Skulduggery Pleasant fan-fic: The Cradle of Magic (UNDER EDIT)

Realisation

-Vin

I remembered this. Training. I remember the cold hard sweat cascading down your neck as you attempted to out-box Ghastly Bespoke, I remember the hours spent carving painful symbols into my skin, and performing different actions to watch the energy flow from my body. I also remember countless exams, watching Bliv accidentally set her test on fire resulting in the alarm going off, and us both standing outside in the English weather. Bliv inherited a few bruises after that, that was also when she discovered her passion for setting things alight... Including... On countless occasions... My hair.
I ducked, my hands flying back behind my head, forming a flip to avoid the laser, From the corner of my eye I could see an impressed China, enveloped in a shielding dome, around her body. She tapped a symbol and a series of lasers came at me, I counted two blue, five red and a white before they ceased and I collapsed in a dizzy heap on the concrete floor. I expected China to be above me, congratulating me on my skill... But she had disappeared from the cellar... I got up and looked around, brushing the dust from my jeans. The cavern ahead was dark, so I sent a pulse of energy through it, detecting a being in the distance through the waves.
That was when I heard the growling. It came at me white and terrible, blood adorned it's mouth, with vicious rips around it's face and beady black eyes. A vampire. China had sent me a vampire. What a b****. I knew all there was to know about vampires, weak points and everything... Didn't mean they weren't still difficult to take down.

It lunged at my head, I ducked and rolled, tapping symbols on my thighs. It turned and came once again a me. I waited until the sigil had powered my entire leg, then kicked the vampire in the cheekbone, sending it hurtling towards the moss covered wall. It got up gingerly, growling. I crossed my arms over each other and sent a wave of blue energy into the vampire's chest before it could attempt to attack once more, it jerked then fell limply on the floor. Well that was easier than expected.

I saw the silhouette of Miss Sorrows to the left of me, "I see university hasn't softened you then..." She said, her voice echoing around the cavern, I turned to face her "If anything it's made me stronger than I ever was." "What the Hell was that about by the way?". She chuckled "I need you to do a job for me Miss Nightshade". That was when I realised that a gun had been pointing at my head for the last five seconds, I could have been dead in that time. I swung I left hook catching the assassin in the mouth, I flipped backwards to give space between the killer and I, that was when I realised who this man was... He aimed and fired at my chest, he didn't want to kill me, this was another test. Otherwise I would have recommended the head. I sent a pulse of energy from my hands freezing the bullets mid-air about an inch I front of me. A little like something from the Matrix. The shells fell to the floor with a clatter, and I looked into the blue eyes of my opponent. Those sharp blue eyes.

Realising his gun was empty, Mr Bliss came forward to kick me in the stomach but I dodged it and blocked a punch to to my neck. He laughed and I right-hooked him in the mouth once again sending pulses down my arm towards his face. He jerked and punched me in the stomach, taking my breath away. He spat blood and smiled sending a rally of punches at me, none of them I dodged. I coughed, lurching forward, sending magical pulses all over the floor, to Bliss throwing him off his feet. He immediately got up dusting his hands, taking his blazer off to reveal a pack of muscles up his arms and visible through his tank top. He was pretty hot for a supposed dead man. I smiled and elbowed him just below the ribs, he grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back, I groaned in pain and he twisted harder. I swung a kick at his head with my available leg, as it hit he let go of my arm, but punched me in the nose. I dived under his legs and took a punch from behind, feeling the familiar hot, wet fluid run from my nose and down my face. He back kicked, getting me in the Clavicle, I felt it dislocate. Clutching my shoulder I sank to the ground, with Mr Bliss above me, he smiled then laughed and I looked into his eyes as the pulses of energy made their way up his body, throwing him through a nearby wall.

I heard China laugh. I got up, clutching the bridge of my nose to prevent the blood from ruining my leather jacket and made my way over to a very miffed Mr Bliss. "You were being soft..." I said offering a hand. He declined it and went to retrieve his blazer "don't want to go and ruin that pretty face of yours" he mumbled walking to China. "I imagine you require a few answers" she said handing me a tissue. I mopped the blood from my face "maybe a few..." I said looking at China Sorrows, the woman with all the answers, and Mr Bliss the man that had been dead for eleven years.

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Yer I thought u guyz needed a bit more Vin in ur lives...
On reading this Vin is now questioning her own existence. A bit like the Matrix.
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