Valkyrie groaned and sat up. "I told you it was a trap," she said
"No, you said it looked like it was a trap," Skulduggery corrected. "That's completely different."
He helped her up as a door opened behind them and Sadistica Tortura walked through, an unsettling smile on her face.
"Alas, I have you in my clutches at last," she said and then closed the door with a gentle click.
"Um, sorry but who are you exactly?" Skulduggery asked. Sadistica's face formed a mask of pure shock,
"Who am I?" she choked,
"Yes, quite a simple question to answer, it's just so that I can add you to my list of rubbish people to avoid,"
"I am the queen of destruction, empress of vengeance and the leader of the fifth legion," Valkyrie sighed impatiently, "I am also your worst nightmare young one and you are about to meet your doom!" Valkyrie narrowed her eyes suspiciously,
"Are you related to Vaurien Scapegrace by any chance?"
"That person is only a cub compared to me! I am the most dangerous foe you will face!"
"Um, but what can you do?"
"What can I … do…?" she faltered, "I can…um…shape-change…"
"Oh, your one of them morphix people then,"
"What can you change into?" Skulduggery interrupted,
"Anything I want,"
"But it drains you doesn't it, so you tend not to use it, which is why we have never heard of you before today,"
"Yes but,"
"Can we please hurry this up, you try to fight us, we win and then we get out of here and carry on with our lives," Valkyrie butted in impatiently,
"What an impatient little madam," Sadistica said with a harrumph added onto the end, "If you want your end to come quicker then so it shall be," She clenched her fists and ran screaming at Valkyrie who simply pulled in the shadows and tripped her up. She went flailing and hit the ground with a thump. She sprawled there for a moment then her skin started bubbling. It went darker and grew fur, her back arched and her teeth grew. In no time at all a wolf stood in front of them, it panted heavily and stared at Skulduggery and Valkyrie with malevolent eyes. "Skulduggery, is it a threat?" Valkyrie asked slowly, keeping eye contact with the wolf,
"It's a wolf, of course it's not a threat, it can only rip your throat out,"
"Ok, but is this one a threat,"
"Until it morphs back, yes, she'll be weak from power drain then,"
"So I take it that this is when the fists come out,"
"Yes" Valkyrie blinked and the wolf lunged. It hit Valkyrie in the chest and they both went down. It started trying to tear through her but the protective clothes were saving her once again, Skulduggery grabbed the wolf and pulled it off her, pushing it to the other side of the room where it hit the wall with a sickening thwack. It fell to the floor and morphed back into an unconscious Sadistica. "Let's get out of here," Skulduggery said and briskly walked out the room.
