Hello people! So, to start, just in case anyone happens upon this or hasn't read LBNF, I apologize for my brief absence. I've been having some medical issues on my end. I can't promise I won't disappear again, but I will try to give some notice beforehand.

Anyway, onwards to FF! Dark Shorty is back! Anyone miss me? :P

So, in case anyone missed the rating or the warnings in the summary, this story will be DARK. Non-con, torture, all that fun stuff I haven't touched on in a little while. I've had this in the making for a little while, but I lost all the stuff I had for it when I took my last hiatus. I just recently rediscovered a few bits of it, and it inspired me to start rewriting, as much as I hated to have to. Sorry there's not much in this first part - just the prologue. It's short, only a little more than 500 words, but it's what I have for the moment and I'm excited to get this up.

So, if none of this has scared you away, great! I'll stop babbling and let you read. Enjoy! :)

Prologue

What if the story we all thought we knew was not what we thought it was? What if Colfer toned it down to be more… kid-appropriate? It's not exactly unheard of it book or movie adaptations of stories. The story of Artemis Fowl is not any different.

The truth about what happened in the adventures of Artemis Fowl and Holly Short is much darker and startling tale than what Colfer made it out to be. He left out or changed many key details for the sake of making the story happier and simpler for his audience. Among these were the boy's age, the length of the Fowl Siege, the amount of times and length of time that time was stopped, Artemis's reasons for abducting Holly, and many, many more.

The main parts of the story that Colfer did not alter were those at the very beginning. Artemis and Butler really did meet with the man and the sprite in the beginning of the book, and this is actually how they acquired their information. However, they did not put it into use for several years after, in which time Artemis used to do more research and plan extensively. It also did take several months to capture Holly Short, when he did do it, but for a different reason than what Colfer states. For the purpose of this tale, those parts with not be repeated, as only these key details are different, not the events themselves. They played out exactly as Colfer described them.

Artemis Fowl was actually 18 years old when he first made contact with the People. While it is true that he discovered them at the meager age of 12, he waited to make first contact, as his parents' states and the state of the Fowl's riches was not yet in dire straits and he wanted to be taken more seriously than he knew he would be at that young age. And command more respect he did.

It is important to realize, from an outsider's standpoint, that Artemis may appear to be a cruel man, possibly to the point of psychopathic or psychotic, but none of these things are true. His treatment of Holly and the People was rough but, in his eyes at least, necessary to make certain events happen, or he would have never been able to go through with it all. In all honesty, seeing the human for how he really is, not how he was initially portrayed, probably makes his character arc and the changes he experiences because of Holly and the People all the more remarkable and impressive.

But perhaps that should be left to the reader to decide.

Be warned before venturing any further into the truth of this tale. Proceed with caution. Artemis is not a bad man, but he did do some truly terrible things, regardless of whether it was necessary or not. The story ahead may contain graphic descriptions of details or events that may trigger or newly scar weak-minded or weak-stomached individuals or those with a past involving similar events. This story is not one for the faint of heart.

And now, onward, to the true story of the events of Artemis Fowl.