Blood was being sprayed everywhere. The agonised screams littered the deathly silence of the battle. Both sides were putting all of their energy into using their magic to harm or kill the opposition, although the traditional methods of fighting were being used, such as Skulduggery and his gun; Tanith with her scythe; Ghastly with…physical hand to hand combat; and Valkyrie had discarded her stick after finding out that a tiny stick was easily beaten by a sword, and was throwing kicks and punches.

It was an effective attack. The 'good guys' were wiping some of the army out- the weaker elements didn't put up much of a fight against them (such as a small zombie force led by none other than Vaurien Scapegrace, who fled the scene with Thrasher as soon as he saw Valkyrie coming towards him with a ball of fire in her hand).

But despite this, the opposition was strong. The opposition was forceful. The opposition had a secret weapon…. Well….person.

A Mr B-R Sanguine.

"Naw y'all gonna have some fun!" He shouted before flicking out his infamous razor and charging into battle, causing another fierce attack by Skulduggery and his comrades.

The opposition were severely diminishing. Sanguine was still slashing people open and permanently scarring them, and there were several others still fighting, but their strength had been broken when their leader fell.

Tanith's scythe came slicing through the air, fatally wounding the necromancer beneath it. Another one down, which meant several more to go. Skulduggery hurled a fireball at another enemy, burning them to death, as Valkyrie managed to deprive someone else of air, thus causing strangulation and ultimately, the demise of this enemy.

It was then that Sanguine turned on Valkyrie.

He lunged towards her as she span round to face him. Her eyes widened as his razor whizzed by her ear - nearly catching the tip of her ear- and stuck in the ground behind her.

"Oh no lil' lady, leave ma razor alone."

Impulsively, she had leant back and grabbed his razor, expertly flicking her wrist, thus causing it to whistle to where he stood-

But Sanguine was good, and Sanguine had dodged while managing to catch his razor mid-air.

Typical Sanguine.

He charged at her again, tackling her to the ground. Valkyrie summoned her remaining energy and sprayed him with the muddy puddle water, before throwing fireballs at him, enabling her to wriggle out of his grasp and run away.

"Naw lil' doll ya need ter come on bayk 'ere. 'S nawt yer style ter run away."

But Valkyrie kept on running, as fast as she could, dodging around every other enemy to get away from this one particular nemesis. She ended up on top of a cliff, with Billy-Ray Sanguine running up to have the chance to push her off. She knew she would have to jump.

Jump.

Off a cliff?

Was she really that CRAZY?

It was when Sanguine started approaching her that she was getting worried. She ignored the undoubtedly useless and pointless gloating which would inevitably be spilling out of his incontrollable mouth, and attempted to think of an escape plan.

Every time she tried, there was no way out. She couldn't use her magic; it would only buy her a little time- not nearly enough to get away.

Well what could she do to get out of this frightful predicament?

She couldn't.

And just as Sanguine took his first step to push her off the edge, she felt familiar arms wrap around her. She smiled.

"Go on then cowboy!" She yelled, and as he sprinted the final distance between them…..

She disappeared.

"Thanks Fletch." She murmured when they were over the other side of the massive hill that they were all fighting on.

"Not a problem Val. Anytime." Fletcher replied, winking.