"It looks like your brother is here." Delores said setting her glass of iced tea on the table. She and Sam were sitting on the front porch drinking tea while Delores told him stories about Samuel and Deanna Campbell. "Let me guess Dean would be the one with the attitude?"
Sam bit back a laugh. "That's one way to put it. Dean took after Dad a lot more than I did. He just tends to be suspicious."
"John must have changed quite a bit then." She said standing up. "John was cautious, but I figured that was from the war."
"Sam, you want to talk to me for a minute?" Dean asked.
Delores gave Sam a smile. "Go ahead, I'll take this young man inside and get him a glass of iced tea. Just come on in when you boys are done." She threaded her arm through Garth's and led him inside.
As soon as the door closed Dean turned on Sam. "What the hell Sammy! You get us to put off a salt and burn that we should have done last night, then you tell me and Garth to come out here to find you having tea and crumpets with Martha Stewart! What the hell is wrong with you?"
Sam's answer was to shove a book into Dean's chest which Dean grabbed on pure reflex. Looking down at it he saw it was a Journal.
"Open it." Sam said flatly.
Dean flipped it open. "A hunter's journal? Randall Peterson?" Dean read the name on the inside.
"Delores's late husband, He was a hunter." Sam said. "He knew Samuel and Deanna Campbell, even hunted with them sometimes. She wants to talk to us about what's going on around here." Sam went to the door and stopped with he hand on the knob. "Coming?"
Dean followed Sam into the kitchen where Garth was drinking a glass of iced tea. Delores handed another glass to Dean. "Drink up." She said.
"She's not trying to poison you Dean, she used holy water to make the tea." Sam said.
"Holy iced tea?" Dean said taking a sip.
"Who says you can't make holy water taste good." Delores said. "So you Winchester boys want help or not?"
Dan Weaver paid for a couple of nights at the hotel. Grabbing the key, he made his way out to the truck and got Jacob. "I told them that you were my son. They shouldn't bother you. I'll be back tomorrow for now I need to get back and find out what the Winchesters have been up to. Can I trust you not to eat the maid?"
Delores led the hunters to the basement. "I'm sure yall are familiar with Panic rooms? This is mine." She said fitting a key into a door on the far side of the space and swinging it open.
"Please come in and close the door behind you?" The hunters looked around the room. Every inch of the walls floor and ceiling was covered with Sigils, runes, hieroglyphs and cuniform. In each corner stood a pillar with a bowl and candle.
As they watched she went to each pillar lighting the candle and sprinkling herbs and oil in each bowl. They watched as she took a slip of paper and tore it into quarters. She wrote something on all four slips of paper before going to the first pillar. Dropping the paper into the bowl she used the candle to light the contents of the bowl before moving on to the next one. Soon pungent smoke was coming from all four bowls.
"Invocations to the Archangels." she explained. "I'd prefer this conversation to remain private."
"You learned all this from being married to a hunter?" Dean asked skeptically.
"Not all of it. Some is knowledge passed down to me as a Magi." She said. "Sit down boys. I'm sure that you've figured out that your not dealing with a ghost. The whole Haunting at the Preston farm thing is a very long running hoax. One that was created and has been maintained to keep people away. However people tend to gravitate to so called 'hauntings' these days like amusement park rides. There is however something on the Preston property.
A rock deep in the woods with a sigil carved into the surface. That rock can be used to summon something very dangerous and evil to this world. I moved here after the death of my first husband to keep an eye on things. To watch for exactly what is happening now."
"And what is happening now?" Garth asked. "If you don't mind me asking."
"Well that is why I wanted you all here. A couple of year s ago I started noticing Omens or what you hunters call Demon Signs. They were very subtle, if I didn't know about that stone, I would have overlooked them also."
"So someone summoned whatever is connected to that rock?" Sam asked.
"Not exactly, it wasn't a person that summoned it as much as it was an event. I think it probably was weak when it was first summoned. It took some time for it to gain strength. Tell me, how much do you boys know about angels?"
"Enough to know that whatever they have a hand in is going to be major bad news." Dean said.
"So I'm assuming your knowledge of their history is non-existent, especially the Angelic Wars. That stone is where one of the fallen was cast down." She said.
"Lucifer was cast down in Virginia?" Dean asked.
"Lucifer is not fallen, he is caged. There's a difference. And Lucifer did not fall until the third Angelic War." Delores looked around the table "Okay Heavenly History 101. There have been three Angelic Wars. The Imprisonment of the Leviathan, The rebellion of Kemual and the imprisonment of Lucifer. There is a prophecy that a fourth Angelic War will occur, The Battle of Meggido when Michael will defeat Lucifer once and for all."
Sam and Dean shared a look at that since they knew just how close the Battle of Megiddo had come to occurring. So the stone has something to do with the Angelic Wars?" Sam asked.
"The Rebellion of Kemuel, yes. Before God created mankind, he created something called the Leviathan. Kemuel was somewhat of a 'guardian' to the Leviathan. When God had them all locked into Purgatory, Kemuel rebelled and God ordered that his followers be cast down and Kemuel himself be killed. According to Ancient texts all went as God had ordered until Michael cornered Kemuel on the battlefield. As Michael was about to strike a killing blow Gabriel interceded.
He knelt before God's throne and begged for Kemuel's life. God agreed and swore an oath to Gabriel never to strike the rebel angel down and Kemuel was spared; his followers cast down. The text goes on to say that Gabriel later found Kemuel attempting to open Purgatory to release the Leviathan. The stone marks the place where Gabriel cast Kemuel into Purgatory. God stripped Kemuel of his name and Kemuel came to be known as the demon Dagon. And since Gabriel had been the one to beg for Kemuel's life, God charged him with keeping the Leviathan contained in Purgatory."
"Mystery Spot makes a lot more sense now." Sam said. "He was trying to keep me from making the same mistake. He saved his brother and it came back to bite him in the ass."
Castiel stood invisible in the corner. He remembered Kemuel's Rebellion. He had fought in that war. He had not known why God had chosen to spare Kemuel. He also remembered when Kemuel disappeared. It had been a great mystery to the entire host.
When Gabriel vanished from Heaven, most thought that he had joined Kemuel, but he hadn't. Kemuel had been in Purgatory all along.
In Purgatory, among the souls that Castiel had absorbed, just like the Leviathan. Castiel realized that Kemuel, or Dagon, like the Leviathan had been released when He opened the door to Purgatory. This is what Gabriel had Asked God to keep secret. And Castiel also now understood Why God was using the Winchesters. Their father had made a vow and was just as bound by it as any angel would be.