Steve The Ninja Penguin

A/N: This is a follow-up to Day of The Sparkly Undead Butterflies. Fletcher's still in Antarctica, so they have to get them back. Thanks for all your reviews! The Valan/Fletchyrie chapter is coming, I've been putting it off for a while :)

Personally, I REALLY don't want it to be Valan, but I still have to count the votes, so I don't know what it's going to be yet.

'Fletcher? Where are you?' called Skulduggery, his voice echoing around the snowy wasteland.

'FLETCHER OHMYGOD WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU, ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?' Valkyrie screamed in a much more hysterical way.

'Something's not right here,' Tanith muttered, rubbing her hands together to warm them up while she peered around her suspiciously.

'OF COURSE SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT! FLETCHER'S GONE!' Valkyrie shrieked.

'No... I feel like someone's watching me.'

'Will you forget your paranoia and help me find my angel?'

'Fletcher's your angel? Since when?'

'Since recently!'

Tanith rolled her eyes and took another suspicious peer around her. 'This is creepy,' she muttered. Everyone ignored her.

'Surely he would have just teleported back by now?' said Skulduggery in an attempt to calm Valkyrie down.

'He was in a coma just two hours ago! A DEEP coma! No, he will NOT have teleported back by now!'

'OK, OK. Just a thought.'

'Anything could have happened! He could've drowned, died of frostbite, been eaten by a polar bear...'

'Who could have been eaten by a polar bear?' a voice said from behind them.

Valkyrie turned around and saw her blonde, perpetually confused boyfriend standing there. She made a strange squeaking sound and threw her arms around him, sobbing.

'She was a bit worried about you,' said Skulduggery casually.

'Val - can't - breathe - ' Fletcher gasped.

Valkyrie let go and stepped back. 'Well, you're alive, Fletch,' she said, her tone suddenly changing. 'That's good. Now please don't ever be such a moron again.'

'You're her angel, apparently,' Tanith told Fletcher with an evil grin on her face.

'I am?'

'I never said that!' Valkyrie shrieked.

'Yes you did!'

'No I didn't!'

'Did!'

'Didn't!'

'Did!'

'Didn't!'

'She did actually,' said another, oddly squeaky voice from behind them.

They turned around. Tanith screamed.

'Tanith Low, we meet again,' said a penguin.

'Stay away from me!' Tanith screamed.

'I just want what is rightfully mine!' the penguin said calmly.

'It was my money first!' Tanith retorted.

'You lost it in a game of poker. Now it's mine. Give it back or I'll sue.'

'You're a fricking penguin! What do you need with money?' Tanith wailed.

'I want Mariah Carey's latest album, is that so wrong?'

Tanith turned slowly to the others, who were trying to hold in their laughter. Her eyes were wide and her face was pale. 'I think I'm going mad,' she whispered.

'Just give it the money, Tanith,' said Skulduggery, checking his watch. 'We have to get back soon.'

'Who are you calling it?' the penguin demanded, looking offended. 'I'm a he. My name is Steve.'

'Sorry, Steve.'

'I don't have the money anymore,' Tanith wailed. 'I spent it on a limited edition purple GHD and now I'm completely broke and living off Ghastly!'

Fletcher's eyes went all round. 'I have got to get my hands on that purple GHD,' he muttered under his breath.

Steve's eyes narrowed and he gritted his beak. 'I want revenge.'

'I'll pay you back when I have the cash!'

'I don't care about the cash anymore. This is about your treacherous behaviour. I must have revenge. REVENGE!'

He shook his flipper and waddled off. Fletcher silently took Valkyrie and Tanith's hands and Skulduggery took Valkyrie's other hand. They all vanished and reappeared in Gordon's mansion.

'My mother always told me!' Tanith lamented. 'Never piss off a penguin! And I was just like, yeah, mum, whatever. And now look at me! I didn't listen to her and now look at me! I have a psycho penguin after my blood!'

'It's only a penguin,' said Valkyrie soothingly. 'You've faced vampires and evil gods. How bad could it be?'

She was so wrong.

A/N: Heh heh.

Sorry, that was a bit all over the place and confused, but it will make sense... in part two.

Yeah, there will be a part two. Tanith is about to face her most deadly opponent yet. Don't miss it XD

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