The End | {BOOK 5}

61| Jack's Soul is Back

The second part of Billie's plan for Jack was to find the Occultum. We found out Sister Jo was the last one to have it, so we went to talk to her. However, she told us that she had given it to Ruby. She claimed Ruby stashed it in Hell, so Sam, Dean and I headed down to find it, but it turned out it was a trick. Jo had lied to us. When we got back, Cass was mostly dead with Jack looking after him. Apparently, Cass thought he could talk to Ruby in the Empty and find out where the Occutum was... and it worked.

We needed a way to trick Chuck just in case he were to check in on us while we were out finding the Occultum, so we enlisted the help of a couple of doppelgangers. An alternate Sam, Dean and Ellie had managed to get through a rift into room 28 of the Bunker. After talking to them, and finding out all three of them were pretentious gits who apparently got payed for hunting in their world, we convinced them to pretend to be us for a little while until we got back from going after the Occultum.

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"This the place?" Dean wrinkled his nose. "You sure?"

We had arrived at an isolated church that Cass had claimed the Occultum was located.

"Ruby was very specific," the angel replied.

"Yeah, well, so was Jo."

"Guys, I-I know I haven't been doing this as long as you, but doesn't this seem a little easy?" Jack questioned us.

"Yeah," I agreed, nodding.

Dean tried to door of the church, finding it locked. Just then, there was a growl from out in the darkness.

"You hear something?" Sam asked.

The growling morphed into a snarl.

"Is that a... bear?" Jack looked at us.

"No," Sam shook his head. "It's more like, uh..."

"Hellhounds," Cass finished.

The hellhounds started barking and closing in on us as Dean frantically tried to pick the lock.

"Dean," I squeaked. "Dean, you want to hurry a little bit?"

He finally got the door open and we all piled in as the hellhounds attacked.

"Go, go, go!" Sam yelled.

While Dean, Jack and I searched for the Occultum, Sam and Cass worked on barricading the door to keep the hounds out.

"You got it?" I shot in their direction.

"Yeah," Sam confirmed, straining.

"Guess Ruby forgot to mention the freakin' hellhounds," Dean grumbled.

"Yeah, it would seem," Cass nodded.

They chained the door handles together with handcuffs, still working to keep it shut as the hellhounds attacked on the other side.

"Where are we supposed to look?" Jack questioned us, looking around the interior of the church.

Dean shined a flashlight at the cross mounted over the altar.

"What's it supposed to be pointing to?" he asked.

"Guys! Could you maybe move it along?!" Sam snapped.

Dean, Jack and I looked around frantically. Jack paused, looking down at the floor.

"Dean, Ellie," he got our attention.

The moonlight that was shining through a small circular window created another cross in the aisle between the pews.

"The top of the cross," I realized. "It's right there."