Treacherous Waters

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥

"Sam, do you think there is a connection between what is happening here and what's happening with Shela and Dean?" Kristina asked because at the moment she felt that something was just out of place here.

"I don't know but something about this whole thing seems off, I think that Jyn isn't telling us something. So I say we do a little research of our own," Sam said to her and before she could respond, the sound of hoofsteps was heard. The two turned around to see what was causing them and words couldn't express the shock or fear they felt while staring into the creature's red eyes. The horse part of it snarled and an icky black steam left it's mouth meaning that was it's breath.

"Sam, you see this right?" Kristina asked, trying her best to hide the fear in her voice.

"Yeah I do and we should run like right now," Sam answered and before she could even respond her grabbed her wrist and took off running. The Nuckelavee let out an ear piercing scream and any glass that was nearby shattered, it didn't like when it's prey tried to run. It galloped after them all the while leaving only destruction in its path. Shela had dragged Dean into the kitchen where they were going to cook some food and give it to the duende as an offering.

"What are we doing?" Dean asked.

"We're going to fix what you messed up," Shela said as she got a pan and placed it on the stove.

"I didn't do anything!" Dean exclaimed.

"Says the guy who pissed a duende off," Shela said glaring at her boyfriend.

"I didn't know he was going to do this!" Dean exclaims.

"Oh stop complaining and start helping," Shela said as they began to cook some food for the offerings to the duende. After a while of cooking, Shela and Dean had finally finished and sat some of the food on the plates. "Now then, we're going to head to that mound you kicked and your going to apologize so we can deal with the other monster we have to fight,"

"I can't believe I'm doing this," says Dean, feeling defeated as he realizes he had lost against a dwarf. The young couple started to make their way to the mound, eventually, they arrived and Shela nudged Dean forward. Dean sighed and started making his way over to the mound, he laid the plates down as Shela stepped away from Dean to leave him be. "Hey! Duende! Come out, I wanted to tell you something,"

"What do you want mound kicker?" says the Duende as it appeared before Dean sitting on top of the mound.

"I came to apologize," Dean said as the words left a disgusting taste in his mouth. "I didn't mean to upset you, and I hope you can honestly forgive me,"

"It's about time you finally come to your senses boy," says the Duende. "Thank you for these offerings and therefore you can have your crap back," The duende snapped his fingers and all of Dean's stuff was returned to him. "But you best watch your back boy, these next couple days are going to get a whole lot darker," the duende snapped his fingers and disappeared leaving Dean alone. Dean was stunned to hear what the Duende was saying but tried his best not to think about it. His eyes traveled from the mound and searched the area around the river only to find that Shela had been nowhere in sight, panic swelled in his chest as he began to follow the river up.

"Shela?!" Dean exclaimed as he started to pick up the pace until he stumbled across a large rock and saw Shela sitting on it looking out at the river. A sigh of relief escaped from Dean's lips as he climbed up the rock until he stopped by her and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Hey you scared the crap out of me," Shela laughed as she turned toward Dean.

"I'm fine Dean, I'm just lost in thought," Shela responded.

"What have you been thinking about?" Dean asked. "You've been troubled by something since we got off that call with Sam and Kristina,"

"I've just been stressed out Dean, that's all, I was expecting this to be a relaxing vacation not one where we still have to fight evil," Shela said.

"Life as a hunter can be hard, but we do it together, and you know you can tell me anything right?" Dean said. "All you have to do is just ask,"

"And i'm glad that i'm here with you even though it's not the vacation I dreamed about but it's still the best time of my life," Shela said not willing to tell Dean what she had seen in her vision, the two leaned in and kissed completely forgetting the situation. However, the flying Fox had been watching the couple for two nights now and he was already suspicious. He flew back to his mistress and landed upside down on a branch as the manananggal nearly walked into the bat.

"Hey mistress! I'm back and i've got some news!"

"You little rodent! Never sneak up on me like that again or I'll eat you!" she says.

"Excuse me for scaring you mistress, but I have news from the little adventure I had,"

"And?" the manananggal said, waiting for the bat to finish his thoughts.

"Well I could tell you... but i'm just so hungry! I need some fruit!" The manananggal rolled her eyes as she picked a wildberry and threw it at the bat who caught it in it's talons and started to eat it while the manananggal waited patiently for the bat to finish eating. "Mhmm! Thank you mistress!"

"Stop playing around with me! Tell me right now what you saw!" she exclaimed.

"Oh well Dean and Shela are already onto you, and it won't be long until they find a way to stop you,"

"We need a plan!" Kristina said, still being dragged away from the Nuckelavee who was still on their tail.

"Running at the moment is my plan!" Sam responded as he glanced back briefly and saw the red eyes of the Nuckelavee stare into his own. He couldn't think about that right now, he needed to find a way to lose it even if it was just for a minute. Nearby he spotted the colosseum and thinking fast he dashed off towards it and hid both himself and Kristina behind the stage.

"I think we lost it," Kristina whispered but Sam instantly shushed her and placed his hand over her mouth to keep quiet. Even though the Nuckelavee lost sight of them it could still hear them if too much noise was made. Kristina had never been more terrified in her life and she clung to Sam like a small child, she needed him to comfort her and tell her this was all a bad dream. Sam held her close as saw the Nuckelavee walk by only seeing the bottom of it's hoofs. He could sense her fear from a mile away and if this situation was different he would be doing all he could to calm her down. Eventually the Nuckelavee was far enough away from them to slightly relax.

"Okay it's gone," Sam said, his voice still quiet as he was unsure if the creature was out of earshot. However he was also glad that he couldn't see the creature anymore because he had no idea how to fight it.

"Sam I'm scared you heard what Jyn said we can't stop this thing, what are we going to do?" Kristina asked trying to keep herself from having a panic attack, if this thing was unstoppable then they were doomed.

"I know but you're going to be alright, I'll figure something out." Sam said to her as he continued to hold her, he wasn't going to let anything bad happen to her nor was he going to let this situation get to her. Something was off with this whole situation from the creature, to the guardian and how no one had been attacked. Jyn said her family had been killed but while they were at her house, there were no pictures of them nor any mention of people dying. Sure he had a vision but like everything else that was happening it made no sense, one's things for sure is that someone was causing this creature to appear and he had a pretty good idea who.