SP fanfic chapter 3

Zoo-break

Skulduggery and Valkyrie summoned flames in both hands and fired at the animals. The flames set fire to their fur but they just kept coming. A tiger lunged at her and she went down. It tried to bite through her jacket but it protected her, she grabbed it's fur and pulled, making it roar loudly in her ear, throwing her senses off. The tiger clawed at her face and neck whilst she got her bearings. When she finally did, she couldn't feel her face, it was all numb and blood spilled down her clothes, it was bearable though, for now. She rolled away from it and shot a fist of shadows to its chest, it tore its body apart just as a monkey jumped on her back and bit her neck, she shrieked in pain and grabbed it by the tail, swinging it above her head and lunching it into the sky. She shot a spike of shadows after it and skewered it right through the head.
"Monkey's eye!" She exclaimed, starting to enjoy this far too much.
"Valkyrie" came Skulduggery's muffled voice. "Stay focussed will you?" She turned and he screamed, he had a pile of lions ontop of him, scratching and chewing his bones, his suit in tatters. She sent spears of shadow towards the pack, killing a few but the others she didn't kill just turned to her, more annoyed and went for her. She lay there, covering her head with her arms and was being squished. The lions were clawing at her neck but one of them caught her zip and pulled away, unzipping her jacket and leaving her stomach unprotected.She screamed as they clawed at it, ripping her stomach to shreds. Skulduggery pushed at the air and they all got flung off her. He scooped her up in his arms.
"Valkyrie, stay with me ok?"
She smiled weakly "Always". The lions came back at them as Skulduggery had an idea, he rose a couple of feet off the air, just under the dome.
"From here they can't kill us but we can kill them." She fired hundreds of shadows down at the animals, killing them all one by one (which took quite a while) When they couldn't see anymore, he lowered back down and lay her on the ground, kneeling beside her.
"We did it Valkyrie,  we'll get out of here then get you to the Sanctuary." He stroked her hair then stopped suddenly as he heard a noise behind them. A stray Rhino charged at them, it was heading towards her. Skulduggery realised this and at the last moment, pushed her out of the way. The Rhino's horn caught him in the chest and had him pinned up against the dome, she heard the bones in his ribcage shatter.
"Skulduggery! " she cried, she sat up and waved a lazy hand, sending a wave of air towards the animal which knocked it over. It dropped Skulduggery and he lay there, motionless. She sent a blast of pitch black into the Rhino's chest and it died. The dome slowly faded and she took out her phone, calling Fletcher.
"Fletch...get...Ghastly to...Dublin zoo." She closed her phone, crawled over to him and lay there, looking up at the stars, waiting.