7 Days to the Wolves

7 Days to the Wolves
Kireania

An: This is the first chapter but I’m calling it chapter two. The one before is really just the prologue thus the reason why I would actually post something that short. So this one is more like the length that I usually do but it’s still a bit short because I started it in 3rd person but I am now on a 1st person kick so I’m going to be switching to that POV next chapter. If this chapter seems forced that’s the reason, so I’m sorry.

Warning: ummm nothing in here right yet.

Chapter Two:
Beginning to the End


“Why are we going to the South Pole again?” asked a very irate demon.

“Because Agent Myers asked for our assistance in a matter that he feels needs our attention.” Abe’s rational voice cut off all of the other replies that were about to spill from other tense agents. Hellboy has been annoying everyone with this question for the last five hours or so.

Abe’s words had the desired affect on everyone. The agents relaxed and Red shut up. The air in the large cargo plane was already tense without Red’s annoying constant question making it worse. Liz had been called in to accompany them on this trip so that had caused tension between Red and her. They had broken up not long after getting together and Red was still a little bitter that she had actually run away again, but he had finally done what he had said he wouldn’t do and given up on her. But seeing her so close still hurt.

The rational water creature continued to watch his friend his mind mulling over what could possibly be bothering the demon. Surprisingly Liz wasn’t the cause of his irritation; she was actually barely in his thoughts, well his forethoughts anyway. Abe wouldn’t go digging unless there was a real reason, he stuck to the forefront there was plenty of stuff to work with there most of the time. And it definitely wasn’t caused at seeing Agent Myers again. Hellboy had been like a kid on Christmas morning when the call had come in and he had been told that he was going to visit the young human. So Abe had to come to the conclusion that whatever was bothering him was something that was not obvious, and that was highly unusual.

Getting up from his seat, Abe walked over to his silent friend. Since they were going to such a remote location they could forgo the crates and were given free motion about the large cargo plane, well at least until landing. Red was standing by a window looking agitated and ready to kill, Blue was unaffected by his threatening appearance and stood right next to him. He noted everything about the larger male, how his eyes though they were staring out towards the open ocean and the small glaciers that were forming weren’t truly seeing them and how his frame was laced so thoroughly with agitation and confusion in a way that Abe had rarely ever seen.

These things made Blue even more confused and being confused is not a normal feeling for the water creature. They answered his predetermined question in some ways but left many things unanswered. Perhaps the best way to get more answers would be to ask his question out loud, so he did.

“What is really bothering you Red? It’s not seeing Agent Myers again and we’ve been to places where it’s cold before so it’s not the weather. So what is it?”

It took so long for Hellboy to answer that Abe started to think that he hadn’t heard his question. It was quite possible for the red demon to not have noticed his arrival normally but it was highly unlikely due to his irritated state; he was more prone to notice everything rather than nothing. About to ask again he was silenced by the demon turning towards him. Those eyes scanned the plane quickly making sure no one was watching them before he answered his voice gritty with confusion.

“Prolly nothing. Just something’s not feeling quite right, right now and I just can’t figure out what. It’s nothing to worry bout Blue. I’m fine.”

Abe couldn’t force Red to tell him anymore if he didn’t know anymore himself so he left the frustrated demon to his own musings, perhaps not the best idea but the only thing to be done at this moment. As Abe got back to his seat a little closer to the human agents than Red was at the moment he picked up some of the other agents thoughts. The newer agents were terrified of Red right now, each wondering if he was about to fly off the handle. Abe wanted to laugh at their insecurities but he held himself in check and just silently tried to figure out what could possibly be bothering his friend.

Said demon was still staring out the window, trying to use the cold metal of the cargo plane to cool his irritation and the growing feeling that he shouldn’t be here. He watched the ocean and the glaciers below pass at high speed and each moment they flew closer his agitation grew higher. His tail twitched as a particularly large glacier appeared and more followed. They were getting closer to land. Sighing quietly Hellboy narrowed his eyes and bit back his need to annoy the others in an attempt to release the weird emotions that had taken him over.

The sight below was just putting him in an even worse mood and if his mood didn’t improve by the time they landed Manning might actually try and take his cigars away, or even make him stay in the plane the entire trip. How boring would that be? Besides he needed to talk and make sure Scout wasn’t too pissed at him, perhaps even wheedle in a transfer for him to be back home. Closing his eyes seemed to be the right thing to do to forget where he was at the moment but just as his gold eyes shut the feelings increased ten fold and he realized how wrong he had been. But it was too late he was out.

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He knew he wasn’t asleep, but he couldn’t be conscious either. Perhaps a strange dream or vision limbo place, after all weirder things happen.

Shrugging and hoping that this was indeed a dream and not some type of trick, Hellboy began to move around investigating the area. He was far from the icy waters of the South Pole and from his normal home in the city. His eyes and nose told him that instantly. He could see huge trees every where he looked and hugging them around their huge trunks was a light mist. Vines crawled up the trees giving everything a wild feel that he hadn’t had the chance to see or experience in such a long time, but this was different even from those times where he went to a jungle. This place felt…young.

Time felt young.

A sound caught his ear and in order to hear it better he tilted his head to the side. A slow but wicked grin melted onto his face. He knew that sound. That was his mate’s singing, she was calling for him to come to her. Oh now where was she at now? He listened a moment longer before his hearing pinpointed the direction her voice was coming from and he started off in that direction.

He followed paths that were near invisible to his eyes but he knew they were there, because he traveled them most everyday. He took twists and turns that no other would be able to follow if they had to; this was his territory only he knew the way through completely. Her voice was getting closer. His body was already preparing for their meeting.

Suddenly her voice stopped when he came into a clearing that did not belong. He was suddenly thrust in the middle of a frozen waste land. He growled out his anger and shouted out to his mate.

“Where are you?” His voice was gruff. Gruff from the anger and the excitement that his mind had built up within his body with thoughts of what would happen when he got to his mate this sudden change did not sit well with his tightly strung body.

“I’m where you left me” Her voice came from behind him and he turned around expecting to see her but she wasn’t there, neither was his home. All he saw was the endless frozen wasteland. He couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. He let loose another growl that reverberated through his entire body.

“Where’s that!” his voiced echoed around him but there was no response right away.

A few moments later he heard her voice again.

“ANUNG UN RAMA!!” She was everywhere he could hear her but he couldn’t see her any where.

“WHAT!” He roared out his reply again but this time he got no response. His anger had spike at his inability to find his mate. He was the strongest demon around how was it possible that he couldn’t find his own mate. He let loose another roar this one held anger and anguish.

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“RED!” gold eyes shot open only to meet with concerned blue eyes of one Abraham Sapien.

He could still hear her voice calling out to him but that was quickly fading from him. Hell all of the details from what he had just experienced were getting fuzzier by the second. Dammit why did this have to happen to him now of all times. Leaning forward he put his face into his hands in an attempt to remember what had just happened, already forgetting that his friend was standing directly in front of him.

“Red?” Blue’s voice was softer this time when he called his friend’s name. Something had happened, something that he had missed. Those gold eyes lifted up from where they had been resting, cupped in the demon’s hands to once again meet with the concerned gaze of Abe.

“Now that I have you awake, I think you should know that we have landed. Actually we landed about fifteen minutes ago, but you weren’t waking up. Have you not been sleeping well?” With his friend talking Red was able to gather his wits enough to stand up and stretch his muscles. He couldn’t remember when he sat down but he must have seeing as there was no evidence aka a huge dent signaling that he had fallen over.

Pushing past his friend he dismissed the merman’s concern with a slight wave of his hand a gruff statement. “Yea Blue. I’m good. Just trying to leave people alone and I fell asleep, no big deal.” How could he talk about what was going on when he didn’t really know what was going on himself? All he knew was that he felt off at being here but that wouldn’t stop him from doing his job, nothing stopped him from doing his job.

As soon as he stepped out of the plane he was glad that he had lined his jacket before he had left headquarters. The wind that instantly whipped his body hit his face without fear of who he was and did not call back an apology. His face numbed up after only a moment but that was the least of his issues. As soon as he had stepped out the feelings of apprehension and irritation that he had been feeling went away. Now he felt anxious, and hurried. Now he felt like he had to get somewhere, where he didn’t know. In this wasteland there couldn’t be too many places to go but wherever he was meant to go he had to get there quickly.

His mind was pulled away from those thoughts when he saw the rest of the group that had been waiting up for Blue and him…well for Blue to wake him. Marching over to them he easily spotted which agents were from here and which weren’t. The ones that just arrived were shivering and were bouncing from foot to foot, cussing under their breath about how anything on earth could live out here while the agents that have been out there were still and much better clothed for the weather.

Hellboy was glad that he had a high tolerance for extreme temperatures. His face might be numb but he was still not too bad off right now. One of the agents from the South Pole base stepped forward and Hellboy recognized him instantly. It was John. Smiling at the young agent he nodded and waited for him to speak.

“Glad to see you could pull yourself away from your nachos enough to come down here.” John gave a small teasing smile before turning and motioning for everyone to round up and get moving. He had obviously been put in charge of greeting everyone, most likely because he knew Hellboy the best… well out of everyone at the southern base anyways.

Hellboy looked around and instantly noted that a car had already been sent up and was far ahead. That car probably held the Professor his age must have put him at a priority for getting out of the cold even if Hellboy wasn’t awake or out of the plane yet. It made sense and he was grateful that that had been taken care of.

A large truck was solely for his and Abe’s use seeing as Liz was riding with some other agents. To Red’s surprise Myers hopped into the back of the warmed truck with them right before the truck started off for the base.

“And here I thought you were too important to ride with us.” Red grumped lightly, mocking John’s obviously higher status at the different base. A snort from the human pulled his attention to him fully.

“Hardly. They’re scared shitless of you being here and have begged me to find another way to solve our issue. So they’ve basically put me in charge of you again.”

Red felt like he should have been insulted but he just stared at the obviously tired and more worn down than when they first met agent. A chuckle started and soon he was laughing and John and Abe just stared at him for a moment. John smiled as well, shaking his head. He had been angry when he had gotten his transfer here, hell he hadn’t wanted to be here at all but he got over it. He wasn’t one to hold grudges besides he understood why Hellboy had done what he did, it was childish and it was immature but that was just how Hellboy was. John understood that. Understood and accepted it.

Abe smiled at John and nodded his understanding and gratefulness. Blushing slightly John had almost forgotten how transparent he was when he was near Blue. He allowed his head to relax against the side of the large truck as it rumbled its way down the icy hill. Sighing, his mind went back to the dilemma at hand.

“So this problem is troubling you greatly? And it seems that you think Hellboy has ties to it directly?”

Opening his brown eyes he saw them both staring at him most of the relaxing humor and merriment from just a moment before gone. Damn. He nodded lightly. He knew he’d have to give another briefing but there was no harm in giving them a preview hell they might even agree to some of his ideas.

“Before I got here agents have been disappearing on missions and the way it was explained was that they died in fighting. Well I wasn’t sure so I asked for permission to perform an experiment because I saw a pattern to these disappearances. They were all young females, and I don’t know if this means anything but they were all on their menstruation cycle. The base keeps tight records of everything that goes on medically, has to with this weather.” He paused to look outside and rolled his eyes. He rubbed his neck trying to get the pain that had crept up to go away.

“Anyway I set it up so that I got two volunteers and I explained the experiment and they agreed. It would be a fake mission, where they were to just go out and search for something, anything really. So they both went out as a team and I tracked them through their locators. Also every fifteen minutes they reported back to me, no matter how annoying that got I needed to know what was going on. Well it took about two days of them out there but finally we found out what’s been happening.

“I went out there to escort them back in with a truck since they were tired but they were attacked right before they got to the truck. I could see everything. There were these two giant wolves. One was black and the other a lighter gray not silver but gray. Any way the two wolves attacked them and then when I tried to get to them to help one of them just pinned me with its eyes. I don’t know what it did but I couldn’t move. I heard this language in my head when its eyes connected with mine so I assume it was the wolf but I’ve never heard a language like that.” The pain in his brown eyes was great. John took all the responsibility of those two agents life on himself. Hellboy and Abe were listening carefully knowing that the end to this story was far from over.

“But I watched everything. The agents were loaded up on a cart the wolves had brought and they were tied up still alive. They weren’t tied up with rope or anything. It was exactly like I was they were pinned with the wolf’s stare or whatever. What doesn’t make sense is that they couldn’t have attacked me too but they didn’t. They didn’t even touch me. They were only after the girls. And they were intelligent…”

“Highly by the sound of you recounting.” Abe’s voice broke through the silence after John finished talking. The outlook looked bleak for those girls. There was probably little chance they were left alive, not with how much time had probably passed since they’d been taken.

John nodded at Abe’s deduction. “I’ve never seen wolves act like this. I don’t think their normal wolves. I mean that’s obvious but I don’t think they’re werewolves either…”

“Doesn’t sound like weres to me either Scout.” Red’s voice broke through this time. Both Abe and John looked at him as he lit up a cigar in the back of the truck; John smirked at the familiar gesture. “So we got some smart dogs, how does this relate back to me?”

“Why Red I thought that would be obvious…” Abe’s jibe at Red made John smile and chuckle a bit but he pulled his mind back to reality quickly.

Before Hellboy could respond to Abe, John was talking again. “Once I was free from whatever they did. I went back to the base and reported what had happened. We gathered a group and went searching. We caught up to them after about an hour of driving in the general direction I saw the running in. I was shocked at how far they had gotten. They run really fast. They were clocking in at about seventy mph. We had trouble with our trucks slipping on the ice and snow but we caught them or so we though.

“We had to stop the trucks though because they entered something we’d never seen before and the base had the whole pole mapped with details. Everyone was staring at the, it’s hard to describe. It’s like a high archway but it’s made out of ice on the exterior with what looks like fire on the inside. Two agents let their curiosity override their caution and common sense and they stepped through the archway without checking first.

“Well I’m not sure where it came from but a huge dragon appeared and it was only focused on the two agents. It didn’t even seem to notice us on the outside. I don’t know what happened but what ever happened between them and the dragon the dragon didn’t like it because in the next instant they were both crumpled to the ground. Another agent ran through and he went through the exact same thing so when he crumpled no one else moved and the dragon disappeared into the snow.”

John shuddered for a second and shifted in his seat. Both Hellboy and Abe were giving him their undivided attention. Whatever this was, it was serious.

“Well we started to investigate the area to see if there was a key to solving how to get past the dragon or something that would tell us anything when I noticed what the archway was made out of and the design that was etched into it. The design etched in it looks exactly like what’s on your skin HB. I’ve never seen it anywhere else, that’s why I figured you were connected. I have pictures at the base that you can look at but I’m telling you they’re exactly like what’s on your arms and etcetera.”

John took a deep breath hoping they believed him. Just that one little bit of evidence is what tied his friend here. If it wasn’t enough to convince the large demon that he was needed here then he was in deep shit and not just with Red but with his superiors, with Manning, and with the superiors of his superiors.

“So you’re telling me I was dragged away from my nachos for nothing more than circles drawn in an ice sculpture?”

John cursed under his breath. Of course Red wouldn’t believe him. The red male was never that cooperative. Tilting his head he looked at his friend and opened his mouth ready to plead with him to just take a look when he saw the teasing look in those yellow eyes. Of course he was happy to be out of the BPRD. Laughing in relief John lifted his head a little and let it bang against the side of the truck. Red didn’t realize how much he just saved John’s ass right then.

“Glad you approve.”

“Well your experience seems to be quite troublesome and unusual. I didn’t think wolves could even live down here. The temperatures are much to low even for them. Also why didn’t the dragon harm them?” John nodded at Blue as he spoke in his calm voice and listed his questions.

“Since there will definitely be others that have their own statements at the briefing I believe that we have basically covered everything, have we not?”

John nodded at Abe again and gave a small smile. The people down here were definitely not as understanding or as cooperative as the BPRD (well if you leave out Manning).

They all tapered off into a comfortable silence, each thinking about what they could possibly be facing and what it could all mean.

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