A/N: SO sorry for all the mistakes in the last chapter but i have fixed them up. Hopefully this one wont have any mistakes in it. Besides that, how is everyone? The school holidays are coming up so it means i'll be able to post quicker and stuff.

Um, i was going to start another story, along with this one. I'm not sure if i'll do it though, so i'll give you a briefing on what it's about in the next "Authors Note". Also Disclaimer- I do not own anything other than this story line and the characters: the Victoria Twins, Cherish Kills, Tux Reckless, Iris Dreamer and any other unfamiliar characters.

Anyways, here's chapter Four. Thanks, Please Rate&Review!

Skulduggery and Valkyrie stepped off the plane and they immediatly felt the heat. Even though Valkyrie was in her protective clothing that she thought were meant to regulate her body temperature, she still felt the hot air in her face.

"Oh my goodness Skulduggery, it's so hot!" she exclaimed.

"I did tell you it'd be hot. Now I organised to get a car before we left Dublin." he told her. "We just need to find it."

"What type of car did you get?" Valkyrie asked unzipping her jacket. "It better be a good car."

"You just have to wait and see, i'm sure you'll love it." he steered her onto a small transit bus.

They got off at a building with a sign that said "Rental Cars, Low prices!" Inside there we're dozens of cars of all brands and models. A group of Japanese tourists were led to one car all the way at the back of the building and a family of four were led to another. Skulduggery walked up to one of the workers and mumbled something. The man nodded and grinned. Skulduggery came back to Valkyrie with a large smile on his face.

"Come on, this lovely man is going to show us our car." he pushed her in front of him.

The man was quite cute in Valkyrie's opinion. He had to be no older than twenty. He was tall and had sandy blonde hair and bright green eyes. He also spoke with a cute Australian accent.

"Hi. I'm Jay London." he extened his hand out to her. She shook it and smiled.

"I'm Val- Stephanie Edgley. Nice to meet you."

"I know you're Valkyrie Cain, it's alright. I should know of the magic world, i'm an Adept."

"Oh. I feel silly now. Um, so shall we go to the car?"

He nodded and led the way to a door at the side of the building.

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"Oh no! There is no way in hell I am getting in that thing. Skulduggery you know how much I hate that car!" yelled Valkyrie as Skulduggery leant against a yellow car in the parking lot.

"What's wrong with a Canary Car? It's okay, other Australian's have yellow cars, look." he pointed to another yellow car that was passing by.

She just stared at him. "I don't care, i'm just going to walk."

"Alright suit yourself. It's a twenty minute walk from here and it's currently thirty-two degrees Celsius out here. I'm giving you the choice to walk or get in here."

She stared at the ground for a while before she sighed. "Fine, lets go." she opened the passenger door and got in. Skulduggery smiled and got in the drivers seat.

"And can you please deactivate your facade? The face annoy me."

Skulduggery chuckled and tapped the markings on his collar bones. The face dissapeared but his skull remained. "Is that better?" She nodded and Skulduggery shifted the gear stick and began to drive.

Ten minutes later they arrived at a large hotel. "Woah, are we staying here?" Valkyrie asked as the stepped out of the car.

"Yes. Only the best for a seventeen-year-old girl who has saved the world before. And of course for her skeleton partner who has done the same." Skulduggery said, reactivating his facade. He walked up to the receptionist and spoke to her. She handed him two blue key cards. He walked back to Valkyrie and handed her one of the cards.

"VIP? What the hell? And the penthouse luxury suite? Why did you get that one, why not just a normal room?" she gaped at him.

"Well I just thought that if we had to spend all five days working on this case, and no relaxation at the end I thought that the time we do spend at the hotel should be an enjoyable one." he explained, ushering her into an elevator.

She smiled at him and they stayed in silence until they reached the top floor and the elevator doors opened.

Cherish Kills stood with her partner in crime, Tux Reckless, from the balcony of another hotel across from where the skeleton detective was staying. They stood and watched as his partner, Valkyrie, stepped inside and squealed in delight. They watched her throw her bag onto the ground and jump onto a chair. The detective walked in and deactivated his facade. He said something to her and she nodded and picked up her bag before heading into the bathroom. The skeleton sat in a chair and opened a book.

"We'll have to meet with them soon." said Cherish, flicking her short purple hair from her bright blue eyes.

"Yes. We'll give them an unexpected meeting. Surprise them and get to the point. Do you think they'll actually agree to help us? Do you think they'll listen to us or kill us first?" asked Tux, closing his mismatched green and yellow eyes as he settled into a sofa.

"I don't know, I hope the skeleton can forget what has happened before and help us." said Cherish, cleaning her daggers then placing then down. "We really need his help."

Tux grunted and fell asleep.

Valkyrie stepped out of the bathroom in a pair of black shorts and matching singlet. She put her boots on and threw her bag on the ground. "I'm starving, lets go." she said.

Skulduggery put his book down and got up. "Okay, put your jacket on though, I don't want you to get sunburn and nnot be able to fight because your shoulders and arms are sore." He tossed her her jacket.

She put it on and stepped into the elevator. "So what are we doing after I eat?"

"Relax for ten minutes then begin our search for Iris."

"Didn't you get her number off Mr. Shade?"

"Yes but apparently she's gone missing so we have to find her." he explained, getting in the elevator with her.

The elevator doors shut and they went down. They got out, walked through the lobby and onto the busy streets of Sydney. They walked silence passing numerous shops, buildings and people. They passed a theme park opposite the Opera house and a museum of art before they came across a small fish and chips shop. Valkyrie sat down on a chair outside while Skulduggery went in and got her food for her. She breathed in the fresh air and felt the warm sun on her face. She looked around and realised she was looking at the spot where she and Fletcher had gone to have ice-cream just year or two ago. She remembered that day. The bird that flew on his head, how funny it had been. It had been such a lovely time...

"...Valkyrie? Earth to Valkyrie, hello I have your food." Skulduggery's voice snapped her out of her daydream.

"Oh, sorry i zoned out for a moment." she said, taking the paper bag of chips from Skulduggery. He sat down in the chair opposite her.

"I see. What were you thinking about?"

"Oh nothing important, just admiring the view." Valkyrie said looking back out to the Harbour. The sun shone and people were everywhere, there were tourists and families and business people. And there was also an odd looking couple staring straight at her. A woman with short purple hair and stunning, blue eyes and a man with blond hair and different color eyes. The woman smiled at her.

She turned back to eat her chips. "Skulduggery, theres someone looking at us. A woman and a man."

"Theres no one my dear Valkyrie, unless you want to count the two seagulls who want your chips." he pointed at the birds who hopped closer towards her when she pulled a chip out of the bag.

"Bu-but there was a woman," she sputtered. "And a man there, they looked so odd. They weren't tourists or someone like that, they were just odd."

"Ah Valkyrie, there are plenty of odd people in Australia, look at us. We're odd aren't we?" he gestured towards himself.

"I-i guess." she muttered. "Can we just go back to the hotel, i'll finish my food there."

"Okay. Are you feeling okay Valkyrie? Maybe it's just the heat."

"Yeah," she whispered. "The heat."

ooOoo

They walked back to the hotel in silence.

"Valkyrie," Skulduggery broke the silence. "What did these people look like?"

"Oh, um, well the girl had purple hair and bright blue eyes and the man had blonde hair and green and yellow eyes." said Valkyrie.

Skulduggery stopped walking. "Cherish and Tux."

"Who are they? Do you know them?" she tugged on his arm and he resumed walking.

"Yes. They were on our side during the the war, Tux was especially helpful. But then they joined forces with Mevolent. They were minions for Serpine and Vengeous." he explained, they reached the hotel and crossed the lobby. "They were known for murdur, robbery and torture. Mostly for torture."

"Why? What can they do?" Valkyrie asked, getting into the elevator.

"They're both Adepts, Tux is sort of like Tesseract. He doesn't crush the whole bone, like Tesseract, he can just break it. But then mend them. He does it with a single touch"

"So he can break bones with a single touch then can mend them. I see why he was good in the war. What about Cherish?"

"She can't really torture much with her powers but she carries daggers similar to Sanguine's razor."

"So the scars they give never heal?"

"Exactly. Now her Adept power is kind of like Sanguine's."

"What?! She can burrow through the earth too?" she checked the floor as if expecting to see the woman.

"Sort of. Okay it's not really like Sanguine. She can't burrow through the ground but she can go through walls. and locked windows and doors. She just reaches out, touches it and it creates a hole in the wall. Then, when she's gone through, it goes back to being a wall or window or whatever."

"So you're saying that if we had her in a room and we we're guarding the door and we thought it was safe to remove her of shackles, she could make a hole in the wall and leave through that?"

"Yes, pretty much."

"Wow. What happened to them after the war ended?"

"Oh, they went into hiding, there were hundreds and hundreds of sorcerers, creatures, monsters, mages and necromancers that wanted revenge. After all they had killed and tortured countless children, women, men, animals and monsters without mercy."

"Wow." Valkyrie said quietly. The elevator door opened and Valkyrie stepped out first. She stepped into the room and was going to go to the bathroom to get changed when she heard whispers coming from it.

Valkyrie motioned for Skulduggery to come over. He pulled his gun from his jacket and Valkyrie readied the shadows.

"...should be here soon." a male voice said.

"Shut up Tux, they're probably already out of the elevator." said an annoyed female voice.

Skulduggery looked at Valkyrie and counted down from three with his fingers. He kicked the door down and pointed his gun at a purple haired girl who was standing in the bath. Cherish. Valkyrie stepped in and whipped the shadows around Tux's ankle and pulled. He crashed to the floor with a thud. She stepped closer to Tux and held a flame close to his face.

"Hi." said Tux.