This is for my sister, a huge fan of Ghastly. Thanks for helping me with my ideas, ClarabelleWannabe. Also, thank you to Skerridge for the nice confidence boost!

They arrived at the Sanctuary only to find Ghastly waiting patiently outside the doors. He had his head slumped and arms crossed while holding a frown upon his scarred face. He was slowly tapping his foot against the concrete pavement when he saw the Bentley arrive. "Where the bloody hell have you two been? Skulduggery I have been calling you constantly! Don't you know what chaos is going on here?", Ghastly sighed.

"How did you find out? Did Etran call you? I told him not to tell a soul. That man can never keep a bloody secret…" exclaimed Skulduggery.

"What are you on about? I need your help choosing a new outfit for my role as an elder. They said if I could get more than thirty people of a high…"

"Look it doesn't matter about your robes; we have a bigger problem on our hands"

"What can be worse than mixing a mustard yellow robe with a brown sash? I look like a sunflower!"

"While that may be true, you have bigger things to worry about"

"Such as?"

"A new deadly race of half man and half squid are potentially going to start a war."

"Only because you hit one of them" , chirped Valkyrie.

"Well I was going to leave out that bit… "

"Can I not leave you two alone for one day?" yelled Ghastly.

"Ghastly, Ghastly, Ghastly. If only you knew what goes on behind the Sanctuary. Anyway, as I was saying we seem to have an epidemic of invisible Squidies on our hands and I was wondering if we could borrow your pet, Doctor Nye, to examine one"

"You killed it?"

"No, no , no, just gave it a slight shake to the brain which seems to have left a bit well… unconscious. By the way 'it' is not an 'it' he is called Bob. Bob the squidie. Now if you will excuse us."

Skulduggery threw Bob over his shoulder and proceeded to carry on through the Sanctuary doors with Valkyrie close behind. They passed through the white corridors until they reached a room marked by a sign, 'Surgery of magical creatures, Keep Out!'. Skulduggery knocked once and entered without waiting for the reply.

"Ah, Mr Pleasant what have you got there?", asked Nye (it didn't do introductions).

"It's a new found species half man and half squid we need to know its weaknesses, its strengths and how to kill it easily. You think you can do that?"

"What's in it for me?"

Skulduggery placed Bob on to the surgeons table slowly, as if to contemplate his next action and then raised his gun towards Nye.

"How about not dying?"

Nye strode sluggishly to Skulduggery, his arms trailing behind until they were face to face.

"That seems reasonable"

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