Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
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Chapter 14
"-to you!"
"Make a wish!" Tanith told her excitedly.
Valkyrie thought for a moment about it and then grinned and blew her candles out.
The Dead Men and Tanith clapped and cheered for her. Her thirteenth birthday, just a few months since Gordon had died and she had become a Dead Man in Waiting, and they had given her everything she had wanted for her birthday right down to baking her a cake and covering it in a sickly amount of sweet buttercream and then covered that in a mini pink and white marshmallows for fun.
Rumour in the manor was that Wolf had baked it, meaning it would be good, but Bear had been pushed into placing, very carefully, all the tiny marshmallows, and Valkyrie couldn't think of a better cake. Not to mention the pile of presents they had gotten her and the large lunch they had just returned from for her birthday.
"What did you wish for?" Snake immediately asked.
Panda hit him on the back of the head. "That's bad luck. Don't tell the idiot."
Erskine rubbed the back of his head and winked at her. Instead, he said, "I want some of that cake!"
Anton pulled the cake over and cut a big piece for everyone so the cake was gone but they all got to laugh over the hunk they received.
Tanith had gotten her a training sword and a promise of training her into a 'The' master weaponist whilst the others got her gifts in their usual ways. Crow got her a few books on magic, mostly beginners material on several branches, as well as two hard hats with no given reason.
Bear got her another charm for the bracelet he had given her years ago, and a photo frame she wanted to put a picture of her family, the men and woman in front of her, within. Panda, since he had made her several protective things by now, simply made her a very pretty dress and had also given her some matching shoes she loved – her first pair of heals too, which she was very excited and nervous about wearing despite them only being a little more than two inches.
Wolf got her an exquisite looking, finely detailed music box that could be wound to play an entire song that was just beautiful. Inside she had also found a pretty ankle bracelet and the smooth, pretty black ring she had seen with Tanith a while back and really liked.
Snake had bought her some questionable things, and likely the most. When she had woken up she had been somehow surrounded in her sleep by presents all from him. He had thought it was a competition, and if it was, he won by quantity hands down. He had gotten her socks, a massive water gun, some nice makeup things she'd need to watch YouTube to be able to use, a nice jacket, sparkly body wash that would leave her covered in glitter, some nice pens, all new school supplies in camo colours as well as a backpack that was essentially a shrunken army bag, a box of chocolates, a birthday badge, and a big card that had several vouchers including one to get her nails done, another for her hair and money for a nice spa nearby. Since she had woken earlier than everyone in her excitement – even Skulduggery had been meditating still – she had pulled herself from her bed, gathered the wrapping paper and quietly snuck into his room and places in on top of him. When they had woken each other up to surprise her, they had found Snake snoring under piles of pink wrapping paper and laughed at him, and Valkyrie had left her room already dressed and makeup-ed after said videos. Needless to say, they had been more surprised than her.
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain
Fanfiction(This story is written as a fanfiction, but can be read as a story without having read any of the books.) Valkyrie Cain, the adoptive daughter of the Dead Men, has had a life full of love and magic. But as she gets older, times become scarier and sh...
