I've decided that there's a ball on (still based after TDOTL). Shout out to my besties who were the insperation for crystal and cara! 3
Valkyrie and Tanith's PoV
Valkyrie cain glared at skulduggery pleasant. She was chained to a radiator in her OWN living room while he cleaned and ghastly tried to coax tanith down from the roof.
"Tanith will you please come down?" he asked soothingly hoping nothing like last time happens.
Tanith scowled, stood up and walked over to the wall val was shackled to before puling out her sword and snapping the chains in two and helping her up.
"We're walking out of here and you're not stopping us." She growled.
Valkyrie glanced at the table and before the men could stop her she had skulduggery's hat in her hand.
Once the girls were outside tanith turned to valkyrie. "We need some where to hide."
Valkyrie nodded. "Well we can't go to china's they would go there."
Tanith glanced over at valkyrie "we could go to Scarlet's! They're terrified of them!"
Valkyrie grinned and nodded skul and ghastly were terrified of them after what happened last time.
When they got to scarlet's house noticed that there was a third car there.
"Whos that?" tanith asked val.
"No clue."
They knocked on the door and saw cara, scarlet and a girl with tan skin, chocolate brown eyes and hair nearly as dark as valkyrie's.
There was a blur and they were flattened by the hurricanes that are cara and scar. "Hey! This is Crystal Rose guys! Crys (Chris) this is Valkyrie Cain and Tanith Low." "THE valkyrie cain and tanith low?!" She screamed before launching herself at them and squeezing them in a hug.
Ghastly and Skulduggery's PoV
While this was going on back at gordan's house ghastly and skulduggery were trying to find out where they went.
"We have to get them back here ghastly she has my hat."
"AND because we need to get ready for the ball skulduggery."
"My hat." Skulduggery mumbled sadly.
"They wouldn't go to china's that's too obvious, and they won't go to mine because I have the only key and I would know, tanith wouldn't want ANYONE to see her house,"
"Wait how would you know that ghastly?" skulduggery asked slyly.
"Shut up you I know for a fact you've been in val's old room way more than I've been to tanith's! Anyways they won't there or val's room too much of a chance of her parents walking on us pinning them down and freaking…again."
"So where would they be..?" skulduggery mumbled.
"One of the dead men's house's?" asked ghastly.
"Well not anton's hotel he would have to kick us out for causing trouble, dexter might hide them, so would sacren…."
"Ok so if we go to dexter's then sacren's they will probably help and if they're not there we'll go to the others and china's to make sure."
"Sounds like a plan."
Tanith and Valkyrie's PoV
Tanith, cara, scarlet and valkyrie were all playing 'kiss, marry, bed' when tanith phone rang. "Its dexter! Do you think they've teamed up?" "Yeah put it on speaker!"
Tanith put it on speaker and answered it. "Hey tanith! You there?"
"Yeah…"
"Did you and val really take skul's hat and go into hiding?" he asked laughing.
"Um yes…. Are you alone?"
"Yup! They just left I told them ill help but I think it'll be funnier to keep distracting them." He said grinning over the phone.
"Okay well we're hiding don't call again unless you really need to and maybe just text at that."
"Ok got it!"
Dexter's PoV
Dexter hung up and grinned this is going to be FUN.
"So what did they say?" Skulduggery asked when dexter came out.
"Not much just said that they stole your hat and they're now hiding."
A FEW HOURS LATER
"Damit their here!" valkyrie hollored (yelled) before she was grabbed and thrown over skulduggery's shoulder.
"Dam right we're here you need to get ready!" ghastly roared flinging a struggling tanith over his shoulder.
"But we don't want to goooo!" whined tanith and valkrie. "No one like's us and we don't like anyone!"
"Gee guys thanks!" muttered ghastly sarcastically.
"We don't like you either." Growled valkyrie from skulduggery's shoulder.
"It's not scary when your slung over someone's shoulder val."
General PoV
A while later both women were dressed and they came down stairs to see the men dressed and dexter tied to the banister sulking.
"I'm going to guess you found out then." Valkyrie said as she walked towards vex to untie him.
"Ah I'm afraid I can't let you do that yet my dear combat accessory." Skulduggery warned stepping in front of her. Tanith stepped forward
"Sorry skul but he helped us so we're going to have to insist."
Ghastly sighed and looked over at skulduggery"I'm not going through that again just because of vex."
"Oi!"
Valkyrie smiled and freed dexter. He then swept her and tanith into a hug before bowing deeply "You both look ravishing and think I should probably go get ready so I can sweep you both off your feet." With that he glanced at the other men who looked quite annoyed at him and sauntered out.
"Well he got one thing right." Ghastly muttered and turned to the girls "you both look beautiful."
And they did. Valkyrie was wearing a long black ball gown that went from black to purple as it went down and was as light and wispy it could have been made with pure cloud with long black lace sleeves that tipped her middle finger at the end. Tanith's was a deep midnight blue strapless dress that stopped just above her knee and like valkyrie's was light and wispy at the end. The silver diamonds that decorated the waists of both girls glittered lightly when they moved.
They blushed "So do you."
Half an hour later people were arriving and the party had started.
When valkyrie and tanith came down from doing their hair the rest of the dead men were at the bottem of the stairs waiting to see them. Even shudder had come.
"Hey! You came!"
"Of course we came! We wouldn't leave you to fend off all your admirers AND skulduggery's ego." Sacren grinned before getting fired straight into shudder who didn't hesitate to push him right back off. Valkyrie laughed before looking up and seeing many glares being fired at them.
"Guys let's go in." she said not wanting the others to see but it was too late.
"May I ask what that look was for?" shudder asked beside the men in an instant. The men just turned and slipped into the ballroom.
When he walked back tanith was shaking her head "Maybe we should just go."
"I refuse to let them win and anyways china would have us beheaded for skipping it when we're not even saving the world." Skulduggery said calmly but forcefully and the girls knew they didn't have a choice.
When they walked into the room china walked over followed by the men they saw earlier, "Dead men." The dead men (they wouldn't have changed it so that includes the girls) nodded to her, "Mr shudder is it true that you attacked these men?"
"No grand mage I simply asked why they were glaring at my colleges." Shudder answered gesturing back to tanith and val.
"Ah I see." She turned back to the men "I hope you weren't really bothering Co. head detective Cain and miss low because if so you're not welcome here." The men spluttered before shaking their heads and going back into the crowd.
"Thank you china." Valkyrie said it so quietly that they only barely heard. Straight away skulduggery was beside her a hand on the small of her back.
"Always dear." And with that she was gone back into the crowds.
Dexter turned to the girls "I want to say now that if we see you dancing with anyone other than us we will get skulduggery to shoot them."
The girls laughed and as the music started ghastly moved forward before any of the other men could and swept tanith away.
"Well this is going to be interesting." Grinned valkyrie as the three men stepped forward to take her hand and ended up arguing about who should dance with her first while shudder who had stepped around them swept her away to the dance floor while the other men just glared at him.
"SNEEKY!" dexter called over to shudder as they danced.
"So how are you?"
"Ok I guess but while I know what dar- she did is horrible I don't know why no one will listen when I say I couldn't stop her. I tried so hard to but I couldn't."
"I know the feeling that's what happens with the gist. The powers too strong and sometimes you just can't stop." Valkyrie nodded and shudder lead her back to the others as the song stopped.
Suddenly she was jumped on by one red and gold blur, one yellow and deep blue blur and a silver and turquoise blur. The dead men tensed but when they heard val laugh they relaxed and waited to see which mad friends of val's they were. As they stepped back skulduggery groaned and the men looked over
"Scarlet fanna, Cara scorch and someone else." He sighed.
"Someone else?! I'll have you know that my name is crystal rose and it's an honour too met you!" the men nodded this is what they've come to expect with valkyrie's friends.
Just then another song came on and skulduggery took valkyrie's hand and lead her out again. The others marvelled at how they moved through the crowds completely at ease with each other, never having to check where their moving because people just stopped to let the two glide through. They seemed to be talking about something when valkyrie glanced around to see many people had stopped and was watching and whispered something to skulduggery who just laughed and dipped her as the song ended. A huge round of applause then erupted among the guests and valkyrie blushed as skulduggery lead her back but before they got there tanith was there pulling val towards the other side of the room.
Valkyrie's pov
She couldn't believe that everyone had been watching them dace and even more that she hadn't noticed until she glanced around to find tanith. It didn't help that when she asked skulduggery he hadn't tried to lie to her he just said that they were watching because of the way they danced. She was sure some might have found it weird that they danced so easily with each other, but skulduggery had once said that the best dancers trust their partners completely and she trusts no one more than him.
"Val you and skulduggery were amazing!" Tanith said and smiled.
"It was a lot of fun but I can't believe everyone was watching us."
"You were amazing everyone moved out of your way it was so funny when the two of you would move by and people would just stop and watch."
"I'm sure you enjoyed that Cain"
The two women turned to see crux standing there (Yes he's still alive for my reasons of wanting to beat him up) and sighed "What do you want crux?" valkyrie sighed knowing that this wasn't over.
"Just wondering when they'll be locking you two up."
Valkyrie stiffened and tanith glared "If you've got a problem with it go to the council not us."
"Oh but that won't happen because you've very powerful friends don't you?"
With that valkyrie snapped out of her trance and attacked him and when she had him pinned she lent in and whispered
"The last powerful 'friend' I had killed so many people because he thought it 'wasn't fair' that we had to hide from normal people. So don't you dare say that to me."
General PoV
There was a crash and skulduggery was already running towards it with the others following close behind. No one stood in his way not when it was his partner. He got there in time to see her lean in and whisper something in crux's ear and when he pulled her up she didn't struggle she just turned and walked out of the room not stopping for anyone.
Then tanith who had jumped on crux the moment valkyrie got of had to be pulled of by dexter, sacren and ghastly while she screamed at him
"Don't you dare act like you're innocent! You've chased a fourteen year old instead of trying to catch a criminal! People died because of that!"
"People have died because of you miss low." he sneered.
That was it. That was all it took. Ghastly understood people were afraid but everyone knew that you couldn't stop remnants from doing what they do once you're possessed and what crux said was unforgivable.
Tanith slumped but ghastly stiffened and then using everything his mother taught him he stepped forward and threw a punch that flung crux to the other side of the room. And with him dealt with he swept tanith up in his arm's and left followed by the rest of the dead men except skulduggery who had already strode out after valkyrie.
Dead men's PoV (mainly skul's)
Skulduggery paused long enough to see tanith launch herself at crux before striding out after valkyrie. He found her in her uncle's study standing in the same place as the first day he met her.
"What happened?" he asked softly warping his arm around her shoulder.
"He asked why we aren't in jail and when tanith said that he should ask the elders he said that it wouldn't work because we have very powerful…" valkyrie paused before continuing "friend's, so I attacked him and when he was on the ground I reminded him what my 'very powerful friends' have done before you pulled me up and now we're here."
"Well if it helps he's going to have two black eye's curtsy of tanith and I may just kill him."
Just then dexter walked in and hugged valkyrie "You may not need to skul. Not after ghastly's punch." Valkyrie looked up sharply.
"WHAT!" she roared.
Ghastly placed tanith in the big arm chair and turned to her "I refuse to let that excuse of a man insult my girls." And before she could answer he pulled her into a hug. When she took in the smell of fabric and tea she couldn't help it, she cried. At seeing the great valkyrie cain break down most of the dead men stepped back sharply but skulduggery stepped forward and pulled her to him while ghastly moved over to tanith.
"I'm not hugging you because apparently I make people cry I'm that bad at them." Ghastly warned tanith. This made valkyrie laugh before pulling out of the hug with skulduggery and rubbing her eye's angrily,
"I'm fine, now I want to know what happened when I left."
"Well when you swaggered out, well done on that by the way, tanith jumped crux and tried to get rid of whatever amount of chin he had left and when we got her off she kept screaming at him. That's when he went wrong he should have stayed quite but he didn't. He blamed tanith for what the remnant did. So ghastly punched him to the other side of the room. Quite literally made him go flying to the other side of the room it was hilarious to watch!"
"Not hilarious on my knuckles." Ghastly muttered from where he was sitting with tanith.
"Hush you I'm not done! Anyways after he did that he scooped up tanith, which surprised me because she is heavy!"
"Oi!"
Dexter ignored her and kept going "and carried her bridal style out of the room and she told us everything from in his arms where she looked VERY comfy. I think I'll try that sometime."
At this tanith blushed and ghastly glared at vex "Don't you dare."
"Fine I'll get sacren to do it."
Sacren grinned "Of course dear."
"See sacren's nice… wait what do you mean 'dear' I wouldn't be the woman in our relationship! You would!"
"No I wouldn't! You're the one who wants to be carried BRIDAL style!"
"But that's for fun!"
"Guys as much as we enjoy these type of arguments the grand mage is outside and doubt she wants to listen to you." Shudder interrupted them before it got too much.
"Ah grand mage! Perfect! So which one of us?"
China smiled "I think I'll have to say dexter. Sorry sacren."
Sacren pouted and Skulduggery sighed "Not you too."
"No, not me too I only came up to ask if the attack was provoked?"
"Do you think ghastly bespoke would have punched someone across the room unprovoked?"
"Ah true it's only really you who does that."
"I don't know if I should feel complimented or insulted."
"Probably complimented knowing you."
Skulduggery shrugged "It's a fuzzier feeling."
China laughed and walked out.
"I think it's time to go back to my house."
"Do you have alcohol?"
Skulduggery sighed "Yes sacren."
Well I think I'll leave it there the rest is for another day…
Sorry that this is such a long chapter! It just kinda happened!