Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
Corrival – Pa
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Chapter 107
Valkyrie took a gasping breath and her eyes flew open. China was kneeling above her, a hand on Valkyrie's face, and it took a bewildering moment for everything to come back to her. She gasped and sat up, patting down her body wildly. She wasn't in pain! She looked at China.
"Silly girl," China said weakly, a smile on her face. "I knew what I was doing."
"I panicked," Valkyrie whispered. "I didn't know what to do."
China stood slowly and Valkyrie did too. "Go. The fighting has stopped downstairs. It took a few minutes to get you awake."
"Thank you," Valkyrie said.
China put a hand on Valkyrie's cheek fondly. "Just promise me you'll visit so we can have a chat again. I do enjoy it."
"Promise!" Valkyrie said and ran down the stairs. It was like she'd been packed full of adrenalin, which probably was the case. "Crow! Raven!" She called.
She ran straight for the hall with the tapestry on the wall, remembering it from the drawing, and looked around. The Cleaver's were guarding a few of the Wild Brother's who were all brutally cut up and in cuffs on the floor bleeding out while the Sanctuary got themselves together for transportation. She looked around at the prisoners and around at the staff moving between then, but when she looked took a deep breath and actually took it all in, she could see the window was broken and a few people missing.
"Where's Solomon and Skulduggery?" She asked, addressing the crowd of detectives. "They are here, right?"
The detectives looked between themselves and one of them stepped forwards, Detective Sickle, the one that had been mad she opened the Puzzle box. "Hey, kid," he started off, making her glare at him, "look, there's some bad news. Some of the Wild Brother's were able to get away in the fight through that window."
Valkyrie nodded once. "And they were able to take two prisoners with them, is that what you're trying to say?"
He hesitated.
"They took the two prisoners we were actually trying to retrieve. So we failed the mission," Valkyrie said, her eyes hardening over the group of Sanctuary workers. "We failed!"
They looked down or away from her like little children, but Valkyrie didn't have it in her to be mad. She was quickly becoming slower and more tired the more she moved. She turned to two Cleaver's that weren't busy. "Saracen had a nasty fall, he's by the front entrance, and then Anton was second most hurt. The other's need help too."
They took that as it was meant and went to go find her brother's. She rubbed her forehead before turning back to the detectives to take charge.
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"It went awfully," Valkyrie said, rubbing her eyes and sitting back in the chair in Corrival's office.
"We have some of the Wild Brothers," Pa said, both comfortingly and gruffly. "At the least, we know more about the Spider's plans. To take Bliss out of it is good for 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...
