Valkyrie woke up on a Monday morning to the familiar sound of her temporary alarm.
"Wake up Valkyrie! We've got things to do, places to go, people to meet," said Skulduggery Pleasant, "And . . . research to do! Isn't it exciting! You can barely contain yourself! Come on let's go!
Valkyrie sighed. This was all Nadir's fault that she needed Skulduggery to watch her while she slept, just in case she shunted. Stupid shunting. Stupid Nadir. Oh well, at least it meant she wouldn't shunt alone. In some ways, Skulduggery reminded her of Gordon. They had the same sense of humor and they were both like a parent to her. She was lucky she had Skulduggery, but right now he was being himself, incredibly irritating and at the worst possible times, like right now at 6 am in the morning. On a Monday.
"Skulduggery, i's 6:00 in the morning. On a Monday," she said.
"I am well aware of that," he said.
"Why are you waking me up at this hour to do research?" she said.
"Because I want to find out more about your shunting problem," Skulduggery said patiently.
Valkyrie groaned. "Fine, but let me get dressed first," she said. She got dressed into jeans, her special jacket and her boots. She then floated down from the window sill to join Skulduggery. She gasped. Her ride was a hippy van.
"Skulduggery! Where's the car!" she exclaimed.
"Aaaaahhhh, well it was stolen," he said trying to avoid her glare.
"What! By who?!" she gasped.
"Well now Valkyrie, that is a very good question, but not one that needs to be answered now. Well, some hippy dude lent it this van to me. Well, actually I stole it but borrowing and stealing are the same thing right?" he said. She shook her head slowly.
"Hippy vans and research, my life is beyond glamorous," she said as she got into the car.
"It's good to see that you're pleased," he said. She glared at him.
"I was being sarcastic," she said.
"So was I," he said tilting his head to the side. She eventually smiled.
"Shut up," she said jokingly as they drove to the sanctuary.
They were almost there when Skulduggery stopped the car suddenly.
"Why did you stop?" she said questioningly.
"I didn't, I think we're out of gas," he said, "But don't worry, there's some spare gas in the boot, I'll just fill her up."
She sighed as he got out of the van but as soon as he closed the door, her arm started throbbing. She screamed at Skulduggery that she was about to shunt but he couldn't. She found a spare piece of paper and pen and quickly scribbled a note that she had shunted and put it on his seat before everything started fading as she shunted. She opened her eyes and looked around. She was in a broom closet. She opened the door and peeked outside and realised where the broom closet was, Mevolent's castle. Oh crap, she thought. She got out of the closet and ran soundlessly down the corridor when she heard footsteps very close behind her. She whirled around and elbowed whoever it was in the face. He grunted and kicked her in the shins and then he had his hands around her throat.
"Who the hell are you pretty? Spying for the Resistance were you?" said Baron Vengeous.
"Oh dear, out of all people, why does it have to be the guy that can make people explode from the inside out?" she muttered.
"What did you say?" he barked at her.
"You smell funny," she said before kicking him in the groin and trying to escape from his iron grip on her but failing.
"Do you know who I am little girl?" he spat.
"Yep, and you are seriously irritating the heck out of me Baron. Honestly, I much preferred you when you were dead," she said.
"Shut up! I'm taking you to see Mevolent. Have fun getting tortured Resistance spy!" he said as he finally released her of his iron grip and cuffed her hands.
Valkyrie rolled her eyes.
"Don't be so dramatic," she said.
Vengeous dragged her down several corridors and a flight of stairs before they got to Mevolent's throne room where he was sitting in a bath of blood. When he saw Valkyrie and Vengeous he stepped out of the bath naked showing multiple wounds all over his body.
"My lord, I have found this resistance spy lurking around the castle," said Vengeous somewhat disgusted at his master's current state.
"You may leave now Baron," said Mevolent.
"Yes my lord," he said closing the door.
Mevolent stood and faced her. He was definitely not what Valkyrie expected, well, he was naked but he looked quite average an ordinary. She had expected someone more scary and sinister looking. Mevolent looked like a normal guy, except for his eyes. His eye were black like bottomless pits and they had a tinge of red around them.
Seeming to read her mind, Mevolent said, "Not what you expected? Did you expect me to be scarier?"
"Err, you are scary, you just don't look it, you know, seeing as you're like, um, naked," she stuttered.
"Well, you should be scared little resistance spy, would you like to look like me after being orture for hours," he said gesturing to all his bleeding wounds.
"For the last time! I'm not from the Resistance!" she exclaimed. He didn't say anything for a while but continued to stare at her.
"What?" she said.
"You're not from here are you," he muttered. Valkyrie stared at him refusing to answer.
"Oh well, I'll just have to find out who you are the hard way," he said moving toward her at an astonishing pace. She heard noise behind her and turned to see who it was, hoping that Skulduggery had somehow shunted with her, but it wasn't him, it was Caelan.
"Oh hell," she said.
Cliffhanger! OMG! Well that's the first chapter of this story. It'll hopefully get more exciting! PLEASE REVIEW! This is my first fic!