PLANTS VS. SKULDUGGERY

GEPOV

Valkyrie crimpled over in pain as a zombie slashed her back. Skulduggery and Ghastly kept hurtling fire at the rest that were staggering to Gordon's estate. Cleavers were bordering the house, trying to protect what was inside. All the patrollers kept going in when needed and were pulled out if injured. Tanith stood her ground, all you could see of her sword was the glistening of a strike. Fletcher came in and out trying to get the horde away. Vendetta and Rife retrieved the injured inside. Vendetta grabbed hold of Valkyrie and got her inside too.

"We need you to create a shadow bond!" Fletcher beamed.

"She can't right now" Dr. Grouse said examining her from a far, washing his hands, "She'll be ready in a few, go." Fletcher nodded and glanced at Valkyrie before flashing out.

Skulduggery got bored of throwing fire at the horde. He knelt down on the ground and spread his hands on the grass. The earth beneath the massive horde cracked opened. Before reacting the zombies fell into the caves as the creatures surrounded them.

Skulduggery rushed inside to find Valkyrie hopping off the table and running for the door but he stopped her.

"You OK?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm good." She looked over his shoulder through the window to find no zombies out there, "Where are they?"

"I got bored so I put them into the caves." Valkyrie nodded and ran into the pitch black caves followed by Skulduggery.

Valkyrie read the air, "Third cave from the left, go!" Skulduggery lead the team through the dark, half of the Cleavers and most of the patrollers. Valkyrie and Ghastly fed their fire to look around. The horde looked like bodies of decaying flesh and nothing more.

"Are they dead?" Rife asked.

"I don't know." Skulduggery responded.

The horde began to move, making everyone flinch.

"Damn it, I thought I killed them." Skulduggery muttered as he pulled out his gun. 6 bullets hit one zombie straight in the head, but didn't kill him. Reloading, Skulduggery stepped down.

"Lead them to that creepy house where the ghost is than seal them away!" Valkyrie yelled.

"Good idea." Fletcher added, "But you could create that bond so we can teleport them to the ocean!"

"That's a better idea." Vendetta said, "I'll help too."

"OK." Valkyrie and Vendetta pulled the shadows making a strong bond. Fletcher nodded and they all teleported to the pacific ocean, a mile from the Canadian shore. The zombies, not knowing how to swim, started to sink to the bottom. Everyone swam to shore. Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Vendetta and Ghastly lifted the water off. A young girl who was on the beach watched in amazement as the living skeleton quickly dried off. Valkyrie tilted the direction of the girl who ran over to them, Skulduggery quickly tapped his collar bone and a façade slipped up.

"Holy crap!" the girl said, "Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain, here in Vancouver Canada!"

"Um, hi…?" Valkyrie said, slightly waving, "So we're in Vancouver? Is the Tomahawk near by?" Skulduggery glared at her than shrugged.

"Uh, huh. About 2 kilometers from here… hi, I'm Zoë. What happened to you guys?" Zoë said, starting to walk past the beach's duck pond.

"Zombies, everywhere… What beach is this, by the way?" Skulduggery asked.

"Ambleside. Do you guys need a ride to the restaurant? Err."

"Actually I want to walk, Rife can you tell the others? We'll be gone for about an hour or so."

"Sure thing." Zoë couldn't stop glancing at Skulduggery, we was much taller in person.

"So Zoë, can you do magic?" Vendetta asked trying to break the silence.

"Yeah look." She pointed a wave that was on course of crashing into a rocky shore. Her hands splayed making the wave freeze over than break away.

"Hmm, how do you do that?" Skulduggery asked.

"You mean you don't know how?" Zoë asked. Skulduggery dropped his shoulders than shook his head in embarrassment. Valkyrie laughed.

"Oh, it's not exactly easy, it's a mix of adpetry and elemental, it took me forever to get it right." Zoë said. Skulduggery shrugged.

They walked past the mall, shelter and village to the Tomahawk.

"How did you know of this restaurant?" Zoë asked as they walked inside.

"I heard a lot of famous people worked and ate here."

"Hey you know Brian Adams? He used to enroll at my high school."

Ghastly flinched at the artist's names, photos and signatures hanging on the wall. The small duck pond had a rubber duck being plunged by a small waterfall. A host lead them to a rounded table.

"OK, so what do you guys want?" the waitress asked as she took the menus.

"I'll have the Shoo-Skookum Chief burger" Valkyrie said.

"I'll go with the Totem burger." Zoë added.

"Um, does the Thunderbird Burger's secret sauce have mayo in it?" Tanith asked. The waitress nodded and Tanith ordered her burger. Ghastly and Skulduggery passed. The waitress came by a few minutes later with burgers.

"Crap, is this a pig or a burger?" Vendetta asked. No one laughed. The girls devoured their food in 10 minutes leaving nothing but a few crumbs.

"Damn, I that was… amazing!" Tanith said. The guys were baffled by how much food that they could eat.

"Um, we should go, Zoë." Ghastly said as he left the tip.

"Oh, yeah. Can I walk with you guys?"

"Totally, Vancouver is so much warmer than Ireland."

"Really? I'm sure it's more dyer though. Vancouver gets rained on like every second day." Zoë pointed out.

"Oh, god yeah. C'mon." Vendetta said as she bought some Chocolate from the front.

They walked back to the rest of the patrollers who were having a small bonfire.

"Uh, that's somewhat illegal here, it's best if you guys 'dispose of the evidence' before you leave." Zoë suggested.

"Good idea" Skulduggery said.

Everyone linked arms as Zoë waved good-bye and in a quick flash everyone was gone, than rain starts in sweep from the mountains down to the beach. Zoë hopped on her scooter and rode back to the mall to meet up with her dad.

They ended up back in Gordon's house to see if the artifact was still there, it was. Kenspeckle shuffled to them and said, "where were you?"

"At the Tomahawk…?" Vendetta answered.

"Ooh, did you get me something?" He asked and Clarabelle drank some mystery liquid.

"Um, yeah. Here." Vendetta handed him the Chocolate bar.

"Thank you, by the way. Did you like Zoë?" He asked as he tore away the wrapper. Skulduggery's façade looked shocked.

"How do you know here?" Skulduggery asked.

"I trained her, in fact. Did you like how the wave broke away?" Kenspeckle added to make them confused.

"Can you teach me how to do that?" SKulduggery asked.

"There's a method to my madness." Kenspeckle concluded, leaving them baffled.

Hey, did you miss me? Sorry of the lack of updates. So much exams! Anyways I, Zoë, wanted to write a story about my favorite book characters visiting my home land. If you're ever in North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada; come and eat at the Tomahawk. The burgers are real, the mall, actually there's 2, the shelter is an animal shelter, and the mall's village.

You'd be amazed and who ate at the Tomahawk. and Brian Adams did enroll at my high school along with that dude that sang, hot child in the city, also an Indy 500 driver, Hockey player and a basket ball player. By the way Twilight, Cody backs, rise of the planet of the apes (2011) were filmed here too.

God I'm sorry if it sounds like it's an advertisement! I just love my city so much!.

~darkntwisted13