Youngblood looked at the next thing to do. A small adjustment here and that would get Val looking in the wrong direction - at Ember. Now the speakers would enhance the hypnotic qualitieds of Ember's singing. The next part of this was Walker's show. It would be so usufl. Best to send the note to Val. No need for more details than arrest Ember. This warrant looked valid, and legally it was, but that was mainly because it had never actually been served. IT should have been, especially since Ember had already recieved the punishment. Best if he used the box ghost to deliver the letter and via Danny.

Vlad looked at his book. He was sure he hadn't missed anything. A string from Ember's guitar. A small piece of the Fright Knights sword, The reality gauntlet, even somehow a medallion of clockworks, a Valkyries hair. Hold on back up. A Valkyries hair? Where was it possible to get one of those? This was not good, not good at all. Here he was, raiding half a dozen ghost zones and he forget to pick up an essential ingredient. Still ghost's did modernise. So Valkyrie? They'd flee upon a steed of some sort, and would at one time hunt ghosts. Well The Red Hunter would do, but getting a hair from her was far too difficult. Skulker hunted ghosts, Hold on.

"Fright Knight."

"Yes, sir?

"I need the hair of a Valkyrie. Can you tell me if any exist."

"I can, but once again, I must advise against this in the strongest possible way."

"The Valkyrie?"

"Only two remain. One is the Red hunter. The other has retired."

"The other?"

"Ember McLain."

"That means I need a hair from her. How the hell will I be able to get that."

"She plans to put on a concert. In this world, sir." The Fright Knight feels relieved that there is a missing word in the spell ingredients. His boss's insane plan will not work.

Valerie and Sam woke up. Both looked at each other. Both wanted to complain but neither really could.

"Ghost Hunting times." they explain at the same point.

"At least we're both early risers." Sam gave thanks for small blessing

"Nice Batman togs."

Sam glares at Valerie. She is not going accept her no matter what. Part of Sam whispers 'Prove Val wrong, accept her.' But Sam just cannot do so. And not because of Val's attempts to kill Danny but because as Valerie said, that she was and still is a viable rival for Danny's hand.

"It's time to go. Want a lift?"

Sam is about to answer "Not really", then realises Val's impatience might make her take off without her. "I need one, but just let me get things packed. Also I'd like to know why Danny trusts you, and says you have good reason. I get the obvious thing. But as much as I didn't want to admit it, part of you has always liked Phantom."

"I have a strange feeling we're better off not knowing. But knowing Danny..."

Sam and Val for the first and only time in their lives speak in synch. "He's going to tell us anyway."

Sam finally gets the last bits. "Okay Val, I'm ready."

Val jumps out the window, and suits up. He board then comes level to the sill so that Sam can fly with her. Sam get's on and both head towartds the stadium, Val going at a gentle pace.

"Can't you go any faster, Gray?"

"I'm not used to carrying passengers who don't have motive thrust, Manson."

"Sor-ry, Sor-ry"

Val controls her temper mostly because she knows Danny would never forgive her dropping Sam.

"Thing is my flight comes from my board, remember, and to turn I have to angle it, especially at high speeds - The aerofoils do only so much."

Val arrives into the station and dropss down. The early morning was essential. She sighed. "Ember, remember not to use anything until I have checked my instruments. After all someone seems to be either after the concert or after you and I stuck my neck out to give you this chance."

Ember glared daggers at Sam in response to Sam's own glare. Both were thinking the same thing ironically -"Shallow Attention Seeker."

Val downloaded the data from her traps and camera's she had left. This was going to be difficult. After all it's not like she was going to know the culprit. After her suit did careful analysis. Valm Blinked. "Reanalyse. RE-Analyse. REANALYSE."

Sam and Ember stared at Valerie. "We can hear you. What's wrong?"

"I did a full analysis of all the data, and yet it has to be wrong. He can't break this rule. I'll need to check the suits integrity.. After a small pause. "Nuts. According to all sensors tthe ghost responsible is Youngblood. Yet it can't be."

"Why not?" Sam asks. "It fits his method, and he's angry at you two stopping his exit."

"Trust us, he isn't allowed to prank us. There's a complex reason but Val is effectively the owner of this concert and since Val was doing her Job, he should find it impossible to prank her."

"But he's pranking Ember."

"A fine if not hair-splitting legal distinction, and not a twist he can do. Pranking me affects Valerie and counts as a strike against her by family rules."

Sam blinked. "You're right that makes no sense, if as you say Youngblood is bound by family rules. Legal trickery is more Walker's style."

The Box ghost appears saying in his vacant voice. "Beware. For I am the box ghost." and hand sVal a sealed envelope, with a proper wax-seal. before he gets deported back to the ghost Zone.. Val opens it. She blinks. "This is an arrest warrant for Lady Liansdottir. Who on Earth is she?" Val asked. "It's still legal. And she's supposed to have committed High Treason."

"Val, you don't want to see the answer because you know who the warrant is for." Ember stated. "The Ghost King was brought down by treason both times. His right hand man defected."

"So?" Sam asked.

"You've worked out that Val and I were Valkyries. Frost giants exist. If I was the Chief Valkyrie, who was Odin?"

"Pariah Dark?" Val and Sam exploded.

"Exactly. My surname adjusted always being a modern version of Child of Lian. Ended up as Maclain. That is more Walkers style, serving a still legal warrant, despite the fact I have served my punishment. Why do you think no-one remembers Freya's name?"

Val was angry. "That bastard Walker. I'm going to have to arrest you."

"Do you know the rules, Val? He's carefully arranged this so it's my third strike, despite the fact it shouldn't count. And the Obsevrents will deal with me permanently and for people with that name they are ridiculously blind."

"But this is an attack through family. Something Youngblood would think up. Do you think they're co-operating?" Sam asked being less familiar with the Ghost Zone's rules

"No way. They HATE each other. Rule obsessed warden. My brother, inveterate rule Breaker." Ember explained. Walker has trapped us in the rules."

"And I can't see how to get my Mum out of it."