They had to take two taxi's to get to the hotel. The adults took one and the teens took the other. They stepped out of their taxi's and studied their surrounding's. There was a drummer on the street corner busking for money a merry-go-round in the park across the road and a woman leaning on her black motorbike watching the drummer from across the road.

Valkyrie recognised the woman. She gestured to Fletcher and they walked towards the busker. "Hold it," said her mother "where are you two going?"

"Oh" said Valkyrie "we're just checking out the busker on the corner."

"Okay we'll go check into the hotel, take your cousins with you."

"Fine" said Valkyrie disappointedly

The toxic twins followed Valkyrie across the road to the woman leaning against her

They reached the woman at the bike. "Hey Tanith" Valkyrie said while giving her a hug.

They let go of each other. Fletcher stretched out his arms waiting for his hug. Tanith shook her head in a you are so sad way. "Hey Valkyrie are these your cousins?"

"Hey Stephanie why does she call you Valkyrie?" said Carol staring at Tanith's sword.

"Carol I told you about this, in the world of magic my name is Valkyrie Cain okay, when around my friends you will call me Valkyrie, and if you reefer to me as Stephanie when around them, I'll take off your head and shove it up your…"

"Valkyrie!" said Tanith looking at her very strangely "Sorry Carol. Looks like those hormones have finally hit in."

Fletcher giggle when Tanith said hormones Valkyrie gave him a punch in the arm, which shut him up.

"So Tanith why are you here?" said Valkyrie changing the subject.

"Well you know that serial killer we've been looking for, he's here in Balfast. We aren't sure why he's here though. They sanctuary wants us to find him before he hurts or kills anyone. The sanctuary has lent you this motorbike, here is two helmets."

"Tanith who else is here with you?"

"Ghastly we are staying in the hotel around the corner and Skulduggery should be here by tomorrow. Oh and one thing about our serial killer his name is black phoenix."

"That's a stupid name." Said Crystal.

"He is called black phoenix because he has a sword that summons black flames. Is it stupid now?"

"Uh no" said crystal a little embarrassed.

"I'll call you once we find him."

…..

They walked into the hotel where they saw their parent's finishing off the bookings for the rooms.

"Okay here is your key. Your room is 9b, that's on the ninth level, and ours is 8b, so we'll be able to here if anything is going on." Said Beryl looking to Valkyrie's direction.

"Hey Stephanie why do you and Fletcher have bike helmets?" said Valkyrie's mother looking very concerned.

"Oh um Fletcher rented a bike. He's a little paranoid about taxi drivers." Said Valkyrie sighing with relief.

"Why didn't he just rent a car then?"

Before she could speak Fletcher jumped in and said "I hate driving cars they're too cramped."

"Oh okay then well this is our floor." The parents all got out of the elevator.

"That was close I was going to say that you are scared of driving" Valkyrie said.

"If you did that I would probably never talk to you again. Well here we are"

Valkyrie was about to pick up here bag but Fletcher bet her to it she didn't mind though.

They walked into their room there was a kitchen to the right leading towards the living room. Before the living room was a bedroom to the left which had two single beds and another to the right with a king-sized bed. Each had there own bathroom and a balcony. Both of the bedrooms were visible from the kitchen.

"I call the room with the king-sized bed." Said Crystal running towards it.

Fletcher kissed Valkyrie on the lips and they appeared lying on the bed. Just as Valkyrie was leaning more into the kiss Fletcher cut her off turned to crystal who was just standing in the doorway mouth dropped open "well I shot gun it." He gave Crystal a small smirk appeared in front of her and closed the door in her face then locking it.

Crystal turned to Carol who was just standing there and said "he's a cheater!"

Fletcher teleported next to Valkyrie who was still laying on the bed a little confused about what happened the next thing she knew was Fletcher kissing her up and down her neck. He brought his lips up to meet hers. She rolled him over onto his back still kissing him she un buttoned his shirt but before she could work her way down they heard a crass come from the bathroom. They got off the bed and slowly walked into the bathroom where they found Skulduggery with one leg on the outside of the window, Fletcher and Valkyrie shook their heads in disappointment. They helped him inside where he sat down on their bed. Fletcher still had his shirt off and was starting to feel the cold.

Valkyrie started the conversation off with "Skulduggery I thought you were arriving tomorrow."

"I was but I caught an earlier flight because I finished my mission early."

"Okay but why were you coming in through the window we have a door you know."

"I did come in through the door then I saw you to kissing and I didn't want to disturbe you so I tried sneaking out."

"Okay fine"

"What do you mean "fine" I was about to hit a six and then he comes in I don't think that's fine!" said Fletcher overreacting.

"Why a six?" said Valkyrie a little confused.

"I'm English we don't play baseball we play cricket and a six is pretty much a homerun."

"Okay I'm gonna leave you two alone I'll go check in with Tanith and ghastly."

Skulduggery was about to leave but before he could Valkyrie gave him a bit of advice "This time I would knock on the door first trust me."

"Okay where were we" Fletcher said while taking Valkyrie by the waist