Chapter 23
The mansion shook hard, like there was a sudden earthquake shaking the entire area, causing everyone, even the demons, to lose their balance.
“What the hell?” Mikazaru exclaimed when he stumbled against his mute brother, who looked around in confusion.
“Is that an earthquake?” Erik whispered, as he looked around nervously as the entire mansion was shaking hard.
Then the light bulbs starting to explode one by one, causing sparks to fall everywhere around them that they had to cover their faces.
“No, that’s not an earthquake.” Sam announced with a huge smile on his face, not even bothered by the shaking and the exploding bulbs. He looked up at the demons while laughing loudly. “Oh, you are going to love this!”
Mizaru snapped out of his trance at Sam’s words, seeming like he didn’t notice what was happening tell now.
“No.” he uttered in panic, as he whipped around towards his brothers. “The warding! He broke through the warding!”
The moment he said that, they heard a loud explosion, followed by the crumbling of walls one by one, like there was a wrecking ball crashed against the building and was making its way through the walls.
That sentence couldn’t be more accurate, when, suddenly, the right wall exploded, forcing them all to cover their faces and look away, to not get any bruises from the flying splinters.
They opened their eyes slowly, and turned towards the new hole in the wall to see what caused it.
The sight made them all stop and just stare with wide eyes, breath caught in their chests, unable to breathe the moment they laid eyes on Castiel.
The angel stood in the hole in the wall, wings spread wide by his sides, his body was glowing so hard that his human body was almost transparent, his face was hazy a little, since his true face was leaking behind his human one. His eyes were glowing bright blue, that almost rivaled the glowing of his entire body.
He was magnificent. He was pure power. Righteous fury. A warrior of God.
At that moment, they were all reminded that Castiel, their friend, who was grumpy in the mornings, could spend his day just eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, keeps arguing with Steve about many historical facts, bickers with Dean every morning about the type of cereal they will eat like a couple of five year olds, a beast in poker and could wipe them out clean if they dared to play with him, wasn’t human.
He was a powerful angel, that will destroy anyone that dares to harm his family.
“Oh God.” Clint murmured, as he stared with wide eyes at the angel, voicing what everyone was thinking but too entranced to say it. “They are so fucked.”
The three demons froze in real horror, as they stared at Castiel, Mikazaru still holding the gun that he almost shot Natasha with.
He raised his gun in his panic and shot the angel right in the chest.
Castiel didn’t even flinch as the bullets hits him in the chest, he just trailed his eyes towards the demon, seeing the body he was in and a look of pure rage took over his face. That look turned into fury when his eyes landed on the burn, that was peeking out of Dean’s shirt collar and his obviously abused body.
“You dared to touch him.” Castiel growled, even his voice rang around the room, like he was speaking with both his human and true voice. “You dared to harm him. I will make you regret the second you thought about taking him from me!”
The demon took a few steps back, looking genuinely terrified.
“Mazaru! Attack him!” Mizaru shouted the moment he noticed the angel taking a step towards his deaf brother.
Mazaru came over his obvious fear, his face changed into a snarl as he charged towards Castiel with determination.
***
The misty field started to shake around Charles, as he stared at the increasingly panicked demon in front of him.
“I did tell you he is coming.” Charles just shrugged with a smile, not even rattled by the demon’s glare.
“You smug son of a bitch.” The demon growled as he strode towards Charles to grab him by the lapels of his jacket. “That will not save you or save these two! He will not be able to pull us out without hurting you or kill you! If we go down, you three will go down with us!”
“Don’t be so sure about that.” The telepath was still smiling calmly at the enraged, panicked demon, not even fazed.
The demon frowned at him for a second, before he tightened his grip on Charles in horror.
“What did you do? You have been right in front of me the entire time! You couldn’t have done anything without me noticing!” Mizaru screamed at his face, both nervous and enraged.
“In case you forgot.” Charles’ face hardened as he stared the demon down. “This is my mind. This is my body. You are just an invader that will soon be kicked out. I do here what I want. I can do anything without me having to move. I can be in three places at once without breaking a sweat.” He straightened up as he looked at the demon with all the determination inside him. “You said it yourself, I am powerful, and I am an idiot for not using my powers. Well, guess what? I know exactly how powerful I am and I know when to use them.” a smirk spread on his face. “You are in my territory right now, darling.”
***
Mazaru charged towards Castiel with all his strength, aiming to pull the first punch.
Castiel sidestepped him with an unhuman speed, while pulling in his wings back inside his body at the same time.
What worried Sam as he watched Castiel dodging all the demon’s vicious hits, was the way the angel seemed to be struggling to not fight the demon.
Probably sensing if he did fight him, he might hurt Steve if he fought too hard. Castiel didn’t seem like he was fully controlling his strength at the moment.
This was the first time Castiel used so much grace for years now, he must be really struggling to reel it in.
The deaf demon seemed to also notice that Castiel was restraining himself and a huge smirk appeared on his face.
“What is it, little angel? Afraid you are going to break your friend apart, like you did with our vessels in our last meeting?” the demon stepped toward him, his smirk widening as he spread his arms, presenting himself to the angel. “Come on, fight! Or your new found heart is weighting you down?”
Castiel frowned as he continued to dodge the mute demon’s relentless attacks, they both were moving with unhuman speed that everyone was finding it hard to follow the fight.
“Ok, this is bad.” Tony murmured nervously, as he and Bruce kept pressing a cloth, that was once Tony’s jacket, into Sam’s still bleeding bullet wound. “There is no way any one of them will get out of this without getting hurt.”
“We need to help.” Erik muttered quietly as he, Thor and Logan tried to get up, but fell back down again with pained shouts.
“Stay the hell down!” the blind demon shouted at them, looking to be both panicked and enraged since the moment Castiel made his entrance.
The angel paused when he saw them fell to the floor with pained groans. His pause gave the mute a chance to punch him in the gut before the angel could dodge him.
He stumbled a little at the sudden hard hit, but didn’t seem to actually be affected by it, just annoyed.
At that moment, the deaf demon decided to join the fight with a huge daring smile on his face, and now Castiel has to try and dodge the both of them without hurting them.
He was doing an admirable job actually, he was avoiding and dodging their increasingly frustrated hits, without laying a hand on the both of them.
He probably won’t be able to do this forever.
***
Castiel was getting frustrated and angrier in every passing moment.
He felt rage raking through him the moment he saw that one of those fuckers decided to take Dean as a vessel. He barely held back from rushing towards the demon and try to rip him out of Dean forcefully. Especially, after he saw the state Dean’s body was in and the obvious burn, where his tattoo used to be.
Unleashing this amount of power made him way dangerous for the people around him than before, a hit from him, could seriously injure or even kill one of them.
So, he was trying hard not to lay a hand on Dean or Steve as the two demons charged at him viciously, fully taking advantage of the fact that Castiel wasn’t planning to harm their vessels.
What made things worse was that he saw the terrible shape his family was in. Saw the blood covering Sam’ arm and how pale he looked. Natasha, barely conscious on the floor, a wound in her head covering the floor with blood. Tony with bruises covering him from head to toe, with probably a few cracked ribs and possible dislocated shoulder. Clint with a broken leg. Erik with a bloody face and a dislocated knee. Bruce with a black eye and a twisted ankle. Hank unconscious on the floor. Raven still sporting a broken arm with a few new bruises. Bucky with a gash across his forehead and a possible concussion. Thor and Logan didn’t have any obvious injuries, they just looked really pissed from being forced on the floor by the possessed telepath like the others.
He took a long time to get inside and his entire family suffered for it.
He needs to get rid of the demons to tend to his family, but he needs to subdue them long enough to be able to pull them out from inside his two best friends and his husband without hurting their bodies.
But it was impossible with them moving fast to fight him relentlessly like that.
All these power surging through him and he still felt powerless to do anything fast enough.
***
“These two minds are too hot and too cold for you to even step inside them!”
The demon screamed at Charles’ face, his nerves jumping all over the place. “I made sure of that! I made sure you won’t be able to do anything!”
“Yes, that’s probably true.” Charles just shrugged calmly, eyes never looking away from the demon’s. “I didn’t say I got inside my friends’ minds. I am just knocking loudly from outside and they heard me. They will do the rest themselves.”
Mizaru’s face paled at that, if he had eyes they would probably be wide in panic by now.
“You woke them up?! You woke them up, you miserable piece of shit!” the demon screamed in rage and raised a fist to punch Charles in the face.
The telepath dodged the punch easily and threw his own hit at the demon’s face.
Mizaru stumbled back, looking to be in shock at Charles’ move.
“You probably didn’t know this, but I learned how to fight since I was young.” Charles smiled as he followed with another punch, managing to through the stunned demon to the ground. “As you can see, I am not as fragile as I seem.”
“You don’t know what you have done!” Mizaru shouted in both rage and panic. “When you woke them up, you doomed us both! This place will fall, if these two minds were released on each other, tearing us both apart in the process! Neither my brain nor yours will survive that.”
“I lived a good life.” Charles stated easily, not fazed or worried.
“So what, you are going to let your husband watch your body crumble and die right in front of him? In front of your sister? Your family?” the demon said both mockingly and harshly. “You are going to force your precious husband to go tell the mutant kids that their professor pretty much killed himself? Are you that brave or just a cold bloodied bastard?”
Charles just stared down at him for a few seconds, an unreadable expression on his face.
“You are forgetting a third option.” He eventually said as a slow smile appeared on his face. “It will be an insult to my ego, if I was killed by own mind. And I actually have people that will save me.”
With that, Steve and Dean’s minds were suddenly unleashed at the same moment and crawled towards each other, destroying everything that came in their paths.
It didn’t stop until they hit each other.
The hissing sound of fire meeting ice filled the misty field, that was Charles’ mind.