Valkyrie groaned as yet another person tagged along on Skulduggery's quest for his stupid hat, Ghastly groaned too because he would rather be making clothes than helping Skulduggery find one of his 304 hats. They trooped out to the pool to find Anton who was happily lounging on a deck chair in the sun reading a book, Skulduggery stomped over and took the book.

"Skulduggery will you ever stop being annoying?" Anton said without much annoyance in his voice

"hat" Skulduggery ordered

"Hat?"

"Yes, hat"

"what do you mean Skulduggery?"

"i. Want. My. Hat" Skulduggery said "hat"

"Your hat?" Anton paused "oh, here" Anton passed the hat

"finally? Skulduggery placed it on his head and suddenly about 60 other Skulduggerys appeared "I missed you hat" the all chorused

"Uh, Skull, you are aware that you just cloned your self?" Valkyrie asked

"what? I haven't-" Skulduggery cut himself off "oh, I have, I second..." Skulduggery was silent "there not going"

"Skull don't be annoying" Dexter groaned

"No, they won't, I can't make them" Skulduggery insisted

"That's like me saying I can't get rid of my win-" Valkyrie cut her self off "OK, my wings won't go"

Dexter tried to say "I'm stuck as a wolf" but it came out as a mixture of barks and wines

"What do you mean you can't-" Ghastly began but his hands started glowing white like diamonds "what?"

"Argh! I know too much, too much!" Saracen screamed

"why the hell is there a fire breathing dragon?" Valkyrie squealed

"I think thats shudder" Ghastly said and they looked at the giant green and red dragon with a magnificent swooping tail and roaring flames blowing out its mouth

"I need to ride the dragon" Valkyrie grinned manically and ran towards Shudder but was held back by 7 Skulduggery's

"see! I do come handy at times like this!" Skulduggery said smugly

"dragon..." Valkyrie murmured

Ravel waltzed out the house with a grin on his face "who's laughing now?" He screeched and turned into a merman "great" he muttered as everyone laughed