Hey guys this is my first Supernatural fic so try not to judge too hard :3

This is based off of a prompt on omegle that originally had Castiel, Gabriel and Lucifer in Crowley's circus but the chat never got more than one reply (from me) before the other person went offline. So the story is mine but I don't know who originally came up with the idea.

This is BETA'd by me so sorry fi the writing isn't that great.

Warnings: none

Ummm disclaimer: If I owned Supernatural and the characters I wouldn't need to write fanfiction now would I? ;)

Soo this is the prequel type thing, or introduction chapter you might call it.

Bye

Castiel leaned back against the enchanted bars of the cage he was currently trapped in. He remembered how he had gotten caught in what the humans called a 'wild goose chase'. He sighed. How did angels lose so much of their reputation that we are caught and put us on show? He asked himself, one of the very few ways to spend his time was by thinking about things like this. This question was one that he asked himself at least once a day.

His musings were interrupted by Gabriel and Anael getting into an argument on the other side of the cage. Well more of Anael (who preferred to be called Anna) yelling at Gabriel for doing something. Then Gabriel laughing at her and getting even more on her nerves.

"Anael," Castiel started wearily "you know that the more you yell at Gabriel the more he will continue to annoy you with whatever he is doing now."

Anna cast an defeated glance at Castiel, which he knew she would never let Gabriel see, before coming to sit down next to him. Just close enough so the tips of her folded-up wings could brush reassuringly against Castiel's. The black of Castiel's contrasting nicely with the soft red of Anna's.

Gabriel gave the pair a fake-pout and wrapped his chocolate colored wings around himself to brood, although neither Castiel nor Anna bought it for a second. Anna rolled her eyes at Castiel. They both loved their brother dearly; he was pretty much what kept them sane, or rather insane, throughout this whole ordeal. Them being caught, Castiel first, then Gabriel and lastly Anna, them somehow being able to be put into a cursed cage that restricted their powers, and being shown off to the humans.

It's not like it was easy to keep up a good mood through being trapped and put up for show in a circus. None the less being caught and trapped by one of their brother Lucifer's creations, a demon who called himself the King of Hell, Crowley.

Humans and the supernatural (as they were called) got along reasonably on the Earth. There were the types of humans that tried to keep as far away as possible from them, trying to refuse their existence in some cases, keeping their families in the dark about all of the things going on around them. This led to some children not knowing what to do when they eventually came across a supernatural situation.

There were the types of humans who, more than the people who shunned them, acknowledged them. They accepted the good things, like angels and other creatures, into society and tried to treat them like everybody else despite their handicap of not being human. Those were the types of people who came to look at all of the creatures trapped here with them. Then there were hunters.

Castiel didn't have a solid opinion on hunters. They were usually just there to kill or get rid of the demons, ghosts, and ghouls that got out of order. Like the police for the supernatural. These types of people Castiel could respect because they gave up their lives (in the physical and metaphorical sense) to travel around and save other people's. But they usually turned out to be very surly people that you wouldn't want to meet on a well-light, busy street. Mostly because of their lack of social interaction other than just other hunters whom they occasionally came across.

But there were some of them that counted anything that wasn't a natural born human being as something to kill. Those were the typed that killed innocent creature and every once in a while managed to get their hands on an angel. Castiel shuddered at the thought of what he had seen.

"Hey Cassy!" Gabriel snapped his fingers in Castiel's face, causing him to jump at the sudden closeness "Earth to Castiel!"

Castiel pinned his brother with an annoyed glance and looked to Anna for support. But Anna was already pre-occupied with something beyond the inside of their cage. Castiel turned his head to see what Anna was so fixated on and his gaze found two very tall, very attractive (and very definitely) hunters.