Chapter 2
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After finding the ring, the three of them went to the front desk of the Elysian Fiels Hotel.
"May I help you?" the man asked.
"Yeah, the room next to ours, the couple that were joined at the lips, have you seen them?" Dean asked.
"You mean, Mr & Mrs Logan? The honeymooners?"
Percy rolled her eyes and crossed her arms across her chest as Dean looked at Sam as he nodded. The man typed something with only one hand rapidly, like he was looking something up. "They checked out." All three of them stared at the man in disbelief. "Is something the matter?"
"Checked out?" Percy asked before Sam could. "How could they have checked out when not even twenty minutes ago they were going at it like they were going to eat each other's faces off?"
The man nodded to her first question. "Just now." he said with a smile.
"Oh, so we just missed them?" Percy asked.
"Like Percy said, they sort of seemed like they were, uh, in the middle of something." Sam said, drawing the man's gaze onto him. The man just shrugged. Dean jumped in.
"You know, it's kinda weird for honeymooners to check out without this." Dean said, holding up the ring Percy had given to them.
"Oh dear. I'll just put that right in the lost and found," the man said, reaching out to take the ring from Dean. "Don't you worry. Is their anything else I can help you with?"
Dean started to shake his head in disbelief. "No, no, we're good."
The man smiled. "Super fantastic!"
They stood there in silence for a moment before Percy grabbed her two roommates' shoulders and tugged them away. "Come on, guys."
They did and as they walked away, Sam spoke softly. "Creepy."
"Yea. Tell you what, Percy and I will scope out the joint, you keep an eye on Norman Bates here, deal?"
"Deal."
"Exactly. Cripes, I wanted one night off, if that too much to ask?"
"Night off from what?" Percy says innocently as they walk back up the stairs, leaving Sam to tail the clerk, Dean refusing to elaborate.
As they walk past the rooms, Dean with his activity reader out and Percy asking questions about this and that, Dean pauses at one and looks confused. Looking back in after backing up they see a larger black man wrapping a towel around his waist.
"Hey, this ain't no peep show man!" He says glaring at them, and slams the door in their face.
"What's wrong?" Percy asks the confused looking Dean.
"You aren't going to believe this...but I thought I saw an elephant."
"Now I know you need sleep and a vacation. Come on, lets keep looking." Dean merely shakes his head in bafflement as they walk up and down the halls, looking but finding nothing, not even other people staying there. When they get back downstairs Sam is waiting for them, but the clerk is gone. Dean explains what they didn't find, even mentioning the elephant, and as they walk into the lobby the all notice it is completely empty.
"Where is everybody?" Sam asks, before going to the doors and trying to open them.
Unfortunately they are locked.
"So what, you can check in but don't check out?
"Think about how we got here." Sam says looking at them but mostly talking to Dean as Percy began to fiddle with her cellphone."Detour on I-90? Freaking hurricane? The only 4-star hotel I know of that allows wolves?"
Dean looks at him. "Are you saying we were led here?"
"Like rats in a maze." Percy murmured.
They look around for a moment longer before wandering towards the kitchen area, trying to find anything else to give them a clue about whats going on. Looking around the deserted kitchen Dean stops at a pot of bubbling red liquid on the stove. Percy looked pale as if she knew what it was while Dean reached for the ladle.
"Please be tomato soup." He says quietly, lifting the ladle. The ladle, however, when lifted has two human eyes inside, and he immediately drops it.
"That..that's not right." Percy mutters.
"You got that right sister. Motel hell."
Sam starts to walk towards the freezer then, a worried look on his face. He gets in close, peering in the little window, and jumps back when a man starts beating against the freezer door, begging for help. After trying to open the door to no success, Sam takes out a lock picking kit and fumbles with it.
"Hurry up!" Dean says.
"I'm going as fast as I..can.." Sam stops and stares at something behind Dean. Percy looks to see two men standing behind him, stern looks on their faces. They grab the Winchesters and Percy and drag them to a business room looking area, with a table full of somber looking people.
Once they let her go Percy is shoved into a chair, staring at all the name tags of the people and wondering if this is a sick joke. She sees a dark woman in red with a tag saying Kali, a handsome man with dark hair, name tag of Balder, along with black man from earlier, name tag of Ganesh. There is also a Odin, a Baron Samedi, and the clerk from earlier says Mercury. The rest she can't quite tell the names of, but she is sure they will follow suit.
"Something tells me this isn't some kind of convention."Dean says, nervously looking around as Mercury comes forward pushing a cart with a covered dish.
"Dinner is served." he says proudly, lifting the cover to reveal a human head, causing everyone else in the room to cheer.
"Well, shit." Percy mutters.
"Ladies and gentleman." Balder says, Kali at his side, as a spotlight shines on the Winchesters."Our guests of honor have arrived, and seem to have brought a friend with them."
"Yes, but we don't need her." Kali says to him, and both the guards start towards her.
Percy sighed and rolled her eyes. Screw it, she wasn't going to eaten by beings who thought they were gods. They were all pale imitations of the real thing.
"You will not touch me at all, Kali."
Kali scoffed. "And why is that?"
Percy smiled. "Oh, haven't you ever heard that a girl's gotta have a little mystery on her side? I'm sure within the next ten minutes, everything will come to light."
"OOOkay.." Balder says as Kali pouts, and Dean and Sam looks over at Percy in confusion. "Anyway, I never thought I would see this,this many gods under one roof. Now before I get down to business I must set some ground rules. No slaughtering each other. Curb your wrath. Oh and keep your hands off the local virgins, we're trying to keep a low profile here."
Sam and Dean look at each other in disbelief. A chandelier shatters behind her, and she looks up to see Sam and Dean standing up from their chairs."Stay." Says Kali in a tones that says she is not to be questioned. As they stare at her she looks around at everyone at the table. "We have to fight. The archangels, the only thing that they understand is violence. It's them or us."
"Great." Dean mutters to Sam. "Another problem caused by dick angels." Percy concealed her wince. It looked like she was going to have to do some major grounding when this whole mess was over with.
"With all due respect ma'am" says Mercury meekly. "We haven't even tried talking to them." Kali merely looks at him, and he starts to choke, blood coming from his mouth. She only stops when Baldur says her name loudly.
"Who asked you?" Kali says to Mercury as he tries to remember to breath. The doors behind Percy suddenly burst open, and a new god saunters through.
"Can't we all just get along?" he asks, Percy turned around and almost sighed in relief. There was her youngest son. The son whose fate she was here to reverse.
"Gabriel.." Dean starts to say before he is cut off, voice stopped.
"Sam, Dean...its always wrong place, worst time with you two mutton heads huh, dragging this poor young lady along for the ride. May I inquire your name?" Gabriel asked turning to Percy who was looking at him with too much… knowing in her eyes, eyes that were familiar to him but he couldn't remember where he had seen them before.
"My name is Persephone 'Percy' Jackson." Gabriel opened his mouth to introduce himself but was cut off by Baldur.
"Loki."
Gabe looks up and smiles. "Baldur. Good seeing you two. Guess my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail." Percy keeps a smile to herself as she realizes that although Gabriel hadn't been living in heaven for a long time, he was still the same ol' trickster angel that had the nerve to even prank her when he was yonuger.
"Why are you here?"
"To talk about the elephant in the room. Not you." He says pointing at Ganesh, who had started to get up."The Apocalypse. We can't stop it gang. But first things first." He then turns around and looks at Sam, Dean, and Percy."The adults need to have a little conversation. Check ya later."
The next thing they know they are back in their room, confused as hell. "Ok...holy crap!"
"Yea, tell me about it. By the way...we should have left when I first said so." Said Sam, looking just as freaked out as Dean.
"Hey, if you would have left, I would have been stuck here alone and probably eaten by them already… and we wouldn't be partnets-in-crime!" Percy said calmly as she typed on her phone, conversing with Bumblebee whom was bored waiting for Sam to get out of school for the day. "And least it explains why you saw an elephant."
"You were almost killed! How can you joke?" Sam says.
"No offense, but from what you two have told me, you two are almost killed all the time."
"What are we going to do now, whats the plan?"
"Bust those poor saps out of the freezer? Escape along the way if we're lucky?"
"When are you ever lucky?" says a voice in the corner, and they all turn to see Gabriel looking at them.
"Bite me Gabriel." Dean says hotly.
"Not my type big boy. Her maybe, but not you." Percy mentally gagged, she did not need those mental images of her and Gabriel.
"Well I should have known, your stink is all over the place."
"You think I'm behind this? Please, I'm the Costner to your Houston. I'm here to save your ass."
"You wanna pull us outta the fire?"
"Bingo. Those guys either want to dust you or use you as bait. Either way, you two are uber boned, while she might get a get out of jail free card for having gone the mysterious route as none of those idiots downstairs know who she is."
"Wow. You see, a couple months ago you were telling us to play our roles. You were uber boning us. So what, have you changed your mind?"
"Oh, Michael and Lucifer are still going to dance the lambada, but not tonight. Not here."
"And why do you care? Dean asks the strangely stern-faced Gabriel.
"I don't. Not about you two. Me and Kali had a thing, though. Chick was all hands." When the two look at him unbelievingly Gabriel rolls his eyes."What can I say, I'm sentimental."
Sam steps forward."Do they have a chance? Defeating Lucifer?"
Wait, thought Percy, Lucifer is coming here? She really needed to stop being such a Seaweed Brain sometimes.
"Really Sam?"
"No, it's a really bad idea. Lucifer is going to turn them into finger paintings. So let's get going while the goings good. Now, I have to get your blood away from Kali, so you can actually leave here, as she has you by your short and curlies. Which means I have to work a bit of my own black magic."
Percy laughs aloud as she gets his meaning, while the brothers look at her like she's crazy. "Did you hear something we didn't?" Dean asks warily.
"He's going to try to seduce her." She says, smiling at a smirking Gabriel."And get the blood back that way."
"Oh. Good plan, if it works." Dean says with a grim smirk.
"You doubt me?. Oh yee of little faith, why do you think all the stories say I have so many kids? Not true, of course, but still."
"You being Loki makes a lot of sense now that I think of it. Do any of them no who you really are?" Asks Sam curiously.
"Nope, I told you, I'm in my own little witness protection program."
After Dean and Gabriel had a little threaten each other conversation like they always do, Gabriel prepared to snap away. "Now, if you excuse me, I have a hottie to make whoopie with." With that he disappears, and Percy plops down on the bed.
"We need to get those people out of the freezer. Percy, you stay here while we get them out, we don't want to risk one of the psycho gods killing you anyway," Dean said to Percy, getting his gun and grabbing Sam.
"What?! No. We're partners-in-crime! And they're supposed to stick together."
"No, Percy, you stay here where it's safe. Like you said earlier, you're an ex-PI, not used to these types of situations. Let us handle it from here."
"Shouldn't we stay here for when Gabriel gets back?"
"You can, seeing as he doesn't care that much sometimes about human life, we can't let those poor schmucks become desert." He and Sam then go out the door, leaving Percy alone in the room.
The three men and the other occupants of the hotel must have forgotten her because Percy didn't have any visitors and didn't leave the hotel room until she felt pain spark through her at the death of Gabriel.
As the pain sparked through her, Percy felt anger and sorrow consum her. She unleashed some of her magnifacint power, causing the hotel to shake even as Lucifer fled from the long felt but never forgotten power of their Mother, their Father, coming. Percy appeared with a bright flash of light in the ballroom where Gabriel lied with burnt marks of his smallest wings surrounding the vessel he had constructed many years ago.
"Gabriel, my son, this is not your time. Now, come back to me, your Mother, your Father, and join the land of the living again." Percy said, hovering over him.
Gabriel jolted with a gasp, his eyes flying open and immediately seeing Percy next to him, glowing with a familiar power.
"Mother?" Gabriel asked, fearing to hope that it was truly her.
"Yes, Gabriel, I'm here, and I'm not leaving you again… you get into so much trouble without me around it seems."
Gabriel choked on a laugh as he hugged her. "Well you know how it is, teenage rebellion is the worst."
Percy laughed and hugged him tightly, not wanting to let him go. Her son was alive, and the first bond of their shattered family, between the youngest archangel and his mother, strengthened for the first time in several millennia. They were together, and united they stand against anything that would want them harm.
