"Who are you? How did you know my name?" Megan asked. Suddenly, a large red man with a huge stone hand came out of the back of the van. He was followed by a girl with short black hair and a blue man with strange headgear.

"Hey." the large red guy said. Megan only screamed. She then climbed to her feet and ran.

"Great, a runner." Hellboy sighed

"She's mine." the Suldru said, getting to it's feet. His silvery eyes were surrounded by blackness. Liz pulled out her rifle and shot it in its eye. The Suldru reeled back and held its wound. Then it laughed.

"You think that would be enough to stop me? I have been dragged to the depths of the ocean and torn at by monsters you could only see in your nightmares." the Suldru hissed

"Yeah, I've seen them, fought them, and helped kill them." Liz said, becoming engulfed in her flames. "You're next. Abe, take Red and find Megan."

"What?" Hellboy said, outraged that he wouldn't fight the monster." Abe pulled at his arm and led Hellboy away from the area.

"What makes you think you can beat me?" the Suldru asked

"I don't think I can beat you, I know I can beat you." Liz said

"Are you sure she went this way?" Hellboy asked. Abe held out his hand in front of him. He tilted his head and turned down an alley where there were trash cans and a dumpster. He touched his hand to the trash cans and then nodded to the dumpster.

"Olly olly oxenfree." Hellboy said walking to the dumpster.

"Don't scare her. She's frightened enough as it is." Abe said

"Me? Scary? That thing Liz is fighting is scarier than me." Hellboy said tearing the lid off the dumpster. The action resulted in a scream from Megan.

"Don't kill me!!! Please!!! Oh God not like this!!" Megan screamed trying to dig deeper into the dumpster. Hellboy rolled his eyes and reached in, pulling Megan out by her jacket. He lifted her out of the dumpster and held hier up to his eye level.

"Oh my god! You're going to eat me, aren't you!?" Megan yelled, struggling in his grip.

"Eat you?" Hellboy asked, dropping Megan to the ground. "Now why would I do that? You smell like garbage?"

"Help! Somebody help!" Megan screamed trying to run away. Hellboy grabbed her and held her to his chest, putting his stone hand over her mouth. She still struggled in his grip while his hand muffled her voice.

"Alright, this is getting annoying." Hellboy said. "You are going to shut up and listen to what my friend Abe and I have to say. And no, I'm not letting go of you until you listen, and yes. My hand is stone. It would hurt if I squeezed it over your mouth."

"Red, stop." Abe said, noticing Megan's progressively rising heart rate. "Megan, my name is Abraham Sapien. The man holding you is Hellboy. Yes, the real Hellboy." Megan's eyes grew wide. Her struggling stopped and she remained silent. Hellboy kept his hand over her mouth though. He didn't entirely trust her yet.

"The monster that was chasing you was a Suldru. He might have told you that he wanted your voice, correct?" Abe said before Megan nodded. "He's been hunting beautiful voices for centuries and decided to take those on American idol. Did you know the serial killer victims were all singers, some of them were eliminated off of American Idol?" Megan nodded again.

"In short, that thing that chased you wants your voice for eternity." Hellboy said. "Got it?" Megan nodded once more. "You gonna scream when I take my hand off your mouth?" Megan shook her head. Hellboy did what he said he'd do and removed his hand from Megan's mouth.

"Can your hand feel any pain?" Megan asked, refering to Hellboy's stone hand.

"No, not really." He said. "What, were you trying to bite it?"

"N-no! Now why would I do, something that ridiculous?" Megan said nervously. She laughed a nervous laugh before Hellboy let her go to fall on her feet to the ground.

"We have to get you to someplace safe." Abe said

"Good idea. I don't want to be Sully's little caged up canary for the rest of my life." Megan said, wiping off whatever pieces of garbage were still stuck to her.

"Sully?" Abe asked

"Yeah." Megan said turning to him. "It's short for suldru."

Liz threw volley after volley of fireballs at the suldru. He evaded most of them. Those that he didn't avoided healed after two minutes.

"Enough of this foolishness." he said. His tongue whipped out and grabbed Liz's hand. The searing pain she felt was worse than the burning pain he felt. He lifted her up and threw her into a building. When she fell to the ground, her flames stopped and she just moaned in pain.

"Only when what I adore turns like they did can I be killed." he said, taking off in the direction Red and Abe went. Liz propped herself up against the wall and put a hand to her radio.

"Red..." she said,"... We have a problem..."

"So, how is you're hair like that?" Hellboy asked. Megan sighed.

"My hair used to be all nice and curly. Stopped brushing it for a while and this happens." Megan said pointing at her hair. Hellboy's radio buzzed.

"Red..." came Liz's voice

"Liz?" Hellboy asked before grabbing the radio.

"...We have a problem..." she said. Hellboy picked his up and clicked the button to talk to Liz.

"What happened? Are you okay?" he asked

"The suldru escaped." Liz said. "He's heading in your direction."

"Great." Hellboy said, putting down his radio. "Think you can keep running?" He turned to Megan.

"I'm lucky I can stand." Megan said. "Why?"