Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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Chapter 70
Valkyrie woke with a start in the back of Ghastly's van. She groaned, remembering flying out the Bentley at over eighty miles an hour, and Remnants being everywhere.
Her whole body felt bruised and battered. Sitting up carefully, she knew why – she was bruised and battered. Even her beloved jacket was gone, and that had been her favourite with the blood red sleeves!
"What's happening?" She asked groggily. "Have you stopped the Remnants? How long was I possessed? How'd you get the van?"
"Erskine drove it with Tanith," Crow said.
"You okay?" Tanith asked, making Valkyrie jump. She'd been so silent next to her, Valkyrie hadn't noticed.
"I feel bruised to hell but I'm okay. Do you actually know why I'm like this?" Valkyrie frowned.
Crow nodded, the back of his skull shining slightly, just visible to Valkyrie around his headrest. "You were possessed for roughly an hour, running around the city and very difficult to catch. It took all three of us to block you in and catch you."
"The Remnants thought if they hurt you enough it would crack Skulduggery and he'd go into a rage," Tanith told her. "They were throwing you around the shop, you nearly went through a wall. We were possessed too but we woke up outside the mansion for whatever reason. I saw Tesseract but he was running away so I suppose he got possessed."
"Weird," Valkyrie muttered.
"Yeah, very. We came to find you and, well, that's when we started chasing you, etcetera."
"Do you know where the others are?" Valkyrie asked.
"Haven't heard from Dexter, I believe the phone lines are down for the Hibernian but I think that's to save additional power. Anton hasn't called either. Fletcher is hiding as you told him to, and if he is possessed, we'll find out eventually anyway. Same story for Peregrine. The Remnants won't give him up if they find him," Crow said darkly.
Valkyrie nodded. "How are we meant to deal with them then?"
"We're going to MacGillycuddy's Reeks," Crow told her.
"But we'll make a stop on the way," Snake said, turning back to smile at her. She smiled back.
They drove on for nearly an hour, Tanith falling fast asleep on Valkyrie's lap looking quite pale – Snake told them she'd been sick twice on the way so she was obviously not feeling better – and when they came to a stop, Valkyrie gently poked Tanith's nose a few times to wake her up.
"You're so strange," Tanith muttered as she gathered herself up.
"Thank you."
They were at a large, flat building in the middle of nowhere. "Hurry," Crow told the girls, and they did, passing through an invisible, cold, forcefield into the area.
"I remember this place!" Snake said suddenly.
"We've been here before," Crow said to no one in particular. "This is the original forcefield Kenspeckle made around an old Sanctuary the first time they escaped. It won't hold long, maybe an hour at most, but it will stop all Remnants, including possessed people, from coming in. I'm hoping some people have decided to join us."
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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...
