Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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TRIGGER WARNING: No Valkyrie's were harmed in the making of this chapter. But it does contain strong themes of rape.
Note: I will never describe any type of graphic sexual assault in my writing, but this story will continue to have Valkyrie in very difficult situations like this. Valkyrie is a teenage girl in the world of the sickest criminals. This is a theme I thought 'appropriate' to include with that in consideration.
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Chapter 56
As promised, Tanith woke Valkyrie up in the morning for her training session but was nice enough to 'go easy on her'.
Valkyrie disagreed with that.
They had started with stretches as per usual, then she was left to do whatever she wanted for twenty minutes and Valkyrie chose to spend it doing some dancing which she hadn't done since her competition over a year ago. When she was done with that, it was all planking and leg curls and sit-ups and other horrible things that exhausted her. After that was sparring with Wolf, which was fun but difficult because every time she got even the smallest, littlest upper hand on him he would suddenly tickle her and she would lose again.
After nearly an hour of sparring cross tickle-warring, Tanith helped Valkyrie by pinning the man down for her to tickle until he begged her to stop.
"That's what you get!" Valkyrie said loudly over his laughing. "For making me lose!"
Wolf laughed uproariously. "Just because you're lame!" He shouted between his laughing. "I'll always win!"
Valkyrie laughed and tickled him until he claimed he'd pee and they let him go. It was nice for all of five seconds and then Valkyrie was sent outside for a run.
"I hate you guys sometimes," Valkyrie grumbled as the two laughed at her.
She did what she was told and began her run like the good girl she was. It was a somewhat nice day, quite cool and the sky white. There was no wind. A great day in Ireland, especially for time outside, and even with her shorts on, she was fairly happy on her run. She went around the treeline, then began on her favourite route through the woods, following the dirt trail down to the stream at the back. She stopped there for a moment, looking around and breathing heavily.
She went still suddenly, feeling someone come up behind her.
"Valkyrie," Caelan said softly, stopping close to her. Valkyrie turned slowly to see him. She couldn't move back, the stream was quite deep from all the rain they had had recently, and Caelan didn't seem to notice her discomfort as he stopped just inches away from her. "I have been searching for you."
"You could have called," she said, remembering quickly that she owed him a favour after he helped her with the skull. "What do you need?"
"I wanted to see you," he said. "You've been on my mind."
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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...
