Family From Hell ~ A Skulduggery Pleasant fanfic

Who Is He?

Outside it was pouring down rain, after about a week the good weather had gone and was replaced by cold wet miserable days, and Valkyrie never got to go to the beach.

Valkyrie was sitting in one of Skulduggery's armchairs reading a book when he walked into the room, when she didn't look up he knew something was wrong. "What's wrong Valkyrie?" he asked

"Nothing," she said turning the page.

"You're lying."

"No, I'm not!" she practically shouted throwing her book.

Skulduggery tilted his head and looked at her in a way that only a skeleton could pull off. "Now I shall repeat my question, what is wrong?"

"It's not fair, we get a week, a whole week of beautiful weather and China kept us so busy. I couldn't go to the beach, it's not fair. And I just recently found out you have a brother-in-law and you tell me absolutely nothing about him, I mean surly he can't be that bad, I mean his eyes are a bit creepzilla but nobody's perfect." When Valkyrie saw Skulduggery slowly shaking his head at her she paused then said, "Why don't you tell me about him?"

"What's to tell?" he stated with absolute bitterness.

"Please Skulduggery."

With a sigh Skulduggery reluctantly started to tell Valkyrie all about Lucifer, "Lucifer is, was, my wife's twin brother, they had a good relationship, they were close, they even had a telepathic link, they knew all of each other's secrets. They were also complete opposites, where he preferred death and destruction, she preferred life and creation. When their mother died something happened to them, my wife became withdrawn and spent hours on end locked away, Lucifer started killing anything that got in his way, the other two, Jack and Katrina, they kept their distance, they even hated my wife for a while, just because she never cried for their mother's death. Their mother never liked Lucifer, she always said he had a great evil in him, and she was right. Their mother was very powerful, she had many enemies, and one of them was Lilith. Lilith and Lucifer's hatred of his mother was what brought them together and they ended up marrying each other, kinda sick if you think about it, marrying someone because you both hate the same person. But in a way they are made for each other, they are both sick twisted people that love death. About 800 years ago they had a son, but because he had his grandmother's eyes they kicked him out onto the street and my wife took pity on him and raised him as her own. But there is something very important that you must understand Valkyrie. Lucifer is not fully human."

"What do you mean?"

"His mother was a dragon, the most powerful dragon of them all. She had a rare gift that only the luckiest dragons have; the ability to shape-shift. That's how she was able to easily deceive Lucifer's father, but that wouldn't be a very hard thing to do."

"Why do you say that?"

"He was believed to be one of the first sorcerers. Lucifer is very old Valkyrie. He was even one of the Ancients many years ago, in fact all four of them where."

"Right, but you told me that the Ancients were dead, all of them. And why does he have the book of death?"

"You haven't figured it out yet?" he asked her with surprise in his voice. When she shook her head he told her, "He is death himself Valkyrie, he rules over the underworld, on the date of your death he sends out a grim reaper that is in your area to reap you then bring you down to the afterlife so he can assess you and lead send your soul to the right section. He rules the underworld like a king, and Lilith is his fearsome queen."

"OK, so who has the book of life?"

"My wife had the book until she died, then it was given to Lucifer for safe keeping."

As soon as Skulduggery stopped talking his phone rang. He answered it, "Hello?"

"Hi Skulduggery its China, I need you and Valkyrie to come to the sanctuary ASAP." And without waiting for a response China ended the call.

"That was China," Skulduggery explained, "she wants us at the sanctuary, for something important

I think."

"When?"

"Now"

"Well we better be off then, wouldn't want to waste her majesty's time."

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"What do you want China?" Valkyrie asked as they strode into her office.

"There have been reports of this thing killing sorcerers, mortals and even the occasional animal. I thought you told me you killed the beast?"

"We did kill it" Skulduggery told her

"Then how come we have had all these reports and these surveillance photos?" she asked as she through a bunch of photographs onto her desk.

Valkyrie walked over and took a look at them, "This is not the beast we killed China, this is something completely different."

Skulduggery looked at the photos, they were of a woman, no not a woman Skulduggery thought then took a closer look. She had long fiery red hair down to her waist, Violet triangular eyes, jet black shiny scales where her skin ought to be and large leathery wings spurting out of her back with sharp white teeth sitting gently on her black lips but the thing that stood out the most to Skulduggery was the scar on her right arm, three lines, all next to each other, in every photo she was standing in a position that suggested she was getting ready to fight. After staring at the photographs after what seemed like hours Skulduggery finally said something so quiet that if China and Valkyrie wasn't expecting him to say something they would have missed it, "Impossible" Skulduggery whispered.

A/N: Ok so I had a bit of trouble with this chapter but with a little chat with my friend Jedi-TARDIS-Chick101 I got a cool idea, thanks for your help.