Hey guys! This is my very first chapter of my knew Skulduggery Pleasant fanfiction. I hope u guys like it and special thx to Telemancer who enspired me to start writing fanfiction. I hope u like it and plz give me any more ideas for upcoming chapters thx bye!

-Iris Vhia

Chapter 1

"Are u guys ready?" asked Valkyrie Cain.

It took 30 days to persuade everyone to do this but they finally gave in and it was nerve racking actually being there. Yes THEY Skulduggery Pleasant, Valkyrie Cain, Fletcher Renn, Tanith Low, Ghastly Bespoke, Erskine Ravel, China Sorrows and the rest of the Dead Men were backstage of the X-Factor.

Valkyrie couldn't BELIEVE she actually got them to go. She had told them that everyone would think that it was fake and nothing was real, it was a huge risk to take and she knew it. She even had to take Skulduggery's hat off him and threaten to stand on it to make him come. She had planned the whole act out and even gotten China Sorrows to come.

They were up next. It was gonna be a winner act and Valkyrie knew it. Of course they knew nothing of the rules or any of the names of the judges but they wanted to give it a go, or Valkyrie threatened them to come, but whats the difference?

They were called up and the show began, it started off all well and good everyone introducing themselves so on. Then it was time begin the real act.

Skulduggery started off with coming up the front of the stage with the microphone in hand and said,"For this first act I will need a volunteer, will u m'lady mind coming up here?" he asked one of the judges(insert any of the names of judges u can think of cause i don't know any lol) once the judge had come up he started off by saying,"Would u believe me if I told u that i was over 400 hundred years old?"

"Of course not!" exclaimed the judge.(insert name here)

"well then,"said Skulduggery,"Lemme prove it to u. See this symbol on my neck here? I want you to press it please."

"…uhhh"

"come on don't be afraid I wont bite"

"…Ok" replied the judge pressing the symbol as soon as it was pressed everyone was in shock as his façade melted away revealing the true skeleton that he was. As this happened Tanith took her microphone and asked if she use the wall for a second and started climbing it while the Dead Men, including Valkyrie, were doing cool tricks of magic and fighting skills in the background with China,Ghastly,revealing his scars, and Skulduggery Doing a mighty show of magic at the front with China using her symbols to put a pale blue , glowing barrier around herself and Ghastly and Skulduggery in sink with each other showing off their elemental skills. Ravel and Fletcher were walking on fire and teleporting all around the room making people cry out in disbelief. It was quite an amazing show watching them all up their when suddenly all the lights went out and all anyone could see was Valkyrie, Skulduggery, Ghastly and Ravel holding fire their hands making cool patterns in the dark with circling the fire all around and then it was China's turn.

She lit up the whole room with white light coming from her stomach and then Tanith came in flipping off the roof, where no-one thought to find her, sword in hand landing perfectly in a one handed handstand on the tip of her sword, Fletcher teleporting no top of her. They came down as music started playing and the gang started singing to their themes songs (link here: watch?v=niawKPPnEyU special thanks to PotatoeonABike for the awesome theme songs).

They finished their performance with the elementals flying in the air, the dead mean in awesome positions and everyone else was just doing their thing with Fletcher teleporting behind the judges and surprising.

Everyone was speechless, and thats when the judges started Talking.

Sorry I know its not very good but I just randomly got that idea from watching Worlds got Talent and X-Factor last night lol cya soon bye!

-Iris Vhia