Chapter 1

Lythia Harpen, Sydney Jones and Oceane LeClaire were all staring at this random skeletal guy who had just kicked major f*cking arse, by scaring the major scary freak who had tried to kill them

"WTF?" Sydney said just staring at him

"I agree completely, again WTF?" Oceane agreed

"Um…" Lythia tries to take a stab in the dark "Oh oh oh DRACULA!" she screams jumping up and down a million times in one minute

Oceane gave Sydney the evils, "You gave her sugar, why oh why the hell would you do that?" She asked with a confused look

"Um can I say-" the skeleton started before being cut off by Oceane putting her hand in front of his face

"You wait a min, " Oceane said to him before turning back to Sydney who had just been pulling faces behind her back

"What, I didn't do anything she is normally like this you know that" Sydney said looking hurt

"Oh, "Oceane said looking bad and gave Sydney a hug "I'm sorry" In the background Oceane and Sydney could both hear Lythia chanting names at the top of her voice going anywhere from Rumpelstiltskin to um Dracula

"OK! SHUT UP I AM SOOOO MUCH OLDER THAN ALL OF YOU SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME!!" The skeleton screamed at the top of his non-existent voice, Oceane had major evils on her face (Btw for anyone who knows it was like in MATHS lol), she turned to look at the skeleton and even he recoiled when he saw it

"Yes, what is it" Oceane asked with a very hammed* smile on her face and a very high almost not under-control voice

"Um, hi I am Skulduggery Pleasant, and as you have seen I am a skeleton and you will never need to worry about this again because you are all going home" He said

Oceane looked around at the park they were at because barely ½ and hour ago Sydney was meant to meet her boyfriend to break up with him, he didn't show just in case you are wondering,

"Well thank you for-" Oceane started

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH (etc, etc)" Lythia screamed again

Sydney, who was texting at this time, to her boyfriend breaking up with him (tear), looked around at Lythia screaming

"What did I miss?" she asked with a dazed look on her face

"Nothing, don't worry" Oceane said thinking about how long it would take to explain the last 5mins to her, then she turned to 'Skulduggery' "Question, what the heck sort of name is Skulduggery?" She asked the skeleton

"Well, its not my real- I mean- You don't need to worry about that because that is a long story that would take too long to explain and-"

"Oh I know it's your taken name, right? RIGHT?" Lythia was saying really fast

"Um yes, you know what they are?" Skulduggery asked looking really bemused

"Uh duh, why the hell would we be fighting people like Spring-heeled Jack and others with them knowing our real, I mean not our true coz no one knows that and…" Oceane started mumbling to herself "Anyway, Skulduggery Pleasant, we accept your proposal… to come with you and meet your fellows" Oceane said with an air of leadership even though she really wasn't that good at being a leader,

"Um I never offered" Skulduggery said to himself because the girls had already headed over to his Bentley, so he himself went over and started the car up, after he put on his usual disguise of a very wide-brimmed hat, extremely large black sunglasses, and a scarf around his neck to cover up his skull-face,

"Oh can I ask you guys something?" he asked the girls giggling in the back and beside him

"Sure, what?" Sydney answered

"Don't tell her your name" Skulduggery answered with a sigh, remembering the lat time this happened, only that one is married to him now still.