Chapter 10: The Truth

I stare at her with my gun pushed against her temple. The fear in her eyes almost make me hesitate. Almost. She lied to me for so long, and in this business, that can get you killed. So, it's time for the truth I'm owed.

"Please, J. If you'd just understand my reasoning for-" Jazz starts to say, but I cock the gun and nudge it into her skull more.

"No," I growled, with an anger building up with every second, "you're going to tell me who that was and what you're really up to. Then, you can apologize for lying this entire time."

"Okay," she gulps, and then slowly sits up onto the bed.

"You're right. I shouldn't have lied. But I do have feelings for you. It's just that they can't get in the way of my mission."

"What mission?" I ask, and she pulls a small green cube out of her pocket and hands it to me.

"What is it?"

"A memory caster. The S-Catchers developed it so that if we couldn't remember something, we could project it from this. However, what I'm going to show you will never be forgotten by me."

Jasmine places the cube onto the carpet and presses onto the top, causing it to open up and reveal a multicolored prism. Suddenly, it envelops the room in a bright glow that changes through colors until it started to form images, slowly focusing in like a camera lens. When it was clear, the image revealed a large room decorated with a bland grey color scheme. A group of people in white and gold coats stood around, messing with large computers and scientific devices. Two of the scientists, a man and women, walk up to the very edge of the holograph, right in front of me. It's then that I see the woman's brown eyes and the man's dark hair, and I realize that these are Jazz's parents. They start talking while facing towards me, and I figure out that this is in her perspective. It's Jasmine as a little girl, maybe nine or ten. I look at her, and she reaches her hand up, as if to touch them.

"Jazzy, darling," her mother gently says while reaching to Jasmine's younger self, "we're going to need you to leave the room, sweetie. It'll be fine, we just want all unnecessary personnel out of the chamber while the device is activated."

The three hug, and Jazz walks out of the room, but not before glancing back at something that I thought could never exist. It was a large ring laced with glowing lights that matched the colors of the rainbow. There were wires and scanners set up all around it. I look to the computers and see that they show long equations and planets that I don't recognize. My mind practically explodes when I realize what it is. They built a wormhole, a doorway between an infinite amount of alternate universes. This is something I'd see in comic or television, not the real world. Of course, I have killed ghosts, so it makes sense that something this damn weird would exist. Young Jazzy walks out of the room and into a small hallway with windows facing the chamber. Some scientists start yelling something about "the way is clear" and "open the door now", and everyone rushes to the computers and start typing furiously. I turn to look at the portal, which is starting to slowly rotate, gaining speed before spinning in a blur of colors. Electricity crackles around it, and the center suddenly sparks open, revealing a black circle ringed with blue. A figure walks out of it, dressed in a white and gold coat, which, unlike the lab coats worn by the scientists, was shorter and had a hood, which cloaked the man's (I'm assuming because of his height and build) face. He cast it off, revealing shoulder-length, grungy brown hair streaked with silver, and a grizzled face ending with a scraggly white beard. He reaches into his jacket pocket, and pulls out something that only confuses me more. It's the gem, the blue rock that I took from the demons. The man hands it to the closest scientist, and stands in front before yelling.

"The dark one has figured out our secret!" he screams, while they watch intently.

"He knows where I hid the doorway in his dimension, and he is coming. I left this world for that to search for the source of the material, but unfortunately, he got there first. I barely escaped, and only had the ability to because of a strange six-fingered man who had knowledge of the multi-dimensional barriers. It was he who gave me this stone, which he said could stop Ombra, and helped repair my doorway. Alas, it was too late, and soon he will be here, and unless we prepare our weapons with the power of this gem, all I lost and he will find this world's material and use it to destroy us all. Now, we must-"

A strange rumble issues from the portal, and a billowing cloud of dark smoke exits. I look at Jazz, whose eyes are glazed with fright. Meanwhile, the cloud takes form, into the hooded figure known best as Ombra, and starts to murder the scientists, making clawed shapes and mangling their bodies. Two are knocked down at the same time, that I recognize as Jazz's parents. I look over to her, and she's breaking down. I grab her and put her in a strong embrace, but my eyes are still glued to the screen. Only the man that exited the portal is left, and he grabs the stone and throws it towards Ombra, who screeches with a blood-chilling sound, and quickly dissipates into nothing. Jasmine's younger form runs back into the room and crouches down beside her parents, who were both staring into the ceiling with empty eyes, their blood seeping onto her legs. The man notices this, and walks to her.

"What is your name, child?" he asks, and she looks up at him.

"J-Jasm-mine," she sobs, obviously trying to keep herself together. He offers her his hand and helps her stand up.

"Mine's Reginald. But you can call me Reg. Don't worry, I'll take care of you. Now, everything will be okay, but we have to get out of here. Ombra will be back and probably with reinforcements."

Jazzy nods, and they both leave, but not before Reg grabbed the gem. The hologram fades out and disappears, turning the hotel room back to its beige wallpaper. I look to Jasmine, who is still holding onto me, her face buried into my shoulder. I hold her and slowly move her back to the bed. She sits down, sniffles her nose, and wipes her eyes.

"Why didn't you tell me?" I ask. "I would've understood."

"Reg and I have had this plan to destroy Ombra once and for all," she explained while grabbing the cube and shuffling it back into her pocket. "We needed to make sure you were able to be trusted. I of course did, but he didn't. All that stuff I told him was just to calm him down. Starcatchers, with the exception of a few like my parents, are usually very cautious of hunters. We think they're reckless, and sorry to tell you, but you and the Winchesters are living proof of that. He needed to make sure that you wouldn't mess things up. Now he knows you won't, since you understand our predicament."

"Okay, but I'll need to know more about what's going on with all of this stuff, which hopefully you can fill me in on tomorrow," I say, and she nods before laying down and falling asleep. I lay next to her, put my arm around her waist, and quickly drifted off.

I'm back in the hallway, except instead of screaming I hear silence. There are doors everywhere, but they're all locked. A nasally voice rings out across the halls.

"You won't be able to get out of this trap, kid! Hahahaha!"

I start running down the hallway, which starts to turn dark red in hue and seems to grow longer the more I run, kinda like 'The Shining'. That was a fucked up movie. Focus, I tell myself. This is your dream, you're in control.

"Think again, baby hunter! I'm the dream demon, something you can't escape from. I'M in control. Y'know what, though? I'll cut you a break. Now, open up the room to your left."

I hesitate, but my hand turns the doorknob anyways. The contents of the room are enough to make me vomit. There's two kids, both maybe a few years younger than me, a boy and a girl. I think they're twins, as both have brown bushy hair and similar facial features. The boy is wearing a t-shirt, trucker's cap, shorts, and jacket vest, while the girl is wearing a sweater and skirt. Both of their stomachs are cut open, revealing their intestines that were slipping out. The boy's forehead was sliced open, while the girl's jaw was ripped in half, revealing bloodied teeth lined with braces. I close the door, and buckle over crying. Then, the damn voice decides to come back.

"Oops, sorry. You weren't supposed to see that. Well, not for a while, anyways. That's just a little image that makes me happy. I hate those kids. Anyways, YOUR room is actually on the right."

I open this door, instantly holding my breath because I'm afraid of what this room will show. It's then that I vomit. Mangled body pieces are everywhere, the room covered in blood. The only way I know this is my room is because throughout all the body pieces are Jazz, Bobby, Sam, and Deans' heads. This is my worst nightmare. The family that I gained after I lost my original family, all dead. The door closes behind me, enveloping me in darkness. Suddenly, the lights come on, revealing a now empty room. Then, that voice appeared again.

"See? It's not Ombra you should worry about. He's just a cheap ripoff of Voldemort. It's ME you should look out for. Don't worry, though. You've still got a while until you hear from me again. But just remember that I'm always watching. I AM EVERYWHERRREEEEE."

A flaming pentagram opens up into the middle, which I fall into. One triangle flies off and follows me into the darkness, and one eye pops up into it, and the words "I SEE ALL" appear, and I hit solid ground.

My eyes pop open, and look around. I'm still in the hotel room, and Jazz is still next to me. I wipe my brow, which is doused in sweat. I stand up and looked at the clock, which shows that I only slept for five hours, as it was six-thirty. I spend most of the next hour sitting in the shower and trying to think on that dream. I've never heard of a dream demon, so I'll have to check on that. And what did he mean, 'I'll see you soon'? And who were those kids? Hopefully, that will be explained in the future. As if I didn't have enough shit to deal with. I get out, brush my teeth, and change into a plain black t-shirt and jeans. My phone rings, and I answer it.

"Hello?"

"Hey, bud! How's everything going," Dean yells into the phone with a slight Southern tang to it, while Sam shouts "shut up" in the background.

"Not much, just finished a job. Vamp nest."

"Sammy and I have been finding a lot of those lately. Where at?"

"Manhattan. New York."

"How 'bout that? We just ganked some ghouls in Buffalo. When we get close, I'll call you and figure out where we can all meet, maybe get a bite to eat and catch up. I especially want to hear if your girl has anymore stories like the Richmond one."

"Shit."

"What?"

"Nothing. Call you later."

"Bye, kid."

Dean hangs up, and I grab my jacket and shoes, and start to head out of the room to go grab some coffee and breakfast for me and Jazz. I open the door and everything happens too fast. A figure with black eyes. A loud popping sound. I fall to the ground. Jazz screams. And then everything goes black.


Woah. That got dark.I brainstormed a lot of this as I typed, and I hope you enjoy it. I'm playing around with the idea of different supernatural beings interacting because of the portal opening up (as you can tell with the Gravity Falls sequence), so expect more of that to occured alongside the current story. Sorry if it feels like I'm all over the place with this story. I'm just trying to really find a footing for it (which I think occurred this chapter). As you can tell, things are getting a bit graphic, so I'm probably going to switch this to an M rating, as the gruesomeness is going up a little bit starting with this. Thanks for reading, and constructive criticism is of course appreciated.