Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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Chapter 47
Twenty-four hours later, Valkyrie, Crow, Anton and Murder Rose were standing around the lobby waiting, hoping to see what their plan was. Scarab didn't disappoint on one level – he strode into the Midnight Hotel without a care in the world, just looking at them mildly.
Valkyrie already didn't like him.
When they got to the desk, he and his companion, a stoic, dumb-looking man, checked themselves in. There was nothing Valkyrie and Crow were allowed to do. He wasn't a criminal anymore at any rate. It wasn't until he had signed his name and Anton had given him his key that he spoke again.
"You," he said levelly. "Shudder. I hear you killed my son."
Anton stared at him blankly. "Who was your son?"
"Billy-Ray Sanguine."
Valkyrie felt the flip-blade in her jacket pocket keenly.
"I did."
Scarab nodded shortly and left for his room, ignoring Crow and Valkyrie completely. Rose, the dumb man who hadn't given his name, which was also allowed by policy, and Scarab left for wherever they were going. The man Rose was staying with still hadn't shown his face.
"I didn't know he had a son," Crow said when they were gone.
"I don't think anyone did," Anton said, sorting his files out. "Just remember the policy. If he starts something, it is my business alone. Once he leaves, then he is yours."
Valkyrie and Crow waited around for the rest of the day to end and when it finally got to half eleven that night, the group they were after came down together. Rose, Scarab, the big, dumb one and the man they hadn't yet seen. They filed in and sat opposite Valkyrie and Crow at the communal table.
"Pleasant," Scarab greeted mildly.
Rose couldn't stay silent after being around them so long. She glared at Valkyrie. "You killed my team."
"I did," Valkyrie did, smiling at her without humour.
She gave her that evil grin again. "I have a new one now. Meet Foe and Obloquy."
Obloquy was the one who came with Scarab; Foe was the one they hadn't met up until then. He grinned at Valkyrie. She didn't like the way he looked at her.
"Nice to meet you both," she said. "I look forward to kicking your arses."
Rose gave a nasty laugh, but Foe was apparently done with her being spokeswoman. "You did us a favour, Cain," he said. "Now we have Rose to aid us in our mission. Krav and Gallow were nothing compared to us."
Rose didn't seem to care about her dead friends anymore. "The rest of my team will be meeting us in Ireland and we will make this world burn!" Rose said, laughing like a maniac.
Valkyrie and Crow just watched them without reacting. They could take them. Even if they didn't know these people, they could do it.
It was almost midnight, almost time to go to Ireland.
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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...
