Fletcher was woken up in his apartment over Dublin by his mobile phone he had reserved a text, it was from Ghastly it read 'we need ur help meet at outside sanctuary, Ghastly' Fletcher sighed he hadn't been at the sanctuary since he and Valkyrie had broken up. But the old team needed him (for once) so he got up, changed into jeans, boots and a t-shirt and teleported.

When he arrived outside the sanctuary he saw Skulduggery, Valkyire, Ghastly and a 19 year old boy in black boots, jeans, t-shirt and leather long coat, he reconised the kid, it was an old friend who he thought was dead, Xi Omega, "Xi?" He said startled "but you died, in Jasper"
"no, I went into a coma, I woke up like 2 months ago"
"Right"
"I got new friends as well" said Xi pointing at two people coming from a cafe with three cups of coffee, a boy of the age of 19 in jeans, trainers, light blue top and a body warmer and a 18 year old girl in black boots, skinny jeans and a top "this is Arthur Connell and Eve Candles"

Some time later Xi, Arthur and Eve had finished explaining the past 2 months to Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Fletcher, Panem, Eve being an Alpha Shade and Xi's magic problem "wait are you saying, your old Traveler powers are fading and are being replaced by controlling the 5 elements" said Valkyrie, Xi nodded "fire, ice, earth, wind and lightning" he said "and Alpha had brought Cealan back from the dead and made him super evil" said Skulduggery, Eve nodded "and gave him immunity of salt water and gave him teleportation" she said then Fletcher sat up from the brick wall he was sitting on "what!" He said, you could tell he was scared just by looking at him, he was sweeting like crazy "yeah, and Alpha made him his second in command" said Arthur
"But you have a plain?" Said Ghastly, Xi smiled, then pulled out an old peace of paper from his long coats inner pocket, unfolded it and it it over to Skulduggery, on the paper was a picture of a staff with a jewel on top "it's called the staff of coldran, legend has it that it can drain evil out if people" said Xi
"We're planning on using on Alpha and Cealan" said Arthur, then Skulduggery went up to Arthur and patted him on the back "I like this kid, he has got good potential" he said, both Valkyrie and Xi rolled their eyes.

Xi was given a black samurai sword as a weapon, Arthur was given a bow and alot of arrows and Eve was given a sliver samurai sword, they were given to them by cleavers, their team working with Skulduggery's team would be going to find the staff of coldran, Ghastly had found a map in a book in the sanctuary library and Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Fletcher, Xi, Arthur and Eve were going after it before Alpha and Cealan did. Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Fletcher went in the Bently and Xi, Arthur and Eve went in Xi's old motor-home, with walkie- talkies in both cars so they could communicate.

They had arrived at an abannedered farm a few hours later, got out of the veicals, all except Skulduggery were compaining about their stiff joints "I don't see why your complaining" he said, "I'm the skeleton so my joints should be as stiff as hell but no so don't complain"
"Skulduggery" said Fletcher
"Yes"
"Shut up"
"We'll, you've gotten more guts since the last time we meet" said Xi, Fletcher turned to him and smiled, then there was a sound from the barn, everyone turned to the barn "I'll go a check it out, ok" said Arthur, everyone else nodded, Arthur pulled out an arrow and his bow and prepared them to fight, went into the barn a few seconds later there was a crashing noise then he came out of the barn with a man in a bow tie and a tweed jacket, his hands on his head "this man was looking around the barn, you think he's an Alpha Shade"
"No, Arthur that's the Doctor, stupid" said Eve
"Oh" said Arthur turning to the Doctor "sorry" he said
"That's ok, I've had worse" said the Doctor
"We'll, it's good to see you again, even if you regenerated into an old fashioned teacher" said Xi shaking the Doctors hand " and it's good to see you to but weren't you about 14 last time, now your what, 19?" Said the Doctor
"Used my now faded Traveler power to heal, aged me a bit, oh yeah, lost Traveler power now I have power over fire, ice..." then there was a loud bang sound from the barn then the whole thing fell apart as Alpha Shades purst out, lead by Alpha, in his black armor that cover his whole body and next to him was Cealan "well, hello brother" said Alpha, Xi pull the sword from his belt and Alpha sent a wave of red energy to the team but Xi brought a wall of rock straight from the ground and it took the blow and turned to dust "new powers? Impressive" said Cealan, the teamed looked around to see a way out but nothing, no way out, Xi was next to Eve, they was aware that they were next to each other so they took each others hand and Eve closed her eyes and then there was a woshing noise, she opened her eyes.

Next time- Skulduggery Pleasant- love and bite part 2