Chapter 5
"Can you tell us were you're from?" John asked with slight desperation but was met with the cold icy stare of the blonde woman whose true name they were unable to find out. She sat cross legged in a cell with bars that could hold back a group of charging male bull elephant and stared unblinkingly and it was unsettling him greatly. Poor man probably couldn't last much longer. I had sent him in, not expecting much at all, to watch her while Abe and I went through several books on different magical creatures to find out what she was.
"Mortal." She hissed at him,"You will learn nothing of us from me."
"She's a pleasant one isn't she." Liz said.
"Perhaps a Nocnica? They do take the forms of beautiful women." Abe said.
"The one who calls herself Arianna spoke german and believe me when I say the german version of a nocnica is anything but beautiful." I said.
"What about a Holda? This says they're nature spirits and that they are associated with winter." Liz said holding up a book.
"But there is only one Holda and they do not share all the aspects of her." I said,"Honestly I'm beginning to think we might be dealing with something before recorded history. The fact that neither Nuada nor Nuala know what they are confirms my suspicions." John walked into the room and sighed looking worn out.
"She won't even speak to me Dr. Krauss." He said to me.
"We know and we're not even close to finding anything. When we get something that fits it's either for only one of them or the species only appear as males." Liz threw another book on the table,"Unless they're hiding something under their clothes I'm at a dead end."
"How do you think the others are doing?" Abe said.
"Who cares I need coffee." Liz got up and began making some.
"I'm sure Nuada and Hellboy have everything under control." I said. At that moment Hellboy and Nuala came in with a stack of books.
"We have the other books you asked for." Nuala said smiling at Abe and placing the books near him.
"Agent Hellboy why are you not watching the other prisoner?" I asked.
"Nuala needed help with the books and Nuada said he'd watch her until I got back." He said setting his stack down.
"So you left Nuada alone with her." Liz said sitting up slightly in her chair and staring at him. He stared at her for a second before he got the point.
"Shit!" He ran out of the room while pulling out his gun.
"I fear for our children." Liz said before following him.
She sat on the bed in her cell facing away from me. Anung Un Rama and my sister had left not one minute ago and I knew I wouldn't have much time. I typed in the special code I had found to keep the door locked and grabbed the keys for her cell.
"You have 5 seconds to tell me everything you know." I said to try to cover up the sound of the key in the lock.
"That will be incredibly hard Your Highness." I grabbed her by her shirt and pinned her against the wall with my sword against her neck.
"Well you'll have to try." She struggled and only succeeded in cutting her neck.
"You are sickening." Her voice was weak. I didn't know what these girls were but I did not like this one being able to control me. I shook her around by her hair hearing her teeth click together painfully signaling to her that I was impatient and she whimpered.
"I can tell you nothing." She said. Another teeth clattering shake didn't provide me a better result and neither did any of my blades. I scowled this girl had looked so frail and weak I had thought without her power she would easily bend to my will but it seems she has an inner strength I hadn't expected. That or she's stupid. Violent knocking brought be out of my thoughts.
"Nuada open the damn door!" Anung Un Rama shouted. I scowled at the door hoping it would hold and turned my attention back to the girl.
"You better hurry girl."
"I've told you already I can not tell you anything."
"And why is that?" I said through clenched teeth. She looked up at me and let her hair fall away form her face. This is the first time I've seen her face clearly she quite beautiful for something that looks so human it stalled me for a second before I shook it off.
"You should really let me go." She said,"Artie will be mad if anything happens and I won't stop her again." I considered this for a second. She was probably talking about that girl what was it?Arianna. It wasn't a lot but a name is something I can start with.
"I doubt your friend can do much right now." Anger flashed across her face.
"What have you done to her."
"I've done nothing but I can't promise the people I'm forced to work with aren't going to do anything." This put a little more fight in her. She tried to twist herself out of my grasp but I was easily able to hold onto her. The other one seemed to have a lot more brute strength than this one and it confused me. Most species are very uniform in their powers but these two seemed to have no rhyme or reason to what they could do. I couldn't think of a single creature like that and that was saying a lot since I've been around all sorts the magical creatures since I was young and trust me that's been a long time.
"We will escape and you will all die."
"Really and how do you plan to do that exactly. This building has some of the highest security in the world, so I'm told, and you and your cousin don't have your power anymore." She just smiled at me.
"First she's not my cousin she's my half-sister and second we have family more powerful than us." I felt shock run through me and tried to rein it in before she saw it but by the smile that came across her face I knew she had.
"And who would they be?" I asked.
"Arties' twin brother for example, and my father is the most powerful of our kind." Wonderful just what we need.
"And I suppose they'll be looking for you about now." Something flashed in her eyes and I wondered what it was.
"Of course I don't think it will take them much longer now." She was lying I could tell and she knew I could. The banging on the door had intensified and the metal was beginning to bend against the impact I didn't have much time left.
"So then I guess your not suppose to be back for a long time. They won't be looking for you for a while."
"You really should let me go now your friend might not like it." So I was right.
"I don't really care." But I began to let her go. I'd gotten a lot and I didn't really need to bother her anymore...Wait why is that? She told me absolutely nothing. I looked back at her and noticed something off about her. I couldn't place it though until I saw her eyes. They glowed just the slightest bit. I released her quickly and smacked her she fell to the ground and I pointed my weapon at her heart. The door took this exact moment to blow open in a flash of fire and Liz and the demon came through guns drawn and trained on me.
"Can we leave you alone for any length of time without you trying to kill anyone?" Liz said and I scowled at her.
"Those bracelets are very ineffective she is still able to use her mind control powers." She tried to move away but I grabbed onto her shirt,"We should kill them both right now."
"Hey move away will ya we still don't know what they are." Hellboy said. This was absolutely ridiculous does no one see why we can't leave them alive they're likely to stab a knife in our backs if there mysterious relatives don't get to us first. Maybe that's something they should know.
"They have family members that are looking for them evidently more powerful than they are."I say to them.
"All the more reason not to harm them." Liz said,"Now let her go and we'll take her to her cousin."
"Half-sister." I say and take in her shock with a satisfied expression,"Not much luck with the other one I'm guessing." She just glared at me and signaled that we follow her. Anung Un Rama took the girl from me and lead her out the door. We reached the observation room and Abe and Kraus had the other one cuffed to a chair.
"Her super strength seems to have been blocked finally." The fish said. How I hated that thing, even now I felt Nualas' love for the it. If the girl thought I was sickening this was much more. Anyone would have been better as long as they were elven but of course she had to fall in love with that thing. I think Artie must have seen the cut on her sister because she started to thrash around a bit.
"What did you do to her!" She screamed at me.
"Just asked some simple questions, Artie." This made her particularly mad.
"Don't call me that. You don't even have the honor to call me by my fake name." This got a rise out of me how dare she question my honor.
"How about you silence yourself woman." I said.
"Brother please." I sensed Nuala's frantic feelings but I couldn't care less at this moment.
"Why should I Fallen Prince." She was looking very smug at this point,"So long in exile separated from the other half of your heart to fail so miserably in your goal its sad really but I can't help but find it funny." I took a step toward her but the demon cut me off.
"And look at you now under constant control from humans. I may be caught but at least I don't work willingly with them. You" She paused to let out a laugh and my blood boiled,"You work freely with them and let them cage you up. What happened no fight left after the Son of the Fallen One wiped the floor with you?"
"Artie please stop." The other girl looked very worried as she should be I was about to kill this thing whatever the hell it is or what it's related to. The demon pushed me back further and I noticed they were all focusing on what I was going to do to Artie but not the other one in fact the demon was trying to put me right next to her.
"But what can we expect really?" She went on not noticing the new threat,"A being who would kill his own father is lower than dirt." In one quick motion I grabbed the brunette haired girl and pressed a dagger to her neck. Everyone froze and stared in shock. The blonde just laughed at me and I frowned. What the hell was so funny to her.
"We're an ancient race disgraced prince your weapons can not harm us just annoy us. Look the wound you gave her before is already healed." I looked and it was,"You're no threat to us."
"It may have healed but do the bracelets let enough power through for you to heal a fatal wound?" She flinched and paled slightly and I smiled at her,"Not so sure are we?"
"You don't know what will happen if she is not returned at the start of fall. Stop now before you doom us all you know not the forces you're dealing with elf." Her voice shook with rage.
"Then enlighten us." The team seemed confused on what to do wanting to stop me but also wanting to know what they were. She tightened her fists and looked at me with absolute hate.
"I-I can not." She said.
"I suggest you do." I pushed the blade against the other ones neck and saw it draw blood from the corner of my eye. She looked slightly frantic and it brought me satisfaction.
"I'm begging you elf nothing good will come of it."I raised the dagger and prepared to make the first cut.
"The names we gave you aren't real." I stopped as the brunette started talking,"We are a great species and our family and extended family are the only ones of it. We keep mainly to ourselves except for one time but that was very long ago and we have no contact with fey outside of our realms so it would be next to impossible for you to know what we are." Finally getting somewhere.
"But this is the most common knowledge about us we are the-" She stopped and started convulsing slightly in my arm I nearly dropped her she was shaking and gasping so hard. The blonde one laughed and I looked at her. She was smiling and pulled her top down slightly revealing a symbol below her right collar bone.
"Yes and our real names are-" They symbol came alive and black swirling designs wrapped around her neck causing her to gasp and hold onto the table to keep herself from falling.
"Now do you see why I said we can tell you nothing." The one I held faces me and I could see the marks retreat back across her neck.
"Our kind never goes to this realm without a little assurance nothing can find us." And the blonde one was recovering as well. We all stared each other down for a long moment and the demon summed up our the feeling of the room fairly quickly.
"Well what the hell are we suppose to do now."
Done finally that took forever for being so short. Review please I feel lonely.