Long time no see! Sorry sorry sorry sorry it's been tooooo long :D I didn't mean to be this long but hopefully the next chapter will be quicker :)
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When Valkyrie and Steven walked into the clearing Flinn, Skean and Kray jumped to their feet. All were prepared to kill Moore but Valkyrie quickly stopped them.

"Why are you joining our quest?" Kray demanded intimidatingly.

Flinn was splinting Valkyrie's wrist and had popped her shoulder back into place.

"Because I don't want to die and I don't want to kill anyone else." Steven snapped back. He was standing next to a sorcerer who could kill someone as easily as flicking his wrist but Steven wasn't backing down. He wasn't scared of him.

"Kray, he's good. He'll help us get out and the more people we have the better." Valkyrie's words ended the discussion.

That night Valkyrie slept in one of the tent/huts with Skean. Flinn, Kray and Steven had to share the other. Valkyrie wondered if any of them would survive the night, they clearly didn't like each other.

Valkyrie and Skean didn't say a single word as they got ready for bed and they then laid in the darkness trying to sleep.

"Valkyrie," She heard Skean's voice call quietly.

"Yes?"

"What's it like having magic?" She asked hesitantly.

Valkyrie couldn't help but smile to herself. "It's alright. Pretty amazing, but dangerous."

"Yeah but everything's dangerous." Skean replied.

"Not in the way magic is. You don't know how horrible it is till you can't get out. I mean, look where we are. I'm here because of magic." Valkyrie cursed. "And because of fucking idiots."

Skean laughed. "That you are right about. You think your plan will work?"

"I don't know." Valkyrie shrugged. "Sometimes he's just so thick and might not even realize what we want."

"Let's hope that's not the case with this." Skean said then rolled over.

Suddenly a roar echoed around the arena. There was a scream and a canon went off.

"What was that?" Skean breathed quietly.

Valkyrie went to answer but something howled in the night. It was a dark and sinister thing and way too close to them.

"Werewolf." The two jumped from their beds and were instantly outside.

Kray, Flinn and Steven appeared just as quickly and everything was still again.

The five stood there. They were separated by the wooden table and none of them made a single sound.

Werewolf, Valkyrie mouthed to Kray and he nodded.

A growl interrupted the silence and they turned to the sight of the creature just meters away.

Skean opened her mouth to scream and Valkyrie clamped a hand over her mouth.

The thing's eyes turned and locked onto Valkyrie's. With a roar it pounced and she threw Skean across the table and into Flinn's arms.

Skulduggery seethed in the chair that had become his over the last few days.

Tanith screamed, cursed, swore, jumped up, called encouragement, and threw things at the tv up to the point where Ghastly had the physically restrain her.

Ravel was busy in meetings most of the time and Valkyrie's family stared horrified as their daughter and sister fought for her life.

"Skul, you alright?" Ghastly asked. The detective gave so little reaction that Ghastly thought he was meditating.

"How do you think I feel?" The detective's voice was so low and dangerous that everyone shivered.

"You've been trying to work out her plan right?" The man pressed, hoping to distract his friend.

"Of course I have." He snapped. The house was silent again. "I got it." He jumped from the chair and startled everyone in the room.

"Got what?" Tanith demanded through tear filled eyes.

"Who she needs."

"Give me that knife?" Steven held out a hand to Skean. She frowned and looked back as Valkyrie narrowly missed having her head bit off.

She handed the kitchen knife over and within a second it struck the beast's neck and stuck there. The beast roared and threw Valkyrie onto the table. He raised his claw and another knife struck him in the eye.

Kray threw a fireball and the thing's fur caught alight.

It howled loudly and continuously as it slowly died. Valkyrie stumbled away from it and back to her friends.

"Thanks." Valkyrie said.

Kray and Steven nodded in acknowledgement.

"We have to get out of here." Flinn commented.

"As soon as possible." Skean added.

"Let's hope he knows when we want him." Kray sneered.

"He better or I'll hit him." Valkyrie growled as Flinn started cleaning up the blood on her face from her newest wound.

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