The next morning, Sanguine woke up and came downstairs to find Dusk sitting on the couch in the living room.

"Well." Dusk said. "Isara's not breaking up with me."

"That's good." Sanguine sat down as well.

"Yeah. But she did say that if I ever put her in a situation where she could get kissed by a zombie she's going to shove salt water down my throat and leave me for dead."

"That's a cheerful thought."

Just then, they heard loud screaming coming from the kitchen. The two leaped up and were in the doorway within a second, Sanguine had his straight razor ready and they both prepared to attack when they froze.

Valkyrie was gripping the edge of the counter top while Skulduggery had hold of her legs. The skeleton's heels were digging into the ground and he was trying his best to pull his partner off the counter.

"You need to do this!" Skulduggery yelled.

"NO!" Valkyrie yelled back. Suddenly, she lost her grip and the two flew back. They crashed into the wall. Valkyrie sprawled over Skulduggery. She was up in an instant, about to run but Skulduggery grabbed her ankle and she did a perfect belly-flop into the floor.

"What's going on?" Sanguine asked.

"He's making me go to school!" Valkyrie grabbed the table leg and continued her best to not let her partner pull her away.

Dusk and Sanguine looked at each other then laughed.

"Seriously?" Sanguine asked. "Wow. You sure over react for the simplest things."

"Shut up!" Valkyrie snapped. "Besides, I don't need to go! I can send my reflection!"

"You need to give that reflection a break!" Skulduggery said, still trying to pull her away. "And you should get out and do something normal people do for a change!"

"I did that last night!"

"And got kicked out of a movie theater! Now let go and I'll take you to school!"

"You aren't the boss of me!"

"Yes I am!"

"Says who?"

"Me!"

"That doesn't count!"

"Yes it does!"

"How do you figure that?"

"I'm awesome and you wouldn't even be involved in the magical community if it wasn't for me!"

"No! I wouldn't be involved if it wasn't for Serpine murdering my uncle! You had nothing to do with it!"

"Yes I did!"

"No you didn't!"

"Did!"

"Didn't!"

"Did!"

"Didn't!"

"Did!"

"Shut up! You're so annoying!"

"You're more annoying!"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"You're going to be late for school!"

"Good!"

"Hold on." Sanguine held up his hands. "Come on. Seriously? You can bring something fun to do right?"

Valkyrie stopped struggling and looked at him like had just told her the answer to all of her problems. "That's it."

She let go of the chair leg and ran upstairs. She came back down a few minutes later in a school uniform with her bag slung over her shoulder. "Okay. Let's go."

Skulduggery took advantage of the moment and grabbed her arm and dragged her out the door.

…

Sanguine, Dusk, Scapegrace and Thrasher were sitting in the living room watching TV when the phone rang. They all looked at each other and had a silent argument about who was going to answer it.

Finally, Sanguine grabbed it and answered. "Hello?"

"Who is this?" A woman's voice asked. "Are Stephanie's parents there?"

Sanguine frowned. "Stephanie?"

He looked up when Scapegrace started to motion wildly at him. Sanguine peered at the picture Scapegrace held of Valkyrie and stared. Written on the picture was 'Stephanie's year six picture.'

Sanguine quickly put everything to together and realized that 'Stephanie' was Valkyrie's given name.

"Excuse me? Sir?"

"Huh? Oh yes. Um, her parents are not here right now. I am her…. Uncle."

"Her uncle?"

"Yes." Sanguine nodded. "And who am I speaking too?"

"Stephanie's school principal. I need you to come down to the school."

"Why?"

"Everything will be explained when you get here."

"Okay." Sanguine hung up and turned to the others. "The principal of Valkyrie's school just called. She wanted me to come down for some reason."

"Have fun." Dusk went back to watching TV.

Sanguine scowled and burrowed down into the ground and went to the school.

Earlier that day….

Valkyrie had arrived at school and hurried in. She was almost late. She quickly got to her first class, History, and went to work then sat down in her desk. The bell rang and her teacher started the day.

"Okay class." Mr. Hendricks said. "Take out your assignments and we'll check the-

He cut off his sentence as he pulled down the pull-down map and stared at the drawing Valkyrie had done that morning of a cupcake fighting a cat in a hat with sub machine guns.

Everyone started to laugh and Mr. Hendricks turned to her. "Stephanie Edgely!"

"What?" Valkyrie said innocently.

"Why did you draw this?"

"How do you know that it was me?"

"You signed your name on the bottom. And why did you draw this?"

"Because cupcakes taste good and cats are funny."

Mr. Hendricks sighed. "Go out in the hall."

Next period was Maths. When the teacher sat down she leaped back up with a yelp. She looked at her butt and saw the giant coffee stain she got from sitting on her coffee-drenched chair and the note 'got ya!'- Stephanie. Valkyrie was sent out in the hall.

Third period: Art class

The teacher gave them paints then walked out to get a drink. When she came back she marched up to Valkyrie. "Stephanie! What are you doing?"

Valkyrie looked up from where she was painting flying toasters on the wall with green paint. ""It's graffiti."

"Graffiti?"

"Yes. That is art. Right?"

"Well, yes but-

"Then it's okay." Valkyrie grinned and went back to painting.

"Go out in the hall."

Fourth period was lunch and after she ate, Valkyrie snuck back into the kitchen and stole a plate then came back out and super-glued it to a table. She laughed as the teachers tried to pry it off the surface.

They got an extra-long lunch break, so Valkyrie worked on her finale. She stood out in the halls and looked around. No teachers. She dug through her bag and took out the bowling pins and set them up down the hall then backed up and pulled out her bowling ball.

She raised the ball, aimed, than rolled it. The ball knocked down half the pins. Valkyrie played this for a while till her principal came down the hall and saw the game.

"Stephanie Edgely!"

…

Sanguine arrived at the school and walked in. He got to the office and the secretary showed him to an office where Valkyrie sat in a chair across from a stern looking lady who looked up when he came in.

"Are you Stephanie's uncle?"

"Yes ma'am. And you are?"

"Stephanie's principal, Mrs. Smith. Please, take a seat." Sanguine sat down next to Valkyrie. He looked at Mrs. Smith.

"So, what am I here for?"

"Well, Stephanie has gotten into some trouble today and we need to discuss this with a trusted adult."

"And I'm the trusted adult?"

"Yes."

Sanguine grinned. "Great. So, what has my niece done?"

"Well." Mrs. Smith began. "In history she drew on the map, in permanent marker, a cupcake fighting a cat in a hat with sub machine guns."

Sanguine looked at Valkyrie. "Why did you draw that?"

"Because cupcakes taste good and cats are funny. And I like hats."

"Very good reasons. Next."

Mrs. Smith listed off each of the things Valkyrie had done and when she was finished, he turned to Valkyrie. "Wow. You did a lot of stuff. Where'd you come up with some of these things?"

"Tanith."

"That blond is crazy."

"Hey, you have a crush on her."

"Don't go turning this around on me. You're the one in trouble here."

"You told me to have fun in school."

Sanguine paused. "Yes I did. Mrs. Smith, I think we are done here."

"First we have to discuss her punishment." Mrs. Smith said.

Sanguine groaned and slouched down. "Alright. What is it?"

"Two weeks of detention and you have to take her home now."

"Fine. Come on." Sanguine pulled Valkyrie out of the office and when they were outside the building, they tunneled back to Valkyrie's home.

….

When they came through the front door, since Valkyrie didn't want cracks all over house, and walked into the living room Valkyrie froze.

"Oh. No."

Sanguine frowned. "What?"

"LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE! IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE TOOK A FREAKIN' SLEDGEHAMMER TO MY LIVING ROOM! MY PARENTS ARE GOING TO KILL ME!"

Sure enough, the spot on the floor where Sanguine had burrowed to get to Valkyrie's school was a spider web of cracks.

"Oops," he said.

Valkyrie stared at the floor then shook her head. "No, it's all good."

She walked away then came back with a large rug, which she spread over the floor. "There. All fixed. Now, I have some sleep I need to catch up on so if you need me I'll be in my room."

Yes, this was very random. Hope you enjoyed it though! Sorry it's been such a long time with updates, I'll try to update this one sooner. And I am taking ideas/requests for things they should get into.

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