first and foremost: kudos for the swift update! about the chapter: no, you definitely didn´t reveal too much - just increased yet again the mysterious tension ;-) i would say günther is crazy and wants to end mankind so the world can start anew, and i´m pretty sure that it was him who stole the scepter and the manuscript so that no one could put monster-scaly back into beauty-sleep. from that little sentence i guess the manuscript is sort of an instruction/spell to becalm the monster´s bloodlust and make it sleep... and that stealing its crown enraged the snake-lord so he/it woke up to search for it+slaughter everyone in its path. btw, i like the little revelation about natasha´s past - ringing with wild bears really sounds like a nice past time! LOLOL i guess thats where she met gleb?
about your lack of reviews...i know the problem and feel with you! it´s just like bewitched, you see from the stats that dozens read your story, have it on alert and even in their favorites, but hardly anyone leaves you a comment...lazy a#holes! is it THAT hard to click the little button+write a few words?!

damn - every chapter i think the tension can´t rise any further and yet you manage it again and again..who is günther and what does he know? and where/from whom?! as for gleb, i would say he was part of a freak show, thats why he´s so kind/understanding with hb, he knows how it is to be different and getting stared at for it.

O.O thats almost looking as if our dear trevor is developing a tiny crush on natasha...and i agree with the rest, i don´t like/trust günther.

just when i think you can´t give natasha´s character more depth... she was raped(?) by an american soldier, who took away the resulting child, and has some troubled past with günter, too... poor chick, no wonder she has become THAT hard

that woman is really harder than steel! and i would say they´ve just found the right liquid for building their flame-throwers... roasted snake in wodka, yummy! i wonder what the 'strange things' in the mislabeled room are, very mysterious - very promising!

hm...is the beastie avoiding the chapel or is it something in the other two rooms thats keeping it away?

*falls over anime-style* damn, that chick is the queen of deadpan remarks! i wonder how dracula-snake will react towards hb...btw, how old is he supposed to be in your story?

*chuckles* clank..BOOM! definitely the noise of red´s stonehand on metal! but how the heck did he came there? anyway, fighting a creature that loathes warmth they can need the help of someone with liquid hellfire running through his veins ;-)

you really like cliffhangers, hu? anyway, i like this natasha, she´s definitely NOT the average mary-sue...more like ellen ripley´s russian ancestor ;-) i´m really curious as to what the main monster is, that had apparently changed several of his victims...and how+when a still very young hellboy will come into the picture..i SO love stories where red is still a child

Very interesting story. I do hope you decide to continue with it. I love your take on Hellboy and Professor Broom. This is a very plausible earlier adventure for the pair. I can't wait to see your take on a younger Hellboy. I'm also ecstatic to see something other than another 'Nuada' story.

My only real quibble with this is that it has a number of misspellings and other grammatical errors. Not enough to be really distracting, but an already good story can only be made better if these were edited out.

Beth