Valkyrie Vs Red Bull

Yet again, all was quiet at Gordon's mansion. Tanith couldn't believe her often this happens and each time she gets annoyed with sitting still, it's not in her system. Tanith wants to be out on her bike or training or on a case. She was so desperate she thought about visiting China, tensing she washed away the thought. The rest of the Skul crew; Valkyrie, Fletcher, Ghastly and of course Skulduggery seemed happy enough watching some old film with cowboys. She sighed and tried to sleep it over.

When she opened her eyes it was the ending credits and Valkyrie was getting up away from Fletcher and putting the empty popcorn bowls in the sink. She followed her into the kitchen and gave her a massive bear hug, catching her off guard. She almost screamed but instead her body decided to respond with a yawn, feeling slightly like Sanguine after the dismal response she poked her arm.

"That film was so boring"

"I kinda liked it, you slept all through it so don't judge." Valkyrie yawned again, barely managing to keep her eyes open.

"Oi! Quit yawning, t'is rude!"

"Sorry Tan, I can't keep my eyes open and it's only bloody 7:30, I want to stay up for our sleepover!"

"Have you tried a thing called coffee?" she asked.

"Skulduggery has banned me from having it after last time..."

And as soon as she finished her sentence, Tanith was already sprinting out the door and jumped onto her bike. Valkyrie just shrugged and lay back on the sofa in the other room as they boys discussed modern music and how Skulduggery didn't understand the thing Fletcher played called Dubstep. She found the whole argument rather amusing and occasionally added in comments like "Skul, have you felt the bass drop yet?" making him even more confused.

Suddenly the back door opened with a bang and they turned to see Tanith with a evil grin on her face, slightly scared they all turned away hoping they wouldn't get caught in Tanith's prank or whatever she was plotting. Valkyrie felt herself being dragged into the other room but was so tired she let it happen.

"I bet skulduggery hasn't banned you from these!?"

In her hand was a chilled can of Red Bull, she had seen these before but always thought they were too expensive to bother getting one. She shook her head at Tanith who nudged her to open it. Valkyrie pulled open the metal tab; the loud hiss filled the otherwise quiet room making Skulduggery wonder what the noise was so went to investigate. As he turned the corner to enter he saw a horrible sight. Valkyrie taking a huge sip of energy drink. He lunged forward and ripped it out her hands but it was too late, it was already entering her bloodstream, he cursed as Valkyrie began buzzing, like literally buzzing. Tanith started rolling on the floor laughing at her friend making weird noises and being unable to control herself. Skulduggery began cursing Tanith's name; this made Ghastly and Fletcher enter to see what his girlfriend had done to make Skulduggery annoyed, they too began laughing. Skulduggery then stopped shouting at Tanith and turned to see Valkyrie doing laps of the kitchen while singing something about how she loved waffles.

She stopped suddenly, made a bird noise and ran for the window and leapt throw the glass and face planting with style. The others raced outside to help but she was already up and sprinting around the garden pretending she was a phoenix in harry potter with a flame in her hand. Skulduggery cursed at Tanith again who was still laughing her head off.

The chase around Ireland continued for a few more hours until they found her asleep in a tree 3 miles away from Gordon's house. The only way they found her was the reports of trees being set on fire around neighbouring towns. They carried her back to the Bentley and plonked her in her normal seat. Although there would be a lot of explaining to the shocked mortals, Skulduggery had to admit it was the most fun they had had in months. He chuckled quietly as Valkyrie began to snore in her well earned sleep, while a rather smug Tanith was in the back holding hands with a certain Tailor. Leaving Fletcher to stare out the window by himself, disliking the amount of kissing going on next to him.