Skullduggery Pleasant- Days of Death

5. I'm Sorry, What?

Alice POV

I awoke to a stabbing pain pounding through my skull and opened my eyes expecting to see Steph at the end of the sofa grinning at me.

Instead I was greeted with a musty smell, a faded blue carpet, damp, peeling wallpaper and a gentle snoring next to me.

Then it all came flooding back.

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I laughed and laughed, it was hilarious.

Magic?

As if.

Steph was frowning at me, I mean, did she honestly expect me to believe her?

All of a sudden a load crash and some angry grunts came from the other side of the big oak table

The man, who Steph had seemingly knocked out earlier, sat up, a wicked glint in his eye. He looked over to me and Fletch on the sofa, and smiled. "Hello there, I don't think we've been introduced" He addressed me and Fletch.

 "I am Nefaraine Serpine, an old friend of Valkyries, and you, I'm sorry to tell you are my next mission"

He snapped his chains with in-human strength, was by my side faster than the eye could see and had me out the door before anyone realised what was going on.

The last thing I heard was "ALICE!!!!" From Steph, before Serpine stepped and spun (Teleported) into an old run down shack in the middle of nowhere.

"Get in" Serpine grunted, shoving me towards the broken door.

Not having much choice in the matter, I hobbled in, felling rather sick and dizzy.

///A/N-Teleporting makes you sick and dizzy the first few times......///

That’s when he tacked me from behind and smothered my nose and mouth in a damp, chocking cloth, and that’s when my head found the floor and I blacked out.

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I slowly sat up, holding my pounding head, and realised that Serpine was sleeping on a straw bale next to me.

I needed to escape. But I didn’t know where I was, I could be in another country for all I knew.

I reached into my pocked and found that luckily I still had my phone, bit of a rubbish kidnapper.

"Am alright. For the moment. Don't no where I am. what shall I do? S is sleeping."

I silently texted Steph and quickly put my phone on silent just as Steph replied.

"Thank god. Are you in a house/wood/cottage etc.?"

"Run down shack. wood. is all I know."

"K, don't worry. will find you."

Serpine let out one loud snore and his breathing changed. I instantly knew he was awake. I could feel his eyes on my back.

And I was sat in front of him, quite obviously texting my rescuer.

"So" He breathed down my neck, making the hair rise in terror. "Rescue attempts eh?" He snatched the phone out of my grasp and shoved me to the floor. "I think not" He said, amusement clear in his voice, her was obviously enjoying tormenting me.

He threw my brand new HTC Wildfire s (In white) to the floor and stepped on it with a sickening crunch. All my friends, family and photos. Gone. Smashed. And that just made me angrier.

I flew to my feet. Anger pulsing through my veins like I’d never felt before. I ran straight at him, clicked my fingers from knowledge I have never learnt summoned fire and pushed my hand directly over his heart.

he stepped back, dazed. looked down at his chest, the black/brown burn through his filthy grey, once white t-shirt. looked up at me and growled.

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This book isn’t really going as well as I hoped. But hey..

Just so you know, you summon fire by clicking you fingers but as Alice didn’t know about magic, she shouldn’t know how to do that. But she has magic in her veins as she is distantly related to the first sorceress known as the ancients as is Valkyrie.