I wrote this for a comp that was going around a little while ago... I though I might post it up for you all to comment on! By the way Derek Landy wrote the first bit in italics and we had to write 450 words more..

Valkyrie groaned, and sat up. "I told you it was a trap," she said.

"No, you said it looked like it was a trap," Skulduggery corrected. "That's completely different."

He helped her up as a door opened behind them and Sadistica Tortura walked through, an unsettling smile on her lips.

"You always have the best timing, don't you," Val said.

"I wouldn't be me if I didn't,' Sadistica replied. "Now Mr. Pleasant, do you know why I am after you?"

"There are so many people at the moment trying to chase me that I have lost track," Skulduggery replied with a sigh.

"Not even I can keep up, and I write them down," Val came into the new conversation.

"Was I talking to you?" Sadistica replied.

"You are now-" she started to say but got cut off by her kidnapper.

"What are you smiling over?" Sadistica yelled at Skulduggery.

Val turned around as much as was physically possible to see him smiling.

"Just the way that you two girls are arguing. There are more important things to do you know... Like untying us?" he suggested.

"Sure,"replied Sadistica. Val's mouth dropped open. Their captor must not be in her right mind. She was going to let them go? Skulduggery however just nodded and walked out of the prison that the trap had so kindly delivered them into.

"Keep your mouth closed until we are in the Bentley," he whispered to her. It was only ten minutes later but when Skulduggery said that she was able to talk, to Val it had felt like forever.

"Why did she just let us go?" she asked him.

"Of all the thing I know and have studied, megalomaniac's brains are a blank. Zombies however, are a very simple thing to know,' he 's mouth continued to remain open in slight disbelief.

"You're crazy," she declared.

"Good to know that you think so," Skulduggery smirked. His smirk however changed to a frown as they turned the corner into a busy street and found someone walking along with a flame in their hand.

"Tell me that's a cigarette lighter,"Val muttere.

"It's a cigarette lighter,"Skulduggery said sarcastically. "But if you wanted to know the truth, it's actually magic."

He pulled over and they got out of the Bentley. Val tried to hide somewhere as everyone one in the crowd was looking at the three of them, that and someone was surely going to recognise her. The man turned around to Val and Skulduggery and grinned. His teeth was yellow and they numbered three in total.

"You again," he said to Skulduggery.

"Can we please skip the introduction and get to the re-introducing ourselves section. I seemed to have forgotten your name," Skulduggery said.

"Envie Vert, pleased to meet you," the man said.

"Seriously?" Val asked. "Envy Green? Don't you run into trouble in France?"

"Don't know, don't care, hope not, so there," Envie replied. "I'm here to trap you."

"What is it? Trap your favorite hero or something day?" Skulduggery said.

"Yes actually."