Skullduggery Pleasant Short Story

by ValkyrieEverdeen

I decided there needed to be more Skullduggery Pleasant books and this is what I did. Valkyrie and Skullduggery get assigned to inspect a prison. But everything goes wrong and the prisoners escape with a little help from Sanguine. Along with all the other escaped prisoners, there is one very powerful one named Flame, master over fire, the second sun, destroyer of all.

2. The Hide Out

Valkyrie:

Skullduggery and I head toward the Bentley.

"How did they all get away?" I ask Skullduggery I look at him as I open the car door.

"I don't know" said Skullduggery

"I might have an idea" said Razor. I look around and find he has followed us out to the car. "One of the prisoners. He can slow down time. He usually walks around in circles in his cell. Only it looks like he is running."

"Is he the one with the scales?" I ask.

"Yeah that's him" says Razor "if you want to know about any of the prisoners they are all on this paper" he hands me a pile of paper and I take it.

"Thanks" I say. I sit in the car as Razor walks back into the prison. I put the paper down on the chair behind me as Skullduggery drives off. "So where are we going now?" I ask.

"We need to report this to the Sanctuary then we will go to investigate further." He says.

After a long boring meeting with the counsel of elders Skullduggery and I go to his house to look over the paper with all the prisoners. We both had read through the paper and now know the abilities of all the escaped prisoners when Ghastly rang Skullduggery saying they had a lead. They have a picture of Sanguine outside a old house and are instructed to go there as soon as possible.

When we arrive at the house we see how broken down it is. You can't really call the gate a gate, but more like a pile of wood. Some of the roof tiles have fallen off and vines have grown around the outside of the house. As we walk up to the door I see it has been bashed open and there is moss growing around the door frame. We walk inside and it looks like a wind storm has been through here. Everything is a mess. Furniture is knocked over, fragments of light bulbs on the floor, ripped paintings and what troubles me the most is that the necromancer ring on my finger has turned ice cold.

"Skullduggery I have a bad feeling about this place, my ring is freezing" I say. Skullduggery turns around and looks at me. He turns his head on the side.

"Valkyrie when have you ever had a good feeling about going into a potential bad guy hide out?" Skullduggery says. He turns around again and continues walking.

"Right" I say under my breath.

We go down a small flight of stairs and at the bottom is a metal door to the cellar. Skullduggery opens it slowly and steps through what looks like a solid wall of shadows. When I follow him in I see that on the other side it's a well lit, white corridor stretching out in front of me. As we walk down the corridor careful not to make any noise, past the doors on ether side we start to hear voices coming from the door at the end of the corridor. When we reach the door Skullduggery leans on one side of the door frame and I lean on the other side. Skullduggery puts on finger to his teeth and makes a quite shhh sound so only I could hear. I nod and he pulls out his gun and faces the door ready to kick it open.

Sanguine:

Every thing is going perfect. I had under estimated these people. They are stronger then I thought. I sit back in a chair as a man nick named Genius with a massive head and ridiculously thick glasses shows and talks us through the plan. The woman next to me is a shape shifter. She is beautiful with her long dark hair and green eyes. But I don't even know what she really looks like. We call her Aphrodite. A man called Thorn who has spikes running down his back can create spikes out of his hands. Green goo guy called Blob, can get through any crack or gap. And more. But my favourite one would have to be Flame, a girl with amazing fire power, who catches on fire when she meets real air. Genius created a device that just fits on her tooth that gives her fake air to breath in so she doesn't catch on fire unless she turns it off by tapping her jaw twice.

Genius had made a plan to bring the faceless ones back. The great gods who where forced out of the planet many years ago. The old Sanguine wouldn't do this. But I'm not him any more. At that moment the door was kicked open and the skeleton detective walked in holding his gun followed by his partner Valkyrie Cain. I smiled as my lips turned black and dark veins showed up all over my skin. I let the remnant in side me show.