A.N. – So, after reading lots of SP FanFiction, I realized that I REALLY wanted to do some of my own. This will be my first SP FanFiction, but not my first FanFiction, if that makes any sense. I was stuck for ideas, when all of a sudden this one came barreling into me. What if I do a song fic….WITH JAMES NEWTON HOWARD, THE BEST COMPOSER TO EVER LIVE! Yeah, yeah? That's right, a song fic about a song…with no words! Gasp, horrors! So I'll basically be taking all the songs that I have of him, (at least 800), and I'll look at the title and make a drabble/oneshot about it. Some of the titles have names in them, so I'll just substitute them out for a character's name. And when I get a song titled "Main Theme" or "End Titles" or something like that I'll consider it a wild card and write about whatever I want to! HAHAHAHA! My goal? To make more people aware of movie music, especially James Newton Howard's music. Okay, got all that down? Read on!
Title: Finding Water
Album: Disney's "Dinosaur" – Cheesy movie but AMAZING soundtrack.
Uploaded: 10/2/11
Blaring sunlight made Valkyrie slowly become aware of her state of wakefulness. She opened her eyes, but shut them tightly after burning her retinas to a crisp. Lying in bed for a while, she recollected the past night's activities. Finding the most wanted criminal and taking him to the sanctuary, having a speed chase, going to – what was up with the sun? Valkyrie couldn't concentrate. If anything, the sun was getting brighter. She forced herself to open her eyes and keep them open. It hurt, but she managed. Stumbling out of bed, she made her way downstairs and into the kitchen. Groping through the cabinets, she found a box of something and poured it into a bowl. As she did this, she noticed a painful sensation in her throat. God, she'd never been this thirsty before.
Forgetting all about pouring whatever it was into her bowl, she made her way quickly over to the fridge to get something to drink. When she opened it though, she cried out in disbelief. Every single thing containing liquid was now empty. Everything – milk, soda, juice. Even the water dispense was empty. Opening the freezer, she saw that all the ice was gone, the box was completely dry! Where was it all?
She slammed the door shut and ran through the house, trying all the faucets and showers, concluding that there were no liquids. Anywhere. Not even in the toilets. She paused for a second. A horrifying thought occurred to her. What if, she thought, it never comes back! I'll die of thirst! I DON'T WANT TO DIE OF THIRST IN MY OWN HOME! OH GOD, HELP ME! I'M GONNA – then she remembered she had a water bottle next to her bed from last night. She and Skulduggery had been running for some time, and she stopped at a vending machine to get some water.
"No soda," Skulduggery had warned.
"Why not? All it will do will make me more awake than I am now."
"And hyper…" he had muttered under his breath. In the end she had gone with water, but had drank very little of it. Valkyrie remembered that she put it on the floor next to her bed, with most of the water still in it. She raced to her room, and lunged for the water bottle on the other side of the bed. She landed on the bed, bounced so hard she flipped forward and upside down, and landed on her back on the ground. Scrambling upright, she grabbed the water bottle and started chugging the wettest and most beautiful tasting water she had ever tasted. She was moaning with sheer delight, sticking her tongue in the water bottle as far in as it could go, convulsing with pleasure when she heard a cough.
"Pardon me if I'm interrupting anything," Skulduggery Pleasant said, leaning against the window sill with a smirk on his face. Valkyrie jumped and turned around, screaming. He took off his hat and dusted it off. "Got a fetish for empty water bottles or something?"
Valkyrie dumbly looked at the empty water bottle in her hand. It was completely dry, there never was any water in it. She had been so intoxicated with the hope of water that she didn't realize there wasn't any. Acting as if nothing happened, she bluntly said, "I have no water in this house. At all." Skulduggery cocked his head, as if thinking. "Yes, well, that is a problem," he mused, "but not as big as this one," he finished, slowly looking outside. Valkyrie went to the window. What she saw made her gasp. Everywhere things were dying. Flowers, trees, grass. There was a brighter sense to everything, and Valkyrie realized it was the sun. It was brighter than usual. Looking up, she gasped, louder this time. The sun was ten times the normal size, filling up almost the entire sky. "What happened?" she asked, her voice a whisper.
"Magic. Lots and lots of magic." Skulduggery replied, shaking his head. "Someone found out a way to add their magic to the sun, making it enlarge without killing us all. The plants, though…" He gestured to all the dead vegetation, "weren't so lucky. I've asked Fletcher to go around the world and see if any water is left."
"Who would do such a thing?"
Skulduggery chuckled. "You'll never guess."
"Dusk?"
"No."
"Doctor Nye?"
"Nope."
"Wreath?"
"Nada."
"Eliza Scorn?"
"Not at all."
Valkyrie finally looked at Skulduggery and asked the answer. She almost started to laugh when she heard the answer. "And how did you find that out?" she said with disbelief.
"Well, my dear Valkyrie, I just used my deductive reasoning, it was quite simple," He replied, cool as ever. She rolled her eyes, then jumped as Fletcher suddenly appeared.
"There is no water at all on this side of the world," he panted, out of breath as if he had ran around the world instead of teleported, "and there's some on the other side, but the sun is so strong it's evacuating fast."
"You mean evaporating?" Valkyrie said, sighing.
"Sure, that too."
Valkyrie changed into her black suit and met Fletcher and Skulduggery downstairs. She grabbed first her coat, and then Fletcher. Suddenly with no warning at all, the room flashed away, changed with the view of a dark warehouse, and Vaurien Scapegrace sitting in the middle of it all.
A.N. – Ooh! Cliffhanger! Though to be fair, the song is called "Finding Water" and not actually retrieving the water. Tell me if you want me to continue this fic in another chapter, or if you want me to move on, already knowing what's going to happen (Scapegrace vs. Skulduggery and Valkyrie. I mean, come on, think about it!). Rate and review please, and I'll upload more chapters! Thanks for reading!
P.S. – Yes I know that the mood of this fic does not fit the mood of the actual song, so deal with it. It's gonna be like that for most of them….yeah. Once again, thanks for reading!
P.P.S. – You can talk shit about my story, heck, you can even talk shit about me, but if any of you say anything negative towards James Newton Howard, I will either block you or report you, possibly both. GOT IT? GOOD, SO DON'T DO IT! Have a nice day!
