Krauss comes along, as he sympathizes with Liz, revealing that he too lost his wife in the accident that caused the loss of his own body.
Unable to remove the spear shard in his wound, Liz and Abe decide to take Hellboy to the Golden Army's location in the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. Nuada critically wounds Hellboy with his spear and abducts Nuala, promising her return in exchange for the crown piece. Nuala hides the final crown piece before Nuada finds her, and he battles Hellboy. headquarters using their magical bond, which causes them to share wounds and read each other's thoughts. Nuala is taken under the B.P.R.D.'s protection. During the fight, Nuada questions why he fights for the humans when they have driven the magical creatures into hiding, of which he too is one. Hellboy fights and kills Nuada's accomplice Wink and an elemental forest god that Nuada summons against him. Abe finds Nuala, who has obtained a map leading to the Golden Army, and falls in love with her. With Krauss in charge, the team tracks the tooth fairies to a secret market under the Brooklyn Bridge. In the commotion, Abe Sapien discovers Liz is pregnant but she swears him to secrecy.įurious at Hellboy's actions, Tom Manning's superiors send the ectoplasmic medium Johann Krauss to rein him in. Investigating the auction slaughter, Hellboy allows himself to be revealed to the world. Meanwhile, at the B.P.R.D., Hellboy is having issues with his girlfriend Liz, and dislikes that their organization must operate in secrecy. His twin sister Princess Nuala escapes with the final piece. He collects the first piece from an auction, unleashing tooth fairies, voracious flying creatures that eat the crowd alive, and kills his father for the second piece. In the present, Nuada returns and begins gathering the pieces of the crown. Nuada, disagreeing with the truce, leaves in exile. The crown to command the Golden Army, which can only be worn by one of royal blood, is split into three pieces. Regretting his actions, Balor forms a truce with the humans, that they will keep to the cities and the magical creatures to the forests. Encouraged by his son Prince Nuada, Balor accepts the Golden Army subsequently devastates humanity. After the magical creatures are driven back by the humans, the goblin blacksmiths extend an offer to Balor, king of the elves, to build him an indestructible mechanical army.
During Christmas 1955, a young Hellboy is told a bedtime story by his adoptive father, Trevor Bruttenholm, of an ancient war between human and magical creatures.