Once they knew what they were dealing with, the investigation sharpened fast. Patterns made sense. The chaos had a rhythm. And the name that kept circling back was the campus janitor.
So Sam and Dean headed back to the college to poke around and keep him busy.
Henry got the less glamorous job.
"Check his place," Dean had said. "See if there's anything… sugary."
Now Henry stood outside the janitor's small rental house, staring at the door.
"Sigh. At times like this, I really want to just point at him and say, 'You're the trickster,'" he muttered. "Would save everyone from the trouble."
He knew exactly who they were dealing with.
Gabriel.
Archangel. Professional menace. Killing him was impossible. At best, they were dancing exactly where he wanted them to. At worst, he was already laughing.
Henry tested the lock once. Twice.
Unlike Sam and Dean, who were good at lock-picking and always carried a lock-picking kit, he relied on what he was good at—brute force.
He stepped back and kicked the door hard, the lock snapping under the impact.
He slipped inside quickly, shutting the door behind him.
The smell hit first.
Sugar.
The living room looked normal for about half a second. Then his eyes adjusted.
The coffee table was buried under chocolate bars—wrappers torn open mid-bite. Boxes of cakes stacked over one another. Half-eaten pies collapsing into themselves. Candy scattered across the floor. A bowl filled with bright sugar cubes sat beside a bottle of syrup like it was a centerpiece.
'This guy really knows how to enjoy life' Henry thought.
Then he heard it.
A low, vibrating growl from somewhere behind him.
"That doesn't sound good," he muttered, turning slowly toward the kitchen doorway.
Something stepped into view.
It was shaped like a dog.
It was also the size of a small horse.
Four feet tall at the shoulder, muscles rolling under thick fur, eyes fixed directly on him. Its tongue slid over sharp teeth as if he'd just arrived gift-wrapped.
Henry froze.
"Holy mother—what kind of breed is that?"
The creature's lip lifted slightly.
"Good dog," Henry said carefully, taking a slow step back. "I have a bone outside. Big one. Premium quality. I can—"
The thing opened its mouth wider, teeth flashing.
"—Nope."
Henry spun and bolted.
The floor shook as the beast lunged after him, claws scraping wood. He vaulted over the couch just as jaws snapped shut inches from his leg. The coffee table exploded under a swipe of the creature's paw, chocolate and cake flying everywhere.
"Woof," the monster barked, deep and heavy.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me—"
Henry sprinted through the hallway, skidding on frosting, nearly slamming into a wall before ducking into another room. The beast crashed through the doorway after him without slowing down, splintering wood like it was paper.
"This is not in the plot!" Henry shouted as he grabbed a chair and hurled it backward. It shattered against the creature's chest and did absolutely nothing.
The chase tore through the house—kitchen to living room to hallway again—like a live-action cartoon, except the teeth were real and very close to his spine.
Henry dove across the kitchen counter, knocking over syrup bottles as he rolled. Sticky liquid spilled across the floor. The creature lunged—and its paws hit the syrup.
It slid.
Just for a second.
That second was enough.
Henry scrambled upright and sprinted toward the front door, heart hammering as claws scraped and thundered across the floor behind him.
"Tom and Jerry my—"
The exit vanished.
The beast stepped into the doorway ahead of him, blocking the path like it had teleported there. Its chest rose and fell slowly, a deep growl vibrating through the room as it lowered its head.
"Ahhh, shit," Henry muttered.
He shoved a hand into his coat and pulled out a knife just as the creature lunged.
The impact slammed into him like a truck. The knife flew from his grip, skidding across the floor. Henry hit the ground hard on his back, air punching out of his lungs as massive paws pinned his shoulders.
Hot breath blasted across his face.
The jaws snapped down inches from his throat.
Henry twisted violently to the side, teeth slamming into the floor where his head had been. Wood splintered. He shoved both hands up against the creature's muzzle, straining to keep those jaws away as it snapped again, closer this time.
"Get—off!" he growled through clenched teeth.
The dog's weight bore down harder. Its claws dug into his jacket as it tried to angle its head for a clean bite. Henry jerked his arm back just in time, teeth grazing his sleeve instead of flesh.
He drove a knee upward into the beast's underside. It barely flinched.
"Of course you don't react like a normal dog," he muttered, struggling to twist free as hot breath washed over his face.
The creature pulled back slightly, jaws widening for another bite.
Henry didn't think.
He punched.
Not wild. Not panicked. He drove his fist straight into the side of its skull with everything he had left.
For a split second, nothing happened.
Then it did.
A flash of blue burst at the point of contact. Not light—energy. It cracked through the air like splitting ice, a tight shockwave snapping outward from his knuckles. The space between his fist and the beast's head distorted, rippling with a sharp blue fracture.
The Revenant impact detonated, its dormant trigger snapping alive—the one percent chance activating the moment full force was used.
The massive creature lifted clean off him, launched sideways as if hit by a speeding truck. It tore through the wall in a spray of wood and plaster, smashed through the next wall behind it, and disappeared into a crash of debris somewhere deeper in the house.
Silence followed.
Dust drifted in the air.
Henry rolled onto his side, coughing, then pushed himself up slowly. His chest heaved as he looked down at his hand.
Faint blue sparks crawled across his knuckles before fading.
He flexed his fingers once, testing them.
He looked at the two ruined walls.
"Holy shit," he breathed.
"That is awesome."
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