Hello again. I promise we didn't die! I've been typing this around homework, regular work, the musical, and my parents having to do school work... at this point we only have one laptop that wants to work with the internet. So until Friday you'll just have to bare with us!

Thank you for your patients and enjoy the new story!

Dana & Andi

All I could think about was the feel of his tail around my waist. Why? Why couldn't he have just let me fall over the pew of the church and let me hit my head on the stone floor? It's not like he would have noticed if Liz wouldn't have yelled my name, causing Red to turn around to see why I was in trouble. And, of course, he had to try and save me… so he used his tail to wrap around my waist to save my head. I mean, it's not like he saved me from a giant headache… which is what it would have been, seeing as how I wasn't that far from the floor.

"Pay attention Scout. I can't watch you all the time!" He said as he fired the good Samaritan at the half snake half woman demon. I gritted my teeth in an attempt to not scream at him, because there was currently an eighteen foot long snake man under the floor of the church that could break through and pretty much eat us if we woke him up before we killed him.

"Yes Red, I intentionally got grabbed by the giant snake woman's tail in an attempt to try and get her to splatter my brains on the floor because I'm that sadistic!" I hissed in his ear. "So sorry you stopped it before it happened."

"I didn't say anything about that!" Hellboy yelled as he shot the woman through the heart.

"Would you two stop for a minute to help us with this little thing we call a bomb? You know, the thing that's gonna make the big scary snake man go boom?" Liz asked as she and Abe placed a bomb at the door.

"And please stop yelling Hellboy. You'll wake the snake." Abe whispered to us. Hellboy growled and his tail tightened, the tip swishing over my pelvis.

"Put me down Red. I can walk." I said as I squirmed. I couldn't take much more of him constantly flicking the tip of his tail.

"Fine," He growled and let go, causing me to fall on my rear. He smirked when he heard the smack of my bone against the cement. "watch your own ass then Myers." He said and walked over to Abe and Liz, while little, scared Myers had to just stay out of the way so he didn't wreck something. I sat on a pew in the back of the church and looked out the stained glass window of Jesus hanging on the cross, knowing that Red would apologize later, and knowing that I would tell him it was alright... like I always did. I sighed and looked back over to see Red place his normal hand on Liz's shoulder and lean down to whisper in her ear what she needed to do to activate the bomb, even though she already knew how.

I had to smirk a little when I saw Liz light his hand on fire and glare at him.

"You said what ?!" She yelled, causing us all to flinch... Hellboy opened his mouth to come back with something when there was a rumbling in the floor.

She woke up the big snake... our worst nightmare.

Suddenly the strong, steady cement floor was gone, replaced by a shower of gravel and what would have been an open black hole except for the fact that the empty space was currently being occupied by and eighteen foot tall snake man who was rising out of it.

And, of course, all this happened about five feet behind me, which effectively cut me off from the others which were about twelve feet behind me.

"Who has the gall to disturb my slumber?" He yelled. "You have killed one of my own, you have awakened me before the night with no just cause, and now you threaten my home? There is only so much a ruler can take! State your names immediately!"

"We have a just cause." I heard Red say as he loaded his gun. "How's 'we've come here to kick your royal ass' sound to ya?"

"Your name?"

"Hellboy."

"And yours female?"

"Liz."

"And yours... fish man?"

"Abraham Sapien."

"And you... the one behind me who has not moved... your name?"

"I... I'm..." My throat closed up as he turned. I hated snakes. I had since I was a little boy and a kid put a gardener snake in my lunch box that jumped out and bit my finger!

"I asked your name." He hissed and lowered his head so I could look into one of his eyes. All of a sudden there was a loud crack that made the king's eyes swing back to the others.

"We didn't come here for formalities highness." Hellboy said around his cigar. "I came here to get rid of a giant, green, eight foot snake lady, which I did... and to get rid of a giant, green, eighteen foot snake... which would be you. Now, move away from him, nice and easy." He said as he aimed the gun.

The snake chuckled and placed a hand on my shoulder and tightened, then jerked me up before I could react at all. He placed me in front of his chest. "Does the human mean so much to you?" He asked, his finger tracing my collar bone. I shuddered against his touch.

"He's part of my team, now let him go." Red said as he aimed up higher to between his eyes.

"I'll let him go on one condition."

"And that is?"

"My people and I are offered twenty minutes before the bomb goes off."

"And if I don't agree?"

"Then this team member of yours never sees the outside world again. He will be stuck underground forever, to live with my people."

"Fine. Twenty minutes before this place gets blown sky high. Now let him go."

"Lower your weapon." He replied, his gripped slowly lessening, but his tail wrapping around my ankle.

"Then get your paws off a him... tail included." He said, his own tail twitching in aggravation.

"Very well." He said as his tail ran up over my leg to my thigh, where it wrapped around and gently ran the tip over the back of it and up to my butt, then used the tip again to trace over the seam that ran down the center of my pants, and moved around to almost touch the front. "I will see you again boy... that iss a promisse." He said, then he was gone.

I feel to my knees and puked up what little was in my stomach onto the floor.

I felt a cool hand touch my forehead and looked over to see Liz kneeling next me. "You ok John?" She asked.

I nodded, then puked in front of myself again.

"Geez Scout, how much you got in there?" I heard Red cackle. "That's a lot for a skinny guy... don't you think Abe?"

Abe scowled at Hellboy. "That's quite enough Hellboy. Honestly, how can you even think of making fun of John?"

"I told him to watch his ass... Not my fault he can't do it." He said with a shrug.

"Just go and get the bomb set and stop being such an ass hole Re-" Liz stopped mid sentence, and we heard a soft thunk. We all looked to see a tail flicking beside her still body.

"Liz!"

"Sparky!"

I bent down to help her, move her away from the hole and the tail, do something… that's when a hand grabbed my ankle and pulled hard, sending me down to the floor on my stomach and cracking my chin on the floor, blood streaking across the floor as the hand pulled me back towards the hole. I saw Liz open her eyes and look at mine. She tried to grab my hand before I got to the edge.

"John! John, just hang on!" I heard Abe yell, then a lot of thuds as Red ran over.

"Don't let go Scout!" He yelled at me as he dove for my hand. My fingers were cut open in my effort to hold onto the sharp edges, knowing that if I let go I'd fall into the bowels of the hole and end up with whatever creature was holding onto my ankle. It was becoming harder and harder to hold onto the edge with my fingers getting slicker with my blood by the second, and they slipped just as he was about to grab my wrist.

I closed my eyes and waited for jaws to come around me from the darkness, but instead I felt a nearly crushing pressure on my wrist. I cracked open my eyes to see my savior, a red tail that held onto me from dear life as another tail wrapped around my waist.

"Don't you dare let go!" Red yelled from about a foot above me…

Just out of reach of my other hand.

I closed my bloodied fingers around the tail and held on as tight I could as they played tug-of-war with me as though I was the rope and the prize at the same time. Then I felt the tail around my waist move. The tip slipped passed the waistband of my pants to caress my hip, causing me to gasp and grip Red's tail tighter.

"'Ey! Easy Scout, I won't drop you." He said as he pulled me up, causing the tail tip to move down.

"Red stop!" I cried out as it moved to stroke down. "There's another tail… it's… it's in my…" Suddenly his movements stopped.

"You sick bastard!" He yelled into the hole. "He's a he! Get you tail outta there you ugly, green, slimy, son of a-"

"Silence Red one. John, you must make a choice," Hissed a voice in my ear. I shuddered as a forked tongue caressed my cheek and a hand landed on my hip. "on who lives, who dies, and who lives below."

"Don't listen to him John, don't let go!" Liz yelled to me from the edge.

"Hush woman!" He hissed. "Now, what will it be? Do you come with me under the earth, leaving them above ground and have them live, or do you live up here alone as you watch your friends die? We have more then enough to deal with the red one... the choice is yours boy." He hissed as he grabbed the crotch of my pants, tugging roughly.

I cried out in pain as his nails went through the fabric of my pants and underwear, scratch open the sensitive skin of my penis, and then pull back. "Them dying or you with me boy? Chose."

"I closed my eyes against the tears that were already rolling down my cheeks. "... Me." I said, my grip on Red's tail loosening. "Don't hurt them... please... Take me instead."

"Don't let go!" Red yelled, tightening the grip he had on my wrist even more. I looked up at his tail to see the dark red of my blood marring the lighter red of his tail.

"Good bye Red... Liz... Abe... I'll miss you all." I said as my hand started to slip out of Hellboy's iron grip.

"No, John please." I heard Liz cry, whimper...

"Don't believe him John... we would be able to fight them off." Abe whispered.

"You will all have something to remember him by... all you must do is look at this tail." The snake hissed as he wrapped a hand around Hellboy's tail, over my bloody finger prints. I heard Hellboy shout in pain and felt the heat that came off. When he removed his hand, he showed that he had literally burned my prints into Red's tail.

"Good bye Hellboy." I whispered as my finger tips slid from his grip. My fingers itched to have that security of his tail again, and as I slid into that black abyss that was now my home, I realized that I would never get to argue with him again, never laugh with him or go on another mission again. I realized that I was being dragged away from the only person I've ever loved, and would ever love, since I was a child...

And knowing that I would never see him again killed me.

Ok, new story up! Woo- hoo!

Oh hush Dana.

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Dana & Andi.