It has been an extremely long time since my last update on this story and I do apologize for that, but I definitely have not forgotten this story in the slightest. This portion is a lot less action-y than other chapters but it was important, in my mind, to create. I hope this dialogue is thrilling enough for some and enough for everyone else to suffer through.

The train ride to the next station was just starting to get underway as they passed over buildings in cities and continued their way to the mountain range. The three students were left to their booth and their own conversations. Hellboy, after the presentation was over, took another sucker out of his pocket and stuck it right in his mouth, moving it to the right side of his mouth with his tongue. He had the whole side of the booth he was on to himself and set the Right Fist of Doom on the table that separated the students. He put his back against the wall, facing the opposite end of the train and began to relax himself.

Tokoyami took out the pamphlet for the ski resort, going over all the things it had to offer. He stood almost motionless as his eyes glazed over the pages and his feathers swayed slightly as the air conditioning threw air throughout the train cars. Every once in a while, he would open his mouth hidden by his beak, licking his thumb and turning the page to see what else there was to offer, sometimes humming in acknowledgement of what the pamphlet let him know.

Yagani was pursing her lips and watching the environment change around them as the train rushed through the city. She had been glancing at the Right Fist for some time, quickly looking back to the window with a squeamish expression. This wasn't unseen, however, as the red devil easily noticed the girl's unease.

He sighed, turning his head towards her. She quickly turned away, but still glancing at his from the corner of her eye. He began, "If you have something to say, say it."

Tokoyami looked up from his pamphlet, observing the interactions between strangers. Yagani jumped, quickly jolting her head to face Hellboy. "I-I'm sorry! I really didn't mean to stare, it was just that I really don't know any of you. And your gauntlet was on the table and I was wondering why you were wearing it, but no one else was questioning it and-"

Hellboy raised his right hand, letting the hand stay open as to prompt her to stop. "This isn't a gauntlet, girly. This is my hand."

Yagani's eyes widened as she bowed her head as best she could, "I didn't realize, s-sincerely! I apologize!" when she raised after neither students said anything, she continued, "But, I was also kind of wondering what exactly you were."

Tokoyami nodded slightly, the feathers on the back of his head uneventfully trying to stay in one spot, "That was a question I had as well." the crow-headed student brought power into his voice as he always did. "I've done my research on many kinds of demons from Hell after an incident a couple years ago, and none had even mentioned your right hand. They had mentioned the horns, but most of those stories seemed fake."

Hellboy shifted, setting himself upright as he spoke, "Does it really matter what I am? I mean," he pointed to Tokoyami with his left hand, "you have a shadow demon sharing your body with you. In most cases that would kill a person, and if not that lead to outright possession." He pointed to the girl this time, but the waved his hand, "Honestly, ghosts, spirits and ghouls are just strange to talk about. None of them are very consistent."

Tokoyami held his hand out, shaking his head, "I believe you are misinformed. The spirit I am hosting is only similar to shadow demons, however it is not a formal demon as I'm sure you've come to know them as. As you said, there are spirits and the behavior of spirits are more in line with nature."

Hellboy sighed, leaning back into his seat and staring at the ceiling, "Yeah, well I don't even know what I am."

Tokoyami leaned forward, "What do you mean?"

He looked back down leaning forward, "It means exactly what I said. I have no friggin' idea what I am. I have horns, a big right fist and I'm red. That's all I know." Hellboy was scowling at this point, "If that's not enough, then you can stick it up your-"

They were interrupted by Kraus, who had been walking over once the aggression began, "Hellboy, whom you've noticed has the horns and the fist and all, is the bringer of the apocalypse as discovered by our friend Abraham." Kraus pointed his glass dome towards the two new agents, "You can imagine why we've kept this as a confidentiality. If any of the public learned if this fact, there would be chaos and he would be killed on the spot. However, as you have already seen, Hellboy has aimed to fight destiny and to help us instead to eradicate monsters and other entities from harming others."

He stood up, grabbing Kraus by his suit with his left hand an cocking his right fist back, "What is your deal! How do you know even half of that?"

Kraus didn't even try retaliating, though Tokoyami had already summoned Dark Shadow and Yagani was partially ghost. Kraus just calmly explained, "They already knew of your name and the top brass of the B.P.R.D have questioned many monsters of Hell about the name. Some talked more than others and we pieced those clues together. Truly, it was the work of the Professor and Abraham." the gaseous entity waved towards the students. "These students must know the bare minimum of what the B.P.R.D rookies know and more. They are paranormal agents, they should know as much as you, Abraham and I know."

There was a silence for a moment, the student scowling at the agent, then he let go. "Fine, have it your way, rain cloud."

Hellboy sat back down, still scowling at Kraus, "I am the bringer of the apocalypse, sure. But it hasn't been brought up too much until recently when the paranormal attacks began to be normal."

Tokoyami sat back down at this point, fists still clenched. Yagani piped up as she went back to her human form, "W-well, as long as you're on our side, I'm relieved a l-little bit."

The other student continued the thought, "Do you even have enough power to do something like that? I mean, you weren't able to necessarily overpower any of the entrance exam robots."

The red student began picking at his right hand, shrugging, "I was kind of having fun there, I wasn't serious."

Abraham had joined in from across the train car, "That, and he isn't at full power right now." The students turned to look to Abraham, "How some of the species we've encountered have roughly explained, they wish to go through some form of ceremonial ritual to invoke the power of the apocalypse from Hellboy. Until then, he's still as mortal as you and I, just stronger and more difficult to kill."

Hellboy rested his left arm on the back of the booth bench, cocking his head to the side, "Which isn't important because I'm never going through with that." He looked back to his peers, "I don't want to destroy humanity, I want to destroy monsters. End of story."

Tokoyami nodded, giving what Hellboy could only imagine was a smirk through the stiff beak, "Then, you have our word that we trust you."

Yagani nodded with Tokoyami, giving her first attempt at a smile the whole time she had been on the train. They both gave their word that they wouldn't tell anyone about his situation as they arrived at the first station. The train stopped at Nagano station, which the students all piled out of to get to the train across the tracks, which would be their last train they got onto.

As the students got together outside the train, Hellboy met up with his brother and friends, which some asked questions about. After being denied the information they had learned from the agents, they went back to getting into the next train, which was about as fancy as the other. It seemed although the agents had these trains specifically put onto the tracks to separate them from the citizens as this train only had three cars, the conductor's booth and two passenger cars.

They all strolled on the train, finding their seats in these booths. Hellboy was following his brother towards a booth near the middle, sitting in one side by himself so his right arm rested on the table. Izuku, Ochaco and Tenya sat in the opposite seats, both the brother and Ochaco asking why Tenya still had his coat on. Hellboy got himself comfortable, laying his back on the side of the train.

He sighed, grabbing the sucker stick out of his mouth and placing it in his pocket to throw away later. He closed his eyes, crossing his legs on the seat and laying his tail across his stomach. The train began to move, rocking it back and forth slightly. He focused on that movement, letting the sound of everyone talking on the train turn itself into a mumble, inaudible. He eventually faded into blackness, where he felt nothing, heard nothing, saw nothing, smelled nothing and tasted nothing.

This blackness drifted him along like a stream, one that was warm and soft. This, too, eventually faded as images began to form.

He was standing in one of the alleys from years ago, before he had a home. He saw a smaller version of himself digging into a dumpster, scavenging. This foraging was interrupted by the echoing sound of something dropping. Hellboy and himself looked towards the sound, spotting a familiar curly and green-haired boy when he was still in primary school. He was at eye-level to Hellboy and was pointing at him with a look of horror painted on his face.

He had a yellow t-shirt on with five small turtles going across the chest, the turtle in front hidden by a pitch black stain on it. He wore tan cargo shorts with similar stains to the shirt going down one leg. When the boy opened his mouth, black liquid poured out like the tap from a sink and began making a puddle of it on the ground.

The boy spoke in a voice that didn't match his, one Hellboy didn't recognize and was clear, as if the liquid didn't affect him at all, "What are you doing? Why are you doing this?"

The young devil took a step back without control over his own body or his mouth as he spoke in a younger voice, "What do you mean? I haven't hurt anyone, I'm just-"

"NO! You hurt me, you hurt everyone, you hurt." The boy accused, the puddle now reaching Hellboy's bare hooves.

The small devil began to cry, shaking his head as he walked away from the boy, "I'm not doing it on purpose! I promise!" He put his right hand on his chest, "I'm not a mean person, honest!" He threw his hand away from his chest as it burned him, leaving an imprint of his hand on his chest.

The boy laughed, walking forward and holding his arms forward, "Don't you see? You're meant to hurt!"

Hellboy turned to run, but was stopped by Mina Ashido, who was crying as her back released the same black liquid from her cuts. "You're the monster! Stay away from me…"

He tried walking forward, which she retaliated with sobbing the liquid, "NO! STAY AWAY FROM ME!"

He turned back to the boy, who was face to face with him. The boy put his hands around Hellboy's skinny throat, pushing him to the ground. He couldn't get up no matter how much he tried, he couldn't. The boy cackled as the ooze began to rise above the red devil's chest, releasing one hand and placing it on Hellboy's right horn. One more push threw him under the ooze.

Hellboy struggled to breath, struggled to think. The black carried him again, this time cold and wet. It swelled in his eyes and lungs, it stank like rotting flesh, it burned his eyes worse than embers, it crawled into his ears and scratched his eardrums, it tasted worse than a skunk's spray and it bit every angle of his body.

The voice rang in his ears again, "Wake up, Hellboy!"

"HELLBOY!"

He sat straight up, swallowing as much air as he could manage. His eyes were all over the place, trying to figure out where he was. His skin all stung as an arm would when it was asleep.

He finally got a grip of himself after he wiped his face. He was still on the moving train and there was snow falling and in heaps out the windows. In front of him was his brother, who was leaning on the seat Hellboy was laying on. To his right, leaning on the table with one hand was Mina who had a cup of water in her other hand.

Izuku was the first to speak up, "Hey, are you okay? You were gasping in your sleep like you were choking."

Hellboy took one more deep breath, exhaling slowly as he glanced at all the other students that were staring at the scene. He nodded, looking at his right hand which had taken a good chunk of the table with it. He placed it on what was left of the whole table.

"Yeah, just a really bad dream is all." He raised his left hand towards Mina, who handed him the water.

She remarked, nervously laughing, "Seems more like a nightmare, you know?"

Hellboy drank the water slowly, getting the taste out of his mind. He stopped with it halfway down as Aizawa finally got through the crowd of students.

"What's going on? Is anyone hurt?" He looked at Hellboy finally.

He responded, "It's fine, teach, just a very… impacting nightmare."

"Well, you look fine at least, nothing I can really do here. We're almost there so don't sleep until we get to the resort. And when you do, make sure no one is near you."

He turned to go back to the other car and left the students on their own.

The train was stopped and the students were getting their coats on. Hellboy was already off the train and had changed out of his black long sleeve due to the sweat. He had on, instead, a grey muscle shirt that was torn almost to the bottom. He took a deep breath, feeling the cold air hit his sweat, cooling him down tremendously. His bags were slung on his right shoulder with all of his things, including his B.P.R.D uniform and weapons.

He sifted is left hand through his hair, waiting as everyone got off and into Hakuba station. Mina, Ochaco, Iida and Izuku finally got to him, all excited about the resort as everyone was.

Iida wasn't too happy, however, he marched right to Hellboy and began berating him, "You have even less on now! Do you not realize it is snowing, Midoriya Red?"

"What did you call me just now?"

He shifted his glasses back up his nose, "I admit, the name isn't exactly formal but I wouldn't want to overstep any boundaries and I need something to refer you two differently, so-"

Hellboy waved his hand, "Seriously, just call be Hellboy then. Everyone does."

He almost looked offended by that, "That is most impolite! No, I cannot call you by first name, that's not the kind of relationship you and I have now."

Mina piped up, leaning on Hellboy's chest, "Why not just call him Red like you added onto it?"

Tenya shook his head at that, "No, that won't suffice either. You're the one that gave him that nickname, Ashido, and you're the only one that really uses it, I would figure you wanted that nickname for yourself."

Mina cocked her head to the side, then grinned, "Yeah, I guess that's true!"

Tenya looked back to Hellboy, "Besides that, aren't you going to get sick like that?"

He shook his head, "Never been sick a day in my life."

Izuku chimed in, "Our mom figured out his body temperature was really high one day and we took him to the doctor, it was about as hot as a desert, as he put it." the brother looked to the other, "He's so warm he actually kills bacteria on the inside of him."

Mina was hugging Hellboy now, pressing her face against his chest, "Yuh, hi's like a friggenn heatur!"

Hellboy's face turned a bit of a darker red as he shifted his bag more on his shoulder, "You've got a coat, Pink."

She giggled, still hugging him, "You guysh should tri thissh, it'sh way bettur than a coat!"

Izuku was leaning against his side as he was just wearing a jacket himself, "It's what I usually do during the Winter when going to school, he really is much warmer than a coat."

Across the way, Hellboy heard Mineta complaining about how Mina's breasts were pressed against the red student and not him. Hellboy got annoyed by that quickly, but decided to ignore it.

The bus finally arrived at the station as the agents announced, so the students began to walk forward. Hellboy picked Izuku and Mina up with ease, keeping them close as to let them stay warm. Mina giggled as she pointed to the bus and shouted, "CHARGE, RED STALLION! TO THE SKI RESORT!"

They got on the bus, which was tall enough for Hellboy to walk through. The bus only had plenty of room, so Hellboy could have another person sitting with him, which Mina volunteered for. Izuku sat with their other friends and they were off once everyone was settled.

For a minute, neither of them really said much, though Mina really wanted to. She finally did when the station was out of sight, "In all your adventures fighting monsters, you ever fight one in the snow?"

Hellboy nodded, smiling, "Yeah, there was actually an ugly guy called a Nuppeppo. Stank too. Basically, it's a big blob of flesh that was trying to get into people's homes because of the cold and even hurt the owner's dog. So, they made a few calls, and I eventually heard about it. At this point, I was just in primary school but I had been protecting people from monsters for a while now. I go up to where it was, this temple in this suburban area just a bit out of my way."

Mina nodded, propping her head on her hand, "I bet you beat him pretty hard then, huh?"

He shook his head, "I recognized it, and these guys never try to attack anyone. I figured he was just trying to run away and accidentally hurt the people's dog. But he probably saw the horns and fist and thought this would be it for him. He goes to throw his weight at me and I smash his head with a nearby boulder. Then I keep hitting him until the boulder breaks."

She gasped, pushing his shoulder, "You didn't kill him did you?!"

"Hell, no! It takes a bit to kill these guys. He backed off and asked if I wanted eternal life in return for him getting off. Obviously, I just let him go."

Her eyes widened, "So you're actually immortal!"

He stuck his tongue out and made a noise like he was vomiting, "Ugh! No, you need to eat a part of them for it, if it's even a real thing. I wouldn't even if it was, it probably tastes like the whole undead had been sitting in the Sun for ages. No, I'm not."

She made a vomiting sound as he said it, "I think you probably made the right call. Grossest way of becoming immortal!"

They both laughed it off, Mina leaning back on her seat. As she did, she winced at her back. This brought Hellboy back to the dream, and he became dismal. He didn't show her this face, though his tail showed it enough. "You alright?" He asked.

She brushed him off, "Yeah, I'm fine. It's only sore a little." She raised her fist into the air and flexed her arm through the coat, "I can still take on any villain that comes my way!"

He smirked, "Yeah, well hopefully this bit of R&R will fix that bit of soreness."

She nodded as the students all got excited. The bus was finally near the hotel, which stood out due to nothing else being near it except for road and the ski lodge up the hill. It had white walls and brown wooden accents that made it look gray from a distance and windows lined all around the building which marked every room with a window view. The roof was a striking red in the midst of all the whites, grays, blacks and browns that made the snowy plains and woods in the area.

Hellboy took a deep breath, I need to prepare for a bit of R&R myself. He exhaled as his peers excitedly awed at the hotel.

So, I've also been wondering what other kinds of stories anyone would be interested in me trying my hand in or seeing how I interpret two worlds coming together. I hope everyone reading this enjoyed it!