The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 3

In a flash, a teenage girl, eighteen or so, stormed into view, decked out in sleek

black

gear.

The second the doctors laid eyes on her, their hearts skipped a beat.

She looked sharp, even lethal-way scarier than Dane Grayson ever dreamed of being.

Those icy eyes of hers pinned them in place, like their blood might freeze solid just from her stare.

The head doctor snapped out of it first, his face darkening.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" he roared. "Get out of-"

"Crack!" He didn't finish.

A scream tore out of him as he went flying, slammed into the wall by a brutal kick.

The nurse drawing Zach's blood gaped, wide-eyed.

One second the girl was at the door; now she was right there, looming over her.

tightened on the nearly

small, steely hand clamped her wrist and

yelped, pain shooting up

scream echoed through the room, shrill

Valor didn't even blink. She yanked the needle free from Zach's

care.

then darted to the blood-processing machine nearby,

seconds, she had a fresh transfusion line ready, slipping the needle back into Zach's

into him, and the fog in Zach's vision started

him, and the fog in Zach's vision started to clear. He squinted,

sis, is that... you?" he mumbled, his soft

like it-older, harder-but something in his gut said it was her.

on the syringe, just for

her face-usually a frozen tundra-cracked open, a

she murmured, voice

out, her hand brushing his fluffy

three of Raven's longtime crew stood

a mask, a

gawked, a pack of burly

through, with this don't-mess-with-me look all

blood flowing back into him and sneered, "Well,

quiet, he figured. People had forgotten what happened when you

his head toward his