Chapter 3

I do not own 'Hellboy'. I only own Amelia, Levi, Felix, the twins, and any other character you don't recognize from the movies as I am not all that familiar with the comics.

The next morning, Amelia woke to the sound of Oak's quiet breathing as his head rested on her side with her arm draped across his neck. Oak soon woke as well as he opened his eyes and lifted his head as he looked at Amelia with his bright and friendly brown eyes.

"Morning to you too, Oak." Amelia said as she sat up and scratched his head and Oak leaned forward and licked Amelia's face making her laugh.

Amelia pushed the covers off of her as she moved off of the bed and grabbed a few pieces of fresh clothing to wear and headed into the bathroom to change. When she was done, Amelia stepped out of the bathroom to find Oak sitting by the door wagging his tail as his tongue hung out of his open mouth. Amelia smiled as she reached down and patted Oak's head as she headed towards the door and Oak followed right beside her. The first place they stopped at was the twins' room as Amelia and Oak reached their bedroom door and Amelia knocked on the door.

"Onyx, Coal!" Amelia called, "C'mon, time to get up you two!"

Amelia then heard quiet giggling coming from inside the room and Amelia smiled as she shook her head and opened the door and Oak instantly rushed inside barking happily. Amelia walked inside to find Onyx jumping on her bed as her wings flapped slightly but not enough to make her fly as Oak was on Coal's bed licking Coal's face as he laughed.

"Okay that's enough, guys" Amelia said as she smiled and she headed over to Onyx's bed and caught Onyx in mid air and Onyx laughed. "C'mon you two, lets get you both dressed and then we can go get some breakfast."

"OKAY!" the twins said together as Oak jumped down from Coal's bed and sat down on the floor as Amelia gathered Onyx and Coal's clothes for the day. When the twins were both fully clothed, they all headed out of the room and down the halls towards the kitchen for breakfast. Liz was already there as she stood in front of the stove making bacon and pancakes and Onyx and Coal climbed into their seats.

"Morning, all." Liz greeted as Amelia walked over to Liz to help her with breakfast.

"Morning, Liz" Amelia replied as she grabbed a few plates from the cupboard, "Are you done with all the paperwork yet?"

"Almost there, now it's only a small hill instead of a mountain. I should be able to finish it all by today maybe."

Amelia smiled as Liz began dishing up the plates with bacon and pancakes. With that done, Amelia set the two smaller plates in front of Onyx and Coal and the other plates in Liz's and Amelia's spots. Liz reached into the fridge and grabbed a dish of meat mixed with bits of dog food for Oak and set it on the floor in front of the entity. Oak squeaked/purred in thanks and Liz patted his head before finally sitting down in her own seat to eat. As the rest of them ate, Drake then appeared in the doorway as if he had been looking for this room for quite awhile.

"Jesus, I'm never gonna get used to this damn place." Drake said.

"What, did you get lost?" Amelia mockingly asked and Drake glared at her making Amelia smile to herself.

"You try finding anything in this place for the first time. I bet you had trouble too, genius."

"Hasn't anyone shown you around yet?" Liz asked

"What d'you think? Of course not! I've been wandering around trying to figure out where the hell I am."

"Alright I get it! Enough with the attitude, young man."

Drake quietly sighed, "Okay I'm sorry, so is there any food for me or do I have to look for that too?"

"There's bacon and pancakes on the stove, help yourself."

"Don't mind if I do."

Drake headed over to the stove where the rest of the bacon and pancakes were as he dished up his own plate and sat down at the table to eat. As soon as everyone was done, Liz gathered up some of the empty dishes and Amelia was slightly surprised when Drake also stood and picked up the remainder of the dishes as he began to help clean up a little.

"What?" Drake said, "I can be helpful when I need to, ya know."

"In any case, thank you Drake" Liz said as she placed a few dishes on the counter to be cleaned. "I'll need to get back to the rest of my paperwork soon, are you guys able to take care of things for now?"

"Sure thing, Liz" Amelia said, "We can take it from here."

"Well alright then, I guess I should get going on the last of that paperwork. I'll see you all later."

Liz moved to kiss each of the twins on their heads before saying a final goodbye and leaving the kitchen to head towards her office once more.

"Can we go play now?" Coal asked as he looked at Amelia and Onyx looked at her with the same look as her twin brother.

"Sure, go ahead" Amelia replied, "And take Oak with you."

The twins jumped down from their seats and began heading for the door. Oak, who had also finished his meal, stood from his spot and followed the two winged children out of the kitchen. Amelia stood from her seat as she moved to the sink to help Drake with the dishes.

"So what do you think of the BPRD so far?" Amelia asked trying to make conversation as she grabbed a nearby dish towel and began drying the dishes that had been washed.

"I dunno" Drake replied, "A little confusing, duh, but if I have to stay here then I guess I'm going to have to get used to it."

Amelia nodded in understanding as she and Drake continued to do the dishes in silence… an awkward silence. After a few very long moments of awkward silence, Drake finally spoke up.

"Okay, look" Drake said as he set down his dish cloth and turned to Amelia, "I'm sorry for being an ass earlier, yesterday and this morning, I was just a little pissed about coming here and I shouldn't have taken it out on you and Liz like that."

Amelia stopped, "Wait… you're apologizing?"

"Uh yeah I think that's what I was aiming for, wasn't I?"

"Yeah, but… you're apologizing. To me."

"…Yeah. What's wrong with that?"

"Well let's think about this for a second… Just last year, you were beating up Levi for fun before I came here and then you tried to beat me up as well on the same day. If it wasn't for me, you would have seriously hurt Levi and you're saying sorry to me just because of yesterday?"

"I'm saying sorry, aren't I?"

"But it's for the wrong thing. And a little late too I would think."

"Okay fine I'm really, really sorry for everything I did to piss you off last year! Am I forgiven yet?"

"You're only a quarter way there."

Amelia was glad that all the dishes were finished as she turned and headed out of the kitchen leaving Drake standing there on his own. Amelia headed down the halls searching for the twins but she wasn't very worried as they were with Oak and he treated the twins as if they could be his own. Amelia didn't have to look long as she found the twins and Oak some time later in the training room but Myers was with them as he entertained the twins by letting them roll one of the big exercise balls across the floor. Oak playfully trotted next to the ball as it rolled back and forth between the twins and Amelia smiled as she watched them play. Myers looked up and spotted Amelia and he stood as he headed over to her.

"I found them running around in the halls and I thought they should have something to do." Myers said.

"I think that's a pretty good idea" Amelia replied, "They haven't been too much trouble, have they?"

"Nope, they're just fine."

"I'll take them off of your hands if you want."

"Sure, usually I would be checking up with Abe on their mission so I should probably go do that."

"Okay, see you later."

Myers smiled and said his goodbyes to the twins before exiting the training room and Amelia called out to the twins. "C'mon you two, let's go play with the toys in your room."

Onyx and Coal stopped playing with the big exercise ball as they leaped up from the floor and rushed over to Amelia and Oak followed them as Amelia led them all out into the halls once more. They soon reached Coal and Onyx's room as Amelia opened the door and the winged twins headed inside with Amelia and Oak following behind them. Amelia kept the door open as it was the summer and the twins' room seemed to cool down better if the door was left open during the day. The twins' room was large as it had a small section for playing and watching TV and another section which was mostly their bedroom space where they slept. The playing and TV section had a couch placed in front of the TV with a toy box placed against the opposite wall. Amelia headed over to the TV and turned it on as she flipped it to a cartoon that the twins would like.

Onyx and Coal rushed over to their toy box as the two opened it and pulled out the toys that they wanted to play with. Which was practically half of the box's contents. Coal found a toy airplane as he picked it up and began running around the room holding the small airplane up in his hand. Onyx pulled out a few of her dolls as she dragged Amelia over to play with her and her dolls. Oak found his entertainment by following Coal as they both pranced around the room, the flying game turning into a keep away game as Oak seemed to jump up at the small airplane in Coal's hand as if he was trying to get it in a playful way. After some time, Drake appeared in the twins' doorway making Amelia look up as she stood from playing with Onyx and headed over to him.

"What are you doing here?" Amelia asked and Drake shrugged.

"I figured I might wander around and try to familiarize myself with the place" Drake replied, "I just happened to end up here."

"Well, this is the twins' room so you can keep going now."

It was then that Coal rushed up to them, "Can he play too?" Coal asked excitedly as he looked from Drake to Amelia.

"Well… uh" Amelia stuttered but was stopped by Drake.

"Sure, why not? I don't mind." He said and Coal cheered as Drake walked past Amelia and Amelia shook her head as she moved to follow Drake towards the twins.

Drake gestured for the twins to come over to the couch and the twins obeyed as Drake sat down on the couch. Coal climbed up to sit next to Drake while Onyx sat down on the floor near Drake's feet and Amelia gave in as she sat down on the couch on the other side of Drake. Drake was quiet as he closed his eyes for a brief moment before opening them again and as soon as they opened, a small image of an elephant appeared in front of them making everyone, except Drake, go wide eyed in amazement. The twins smiled and then laughed as the elephant trumpeted and the twins began begging Drake for more. Drake smiled as the elephant disappeared and was replaced with small images of a pack of wolves as they bounded around the twins' and Amelia's heads making the twins laugh and Amelia smile. Their fun was soon cut short as the TV screen, which had the cartoon show playing on it, suddenly changed to a news program.

"We interrupt this program to bring you this urgent message." The news channel said and Amelia indicated for everyone to quiet down. Drake made his images disappear as Amelia grabbed the remote to turn up the volume on the TV.

"Towns off the coast of Japan have suddenly been hit by unexplainable events as the towns' people have been rapidly evacuating the area as of this morning. Residents of these towns have said that their towns were stable and running smoothly yesterday but the instant the tide came in, the towns were struck by untraceable tsunamis and earthquakes. Many of the town's residents have claimed to have seen some sort of large sea monster which was said to have caused most of the damage although this has obviously resulted in the residents being in shock. The people have been assured that there is a special unit working to resolve these unexplainable events."

Amelia was frozen in her seat as she watched the news broadcast and the twins looked from Amelia to the TV screen, confused. "What's Amelia doing?" Onyx asked.

"Uh, she's… very interested in the show" Drake replied, "Uh… hey, I know a good game!"

"What is it?" Coal asked.

"You know who agent Manning is, right?" Both of the twins thought for a second and then nodded. "Good, the game is to find agent Manning and the person who can hold onto his legs the longest wins."

"What do we win?"

"I'll show you some more of those cool animals. How does that sound?"

Both of the twins cheered and asked at the same time, "When do we start?"

"On your mark… get set… go!"

The twins leaped up and rushed for the door with Oak running right behind them as they ran out of the room and down the halls to find Manning. Drake turned his attention back to Amelia as he looked at her for a few seconds before lifting his hand and snapping his fingers in front of her face.

"Helloooo" Drake said, "Amelia, are you there? Wake up, girl!"

Amelia snapped out of it, "Huh? What?"

"You okay? You were zoned out on the TV for a pretty long time."

"Oh… yeah, I'm fine. I think."

"You think?"

"That news broadcast was about the mission the others are on. The situation must be getting a little worse than they thought."

"How do you even know it was them?"

"Because the sea monster that the residents claimed to see is actually real, that is what the others were sent to find and deal with. It was causing some trouble last week and the others were sent to deal with it before it could do too much damage. They're going to be away longer now that this has happened."

"Wait… so this just isn't a place for weirdly gifted people? You guys go out and battle these so called monsters?"

"Yes, we've all done our fair share of handling monster."

"Even you?"

"Of course. That also means that you get to be trained as well eventually."

"Wait… what?"

Amelia gave Drake a look but then stopped when she realized that the twins weren't anywhere in sight and she began looking around the room for them.

"Where are the kids?" Amelia asked and Drake snickered.

"I sent them and your pet off to find Manning." Drake replied.

"Why?"

"I told them that the one who can hold onto Manning's legs the longest wins."

Amelia looked at Drake for a moment before bursting out laughing at Drake's small prank. "Oh, that is good! I wish I could see his face right now."

"Wanna go find them and see how their doing?"

"Totally."

The two smiled as they rushed out of the twins' room to hopefully find them latched onto Manning.