Supernatural: Chronicles of the Order 7

Chapter 11: The Bethlehem Circle

(DISCLAIMER: No, I don't own Supernatural because it belongs to Eric Kripke and Warner Bros. So, enjoy the show! Rated M for graphic violence, adult content, and adult language)

A mysterious ship was floating near Rietzan airspace as it was miles away to things unknown. From the look of it, the ship itself was a Draaza ark as a patrol shuttle noticed it the moment it boarded inside of it. When it landed into the hangar, it opened up to reveal a Draaza woman dressed up in police clothing with green eyes and a blue and aqua comb on her head when she took off her helmet. She had heard stories of her own people fleeing in such spaceships like that as she was ready to file a report to her base soon enough, for she had to report this stray vessel in space in just in time to call to her base.

"This is Commodore Marnathi Trelundar of the Intergalactic Space Patrol," she said on her radio as she heard static. "I have an unauthorized ship plummeting slowly towards Rietzan airspace; do you copy?"

There was no answer.

"Damn it! I get here on my designated day off while working and look what happens."

Marnathi turned off her radio as she began to look thoroughly for any surviving Draaza in stasis tubes. She went towards the bridge as it was empty, save for the crew who died here due to the bones on the floor. When she went towards the engine room, she saw it to be steady as it was also experiencing flaws in the form of failing life support and engine. As an engineer herself in cases of repairing ships and small shuttles, she decided to get out her tools until she saw the stasis area door wide open. She had a gut feeling that there would be trouble when she entered in there, only to see that the area was clean, but save for the bones of the dead on the floor. Shivering, Marnathi was aware of stasis areas being cold as she saw ice on the stasis tubes in which she wiped the frost of one of the tubes. She was shocked to see that there were no Draaza in there as she found a human man dressed in animal skins with a feather in his hair. The look of the man was that of one of the Native Americans of yore as he was well-preserved on such a journey, for Marnathi had a gut feeling that her people's penchant for stealing species would hit one huge snag.

"Son-of-a-bitch…," she said to herself.

Without warning, the ark hit an asteroid as it was slowly beginning to crash. Running to the bridge and into the helm, she sat down in the seat as she noticed a strange wormhole guiding and pulling the ark out of harm's way in which she had to land it safely to some strange planet somewhere. When she saw a barren planet in the place where the wormhole dragged the ark, she had no other choice but to land it into its surface in which she saw a set of caves that were unknown to her the moment she floored it with all her might. By the time she landed it safely, she was also grateful that the sleeping humans in the stasis tubes were safe in which she had to observe the planet's surface. When she left the bridge, she went towards the hangar where her shuttle was parked as she saw the planet to be filled with air, but barren with nothing but rocks and dirt. She never saw anything like before until she decided to file a report to both her superiors in the Intergalactic Space Patrol and the Order, for she had to let someone know in this time of chaos soon enough…

I was dressed as I was on my way to the clearing near the newly rebuilt fort, which was still snowing outside of the dome it created. Leaving to the Kurokage, I saw Sadie standing in front of me as she was most likely to be seeing me off the moment I was ready to go on my next mission. Still, we both had our duties to fulfill as we also had our reasons to be with our families as well, for we were both members of the Order after all.

"It seems that you're leaving again after you helped to save us from danger, Sam," she said to me as she saw me go towards the dome door. "Still, you can't back away from it when one is in need of saving every now and then."

"It's a miracle that I used my raw power to rebuild this place, but in a way, I had to bury the hatchet about the bad memories that I had here," I said. "Therefore, the fort will have a new beginning after what it went through."

"For a long time, this fort was nameless, but I will give it one. I will call it Paradigm Castle due to the infrastructure having a dome and all."

"Hey, we're taking off!" yelled Dvora as she was ready and out the door.

"You better get going. Besides, we can't stray from our duties for too long."

"Until we meet again, Sadie…"

I left for the dome door as I was on my way to the Kurokage in which it was warm inside from the harsh weather all over Gehenna. With Dvora and the others on board, we were met with two male Orclings sitting in the Captain's chair the moment we noticed Rie coming in here on the bridge of the ship, along with an Orc by her side. To my shock, I had a gut feeling that I knew him due to his lavender hair, green eyes, and mixed lineage, for he was a close friend of our family indeed.

"By all the gods, you went and grew your hair out and turned it silver, Sam," he said.

"Nathan Farragut," I said. "It's been years since I last saw you."

"Your friends told me about how you help to bust up the Sol-1 and Sol-2, but there's been reports about Project Amaterasu being set up on the Sol-3."

"It seems that you took over Dean's ship while he is busy training soldiers on Shiganshina."

"Papa was eager to take it, but it's terrible that the car-car had to be left behind," said the younger Orcling. "I read about how that thing was a symbol of hope in the Elder Days, but-"

"Hey, the two of you need to be in the nursery on the double," said Rie. "Tyler and Torven Farragut, you should be in there doing your homework and such or else no dessert after dinner."

The two young Orclings obeyed Rie as they left the bridge the moment I saw Nathan sit in the Captain's chair. When Dvora sat in the helm in front, she was ready to pilot it in which she was no stranger into piloting things. With everyone in my group on board, we left Gehenna as it was time for us to be going towards our next destination. The memories of being on board the Kurokage were mixed as I once had a rocky start after I was plucked from Shiganshina two years ago, for I was going towards the halls where my old quarters once were. Just when I was about to go into it, I saw Nibori rushing towards the engine room as she was floored to see the interior of the ship. I didn't blame her I followed her towards the place that she wanted to get to. She was stunned to see a core engine with Draaza design placed into the engine's infrastructure in which it glowed the moment that the Kurokage warped into further parts unknown.

"I've heard of Draaza tech, but having it built here in this ship's engine?" she said.

"That's the core engine that once came from a Draaza ship known as the Hinchcliffe," I said.

"It's strange that the Draaza think up of strange names like the Doohan for their arks, but it seems that they like the idea of them sometimes."

"If you think that installing the core engine for this ship is bad, you should see everyone trying to give it a name," said a familiar face as he was busy inspecting the element in question. "It's a shame that Dean had to stay behind, but did the new captain have to leave the Impala behind?"

It was Kevin as he was dressed in a different Hunter Corps outfit that was designated for those who were in the rank of a lieutenant or higher. Still, it was a long time since I last saw him as he was bumped up to his new position, but was eager to explore different horizons in this time of war. What he didn't expect was that Nibori was there as he couldn't take his eyes off of her not one bit due to her being a Mirkosian after all, for he never fell in love before until now. The sight of her was more than stunning as he couldn't stop seeing her here, for she would soon be his someday.

"Is something wrong?" she asked as she noticed Kevin blushing.

"No…," he answered sheepishly as he was caught in one huge snag. I was just inspecting the engine as usual; it's no big deal when it comes to my duties in the Order."

"You've been in combat before, but your eyes match the color of the sigil on Sam's forehead."

"You noticed that? Well, these eyes are an imprint of raw power after my old ones got melted on Alecrast during the Gale Canyon incident. I lived, but I was in a brief despair until Sam healed me in which he even ended up being in a cocoon until he emerged, but he didn't have any clothes on at the time."

I was blushing with embarrassment as I remembered that time when I was going up against the Elect almost three years prior. Still, I was used to embarrassment as I also had my flaws in the department of being constantly stuck in awkward places, but I had my duties in my line of work anyway. Just as we were about to have any further conversation, I went towards one of the windows as I noticed that the Kurokage was landing into a much drier terrain in which we landed in front of the Draaza ark in question. By the time I went back to the bridge, I saw Nathan armed with his usual hunting weapons as he also had an onggi with a lifting handle on it. I was aware that he was no stranger to hunting, but I assumed that he took on his father's habits into packing some Korean food just in case one gets hungry, for the journey to inspect the ark in front of us.

"Well, we should get started if we run into ghosts or monsters on that thing," I heard him say.

"You're prepared to go on the field work without Rie," I said.

"We do our field work in shifts in which one of us has to keep an eye on Tyler and Torven, for those little guys were born four years apart from one another like you and Dean."

"It's good to have a support system on and off the field sometimes..."

"At least we're both armed with more than just our guns and swords." I see Nathan reveal an imprint of raw power on his right wrist as I never saw anything like it before until now. "This thing appeared when I was stuck babysitting you and that was when you started potty training."

"Potty training?" asked Dvora as she got up from her seat at the helm. "You probably ran to the grownup's toilet instead of your potty chair at the time."

"He did more than just tinkle. I held him tight when I once got wind of bandits trying to snag him until a surge of raw power drove them away. Sam may not have remembered that, but he protected me while I was busy bringing him back to the Farragut homestead at the time."

"We should get going," I said. "Besides, we should be prepared when times get rough."

I led the way as I found myself on the planet's surface due to its dry air and barren rocks and dirt that was inhospitable. What I didn't expect was that my allergies were acting up the moment I began to sneeze uncontrollably. With a pack of tissues in my pouch, I got one as I blew my nose with it until the wind picked up and took it out of my hand. Still, the sneezing that I had was troubling until I noticed blood trickling down my nose the moment a drop of it hit the ground. With another tissue in my hand, I wiped it off as I used another one to plug up the nostril where I had a nosebleed, for this was a strange occurrence that continues to plague me since my visit to Erebor once.

"You forgot to pack up the Claritin, didn't you?" said Nathan as he stared at me.

"It's something that I deal with," I said as I walked closer to the ark's entrance.

"Dry air can do that to someone with allergies, but causing a nosebleed?"

"This planet may be barren, but it's also unknown to us until now."

"Freeze, asshats!"

We saw Marnathi armed with her gun as she briefly saw me due to my appearance that has been foretold long before I was born. When she put it away, she was grateful that both Nathan and I weren't anything unusual as she was more than likely to be briefing us on what she steered earlier, for her discovery of what was inside of the ark would be more than we all bargained for.

"It's about time that the Order sent in some grunts to see this place," she said.

"Marnathi Trelundar of the Intergalactic Space Police," said Nathan. "It's bizarre that one of the lawful calibur found this ship until it crashed here."

"It ran into an asteroid and then a wormhole, but the ark itself has a name in which it's called the Bethlehem. What was also found in there is a shocking discovery that can be the missing link of what was once called… the New World? I saw one of them dressed in animal skins and feathers in his hair, but it's taking a hell of a time to thaw him and those like him out of stasis."

"What happened to the crew?" I asked.

"They were long dead when I got there. Still, I stay on edge even after I just hit the Matriarch stage while finding this jalopy in space."

"Then let's thaw out the people," said Nathan. "They can't remain in stasis forever, so it's better than we get them out."

Without further hesitation, we followed Marnathi into the Bethlehem as we stepped inside of it. Little did we know was that some grass sprouted from where I had my nosebleed as it began to grow rapidly on the barren ground. What followed was that a drop of rain came down in which several more came down in a cloudburst, for this once barren planet would soon end up like Benezia and Erebor respectively in this quick moment of evolution on the horizon…

Kazuo arrived at Paradigm Castle on Gehenna as he was seeing the once frigid fort become endomed with warmth in such a cold and frozen wasteland. Seeing the activity that was uprooted with the Holy Sepulcher of the Winchester Gospel on top and center, he was noticing growth on the ground as he noticed the inhabitants of the castle soaking up the warmth when it came to the protection of the dome above it. When he arrived in the main house, he saw Sadie with Stellan in tow as she also noticed Stuart returning to see her once again, for he was grateful that they were both safe from what occurred earlier.

"Thank the gods that you're safe," he said as he greeted Sadie and Stellan.

"We were attacked by the Executive Division, only for Sam to be here and save this place once again," she said. "There's even a temple that was buried here in the fort that got pulled up."

"Where's Sam?" asked Kazuo.

"He left on a mission. From what I heard, a Draaza ark crashed into an unknown world and Sam and his friends departed onto the Kurokage to investigate."

"He used his raw power to rebuild this place, but his presence sparked the ire of both the Executive Division and the Red Inquisition in which both parties in question are willing to make him their bitch!"

"Don't try to throw Sam under the bus right now," said Stuart defensively. "He saved us twice now with the help of his friends, but we can't let him carry that weight alone."

"When I went to my son's ranch on Essos, his newest farmhand told me about how the Red Inquisition are willing to let out Lucifer and force Sam to become his vessel. We can't let Sam off his leash after all that has happened or else those who have a primal lust for his raw power will end up abusing what he has."

"Let's hope that nothing bad happens because we have this dome to keep us warm than being frozen in the bitter cold."

Kazuo left the main house as he saw a flight of stairs on a hill in which he took them up to the main entrance to the temple. By the time he made it up there, he saw the piano covered in vines as he entered inside of the temple in which he saw the images of the Elder Days painted on the wall. He never saw anything like it before as he even saw the book that held all of its records until he heard someone walking from behind. Getting out an angel blade, he was rattled as he turned around to see someone that was once a memory from the Elder Days. What he didn't expect was that the memory itself was a young man with ash brown hair and hazel eyes as he was wearing blue jeans, a white shirt, and a beige jacket, for he was none other than the son of Lucifer trying to warn him of what could happen next.

"Stay your blade, Kazuo Mitani," he said as his eyes flashed a bright yellow. "I mean you no harm, but I'm here to give you a message for Sam."

"Jack Kline…," he said as he put away the angel blade. "The bastard son of Lucifer and that intern, Kelly Kline; but your arrival is too little too late, for Sam's already gone out of Gehenna. What was unearthed here is the Holy Sepulcher of the Winchester Gospel that was once housed and worshiped by the Draaza before they were culled by—"

"The Red Inquisition? They are a vile force to be reckoned with in which their leader still hungers to let out my father after he caused so much destruction on your home planet of Alecrast. Even though he is still in his cage, your ancestor's magic is slowly waning after the destruction of the Order's main headquarters of the same homeworld."

"You fear the reckoning of your father, don't you?"

"If my father walks free, then he will cause the Apocalypse all over the Ashizoka System. I beg of you to keep Sam away from such danger or else we will all suffer in the end. I won't let him become a vessel for my father like what once occurred in the Elder Days. I won't let that happen again, for I once heard it from Seto Ashizoka back then… over two thousand years ago..."

It wasn't long until Kazuo saw Jack vanish without a trace as he was determined to have a more enforced leash on me. Still, he had to protect me in which the Destiny of Worlds was on the line, for there are those who fear my ascension in the form of lust and temptation on the horizon…

I went towards the stasis area of the Bethlehem as I saw a plethora of pods that were earmarked to be in such a frozen state. When I saw the man in animal skins up close, I touched the glass of the pod door as I noticed it opening the moment he was freed. Catching him from falling, I noticed him to be Native American as he was also part of a tribe that once flourished in the New World before the arrival of European explorers. What I didn't expect was that the man pulled a knife on me in which it was made from stone and bone before Nathan drew out his large sword at him.

"Don't even try it, buddy," he said.

"Where's the captain?" said the man as he was shaking frantically with both cold and worry. "Where are the crew of this ark?"

"They're all dead," I said.

"No! I don't believe you!"

"They were already piles of bones when I got here to steer this jalopy when it hit a wormhole," said Marnathi. "We're truly sorry about this, but as soon as we gather up their bones and make a safe funeral pyre with salt, wood, and gasoline, they'll be welcome to the Matriarch in the afterlife."

The young man in animal skins saw Marnathi as he was aware of people like her, but was mostly used to them due to what they were doing. When he saw me and Nathan, he was fearful of us as he had his reasons to be scared after being in stasis for too long. Getting out of the way, we saw the young man stand on his feet as he felt his legs starting to give way due to being in stasis for too long. Luckily, Nathan was quick to get out his backpack as he got out a stacked lunchbox that was filled with food that was made to be built for either bento or dosirak, for he couldn't let our new friend go hungry after all.

"Better eat up, 'cause it's no fun being in a freezer," he said as he handed the young man a rice ball.

The young man tasted the rice ball as it was stuffed with beef that satisfied his stomach in a long time. When he finished up the rice ball, I gathered him up as I directed him to a bench to catch his bearings in which he was still recovering from the stasis he endured, for he was in a different environment other than his own planet so far.

"Who are you people?" he asked us.

"My name is Sam Winchester and I'm an Elder of the Order of Letters," I answered. "This is Nathan Farragut and Marnathi Trelundar, who noticed this ark come here."

"My people were gathered up by a strange race known as the Draaza who feared for the safety of us when the colonists went mad in our land. They were too late in trying to save the settlers, but my people and I were taken away, but not until one word was etched into the colony and that word was known as 'Croatoan.'"

"Croatoan?" said Nathan. "Mom told me all about that word once in which the inhabitants left the Roanoke colony in the Middle Days when Europe was interested into 'making it great again.' In the Elder Days, the madness of that word became a virus that drove people into a ravenous frenzy in which the Sam Winchester of old was immune to it due to the demon blood that was fed to him by one of the Royalists of Hell."

"My name is Ixadan and my people were the last to depart after the colonists went mad. It was a godsend, but our rescuers also did crude experiments on us by harvesting our seed and womb pollen while keeping it in stasis for further preservation. I was too young to endure such things when I went in stasis, but what about the rest of my people? Can you rescue them?"

I looked at the remaining stasis pods as I noticed them all to be like Ixadan due to their appearance while dressed in animal skins and feathers in their black hair. With the raw power that I had within me, I overrode the system in the chamber as I saw several of them emerge from their pods in which they were seeing the surroundings of what was there. It wasn't long until we saw Castiel and Reuben arriving in which they saw the humans that were freed the moment they were scared of a future that was unknown to them.

"What the hell happened?" asked Reuben as he got out his medical kit.

"We were expecting Draaza in stasis pods, but all we found were Terrans in animal skins and feathers," said Nathan. "As for this oversized dust bowl, there's no telling what will happen next when it comes to the food problem."

"That 'dust bowl' has a name," said Castiel. "We're on the planet, Crixus, and the people that the Draaza saved from their fate still bear scars of what happened to them on Earth."

"Try telling that to the rest of those people," said Marnathi as she saw one of the people get into the onggi that Nathan brought along. "They're hungry, but they're also gonna be screwed when there's no food around."

"There is… It's also raining all over the planet in which the cloudburst is bringing forth the grass and edible plants to sustain us."

I rushed out of the stasis area as I went outside of the ark in which I noticed the rain pouring down in droves. What I didn't expect was that the grass was growing like weeds in which I noticed a cluster of apple trees and melons growing in the distance. Surveying the area where the Kurokage and the Bethlehem are perched on the ground, I walked towards a cliff as I saw the rain fill up what was below in which I never expected such growth like what was on Benezia and Erebor. Another miracle occurred as I saw Castiel go towards one of the fruit trees and gather up what was growing rapidly on it. When I saw him return to the ark, I followed him back inside as I saw the people that I released from stasis being examined by Reuben in which they were alive after being frozen for a long time, for this was a new start for an old discovery after all.

"How are they doing?" I asked.

"They're disoriented, but alive," answered Reuben. "From what I know, these people keep telling me about how they once thrived before the arrival of European settlers, but it's a godsend that they were taken away by the Draaza after what they went through."

"Was it the Croatoan warning?"

"Some of the people even told of how some of the settlers in the Roanoke colony went completely mad from a disease that made them ravenous, only for the Draaza to take the Native Americans that were living around there out of Earth to preserve and keep them till further notice."

"Is there a sickbay in this ark?"

"There is, but it's been on lockdown for a while."

I went into the further halls of the ark as I was looking for the sickbay that was in there. The vast ark was a treasure trove of old technology that was unlooked at for a long time until now, but there were plenty more Draaza arks to go so far. By the time I reached the end of the hall, I saw a double-doored room that had the words, "sickbay," in the Draaza language. When I was about to go inside of it, I saw the doors not budging as they were locked tight in which I had a key to open them with and that was my abundant raw power at the ready. By the time I used it, the doors to the sickbay opened up as I saw it to be very primitive, but modern for a Draaza ark like this. What I didn't expect was that there were dead bodies on the floor with nothing but their bones in which they had to be salted and burned after all that trouble. To my surprise, I saw a journal on a table as it was old due to its age, complete with aging paper. Opening it up, I read the entries in the Draaza language as the journal detailed what happened to the European settlers that once lived in the Roanoke colony, for their plight was a tale of sorrow indeed.

Flipping through the pages, I noticed an ancient picture in the likeness of me as it was drawn with such detail the moment that the journal's chronicler issued the order of bringing what was left of the Native Americans who once lived near the Roanoke colony out of harm's way. On another page, I saw a familiar word scrawled on a tree that was drawn in detail in which I knew of it to be a very dangerous one indeed and that was none other than the word, "Croatoan." By the time I set down the journal, I saw Reuben sprinting into the sickbay as he never saw anything like it before, but it was much more futuristic before its time in which he was more than likely to be testing some of the people who were taken out of stasis.

"This is more advanced than what is seen today," I heard him say.

"I know now about why the people in stasis were taken away in the first place," I said as I picked up the journal that I found again. "The Draaza feared for the lives of the surviving people in the Roanoke colony after seeing the European settlers fall prey to a madness that made them ravenous, only to protect them from the future danger that lurked all over the settlement."

"The Native Americans that I examined were given a vaccine to combat and destroy the Croatoan genome in which they are now immune like your past self in the Elder Days. It's a godsend that they lived, but being taken away from their land is a plight that was put in front of them in the first place when Europeans landed in North America."

"My past self was immune due to the demon blood that was given to him, but he wasn't vaccinated by the Draaza."

"The Draaza developed the vaccine to combat the Croatoan virus from what they cultivated long ago in which their impressive tech puts the like of Dr. Salk to shame."

It wasn't long until I decided to inspect more of the Bethlehem's interior as I entered into a back room that was filled with empty stasis pods, except for one that was near the left corner. When I walked close to it, I wiped the glass from it as I saw a Draaza woman with a lavender comb on her head sleeping inside. Quick to act, I used my raw power to open up the pod as I saw the Draaza woman fall into my arms in which she opened up her blue eyes the moment she was starting to get frantic for someone, but for who?

"What happened here? Who are you?" she asked me.

"My name's Sam Winchester from the Order of Letters," I said. "It seemed that your people came and took away a group of humans from Earth in the time of the Middle Days."

"It's true that we took them away, but we were too late into saving the settlers who came from Europe in which they succumbed to the madness in their settlement."

"The people that your kind procured have been released here on this planet known as Crixus, but they will have a bright future here due to what happened earlier."

"Where is Ixadan? I have to find him before-"

It wasn't long until we noticed Ixadan running towards the area as he saw the Draaza woman safe and unharmed. When he saw her, he was grateful that she was safe as he noticed her on her feet, but struggling to walk after being in stasis for too long. I never expected someone like Ixadan to be close to the Draaza woman I rescued, but I was most likely to be hearing more news the moment I saw Reuben with a medical scanner in his hand.

"You're not finished yet, Ixadan," he said.

"I need to see my beloved," he answered as he saw the Draaza woman walk into his arms.

"What the hell?" Reuben sees a strange scan on the Draaza woman as he had a gut feeling that she was more than just being in stasis for too long. "She needs to have special care at once after being in stasis."

"What are you talking about? You're not about to take Tevaka away from me, are you?"

"She's pregnant and has started to gestate after being in cryogenic stasis for… two thousand, five hundred and forty-seven years or so?"

"We've been in stasis for all that time after we were taken from our planet?"

"You and your people have a future here, Ixadan," I said. "Even though other humans may have caused disease and drove out your people, you can't change the past, but you can rebuild your customs and culture as see fit. There will be a future for you in which your people will never suffer from the ills of the past ever again."

Ixadan looked at the Draaza woman, Tevaka, with high hopes as he felt at the lower part of her stomach in which he now knew about what she carried inside of her. I also sensed that the unborn future that the couple were expecting was yet another Cetra in the making as I was aware of the future it would bring, for it had both Ixadan's and Tevaka's blood and genetics rolled into one so far.

"The unborn that is in Tevaka's body is human with Draaza DNA in it due to the father to be with the same genetics as his people," said Reuben. "Therefore, in the record books, this tribe was thought to be extinct for centuries due to their roots in the language of Algonquian, but there was no trace left of them after the Roanoke colony near their lands became defuct in 1590 during the explorations from such European explorers like Sir Walter Raleigh from Britain."

"Such white men from their own lands are now gone, but we have hope," said Tevaka as she stared at Ixadan while she clutched at her stomach. "You and I have hope the moment we shared pleasures with one another, for we now have a future at hand."

We were grateful that something good came out of what we found as the discovery of a tribe that was once extinct for centuries. Even though we found it, we also had to report to the Order as we were also on Crixan soil in which I left the stasis area and back outside in which it was starting to become night in the rain. Still, I started a reaction on a once barren wasteland of a planet in which Crixus was now part of the planets that were in the central part of the Ashizoka System, for I was glad to have hope in such a time like this…

Nibori was making her way to the Bethlehem as she was dressed up in a rain poncho while making her way to the ark's entrance. What she didn't expect was that there were humans who were collecting the bones and clothes of the dead as a they were most likely to be burned at a funeral pyre when the rain stopped. She never saw anything like it before as she had a feeling that something was wrong here until she saw Castiel surveying what the people were doing. Like Nibori, our angelic friend was curious about how such a lost people that was taken from Earth ended up being preserved for centuries as they both watched some of them sing traditional Native American songs to usher the dead up to the Grey Havens for all eternity.

"There will be a funeral for the fallen soon," he said.

"It's too wet to set a fire anyway," said Nibori.

"This ark here is now the home and coffin to these people who were once in stasis the moment that they were taken away by their masters."

"The last time I went towards an ark like this, there were ravenous Askradi running rampant, but it seems that a Terran horde has been freed in the one in front of us."

"This horde of people are known as the Roanoke Tribe that was thought to be extinct from the time of exploration in North America on Earth. In a way, I am thankful that those people are safe to live a fruitful life away from their homeworld, for they will always build anew here on Crixus."

It wasn't long until everyone saw more trees growing in the distance as there was plenty of food and medicine to sustain the new inhabitants here on Crixan soil. With the rain pouring down, everyone returned to the ark as they were in a dry place in which it was sturdy for the time being. Still, there was more work to do as everyone had to do their part in which the time for the golden age was already looming, for this became an opportunity to stand up for those who had no home at all…

I was in one of the halls of the ark as I was busy examining some of the living quarters in which there were some that were unused. When I saw one of them with their doors ajar, I saw it to be a room that was once housed by a mixed species couple due to the blended structure of their cultures in the form of vases and pieces of parchment drawings with animals on the walls. It was a room reserved for whoever lived in there as I didn't want to disturb it. When I left the quarters, I went towards the hangar where Marnathi was going back to her shuttle. In a twist of fate, I saw her standing still as she saw the rain still pouring in a bunches in which she hated to travel out of the planet in such a storm like that. I didn't blame her as she watched the raindrops falling in the night.

"That's just great," she said as she was discouraged by the weather.

"It's not safe to venture out in the rain anyway," I said.

"First thing, this planet's dry as a bone and then—BOOM!-there comes the weather."

"I had a hand in the rain falling…"

"Come again?" Marnathi stares at me as she couldn't get out of cursing the weather due to my presence. "Wait a minute! There are stories about you etched in those old walls where my people once lived. I even heard about how you and your Elf wife came and saved Albarn from becoming an oversized dust bowl once and that was when I was busting a drug ring on that vice-ridden planet at the time. Some of the people said that you were at some nightclub shaking your ass off and BOOM—the rain comes down like a large sprinkler watering crops on some farmland."

"I never wanted to dance too much and make a fool out of myself to begin with, but I have other duties to attend to."

"'Other duties?' You can't skip out on other opportunities while you cherrypick at the ones that you get stuck with. It's not fair that you stay on the sidelines while the rest of us get all the glory."

"It's the way things are, but we can't stay distracted forever."

It wasn't long until we saw the group of humans rushing inside of the ark as the weather was too much for them. Even though it was evening, we had to wait for the weather to die down as the rain continued to pour all over the planet. Still, I remained in the hangar bay as I noticed Marnathi go into her shuttle and get out a large lacquer box and a portable radio that ran on energy other than batteries that were once put into it. When I saw her sitting down near a cargo carrier, she opened up the lacquer box as she dug into some dumplings that were made for lunches in which she was hungry after looking all over the ark. Turning on the radio, the sound of rock music blared all over the hangar area as the tune of "I Wanna Rock" was going full blast, but I didn't mind it one bit after listening to what I heard in the Impala from time to time.

"Nothing but a little classic rock to lift us on a rainy day," she said as she finished off her dumpling.

"You listen to that stuff in which it reminds me of Dean," I said.

"Well, there are house rules in which the pilot picks the tunes while the passenger shuts his cakehole."

"You also remind me of Dvora due to your voracious appetite for certain foods."

"Dvora's here with you?"

"She's in our ship, the Kurokage, but she's also shacked up with the one that is chosen for her."

"Oh, I've been soaked," said Anaira as he was dressed in his poncho. "Are you the one in charge here?" He looks at Marnathi briefly as he removed his poncho and wrung it out. "It's been pouring like hell out there in which Dvora even noticed some strange mushrooms that were similar to the ones that quickly grew on Erebor."

"It's about time my niece shacked up with someone like you. Still, we can't just stay single forever after all the crap that hit the fan," she said. "It's also a sad shame that my sister-in-law resurfaced, only to be possessed by a demon and later exorcised to the point of death. As for what those non-corporeal demons do, they only obey one person and that's the guy called Milverton. He's both famous and infamous in territories that have large monster populations, but he has a loathing for celestial and demonic beings who are designated mutts in the group."

"I take it that you work with the Intergalactic Space Police, but I just got word from the head honchos from the Order about you finding this jalopy."

"Are you serious? There goes the neighborhood..."

"I hate to burst your bubble, Sam, but you gotta take a look outside."

I followed Anaira outside as I saw another ship approaching in which it was an Order of Letters one the moment it landed near the Kurokage. When we ran closer to it, we saw several members of the Medical Corps entering out of it as I also noticed Kazuo in the group. Still, I wasn't thrilled to see him here as he was concerned about my safety, but I didn't have time to deal with him right now. I didn't want him here to begin with as there was already too much at stake, for I had other things that I had to do right now.

"We need to talk, Sam," he said to me.

To be continued...