I'm so happy. I got full marks on my Spanish test, oh wait… I always do! I'm not really sure why but I'm really good at Spanish, I find it really easy. I hope I did well in the English test, I'm not sure I did though coz I can't write an essay to save myself but don't judge me on that. I'm the best writer in my class, everybody else hands in like half a page and I give him like 30 pages of awesome. I'm going to shut up now. Hope you enjoy this chapter, please review :L

CHAPTER 26:

Valkyrie was convinced Sanguine had gone mad. She walked into the cell with Ashley in her arms, she was shackled and it was hard for her to hold him. She clicked her fingers and generated a spark, she fed her magic into it and watched it grow. From what she could see the room was stone and very small, she wriggled free of her coat and wrapped Ashley in it before laying him down on the ground gently. She shivered and sat on the floor next to him, she let the flame go out. Valkyrie felt something cold slither across her arm, within seconds she had a flame again. It was a snake, it was on top of Ashley and he started to cry. Valkyrie pressed the flame into the snake to make it move but it wrapped itself around her arm and got tighter every time Valkyrie moved. She twisted her arm to the left and screamed in pain when the boned in her arm were crushed. Ashley was crying really loud but she couldn't see him, the flame had welt out. The snake sunk it's fangs into Valkyrie forearm and she screamed, she fell onto the floor as the snake stuck its head into her flesh.

The fangs ripped her muscles and punctured veins. Valkyrie vomited again and again, she was going to die. But she heard Ashley screaming, it seemed so distant to her. She felt like she was watching someone pretend to be her, all she could think of was the intense pain.

Reality hit her like a bulldozer, knocking her to her senses. She clamped her mouth around the snake just before it got its tail into her arm, she tightened her grip and turned her head to pull it out her arm. It came out covered in her blood, when the snake realised it was being deprived of its meal it sunk its fangs in as a last attempt to finish her off. Valkyrie wasn't going to let that stop her, she pulled harder and shuddered in pain. She was getting weak with blood loss. Once last tug and the snake came loose, it had clumps of Valkyrie's arm hinging out its mouth. Valkyrie picked up a shard of glass and plunged it through the snake's head, it twitched in her hands and flopped, dead, to the ground.

Valkyrie located the door and ran into it and barding it with her shoulder. It creaked but nothing happened, she tried again and made a dent. She took a few steps back, ran and jumped, her shoulder hit the door again and the bolt snapped. Pushing it open was too typical so Valkyrie jumped at it again and it swung open to reveal three passageways. She put her coat on and put Ashley inside her coat. Her right arm hung uselessly by her side and swung about as she ran. She put the passage to the left and sprinted, turning left and turning right, leaving a trail of blood behind her.

She ran into Sanguine on the stairs. "In a hurry lil darlin'?" Valkyrie spat on his face and leaped over the banister, she landed on her ankle and hissed in pain. She limped down the stairs and seen a fire exit. She tried the door but it wouldn't budge, she couldn't reach the latch on the top. Sanguine appeared behind her. "Know you shouldn't really spit on people, it's rude." He fired a punch but Valkyrie ducked, she used the air to propel herself upwards. She reached out and flicked the latch, it slid back with a soft click. She shoved the door open and looked around.

She recognised the place but she couldn't tell where from. After a minute it clicked, the warehouse with the secret passage that led to the old necromancer temple was across a flat piece of tarmac. If she could get into that warehouse she could hide and find a phone to call Skulduggery if she was lucky.

She ran for the warehouse, running was hard and her injured ankle was screaming at her. She heard an engine and turned around. A gorgeous silver Bentley mulsanne came around the corner, barely missing a wooden crate and twirling within inches of Sanguine. Whoever it was was a good driver. The car slowed slightly beside her and the back door opened, she was yanked inside by strong hands. Valkyrie looked up and saw Tanith grinning at her. "You look a state Val." Valkyrie seen Fletcher in the driver's seat, Ghastly was in the passenger's seat. "Whoa, faster Fletch, we got company." Valkyrie turned around and saw two Vampires chasing them. "Oh, shit." Valkyrie grinned and pressed a button on the dashboard, Ghastly glared at her and two sub machine guns folded up out the bonnet. "That. Is. Awesome. How do you fire?" A screen flickered into life and came up with two buttons with pictures of guns on them. "Mwahahahahaha…"

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