A Supernatural Spinoff

The Highway to Hell

Hey everybody, so I have been trying to right a Supernatural fanfiction for a while now. I am a huge fan of the show but none of the stories I was writing grew to me, and it was difficult to continue writing them. Suddenly an idea came up in my head and I think it is my best one yet. I hope you all like this story, I have a lot of ideas for it and I would love all of your feedback. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Meet Stephanie Cruz

The rain was coming down hard on the north bay city of Santa Maria, CA. It was a foggy, freezing 40 degree afternoon in this Podunk beach town. A beautiful yet depressed seventeen year old girl sits in her very old red buggy. She admires her dingy house which sits atop a mossy hill overlooking the pier and ocean. The house looked like it came straight out of a horror movie; a wrap-around porch with three brick steps and a crooked fence with cobwebs wrapping around the entire house. It was a three-story mansion with large windows, mostly broken, and leaky pipes. This was her home, and as much as she hated it and wanted to move, she was stuck here until she graduate high school. Which at this point probably wasn't going to happen, unless she got her act together.

She looked at her rear-view mirror which had a crow necklace hanging from it, the necklace was all black but with a dark blue jewel in the middle of it. She looked in the mirror and saw her brother, who wasn't there, instead he was buried six feet under at the Santa Maria public cemetery. Her brother died over a year and a half ago, no one really knows how he died. He was at his football friends Lake Tahoe cabin, his friends claimed it was stomach poisoning, but she knows for a fact her brother doesn't drink. Something else had to have gone down that night, and it was her sole mission to find out just that. She ran inside her dingy home, already soaked from the rain. Her mother was in the kitchen thinking about what to cook for dinner until she saw her daughter come through the front doors.

"Stephanie sweetheart, where have you been? You know I want you to be home by 5:00 now." Stephanie completely ignored her mother and ran up the stairs. "Stephanie don't walk away from me!" But before she could get to her daughter, she closed the door to her room and locked the door. "Stephanie, I know you are still upset about your brother. But you can't shut me out forever." She looked at herself in the mirror completely ignoring her mother and only thinking about her brother Max. Just in front of her mirror on her dresser's headboard was a picture of the two at the pier. Her brother was very handsome with dirty brown hair, big muscles, wearing a green Santa Maria football letterman's jacket. She was very beautiful as well but covered by dark eye makeup and Goth-like clothes, wearing a black leather vest, purple and black stripped shirt, black shorts, and converse. His arm was wrapped around her neck, she was holding a blue cotton candy, they were at the end of summer fair at the pier in front of the Giant Rocket Ride.

"Alright smile on one-two-three!" Stephanie and Max smile as Max's beautiful girlfriend took the picture. She was stunning with glowing skin, green eyes, and fluffy blonde hair, wearing a white skirt and light blue short-sleeve shirt. Her name was Kylie Baker and she was the most popular girl in school, head cheerleader and star soccer player. Surprisingly she was Stephanie's best and only friend, she basically started dating Max because of Stephanie. "So Stephanie has anyone asked you out to the welcome-back dance yet?" Stephanie blushed.

"No."

"Really, well what do you think about Jordan?" Over by the ring-toss was a very handsome basketball and football player Jordan. He was best friend's with Max and has always had a crush on Stephanie, but she would never go out with him.

"I would never go out with him."

"Why not, he's cute and likes you why wouldn't you go out with him?"

"Kylie enough she doesn't want to go out with him, let her be. You and I both know she is never going to the dance anyways." With that they went in line for the rock and roll ride.

Stephanie was still staring at the picture in her cluttered room with her mother banging on the door. Her room was very dark with only a few posters of Blink 182, Lily Allen, and DeadMaus5 on the wall. Even her sheets were very dark; purple and white accented flowers. She had a giant book on her desk with a Witch's pentacle and folders of information containing about crossroad demon's and ancient mythology. She put a small box of memorabilia and a picture of her brother in her purse a long with an incantation written in Latin.

"Don't worry Max, I'm going to bring you back! No matter what it takes." What she didn't know was that the ghost of her brother was standing right behind her. He was hoping that she wasn't going to do what she was about to do.

"Stephanie, where are you going now?" She completely ignored her mother and headed down the stairs, tears about to form down her eyes. "Please don't tell me you are going to hang out with those losers who get high everyday and drink." Stephanie rolled her eyes, of course her mother would think she was hanging out with the bench losers.

"Mom! Just don't worry about it, what I am doing you will eventually thank me later on." She ran outside back in the rain and straight to her car, turning the ignition on. Her mother followed her outside knocking on the window.

"Stephanie! If you don't get out of this car right away, then don't even think about coming back home." She turned on the radio and backed the car up. She drove to a desolate area up in the hills, it was getting darker with the sun or moon nowhere in sight. She was at a crossroads which was a point where four roads met, she dug a hole in the center and put the box of memorabilia and picture of her brother in the hole. The box contained a similar crow necklace to the one in her car, but instead of a blue stone was a jade stone. A football card signed by Jerry Rice, and her father's leather motorcycle gloves. These items were just a few of Max's favorite things; she closed the box and put the picture on top of it, she grabbed some scissors cutting off a piece of her beautiful wavy dark brown hair.

Back at the house her mother came into her room trying to see if she can figure out what her daughter was trying to do. She saw the giant book on her desk and flipped through some of the pages, scared of what she was seeing. She also saw the folder's including the one on crossroad demons. She read the description; a crossroad demon was one that you could make a deal with to bring back somebody to life in exchange for yours. She was shocked and knew that was what her daughter must've been up to. So she ran to her car and drove off to where the nearest crossroad would be. Stephanie threw a flaming match into the pit and recited an incantation in Latin, her mother was pulling up the hill seeing her daughter's car. As soon as she recited the incantation nothing happened. What was supposed to happen was that a demon popped up to make a deal with her, but instead the Earth shook.

"Dammit Steph, what the hell are you doing!"

Deep down in the darkest pit of the Earth a handsome 20 year old blue-eyed, blonde haired boy was fighting a creepy much older red-headed male. They were surrounded by fire and ice cold bars, with demons of Hell watching them fight. Suddenly they stopped and felt the Earth shake, the boy looked up wondering what that could be. Stephanie was worried that she might've done something wrong and recited the incantation again, still nothing happened. Down in Hell the cage shook again, until suddenly rain poured down. Suddenly all the demons left and came out of the hole. The boy had to come up with something to get away from the monster and in the nick of time a pitchfork appeared. The boy ran to the pitchfork and stabbed the red-headed man with it, the top of the cage broke allowing him to escape.

"Stephanie where are you?" Stephanie's mom was running in the woods, stumbling her way as branches came tumbling down. The innocent looking boy came out of the hole, Stephanie was shocked. She wasn't expecting a handsome young boy coming out of the Earth, in fact she wasn't expecting an earthquake at all.

"Are you a crossroads demon?"

"What, no! My name is Adam Mulligan, where am I?"

"Dammit something must've gone wrong, I must've said the spell wrong… But I thought I said it right?" She was going through everything that possibly could've gone wrong, but nothing came to mind.

"Stephanie!" She heard her mother yell, surprised to hear her voice.

"Dammit mom!" She ran away from the crossroads, the shaking was slowing down and coming to a stop.

"Can you please tell me where I am? Who are you?"

"Your in Santa Maria, I have no idea how you got here or who you are. Why should I tell you my name." Adam was getting frustrated and confused, knowing that he was in Santa Maria didn't help because he had never heard of it before. Stephanie's mom was running through the woods getting frustrated, she was getting dizzy. Suddenly a man with red hair and scars all over his face and bleeding from his chest stood before her.

"Hello, have you seen my daughter?"

"Could you tell me where I am?" He had a very dark and creepy voice, he almost sounded like a serial killer. She finally realized the blood and almost thought that this man could've hurt her own daughter. She tried to get away. "Wrong answer." He sped up to her and grabbed her neck, snapping it in half, and throwing it to the ground.

"Wait, Stephanie. Please can you tell me what is going on?" Suddenly they heard a scream, it was close to where she parked.

"MOM!" She ran, Lucifer heard the cry and hid behind bushes far away. "Oh my god mom!" She began to cry thinking the worst, that now not only was her brother dead, but her mom as well. "MOM! Please wake up." Adam noticed other footprints around and her snapped neck. The shaking finally stopped, it was still raining and they were getting drenched.

"Stephanie we should go, your mom needs to be at a hospital." He helped lift her up and sat behind Stephanie to make sure that her mother was still breathing. Stephanie was getting flustered, her hands were shaking, and she was crying furiously thinking all of this was her fault. She tried grabbing her cell phone to call a friend. "What are you doing?" He was worried about her speed.

"I'm trying to call a friend, a hospital isn't going to save my mother at this point." Adam didn't know what she meant by that. The fact that she knew what crossroad demons were kind of worried him, because he only knew two other people who actually believed that stuff was real. Hell, he was stuck in a cage for god knows how long with the devil and attacked by ghouls. She wasn't getting any reception, so she stopped trying and paid attention to the slippery road. "But what I don't understand is how you got here, where did you come from?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"I was summoning a crossroads demon, I think I would understand where you came from. I probably helped with that."

"If you really wanted to know, I was stuck in Lucifer's cage…" Stephanie was astonished and looked at him through her rearview mirror. Finally she got a notification that there was service and grabbed her phone. She dialed the number and was waiting for someone to pick up.

"Come on Jordan, please pick up!" A few more rings and finally someone picked up. "Hi, Jordan thank god! I need your help, something bad happened to my mother."

"Stephanie, are you ok? What is wrong, did you feel that Earthquake?"

"Jordan you are asking too many questions with not enough time right now. I'll explain everything to you when I get there, you can help right?"

"Well yes, but Stephanie you have to tell me what is going on." Suddenly she hit a spot with no reception. She drove like crazy down the winding road to a house near downtown. They didn't talk about Adam being in Lucifer's cage the entire ride. Stephanie grabbed her mother's leg's, while Adam picked up her shoulders. They carefully took her to the front steps and suddenly a very attractive Jordan came out astonished at what he was seeing.

"Stephanie what happened?"

"I don't know I did the incantation exactly how you told me to do it. Suddenly the Earth shook and this guy came out of the ground. Then I found my mother lying on the ground with her neck snapped."

"How come the spell didn't work? Did you say the incantation right?"

"Yes, Jordan I did." Adam was flabbergasted at how much her friend knew about spells and witchcraft, as if he was a witch himself. "Anyway the spell didn't work and now not only will my brother be dead, but also my mother. Do you think you can save her!?" Adam could tell Stephanie was getting frustrated and wished Jordan would hurry up. He thought that maybe she was summoning a crossroads demon to make a deal for her life instead of her brother's. Something the Winchester's are very familiar with.

They laid Stephanie's mother down on the ground, Jordan surrounded her with crystals and brought out a very old leather bound book. The book looked like a grimoir with Latin words he has never seen before. He flipped through the pages and found a spell that would possibly bring Stephanie's mother back to life.

"All I need is a little bit of your blood." He looked at Stephanie, at this point she would do anything to get her mother back. He cut a little slit on her hand, she winced as he squeezed the blood on her mom's forehead. Then he began the incantation, it wasn't like any Latin Adam has ever heard and being in hell for many years he has heard a lot. This was a darker and more ancient form of Latin, he couldn't make out what Jordan was saying. Suddenly there was a gust of wind in his house, this was definitely dark magic, however nothing happened.

"Jordan why isn't anything happening?" She shook her friend madly. "Jordan why isn't she waking up?"

"Stephanie, you know this kind of magic takes a while! You know that the only way this spell can work is if her soul is intact. You need to calm down!"

"I can't calm down Jordan! My mother might be dead and it would be all my fault!" Jordan waited a few more minutes and the wind stopped. "Jordan does that mean it worked?" He tried to search for a pulse and felt nothing, Stephanie's mother was gone.

"I'm sorry Stephanie, she's gone."

"NO! Dammit, she can't be dead! She can't be!" All of a sudden she stopped yelling and began crying furiously. She started punching Jordan then cried even harder and fell into his arms.