Inspiration

I want to prove two things with this. One: Derek Landy is a great inspiration for a lot of things and Two: Writers can get inspiration from anything. Anything at all. In Mortal Coil there is a line that says, "Time did what time did, it passed." Now, here is a poem inspired on that line.

Time did what time does
It passed

And I lost myself
Pieces of me fell away
I couldn't find them

My heart broke
Once, Twice and again
Each time it hurt more

I felt forever lost
In time
Just a memory

Never coming back
Till the end
When we all meet

Till then I'm stuck
Never moving, never changing
Lost in time


I was gone but
Time did what time does
It passed

JV FanFic? Part 1

I don't know if this will turn into anything but I'm going to start a new story. It's fanfic but it doesn't have Skulduggery I think. Really I started to write this and it sounded good but I don't know where it's going or if it's going anywhere at all. So, here goes...

Jay ran. She could hear Vade’s footsteps behind her as he followed. Her boots slipped a little on the wet ground. It had rained earlier that day and the streetlights made the ground glitter. Jay heard Vade shout and she spun around. Behind her was a huge black mass of writhing tentacles that shot out into the darkness. The thing itself seemed to be made of darkness and it sucked away the little light that the streetlights provided. It stood at least twelve feet tall and its shape was constantly changing to fit the environment. Jay was sure that it couldn’t see, hear, taste or smell so it moved around only by sense of touch. It was very sensitive though and even the smallest vibrations in the air would cause it to turn. Currently, it was holding a sixteen-year-old boy upside-down by the ankle. Vade was doing his best to kick it but he couldn’t reach the monster. Jay saw a sword, Vade’s weapon, lying on the ground a few feet away.

"Well, don't just stand there. Help me!" he yelled at her.

"Oh, you're fine. Don't be such a baby," Jay said, milling around calmly.

"Jay!"

She rolled her eyes.

"Oh, alright."

She slid her knives out of her coat. They were thin, about as long as her forearm and really sharp. She dove forward quickly, blurring her movements as she picked up speed. Before the monster even realized what she was doing, she had jumped up and used it as a jumping board. The Jell-O-like mass gave her momentum and she soared forward, slicing through the tendril that held Vade up. He fell, landing on his hands and tucking into a graceful roll. He picked up his sword and dashed after Jay.

"Where to?"

"Kenya, it's so nice this time of year, wouldn't you say. It would be a great place to spend spring break."

Vade stared at her as she ran. Jay stumbled and rolled. Vade jumped over her and she popped up behind him. Neither lost much momentum. Finally, they rounded the corner to the main street and the monster melted away into the shadows. After they were sure that it had left, Vade slid his sword back into its scabbard and wrapped his jacket around it. Jay slid her knives into her coat and they started to walk. Even at night, New York’s main streets were lit up. Cars drove by, people on cell phones hurried through and various advertisements lit up the road so that it looked like daytime.

"That was fun." Jay's face was bright, her amber eyes glowing.

"You are so weird. We could have died."

“But we didn't. How’s the leg?"

Vade glared at her as they made their way back home.

I Hate Doctors

I went to the doctor today. I was having an off day as it was and I felt the very intense need to punch at least three of my teachers multiple times today and I was totally antisocial. Well, more than usual at least. Anyhow, I have a crappy day at school and then I have to go to the doctor to get my booster shots. I hate booster shots and right now my left arm is burning a little. I can feel it every time I move it. I also had to have a TB test done (when they insert a little bubble of fluid into the layers of your skin) and that stung so bad. Want to know what the worst part is? I have to go back on Thursday again. Yeah, so my day sucked. Comment and tell me how yours was.

Book 6: Chapter 20 (My version)

This is the last chapter. I finally finished. You're all very glad that it's over by now. Anyway, maybe I'll write more.

Chapter 20

It was two days before Valkyrie woke up and another twelve hours before Jay did. The two girls were a mess. All of Valkyrie’s friends now knew who Darquesse was and to her surprise, none of them had even cared. They had wanted to help. They discussed what was going to happen afterwards with Fletcher’s funeral and everything. Jay had been quiet, not saying anything at all.

Finally, Skulduggery said, “Well, it was nice to meet you Jay. I hope you have a good life.”

Jay’s eyes widened in surprise and then her expression melted into a soft, warm smile.

“Wait! You’re sending her away? She saved the world last night. She saved me. What are you doing?”

Jay laughed.

“No, he’s not sending me away. He’s just very observant. He realizes that I’m leaving.”

“Leaving? Why?”

“Because I was not made for this. I wasn’t made to fight battles and save the world and really the only reason I stayed was for Fletcher. He’s my brother but I barely know him. Now he’s dead and I don’t think I can stay. I already booked my plane ticket. I’ll be leaving tonight.”

“But what if Darquesse comes back? What do I do then?”

“Fight her off yourself. You are strong enough and even if I was here, I honestly don’t think that I could push her out again. It’s really hard.”

Suddenly, Valkyrie burst into tears. Everything that she had held in since Fletcher’s death came flowing out and in a matter of seconds Jay was in tears too, trying really hard to stop sobbing. No one had cried for Fletcher yet, but now the floodgates were open and there was no closing them until there was nothing left. Tanith walked in took one look at them and burst into tears as well. Ghastly and Skulduggery put up a good fight but in the end, the only one without tears in his eyes was the Detective, probably because he had no eyes. Later, they said goodbye to China. There were no tears there either but China did seem a little sad that Jay was leaving. Or maybe that was because Tanith was back. Skulduggery drove Jay and Valkyrie to the airport. The last thing they saw were her green eyes as she rounded the corner, glittering with what might have been tears or excitement.

“I’m going to miss her,” Valkyrie decided.

Book 6: Chapter 19 (My version)

Oh No!!! Fletcher!!!! This chapter is the one before last. I'm almost done here. Chapter 19

Jay screamed. She threw a wave of energy at the Hollow Men that disintegrated fifty of them on the spot and then she turned to Vile. She flung wave after wave of blue and white energy at him, forcing him back. A few shots of light got through, piercing his armor and he roared but after a few seconds she fell to her knees and Skulduggery jumped in front of her to defend from Vile’s attacks. Valkyrie saw all this but didn’t understand, just like she didn’t understand why Fletcher wouldn’t get up. He was just lying there, not even moving at all and there was blood everywhere. She found herself running to him. She fell to her knees at his side. His hair was a mess and there were holes in his jacket. She touched his face and when she drew back there was blood on her fingers. His blood. She saw Skulduggery get thrown past her and hit the ground and roll. She looked at Fletcher’s face and started to look for the one person who could help her. Darquesse welcomed her with open arms and together they started to attack. They sent wave after wave of darkness slamming into Vile, each one hitting him hard and sending him backward. They never gave him a chance to fight, never gave him a chance to pull his shadows forward, they waited for him to drop his shield and when he did, they sharpened the shadows and threw them at him. They pieced his armor over and over. Vile didn’t scream, didn’t call out, didn’t even whimper. He was quiet as he died. Even after he died they pushed and pushed more and more shadows into him. “Valkyrie, he’s dead! Stop!” Skulduggery yelled at her, but Valkyrie wasn’t there anymore. Darquesse was in charge. She grinned at the skeleton. He’d been so kind to her. And now she would thank him. The shadows shot out at him but before they hit, Darquesse felt a burning. It hurt so bad, and she dropped. She tried to lash out but she couldn’t move. Valkyrie stirred in her and she recognized the feeling. Ah, it hurt so much. Finally, Valkyrie was strong enough and she pushed through taking back her body. Valkyrie gasped. The burning was gone, replaced by pleasing warmth coming from her back. She knew what it was and said, “Thanks Jay.” The warmth was gone all too suddenly and she looked back to see Jay, lying passed out on the ground, her red hair splayed across the ground like a halo. Valkyrie, reached to touch her but saw blood on her fingers. It wasn’t her blood. She recoiled. Then she felt herself falling back and then only blackness.

Book 6: Chapter 18 (My version)

Okay there is actually some action in this chapter. We are almost done. Keep on reading.
Chapter 18

That night, they went to Vile’s lair. Another cemetery.

“You Necromancers are a creative lot aren’t you?” Jay said to Valkyrie who proceeded to glare at her.

Something between a giggle and a whimper escaped from Fletcher’s throat. Both girls looked at him.

“Nervous Fletch?” Jay asked, raising her eyebrows teasingly.

“How can you be so calm about this? Does everyone notice that we are going up against the biggest, baddest bad guys of all time? I mean, seriously, we’re going to die.”

Jay laughed, her voice ringing out in the quiet night.

“Fletch, I have full faith in Valkyrie and Skulduggery and honestly, how bad can it be that we are going to die. It’s can’t be worse than being alive.”

Skulduggery tilted his head to the left and stared at Jay.

“You’re an interesting girl, you know that?”

Jay grinned. Eleven Cleavers pulled up silently behind them.

“Okay, time to go in.”

So they did. The entrance was a large tomb that a rich family had probably commissioned. Inside, there was a single coffin that lay raised on a pedestal in the center of the room. Right behind it, so that was impossible to see unless you walked all the way around the coffin, was a trapdoor. Skulduggery gestured to the trap door and Jay stepped forward. She put her hand on the rotting wood and started to feel around. Last time, she hadn’t felt the magic so now she was going to look at it. She sent a pulse of blue magic through the wood. It lit up everywhere; there were no pockets where the magic had been absorbed. She nodded and lifted the door, sending another pulse through the ground on the steps. A few places had not blue light. She pointed to one and shook her head. Everyone understood and started to walk down, avoiding the dark spots at all cost. She did it three more times as they walked down a long corridor.

“Where’s Vile?” Valkyrie asked and Jay pointed straight ahead so they continued to walk.

The corridor had few more traps and a couple warning sigils that Jay was able to bypass by muffling them with her magic. The corridor was long and by the time they made it to the end, she was looking quite pale and had started to lean, ever so slightly, on one of the Cleavers. She pointed through the door.

“He’s there,” she whispered. Everyone nodded.

“You stay here,” Skulduggery said but Jay shook her head and stood up tall.

“I can still fight, not with magic but that was never the plan. I’m going in.”

Skulduggery looked at her for a very long time and then shrugged. Then, doing what he did best, Skulduggery broke down the door and dove into the room. His hands were blazing as he released two continuous streams of pure fire at a slightly startled Vile. He recovered quickly, though and had a shield of darkness up before either of the jet streams could hit him. Jay saw a tendril of darkness snake over to the wall and before she could stop it, it pressed a symbol there. “Blah, Blah, Blah” by Kesha started to play and a few Hollow Men burst into the room, followed by about a hundred more. The room was actually quite spacious, with only one thing in it; the chair that Vile had been sitting on. That was almost immediately used as a weapon by one of the Cleavers who threw it a Vile. Vile tore it apart with the shadows and it showered Cleavers with splinters. One got a relatively big piece on the head but it didn’t even seem to notice. They were attacking in wave after wave and though no one had died yet, nobody had gotten a good strike at him either. Tanith, slashed at the shadows that flew at her and ran up the wall, dodging attacks there and hacking away at the top of Vile’s head. Jay was spending more time focusing on the Hollow Men. She had managed to push them back to the door so that she would only have to fight two or three at a time but she couldn’t hold them off forever. She actually doubted that she would be able to hold them off for much longer without help but everyone else was preoccupied with Vile. Fletcher was teleporting around the room like crazy, firing bullet after bullet at Vile, all of which were immediately absorbed by the armor and spit back at him but Fletcher was already across the room firing from there. Finally, Vile got annoyed and ignored the rest of the attacks, focusing on Fletcher alone. He shot twenty arrows of darkness at him and they all hit him right before he teleported. Across the room, Fletcher fell into a heap on the floor, blood pooling around him.

Book 6: Chapter 17 (My version)

Okay, so not that much action in this one either but things are getting interesting. It's called suspense and also I wasn't quite sure where the story was going. Now I think I know but I still have to write it.

Chapter 17

Tanith looked guilty. They were standing over Jay, who still hadn’t woken up after twenty four hours. Ghastly was doing his Elder stuff and Skulduggery and Valkyrie were collecting information on Vile. They had scoped out the bottom of the church, this time with an army of Cleavers and Tanith, Ghastly, Fletcher, and Valkyrie, and they had found it completely empty. The only sign that they had been there in the first place were the bodies of the three Hollow Men that Jay had killed. They had no way of finding Vile until Jay woke up to do her tracking spell thing. Fletcher sat across from Tanith as she looked down at Jay.

“It’s not your fault, you know. I mean she was only helping you because you were taken over by the Remnant and that’s not your fault.”

Tanith didn’t look up.

“I know but still, she risked so much for me and she didn’t even know if it would work. When will she wake up?”

“Last time she passed out, she hadn’t used as much magic, I don’t think. I mean she was able to stay awake for a little longer. She was out for two days. You should have seen her eat after that. She ate three servings of pasta.”

Tanith shook her head. Suddenly, Valkyrie burst into the door.

“We have to wake her up!”

“What? How? Why?”

“Because, we found Vile and we have to attack before he realizes that we’ve found him.”

“Ah, and we need her because…”

“Because she would want to be there and she would be a good ally, fighting the Hollow Men.”

“Well, how do we wake her up?” Tanith yelled.

Everyone drew back in surprise. Tanith was not happy.

“Mmmmh.”

Everyone looked at the bed where Jay was stirring. She sat up slowly, her eyes still, closed. She stretched and yawned. Then she opened her eyes… and jumped, yelling.

“Ahhhh! What are you doing in my room? Why is everyone in my room?”

“You seem to have a lot of energy.”

Jay nodded and jumped out of bed, shooing them away. They stood outside of her door for a few minutes. She walked out dressed in her regular leather jacket and jeans. She did a double take when she saw them all there and sighed.

“What do you want?”

“Well, we found Vile and so we wondered if you wanted to fight. Also, why are you so awake? Last time it took you two days to wake up and even then you were drowsy and boring.”

Jay laughed.

“Yes, well, you see last time, I used my magic, which is what made me faint. This time, I took your magic so that wasn’t why I fainted. The reason I fainted was heat stroke. Holding that much energy in me warmed me up, inside so I fainted. As soon as I cooled down I was fine. I’m hungry. Is there food?”

“Pasta?” Fletcher asked and Jay hit him on the arm.

“So is there a plan for getting Vile?”

Jay asked over some breakfast of toast and jam.

“Yes, Valkyrie, Skulduggery, Tanith and maybe ten Cleavers all attack Vile, while Fletcher and you as well as anyone else who wants to come along attack any Hollow Men or other minions that are hanging around. Considering that it’s Vile, we have to expect zombies, and vampires at least and probably also some evil demons. We’ll find out there.”

Jay nodded brightly, responding to Skulduggery’s tone.

“So we go in, kick some evil butt and then leave, unscathed as heroes.”

“That’s the plan, of course things will go terrible, horrible wrong so I suggest preparing to, I don’t know, mourn or die possibly.”

Jay laughed and took a bite of her toast.

“I think her magic fried her brain,” Fletcher observed.