The icy air hit his face as he stretched out his arms and fell down towards the water below. Her was moving fast and knew he would catch up with the girl before she hit the water. This is what he was counting on and when, a few moments later he caught up to her. Hellboy slammed his body into her side, pushing both her and himself out further away from the rock and the edge of the cliff.
They hit the water a moment later just narrowly missing a rock that protruded from the cliffs edge. He felt pain in his head but shrugged it off.
The water churned with fury as the waves beat against the side of the cliff and hell boy found himself not knowing which way the surface of the water was. He let out some air from his lungs and followed the bubbles up to the surface, breathing in a gulp of air.
He turned around, searching the waves for any sign of the girl. There was none.
Then taking a deep breath hellboy dove back down again. Searching through the water for her.
The water was dark and the only light he saw was the moonlight reflecting off the cliff rocks. Then to the right, he saw her. Her body scraping against the rocks with every wave. Through the water as he swam to her, he finally saw what she truly looked like, the mud was washed away by the tides and he saw her pale skin, glowing, which covered her from head to toe. She was bare foot, and wore what he could only describe as rags, which covered little of her body. She was thin and sickly, with long hair that in the darkness and with all the mud that still remained he could not tell the color of. By all accounts she was fully human.
Except for one very noticeable thing. Her wings.
She had huge white feather wings, which protruded from her shoulder blades like that of a bird. Hellboy could see blood coming from one of the wings and one of her arms and he knew it was from his bullets.
Reaching her finally, Hellboy took hold of her and swam to the surface.
He swam backwards towards the shore carrying her unconscious body with him.
She couldn't be a demon, as he had earlier assessed, but the thought that she was what she appeared to be was preposterous. She couldn't be....an angel.
But as his feet touched land and he carried her to shore these thoughts faded from his mind. He lay her down on the sandy ground and knelt beside her. listening for the sounds of breath. He couldn't hear anything.
She couldn't be dead. He again knelt down, this time pressing his ear to their chest to hear if her heart was beating. It was, loud and strong.
She must have water in her lungs he thought. And turned her over to her side, immediately she began coughing and gagging, as water came gushing from her mouth.
She gasped for air.
"easy, you're alright." He said. As he knelt closer to her.
she wasn't listening to him. She couldn't hear him it seemed. As she lay there and coughed. She drew her knees up to her chest gasping and coughing.
She didn't turn over and hellboy could tell after a minute that she wasn't going to. She began to shiver, her wings folding themselves over her body. It was such a magical and unbelievable thing to watch that for a moment hellboy forgot how cold it was or even how tired her has from swimming.
He was soaked, and she was soaked, and so after about five minutes when she hadn't moved and was only shivering he turned her over, finding that either she had fallen asleep or was unconscious again.
A moment later Hellboy felt exhausted, he rubbed his head,....but then nothing...he was unconscious.
"Hellboy." Said a familiar, voice, "red, can you hear me?" he said again.
"wha...who." Red opened his eyes slowly. Seeing the image in front of him go from fuzzy to clear after a moment.
"its me Hellboy, its your father." He said with a smile. "how are you feeling."
"oh, just peachy." He said sitting up and rubbing his head.
"what happened," he said looking around. "where am i."
"your in the paranormal research medical facility." Said Broom.
"how did I get here so fast." He asked.
"you have been unconscious for two days, do you remember what happened." Said Broom.
"yeah, I was chasing this demon, only it wasn't a demon it was a....an..."
"an angel." Said Abe who was reading a book over in the corner.
"angels:" he read from the book. "very little is actually known about angels as they are so illusive and many believe they are entirely myth however it is theorized that they are creatures that had once been humans who have died and are now messengers of god." He read. "angels carry with them messages of hope and love to humans and often fight off demons who would otherwise consume the souls of the innocent. They are very fast moving and can speak the language of god, they also have modified vocal cords so they can produce the complex tones needed for angelic speech. They can also produce damaging tones when provoked or frightened which can cause headaches and vomiting." Abe paused from reading allowed seeming to skim the rest. "the book goes on to describe Lucifer and the laws of god, it also has the weapons of angels...but nothing very useful given our circumstance." He concluded.
"does it say how one communicates with an angel, or anything about their temperament, what do they eat? What kind of environment do they live in?" asked broom, turning to Abe.
"no, nothing like that," responded Abe.
"why do you need to know that? is she here? where is she?" said Hellboy.
"easy, you should be careful you got a nasty bump on the head, but yes she's here son." He looked at Abe and then back at hellboy. "she's been rather difficult, we had to move her to the holding cells for sewer based demons, because she kept on breaking through all the other facilities. That headache she gave you with her screams nearly killed one of our officers when he tried to sedate her." Said Broom, looking sad.
Hellboy knew the cells designed for sewer demons were not a nice place to be, they had sound proof titanium walls and were dreadfully dark, they were cold and had a constant draft.
"let me try and talk to her."
"she spoke to you?" asked Broom with surprise.
"briefly." He said, Getting up and pulling his black shirt on. "take me to her."
Hi, i am so greatful to epalladino, for the review. i hope this chapter is better,in grammer, puncuation, and spelling. i tried really hard to make it perfect, but just in case i missed some things just know with every chapter i will be getting better.
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