I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in ages. I dropped my laptop and I sort of broke . I now creasing myself coz that sad face on my laptop looks like it has a monobrow as the eyes join together. Now I have my bad guys but if you want to you could still be in the sequel, chapter of which have been popping into my head like crazy but I won't write it until I've finished this or I'll get distracted. I also apologize if I have got my facts wrong about a character… (His name). Please review!

CHAPTER 30:

Valkyrie looked at the person at the door; she had long, think brown hair and very dark eyes. Skulduggery tipped his head to the side and looked at her. "Oh, I was expecting Miss Salvatore, where is she?" The lady shrugged delicately. "Aphrodite is busy with our otherprisoners. Are you not enjoying my visit to you? Are you not overjoyed with my presence?" Skulduggery stood up and dusted off his suit. "I'm just curious is all. You have other prisoners, oh yes, probably the rest of my gang?" She laughed and shook her head. "No, they got away. But you're missing all the action, better break out fast if you want to save this silly little world of yours Pleasant." Valkyrie stared past the lady and at the corridor, it was so familiar but she couldn't quite place it. She knew this place from somewhere but she didn't know where. "I know this place." The lady laughed, "You should, you late friend would be disappointed with you if you didn't. Now don't go dragging your associate into any danger, Mr Pleasant." She stuck something to the wall, slammed the door and ran down the corridor outside.

A stick of dynamite burned quickly on its place on the wall. Valkyrie spotted a rat hole in the corner by the door; she picked up the dynamite and stuck it in the hole. Skulduggery nodded and they crouched in the opposite corner with their coats over their heads. A boom filled the room and plaster rained down on her, Valkyrie's ears were ringing. She felt Skulduggery's strong arms around her as he pulled her to her feet. She opened her eyes and saw plaster falling from the ceiling, half the room was missing and there was a dead rat splatted on one wall, its guts and other organs ran down the wall and its blood soaked the floor. "Who was that?" Skulduggery checked the corridor. "Arianna Dark, she will have something to gain personally from this and she won't stop at anything to get it." Valkyrie nodded. "So what does it refer to?"

"Their plan."

"You know what that is?"

"I am a detective, I detect things; it's my job Valkyrie." She pouted.

"You just spoke to me like I'm a retard. So what's their plan?"

"They got jailed once for talking about revealing the magical communities to the mortals. They are sisters and very close, they will probably want to do now what they got jailed for but didn't do, if that makes any sense. Well Arianna is a really good fighter; I fought alongside her for a few hours once. She used to be a goody but something happened, I don't know what but she changed. She became evil and twisted. But I believe there's still the good Arianna in there somewhere, just slightly buried under hatred and other not very nice things. Aphrodite I don't really know as much about except she likes to go for dramatic, interesting things when being evil. She's quite dramatic really."

"That I am, how nice to see you again Skulduggery." She stepped out from a door to their left, her long dark brown hair swirled in the wind. Her icy blue eyes seemed to bore right into Valkyrie's soul. Skulduggery heard a groan coming from the room and looked in the door. The pope gazed back at them; his eyes were wide with fear and he was shaking. He was pale and sweating. Valkyrie felt her stomach knot, she felt suddenly cold.

She heard the distinctive sound of metal clashing with metal. Tanith stumbled into view, her sword was swiping against Arianna's cutlass, Valkyrie hurriedly gathered fire and shadows in her hands and ran off to help her best friend. "Bit late are you not Val?" Tanith got out between swipes. "What do you mean? How much did we miss?" Tanith ducked another swipe from Arianna; she was good. "They actually destroyed the moon, seriously I'm not joking they got this big laser thing and destroyed the moon." Arianna laughed. "Now, dear miss Low, we simply used powerful magnets to move the moon to where the sun's light can't reflect off it, that's how we see the moon. But now that we can't see it then people don't think it's there anymore. Between that and stealing their precious pope, people will sit up and take notice. They will notice the magic; we will make them notice." Arianna laughed and lunged for Tanith's shoulder but she blocked it.

Valkyrie heard battle sounds coming from above them. She ran through what was left of a medical facility with white walls stained with blood, guts and gore. She appeared in an old cinema, Kenspeckle's old place. She grabbed a gun from a dead man and ran over to Ghastly. "Need a hand?" Two guys with rotten teeth, bloodshot eyes and scorched scalps clung to him. Ghastly nodded. Valkyrie put the gun against their heads and pulled the trigger, brains splattered her front and tangles themselves in her hair. She pretended not to notice the brains in her hair. "Who were they? Zombies?" Ghastly shrugged. "Honestly, Not got a clue. Where have you been?"

"I've been a prisoner."

"Fun?"

"Not necessarily. No."

"Have you seen Tanith?"

"Uh, yeah. Downstairs fighting Arianna Dark." Ghastly nodded and disappeared. Valkyrie saw a familiar flash of spikey blonde hair and ran towards it. Fletcher fell over with the force of Valkyrie's hug. "Jeez, Val. You scared me." She grinned and kissed him. "Where are Darrell and Ashley? Are they safe?" Fletcher nodded.

"They're at you parents place."

"Cool, thanks."

"It was Ravel, not me." They got up off the floor. Valkyrie soon ran out of bullets, she decided on bludgeoning people to death with the gun until she found a replacement. The floor was littered with bodies, dead and dying. She wandered around until she felt a hand on her shoulder; she turned to see Skulduggery beside her. "Are you okay?" She nodded and looked around; Arianna was walking around shooting the dying people who were suffering. "What's she doing?" Skulduggery watched her for a minute. "She always had a weakness for hurt people; she can't bear to watch them suffer. She's putting them out of their misery." "Not all bad then, is she?" Skulduggery shook his head.

Aphrodite was also going around the sea of bodies with a small sphere about the size of a tennis ball. Valkyrie thought she was doing the same as her sister until she looked closer. "Is that a soul catcher?" Skulduggery turned around. Her back was to them but it was clear what she was doing, she was fetching the souls out the dead bodies before they disappeared. "She would get on well with Nye, wait; maybe Nye's working for them and is being naughty again." Valkyrie glared at the sisters. They were talking but she couldn't make out what they were saying. She strained her ears to hear their conversation over the battle still going on behind them. But it was clear they were arguing.

They crouched in their hiding hole on one of the cinema balconies. There was a click and a gun was pressed into Valkyrie's back, "Spyin' lil darlin'?" Valkyrie gulped, Sanguine. "Where's my girlfriend?" Valkyrie supressed a giggle.

"Soz but you're a single pringle ready to mingle. Tanith's with somebody else now." Sanguine glared at her back and pushed the gun into her fetch harder. "Where is she?"

"Honestly, I don't know. I think she might be in Majorca practising her German accent." Sanguine slapped her on the head, hard. Valkyrie closed her eyes. She heard him curse and the weapon disappeared from her back. She turned to see Fletcher, eyes blazing, with a baseball bat in his hands. "Don't you ever touch my girlfriend again!" Valkyrie grinned at him and he winked.

Gunshots penetrated the air below them.

Okay, I think I might just write the next chapter right now, as soon as this one has been uploaded and I might even put up 3 chaps tonight. I honestly can't stop here, does anybody know the pope's name? Review fast if you do! Anyway I hope you enjoyed, please review and more chaps 2 come 2night!

Skylair xoxo