Chapter 2 :

Kenny started to prepare for his next show, to reveal the identity of Valkyrie Cain. He was collecting all of his tapes and photographs to put into a big presentation.
He secretly wondered the reaction of the crowd, what would they do? Would Valkyrie's parents believe it? He hoped so anyway.

He was almost finished editing his presentation when there was a knock on the door.
Kenny went to answer the door. It was a woman in about her late thirties, she had curly red hair and she looked mad.
"Do you realise what you've done?" she asked obviously trying to hide her anger.
"Um. I'm not really sure what you're talking about." He said coolly.
"I think that you know exactly what I'm talking about"
"Ok, fine then, but do you mind telling me how this will affect you?"
"Don't be an idiot you know."
"No, I really don't."
"then you really must be dumber than I thought. This is not just about her. This will affect the whole of the magical community. Don't you get it? How do you think people will react if they find out about a race more superior than them? Huh. Do you think they will just sit down and not take notice?"
"well-" she cut him off before she could even finish his sentence.
"No, they won't. People will either totally ignore us or. And I think this is the more likely of the two. They will start a war. And no offence Kenny I who do you think will win a war."
and she left.

Valkyrie had told Skulduggery everything about what Kenny was planning and they headed straight for the Grand mage.
"what abut Dawn?" Valkyrie asked him.
"What about her?"
"well weren't we supposed to pick her up this morning?"
"Hm. Oh yes we were, weren't we. We'll just go and pick up on the way back."

Yes well they seemed to have forgotten about her. It didn't take them that long. She guessed that Valkyrie had talked Skulduggery out of it. The next thing she noticed was a knock on the door.
"be there in a second" she yelled out as she made her way down the hall.
she opened the door shocked to who was standing in front of her.
"What are you doing here?" she asked in loud voice trying to hide her fear.
When they didn't answer her she asked again a little bit more demanding this time.
"What are you doing here?"
"well," said her twin sister. "I just wanted to come and say hi."
"oh cut the crap, what do you really want?" she said a little too loud.
"No small talk. Well I kind of enjoy that bit about taking people hostage but I guess I could live without it. Just this once.."
as soon as Dawn heard the words 'take hostage' she made a beeline towards the back door but something was keeping her from moving. Seeing as her sister had the exact same ability as she did she must have been doing it. So Dawn automatically shut her eyes and tried to break the front door off its hinges. But the door stayed stone still. She figured out that her sister had probably already been here with her little, or should I say big, pal Comet. Comet was an expert in the art of symbols and sigils so he had probably set up some sort of binding symbols to bind her house of magic. She figured this out only a second after they started their attack. Even though it was only a second she felt stupid for not suspecting a trap earlier, for not running as soon as she saw their faces. But by that time Comet had already fired a bullet into her thigh causing her to give out a painful shriek. Her sister had already snatched the gun from Comets hands and knocked her out with the butt.

Skulduggery and Valkyrie were on the way to pick up Dawn.
Valkyrie despised her, mostly because she could beat her up, and because she was pretty and because.. because just because.
"I wonder how she will take this?" she finally asked Skulduggery.
"I really don't know Valkyrie, I really don't know…" he said with a gentle voice.

After about another half hour of silence they finally arrived at Dawn's house.
"Um Skulduggery" she said when is seemed like nobody was home . "Where is she? Do you think she's home?"
"Only one way to find out." He said.

So the knocked on the door only for it to swing open on contact with her strong and powerful fist.
She peered through the door and stepped in only to notice the big pool of blood on the floor righ at her feet.
"Erm… Skulduggery" she said turning him around. "Somehow I don't think she will be here."