The Bell Tolls
As Rowan stood outside, looking up at the sky, her Draugar watched her with curiosity. The sky immediately darkened with storm clouds that blocked out the sun. There was thunder and lightning, but no rain. The darkness began to spread until they wasn't a spot of light or blue sky to be seen, until it seemed as dark as night.
"Milady?" Bjarni asked, looking at the sky.
"Just letting Abaddon know what's coming her way." Rowan said, turning to her Draugar, her eyes glowing like the storm above. "Meet me there." She added and then envisioned the abandoned factory. Fenrir had passed it earlier and, although she hadn't stared at it, she caught a glimpse of it. As she envisioned it, she felt the shift beneath her feet, carrying her to where Abaddon awaited.
She stood in the parking lot, not far from the building behind her. There, stood about a few demons along with someone that matched Bjarni's description of Abaddon, who now seemed very surprised at her uninvited guest.
"And just who might you be?" Abaddon asked the young woman standing firmly ahead of her, wearing a long black lace dress and studded black pumps. "A little over dressed, aren't you?" she asked as Rowan gave her a dark and sinister smile. The thunder roared throughout the air, lightning cracking through the sky. Rowan unleashed her aura of power, letting her ghostly astral projection shine through like an overlaid picture, making her look like the undead Ruler that she was. Her eyes turned black with a smoky gray shining in the center. Abaddon seemed puzzled, but amused.
"You're too young to recognize me." Rowan said. "But I'll give you a hint. The very place you want to rule has been named after me." she added, giving a very sinister grin.
"For an old hag, you sure are looking pretty good. What's your secret?" Abaddon asked, having fun with stalling.
"I'm a Goddess." Rowan replied and as she spoke the words, the few demons around Abaddon began gasping, their bodies slowly falling to the ground. Abaddon looked at them, watching as their black essence began pouring out of their mouths. At that moment, lightning struck overhead, their essences glowing white and dispersing like a fog.
Abaddon turned her gaze back to Rowan and the demons hidden on the outside of the factory were pulled out in the open, their essences pouring out and dispersing as well.
"I've never seen that before." She said, making Rowan smile with pride.
"I'm just getting rid of the insects." Rowan said, yanking out even the demons within the factory, killing them in the same manner.
"You know I can summon more." Abaddon said and Rowan grinned.
"You do that." She replied and the Draugar appeared around Abaddon at a safe distance. And then, Crowley stood next to Rowan as they outnumbered the Knight of Hell.
"I should have known. What exactly did you do to rein her in?" Abaddon asked Crowley, curious to know why the Goddess Hel had teamed up with the crossroads demon that thought he was King material.
"We both loathe you." Crowley replied, which made Abaddon laugh.
"Then I must be doing something right." She replied and extended her hand, trying to use her power on Crowley, but nothing happened as Rowan's ghostly vapors seem to stretch out in front of him. Abaddon glared at Rowan's ghostly apparition and knew something seemed off. How was this Goddess shielding herself and Crowley from her demonic strength?
So she went with the next best thing. The Factory began to tremble under her intense gaze, pieces coming loose and threatening to give way.
"Didn't expect you, Crowley, to go cowering under the skirt of a Goddess." Abaddon said, stalling so that her plan could work. In a split second, sharp pieces of metal came loose and flew down towards Crowley and Rowan too fast to be stopped. However, the storm had begun blowing harsh winds and the pieces fell just beside Rowan. Then, just as quickly as Abaddon tried a dirty trick, Rowan pulled her own. Lightning struck down as the piece of metal flew up straight at Abaddon, the lightning struck the metal just as it smacked into her causing a bolt to run through her vessel.
It wasn't a fatal blow, but it hurt like Hell judging by the simmering heat off her body. Abaddon's black essence tried to emerge from her vessel's mouth, apparently fleeing, but Rowan held out her hands and sent a wave of fog to wash over her, which quickly made her gasp, her essence getting sucked back in. Abaddon nearly collapsed to the ground.
Some demons had appeared to help Abaddon, but the Draugar brought out long silver blades from their sleeves and fought them off. As more appeared, outnumbering Rowan's faithful guards, they fought fast and hard. Some demons got passed them and tried to help Abaddon, but the fog touched them and forced their essences out of their mouths, dispersing it like dust.
Abaddon lifted her piercing eyes to glare at Crowley and then at Rowan who stared down at her.
"Is that all you got?" Abaddon asked in garbles, but Rowan only stared down at her. The fog began reaching into Abaddon's mouth, making her gag.
"Honey, it's just the beginning." Rowan said, approaching. Any demons that tried to attack her had a long silver blade jabbed into their chests by Crowley or chocked to death by some of her ghostly fog. "I just want you to know that the real Queen of Hell is back. I find it cute that you thought you could take my place." Rowan added with a sinister smile that only became gruesome because the other half of her face was a skull.
Abaddon tried to reply, but the fog that reached into her and grabbed hold of her essence. Her eyes blinked to black and her body went limp on the ground. However, Rowan was able to hear her thoughts as part of her was within her vessel to kill her.
Funny, you were never around Hell. How does that make you Queen?
"You feel that?" Rowan asked with a chilling voice. "That's your essence slowly being snuffed out. You're as perilous as a shark out of water." She added as she knelt down to Abaddon.
The Knight of Hell continued trying to fight back, but her essence was indeed losing power. She tried to reach out to Rowan, curling her fingers like hooks, but that wasn't menacing at all. Rowan gripped her wrist and Abaddon's face fell in horror as the hand of her vessel was slowly turning black. "I'm the Death Goddess, bitch." She concluded, pulling out Abaddon's black essence from her mouth. Rowan blew softly at it and the black smoke faded away; bits of Abaddon were gone.
The demons that supported Abaddon stopped and watched in horror as the great Knight of Hell was slowly disappearing from existence. They began vanishing out of fear, realizing that Rowan was much more ominous that she appeared. The Draugar no longer had anyone to fight, so they watched their Lady of Death kill one of the most powerful demons in Hell.
In an instant, the rest of Abaddon's essence was gone, leaving her lifeless vessel limp on the ground. Rowan stood up, drawing back in her aura of power, the darkened sky and stormy conditions vanished, letting the blue sky and sunlight to shine once again. Rowan's Draugar went into the factory to evacuate the hostages.
"Ravenous." Crowley said, which got Rowan's attention. She turned to him with an arched eyebrow, not quite seeing what made her so greedy. She simply killed Abaddon because she wanted to kill innocent people and turn them into demons so she could take over Hell which wasn't rightfully hers to take. If anyone was ravenous, it'd be Abaddon and Crowley certainly had his place in that category too.
He wrapped an arm around her hourglass figure as he closed the gap between them, staring at her as if she was the most precious and valuable artifact in the world.
The Draugar stepped out of the factory and Rowan watched as the people fled, looking down at the woman that wanted them there, for some unknown reason. Her lifeless body seemed to scare them, but Rowan also saw relief.
"I could show you Hell, once I get it settled down." He said and she glanced at him with another arch of her eyebrows.
"We're partners, remember?" she said with a slight grin.
"Trust me on this one, Chickadee." Crowley said which made Rowan's grin change into a smile. "I have to clean up the place." he added and then placed a tender kiss on her temple before vanishing.
The Draugar stepped up to Rowan with some bloody scratches, but nothing harmful.
"I'm going back to the bunker. You could see what's up in Hell." She said and they were gone, leaving Rowan with the empty vessels the demons had used. She glanced down at Abaddon's vessel and knew that she had used someone of importance that had a link to the Men of Letters. Rowan also saw how she had killed Cain's wife. She saw more than she cared to have known, but at least the bitch was dead.
Rowan envisioned the bunker and was there in a second flat. She was standing in the foyer just by the spiral staircase. She walked down to the kitchen where she could sense the Winchesters and her brother. When she turned and stood in the doorway, she was stunned by what she saw.
All three were drinking at the table like they were friends. When Fenrir looked up and noticed her, she gave her a small smile.
"Want some scotch?" he asked and she walked in, eyes on him suspiciously. All of a sudden he was getting along with the Winchesters? How did that happen. "I heard you drank the whole bottle of whiskey." He added and she narrowed her eyes.
"Half of it went to Crowley." she corrected.
"You shared our whiskey with him?" Dean asked and Fenrir sighed as if he understood the annoyance.
"That's just not cool." Fenrir said, giving her a little grin.
He was getting along too well with the Winchesters.
"So, did you find Abaddon?" Dean asked and she smiled at him.
"And killed her." she said and he just stared blankly at her, as if stunned that it didn't take her long. "I don't waste time in killing those that tick me off." she concluded and looked back at her brother, very curious to know what Dean and Fenrir did to bond like BFFs.