Dear Readers, thank you very much for your patience with me. This is my first fan fiction so I am not quite used to things. The reviews, favorites and follows I have gotten are a huge encouragement and I will try my best to update sooner. Let me know what you think and I can use all the ideas I can get. Once again thank you for everything. ~ Liv Low

Valkyrie and Darquesse walked through the forest, Val carrying a very heavy bunny Bill-Ray and Darquesse grumbling to herself about whatever plan she had running through her head at the moment. They had been walking for about ten minutes when Val stopped at the edge of a clearing. It wasn't a big clearing but it wasn't small either, just a little larger than a garage.

"This is where the Bentley was," she said in a soft voice. She dropped Sanguine on the ground with a 'thump' and looked around the clearing. Darquesse watched her, emotionless.

"What are you going to do?"

Val ignored her and bent down close to the ground searching for something. She walked around the entire clearing her eyes never once leaving the ground.

"What are you looking for?"

"Clues." She said eyes still glued to the ground.

"Oh, not this again."

"Shut up. This time I know what a clue looks like." She looked around for a while longer, searching the bushes around the clearing, and then stood up confused. "There aren't any tyre tracks. Not from when we came or if he left."

Darquesse nodded. "Maybe you got the wrong spot?"

"You know as well as I do this was the spot."

"Skulduggery brushed the tracks away?"

"There would be marks of brushing or if he used magic there would be traces of it left."

"Magical tyres?"

"Magical tyres?" Valkyrie asked skeptically.

"Hey, I said it first."

"No, no, no, what do you mean magical tyres?"

"Oh, like they don't leave tracks or anything."

"I don't think those exist."

"Why not?" Darq asked stubbornly.

"Because who would use them?"

They argued back and forth for a couple of minutes. In the meantime, a certain bunny-eared villain was waking up with a major headache. He sat up. 'Where am I?' he wondered to himself. Then he noticed the girls arguing and stood up.

"What, pray tell, are you arguing about?"

The girls turned on him angrily and both yelled in unison, "NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!"

Billy-Ray stood there, eyes wide in shock and terror and his ears pressed down against his head. The girls blinked, looked at each other, and then looked back.

"Ummm…sorry?" Valkyrie said questioningly, wondering if she really had to apologize. The apology seemed to work, though.

"That's quite alright." He replied, his ears perking up and a grin stretching from ear to ear. "I am Billy-Ray White, at your service." Val looked to Darquesse and Darquesse looked at her. This guy was way too perky. "So, you're not Billy-Ray Sanguine?"

"Oh, dear me, no child. My name is White." Billy's nose twitched as he absent mindedly fiddled with his small circular sunglasses.

Then something dawned on Darquesse. "Hey! You're that man that disappeared from the sanctuary! The one Valkyrie and Skulduggery were looking for."

"Ah! The famous detectives were looking for me were they? How encouraging. Although I doubt they will be able to find me. She wouldn't let them." His ears sagged. Valkyrie was about to say something when he looked at his over-sized pocket watch.

"Oh good gravy, I'm late!" he screamed right into Darquesse's ear. "I need to get going or it'll be the end of me." And with that, he ran to the middle of the clearing and dove head first into the ground, digging as he went.

Valkyrie and Darquesse ran to the edge of the hole he left and looked down.

"You know he doesn't usually leave holes." Val commented.

"Yeah well, he's not exactly your typical angry, American Billy-Ray, is he?"

"Well no, not really,"

"I say we follow him" Darquesse smiled.

"You also said we should kill him."

"Well we could do that too but to do that we have to follow him."

"I already told you we're not going to kill him. And it's a good thing I didn't let you kill him otherwise Skulduggery and I would have been in a whole lot of trouble." She glared at the other version of herself.

"Oh, shut up already and get down the hole."

Valkyrie looked down the hole, again. "He's been down there a long time. How far do you think it goes?" Darquesse just shrugged. "I'm not sure going down there is such a good idea. I mean it could get really narrow in there and I could get stuck and…"

Darquesse sat there looking at Valkyrie as she kept looking down the hole and talking. Standing quietly so as not to let her on Darquesse snuck up behind Val and kicked her bum. Valkyrie stopped talking mid-sentence and teetered on the edge her arms flailing trying to gain her balance. She stayed that way a couple of seconds before tumbling down. Darquesse snickered as she watched Val panic at the edge and then fall. Looking down after her, she shrugged and jumped down after, laughing on the way down.

As Valkyrie fell down the hole, she figured she would have some sort of revelation or perhaps have her life flash before her eyes. However, the only thing that went through her head was 'AHHHHHH!' After she had finished screaming she realized she was still falling. This didn't bother her much until she heard laughing coming from above her.

She looked up and saw Darquesse falling towards her. "Oh crap," she said and braced herself. Darquesse crashed into her making them both fall faster.

"Get off of me, you big- Ouch!" Val's back hit the wall as she tried to untangle herself. Darquesse just giggled.

Finally untangling herself, Val slapped Darquesse upside the head. "What the hell were you thinking?!" she screamed at her. Darquesse glared back. "You weren't going to jump down the bloody hole anytime soon so I decided to help."

"HELP!?" Valkyrie took the girl by the shoulders and started shaking her. "What do you mean help? Now we're falling down a hole to who knows where!"

It was at that moment that something whizzed by their ears.
"What the..?" They looked below them and what they saw shocked them. A piano was stuck in the hole half buried, half in their way. The girls screamed and hugged each other trying to get out of the way of the piano. The fell right past except for Val's foot that hit the keys with a clang.

"BLOODY HELL! Where did that come from?" she screamed into Darquesse's ear

"How should I know?" she answered trying to get her ear to stop ringing.

Furniture, books and a bunch of random stuff stuck out of the walls of the tunnel or floated in one place as they fell. Val was still freaking out but after about five minutes Darquesse had grabbed a book and started reading as she fell. Val just stared at the girl wondering how she could be so calm and relaxed as she grabbed a cup of tea as it passed and took a sip. "What?" Darquesse asked innocently.

It was then that without warning they landed.