Caelan. What the heck was he doing here?
"Valkyrie," he screamed causing Mevolent to turn away from Valkyrie and look at Caelan.
"You are from the resistance! Guards! Get them! I am too weak in this current state," he bellowed. Caelan broke her cuffs, grabbed her and broke into a run. Valkyrie shot fireballs behind her as they ran trying to ignore the fact that her dead ex-boyfriend who was a vampire was running beside her, but one of the guards got her with his sword. It got her on the head and she swore. They burst out of the great iron doors of the castle and the guards gave up the chase but they kept running until they reached some sort of cottage. They stepped inside and Caelan noticed the big gash on her head.
"Are you okay?" he said concerned.
"I…I…I'm fine, err, and how the heck did you end up here. I kind of like drowned you in a sea of, you know, salt water?!" she said really quickly.
"Well, you killed me for a good reason. When you killed me, well, I don't think you did. You basically killed the vampire side of me and sent me to here. I didn't understand where I was, but sooner or later I figured it out. I'm in another dimension, a different reality, a different world. Oh, and I forgive you for trying to kill me," he said.
"Seriously?! I like full on killed you! I wanted you to die, I never wanted you to breathe again and you're forgiving me? How the hell does that work?" she said.
"Anyway," he said avoiding my question, "How did you get here?" For a minute Valkyrie was stunned. She couldn't believe that he was still alive, and she couldn't believe that he was being so kind to her.
"Silas Nadir, the dimension shunter, did something to me and I shunt over here at random times. If I'm not careful I could bring someone else back that I don't want in our dimension like Mevolent, if he was touching me at the time," she said trying to avoid his gaze, "How is it that you didn't die? I'm glad to have you alive you know, because around here in this dimension, you're about the only sane person."
Valkyrie didn't really believe the last part yet, but she said it anyway.
"Oh, and if you're not a vampire anymore, what the heck are you?" she said.
"I was an elemental before I was changed into a vampire and, well, I'm back to being an elemental now," he said and shrugged.
She smirked, "No more weird obsessions with me?"
He looked horrified at that. "Good God no! You're way too funny for me!" He started laughing then.
"Oh shut up," she laughed.
She felt the familiar throb and knew that she was going to shunt back soon. Caelan noticed, and just before they shunted, he reached out and grabbed Valkyrie's shoulders. No no no no! That wasn't supposed to happen! The world flashed and she was suddenly standing on Skulduggery's driveway where Skulduggery himself was standing holding the paper. He noticed Caelan's hands on her shoulders and looked up at Valkyrie who was glaring at Caelan. He tilted his head.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" he said.
"Err, well, Caelan's not dead or a vampire anymore," she said.
"Well duh, Captain Obvious, he's certainly not dead," he said and then frowned, "Wait, you said he's not a vampire."
"Correct."
"Okay . . . Let's go inside, we have some serious talking to do." They went inside, Skulduggery eyeing Caelan suspiciously and Valkyrie explained what happened to her and so did Caelan.
"Well what about Valkyrie? She killed, um, tried to kill you. Don't you, like, I don't know, um, want to kill her, for revenge?" Skulduggery said.
"I am no longer a vampire anymore so technically, she saved me by trying to kill me," Caelan replied smoothly.
"Okay then, so what do we do now?" she said.
"We wait for Kitana and her friends strike again. We need to know if they have a motive . . . unless you want to do more research?" he said.
"No thanks, I'm going home. How long was I gone, it felt like only a couple of hours."
"A day."
"Crap! Mum's gonna kill me, I've got to go! See you tomorrow!" She ran off toward her house and left Caelan and Skulduggery. Hang on a minute, her parents thought she was at a friend's house for a sleepover. Well, there was no need to run. She thought about the events that had occurred that day and realised that things could have gone drastically wrong but didn't. She had tried to kill Caelan, end his life. He could have easily killed her, but he didn't, and what was with the change from a vampire to an elemental? Messed up, she thought. That was some messed up poo.