Valkyrie and Scorch were sitting on the curb in front of Skulduggery's house eating ice cream. Scorch, not being an actual dog therefore able to eat chocolate, was eating a bowl of chocolate ice cream with brownie pieces. Valkyrie had vanilla with strawberries and whipped cream.

"Do you think it would be smart to hide under Fletcher's bed and say in my demon voice 'I am coming to take all your hair gel and dump them in the Atlantic?'" Scorch asked licking up a piece of brownie.

Valkyrie shoved a spoonful of her treat in her mouth. "I think," she said. "We should get that on video, post it on the internet and email it to everybody we know."

"Let's do it tonight."

"Let's."

They bumped fists and looked up as a shadow fell over them.

"Sanguine, what are you doing here?" Valkyrie said as she stood up.

"Yeah!" Scorch agreed. "Can't you see we're trying to have a normal day eating ice cream and plotting to scare the pants off our friends?"

Sanguine raised an eyebrow then shook his head. "Look," he said. "I ain't here to fight, maim, kill or kidnap any of you."

"Then what are you here for?" Valkyrie asked suspiciously.

He took a deep breath. "I need your help."

Scorch and Valkyrie looked at him, than looked at each other, than back at him.

"Really?" They said together.

"Yes really," Sanguine sighed. "I wouldn't be here if I didn't mean it."

"Okay," Scorch said cautiously. "With what?"

Sanguine looked around then leaned in and whispered. "Exorcism."

Scorch immediately backed away and began whimpering. "No, please no! I promise to be a good little Hellhound from now on. I'll eat my healthy treats, I won't not chase the garbage truck, I won't annoy Omen just please don't do an exorcism on me!"

Sanguine face-palmed. "Not on you, on my sister."

Scorch stood back up. "Oh, why didn't you say so?"

Valkyrie frowned. "You want us to do an exorcism on your sister? Why us? Aren't priests supposed to do that?"

Sanguine nodded. "Yes, my little sister has been possessed by a demon and I came to you because Scorch is a demon and I thought that maybe he would know how to get rid of it and I wouldn't have to go through all of the hard stuff of getting a priest to actually do an exorcism."

Valkyrie and Sanguine looked at Scorch, who had the tip of his tongue sticking out of his mouth and appeared to be deep in thought. "I think," he said slowly. "I actually understand what you want me to do."

Valkyrie and Sanguine face-palmed.

"What? I actually mean it for a change."

"Maybe I should go find Angel. Do you know where she lives?" Sanguine asked.

Just then Omen came out of Skulduggery's house and came over. "I overheard your problem and Scorch can help."

"I can?" Scorch said incredulously.

"Yes," Omen said slowly. "We were born with all the knowledge of this stuff. You know it too."

Scorch's eyes went huge. "Oh, I bet it's in the very back of my mind where I never go. Here, I can find it just give me a moment." He closed his eyes and after a few moments screamed.

"OH MY GOSH! IT'S AWFUL, IT'S HORRIBLE, IT'S…. FILING CABNETS! ROWS AND ROWS OF FILING CABNETS, the horror, the horror." Silence. "Okay, uh demons. That starts with a 'D' right?"

"Yes." Omen said.

"Okay, ah here are the 'D's." Silence. "George Washington? How'd you get in here? Back, back. Go back to where you belong. With the 'O's."

Everything was quiet for a few minutes.

Scorch reopened his eyes. "Found it! The reason I couldn't find it was because it was in the 'Z's."

"Well," Sanguine said. "What do you know?"

"Well," Scorch said lifting his paw so that the pad faced up. "Apparently we demons can fight over the possession of a person much like a goldfish fights for his territory. And we fight by both going into the body of the person who is being possessed. We fight a bit and then whoever loses gets kicked out and runs away screaming uncle."

Everyone went quiet.

"Okay, we don't really say uncle, but I think it'd be funny."

Quiet.

"So…." Sanguine said. "You'll help?"

"Yep!"

"Great."

"So this is your sister?" Scorch asked. He, Sanguine and Valkyrie stood in Sanguine's living room. A girl with black hair about the length of her shoulders sat in a chair looking curiously at them.

"Emily," Sanguine said. "These are some friends of mine that are going to help you."

Valkyrie frowned. "We're friends?"

Sanguine ignored her. "This is Valkyrie Cain and her pet, Scorch."

"Hi!" Scorch said cheerfully. "I'm a Hellhound and I'm going to possess you so that I can get rid of the demon possessing you currently. It's going to be fun!"

Emily blinked.

Sanguine turned to Scorch. "I don't think you should have told her that."

"Sorry."

He sighed and turned back to Emily Just as her eyes rolled back in her head and she went stiff. She smiled.

Sanguine jumped back. "Whoa, she's never done that before."

"Don't worry," Scorch said. "The demon's just showing its self. They'll do that when they get threatened. Or at least that's what my mind says." He turned to Emily. "Hi demon! You probably heard all the stuff I said earlier so I'm just going to skip the formalities and go straight to the stuff. Leave that girl and everyone else alone and leave this place and stay away. Got it?"

Suddenly Emily began to speak gibberish.

Scorch nodded.

"Yeah, no. Sorry, I'm not leaving and if you don' do what I want right now I'm going to force you out."

More gibberish.

"Watch your mouth! That isn't a nice word."

Gibberish.

Scorch nodded. "Okay then, I'm going into that body now so move over. Oh and Sanguine?"

"Yeah?"

"You might want to hold her down; things like this can get violent."

Scorch's eyes glowed and Emily began to shake and thrash, still speaking gibberish and then another voice began to speak out of her mouth.

Sanguine and Valkyrie ended up holding her down after a few minutes.

"Got any rope?" Valkyrie asked.

"Nope."

"What about super glue?"

"I think I have some of that."

Sanguine ran off then came back with a tube. They squirted some on the ground then when Emily rolled into it couldn't break free.

"Fast drying," Sanguine explained.

"Nice touch."

After a few more minutes Emily stopped struggling and everything was quiet. Then she opened her mouth and Scorch's voice came out. "Demon gone from girl but still in house. I give chase."

Emily took in a sudden breath then opened her eyes. "Why am I covered in superglue?"

Scorch took off running up the stairs. "COME BACK HERE, I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU YET!" He ran all over the house chasing the demon.

Finally Scorch cornered it in Sanguine's room. "Just a second, I got to find something to hit you with." He looked around for a weapon and ripped the bedpost off the frame and continued his chase. "LET ME HIT YOU WITH THIS STICK!"

He ran into the living room.

"Scorch!" Valkyrie yelled. "Drop the stick and use your teeth!"

"Oh right, I forgot I had those." Scorch dropped the stick and continued chasing the demon until the demon finally gave up and left the house.

"I," Scorch said coming over to the others. "AM VICTORIOUS!"

"Great," Sanguine said. "Now do you have a way to get superglue off a girl?"

"Of course! Living with Valkyrie you learn these things. She gets stuck to everything!" Scorch ran over and after a moment the glue melted.

"Yay!" Emily sat up. "I'm free!" Then she slapped Sanguine. "Never glue me to the floor again."

Valkyrie whacked Scorch on the head. "I do not get stuck to everything."

Scorch rubbed his head. "Owie."

Sanguine helped his sister back to her feet.

Then Scorch walked over. He held out his paw, pad up. "I helped and succeeded. Now you give me bacon."

I'm at Subway XD