Arianna: Here I am again, with another update. This may be it for a little while, I'm not sure.

Shadowcat: The switch from third to first is intentional. It's kind of like going into real life from a narrative, or something like that you hear in movies that have a narrator at the beginning as things are going on... I should have mentioned something though. In another story in the making, the main character will be in first person, and when she is unconcious or when I need to write from somewhere where she isnt, it will be in third.

Liz's POV

I sat at the computer typing and clicking away. I was on a laptop in the library, and was just doing some random searches while I waited for Abe to ask me to turn the pages of his books.

Things had grown pretty quiet around here in the past few months, but that didn't mean it was that way around the world. I was hearing that there was a group of poachers delivering endangered animals to certain peoples around the world, and that to cover, they would bring the caught animals to one zoo, then cart it off to be used in some sort of sick ritual.

"Liz, you might want to turn on the television. There is a story on it that you might wish to see." Abe said.

I nodded and turned the library's TV on. I was surprised to be seeing the same zoo I had just been reading up on, on the television. There seemed to be mass chaos. The camera trained on a girl, leaping with the ease and grace of a cat to the top of the wolf pen. She seemed to stop for a moment and actually talk to the moon white wolf in front of her. Then she picked it up, leaped again, and landed on the ground with the same ease and grace.

"What on earth?" I whispered.

"I do not think that female is human, at least not wholly human." Abe said.

Then the girl took off the clothes she was wearing. I was amazed, and glad, to see that she was wearing what appeared to be large leaves. The strange thing was, these leaves, and the vines that wrapped up her arms, and around her legs, all seemed to be alive. The cameraman got a zoomed in look of the girl, who was really a young woman.

She was slender, but built. She had catlike eyes, a tail even, and her ears seemed to come to a point. She might have been human, had she not the air of a predator. The more human parts of her were pretty, long black hair, darkened skin, and even freckles on her cheeks. Her strange eyes were gold and green.

"I think we aught to let the others know about this huh Abe?" I said.

I got up and walked out of the library to let them know what was going on. It seemed someone had already alerted them though. John ran up to me with an excited look on his face. I smiled. He always seemed to be excited about one thing or another, and it was kind of refreshing to see someone have that out look on life. I sure didn't. But I had my reasons.

"Did you see that? The girl on TV, I think she's like Hellboy, at least a little." He said, out of breath.

"Why do you think that?" I asked.

"Did you see her tail? Her eyes? The way she moved or anything like that? The girl isn't human, at least not a full blood human. She spoke with that wolf she took out of the cages." John replied.

So, I wasn't the only one who had seemed to notice this.

"We need to get out there and find her! What if those people out there get to her first? Who knows what could happen!" John said.

"Yeah, if we noticed it, someone else is bound to. I think we should talk to Manning about it, see what he thinks, and who we should send. This may look like it will be easy, but I get the feeling it won't be." I said.

John nodded and went off to alert the others and soon we were in the midst of yet another meeting. We had had quite a few since defeating Rasputin and the evil he had tried to perpetrate onto the world. We were also attempting to keep Manning from shutting the place down. He was angry about many things, but he was as inclined as we were to keep it open, since Hellboy had saved his life, but that didn't stop his higher ups.

"We've all seen the report on television. We are all aware that this female is unique in her abilities. Let us say she is, as Abe has mentioned, like Hellboy. That means that there might be some crackpot out there looking to find her and do to her what Rasputin tried with Hellboy. Now. We need a crack team to go with us to the jungle area she was last seen heading towards. John and Liz, you will be part of that team. We're going to need Hellboy as well, but we can't have you out in the open. You will all receive the specifics of your parts in this. Dismissed." Manning said.

We all got up to ready ourselves to leave for the jungle. It wasn't going to be an easy mission, we all knew that. We had received the broadcast hours after it was shown, only because the people filming thought it was not all that important. If anything, they overlooked the tail, and most of her appearance, as was the case with most of humanity. But there were others that may wish to find this girl, and use her like they were using the endangered animals.

We were on the plane in less than a half hour. Hellboy and Abe were aboard, doing whatever they wanted while awaiting the landing. We could hardly use the garbage truck to get to the jungle with them, but we were going to do what we could to get them there. I had an idea we were going to be too late to stop these men. But we would put a damper on their parade, and hopefully stop them from any more obscene rituals.

"We're landing in about five minutes. We should get you too your crates" Manning said.

I suppressed the guilty feelings I had for them. They were treated like they were nothing more than luggage half the time. They always said they didn't mind, it was a means to an end, but to me it was demeaning to them. I felt Hellboy's hand on my shoulder, and he leaned over and kissed my cheek.

"Don't worry about it Sparky. We're used to it. Besides, I think I'd prefer the quiet of my crate than the screaming that we'd hear from the amassed public." Hellboy said.

"I know HB. I can't help it though." I said.

"Well, see you in the jungle baby." He said with a wink.