Valkyrie walked briskly down to the pier. It was freezing with a bone-chilling wind. She smiled at the joke. Skulduggery had called her saying they had a new case. He'd just said they had to find some one. Easy. She eventually reached the Bentley. Skulduggery was sat in side no doubt with the heating on. She smiled in greeting, opened the door and was meet with a wave of warm air. Quickly she slid into the seat and slammed the door. "Okay, what's the case?"

Half an hour later, they walked out of the throne room, having been filled in on the case. They had to go and find a girl called Katz. Erskine had given skulduggery a short list of where she could be. Katz hadn't chosen a name yet so it should be easy getting her to come with them. Add that to her being 11 it should be easy.

Except for that one small factor.

Her dad was Satan.

"This is going to be fun." Valkyrie sighed.

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They were waiting outside a house in Ireland. It should be the one she was in as the last three had been empty. "Okay, Valkyrie, its going to be easy. Go in tell her to come with you, use her name, done. Not even you could mess it up" Skulduggery said teasingly. Valkyrie frowned. "Why am I going in there?" "Because I said so." Skulduggery pushed her out and shut the door on her. A second later he locked the doors. Valkyrie stuck her tongue out and trudged to the house. Then sanguine appeared. She started running…

Running… running always running. From monsters and criminals. But now she was running towards someone who could be like them same criminals. She had to get to her quickly before they could turn her. Into one of them. Into evil, despicable beings. She was almost there….

Katz looked up at the TV. She was pretty comfortable. Her dog, Lupus, was curled up next to her and her favourite show, Half-moon, was on the old TV. She was in another safe house her dad had guided her to. Suddenly Lupus lifted his grey head and his ears flicked back. Immediately Katz tensed, her shoulders going back and her hand edged to Lupus' side. Then the big window smashed and a man with blonde hair and sunglasses rolled in. Katz stood up and lupus jumped to her side, snarling. "Ah, hello darling," drawled the man, his teeth looked like someone had painted them. "Hi, what do you want?" she drawled back. He looked surprised at her accent. "You're American?"

"No," she replied in her normal, part Irish, English and part random accent from somewhere. He was confused for a second. In that second, yet another person ran in, clearing the jagged edges of the sill. "Back off Sanguine," she warned in her proper Irish accent. "Cain, how you doing?" "Oh, no I don't mind please hold a reunion in here," muttered Katz. They both looked at her. He took a razor and slowly unfolded it, looking back at Cain. The girl, Cain, clicked her fingers and a flame appeared. "Ah, now let's not get 'hasty," the man backed away. Towards Katz. Lupus immediately bared his teeth. The man lunged and grabbed Katz. They immediately fell through the ground.

As Katz fell, all she could hear was Lupus howling as the ground closed up behind her….

An: yeah it sucks. I'm getting to the good bits. More up soon.