Trials
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
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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 Tablets.
Hell Trials
After weeks of non-stop work, Kevin 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 translates the section that indicates 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.
Immediately after, Sam starts suffering the effects of what he has done, coughing up blood.[2] According to Castiel, the trial damaged him in ways even he can't fix, all the way down to the subatomic level.[3]
Second Trial
Kevin translates the second trial : An innocent soul has to be rescued from Hell and delivered unto Heaven.
