The Reflection

Authors Note: Here's the second instalment of The Reflection, and this chapter contains Zombie fun!

Rated T for The masked one ^^

Valkyrie swung her legs over the brick wall and paused for a moment, trying to see if there was anyone in the battered church. She saw a long-haired silhouette pacing up and down the isles. This was the church of the faceless, and the person pacing had to be Eliza Scorn, the next crazed lunatic on her list of people who wanted to destroy the world. She had asked to deal with this alone, and Skulduggery had accepted her request and allowed her to go alone. It had been odd, taking the bus and then walking down brightly lit streets in all black, but she had ignored the stares and funny looks and just kept on walking down the bright streets. She kept low as she approached the church. She took cover by a willow tree and put a hand up to her ear, flicking back her hair to reveal a stud earring. She twisted the stud and it vibrated slightly and made a faint beep. This was a new magic invention that shut down any mortal or magic alarms, meaning that Scorn wouldn't be aware of her presence until the last minute.

She slipped her Necromancer ring onto her finger and felt the cold chill rush through her body, filling her veins with magic. She didn't notice the chill any more, she was used to it now. She ran silently across the earth, using the air to lighten her weight and make her skim across the ground to not make any noise.

Valkyrie slipped a hand into her jacket pocket and pulled out a sphere. She twisted both halves and became invisible, completely undetectable. She reached the stone wall of the castle and looked up to see a yellow-tinted window. She touched the window, it was icy cold. She took a few steps back and placed the invisibility sphere on the floor a metre away to her left. She ran over her plan again in her head and used one hand to command the air to smash the window in front of her, the other to smash one a few windows down. Valkyrie leapt to her left, under the cover of the invisibility sphere. She heard chaos inside. So there are more people than just Scorn in there then, she thought. She saw a handful of people running out of the main entrance, and Valkyrie took this to her advantage, re-twisting the sphere and leaping through the window.

Whilst she was leaping through the window, she formed shadows in the shape of a sword. The shadow sword flew into her hand and she charged towards the female with red hair who was standing in the middle of the room. She stood behind her and whipped the shadow sword at her throat.

Scorn gave a light, airy laugh.

Valkyrie found her sword was not at her throat.

Scorn was at the other end of the room.

It wasn't Scorn at all.

The fake-Scorn pulled the wig off of her head.

To reveal a full-face mask that even covered her hair, if the mysterious figure had any at all.

She disappeared in a flash.

Valkyrie found herself falling, her blood spilling out in a pool all around her.

"Don't worry, Darquesse, I've killed her for you."

I can't be beaten yet, what the hell did she even hit me with? And how did she know my true name? I've got to just get up. I may have to run, but to be honest, it's that or die here on the floor, Valkyrie thought. She got to her feat and threw the sword like she had done many a time in javelin in school, or the reflection had, anyway. The masked girl put her palm up and caught it with a single finger before flicking it back at Valkyrie, who ran.

She jumped back out of the window and speed-dialled Skulduggery. The masked girl appeared in front of her with the shadow sword in her hand. She slashed Valkyrie from the front and back, using her tremendous speed against Valkyrie. The masked girl threw balls of fire at Valkyrie, who dodged them and threw her own back at the girl. Let me out, stupid. Came the voice from inside her head. She told it no and sprinted away, praying that Skulduggery would turn up soon. She had to lose the masked girl, so she used the air to lift herself over the brick wall. She ran into a small alley, covered in foliage and used the air to create a strong barrier at both ends of the alley.

A shadow passed over her head.

A ball of fire exploded to her left.

She looked up to see the masked girl flying. She ran like her life depended on it, which it kind of did. She ran down alleys and took a quick breather under some thick hanging ivy. She looked down at the floor, then in front of her again…

To see the masked girl with two balls of flame in each hand.

That was kind of a cliffy, it was pretty short, but hey, it was pretty detailed and interesting, eh.

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