Thankyou soooooo much to Nightcat Mau, Justrockzyxxx and wonderful guest for reviewing! You make me feel so popular and special! First OC – Banga is my character! Okay guys! Hi! Valduggery at the end of ch4 was a bit random, but I was in a Valduggery mood (Valduggery will continue in this story by the way). Also, if you like Valduggery, Fletchryie or Ghanith watch this now!
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It's this cute animation and the background music is Accidentally in Love! Anyways, here is Ch 5!
We walked along a lonely footpath for a while, wondering what we would do about the stupid reflection and . . . Caelan. She grimaced at his name. He hadn't really changed, she betted that he wasn't really an elemental, but really, still a vampire. How could she have been so stupid and gullible? Skulduggery looked at her questioningly.
"What's wrong?" he said. She shook her head.
"I let my guard down, I should have known that son of a lobster wasn't trustworthy. He's the same more or less, but now his uncontrollable obsession is killing me," she sighed, exhausted.
"Did you really just say son of a lobster?" he said.
"Yep," she said.
"Hmm, I'll have to use that sometime. Valkyrie, it isn't your fault okay? He came back seeming like a pretty decent guy, but you know, these things just happen. Sort of like China I guess." They were then interrupted by a middle aged man with an afro and really big, old fashioned sunglasses. He looked like an older and way lesser cooler version of Red Foo.
"Oi! You lot! What the devil do you think you're doing! Do you want to get caught by the Redhoods? The sense – wardens?" he yelled at them with a lisp.
"How do we know we can trust you," she said immediately glaring at him. Skulduggery tilted his head at her.
"Well, I saw that little show with your evil twin and that Edward guy. I know you 're not from here, just, look, do you want somewhere safe to stay, because I've got room," he said.
"Edward?" said Skulduggery questioningly.
"Cullen, the vampire from the movie Twilight with that really bad actor Kristen Stewart," she said to Skulduggery who looked even more confused.
"You watch Twilight here?" he said, "How is that even possible?"
"Someone left the book Twilight on this bench and I decided to read it," the man said. Skulduggery looked at Valkyrie demanding an explanation. Eventually, she cracked.
"Jeez, you're such a good detective! Okay, I had to get rid of that awful book so I left it here," Valkyrie said. Skulduggery smiled.
"I know, I am such a great detective, aren't I?" he said and she giggled. Oh my gosh, since when did she giggle? Since you kissed the skeleton, she thought.
"Err . . . okay then, well, my name is Brandon –Walton Digglestonapplusfalapokchoy le Rey," he said making his lisp even more noticeable.
"Whoa, that's a mouthful," she muttered.
"But you can just call me Banga," he said happily, "Follow me!" They followed him into an old brick house sitting on top of a hill and went inside.
"What are you?" said Skulduggery.
"I'm an Adept, I can control gravity and I guess I can fight. Now for the really interesting story . . . Who the heck are you?" Banga said.
"My name is Skulduggery Pleasant and this is my partner Valkyrie Cain and we are both elementals," Skulduggery said. He then began telling Banga our story about the reflection, the dimension shunter, and about, she cringed, Caelan.
"Well, my golly gosh! You must be very tired, I've got 1 spare room upstairs so you'll have to share it and I'll go get you some food," Banga said rushing off. Valkyrie tried not to laugh at his strange lisp, it was very hard to contain, and then she remembered what he had said about sharing a room with Skulduggery.
Valkyrie blushed.
"You're blushing like a tomato," Skulduggery said.
"Shut up, vegetables don't blush," she said.
"Well, I actually did meet an evil vegetable once."
"And did it blush?"
"No."
"Well there you go," she huffed, "I don't mind you know, sharing a room."
"I know," he grinned his skeleton grin that only she seemed to understand, "Besides, it's not like I'll be actually sleeping, I'll be meditating."
Banga came back into the small dining room area with a plate stacked with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
"Hope you aren't allergic," he grinned setting down the plate of sandwiches.
"My goodness, I wish I could eat," said Skulduggery. Valkyrie put down her sandwich feeling guilty.
"Sorry, I feel so guilty about eating in front of you when you can't do that," said Valkyrie.
"Valkyrie, trust me, I'm FINE, I've been a skeleton for a while now so I'm kind of used to it," he said reassuringly.
She still wasn't eating her sandwich. Skulduggery sighed, but then smiled.
"I guess I'll just have to feed you myself," he grinned wickedly.
"What? How?" she said confused.
"Like this," he said and picked up a sandwich. He then made it float over toward her mouth and said, "Open up wide, here comes the aeroplane!"
At this she started giggling and could not stop, it was kind of like she was having a seizure but eventually took a bite of the sandwich earning a smile from Skulduggery. She didn't even realize that Banga had been watching the whole time. He grinned at them.
"So, are you two, together," he said leaning forward in his chair. Valkyrie shifted in her chair awkwardly.
"Err. . ." she stuttered and looked at Skulduggery.
"Yes," they said together at the same time.
"You two are very cute together you know, how long?" he questioned.
"Umm, well literally like 5 minutes ago," Valkyrie said.
"Wow! Really! You two look like peas and carrots, like two peas in a pod!" he guffawed.
"Oh my gosh, he sounds like Forest Gump," she muttered to Skulduggery.
"Forest Gump? Who's that?"Banga said.
"How can you have read the Twilight book but not seen Forest Gump!" said Skulduggery shaking his head.
Valkyrie yawned, "I'm tired, I think I'll just go to bed now."
Skulduggery got up. "I'll come with you."
They walked up the stairs to a very small, boring room with a low bed and a chair that looked pretty comfy. Valkyrie sank straight into the bed and it was surprisingly soft and comfortable.
"Night Skully," she said with a slight grin.
"Please don't call me that again, seriously, just NO," Skulduggery said.
"He he, I love annoying you, it's really fun," she said. He started humming softly and she soon fell asleep.
She was in a dark corridor tied to a chair. She jumped and tried to get herself untied, but the ropes only grew tighter. Someone was walking toward her. She squinted her eyes to see who was coming, but it was too dark.
"Hi Valkyrie," said the man. She then realized who it was.
"Leave me alone Caelan!" she moaned.
He threw a knife at her then and it nicked her ear. She grunted.
"Will you just stop?!" she said.
"No, you have no idea what I'm doing right now," he grinned maliciously.
"Err, yeah I do, you just kind of threw a knife at me," she said.
He threw another knife at her and it sank into her knee. This time she screamed, her knee was dripping with blood. She reached down and grimaced, yanking the knife out of her knee. She threw it at him angrily and he dodged it easily still grinning. He walked toward her and untied her from the chair. She tried to get up and run at him but she collapsed on the ground. He hit her over and over. Her nose was bleeding and blood matted her head.
"I'm trying to release Darquesse," he said peering down at her, "Its working isn't it. Her voice is getting louder isn't it."
He was right, she was literally screaming at her to release her.
You know you wanna
Shut up, she thought.
She felt someone shake her shoulder and she awoke suddenly from the nightmare staring at Skulduggery's concerned face.
"You were screaming about Caelan and you kept saying my name," he said.
Valkyrie started crying, so she turned her face away from Skulduggery, embarrassed at how vulnerable she was acting. Skulduggery gently turned her chin back around so she was facing him.
"What happened?" he said gently. She told him about her horrific dream, the knife in her knee, Darquesse and the hitting. He got up from his chair and lay down on the bed next to her putting his arms around her and gently rocking her. She snuggled closer to him and cried silently.
"Don't go," she said to him.
"I won't, I'm staying right here," he said softly, "Sleep." She shook her head at him.
"I don't want to," she said, "The dream, it was so vivid, so real." He held her close to him and started softly singing Me and Mrs Jones and she fell asleep to the sound of his soft, velvet voice. She slept the rest of the night without nightmares, she dreamt of happy things.
Enjoy! Review my lovely peeps! Sorry about the ending! I really don't know how to end things, but oh well!