Heya guys! You excited for China's master plan? It's coming up,
Responses
ParagonNight666: Unfortunately, your guess about the new girls is wrong, they're the good guys too.
Deadgirl19: Sorry to burst any bubbles but the new girls aren't related to anyone else in the story
Courtney. Turner. 71271: Yeah, Valduggery is great, it's kinda my OTP. Thanks so much
Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership to any Skulduggery pleasant characters or books, as I am not the golden God.
Valkyrie's POV:
Valkyrie walked down the dimly lit corridor towards Ola and Gail's room. She had been sent to give them their timetables and a quick survey they needed to fill in for the school records. Valkyrie reached the door of their room and paused. She could hear a faint sound coming from the dorm, this was completely irrational, but she thought it sounded like fall out boy's, 'I don't care.' But that was silly, they didn't have Fall out boy in the 1600s, it must be something else. Valkyrie walked into the dorm to see Ola there, humming, she had a book in her hands and lay sprawled across her bed. Gail wasn't there.
"Um, hi Ola, miss Sole said to give this to you and Gail," Valkyrie said awkwardly, she wasn't very comfortable around the new girl, as she was the subject of Ola's many piercing glares, as if Valkyrie was a particular interesting puzzle that she couldn't figure out. Ola nodded curtly and Valkyrie handed her the sheets of paper, putting Gail's on her bed. Valkyrie left the room with her head in a daze, Ola humming Fall out boy? It was impossible, she'd keep an eye on Ola
Adriano's POV
It was time for Adriano to put his plan into action; he stood in his room, his hands outstretched in front of him. Many people had tried to guess his discipline, but had never even touched upon the truth. He could create illusions, plant visions into people's heads; give the fake memories and ideas, it proved very useful at times, times such as now. Concentrating hard, he finished the fake memory he had been working on, and sent it to Skulduggery Pleasant's head and all of his friends' too. Adriano fell back, exhausted, but satisfied, that vision was an especially powerful one; soon, Valkyrie Cain's friends would be convinced that she was a horrible, lying, shallow person. This would be good.
Valkyrie's POV
"Hi Avril," Said Valkyrie brightly, as she walked into her dorm. She noticed immediately that something was wrong. All the dead men were there, and Avril, Charlena and Erika. And all of them wore disgusted looks on their faces.
"Um... what's going on?" Valkyrie asked.
Her friends glared coldly at her until Anton spoke,
"You know what you did, we know too," He said icily.
"What? I don't understand," Valkyrie said, confused.
"YOU CHEATED ON SKULDUGGERY!" Roared Erskine, stepping up to her,
"YOU CHEATED ON HIM," Erskine was nose to nose with Valkyrie, bellowing at her, causing Valkyrie to cover her ears against the noise. Valkyrie opened her mouth to speak but suddenly, Erskine raised his hand and slapped her jaw with all the force he could muster,
"Ouch! Erskine! What was that for?" Valkyrie cried, she ran out of the room, her jaw red and tears streaming down her face, and bumped straight into China. China took one look at Valkyrie and grinned maliciously,
"Friend trouble?" she asked innocently, holding back a laugh, Valkyrie scowled and ran on, towards Gail's dorm (she didn't trust Ola) hopefully she would help.
Gail's POV
Gail sat in her room correcting an essay on sigil magic when she heard frantic knocking on the door, she hurried over and answered to see a red faced, crying Valkyrie,
"Oh my God, Valkyrie, are you alright?" Gail exclaimed, Valkyrie stepped inside and sat down on the bed.
"All my friends are angry with me, they said I cheated on Skulduggery but I promise you, I didn't, then Erskine hit me and I came here. I need your help!" Valkyrie said, looking at Gail beseechingly.
"Of course I'll help, tell me what happened when you saw your friends,"
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After Valkyrie had explained everything that had happened in the past day, she and Gail reached the conclusion that China had something to do with it,
"So you're saying China's had a grudge against you all term?" Gail clarified, Valkyrie nodded.
"Well, it's obvious that she's used some kind of spell to make your friends believe that you cheated on Skulduggery. I've heard of this power called 'memory charm' but I've never met anyone who practices it. As far as I know, you can reverse it, but I'm not sure how," said Gail, as she paced up and down her room, "You'll have to go to the library and do some research, and I'll go and confront China, it's best for me to go, as she doesn't know me," Valkyrie nodded and left the room silently, Gail felt really sorry for her, it was obvious that she hadn't cheated on Skulduggery, and she seemed like a really nice, honest person. Gail walked down the corridor to room 666 and knocked on the door, it creaked open and Gail saw China standing there, wearing a smug look and a luminous yellow nightgown. Gail put her foot over the threshold of the door and looked at China hatefully
"What did you do to Valkyrie's friends, tell me or I swear..." Gail threatened, she raised her fist and China paled, she didn't seem to keen to ruin her manicure by fighting.
"What did you do to Valkyrie's friends; tell me how to reverse it!" Gail yelled, China scowled sulkily, then reluctantly spoke
"Adriano Mist, he's a memory charmer, whether he helps you or not isn't my problem, he's in room 323," With that China swept away and Gail sprinted to Adriano's room.
Valkyrie's POV
Valkyrie flipped through the pages of a dusty, leather-bound book and suddenly found the chapter she was looking for:
Memory Charms
The discipline named memory charming is a rare one, unlike most branches of magic, practitioners must be descended from a race of ancient beings called the primordials to perform it, because of this law, very few memory charmers exist today, although when one is found, it has great power over its victims. Memory charmers are able to plant fake memories, visions, dreams and thoughts into their victims head, victims start to act strangely to their usual selves and become more violent. This power is of the psychic variety. Once visions have been implanted into a victims mind, there are only two ways to remove it. One of these ways is to get the memory charmer themselves to revoke it, or to carve the Andalus sigil onto any item the victim its self has touched. To see the Andalus sigil, turn to page four hundred and fifty-two...
Valkyrie put down the book andran out the door of the library, and straight into Anton and Erskine. Seeing Valkyrie, the two boys tried to grab at her, and, remembering what it had said in the book about victims becoming violent, Valkyrie dodged past them and sprinted down the corridor. She stumbled into the boy's side of the building and bumped straight into Gail.
"Quick! We need to get to room 323, Adriano Mist's room, he's a memory charmer!" Gail cried, grabbing Valkyrie's arm and pulling her to the end of the corridor. Valkyrie allowed herself to be pulled along and they stopped a few seconds later outside room 323.
"Come on, let's beat this guy!" cried Gail, and banged loudly and angrily on the door. The door opened and a tall, light-brown haired boy opened it, cursed when he saw Valkyrie and tried to slam the door shut, but the two girls had already barged in.
"Reverse it!" Valkyrie yelled angrily, her eyes blazing, "whatever you've done to my friends, reverse it!"
Adriano started to smirk but Valkyrie punched it of his cocky face. Adriano jumped back,
"Ok, Ok! I'll reverse it!" Adriano closed his eyes and held his hands out in front of him and a pained look of concentration crossed his face, he muttered something under his breath and opened his eyes.
"The vision's gone, your friends will be fine," he said, and Valkyrie punched him,
"Ow! What was that for?" Adriano cried,
"My friends," said Valkyrie, and strode out the door leaving a pale, angry Adriano behind
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As soon as Valkyrie walked into her dormitory, three people charged straight at her and for a second, Valkyrie thought that her friends still hated her, then the three figures hugged her, it was Avril, Charlena and Erika.
"Valkyrie! We're so, so sorry!" They cried in unison, they looked so sad and scared that Valkyrie grinned,
"It's fine, it wasn't your fault, memory charmer," Valkyrie said and hugged her friends back. Then, Erskine stepped towards her,
"Val, I'm really sorry, I would never have hurt you normally, please forgive me," he said, a pained look in his eyes,
"Erskine, I'm not blaming you, it wasn't your fault," said Valkyrie consolingly,
"But-"Erskine started,
"Seriously, it's Ok, forget it," growled Valkyrie, then grinned. Skulduggery stepped towards Valkyrie, a shy look on his face, Valkyrie hugged him and he hugged her back, they parted and, all of a sudden, they were kissing again, unlike the one before, this lasted for a while. They pulled apart and everyone grinned and wolf whistled, Valkyrie and Skulduggery blushed furiously but Valkyrie was extremely happy. It was good to have the gang back together.
I've decided to take a leaf out of Deadgirl's book and I'm going to do the 30 day challenge and answer these Skulduggery pleasant questions
Day 1: Your favourite character:
It would have to be... I really like Tanith, because she's really kickass and kinda reminds me of Buffy the vampire slayer and she's really funny and witty, the scene when she arrests springheeled jack was hilarious and amazing! I also really love Valkyrie, because of her stubbornness, determination and wit
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