The Princess of Hell

Chapter Two: Red vs. Liz

Soon my dream goes from a beloved memory to me standing in front of a mirror but I didn't look like myself. My hair isn't purple and short anymore. I was now to my lower back and it was now an ombre with black at the top and it lightened to purple as it went down my eyes were no longer a dark purple but now it was bright lavender. As I stared at myself, a man with golden eyes, long blonde hair, and a scar across his face, came up behind me and placed a kiss on my neck. "You look beautiful my queen," He whispers.

Before I could ask who he was, I had already woken up from my dream. I held my head in my hand before looking around to see that I was back in my room. Who was that man? Why did I feel a connection with him? Daddy, I really wish you were here to help me.

*Somewhere else in NYC*

A man with long blonde hair and golden eyes was underground and had just finished his training when he was brought into a vision. He sees a beautiful woman with tan skin, long purple and black hair, and bright lavender eyes standing before him looking into a mirror. He couldn't help but want to hold her to his body and never let her go. He walked up over to her and placed a long and sweet kiss on her neck before saying "You look beautiful, My queen" Before he could hear her voice, she disappeared from his arms and was brought out of his vision. "My mate is near" he whispered.

*Back at the BPRD*

I decided to go ahead and change out of my workout clothes and got into my loungewear which included a baggy band shirt and a pair of flared sweatpants. Once I got changed, I went down to the library to find the book that Father had read to us in that dream. When I walked into the Libary, Abe was jamming out in his tank to The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. I couldn't help but laugh at him before I went to my father's office to look for the book. When I found the book, I walked into my father's office and sat in his old reading chair. As I sat there reading, I heard the main door to the library being opened and slammed shut. I walked out of the office to find Abe and Manning talking. "What's going on here?" I asked as I walked towards them.

Manning sighed and handed me a file that held many photos of my brother. "Undercover, can't your brother get the meaning of that word" I arched my brow at him as I went through many of the photos. "We are still government funded, we are still a secret, a dirty secret if you ask me." I sighed looking at the sheer amount of photos there were. "Officially we do not exist, you see. That's the problem when we get these." He looked over Abe's and my shoulders as we continued through the photos. "Subway. Highway. Park" He held up a photo of red posing for the picture. "And he posed for this and gave an autograph."

"We know that this is hard, Manning, but you have to understand that Red grew up watching man and their movies and shows. He just wants to be one of them and with Father no longer with us," I sighed. "Red just wants to be seen as human or be loved by something that is willing to know him as Father did. Like Liz does."

"I get that, Raven but I suppress each photo, cell phone video. They cost me a fortune and they show up on YouTube. God, I hate Youtube."

Abe decided to speak up "Like Raven said, he just wants the world outside to know what we do, what he does"

Manning scoffed and said, "He loathes me."

I said nothing because I didn't want to be labeled a liar. But Abe sought to comfort the man by saying "I don't think he does"

All hopes were dashed when Manning pulled out one of Red's custome targets of Manning's face on them "Target practice. And then he posts them around" He crumbles up the target before tossing it away. "Do you know how that makes me feel?" I gave him a pitiful smile before gesturing for him to start walking. As we walked through the BPRD, I decided to tune the men out and thought back to the dream I had. Why did my memory of that night turn into a random moment with a man I feel a connection with? As we got to the hallway where Liz and Red's room was, I saw how the vault door was expanding rapidly as was the yelling from Liz growing louder. I watched the door reach its limits as the bolts holding the door to the wall were blown off its hinges and the high-grade vault door came barreling at me, Abe, and Manning, at an alarming rate. Lucky for all of us, we were able to dodge the metal door. When I looked back toward my brother's room, I began waiting for the dust to settle. Once it did, I saw the big red ape-like man, slowly get off of the ground.

"Hey Abe, Rae, "The red man waved at the trio "Manning" he continued to dust himself. I scoffed at my brother, as he finished dusting himself off a woman's voice, who I recognized as my brother's fiery wife, Liz, was yelling at him. "Watch it guys. She's on fire." He said as he walked back into the room.

"You know that one day she is going to roast his ass," I commented before walking towards the room.

As we walked in, Liz was still arguing with Red about her space. I looked around the smokey room and shook my head at the mess. Liz was trying to explain this to Red as she held up her cat food-covered toothbrush which I gagged. But when the alarm went off, Red was relieved. "Oh, damn. Gotta go. We all gotta go." Red said, trying to get out of the conversation.

I used my magic to teleport me to my room and changed into my gear before going down to the loading dock. When I got down to the main docking area, Manning was calling for Red and I knew that this was one conversation, I was trusting Manning to handle. Once he finished talking to my brother, I walked over to Red and said "If you so much as put a toe out of line, Red, so help me I will give Liz some enchanted ropes and have her sell every single one of your albums, do you understand?" I watched my brother's eyes grow huge as he nodded. "Good"

~Hello my little rabbits and mad hatters

Well, another chapter done and if you have read the discontinued version, you will notice that I did reuse some material but I figured it would help me out a lot. I hope that you enjoyed the chapter and please leave a comment and vote for this chapter. Catch ya later

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The wonderland hacker