Once Upon a Dream

Chapter seven

The three stopped almost instantly as more vines grew, nearly taking out their horses. When Dean tried to get his horse through it wouldn't budge and he worried that maybe something might happen to Madison or Rowena. Even Sam, he couldn't let anything bad happen to that kid, it was always his job and he always made sure that Sam was well taken care of.

"What are we going to do now?!" Madison exclaimed, upon hearing the trouble that they were dealing with, Rowena used her magic and gave Madison not only a sword and shield but changed her clothes from a dress to hunting clothes, in some cases, it was wrong for a woman to wear a man's clothes but in this case, it had to happen if they were going to move any faster. Turning back toward Dean Rowena enchanted Dean's sword and shield. "Whoa! This is awesome!"

"Yes it is but there is no time to dwell on that," Rowena said. "You have to cut the thorns before they become unbreakable." Madison didn't know how to use a sword but after watching Dean cut down a bunch of thorns despite the fact that some of them kept growing back. She figured that it was easy and began cutting down her own set of thorns much to Ruby's fury, the mad witch teleported down in front of her enemies, as she landed her thorns disappeared.

"Now you shall deal with me and all the powers of hell!" Ruby exclaimed. She exploded into green smoke and transformed into a giant purple dragon.

"Son of a bitch." Dean commented. "Madison, Rowena! keep going! I'll hold this bastard off!" Madison and Rowena nodded and they rode ahead leaving Dean with a shield and sword both charmed by Rowena's magic. "You can't ever stop bitch can you?!" Dean said and in response Ruby blew fire at Dean who jumped out of the way quickly. Ruby growled and attempted to snap him in half with her jaws but she was cut on the face with Dean's sword.

"That's a low move for you, attacking your own sister." Ruby snarled. Ruby spit fire toward Dean and it crashed into his shield, he flinched and the shield went flying and landed at the bottom of the cliff. Dean rubbed his arm but thankfully he still had his sword in his hand. Once Ruby tried to attack again he evaded it and struck her in the arm. Ruby cried out and stumbled back.

"I don't fucking care!" Dean exclaimed. "We will never be related by blood, you will never be my sister!" Ruby narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth ready to burn him alive with her fire breath, but Dean threw his sword hoping it would kill her. The sword hit Ruby in between the eyes and she let out a groan as blood spluttered from the wound, she fell off the cliff trying to snap Dean in her jaws with her last breath. He moved out of the way just in time and glanced down to see that she was nothing more than burnt remains. Sighing with relief he whistled and his horse came back, he jumped back on and took off cutting through the last of the vines until he eventually arrived back at the castle.

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Madison and Rowena arrived at the castle with no problems, but Rowena worried that Dean might not have made it. Sure he was facing off against his older sister, but what other choice did he have? She wouldn't let up, and was more than ever determined to defeat Dean. Dean arrived not a moment later and came running over to them exhausted from his fight and from the looks of it, he lost his shield and his sword plus his clothes were torn.

"Dean are you alright?" Rowena asked.

"Well I hurt all over but she's dead." Dean responded.

"Either way, we need to get going, if Madison doesn't get to Sam then he would never wake up." Rowena stated.

"Where is he?" Madison asked. Dean nodded and led her up to Sam's tower where he was still in a deep sleep. She looked down at him but was hesitant to kiss him while he was sleeping. "I don't know you guys, I've only known him for a day."

"Haven't you heard of love at first sight?" Rowena asked. Madison nodded and despite her worry she agreed to at least try, the princess moved Sam's hair out of his face and leaned down to kiss him. But when she did nothing happened and she pulled away in disappointment. "I don't understand." Rowena said. Madison tried again but still nothing happened so she left the room ashamed. Rowena debeated running after the princess or staying with Dean as he looked like a man who had lived centuries of misery. Dean told Rowena to go and talk to Madison since he wanted to be left alone. Rowena agreed but once she left, he looked at Sam with sadness in his eyes; everything that he had done felt worthless. The kiss didn't work and now Sam was asleep and wound up never to wake up.

"I'm not gonna ask you to forgive me when I know you can't," Dean said. "Sammy I've always tried to protect you, but I couldn't and now I've lost you forever," he continued. "I promise that nothing else is going to happen to you and not a day will pass that I don't miss your smile." Dean couldn't help but shed a tear and didn't notice that it fell on Sam when he turned away. Dean wanted to get out of that room but the minute he was about to leave the place, he heard something coming from behind him. Slowly, Dean turned around to find Sam groaning and waking up. "Sam?" Dean said and walked over to him. "You're awake, but how?"

"Well my head is wet, did you cry on me?" Sam asked.

"No I didn't." Dean responded. Sam grinned already knowing that he was lying.

"Aww that's so cute." Sam said.

"Shut up," Dean answered, pushing Sam away. "Now get out of that bed before I decide to put you back to sleep."

"Wow and here I thought you would be saddened if I slept for eternity?" Sam chuckled. Dean glared at him playfully and pushed his arm.

"Bitch." Dean said.

"Jerk." Sam responded.