This chapter is dedicated to Anonymous Miki because it was their birthday! Please review!

"Okay guys, I'm leaving for the Car Competition in Denmark!" Skulduggery called as he carried his suitcase out the door of his house to the waiting and, newly washed, Bentley.

Tanith and Valkyrie ran downstairs and paused in the door. "Bye Skulduggery!" Valkyrie called. "Don't worry about the house! I'll make sure Tanith doesn't bake anything!"

"You do that," Skulduggery nodded. "Remember, I'll be back in a week. Don't answer the phone unless it's someone you know and don't talk to strangers."

Valkyrie rolled her eyes. "We know. Well, I know. I'll make sure Tanith gets the message."

"Bye bye!" Tanith said. "Remember to bring me back a Danish!"

Skulduggery rolled the façade eyes then got in the Bentley and drove away.

Valkyrie and Tanith waved until he was gone then went back into the house, shutting and locking the door. Valkyrie sat down on the couch while Tanith went into the kitchen.

"Remember not to bake anything!" Valkyrie called as she turned the TV on. She began to flick through the channels lazily until she got to the show 'Outrageous Acts of Science,' she always made sure not to let Tanith watch it because she was afraid she would get an idea and try to duplicate it with disastrous consequences. It was about noon and Valkyrie was getting hungry so she got up and walked into the kitchen to find Tanith messing with an air conditioner.

She raised an eyebrow. "Tanith? What are you doing?"

Tanith looked up. "I'm doing what I've always wanted to do. Live in the Arctic."

Valkyrie stared. "What? How are you going to do that? It's not even winter yet."

The blond smiled. "Oh you'll see."

A few hours later, Valkyrie came back into the house after a walk to find it freezing cold.

"T-Tanith?" She chattered as she walked into the kitchen to find Tanith throwing ice cubes into a snow cone machine. The ice flakes fell like snow onto the floor, creating a large pile that already covered the entire kitchen.

Valkyrie hugged herself tightly. "T-Tanith, w-what are y-you doing?"

Tanith looked up. "Making snow! Since I couldn't to the Arctic, I brought the Arctic to me."

She stared. "Tanith, I-It's f-freezing in here."

"I know! Isn't it great?!"

"No, it's cold!"

"That's what's great about it!"

Valkyrie sighed and went off to find a blanket.

Later that night she woke up to noises outside. She had stocked up on blankets so she was under a mound and had to dig her way out of her bed. Once she was out she immediately began shivering again and hurried to the window.

Tanith stood out in the driveway talking to some men, the men didn't seem to be hurting her and Valkyrie was too cold and sleepy to care about what strange men were doing in the driveway at two thirty in the morning talking to her idiot friend.

When Valkyrie woke up the house, if it was possible, was even colder than the night before. She stumbled down the stairs, wrapped in a blanket and nearly slipping on the last step because of a thin layer of ice that coated the entire first floor of the house.

Valkyrie slid the rest of the way into the kitchen to find Tanith dressed in a snow parka, mittens, scarf and boots.

"Hi Valkyrie!" Tanith said brightly when she saw her sitting on the floor wrapped in her blanket shivering.

"H-hi," Valkyrie chattered.

"Here, put this on." Tanith gave her a set of snow clothes like hers.

"Thanks," Valkyrie said once she was dressed. At least she wasn't as cold as before.

The rest of the day was spent by Tanith adding more and more cold to the house. At one point, the electricity gave out because of all the air conditioners plugged in so Tanith snuck into one of the neighboring funeral parlors and plugged an extension cord into it so that they could steal the electricity.

Then the sun went down.

The cold was even worse at night. Not being at all heated by the sun, the 'snow' wasn't melting and the air conditioners were going full force. Even the snow parkas were beginning to fail.

Valkyrie's teeth were once again chattering as she hurried up to her room. She opened her door.

"SCREAM! TANITH, WHY IS THERE A WALRUS ON MY BED!?"

"BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE ARCTIC WITHOUT A WALRUS!" Was her response.

Valkyrie face-palmed then walked over to her bed, careful of the full-grown walrus sitting on her bed, and snatched a pillow and blanket then left the house.

She headed to the nearest house where she knew who the person living in it was and knocked.

Dusk opened the door and when he saw her raised an eyebrow.

"Tanith turned Skulduggery's house into the Arctic and put a walrus on my bed, can I sleep here?"

Dusk just sighed and let her in.

Valkyrie curled up in an armchair and fell asleep.

The next morning Dusk and Valkyrie ate cornflakes in silence.

"So, what about Tanith turning a house into the Arctic?" Dusk asked once they were sitting in the living room watching TV.

"Tanith decided that since Skulduggery's not home she could 'do what she always wanted to do.'

"And what is that?"

"Live in the Arctic."

"How does she do that?"

"Lots and lots of air conditioners, snow cone machines and a neighbor's electricity."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

They watched some more TV then Dusk said that he wanted to see exactly what Tanith had accomplished so they walked the two blocks back to Skulduggery's house.

Once they arrived, Valkyrie put on her winter clothes. "Does the cold bother you?" She asked Dusk.

"Not especially."

"Good."

She opened the door and immediately was met by a blast of cold air. Valkyrie stared. Everything was coated in snow, with icicles hanging from the bookshelves and the fan and ice covered everything else.

Valkyrie took a tentative step forward, than feeling how slippery it was, skated across the room. "Tanith?" she called. "Where are you?"

She didn't get an answer and she frowned. "I hope the walrus didn't eat her," she said.

Some noises came from upstairs so Valkyrie went up to the second floor and found Tanith squealing and sliding down the hallway.

Dusk appeared behind Valkyrie and they stood watching Tanith for a few moments.

"Tanith?" Valkyrie called.

Tanith looked over. "Hey Val!" then she saw Dusk. "Psst, Val. Don't turn around, but there's a vampire behind you."

Valkyrie face-palmed. "He's with me."

Tanith's eyes widened. "Valkyrie! I thought you learned your lesson about having a vampire boyfriend."

Valkyrie glared daggers. "I'm not dating him and Caelan was never my boyfriend."

"Then why did you kiss him?"

"Grr….."

"Valkyrie and Caelan sitting in a tree," Tanith sang. "K-i-s-s-i-n-"

At this point Valkyrie lunged at Tanith.

Tanith cackled and moved out of the way. Valkyrie slipped on the ice and landed on her face. Dusk, bored after a few minutes, went wandering. He soon got to a door at the end of the hallway that had a big sign on it that said 'STAY OUT ESPECIALLY YOU FLETCHER' written on it in capital letters. Dusk raised an eyebrow and opened the door.

Only to come face to face with a full-grown walrus.

He looked at it. It looked at him.

"ROAR!" It said.

"Dusk!" Dusk turned to see Tanith and Valkyrie skating over. "Careful! You'll scare Kevin!"

"Kevin?"

"Yeah, that's his name."

"You named it?"

"Of course, how else would I know who he is?"

"Uh," Valkyrie said. "I don't know. Maybe Giant-Walrus-Sitting-On-My-Bed how about?"

Tanith snorted. "That's too long. I like Kevin, it's short and sweet."

Valkyrie just sighed and shook her head.

"Oh, by the way. My penguins are going to be arriving at any moment so don't scare them."

Valkyrie paled. "P-penguins?"

"Yeah, you don't like penguins?"

"I'M TERRIFIED OF THEM!"

"Why?"

"BECAUSE MY DAD DROPPED ME IN THE PENGUIN EXIBIT AS A BABY!"

"How was that?"

"Not fun."

"My dad had better not drop Alice or I'm going to kill him. My mom will dance on his grave after I finish with him."

"That's nice."

"Yes it is."

Just then the doorbell rang.

Valkyrie looked nervous as they went downstairs. Tanith opened the door to reveal a large crate with holes punched in them and a delivery man. She signed the paper then took the box and opened it with her sword to reveal seven baby penguins.

Valkyrie shrieked and climbed up Dusk to sit on his shoulder. "KILL THEM! KILL THEM! BEAT THEM WITH A STICK!"

Tanith glared. "I will not."

Valkyrie looked at the penguins suspiciously.

One looked her in the eye.

She shrieked again. "IT'S PLOTTING MY DEMISE!"

Tanith sighed then said cheerfully, "come on baby penguins! Let's go do something fun!"

With that she walked away, closely followed by the baby penguins.

"Want to stay at my house until Skulduggery gets back?"

"Yes please."

Dusk pealed her off his shoulder and put her on the ground then they left the house, leaving Tanith to her stupidness.

Five Days Later…..

Valkyrie and Dusk were sitting at Dusk's table talking when Valkyrie's phone rang. "Hello?"

Silence.

"Today?"

Silence.

"YES! FINALLY!"

Silence.

"She turned your house into the Arctic."

Silence.

"Yeah."

Silence.

"I'm at Dusk's house."

Silence.

"Yes that Dusk."

Silence.

"Yes I'm fine. I'd be safer here then with all those baby penguins."

Silence.

"Yeah, you heard me right."

Silence.

"I'll explain later."

Silence.

"Okay, see ya."

She hung up and cheered. "SKULDUGGERY'S COMING HOME TODAY AND I'M GETTING THE WALRUS OUT OF MY ROOM!"

"That's good."

"Yes. Yes it is."

Three Hours Later…

Dusk and Valkyrie stood in Skulduggery's front lawn while Skulduggery was pulling up in his 'precious.' "What did you mean Tanith turned my house into the Arctic?" Skulduggery asked as soon as he was out of the Bentley.

Valkyrie simply opened the door and Skulduggery's jaw fell off.

He made a wheezy noise and pointed at what used to be his living room, now was a snowy landscape. He picked his jaw back up and put it on with a loud 'crack.'

"TANITH LOW GET OUT HERE THIS INSTANT!"

Tanith skated out of the kitchen. "Hi guys!" She said.

"What did you do to my HOUSE?!" Skulduggery yelled.

"I turned it into the Arctic."

"Why?"

"Because I wanted to go to the Arctic but I couldn't do that so I brought the Arctic to me."

Skulduggery face-palmed. "Tanith," he said. "I want all of this out of my house within the next twenty-four hours. Starting now."

Tanith hung her head. "Okay." She turned back into the house. "What should I do with the walrus?"

"What walrus."

Suddenly they heard a loud 'crash' then a 'murrrrrrhhhhhh' noise came from the kitchen.

"Tanith," Skulduggery said. "Did you put a walrus in my house?"

"Maybe."

Just then the herd of baby penguins came into the room and stopped.

"Ohh…" Skulduggery said. "That's what you meant by baby penguins."

Valkyrie nodded, not taking her eyes off the penguins. "Yeah."

Skulduggery sighed. "Also get rid of the walrus and the penguins."

"Can I at least keep one penguin? Please?"

"Okay, fine."

"Yay!" She grabbed one of the penguins and hugged it. "I'll keep this one!"

"Fine. Now clean up this mess."

Three Days Later…

Everything was clean. All snow and ice were gone, snow cone maker destroyed and Skulduggery banned Tanith from his credit card use.

Valkyrie was huddled as far away from Tanith, who had the penguin in her lap, and was watching it suspiciously.

"I'm sorry the house smells like walrus," Tanith said to Skulduggery.

"Me too Tanith, me too," was all he said.

And from then on, Valkyrie locked her doors and window, afraid the penguin would kill her in her sleep