Hey guys/gals this is for ma bezzie who introduced me 2 fanfiction. ILY-includeslanguage98 /Atrum Angelus. And I would like 2 thank The Mad Hatter's Mistress for my review (hope your reading this) Please comment I have only got one so far and I won't do the fifth chapter until I have sum more reviews (even if they are bad I jus wanna no if people are reading them). I had so much fun writing this I hope you enjoy reading it xxx
Warning-more fighting!
DISCLAIMER- I don't own any of the Skulduggery characters but they wish I did or is it the other way round. I'm now thinking twisted thoughts on what the characters would do if they were mine. #evil laugh#
Death And Sorrow
Tanith, Ghastly, Valkyrie and Skulduggery stood at the front of the beach being charged by about 30 Vampires, 25 Zombies and 10 Infected maybe more.
Any normal person would have run the other way. Fuck that anyone else would have run away. But then again these guys weren't anyone else and they certainly aren't normal. They did what come naturally to them. FIGHT!
Tanith hacked, jabbed, slashed and parried.
At one point she was surrounded by six Zombies hungry for flesh. She beheaded the first one, jump-kicked then stabbed the next, punched the third in the stomach when Valkyrie had set it on fire, the fourth skulduggery shot and the fifth lost it's arm just before being disembowelled (insides taken out) by Tanith and the sixth one retreated.
They had set Tanith up as a first response. Her sword was no longer just a sword it was an arc of pure destruction. Tanith got into a routine: stab, dodge, deflect, roll, kick and stab. Only a monster without a brain (Zombies) would challenge her before and now only if you had no brain and wanted to die you would challenge her now. Just the look in her eyes would make you want to retreat as this look was pure evil.
Ghastly being the strong man he is decided to use magic as a last resort. Before anyone could see they suddenly had a rather large and incredibly strong fist thrown at you. And if you have never felt a punch off Ghastly then you're damn well lucky as I tell you know it hurts. Fists, knees, elbows and feet were constantly being exchanged with a few fireballs and gusts of winds as well-but like I said not a lot.
Many Zombies and Infected had chosen to fight Ghastly and few managed to retreat as in the blink of an eye they would have been punched in the stomach, barged in the head with a shoulder, kicked in the shin and have there feet trodden on and if that didn't work using Val's method of a kick in the balls right before the final blow: a pair of fists coming down on the spine at full blast until they were unconscious and in most cases dead.
Skulduggery had his gun always close to his pocket but it was rarely used as Vampires move too quick so he can't shoot them and Zombies weren't much of a threat so he killed them himself. The Infected were kept alive as they were only innocent people but if he had to then he would kill them.
Often to see Skulduggery you would just have to look above your head to see him soaring above them shooting fireballs and/or his favourite method of throwing streams of fires at them until they were burned to a rather big and nasty crisp. He would also take up a few scared Zombies to drop them from a great height but it was better with Vampires. You get them high above the sea, drop them and a quick gurgle with saltwater they would be dead. But the only downside to that was it littered the sea with vampire bits (not cool) and even from up in the sky the moans of pain could still be heard. As you know, Skulduggery had other things to worry about rather than his conscience so he carried on.
Valkyrie enjoyed luring the Infected into the sea or manipulating the water so the Vampires would swallow some. But when she wasn't doing this Valkyrie was hurling walls of darkness' (shadows but I think walls of darkness sound better) at any monster that came near so there were a lot of bloody and dizzy things around. If too many come at once she would wrap the shadows around her as a shield or use the black tendrils to teleport or throw shadows and fire and gusts of air at them.
Without a sound, a vampire stepped behind her. It was Dusk as he still had that horrid scar across his face from when Val cut his face open with Sanguine's razor. As usual whenever he came to fight with her he decided against his special stop-turning-into-a-vampire-serum. He shed his skin, hair and clothes all at once to reveal the chalky white monster below. He leapt at her but was knocked back when she created a shield of shadows around her. It gave her time to think about what to do-but she never did follow plans or orders. 'Here goes nothing.' She thought to herself. She slammed shadows into him until he was bleeding and tired but just so he wouldn't get up she threw an extra large extra hard wall of darkness at him. There was no breath in his lungs know he was almost dead. Val wasn't quite finished yet as she wrapped more shadows around him so he stopped struggling before he lost all his energy. Using the black tendrils she teleported to the sea-front and quickly took all the oxygen out of the air around Dusk. He was now out cold. Valkyrie threw him deep into the sea. Maybe now he will be gone for good or just really mad at her.
The Zombies, Infected and the Vampires were regrouping. There were more of them to fight down now.
Fletcher may have teleported away but as usual he came back. Normally though it's at the end of the fight but today was different-the fight was happening and far from over but he was here. And rather then being on his own Fletcher had come with Anton Shudder-from the Midnight Hotel-in one hand and Atrum Angelus (Necromancer) in the other.
Anton was a kind of attractive man with short black spiked hair-but not like Fletcher's he just goes too far- a muscular tanned body almost as big as Ghastly's and he has really dazzling eyes they looked a lot like the sea on those hot days when the sun would make it sparkle. Beautiful. Anton and Skulduggery had been friends for many years but they have been quite close after he saved their life a few times when he used his 'gist'. Unless you've seen it you have never been truly afraid. This is one of those things you hope never to see as it is horrifying ask Val as I am sure she had nightmares from when he saved her from Zombies at the midnight hotel. I would also say to ask Skulduggery but he doesn't have nightmares. He is the sort of person you want on your side. DO NOT MESS!
Atrum Angelus (Latin for dark angel) on the other hand had dark black hair which looked like crushed sapphires on top of ebony with electric blue highlights in. Her eyes were a blue so dark the looked as though they could turn someone to ice. Can't you tell she is a Necromancer? Her sheath lay on her hips in a belt containing her dagger so dark it seemed to be made out of the deepest, darkest, coldest shadows on the Earth so it is no surprise when you find out that's were her power are kept. Just above her belt was her long, sleeveless coat with black a pair of black wings sewn into the back. Atrum's coat revealed the blood red heart tattoo on the top of her muscled arm with –yet again- black wings and Atrum written in the centre. All of this was bad enough but when she used her adept magic to a pitch black panther (with those same intense blue eyes) people weren't sure what side she was on until she bit off the head which belonged to a vampire attacking Valkyrie so I kind of think she's on the good side. But she's still scary.
There were so many left to fight but how could they kill them with the little energy left? Don't ask me I only write it! But somehow they managed to carry that it was safer they regrouped. Ghastly with Skulduggery, Anton with Tanith, Valkyrie with Atrum and Fletcher was on his own but he never stays in fights long.
Atrum transformed from her panther into well a girl again. She walked up to Fletcher (which was hilarious to watch as he looked like he was gonna wet himself, I don't think he knows she ain't gonna hurt him) and said 'hi … um… Fletcher ain't it?' He nodded 'You're a teleporter right?' Yet again another nervous nod 'Well have you ever been to Phoenix Park? Oh and this time you can speak I ain't gonna bit your head off coz I'm still full from Zombies and Vamps' she kept on looking behind her to make sure Val was okay and that no-one was gonna sneak up on her.
'Um… yeah I've been there… why do you wanna know?' Fletcher replied but was still not quite looking her in the eye.
'Well my twin sister (Ryder Killgallon) has gone there and I'd like you to go fetch her. I have a picture here. Please, she can help.' Atrum handed over a picture.
'I will get her on one condition' he replied seeming not so afraid of her now.
'Yes, yes anything.'
'Promise me that you'll keep Valkyrie safe. Without her I don't know what I'd do.' By now a bit of pink crept into his face. He bit his lip and looked down at the floor again-obviously he was a bit embarrassed saying that. He looked kinda cute though.
'I promise' and with that she gently kissed him on the cheek as thanks just before he teleported out to find Ryder.
Atrum slowly and carefully approached Val again making sure there were no Vamps and all that lurking in the shadows for them.
They stood back to back. Val hand fireballs in her hands whereas Atrum had her dagger held tightly in hers. A whole group of dark figures where advancing. But from where they were standing it just looked like and few dark shadows. They appeared to be a batch of not-so-old Infected and I reckon they were pissed off at Val for defeating (not killing as it's not for certain) their master. But these guys move on quick as they were being leaded by someone. This was not cool as Skulduggery only let people get attacked by people he knew and this person was never seen before by any of them. Valkyrie got into her fighting stance ready to whoop some ass with shadows and maybe fires and that. And Atrum was preparing to fight by turning into a black panther with a dagger in its mouth.
