New Year - Australia

The new year finally came! I was seriously starting to doubt that I wasn't going to be killed in the mean time. Although I think Skulduggery is going to try and kill me in a few minutes.

In the short time that has happened since I last wrote in here, something great has occurred.

We found out what Vanity's magic is...

She's a teleporter. Just like Fletcher.

This is great news because now we can just teleport to anywhere in Australia and we wont have to catch a plane there and then a train.

The bad news is that because she has only just figured out her power, she doesn't know as many places as Fletcher does.

But first I think I owe you all an explanation. The way that we found out what her power was. We were sitting at a cafe (you know those random ones you see, just in the middle of nowhere? It was one on of those) when suddenly Van disappeared. I swore and jumped up out of my seat.

I looked over to Val and saw her mouth open, Skulman however, was just as cool as always. Shaking my head I turned around to see the road.

My mouth dropped open again.

'How the hell did she get there?' I asked Skulduggery. He just tilted his head as he does.

'I think we have another Teleporter on our hands,' was his simple reply.

Vanity came back into the cafe and looked at us. 'How the hell did I just do that?' she asked me.

'Why are you asking me?' I replied and sat down again.

'I wonder...' Vanity said before disappearing once more. I just shrugged. It didn't take me that long to get used to it.

I quickly demolished the other half of the muffin that I was eating but jumped half a mile into the air as Van came back.

'Have a Koala,' she said and gave me a small Koala that was made to hang of jackets. I grinned and put it in my hair.

'Like the look?' I asked her with a grin.

'Stunning,' she replied.

'Scary,' Val muttered under her breath.

Suddenly I noticed lots of bruises on Van.

'What happened?' I asked her, slightly worried.

'I hit a tree,' she said with a grin. I smirked back. We both knew that she just quoted The Faceless ones.

'Well, I'm sure it had it coming,' I said back, saying the next line from the book.

'That's enough of that!' Skulduggery said, ridding us of the chance to continue quoting the dialogue from The Faceless Ones.

'What now?' Val asked groaning.

'Whilst you all were playing around, I managed to find out who was the person who is trying to kill us at the moment,' Skulduggery said, his voice seeming extra velvety today.

'Spiffing,' Vanity said in response.

'How are we getting there?' I asked back. Well it seemed like it was my turn we were going around the circle. First it was Skulduggery, then it was Val, then it was - oh... we didn't go around a circle! Val broke the circle. I was standing next to Van, who was standing next to Skulman, who was standing next to Val.

He He Ha Ha. Val, Van and Vin off to take the world by storm.

Anyway, back to the very odd tale of my life at the moment...

'We teleport!' Van said rather enthusiastically.

'Where is it?' Val asked Skulduggery. She seems to be ignoring us - almost as though if she heard us one more time she would rip our heads off our necks and then eat them.

That's not nice...

Anyway, (I am getting rather distracted today aren't I?) Skulduggery considered her for a moment before answering. I wonder why he had to think about it.

Was he afraid?

'We're going to Australia,' he said as though he just sign his death wish (again).

'Tonight is new year,' Val said.

'No shit sherlock,' I replied and she still ignored me. Although it seemed as though she wanted to kill me even more than before.

'Are we going to be staying for the Sydney fireworks?' she continued.

'I've heard that they are the best in the world,' Skulman continued. 'Might as well. We will be back in time for the Dublin ones.'

I grinned excitedly. Looks like I was going to break the family tradition of watching the fireworks on T.V.. We were going to watch them live.

'I don't know the city well enough to go there,' Van said thinking.

'Who cares, go to (insert place in sydney here - I'm not going to list one for safety reasons - Stella, if you read this, I was imagining where your school is, the shops near there) and we will train it in,' I replied.

'That's an idea,' Skulduggery said.

'Money,' mentioned Val.

'I think I have enough...' I replied and dug through my bag. 'And you can repay with the currency of here! What is the Irish currency?'

Val looked at me and shook her head in disappointment. 'I should have remained ignoring you,' she said.

'So kind,' I replied under my breath.

'Let's go,' Skulduggery said.

We all placed our hand on Van's arms and disappeared...