Ooh, ooh, ooh, managed to get Finbar in! Hurray! Sorry, the way I'd written it so far, I didn't believe I'd be able to fit him in it. (Bit of a nonsense chapter again...)

Johnny rode out of the city as fast as he could. He'd seen the news earlier, seen the faces of the people he'd killed when the Rider had taken over.

He was determined to get away from the city. No matter what those people had done, he didn't want to kill again.

As he raced through the unfamiliar streets, his mind strayed back to the coffee he'd had with Tanith earlier.

"If you need anything while you're over here," she'd said, passing him a piece of paper with her number on it. "Call me."

She had said 'anything'... No, that was a terrible idea. She'd think he was totally insane, just like his friends and crew back home had. What kind of lunatic would believe that he was an actual, walking, living skeleton?

"Hey, Skul-man and Val!" Finbar Wrong grinned at the as Valkyrie and Skulduggery stood in the doorway to his tattoo shop. "I haven't seen you in, like, months!"

"We were here last week..."

"Were you? Oh yeah, awesome" he said, drifting back into the shop like in a dream.

Skulduggery shook his head but Valkyrie just grinned at him.

"Sharon's upstairs of you want to say hi."

"I don't know her, Finbar." Skulduggery said as usual.

"Uh... Yeah..." Finbar said. "Anyway Skul-man, what do you want?"

"We wondered if you could find someone for us"

"Sure." Finbar said, fiddling with a tattoo pen distractedly. "Who?"

"We don't know who, precisely." Skulduggery said, his skull tilting to one side. "We were hoping you could find out."

"We need you to find a Ghost Rider." Valkyrie said.

Finbar looked horrified "Woah, you didn't say it was one of those guys. No way, José!"

"What?"

"The last sensitive who tried to do that, like, their head exploded, man!"

"Really?" Skulduggery said sceptically. Valkyrie could tell that if he'd had a face he'd have been raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah! It'd be kind of awesome if it didn't, you know, kill them" Finbar scratched his head, serious for once. "And I really do not want to get possessed by one of those guys."

Skulduggery nodded. "From what we've found out, that's understandable."

"Yeah, they've got, like, flaming skulls for heads and stuff. Bit like you, Skul-man, only, you know, evil"

"And I'm far more well dressed."

"Uh... Yeah, that too, I guess." he said doubtfully.

Valkyrie smirked.

"Ok then." Skulduggery said, peering at her from under his hat.

"We've got to meet Tanith soon." Valkyrie said pointedly, turning to leave.

Finbar grinned again. "Awesome. See you later. Oh, and hey, Skul-man, just call round if you want to see Sharon"

Skulduggery just shook his head and walked out after her.