09x13 - Icarus - Part One: Crimson Skies
Episode Number: 09x13 of Season 9 Fan Fiction (S9FF)
Title: Icarus
Subtitle: Crimson Skies
Author: dracox-serdriel
Word Count: 840
Rating: R
Warnings: violence
Status: Complete. Feedback appreciated.
Elk Creek, Nebraska. Kailah leaped over a tree fallen across the dirt tail. Her legs ached with exhaustion, but she continued running desperately.
"Kailah!" Amier cried from behind her. He ran between the trees, keeping away from the dirt pathway. "Get off the path! The thing, it's on the path!"
She banked quickly to join her friend, but her feet slipped out from under her. She crashed into a tree and ricocheted onto the ground. Pain emanated through her entire body, and panic followed immediately behind.
The sound of heavy footsteps made her flail, but it was too late. Claws raked across her arm and shoulder, but the pain didn't register. Her eyes locked onto the bipedal monstrosity attacking her. Its face had human features and a horrific smile, but its body appeared awkward standing upright, like a bear on its hind legs.
Kailah threw a hammer fish at the creature, slamming down on its arm. Nothing happened, except her hand ached from attempted to smash into the rock-hard scales on the monster's body.
Amier's body abruptly crashed into the beast, which howled in contempt and tossed him on the ground next to Kailah. It pinned them down with is hind feet and -
The thing disappeared. Amier checked himself and found bruises, cuts, and a long, deep gash. Kailah bled freely.
"Did that just happen?" he asked her. She went into shock.
"Help!" Amier cried. "Anyone! Help!"
Elsewhere in Elk Creek, Nebraska. Jesse Turner woke violently; the last image in his mind was the expression of horror on Kailah Ryder's face. His hands slipped over his emergency phone because sweat coated his entire body.
"Nine one one, what's your emergency?"
"Hello, I was on the phone with a friend. He's out in the woods, and he and someone else were just attacked."
"Attacked?"
"By a large animal, or something, I could hear it."
"Your friend's name?"
"Amier Beckwith."
"Where is he?"
"He's out in the woods past the highway, and I think both of them are hurt real bad, please hurry."
"What's your name?"
Jesse hung up. He looked at his hands. There was no blood. He assured himself that it had been a dream, a nightmare. It wasn't him.
Kansas City, Kansas. Kevin heard him pacing outside the stall. He could tell, somehow, that he was another angel. They'd followed Joshua to earth, somehow caught Kevin's trail, and now he was stuck hiding in a stall of the Men's Room in the Kansas City bus station.
Minutes passed like hours. What was the angel waiting for?
The sound of wings. Another angel?
"Castiel," the first angel said.
"Daniel," replied Castiel.
Blades crashed together. Kevin took that as his cue, and he popped out of the stall just as Daniel threw Castiel to the floor and brought his heel down over his chest.
"Hey!" Kevin yelled.
Cas utilized the distraction to grab the other angel's leg and throw him into the mirror. Two heartbeats later, Cas teleported first to Kevin, then to the Impala, which remained parked outside the Bunker.
"Thanks," Kevin said.
"What were you doing in a bus station?"
"I, uh, summoned Joshua and he zapped me there - "
"Joshua? Excellent idea."
"Where's Dean?"
"When you called, he'd already summoned Atropos and Nona - "
"You left Dean alone with two angry Fates?" Kevin asked.
"You have the Bunker key?"
"Yeah, why - "
Kevin stopped when Cas vanished.
Purgatory. Sam hesitated several feet below the portal that would land him topside. The last time he'd been here, monsters rallied for an attack; when Dean left, he fought off Leviathan. Yet now, as he stood on the high mountain, he couldn't hear a single growl or screech.
He scanned the expanse beyond him. Dozens of monsters, maybe hundreds, stared up at him about a hundred feet away, as if an electric fence circled the mountain. None of them came any closer. They just watched, like some kind of perverted vigil.
Sam threw himself into the portal. His body vibrated as blackness overcame him, and he dropped into the middle of the Hundred-Mile Wilderness in Maine.
He wasted no time. With his knife, he cut open his right arm, releasing the phoenix's soul first. The soul blazed white and ascended, climbing steeply upwards toward Heaven. He did the same to his left arm, this time releasing Madison's soul, which blazed red-orange before him.
"Go on, follow that phoenix," Sam said to her as his last goodbye.
Her soul climbed into the sky, but before it passed the tree line, it stopped.
"Madison?" Sam asked.
"You can't be serious," Kane spoke.
"I promised you I wouldn't resurrect anyone, and I'm not!"
"Yes, but this is a werewolf, and her soul belongs in Purgatory. You were foolish to believe you could just pull her out and no one would come for her."
"But - "
The reaper didn't listen. He reached up his hand, and Madison's soul descended to them. Sam's stomach churned as he realized this was the third time he'd failed her.
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Primary Post: 09x13 Icarus
Primary Post: Season 9 Fan Fiction (S9FF)
Title: Icarus
Subtitle: Crimson Skies
Author: dracox-serdriel
Word Count: 840
Rating: R
Warnings: violence
Status: Complete. Feedback appreciated.
Elk Creek, Nebraska. Kailah leaped over a tree fallen across the dirt tail. Her legs ached with exhaustion, but she continued running desperately.
"Kailah!" Amier cried from behind her. He ran between the trees, keeping away from the dirt pathway. "Get off the path! The thing, it's on the path!"
She banked quickly to join her friend, but her feet slipped out from under her. She crashed into a tree and ricocheted onto the ground. Pain emanated through her entire body, and panic followed immediately behind.
The sound of heavy footsteps made her flail, but it was too late. Claws raked across her arm and shoulder, but the pain didn't register. Her eyes locked onto the bipedal monstrosity attacking her. Its face had human features and a horrific smile, but its body appeared awkward standing upright, like a bear on its hind legs.
Kailah threw a hammer fish at the creature, slamming down on its arm. Nothing happened, except her hand ached from attempted to smash into the rock-hard scales on the monster's body.
Amier's body abruptly crashed into the beast, which howled in contempt and tossed him on the ground next to Kailah. It pinned them down with is hind feet and -
The thing disappeared. Amier checked himself and found bruises, cuts, and a long, deep gash. Kailah bled freely.
"Did that just happen?" he asked her. She went into shock.
"Help!" Amier cried. "Anyone! Help!"
Elsewhere in Elk Creek, Nebraska. Jesse Turner woke violently; the last image in his mind was the expression of horror on Kailah Ryder's face. His hands slipped over his emergency phone because sweat coated his entire body.
"Nine one one, what's your emergency?"
"Hello, I was on the phone with a friend. He's out in the woods, and he and someone else were just attacked."
"Attacked?"
"By a large animal, or something, I could hear it."
"Your friend's name?"
"Amier Beckwith."
"Where is he?"
"He's out in the woods past the highway, and I think both of them are hurt real bad, please hurry."
"What's your name?"
Jesse hung up. He looked at his hands. There was no blood. He assured himself that it had been a dream, a nightmare. It wasn't him.
Kansas City, Kansas. Kevin heard him pacing outside the stall. He could tell, somehow, that he was another angel. They'd followed Joshua to earth, somehow caught Kevin's trail, and now he was stuck hiding in a stall of the Men's Room in the Kansas City bus station.
Minutes passed like hours. What was the angel waiting for?
The sound of wings. Another angel?
"Castiel," the first angel said.
"Daniel," replied Castiel.
Blades crashed together. Kevin took that as his cue, and he popped out of the stall just as Daniel threw Castiel to the floor and brought his heel down over his chest.
"Hey!" Kevin yelled.
Cas utilized the distraction to grab the other angel's leg and throw him into the mirror. Two heartbeats later, Cas teleported first to Kevin, then to the Impala, which remained parked outside the Bunker.
"Thanks," Kevin said.
"What were you doing in a bus station?"
"I, uh, summoned Joshua and he zapped me there - "
"Joshua? Excellent idea."
"Where's Dean?"
"When you called, he'd already summoned Atropos and Nona - "
"You left Dean alone with two angry Fates?" Kevin asked.
"You have the Bunker key?"
"Yeah, why - "
Kevin stopped when Cas vanished.
Purgatory. Sam hesitated several feet below the portal that would land him topside. The last time he'd been here, monsters rallied for an attack; when Dean left, he fought off Leviathan. Yet now, as he stood on the high mountain, he couldn't hear a single growl or screech.
He scanned the expanse beyond him. Dozens of monsters, maybe hundreds, stared up at him about a hundred feet away, as if an electric fence circled the mountain. None of them came any closer. They just watched, like some kind of perverted vigil.
Sam threw himself into the portal. His body vibrated as blackness overcame him, and he dropped into the middle of the Hundred-Mile Wilderness in Maine.
He wasted no time. With his knife, he cut open his right arm, releasing the phoenix's soul first. The soul blazed white and ascended, climbing steeply upwards toward Heaven. He did the same to his left arm, this time releasing Madison's soul, which blazed red-orange before him.
"Go on, follow that phoenix," Sam said to her as his last goodbye.
Her soul climbed into the sky, but before it passed the tree line, it stopped.
"Madison?" Sam asked.
"You can't be serious," Kane spoke.
"I promised you I wouldn't resurrect anyone, and I'm not!"
"Yes, but this is a werewolf, and her soul belongs in Purgatory. You were foolish to believe you could just pull her out and no one would come for her."
"But - "
The reaper didn't listen. He reached up his hand, and Madison's soul descended to them. Sam's stomach churned as he realized this was the third time he'd failed her.
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