My first Artemis Fowl fanfic… I guess the 6th book inspired me this much so basically it takes place during the 6th book. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: Honestly if I were Eoin I would not rewrite an already amazing story so I don't own Artemis Fowl.
Are you happy? The question bounced through Aaron's head, unsure of what the answer was. He didn't even know if he was happy. He was a guitar prodigy, who could play anything he wished on his 'magic guitar', and he had money, fame, he was a genius, all at 14. Yet he didn't know if he was happy.
Am I happy? He asked himself still having not answered the reporters question and he left his most recent concert stage, in Dublin. And before he could finish thinking a guard pushed everyone out of the way whilst 2 others escorted a 14 year old enwrapped in his own thoughts.
I have everything I could possibly want… money, fame, skills, brilliance, but I'm not sure it has made me happy… By this point he was on his tour bus and down the street. Not even my mind can tell if it's happy… What cruel irony, intelligence in every field except my own emotions… Maybe some day I will find an answer.
Little did he know events were already being set in motion for him to find an answer to that question as well as an adventure he would never forget.
Meanwhile Artemis Fowl was attempting, miserably, to cure his mother of a disease with magic he had stolen from a fairy by the name of Holly Short. But unfortunately for him he wasted his magic and called for help from his fairy friends through a communicator in his ring.
By this point Aaron had been stopped and outside the bus were several guards and roadies working on the flat tire, but they didn't have a spare. It turns out some fan, in an attempt to stop Aaron and see him, had slashed their rear tire only slightly so the effect was slow and they would be stopped away from the concert hall.
Someone had been trailing them but they kept going when the saw the guards step out of the bus, knowing that they couldn't deal with 4 guards all over 6 feet and built like linebackers. Then Aaron got off the bus.
I stepped off the bus and saw in the distance a house surrounded by trees, barely visible but there none the less. Maybe they have a spare, I thought. "Hey guys I'm going to check if those people could get us a spare." I said to the quite busy people, I doubt they will even notice I'm gone. So I walked in the general direction of the house.
When I got close to the house and walked onto the driveway I got to see how big the house was. It's bigger than mine… So I continued on to the front door and knocked.
When Artemis heard a knock on the door, he begrudgingly left his mothers bedside to go answer to the door. What he did not know however was that Holly, still shielded was following him. And when he answered the door even he was surprised to see internationally recognized guitar prodigy, Aaron Perry.
When the door was opened Aaron said, "Hey, our bus's tires were deflated by someone a little ways from here do you think we could get a spare or 2?"
"Yes, come in, come in" Artemis said. But no sooner had Aaron stepped in had he stopped in his tracks.
"Do you hear something?" he asked.
"No I don't hear anything. What is it you are hearing?"
"I hear… a faint buzzing noise… almost too quiet to hear…" and this got Artemis looking around for a possible source. And as he looked Aaron roamed around trying to get to the source of the noise. All the while holly stood stock still. That's impossible no mud man could hear us vibrating. But it was quite possible because when Aaron was sure he had found the source he was kneeling down in front of Holly.
"I think I found it" Aaron said kneeling on the ground. At this point Artemis was looking forward to seeing what would make a buzzing noise, and not for one instance did he think it could be Holly. But then Holly made the mistake of backing away from Aaron as he reached forward. When he didn't feel anything he was sure that it was backing away from him so he jumped forward to grab whatever it was and caught an invisible Holly around the waist.
That's not good… Artemis thought
"Ha gotcha!" Aaron said triumphantly. For a genius I can be quite the child. He laughed inwardly. He was happy at times like this but could he remember any others? There was his music that made him happy, and…and…
When Aaron reached for Holly, she slowly started to back away, preparing to take off but just then he jumped forward and grabbed her around the waist causing her to blush a little. Good thing I'm invisible she thought but she couldn't very well take off now and if she did he may fall off and break his legs. She tried to squirm away from him but his grip held strong, she would have to think of something to get away without him. So she got an idea.
She unshielded which surprised Aaron because he had never seen a person with pointy ears who was short with that figure. If he didn't know better he could have sworn it was a… "Fairy?" he asked confusedly. Then she used the Mesmer on him.
"I'm not a fairy" she said her voice suddenly becoming very attractive to him. "But you are sleepy" she said, Aaron's eyes suddenly becoming heavy, so he was on the ground sleeping like a baby.
"Well that works, but I do not think it was necessary" said Artemis who was still standing to the side. "Well what else was I supposed to do?" asked Holly who was standing in front of Artemis now. "Good point, Holly. Now to why I asked you to come here, come with me." He started walking toward the stairs followed by Captain Short. But, since Holly did not put a time for Aaron to wake up in the Mesmer, as soon as she left the room he woke up with a start.
"What happened? How did I fall asleep?" Aaron asked himself, as he looked around finding no sign of the girl or the boy that were there a second ago. Or maybe I have been asleep for hours… but it's not that late in the day. Something must be up… That's it! And with that thought he ran upstairs in a search for the people. This beats being stuck in a tour bus any day, girls that disappear on you, I thought it was supposed to be the other way around hehe I'll have to remember that one for later.
Then Aaron ran to an open door where he stayed just outside as to not be discovered, undoubtedly having been picked up on the multiple security cameras he had seen around the house. Maybe I won't get in trouble…and maybe pigs will fly. Then, right outside the door he began listening in on the conversation.
"This gel. That smell. It can't be. It can't" said a female voice. Gel? Smell? Heh a rhyme.
"It can't be what?" asked the male.
"Foaly? Are you there?" the girl asked. Foaly?
"Right here, Holly. Chained to the desk. Commander Kelp has sent me a couple of mails asking where you are. I fobbed him off with the ritual story" came another male voice, Holly huh? Nice name. "I reckon you have about" but he was cut off by Holly
"Foaly, listen to me. Artemis's mother. I think we have something… I think it's bad"
"Okay. I'll sync with the manor systems ask Artemis for his password."
"Foaly wants your security password"
"Of course, of course." And it took Artemis a moment to continue for some unknown reason. "It's CENTAUR. All caps."
"Centaur. Right. I'm in." That's when Aaron decided to take a peek and what he saw made his jaw drop. On a TV screen was a centaur, SPEAKING, and next to a kid was a short female who had pointy ears. Am I going crazy? Aaron asked himself mentally but unfortunately for him he also voiced it. And when he came back to reality he was staring at a gun barrel in his face.
"WOW! WOW! WOW! Don't shoot!"
"Get in here mudboy." Holly said fiercely, not moving the gun from his head. What would you do? He complied, not wanted to be shot today.
"What should we do about him Foaly?" asked Holly.
"Well you can't kill him, Holly. He is famous and I don't think it will be easy to explain his death" Artemis said.
Holly
reluctantly pulled the gun away from his head. "I saw nothing!"
Aaron said sticking his hands up, but they ignored him to return to a
different matter.
"So, I take it from Holly's reaction,
that this condition is familiar to you?"
"See the gel, Foaly, from the pores. And the smell of lilies to—there can't be any doubt" Holly said pointing to the sheen covering.
"It's impossible. We eradicated this years ago."
"What is impossible? Eradicated what?"
"No diagnosis yet, Artemis; it would be premature Holly, I need to run a scan." And while they talked Aaron plotted a way to get out of here safely. I could take the girl's with a Krav Maga pistol disarm… Yea that should work. The thing that made Aaron dangerous in his own way was that he had taken several forms of martial arts and combine that with a genius's brain and you could have a tough time with him.
While the centaur was explaining something called Spelltropy, Aaron acted. He grabbed Holly's wrist and pulled her forward while placing his hand on the barrel of the gun and twisting it out of her hand. Now he had everyone's attention, the gun in his hand, and Holly on the ground. How did he do that? Were the thoughts on everyone's minds. Aaron backed up slightly.
"Ok now I will give her the gun back if you promise not to shoot me and to not do anything to me if I stay here." Aaron told them hoping they would agree to it because, honestly, he had never fired a gun in his life and it wouldn't be good for him if they refused.
Ok I'm done for today. I know I took most of the talking from TTP but it was the best I could come up with. And if you are wondering what Krav Maga is, it is an Israeli form of martial arts, any more information wanted look it up.
