Seal of the Betrayed

War

Ch. 20

One week.

It had been seven long days since Dean or Sam had heard anything from Percy Jackson; the guy who was supposed to be helping them avoid Michael and Lucifer and help them prevent the apocalypse from being unleashed. The guy showed up to stop them from being eaten by his apparent monster half-sister and saved Sam and then disappeared off the face of the earth. No amount of prayers or calls worked.

It wasn't that he wasn't answering Dean's prayers that worried the two Winchester brothers, it was that Castiel and Balthazar had shown up a couple days earlier looking for him only to reveal they hadn't seen him in as long either. The same went for Anna. Neither angel had seen or heard from either since they left on a little mission only to not be seen again.

Percy had vanished and seemed to be making a point of not being able to be found by anyone.

Despite the less than stellar situation the two Winchesters were in, they were not going to sit on their asses and wait for the apocalypse to start before they did something about it.

They were about thirty minutes outside of the small town of River Pass, Colorado. Bobby had gotten a call from his old hunting partner, Rufus Turner, about a demon infestation that was currently enveloping the small town. They weren't exactly sure this was where they should be going considering the APB out on them for all demons, but without some kind of guidance from Percy, they decided it was about the only thing to do at the moment.

As Dean pulled the Impala up to the town line and around the corner he slammed on the brakes, barely stopping the car as they came up to a small bridge that looked like a bomb had gone off on it. The two brothers got out of the car and got a closer look at the remains of the bridge.

"What happened?" Sam asked more to himself than anyone else.

Dean just shook his head as he looked around for a cause of the collapse but found nothing. It looked like the bridge just kind of imploded on itself. He glanced at the river to see it dirty and polluted, even more so than from the mere destruction of the bridge into its waters.

"So what do you want to do?" Sam asked looking at his brother.

Dean was silent for minute as he looked at the wreckage of the bridge and then beyond it where the city wasn't more than one hundred yards behind it.

Without a word he retreated back to the Impala and opened up the trunk, revealing his small arsenal of monster hunting weapons. He grabbed two sawed off shotguns and tossed one to Sam along with a handful of rounds before he loaded up the pockets of his leather jacket as well. He grabbed a few small miscellaneous items including Ruby's knife and shut the trunk.

"We'll walk into town and see what we can do. Bobby said Rufus is in there with Ellen and Jo. We'll figure out exactly what's going on and then make a plan from there." Dean said quickly to which Sam nodded.

Dean put a hand on the roof of the Impala, "I'll be back for you girl, just hold tight."

Sam shook his head at his brother's antics before they both took off towards the bridge, hopping across the wreckage until they reached the other side. Dean put a couple rounds in the shotgun as he and Sam carefully made their way into the small town watchful for any sign of demons.

They made it inside the town without seeing a sign of anything, human or demon. But the minute they stepped onto Main Street, the sound of gunfire to their left made them both dive for cover as more and more rounds went off, some aimed for them and other aimed across the street.

The two brothers dove behind a large metal dumpster before Dean peaked out from behind to see they had unknowingly walked straight into the middle of a gun fight; both sides armed with assault rifles and entrenched in buildings on opposite sides of the street. Dean looked a little closer to see one of the gunmen was an older looking African American man making his eyes widen.