Not without my brother

Chapter nine

Dean and the rest of his army had arrived on the battlefield and were planning their attack when young Claire came running into the battlefield and toward Dean. She yelled for Dean and shook his arm scared and afraid.

"De!" Claire exclaimed. "I'm glad I found you!"

"Claire, what are you doing here?" Dean asked. He kneeled down to her eye level and wondered if she had come here by herself. First Jack followed Castiel to come to find him and now Claire was here looking for him. Were all the pups going to leave the pack? That wasn't good at all. "It's not safe."

"My father! He killed Drax!" Claire yelled, whimpering. "I overheard him talking to Drax in his cabin and something happened, he choked Drax to death and claimed that you were the one who did it! The entire pack is against you now, all but a few of us, my father's name is actually Lucifer, it's not Tristan, he only used that to infiltrate the pack and it's why he's been so determined to come after you and..and.." Claire at that point was running out of breath after speaking such long sentences, she was scared that much was true and she really needed Dean to stop her father otherwise things would get out of hand.

"Hey everything is going to be okay Claire," Dean responded, giving her a hug. She cried into his shirt hoping to stay hidden. "I'm gonna stop him, but you need to be safe, can you round up all the pups for me and stay hidden?" He asked.

"Yes, I can do that. I'll get some of the adult wolves also who are loyal to you." Claire said and quickly left leaving everyone under a tent alone. Dean knew that there was something about Tristan that he hated, he remembered that his parents were hunting down an entire pack of wolves at the time when he was turned, they stated something about Lucifer who escaped, and if that were the case it made sense for Lucifer to come after him and Sam, they were the last living bloodline of hunters who killed his pack. He glanced out of his tent and up at the sky, it was an overcast very gloomy and it looked like it could have rained any moment. Dean's stomach turned and he worried that maybe he would lose and Lucifer would have the upper hand he stepped back inside and turned around to find his brother and Jo standing side by side.

"Dean?" Sam said. "Are you sure you're ready for this?"

"No, I have no idea how I am supposed to win if I can't kill," Dean responded. "Drax is dead, turns out he wasn't the bad guy, after all, his pal Tristan turned out to be a werewolf I thought had died years ago," he continued. "Lucifer is the former alpha of a pack. Our parents hunted Sammy, it's why he's doing this, it's revenge."

"But if he's filled with revenge then shouldn't that be his weakness?" Jo asked as she began to come up with an idea. "If we use that against him, we could not only win but you wouldn't have to kill him, someone else can maybe one of us, but someone will have to kill him otherwise you can't be an alpha," she continued. "But if you can win this new pack over, maybe it'll leave him defenseless." Dean thought about what she was saying and realized that if he made Lucifer tell the truth the pack would turn on him and he would be torn apart.

"That's brilliant, but we need to make sure he doesn't suspect," Dean responded. "I'll keep him busy for as long as I can, how much time can you give me?" Sam and Jo glanced at each other and shrugged their shoulders, distracting them would be the easy part but keeping them in one area while Dean tried to speak to Lucifer was another thing. Lucifer, knowing him, would most likely fight him before negotiating peace talks.

"Okay so we can give you 30-35 minutes," Sam said. "The wolves might not stay distracted long enough but if you can somehow get him to admit he did it while his army overhears then it might go as we had planned." Dean could work with that he had fought Lucifer before, and while maybe back then he had lost on purpose but he could still beat him. He just had to remember to not kill anyone or everything would be lost, there was also something else he wanted to say just in case this didn't work out.

"Jo you might want to tell your mom about Drax, she won't like it but she has a right to know." Dean said. Jo gave him a questioning gaze before nodding and heading back inside the tent, knowing his brother so well Sam asked what was up.

"Dean, what is it?" Sam asked. Dean turned away and rubbed the back of his neck. He didn't know how to tell his brother that he was in love with Jo and it made it all the more harder since she was a human and he was a wolf.

"I well-" Dean stammered. "Okay, how about we just get on with this? No time for feelings, at least not until this battle is over with."

***

Not more than a few minutes later, Dean and his army heard the howling of wolves coming for the city of the elders. Dean stepped out of his tent, it was now or never, this time he wasn't going to back down even if Lucifer was still around. That dick was the main reason behind all of his suffering and separation, he hated his guts almost as much as Lucifer hated him. Going with the plan, the army split, and led by Sam and Castiel the wolf and hunter team approached the wolves. Seeing his chance, Dean took off for the heart of the city which he knew was where Lucifer would go. Despite the city being decrepit and the majority of the houses being rotted and the wood splintered, Dean could still imagine what life was like in the town before the first battle commenced and if he was correct, then Lucifer would want to face him one on one. He stepped into the heart and searched the darkest areas of the old city.

"Where are you?!" Dean exclaimed. "Lucifer! Tristan whatever the hell your name is! You better come out of hiding!" As if he heard his words a large black wolf attacked him, nearly taking out his eyes. He recognized it as Lucifer's wolf form only this time he was bigger, had red eyes, and yellow teeth.

"I've been waiting for you Dean, now stay still so I can kill you." Dean was pinned against the cobblestone ground but he saw his chance and kicked the black wolf off him, giving himself some leeway and turning into his own form. He growled, no way was he going to let Lucifer beat him, not the way he wanted it. All he needed to do was make the wolf admit the truth but it was going to be harder than he thought.

"How about no? I just don't get it," Dean said as he and Lucifer circled each other. "Why would you spend years trying to hide yourself? Was it all part of your plan? To get revenge on the family who killed your pack?"

"Wow, I guess you've never heard of strategy," Lucifer scoffed. "I had nothing thanks to your parents, they didn't like that I had to keep my children fed, so during the night they killed everyone," he growled, becoming angry at the mere mention of the memory. "And you humans say we are the monsters, I think it's the other way around, that's why I'm going to destroy them all." In response, Dean attacked Lucifer knocking him away, Lucifer growled and rolled but stood back on all fours ready to take Dean on. The two fought one another, Dean and Lucifer were evenly matched fighting with fierce using their claws and striking the other but thankfully, Dean could see that the rest of the pack arrived just in time for Dean to get struck he whimpered and slid into the old fountain weakened from the battle, little did Lucifer know that Dean was using it to his advantage.

"You know what the best part of this is Dean?" Lucifer asked, not realizing that everyone around him was listening. "All I had to do was kill Drax and then blame you, and the rest of the pack would follow me."