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"Hey Clay, where are we?" I heard Rai ask as we looked around. "This is the Crowne Plaza." Clay replied. I scanned the fancy lobby and spotted some blood sprayed across a few walls.
"But that would mean we are in time square." I rolled my eyes as she stated the obvious. Clay nodded. Rai looked back at me but then looked away quickly before I could say anything.
I spotted Father and Manning and couldn't help but smirk at our pathetic 'director'.
"Listen up." Manning shouted and everyone turned to listen.
"We have a very large monster here." Father stated.
"It has already killed fifteen people." Manning explained. I walked up next to Rai and noticed her shutter.
"Where is it?" She asked. I glanced down at her and she looked at me out of the corner of her eye.
"It's in the ballroom." Manning shouted for everyone to hear. Rai nodded and rested her hand on the pistol that was holstered to her side. I was amazed she could even lift it seeing as it was almost as big as my Samaritan.
"Alright then let's go bag this thing and get home for dinner." I said. "Not so fast." Manning said. He looked to the professor for a moment and then back at me.
"Hellboy…" He started. My father sighed and I noticed Rai shifting from foot to foot nervously.
"Hellboy…" Manning said again trying to find his courage. "Please don't." Rai whispered and Clay placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Yes?" I asked getting tired of the weird tension that suddenly appeared.
"I'm putting Agent Lightning in charge. You are to work with her and listen to what she has to say." Manning ordered.
I stared at him for a moment and then turned to Agent Lightning. She stared at the ground, refusing to look at me.
"So Agent Sparky wants to lead? Fine, ladies first." I called to her, controlling my temper. I stepped aside and gave her room to go past. I could see she didn't like the situation but nevertheless she walked straight past me and headed down the stairs to where the ballroom was.
I followed right behind her and several agents followed after us. "I didn't ask for that." She whispered.
"Doesn't matter. Nobody takes my job you hear me." I whispered back. She turned back to me for a minute and glared.
"I don't want you job. I just want to stay here and not be treated the way I was on my first day. I'm your partner, deal with it." She said. I rolled my eyes and sighed.
"Fine." I said pushing her so she would keep moving. I didn't like the idea of a partner. It was way too familiar and only made me think of Liz. As a matter of fact, everything Rai did, reminded me of Liz.
We made it to the bottom of the stairs and stopped in front of the grand double doors of the ballroom. "What the hell is that?" One of the agents asked referring to the sound that was coming from the room. Rai made a face that seemed quite entertaining.
"Eww… I hate that song." She whined. I listened harder so I could find out what she was talking about.
"Hit me with your best shot
why don't you hit me with your best shot
Hit me with your best shot
fire away."
"Apparently the monster has a thing for oldies music." Rai muttered. "Are you kidding? This is a classic." One of the agents replied. Rai narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth to snap at him but I held up my hand and shoved her again.
"Hey, enough questioning the monsters taste of music. Let's go." I ordered. Rai nodded and we were the first ones to head inside.
"Where is this thing?" I asked as I looked around the room for the third time. I turned to see how Rai was doing and spotted her trying to fix the DJ's table.
"What are you doing? We have a job to do." I shouted to her. She stuck her tongue out at me and continued with her work.
"This thing is stuck on the same playlist. I have to change it or I'm going to go crazy." She complained as "I will survive" started to blast through the speakers.
I rolled my eyes and started to walk towards her when something caught my eye. I froze in place and held up my stone hand. There was a light shining down that seemed out of place to me. I slowly looked up and realized there was a large hole in the ceiling. "Well that explains how the blood got up stairs." I muttered.
"What?" Rai asked looking up from her work. "Sparky, get over here." I called to her. She glared but dropped her work and came over to stand by me.
"What do you think of that?" I asked pointing to the ceiling. She leaned in close to me so she could look up and I ignored the awkwardness of having her so close.
"Do you think it's somewhere upstairs?" She asked. I took a step back and shrugged my shoulders.
"It could be. I mean, we've been here for three minutes already and nothing's tried to eat us." As if summoned by my words a loud crack sounded through the room.
"What was that?" Rai shouted, hoping one of the agents would answer her.
"It's just Corbin." One agent called.
"Come on man, stop fooling around." Another called to his friend, wherever he was.
The reply was a blood curdling scream. "That ain't good." I said watching Rai tense up.
"Everybody out!" Rai shouted. I had to agree on that one. I grabbed Rai's arm and pulled her back so that I could go first. The last agent made it out the door and every one of them stood waiting to help when they were needed.
I made my way to where the loud crash had come from and I found the agent there. I knelt down beside him but he was dead. Rai appeared over my shoulder and I looked back at her to find a cold look in her eyes. Her eyes drifted over the crushed body then caught my eyes and she looked away quickly.
"Damn." She whispered and I stood up and watched her walk towards the doors. "Did you know him?" I asked wondering why she was reacting like this.
"He hit me in the face with a door two days ago. Other than that, no. It's just I don't usually…"She turned her back to me and the agents in the doorway but I caught her meaning.
"You don't usually lose them?" I finished for her. She nodded.
"Yeah well, I had to get use to it. It comes with the job, Sparky. We just have to do what we can to make sure we lose as little as possible." I explained, hating the awkward seriousness that we were in. She turned around and tried to smile. "Alright." She replied. I nodded this time.
"Ok now where is this son of a…" I didn't finish, more like couldn't. The second the words left my mouth I spotted something moving on the other side of the room. I moved at the last second to avoid a huge object flying towards me.
Rai wasn't so lucky. She stepped forward to avoid it as well but something wrapped itself around her leg and pulled it out from under her. I steadied myself on my own two feet and looked up to find Rai hanging upside down by a . . . tentacle.
Rai was screaming inaudible swear words while unloading several rounds into an invisible object beneath her. I raised my Samaritan to hit the tentacle and set her free but she spotted me and panicked.
"Don't shoot!" She screamed I paused for a moment and lowered my weapon. "It's down there! It's huge!" She screamed over the loud noise that had suddenly filled the room.
I made my way towards her and stopped on the edge of a large hole in the floor. The hole had appeared with the loud crack earlier and now at the center of it was a large monster that was slowly inching its way out. Rai was thrown into a wall as one of her bullets hit a sweet spot.
Agents fired on some of the monster's other tentacles that had appeared, avoiding the arm holding Rai, and several were knocked aside.
"Red." My radio fuzzed in and out. "Yeah, Blue, what do we got?" I asked.
Hellboy asked the usual question and I flipped through my books quickly. "Rai's hanging over the mouth of a giant octopus creature. It appears that somehow a seed of the Kraken found its way inside the hotel." I scanned a few more pages while Hellboy made his way back up the stairs.
"Well how do we kill it?" Hellboy asked from behind me. I turned and Hellboy appeared beside me looking down the hole in the floor where Rai was indeed hanging above a large crater of teeth. "Hey!" Rai screamed, looking up at us.
"Are you just going to sit there? This thing is going to eat me!" Everyone could hear the panic in her voice.
"Hold on a minute." I replied. I turned to Hellboy. "We would need a bomb." I stated, answering his previous question. He watched Rai and suddenly looked up at me. "What?" He asked. I opened my mouth and started to repeat myself but Hellboy stopped me.
"Blue we can't throw any explosives down there with Sparky hanging over it." Hellboy shouted. A scream came from the hole and Red and I looked down to see Rai glaring up at us.
"I swear HB if you call me that one more time I'm going to…" She was cut off when the Kraken moved and she was thrown into the ceiling of the ball room. We could feel the impact beneath our feet and I mentally noted that she was very strong to have maintained consciousness after being hit that hard.
"Hellboy get the bomb!" Rai screamed once the Kraken stopped shaking the room. Hellboy stared down at her and then looked to me. He seemed confused as to what to do.
"Rai, your life would be in danger. You need to know that." I said as I watched her sway above the kraken's mouth. Rai looked down at the mass of teeth and then back up at us. Her eyes connected with Hellboy's and she attempted to smile. It was quite pathetic, so much so that I might have been able to do better.
"We just have to make sure we lose as little as possible." She said quoting what I heard Hellboy say earlier. "Hey it's my job to be the hero, now get up here." Hellboy shouted down to her. She ignored him and unloaded the last of her pistol's bullets into the monsters mouth.
Hellboy did the same, avoiding Rai while he fired. I felt the anger in Hellboy's mind. He was definitely affected by the thought of losing Rai. The explosive idea was definitely not something he supported. I picked up on one name in his thoughts as Hellboy sat fuming about our predicament. "Liz."
"Yeah guys, just take your time. I'm totally comfortable right here!" Rai shouted sarcastically.
Hellboy suddenly thought of something and I watched him as a plan formed in his head.
"Sparky, how good of a shot are you?" Hellboy asked staring down at her as she swayed back and forth, her arms folded across her chest. "I'm a pretty awesome shot. Why do you care?" She shouted back, with a laugh that held no humor. Red looked at me and I sighed.
"Must you really do this again?" I asked. He nodded and motioned for the agents to bring the explosives that had been called for earlier.
"Hey what's going on?" Rai asked. I could still see her shaking as she stared into the open abyss of the Kraken's mouth.
"Alright Sparky, when I give you the signal I need you to shoot the beasty and get him to open his mouth up a little wider."Hellboy order. Rai gave me a look of confusion as I sat near the opening in the floor.
"What kind of bomb are you throwing down here?" She shouted with an agitated undertone. "Well Rai, Red is going to feed the bomb to the monster…personally." I did my best to explain.
"What?" She screamed as she tried to find Hellboy past me. "If it is just dropped on the beast it's going to blow up in your face. If I get it inside, fish face dies and you probably won't get too hurt." Hellboy shouted down at her, coming into her view.
"There's no way I'm going to let you…"
"You either shoot it so it doesn't tear me to pieces or you let me get torn apart. Your decision."
Rai looked back down at the kraken, not showing the expression of fear and guilt on her face. "Fine!" She shouted back up to us. Red looked at me and nodded. "She's so difficult." He muttered as he tossed a gun down to Rai.
"Don't miss!" He ordered her. She shouted something back but it wasn't very polite.
Fourth chapter over. Cool we got to see from Abe's perspective. Read and review to see if Rai and Hellboy survive.