And Darkness Rained Upon Them

Intoduction

And Darkness Rained Upon Them

Introduction

Valkyrie stood tall at the crest of the hill, black tattoos etched into her right arm trailing down to where her gauntlet fitted a recent necromancer tool to replace her ring. There was no noise. There was no movement. There was nothing...

As she looked down on the town she knew it was like this everywhere, because of her. Strewn around the bottom of the hill were some of her family and dearest friends; her mother curled in a foetal position protecting Stephanie's fragile baby brother her father laid in front obviously throwing himself first to protect both wife and child, then Fletcher, the teleporter, too slow to escape his fate this time, Tanith Low, her adoptive sister, skewered by one of her own swords, Ghastly, the scarred tailor, laid with his limbs posed at positions never imagined. Closest to her, the form slumped on its knees almost lifeless, was her partner and best friend, Skulduggery Pleasant, the Skeleton Detective...

Slowly a groan was let out beside Valkyrie, she didn't look, but her brain was confused by the noise. She'd grown used to the silence. She tried to question it aloud but her voice was rusty and she wasn't going to break the silence any more than that of the groaning. Slowly a hand crawled up her arm finding a purchase and pulling it and the body it belonged to, upwards. The touch made her shiver, it seemed like Valkyrie had felt nothing in centuries. But it had been less than ten minutes...

The world was destroyed; Valkyrie had stood there and watched it happen.

All too soon for her sleepy mind to comprehend, the man who had helped her in to this world of madness and magic pulled her into his skeletal arms in an attempt to comfort her...

After what seemed like an age he whispered to her, as if questioning a confused child,

"Why didn't you stop it Valkyrie? Why didn't you stop her?"

To that she hazily replied, "I was never Darquess, I was the death bringer. This needed to happen."

"But-" Skulduggery stammered, for once lost for words.

Darkly a voice behind them uttered "And Darkness Rained Upon Them."

Then there was Nothing.

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A/N: So what do you all think? This is my first proper upload to Wattpad :3 I've been a reader on here for over two months and I've loved it so I thought I'd upload my stories on here :)

To be honest I'd love you to vote and comment but just getting a read would make me smile :)