Chapter 1: Learning Ancient Egyptian
She left it in her drawer. No-one would go in her room but she didn't trust anyone. What would she tell her father? What would she tell them? Does he already know? Valkyrie Cain was scared for the first time in a long time.
"Are you coming or not?" A voice said behind her back. Valkyrie was listening to the radio and had literally just closed the drawer when Fletcher Renn appeared in her bedroom.
"What did I tell you about just popping in like that! I said I'll call you when I need picking up!"
"Yeah well Skulduggery told me to see if you were ready yet and if you were still coming"
"What? You think just because I was kidnapped by some Ancient Vampires I suddenly don't wanna go with you lot anymore?"
"Jeez Val don't shoot the messenger! So you coming?"
Taylor Swift's 'Our Song' just came on the radio but Valkyrie turned it off and went to searching for her mobile phone. Taylor Swift wasn't the type of music she liked. Her room was extremely messy and she couldn't find anything underneath her dirty washing, school books, CD's, DVD's and everything else on her dresser and floor.
"What are you doing now?" asked Fletcher impatiently
"Looking for my phone. It was here earlier"
"I'll be surprised if you can find anything in this dump! It looks like you had a hissy fit and just threw all your stuff everywhere"
In return Valkyrie kicked him in the shin and head butted him. But, she would never admit this, he was right. She did mess up her room in a temper. But only because she couldn't believe the thing in the drawer. He fell on a pile of Valkyrie's clean washing but landed on something that cracked.
"OUCH! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?" Fletcher pulled out the small glass her just landed on and smashed. There was some glass in his back and blood was dripping all over Valkyrie's clean washing.
"Oh. Maybe that's why dad told me not to bring glasses up here. I could have broken it and cut myself."
"Oh don't worry about me then!"
"OK" Valkyrie giggled and then the sound of Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' filled the room. Valkyrie went to the wardrobe and took out her protective coat. In the pocket was her phone and Skulduggery's number on the screen.
"What kind of a ring tone is THAT?" asked Fletcher disgusted. Valkyrie just ignored him and answered trying to sound like she normally does when talking to him but staring at the drawer.
"Hey what's up?"
"What is taking so long Valkyrie?" Skulduggery's voice was impatient, angry and annoyed at the same time. "I sent Fletcher like half an hour ago!"
"Sorry having a little trouble finding my phone when it was in my coat pocket, then Fletcher fell over and broke a glass and got blood on my clean washing and then…"
"I have a feeling your trying to say that your rooms is an absolute mess it looks like you've trashed it… again."
"Hey that wasn't my fault. Fergus and Beryl went away and Carol and Crystal made it that messy when they stayed that weekend! Hang on I'll get Fletcher up and we'll be right there."
"Hurry up!"
Fletcher stood up slowly and walked over to Valkyrie who was still looking at the drawer that contained her secret. He tried to click his fingers in front of her face but it didn't work. Not because she didn't snap out of it but because he couldn't click to save his life. He saw looking at the drawer and walker over to it when he was hit in the back of the head.
"Let's go NOW!" And with that Fletcher grabbed her hand and in a blink they were at 'Bespoke Tailors' and met with Skulduggery Pleasant, Ghastly Bespoke and Tanith Low. They all had a serious look on their faces. Well Ghastly and Tanith did since Skulduggery didn't have a face and can't show expressions.
"Valkyrie!" Skulduggery said when he saw her. "You OK? Good. Listen when them Ancient Vampires kidnapped you can you remember anything they… did?"
"Look we've been over this! I was a little bit busy screaming at the torture to write down notes to help in your investigation! And I can't tell what they said because I haven't finished translating everything yet?"
"Translating?" Tanith and Ghastly asked together
"Valkyrie's been secretly learning the language of Ancient Egyptian for some unknown, random, bizarre reason" Skulduggery explained
"It's won't be random or bizarre when I tell what they actually said and that could help you with your investigation!"
"Well what have you translated?"
"They're all gonna bring someone back from the dead. Or bring someone out of hiding to destroy the world. They're also seeking Darquesse to try and get her on their team. They said something about bringing back the Faceless Ones. And finally something about ancient blood."
"WOW!" everyone exclaimed at once.
"Still think learning Ancient Egyptian is random and bizarre?" Skulduggery shook his head and Valkyrie grinned for the first time since she got back. And this wasn't just any smile this was a real smile. But she couldn't stop worrying about her the thing inside her drawer. If her mum was here now would she still feel so lonely and unsure what to do? If only you were here mum you could tell me what to do…
Please review i will put on the next chapter and i will hopefully not have too many mistakes next time