Chapter Six- On the Move
"The hell was that?!" Dean screamed.
Sam was just shaking his head looking very confused, "Dragon? Maybe?"
"A dragon? Really? It had feathers Sam! What kind of dragon has feathers?" Dean was still shouting.
"Well how about instead of standing here and debating about what it looked like we try to go find it?" Sam yelled back with irritation.
The boys took off running to the corner of the park that contained the Tennessee Tornado roller coaster, which was pretty sparse of anything else, not really a place for a huge monster to hide. They had their flashlights out looking around every little structure they came upon. After 15 minutes of looking around, they all met up outside of the coasters entrance. "Anything?" Dean asked breathless from running around the place.
Both Sam and Castiel shook their heads. "How does something that large just disappear?" Sam asked looking up into the sky as if expecting the creature to fly over them at any moment.
Dean shrugged his shoulders, "Cas, you know what this thing is? Any run ins with anything like it during all your angel work?"
Castiel just shook his head again, "I have never seen anything like this before. Why would God make such a fearsome creature?" he had his head tilted to the side in typical Cas fashion.
"But we're all in agreeance on what we saw right? I wasn't just hallucinating from all the southern carbs I ingested?" Dean asked looking between the two men in front of him.
"No it was definitely something with feathers, scales, big wings, shiny teeth. But why didn't the guy it caught scream? There was no scream or panic at all he was just, taken." Sam replied
"I'm afraid your human senses have failed you both." Castiel stated, not bothering to continue.
"Care to enlighten us there, buttercup?" Dean snapped at him.
"The creature didn't have scales like a snake; its hide was more like that of an alligator. And it's not shiny teeth you saw, but rather a very ominous looking beak that shone like metal. And there was no scream from the human because…well, that I actually don't know. My senses are even bothered here in this park, there's just too much going on here." Cas looked around him with a worried expression.
"Well it's got to be around here somewhere, this is exactly where it headed to." Dean threw up his hands exasperated. "But there's nothing around here where it could be hiding!" he was getting very annoyed by the fact that a giant glorified chicken was apparently hiding somewhere in plain sight very close to them.
"Maybe when we were running here he changed direction slightly without us noticing. He could be just over that hill somewhere between the Fire Chaser and the Mystery Mine rides." Sam offered.
"Yea, maybe." Dean muttered. "Well ladies, lets spit up then, Sammy you stay here give the place another once over and then start making calls to other hunters, see if they've encountered anything like this."
Sam nodded as Dean and Cas started walking away together. They walked along in silence until they reached the Fire Chaser "You look around here Cas we'll meet in the middle at the water ride we were on earlier." Cas just nodded as Dean walked away from him.
Dean's mind was in such a stupor trying to think about what this thing could be. Definitely not a dragon. But what then? Nothing he could think of from his dad's journal nor had any of the men of letters books mentioned anything like this. Cas didn't even know what the thing was and the guy has been around for billions of years! And why didn't the victim scream or try to run away? If Dean saw that thing swooping down on him he woulda first shit his pants, and then scream. Even if the guy was taken from behind by surprise, surely he would have at least put up a fight while being carried off. But nope, it was like the thing was carrying around a lifeless rag doll. Surely it didn't have time to kill the guy before flying off? The thing was only out of their sight for a second, there's no way. But then Dean thought of its metallic beak and nodded his head to himself, that beak did look ferocious, no telling what it could do to human skin.
Suddenly Dean heard a faint rustling of metal against metal ahead of him. He stopped and leaned his head to the side trying to strain his ears to hear more. There it was again, definitely the sound of metal on metal. Dean walked up the steps to the Mystery Mine roller coaster and peered into the darkness of the ride. The empty cart of seats just sitting there. He could still hear a metallic clanking sound from within, but shining his flashlight, he saw that there was no way he could get in there without the very real danger of falling through the tracks, cause his damn bow legs were definitely not graceful enough to balance the thin rails.
He pulled out his phone and punched in Cas' number, it was answered before the second ring. "Cas get down here now,
I'm at the Mystery Mine we were on earlier-" he stopped talking because when he turned around to go back to the stairs to wait on Cas he almost collided head on with the angel himself. Of course he just zapped over, why waste his time on such a simple thing as walking Dean thought sarcastically.
"I'm here Dean." Cas spoke into the phone still pressed to his ear.
"Yea, I get that." Dean replied back bitterly.
Cas narrowed his eyes confused as always, "I'm going to hang up now."
"Yea." Dean said as he dropped his phone into his pocket letting out an exasperated sigh.
"What do you need, Dean?" Cas asked.
Dean pointed into the darkness of the ride behind him. "I heard something suspicious in there."
Cas looked at the ride behind his friend, "So go in there." He offered.
"Cas, I can't just go in there, there's no place for me to walk, I was wondering if you could zap around in there and tell me what you see." Dean was starting to get agitated with the angel.
"I could do that Dean. But there is also a pathway into the ride beside the tracks as well." Dean turned around confused and shined his light into the darkness and sure enough to the far side of the wall of the coaster was a metal cat walk descending down into stairs with the first dip of the ride. "I understand that is in place so maintenance can be done when needed." Cas offered up innocently.
Dean blushed for being so dumb as to miss this very obvious route. "Well call Sam and let him know we're going in, have him make his way over here in case we need backup." Dean started walking into the darkness leaving Castiel momentarily behind.
They were both walking in silence looking around for the source of the noise Dean heard earlier. When they came to where the tracks led outside and into the first loop Dean gulped. He wasn't necessarily afraid of heights, but he didn't want to be walking up a narrow staircase in the middle of the night way up in the air either. He looked back at Cas who really just seemed bored to it all, then looked back at the stairs and continued on. They reached the portion of the ride where the fire blazes in the riders face before the steepest drop of all. The walkway turned into a ladder here and Dean sighed down into the darkness, no friggin' way was he going down there! But then he looked up when he heard a scraping sound. And there the ugly bastard was, unaware of the presence below it consisting of a human and an angel.
Dean pulled out his shotgun and raised it to the creature above them jumping straight to his tactic of shoot first, ask questions later. He gave the gun a cock and was just pulling back on the trigger when the beast turned to him staring at him through one large ominous yellow eye in the middle of its head. It opened its terrifying beak and a mist of some kind of green liquid was falling over Dean and Cas. Before they could even exchange confused glances with one another they both collapsed on the stairs.
**First off sorry for not updating in a while! I read Twist and Shout and if you've ever read that fanfic than you can understand that I was too emotionally traumatized to do much of anything for a while!
And also sorry for another cliff hanger! But I have a vision and it had to be this way!