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The last thing on his mind had been work. But hell, that was the life he led. You didn't have to be in the mood or ready for what was to come, because it would always come no matter what.

But this particular night Hellboy had REALLY not wanted those red lights to flash or that siren to go off, telling him that another nasty was out there, that he was called out to do the dirty work once again.

But as always he had hauled himself up from his miserable mood and gathered his gear. It had been the usual; Ade had come along, asking questions to the commander about the nature of the beast they were to apprehend. But to his surprise none of them had been answered. They all just gathered in the plain awaiting them in silence with professor broom looking nervous.

"What's wrong dad?" asked hellboy as they took off.

Red knew all his fathers moods, all his twitches and all his depressions, yet through all the years he had never seen his father like this. His brow was wrinkled and his palms sweating and with every opportunity he poured over some papers in a folder that hellboy had never seen before.

Red moved closer to him, thinking perhaps that his father had been to distracted by his thoughts to hear him. "father." He said again.

Professor broom looked up startled and dropped his glasses out of nervousness. "Oh, hellboy." He said, not realizing his son had been standing so close to him.

"Here." said Red as he handed him back his glasses.

Broom took them and again looked over his papers once more before motioning hellboy to sit in the plain seat that was opposite his own.

He looked up, giving hellboy his attention. "Hellboy," he said setting the folder aside, and taking off his glasses. "Do you remember what I told you about the day we found you?" he asked, placing a hand on his son's stone hand.

Hellboy thought fro a moment, his origins had always been a sensitive subject with him, he still know so little about his own past even though his father had told him so much of that day over the years. "Yes." He said finally.

"We are returning there, to the island where you were first discovered." He stopped for a moment and waved Abe over, telling him to join them. "You must know what we are going to face Abe, hellboy," he continued as Abe as well took a seat near by.

"On this island there are still remnants of the machines used to pull you son, out of the hell dimension, now they were not operational after we left the island in the 40s..."

"I though the government had placed that island under surveillance, with guards." Said Hellboy.

"They did, your right, but about a week ago when they were supposed to check in their was no response, the government waited twelve hours, thinking a rain storm might have hit their telecommunications beacon, but after the allotted time they sent in a rescue mission to find out what had happened. They never returned." He said.

"They never heard from them?" asked Abe.

"Their was a communication three days ago just before they were supposed to report back in. the report was cut off before it was finished but the message was clear enough none the less." He stopped as though he didn't want to continue.

"What did it say?" asked hellboy.

"Hell has risen." He said.

"That's all were going off of is a single panicked message." Said hellboy.

"There was satellite surveillance of the island yesterday." Said professor broom handing red a series of photographs. "I know its small, but as you can see it is clear, they have reconstructed the gate, the gate to the hell dimension we found you from. Demons will certainly come from it if we don't stop them." He said.

Hellboy looked at the images in silence, it was clear as his father said, the image of the circular gate was there. Hellboy was mixed with a fear that something more horrible than himself would come out of it and the possibility that he might learn something about his past.

"How long until we get there," asked Abe.

"Is that why we have the army with us?" asked hellboy, pointing to the thirty or so heavily armored men that sat mostly sleeping in various chairs.

"We will get there in sixteen hours, and yes, they are here as reinforcement."

"Ok, then, bring it on." Said hellboy as he stood and peered out the window.

The hours were passed with horrible boredom from Abe, but hellboy had too much on his mind to be bored, he was returning to his home, in a way. To the place he first met his father. And he was returning there to potentially kill demons that were from the same hell he had been from.

"Come on ya big ape, were here." said one of the guys. Tapping him on the shoulder to raise him from his thoughts.

The next hours were spent in silence as hellboy and the team stealthily traversed the island to reach the sight. They didn't want to be detected and hellboy, while the official mission commander, took his lead from the seal OC, this stealth thing wasn't his style and was happy to have someone show him the ropes.

Over the next ridge they spotted it, the circular metal gate, surrounded by guards, more than fifty, all with automatic machine guns.

It was dark, and the area was lit only by the moonlight, which was dim at best.

Hellboy spotted a man who stood in front of the circle, and raised his hands.

"Looks like were just in time for the fire works." He said. "On my command we move in, got it."

He could see the light grow as the man summoned the gate to open, they heard the ancient words being spoken, just as hellboy ordered the surprise attack.

The men in his unit leapt forth, weapons ready. They took out several guards before anyone realized they were even there.

But red went for the man he knew was the leader. Fighting his way past men to reach him. This man, who stood in front of the gate as though no battle was being waged around him seemed determined to reach his goal. Hellboy could not let that happen, he didn't know what their plan was, but it couldn't be good whatever it was. when he finally reached the circle, he could see it was all ready open. His eyes widened as through it he saw darkness, not the lack of light kind of darkness but a brooding evil kind of darkness that had no shape or form, no since of direction, just despair and hatred.

He turned again to the man, slamming him against the stone wall with his fist, severing his connection with the portal. "what are you trying to bring back," he yelled over the noise as he held the man to the wall. But the man only laughed, as though he knew something sinister that hellboy did not. "whatever it is, I will kill it, I will destroy it, you will not bring evil into this world." He yelled. But the man only laughed more.

Hellboy then felt something hit him against the back, sending him down to the ground. Over the noise and the battle, he lost his grip on his foe and instead felt something new strike at him. He rolled over the ground to see what had hit him, ready for anything. He jumped to his feet and standing before him was a creature, a demon of black skin. He couldn't make out the features of the beast of how large it was but he lunged at it not caring how big or nasty it was. all he thought of was the evil in that mans eyes. this demon would do terrible things he was sure of it.

The demon struck out with a long arm and slammed Hellboy into the wall again. He struggled to remain on his feet but wiped blood from his mouth and looked at it.

"you son of a...now im getting mad." He said under his breath as he pulled out his gun.

The beast seemed to pay him no mind as it ran away from him, heading towards the woods to the right.

"oh, no you don't." he said as he ran after it, taking aim and firing two shots in its direction.

The creature dodged the shots and ran faster towards the woods.

"shit, this thing is fast" he said. As it reached the edge of the trees.

He ran faster after it but knew that his only chance at catching it was to shoot it, he would never catch up to it at this pace.

he fired another two rounds and the creature jumped avoiding them. It landed in the tree branches, nimbly jumping from tree to tree.

Hellboy ran through the forest tracking it and aiming his gun in every direction the creature leapt from, knowing his reflexes would not be quick enough to land a shot.

But in the distance he heard something that gave him hope, the sound of the ocean. That might slow it down just enough to give him a chance, and all he needed was one shot. He ran as fast as he could, pumping his legs through the soggy forest floor after the creature who was leaping away from him through the tree canopy. Hellboy loaded more rounds into his gun, wanting it to be full when the time came.

He could see just beyond the trees, a clearing where he knew the ocean would be. And then a moment later he saw the creature stop on the last branch. He knew it had reached the ocean.

It had reached a two hundred foot drop from a cliff face where the forest abruptly ended and the ocean stretched out as far as the eye could see.

Hellboy stopped and took aim when the beast stopped and fired a shot, knowing it would hit.

But just as he fired, the creature spread gigantic wings and took flight over the rocky shore. Taking off into the night air, just missing the bullet that struck the bark of the tree where it had been.

"Damn it, no." he yelled as he ran up and took aim again at the demon in flight. He looked down the sight of the gun with determination. "You're not getting away." He said. And fired three shots.

The beast screamed as two of the rounds hit it. The creature let out an inhuman screech that rattled hellboys brain and made his ears feel like they were going to explode. He fell to his knees, clutching his ears as the creature screamed. Eh yelled out in agony, watching the flying thing try desperately to make it back to the trees so it wouldn't fall to the water beaten rocks below.

But hellboy could see it wouldn't make it. The trees were to high, and the creature seemed to loose more and more altitude with every moment.

It stopped screeching abruptly when it glided into the cliff wall, just below the edge, clinging to the grass, trying to pull itself up onto the ground surface.

Hellboy was ten feet from it, watching as it dug into the grass, it was loosing its grip slowly.

Hellboy took his hands from his ears and stared at it.

"P-please, please help me..."

A shocked expression came over his face, had he heard right? Were his ears fooling him? Did that demon just plead for its life?

A piece of rock brushed by its face and hellboy saw the black skin rub off. It was dirt, not just dirt, it was mud, caked on mud, but underneath he saw the skin of a human, milky white with red blood from a cut.

He could see into its eyes, blue as the sky on a rainy day. They were pain filled and woozy.

His senses returned to him, and the shock faded away and he leapt forward to grasp the human hands that were digging into the grass and dirt. But it was a moment to late. As the hand slipped through his grasp. He watched as in slow motion, her eyes closed and her limp body fell.

Would she make it into the water? Oh, god what if she hit the rocks.

Hellboy didn't think twice about it once he had thought up the idea, and with that he dove head first off the cliff after her.