Here's chapter 2, Enjoy.
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Leon watched in shock as Sam continued to talk into the device as she left the room, motioning for him, Spock and Jim to follow. Spotting a nurse nearby, he ordered her to look after Sable. Not knowing what was happening, they followed.
"I'm in the officer's mess on deck 1, lights fritzed and cold spots." She suddenly pointed to a red shirt officer. "Singer, spirit. Secure this level, no one on or off, get Fitz, and tell the others, I want you all in pairs. We got a nasty one." She called out to the Ensign as she left the room.
"Dean, I'm not stupid, not after what happened last time, I'm wearing gloves." She said as she tucked the device into her shoulder and continued talking. She took out a cloth and cleaned her hands of the 'ectoplasm'. They entered the Captain's conference room, just off the bridge, and Sam put the device onto the table and pressed something on the screen, allowing them to hear Dean. "Alert the others, I want you…"
"I heard, you want us in pairs." Dean had an Australian accent, like Sam.
From their familiarity, and her words 'I'm older' he guessed that they were siblings, but there was no mention of a brother in her file; so why had she never mentioned him?
"Good. We swept the ship just after went left Littaner and got nothing then, and the only place we could have picked up anything is with New Vulcan or Earth."
"And since no one other than you, Leonard, Commander Spock and the Captain left the ship and none of you brought anything back, that leaves Earth."
"Right," she said. "Get a list together of everyone that brought something back, or had something delivered. And get a list of all the supplies that were brought on board, maybe something got in that way. And find out who was on the screening detail." She sounded annoyed at whoever it was.
"You got it, Sis. I'm hearing an echo, am I on speaker?"
"Yeah, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are with me. They saw everything." Leon wondered at the sudden formality with their last names.
There was a pause on the other end. "Oh, boy."
"Yeah, tell me about it. Secure your section, get Novak and Mills to cover you then get ready to join me to hand out the usual. I think I'm going to be here for a while."
"Think it'll go for the bridge?"
"No, that's too well warded, besides, it seemed to want a female Lt. You said the others were female too?"
"Yeah. Sam, it's not pretty."
"It never is. Keep the area clear and get them to medbay 4. I'll contact you soon." She snapped the device closed then tucked it back into her pocket. She sighed and was about to look up when Kirk exploded.
"What the hell is going on, Lt? What others?"
"50021150 Sierra November."
Silence. The only sound that was heard was the air being pumped into the room. Jim looked from him to Spock to Winchester. As Alpha crew, they had all been ordered that when that code was given, they were to obey whomever gave it.
"You?" Jim spoke first, "What does it mean?"
"It means, until we figure out where this ghost came from, and we get rid of it, I'm acting Captain." She was about to say more, only to have the intercom buzz.
"Medbay 4 for the Captain." A voice sounded. It sounded like Dr M'Combe.
Kirk looked at her confused for a moment before he answered the comm. "Kirk here."
"Captain, I've got Ensign Campbell here with two bodies, demanding I start an autopsy. What's going on?"
"Bodies?" He snapped, looking at Winchester. Leon had thought that someone had been hurt, not killed, when the Lt had mentioned others.
"LtC Morrows and an Enlisted officer, L'in. Dean came across Morrows after he followed a cold spot. L'in was found by her roommate. I need to know how they died so I know what to look for to get rid of the spirit." She looked at Jim, not flinching.
Several moments passed in which she and Jim had a silent staring contest before he said "Do as he asks. For the moment, Lt Winchester is acting Captain."
"Dr, did Campbell show you a badge?" She pulled something from another pocket and laid it on the table. It looked like a bill-fold, only it held a metal object and had a photo on the other side.
"Yes, a five-point star surrounded by flames." The description matched what Winchester had placed on the table. Leon was looking at her in shock. It was a Starfleet registered license, and if the wording was to be believed, for a Supernatural Department.
"Alert your medical personnel, they see that, they do as asked."
"Captain?"
"Do as she says. Something's happening here and I don't know what it is, but she does."
"Yes, Sir."
"Dr, Ensign Sable was also attacked in the mess hall on the command level, please have him moved to your medbay if he isn't already there. I want all the victims in the one place." With that, she closed the device with a sigh.
They all looked at one another a moment before Winchester sat down. Leon followed suit.
Spock spoke suddenly "Is this what you meant when you spoke of things that I might perceive as a threat to the ship?"
"When we tested our blood? Yeah, this is a part of that."
"Dlece. Your father saved T'Hea from something." Jim said, "That's what he threatened to tell us about?"
"Yes, I countered with the fact that Dlece tried to kill him after his daughter defied him and married Dad. It's one of the reasons that there are no records of their marriage."
She sighed. "Bear with me, this is a long and complicated story."
"We're called Hunters. Me and my brother, Dean. Robert Singer, Fitz AKA Garth Fitzgerald XVII, Charlie Novak, the twins, John and Janet Mills and around another 20 of us are aboard. Every ship within the fleet has at least four or five. Usually we can deal with something without alerting you, but, this is too big. Even if you hadn't seen what happened in the mess hall, the bodies and everyone else would have made it impossible to hide it."
"What exactly are Hunters?" Jim asked. Leon wasn't aware they were anything other than people who hunted animals for food or sport.
"We deal with the supernatural. Demons, angles, werewolves, vampires, … ghosts. Anything that can't be easily explained. Earth is the only place in the universe that still deals with such things. There are Hunters there to deal with them. Our job on the ships is to make sure nothing of that nature interferes with them. Ghosts and at least one demon have destroyed five ships that we are aware of already."
"Five? Explain." Spock asked, shock clear in his voice. Leon also wanted to know what it was that had brought down the ships, and when. He hadn't heard of anything of the sort. But then again, would anyone know what to look for?
"To ordinary people, like yourselves, it would have looked like a cascade of electrical failures with no visible or viable cause. To us, reading the reports and hearing the stories of the survivors, we put two and two together. It started when Dad died, and I left hunting to look after Dean, who was only five. I joined Starfleet, and it was in my second year that we were studying how the loss of the USS Voyager effected the negotiations of Vernasis. While everyone else focused on that, I spotted the eyewitness accounts and reports that indicated a ghost." She stood and replicated a pitcher of water and glasses.
"I looked back over every ship lost till that point and saw that there were two others. I made an appointment with Admiral Archer, explained things, and got permission to get Hunters on board the ships."
"How did you convince the Admiral that such things exist? As a Starfleet officer, he would not have taken the word of a Cadet without facts." Spock asked as she returned to the table.
"He was a Hunter, until he lost his wife and kids to a ghoul. Left the life and joined Starfleet." She took a drink before continuing.
"I managed to get another half-a-dozen Hunters into the academy pretty quickly. Word got around and others wanted to join, but you have to have a relatively clean record. Grave desecration and murder were things that kinda put a damper on entries."
"Grave…" Leon let the rest of the sentence fade at those words.
"In order to kill something, you have to do things that normal people wouldn't understand the reason behind."
He couldn't believe that the woman he was falling in love with was the same one that sat in front of them. She looked like a leader, a Captain; a stranger. "Who are you?"
"I am who I've always been, Leon. You've seen the doors in my mind. This is what was behind them." She tentatively reached out to his hand on the table, he left it there, but didn't make a move toward hers. He didn't know what to think.
"Why so many on the Enterprise? If five is enough for the other ships, why more than five times that number here?" Jim asked, pulling Leon from his thoughts.
"Because it's the Enterprise?" She said as though it was the most obvious thing in the galaxy. "The Enterprise is on a five-year mission, Captain, a long way from Earth. Before Krall," She sighed and closed her eyes. Leon could see tears in them and he looked to Jim, who's face lit up in realisation.
"You had Hunters on board, and lost them all."
She nodded before lifting her head again, "There were six. From what I've read, only one survived the initial attack, and was later sucked of life by him. That's never happened before. Losing an entire group of Hunters. One or two sure, but not all of them at once."
She buried her head in her hands, and this time, Leon couldn't stand it. He moved and wrapped his arms around her shoulders as she cried. He had a feeling that she hadn't grieved for them since hearing about it.
"You knew them?"
"I know all of them. I know who works well together, who needs to be kept away from others, everything. They are my people. Winchesters have been leading the Hunters for over a hundred years, keeping the Supernatural in check. We've managed to wipe out every vampire in the Western States. Werewolves are trapped within the mountains in Canada and there hasn't been a demon sighting in fifty years anywhere on Earth. But space?! Humans are still trying to sneak things past security, quarantine and we have to mop up the results when they happen to be Supernatural, and in space, it can kill everyone."
A few moments passed as she grieved and got control of herself. Leon spotted Jim and then Spock go to ask something, but he shook his head to silence them for the moment. When she lifted her head, Jim asked
"You said that there had only been three while you were at the academy. How did the other two happen?"
"I found another that had happened decades before. The fifth one happened while we were all still there. From the reports of the survivors, the cause was put down to an unknown entity taking control of the Captain. They reported that his eyes went black, and that even after firing a kill shot from a phaser at him, he didn't go down. He even flung people across the room when he was nowhere near them." Leon remember hearing about that. He had been reading the reports when he started at the academy ten years after it happened.
"They are all signs of demon possession. After that, Archer managed to get Hunters into the work crews building the ships. Their job was to put protective warding into the bridge and around any critical systems. With the ones almost finished, it was difficult. But those that had just been started, every plate, screw, bolt and nut was warded against being used by anything Supernatural. And when you throw in everything that I had been learning from my other class, they became that much stronger."
Suddenly the lights flickered again, causing Sam to jump up.