Author: Restive Nature
Genre: Crossover
Type: WiP
Shows: Dark Angel and Supernatural
Disclaimer: Neither show represented in this fiction belongs to me. Dark Angel is the product of Cameron/Eglee and Fox, whereas Supernatural is the product of Kripke and The CW. No profits are made from this fiction and it is intended for private enjoyment only.
Story Rating: PG-13
Timeline/ Spoilers: This story is a companion piece to “When It Changes”.
Setting: Takes place between Chapters 23 &24
Pairing: None
Summary: A series of vignettes. A collection of hunting trips.
The Diary of John Winchester
Name: Mononoke
Classification: Japanese poltergeist
Description: a small impish spirit that inhabits inanimate objects
Lore Reference: Mononokes are poltergeists that tend to gather in temples, shrines and graveyards. (Information passed on to us courtesy of the Buddhist Temple in Boston.)
Encountered At: Halifax, Massachusetts
Specific Attacks: Mononokes like to scare innocents to death.
Kill By: cannot be completely destroyed, but can be driven away by reciting a complex set of sutras.
Personal Notes: This case came to our attention through news articles about several young people who had died in their homes, by unnatural causes. We began by interviewing the coroner that dealt with the bodies. The reports on all three children (ages 10-12, all female) stated that the children had no defensive marks (from physical attacks), there were no drugs or others present in their systems. All three had been labeled as myocardial infarctions. Their hearts had suddenly stopped. The autopsies found nothing in the children’s biology to support this being hereditary conditions or otherwise. Authorities were worried that a new untraceable drug has been introduced to the area, causing this problem.
Further investigation showed that these children attended the same school. Two of the girls were in the same class, while the other was a year ahead of them. Going in as DEA officers, Dean and I interviewed the children in these classes once again about the possibility of drugs, as our cover.
While interviewing Karen Takahare, Dean noticed her playing with a strange pendant. He asked to look at it and Karen told us that it had been her grandmother’s. We let her go and Dean told me that it looked like it had been carved off of a hunk of rock. The edges were too rough for it to have gone through her family, as she told us it had.
Gathering up Max, we paid a visit to the Takahare home. Karen was not present, being over at a friend’s home. We talked to the parent’s about Karen’s behavior and Mrs. Takahare informed us that the behavior began recently. The family had been caring for Mrs. Takahare’s ailing father. He had passed away and according to his wishes, the family traveled back to Japan to bury him with his wife. Karen had been fairly withdrawn until they returned from the trip. Once home, she began to act out. The parents believed it to be frustration about her beloved grandfather’s death.
Dean questioned the Takahare’s about the pendant Karen was now wearing and they confessed that they knew nothing about it. Mrs. Takahare said that it could not have come from her mother, since all jewelry, pendants and other curios had been given to her as estate executrix for distribution. Her mother’s passing had occurred shortly after Karen was born.
But when Dean described the pendant to them, it struck a chord with Mr. Takahare. He offered more details which Dean wasn’t sure about. Karen returned home and her parents demanded to see the pendant. Mr. Takahare recognized it immediately as part of his mother-in-law’s shrine from back in Japan.
Mrs. Takahare informed us that these insignia’s were often carved into stone monuments to attract harmful spirits and to trap them so that they would not disturb those who came to pay respects to their ancestor’s. But the one that Karen had taken was incomplete. They surmised that it had freed the spirit and it followed them back to the States.
We tried cleansing rituals and exorcism of the pendant, but another child was struck down. It was at that point that Max made the connection between the victims and Karen. This poltergeist was transmuting Karen’s momentary feelings of anger against these girls into action, scaring them to death. The last girl had taunted the Takahare girl about something and died of fright later that same afternoon.
Remembering back to Max’s arguments about spirits and objects responding better to their own languages, Dean suggested that we find the root origin of the spirit. Mrs. Takahare directed us to the Buddhist Temple that her father had visited occasionally in Boston.
We were greeted and welcomed as if we were family. When we explained the problem, they responded immediately, traveling with us back to the Takahare home. There, the Buddhist priests performed the Sutras to expel the demon. They also performed a binding on the pendant so that it would be safe from being inhabited again. It was suggested that the Takahare’s return the emblem as soon as possible to the grandmother’s shrine.
Add. – It was an extreme relief for once that we had a family steeped enough in the traditions and superstitions of their own heritage, that they did not once question us about the validity of the supernatural realm. They were extremely grateful that we helped them, though we were unable to help the families of the victims. At least it will go no further and perhaps teach that child about the consequences of her thoughts and actions. A necessary lesson for all of us it seems.
Entry: Sleepy Eye, MN
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