Sorry this is sooooo short and that I haven't updated for such a long time!
disclaimer: these characters are not mine. Now I am sad.
Skulduggery had been sent by the Grand Mage (he was still indignant that Erskine, of all people, now had the power to order him around) on a mission to retrieve the stolen Sceptre of the Ancients. It had been discovered where the sorcerer lived and well, now he had to find it because as Ghastly said, he was the one who wanted a case! Of course, no one had listened when he had argued that yes, he had wanted a case, but not one that consisted of searching a house, but one that involved some action!Luckily, Skulduggery was not without protection, as he was inside a cloaking sphere and had a video camera attached to his collar.
2 hours later:
He sighed as he exited what seemed like the four hundredth room without finding anything that looked even remotely interesting. Why couldn't the man live in the normal boring looking type of house that all the bad guys seemed to live in nowadays? Why this giant mansion of a house?
The moment he entered the last room, however, he felt that something wasn't right. The air was too carefully placed, unusually precise and still. When he moved the air barely stirred. He hastily started to back out of the room, realising that he had allowed himself to get distracted. This was exactly the sort of thing he regularly lectured Valkyrie about. If she caught him doing this, there was no doubt she would tease him mercilessly until he begged her to stop. And begging was something the Skeleton Detective never did. As he continued his journey out of the room, he was stopped by an invisible force field. As he rebounded off it, he felt himself tread on something hard. He looked down to see a big red button reading DO NOT PRESS! Before he could react, it sent an electric shot through his body. Seeing as Skulduggery didn't actually have nerves, it only made him stagger into the wall. Unfortunately, as he crashed into it, his elbow caught and pulled down a lever that said DO NOT PULL! Instinctively jumping backwards, not wanting to get another electric shot, his shoe flicked up a piece of floorboard, falling so that he came face-to-face with a tube. He froze. Nothing happened. After a while, he relaxed. He exhaled in relief, thinking that it must have all just been a trick to scare him away. Too late, he noticed the words DO NOT BLOW INTO TUBE and was helpless as the tube shuddered and started seeping a surprisingly large amount of pink mist into the room. At the same time, a perfume started to drift out of the ventilation shaft, perfume that knocked him unconscious, along with the aid of a large metal ball which swung from the ceiling, cracking into his skull with such force that it sent him flying. He landed in a crumpled heap on the ground, as the mist that was still seeping out of the tube drifted into his skull...
Ghastly had been horrifiedly watching the whole thing from the camera on Skulduggery's collar. As Skulduggery landed, the camera lens was blocked and the screen went black. Cursing Skulduggery's name, Ghastly ran out of the room shouting at the others' names.
Hope you liked it! I'll honestly try to update soon!