Alone. Skulduggery sat in his living room alone, Valkyrie having left moments earlier. He sat, unmoving, the events of the case replaying in his head…
Vampires came flying at him from all directions, Skulduggery reached for his beloved revolver. It was missing. He muttered a few choice curses and clicked his fingers, generating a fireball. So this was how he was to fight then. He pushed at the air and flew up, firing multiple fireballs as he rose. Until he heard a scream. Valkyrie. He couldn't leave her behind, leave her to die. To hell with it, he thought and swooped back down, picked her up, and rose rapidly. 'You ok?' he shouted over the rushing wind.
'Yeah' came Valkyrie's reply.
'I need you to reach into my rib cage, I have a bomb hidden in there for times like this.' requested Skulduggery.
'Erm, ok, this is awkward but yeah' said Valkyrie, who proceeded to undo his shirt buttons, retrieve the bomb, redo the buttons and handed the bomb to him.
'Thanks. Now cover your eyes.'
Valkyrie buried her face into Skulduggery's collar bones and braced herself as Skulduggery threw the bomb down onto the pile of angry vampires led by Dusk and Caelen. He then buried his face into Valkyrie's neck and cover her ears the best he could with his gloved hands. The bomb went off, catapulting bits of singed vampire flesh high into the air and onto every surface.
'It's over. Lets go home'
'Lets' agreed Valkyrie.
Valkyrie was driving away from Skulduggery's home in her Oompa Loompa, when she began to feel something odd was happening, something to do with her mentor. Screw it, she thought, and did a spectacular 180 and sped back in the direction she came from.