ARTEMIS FOWL: THE CODEX SPIRITUS

Better to save a friend unselfishly, than recover a treasure selfishly.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

CENTRAL HEROES

Artemis Fowl II

Captain Holly Short

Grayson Maxamillian "Max" Sumner III

Myles Fowl

Foaly

Domovoi Butler

No.1

Rhiannon Heen

Olaf "Iver" Iverson

CENTRAL VILLIANS

Morgan Lafey

Lord Grayson Maxamillian Sumner II

Oberon the Shadow King

Opal Koboi

Raymond "Ray" Fisher

Ark Sool

Dr. Diamonte Blackstone

SUPPORTING HEROES

Ernest Bartholomew "Ernie" Tweeny

Natalia Felicia Anastasia Romanov

Harley Davidson Eisenstein

Mulch Diggums

Trouble Kelp

Grub Kelp

Logan

Madame Ko

Juliet Butler

ANTI-HEROES

Athena

Magnus

Augustus

Sprig

CIVILIANS

Angeline Caliburn Fowl

Artemis Fowl I

Brooke Lundgren

Tabby Caliburn

Annika Caliburn Sumner

Becket Fowl

Hannah Sumner

Rosa

Dennis Stonebrow

CHAPTER 1: THE FIVE-DAY FOWL MIDSUMMER NIGHT BALL

Fowl Manor hosted many parties during the year, as Artemis Fowl II knew very well but the most important party was one that didn't happen every year. It in fact happened with an important eclipse that only occurred every ten years. It was longer than all the other parties. They called it the FIVE-DAY FOWL MIDSUMMER NIGHT BALL. Seven generations of Fowls so far had hosted it and young former criminal Artemis Fowl II was as the oldest son determined to be the eighth. As the name suggested the ball lasted five days. All through the six nights the Fowls and their closet friends dined, danced, told jokes and looked at the stars waiting to see the big eclipse. Through the five days they mostly slept, but sometimes the Fowls and their guests would go out to the river, or play chess, or have their most important buissness meetings. Arnold Fowl had joined the army between ball nights at one of these parties. Apollo Fowl had made an alliance with the drug cartel. Three Fowl men in a row, including Artemis's father Artemis Senior, had proposed. Young Artemis not at fifteen had the same plans. He wasn't forming alliances with any kind of gang. He wasn't drafting himself. And he definitely wasn't going to propose to anyone. His youngest twin brother Myles was almost as brilliant as Artemis himself. Artemis had an Alliance with the LEP fairy police. Though, Myles wasn't three years old yet his brother had decided the sooner he joined him in helping the fairies the better. So Artemis had convinced his fairy allies Holly Short, Mulch Diggums, and No.1 the irritating demon to come to the party and help Artemis bring Myles into the dangerous buissness, which would be a perfect day routine for six busy nights that could only be spoiled by one thing. Artemis's mother's sister, Annika Sumner was a cold rich greedy woman who chased her ex-husband Lord Grayson Maximilian Sumner the second's money like Mulch after precious jewels. Since Angeline Fowl was kind and caring Artemis couldn't contemplate how the two of them could possibly be sisters. Annika had two children, Grayson Maximilian Sumner the third age twelve and Hannah Sumner age two. Grayson was cold and distant just like his mother. Artemis and his cousin had always been estranged. Grayson would also bring four friends called "The Grey Griffins" whom he would use to ignore and annoy the rest of the family. Harley Davidson Eisenstein was a big untidy brute of a boy. Ernest Bartholomew Tweeny was a little oath who ate like a pig. Natalia Felicia Anastasia Romanov was a very difficult girl. Artemis wasn't looking forward to seeing any of them, but the person he thought would most likely ruin the party would be his ex-uncle. Lord Grayson Maximilian Sumner the Second was a perfectly annoying man. Artemis loathed him more than any other human in the world and didn't understand why the man was allowed at the party since he was no one in the family's friend and no longer in any way part of the family.