The haunted theme park
Chapter 13
Valkyrie was screaming. She so scared. Serpine had dragged her down to the dungeons and chained her to a wall. It was pitch black.
"Calm down my dear," Serpines voice spoke softly from nowhere, "You shouldn't feel a thing" he was so close to Valkyrie now, that she could smell his bad breath.
I have to think of something Valkyrie thought but it was too late. Serpine had brought his hand from behind his back and punched Valkyrie right in the face.
What? Has he finally lost it? Was this his idea of torture? Then she saw Serpine move towards a huge metal door.
"There's one thing they couldn't remove from this castle when they decided to build the theme park," Serpine waved his hand and the doors flew open, "The torture equipment." Serpine grabbed a metal device (it looked like a giant pair of pliers), summoned a flame and set the device in the fire.
"Where is he?" Serpine asked.
"Who?" Valkyrie managed to say.
"You know who I mean," Serpine hesitated, "Skulduggery Pleasant." Valkyrie just stared at him, a little disappointed in Skulduggery herself.
"To bad he isn't here to stop me." Serpine grabbed the red hot device and shoved it into Valkyries mouth.
The pain as the pliers clamped onto her tongue was excruciating. Valkyrie screamed in pain as Serpine squeezed the device tighter. Serpine laughed as he saw the fear in the girl's eyes and squeezed harder but then the pain stopped and then she found out why. Serpine had managed to rip out her tongue and he was now waving it in front of her. Tears were running down Valkyries cheeks.
"I couldn't stand all that screaming. Isn't good for peoples ears you know" Serpine dropped her tongue on the floor and went back to the cupboard, "Medieval torturers must have had so much fun with this." He turned around and showed Valkyrie a big claw attached to a chain. "This one's excellent for ripping, tearing and digging into the flesh" Serpine opened the claws mouth and threw it at Valkyrie. Then nothing; the claw couldn't get past Ghastlys protective clothing.
"Oh, I see we have a problem" Serpine smiled a wicked smile and then started to take Valkyries clothes of until she wore nothing but her underwear. He then threw the claw again and this time it dug right into Valkyries stomach. The pain was unreal and then Serpine pulled the chain back towards himself taking pieces of Valkyries flesh with it.
"Look at you now Miss Cain. You're a mess," He unlocked Valkyries chains and she fell to the floor, blood gushing from her stomach. She'd lost and now he was going to leave her there until she bled to death. Then Serpine crouched down beside her dagger in hand.
"Let's leave my name into your skin so if you do survive you'll never forget." He bent down closer to Valkyrie to decide where he was going to carve his name and a chain fell in front of him. The pendant. Valkyrie managed to gather one last bit of strength to pull it from his neck and Serpine disappeared; the same as all the others did in red and purple smoke.
Now, Valkyrie thought, save me, come find me.