I do not own Hellboy or the characters that appear in the comics. This is all out of my head. Hope you enjoy and review.
The massive chamber sat deep below the earth. The entire cavern was nothing but darkness. A glow suddenly started to form in the center of the chamber floor, a light distorted. A bright orange glow stick suddenly emerged from the pool of water, followed closely by a single figure. Looking around in the haze of orange, the figure moved to the side of the pool, climbing up onto the cavern floor.
"This looks to be the place."
The water of the pool suddenly began to bubble, brighter lights suddenly pushing through the murky water. The small submersible suddenly punched through the water surface, the two large lights on its front illuminating the figure. Standing in his sleeveless wetsuit, Abe Sapien lifted his hand up covering his eyes.
"Wow…that's a little bright."
The lights suddenly cut off as a female voice slowly came over Abe's earpiece.
Sorry about that, Abe.
The top of the submersible unlocked and the lid was suddenly pushed open with enough force to nearly rip it from its hinges by a large red hand. Climbing out through the hatch, Hellboy pulled himself out of the sub, jumping down to the cavern floor.
"Careful there, Red. I don't think Manning would like it if we damaged another expensive piece of equipment."
Hellboy stretched his arms out, a large crack echoed in the chamber from his back popping.
"Yeah…well, if I broke it maybe we'd get one that wasn't as small as a damn sardine can."
"How do you think I felt?"
Hellboy turned as a slightly thin woman leapt down from the sub, her brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. Liz Sherman glanced over at Abe as he stared back at them with his white eyes.
"You get off lucky having gills. I was in there listening to him complain the whole time."
Abe smiled as he walked over and took Liz's bag from her outstretched arm. Reaching in he pulled a hand full of glow sticks out, cracking them over his knee then tossing them out into the cavern, lightening it up a little. Hellboy grabbed a few more tossing them out as well, then taking one and walking around the chamber. Columns of stone and rock stretched out from the floor to the ceiling of the cavern. Old, marble statues lined the entire chamber, each carved in the images of a huge single-eyed creature. The creature stood a good ten-foot tall, its arms hanging low and almost to the ground. A chain wrapped its way around the left arm with a stone ball attached to it on its end. Hellboy stepped up close to one, examining it closely as he scratched his goatee.
"So is this the thing we're looking to find down here?"
Liz walked up next to him, pulling a PDA out from her jacket pocket and scrolling down through it.
"Yep. The Cyclops of Demenkana. The tribes people that lived on the island above would send down sacrifices and it, in turn, wouldn't kill them all."
Abe stood on the opposite end of the room, the glow stick held above his head illuminating a granite and marble alter that stood on the top of a small rise in the ground, old, broken skeletons of long dead bodies littering the ground around it.
"Sounds like a pleasant fellow."
Hellboy grinned.
"Yeah…a real charmer."
Stepping away from the statue, Hellboy moved away from the statue, not noticing that its eye twitched slightly, opening slowly.
"So where is this thing? It's not like it should be hard to find."
Liz continued looking through the PDA.
"Got me. As far as all of the research can show this thing stays---right behind you."
Liz stared forward as Hellboy turned around and looked up at the snarling face of the cyclops.
"Oh…crap."
The cyclops stepped forward slamming into Hellboy sending him flying through the air and crashing through one of the pillars of the cavern. The beast roared in anger, its massive sound echoing in the chamber. Spinning, it swung the ball and chain around, swinging it straight at Abe. Abe dove backwards, dodging the ball as it smashed into the ground he once stood at. Rolling back up to his feet, Abe pulled his pistol out and started firing at the cyclops. Liz dropped her PDA and also started firing, but the bullets simply ricocheted off of the creature.
"It's like it's made of stone!"
"It is made of stone!"
Standing up from the rubble that had collapsed down on top of him, Hellboy dusted himself off and quickly charged the beast.
"Hey, ugly!"
The beast turned and was immediately met with a hard shot across the face with Hellboy's stone hand. Stumbling back, the beast started to roar again, but Hellboy punched it in its face.
"Shut up already!"
Hellboy ran forward, planting his shoulder into the creature, then ran it straight back, slamming it into the wall of the cavern. Stepping back Hellboy moved to punch the cyclops again, but the creature swung forward kicking him back, swinging its chain around so that the ball arc through the air, wrapping the chain around Hellboy's neck.
"Oh…cr---"
Hellboy was cut off as he was suddenly yanked forward and swung into the wall. The creature moved forward, but stumbled back as Abe leapt through the air kicking it across its chest. Swinging wildly at Abe, the creature punched at him, but Abe easily ducked underneath, jumping up and delivering another kick to it. Stepping back the creature yanked its other arm backward, pulling the chain. Abe spun around but was unable to avoid Hellboy as he was pulled through the air, crashing into him.
Standing above Abe and Hellboy, the creature roared as it pulled the ball into the air, spinning it around to bring it down onto them. The chain suddenly grew red hot, melting and snapping sending the stone ball flying through the air and imbedding itself into the wall of the cavern. The creature turned and looked at Liz who stood facing it, her eyes glowing in a yellowish red haze.
"Try picking on me."
The creature started forward, but stopped looking at its hands, steam slowly rising from them as heat suddenly started to course through its body. The creature roared and started to move forward towards Liz again, but stopped as a finger tapped it on the shoulder.
"We're not done yet."
The creature turned, but Hellboy nailed it with a shot from his stone hand sending it flying before slamming into the side of the sub before dropping down to the water where the burning hot stone hitting the cold water caused it to fracture and suddenly explode, killing the creature. Slowly standing up, Abe rolled his shoulder from where Hellboy had crashed into him.
"Well…that wasn't too hard."
The chamber suddenly erupted in multiple deep roars of anger. Each of the statues suddenly started to move, coming to life and moving towards the three. Abe looked around the room at the creatures moving towards them.
"Never mind."
Hellboy suddenly stepped forward reaching into his jacket.
"Screw this!"
Pulling out his massive revolver, the Samaritan, Hellboy pulled its hammer back.
"We already tried our guns, Red. They didn't work."
Aiming at the head of the nearest cyclops, Hellboy fired the Samaritan. The cyclops had opened its mouth to roar but its head suddenly exploded into pieces. The rest of the body suddenly dropped forward, smashing into the ground and turning to dust. Hellboy grinned as he aimed his gun at another cyclops.
"Yeah…mine's a little bigger."
Hellboy quickly swung his gun in a wide arc, constantly squeezing its trigger and blowing the heads off of the rest of the creatures, their bodies dropping to the ground and turning to dust with the others. Slowly blowing the end of the wide barrel of the gun, Hellboy smiled.
"Works every time."
Abe stepped up beside him as Hellboy slid the Samaritan back into its holster.
"So why didn't you just do that in the first place?"
Hellboy opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't come up with anything. Liz laughed as she walked back to the sub. Hellboy mumbled under his breath as Abe chuckled walking beside him. Liz jumped back onto the sub, sliding down through its hatch and back inside. Hellboy leapt up onto the sub and climbed through the tight hatch.
"Back into the sardine can…"
Abe laughed as he dove into the water, followed closely by the submerging sub. Abe led the way as they made their way back through the underwater tunnel and back out into the open ocean where they moved upward, heading to the surface where the hull of a large ship could be seen sitting on top, waiting for them.
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The night was cool and breezy, the sky clear and filled with bright and twinkling stars. The full moon sat high in the sky, its face shining down and bathing the world in a white glow. Lake Obar stood surrounded by trees in the middle of the forest. A man sat on the shore of the lake, night fishing as he sipped on beer. Reaching into his cooler he pulled another beer out and twisted off its top. Sitting back in his chair, the man looked over the lake, watching as fog slowly began to rise up off from the surface of the lake. Suddenly a fish floated up to the surface of the lake, followed by another and another. Fish started popping up all across the surface of the lake.
"What the…"
Standing up, the fisherman walked down the edge of the water and reached out to grab a fish, but suddenly pulled his hand back as he touched the water. It wasn't fog coming off the lake…it was steam. The water was hot, so hot it slowly started to bubble, heating up to higher and higher temperatures. The water started to boil violently. Slowly standing up, the fisherman slowly started to step back from the water, but something suddenly shot out from the water, wrapping itself around his leg.
"Wha---No!!!"
The fisherman started to scream but was cut off as he was yanked into the boiling hot water. The night was suddenly quiet again, the only sound the bubbling of the water as it continued to steam off its frothing surface. Suddenly the water pushed upward as a figure stood up. The fisherman stood in the boiling water, looking around before walking to the shore. Reaching down, he grabbed a dead fish, lifting it to his mouth and biting its head off, chewing. Stepping out of the water, the water suddenly immediately stopped bubbling, once again going calm. Eating the rest of the fish, the fisherman smiled as his tongue suddenly stretched out from his mouth like a lizard's tongue, licking up the juices left in his hand from the fish. Laughing deeply, the man slowly made his way into the dark forest, disappearing into the night shadows.