Chapter 5- Curious

Dolly had a full southern dinner waiting on them in her office. They had in front of them; ham biscuits, Salisbury steak, fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, corn on the cob, green beans, and 3 very large pitches of sweet tea. Dean's face lit up just looking at the feast around them and for the next twenty minutes his mouth was never not grossly full. Sam tried to just eat the white meat off of the chicken and politely asked for water, Castiel just sat there looking at all the food he didn't need to eat.

"Isn't the shy one going to eat anything?" Dolly leaned over to ask Dean.

"Oh no ma'am, he's very particular about his food, he'll be fine." Dean smiled back.

"Yes, I feel as if I have had too many molecules today. This" he gestured at all the food "this is just very stressful." Cas chimed in.

Dolly just raised her eyebrow in confusion but decided to ignore Cas' little input. She then walked over to her desk and used a key to unlock a drawer where she pulled out a stack of files. She slammed them down on her desk and said, "Well boys, here's all I got on those missin' persons. Dean shoved one last ham biscuit into his mouth and grabbed the top quarter of the pile.

"Everyone grab a handful, read over everything and keep an eye out for similarities, we'll compare notes when we're all done." He said while taking a swig of sweet tea.

Half an hour later everyone had thrown down their last report and were rubbing their eyes and stretching. "Well from what I saw in mine, people are just gone! Seems more like adults than kids, but still that's all I saw" Dolly stated while stretching in her high backed wooden chair.

"There's not even anything found of the people, no clothes, no blood, just worried families." Sam said staring to the ground with a sad look.

"Yea yea, the creep factor is up, I get it." Dean grunted out. "What do we know isn't doing this then?" he asked looking around to Sam and Cas but was surprised when Dolly spoke up.

"Well it's definitely not shape shifters like last time." She looked around at the boys. "What? Of course I made your dad tell me what he killed last time. Was kinda mad he didn't let me help out to be honest." She looked at the boys and then added when she saw their stern looks, "Oh don't worry I'll stay out of your way, John taught me not to mess with a Winchester when he glares at you like that."

"Well we could also rule out: vamps, werewolves, fairies, djinn, wendigos, and even demons I think." Sam ran his hand through his hair, maybe were looking at a God or something? Like Vesta when she went after all of those virgins."

"Yea but even she left behind their meat suits once she was done with them. This thing we're dealing with here just takes everything." He reached for a few more files flipping through. "I think we're just gonna have to go in tonight with everything we brought and hope we see it in action and can put it down."

By the time the sun was starting to set the boys were scouting around the park each having a number of different items hidden in their coats to try to fight off whatever it is they may come up against. Between the three of them they had, holy oil, guns with ammo in it for; witches, werewolves, and even some with demon traps etched in on them. They also had their angel blades, their demon knifes, and just about anything else they could fit onto their bodies without raising too much suspicion from the average person.

The fireworks started and Dean and Sam were walking through the crowd of onlookers all 'oohhhing' and 'ahhhing' at the display. Dean circled around to where he knew Cas was patrolling and immediately walked up to him and smacked him over the head, for the angel had stopped what he was doing and was just staring up at the light display in the sky. Cas looked over to Dean puzzled "Are you not intrigued by these exploding lights?" he turned his face back to the sky, his eyes round with excitement.

"Yes Cas it's great, but remember? Monster on the loose? People disappearing?"

"Oh yes, I guess that does hold more import here." He started to walk back around the meandering crowd looking at everyone for any hint of a supernatural being.

The fireworks ended and the boys still had not seen or heard anything yet. They sat on a low brick wall at the exit watching the crowd shove their way to the awaiting trams. "Well, any ideas guys?" Sam finally asked.

"No friggin' clue. Didn't see one thing out there, just a bunch of tired people ready to go home." Dean rubbed his face in agitation.

They sat there for a little longer still looking about them trying desperately to notice anything suspicious as the last few people were making their way out of the park. They were finally down to just their selves and the staff who were busy cleaning up. Then the whistle for the Dollywood Express train sounded making the trio jump a little at the unexpected break to their silence and thoughts. Sam noticed the employees looking at one another confused. "Hey!" hey called to an older man sweeping up debris near them, "What time does the last train head out here?"

"The last train headed out an hour ago, it's only to tour the park and no one boards it during the fireworks. Must be some idiot playing with the whistle." He shook his head and continued his sweeping.

"Maybe we should go pay a visit to this idiot, nothing else going on" Sam said looking to the other two. Dean shrugged his shoulders and stood up consulting his park map as to which direction to head in. The boys made it there in a few short minutes to see that whoever had blown the train whistle was now apparently gone.

"Well another dead end, who would have thunk it." Dean sighed as he turned to walk back from where they came. "I don't think anyone is getting taken tonight. We'll have to try again tomorrow night."

"I don't know if I'd be so sure about that Dean" Castiel said in an awe filled sort of way looking up into the sky.

Dean followed his line of sight and his jaw dropped open. What the hell was that? Flying through the air like an owl going in for a mouse was an unimaginable creature. Its wingspan was a least twenty feet, had feathers like a bird but also the hide of some kind of reptile. And dean swore its teeth shined in the moonlight like blades of steel. The creature swooped down some fifty yards from them behind a snack shack and reappeared in the air a second later with an unconscious employee hanging limply from its talons. The boys had to duck to keep from getting hit by the persons dangling feet before the creature picked up elevation and disappeared into the night.

Cas looked at Sam. Sam looked at Dean, Dean looked to Cas. They just kept looking back and forth to each other trying to form a coherent sentence but all failing. Finally Dean pointed up into the sky, "The hell was that?!" he screamed.

**A/N- Ohhhh what is it?! Thanks for positive remarks guys, I'm having a blast writing this and hope you are enjoying it as well!