Valkyrie walked through the door, smiling like an idiot. Skulduggery cocked his skull at a questioning angle. Valkyrie ignored the skeleton and walked into her room. She quickly got dressed she was being a skeleton detective for Halloween. Skulduggery was going to kill her. Valkyrie pulled on the pinstripe suit Ghastly had made her. Valkyrie had to admit, she looked good. Valkyrie painted a skull on her face. She could've asked China to make her a skull façade, but Valkyrie wanted to look like a cute skeleton. Valkyrie teased her hair until it looked like she hadn't brushed it in a hundred years. Valkyrie finished off her costume with gloves and a hat. She smiled and walked back over to Skulduggery.

"What the hell?" Skulduggery asked looking at his partner.

"I'm you." Valkyrie said, Skulduggery had agreed to go to the first ever Halloween ball. "I don't know whether to feel flattered or offended." Skulduggery said walking out the door.

"Your going to choose flattered, because it's a fuzzier feeling." Valkyrie said knowing what the skeleton was going to say. He nodded getting into the Bentley.

Valkyrie had also convinced Tanith and Ghastly to go as well. Tanith was being a Bride of Blood Tears and Ghastly was going as himself. Skulduggery was himself as well.

Ghastly and Tanith came out of the tailors. Ghastly was wearing his elder robes, looking creepy. Tanith looked different without her usual brown leather.

They drove down to Gordon's chatting the whole ride. When they arrived they were instantly engulfed by a crowd of people. Valkyrie looked around, Gordon was talking to China who was dressed as Aphrodite. She saw Dexter off to the side dressed as a knight. He was flirting with some blonde girl. Dexter noticed the gang and came over with the girl. She had long blonde hair that went below her waist and bright cobalt blue eyes. She was pretty, but had a spaced out expression on her face.

"Hey guys." Dexter said. "Nice costume, Val."

"Thanks." Valkyrie said Ghastly was slowly stepping away from the group.

"Hi, I'm Francoise." The woman said Valkyrie's eyes widened.

"This is going to be fun." Tanith said, nudging Valkyrie with her shoulder. They both walked off. "Francoise, ehh?"

"You might want to go back over there." Valkyrie said nodding her head in Ghastly's direction. Francoise was currently flirting with a very awkward looking Ghastly.

"Oh, Hell no." Tanith said marching back over there. Valkyrie laughed at her friend and walked over to Gordon.

"I see Tanith has meet Francoise." Gordon said chuckling softly.

"Yeah, there's going to be at least one fight tonight." Valkyrie said. "What are you supposed to be?"

"I'm the famous author Gordon Edgly, you may have heard of him." Gordon said puffing out his chest while Valkyrie rolled her eyes. "Your costume isn't that good either."

"I look awesome and this costume annoys Skulduggery which makes it ten times better." Valkyrie said Gordon nodded his understanding.

"Having fun so far?" he asked Valkyrie looked at the clock on the wall behind Gordon and was shocked to see they'd been here for half an hour.

"Yeah, bit boring, though." Valkyrie said looking around. People were dancing, talking, and showing off their magic. Valkyrie smiled and closed her eyes. She imagined everyone's shadows coming to life after a few minutes Valkyrie opened her eyes. She moved her hands in a few circles and the shadows came to life, dancing around the room. Sorcerers stopped and watched the swirling shadows fly around the room, spinning in circles. Valkyrie laughed as the shadows swirled around their original owners. Skulduggery walked up to Valkyrie, his head tilted at an amused angle.

"What necromancer trick is that?" Skulduggery asked as his shadow danced around Valkyrie.

"I made it up, you like?" Valkyrie asked, Gordon had turned his attention away from Valkyrie and to China again.

"It's interesting. Necromancers tend not to do things for joy or amusement." Skulduggery murmured, deep in thought. He flicked his wrist and the shadows started moving faster, swirling in more elaborate dances. They stared dancing as though in an old timey ball. Soon all the sorcerers were dancing just like the shadows. "Care to dance?"

Valkyrie smiled, taking his hand, and allowing herself to be lead into the middle of the dance floor. Skulduggery pulled her close to him and they began dancing. Valkyrie wasn't a good dancer, but Skulduggery made her look like an expert. They were dancing along with the shadows. Skulduggery spun Valkyrie in several circles. Valkyrie laughed, thoroughly dizzy Skulduggery pulled her in close to him. Valkyrie became extremely aware of the how close they were. Valkyrie and Skulduggery both leaned in, Valkyrie's lips almost touching his teeth, when the lights went out and somebody screamed a blood curdling scream.

AN: Cliffy. It turned into a Valduggery fanfic, they were not together in the beginning. I wanted to write a SP fanfic for Halloween, but I never had any ideas. I might continue it. I want to write a bunch of SP fanfics for each holiday. Anyway, hope you liked it and all that jazz. Why did I just say jazz? Oh my god I'm turning into my aunt!