Dakota Elizabeth Winchester

Chapter 4: Wedingo Part 2

After a few hours of walking through nothing but trees, they were still in the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees.

"De! I'm tired." Dakota complained. She wasn't really that tired, she just didn't feel like walking the rest of the way and wanted Dean to carry her

"Sorry Baby Girl. Not going to happen."

"Ugh! Sammy can I have a piggyback ride?" Dakota asked with puppy dog eyes that could possibly rival Sam's.

"Sure thing, Mouse." Sam said and he bent down to let her hop onto his back. She scrambled onto her twins back.

"Onward, Moose!" She said pointing forward. Dakota and Sam had been calling each other Mouse and Moose ever since Sam shot up in height when they were sixteen, leaving poor 5'4 Dakota in the dust.

Haley pulled Dean off the path for a moment to talk to him. Sam and Dakota stopped to see if they needed to intervene, but when Dean nodded that he was okay, they continued forward. After another 30 or so minutes of hiking Roy announced that they had reached Blackwater Ridge. Dakota slipped off of Sam's back and looked around the small clearing they were standing in.

"What coordinates are we at?" Sam asked. Roy pulled out his satellite map.

"35, -11" Roy informed them. The Winchester's huddled together in the middle of the clearing.

"You hear that?" Dean asked.

"Yeah. Not even crickets." Sam responded in an ominous tone.

"It's always creepy when there's no noise in a forest." Dakota said, having been on one too many hunts in wooded areas that all start with silence.

"I'm going to take a look around." Roy said.

"You shouldn't go off by yourself." Said Sam.

"That's sweet." Roy said in a condescending tone. "Don't worry about me."

"Ass." Dakota muttered under her breath after Roy had shoved his way through the family huddle Dean nodded at his sister's statement.

"Alright. Everybody stays together. Let's go." Dean ordered as he led the group further into the woods. After a little bit of walking they heard Roy yell for Haley and the group sprinted to where they heard his voice coming from. They came across another clearing, this one bigger than the first one they stopped at. There they found a destroyed camping ground with several blood splatters."

"Oh my God." Haley whispered.

"Looks like a grizzly." Said Roy. Then Haley began yelling Tommy's name, Sam and Dakota rushed over to shush her.

"Sam. Dakota." Dean yelled from somewhere just beyond the camp site. They found him hunched over something on the ground. As they got closer they saw that they were tracks. "The bodies were dragged from the campsite, but here they just stop. It's weird."

"That's no skinwalker or black dog." Dakota commented as they walked back to join the group. They saw Haley crying and Dakota and Dean went over to comfort her.

"Hey. He might still be alive." Dean said with a gentle smile, trying to reassure the crying girl.

"Yeah. Don't lose hope!" Dakota said just as a loud cry for help ripped through the woods. Roy, Dean, and Dakota grabbed their guns and the whole group went running towards the scream. They all froze when the screams stopped.