too lazy to edit, wrote this earlier tonight, tired don't judge please.
The voices continued, there must have also been someone else in the room. One of the voices seemed to get further away for a moment before approaching the door. The terrified thirteen year olds ran, down the hall and round the corner. After a moment Ivy risked a peek, the man she had seen was now walking the opposite direction down the hall carrying Valkyrie. Her eyes opened slightly and Ivy motioned for her to keep quiet. She nodded slightly and closed her eyes again. The man disappeared down the hall and Ivy waited a moment before following. She quickly passed the doorway he had been in so whoever the other man was wouldn't notice her. She followed him, keeping well behind until she saw him enter a different room. Ivy Dialled Skulduggery and hoped his phones ringtone was quiet. "Hello?" he whispered. "We have a situation." "What now?" Ivy filled him in on what had happened. Skulduggery sighed. "Even you don't listen to what you're told." Ivy scowled. "Back up por favour?" "Okay, stay there. I'll be there shortly. Do not get any closer or try to be a hero." "I'm sorry, I don't listen to what I'm told." Ivy retorted before sharply hanging up. She turned to Parker. "He said to go in and have a go with the guy and he'd show up in a bit." Parker raised an eyebrow. "No he didn't" Ivy glared. "It's not like you'd listen to him either way." "Fine"
They approached the door and peeked in. Valkyrie was tied up and sitting across from the man who, judging by his body language seemed quite agitated. Valkyrie was awake with a look of fake confusion on her face. "Come on" The man growled. "You can't tell me you came here alone. Everyone knows you never separate from that skeleton without some other kind of back up. I know all about your two young apprentices. As if they wouldn't want to come too?" Ivy hid in the shadows and watched quite amused. "No, they were too scared and Skulduggery had to keep an eye on them at home." Ivy scowled and decided this was a good time for her dramatic entrance. "As if" She huffed emerging far from the doorway. The man looked up and frowned. "so you brought one little teenager? How terrifying." Parker stepped out from the other side of the room. "Just give us a chance." He said, making the man turn. "We can be" He scoffed. "Yeah right, you're so scary." "How about me? Came the voice of the skeleton detective. Ivy suddenly saw him at the door and the man turned. "Am I scary?"
Ivy surveyed the scene before her. The man was panicking, Parker looked unsure of what to do and Skulduggery was just standing there, a smirking Alice at his side. Valkyrie though, she seemed to be enjoying this immensely. She was grinning at the panicked man and trying to hold back her laughter. Ivy strode over and untied her while Skulduggery got to work on the paniky guy. When Ivy was finished so was Skulduggery. They cuffed him with his own cuffs and left in search of the others.