Ok, here's my next chapter... as best I can do it... sorry it's been a while, but hey, I had to hand my laptop in, and had to stop writing on all my stories so I could save them and send them on...
dog youkai jane... sorry, but I scared the bejeezus outta the gods of chaos a few years back.. they wet their pants at the mere mention of my name... muahahahaha! but here's the update, I really hope it's good, since I'm writing it as I go, instead of writing ahead of my postings.
Hellboys POV
Meyers was taking care of the wolf girl and the wolf. I was a bit bored, having a really stiff agent stand in taking care of my food. He didn't like to talk to me like Meyers did, nor did he seem to particularly care about the cats. I hated him on sight. How could you not adore the cute little balls of fur. My son was sleeping, and Liz was out shopping with another of the newer additions to the bureau. She was married to Abe, and had twins. I sighed and looked at the man.
"Hey Slate, could you please go get Meyers? I've got a few questions to ask him." I growled.
"Sure sir. That is if you don't mind that ratty girl and her dog coming with." The agent said. He yelped when I bounded across the room and grabbed him by his shirt.
"I may be a cat kinda guy, but don't you go insulting those two. That little girl has been through hell, but it'll be nothing compared to what I do to ya if you don't back off." I growled.
"Y-y-yes sir!" The agent stuttered. I sighed, feeling a little less frustrated.
Meyers was there in about twenty minutes, followed by Shadow and Moon. They looked much better than they had when they were brought in a week ago. Shadow was eating better than she had as a wolf, and after a checkup with John, we found she was in perfect health. Something about her seemed awfully familiar to me, aside that she was part demon. The outfit she wore seemed to never be dirty, and made entirely of vines and leaves. It would have been attractive if I had been looking for someone.
"What do you need Red?" Meyers asked.
"That damn idiot Agent fired. Isn't she good enough to spend time without you?" I asked, looking at him.
"No, any time I leave the room, her sister is about ready to leap at my throat. They still don't understand anything about privacy, so its really hard to explain to them why I want to use the restroom without them being there." John said. I couldn't help but laugh.
"I'd think it was funny if they weren't so distrusting of me. I mean, they're worse about everyone else, but I can't break their trust." John said.
"There's something about her that's strange." I said.
"Yeah, something about her reminds me of Maggie. And something else reminds me of…"John shook his head.
"Who?" I said
"Your father." John said softly.
I growled at him, but Shadow and Moon growled right back at me, so I stopped. John looked a little startled and pale, but otherwise he wasn't as freaked out as he might have been when he was transferred here. I was surprised at the sudden strength he was showing, because he was one of those guys who liked to make everyone happy. But I looked at the young woman standing next to him, and the wolf, and realized that working with two wild creatures probably made working with me seem like a walk in the park.
"It's true Red. Look at her face, her smile. It's almost an identical copy. Even you can't miss that." John said.
"Maybe. I dunno Meyers. My dad wasn't the type of guy to mess around and then forget about it. If he'd have had a kid, he would have known." I said.
"Yeah, but you know better than I do that things happen. I'm pretty sure if he'd have known, he would have taken care of it. But Shadow says that she can't remember too much, but that before she came to the wolves, there are some memories that are 'night visions'" He said.
"Dreams?"
"Yeah, I think so. She remembers little things that I think were laboratories. She said something about a woman that I think might be her biological mother. I've had a few troubles convincing her to let me take a blood sample, but I did finally manage to get one. So we'll see what it comes up with." Meyers said.
"What else have you accomplished?" I asked.
"Well, she's got some strange abilities. Along side the things she learned from the animals in the forest, who apparently have their own kind of magic, she's got other abilities as well. She's also a big fan of Meatloaf." Meyers said.
"She's the only one. That's the worst main dish in the world. At the least it should be a side." I said with a laugh.
"I meant the singer." John said.
"Oh, well. That's alright then. He's not that bad. Father let me listen to some of that stuff. I think he liked him, at least a little bit." I replied with a laugh.
"You really have no idea what I'm talking about, do you HB?" John asked with a sigh, lifting a kitten from Shadow's outstretched arms.
"Nope."
"Anyway. She likes a lot of the things your father was in contact with. She's picked them right out of where they've been. Only things he's touched. She loves to listen to the music he listened to. But always… something happens when she listens to that song." John said.
I stopped short, feeling as if my heart had stopped beating. The song that would have been playing when my father was murdered. I clenched my stone fist, trying to shove the anger and pain from my heart. I had taken care of the person responsible for the murder of my father, I had also almost caused the apocalypse. I knew that my father's soul had been with me. He had helped guide John's arm, the rosary, and my heart. He had taught me so much, and now here was this girl, part demon, and bearing a striking resemblance to my father in his younger years. She felt something with my father's music, and knew what he had touched. I felt like she had taken something away from me.
I looked down suddenly, seeing her hand on my arm, looking at me intently. Her tail moved behind her lazily, much like mine. She wasn't smiling, but I knew she was trying to make sure I was alright. I sighed, wondering what on earth was wrong with me.
"She says that she's not trying to take your father away. A pack is nothing without their Alpha, and the Alpha is a father and leader to them all, even those born of a different pack. He will accept them." John said.
"Oh, ok. Don't worry Shadow. I'm not mad at you, just… a little pissed at how my father had to go." I said. She nodded, a twinkle in her eyes.
"She's an interesting one. She's been learning how to speak, but doesn't like to use it all that much. She has a hard time forming human words, but she can talk to the animals all around her." John said.
"Interesting. Can you get her away from the cats? Those two are going to force them all to have kittens." I said, picking up a few of my cats.
"She's talking with some of the older ones, and they seem to be alright with her, at least that's what she said. But I'll let her know." John said.
I watched him as he seemed to speak with the girl, and she nodded. She looked at the cats and made a noise, they all stopped and hopped up on my bed. I shook my head and laughed. She looked at John, and then back to Moon. John looked at me and sighed. He began to move things around that the other agent had been messing with. He began to set things up for nachos. I had been aching for those for a long time, but had refused what Agent Slate had tried to make for me. I had never tasted anything so horrible. As soon as he had gotten things put together the way he always did, he turned back to the two cubs.
"Hey, you wanna try some of this?" I asked the girl. John laughed.
"I'm still trying to get her to eat more vegitables. Her diet is till pretty strange for a human, or demon. But she's got your appetite I think." John said. "I've got to get them back to the library though. We're starting to think she's a mage, but not like the ones we know."
"Oh, really? That's going to be interesting." I said.
"Don't sound so depressed. I should be back to helping you soon, if Shadow can handle coming with." John said.
"It's not her I'm worried about." I said.
John's POV
I watched Shadow as she played around on the grass. She seemed less wolf like, and more or less like Hellboy. Her English wasn't too great, but she was picking up a lot of his language. And she was exhibiting some really strange powers. From what I understood from Abe, she was what people called a mage, but unlike any we've ever seen. He called her a "Chaos Mage" and that there were writings about Chaos Mages, and that there was only a few every century or so, a very rare breed. There hadn't been any for at least two hundred years, and he had thought they were extinct. But she portrayed every aspect of a Chaos Mage. She even had bonded with a wolf. But with her title as a mage, also came danger.
"Shadow, Abe tells me that other than the magic that the animals taught you, you have other powers. You can control elements, much like some of the other mages we've comein contact with, except they can't control them all. They only have power with one. But you need training with it. Are you willing to be taught by someone other than me?" I asked her.
"You be there? You no teach? You have power too." She said.
"I know I have power Shadow, but not the kind you have." He said.
"I know, but you need training too." She said.
"I'll be there as long as you like. I don't want you to feel you can't trust me." John said.
"Do not worry. I will trust you, no matter, until I am betrayed by you." She said.
"I hope I don't do that then." John said.
"I do not think will. You have pure heart." She said.
"Ofcourse." John said.
He hadn't told Hellboy about the blood test results yet. From the results, he had found out that she was Professor Broom's daughter. But there was a relation to Hellboy as well. Perhaps they were more than just siblings through their father, but perhaps Hellboy's biological parents. He'd have to have the DNA from Hellboy's parents for that. He knew that HB was half demon, perhaps his father was also her grandfather. HB probably had a sister, and that was Shadow's mother. That would make him her uncle though. He'd definitely have to look into that. What if Hellboy had a sister? Who else could have been affected by the demon that fathered his friend? And who else would be affected by the death of the bureaus most well loved man?
John watched the girl, and saw in her smile the same smile that Broom had given him when he had first arrived at the bureau. She was sitting on the grass, watching him, her fingers tangling and untangling in Moon's fur. He sighed, knowing that he would have to be the one to help train her as well. He would have to read some things, and probably get a lot of help from anyone in the bureau that knew anything about mages, or any of the mages they probably could enlist to help them. They knew the danger of an untrained mage, especially since she was a chaos mage. He sighed, and walked to her, taking her hand.
"Are you alright?" She asked.
"Of course. I am just thinking of how I can help you." I said.
"You've done much. Help no needed, only guidance, trust, and friendship. Moon trust. I trust." She said.
"I'm glad." I said.