(BETA) This Story has not been read through thoroughly so there will be some lingering mistakes, apologies! This will be rectified once read though...when I have time... (BETA)
This is more set on the Hellboy comics/Animations then the movies. I do not own any of the world, or characters besides Alice.
OTHERWISE ENJOY!
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They had finally made their way out and were heading through the trees, Abe lead the way holding a torch.
"Alice, do you know how much further this place is?" Abe asked quietly.
"I recognise where we are I don't think it's that much-" Alice stopped when a growling echoed in the trees.
Everyone stopped and looked around, seeing beady eyes staring back at them from the darkness.
"Spirit of Hecate…" The professor said.
They were starting to get closer narrowing in on them. "Alice, can you-"
"Way ahead of you." Alice lifted her arms out form her and summoned a bubble shield around herself, concentrating hard she managed to push the bubble out and around the professor and Abe who instantly moved closer to her to make it easier.
"Stay close…" She gritted out before they started moving again, the eyes started to part ways as they moved through them.
"They're trying to stall us from the ritual…" the Professor added.
"I can see the ruins up ahead!" Alice exclaimed their voices flanged form inside the echo of the bubble.
They started to run towards it out of the darkness. Once they were past the trees the growling stopped.
"The spirits, they stopped…" Alice said lowering her shield.
"That's because they've done what they needed to…" the Professor finished.
They could hear the chanting coming form inside the ruins and a bright green light illuminated the stone pillars.
Rounding what was left of a wall they came to a circle of pillars where a group of hooded figures were bowing in a circle in the centre of the pillars.
"What do we do now?" Alice whispered as they observed the ritual.
Abe smirked and pulled out his gun, he walked out of the shadows.
The figures stopped chanting and turned to Abe. Alice came out of the shadows and summoned the shield blades on her hands readying herself.
The figures started to cackle when something arose form the centre of the circle.
"No!" the Professor called.
Lights flourished around, then burst revealing a skeleton, streams of light surrounded it and replenished it's flesh and skin revealing a horrid creature with red eyes glaring at them.
"Oh dear…" Abe grunted and turned to Alice. "Get the professor out of here." When he turned back around the creature was stood not an inch from her. She swiped at him; knocking him against one of the pillars, and then landing on the floor he was unmoving.
"Abe!" Alice yelled she felt a breathe on her neck, turning to see the creature so close to her it made her blood run cold. Before Alice could bring up her shield the creature exhaled a gas that made Alice feel woozy all of a sudden.
Reluctantly her eyes slid closed and her body felt limp. She started to feel herself fall but was caught by ugly hands. Hands that felt cruel and cold, even in darkness she could feel this creature emotions, feelings and desires. It frightened her…
"Erzabet…" the Professor announced himself form the darkness.
The Creature turned around with Alice in her arms; she was instantly in front of him.
"Ah, Professor…how nice to see you again…" The creature purred in a flanged tone.
"Trust me when I say, drinking her blood will only burn you…" He threatened.
"Aw, how sweet of you to think of me…her scent is so…sweet, so young, like a kitten…" She purred again.
"Dawn is coming Erzabet, we will stop you…" The professor threatened again, reaching for his pocket.
"Is that so professor…Ha, I think not…the years have not been kind to you, you're frail and weak, but your blood has ages well, like a fine wine."
The professor grabbed a bottle of holy water form his pocket to throw at her, but before he could open it, she swiped at him knocking him out cold. The bottle fell to the floor and rolled over next to Abe's corpse.
Erzabet looked over to the merman. "Leave him, his blood is cold, he is of no use to me…"
The figure around her nodded and picked up the corpse of the Professor following the creature back to the house where she would have her bath.
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Alice awoke slowly, her head feeling dizzy and her sight still blurred. She wanted to lift a hand to her head but something was preventing her. Her shoulders were aching and her arms felt stretched. When she finally became aware of herself she looked up to see she was chained to the ceiling by her wrists.
She struggled against the chains as much as she could thrashing around, her legs were still free, at least she had that much.
She looked around to see the professor in the corner of the room, horror struck her, but she was relieved to know he was still alive, she could sense his feelings and emotions. She took a deep breath and tried to force a shield around her wrist to break the chains. But it was no use, it just went straight through.
"Damn!" She grunted.
"It is pointless to struggle my dear…" A purred voice came form the shadows, it didn't sound as flanged as it did before. A figure appeared form the shadows, it wasn't the creature as before but a woman who looked much like the one in the photo she was show.
"Erzabet…" Alice gasped.
"Ah, so you have heard of me…I am honoured." She approached Alice. But was blocked with she put up her shield around her.
"Oh my dear, why do you fight…I can promise you so much…I can make you a priestess like me. It only takes you blood, blood you won't need, you can take it from others…" She purred.
Alice kept a stern glare at her through the bubble saying nothing.
"This blood will last as long as you do my dear…you will tire…and I will be waiting…"
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Abe grunted as he awoke pushing himself from the ground. "Ugh!" His hand went to his hand as he stood still feeling dizzy. Taking a small step his foot hit what sounded like glass. Looking down he saw a small bottle of water with the symbol of a cross on it.
Abe bent down to pick it up, inspecting it. "The professor…" He whispered looking around, trying to remember what had happened. It suddenly struck him.
"Alice!" Without warning his feet began to move on their own rushing in the direction of the house.
He grunted holding his side where he had hit the pillar when he was thrown.
Oh god, please, please let her…let her be alive! He pleaded in his head, his pace picked up until he reached the concrete of the drive in front of the house.
He sped to the front door but wouldn't open. "Damn!" His attention was caught by something flowing in the window next to the door, a curtain.
Abe dove through the open window, he stopped panting and tried to concentrate in finding her. He could sense her, her presence, she was in the house, that at the very least was something and the fact that he could sense her meant she was still alive. He closed his eyes to concentrate, his mind sifted through the rooms of the house until his eyes snapped open when he could sense her in a certain room upstairs.
"Alice…" He whispered before sprinting to the room up the stairs, his pulse beating like a drum.
He came to a door, her presence getting stronger from the other side. He banged his shoulder against the door until it faltered and landed on the floor.
He looked up to see Alice unconscious and hung from the ceiling by chains around her wrists, a woman standing in front of her.
Abe all but growled and lunged for the woman launching her away from Alice.
He pulled at the chains until she fell limp form the ceiling and hung in his arms. He shook her gently. "Alice? Alice can you hear me?"
Alice's eye flickered open. "Abe…"
He sighed with relief; he was caught of guard by a hiss from the woman. "You!" She screamed before lunging at them. Alice forced herself to put up her shield around them, Erzabet collided with the force of her shield, she screamed in pain as it burnt her.
"You, your blood will be mine!" the Woman shrieked.
Alice couldn't hold the shield up for much longer, it started to shrink around them. "I'm sorry Abe, I'm too weak…" Alice murmured.
The woman grinned darkly and approached them again. Abe put his arms around Alice protectively. Alice's eyes widened when she felt something from him, something she hadn't felt in a long time and it rang through her like a bell.
She was snapped from the thought when Erzabet started screaming bloody murder in front of them. Abe and Alice looked up to see a stake had been driven through her form the back. The woman fell forward to the floor by Abe and Alice revealing the professor stood behind her holding the wooden stake covered in her blood.
Suddenly, the ghost they had encountered before surrounded them, watching as the woman shrivelled and burst into dust in the centre of the room. Abe held Alice tighter to him on his lap tuning their faces away form the dust that rose from the body. When the shrieking ended they looked back at the pile of dust…a golden light shone from around the room. Looking around the ghost started to glow a brilliant gold light. It was warm and peaceful, Alice could feel it, all of it, and they were finally at peace. The ghost disappeared and left them in the small light form the window, dawn had approached and the sun was rising over the treetops in the distance.
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Liz was running through the sewers beneath the house she followed the gouges in the bricks the snake must have made when bringing Hellboy through.
Liz stopped when she came to a clearing where the pipes met pouring water into the cistern.
"Red!" She called, her voice echoed in the large space.
"Over here!" Red grunted from the water in the centre of the room behind a bit of debris.
Liz rushed over to his side and helped him up, the water cascaded off of his skin as he emerged form the murk.
"You look like hell, where's Hecate?" Liz asked looking around.
"Ugh! Don't know…" Hellboy's eyes widened when the floor began to shake again.
"Ah crap! Not again!" He grunted getting up and running through the water with Liz.
The serpent goddess barded through the sewer wall, her tails splaying out in the water and her hiss echoing in the tunnels.
"Liz watch out!" Hellboy pushed her away as a tail came down crashing into the water between Hellboy and Liz.
"Red!" Liz Held up the statue that the professor had given her throwing it to him.
Red reached up and grabbed it mid-air. "Got it! Now how the hell do we use it?" He called over to her before leaping out of the way of another tail swishing around after him.
"Liz burn this bitch will ya!" Hellboy cursed avoiding the thrashing waves and tails chasing him.
Liz concentrated and felt her flames flicker ablaze around her. She focused her flames at the Godess setting her tails alight with fire.
The goddess screamed and hissed in pain, the tails disintegrating as they burnt in her flames.
"She's weakening! Keep it up!" Hellboy ran around until he saw his opening. He smirked rushing to one of her tails that hand landed in the water and running up it to her head. He grabbed her with his stone fist and held the statue in the air before plunging it into it's scaled skin. The goddess creature thrashed and screamed at its intrusion using a tail to thrash him off of her.
"You fool! You belong we us! You who walk among the humans! Have been stained with the blood of your kind!" the goddess screeched.
"And yet I can still sleep at night…" He grumbled smirking as he stood up from the water again and watched as the goddess started to shrink and disappear, being absorbed by the statue.
Liz stood there consumed in her flames keep it weak until it finally disappeared. Liz let her flames deplete and walked up to the small wooden statue floating on the surface of the water. She bent down to pick it up, looking up to Hellboy.
"That's it for you…" Hell boy smirked. Watching as Liz lit it ablaze until it became a small pile of ash in the palm of her hand. Tipping her hand she let it fall into the water.
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