Chapter 4 –

"Help! Help!" She screamed.
No one came to her aid, so she decided to take matters into her own hands. She leaped across the room and tackled him to the ground. He got a scalpel off the tray with all of his medical equipment and hopelessly tried to defend himself with it. She didn't like this so she flung him across the room into the wall, knocking the scalpel from his hands.

"Please, don't." it says pleadingly crawling towards the bed frame to lift its self-up from the floor.

"Don't move! I swear, I will kill you." She said.
"No, I'm begging you don't!" it said willing for her to show it some mercy.

Just then skulduggery and Valkyrie burst through the door pushing the air, trying to push her aside. But Dawn was smart. She had been expecting this so she dodged their attack.

"Calm down!" She heard Valkyrie's voice trying to reach her "it's not going to hurt you"
"Let go! I said let go Valkyrie!" Dawn replied her voice cracking.
Valkyrie let go. She started towards it; the next thing she remembered was rocking on the floor elbows on thighs and face in hands.

The doctor got up and scrambled out of the room as soon as was able.

"What is wrong with her?" Valkyrie asked Skulduggery seeing the state she was in.
"I'm not exactly sure, I think it might have something to do with her sister."
"You mean the one that knocked her out and took her hostage. Yeah I think it definitely might have something to do with her, she never even gave us that message, did she. Maybe we should ask her?"

"Hey, um.. Dawn?" Valkyrie asked softly.
"Yes, what?" she replied unsure of her own voice.
"Well you know how your sister told you to give us a message and how you didn't get time to tell us. We were wondering, Skulduggery and I, if you wanted to tell us exactly what she told you?"
She wiped her nose with the cuffs of her sleeve, her eyes red and puffy obviously from crying.
"She…she, she told me to tell you that she wasn't working alone. That she had powerful allies, that they, they would stop at nothing to reveal your identity, to the world and therefore revealing the mages to the mortals of the world, declaring war and…and. It's all my fault." She said tears once again rolling down her face. "She hates me ever since mother died. She started mixing with the wrong crowd. She would always talk of the faceless ones and how they we were all meant to be worshiping them, praising them, and trying to figure a way to bring them back. She hated mortals ever since, killed any mortals who got in her way, and whats even worse is that she is powerful, might even be a match for your Darquesse problem."

Valkyrie seriously doubted that though. Deep inside she knew that no one would really be able to overcome.

"Don't worry we'll stop her before she can hurt anyone." Skulduggery had said.
"You don't know her though. She isn't going to stop. You cant do anything but sit by and watch, and trust me if you're not, she'll make you."

Skulduggery and Valkyrie were walking through the halls of the corridor towards the Grand mage's office. If she was really this bad than this needed to be discussed with him. Valkyrie started worrying. This group were going to destroy the world, or close to it anyway, Darquesse wanted to destroy the world too. What if she turned into her an then started helping them. She hoped not anyway. She ans Skulduggery would not let it come to that.

The knocked on the door and it was answered almost immediately.
"Hi" said Valkyrie cheerfully. "We have an important topic we need to discuss."
"What's it about this time. Oh wait let me guess. The end of the world, another evil sorcerer, or maybe even the faceless ones."
Skulduggery and Valkyrie smirked at one another.
"How did you ever guess?" Skulduggery said
"Wait you're serious, well than we really need to talk about this don't we. Come sit down and tell me all about it."

"Well" Skulduggery began. "There is this one powerful sorcerer, not sure if you've heard of her, Dawn Hades, very powerful indeed. So we requested her help on the current case we were working on. You know about Kenny, anyway so she got attacked and taken hostage by her twin, hate each other. She gave us a message about them revealing us to the mortals and starting war and all that."

"Wait whats did you say the girls name was again?" Ravel asked urgently.
"Um.. Dawn. Why?"
"No. The other one. Her twin."
"Oh. What was her name again Valkyrie?"
"Wasn't it like Tiffany or something like that?"
"Yeah. Yeah it was. Tiffany, that what you were looking for?"
"Yes. Tiffany Swan." He said reading off of a sheet of paper. "Here take a look at this. It came in this morning."

It was a letter. It was regarding a killer, Tiffany. It said that she was a known killer and wanted in thirteen different countries for countless murders. There were even some other things on that list that she was wanted for like; torturing the innocent, mortals and mages. Breaking herself and some few other people out of jail, compromising secret sanctuary files and many more the list went on and on. Suddenly she was thinking that maybe Dawn was right about her. And the last thing at the bottom was a photograph, identical to Dawn. From the freckles on her nose to the hairs on her head, it was actually quite scary seeing the similarities between the two.

"This is really bad for us good guys around here." Skulduggery said, breaking the silence that had somehow overcome the room.

"Well you two should probably start your hunt into this because remember you only have one week left before the announcement." Erskine said
Yes, Valkyrie thought to herself one week before her life was ruined, one week before her parents would fine out, one week before everyone she loved would be in danger.

"We'll report back to you when we find something that we think you will need to know." Skulduggery said this just as they were turning to leave the room, but a bullet above their heads stopped them in their tracks as someone walked through the door.

A/N:
Heey Guys :) hope you liked the chapter. May not be one of my best but I try. Please review if you don't like anything and I will try and change it – unless it's in the big plot of the story , then obviously I can't- so this may seem a little weird and all but I dreamed the beginning and the end of this in a dream so now all I have to do is work out the rest of it. I know most of the people reading this are probably going like ' omg she is soo weiird and now, like shes even talking to herself' I know I am weird so just take no notice. Please review it helps me get the next chapter up quicker. Thanks for reading and hopefully *wink wink* reviewing this.
Sophie Elizabeth xx