I'm soooo sorry for not updating. Don't get mad and start throwing things...

OW! WHO THREW THAT? WAS THAT YOU? I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU!

Now as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, I'm working SO HARD to get the next chapter up within the next few days maybe even tomorrow.

All I'm saying is, enjoy it and don't kill me...

...

Or egg me in the face.


'I thought we were going to use the element of surprise.' She said as they strode towards their target.

'We never had it,' Skulduggery said calmly. 'It knew we were here all along. It just doesn't care.'

All four of them moved apart, coming at the Grotesquery from different angles.

Bliss didn't waste time with words, threats, vows or demands. He just walked right up to it and threw a punch. Valkyrie felt the concussion of the blow as it landed. The Grotesquery didn't even stagger. Instead it looked at Bliss through it's filthy bandages, drew back it's right fist and hit him. Bliss was launched backwards and crashed through the wall of the old building.


And then suddenly a figure came out of the darkness, flying through the air and landing on the Grotesquery's head.

'Ha ha, got you now!' She laughed and Valkyrie recognized her. 'Well don't just stand there. Some help would be nice.'

'She's good.' Valkyrie said whilst laughing.

'What?' Skulduggery asked.

'She's not evil, but she is very stupid.' Which was evidenced by the girl flinging herself at the Grotesquery's eye. He batted her to the side, and she fell a few metres to the ground.

'Well,' she coughed, 'if your going to fight like that.'

'Come on Skulduggery, aren't we supposed to be fighting this thing.' Valkyrie said.

'I'm with her.' Tanith pulled her sowrd from underneath her coat just as the girl pulled two from her hips. 'Now that's just copying me.'

And so they fought, and the second wave came in and together they gave it everything. But it wasn't enough. The Grotesquery stood, it's bandages smoking but completely unscathed and the mounds of Cleaver bodies were stacking up as the minutes passed by. Skulduggery was missing half an arm after being thrown into the nearby forest, Bliss' suit was in shreds and he seemed to be smoking, Tanith was limping, Valkyrie's face was bloodied and bruised and the girl was missing a hand.

'I don't want to alarm you, but I think you forgot something slightly important.' Tanith pointed to Skulduggery's nonexistant arm and the girl's missing hand.

'Oh, I've been meaning to replace this old thing for ages. 'Bout time I got a new one.' Skulduggery sighed.

'How can you replace an arm?'

'Like this.' The girl lifted her right hand over the place her left had previously occupied. Her hand glowed bright blue and a faint left hand appeared before the blue energy swirled around it and grew it into a real hand.

'Whoa.'

'I don't even know what it is.' She confessed.

'That amazing.'

'Thanks.'

'Who the heck are you?'

'A person.'

'Nope. You've saved my life more than I care to admit so I want to know who you are.'

'My name's... Humphrey.' She said.

'Nice try.'

'Bob.'

'Try again.'

'BARRON HOTCHCROFT VON HUGENSTIEN!'

'Nope.'

'Sky.' She whispered.

'Oh my god.' Skulduggery breathed.


DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!

See ya next time!