They made it outside and Johann, Abe, and Hellboy started arguing over if Nuala could come back with them to the BPRD.
"mom ya gotta say something here! Tell this tin can she's coming back with us." Hellboy said as he turned to the woman leaning against him.
"I am sorry Dr. Krauss but I promised her father I would keep her safe and I intend to do that" Rayea said and Johann sighed.
"you will pay for what you've done!"
they all spun around to see Nuada standing at the entrance to the market.
"will ya take a check?" Hellboy said as he pulled out the Samaritan and handed Rayea to Johann.
Nuada's attention was quickly drawn to the Earth spirit, "why are you with them Lady Earth? They killed Mr. Wink!"
"I know, and I will grieve for his death but I cannot leave my son," Rayea said as she placed a hand on Hellboy's arm.
"then please forgive me for this" the Prince said as he held up some kind of golden egg.
"Brother no!" Nuala said when he pulled a green bean looking thing out of it.
"kill him" Nuada whispered to it then threw it toward them. It fell on the ground behind them and was still for a moment before it started jumping toward the grate to the storm drain.
"it's going for water! Catch it" Nuala said and Rayea just watched it.
Abe quickly moved and tired to catching the "jumping bean" as Hellboy put it but did not get there in time. Everyone watched as it slipped past his hand and fell into the water.
Rayea could feel it growing beneath the ground. The others moved away to help the people on the street that was now being ripped up by the large creature. She held out her hand to the growing forest god and closed her eyes, "Nuada, you are going to cause me much pain."
"Forgive me My Lady I just want to save you" the vengeful prince moved to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"I know little Prince, I know" she then moved away from him and walked to where Johann, Abe, and Nuala were standing.
Hellboy had saved a baby from a car and climbed to the top of a hotel sign where he was loading the large gun he called Big Baby.
"sorry about this mom" Hellboy said before shooting the forest god twice.
Rayea cried out and fell to the ground, "don't worry little one, I would rather experience this pain than watch all these people die."
Hellboy nodded after hearing his mother's voice and finally zoned in on what Johann was saying.
"shoot it in the energy ganglion! The energy ganglion!"
"what?"
Johann muttered to himself for a second before renewing his shouts, "the head, shoot it in the head!"
There was a moment that Hellboy paused while Nuada tried to reason with him that Rayea reached out to the wounded elemental. A slight whining noise came from the forest god as it tried to reach out to her before Hellboy raised his gun just as the creature turned to face him, "sorry mom." The gun sounded right before the forest god fell into the building next to it, dead.
A loud scream was heard as Rayea fell to the ground unconscious. "My Lady!" Nuala knelt down beside her.
Hellboy quickly made his way over after giving the lady back her baby and picked Rayea up in his arms, "come on guys, let's go home."
The war between the humans and the creatures of the unseen world had begun and Rayea was constantly at the palace in Bethmoora, much to Nuada's delight. Unfortunately, she was in pain almost the entire time she was there because of how many deaths she felt, from both sides.
Nuada had just returned from the battlefield and went to go check up on Rayea. He entered the room she was staying in to see her lying in the bed, his sister sitting next to her reading to her from the book in her lap.
"how are you feeling My Lady?"
"I am well Nuada, it is just painful to feel so many deaths at once," Rayea replied with a smile and held a hand out to him.
He took her hand and stood on the side opposite his sister, "forgive me My Lady, I do not mean to cause you pain."
"it's alright little prince, I just wish this war would end soon."
"we all do Lady Earth, I just wish those humans would stop destroying whatever land they set foot on," Nuada said and Rayea could feel his grip tightening on her hand.
"little prince, I'm afraid your hatred for the humans will cause me much pain in the future."
When they arrived back at the BPRD Hellboy laid his mother on the grass that served as her bed, "I'm sorry mom, that had to of caused you a lot of pain."
"I told you it's alright, I forgive you, just like I forgive Nuada for using the forest god for his own purpose."
"You know mom, sometimes I think you're a little too forgiving. That guy almost killed a bunch of people!"
"I know, I have forgiven the elf prince since his hatred for the humans began."
"You really are too forgiving! That guy has been killing people for centuries! And you just write it off like all he did was breaking a plate!"
"I am sorry you feel that way little one, your father always told me he fell in love with my forgiving nature. Now, go get that cut on your face looked at and let me rest."
Hellboy grunted before leaving the room to head for his own.
An hour or so later Rayea woke up and stood, her armor having been replaced by a long white dress. She wandered down the halls until she came to the library where Nuala was standing over the fireplace, watching a piece of parchment burn. "Nuala… what troubles you?"
The princess turned around startled, "My Lady, my brother is here, he's going to take the last piece of the crown."
"Did you hide it?"
"Yes"
"Then things will be alright, at least for now."
"So you would think Lady Earth, I will find that piece." They both turned around to see Nuada standing there.
After a couple minutes of talking and Nuada searching through a couple books for the crown piece before throwing them on the ground, Rayea flinching every time a book hit the floor, the alarm sounded and both turned to see Nuala pressing the switch to trip the red alert.
Soon enough agents rushed into the room along with Abe and, after a moment, Hellboy. "Mother, what's going on?" the red demon asked as he looked at Nuada.
Nuada moved away from his sister and the Earth spirit, "if either of you move, I will kill your precious son and Abraham first."
A fight soon ensued between Hellboy and Nuada which ended in Hellboy being stabbed by the elf prince. As the demon fell to the floor Rayea tried to rush to him but was held back by Nuada, "if either of you want to see them again you will bring me the crown piece."
"Mother…" Hellboy tried to say before they disappeared from view and he passed out.
It took a shorter amount of time than expected for the team to appear in the chamber of the golden army. Nuada, Rayea, and Nuala stood on a platform slightly above them, all of their clothes changed, as Nuada had made them all put on clothes befitting the royals they were. Rayea looked slightly uncomfortable in the floor-length white gown with a pale peach under layer. Once she saw the BPRD team she tried again to run to them but was held back once again by the prince.
Abe gave up the crown piece as soon as he was asked for it and Nuada completed the crown, placing it on his head he called out, "I am Prince Nuada, Silverlance. Is there anyone here who would dispute my rite to control the Golden Army?"
Silence answered until the sound of gears coming to life filled the room and soon Hellboy and the others were surrounded by giant soldiers of metal and magick. The group did their best to fight the metal giants off but were shocked when the broken soldiers just pulled themselves back together and backed them into a corner.
"I got an idea. I challenge Prince Nuada for the rite to control this army!" Hellboy yelled out and the soldiers turned to face their leader.
"Who are you to challenge me? You are not royalty!"
"Yes! He is Anug un Rama! The son of the Fallen One! He has the rite!" Nuala yelled as she pulled away from her brother.
Nuada turned to Rayea with a shocked face and she nodded, "it is true, he can dispute it."
Nuada sighed in annoyance and quickly made ready to fight the red giant, and, after tossing Hellboy his sword, the fight began. Rayea began to wring her hands nervously at the few near misses to her son's life but was glad when he finally pinned Nuada to the ground with the prince's own spear at his neck.
"kill me, for I will not stop, I cannot."
"I won, meaning you live, besides, I wouldn't want to cause mom anymore pain from having to deal with you dying." Hellboy replied as he took the crown from the elf's head.
Hellboy turned away and Rayea watched as Nuada pulled out a small dagger and started to stand up. "ENOUGH!" her voice was loud and powerful as it reverberated around the room, vines shooting up from the floor to wrap around Nuada, forcing the elf to drop the knife.
"I have forgiven you for many things little prince but I will not stand by and watch you break a fairly won challenge to satisfy yourself!" the angered Earth spirit moved toward the tied up prince, "you will honor his victory and you will abandon this farce, or so help me I will put you in stasis for the rest of eternity!"
Everyone in the room looked at her fearfully, none of them having ever seen her so angry before. "I was only trying to save you from the humans who are killing you My Lady," Nuada said softly.
"I know that not all of them have the purest of hearts but right now I am glad my love is in his grave or else you would have put him there yourself! All this talk of hatred will only make it worse Nuada."
"your love?"
"yes, I'm sure you did not know that my only lover in my entire life was a human. I knew that his existence was fleeting and would be over in the blink of an eye for me but I loved him anyway. Hatred has driven you apart from so many but love drew creatures like us" she motioned to herself, Hellboy, and Abe, "to quite a few humans. I know not everyone will accept us but we love saving the few who will, no matter what."
Nuada was silent for a moment before he looked down at the vines, "will you please release me My Lady? There is something that I must tell you."
Rayea nodded and the vines disappeared back into the ground. The fallen prince stood and walked toward her, "I did all this to save you not because you are the mother Earth, but because I wanted you to be with me, not all those humans who hate you for what you are."
Rayea smiled and raised a hand to his cheek, "I know my little prince, I've always known. Come with us and we shall see what can be done about making sure you don't get executed." She gently took Nuada's hand and led him out of the Golden Army chamber as Liz took the crown from Hellboy and melted it with her flames.
When the team exited the Giant's Causeway they were greeted by Manning and a bunch of agents. "you took that plane without clearance young man!"
"calm yourself Tom, everything is fine now, the world is no longer in peril," Rayea said.
Manning sighed before he caught sight of Nuada, "what is he doing here!?"
"the army has been stopped; I believe it would be beneficial to the Bureau if Nuala and Nuada joined us. Of course it is natural to be suspicious of the Prince and I suggest he be put on a probation period. He will be allowed to help us but when he is not on a mission his weapons will be taken away and he be watched at all times." Rayea said as she walked up to Manning.
Nuada looked at her in shock, "Lady Earth?!"
"this is a light punishment compared to what it could be so be grateful I did not make it worse" Rayea hissed out.
Nuada nodded and Rayea turned back to the flustered leader of the BPRD, "is this satisfactory?"
"I'll have to clear it with Washington, until then, you're responsible for him," Manning said before they all made their way to the plane.
"I don't know why we're even coming back at all" Hellboy muttered as they sat down on the flying contraption.
"because we will always be needed there, even if the world does not acknowledge us. Besides, you should be happy anywhere as long as you have Liz," Rayea said as she placed a hand on her son's cheek.
"yea" Hellboy replied as he wrapped an arm around the pregnant fire-wielder.
Rayea smiled as she looked at everyone in the plane. Manning and Johann were explaining to Nuada all the things he would not be allowed to do, Nuala and Abe were having a conversation about something but it was quite obvious the two loved each other, even after such a short time of knowing the other. Hellboy and Liz were discussing the babies and what they were going to do.
"looks like our family just keeps getting bigger and bigger doesn't it Trevor my love?" she smiled to herself again before closing her eyes and drifting off to sleep for the rest of the ride.
I know it ended kind of as abruptly as the first one but I wanted opinions on if i should write another one, I have more ideas but if you guys think it ends good right here then okay. Tell me what you think and if I should write another!
~NightStalker