Hi guys! Sorry for the delay; I've been gone this week (I came home today) and will be gone the next week too, just so you know.

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"Ehm... Guys? You know we start in, like, five minutes?..." Erskine said, looking at his clock. Valkyrie looked up from the converstation she had with Chrysalis, Dexter and Hopeless and looked at her own clock. Erskine was right; the clock was 11:58.

"What do we have?" Angelo asked, frowning. Immediately she got three answers.

"Fighting class," ,"English," ,"Math." Tanith, Skulduggery and Hopeless looked at eachother; they had all said different lessons.

"Okay, who have Fighting class?" Angelo asked. Valkyrie, Skulduggery and Lee raised their hands. "English?" Angelo said, while raising her own hand, like Dexter, Tanith and Erskine ralso did. "Math?" Hopless and Chysalis raised their hands.

"Okay, we should better be going then." Lee said, looking at the doors to the school, before walking towards them. Skulduggery and Valkyrie quickly catched up to her, while the other guys followed behind.

"Do you know who else have fighting class right now?" Lee asked, with a small frown on her forehead, like she tried to remember who had it. Skulduggery answered.

"Elliot and your friend, what was her name again?" Lees frown got deeper, before it disappeared.

"Oh, yeah, Tyra. I wonder where she was at the lunch." she said. "Maybe she got stuck in a wall again; she can really get competitive when you fight with her." Lee said hopefully. Valkyrie laughed, while Skulduggery just shook his head.

"Who of you usually wins?" He asked. Lee shrugged.

"Mostly me; Tyra is even more weak than me."

"See? No problem that she is competitive if you beat her anyway; of course, If I would have fough you two on the same time I would win easily..." Skulduggery didn't finish, because he had to duck for the fireball that suddenly Lee had thrown his way, with a smirk.

"Who would win, you said?" She asked, raising her eyebrows. Valkyrie sighed and looked at her clock. They should have been in the classroom by now if they wanted to get on time. Suddenly, Valkyrie heard a shriek and looked up. Lee was laying against a wall and was groaning. She slowly got up and glared at Skulduggery while she rubbed head. Skulduggery just looked at her.

"You started." Was all he said. Lees eyes got small, but she didn't say anything. Finally, they were at the black door. Skulduggery opened the door and walked in, with Lee and Valkyrie that followed after him. Valkyries looked around in the room; they were currently standing in a room with benches around in the walls, that was dark blue and there was a big carpet in front of them. Behind the carpet there was two doors and Valkyrie could see "Changing room" on them. To their right, there was walls with an opening; Valkyrie could hear people from iniside and took a step to her right, so she could look inside one of the rooms. She saw a guy with pink hair, that had a black training gear on him. In front of him, Valkyrie could see a girl with light brown hair with light tops at the end of her head and she had a dark grey training gear. Valkyrie didn't see much of the fight, because the guy took his foot around the girls ankle, so she tripped and fell to the floor.

"You're late." Valkyrie turned and saw a tall, muscular guy with no hair and cold, blue eyes. Valkyrie felt weird when she looked at him, like she just wanted to hide somewhere, but she stayed still while Skulduggery opened his mouth to speak. Valkyrie saw in the corner of her eyes how Lee took a step back.

"We know that Mr. Bliss, but you see..." Skulduggery started, but Mr. Bliss interrupted.

"Do that one more time and you will get detention. Today we are training in fighting without magic; I have already choosen who you will fight with. Go look at the paper over there. I wil come when you are ready" With those words, Mr. Bliss walked over one of the rooms to look how it was going for the rest of the students. Valkyrie and Lee looked stunned after him, bit Skudluggery just rolled his eyes.

"Should we perhaps look at the paper?" He said. Valkyrie turned to look at him for a moment.

"You think Mr. Bliss likes you?" She asked, ignoring his question, while she raised her eyebrow. Skulduggery nooded.

"Wow. You don't have many friends if you consider Mr. Bliss to like you, if I'm right?" Valkyrie said, with a smirk, before turning and running to the changing room for girls before Skulduggery could say or do anything to her. She heard Lee laugh behind her.

Valkyrie had changed into her black training gear and had her hair in a ponytail. Lee was next to her and had taken of her glasses and had instead lenses. She had swatpants and a tanktop with a training jacket on. When Valkyrie had looked at her Lee had just shrugged.

"I'm not that good at fighting anyway, so why bother bying exspensive clothes?" Valkyrie looked at the paper in front of her and saw her own name.

Valkyrie Cain - Skulduggery Pleasant.

Valkyrie heard Lee groan beside her.

"He just had to make me fight Tyra." complained Lee.

"What is wrong with fighting with me?" Valkyrie and Lee turned to see a girl with brown hear, hazel eyes ans a slim body. She had her hair in a ponytail and like Lee, she had sweatpants, but with a T-shirt instead.

"You are just to competitive Tyra." Lee said, like it was a fact. Tyras eyes got smaller.

"I'm not."

"You are."

"I'm NOT."

"You ARE." Valkyrie had by know walked over to Skulduggery who had just came out of the boys changing room, in a dark colored training gear.

"Apparently, we are fighting eachother today." Valkyrie said to Skulduggery, who nooded.

"Should I take it easy?" he asked, raisingone of his eyebrows. Valkyrie rolled his eyes.

"Should I take it easy?" She responded. Skulduggery simply tilted his head towards her.

They found an empty room at the after some other rooms. They walked in there and suddenly, Mr. Bliss was in the opening to the room.

"I already know how you fight Skulduggery and I have heard you got trained by Imelda at the Sanctuary Miss Cain, if I am right." Valkyrie looked stunned at him, wondering how he could possibly now that, before answering.

"Yes, that is true." She said, frowning. Mr. Bliss nooded.

"Then you two should be at the same level when it comes to fighting. Make sure you don't injure eachother to much." Suddenly, they could hear a scream, before they heard Lee yell: "SERIOUSLY TYRA?! HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THIS WHEN WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO USE MAGIC?" Mr. Bliss didn't seem surprised, he just turned and walked out of Valkyries and Skulduggerys sight.

"What do you think happened?" Vakyrie asked, turning back to Skulduggery. He just roled his eyes.

"Probably Tyra just got stuck in the floor or wall again; she can go through them, but have it difficult to get the whole way." He said, before he changed the way he was standing. Valkyrie recognized the position; he was in a fighting position. She grinned and mimicked him so she was standing the same way he was.

"Ladies first?" he asked.

"Of course." She replied before throwing a punch at Skulduggery, which he blocked with his arm.

"Wasn't you supposed to be trained by Imelda? It doesn't seem like you have..." Skulduggery stopped talking when Valkyrie quickly threw another punch, which he just managed to avoid, only to get kicked on his leg so he took a step back. Valkyrie got back in fighting position and Skulduggery looked up. Valkyrie met Skulduggerys green eyes, that seemed to be filled with surprize.

"Oh, you will regret that." before he lunged at her. They were soon completley focused in the fight. Valkyrie was surprized how much she had to push herself to get a good hit on Skulduggery, but in some way, she could feel excitment while she was fighting. She couldn't remember the last time she had met somebody who had really put up a fight against her, making her getting exhausted. Skulduggery made Valkyrie use tricks she didn't think she would ever need to do and even then it was still a hard fight.

Valkyrie threw her arm up, dodging the hit Skulduggery had aimed at her, but had to move to dodge a kick, which made her loose a bit of her balance. She quickly regained it, but Skudluggery had seen the chance and had aimed a punch at Valkyrie, which she didn't have time to dodge fully. Skulduggery punched Valkyrie on her ledt shoulder, so she stumbled back a few steps; Skulduggery had aimed on her head, but she had turned her head around in time to take the punch on her shoulder. Valkyrie felt the pain from her shoulder, but choosed to ignore it; she had gotten worse hits before. Instead, she kicked her foot up against Skulduggerys chest, but only managed to kick his arm, leaving his right side uncovered. Vakyrie saw her opportunity and turned, before hitting her elbow into Skulduggerys chin. This time Skulduggery stumbled back and Valkyrie wasn't slow to use this against him. She continued punching and hitting him and managed to get some few good shots at him, before he suddenly threw his arms out, throwing Valkyries arm away and before she could defend herself he had punched her in her face. She was knocked backwards and for a second, her vision was black before she could see again, but Skulduggery had already hit her once again and this time she couldn't keep her balance. She fell to the floor, her back against the carpet under her and was breathing heavily. She heard footsteps, before she could see Skulduggery over her.

"Good fight, but, of course, I won. Maybe one day you will be as good as me." he said, before he stuck his hand out to help her get up from the floor. Valkyrie did a small grimace, before she took it.

"You know, it wasn't that hard to..." Skulduggery started, but suddenly Valkyrie pulled Skulduggery down while she jumped up, getting her feet behind his leg so he tripped and fell backwards, while she let go of his hand. She grinned down at him.

"Who won, did you say?" She said. Skulduggery just rolled his eyes and took Valkyrie hand to help him get up.

"I told you it would be an even match." Valkyrie turned so she faced the opening and saw Bliss standing there, looking... well, bored, maybe, Valkyrie didn't really know. "I think you two should fight more with eachother; it isn't everyday you meet somebody equally as good as yourself, Skulduggery, Valkyrie. It can be good for your training. The class ends in 10 minutes." And just like before, Mr. Bliss turned and walked away. They were silent for a moment.

"Do you know how I know he liked me?" Skulduggery asked. Valkyrie shook her head.

"He calls me by my first name." Valkyrie snorted.

"He called me by my first name to, you know." she pointed out. Skulduggery waved his hand, while he picked up his stuff from the floor.

"It was just because he wanted to be nice; he knew I won..."

"Oh, just shut up, would you?" Valkyrie said, before getting out the room and walking to the changing room.

There the next chapter is.

I wrote this in a hurry, just like the other chapter before, so there will probablt be some things in this that is wrong, but it is something. Don't expect a new chapter before next sunday; I will be gone the whole week.

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