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Mayday!!!

Dean had no idea which way to go or rather which way she would have gone .

He thought and thought of where she could have gone in search of them but nothing was coming to mind so he ran to all the places they had been to together .

She would have probably suspected that Dean and the others would not go to any new places so she might have checked out all of the old places that they had all been to together .

He checked around the church's block and all of the places that they had encountered steels before he headed to the woods .

He would only go as far as where they had met Juan and his hunchos yesterday.

Dean decided to radio in this before he left too far , he pulled the communication device out of his pocket and looked at it for a second before turning it on.

" Is anyone there ? Over ".

There was only static for a moment before someone came on the line .

Dean looked around the woods , searching for any foot trails that he could follow .

" Yes , this is Jade , Over ".

He could hear Jade's grin from over the radio , he wondered if it was because he had found May or because he was simply able to use the radio .

Dean stood straight when he heard the reply over the radio .

" Any news on May ? Over ".

The reply came immediately , shortening screentime for the static to do its thing .

" No , nothing yet , Over ".

Dean sighed , he could not help but imagine that something bad might have happened to May , he just hoped she had not gotten in to a fight with her body the way it was.

" Okay , I just wanted to Inform you and Blade that I am done searching around the block and I am now heading into the woods , I will be heading as far as the spot we met Juan yesterday , Over and out ".

Dean ended the transmission before he could hear Jade's response , he had spotted a partial print on this otherwise hard ground .

He ran towards the prints and bent to observe them , they were boots all right , but it was hard to tell the size of the boots from this partial foot prints .

Dean stood straight and walked into the woods , following the partial footprint .

As the ground within the woods got more and more moist , the footprints were easier to spot and easier for Dean to follow without his face pressing into the ground to ascertain the prints .

He was still following the prints and walking quietly when the radio began to cackle loudly, interrupting his otherwise quiet moment .

" Testing one , testing two . Dean , You there ? Over ".

It was Blade's Voice so Dean got out the radio from his kevlar vest and held it to his lips .

" Yes Blade , I am here and you do not need to say testing , this is not a party and you are not a Dj ,Over ".

" Got that , over ".

It took a second for Blade to say something again .

" I searched the grounds again , uhm , just to make sure and she is not here. No matter how I think of this , Maybe we should all be out and searching for her , we could all take radios , it would make this easier , over ".

Dean shook his head frantically before he remembered that Blade could not see him .

" Blade , we do not know what happened to May yet , it is better if you both wait there , in case she shows up , Over ".

Blade was silent and Dean wondered if he had not heard him , he shook the radio slightly and stopped when the static returned along with Blade's Voice .

" I am just worried , you know , that we might be stressing you out. I mean , we are supposed to be a team but you are doing all the heavy lifting and it is beginning to make me very uncomfortable . Radio in if you need help, Jade and I will be there in a jiffy if you do , Over and out ".

Dean stared at the radio , wondering why Blade had ended the transmission without letting him speak too .

He was about to radio in again to ask for his reason when he noticed that the prints had become somehow lighter in the soil .

A common feature of running , the prints were not as heavy as walking prints .

Dean ran towards this new set of prints and followed it while worrying that the prints might not even belong to May at all and he was simply on a wild goose hunt .

A distant rumbling startled Dean briefly before he took off , running as fast as he could to whatever it was that had made that noise .

Dean followed the rumbling as he ran deeper into the woods , for some weird reason , he knew that May would be wherever this rumblings were coming from .

As he ran , he was too fast to pull all of the branches sticking out of the way , so he got quite a bit of scratches on him .

He thought of calling Blade to tell him about the rumbles but there were two reasons he could not .

One , he had no idea what was going on with the rumbling and how dire the situation was , if there was really enough time for him to be radioing in .

And two , which was really the bigger problem , he had no idea where he was and how to get Blade down here .

So , he just focused all of his energy on running and getting closer to this rumbling sound .

He could see the cause of the rumbling now or rather, one of the causes.

Three Steels stood blocking his view of whatever it was that they had been attacking .

Dean was wondering what to do when he caught sight of a backpack that had been flung aside , a pack of Doritos was sticking out of the backpack .

Dean got out his rifle and immediately began to shoot at the steels to earn their attention .

He did earn their attention , a little faster than he had thought .

He spotted May and another girl crouched on the floor with two men , all four of them were holding pistols that had been aimed at the Steels .

Dean smiled painfully and stuck his hand into his kevlar pocket to retrieve three tiny bottles of menthylated spirit , he reared back and threw them as far as he could , hurriedly shooting at them as they flew in the air .

They had the desired effect, as all three of the steel's heads exploded into flames .

But , that would not be enough since their patrons were still very alive and could decide to continue shooting even if they had lost visuals and hearing .

Dean ran forward , grabbing May's bag as he moved .

" Come on , let's go !!! ".

All four of them snapped out of their daze and ran forward while May helped the other girl up before running too .

Dean ran behind them , his rifle raised just in case .

They all stopped running when they burst into the park that May , Blade and Dean had parted ways on the first day .

The two men were a few feet ahead while the girl from before stood near May and Dean stood behind all of them .

They were all breathing heavily as they tried to catch their breaths .

" Dean , those guys ! ".

Dean raised his rifle and pointed it at them immediately, stopping them from continuing to take in deep breaths.

He threw the new rifle he had gotten for May at her , she grabbed it in the air and stared at it with awe , whistling softly .

" Where did you think you were going to ? "

May only rolled her eyes as she continued admiring the rifle .

" Well , I woke up and you guys were gone, I came into the woods because I remembered that one of you had the dumb idea of hunting for food and I thought you guys might have come here to hunt ".

" Did we not already throw that idea out the window ? And why am I holding this men at gunpoint ? "

May stopped admiring the gun then and raised her head to look at the guys .

" Yes , I met these idiots harassing her while also trying to steal her supplies and they tried to do the same to me ".

Dean grimaced in disgust as he stared at the two men.

They looked so jumpy , it was pitiful , they were a waste of time and he let them know .

" Let them go , they are just a waste of time. The steels will catch up to them in a matter of time ".

Dean put his rifle down and they both watched as the guys scampered off before they turned around to meet the girl .

Dean yelped , having completely forgotten that someone else was there asides the two of them .

May told the girl not to worry , patting her back softly .

" It is okay , he is not a weird guy , he just looks crazy ".

Dean frowned at that and pulled out the radio to report that he had found May .

May ran towards him as soon as she saw him with the radio .

" Wow , suddenly throwing flames , a new sexy rifle and now walkies , I feel like you suddenly levelled up in this game while I was having a f*****g beauty rest ".

She tapped his shoulders, giggled , grabbed her bag and began to pull the girl through another path in the woods .

Game ?

Dean frowned as something came to mind , he realized that he had never really considered this place a game .

There were so many possibilities if only he had considered this a game.

He needed to get back and review that journal that Alec had left him .