YAY! Chapter four… again nothing much to say:

Chapter Four

Valkyrie, Kaida, Ghastly, Skulduggery and Fletcher teleported to what appeared to be an empty parking lot.

"And this is?" Valkyrie asked.

"The show grounds, down by the Marina." Fletcher said.

"Blackrock right?" Kaida asked.

Fletcher nodded.

"Right. Well we're not too far from Tanith's hotel."

"How do you know where her hotel is?" Valkyrie asked.

"I followed her."

"Seems reasonable. But how did you know about the whole remnant thing?"

"Who's to say I never followed you?"

"Ok, that's creepy. Why exactly did you follow us?"

"So… um… Fletcher, what did you go to in the show grounds?"

Valkyrie looked around to see if anyone else had noticed Kaida's sudden change of subject. Skulduggery and Ghastly were having a conversation about how to impress a woman on a date and Fletcher had gone back to staring at Kaida's hair, so nobody noticed accept Valkyrie. But now Fletcher was acting oddly so Valkyrie decided to concentrate on him for the moment. Maybe it was just the fact that 'the pretty girl' was talking to him or maybe just because he was weird but Valkyrie was going to enjoy this.

"I… um… you know… stuff."

"Like what?" Valkyrie asked.

"Um…"

Fletcher muttered something that sounded like 'I ment to underhand.'

"What?"

"I went to…"

Again Fletcher muttered something like 'underhand'

"Fletcher," Kaida said slowly. "If you tell us where you were I'll let you touch my hair."

Fletcher considered for a few seconds but then in the end,

"Funderland! Ok?" Fletcher reached out for Kaida's hair but she was laughing too hard to resist.

"Funderland?" Skulduggery asked, who had stopped his conversation with Ghastly at Fletcher's exclamation. "Isn't that a kiddie amusement park?"

"It's not kiddie! You've haven't been on the teacup mouse ride!"

"Ok! Whatever chance you had of convincing us that it wasn't kiddie was just blown, with that." Valkyrie laughed.

"It's not kiddie! And anyway aren't we supposed to be finding Tanith and get the remnant out of her."

"Yes," Kaida said, who finally got her breath back. "We are. Stop touching my hair now."

"Sorry."

"Ok. So the key is, for you four not to be noticed." Kaida paused, taking in Valkyrie, Skulduggery, Ghastly and Fletcher. "This is going to be harder than I thought."

They were standing outside Jury's Hotel. Kaida opened the door.

"Skulduggery and Ghastly can put on their façades, Valkyrie… look the other way and Fletcher look the other way… oh, and flatten your hair."

"NO!"

"You can make it look all stupid again later."

"No!"

Kaida sighed.

"Fine then."

She held her hand over Fletcher head. It slowly started to drip and flatten. Fletcher feeling the wetness nervously reached for his hair. He realised what Kaida had done and yelped. Kaida rolled her eyes and walked up to the reception desk.

"Tanith Low?" She asked the man there.

"Room 205."

"Thank you."

"So can you tell us the plan now?" Valkyrie asked as they walked into the elevator.

"No. But you'll work it out."

"Can't you just tell us?"

"I can tell you that if Fletcher keeps moaning about his hair," Everyone looked at Fletcher who was now stroking his hair, whimpering. "The plan will all go horribly wrong."

The elevator doors opened.

"What does that mean?" Ghastly asked.

Kaida thought for a second.

"Well… when you find out what the plan is you have to ignore your instincts to run in and stop what's going on… so let it go ahead… Once the… thing has happened we need to teleport back to the sanctuary immediately and if Fletcher doesn't get us out immediately… um… the remnant will escape."

"Tanith too or just the remnant?"

"Tanith will stay but you don't want that remnant to escape."

"I'm still confused." Fletcher said.

"It's hard to explain without giving things away."

They stopped outside room 205.

"Right um… If you four stand outside there." Kaida pointed at room 204. "And pretend to be trying to get into your room. When I go in I won't fully close the door so you can see what's going on. If Tanith notices you… run. Got it?"

"No." Fletcher said shaking his head.

"Well that's too bad. Go."

Valkyrie pulled Fletcher over too the opposite door and started pushing on it. She heard Kaida knock and heard the door open.

"And you are?" She heard Tanith say.

"Kaida Young. Can I come in?"

"Actually I'm leaving today so I need to finish packing."

Valkyrie heard the creaking of the door and then a thud. Kaida must have stuck her foot in the door.

"It won't take a minute. Thank you."

Valkyrie heard the door creek again. They waited a minute longer and quietly hurried over to the door. Tanith was standing at the far end of the room and Kaida near the door with her back too them.

"Well?" Kaida said.

"I suppose when you say it like that."

"So what do you say?"

"Hmmm… well… it could be a trick."

"A trick? How? You heard what I just said"

"I suppose… but still"

"If you go into me I'll have no control. What can I do to stop you?"

Valkyrie was confused but Skulduggery breathed out "Oh." And Ghastly made to push open the door but Skulduggery stopped him.

"It could still work, Ghastly." He whispered.

"What's going on?" Fletcher asked.

"Kaida wants the remnant to go into her so then we can get it out before the four days."

"Idiot" Ghastly said a little too loudly.

"What was that?" Tanith said sharply.

"Um… that was me!" Kaida said desperately. "I think your being an idiot by refusing my offer."

"Not many people would offer it and that's why I'm suspicious."

"All right then I'll leave but you were that close to Skulduggery Pleasant…"

"He doesn't matter to me. I can't posses him any way."

"… And Valkyrie Cain."

Kaida turned round and put her hand on the door.

"All right!"

Kaida smiled and mouthed 'ready' at them then turned back round. Ghastly put his hand on the door again waited just until the remnant came out of Tanith and then pushed. Remnant/Kaida span round and had just a moment to take in Ghastly then she got knocked down as he jumped on her pinning her down.

"Let go of me!" Kaida yelled.

Skulduggery ran to Tanith and picked her up. Fletcher grabbed Valkyrie, Skulduggery and Ghastly, then disappeared.

Skulduggery and Valkyrie were sitting outside Nye's surgery. Ghastly had gone back to his house to look after Tanith. Fletcher had gone back to his apartment to re-spike his hair. Clarabelle opened the door and came out.

"How's it going in there?" Valkyrie asked.

"Oh, fine. Using symbols is a lot less bloody way of doing it but Nye says that's a lot of old crap."

"What?"

"I know! Nye swore!"

Clarabelle skipped away.

Valkyrie and Skulduggery ran into the surgery.

FEW! I'm glad that's over! I couldn't decide how Kaida was going to convince the remnant to go into her so in the end I just did it the lazy way: So nobody knows what Kaida said at the beginning to convince it. Well it's over that's the main thing.

Byes! ;P