Here comes the first chapter!
This is a continuation of my crossover story 'Brothers'. This story doesn't have many King Kong characters :P It's mostly Skulduggery Pleasant but please read and enjoy :)
Sit back and give it a go :D Please remember to REVIEW at the end!

"Nooooo!" Valkyrie whined.

"Stephanie, have a little bit of compassion." Melissa Edgely waved a wooden spoon at her daughter. They were in the kitchen and were arguing. Melissa was mixing cookie batter for that night's dinner party.

"I have compassion but I think you've forgotten that dad tried to set me up with their son." Valkyrie tried again.

"Yes but that was almost a year ago." Melissa started rolling the mixture into balls.

"I don't care, dad tried to set me up with him!" Valkyrie cried.

Melissa looked at her daughter and gave her the pleading eyes. "His father has gone missing Steph. How would you feel if your dad went missing?"

"Melissa, I can't find my shirt." Desmond Edgely called from upstairs.

"Well, maybe it wouldn't be too bad." Melissa winked at her daughter.

"Can't we pretend I'm at work?" Valkyrie pleaded.

"No,"

"Fine, I'll go get changed." Valkyrie stomped upstairs and changed into her high waisted shorts and her good green tank top.

She hesitated before going downstairs. Should she put on the whole magic outfit? But Valkyrie decided not to and grabbed her necklace, just at the doorbell rang. She grabbed Alice as she made her way downstairs.

Her mother opened the door and was enveloped in lots of 'hellos' and 'welcomes' and 'it's been too long.'

"Hellen, this is my daughter Stephanie." Melissa introduced Valkyrie.

"Last time I saw you you could hardly stand." Hellen smiled. "And this is my son Aaron. You two are the same age."

"Hello." Valkyrie smiled politely to the tall boy. He had sandy blonde hair and green eyes. He smiled awkwardly at her and looked down.

They all went in and sat down in the living room and Alice started sucking on Valkyrie's necklace.

"So Stephanie, how's school?" Aaron attempted a conversation.

"Yeah, school's," Valkyrie frowned. What was school like? "School's school." She shrugged.

"Glad it's over?" He smiled.

School was over? Valkyrie just thought she was allowed those days off. That meant Christmas was coming up.

"Yes, I'm so glad it's over." Valkyrie lied and smiled back at him. Finally she rescued her necklace from her sister.

"Eat no more sis. I'll get you a cheaper one for Christmas." Valkyrie kissed her sister on the head and Alice gurgled.

Aaron laughed. "That's a nice necklace."

Valkyrie smiled. She never missed an opportunity to talk about her necklace.

"Thanks. It was given to me by my friend." Skulduggery. "The chain is real gold with a real emerald in it. I was meant to get it for Christmas last year, but wasn't given it for like five weeks after." Valkyrie laughed.

Her necklace was a long one that came down to her belly button.

The two then fell into an awkward silence.

"So, what do you want to be when you're older, Stephanie?" Hellen called across the room.

"Oh, umm I would like to be a detective." Valkyrie smiled.

"A detective?" Hellen raises her eyebrows in surprise.

"Yes. What are you going to be Aaron?" Everyone turned to him.

He gulped. "I'm going to become a Lawyer."

"Really?" Valkyrie didn't like lawyers because they made everything harder for her and Skulduggery.
Aaron nodded.

"Weren't you going to become a marine biologist?" Melissa asked as she came in from the kitchen.

"I was but now that dad's had the accident. I'm doing something safer." Aaron told them all. Hellen was starting to tear up.

"What actually happened?" Valkyrie had listened to the news and had listened to her parents but nobody really knew the details.

"They weren't in the Bermuda triangle but they were close to it. There was a massive storm and they were blown off course. Some people believe they went inside the Bermuda triangle and were caught by whatever's in there, but I don't believe it. They haven't been heard from since." Aaron recounted the tale.

Hellen and Melissa went off into the kitchen to finish off the dinner.

Valkyrie looked back at Aaron. "What were they doing out there?"

"They were researching one of the trenches nearby." He took a big gulp from his coke.

"Well, I'm sorry." Valkyrie disentangled her hair from Alice's grip.

"Dinner's ready." Melissa called and everyone filed into the dining room.

"You shouldn't let an accident stop you from doing what you love." Valkyrie told Aaron halfway through dinner.

"I guess not but I can't do it without my dad." Aaron told her. "The dinner is delicious Melissa."

"But don't you feel like you should_,"

"Have you read any good books lately, Aaron?" Melissa interrupted her daughter by asking the first question that popped into her head.

"Um, no I haven't." The poor boy said. Valkyrie was starting to feel sorry for him. Being surrounded by her family was hard.

"No wait, you were reading yesterday. The book by that Gordon fellow. What was it called?" Hellen asked.

"The darkness rained upon them' but I wouldn't really say it was good." Valkyrie's fork fell from her hand at his words.

Immediately Melissa slapped her forehead. Of course he didn't like Gordon's books.

"What do you mean it wasn't good?" Valkyrie demanded.

"Well," he swallowed nervously. Valkyrie didn't feel sorry for him anymore. "I mean the story line was interesting and the way he writes is good, but he kills off all the heroes. That's not how you write a best seller."

"And are you an expert on books?" Valkyrie asked sweetly. "Besides killing them off is realistic. If they came out of the story unscathed it's just boring."

"But did every hero have to die. I mean you'd think that after everything they've been through they wouldn't let themselves be killed so easily."

"That's the thing. They get cocky and aren't so alert and that's when they're in the most danger." Valkyrie told him.

"Yes but you don't have to be so realist in a fiction story." Aaron argued.

"You're wrong the thing that_,"

"Stephanie, please." Again Melissa interrupted her daughter.

"Sorry." Valkyrie muttered and went back to eating her food. She stayed out of the conversations for the rest of the night.

"Good bye everyone. It was lovely seeing you again." Hellen said as they left the house.

"Goodbye. Good luck becoming a marine biologist Aaron." Valkyrie called as the door closed.

"Stephanie,"

"I'm sorry mum. But he should become a marine biologist if he wants to." Valkyrie shrugged.

"Not if his mother is worried sick about his father." Melissa went to give her a lecture but a snore from her husband interrupted everything. He had fallen asleep on the couch.

"Goodnight mummy." Valkyrie kissed her mother on the head and escaped to her room.

Disclaimer: I do not own a single character in this chapter :)
So, how'd you like it? A nice relaxing chapter for the introduction :D Please REVIEW and tell me if the idea is alright! Please REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!