~Very Violent~

Fletcher Renn and Dexter Vex were the first to die.

They had teleported right beside Darquesse, planning to use her anger against her, to try and catch her off guard. But that didn't happen. She grabbed Fletcher's head and ripped it off of his body. Dexter went to throw an energy ball at her, but she grabbed his wrist, bent it back, snapping his arm. He screamed, then she shoved her hand all he way down his throat, scratching and clawing. She pulled out her bloody hand and Dexter collapsed next to Fletcher at her feet.

Ezra Bloom died next.

She ran at Darquesse with a blind rage, her body heating up, far too bright to look at. Her hair heated up so much that it looked like flames. Thorns wrapped themselves around Darquesse, piercing her skin, as Ezra air-walked behind her. She placed her burning hand on Darquesse's back. Darquesse sliced through the thorns with shadows, turning around. She ripped Ezra's heart out and laughed as she fell to the ground.

Milo Banks, Billy-Ray Sanguine and Tanith Low tried next. They also died next.

Billy-Ray took them down, then appeared next to Darquesse. Milo took her senses away once more, while Tanith swiped her legs from beneath her. Billy-Ray made a grab for her, but she turned too quickly, blindly, snapping his neck with one lazy swipe. She felt Milo's energy in her mind. She grabbed it in her head, pulled, then yanked. She then sent her own dark, wrathful magic into his head. His grey eyes shot open as he cried out, then fell. He didn't back up. It was Darquesse's turn to swipe the legs from underneath Tanith, and she did so joyously. Once Tanith was on the ground, Darquesse stomped on her chest, caving it in. Tanith released a gargling sound, then her breath left her.

China Sorrows took in the savagery. For once she didn't run away. She should have.

She tapped her thighs, sending jagged blue spikes into Darquesse. She then immediately tapped her temples and threw her arms wide, sending a blue wall into the unmoving Darquesse. China then proceeded to tap her hips, sending tiny blue daggers into Darquesse. Darquesse closed the gap and sent her own shadows piercing into China, shadow after shadow tearing her porcelain flesh to shreds, her designer clothes to rags as she shrieked. The once beautiful China was nothing more than a corpse of torn skin and blood.

Valkyrie Cain was scared and angry, and that ruined her better judgement. She was next.

She ignored Skulduggery as he tried to swipe at her, warning her. Instead she flung herself at the beast that had killed her friends, that had ruined her life. She was never getting them back. She heard Skulduggery yelling her name, saw him crying her name, his face a mixture of worry and concern. She fired lightning into Darquesse, and she laughed, taunting Valkyrie. Valkyrie screamed and unleashed bolt after bolt into Darquesse's smug, smiling face. Sobs raked through Valkyrie's body. Darquesse shadow-walked beside Valkyrie and simply manipulated the air so that it left Valkyrie's lungs. Valkyrie clawed at her chest, trying to inhale a breath that Darquesse was preventing. Skulduggery lunged at Darquesse, but it was too late. Valkyrie fell. And this time, she didn't get back up.

Skulduggery Pleasant's demise was next.

He lunged at Darquesse and she threw him away. He skidded, his skin on his cheek rubbing away on the asphalt, the back of his head connecting with a discarded piece of cement from Darquesse's grand entrance. He let his eyes wander as he stood. He took is his dead friends, old and new. His dead little sister. His partner. Gone, all gone. He summoned two twin fire streams and poured them out to Darquesse, who threw her head back and laughed.
"Why?" She asked, still giggling as Skulduggery tried to throw her off her feet using wind. "Because I made a promise." Skulduggery replied as he took out his gun. He fired once, her chest, twice, her stomach, three times, her head, before she replied. "Oh, yes, that silly little promise." She said. He fired a fourth time, her neck, then a fifth, her chest again, before he replied. Her wounds were healing themselves too quickly. "Until the end." He said quietly. He was about to fire the gun a sixth time, but then Darquesse used the wind to whip it out of his hands. She held it, inspecting it. She shrugged, took aim and fired before Skulduggery could even try to dodge. The bullet lodged itself between his eyes, and the great Skulduggery Pleasant was dead. For good this time.

Darquesse looked around her at the discarded corpse. She felt sad. She wanted to rule with them, they were the greats. Skulduggery Pleasant, human, then skeleton, then human again. Valkyrie Cain, who started as the unsuspecting side-kick, but became a hero. She was incredible. Tanith and Billy-Ray who were her friends, so powerful. Milo who was going to rule with her, but no. He had to go against her with Tanith and Billy-Ray. China and Ezra were not to be reckoned with. They were strong, independent, beautiful women who possessed such unique powers. Dexter... She always liked Dexter. She reckoned she had a chance with him if it weren't for Ezra. She was a lot of things, but she wasn't a home wrecker. Together, they would have been a team, all of them. But no, they went against her. She was almost insulted that they thought they could beat her. That these measly nine people could dare stand a chance against her. She was darkness. She was evil. She was fury. She was what Satan himself had bad dreams about. And these idiots thought they could stop her. She grinned as she flew up into the air, her eyes and lips black. She threw her arms wide, her shadows and darkness uncoiling, spreading across the sky, across the town, across the country. She was invincible. She was going to destroy the world and then some. No one could stop her, not anymore.