My first Hellboy fanfic, hope you forgive the newb writing XD
Mostly movie-based. Hellboy and characters belong to Mike Mignola with shared story by Guillermo del Toro.
Characters that you haven't seen owned by either one of those guys belong to me 8D
No, this wasn't new.
The apartment building had been cut off from the hundreds of spectators, not one of which spotted the BPRD agents entering from directly below, from the underground conduits that once brought water into the unlit basement area.
"At least it wasn't the sewers this time." Liz reasoned, climbing the basement's wood stairs.
"Close enough. Ah crap." Red lifted his boot, finding black residue first sticking to the sole and tiny things clambering up his leg.
"Cockroaches. I really hate those little suckers."
"Come on, Red. Abe's already up on the third floor." Liz's voice echoed down the shaft.
"So, what've we got?"
"I don't.... Well, there doesn't seem to be anything here. The furniture is set up the way it was, and there are even uneaten biscuits over here." Abe answered. He sniffed one of the cups laid on the table. "Milk's still fresh. I don't exactly know-" "Um, Abe... You might wanna look up." Liz said quickly.
Hellboy entered the room just as the other two gaped at the ceiling.
"Oh."
Counting as many as they could in the scarce light, the three of them numbered about seventeen hanging from the ceiling. Seventeen bodies, maybe seventeen mishmashes of god-knows how many bodies, all strung up by shining silk. "Spider silk?"
"So what? We dealing with giant spiders or something?" Hellboy tapped one of the walls. "No, no, this is fine thread. Only.... there's a lot of it." Abe said sparingly. "Red, you might want to stand away from the walls."
Liz looked up to the bodies once more, backing towards Red as the three of them settled in the center of the room. Scurrying by the hundreds, a horde of black bodies began crawling down the walls and the hanging bodies, a lasting hiss echoing through the hallway.
A number of other BPRD agents entered the room in response, only to be caught in a veritable river of crawling arachnids.
"Little spiders. Huh. How many do you think, Abe?" Red wondered aloud, shooting at the black tide closing in on their position. "From where I'm standing, two thousand if we're lucky."
The three of them began shooting, as did a number of the agents. With each shot, more bore in from the walls, an endless wave of spiders, followed by a number of scuttling brown bodies from the floors.
"Shit!" Some of the agents standing at the doorway were engulfed by brown and black, the weight of the thousands of insects and arachnids bearing down on each human, soon exposing only an odd lump of shining, dark things.
"I don't think we're dealing with a thousand here, Red. I'm counting millions!" Liz said. She reloaded her gun for the fourth time, unable to stop the mass already latched onto her legs. "Step back, Abe!"
Fire erupted from Liz's body. The Icthyo Sapiens went for the doorway, able to assist the agents who, though twitching from the thousands keeping them anchored to the floor, were still alive.
The scores of swarms were engulfed in flames, the glasses on the table exploding, the room itself coming alight.
Red covered his face, but as soon as it was over, the few dozen bugs, still scurrying, were barely a threat now.
"Whoa."
Above, the hanging bodies were crackling, somehow still intact as they had been found, even with the fire. One of them dropped heavily onto the floor, the spider silk encasing it slowly melting down onto the charred floorboards.
Intestines scattered, blood and fluids spilling through the floor slits, one single body slipping out from what looked like the skin of a man and a woman, their arms and legs knotted together at the fingers and toes.
A tanned little body, long black hair soaked in clear fluids, naked but for a torn white cloth that might have once been a night dress, shook for a moment before gasping for breath.
"Oh my god.... Red, help me here!" Liz stooped over the body, the little girl barely half Hellboy's own height, turning the child over.
Dark eyes opened, caramel hands wiping blood away from her face, the girl cowered at the sight of the people before her. She was muttering something unintelligible, covering her face to protect herself.
"Shhh..... come on, it's okay. We won't hurt you." Liz embraced the tiny figure. Red stood at a distance, watching Liz drape her coat over the child, taking her up into her arms. The little girl wrapped her arms around Liz's neck, her large, dark eyes staring out at the large demon.
"Come on, kiddo." Hellboy reached out carefully with his left hand, his finger larger than three of the kid's. The girl reached out to touch the finger, her head settling quietly on Liz's shoulder as she smiled a tired smile.
It was a long night's wait for her, but at last, she was safe.
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