"I-I-I'm-No-Ot- Li-ik-ing-thi-i-is!!!" Megan yelled as she bounced on Hellboy's shoulder. Because she was so tired, he picked her up and put her over his shoulder and ran with her, Abe right behind him.
"You'll get used to it." Hellboy said. Turning down multiple alleys, they tried to lose the Suldru. There was a monstrous shriek that rang through the very city's core. Megan looked around and tried pounding on his back to make him stop.
"Pu-ut me-ee DO-OW-OW-OWN!!!!" Megan yelled. Hellboy groaned and stopped.
"What's your problem?" he asked
"What's my-! Look. What if Sully is tracking me through scent?" Megan said. She pushed herself up and slid onto the ground. She took her jacket off and held it open for Abe. It was one second later that he realized what the plan was. He slipped on the jacket, zipped it up, and put the hood up.
"Won't you need more to make it a believable scent?" Abe asked
"I wear that jacket every day." Megan said. "It's kind of my thing, so please don't lose it."
"Now that that's settled..." Hellboy said, picking up Megan over his shoulder once again, "head over in that direction, me and fluffy here will go that way."
"Fluffy?!" Megan yelled outraged. She was going to yell at Hellboy but then he took off running. Above and out of sight, the monster had found that his target had been split in two.
"What is this? A trick? I may as well see who the decoy is first." Suldru said, finding this chase amusing.
He remained high and out of sight. Abe knew he was there as he kept running. There was a dark chuckle from his right, so Abe went left. Into a dead end. Suldru landed on the ground behind him. Abe kept to the wall, not showing who he really was.
"As amusing as this is, show me who you really are." Suldru pulled back on the jacket's hood hard enough to force Abe to the ground on his back. He sat up and stared at a slightly surprised Suldru.
"Where is she?" he asked
"Who?" Abe asked back. Suldru growled and jumped up the walls to the roof of the buildings and out of sight. Abe grabbed his radio and called Hellboy.
"Thi-i-i-is i-i-is ge-e-etti-ing o-o-o-old." Megan moaned.
"Stop your whining." Hellboy said, still running. He spotted a brightly lit parking lot and ran for it, deciding to rest behind a bright red car. He put Megan down on her feet. She swayed and held her stomach.
"I'm not feeling to cool." she moaned
"Aw, man." Hellboy moaned. "If you're going to do that, do it over there, somewhere." He waved his hand in a direction Megan couldn't tell where. Hellboy's radio cackled to life.
"Red, you there?" came Abe's voice. Hellboy turned away from Megan to talk to Abe.
"Yeah, what's up?" he asked
"The Suldru left me. He's coming after you." Abe said. There was a faint sound of vomiting not too far away. Hellboy sighed.
"I don't think she can make it." he said
"Where are you?" Abe asked. Hellboy walked out of the lot for a moment.
"Covered parking lot, between... the closed bar and an apartment building, and across from the science center." he said
"I'll meet you there with Manning and Liz." Abe simply stated before cutting off the connection. Hellboy put his radio back where it belonged and turned to see Megan wandering back. She slumped down on the ground, back against the red car. Red knelt down to her level.
"Feeling better?" he asked
"A little." Megan groaned. "Do we have to keep running?"
"Not now." Hellboy shook his head
"Thank God." she responded, smiling. Hellboy let out a small laugh.
"Where are you?" came a whispered voice. Megan's eyes grew wide and she looked up. Hellboy moved in front of her and spun around. The suldru was strolling into the parking lot.
"Where are you?" he asked. "Where are you, my heart's desire? At least, if I had a heart." Megan looked at him and crawled under the car to try escaping. Hellboy grabbed her leg with his stone hand before she reached the other side. Megan put a hand over her mouth so she'd say nothing. The Suldru was on the other side of the car. Hellboy grabbed his samaritan.
"Just what made you think I would fall for the decoy so easily?" the suldru said. "It's simple making a creature go where I want them to go, like a dead end, to see if they are truly what I'm hunting for." Hellboy let go of Megan and stood to shoot the suldru. He jumped up and out of the way before the bullet hit him.
"Go!" Hellboy yelled. Megan crawled out from under the car and ran for the entrance. The suldru landed behind a car and gave it an uppercut that sent it flying towards Megan.
"Hit the dirt!" Hellboy yelled. Megan fell to the ground, hands over her head as the car flew over her. She recoiled at it crashing at the entrance and crawled to her feet, turning around. The only thing separating her from the suldru was Hellboy, and she wasn't sure he could kill him for good.
"Please," the suldru said, "don't make this difficult."