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Revision as of 19:47, 9 May 2013
The tablet says, "Whosoever chooses to undertake these tasks should fear not danger, nor death, nor..." A word I think means getting your spine ripped out through your mouth for all eternity.
– Kevin Tran, after translating the Demon Tablet, 8.14 Trial and Error
Contents
History
In case Heaven and Hell ever needed to be sealed in order to protect humanity, God put in place three trials for each that a being could do to seal them. The information about the trials was encoded on the Tablets.
Hell Trials
After weeks of non-stop work, Kevin Tran finally manages to translate the part of the tablet about closing the gates of Hell. According to Kevin, the tablet reveals that someone must do three trials and read an Enochian spell after each one. Once the three tests are done, the gates can be closed.[1]
First Trial
Kevin manages to translate the section on closing the gates of Hell and learns that the first trial is to kill a Hellhound and bathe in its blood.
Sam and Dean set out to kill a hellhound by looking for someone who has made a deal which is to come due soon. They find a family who has come into good fortune, because one of them made a deal ten years ago with what turns out to be Crowley.
Later, Kevin finds information on hellhounds and calls Dean to tell him about it, telling him it reads "the dire creatures may be seen only by the damned or through an object scorched with Holy Fire." Using this information, Sam and Dean come up with the idea to use glasses scorched by Holy Fire to see the hellhound.
Dean is determined that he will be the one to take on the trials, but in the fight with the hellhound, it ends up being Sam who kills Crowley's hellhound with Ruby's Knife, slashing through its gut, and getting soaked in its black blood. Afterwards, after convincing Dean that he can do the trials and survive, he casts the Enochian spell.[2]
Immediately after, Sam starts suffering the effects of what he has done, coughing up blood.[3] According to Castiel, the trial damaged him in ways even he can't fix, all the way down to the subatomic level.[4]
Second Trial
Eventually, Kevin translates the second trial and reports it to Sam and Dean: Sam must travel to Hell and rescue an innocent soul and "deliver it unto Heaven." Needing a way to sneak in, they summon and torture a Crossroads Demon who tells them that rogue Reapers take humans and souls between Earth, Heaven and Hell for a price and they track down Ajay. Ajay reveals that he took Bobby Singer's soul to Hell on Crowley's orders when he was put to rest and they decide to use him as the soul Sam will rescue. Sam successfully makes a deal with Ajay where he will take him to Hell and back with Bobby in exchange for the Winchesters owing him a favor in the future. Ajay takes Sam to Purgatory where a portal exists that acts as a "backdoor" into Hell and leaves, telling Sam to meet him there in exactly 24 hours. However, Crowley learns of this and kills Ajay with an Angel Sword so he can't pick up Sam.
Sam enters Hell armed with Ruby's Knife and a Purgatory Weapon and finds Bobby who he has to convince of his identity. The two begin making their way out, but are attacked by three demons, one of whom takes on Sam's form to confuse Bobby. Bobby kills all the demons, guessing right which one is the real Sam. The two make it into Purgatory, but are trapped there as Ajay is dead. However, as they come under attack by three Vampires, Dean's friend Benny Lafitte arrives to help them, having been sent by Dean to lead them to the portal out. At the portal, Sam absorbs Bobby's soul into his arm and returns to Earth, but Benny stays behind to hold off more vampires.
On Earth, Sam and Dean are reunited and Sam releases Bobby's soul towards Heaven, but Crowley arrives and traps it, planning to take it back to Hell. However, Naomi intervenes and forces Crowley to retreat before releasing Bobby's soul, allowing Bobby to ascend to his rightful place in Heaven. Having completed the trial, Sam casts the Enochian spell.[5]
This trial is shown to hit Sam harder than the first and he is left in a weakened condition, but develops the ability to sense the Tablets and Metatron, something that Metatron says is happening because he is now "resonating" with them.[6]
Third Trial
After Kevin gets the second half of the demon tablet, he is finally able to learn the third trial which Metatron reveals and Kevin confirms is to cure a demon.[7]
Sam and Dean begin searching for a way to cure a demon and find a film in The Bunker's archives where two priests, Father Max Thompson and Father Simon attempted and failed at a different type of exorcism. They learn from Father Simon that the priests were trying to cure a demon and turn it back human and find that before he was killed by Abaddon, Father Thompson succeeded. Learning his method from his records and recordings, Sam and Dean set out to cure Abaddon, but she escapes when they are distracted by Crowley calling to threaten to kill all of the people they have ever saved if they don't hand over the demon tablet and back down from the trials. He also starts keeping all demons away from the Winchesters as he has realized they may need one for the third trial and with no Abaddon, Sam and Dean are left without a demon to cure.[8]
Heaven Trials
Metatron reveals to Castiel that Heaven is in chaos since the defeat of the Archangels and that many factions are fighting it out for control. In order to "lock the angels in a room" to force them to sort out their differences and keep the war from spilling over onto Earth, Metatron has decided to seal up Heaven as well as Hell, but needs Castiel's help to do it as he doesn't feel he could do the trials but that Castiel could. Castiel eventually agrees to work with Metatron to close Heaven up. As the Scribe of God, Metatron knows the trials without the angel tablet.
