This chapter is named after the song by Iron Maiden. The song is about Lucifer sending things into the world and the person seeing it is not sure whether it is real or not. This chapter is a lot longer. Please review:'3
"This is Sam, Dean and Lorelai." Ellen announced to the survivors. "They're hunters. They're here to help."
"You guys hip to the whole demon thing?" Asked a man, somewhere in his 20s.
"Yeah, you?" Asked Dean.
"My neighbor came at me with a brick. Kind of makes you embrace the paranormal." Answered an older man. He looked traumatized. Dean turned to Ellen.
"Well, catch us up." He commanded.
"I don't know much more than you. Rufus called. Said he was in town investigating omens. He said the whole town was possessed. Me and Jo came by and-"
"You're hunting with Jo?" Dean cut in. Ellen nodded.
"Yeah, for a while now. We got here and the place... Well, the place was like you saw it. We couldn't find Rufus and then me and Jo got separated. I was out looking for her when I found you."
"Don't worry, we'll find her."
"Either way." Sam broke in to the conversation. "We've got to get these people out, now."
"No, it's not that easy, believe me I've tried. We've already made a break for it once."
"What happened?"
"There used to be 20 of us." Now that Lorelai looked closer, she realized there was a lot less than she thought. There were 11.
"Well there's four of us now." Dean pointed out.
"No, you don't know what it was like. They were everywhere."
"What if we gave them all guns." Sam suggested.
"I'm not sure if that would work."
"The more salt we can fire at demons, the more demons we can keep away."
"There's a shop we saw on the way in that might sell guns." Dean pointed out.
"Alright." Sam said. "You all stay here and we'll go and get some."
"Well what about-" Ellen was cut off by Sam.
"Jo and Rufus are still out there. We'll bring them back." Dean turned to Lorelai.
"You stay here, Lori." He said to her. The problem was that she was kind of excited now. She wanted to go.
"Can't I come with you?" She asked. "Come on, It would be good training!"
"No, you've got to stay safe. Stay here with Ellen and help her teach these lot how to use a shotgun." Lorelai sulked slightly.
"Fine." She said. She wished that people wouldn't treat her like a kid. She was nearly officially an adult. Dean saw that she was disappointed.
"Hey, you still get to work with guns." He pointed out. Lorelai rolled her eyes at him. Dean smirked at her and left with Sam.
Ellen turned to Lorelai.
"Maybe we should wait til they come back with the guns before we teach them how to use them. It'd be easier."
"Yeah, good idea." Ellen cleared her throat.
"So kid, how long have you been in the business?"
"Ever since Dean discovered I existed. About three weeks ago." Ellen looked shocked.
"And they took you here?"
"They didn't have time to take me back to Bobby's and they want me protected in case something's after me."
"Why would something be after you?" Lorelai sighed.
"Something killed my adoptive parents. Their intestines had been ripped out. If I was there it probably would have killed me too."
"That's terrible. How did Dean find you?"
"My real mom had a journal. It had a lock on it but I didn't know where the key is. She gave me a clue where it was and I cracked it. Turned out I had the key all along. I opened the journal and found John Winchester's number and a message that told me to call it if there was an emergency. I had no parents, that was an emergency to me so I called it and Dean answered."
"I'm glad that boy kept that phone." Lorelai nodded in agreement. "I'm sorry Lorelai."
"For what?"
"If I had known Selena had died, I would have come and got you. I didn't know for a week after and you had just disappeared. I looked for you, God knows I did, but I couldn't find you anywhere."
"Wait, I went missing?"
"It was probably child services." Ellen hoped it was child services anyway. The door behind them opened and Lorelai and Ellen raised their guns at the door. They put it down again when they realized it was just Sam and Dean. Dean handed guns to all the survivors and Lorelai went to help people learn how to work them. Se went the the pregnant lady and her husband first and eventually the efforts of her, Ellen and Dean got round the room. Sam was just sitting on a step, sulking. Dean went over to see what was wrong. Lorelai just left them to have their little chick-flick moment.
Ellen was getting extremely restless. She broke Sam and Dean's conversation.
"I'm going out." She announced.
"What?" Dean asked her.
"I can't just sit here whilst my daughter's out there."
"Fine." Said Sam. "I'll go with you."
"Sam, can I talk to you outside for a sec?" Dean asked. They went outside.
"What's going on with those two?" Ellen asked the youngest Winchester.
"It's a long story." Ellen left it, knowing that she wouldn't get any answers. Lorelai seemed loyal. The brothers came back in.
"Ellen, let's go." Said Sam. Dean looked angry. Ellen and Sam left.
"What, are you two fighting over Ellen now? Cos that's just weird."
"I'm not really in the mood right now, Lori."
The waiting was just awkward. Everyone was sitting there in dead silence. Lorelai sighed.
"This is so boring. Lets play a game. I spy with my little eye something beginning with 'B'." Everyone stared at her. She smiled at all of them.
"Books?" A woman said. Lorelai shook her head. "We don't know then."
"It was boredom." Lorelai announced. Dean turned to her with raised eyebrows. "What?" Lorelai asked.
"I thought the whole point of 'I spy' was that you could actually see the object. You can't see boredom."
"You God damn can in here. You can see it in the friggin' air!"
"You'd rather be outside being attacked by demons?"
"Hell yeah!" Dean smirked at her.
"You are so messed up."
"Look who's talking." Lorelai said back to him, eyebrows raised accusingly.
"Shut up." He said jokingly.
Someone knocked at the door. Dean grabbed his gun, looked through the peep-hole and answered it. Ellen walked through the door. Alone.
"Where's Sam?" Dean asked her. Ellen didn't answer. She just looked at Dean and Lorelai with an expression that spelled 'I am sorry'.
"They took him?" Asked a girl sitting at the table. She sounded scared. "The demons took him? Oh, God. What if they're in here?"
"Can they get in?" Asked another man. Lorelai stood on a chair.
"Calm the hell down people! They can't get in and they are not in here." She turned to Dean. "Right?" She asked.
"Right." He confirmed. Lorelai got off the chair. She had wanted to do that for ages. Dean walked to the door.
"Everybody sit tight!" He ordered loudly. "We've gotta-" He turned back round. "We've gotta get a plan together."
He sat down at the table between Lorelai and Ellen.
"Ellen, what happened?"
"One of them was in Jo. It called me a bitch."
"Well you got let off a little easy don't you think?"
" No, that's not what I meant. She called me a black-eyed bitch." Dean looked confused. "What kind of demons are these?" Ellen continued. "Salt and holy-water bounces right off. My daughter may be an idiot but she's not stupid. She wears a anti-possession charm. It's all kind of weird right?"
"The whole thing's off."
"What's your instinct?"
"My instinct? My instinct is to call Bobby and ask for help. Or Sam."
"Well tough. All we've got is each-other so we've got to stick it out."
"Alright. Do you know why Rufus came to town, was there a specific omen?"
"He said something about water."
"Alright." Dean turned to the priest. "Padre, you know anything about the water around here?"
"Well, the water ran polluted around here all of a sudden. Last Wednesday. The whole demon thing started up the next day."
"Anything else that happened?" Dean asked the survivors. One man answered.
"Maybe, but it's a bit random."
"Go. Random's good."
"A shooting star? Real big. Same night."
"Definitely counts." Dean said quietly. He went up to the bookcase and brought back a bible.
"So, er." The guy who told him about the shooting star began. "You think that all of this comes from out of space?" He asked.
"This isn't x-files pal." He replied and stopped at a page.
"And there fell a big star from Heaven." He read loudly. "Burning like a torch, and the star fell upon a river, and the star's name was wormwood, and many men died."
"Revelation 8:10." the priest said. "Are you saying that this is about the apocalypse?"
"You could say that. By these pacific omens, they lead up to what?"
"The four horsemen."
"Which one ride the red horse?"
"War." Lorelai thought of the bright red mustang they saw on the way here. It was untouched. War was here, and it drove that metaphor. Apparently Dean thought the same thing.
"That cherry Mustang." He pointed out to Ellen and she nodded.
"You can't assume that on a car-" The priest stuttered.
"That's the way I'd roll. If you think about it, it makes sense. War's a dude and he's here messing with our heads."
"Turning us on each other." Ellen agreed.
"Wait, you said Jo called you a black-eyed bitch?" Lorelai asked Ellen. She nodded. "I think they think we're demons like we thought they are. Nobody is a demon. We're all just killing each other." Lorelai pointed out. Ellen and Dean nodded agreement.
"Wait, whoa back up!" The priest butted in. "It's the apocalypse?"
"Sorry padre." Dean said to him.
Suddenly there was frantic knocking on the door.
"Hey! Open up! It's Roger!" Came the muffled voice. Dean opened the door.
"I saw them!" Roger said.
"Wait, what?" Dean said. "Where have you been? Why didn't you stay in here?"
"Well I thought someone had to see what was going on!"
"Right, so you saw the demons and what did they say exactly?" Everyone in the room had began panicking again.
"We're all going to die." One said.
"We can't just stay here!" Another one said.
"They said they're going to kill us!" Roger said. "Unless we kill them first!"
"Hold on, hold on." Said Dean. "We've got people to protect." The survivors picked up their guns. Lorelai and Dean stared at Roger. He winked at them and then they figured it out. He twisted the ring on his finger.
"Look at them!" He shouted. "They're demons!" Everyone started panicking more. Dean grabbed Lorelai as they cocked their gun.
"Run, go!" Dean shouted at Ellen and the three hunters ran out the door.
They were chased but they managed to hide in a shop nearby.
"We've got to go find Jo and Rufus. Let them know what's going on." Dean said. The three nodded agreement. "Lorelai, stay close to me and Ellen."
"I'm not thick." Lorelai pointed out. They left the shop and went to the place Ellen had found Jo and Rufus earlier. They sneaked near the window and Dean gave them the signal to stop. He grabbed a large rock and threw it through the window. There was a large explosion. Rufus had planted bombs around the place. Dean signaled for Lorelai to hide. She obeyed. She promised him she would. They could see Rufus through the window. Dean jumped up and pulled him out.
"Rufus!" Came Jo's scream from the house. Ellen went in and got in combat with Jo. Lorelai watched from behind a bush as Dean got kicked in the balls by Rufus as he tried to explain what was going on. This was an intense fight. Rufus and Dean were quite evenly matched. Dean pushed Rufus up against the wall.
"Rufus!" He said, struggling. "Think about it. The water, the Red mustang... It's War. I'm telling you, it's War!"
"Damn right it is!" Rufus said and hit Dean's jaw hard, knocking him to the floor. Dean eventually got him pinned to the floor.
"The horseman!" He shouted at him. "He's turning us against each other, you're hallucinating!" Rufus stopped struggling.
"The horseman? War?"
"Yes."
"Did you figure this out all by yourself genius?" Dean pulled Rufus up off the floor and signaled for Lorelai to come out. Rufus looked at her, confused as to why Dean has bought her with him.
"Lorelai, nice to meet you." She said. "Can I just thank you in advance for kicking my brother's ass? I've wanted to do that all day." Rufus laughed. Dean rolled his eyes at his sister. They went inside to see how Ellen and Jo were doing. Ellen aimed her gun at them.
"We all on the same page?" She asked.
"Yepp." Lorelai confirmed.
"Hi, Jo." Dean said. "Right, we've got to find War before everyone in this town-" Dean was cut off as there was someone shooting at the house. Everybody got down. It wasn't over yet.
