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Burial Ground
Chapter two
They had been walking for about an hour and a half when they decided to stop near a pond to take a break and eat something. They sat down opposite each other and took off their backpacks. Sam reached in his and took out two energy bars and was just about to toss one to Dean when he suddenly stopped.
"Don't move." He told Dean as he watched a black mass slowly begin to materialize behind his brother.
"What?"
"Don't move." Sam repeated.
Dean froze when he saw the look on his brother's face.
"What's wrong?" He asked keeping as still as possible. "Is it a bear?" Dean knew with the way his luck was going lately there probably was a grizzly bear standing behind him. "I know it's a bear isn't it?"
"No."
"Then what?"
"Bees."
"Bees? How many, a little or a lot?"
"Oh I'd say maybe thousands of them."
"Oh great."
"Dean …when I tell you to run, run like hell. Jump in that pond over there and dive under the water and stay there."
"Okay." Dean now could hear a loud buzzing behind his head. Every instinct in him told him to run immediately but he waited for his brother's command.
"One….two…. both jumped up, ran to the pond, and dove into it.
The swarm of bees followed them then hovered over the water above their heads waiting for them to resurface.
Under the water they could look up and see the black mass of bees right above them. Dean tapped Sam on the shoulder and pointed toward the center of the pond. Together they swam under water and quietly resurfaced in the middle of the pond.
They then watched as the swarm finally broke up and flew back into the woods.
"Damn that was close." Dean said as they swam back to their backpacks.
"Do you think that had anything to do with the Apache curse?" Sam asked as they climbed out of the water.
"It could, or it could just be a swarm of bees that we disturbed while they were looking for a new nesting ground." Dean pulled on his backpack. "But let's not wait to find out…. Let's get out of here."
They continued walking keeping an eye out for anything strange.
Later
Sam pulled out his map and studied it.
"I think we're almost at the burial grounds. It should be right over that ridge."
They walked over the ridge and stood looking down at a large patch of ground surrounded by rocks.
"This it?" Dean asked.
"Yeah." Sam looked at his map to make sure.
"It doesn't look like much."
"What did you expect? The bodies have been here for over a hundred years, there's not much left except some of the objects that were put by the grave sides." Sam pointed to some broken pieces of pottery and pieces of bows and arrows barely recognizable now.
"This place is well off the beaten path. It's funny anyone found it."
"We found it didn't we?"
"Yeah but we had a map and knew what we were looking for."
"Well apparently they did too, or else they just stumbled upon it. However they found it doesn't matter. What matters is that we got to find the artifact and replace it before more people die."
"So this was Apache land at some point." Dean looked over the area imagining how it must have looked like years ago.
"You know it's really sad how the white man came in and destroyed their way of life and now years later they even disrespect their burial ground."
It was then they heard a soft moan coming from behind some rocks.
TBC