I have a whole lot of fanfictions to update and fanfiction ideas so I'll update if I get a review or if I get an idea for a chapter!

Valkyrie Cain woke up and looked at her clock. 7am. Ugh. Today was the first day of her new school and she was dreading it. It didn't seem that bad, in fact there was some cute guys there but she detested starting a new school in the last year. She wasn't great at making friends and these people would be different. That guy, Meritorious, the head master, had told her and her parents that Valkyrie had magic inside her. Powerful magic and that she was descended from some ancient dudes.

She was sixteen! She didn't need this crap. Maybe she'd meet a cute sixteen-year-old mage and they'd hit it off. It was ridiculous that she was going to a magic school.

Grumpily Valkyrie walked downstairs and saw her parents eating breakfast. "Morning, Merlin." her dad said.

"Have a good sleep, sweetie?" her mum asked.

"No. What time do I have to be there?"

"Eight for the first day. Half eight for normal days." her mum recited. "Hurry up. We said we couldn't drive you because of Alice but Meritorious is sending a boy from your year to pick you up in his car."

"What time?"

"Twenty past seven. We made you some toast, Harry Potter." her dad grinned.

"Shut up." she groaned and walked back upstairs. She put on a black T-shirt and blue jeans. At least this school didn't have a uniform.

At exactly twenty past seven, someone knocked on the door. Valkyrie rushed past her dad to answer it and stared at the person on the other side. The thing? No..

"Is this a joke?" she asked.

"Last time I checked, no." the skeleton said. "Maybe it is. Who knows? I'm Skulduggery, Skulduggery Pleasant."

"Ste-Valkyrie Cain." she quickly corrected herself. Her new name was awesome.

"Nice to meet you. Now if you'd like to get in my car, we have to pick up a few of my friends. Only two. They're dating. Just a warning."

"Oh. Uh okay." Valkyrie grabbed her bag and got into the pretty nice car parked outside. "This seat is too far forward."

"Saracen was the last one to sit in it and he has short legs." Skulduggery got in the drivers seat.

"Who?"

"Saracen Rue. He knows things."

"Oh. Is that who we're picking up?"

"Don't be ridiculous. He gets a lift with one of my best friends, Dexter Vex."

Valkyrie nodded. "Okay."

After a moment's silence, Skulduggery looked at Valkyrie. "You're very quiet, aren't you?"

"Not normally. It's just...new school, new people, making friends, magic..."

"Overwhelming?"

"Well yeah."

"Oh dear."

"That sounded sarcastic."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. I have incredible wit." Skulduggery pulled up outside a shop and beeped on the horn. "I'm your friend. And my friends are your friends."

"I haven't met them. How do I know if I'll like them?"

"Actually quick warning. Don't stare."

"Huh?" Valkyrie frowned as a boy with no hair came out of the shop, wearing a shirt, waistcoat and skinny jeans. He had a whole lot of scars on his head.

"This is Ghastly Bespoke. Ghast, this is Valkyrie Cain."

"Nice to meet you." Ghastly tapped her arm from the back seat then looked at Skulduggery. "She's very quiet isn't she?"

"Not normally."

"What's up with your scars?" she asked.

"Do you ever listen to a word I say?" Skulduggery sighed.

"Cursed when Mam was pregnant with me. Whatever. Tanith's coming in a minute. She's just doing her hair."

"Since when does Tanith do her hair?"

"That's what I said. She just glared at me and tutted."

"Women." Skulduggery shook his head.

"Hey!" Valkyrie protested and the boys high-fived. Valkyrie didn't know if this Tanith would be nice or not. She wasn't great with girls. And if Tanith bothered to do her hair for school...

A blonde girl got in the car, sliding through the open window instead of using the door. Valkyrie stared, eyes wide.

"Wha-how?" she stammered.

"Doors are for people with no imagination." Tanith said in an English accent then smirked. "Or so Skul says."

"That's my line, Low."

"And I used it well, did I not?" Tanith turned to Valkyrie again. "I'm Tanith Low."

"Valkyrie Cain."

"I'm Ghastly's girlfriend."

"Apparently I'm Skulduggery's friend so I'm everyone's friend."

"Sarcasm?" Skulduggery asked as they drove through the open gates, down the lane and into the school car park.

"Nope."

Skulduggery parked the car and looked at her. "I am glaring at you."

"No, you're smiling."

"I'm a skeleton, I'm always smiling."

They all got out of the car and Tanith and Ghastly ran off towards a bench. "They're off kissing." Skulduggery said. "Right, I'll introduce you to my friends. We call each other the Dead Men. It's a private joke."

"Hilarious." Valkyrie followed Skulduggery to a gang of boys on the school steps. Her eyes were instantly drawn to a blonde boy with obvious muscles under his grey top and black jeans.

"You've met Ghastly. This is Anton Shudder." A scary-looking tall boy with dark hair and a frown. "This is Erskine Ravel." A guy with a grin and gold eyes. "This is Dexter Vex."

"Hi." she interrupted Skulduggery with a smile. "I'm-"

"Shush." Skulduggery said. "And this is Saracen Rue of the short leggedness." A short and round boy with a cheeky grin winked at her.

"What he lacks in height he more than makes up for in flirtation." Erskine told her.

"I'm not that small. I'm not smaller than Gracious." Saracen objected.

"Gracious O'Callahan and Donegan Bane, nicknamed the Monster Hunters after they killed the escaped ugly troll thing last year." Skulduggery pointed to two boys on the other side of the car park who were complete opposite.

"Troll?"

"Ugly troll. Keep up, Valkyrie."

"Ooh, Skul, look who just turned up in her brand spanking new Rolls Royce." Dexter said and they all turned to see a tall beautiful girl slide out of a pale blue car.

"That your girlfriend?" Valkyrie guessed.

"He wishes." Dexter scoffed. "Long-time crush. He even broke up with Marietta for her. But he never made a move."

"Which is unfair because he's forbidden me from making a move when he's not doing anything." Saracen said.

"He just sits there and stares."

"Actually we're good friends. That's China Sorrows, she has the ability to make you fall in love with her at first sight and she's one of the smartest people at this school." Skulduggery said.

Valkyrie grinned. "Who are the other smartest?"

"Me. And I suppose these guys are good too."

"Anton is the best at Sports, Ghastly is a master boxer, runner and tailor, Saracen is great at drama-" Erskine said.

"That's because he's a drama queen." Dexter said.

"Dexter is good at English and I am good at business and politics. Tanith's the fighting whiz. We're also friends with this guy called Frightening. He's really tall and dark. You can't miss him."

"Okay. Cool. Uh is that the bell ringing?"

"Yeah! I think you're in my register class. We go there before lessons begin at 9am." Skulduggery said and they walked to a classroom. "Classroom 107 remember."

As they walked in, Valkyrie got bombarded with either jealous looks (the girls), flirty grins (the boys) and a huge hug. "Scapegrace!" Skulduggery hissed and hit someone. Whoever was hugging her squealed and fell off. She stared.

"Did I just get hugged by a stranger?"

The guy bounced back up and smiled. "I'm Vaurien Scapegrace, friend of Skul's."

"He's not a friend." Skulduggery told her. "He's more a fan."

"I'm a friend." Scapegrace insisted. "He punched me once. He punches all his friends."

"Right...I'm Valkyrie Cain."

"She's my real friend." Skulduggery told him.

"I'm your real friend too."

Valkyrie laughed suddenly. "So he's obsessed with you?" she whispered when Skulduggery made Scapegrace go away and sat down next to her in the back row.

"Yes. It's annoying."

"You punched him?"

"He was annoying me. He kept asking me loudly about...CHINA! Hi." Skulduggery abandoned the conversation as China sat in front of them. She turned round, her eyebrow raised.

"Hello, Skulduggery." she said coolly then looked at Valkyrie. "Who's this?"

"Valkyrie. Valkyrie Cain. She's a friend and new girl. Just a friend. She's not even pretty."

"Cheers."

China gave her a frosty smile and turned back around to talk to the girl next to her.

"Who's that next to her?" Valkyrie whispered.

"That's Murder Rose. She's a bit psychotic. No doubt China's kicking her out of that seat."

"Scary name."

"Scary girl." Skulduggery said. Valkyrie smirked as the girl got up and stormed across the room to sit by a blonde boy who winced and sighed. He caught her eye and grinned at her. He had extraordinarily spiky hair.

She turned away. "Who's that boy?"

"Which one?"

"With the hair."

"Oh him? He's new too. Started today. Something Renn."

"Oh." Valkyrie looked back at the boy who was staring at her and she smiled back. His face lit up and he started saying something but over the noise she couldn't hear. She shook her head and he gestured wildly. Sighing she scowled and looked back to her skeleton friend. He was staring at China.

Great choice of friends, Valkyrie, she told herself. Six boys, an okay girl, a weird guy who hugged her and a spiky-haired blonde boy.

please review ideas and characters for me to include! Morwenna Crow and Sagacious Tome are deputy heads as Meritorious is head. No Mevolent.