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 49 Investigation
The next morning Sam and Dean got up and putting on their black suits and gathering their fake FBI IDs, they drove in the car to Jody's house who greeted them dressed in her sheriff's uniform.
"Good, to see you two this morning, okay so what do you want to do right now?" she asked.
"First we are going to head to your deputy's place then the other guy that turned by the way what is his name?" asked Dean.
"His name was Gary Rendle and he lived on the other side of the city" she said.
"Okay, we'll search his place afterwards" Dean told her.
"Okay let's go" said Jody who then got her sheriff's jacket.
The girls were already taken to school and now she can focus on this case. Jody took her car while the guys drove theirs and soon they all drove off with Sam and Dean following Jody driving to Deputy Jake Horan's house. They all got out and Sam and Dean picked the lock of the door to get in as Jody didn't have possession of the deputy's keys. Once inside the house, Sam and Dean started searching around with Jody trailing behind. After turning on some lights and searching every room twice and even going through his garbage cans they didn't find anything unusual or that could explain what happened to him.
Finally they got tired of searching after looking again for about a third time.
"Well, I'll tell you something there is nothing in here to find. The guy did have good taste in porn though" said Dean referring to the porn magazines they found in his bedroom.
Sam just rolled his eyes while Jody just smirked. Then Dean turned to Jody.
"Jody, is there anyway we can talk to your deputy, I mean ask him questions?" he asked her.
Jody just shook her head.
"I'm afraid you won't get any answers from him, Dean. He tried talking to him already and he just rambles on nonsense and growls like an animal. It's like his mind is totally gone. We had to put restraints on him to keep him from hurting himself" she told him.
"Perfect" said Dean in frustration.
"Hey, I think we should now search this Gary's house now maybe we will have better luck" said Sam.
"Okay" replied Dean.
They all left the house and soon were back in there cars as Sam and Dean followed Jody who led them to Gary Rendle's house which was quite far off on the other side of the city. The finally got there and once again Sam and Dean had to pick the lock of the door and soon all three of them were inside. The house seemed quite messy with things on the floor and finding a couple of empty beer bottles lying around they even found the spot were his dead dog lay as their was still some bloody spots on the floor. The trio soon searched around the house upstairs, downstairs, in the basement, closets and even the garbage cans but found nothing except for more empty beer bottles and empty bottles of water as well as more junk but nothing that peak their interest.
"Once again we found nothing, nothing that can give us a clue as to what happened to these folks" said Dean who was real frustrated.
"Hey, this was good step, maybe we will have better luck eventually" said Jody although she wasn't so sure herself.
"We did the best we can, besides there are still some of the other folks who were infected whose homes we can search" said Sam.
"Yeah, I have to give you the names and addresses of those folks and I will as soon as possible" said Jody.
Just then she got a call on her cell phone and she pulled it out of her pocket.
"Hold on you guys, I have to take this" she said and she walked off to answer the phone.
Sam and Dean just looked at each other.
"Well, this hasn't got us anywhere" said Dean a bit frustrated.
"Don't worry Dean will find something, there has got to a clue somewhere" said Sam.
"The question is where" said Dean.
Before they could say more they both heard Jody's talking on her cell phone and it sounded like some kind of emergency. When Jody got off her cell phone, she entered the room with Sam and Dean and looked quite upset.
"Is there something wrong Jody?" asked Sam.
"Yeah that was Kyle, my other deputy, it appears the police has been called as there are some more people now infected by this thing, first at the supermarket some folks were violently attacking others including some of the police and they were forced to fire on them and now at the high school some of the students and teachers went crazy and I'm so worried about the girls, the cops are they right now!" she cried out frantically.
"Don't worry Jody, we will head to school right now to check on them" Dean reassured her calmly.
"Okay let's head there right now" said Jody and all three rushed out the front door and jumped into their cars.
Soon they drove to the high school where the girls attended and saw several police cars in front of the building as well as ambulances and plenty of students already outside the building. Several police officers were outside with wearing helmets holding guns and armed with batons preparing for some kind of attack and some of them were escorting more students outside. Jody jumped out of her car and both Sam and Dean sped out of theirs as Jody went up to officer in charge.
"Hey Sgt. Reagan, what is happening?" Jody asked approaching a middle-aged robust police officer whom Jody was familiar with.
"Well Sheriff, first we got a call complaining that people were violently attacking and killing or maiming folks in several places today, at the supermarket, private residents and outside the park and now at this school, we have cops posted in almost everywhere dealing with homicidal folks who out of the ordinary start attacking anyone in sight, and these people are not normal, I mean these folks seem like their so out of control like rabid dogs, I tell you I haven't seen or heard anything like this in my twenty years on the force, you would think this is some kind epidemic turning ordinary folks into raving lunatics" the sergeant said.
"What about here, what is exactly happening?" Jody asked anxiously.
Sgt. Regan then gave her the lowdown.
"Well, we got a call I from the principal that there was some students and teachers alike going crazy violently attacking other students, teachers and anyone at the school alike. He reported some were killed in the attacks including his secretary. The principal himself managed to escape for his life locking himself in his office and called us" he told her.
Jody looked even more anxious upon hearing about the casualties but tried to remain calm as possible.
"You, know Sergeant, I have three girls I'm been taking care of in there, I have to get in there to see if they are okay and get them out" said Jody.
"Okay, sheriff but you are no way going in there alone, I rounded up some of my men to go in but I neither us knows what to expect, I got to tell you" said Sgt. Reagan.
"We coming too" said Dean as he and Sam had come up behind Jody.
"Who the hell are you guys?" asked Sgt. Reagan who was just noticed their presence.
Jody briefly turned to Dean and Sam.
"Oh, it's okay sergeant, these guys are FBI agents and friends of mine who has helped me out on cases before, they are down here because of the recent events" said Jody turning back to the sergeant.
"FBI?" asked Sgt. Reagan still glaring at them curiously.
Within seconds Dean and Sam took out their fake badges and flashed them up to the sergeant.
"We're working a case regarding these disturbing events like the sheriff said" Dean said sounding so serious like.
Sgt. Reagan still looked at them with curiosity, wondering how did the FBI found out about all of this and why are they involved but he just figured who was he to question the FBI about why they do anything and accepted Dean's answer.
"Okay then, but I'm preparing to have my officers go in right now right and pray we can get the remaining people out hoping we don't actually have to kill students to stop them but we gotta do what we gotta do" he told them.
Dean just nodded as he felt the same way. After a few minutes, Sgt. Reagan turned to his officers and ordered them to into the building with their guns raised. Jody, Dean and Sam followed with their own guns raised preparing for anything. They entered the main entrance of the school building where inside the hall lights were on making it easier for them to see. The hall was quite surrounded by a row of lockers and everyone looked nervous. Soon the sergeant ordered the officers to split up with some cops going in different directions while Jody Sam and Dean remained with the sergeant some of the his officers as they continued down the hall until they saw something on the floor and quickly pointed their guns.
They soon realized it was a body lying on the floor and when they got close enough to it, they could see that it was the body of a custodian, his face was covered with scratches and bleeding and his throat looked torn out like some animal had attacked him and it was quite a gruesome sight.
"Wow" who or what the hell did that?" wondered Sgt. Reagan.
"Oh, not a what sarge but whom" corrected Dean.
"Poor guy, I just pray that the girls are okay" said Jody.
"Don't worry Jody, we'll find them" Sam told her.
They continued to trail down the hall with Sgt. Reagan and some of his cops and soon found themselves in front of the school's main office. Within seconds, Jody walked up and opened the door which was unlocked waving her gun around but the office was quiet. The others followed her in as Jody walked up to the counter she looked over it and saw another frightening sight. There lay on the floor was another bloodied corpse this time a middle-aged woman who was apparently the school secretary. Jody gasped at the sight of her as the others got close enough to see the corpse themselves.
"Gee, what kind of sick bastards are these?" asked Sgt. Reagan.
"You guess is good as mine there sarge" Dean answered him.
Jody walked around the counter with the others following and rushed up to one of the office doors supposedly the principal's office.
Jody knocked crying out "Hello, anyone in there, it's Sheriff Mills and the police out here!"
Within seconds, the door opened slightly and man's head popped out.
"Principal Walden, remember me, we've before I'm the guardian of Krissy Chambers, Claire Novak and Alex Jones who attend this school" she told him.
After looking her over, the principal quickly opened the door to let Jody, Sam, Dean and Sgt. Reagan in while the sergeant turned to his officers and instructed them to search around this place for more survivors in the classrooms and any other place and look out for anyone who attacks them. They obeyed and went off. The principal was a short bald-headed middle-aged man and two other people in the room were an older woman with glasses and a younger mousy looking woman both were the vice principal and another secretary and they were all looked shaken up. Jody started questioned them.
"What happened Mr. Walden?" she asked.
The nervous man told them what he knew.
"It all happened so sudden, I heard screaming and when I left my office to check it out, I saw some of the students on top her, Marilyn, my secretary and they were clawing, stomping her and biting her like animals. I actually saw a girl gouge her eyes out while another student start stabbing her with a letter opener, it was such a horrible sight, they killed her. Then they turned to me and Mrs. Reed and Miss Hotchkiss here, and started to lunge towards us but we all ran into my office and locked the door and I called the police and I could hear them banging on the door trying to get in and I feared they would break the door down but they eventually just gave up. I also heard screams outside from students and teachers but I was too afraid to go out as it was nothing I had ever seen before" said the Principal Walden scared out of his wits.
Jody looked sympathetic.
"Don't worry, we will get you all out of here safe, but do you happened to know what classes my girls are? I'll repeat their names Krissy Chamber, Claire Novak, and Alex Jones" Jody asked.
The principal then went out the door into main office where the dead secretary lay and he briefly looked at her corpse in fright and disgust at such a sight. Then he turned away trying to put his fear aside and went to where the computer was on went straight to work looking up students class schedules which was listed in alphabetical order. He then found Krissy's, Alex's and Claire's schedules.
"Okay Krissy is in her English class now taught by Mrs. Shayne, and Claire has her mythology class with Mrs. Brewer and Alex is in her world history class with Mr. Goldberg" the principal told her.
"Okay perfect, some of the cops are searching the classrooms looking for survivors to escort out of the building, I have to find the girls and see if they are okay, just tell me where their classrooms are and Sgt. Reagan can then escort you and the ladies out of the building" said Jody.
"I wouldn't recommend searching the classes alone sheriff" said Sgt. Reagan looking quite concerned.
"Don't worry sergeant, these two FBI agents can come with me" said Jody turning to Sam and Dean.
Upon hearing this Dean quickly spoke up.
"Oh yes, that's right we will help the sheriff find her girls" he said trying to sound so professional like.
Sgt. Reagan looked hesitant but just gave in and said, "very well, but you all be careful out there sheriff".
"We will" said Jody.
Then Sgt. Reagan turned to the office door where the two women were standing at the door way and signaled them over. Just then they heard screams and the sounds of several gunshots. Jody and the rest of the gang hurried out of the main office door and they looked up and saw the rest of the group of police escorting many students and faculty members out of the building as the crowd were walking real fast many looking scared and in a rush to exit the school. They also saw some other cops come running out of the halls and Sgt. Reagan went up to them.
"What the hell is going on there?" he asked.
One of the officers went up to him.
"Sergeant, we had a problem when getting some of the kids and adults out of the building. Some of us got attacked by some students and a teacher, they just jump us and starting biting and clawing like animals and one even bit on one of the officers' ear so badly it he was bleeding badly until another cop got the boy off him and he charged at him as well. The teacher stabbed another cop with a pencil and injured him and we were forced to fire on some of them while the others got away it was really bad sir" said the officer.
Sgt. Reagan just looked a bit shaken up by all of this.
"Are the officers all right?" he asked.
"The cop got stabbed is injured in his hand and as well as the cop that got bit but both of them will be okay. But sir I got to tell you I never seen anything like that in all my years as cop, those students, their faces, they seemed almost inhuman like zombies they way they attacked us like wild animals" he finished shaking his head in disbelief.
Then the gang saw some more cops including the cop who got bitten in his ear now holding his ear with his helmet off and the other cop who got stabbed in his hand holding it to stop the bleeding both looked to be in pain. Sgt. Reagan just stared not knowing what to think of all of this.
"Oh golly" he said to himself.
Just then Jody noticed Krissy among the crowd of kids being escorting out in a line. She just ran up over to where Krissy was calling out to her.
"Krissy! Oh thank heavens you're all right" she said as she reached out to hug her.
Krissy was a bit taken back but was glad to see Jody.
"Jody, it was so creepy, we heard screaming this awful growling. Then the teacher went to check it out and ran back in locking the door and the next thing we know, we heard people banging on the door growling like animals. Everybody was freaking out, I wanted to call you but the Mrs. Shayne insisted we just wait and do nothing while she phoned the the principal who told her he was going to call the police and for us to just wait here so we waited until cops showed up" she said a bit shaken up.
"Krissy, have you seen Claire and Alex anywhere?" asked Jody.
"No Jody, I haven't I wanted to go and find them but the cops wouldn't let me" Krissy told her.
Jody just stood there looking around hoping to see a sight of them but they weren't anyway in the crowd of kids being escorted out.
"Don't worry sheriff, my officers will find them" said Sgt. Reagan who had walked up to her.
Jody turned to him and said,"I can't wait that long, I just want to get to them now and see if they are alright".
Then Dean came over to Jody.
"Hey Jody, if that's how you feel we will find them ourselves but I think we should split up, I'll go and find Claire and you and Sam can go and find Alex" Dean told her.
Jody still worried out of her mind about the other girls just nodded.
"Okay" she said.
Then she turned back to where Krissy was and said, "It will okay, we are going to find the other girls, just follow the rest folks outside, these cops will protect you".
Krissy looked concerned.
"I want to stay and help you guys find them" she said.
"No way it is not safe, you go with everyone else, we promise you we will find them and bring them out okay" said Jody.
Krissy knew better from experience that it is not good to argue with Jody when she is dead set against something. She felt so useless not being able to help and hated it when adults felt she was incapable because of her age but she just decided to just do what Jody says.
"Okay but please come out safe" she told her.
"We will honey" said Jody as she gave Krissy another hug and then Krissy turned and left with the rest of the crowd.
Afterwards, she went over to where they principal was.
"Okay Mr. Walden, tell me where I can find the classes that Alex and Claire are" she told him.
Mr. Walden gave Jody the directions to the classes and then Sgt. Reagan escorted him and the two women outside along with the crowd but before he left and turned to Jody and said, "Hey good luck sheriff and be careful".
"Don't you worry, I'm always careful" said Jody and then she and Dean and Sam headed out to find the girls.