Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
Corrival – Pa
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Chapter 87
The three days later, the sky was full of sunshine and a spattering of rain, making half rainbows in the distance. With the Spiders now hiding elsewhere, Tesseract in the highest security prison in the world and Craven disappearing for the foreseeable future, they had been placed back on normal missions with any leads of the former things taking priority, assuming they came up.
It was kind of anticlimactic. The Spiders and Necromancers had set them up for a big chase and fight but disappeared. The Necromancers, the cowards, had stopped when they realised their leader was dead and the one they asked to replace him had tricked them all.
Being several days later, though, did give them one new thing to do. They had received a call from Kenspeckle so now they were here to see how Melancholia was doing.
Valkyrie walked ahead of the others and saw the girl was sitting up in bed. She had a frown on her face, but it was her eyes that gave away how lost she was.
"Hey," Valkyrie said softly, walking to her side. She got glared at. "How are you doing?"
"I'm fine. I want to go home," Melancholia hissed.
"Err, actually, I have to tell you some news," Valkyrie said. "Has Kenspeckle told you anything that happened, why you're here?"
"No," Melancholia said grumpily.
"Craven was telling everyone you're the Death Bringer and wanted me and you to fight. We did but when you threw me into a wall they started arguing and you held my hand and I knew something was wrong. Not just because you were acting weird, but you were looking pretty bad. So, I brought you here for treatment."
"You should have left me at the Temple!" She said loudly. "Why did you bring me here, you nimnit?"
"You couldn't stay at the Temple because I knew Craven could get to you there and I believed he had done something awful to you. Once I brought you here, he told everyone that you're the saviour and that I had tortured you and kidnapped you and another girl. I didn't, but they didn't exactly ask me, they just decided to try and kill me. And then Craven let the Children of the Spider into the Temple and they killed the High Priest and all the Clerics and destroyed the place when we tried to get them out. There isn't a Temple, a Priest, Clerics, anything. All the Irish Necromancer's are dispersing to other places."
Melancholia stared at her in shock. "Cleric Craven wouldn't do that," she whispered.
Valkyrie leaned against the bed frame and tried to look friendly. "Melancholia, I need to ask you something. What happened before Craven made us fight? What did he do to you?"
"Cleric Craven didn't do anything to me," she whispered, still thinking over what Valkyrie said.
"Then how did you get so ill? You've been in an induced coma for five days, the doctor said you were on deaths bed. What happened?"
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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...
