Shades of Death Road
Chapter Four
Ezra's attention was drawn to the door, giving JD the opening that he needed.
Using all of his strength, he bucked Ezra off him, then hurried to his feet.
Ezra rolled as he jumped to his feet, all in one fluid motion.
Ezra still held the knife, as his attention was torn between JD and the new
arrivals. "What's the matter with his eyes?" gasped Buck.
"I believe that he has been possessed, Brother Buck," answered Josiah.
"Got it in one," smirked Dean. Ezra growled, lunging towards them. Without
blinking or hesitating, Dean shot Ezra with a load of salt rock. Ezra grunted as
he fell, the knife making a clanging noise as it hit the ground.
"EZRA!" exclaimed JD.
"Don't worry, it didn't kill him. It just hurt like hell," said Dean.
"Quick! Over here!" demanded Sam. JD followed his orders and ran over to his
friends and the two strangers. While Dean kept the rifle at the ready, Sam
quickly poured salt around them in a good-sized circle. When he saw the agents
shooting him questioning looks, he said, "For protection."
A couple of minutes later, Ezra groaned as he slowly got to his feet. His eyes
were their normal green color and Ezra pleaded, "Help me..." Before he could say
anything else, his eyes once again went black and a smirk appeared on his face.
"Is that all you've got?"
Wind started whirling all around them, so thick that none of them could see
anything or anyone. As quickly as it started, it stopped. Ezra was standing in
front of them, inside the circle. Sam and Dean immediately knew what had
happened.
"Shit! The wind disrupted the protection circle!" cursed Dean.
Ezra grabbed him by the lapels of his leather jacket, smirking. "That's right."
With that, he lifted Dean up in the air, then flung him across the cabin. Dean
hit the wall, his rifle falling to the floor.
"Dean!" called out Sam.
"Dean!" mocked Ezra. "Why don't you go join him?" A second later, Sam followed
the same route as his older brother.
Ezra stood in front of the six ATF agents with a small smile. "Ezra," Nathan
tried, "we're your friends."
Ezra remained silent. "Ezra," Chris said as he grabbed his undercover agent by
the forearms, "I know that you're still in there. Fight the... thing inside you!
I know you can do it!"
Ezra's eyes returned to green and he whispered, "Chris?"
"Ez!" cheered Vin.
Ezra looked at his six colleagues, his friends. "You're here. You found JD and
me..." His eyes widened. "JD! Are you alright?!" Ezra asked. He could remember
everything that he had done to his young friend.
JD nodded, giving him a small shaky smile. "I'm f--fine, Ez."
"Go--" Ezra started. Before he could finish, his eyes turned black. "I'm baaaack!"
Ezra sang. "Didn't think you'd get me out of your friend's body that easy, did
ya?" With that said, Ezra flung out his right arm, causing all six agents to fly
through the air. They landed in a heap on the hard wooden floor.
"Shit!" JD groaned as his injured arm hit the hard floor. Dean as well as the
others were slowly getting up.
"You okay, Kid?" asked Buck.
JD sighed and shrugged. To be honest, he didn't know any more. He just wanted
this to be over. He wanted his friend back. "What now?" he whispered.
"We're going to have to do a spell to get the spirit to leave your friend's
body. Then, we'll have to vanquish it," answered Dean.
"We might as well get to it," groaned out Sam as he rubbed his hip.
Sam started to open his Latin book, when it flew out of his hands. Hitting the
wall on the other side of the cabin, it fell to the floor. Ezra just smirked at
them.
All of them were getting frustrated with Ezra... with the situation. Dean raised
his rifle, aiming it, only to have it lift out of his hands and crash against
the wall. Dean had had enough. Without thinking about it, he ran and lunged at
Ezra.
Ezra lifted his hand, lifting Dean into the air. Dean was against the wall and
he couldn't move. "Is that all you've got, hunterboy?" asked a mocking Ezra.
"EZRA!" boomed out Josiah. Ezra was so startled that he lost his concentration,
causing Dean to crash to the floor. "Son of a bitch!" Dean exclaimed as his
already bruised body made contact with the wooden floor.
Buck, Vin, Chris, Nathan, Josiah, and JD all quickly advanced on Ezra. As Ezra
was distracted by the six agents, Sam quickly hurried toward his book. Before he
could reach it, a foggy wind started blowing and blocked his way. Every time
he'd try to take a step, the wind would keep pushing him back and it was hard to
even see the book.
Seeing what was going on, Dean strolled over to Ezra and punched him in the
face. Ezra growled as his eyes turned completely black. "You dare hit me?!"
Dean smirked. "Yep." And he hit him again. Between Dean and the six agents, they
were able to wrestle Ezra to the floor and hold him down. The wind and fog
disappeared.
"Hurry, Sammy, get the book!" called Dean.
Grabbing the book, Sam opened it just as he heard an inhuman scream. Sam's
attention was diverted to what was going on on the other side of the cabin. He
realized that it had been Ezra that had screamed in outrage.
Sam started reading, "Absum ex is somes! Absum! Ostendo vestri in vestri verus
vultus!"[iii] Just as Sam finished speaking, he noticed that Ezra had
broken free from the seven men that were holding him. "ABSUM EX IS SOMES! ABSUM!
OSTENDO VESTRI IN VESTRI VERUS VULTUS!" Sam yelled forcefully.
Ezra's body started shaking, then his mouth opened and black smoke flowed out of
his mouth. Ezra's body went limp and he hit the floor as the black smoke took
form. A lady appeared. Dean and Sam heard the six agents gasp when they saw her.
Half of her face was mangled with her eye hanging down. The other half of her
face looked completely normal. They could all tell that she would have been a
beautiful woman.
"How dare you? Any of you?" she hissed.
"How dare we what? Get you out of our friend's body?" Chris hissed back.
She scowled. Just as she brought her hands up, Dean shot her with salt rock. She
screamed in pain. "Where are you buried?" Dean demanded, not really expecting an
answer. When she stayed silent, he shot her again.
When he repeated his question, he saw her eyes stray to the left. "Over here?"
he asked as he was led to where she had looked. Feeling around, he found a loose
floorboard. Tossing the shotgun to Sam, he managed to pry the board up. He saw
her bones. Hurrying to the duffel bag, he grabbed a small can of gasoline, a
book of matches, and a jar of salt.
She saw what he was planning to do and started wailing. "NOOOO! STOP!"
"Shut up!" Dean yelled as he poured salt on her bones. He then poured the
gasoline on them. Before he lit a match, he told the agents, "Get ready to run
outside." He watched as Josiah picked Ezra up in a fireman's carry, then threw
down the lit match.
The bones burst into flame and started burning. All of the men ran outside,
screams of pain and rage following them. Black smoke burst through the cabin's
chimney, then the whole cabin disappeared, as if it had never been there.
"Is it... over?" asked JD.
Sam nodded. "Should be."
"We need to get Ezra to the hospital," said Nathan. The others looked at the
unconscious man.
"He'll be fine. He's just weak, right now. Being possessed takes a lot out of
your body." said Sam.
"But...," protested Nathan.
"What would you say? Doctor, my friend was possessed by a spirit?" questioned
Dean. "He'll be fine. What you need to concentrate on is how to help him over
the guilt he'll feel, because he'll remember everything that he did or said."
"We'll help him," said Vin. Dean nodded.
The men headed to their cars. "Will we see you, again?" JD asked.
Before getting into the Impala, Dean answered, "We'll see you in the morning
before we leave. We'll meet you back here," The agents headed off to stay at
Chris' ranch and the two brothers headed for their cheap hotel.
THE NEXT MORNING
The seven agents were standing around on Holly Road when the Impala pulled up.
"See you're awake," Dean commented to Ezra when they walked up to the agents.
Ezra nodded, his green eyes looking haunted. "I'm... sorry for everything that I
did to you two."
"You were possessed. You couldn't help it. We don't blame you," said Sam. Ezra
nodded.
Looking at all of the agents, Sam added, "We were able to find out who that
spirit was. She lived in a cabin in the woods in 1950, with her husband. From
what we could gather, she didn't show up for church, which was extremely
unusual. So two of her church friends showed up and saw her husband dead on the
cabin floor and saw her dead, too. Whoever killed them had mangled one side of
her face so badly that it had been hard to recognize her.
"From what the police could gather, it must have been a couple of drifters. They
ever did find out who it was. In 1951, disappearances started to occur. Usually
one or two men at a time. Their car or cars would be found, but they never were.
She was probably trying to get the justice that she and her husband never
received. She is known as the Holly Road Death Spirit."
"That's kind of... sad," said Buck.
Dean shrugged, "Yeah, it is. But she chose to live her afterlife killing people,
she had to be stopped." After a pause, he continued, "We'd better go. Places to
go, spirits to defeat."
"Well, thanks for all of your help," Chris said.
"Just doing our job," said Dean. As he got into the Impala, Sam continued
talking to the agents.
"Here's Dean's cell number is you ever need us again," he said as he handed them
a piece of paper.
"I hope we never do," said a serious Josiah. Sam nodded in understanding.
"The same goes for you and Dean. If you ever need us and we can help, Call,"
Chris said as he handed Sam his home and cell number.
"Thanks." Turning to Ezra, he said, "Take care." With that, Sam walked to the
Impala and got inside.
The agents got into their vehicles and headed back toward Chris' ranch. They
were taking a couple of weeks to heal and relax, and to just be together.
The two Winchester brothers headed down the road, with Dean driving, toward
whatever other town or person needed their help.
THE END
[iii] Absum ex is somes! Absum! Ostendo vestri in vestri verus vultus! ‘Be gone out of this body! Be gone! Show yourself in your true form!’ http://www.translation-guide.com