I'm back!
I recently read all of the Skulduggery books for probably the 100th time, in the build up to the newest release.
And when I finished it, I felt so lost with no more Derek Landy material for a whole year.. so I came to Fan Fic to get my Skul fix haha! It gave me the inspiration to start writing again.
Hope anyone who reads will enjoy this one, I think I'm very rusty!
Valkyrie hit the ground, flat on her back and Skulduggery tilted his head.
"You let your guard down." He said, " that's something you need to work on."
Valkyrie feigned holding her back in pain, and Skulduggery relaxed his stance and walked towards her. Once he was close enough, she lashed out with her legs. Wrapping them around his ankles, and heaving. Skulduggery hit the ground, his head snapped up and he scrambled up off the training mat.
"That was sneaky." He said accusingly.
"You shouldn't let your guard down." She smirked, as she stood up.
"Hmm".
Skulduggery straightened his tie and Valkyrie readied herself, the smirk still on her face as he advanced towards her.
He went to work with his elbows, fists and knees. Valkyrie barely managed to block them all, she felt the strain in her forearm as she stopped another elbow colliding with her jaw. As she blocked, she moved back an inch each time he swung for her.
Once she had enough room and there was a moments pause of his attack, she sprung. One leg wrapped around his waist, the other stuck out to give her the momentum she needed and the two of them went down while she swung around his waist, she positioned her legs so she had his arms pinned down by his side. She managed to put on a choke hold while her legs had his arms secure. Skulduggery struggled for a few moments, her legs nearly giving way against his arms momentarily and she put every bit of strength she had into the hold her legs had. Skulduggery realised it was futile and the hold she had was too strong.
He tapped the mat.
Valkyrie released her hold and fell back, breathing heavily and exhausted from the exertion of keeping the Skeleton Detective in a hold.
"I beat you." She wheezed slowly, a smile spreading on her face as she lay sprawled on the mat staring at the ceiling.
She let out a short cackle of a laugh and bolted upright, pointing at Skulduggery. He was putting on his waist coat back on.
"I beat you!" She repeated, the delight apparent in her voice.
"No. This did not happen." Skulduggery grumbled, making his way to the training doors. He thumped one of the doors, and it swung open.
Valkyrie leaped up from the mat and followed him, chuckling as she went. She followed him down the hallway and picked it up to a jog, turning to face him so she was jogging backwards while grinning at him.
"You look creepy." Skulduggery said, turning his head away from her in protest.
"Are you sulking because the student has become the master?" Valkyrie taunted.
Skulduggery faltered, he shook his head and continued walking with his head held high. Valkyrie kept going. Skulduggery had slowed his walk now, it seemed he was looking at something behind her. She didn't care, this was a moment that she was always going to remind him off and she was going to make the most of her victory.
"How does your ego feel? I bet you are having an existential crisis right now. I would bet-"
Valkyrie's gloating was cut short, her legs crashing into something hard which was roughly the height of her knees and she felt herself falling backwards, yelping as she went. Suddenly she was in darkness, and the most revolting smell reached her nostrils. She scrambled to pull whatever foul smelling things had covered her face away and reached upwards to pull herself up.
Skulduggery was chuckling, his head tilted in amusement. Valkyrie spun and stared at what she had fallen into. The Sanctuary waste collection trolley. Her stomach immediately felt sick. She turned to glare at Skulduggery, jabbing her finger at him.
"You seen that! And you didn't tell me! You let me fall into a bin!"
"I will neither confess nor deny, but because I'm nice, I will tell you that you have a piece of toilet roll with a questionable substance on it stuck to your hair."
Valkyrie shrieked and yanked the piece out of her hair, she scowled at Skulduggery and turned to stomp off. Skulduggery caught up with her.
"How does your ego feel?" He said, the amusement at an all time high in his voice.
"Shut up." Valkyrie growled, focusing on walking.
"Karma is a bitch." Skulduggery stated brightly.
I hope if anyone read you enjoyed it!
Leave a review & let me know anyway, and if you have any ideas for chapters that you would like please let me know 😊
Thanks guys 3
