Everyone blinked for a moment stunned at seeing the Kitsune pop out of the trunk. Sam was the first to react throwing himself in front of Jacob and Glaring at Dean until his brother had lowered the gun.
"Sam dammit!" Dean shouted. "I'm not going to shoot the kid okay?"
Garth looked at the wide eyed Kitsune who was actually hiding behind the younger Winchester.
"Am I supposed to automatically assume you're not going to shoot him Dean?" Sam asked.
"Okay I deserved that one but I'm not going to shoot him." Dean said.
"Hi Jacob." Sam said turning toward the boy. "Want to tell me why you are hiding in the trunk?"
Jacob glanced at Dean and Garth shooting them looks of distrust. "I needed to talk to you. But I don't know him." He indicated Garth. "And I don't trust him." Jacob ended by nodding at Dean.
"Fair enough kid, you don't have a reason to trust me." Dean said "But how about we call a truce. You don't hurt anyone here and I won't pull the trigger."
"Dean you're not helping." Sam said. "I've been looking for you, Jacob. These people that died around here."
"You're going to kill me right? To stop the monster from killing." Jacob said looking at the two hunters still crowding around him and Sam.
"Actually I wanted to talk to you. I think someone else is behind all of this." Sam said. "The one who is cleaning up behind you?"
"Dagon. I thought he was just a demon but one of the others came to tell him about the body. He called him Dagon." Jacob said. "I was hoping you wouldn't show up, it would just be him." Jacob said glaring at Dean. "He killed Mom. He deserves whatever Dagon does to him. But not you Sam."
"What is Dagon planning to do?" Sam asked.
"He said he was going to kill Dean, but I heard him yesterday," Jacob said. "He's planning to kill both of you. He was going to tell me that killing you was an accident. But he doesn't want to do it until he finds someone named Gabriel. I think it's his brother."
"Hey kid hop out of there." Dean said Jacobs words reminding him of the dream he had just had. Once Jacob had climbed out of the trunk he lifted the false bottom.
"When did you guys put the swords in the trunk?" Garth asked.
"We didn't Sam answered reaching into the back seat and pulling out Lucifer's sword.
"Gabriel you sneaky son of a bitch." Dean breathed.
"So did you talk to him?" Michael asked once their father had verified that all three of his sons were where they belonged.
"Yep. He knows we're all on the same page about Dagon." Gabriel said munching on a Snicker's bar. "Hopefully it doesn't go in one ear and out the other. I gave them a couple of extra swords too."
"You're trusting someone with your sword?" Lucifer snarked. "Guess the secret is out now. Hell is really a frozen wasteland."
"I'm trusting the Magi with my sword. I figure the goofy one can take Raphael's." Gabriel said. "Raphael isn't going to be needing it anymore thanks to Castiel."
"You know the old man is going to have a conniption." Lucifer said. "All the celestial swords on Earth in the hands of humans."
"Three humans and an abomination you mean. There's nothing human about someone who sucks down demon blood like Dracula." Michael said.
"Yeah well, means to an end." Lucifer smirked. "It led to him letting me out of the cage you stuck me in."
"And led to him sticking you right back in it." Gabriel said. "And Mikey in case you forgot, you had as much of a hand in manipulating Sam as Luci did. So I wouldn't go calling someone an abomination when the two of you started in on him almost before he managed to make his way out of the womb."
Michael turned a glare on the younger Archangel. "You knew all about it Gabriel, you didn't exactly do anything to stop it."
"You're right I did know all about it. And I didn't try to stop it. I let the kid get tainted with the demon blood." Gabriel said. "Doesn't mean I'm proud of that fact or that I blame the kid for what we did to him. It doesn't mean that I didn't try to nudge the kid in a different direction than the one you two wanted him to take."
"Oh you mean your little Broward County fiasco?" Lucifer laughed. "You did more to put the kid on the path we wanted him on than the two of us did with that screw up!"
"Poor little Gabriel trying to hid in the shadows and hope nobody figured out who he was. Maybe if you had just owned up to who you were in the beginning you could have stopped it." Michael said. "After all Sam believed until we showed ourselves."
"That's typical Gabriel, always covering his own ass." Lucifer said.
"True but in his defense the very second he stopped covering his own and tried to cover someone else' it got him a blade to the heart courtesy of big brother Lucifer." Michael said.
"He was going to stab me in the back! And furthermore he said he would shiv your ass too!" Lucifer yelled back.
Gabriel snapped his fingers and the two arguing Archangels found themselves back in their separate cages. "We've been getting along and playing nice for a while. Time out until we can get along and play nice again."
"Dammit Cas!" Dean said startled as the angel appeared next to him.
"Hello Dean." Castiel said peering at the swords in the trunk of the Impala. "Gabriel places a lot of faith in this group. Where is the Magi?"
"I'm right here." Delores said as she joined them.
Castiel picked up one of the swords and held it out to her. "Gabriel intends you to have this."
"Wait that's Gabriel's sword?" Sam asked. "So the other one is Raphael's?"
"Yes, Father agreed to allow you and Dean to have Michael and Lucifer's swords." Castiel said. "Gabriel tests the limits of our father's patience however. He has placed all four swords in human hands and also spoken to you Dean."
"When did you speak to Gabriel?" Sam asked.
"Right before you got back. He was in my dream." Dean said. "He told me that there was a unanimous decision among the Archangels that Dagon had to die, or the Leviathan would be released again."
"He has given you the means to destroy Dagon, and the fallen who follow him." Castiel explained. "As I have said before, the Fallen are rejected by Heaven. Their grace is corrupted. It frees them of the rules that constrain us."
"What rules?" Dean asked.
"They do not need your permission to take you as a vessel." Castiel replied.
"Dagon possesses people. There's been four I know of since I met him." Jacob said quietly. "He takes them and after a while they start getting these sores and then when they fall apart, he gets a new person."
"Sounds like Lucifer. When he was in Nick. He said Mick couldn't contain him." Sam said.
"It is not the same Sam. Nick was not Lucifer's perfect vessel but he was a vessel. Lucifer was simply too powerful for him to contain. Lucifer has also retained his grace. He is bound by the rules of heaven, Dagon is no longer bound by those rules. Dagon does not ask permission nor does he take designated 'vessels'. Those he has chosen are unsuitable."
"And these fallen can take anybody as a vessel?" Dean asked.
"Yes in much the same way that a Demon can take anyone." Castiel said. "It is why I have come for Jacob Pond. He is in danger of being taken. I will take him away from here. I have located a group that would welcome him."
"Other Kitsune?" Sam asked.
"Yes, there is a group living in Australia. They would welcome him, and he will be much safer there."