Jake Malloy walked through the woods, he'd been following his friend Peter Jackson for the last four hours. Peter had told Jake that he'd found the coolest cave ever and there where all these cool bones in it, after following Peter though who had claimed he had the direction of an albatross he was beginning to believe that the mariners had the right idea and the bird was just bad luck. Dead or alive.

" Pete do you even know where you're going man ? , we passed this tree six times now "

" How the heck do you know that ? " Pete asked turning surprised eyes to him, Jake pointed to the tree

" Claw marks, see " he ran his hands over them and grimaced at just what could have made them, he hated wildlife and was wondering not for the first time why the hell he'd let his best friend talk him into this,

" Come on Pete lets just go home, my mom made meat loaf for tonight "

" Ah come on Jake, this cave is the coolest, we could maybe use some of the bones for archaeology club " Jake scrunched up his face in disgust

" Dude, that's just sick, we don't know where they came from or even who they where "

" But we could find out " Peter said excitement bubbling in his voice " Man we could be famous, like, like, Lewis and Clarke "

" Dude what's superman got to do with anything ? " he said straight faced, but the sarcasm was evident in his tone, Peter frowned at his friend

" What ? What are talking about ? I'm talking about the famous explorers, not some stupid comic book " Jake rolled his eyes,

" Man, superman is not a stupid comic book, the man of steel rules "

" He does not, Spiderman is way cooler "

" Dude you cannot be serious ? How is being bitten by a bug cooler than coming from another planet ? "

" He was not bitten by a bug, it was an arachnid " Peter shouted at his friend, Jake gave his friend a smug smirk

" Whatever man they still squish when you drop a book on them " Peter huffed indignantly, Jake laughed a noise coming from the bushes behind them made them both freeze, it sounded like something big, something big and coming their way.

" What's that ? " Pete asked backing away from the bushes, Jake shook his head

" I don't know, lets just get of here okay, this place is creeping me out "

" Yeah. Lets…..lets go ", as the two turned to leave a strangled scream came from behind them, suddenly Peter was screaming and was being dragged backwards away from his friend

" PETE!! PETE " Jake screamed scrambling after his friend, large claws struck out at him clawing his side as he rolled away trying to avoid them, pain ripped through him dark spots dancing in his vision

" Pete " he said faintly, as the darkness enveloped him the last sounds he heard where of his best friend screaming.

Suits on Bobby and John entered ' Mercy Hospital ' in search of the only known survivor of the most recent attack. The kid had been found by a bunch of hikers, at first they'd thought he was dead, he'd lost a lot of blood from the four large gashes he had in his side, but the kid had come too and was hysterically yelling about something that had taken his friend. Of course local authorities put it down to a bear attack although they where at a loss as to why it would claw one and take the other.

The two hunters entered the room of the kid 'Jake Malloy' Bobby had said he was called, he was faced away from the door watching the rain spatter on the window pane. A few torn comics lay discarded on the floor Bobby cleared his throat,

" Jake Malloy ? " Bobby waited for a response but was met only with silence " I'm officer Peck and this is officer Grant we're with the park rangers we'd like to ask you a few questions if we can " the boy remained unresponsive as if he hadn't even heard , " Jake son can you hear me ? " Bobby moved closer to the bed, Jake turned to look at them now his grey eyes empty, he looked at Bobby and blinked

" Jake ? " he said tentatively a lone tear made its way down his cheek, John moved forward slowly he had a few scraps of comic in his hand,

" Superman huh ? My little boy loves bat man, swears down he's going to be Bruce Jacobs when he's older "

" Wayne " Jake said quietly, John raised a quizzical brow

" Bat man's alter ego is Bruce Wayne "

" Oh right, thanks for that my son may only be four but he can be scary when it comes to getting his hero right "

" Bat man's cool, superman's better though " John handed the teenager the scraps of comic book,

" Wanna tell me what happened to these ? " he said gesturing to the scraps now in Jakes lap, the teen looked to them his grey eyes filled with tears,

" We fought about it before…before that thing came "

" About what kid ? "

" About who was the better superhero. Pete always liked Spiderman, but superman could so kick his ass, err I mean butt " John grinned,

" Ass is okay with me kid, but it doesn't explain how they got all torn up "

" I did it " he said " I…….I just couldn't bear to look at them, they brought it all back "

" Can you describe what took your friend son ? " Bobby asked stepping forward, Jake lifted pain filled eyes to Bobby swallowed thickly and nodded his head,

" It was a guy "

" A guy ? You're sure it was a man ? " Bobby asked

" Yeah man I'm sure, he…….he looked really weird though "

" Weird how ? "

" His eyes, his eyes they weren't normal, they were a funny colour "

" What colour were his eyes ? Were they black ? "

" They were white, like milky white. You know like he had cataracts or something , and instead of a left hand he had this large like fork thing "

" Do you know what he did to your friend " Jake swallowed hard as if trying to swallow back bile

" No, but he was screaming man, that's all I heard him screaming and I couldn't do anything about it, my best friend is dead cause I'm too much of a chicken shit " Jake put his head in hands and sobbed the sounds rattling through his body making him shake,

" There's nothing you could have done kid, trust me, this way you can help, you have helped " Bobby said as he lay a comforting hand on Jakes back, " John go get the doc " he waited until John had left

" Jake I believe you, I believe what you saw, me and my partner we're going find this thing and make sure it can't hurt no one else ". Jake nodded lifting his tear stained face to Bobby, the doctor entered and came over to Jake with a syringe in his hand,

" What's that ? "

" Its just a mild sedative Jake, it'll help you to relax ", the doctor inserted the syringe and deployed the fluid into the iv, after a few minutes Jakes eyes slid closed.

" How's he doing doc, he going to be okay ? "

" Well he's obviously traumatised, keeps saying it was a man with a fork for a hand, when we know it was a bear. Poor kid, we think he saw the bear kill his friend he's very lucky those hikers found him when they did "

" Thanks ".

Both Bobby and John left the hospital and walked over to the impala, once inside John turned to Bobby,

" So, what you think it is ? "

" I'll tell you one thing, it aint no wendigo, its something much worse "

" Well ? What is it then ? " Bobby sighed and turned in his seat to face John who was caught between watching the road and observing his friends face,

" Think we got a zombie on our hands " John nearly crashed the car as he swerved and rectified his manoeuvre horns blazing at him as he did, he calmed his breathing down

" A zombie ? A fucking zombie ? That eat your brains and shit ? "

" Damn kid, you watch too many movies. Zombies don't eat yer brains unless the one that rose um tells um to. They're risen for a reason, they're mindless. Thing is their spirits trapped so the person who they were can see what they're doing but they can't do nothing about it, they're in pain "

" So why was this one risen ? "

" Don't know that yet, we got a lot of research to do, but I'll tell yer one thing, they know what they're doing, you gotta know yer stuff to be able to control the un dead. We should look into grave desecration or bodies missing from the morgue that'd be a good start " John nodded and pulled into the drive of the small cabin that Bobby owned,, he was glad after the strangeness of the day to be returning to some normalcy. He was greeted by Dean who came running out to him and leapt into his outstretched arms,

" Hey daddy, we tidied up the cabin today, mommy said she thinks uncle Bobby hasn't cleaned it since the day he got it "

" Did she now ? " the small blonde nodded his head, his big green eyes sparkling with excitement,

" Me and Sammy played outside and we picked her some flowers, come and see " he said wiggling out of his fathers arms and pulling him inside. So maybe his life had taken a turn for the strange, hunting spirits and now zombies, loosing a home he shared with his wife for 10 years, but as he looked down into the smiling happy face of his four year old a thought occurred to him. It was worth it.

Daniel paced in his plush office, he was beyond anger and quickly escalating into unbridled rage, the Winchesters had disappeared into the night. He had given Mary till the end of the week and gone round on the Sunday evening to get her answer, he was so sure that she'd agree to leave John that he had even had decorators in the mansion where he lived to decorate three bedrooms. Mary's room was lemon and white a large white 4 poster bed in the middle, with matching white furniture. Sammy's room was pale blues with aeroplanes and parachutes, he'd noticed that Dean liked cars so his room was a darker shade of blue with cars all over. He'd even made sure that the four year old had a bed shaped like a racing car, he thought it was perfect.

That was until he went to the house to find it in darkness, a neighbour came out,

" They're not here. If you're looking for the Winchesters they aren't here " she said coming over to Daniel and eyeing him up and down, she glanced to the limousine then smiled at him obviously thinking he wasn't a threat, Daniel smiled a tight smile he hated busy bodies,

" Excuse me ? Not here, you don't know where they are do you ? " he asked silkily

" No they took off late one night, just bundled some bags into the back of that awful noise machine and took those babies and….left. They haven't been back since and that was 6 days ago "

" You're quite certain ? " he asked the anger was bubbling in his stomach, she nodded emphatically

" Oh yes, they seemed in a hurry to "

" Well thank you " he said smoothing down his silk tie,

" I can keep an eye out for you if you like, let you know when they come back " Daniel paused as he was about to get in the car,

" That's very kind of you, I'll leave you the number of my office you can reach me there " he handed the woman his card and gave her a charming smile,

" Oh its no trouble at all, I'll be in touch " she said as she waved him off.

It was now Tuesday and no word from the busy body, making a decision Daniel turned on his heel and out of his office,

" Marie I have some business to attend to, I'll be out of touch for the rest of the day please hold all calls "

" Yes sir ".

Daniel stalked from his office and waved his driver away taking the sedan and driving himself, he drove to the ' Rainbow Mental Health Facility ' in Kansas city and entered. The nurse at the waiting station gave him a bright smile

" Mr Campbell, how nice to see you, we haven't seen you in so long "

" Ah yes Grace, I'm sorry I've been terribly busy, how are things ? "

" Oh good, you'll be happy to know Libby's been doing really well, hardly any episodes of late "

" Is she in her room ? "

" Yeah, head on down there she'll be real happy to see you " Daniel gave the nurse a smile and a wave as he headed down to the appointed room.

The woman was stood looking out of the window a small smile on her face as the sun shone on it, Daniel sat down at the small table and folded his hands neatly onto the table top,

" Hello Elizabeth, we need to talk ".

A/N; Where you expecting that one ? Lol. If I didn't get back to you after you reviewed I'm real sorry but am very grateful to each and everyone of you who did review, please continue to do so, thanks again guys xxx