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The car slowly came to a halt outside a dilapidated, grey house. "Why are we here? I kind of thought the unconscious man in the boot would mean we had to get a move on…" Valkyrie inquired.
"Oh no reason in particular…" Skulduggery replied. Valkyrie chocked back a laugh, "Your stuck aren't you! You don't know what that thing is"
"No of course I do, it's a creature"
"Very clever… anything else you want to add?"
"Ah well,… um, yes, he is from a long race of them and uh, large tentacles… water…ugh and you know they swim with… banana… hats" he mumbled.
"Banana hats?"
"Okay I might be a tad bemused"
They entered the house to meet a large, jolly man who had a huge welcoming grin planted on his face. "Hello there! How are you? Skulduggery what a lovely surprise! Come in, come in. I have great news."
"Oh really? And you are?" asked Valkyrie.
"Etran Lurd, at your service, discoverer of all creatures who contain magic, I assume you have heard of the Nidale race, they are one of my discoveries, ah well, like I was saying, I have great news! Yes, well, not great, more like deadly but highly interesting!"
"Etran, what have you done?" inquired Skulduggery, who by now was quite enjoying Etran's cheerful mood.
"I have discovered a new deadly race of half man and half squid! They live on both the land and the sea however they are rarely seen due to their nasty habit of cloaking. Would you like a sandwich?"
"Wait a minute we have a new, potentially dangerous race on the loose and you're asking us, if we would like to have lunch?" shouted Valkyrie, who was now pacing across the room, back and forth.
"Etran, we have recently caught one of these creatures, what can you tell us about them?"
"Well as I was saying, they have an ability that allows them to 'cloak' themselves and so effectively, they become invisible. Also, they like to travel in packs of usually five or six, strange you only saw one, very strange"
"He might have been lost" said Valkyrie hopefully.
"No this rarely happens, you see from what I have discovered these packs of creatures treat each other as if they are one being. Losing a member from the pack would be like you losing your arm. And what would you do if you lost your arm?"
"I would seek revenge"
"Exactly"
"Well, we beat one up, we could take on five right Skul?"
"Of course" replied Skulduggery.
"No." screamed Etran.
"What? Why?"
"There is more than one pack Skulduggery, many more. We do not know how the other packs would react to you beating up their fellow people. It could create a war in which we do not know the enemy."
"So what, we wait for this pack to find us, take us by surprise and then do God knows what to us! No!" Valkyrie exclaimed.
"Etran, what do we do? Tell me, anything you know"
"I'm sorry Skulduggery I have told you everything I have discovered"
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They walked slowly back to the Bentley. Valkyrie's hair wiped across her face as she stared at the ground, head down, shoulders slumped looking downright depressed.
"Cheer up" Skulduggery said, "At least my pride isn't shattered,"
"What do you mean?"
"I was right all along"
"What?"
"It is not an octopus man, it is a squid man. I'm going to call them 'Squidies' any objections? No. Good. Come on we have to go and check on Bob"
"Bob?"
"Yes, Bob the squidie, has a nice ring to it, don't you think?"
"No…"
"Well, next time we find a new race of deadly hybrid creatures, you can name them, okay?"
"I am assuming you have some sort of plan"
"Nope. Not a clue" replied Skulduggery cheerfully.
