfriend Bryan who thought it would be cute to sneak up behind her give her scare on one Halloween night at party at the school when she went outside alone to meet him. He had popped out of nowhere and grabbed her from behind in which in reflex, she elbowed him in the stomach area, and flipped him over with a quick judo move, causing him to land on his back on the ground. He never did that again. After school, she went on to college where she studied, history, myths, legends, and folklore. She later got a job at the museum but five years ago she quit at the age of 26, to decide to become a full time hunter, feeling she had a bigger calling than that dull museum job.

She paired up with a veteran female hunter Bev Jarvis who was an old hunting friend of her father's and took her under her wing promising her dad she would look after her. Bev was very much her mentor and maternal figure and taught her everything she knows. Unfortunately, last year Bev suffered from lung cancer and could no longer hunt and eventually died and Ava inherited her van which she driving now. Ava mourned Bev, and still misses her, but now she's more than confident she can take care of herself and so far is doing just fine on her own. Of course, a part of her kind of longs for company as it can be lonely on the road all the time, but she doesn't really need it.

As she continued to drive on hoping to head out town, she suddenly hears strange noise and feels the strong gust of wind. The wind gets stronger and stronger causing her van to shake making her fear having an accident. At first she thinks it is a tornado and quickly stops her van. Then when she looks through her wind shield, she sees an amazing sight.

"What the hell?" Ava murmurs to herself as she suddenly sees large rays of black smoke leap out in the sky and then crash down on the ground.

Soon there is gigantic black smoke flowing on the ground like waves in an ocean surrounding and engulfing everything in sight. Shock and startled by what she just seen, Ava without thinking, quickly turns her van around and starts driving as fast as she can, her hands trembling still not believing what she had just seen.

With the five past years as a hunter, she as encountered many scary and unbelievable things and she's learned to get used to it but this was way out of her realm. "What is that thing, and how can I get out of here?" she thought. She continued to speed on the empty road as she could see in her review mirror that gigantic black smoke spreading closer like a huge tornado and it was now catching up to her quick.

There was no way she could out drive it. Before she knew it, the black smoke was surrounding her van and all she could see in windows was the black smoke covering everything so she could not see where he was driving and soon the car began to tremble. Ava then pulled the breaks and let out a scream as she has never been so scared in her life.