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Burial Ground

Chapter four

Later

They had taken their collapsible shovels from their backpacks and buried the body then marked the site on the map with an X so it could be recovered later. Sam then studied the map.

"We're here…"Sam pointed to a spot on the map. "…and Mirror Lake is about ten miles north of here."

"Well then we better get moving."

With one last glance back at the grave they turned and headed toward Mirror Lake. The forest was dark and damp due to the large trees which blocked out the sunlight.

"It seems cruel to just leave him there." Sam said as they walked along the trail.

"Well we can't take him with us, and we can't waste time taking him back to the ranger's station and answering a million questions. We got to get that artifact back to the burial ground as soon as possible or more people are going to die."

"And what if we can't find it?"

"Well the legend says if the artifact isn't returned the next best thing is a human sacrifice."

"And where are we going to find someone to sacrifice?"

"I don't know….maybe Andy, after all he's the one who took it in the first place."

"Dean we can't just take Andy back to the burial ground and shoot him."

Dean looked over at his brother.

"We might have to."

"Tell me you're not serious."

"Sam, I don't like it anymore then you do but it might be the only way to stop these attacks."

"What if we can't find the artifact or Andy, what do we do then?"

"I have no idea….I guess we'll just have to improvise."

Sam glanced over at Dean wondering what he had in mind.

Later

They had been walking for about three miles when a noise caused Dean to glance up. He didn't have time to shout a warning to his brother but instead pushed Sam out of the way as a large branch fell from a tree narrowly missing both of them.

"What the hell?" Sam looked up and saw more branches bending in the windless forest. He could tell they could break at any moment. "Dean run!"

They both took off running as branch after branch began raining down on them. A particularly large one landed on top of Dean.

"Dean!" Sam ran over to his brother and quickly pulled him out from under the branch. He was just about to help Dean up when another branch crashed down on both of them. Just before it hit them Sam managed to cover his brother's body with his own then winced in pain as the branch fell across his back. After a few minutes the assault was finally over. They both lay on the ground stunned for a few seconds before Dean gently crawled out from under Sam.

"You okay Sam?" Dean asked as he reached down and offered Sam his hand. Sam took it and began to slowly get up.

"Yeah…yeah I'm fine." Sam winced as he reached behind him and rubbed the small of his back.

"You sure?"

"Yeah…just had the wind knocked out of me for a second."

"Let me check you out." Dean walked behind Sam and pulled up his shirt. He could see a red bruise forming on his brother's lower back where he had taken the hit. "It gotcha pretty good." He told Sam as he pulled his shirt back down.

"I'll be okay." Sam turned to look at Dean. "That was really weird. It was like the trees had a life of their own…as if they were throwing their branches at us."

"Yeah I never saw anything like it before." Dean looked around the forest. "I wonder what's going to attack us next?"

TBC