LOCKED IN THE THEATRE

Valkyrie grunted as Dusk flipped her on the ground. Skulduggery was across the street from her, passed out. Dusk picked her up by the neck, she couldn't breath, her vision was blurring fast. Tanith was practically bleeding to death beside Ghastly who was trying to protect Tanith from future blows. Valkyrie had to focus hard, she worked her necromancer ring and threw Dusk off. He landed into the river behind them. He couldn't swim whilst the water surged him down stream.

Valkyrie ran over to Skulduggery who was passed out from a good thump in the head. "Skulduggery! Get up!" she cried, he didn't move. Instead she sprinted over to Tanith and Ghastly. "Are you guys OK?" she asked worryingly.

Ghastly removed his hand and revealed Tanith's side that her shirt blossomed with blood, and kept going. "Holy crap. Ghastly where's your car?"

Ghastly meekly pointed out where his van is. Valkyrie dragged Tanith first into the back, next was Ghastly who was trying to help her by moving his feet behind himself. Now was Skulduggery's turn, she tried one more to wake him up, no use, she tried to pull him but his arm popped out making him groan a tad. "Fine", she said decidingly. She levitated Skulduggery into Ghastly's van. Once everyone was in she drove off to the Hibernian Theatre.

Ghastly's van was extraordinary fast, she reached the cinema to find Kenspeckle talking to some nurses in the front. He quickly shuffled towards her as other doctors ran to the back, putting the rest on gurneys.

"What happened?"

"Attacked by Dusk…?"

"He did all of this?"

"Sorta' yeah, I'm OK though."

"We have to be sure, Come now." Without complaining she followed him inside.

"Hop on." he signaled her to hop on the table, "OK…Good…Great. Take this." he handed her a leaf to chew on the numb the pain tad.

After a few hours in the waiting room a young doctor said, "Your friends will be fine, you can come in, if you want." she followed him to Taniths bed. She was awake but hardly.

"Tanith, how are you?" she asked calmly.

"I'm OK. It's better than what that white cleaver did, right?" Tanith giggled lightly, "Is Ghastly and Skulduggery OK?"

"Uh, let me see… hold on." Valkyrie ran over to Ghastly who was barely making an effort to stay awake. She ran back to Tanith and said, "He's barely awake. I'm gonna check on Skulduggery, bye." Valkyrie ran over to Skulduggery who didn't appear to be awake or asleep. She found Kenspeckle at another patients bed and asked, "Is Skulduggery asleep or awake?"

"Personally I have no clue, I hope he's asleep though, too annoying."

"I never did see what happened to Ghastly."

"Ghastly was almost drained by Dusk, he lost more blood than Tanith."

"So is everybody going to be OK?" she asked eagerly.

"I think so, you should go home."

"I think you might be right." She dug out her phone and called Fletcher to pick her up. A phone was ringing from behind his behind curtains. Valkyrie drew them apart to find Fletcher in a bed reading a comic book.

"Fletcher, what happened?"

"Oh, I ran into Murder Rose. Who knew she was in Australia. Weird."

"I got to go, bye."

"Valkyrie exited the theatre room to find some assistants locking the doors and slamming the windows. "What is going on here?" she demanded.

"Oh, there's a huge storm coming, sorry. No one is recommended to be outside." an assistant said.

Valkyrie texted her reflection "I'm not gonna make it home today"

"OK, g2g."

Great, now what? she thought. She found Clarabelle at a bedside staring at the persons face weirdly.

"Hey, what is it?"

"Oh, her face looks funny when she sleeps", Valkyrie parted the curtains to find Vendetta Dare doing an Elvis thing with her mouth and making a squealing noise, "seriously? What happened to her?"

"Oh, she was flying and got trapped in a cage."

"She can fly?"

"Yeah, she's an adept, she likes being a raven, shh!"

Valkyrie left the table side to Skulduggery's bedside and found him with Kenspeckle fixing Skulduggery's arm, the one that she pulled out.

"How did you manage that now?"

"I have seriously no clue, I woke up with it I guess. Oh, hi Valkyrie."

"Oh, um hi. Sorry about your arm, I must've pulled it out when I was dragging you to Ghastly's van. Sorry."

"My, god that's something, getting your arm pulled off by a 15 year old? That's new." the doctor mocked.

To be continued… dun, dun, dah!