The ride out had been pretty uneventful, the demon had been attacking people on the outskirts of the city where it was run down. Very few people lived there and so it was easy to see why the demon had picked the area; easy pickings, But it also made the situation easy to conceal from the public.
Jumping out Hellboy scanned the area the agents flooding out behind him grouping into small teams they had been fully briefed and knew not to be hot headed and run off by themselves.
Abe and John climbed out next to red.
Abe spread his webbed hand through the air, tilting his head to the side. "There seems to be a disturbance…over there…so much…pain" Abe recoiled holding his hand to his chest.
"Let's go say hi to ugly then" Red chewed on the butt of his cigar flicking it into the street. "come on John" Reds tail whipped johns but, who let out a yelp of surprise before catching up with the jogging demon heading in the direction Abe had pointed
John easily caught up not even breaking a sweat
"Stick close Boy scout"
"Red I'm not made of glass I can hold my own" he gazed up defiantly.
"I just don't want you getting hurt" john stopped red
"I won't" John's hand caressed his face his ringers running through beard; Red closed his eyes with a smile. "We have time for this later, let's have some fun"
John retracted his hand to flit a couple of meters in front of red "com on keep up" sticking his tongue out
"Man he's fast" Red had to sprint to try and keep up.
Reaching a clearing between the old rundown buildings they slowed down, hearing a whizzing notice.
"Do you here that?" Red stopped searching for a figure in the windows of the building, the light reflecting of them making it hard to see.
"yea I hear it" John twisted round fast as the noise came close " I can't pin point it.." John twisted around again to find red gone .
"RED?"
Thick purple fog seemed to seep out of the windows of buildings and creped round the edges of buildings making John panic as it floated closed.
"RED?!" John twisted round frantically only spotting the fog as the buildings seemed to disappear.
Suddenly ropes shot out from the group wrapping themselves round his wrists pulling until he was on his knees.
"WHAT THE HELL!" John wrenched at the bindings.
A shadow began making its way through the thick fog until its face appeared.
"Manning's?"
"The board was right you're a monster! You need to be locked up! Treated like the filth you are" Manning's sneered down
"But…"
"He's right!" Manning's seemed to evaporate, Hellboy left in his place "How could you ever think I'd care for something like you! You're worthless I should have let the agents have you!"
Johns eyes welled up as the fight in him left sagging against the ropes he could no longer look at him, his gaze fell to the ground.
"No Red...i..."
"PATHETIC!" red bellowed.
Something snapped inside john 'His voice sounds odd' john glanced back up to the demons face taking in his appearance "They never do get the eyes right" John peered into the amber tinted eyes that lacked all the passion and determination that was Hellboy.
The ropes faded and the figure of Hellboy faded again to leave a grinning demon its thick body seemed to merge with the fog, its skin a sickly yellow, its teeth hung from it jaw digging in to its own flesh. Where there should have been eyes two horns protruded curling round its jaw and ending at its collar bone.
"Zarathos" barely a whisper as he stood.
"Such a cleaver little parasite" Zarathos stepped closer, his clawed feet clicked against the concrete.
John didn't think twice he drew his gun.
Red had been split form john the fog has seemed to drag him away. He searched around frantically 'which fucking way did I come from?!" dread clutched at his stomach.
"RED!" he could hear John but he couldn't tell where it was coming from.
Focusing Red closed his eyes letting his more primal instincts kick in.
"RED?!"
Thump…Thump..Thump…
He could hear his own heart in his ears, the sound of the wind rustling against his coat and the scent of john.
BANG BANG BANG
The sounds of bullets rippling through the air were too distinctive to miss.
Hellboy took off full speed in the direction of Johns scent.
John tried to flit out of the fog only getting lost as the smog drew him back, he could no longer see Zarathos, tentacles would spring from the fog slicing at him with razor sharp edges, john had used the last of his bullets to fire at them but they only disappeared then emerged again when he turned his back.
John flitted again using the ledge of a window as a spring board to avoid another tentacle.
Landing with cat like grace and taking off again in another direction.
Another tentacle whipped out wrapping around his leg, with a thud he smacked into the floor, the tentacle dragged him back into the fog.
As suddenly as it had begun the tentacle unleashed him, a high pitch squeal would be heard as it writhed and withered on the floor.
Twisting round he heard snarls and shouts as a figure moved behind the fog...or was it two? John tried to focus.
The fog began to clear and there stood red over a now very bruised and bloody demon. The samarition curled in his human hand unloading round after round into the demons head, John stood still, the rounds continued until the chamber was empty, smoking from the rapid fire, the demon a now splattered pile of goo on the floor, the fog had receded and red had put the Samaritan back I his belt.
"Red?" John moved cautiously forward
Red heard the movement and twisted to look in his direction.
"Red?" John became a bit bolder moving forward until he could clearly look in his eyes. Gold eyes stood out from the dark red skin he knew so well.
Rushing forward red wrapped John in the tightest hug his face in the crook of John's neck, breathing in his scent and purring "Mine" Red let out a small growl.
John shivered at the possessive tone "Yours Red", wrapping his arms tightly around him as red lightly nipped at his neck.
Red slowly became more coherent as he felt John rub the muscles in his back, he lifted his head away from johns neck happy to have made a small hicky.
At Johns blush red grinned "you alright?.."
"I'm fine Red, a little shaken up…that demon created hallucinations, just a little shaken up.
"Come on let's get back" they could hear the agents searching for them in the back ground.
Red shrugged of his jacket to drape it over John's shoulders.
"Red I'm fine honest"
"Keep it" red insisted
John let himself sigh contentedly and pulled the coat closer.
Red couldn't be sure right then if his coat was to comfort John or if it was his possessiveness that wanted John to smell like him, warning other demons off.
