Everyone read TheZombieGhost's fantastic story which is a skulduggery pleasant crossover! It's awesome! Anyway, enjoy this chapter.

Valkyrie got into Skulduggery's car the next day and tried to gauge his reaction to her outfit. She was wearing black high-waisted shorts, a tight purple vest and black cowboy boots. "Hey, Skulduggery." She said.

He looked at her. "We're picking up Erskine and Dexter today."

"Right." She sulked for a bit until they pulled up outside Subway and the two boys got in the car. Dexter's eyes widened.

"Woah, Val, you look, ah, nice." He handed her a sandwich. "Got you a cheese and tuna sandwich."

"Thanks." She grinned at him. Erskine waved at her, his mouth too full of sandwich to talk.

"No eating in the Bentley!" Skulduggery commanded. He turned a corner with incredible speed and skill and started the journey up the school driveway. "And Saracen will be mad you didn't get him anything."

"He can eat my meatballs." Dexter said.

Valkyrie giggled then blushed as they all looked at her. "Sorry, sounded like a sexual innuendo."

Erskine thought about it then laughed. "I knew it, Vex, you and Rue are made for each other."

Dexter rolled his eyes and poked Valkyrie. "I'm regretting getting you a sandwich now."

"Too late."

"I could take it off you."

"I'd like to see you try. No-one gets between me and food."

Valkyrie turned to the door to get out and screamed. The boys the Dead Men had pointed out yesterday, the Monster Hunters, were waving at her, faces pressed against the glass. She opened the door and they reeled backwards, laughing.

"Sorry, too good of an opportunity to pass up." The tall blonde one said. He was English. "I'm Donegan Bane, pleasure to meet you. This is my best friend, Gracious. Gracious, apologize to the pretty girl."

Donegan sort of reminded her of James Bond, suave and sophisticated. And if Donegan was James Bond, Gracious was someone from Star Wars. He was small with dark hair and was wearing a Captain America T-shirt with ripped jeans. "Hi, pretty girl, I'm Gracious."

"I'm Valkyrie Cain."

"I know, Skulduggery told me about you." Gracious said then blushed as Skulduggery coughed. "I wasn't meant to tell her that, was I?"

"No. But now she knows. Valkyrie, I can assure you it was all good things." Skulduggery said.

"You're strange."

"Am I?"

"Yes."

"How so?"

"You stared at me yesterday and said hmm then didn't talk to me for the rest of the day and now you're telling Gracious about me."

Skulduggery started to reply but got interrupted by Saracen. "I see Subway. Did you get me anything?"

"Uh, Dexter said you could eat his meatballs." Valkyrie said. Erskine chuckled.

"I've been craving meatballs!"

Erskine laughed even more as Saracen ran over to Dexter. Anton was with Dexter, talking frantically. Valkyrie caught his eye and waved. Anton smiled back. "Shall we go inside?" Skulduggery suggested.

"Can't we go talk to-" Valkyrie was ushered inside and she glared at him. "Hey! I wanted to socialize."

"I don't like socializing."

"Ugh. You don't like anything."

"I like you."

"As a friend?"

"Yes."

"Good. I can't have a skeleton fancying me."

"Why not?"

"It's weird. You're dead."

"Essentially yes but technically I am alive. It is like vampires." Skulduggery said. "Speaking of which..." he nudged her and she saw a pale hot boy slip into the men's toilets. "We should follow him."

"What? I'm not going in there."

"You'll have to get over your fear of men's toilets someday."

"Why?"

"If we are to become better friends, you'll have to follow me and us all on our little adventures. Using a cloaking sphere, I had to go into a women's public toilet last year."

"Why?" Valkyrie felt like a two year old asking why all the time but sometimes the only questions were the obvious ones.

"Mystery. I fancy myself as a detective."

"No. You just fancy yourself. What's a cloaking sphere?"

"Makes you invisible and no-one can hear you."

"Can I see?"

"I don't have one on me all the time." Skulduggery said then sighed. "Fine but you have to come into the men's toilets with me for some detecting work."

"Okay!"

Skulduggery got out a wooden ball and twisted it. Nothing happened but she assumed she was now invisible. "Has it worked?" she whispered.

"You don't have to whisper, Valkyrie. It is soundproof."

"Oh, sorry." She said but she couldn't help being quiet. It was unnerving especially when people just walked past without looking at them. A few seconds later, someone accidentally walked into the invisible force field thing because there was a shriek.

"You two weren't here before!"

It was the blonde and spiky-haired boy Valkyrie had smiled at yesterday. "Oh hey," he added at Valkyrie.

"We're in an invisibility force field." she told him. "It's also soundproof."

"Awesome! I'm Fletcher Renn. I'm the last Teleporter."

Skulduggery looked at him suspiciously. "What happened to Cameron Light? The second to last Teleporter?"

"Offed it." Fletcher said. "Fell off a plane or something."

"If he fell off a plane why didn't he teleport to safety?"

"It might have been a train and I have the feeling there was a shark there..."

Skulduggery stared then twisted the ball again so it didn't cover Fletcher. Fletcher looked round, confused, and then vanished.

"So teleporting, huh?" Valkyrie said and quickly followed Skulduggery to the toilets.

"Yep. Handy magic. What are you?"

"A human?"

"No, what magic do you have?"

"Uh, Meritorious explained this all. There's Elemental, Adept, Teleporter, Necromancy and uh...Sensitives. Something else I think, isn't there?"

Skulduggery passed the ball to her. "Keep hold of this. I'm going to have a talk with Caelan."

"Uh okay. The cloaking sphere." Valkyrie watched Skulduggery kick open a toilet door and drag the vampire out.

"Skulduggery, what are you doing?" Caelan screeched.

"You didn't happen to accidentally forget to take your serum last night, did you?"

"No I took it and went in my cage. You egotistical discriminating little..."

"I think you should stay quiet because in here with me, I have an associate who could quite easily beat you up. Now answer my question truthfully, Caelan."

Valkyrie had to admit Skulduggery was quite scary sometimes. It was also kind of hot, but Valkyrie banished that thought quickly.

"I didn't do anything." Caelan said. "Dusk took the serum too, I saw him."

Skulduggery fell silent then walked back into the force field. "We can't do anything about it."

"About what?" she asked but Skulduggery was already walking out of the door. She hurried after him and let them be visible again. "About what?"

"A vampire killed someone last night. drained of blood."

"Oh, God." Valkyrie paled. "Who was it?"

"Moloch."

"Who's that?"

"Teacher here. If I even mentioned it to him he would probably break my arm."

"And they hired him?"

"He keeps us in line." Skulduggery shrugged. "So they overlook his abuse of power."

"Jesus." Valkyrie reminded herself that this was a magic school and things were different here. Vampires, trolls, death. "Has anyone ever died here?"

"Once." Skulduggery said and then went to hug Ghastly. "Hi, Bespoke, how come you didn't want a lift this morning?"

Valkyrie watched them walk away and walked the other way. She went to Fletcher and smiled at him. "I'm Valkyrie Cain, how are you?"

"Better now. Isn't my hair awesome?"

Valkyrie laughed. "It certainly is spiky."