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this story is taking place in the summer in londen england
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the caracters are in the uncles house since he died
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the characters are Stefinie,mom,dad,skulldugery,the cousens,gorden,china,troll,serpine and skulldugery pleasents friend
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when gorden had died serpine wanted something that would make him very powerful.He had to kill gorden before he could get it.Stefinie gets gordens house and wants to spend the night.Serpine sends one of his to go get the weapon.He knocks on the door and tells stefinie to open up.He brakes in through the window. But skuldugery made him go away. Now she is a part of the other world.
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stefinie is spendng the night when the man breaks in.and skulldugery beats the man up.
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stefinie rides with skulldugery in the bentlys to go see one of skuldugerys old friend ''china''. Skulldugery tells her to not give china her name beacuse she could do alot of bad things with a name
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After they talk to china they go to the car and sit and talk. Wile they talk the man that broke into the house crashes into them. skulldugery is hurt bad. He tells stefinie to run . The man runs after her.Stefinie gos into a realy dark ally witch you can barly see. She runs past the man and leads him into the canal. she gos in and he gos in after her.She swims fast then looks behind her and sees that he is shreding abart in the canal.
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stefinie and skulldugery are proud that they defated serpine
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Skulduggery defeats Serpine, destroying him with the Scepter to protect Stephanie, breaking the Sceptre's power in the process.
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stefinie gos back home to see her family
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gorden kept the scepter in a maze beneath the house Stephanie inherited. The "key" is in fact an old, insignificant-looking brooch left by her uncle to his other brother's wife.
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stefinie is joining skulldugery on all of his adventures.
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she gos back to her room and sees the other her and she gos away when she sees stefinie
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stefinie found out about her parents having magic abilitys
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stefinie then does something that tells her that she has the ability to do magic