Sorry for the lack of updates, but between school ending and me going on vacation and my sister's graduation things have been really hectic. So I'm trying to update everything before I head to Maine for a week where I can't update my stories. Hope you like the chapter anyway!!!

Chapter 7: The Disappearance

Alina continued to stare out at the sea, ignoring Dean's question. It was as if she didn't understand what he was asking her. He reached out and touched her shoulder. She tuned sharply, like she had forgotten he was there, and stared at him.

"Look, Alina." he said carefully. "I need to get back to my brother, I need to try and rescue him." Alina bit her lip and nodded, motioning for Dean to follow her. She slid into the water and Dean climbed in after her.

Suddenly she turned and looked at him. "If the sea witch finds you, she'll kill you… or worse." Dean didn't want to know what could be worse, but he nodded at the girl.

"So how far is the cave from where we are now?" he asked with slight concern.

Alina smile and pointed at the rock before diving down with Dean right behind her.

They swam for awhile straight down the face of the rock until they got to an opening. Dean was running out of breath, but the passage into the cavern wasn't that long and he finally came up gasping for breath.

"Dean!" Sam called from the corner. Dean smiled and swam over to the ground and climbed out of the pool. He shook himself off and looked around for Alina, but she was no where to be found. He shrugged and untied Sam before going back over to the pool.

"There's a passage out of the cavern right down there." Dean said pointing to the opening. "It leads out to the sea and then it's a straight shot up to the surface." Sam nodded and dropped into the water after Dean.

Sam followed Dean through the opening and then went ahead of him to the surface where he climbed on the rock and lay in the sun for a moment. But there was a problem, Dean hadn't come up.

"Dean?" Sam called looking around at the emptiness of the ocean. Dean was no where to be found. "Dean?!" But it was no use. Dean just wasn't there.

Sam went to the edge of the rock where he had come up and looked in the water for Dean. But the water was too murky to see anything so Sam jumped in. He looked around under the surface but still he didn't see anything, and so he dove down deeper and deeper until he was nearly running out of air.

He sat back on the rock to catch his breath and then he dove back down and went into the cavern. He looked around but Dean wasn't there either. Sam got out of the water and thought for a moment. He knew that Dean had either come up somewhere else and he just hadn't seen him, he had drowned, or the sea witch had gotten him. Whatever had happened he knew that he had to get back to the rock and then somehow to the mainland so he could find a way to destroy the sea witch.

When Sam got back up on the rock he checked it thoroughly for Dean, but he couldn't find any trace of him. He looked out over the water again and saw a boat in the distance.

If I can somehow signal them maybe they can take me back to the mainland. Sam thought to himself as he looked out at the boat coming closer to him. He went down to the edge closest to where the boat would be passing and waved his arms, shouting to the people on board to help him.

Luckily they did. The boat turned out to be a fishing boat returning to the docks. They brought him onboard and wrapped him up in a blanket.

"So what are you doing all alone on that barren rock?" the captain asked after Sam had sat for a few moments. Sam paused for a second and thought about a good story. The captain waited with folded arms.

"I was on a boating trip from Connecticut when my boat crashed on those rocks." Sam said motioning back to where they had found him. "It was an old boat and one of the riggings snapped and I couldn't control it and it crashed." The captain nodded like he believed Sam and didn't ask anymore questions.

Sam caught a cab when they finally got back to the docks and went to the hotel to find their dad's journal and figure out a way to kill the sea witch.