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"What the hell Arki, you didn't have to start a bloody earthquake do get our attention you know!" Fletcher Renn hollered at a tall man with dark hair who looked to be about thirty. "You know you could've just called like a normal person!" The ground cracked beside the man, revealing Billy-Ray Sanguine and Valkyrie Cain. Then Tanith, Ghastly and Skulduggery burst out of the Sanctuary, guns blazing.

"William Raymond Sanguine, I am hereby placing you under arrest, on the charge of attempted kidnapping. Now you can take the easy way or the hard way. Preferably the hard way, haven't had a good scrap in ages." Ghastly declared, with a small smile on his face. "Sorry to disappoint, but the lil' darlin' an' me aint going nowhere." and with that he disappeared back underground. Fletcher turned back towards the man.

"How. Dare. You. Do. That. To. MY FRIEND!" He screamed, leaping towards him, but Beatrice held him back,

"That is not a good idea Fletch, remember last time?" She whispered into his ear. Fletcher growled and turned away.

"The end of the world is nigh. Dark Nights are to come." the man recited loudly, his voice deep and booming.

"Yeah right Arkansas, sure." Fletcher called over his shoulder as he walked back towards the Sanctuary. Beatrice, Skulduggery, Tanith and Ghastly hot on his heels.

"Who was that Fletcher? Tell me now." Skulduggery was fuming.

"That was Arkansas Blade, the cheeky bastard showing up here after what he did. Arkansas Blade is the other member of our dysfunctional family. But worst of all, he stepped into the accelerator. He was the one Aggredion tested it on. So, cut a long story short, he's pretty much indestructible." Tanith facepalmed.

"Alright, I know what we have to do. We're going to form ourselves a posse." Skulduggery exclaimed, trying not to sound to happy. "I'm calling an old friend, she's older than me believe it or not. No idea how she survived the war. But then again, that's Taylor for you. Anyway you guys find some others." Skulduggery walked off, flicking his hair off his face. He was loving having flesh and blood again. It was great. "Taylor, it's me, yeah Skulduggery we're going to need your help. Head to the Statue of Liberty, I'll get Fletcher to pick you up, yeah the Teleporter." Skulduggery put down the phone, smiling to himself. Even though he was worried about Val, he couldn't help enjoy this just a bit, it reminded him of the good old days, when he and Taylor would practice magic at the bay near their houses. That'd been in the 70's, not the nineteen seventies, the sixteen seventies. She'd been around one hundred, and a great mentor. She had always had a sarcastic sense of humour, and was very opinionated, you didn't disagree with someone like Taylor. There was a pop, and Taylor Red was standing next to Skulduggery in all long coated-pencil skirted- heeled glory. "Did you miss me?" she asked, shaking his hand firmly

"Do I need to answer that? Really Taylor, I haven't fought with you in years, also haven't heard from you, you aren't causing any trouble." Taylor shrugged, flicking her black red streaked hair with her index finger, laughing when Skulduggery copied. "Fletcher here told me all about his dysfunctional family and Tris' little energy thing that gave you back your pretty handsome if I do say so myself human form." Taylor smirked, looked at Skulduggery's confused face and burst out laughing. "Really Skul? Did you really think that I was flirting with you?"

Skulduggery shifted from foot to foot "Noooo." He muttered evasively.

"There you are Skul! Well we found an old fried of Tanith's, her name's Theory McCloud." Ghastly called from the doorway, Theory McCloud looked about 15, had long dirty blond hair, deep gray-blue eyes and wore black jeans, t-shirt and boots. Skulduggery cleared his throat. "Okay. We;ve got Tanith, Ghastly, Fletcher, Beatrice, Taylor and Theory. Now, for all we know, Sanguine could be sitting underneath us this very moment. So we're going to have to pay a visit to a prisoner. Dreylan Scarab is the only chance we've got at finding Arkansas, Sanguine and Val. Any questions?" Beatrice raised her hand,

"How can we be sure that Scarab wont be leading us into a trap?" She asked, her head cocked to on side.

"We can't." Taylor replied, "But then again, this mission should only be attempted by complete and utter lunatics."

"Are you trying to deter me?" Beatrice asked,

"God no. I'm trying to recruit you." Taylor answered, with all her usual sarcasm. Fletcher held out his arms.

"Link up everybody!" he yelled, and they disappeared with a loud POP!