The fight begins
Chione smiled. "I'm so glad we have a reputation, aren't you girls?" She raised her arms to her sisters. Skulduggery lunged towards her and she shrieked but brought up a wall of ice, blocking his punch. She breathed a sigh of relief, her sisters laughing uneasily seeing how close they got to their older sibling.
"Two each, think you could manage that Valkyrie?" She didn't turn around when he spoke.
She nodded.
"You can have the two youngest then." He said.
"Oh thanks." She replied coldly. She turned slowly towards Mithria and September who were looking at each other with puzzled expressions on their faces. Skulduggery used his other hand to push at the air and the ice cracked. Chione gasped as he punched her in the chest and sent her flying back into the stairway. She did not look amused, but to be perfectly honest, neither did her sister Star who growled at him and charged. She clicked her fingers and both her arms were set on fire. She crossed her arms in an 'X' as she approached and brought them down as fast as she could. The 'X' her arms made slashed up Skulduggery's suit and left a clear mark on some of his bones, she rushed at him faster, both palms held out in front of her, her palms connected with the point the two slash marks bi-sected each other and she splintered his rib cage. He screamed and dropped to one knee. She smirked as Chione lifted herself from the hole in the staircase. Mithria and September stared in awe then realised they had their own opponent. Valkyrie shot shadows at them and Mithria quickly brought up a wall of water that roared like a Tsunami. September shot tree roots through the small holes in the wave. Valkyrie clicked her fingers and threw fireballs at the roots but the wall of water crashed down and extinguished the flames and the roots slid off her jacket, forcing her back but not puncturing her jacket. September looked confused then realised that the fabric protected her. Enraged, her arms became tree branches and each finger became like a thin twig, or pine needle. They came at her like scissors cutting through the finest silk. She rolled to the side a tad too late. One of them made a gash on her cheek, one across her neck and two others cut strands of hair off, she watched them fall to the ground. She clutched her neck, took it away and looked at her hand which was now covered in the rich red liquid. She hissed at the girls through her hair that was covering her face as some of it was sticking to the cut on her cheek. She flicked the hair away from her face and stood. Valkyrie brought up her arms and hundreds of thin shadows shot at them. They put up their element walls but at the last moment the shadows swerved around the walls, piercing both the sisters' sides. She risked a quick glance across the room at Skulduggery to see how he was doing with his fight. Pretty well it seemed. He was in the middle of throwing Star into a wall. Chione went up behind him and kicked the back of his leg which buckled, causing him to fall to one knee again but this time he swiveled round and took Chione's legs out from under her. He picked her up by her legs and started swinging her around like the Hammer Throw thing at the Olympics. She tore her eyes away to see Mithria and September helping each other up. She heard a scream an a crash and knew Chione had followed her younger sister into the wall. The two sisters in front of her shivered at the sound and couldn't bear to look round to see what was going on. Valkyrie didn't let them have any time to recover. She sent a wave of air towards them, knocking them off their feet yet again and they tumbled to the ground. She clicked her fingers and hurled two fireballs at them, followed by thicker shadows. They cried out and Valkyrie watched the pool of blood get wider. Then there was silence. She looked round to see Skulduggery staring at the two girls hanging out of the wall. He picked up his hat, holding his other arm across his stomach, protecting his broken ribs. He turned round to her and spoke softly.
"Get ready, they're not done yet." He frowned.
She felt her heart sink down to the bottom of her stomach, she trembled as the room began to fill with laughter. All the girls got up and came towards them. Skulduggery and Valkyrie slowly made their way to the center of the room. When Skulduggery and Valkyrie were shoulders length apart the sisters started screaming. Chione's skin froze over so it glistened, Mithria's skin was covered in water, when she touched her own hand it actually...rippled... September's skin turned into bark and Star's whole body was set alight. Their wounds healed instantly. They smiled sweetly like the girls they were supposed to be. "Now skeleton, girl, the real fight starts here." Chione giggled.
