HEY GUYSSSS SO EITHER IN OOPS CAPS so either in this chapter or the next theres gonna be some drinking if you know what I mean this idea came out of no where when I was shopping for fabric to male clothes out of anyway I will be changing the classification and I will probe be putting like a little warning whens there gonna be some BUT REMEMBER no underage drinking allowed its against the law so do it. (Says that in really fast commercial voice) Anyway ON TO THE STORY !

BYe

-Iris Vhia

Chapter 8

Valkyrie stood there shocked, no stunned, the real Skulduggery was gone, she had seen the real Skulduggery get pulled apart, get all his magic drained out of him. It wasn't right. It couldn't be true. But if it wasn't where was the real Skulduggery?

"I know what you might be thinking," said the imposter Skulduggery," It cant be true where is the real Skulduggery? Well, he was the one whose magic got drained from him, he was the one you watched die on a computer screen, and you thought that it was fake, that it wasn't real. Now what kinda' friend is that? I wonder what Skulduggery would be saying right now if he was here. Oh yeah, thats right HE'S NOT!" Yelled the imposter. "AND HE'S NOT COMING BACK THIS TIME!"

Ok theres now alcohol involved in this SO DONT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 12 !

Valkyrie ran upstairs crying, finally able to move, trying to figure out what was going on. She didn't know what she was doing so she grabbed her coat, and a bottle of white wine on her way out the door. She ran out the door and all the way to Ghastly's tailer shop.

When she got there she rang the doorbell and sat down waiting, opening the bottle of wine and and starting to drink it.

It was Tanith who opened the door, and almost fainted when she saw Valkyrie. She called Ghastly as Valkyrie just sat there staring into the pouring rain, still drinking the wine.

"Oh Valkyrie," Ghastly said pulling her up and inside, grabbing the half full bottle of wine off of his friend. "We thought you were dead! So it really was you who called Tanith then wasn't it?"

All Valkyrie could do was nod as she sat down on the floor.

"But, the Sanctuary said that you got killed, ripped apart by a remnant!" Tanith exclaimed, finally finding her voice.

Valkyrie shook her head and reached for the bottle of wine again.

Ghastly stood back and went to go hide it in the back room.

When Ghastly came back he asked,"Valkyrie, what do you think you are doing with a bottle of wine at the age of 17?"

Valkyrie started crying and mumbled,"Skulduggery's gone."

"Excuse me? I couldn't hear that," was Ghastly's reply.

Valkyrie stood up and looked Ghastly in the eye and said,"Skulduggery's gone." and walked out of the room in search for more alcohol.

She found a beer in the fridge and opened it, starting to drink it when Tanith came in and took it off of her.

"Oi, that's mine," Valkyrie told Tanith.

"I know that Skulduggery being gone is really hard on you and everything Val, but you cant start losing yourself to alcohol."

" .CARE!" Valkyrie screamed at her taking the bottle back and drinking half of it. She stumbled back into the living room where Ghastly was in the same position he was when she had left him.

"Hey are you a statue or something? You're very still," came Valkyrie's voice from the doorway.

"He's really gone?" asked Ghastly.

"Did you not just hear me before? I said he got pulled apart, all his magic drained out of him."

"No you didn't say that before, you said he was gone."

"Oh, well I meant that," she said almost finishing her beer bottle, when Fletcher came stumbling in with the other Dead Men.

They all saw Ghastly's stunned unmoving face and then looked around to see Valkyrie sitting on the floor, drinking beer.

Fletcher came over and took the beer off of Valkyrie saying,"I think you've had enough of that, thank you very much."

Valkyrie just groaned and lied down on the floor.

"What's happening?" asked Anton, hating to see Valkyrie like this, while Ravel just walked out of the room, not wanting to see Valkyrie like this.

"Skulduggery's gone," was all Ghastly said, as Tanith came back in pushing Ravel in with her.

As soon as Tanith saw Valkyrie she went over to her and knelt down beside her saying it was going to be OK.

"I dont feel good," Valkyrie said to Tanith.

"OK, Ok, come with me," Tanith replied, pulling Valkyrie up and leading her to the bathroom.

As Tanith lead Valkyrie down the hall and to the bathroom she was trying to calm Valkyrie down and saying that it was going to be OK.

Halfway to the bathroom, Valkyrie shook her head and vomited all over Tanith and herself.

Tanith called for help and everyone came out of the living room to help Valkyrie and Tanith, as Valkyrie fell to the floor.

"Ok, up you get," said Dexter pulling Valkyrie up and leading her the rest of the way to the bathroom. When she got there Valkyrie threw up into the toilet, shaking her head.

5 minutes later, Fletcher teleported in handing Dexter some pills for Valkyrie, saying that it will help with the vomiting.

Valkyrie started crying as Saracan Rue came in and started rubbing Valkyrie's back."It's gonna be ok Valkyrie. It's all gonna be ok," he reassured, even though he knew it wasn't.

Ok so yeah I just really wanted to do a chapter like that. Sorry if people didn't like it because of the turn that it took, but yeah, for me writing it I was really excited as to what i was gonna write next in the chapter and in the story. See I don't really plan what I'm gonna write, i have an idea and I somehow fit it in the story that I'm gonna be writing. So sorry about that but i still hope you enjoyed IT! BYE!

-Iris Vhia