JOSEF MENGELE

GEPOV

Valkyrie and Skulduggery got onto a ferry at 2 a.m. She was standing at the bow watching her breaths come out as puffs, Skulduggery came up behind her.

"It's cold out, don't you want to be inside?" He asked holding the railing beside her.

"Yeah, it's cold, and I can barely see anything, but it's peaceful up here, and you just ruined it." She joked while glancing at Skulduggery.

"Excuse me?", crossing his arms, "Should I go back inside?"

"No, stay please.", Valkyrie scooted closer and hooked her arm around his, "It's cold out, anyways"

"Very well." He said enjoying the moment.

They stood together with arms linked for about 43 minutes more and didn't talk much. The boat took 2 hours to reach the main lands, they drove off and reached Aken, Germany 3 hours later. Skulduggery drove around trying to find mineshafts and having no success.

"Lets just ask some locals err something." Valkyrie insisted.

"No, I bet none of them speak English!" He said, sounding frustrated.

"Fine, let me try," she rolled down the window and asked a by-stander, "Hey, do you know where the mines are?"

"Yaw about 2 or 3 miles north of here, have fun now, Detective Cain."

"Um, yeah you too, thanks!" The by-stander waved back and kept walking.

Skulduggery glared at Valkyrie, "Seriously?"

She began laughing, "Yeah, looks like it, that dude knew who I was, weird right?" She smirked, bemused with herself.

They found the mineshafts and walked through the caverns holding flames in their hands. "Where do you they are? If they're even still here?" Valkyrie said.

"We'll check the caves first and not go down too deep, if they are here they won't be far from the exit. Find some clues." Skulduggery took the left and Valkyrie took the right.

Valkyrie found some footprints and signaled Skulduggery over. There was boot prints, both male and female. "Who do you think they belong to?"

"Gallow and Rose?" Skulduggery suggested.

"Yeah, but they don't lead any where else, I mean they're not leading from the entrance, it's like they appeared out of nowhere." Valkyrie sounded confused.

"Don't you think, I don't know, that maybe 'No-eyes-ugly' came by?"

"Crap, seriously?" Valkyrie's voice echoed and Sanguine stepped out from the dark.

"I think the skelet'n is right."

"God, Sanguine really?" Valkyrie said, frustrated.

"Yep, do you know where Tanith is?" His voice sounded a little sad.

"Why are you here?" she demanded.

"Doin' dirty work, just got ma' pay. If you hurry up, I think you can catch 'em." Valkyrie turned to see Scorn and Rose run off. They were too far to catch up so Skulduggery didn't bother, Valkyrie wanted to though.

"C'mon lets get them!"

"They're too far, we'll get them later.", he turned back to Sanguine, "Who did you kill?" The vampire stepped aside and Skulduggery stepped forward to find the corpse of Jaron Gallow.

"Why did they want him dead, Sanguine?" Skulduggery asked, peering over the body.

"Well, they were afraid that he would call em' cops on em' for somthin"

"China's murderer." they both said at the same time.

"Cen' I go now?" Sanguine asked.

"No, I doubt it." Skulduggery said.

Sanguine bolted for the exit when Valkyrie fed her fire that she didn't put out. She stepped closer towards Sanguine when he hesitated, unfortunately Skulduggery hoisted a wall of earth trying to separate them from Sanguine. He heard Valkyrie grunt on the other side, that's when he noticed.

"Damn it! Valkyrie you OK?" Skulduggery yelled trying to get the wall down.

"Not really!" She responded and was followed by a scream and stopped.

"Valkyrie?" Skulduggery panicked and finally broke the wall down to find both of them gone. "Damn it!" he yelled, again.

Valkyrie was cornering Sanguine with fire in her hands once the wall went up. She switched to her necromancer ring when Sanguine leaped at her. The shadows resisted him from jumping on her, he broke the shadows and crashed against her hard and grunted in pain

"Damn it! Valkyrie you OK?"

"Not really!" She shouted. Sanguine knew that Skulduggery would break the wall down soon enough so he took Valkyrie with him when the wall ate him. He held onto her tight as he dug to the surface, they ended in another part of a mine.

"Why didn't you just leave me there?" She demanded with fire flickering.

"I was also paid to bring you to a certain person, I'm sure you just met him. Trust me I wanted to leave you there, but money's money."

Like Sanguine, Donny Dulcifer stepped from the dark.

"Why did you run away once you introduced yourself?"

"You mean, like you guys weren't look for me?" He asked almost serious.

"No, we were a little. We are now almost fully looking for you. Sorry."

"It's too late, I was paid to get rid of you." His accent became a little more stronger to German.

She couldn't help but smirk in amusement, "God, you're more stupid than you think. You were paid to kill me when you paid Sanguine to take me here, idiot." Donny got furious with her so he tapped his elbow this time and Valkyrie crippled to the ground in pain. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't stand up and fight.

"You like it?" Donny asked tauntingly, "I have a few tricks, I had 4 years to learn them."

"Who are you?" Valkyrie asked holding back the pain, "Really?"

"You're a detective, right?" Donny was getting more intimidating each time, "Than solve this…"

"God, get better lines please?" She interrupted.

"Shut up!…" He pinched his bridge of his nose when he continued, "OK, solve this. I loved twins for looking alike, my mentor loved them and made an army. I grabbed many adepts and they and I learned a new trick. My army of adepts were about to disguise themselves and go under enemy lines to create a catastrophic war, but I was overthrown by a young adept who wanted to stop me. She was wining for a few years, but I imposed as her. I've been discrediting her ever since and been trying to kill her for many years."

Donny took a huge breath and continued, "I paid Sanguine to kill China because she was told on who I was, same reason why I called the Diablerie over here to kill Gallow. You have the pieces, now out them together."

All of that information lead to one person in mind, "Oh, god. You're Josef Mengele."

"The very same, any last words?" He said tapping his elbow once more causing more pain. Valkyrie left, not physically, and Darquesse returned, "Nah, I'm good." Darquesse resisted the pain and stood up. Just as the shadows began to rise Skulduggery Pleasant crashed through a mine wall,

fixing his tie.

Ahh! Cliff hanger! Don't worry as we're drawing a near we'll still have adventures with our heros. Wow, 20 chapters, man I'm awesome. Any way, bye!

~darkntwisted13