Darquesse is going to take over Valkyrie and it's not an easy route to the end of the world.

I don't need the half life of a Remnant for me to rise. I don't need your consent to destroy this stupid planet. I am Darquesse and I shall make sure that no one forgets that...

The dreams were getting worse every night. Darquesse whispered in my mind telling me what she has planned for our parents, for Skullduggery, for Fletcher. I couldn't tell anyone because they all were scared. My powers were getting bigger and better and it scared everyone. Except the necromancers. Wreath was still coaching me with my Necromancy and praised my progress every time. I wouldn't stop learning about this world because I wouldn't let the fear of the future rule the present. At least that's how it was when I was awake. I knew that one day soon I would either destroy that part of me or become her and destroy all of it. I just didn't realise how quickly 'soon' would come.

I had been fighting the remainders of the revenger's club with Skullduggery when Springheeled Jack caught me on the back of the neck. Then I realised Darquesse's plan. She had tired me out with the dreams and just let me sabotage myself and so ,with the wide eyes that accompany realization, I collapsed.

I woke up. Finally, truely awake and alive. I smiled and saw the dead man staring at me. This was going to be fun...

I was trapped within a body that had once been mine and knew that Darquesse had won. I felt her smile and knew that the world was at its end.

I felt her despair as I blew apart the dead man and turned to face the fleeing 'villains' if you can truly call them that. I smiled and whispered in the voice which haunted Valkyries dreams "Not staying for the party boys?" I rose into the air on my living shadows and sped towards my releaser, the monster Jack who was leaping from building to building to escape me. I landed in front of him and sent six tendrils that ripped him to pieces, leaving only a few rags as proof of his existence. Now for the rest. No one can know I have risen not yet. Where next?

I watched in horror as she destroyed the Revenger's Club. They weren't evil, not really, not like her. She had obliterated them one by one and was already contemplating a new target. She wouldn't stop and rest until she was the only thing left alive on the planet and I, a stupid and scared child, couldn't do a thing about it.

I walked away from the mangled body of the zombie's sidekick. The phone in my pocket rang and I saw the name China Sorrows and answered it."Valkyrie? Where are you?" spoke a melodic voice. I smiled and faked Valkyries voice "China, the Revenger's club have been destroyed along with Skullduggery. Lord Vile appeared. He ripped them up with shadows and crushed Skullduggery's bones. I'm on Tobalt Street. Please get someone to get me. I'm scared." China replied in a voice layered with barely concealed suspicion "How did you survive?" I replied "He said that he would come for me later. How long will you be?" She said "15 minutes at most. Stay where you are." She didn't sound as suspicious anymore. I teleported to the Temple. I'm not fettered by the disciplines of this world as Valkyrie was. Wreath turned and smiled at me as Melancholia scowled. They knew what had happened and were glad. Not for long.

Her power was unimaginable. Seeing her kill the Revenger's club with such ease, then the Necromancers, her smiling as the happiness turned to pure fear on their faces. I knew it was wrong but I envied her. I undeniably wanted that power and knew that I always had but had denied it for fear of Skullduggery and the others. I felt her laugh as she killed the terrified Tenebrae.

So she was jealous. That was an unexpected development. Perhaps a good one... I teleported back to the street with minutes to spare. I fell against the side of a car and waited for them to come...

Poor Valkyrie. She's going to have to watch Fletcher die...