Sam Dean's Story

Monica

She allowed Sam to drag her along. No words formed on her lips in response to the man, because all she could see were images, frightful images. The kind that pierce and stab and horrify to no end. Sam's hand was like a life jacket and she clung to it as they hurried around the corner, her lungs gasping for air.

"He's...He's..." she couldn't get the words out. What she did manage was, "Lili's...in...trouble..."


KJ

He grabbed the girl and dove out into the hall, both landed hard on the carpet as the side of the house ripped open.

"No!" she shrieked, finally showing fear as her fingernails dug into KJ's red skin.

He shook her off, leaning in the doorway and searching for Shen. "Asian man!" he called, eyes wide on the room, or lack thereof. The side of the house had been torn apart and the shorter Asian was nowhere to be seen. "SHEN!"

Turning, bounded down the stairs, tumbling down the last few as the house shook on its foundations. "What the fuck...?" Nothing downstairs, no attackers, nothing. Shaking again, the house creaked to the left as Nikki practically fell down the stairs.

"What is it?!" She stumbled to him, snatching his shirt as she fell over from another earthquake. "WHAT IS IT?!"

"I don't know..." KJ breathed, falling to one knee and glancing around, the ceiling caving in and Lili nowhere in sight. He pulled Nikki to him and they hurried to the dining room table, crouched underneath as dry wall fell in large chunks above. "I think...we're a little screwed here."


Tex

While sipping at some tea, he tapped his tongue on his lip once, grimacing to the mug. "More honey," he decided, seeing ABNI in his mind's eye and not caring much in the least. He stirred the sticky substance in, took another sip, and smiled. "Much better."

Settling down with an old romance novel, he sipped and read and ignored the trouble he saw in his head.

Sam

Trouble?

"What do you mean Lili's in trouble?" Sam asked, heartbeat quickening, "How do you know? Are you messing with me? You better be joking! Right? I mean...Hey!"

He jumped back from the street, a car nearly running him over even though they were on a crosswalk. "ASSHOLE!" he shouted, shaking the lingerie bag at him.

"Isn't Lili back home? She wouldn't leave home...Toddlers and Tiaras is on now. She fucking loves that show...unless Shen or KJ made her...shit!"

Another car zoomed by, nearly taking his foot. "What the fuck, man! Fucking drivers..." he scowled and practically dragged Monica across the street, worried about Lili completely.

Shen

He had fallen to the bottom floor during the crash, landing all the way in the basement. He managed to shift in time to avoid damage, but as he stood up, human again, an uncomfortable feeling settled in his stomach.

Suddenly the temperature heated up, and he felt dizzy. Nauseous. He heard a sound, but he was sluggish in his movements. Why was he so weak? He felt heavy...

A flash of white and red, and he realized what was the cause. Someone had pasted up ribbons of white, red characters of an ancient language cursed and spiraled around Shen, a dark spell that hadn't been used in millenia against his type.

He lost his balance and fell over. He tried to shift into a dragon, but the curse locked his form tightly, no wiggle room. The room was so hot, moisture evaporating from his skin, and he passed out just as a dark figure entered his vision.

The men grabbed the smaller Asian, and in a flash had him covered and in a van. The girl with the birds feet was already knocked out, gagged, and tied in the back. There had been two others, a girl and a demon, but the men knew better than to battle physically with the red-skinned one. At least not directly. They piled into the van and drove away from the crumbling house, speeding considerably.

Monica

Once safe on the other side of the road, Monica held her head, trying to make sense of what she was seeing. Well, she wasn't really seeing anything, it was more of feeling. Just knowing. Facts.

"They're close," she blurted, spinning around. The street sign above read Richards. Number flew into her vision and gasped out loud, hopping back and covering her mouth as they zoomed in her peripherals and spun down the street, forming an arrow. 2's and 4's danced together like ribbons while 11 and 9 zigzagged horrendously. But all pointed the direction she needed.

"C'mon!" She tugged Sam along, hoping they got there in time.


KJ

When the rumbling stopped, he crawled out at once and ushered Nikki to do the same. "Lili! Shen!" he called, hurrying to the stairs, only to find them crumbled. The sky above shone through a large hole in the roof like a spotlight, heading straight through the floor and into the basement.

Dashing over, KJ hopped down at once, turning. "Shen!" he shouted, kicking debris aside. "Lili!"

Nikki's head peered down the hole, frantic and red. "Are they...there?"

KJ huffed, leaped up and pulled himself back up to the first floor. Brushing his hair back, he yelled for them again, but nothing. No response. His gut told him they weren't dead, just not present. Pinching a horn, he turned back to Nikki. "Someone's taken them."

"How do you...?"

"We're going to head back and...and..." He wasn't sure what to say. What to do. He had no clues, had no idea where to start. They had taken Lili and Shen, but not him. Good thing too, he would have torn them apart, but bad that he didn't get a visual. Nothing.

He pulled Nikki over the rubble of the front wall out to lawn where a crowd had gathered once the tremors had ceased. A woman was on the phone with the police. Another had called an ambulance. KJ ignored concerned questions and shoved past a couple who were taking pictures to some website. All the while, Nikki's hand was tight on his and he felt good that he had saved one person, but his throat filled with a rock, a heavy rock of emotion. Lili and Shen...

His eyes zeroed in on a pair running toward him along the sidewalk. "Monica?"

The human huffed, face red and breath haggard. "Is...Is Lili...okay?"

KJ raised his eyebrows. "How did you know where we were?"

"Is she okay?!" she insisted, pointing to a distraught Sam.

The rock expanded when KJ tried to swallow it down. "I...don't know."

Monica

Sam's accusations didn't help her already confused and guilty mind. Stumbling back a few steps, she nearly toppled over the curb, catching herself at the last second. "I don't know!" she exclaimed, shaking a little. "I just...knew and we're here so...so...just..."

KJ's expression bent into suspicion. He even stepped in front of some girl that was with him, looking fearful and small. Monica couldn't believe any of this.

Before she could explain more though, something caught her eye. In the crowd. A young man...with black hair...

"Hey!" she exclaimed, dashing away from the group and into the growing crowd. "Wait!"

He was already gone, like a wisp of smoke, when she reached his spot. A news van had arrived as the fire department did, while others shouted about posts on facebook about similar happenings around the country. None of it mattered to Monica though as she spun on the spot, shoulder colliding with more than one body. But the boy was gone.

"But..." she exhaled, at a loss. What was happening to her? He had to know, he had to.

Then she saw him across the street. He adjusted his glasses, gave a quick salute, then vanished into someone's backyard. Monica didn't chase him. He would only disappear again.


KJ

New things were not helpful right now. He couldn't deal with Monica and decided to let her run off, turning to Sam. "They knew we were coming. They killed a girl here who was at the club last night. This is Nikki, her sister."

Nikki gave a half-wave.

"Her throat was slit and ABNI was carved under her bed. It was a trap for us and it has something to do with that piece of ugly from last night. I don't know where Lili is, but that...thing...is where we start."

Lili

Lili woke while the van was still driving.

The first thing she noted was how disgusting the gag tasted. Which reminded her of an unpleasant sexual experience.

The van hit a bump, and she was jolted upright. "MM!" she shrieked through the dirty cloth. She rolled around, hitting the sides hard. Shen was still out for some reason, and as a sharp turn was made, his body slammed against her. Ugh. Getting a leg free, she kicked him back before glaring disappointingly at her bird feet and sighing.

Well, no moping was to be done here. She was in the middle of being kidnapped! She tried to stand up, but the van was so fast and not exactly well-driven, so the most she could get was her knees...which wasn't the smartest idea when she ended up faceplanting after a hard brake.

"FFMM!" she shouted, and struggled to get back up into upright position. She sat with her knees bent on either side of her, legs splayed, which provided some sort of support. Looking around for some sort of exit, she realized she only had one choice: the back door.

Resituating herself and dodging the rolling Asian, she sat herself a little less than legs length from the door, and began kicking as hard as she could.

Sam

Now Monica was running away? Ugh!

"So it was a trap? You pulled Lili away from T@T for a trap??" Sam exclaimed. He hardly listened to the rest that KJ had to say, but what he did he misunderstood, "So that big monster took Lili?? HOW? I thought we got rid of it! I thought Shen took care of it! And why are we standing here? We need to get Lili! We need to get her before she's sold into the sex trade or kidnapped some more or killed or...or worse!" His voice was high-pitched now, tiptoeing the line of falsetto, and he was practically pulling his hair out.

"I'm an idiot! I should have gotten someone to get her out of the car. I should have been nicer to her, even if she was a bitch. God damnit! Why is she getting herself kidnapped? Why did you let her get kidnapped? Can't you sense traps with your demon senses or something? Shouldn't you have known?"

He was crying now, and he took a wrong step and ended up sprawled on the ground, which didn't help, his broken leg splayed out. "Now she's probably tied up and gagged and forced to give someone a blowjob and they'll be gross and disgusting and they'll do worse things to her and then they'll just torture her and kill her and sell her and I'm never going to see her agaaaaain!!"

The rest of his words jumbled into an incoherent mess as sloppy tears rolled down his face while he bawled.

KJ

Sam's freakout wasn't helping KJ's frustration. He watched the shorter half-demon turn about, tail wiggling this way and that, all the while blaming KJ for everything. Perhaps he could have detected something sooner, but he didn't and that wasn't his fault. He couldn't control it persay. Maybe the kidnappers were smart and knew he could detect such things and...

Great. KJ wiped at his chin. They were smart. They knew them.

His yellow eyes flicked to Monica, running across the street. She looked defeated and not with them at all. KJ wondered...he had to wonder...if the kidnappers didn't know about her as well.

Grabbing Sam's shoulders, he shook him a bit to get his attention. Voice low, he instructed, "Follow me. Leave Monica. Don't question me."

He grabbed Nikki's hand and tugged her along as well. They jogged away, into a yard and through a fence to a backyard with a pool. They needed to ditch Monica. She couldn't be seen with them. If the kidnappers connected their business relationship to one another, then they would lose an advantage. KJ wasn't about to allow such to happen.

"Text her," KJ demanded when they were two blocks away. "Tell her to stay low. Don't go back home." He checked the street before pulling them into traffic stopped at a red light. Horns honked, but they weren't hurting anyone. Once they were within the crowds of shoppers, he ducked them into a clothing store to regroup. "Okay, they know our faces and they know yours," he said, indicating Nikki. "I don't think they'd know Monica."

"How can you know that?" Nikki asked.

KJ shrugged. "I can't," he admitted, eyes turning to Sam. "But if we get taken as well, we need her." He nearly cringed at the idea. That little human girl with her gummy worms and silly mannerisms and human smells. She was their salvation?

Sam

Sniffing, Sam texted Monica sullenly, almost verbatim what KJ told him. "So I texted her. Now what? What's the plan now, big guy?" he demanded sarcastically, "Where do we even start to find them? It's not like we have a GPS to enter their names in. They could be anywhere."

Lili

After several minutes of repeated kicking and cursing and scratching with her toe claws, the back door flung open, one hinge already broken off, and battered against the van and the wind.

"MMF!" Lili exclaimed. But before she could even attempt to jump or roll out, they slipped into a very dark tunnel...so dark that Lili couldn't see two inches in front of her. To make matters worse, groans seemed to shake the walls and van. Unnatural...groans....

With a stifled shriek, she tried to clamber back further into the truck, bumping her knee and falling over Shen.

Spouts of fire flared up here and there, illuminating frightening shadows against the walls for only a second, and the groans crescendoed and added higher pitched noises that weren't humanly possible. And the further they traveled, the darker it became...

Where in hell were they?