Warping to Destiny - A Supernatural FanFiction

Chapter 64 - History Lesson

Katie's POV

The next day there were several periods when Garth's ears rang. We developed a signal for him to indicate this whenever he heard it. He also realized that he had to be near it to hear it. It spent most of the time watching the boys train. If Garth left that room for any distance he lost the ringing. That helped us greatly to know when and where we could speak freely.

After lunch, Mom had the boys walk around the Bat Cave while she, Garth and Maggie tried to sneak up on them from different rooms they passed. The boys were sensing the intruders correctly about 9 out of 10 times, which I thought was awesome. "Not good enough," Mom told them, and sent them back for more practice.

I got a lot of translating done. It turned out that the only difference between releasing the creativity and destroying it was that each heart had to be rubbed with a different kind of ash. So I made a chart describing the different trees that were involved. They would need to burn a branch of the tree and rub the crystal heart in it.

I gave the trees names from our own trees that had similar features. I thought that would be easier than trying to use the names in the other language. I used the shapes of leaves and other descriptions to help them determine which tree was which. In the end I had named the eight trees like this:

Maple - Three pronged raggedy leaf

Poplar - Tall, skinny trees with blotchy bark

Willow - Long draping vine-like leaves

Ash - White bark. Small leaves

Cypress - Large trunks that look like they are made out of many roots

Oak - Three pronged smooth leaf

Elder - Bushy tree with white flowers like Queen Anne's Lace

Fir - Like a Christmas tree

I had to hope that there weren't too many trees that looked alike. I included the drawings that Eric had made of them.

When I got that finished and printed out, I started on one of the ancient books in  the new language that looked interesting. It turned out to be very interesting, indeed. It seemed to be the story of creation as told by one of the other world's ancient scribes. I got finished with that just in time to make dinner.

When I heard the others going through the halls I went to our room to see Sam. As soon as I opened the door, he spun around and got into fighting stance. Wow. "It's just me, baby," I said. "I was just missing you and came for a hug."

"I'm all sweaty," he said.

"Ask me if I care," I answered, walking over to him for my hug. "Looks like Mom has you pretty jumpy," I said.

"Yeah, but that's a good thing," he said.

During dinner I gave them the printouts about the trees and explained what they had to do. "Now that's not what they're called in that language," I said. "I put that word under each one, because you may need to know it. Go ahead and make a mnemonic for that, see how fast you can do it," I said, challenging them.

Sam said, "Okay, lets see… Many People…"

"Will Always," Dean added.

"Come, cry, call, carry…" Sam offered.

"Cry Over," said Dean. "Many People Will Always Cry Over…"

"Every Fight," I said.

"That works," said Sam. "See? Easy Peasy."

 Garth's ears began ringing about halfway through dinner, so the papers were turned over, and I moved on to the history I had translated. I said, "I'm just going to read this to you. I don't think it matters if, well, you know. It's quite interesting. But first, I also have this small note from..." I stopped, not wanting to say Eric's name. We still didn't know if they could hear Maggie or me.