HELLO ALL MY READERS I AM SOOO SORRY FOR LEAVEING YOU FOR SO LONG AND THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ME TO LEAVE YOU OUT LIKE THAT. BUT HERE IT IS THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER, AND REMEMBER I OWN NOTHING IN HELLBOY BUT PERCIE.

Chapter Thirteen

Percie tapped her foot impatiently, nervously examining every square inch of the library, as her partner confronted the only living member of his family left.

She quietly went over escape plans over and over in her head.

"Percie!" Nuada's voice snapped her out of her thoughts, "Hmm?" she hummed trying not seem as worried as she really was.

"Search the books, quickly" Nuada ordered, Percie moved to the large wall covered in books ancient, new, dusty, and well managed.

Percie began to leaf through the books. "Any idea what I am looking for?" Percie asked, returning an old leather, she hoped it was leather, bound book back to its shelf.

She turned to Nuada and raised an eyebrow when she saw Nuada with his hand in the burning coals of the fire.

"You know, if I saw you doing that 48 hours ago, I would have had a heart attack," she smirked.

"How very clever of you Nuala." Nuada complimented, "But, the parchment means nothing"

He removed a small metal container that glowed a hot red. "The cylinder however" he rolled the cylinder over hard wood of the counter, branding the wood with the image of a map.

"Incredible" Percie whispered and studied the map.

"we will find the Army here" He pointed to a small area in Ireland. Outside the room Shouts and Bangs echoed in the hall, "We have company," Percie muttered and unsheathed her weapon along with Nuada.

"You" he pointed to Percie, "Watch her," he turned to Nuala who looked scared out her wits. "Make sure she doesn't do anything stupid" he muttered and turn to the door.

Suddenly the room was flooded with men in suits with guns, aimed directly at them.

In staggered a Red Giant whose face shocked her, it was the man that almost killed Wink.

Percie began to step forward, but a hand on her shoulder stopped her and Nuala shook her head, "I wouldn't do that, I don't like you, but I do not wish to see you harmed."

Percie shook off her hand but stepped back. A familiar smell pierced her nose, Alcohol, beer more precisely. She bit back a grin, this guy was honest to God, 100%, plastered.

It didn't take long for a battle to break out, as neither Nuada nor the red man seemed to be expert diplomats.

Nuada and the Demon fought, Percie occasionally pulling Nuala out of Harm's way and the Nuala doing the same. 'Maybe this girl isn't so bad' Percie thought.

Nuala's eyes almost never left the blue fish like humanoid across the room, "I take it that's Abraham?" Percie tried to dissolve the tension in vain.

Nuala looked at her like she had lost her mind, but answered, "Yes, that is Abraham" she sounded wistful.

"You sure know how to pick'em" Percie congratulated before grabbing Nuala's shoulders and pulling her back, "Oh shit, watch your step."

Within a few minutes of the fight, Nuada had the demon bent over with a blade to his throat.

"Will you give me the crown piece?" Nuada asked his sister who shook her head "No." Nuala declined fearfully.

The Red man threw Nuada off of him and the fight re-engaged, and after a few minutes again the demon was pinned with the blade at the back of his neck.

"The Piece?" he asked again. "No" Nuala was almost in tears and Percie almost wanted to comfort her.

In a flash again the fight started up, a woman pushed her way to the front to the crowd.

"Red?" the woman asked and the Demon turned to her, "RED BEHIND YOU" she shouted and the demon turn to receive Nuada's spear to the heart.

Nuada looked smug, and pushed the head of the spear in the demon's chest deeper.

"He may have mused in the past, am I mortal" he twisted the spear and detached the head from the blade,

"you are now"

The Blade was replaced with a fresh one and Percie eyed the crowd and saw one young agent, maybe early twenties.

His hand shook like mad and he closed his eyes, Percie knew that look and panicked.

"NUADA LOOK OUT"

She ran in front of the male elf, shoving back Nuala who tried to pull her back when she too realized the danger and pushed the Prince to the side.

A loud bang rang out, and time seemed to slow down. Percie felt herself falling to the ground. She heard muffle yelling as a sharp pain slid down to the pit of her stomach.

She felt her back hit the floor and someone grabbed her firmly.

She heard three voiced very clearly, those of Nuada, Nuala, and an unfamiliar voice of a man.

"Brother let them help her, for Percie's sake" Nuala begged her brother and the unfamiliar man agreed "Your Highness, She is fatally injured, and she will die if not helped"

There was a pause and Percie felt herself being picked up, "She does not need your help" Nuada hissed.

"If you wish to have that spear removed, and he will die if it is not removed, than bring me the crown piece."

Percie felt cold and leaned her head against something warm and solid, then all went black.

She wavered in and out of consciousness throughout a journey that made no sense to her in her current state.

She felt a dull pain in her lower half and chest and whimpered, trying to bury herself into the warm, firm mass she was rested against.

She could hear muffled speaking directed at her in hushed tones.

"Don't worry Little One, you'll be just fine"