Kiwi and Apol laughed as they walked down the nearly empty road on the way to Apol's rented home. It was pretty quiet except for the constant noise of cars from the main road across the way. But Kiwi- and Apol after a while- had already gotten used the noise.
"Oh! Here we are," Apol said as they came to an old, but still nice building. "Want to go around back before we go upstairs? It's got this really cool area where hardly anyone goes. I went there before I found you,"
"Sure. It's not that late yet," Kiwi nodded as she looked at the clock in her phone. It was a little bit past 9:30 pm.
Happy, Apol led the way around the building to an area. It wasn't huge, but it wasn't small. Somewhere in the middle. The ground was concrete with bits of grass coming out where ever there was a crack and potted plants were up against the back wall.
"This is really-" Kiwi began but was cut off by a roar coming from behind them. Quickly, both girls turned to find a monstrous creature coming straight towards them. It was oddly shaped, like a bowling pin. Its head, the smaller part, sported two clusters of eyes, one above the other. Two pairs of arms alternated into legs and it had tons of tentacles sometimes helping propel it along.
"Wonderful," Kiwi said dryly.
Then both girls realized it was racing towards them. Unable to move out the way in time, the creature came in and jerked them up in its tentacles. The two friends yelled in shock as it scooped them into the air.
"What the hell!?" Kiwi said as soon as she stopped screaming.
"Have you noticed-" Apol yelled exasperated, "It's always us-" Apol stopped as the tentacles squeezed the breath out of her.
"Who get in these situations?!" Kiwi yelled continually, "Only last time when we were getting pummeled and held hostage by frickin' demons!"
"Okay!" Apol cried after a moment, "Just making sure I wasn't the only one who noticed."
"Hey!" A voice called from behind the girls and from what they could see - they were being swung around by the tentacles- and guy was running towards them. He was tall, the color red, had a brown trench coat, a tail, and had a huge right hand that looked to be made of stone. And he was waving a gun. Then he shot it. The bullet whipped past Apol's face and she screamed at the same time as the creature.
"Watch where you're shooting!" Kiwi yelled at him. He looked surprised to see her but disregarded it as her punched the creature with his right hand. Then he jumped up and dragged the tentacle holding, Kiwi down and then he ripped it off the thing entirely. He put her slightly off to the side.
The guy ran back into battle and fought not being able to get to Apol. Although the creature looked stupid it didn't want to be tricked again.
"Kiwi!" Apol screamed, "I think it's gonna crush me!!" She gasped as the tentacle tightened. Then she fell over limp.
"Apol! Get up!" Kiwi screamed back, "Apol!" Kiwi squirmed and struggled trying to get out so as to help her friend. "Hey!" Kiwi turned her attention to the guy fighting. "Help her! Please!"
"I'm a bit busy." He grunted. He was working on hitting the creature while dodging the arms and tentacles at the same time. Finally he was able to get to the tentacle holding the now unconscious Apol. He set her down next to Kiwi and she was glad to see Apol re-open her eyes. The guy turned around to be met with a punch from the things arms. He was sent flying into the brick wall of the building, the wall almost completely collapsing. At the bottom, he sat up amid the rubble and now dead potted plants. Then he lifted his arm with the gun. "Die."
He shot the gun continuously the shots almost always hitting the eyes. Suddenly the creature stiffened, and then he fell to the ground. The guy stood up and began making his way towards the girls. But he was beaten by two other girls.
"Guys! Are you okay?" Cota ran up to them and began pulling at the tentacle around Apol. The other girl pulled at Kiwi's.
"Cota! When did you get here? And…Girl whose name escapes me from earlier!"
"Orange," the girl said as she successfully pulled the tentacle off and threw it to the side.
Cota pulled Apol's off and tossed it next to the other one. Apol and Kiwi stood up shakily and rubbed feeling back into their arms. Orange turned and smiled at the guy who was now standing next to them.
"Hellboy! What a surprise," She said
"Hey, thanks for rescuing us and all," Kiwi grinned.
"Yeah, your help is really appreciated," Apol added.
"Not that this isn't nice, but are you two blind?" Hellboy said surprised.
"No..." Apol said confused as to why she was being called blind when it was obvious she could see.
"Oh, cause of how you look?" Kiwi said also surprised, "We don't care. We don't discriminate." Apol laughed.
"God, after everything we've seen," Cota shook her head.
"Seriously!" Kiwi laughed as Orange and Hellboy looked at the three girls funny. Then Hellboy looked at Orange with a look that said you've-been-hanging-out-with-these-people?
"Actually, I just met Kiwi today, and ran into Cota five minutes ago."
"Oh, shoot." Apol said as she looked up. "That was my room," Everyone looked over to the rubble.
"Cota...?" Kiwi asked hopefully, but she shook her head.
"I haven't found a place yet."
"Orange…You wouldn't happen to know a place Apol, Cota and I can stay would you?" Kiwi turned to her. A grin was starting to dawn on Orange's face. She turned to Hellboy.
"Maybe..."