A/N: To anon: Hahaha, yeah! I did get most of the mythology of angels from supernatural and thanks :) And thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far
Hellboy and Sonya trudged through Central Park, the knife he had given her held in her shaking hand though it would do little against angels. The rain had started to come down like a waterfall and the fact that it was pitch black and cold November night didn't improve anything.
"How do you know it's here?" Red asked, gun held in one hand as they walked.
"I can feel it, it's my energy, I'd know it anywhere." Sonya told him before abruptly stopping. "It leaves traces." She was eying a large oak tree now. "This is where it touched down, this tree is proof of that."
Sonya thrust the tip of the knife outward to ward off anyone who might be lurking in the shadows, and then she stalked forward, Red right behind her.
"You think it created this tree?" He asked, frowning.
"Yes, of course." She knelt down at the tree's base and laid her hand flat on the ground. Tightening her jaw in concentration, she dug her hand into the dirt as if it weren't much of a task.
Red watched confused and curious as she began to withdraw her hand. Something round and sphere-like was glowing in her hand, she turned to him with a smile.
"Shut your eyes."
"Mind telling me why?"
She held the radiant orb closer to her torso, her expression fading into the face of someone who was expecting pain. "Shut your eyes." She shoved it deep within her chest, shouting once more for him to avert his gaze.
He did as she asked, squeezing his eyes shut. Through his closed lids, he could see a flash of light and he heard someone cry out in pain. As the light faded the scream went with it, and then there was a distinctly feminine cry of delight. Hellboy's eyes flickered open and her hands clapped together her face was a mask of unabashed pride.
"I did it!" Sonya cried out. "I'm back to full power."
Red opened his eyes and nodded as she gave him a feline smirk, the way her lips curled dangerously as if she had the whole world all to herself. "Good, you got your powers back or whatever, now can we get back to Bureau so I can get my food or at least stop off somewhere to eat?" He said, suddenly wishing he had drank that beer and eaten some of the food before they left.
Ignoring him, she peered closely at the ground, her pupils dilating to see more clearly, black overtaking blue. "My Grace shed."
"It—what?"
"When your Grace is abandoned from your body for a certain period of time it sheds off properties to protect it." She backed away. "And these are rigged to blow."
"Well, fuck—"
"Get down!" Is all Sonya managed to yell before forcing Hellboy to the ground as chunks of the ground exploded into the night air. Her elbow skidded along the grass, and then Hellboy was on top of her, knocking the breath from between her ribs with an undignified grunt. The wave of heat from the explosion made her hiss with discomfort. She was too shocked and breathless to move and it seemed Hellboy was in the same predicament, his full weight on top of her.
"You're heavy," She groaned. Beneath him, her legs shifted apart to make room for his, the Angel's slender legs on either side of his body.
"It's your fault," He said, rolling his sore shoulders. "You pulled me." His weight shifted against her, the press of his limbs moving into a position that would allow him to get to his feet, if he had the energy to do so.
"Well, please remove yourself from me, I would like to return to the facility now. Someone will have heard that explosion and there's no doubt the police are on their way." She coughed, struggling for air beneath him.
"You know, Manning is going to be pretty pissed that we sneaked out and caused trouble." Red told her as he heaved himself to his feet, wobbling unsteadily for a second before finding his balance.
Sonya got to her feet, dusting grass and dirt off of herself. "The Mortal does not concern me. Besides, he doesn't need to know, I'll just tell him that my Grace found me. It's not like he knows anything at all, even though he seems to pretend like he does." Sonya said, gesturing for Hellboy to follow as she started her way back to the car.
"You only just met the guy and you can tell that already? Not that it isn't true." Red commented with a small chuckle.
"I'm good at reading people."
Sonya's eyes, an icy, clear blue with a tint of green, followed the path of Manning's pen as it scrawled slanted, sloppy words across a piece of paper. There was something very different about her, Red had decided, something he had never seen before and he was interested, after all there wasn't much things he hadn't seen before.
Manning was excited to have her around, a flesh and blood angel to consult on just about everything, and he had been questioning her on her Grace and scribbling down notes as she spoke. Fortunately, he hadn't found out that they sneaked out.
Her pale arms folded over black lace of the shirt they had given her. She was talking about something to do with the bureau now, Red wasn't listening, he didn't really give a damn. Sonya's slender fingers were tapping away at her arm, she was irritated.
Hellboy's named being called snapped him out of haze of boredom. "What?"
"We've been considering it and thinking and...Sonya's joining the team." Manning told him, a smile full of mockery and blunt dislike. "As your new liaison."
"As my..." He shook his head at the balding old man. "No." He turned to Sonya. "No offense, but I don't need a babysitter." He looked back to Manning. "I thought that after Myers and everything I wouldn't need another—"
"Come on, Red, this'll be good for you. And plus you can help Sonya get adjusted to working here."
"Manning, I swear—"
"Well, no time to discuss it right now, we've got a monster sighting down in the city to take care of."
"Fuck—"
The night was pale and moon-drenched, the air crisp and fresh, a contrast to the stench of death on the inside of the building. The inside of the building was not well lit, and what little light shone through the window from the pale moon cast an eerie glow on everyone's cheeks, though hers was considerably more pallid. Shadows played tricks on their minds, figures seemingly lurking around every corner of the dilapidated building. According to the report, there were five hellhounds lurking around and they had already murdered three civilians.
Not wasting any time, Hellboy, Abe and Sonya had begun their attack on the vicious creatures. Running past Sonya, Hellboy fired his gun into one of the snarling monsters. Hunting, Sonya had noticed, was natural for Hellboy, his eyes wild, and his skin stained with his blood and blackened blood of the monster that had sprayed out, dripped from the edge of his jaw. She watched for a moment when he leaped into action again; face set in a deadened frown. The hellhound went rigid as the bullets propelled through it and in a searing flash of unearthly light, it was gone.
Sonya closed her eyes and seeks a prayer before bursting into action. Brandishing the bloody knife in front of her, she drove it into one of them and then the other. The demonic animals screamed, shrieking vile tenors and contraltos as she smites it.
Before any of them had realized, they had exterminated all of the hellhounds. Doing a fairly quick once over of the building, they decided that the area was clean. Abe was already contacting BPRD, and Hellboy was starting to walk away from the building. Sonya narrowed her eyes at him and followed, she was given instructions to keep him in her sight.
"Why do you do this?" She asked, attempting to rope him into a conversation to stop him from walking away.
"Do what?" He asked without much interest.
"Save people, go against your nature like this." She knew it was slightly rude to ask but it was an odd thing for an angel to see, a demon hunting demons, it wasn't like she minded, she was genuinely curious.
"Against my nature?" Red questioned with a scoff. "Oh, right, right, you mean that I should be a monster, huh? That's all I am then? A monster."
"Never mind." Sonya said, ignoring the sharp look Hellboy shot her as she continued forward. Abruptly, Hellboy sped up his pace and turned off down the road.
Struggling to keep up with his fast pace, Sonya pursued him. "Wait! They said not to let you go anywhere but back to the facility."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." He waved her away as he kept turning down different roads, seemingly desperate to get away from where they just were at every turn.
"Where are you going?" Sonya cried out.
Hellboy disregarded anything she had to say and continued down the empty alleyway before turning and sprinting away. She glared after him, aggravated, as she attempted to follow him. He was no where to be found. She spun around and tried to find him again with no success.
A/N: I had thrown this together quite quick because I've been busy and I had a bit of writer's block. I think it sucks but I wasn't sure where to go with this chapter but I know what I have planned for the next chapter and the rest of the story.