Note: A friend asked for this bit to be thrown in so it'd be badass and random. Its kind of short cause my allergies are killing me and I want sleep. Several sites have the mermaid languages, just google mermaid language and tons come up. I usually go to mermaidrelam at webs.

It was dark outside. A lot of people were at one part of the beach. The BPRD went to the empty areas.

"Abe?" Liz asked, "Can you swim in this?"

"I'm not entirely sure..."

Mika pushed past the two and checked her cuffs that kept her from shifting. Tears covered her face.

A few men ran over towards them and stopped when they saw Hellboy and Abe but they didn't seem to even acknowledge that they were very different.

"Hey, big guy! You look strong! Can you help us over here!" One said.

Mika looked at the men and gasped, "Kins! Devan! Eddie!"

"Mika?!" The Jamaican man jumped forward and picked her up in his arms. The other two ran up to hug her as well, one being Asian and the third being white.

"There are several critters over here behind the boulders, we are getting run down and weak. We can't get them all clean. We were trying to find a way to transport them to an area where there's no oil."

Mika ran and Hellboy followed along with Abe and Liz. Around the boulder were several dolphins and a manta ray.

Mika ran to the closest one, the manta ray and tried to clean her.

The man known as Kins stopped and nudged Hellboy, "You been keeping her safe and out of trouble?"

"Yes. I don't scare you?"

Kins shook his head then pointed to the ocean of oil, "This scares me. Sea life suffering like this scares me. The others will say the same. But this was different, eerie. We saw the explosion from far away then the ships responsible for this just disappeared. Like something dragged them under. One made it back but the men were terrified talking about giant tentacles."

Abe looked at Hellboy and nodded, "The ancient beast known as the Kraken, perhaps?"

Kins looked at Abe, "I am not very smart when it comes to stuff like this but Mika came from a portal, she said. Do you think this came out with them without them noticing?"

"Chances are," Abe said, "It was very young when it followed them out. It is possible it grew at the bottom of the ocean..."

"Mika! Be careful!"

Abe ran to the water where Mika had walked in towards a shark.

The female that yelled before spoke again, "Bull sharks are dangerous, be careful! They have a testosterone of 700! They're overly aggressive!"

But Mika slowly approached the bull shark and kneeled down in front of it in the knee deep water. She sang to it while she tried her best to clear the oil from its gills. Between tunes she spoke to it.

"Tala. To hisna rendi, to fan sesmuna."

' I mean no harm, I am a friend. '

It was the language of the Mer, elegant and beautiful to hear. Abraham watched, it seemed the shark was asking for her help. It knew these people would help. Maybe it was Mika having a connection to the sea, he could not be sure but it was amazing to him.

"Kins! The last of our fleet!" Devan screamed.

Hellboy, Liz, and Abe looked out and saw in the distance one of the boats similar to the ones that belong to this group called Tideborn was being attacked. Sure enough, large tentacles shot out of the water and embraced the vessel before pulling it under.

"It is one of them!" Mika pulled the bull shark close enough to shore so the water would still flow over its gills and the others could reach it. Even when one of the humans approached it, Mika spoke to it in that beautiful language before throwing off the cuffs and sundress.

"I think I can take care of this! I know what to do! Don't let anyone talk of killing it, please!" She yelled, jumping in and swimming towards the area the ship had been pulled under.

Without hesitation, Abe threw off his gear and jumped in after her before anyone could stop him. He had never swam in such conditions before but he found it wasn't as hard as he thought it'd be. His eyes found Mika and he caught up to her and they both slowed down when they saw the giant shadow responsible for the disappearing ships.

A loud screech left Mika's mouth and the kraken went still. Another scream and Mika swam down next to its eye, which was bigger than she was. This giant seemed to be obeying the mermaid, responding to her in deep growls and howls.

Unsure of what to do, Abe caught sight of several humans from the boat, he went to help them to shore.

It was a relief to be back on the sand after he led everyone to safety but once he started to jump back in for Mika, Liz stopped him with a smile on her face and pointed to a page in the book she had let him read.

"Mermaids are allied with the creatures known as the kraken. They obey the mermaids. It says that without guidance they have been known to attack everything from lone swimmers to entire cities by the sea."

"She hasn't come back yet..." Red muttered, "Something is not... Something's wrong for her not to be back."

Liz rolled her eyes, "She can take care of herself. Besides, this is so not my element. I'm not jumping in. Forget it."

Several hours passed and Mika never came back. The sun was starting to rise.

Myers and some of the other members of the BPRD began to help with the oil covered creatures while keeping an eye out for anything out of the ordinary.

Another hour passed and they had started to give up on looking for Mika. Just when they were deciding to leave, they saw her slowly making her way back to the shore.

Abe ran to her but became concerned when he saw she could hardly breathe.

"I took care of it..." She said, eyes bloodshot, her hair and skin matted with oil, "I got choked up, couldn't quite make it back..."

Abe picked her up and took her to the truck so they could be brought back to their home.