Chapter 21

Four months later

Elvira awoke to a knock at her front door. "Who could be bothering me at this hour of the night?" she opened the door to find her mother standing in the pouring rain crying. She ushered her into the house and dried her off. "Mom, what are you doing here? Is something wrong with dad? Why are you crying?" She helped her mother sit on the couch. `Father, wake up. Mom is here and I think something is wrong. Hurry and get down here.'

"Elvira, I need to stay here a while. I hope I am not disturbing you. But Hellboy and I got into a fight and he tried to kill me. I just got away with my life and the life of my child. He lunged at me right before I transported to you."

Impmon entered to see both women sitting on the couch and Yue crying onto her daughter's shoulder while she rubbed the small bump on her abdomen. "Yue are you alright? I am sorry about what happened. You do not need to explain, I read it in Elvira's mind. I will do anything possible to help you." He sat on the other side of her and put his arms around her in an attempt to comfort her.

Elvira got off of the couch and stood in front of her parents. "Mom, father. I am going to find out what is going on with Hellboy. I will be back soon. Father, take care of her and make sure the baby is safe." Then she disappeared into thin air.

"Yue, why did we have such an arrogant daughter? She always thinks she can do anything. I think we made her spoiled. Is that even possible? I hope that the child you're carrying now doesn't end up like her. If that happens Hellboy is going to be in a lot of trouble." Yue started laughing at his comment and stopped crying long enough for him to leave his body and made sure that no harm had come to her or her baby.

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Elvira entered the living room and started searching for Hellboy. "Hellboy, Nathan, are you here? Hello? Is anyone home? It's me, Elvira." Right after she finished talking she heard a noise in Nathan's room. She opened the door and prepared for an attack. Right as she walked into the room someone jumped her from behind. She quickly grabbed the person by their hair and threw them onto the bed.

A startled face looked back at her. "Nathan, why did you attack me like that? I could have hurt you and mom would have killed me." She helped him up and hugged him. "Do you have any idea where dad is? I came here to see why he tried to kill mom."

"I have no idea. Sorry I attacked you. I thought he was coming back for me. Elvira I can tell you that the person who attacked mom was not dad. If it was dad then he was possessed. Dad would never hurt mom like that thing tried to. I was able to fight it off so mom could get away, but then it came after me. When you came in here I thought you were it here to finish me off. I can help you find it though. I was able to track it for a while by scent. Just give me a minute and I can find it again." Nathan sniffed the air and picked up the trail immediately.

"Come this way. I will lead you to it. And Elvira, do not look in its eyes. That is how mom got trapped in the first place. She looked it in the eyes and became frozen until I made it break its trance long enough for her to get away." They walked out into to the yard toward the shed. "It's in here. This is as much as I can do to help you. I am very weak. I am going to your house to protect mom and send over Impmon to help you. It is very strong. Please be careful sisar. I love you."

"Okay, thank you for your help. Tell father to get here as soon as possible." She watched her brother teleport away before she went for the door of the shed. She was about to open the door when her father appeared behind her. "Is mom okay?"

"Yeah, he did not get to harm her or the baby. Nathan told me what happened. I say we bust into the shed and fight until we pass out. Care to join me?" Impmon said with a smile.

Elvira put her hand on the door and was about to open it when "it" jumped out and threw them back into the yard. It had blood red eyes. It was Hellboy, but wasn't at the same time. Elvira regained her balance before she fell, but her father hit the ground hard. When he stood up he had trouble keeping his balance for the first few seconds. She made sure her father was alright then ran at it with a sword in her hands.

It jumped to the left right before Elvira was able to injure it. "Dad, what are you doing? I know you do not mean to hurt mother. You love her. I know you do. Think about the baby she is carrying, your baby. Come on Hellboy, I know you can overpower what is possessing you."

Just then the things eyes turned back to the metallic blue that they usually are. "Elvira, help me. A vampire is possessing me. I m not strong enough to fight it. Please help me." Just then it's eyes turned back to blood red. "How pathetic, he needs you to save him, from me. He is not as strong as he acts is he? That is why it was so simple to control him then possess him. It was the easiest thing I have ever done." A smile spread across his lips.

"Why did you take over him and not me? If you wanted power I have more than you could ever imagine. I am the child of two great people. I have as much power as our prince. He is actually my grandfather, but you would never know that. A vampire never remembers where he came from. They lose all sight of their lives and succumb to the darkness like the idiots they are." Elvira said as she watched the vampire overpowering Hellboy.

The eyes turned metallic blue again as the vampire left Hellboy's body. The vampire looked at the people surrounding it before it entered Elvira's body. She stepped back a few steps as the vampire tried to overpower her. Her eyes turned blood red in a matter of seconds afterward.

The vampire was able to overpower her in a matter of seconds. "So Hellboy, how does it feel to be a puppet? I have never felt it before so I thought you could tell me how it f-" The vampire grabbed it's chest in pain. He fell to his knees. "What is happening to me?"

`You have never met a person as powerful as me have you? You should have known that I cam can overpower you and take my body back. I can also kill you before you have a chance to get away because I erected a shield around my body. I am the only one who can penetrate it. You are the weak one vampire. And never mess with my family. That makes me angry. And when I get angry my powers get stronger. You really messed up, now say goodbye.'

There was a flash of light and the vampire screamed in pain before it's body left Elvira's long enough to turn to ash then disappear. "Elvira?" Elvira still had her eyes closed so no one knew if the vampire was really dead or not. When she opened her eyes they were still blood red. The men prepared for a battle. Right as they were about to attack her eyes slowly started to turn violet again. "Dad, father. That is enough lower your weapons unless you want to be humiliated by your own daughter." She started laughing then ran into their arms to hug them.

"Elvira, why would you do such a thing like that? It was very dangerous. You could have been killed. The vampire knew neither of us would ever hurt our daughter." Impmon said. He squeezed her tightly before letting her go. "That was a very stupid thing to do. But I guess you did a good job. But you didn't let me do anything. I have not fought anything in over 2,000 years and you took all the fun."

Elvira burst out laughing. "Sorry father, you can get the next one. I promise." she then looked at Hellboy. "How are you feeling dad? Did you get hurt?"

"No, Elvira. I am fine. Thanks to you. Your father is right. What you did was stupid, but I am glad you did. It seems you could control him better than I ever could. Thanks sweetheart. You did good."

"Dad, we better get you to mom before she thinks we are dead or something. You really scared her you know. She came to the door crying in the rain, and when she told me what happened I didn't believe it until Nathan attacked me thinking I was you. Let's go home. I have had enough fun for one day."

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Nathan appeared in the living room next to his mother. "Mom, are you okay? You seem pretty shaken up. You do know that thing wasn't dad right? We all know he would never hurt you. He loves you too much. He has always loved you. The baby inside of you and I are proof of that."

Just then Hellboy appeared in front of Yue and Nathan. Nathan jumped in front of his mother to protect her. "Mom stay behind me. Dad, I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to."

Elvira and her father walked into the room right as Nathan was about to attack. "Relax, Nathan. He is dad again." She sat next to her mother and placed her hand over her growing sibling. "How is the baby? No one got hurt right?" She looked around the room and noticed that the men were all standing in the corner. "Why are you guys just standing there? Everything is fine and no one is hurt so get over here and celebrate." The men slowly walked toward Elvira and Yue.

Hellboy was the first to say anything. "Yue, my darling. I am so sorry that I attacked you. It was not me. But I still feel guilt; my body never disobeyed me before. I always thought that I had control, but I never knew how hard it is to regain control, until now. I hope you can forgive me." He then sat on her other side and hugged her. He then placed his hand next to Elvira's over his child.

"Hellboy, I know now that the thing that attacked me wasn't you. It never was you. Nathan explained everything to me. I forgive you and I think our child forgives you as well." She placed her hand over her child as it started to move inside her.

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The Next Day

Everyone spent the night with Elvira and Impmon because it was too late to go home. Everyone woke around 11. This was a real surprise, due to the fact that they usually were up by six every morning. "So, mom, have you learned the gender of the baby yet? I am really hoping for a sister that I can teach everything I know to." Nathan gave her a 'what about me look'. "Nathan I mean girl things. Unless your a girl what I want to teach someone will not help you. I have taught you things magically, but everything else is not going to work for you. Sorry little bro."

"We are not going to find out until the baby is born. We want it to be a surprise. We think that keeping it a surprise adds to the fun during the birth." Nathan looked at her with an 'excuse me' look. "Nathan, I am not saying that your birth was not fun. I just think that it's better to wait until the birth because it makes things that much more interesting. And I can tell your that your birth was interesting. You were born at 5:00 in the morning. Your birth was definitely interesting.

Your birth was even more interesting because of your birthmark. You are the first person of our people that we know of to have It." she then looked at her daughter, son and Impmon. "And I do not want any of you trying to figure out what it is either. I will be able to tell if you try. Anyone who tries will be in a lot of trouble with me and Hellboy. Is that understood?" They all looked at her and nodded in agreement. "Okay, now that we settled that who wants to go on a picnic? Hellboy and I planned on going on one today anyway, but because of the recent vampire attacks we were hoping you guys would come with us for protection. I have been very worried because the vampire attacks are more frequent when I am pregnant. But luckily so far I have had all of you to save me and my child at the time from turmoil or death."

"Mom, we would love to go on a picnic with you. Picnics are always fun in this family. It is the one time that we actually attempt to act human. What time is the picnic? I want to change and you need to go home and shower. I really can't go on a picnic wearing PJ's. That doesn't usually work." Elvira said with a smile.

"How about we meet back at my house in about an hour and a half. That way we all have time to prepare for everything. Does that sound okay with everyone?" They all nodded. "Okay, I will take my wonderful wife and son home and will see you and Impmon very soon." They all disappeared in puff of smoke.

"So, father. After seeing me fight today do you think that grandfather made the right choice about letting me be a warrior like you?" She said with a smile on her face.

"I guess he did make the right decision. You didn't even need our help to defeat him. I feel bad for any vampire that you fight once your powers get as strong as they are meant to be. When you were eight I never thought of you being able to kill a vampire on your own. I never even thought that you would be a warrior. It is hard to believe that my own daughter, the person I promised to protect, does not need me to protect her. I never thought this day would ever come."

"Oh, Father," She walked over to him and puts her arms around him. "It is not that I don't need you to protect me. I have just gotten used to protecting myself ever since we thought you died. I still need you to protect me. It will just take a while for me to get out of my past mentality that I needed to protect myself since I was stronger than anyone else in the family. But now that you are back I have someone more powerful than me and I am not needed to protect everyone anymore."

She placed a kiss on his cheek. "Now I have you to protect everyone and I get a much needed vacation." She burst out laughing. "No actually. I would not mind having you help me fight vampires. It was always my dream when I was younger to fight vampires beside my father. But when we thought you died that dream went with you. But now that it has returned my body is having a hard time getting out of it's routine. I promise I will let you get in a few shots during the next fight. Now we better shower and change because we are meeting mom, Hellboy and Nathan in an hour."