Chapter One
Just so you know, I'm only 5 feet tall, all red, have a tail that is about six feet long, with a poison tip that paralyzes people for an hour or two, and little Devil horns on the top of my head, like those Halloween headbands. Sound similar to someone? Well, it is. I'm Violet, Hellboy's little sister. Professor Broom found me when I was just a baby, in 1962, and I age slow, so technically I'm 50, but I only look 14. Hellboy looked about 12 when Broom found me, but he was actually 20. Now he's 70 years old, but only looks 30. Only difference between us is that I have extremely enhanced senses, fangs with the same venom as my tail, and he has a stone hand, and I don't. Great Team, right?
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As the door to Hellboy's room slid open, I looked up, knowing no one was supposed to come in because we were 'grounded'. Hellboy was lifting weights, smoking a cigar, and I was sitting on his bed, petting the cats and watching TV. The man that walked in behind Agent Clay was short, wearing a suit, and looked curious. He picked up one of the Hellboy comic books they had started to make when it was rumored that Hellboy was real.
"I hate those comic books. They never get the eyes right." Hellboy said, making the man jump.
"Don't stare. It irritates him." Clay whispered. I could hear it, but I knew Hellboy couldn't.
"Stare at what?" The new guy said. I didn't make a move to get up or go say hi, I just laid back and watched the show.
"His horns. He files them down to look normal."Clay replied. Hellboy stopped lifting weights, and walked into the light, where the new guy could see him.
"Hellboy.." The new guy said in amazement. I rolled my eyes.
Red, this is your new guardian agent, John Myers." Clay explained. I just then noticed that John held two Baby Ruth candy bars in his hand. Those were Hellboy and I's favorite food ever, and no one knew it but Professor Broom, who had used it to get Hellboy to come to him when he first found him, and he tried it one me, and it worked. Obviously, Broom had given those to him to try to sweeten Hellboy and I up.
"Hello. Ummm? Mister Hellboy? I have something for you." John said, holding out the candy. Hellboy eyed it, then took it, and looked back at me.
"Hey sis." Hellboy called. I looked up, then walked over to my brother, hearing John and Clay talk while I was coming.
"There's two of them?" John whispered.
He nodded "Watch her though. That spike on her tail is poisonous. It'll paralyze you for an hour." Clay said.
"Actually, more like four hours. I like the hair Clay. Finally got those implants, huh?" I commented, walking to Hellboy's side.
"Yeah I did. I was just trying not to scare the new guy." Clay said, running his hands through his hair.
"Whatever." I said, Hellboy handing me one of the candy bars. Just as I went to open it, sirens went off.
"Come on, newbie." Hellboy said "Let's go fight some monsters." I hung back for a minute. Hellboy turned around.
"Vi? You comin?" He asked. I looked up.
"What? Yeah" I replied, running after him. I was excited. Our first mission in weeks. I flicked my tail around, agents backing off when it came close to them. Everyone but HB backed off, because he was immune to the poison.
We walked into the equipment room, where Hellboy got his gun, "The Samaritan", and I got my bow, and strapped the quiver over my back, and we climbed into the fake garbage truck, which was really our portable base. We were greeted inside by Abe Sapien, a blue fish guy, and the not-so-friendly Agent Tom Manning, who was the director of the BPRD (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense).
"Let's go." Manning said, hitting the front of the truck where the cab would be. We drove off.
"Look at those poor suckers, Abe. Only one sheet of glass between us and them." Hellboy commented. "I could be outside."
"You mean outside with her." Abe replied. Her would be Hellboy's long lost love, Liz. She was pyrokinetic, so she would light herself on fire when under emotional distress, so she had put herself in a mental hospital, after destroying her school.
"Don't get all psychic with me, fella" Hellboy retorted.
"Hellboy, stop." I commanded, playing with the strings on my bow.
"Seal everything off." I heard Manning say into a walkie-talkie. "Red, Blue, and Vi are coming in."
"Let's go, ladies" I say, interrupting Abe and HB's conversation. We were at a… library?
When we got into the library, we saw Manning already waiting for us.
"Hours ago, an alarm was tripped. A large entity reported. Very aggressive. Six guards dead." Manning said, explaining the situation "A statue was destroyed. St. Dionysius the Areopagite."
"I thought we checked this place already." Clay commented, coming up to my side, John right behind him. John and I locked eyes for a second, and then he looked away.
"The one who wards off demons. I mean, that's what St. Dionysius the Areopagite does, right?" I said, playing with an arrow that had been poking my neck.
"Of course" HB muttered
A new, familiar voice joined in.
"The statue however, was hollow." It was father, Professor Broom. Hellboy quickly hid the cigar behind his back, and I shifted the grip I had on my bow.
"Father." Hellboy said, looking down. Father looked at me.
"I see you are doing good, both of you." He replied. I nodded, and saw Hellboy's tail flipping around nervously, then he looked up.
"A reliquary. That's what the statue was." Hellboy realized out loud.
"A prison. The Vatican deemed it's occupant dangerous enough… ...to include it on The List of Avignon,
of which, by the way, we hold a copy." Father said.
"Perfect job for these babies. Made them myself Holy water, clove leaf, silver shavings, white oak. The works." Hellboy commented, loading the giant bullets into his gun.
"Behind this door lays a powerful entity. Dark, ancient, and hungry." Abe warned. Hellboy looked at me, and I smiled.
"Oh well. Let us go in and say hi."
*JOHN'S POINT OF VEIW*
"No one goes in with them? Jesus. Hellboy, well… he can handle himself, but the girl? Violet? She's only five feet tall, and has a bow for protection." I said to Abe Sapien. I felt bad for the little girl, knowing she was like 50 years old, but still, I had a feeling she wasn't as powerful as Hellboy ever was.
"They like it that way. The whole "Lonely Hero" thing"
*BACK TO VIOLET*
"Hey Stinky." Hellboy said "Kitchens closed. What did you have? Six guards, boots, belts and all? You're gonna need some serious fiber to move that out." He finished. I snickered at the last part.
"Red." Abe said through the earpieces. We all had earpieces in, so we could communicate.
"Yeah?" Hellboy replied.
"This book says that the demon is Sammiel, the desolate one." Abe said. As Abe talked, HB took the first shot he could, killing the thing. Abe rattled off a bunch of things about it, and one thing in particular caught both of our attention.
"…Hound of Resurrection" Abe finished. HB closed his eyes, and sighed.
"See, I don't like that." Hellboy turned around to where Sammiel used to be.
It was gone.
"Oh, Crap." Hellboy mumbled, looking towards me
"Violet, behind you!" HB exclaimed. I swung around, put an arrow on the string, aimed and fired. I nailed Sammy right between the eyes, and it collapsed. But of course, it stood straight up, and ran towards me. I guess Sammiel had a new nickname. Sammy.
It ran right into the tip of my tail. It flinched, and roared. At that moment, Agent Myers burst through the door, gun cocked and ready. But obviously, the poison had no effect on the demon, because it broke down a wall and ran out, dragging me and Hellboy with it… dragging us by its tongue? John came out to us. We all sat up against a dumpster when it let us go.
"What do you think you're doin!" Hellboy demanded. He looked down at John, who had lowered his gun.
"Helping, I-"
"Nobody helps us!" Hellboy retorted.
"It's my job." John said.
"You, wanna help, load this. Hellboy said, handing him his gun and a glowing bullet, used for tracking. It left a trail of slime, that we could follow.
I noticed something slimy and moving on Hellboy's arm.
"Oh my God, Hellboy! What's on your arm!" I exclaimed. He looked down.
"Aww, Crap!" He said, pulling it off, and taking the gun from John.
"Let's go sis" Hellboy said "Hold on to that for me." HB finished, throwing the thing that was on his arm to John. I got up, and followed HB, to where we found Sammy, perched on the railing of a building. Hellboy shot it with the tracking bullet, and it took off, across the top of a semi truck. Hellboy and I jumped on top, following it.
"We are nearing civilians!" I heard John yell into his Bluetooth.
We followed it through a carnival, John yelling things like "Great Halloween costumes? Right?"
It had totally slipped my mind that it was Halloween. Everyone was dressed up, looking at us. We got out onto a road, where a car nailed John in the arm. He held it, another car coming towards him. HB stepped in front of him, and hit the car head on with his stone hand.
"Stay here." HB growled at Meyers, leading him to the other side of the road. Me and Hellboy chased after Sammy, until we cornered it in a subway tunnel. It was clinging to the ceiling, and dropped down when it saw us. We saw a train coming.
"Only one way Sammy. Us." HB said, opening his arms. I adjusted the collar to the under armour shirt I was wearing, with a BPRD shirt over top.
But anyways, just as the train was coming, Sammy ran towards it.
"What?" Hellboy and I said in unison. Sammy pulled the front door off the train, and jumped on. I jumped on the train after it, but Hellboy didn't make it, and instead, he was clinging to the edge of the train, the conductor pounding on his horns with a fire extinguisher.
"Get them!" Some guy yelled, grabbing the end of my tail.
Bad decision. He froze where he was, and started twitching, then didn't move.
Paralyzed.
"Sorry guy" I said, running out the back of the train, and back onto the ground. Hellboy had gotten back up, after being pushed of the train. Sammy jumped on top of him, but Hellboy did something, well… shocking. He grabbed the electric box that makes the train tracks switch automatically, and let it shock him. I didn't run over, because I knew he was fine, being fireproof and all. Sammy caught on fire, and Hellboy stood up watching it disintegrate. We climbed out of the tunnel, onto the regular ground
"Myers, how's your arm?" Hellboy asked through the earpiece
"My arm is fine. Where are you guys?"
"I just fried Stinky. Tell father not to wait up. I'll be home later." HB replied. He looked at me.
"Violet, go with John." He commanded.
"What?" I replied, turning around. "Why… What?" I ask, bewildered that he wasn't taking me with him.
"Violet, go." Hellboy repeated.
I sighed "Fine" I walked up to him, and put my face inches away from his. "You owe me."
"Fine. What do you want?"
"Pop. Bring me back pop."
"What kind?"
"Crush and Mountain Dew."
"Done." He said. "Now go"
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I ended up back in the library with Manning and Father.
"He's dangerous." Manning said.
"He's our guest, not our prisoner." Father replied.
"Yeah, well your guest happens to be 6'5, bright red, has a tail, and is government funded." Manning replied. I looked around at everything, and then I heard Abe call.
"Professor. Violet. Look at this." He said, holding up a sword with intricate designs and carvings on it. Father walked over to him.
"Show me" Father said, placing his hand on the object. Abe had an ability that let him see what something has been through, kinda like if he touched me, he could see my whole life. So when he touched the sword, he could see what it had been used for, and show anyone he touched.
"Violet, stay here." Father said. As they looked at it, they closed their eyes, and didn't move. I had saw this before, and wasn't concerned. I walked over to Manning, who was talking to a different agent, who walked away as I walked over, desperately wanting to go out for a walk alone, and thinking about a bow upgrade. (which I am not allowed to go for a walk, neither will I ever get a new bow)
"Manning" I said, like we were old friends. "How's it goin?" He looked at me. I glanced to the side, then back at him.
"What do you want, Violet?" He asked. I looked at him innocently. He glared back.
"Nothing. Why would I want anything? I just wish one day that I could-"
"No, you are not going for a walk, and no, you cannot have a new bow." He said. I had done this before, I think he finally took the hint. I hung my head.
"Fine. But, why does Hellboy get to go wherever he wants?" I asked.
"Because he doesn't ask. He just does." Manning replied. He looked at me. I waved my tail around the back of his head. He slapped it away.
"And keep that thing away from me. I don't need to end up paralyzed. Oh, do you know anything about a man on a train that was paralyzed by a neurotoxin, and was barely breathing when paramedics found him?" Manning said. He looked at me accusingly.
"What? He tried to grab me, but grabbed the end of my tail. Wrong place, Wrong decision." I said. He pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Okay, this needs to stop. I need to stop being on the news for all these things. People have called the FBI about things like "Mysterious Paralysis" or "Giant red sasquatches in their backyards"