Chapter 10 is here! DOUBLE FIGURES... 1 Review = 1 :D
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT CHARACTERS, THEY BELONG TO THE AUTHOR DEREK LANDY, THE PLOT AND LENKA CRAZED ARE MINE!
Skulduggery's modern POV
Where is she? I ask myself continuously. I'm on the edge of insanity. I always was. But Valkyrie...helped me get through the dark times and move into the happy ones...these happy times were only spent with her. And now she's gone. Been taken from me. And now without her, I am not me.
Three knocks on the door.
"Come in." I say, sounding tired and worn.
The door opens seconds later and Ghastly, Saracen, Dexter and Tanith walk in. I don't even talk. I don't feel like it when she's not here. Tanith cleared her throat awkwardly.
"If you have nothing to say get out." I say, looking up at them through the façade face. I had forgotten to take it off as we came back from the airport mere hours earlier. I couldn't be asked to take it off.
Saracen sighed and I glared at him harshly.
"We..have a lead." Ghastly spoke. My head snapped up at this.
"What!?" I shouted getting impatient. Why did they wait to tell me?
"Maybe not necessarily a lead... but Cassandra's had a vision about Val." Dexter explained, a serious look on his face.
"And you couldn't have told me earlier!?"
"Skul, calm down." Tanith said softly, my gaze lowered to the desk I was sat at, "Val's my sister and I know more than anyone how you must feel right now," She said, a tear escaping from her eye, she wiped it away quickly whilst Ghastly, Saracen and Dexter had looks of surprise on their faces, "She...she might be hurt. She could be seriously injured, w-we don't kn-know yet," She said, more tears escaping, "But don't blame yourself." She spoke, training her gaze on me, tears falling freely down her cheeks, "We can only hope she comes back home..a-al-alive." She finished, the flood gates open and she broke down into tears, running out of the room.
Ghastly jogged out after her, following her around the corner of the corridor outside the room. Dexter and Saracen looked at me with sad looks and I brought my eyes upon them.
"Come on, we'll go with you to Cassandra's." Saracen said with the slightest hint of a small smile, I nodded once and we walked to the Bentley.
SKIP TO THE VISION
There was an orange haired girl displayed in the mist, the same one who had taken Valkyrie away, I growled under my breath but kept watching nonetheless. We saw the faint outline of Val who laid in a somehow familiar corridor...Was it- No it couldn't be.
Valkyrie stood up slowly, her suitcase next to her.
"You are in the Academy Of Young Mages..." The time traveller's voice said before it faded away into the mist.
I pieced it together. The orange haired girl was Lenka Crazed the time traveller. Valkyrie was now in my high school. In the 1600's.
I know I would have paled if not for retracting my façade before we got here. Dexter and Saracen who stood beside me, had pure looks of shock on their faces and slowly turned their heads to me. I turned to Cassandra who nodded to me, "Thank You Cassandra." I spoke before her giving a polite nod. I immediately ran to the Bentley, Saracen and Dexter in tow, we clambered in and sat there in silent shock for a minute.
"She-She-She's in our high school!?" Screeched Dexter.
"Oh my god, she's met us." Rue said rubbing his temples with his index fingers.
"How do you know?" I asked.
"I know things." He grumbled with a small smirk, I glared a skeletal glare and drove away from Cassandra's house.
"Skul," Came Dexter's voice, "How are we gonna get her back?" He asked, trying to mask his face of sorrow as he looked out of the window.
"I-I will figure something out."