The five and a half hour ride from South Dakota to North Dakota would be a relatively quick one, however, that didn't mean that it didn't feel like it was going by at a snail's pace. Since Azure had no experience hunting prior to the Pukwudgie incident Azure was going to be sticking around with the rest of team free will for a while. Azure had said that she didn't have any family to miss her, as her and her only living relative, her brother, weren't on the best terms per say, which was why Azure didn't have any qualms with packing up her things and hitting the road. However, during that car ride, Lily had learned that Azure was impatient, as every ten minutes Azure would say the same thing, "Hey, are we there yet, Lily?" Which after awhile got pretty annoying pretty quickly, it's not that they didn't like Azure, it's just the they were running out of patience, ironic right? Another ten minutes later, and the same thing happened, "Hey Lily, are we th-"
"Okayyy, Lily, why don't you talk to Azure about hunting and catch her up on what's going on?" Interrupted Dean before Azure could finish her sentence. And, to Dean's credit, the idea worked out great. It distracted Azure and Lily got a chance to talk to Azure about just how crazy her life had gotten in just a few months. Soon, the five and a half hour trip was over and the four of them reached their destination, North Dakota. Lily and Azure were trading music tastes when the Impala had stopped in front of a mediocre at best (mediocre at best, that sounds like it could be a P!ATD song from their early days, lol) motel. After getting their two separate rooms, each room with two beds, with one room for Azure and Lily and one room for Dean and Sam. After unpacking the four of them gathered in Sam and Dean's room and talked about their plan. Once again, the original plan of going into the forest, getting what they needed and getting out was foiled for the same reasons, monsters lived in the forest, so the four of them would have to take the monsters down first before they would be able to look for the Urstrella wood. The monsters in question are a nest of vampires, the articles they got their information from stated that there have been five victims, they would go missing for a week or two and reappear dead and mutilated, however, two months back two people went missing and still haven't been found. So this meant that this nest in particular liked to keep the humans only for a few weeks before eventually sucking them dry, the fact that five of the bodies had been found meant that it had been a sloppy job hiding them, probably by some rookies, most likely the two people that had gone missing two months ago, they were probably converted into vampires instead of being eaten, which would explain the rookie job done, which was that nest's fatal mistake, they let the two new rookies do the body hiding. Lily turned over to Azure only to see her practically shaking with excitement. Sam and Dean looked at Lily, expecting her to explain to Azure how vampires actually work, I Lily sighs, "Ugh, fine, I'll explain. Okay Azure, so, actual vampires are different from the ones on tv, being that sunlight doesn't burn their skin it only hurts their eyes due to their heightened senses, which include being able to literally hear a heart pumping blood from miles away. It is still possible to surprise and ambush vampires since our heart beats just get mixed in with Also, the only real way to kill a vampire is to completely cut the head off of the body. You can also weaken and knock out a vampire with dead man's blood, however, we won't be needing that for this mission in particular." Finished Lily. Then it was Sam's turn to speak,
     "The vampires that we'll be after have been hunting for prey in a local bar called 'Josie and The Cat'. And you two," Sam pointed at Lily and Azure, "are going to go undercover."
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     Another chapter closer to the end, my readers, and as those mysterious lights fly over your house while you pretend to sleep you can ponder over what the ending of this story will be. And as always, goodnight Nightvale, goodnight. ~ ♒️