(Valkyrie Cain and Dexter Vex love story)The Descendants

Planning Ahead

By the time everyone had showered and cleaned up Skulduggery's kitchen it was 2 O'Clock. The egg had dried everywhere. It was decided that only Skulduggery, Tanith, and Ellion would be going to arrest the girls. Valkyrie, Dexter, and Saracen were assigned to pick up Melissa and Desmond, take Alice and wait for the others at Valkyrie's parent's house to ensure Valkyrie's family were safe.

So first Fletcher would be teleporting Valkyrie, Dexter, and Saracen to the Edgley house where they would carry out their side of the mission. Then Fletcher would teleport back to get Skulduggery, Tanith and Ellion and the four would wait outside the school till they saw the others driving away before they snuck in and arrested the girls. When everything was done and everyone was back at the Edgley's house they would all teleport back to the Irish Sanctuary.

"I don't see why we have to go in two separate teams. Saracen said it himself many times! When the dead men split up bad things happen. That's how we lost Ghastly and Anton. That's how Erskine had the guts to do what he did. Because the Dead Men disbanded all those years ago. Why wouldn't we learn from our mistakes?" Valkyrie questioned.

"Valkyrie, it's a simple mission, sneak in and out, nothing dangerous," Dexter told her.

"I think Val's right. If you hadn't have split up Ghastly and Anton would still be alive. Why should we take the chances now?" Tanith rebutted, it was easy to see how much Ghastly's death scarred her. She was once a strong warrior who would do what needed to be done, sacrifices had to be made. But now she lost her ruthless touch.

"Tanith, this is different. What happened with the other Dead Men was because there was actually a significant enemy." Ellion voiced his opinion forcefully.

"Yes, but we can't underestimate people. I stand by what I said." Saracen said.

"Exactly! Why can't we just all teleport over to my parent's house, pick them up, go to the school, pull out Alice and then get the two girls at the same time and then take Fletcher back to Ireland?"

"I'm not a bus," Fletcher whined from across the meeting table in the briefing room where everyone sat to plan ahead. That's where they were now. Valkyrie had always hated this room.

"Think about it Valkyrie. What are the reasons I could possibly have for not doing what you just said?" Skulduggery asked her and Fletcher was ignored altogether.

"To waste time? Make me angry? Add dramatic flair? Make everything needlessly complicated to make yourself look better?" Valkyrie grumbled sarcastically.

"It means that if your family decides to stay where they are living in Australia, Alice can be accepted back at school without being associated with the disappearance of the two girls, also leaving no leads back to us for the girl's possible accomplices," Dexter explained, if it had been anyone else telling her this she would have continued to argue and everyone knew that. Even Skulduggery. But Skulduggery also knew that her family was a sensitive subject and not to push her so he didn't comment.

"Fine, but we still get to have some dramatic flair to make us look awesome, Right?" Valkyrie asked and stood from her chair.

"Naturally." Skulduggery replied and put on his food-free hat onto his gleaming white head. "Well, come on then. We have some bad guys to catch."