So for those of you that have read Saving Angel you already know who Shade and Ebony are but this the siblings first meeting up with each other since they were puppies. Please review! And still taking requests!

Valkyrie, Tanith and their pet Hellhounds, Scorch and Angel walked among the gravestones in the graveyard. They were on their way to visit Valkyrie's deceased uncle Gordon's grave to put some flowers on it. Valkyrie held the bouquet of white orchids in her arms.

"Wish we had gotten here sooner." Valkyrie said as they walked.

Tanith nodded her agreement. "Cemeteries are so creepy at night."

Scorch snorted. "Then why did you two put off going here until ten o' clock at night?"

"Because," Tanith said. "We were busy."

"Yeah," Valkyrie agreed. "Planting water balloons all over Skulduggery's house takes time."

"And patience," Tanith said.

"You have no patience." Angel laughed.

"That's probably why they kept popping them if they couldn't get one trap to work," Scorch snickered.

"Yeah."

"Hey!" Valkyrie said. "It's hard not to pop water balloons when you fill them up so much!"

"Uh huh," Tanith nodded in agreement as they reached Gordon's grave.

Gordon Edgely, the stone read along with his birth and death date.

"Hard to believe five years ago this day Gordon died huh." Valkyrie said as she stared at the stone.

"Yeah," Tanith agreed.

Valkyrie leaned down and put the flowers Echo Gordon had asked them to put on the grave next to the marker, adjusting them slightly. "There, that's better."

"Yep," Scorch agreed.

"They look so pretty." Angel said. "Orchids are my favorite."

"I like roses." Scorch replied.

"Orchids."

"Roses."

"Orchids."

"Roses."

"Orchids."

"Both of you shut up!" Valkyrie said.

"Hey, you sound like me!" Scorch said.

"And me!" Angel chirped.

"How?" Tanith asked.

"Yeah," Valkyrie agreed. "You never yell at us to shut up when we argue."

"Well when we were growing up," Angel said. "We had another brother and sister named Shade and Ebony."

"Yeah," Scorch said. "They argued over every little thing, never shut up until someone told them to be quiet or they bumped heads on something or each other."

"I wonder where they went," Angel murmured quietly.

"Yeah. I was hoping to see them at the Sanctuary but I never did."

Angel nodded.

The four stood in silence until a voice broke the silence.

"Hey! It's my turn!"

"No mine!"

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

Immediately Scorch and Angel exchanged looks.

"It can't be," Scorch said.

"It must."

The two Hellhounds ran off in the direction of the voices, Valkyrie and Tanith right behind them.

They came to a mausoleum and they peered around it to see two Hellhounds nose to nose, arguing. They were both as black as the night with no other markings on them at all. The one on the right had black eyes with red splotches in them and the one on the left had red eyes with black splotches in them.

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

"Shade? Ebony?"

The two jerked their heads around to stare at Scorch and Angel, who were looking at the others in amazement.

"Scorch?"

"Angel?"

"Scorch!"

"Angel!"

The two jumped on Scorch and Angel, squealing with glee.

"It's you guys! It's really you!"

"How've you been?"

"Where'd you guys come from?"

Scorch laughed and pushed the one with black splotches on their eyes off him. "Ebony! I can't believe I found you guys again!"

Ebony squealed and began hopping up and down like Tanith on a sugar rush.

Valkyrie and Tanith exchanged looks.

"Uh, Scorch?" Valkyrie said.

"Huh?" Scorch looked at her.

"Who is this?"

"This is my sister Ebony and my brother, Shade!"

Angel was already sitting up again, the Hellhound with red splotches in their eyes shifting from paw to paw in front of her.

"Hi!" Ebony said to Valkyrie and Tanith. "You must be Scorch and Angel's new misstress', nice to meet you!"

"We were just talking about you!" Tanith said happily.

"Yeah," Valkyrie smiled. Ebony and Shade sure were nice.

Shade trotted over to them. "What's your name?" He asked.

"Valkyrie."

"Tanith."

Shade wagged his tail. "I like you, you're nice!"

"Wanna play?" Ebony asked excitedly, getting into a play position, her tongue lolling out the side of her mouth and her head tilted to one side.

"Yeah! Please?" Angel and Scorch gave the girls the puppy eyes and Valkyrie and Tanith grinned. "Why not?"

"Yay!"

The Hellhound siblings immediately began chasing and wrestling each other, rolling across the ground.

Valkyrie and Tanith laughed when Ebony disappeared into a mausoleum and went to come back out with long stick but wasn't able to come out because the stick kept bumping into the doorway, unable to come back out until she finally ended up breaking the ends of the stick off.

She hopped over to Tanith and Valkyrie, tail wagging.

"You want to play?"

"Yeah!" The girls chorused.

Ebony put the stick down. "Let's play fetch!"

Tanith picked up the stick and threw it. Ebony and Shade immediately took off running.

"I got it!"

"No I got it!"

"I got it!"

"No I got it!"

"Me!"

"Me!"

"Me!"

"Me!"

They both reached it at the same time and crack heads.

"Oww…." They moaned.

"See, I told you." Scorch snickered.

Angel then took the opportunity to snatch the stick up in her own mouth and run back to Tanith and Valkyrie.

They played for at least an hour and before they left Valkyrie had one question for them.

"Why didn't you find sorcerers to live with? Don't you go native if you don't find someone to live with?"

"Or we go to a graveyard to guard from unwanted visitors," Shade explained.

"Yeah! Like grave robbers!" Ebony added.

Shade nodded. "When you guys first found us we were arguing which of us get to scare you off."

Tanith frowned. "Why would you scare us off? We were dropping off flowers."

"Because once the gates close we chase off anyone."

"Oh."

"Yeah, I'm guessing you didn't read the sign that said 'No Visitors Once Gates Are Closed?'

"I didn't see one." Valkyrie said.

"It was on the only entrance's gate. And you had to climb over it to get in."

"Oh. Oops."

Ebony shrugged. "It's fine, Scorch and Angel are family after all."

"And we like you," Shade added.

"Uh huh, you're fun!"

Valkyrie and Tanith smiled.

"We'll come back next week and we'll bring some stuff to do."

"Yay!" The Ebony and Shade chorused.

"Bye guys!" Scorch said, jumpimg over the gate.

"Bye!" Angel followed with Valkyrie and Tanith climbing over.

And as the four walked away they heard Shade and Ebony starting another argument.

"Tanith and Valkyrie liked me better."

"No they liked me."

"Me!"

"Me!"

"Me!"

Scorch rolled his eyes. 'Just like old times.'