SP fanfic Chapter 2

The mouse trap.

She opened her eyes and looked around her but only saw the city of Dublin, miles below her and the pitch black sky above. Wait...miles below? She looked down and screamed, thrashing her arms and legs and falling from Skulduggery's grasp, He tilted his head, amused by her reaction after her years of flying with him then sped after her, she was a couple of feet from being squished like a bug when Skulduggery caught her.
"Why didn't you tell me! I almost had a heart attack!" She exclaimed,  sitting on the ground panting.
"In all fairness, you were unconscious Valkyrie." he held out a hand, she took it and he helped her up.
"Where is Draco?" She looked around at her surrounding.
"He flew off, I was following him when you woke up and fell.
Valkyrie turned bright red "I'm sorry Skulduggery"
He shrugged. "It's fine, but you will have to help me find him again."
She nodded. "No problem. Wait... you said he flew? I thought you were the only one who could fly..."
"Obviously not."
She thought back to their conversation with Draco and a question came to mind. "What did Draco mean about being old friends?" She asked.
"We were never friends as you can imagine, he's not my type, we fought on the same side, that's all."
"But if you fought on the same side...that means he's a good guy, right?"
He turned and looked at her. "Not necessarily, although it may have been my fault he turned into a murderer."
"What do you mean?"
"He was fighting some of Mevolent's men with me, I killed my side and kept pushing through, I saw a figure that looked like serpine, this was after he killed my family and I came back, all I thought of was killing him and seeking revenge, nothing else. I heard Draco shouting my name, I turned and he was being swarmed but I turned back to where I saw the figure and didnt look back again. He's most likely doing this for revenge."
She stood silent for a while then looked around again, changing subject. "Where are we?"
"I think this is the zoo." It was dark, the zoo looked so old and derelict...
"But I thought he lived right next to it."
"He does but you were out for almost 30minutes and I'm pretty sure he lead me to follow him in a circle. Someone clapped from above. They looked up and saw Draco standing ontop of the enterence.
"Yes I did leave you to circle the zoo, so clever, but I didn't think you would be stupid enough to fall into my perfect trap..." he grinned, it widened to almost the lenth of his face.
"What plan?" She asked, but she had a really bad feeling about this and that she would find out soon enough.
"You're trapped here, when I was leading you in a circle I was also drawing symbols around the entire zoo area hoping I would drop down, you would follow and be stuck here but the stupid little girl couldn't have made it any better if she tried." He laughed and flew off.
"Well...that could have gone better...at least we have our magic." She sighed, trying to make the best of a bad situation even though she was secretly saying 'I told you so' and 'well done, this was all your fault'.
"He's too smart to just forget to bound our magic. He has something planned for it." There was sounds of metal behind them as the doors of the cages slid open, releasing all the animals but they didn't seem normal...their eyes were glowing red, jaws open showing rows of teeth, claws out, ready to tear them apart. Skulduggery cursed under his breath and they backed away to the enterence but Draco was right, the magic symbols glowed and showed a blue-coloured dome over them, trapping them like mice in a cage with very hungry cats.