It was a rainy day and Valkyrie was stuck sorting through old collections of different peoples' stories from the war that lasted hundreds of years. Skulduggery and Ghastly were supposed to be helping her, but they suddenly got "pulled into a urgent meeting." The day had been boring and uninteresting.
She was searching through an old, musty box when she ran across an old journal. She picked it up and studied the leather bound book. It was brown and faded. There was a small yellow design of a flower growing out of a skull's mouth. It was beautiful but dark.
She couldn't help but look through it. She flipped the leather bound book to the first page. It read "Property of Ghastly Bespoke and Skulduggery Pleasant." This instantly caught her attention. They never told her stories from the war.
She looked around; making sure that the two of them weren't going to come in the room at that moment. She looked back to the box and saw three other journals just as old and faded with the same design on the cover0. She picked all three of them up and put the journals in her bag.
For the rest of the day, she couldn't stop thinking of the journals. What were in them? What stories did they hold?
She quickly sorted through the rest of the boxes. When she was done, she went home and closed her bedroom door. She curled up on her bed, grabbed the first journal, and started reading.