Rainy Days – A Hellboy Fanfic
Yay, chapter two! Please R & R! I plan to answer any and all questions I receive either here in the above Author comments or down at the end of the chapter.
As a response to Fortune Zyne: Oh don't worry. It's coming. (Not telling anybody else what it is; FZ is the only one who needs to get it.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story except for the plot and Demina. Hellboy and friends (and especially their appearances) all belong to Tad Stones, Mike Mignola, Dark Horse Comics, Sean "Cheeks" Galloway, and Guillermo Del Toro. Should I credit Selma Blair for inspiring me to make Demina? Well, I'll credit her, Ron Perlman and Doug Jones for being the voices of the animated characters and the bodies of the live-action characters (AT LEAST. Ron made Hellboy come alive, Selma was...Selma, but it was awesome, and Doug Jones deserves to be placed on a throne next to God Almighty! He is the greatest multiple-role-playing actor I have ever seen!).
Warning: Mature language, violence and bloody stuffs! :D ...okay not so much on the blood. But there will be!
Summary: It was her favorite kind of weather. Was it by chance this foul-mouthed brat met Hellboy and company in one of the worst storms England has ever seen? Rated M for adult language.
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"Aww crap...Isn't there any bit of dry land left?" Hellboy groaned as he, Abe, several gun-bearing agents, and Demina trudged through the sleet and mud. Demina, who was leading the way, whirled her head to face Hellboy with a grimace on her face.
"Suck it up, you big red git!" Demina shouted over the rain, "Only dry land here is the dirt tracked into the trucks." The girl then turned forward again and smoothly marched through the wet earth, she was used to such dank weather and the consequences it had on the exposed forest ground.
"What'd you call me?!" Hellboy shouted back. His tail lashed angrily, almost hitting Myers clear across the face, and glared daggers into the back of Demina's black-and-blue-haired head. Having hooves made this a very bad terrain for Hellboy; he kept slipping and plunging into deeper pockets of mud while everyone behind him learned from example where not to tread. Hellboy's hoofed feet also made it difficult to get decent traction on the solid rocks and the slick mud to catch up to Demina enough to actually injure her with a fist rather than words. 'Damn! She deserves a few knocks to that multi-colored head of hers!' Hell boy thought angrily as Demina smoothly crested the top of the hill and froze in place.
"Not now, Red. Look over there." Abe said as he placed a hand on Hellboy's shoulder and pointed to a figure. A really big and foreboding figure. Hellboy scrambled to the top of the hill, stared out at the thing and whistled, impressed by the sheer size of the nymph.
"Sweet Jesus..." Myers said, barely audible over the fierce rains, winds and flying debris.
"Sweet nothing, that's a pissed off Hyades." Demina said, her eyes wide with actual fear. Hellboy blinked in surprise at the small female and turned to look at the creature before them. This creature looked like a woman, but she was transparent, clearly made of water, and she screamed angrily, almost painfully. Her watery body seemed to be filled with all sorts of debris, natural and synthetic, and blackened by whatever filth she'd encountered. It would not be far off the mark for someone to say this nymph was furious for that reason alone.
"Hiya-what?" One of the agents said as he crested the hill, gun drawn.
"Hyades. In Greek myth, they are the daughters of Hyas and Boeotia and are known as a sisterhood of nymphs that bring rain in mourning for their dead sibling Hyas. But why is there only one?" Abe wondered aloud his hairless brows moving together ever-so-slightly in thought.
"And why is she so angry?" Hellboy added, pulling out his Samaritan and flipping it open. It was loaded with bullets especially formulated for elemental beings, some of the ingredients being white oak, mock
orange, iron shavings, clove leaves; "the works," as Hellboy would say. He smirked in satisfaction as he clicked the gun shut and replaced it in its holster; if those bullets didn't kill the creature, they'd sure as Hell hurt.
"That's it!" Demina exclaimed, catching Abe and Hellboy's attention, "That explains everything! Guys, this isn't just one nymph; I think this is the entire Hyades sisterhood put together!" Hellboy's yellow eyes turned to her incredulously, Myers' and the other two agents' eyes bugged slightly, and Abe's sideways eyelids blinked quickly; she'd beaten him to the punch. Her assumption of the situation hit a bull's eye.
"Really?!" One of the agents asked in disbelief. Demina nodded and started walking down the hill towards the nymphs, careful not to catch the mythical beings' attention; Hellboy, Abe and two agents wielding the bigger guns followed.
"Yes! The Hyades are a sub-group of the Naiads – water nymphs – typically associated with rain. I think they may be trying to get revenge on the Greek god Apollo. Something they've been dying to do for a while now." Demina finished, looking over her shoulder at the following company. Abe nodded in agreement and deterred his gaze back towards the lumbering aquatic giant.
"Why Apollo?" Hellboy asked loudly; the storm was much fiercer now that they were getting closer to the watery beast. Demina turned her gold-green eyes to him, for once not in a glare.
"One of the Hyades is Coronis. She was one of Apollo's lovers, but she fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus, and had a secret affair. Coronis' familiar, the crow, told Apollo that she was having an affair and unjustly scorched the crow's feathers black and turned Coronis herself into a black-feathered crow." Demina said before returning her attention to the front, "Apollo asked his sister to kill Coronis because he couldn't do it himself." She stopped and gulped in nervousness as she saw the sheer size of the nymph conglomerate. "My thought is that her sisters got together and are trying to get Apollo to appear for revenge."
"It seems to make the most sense." Abe said as he equipped his semi-automatic pistol with specially-made bullets, identical to Hellboy's but in a smaller caliber. The agents did the same for the bigger guns as Demina clenched and unclenched her fists. Hellboy pulled out his Samaritan as he ran one stone
finger on the outside of one of his pouches; inside was a lucky marzipan skull he'd gotten from his last mission to Mexico. He hoped it'd help him out on this mission.
"Well, we can't let that happen, can we?" Hellboy said smugly as he watched the giant screeching nymph cautiously. The being was how writhing and smashing trees, collecting more debris in her form, and screeching several very angry things in ancient Greek. Sparks flew from Demina's fists and soon engulfed her arms in sharp electric sweeps. Abe and Hellboy watched as her hair rose despite the rain; small snaps and crackles of electricity flew between her follicles and reached upward in long, jagged arcs before snapping apart. She smirked when her eyes glowed a white-blue and electricity moved in a smooth current over her torso and arms.
"Fuck no." Demina said confidently. An electrokinetic had the advantage over a water element.
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"Fuck!" Demina cursed as a large piece of tree slammed into her side and knocked her onto her back. Hellboy and Abe were trying to dodge the trees, branches, and various human creations the furious water elemental was throwing. Hellboy fired off a full round – four bullets – from his Samaritan before having to duck beneath an old, rusty bicycle flying through the air. Abe managed to fire off an entire round from his semi-automatic before having to dance around arrows of iron piping and steel rebar to get to cover.
"Come on, D! Get off your ass!" Hellboy shouted as he ducked to avoid an uprooted trunk and fired another bullet from his freshly-reloaded hand-held miniature cannon.
"Screw you!" Demina shouted in response, zapping the tree with enough electricity to blow a hole through it. She pried herself free and shot long bolts of white lightning at the nymph conglomerate before ducking behind a tree where Abe was reloading his gun. "Abe, what do we do?" She asked as she crouched next to the fish man.
"How should I know? I've never faced a giant force of nature before, let alone something like this." Abe admitted as his gun clicked loudly when the cartridge was secured. The ground beneath the two rumbled and the tree they were hiding behind was viciously ripped from the earth by a giant, watery,
tentacle-like limb. Abe and Demina both stared up in awe as the tree went flying nearly a half-mile – or so Demina believed – and the huge water-creature towered over them like the skyscrapers of New York.
"Oh shit..." Demina muttered before rushing herself and Abe out of the way of a deadly, pink and yellow BW Bug, a mountainous pillar of wood, and the resulting pins, needles and shrapnel from the impact. Abe lost hold of his gun when he tripped over an uprooted tangle of tree stumps and landed hard on his side; Demina skidded to a halt between Abe and the water elemental. She drew up a shield of electricity and the organic debris disintegrated on impact; the inorganic pieces were deflected to the sides. The nymph screeched and glared at the electrokinetic. In the back of her mind, Demina was wondering what happened to Hellboy and the two giant guns from before and why she wasn't having flashbacks like most people do when they're about to die.
"Evil creatures!" the nymph said, the first English she'd spoken yet, "Leave my mountains and you shall be spared!" Demina briefly considered the offer before the back of something big and red blocked her sight of the elemental. Hellboy had lost his coat when a tree pinned it deep into the ground and his shirt was torn nearly to shreds by the various objects flying through the air, though his back was nearly scratch-free; sometimes it paid to have a hide as tough as a rhino's.
"Thanks for the offer, but no." Hellboy said as he fired off a full round from one of the large guns from before. When the bullets pierced into the "flesh" of the being, she screamed loud and long before swiping her limbs at the three agents, Hellboy in particular.
"Then die, spawn of Hades!" The being shouted. Demina ran to the left, Abe to the right, and Hellboy punched through the watery limb and the debris in it. At least, he did until he was scooped up in a rogue reel of rope and wire and hauled high into the air by the mythological creature.
"Aw, crap!" He cursed loudly. He could feel the thin, rusty wires dig in to his skin, slowly sawing its way to the muscle and blood beneath and boy did it hurt. Hellboy was ripped through the air by the Hyades' limb and she fiercely slammed him face-first into every tree she could. As she was throwing him through the forest, her limbs and body soon started to melt away and disintegrate; the bullets were finally taking affect.
"Hellboy!" Abe shouted worriedly as his friend flew around in the quickly vanishing limb. Even after several thousand pounds of water lost into the earth, the Hyades conglomerate still had some form and
continued to throttle the red demon to and fro. Hellboy was extremely grateful he was made of tougher stuff than normal people.
"Shit!" Demina shouted as she sprinted towards the feet of the being. She could only think of one thing to get the red monkey out of this situation. "Brace yourself, Red!!" She shouted as she plunged her two hands as deep as she could into the watery flesh and concentrated. Demina focused hard on her inner electric generator and pumped out as much electricity as she could muster. The sound of four female voices could be heard shrieking in pain – both as one and of their own voice – as Demina summoned up as much electricity as she could. Demina cringed and twitched as her own muscles started reacting to the massive amount of electricity; she prayed the being would fall apart soon.
Abe watched helplessly from the sidelines; Demina's electrokinetic abilities were akin to Liz's pyrokinetics: gigantic, powerful, wild and untamed, but caged in such a small frame. However bad it appeared to be for Demina, the Hyades were much worse off: they all had partially separated, looking very much like a hydra, and their bodies of water soaked up the electricity, retaining it and causing an immense amount of pain, Abe was sure of it. Hellboy had now flown free of the Hyades' grasp and landed not a yard away from Abe. The red demon quickly untangled himself from the rope and wire and grabbed Abe's loaded gun from the ground.
"This is gonna hurt." Hellboy said as he fired every bullet in the gun's magazine. Almost all of the bullets flew true and buried themselves deep into the bodies of the four nymphs, causing the whole conglomeration to explode apart from the impacts. Demina still fired off electricity as the Hyades fell apart in water droplets and slowed when she realized the beast was gone. She fell to her knees and brought her arms to wrap around her shoulders. Demina's body convulsed in small twitches until she managed to emit all of her excess electricity into the muddy ground around her. She lay still for a moment before rolling onto her back and letting out a deep sigh of relief. She rolled her head to the side as she heard Hellboy's hooves struggle through the saturated muddy ground and Abe smoothly run over it to where she was laying.
"Y'alright?" She asked Hellboy and Abe; she let her English accent through. Both nodded and Abe helped Demina regain her footing. She zapped him with a small amount of electricity when she was standing upright. "Sorry. Static." Abe merely waved it off as an accident.
"You okay, kid?" Hellboy said when he finally reached where Demina and Abe stood.
"I've been worse. At least I saved your ass, git." Demina answered – still accented – as she pulled a half-full pack of cigarettes and a pitch black Zippo lighter from her jacket.
"Do me a favor and never call me a frickin' 'git' again." Hellboy said as Demina placed the cigarette in her mouth and lit the end. She sent him a glare before taking a smooth drag on the stick of nicotine and letting the smoke out from between her lips.
"I'll think about it." She finally said. The three gathered up whatever items they and their team had lost and headed back towards the hill where Myers and the others were waiting.
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Yay! That was fun! It took me forever to think of a way to end the fight between team Hellboy and the Hyades being, but I did it!
Btw, the Hyades are actual mythological beings. Look it up on Wiki. The only thing I don't know is whether or not they can turn into a single being of almighty power. If anyone can find that they can't...well, too bad. I already wrote up the chapter and I don't wanna write any more.
Reviews are nice! So far I have none. TT I only got an email from Fortune Zyne and they were just pointing out the fact that Demina needs her ass to be kicked. Hard. So please, feel free to review, question, whatever, just give me some kind of feedback okay?
Ja ne, minna.
