BPRD Headquarters. New Jersey

John Meyers put Abe's breakfast into the shoot.

Thank you, John

"Uh, no problem," Abe chuckled as he ate. Maya poked her head through the door.

"You know you can smell that down the hall, right?" she said with a smile.

Hellboy reminds of that everyday. Maya laughed.

"Finish your breakfast and meet us in the conference room,"

Case?

"I'm pretty sure. Too much time has passed since Miller was fried for Manning to jump our butts about him,"

True. Meet you there

"Meet you both there,"

"You want me to walk you there?" Maya growled.

"I can walk myself," The door closed. John sighed.

"Why is she so hostile?"

It's not really my place to tell you. He turned to the merman.

"You know?" Abe raised a brow. "Oh right," John looked back toward the door. "Why can't you tell me?"

"Just trust me. It's not my place," John turned back around. He hadn't heard Abe climb out of the tank. "I know you read Liz's file when you first started," Abe shrugged. A half smile appeared on John's face.

Hellboy, Liz, Maya and Manning were already sitting at the table when Abe and John arrived.

"I'm glad you two decided to join us,"

"Sorry," John sat down quickly. Abe shook his head before taking his place between Hellboy and Maya. Manila folders were passed around.

"Alright. We've had some paranormal activity in Berlin. According to witnesses, there been some sort of bat-like creature in the area killing, of all things, members of the former Nazi party," Maya made a low growl in her throat that only Abe heard. "The odd thing is, it's only people who were alive during World War II. One survived by," he glanced over at Maya. "Crossing herself," Maya raised a brow.

"So it doesn't kill Catholics?"

"What, is it afraid of a crucifix?" Abe shook his head.

"I doubt it. The only things I've seen afraid of crucifixes are demons from the deepest regions of Hell," He quickly thumbed through the file. "This thing doesn't strike me as a demon, let alone one from that deep in Hell," Maya read the file. She picked up the blurry picture of the creature.

"Is there anything else we need to know that's not in the file?" she asked.

"What do you mean?," Manning asked, getting offended. "Everything is there," Liz flipped through the file.

"She's right. There's nothing here saying how long this has been going on. Or a good description of Batman,"

"I wasn't told how long the activity has been going on. And there's not a good description because witnesses aren't close enough to see it well enough. The ones that were close enough are dead," Abe and Liz smiled.

"Katrin Hedrick was," Abe stated. Hellboy leaned back.

"When do we leave?"