Note: I don't own Hellboy. Thanks to Saddles18 and canarycup! Canarycup is writing a mermaid/Abe fic too! I'm excited and waiting for her to post it! My friend that usually reads for mistakes was busy so if you see anything/ tell me. Autocorrect hates me.
Hellboy searched the entire building for Abe. He found an old video about mermaids and needed to show it someone quick.
When he found Abe he was with Liz and Mika. With Mika in the room he wasn't sure as to how he could approach the subject of her true nature or if she was of the same species as the mermaids that had been filmed on this old VHS tape.
"Red? What's wrong?" Abe asked, the two females next to him staring at the red man curiously.
"Mika, did you say you were from the Mako Islands? That's where the portal from your realm had opened?" He asked.
She looked confused but nodded.
"How many others came through the portal with you?"
"Two others, my sisters."
"Are you aware that the portal cannot be opened in the human realm by any means whatsoever so you can never return?"
"That's why I'm still here, yes."
"Where are your sisters?"
Mika had the sudden look of devastation on her face when she looked to the floor. Her fingers clutched and pulled at the hem of the sundress she wore.
"Mika?"
"T-they were taken from me. Poachers caught them both, cut off their fins." A tear trailed her cheek and she slowly shifted back into her mer-form, sitting on the floor.
Everyone else seemed sort of shocked and didn't know how to react. Abe kneeled down next to her but did not touch her.
"I got them back with the help of a marine protection group called 'Tidebornof Maya died in my arms as soon as we got her on the other ship with the nice humans. Arlena held onto life for two days but was in so much pain from her tail. When we are dry our tails shift into legs. With her fins and fluke being cut off, she was unable to shift which caused great pain. But we couldn't put her in the water because of the blood..."
She was the youngest of her two sisters and they had opened the portal by accident. The truth was finally coming out.
"We were scared and every time someone tried to come near us we would attack them. We didn't know who we could trust... Not until the Tideborn helped us... Or at least helped me."
The other three watched her yet said nothing. They couldn't, they had no idea what to say to that!
"I killed the poachers who took their lives. After that I decided to stay with Tideborn. They had five ships, not big ones. Each had enough room for six or seven people. I stayed with them and helped them patrol the seas to stop poaching, finning, whaling, etc. Manta rays... They turned out to be my favorite animals of the sea in this realm. Now they are almost gone thanks to finning and poachers..."
"Do they know where you are?" Hellboy asked.
"No. I was separated from them. I understand that they can't know about this place, even though they know about me. I just hope they're okay. No... I know they're okay. They're to tough to be taken out."
They watched as she rambled on, unsure as of what to say. Eventually her tears dried and she shifted back into a human but she didn't pick herself up off the floor. She just sat there.
Hellboy believed her, he just felt the paranoia that something else could have slipped through the portal before or after them.