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 38 Getting Somewhere
A couple of minutes passed and Sam and Dean were still on the floor faced down after being duct taped by their hands and ankles by Becky. Still reeling over the fact they both got besotted by Becky Rosen of all people again, they quickly thought of their next move to get escape from their predicament.
"Don't worry Dean, I think if I roll over to the counter I can reach out to the pocket knife with my feet" Sam said as he struggled.
"Are you sure?" asked Dean who was struggling himself.
"Yeah, just trust me" Sam answered.
"Do I have a choice?" said Dean a bit irritated of their situation.
With that Sam rolled around the floor heading towards the kitchen.
The floor was hard and his body started to ache as he rolled about. He wiggled about until the got close of enough to the counter moving his legs upwards. Then with his legs still up in the air he moved his feet about laying them on the counter trying to feel his way to pocket knife with his feet. It felt like forever until he finally could feel the pocket knife under his feet and moving his feet he was able to move the pocketknife to the edge of the counter it fell onto the floor.
"You got it?" asked Dean who lifted his head up a little.
"Yeah, just about" said Sam.
Sam then rolled and wiggled out some more until he was able to grab the pocket knife with his tied up hands and opened the blade and started cutting through the duct tape with it.
Within a few minutes, he undid his arms and then was easily able to undo his ankles until he was finally free.
"Well, good to be free" said Sam as he got up off the floor.
"Perfect, now free me already, can't wait to get the hell out of here and get my hands on that Ms Hyde in leather, especially if she hurt Baby" cried out Dean in an irritated tone.
Sam didn't want to argue about Becky again so he just went over to where Dean was and knelt down and untied him with the pocket knife and soon they were both free and headed out of there within seconds. When the got outside, they found the Impala which at first seemed fine until they saw that all of the tires had been shot out. Dean just stood there staring at his car tires with a look of fury forming in his face. Sam knew that look and that Dean was ready to explode.
"Son of a bitch!" Dean roared.
Sometime later, they managed to call a 24 hour tow truck to drive out there and replace their flat tires. Dean managed to get the number from the operator. They had to wait close to a half an hour for the tow truck to come then after paying the tow truck, they were finally able to drive their car. Dean was still angry, more like enraged and as he drove off in the car, he told Sam in gory detail what he was going to do when he caught up with Becky for messing with Baby. Sam just listened and felt quite nervous as Dean seemed to be acting under the influence of Darkness again and he was aware Dean actually would likely do what he was saying he's going to do.
"Dean, please you got to calm down" Sam cautioned him nervously.
"Don't you lecture me not now Sam. I don't give a rat's ass if Becky is not herself, that she is acting under the influence of some possibly cursed ring or not, blah blah blah! I swear that chick was always loony anyway, anybody knows that is you but now she's gone too far. I have had it Sam, and I mean what I say, when I catch up to that skank I am no longer going to go easy on her just because you have a soft spot for your wacko groupie!" Dean bellowed.
By now his eyes looked crazed as he was getting angrier by the minute. Sam didn't know what to say right now and realized trying reason with him about Becky was just going to piss him off even more so he stayed silent for now.
They finally drove back to the motel as they needed to regroup and think of their next move. The TV was on and Dean was still steamed pacing the floor as Sam sat on his bed, and he tried again to get his brother to calm down.
"Dean, you are really scaring me, you can't let the Darkness affect you or you will end up just like those crazy folks that are doing all kinds of things like Becky's boss for instance" said Sam
This seemed to do the trick, as Dean started to calm down some his face now softening a bit and stopped pacing. He went over to his bed and flopped down.
"Dammit, I know that Sam, this isn't easy for me either. I don't want to become that person again that I was when I had the Mark. I feel like it's happening all over again" Dean said his tone now worrisome.
"Dean, you have to get it together and control this before the affects starts controlling you do whatever it takes, pray meditate just I don't want you to end like all those other folks Darkness has affected all over the world. I mean, I still can't stop thinking about what we unleashed and what it's doing to people and it's all our faults" Sam said.
Dean faced Sam noticing the guilty look on his face and now it was his turn to try to reason with his brother.
"Sam, don't beat yourself over this, that won't do you any good and you have nothing to worry about you won't lose me to the Darkness. I'll try to get a hold on this but there is no way in hell I am sitting down and meditating like some new age hippie" Dean said with a smile trying lighten the mood.
Sam just grinned.
"Okay, but please Dean you got to get a hold of this, remember what Cas and Hannah said" Sam told him.
"Yeah, yeah I'm sorry I scared you back there and don't worry, I'm not going to kill your former ex either, maybe torture her a bit" said Dean half joking.
"Dean!" said Sam with a disapproving look on his face.
"Calm down, Sam I wasn't serious at least not too much, but I'm still pissed off about what she did to Baby" said Dean.
Then Dean heard his cell phone ring and pulled it out of his jacket pocket and saw he was getting a call from Adam.
"Oh, it's Adam, maybe he found dirt for us on that ring" said Dean and he answered his phone.
"Hello Adam". said Dean.
"Hey, Dean and Sam, I'm just calling to tell you I got good news. I finally find some information you might like about those ruby rings" Adam told him.
"Well, spit it out already" said Dean a bit impatient
"Well from what I gathered from the witches' lore, it is well known that rubies when worn as pieces of jewelry like a ring, bracelet, brooch or talisman, it is said to protect the wearer from any potential danger and harm and even increase their health, wealth or any other energy. In other witch lore, some white witches known as wiccans have used rubies as a good luck charm to protect them from any evil entity, spirit or energy and it also be used to healing. Another thing it can do is increase sexual energy of the wearer" Adam explained.
Dean kind of coughed on hearing the last part.
"That's all good, but does it say anything about the ruby rings being used to turn someone evil or dark?" asked Dean.
"Yeah, I'm getting that part" said Adam. "Well, it has been rarely mentioned in other lore on rubies, is that centuries ago, legend has it that some witches had used rubies for evil. Meaning these witches who practiced in dark magic would cast a spell on the ruby gemstone using some dark energy or entity as it's source and when worn as a piece of jewelry like a ring, the dark energy gradually corrupts the soul of the wearer" he continued.
Dean eyes just lit up on listening to all of this and so did Sam's who got up from his bed and went over to listen in on the conversation.
"Wow, that explains everything, but I why would some witch want to use a cursed ring on three people, what possibly could be his or her reason?" Dean wondered.
"Well, I think I can explain that as there is more in here. According the lore, as the rings twist the souls of wearer, that only makes the dark energy even stronger and usually by the eighth day, the dark energy inside the ring has totally wipes out their soul altogether and makes these energies the most powerful. If the witch has three wearers of the ring after this time, it is said that by performing a ritual, the witch can then use all the dark energies combined for their most evil means that includes something like becoming an immortal or immune and the most powerful being that has the most powerful dark magic in the world and can have the ability to reign an entire universe with these dark powers and they can never be killed or destroyed by anything at all" Adam explained.
"Perfect" said Dean.
"Well, there is more, with these powers, the witch can also control other witches and any other dark entities including a demon, a knight of hell and even Lucifer himself and be able to collect their powers to his or her own purposes or bring back an ancient being like a witch or god goddess and completely control them and drain them of their powers. And basically they will be totally invincible and be the biggest threat to humanity" Adam finished.
"Does it say anyway to stop the witch from using the rings?" asked Dean.
"Well, the thing is there is no way to remove the ring form the wearer's fingers while the dark energy flows inside them unless you cut off their fingers of course, but I assume that's not what you're looking for. It does says that the only thing that could possible destroy these rings is a obsidian stone, which according to lore, has been used to protect or guard a person from any negativity or evil spells or even remove a person or object from such negativity. But you will have to use this stone to smash the gemstone before the eighth day or else the wearer's souls will be permanently twisted. If you destroy the rings before that time, the wearer will be restored to the former persona, that's all I know. Wow, this is so much heavy stuff, I'm telling you" Adam finished.
"I know, well thanks Adam, you've been an awful great help here" said Dean.
"Yeah, thanks again" said Sam.
"Anytime guys, hey I hope you guys be careful whatever you're about to do and get back safe, it's getting kind of lonely here, you know" said Adam.
"Don't worry little bro, we always do, we know what were' doing, just take care of yourself" said Dean.
"Yeah, Adam we will home soon in no time" Sam reassured him.
"I will, I love your music collection Dean" Adam said.
Dean's expression changed to stern.
"Hey, well just be careful not to break them and put them back where they belong when you finish" Dean warned
"Okay" said Adam.
"I think we better be getting off and getting back to our case, so good bye and take care" Dean said.
"Take care little brother" Sam added in.
"Goodbye big brothers" said Adam.
After the conversation, Dean put his cell phone back in his pocket. Then he and Sam both got up from the bed as they started focusing on the case again following what they just learned.
"So what we gather is there's some kind of witch in the city that is using some dark energy on ruby rings and selling them to people in order to drain out people's souls that make the dark energy more powerful so the witch can use this power to either becoming the most powerful immortal destructive dark force in the planet who can control other demons, witches and even Lucifer and take their powers" said Sam.
"Wow, being able to control Lucifer himself that sounds real deep, I can't imagine anyone who could control the prince of darkness himself" said Dean.
"Well, Adam said it was only a legend and it isn't known for sure it will but both you and I know some legends can be true, we got to stop this witch before that happens" said Sam.
"First, we got to figure out just who is this witch and that will be hard to do in the Big Apple and find an obsidian stone," Dean told him.
"Well, we better hurry, because as Adam says after eight day those rings will permanently destroy Becky's and those two fellows souls and there is no going back after that" said Sam.
Dean just shook his head upon learning of of this information.
"Boy, we have our work cut out for us and with no leads, it just doesn't seem possible we will being able to stop this witch who ever she is in time" said Dean real frustrated.
"Hey never say never, we have managed to do the impossible before" Sam told him.
As they were talking, they suddenly noticed something on the news on TV that interested them both of them and they stopped talking and walked up close to the TV to listen carefully. The news was talking about a shooting and break out at the New York City police station where two cops were shot and few prisoners managed to escape. They were particularly surprised to hear the names of two of the prisoners, Howard Dobbins and Winston Harper where apparently Harper was shot and killed in shootout trying to kill a cop while Dobbins was one of the prisoners who managed to escape. After hearing the news, Sam and Dean turned glancing at each other as they realized how even more harder this is going to be.
For any reader who missed this chapter I just recently fixed it, for some reason chapter 38 was missing and it had chapter 39 instead , I don't know how that happened or for how long this mistake was unless I made an error when going back and making some corrections on the previous chapters I posted. Sorry for the mistake. Thank you.