Summary: One day Holly accidently follows Foaly into Wonderland where she meets lots of familiar people in unfamiliar ways. Artemis as the Cheshire Cat? Follow Holly's adventure in Wonderland...

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters from Artemis Fowl nor do I own the characters from Alice in Wonderland.

Holly in Wonderland

Part One

Holly sat watching Foaly talk at the front of the room. He was discussing his latest invention, which as always wasn't at all interesting to her; because of course she had already used it before anyone else. She watched as he indicated how it worked and the joyous faces of the other people in the room as they marvelled at his new invention. She sighed and leaned back in her chair.

She had only just become comfortable and had closed her eyes for a moment when she heard Foaly shout at her.

"Holly I've got to go, I'm late!"

Looking up, she saw Foaly looking at his watch whilst rushing towards the door. Curious she got up quickly and followed him out of the room. When she reached the door she looked around and saw Foaly standing at a door further down the corridor that led to his Ops Booth.

"I'm so late!" he said and immediately after walked into his Booth and out of sight.

Very curious now Holly walked briskly to the end of the corridor and into the Ops Booth.

She took one step and then realised that her foot had made contact with nothing and in fact there was no floor at all. She fell into the deep hole and found herself screaming in fright, something very uncharacteristic for her. After a minute of falling without reaching anything or seeing any end to the hole she decided that maybe she wasn't going to die and in fact was going to fall forever.

It was then, after she had calmed down, she noticed various items on tidy shelves on the walls and various doors leading to mysterious places. They looked exactly like the shelves which lined the Ops Booth containing different inventions of Foaly's and other fairy technology. She fell past Neutrinos and Camfoil all nicely stored on the shelves, she even thought at one point she saw Artemis' C-Cube.

Eventually though she grew bored of falling and seeing the same things over and over again.

This could go on forever, she thought, I need to get through one of these doors.

She tried to swim through the air towards one of the doors, but it was more difficult than she thought it would be because she would simply fall past them before she was able to grab hold of the door handle.

This still isn't working.

She sat cross legged in mid air as she fell deciding on her next step of action. It was at that moment she noticed a pair of wings on one of the shelves.

Wings! Of course!

She looked down and tried to see where the next pair of wings was. Spotting one she swam over to that side of the room and just managed to pull them from the shelf as she fell past them. Then she just simply put them on and activated them, now hovering in midair. It was a weird sensation to be staying in one place after falling for so long.

Holly directed herself towards a yellow door which particularly caught her eye. After opening it she flew through and came to rest in a small circular room with a little door on the opposite side, too small for her to fit through and a glass table in the middle.

Well that's just great, she thought, I'll have to try another door.

She turned around to leave and try a different door only to discover that the door was missing. Frowning, she turned back to face the room. This was starting to get annoying.

Because there was no other way out she decided that her only choice was to go through the tiny door. However impossible it seemed. She walked over and tried to open it only to find it was locked. Now thoroughly sick of everything going wrong she kicked the door hard and forced it open.

For the first time since the adventure had started she smiled, glad that violence hadn't let her down.

She crouched down and peered through the door to find a nicely trimmed maze in front of her. Surprised, she continued to peer around inside until she heard a noise behind her.

Briskly she stood up and turned to see Foaly enter through the door which had reappeared.

"Foaly?"

"Holly I already told you! I'm late!" Foaly said frantically.

"Foaly? What's going on?"

Foaly ignored her and grabbed something from the table, fiddled with it and then put it into his mouth. Then right before Holly's eyes he shrank to a small enough size to fit through the door and raced through it.

"Foaly!" she called after him, but he didn't look back and disappeared into the depths of the maze.

She quickly turned back to the table and not seeing anything on it walked over to it. Right in the centre, which she must have merely missed before, there was what appeared to be a pink lollipop. After pulling off the wrapper she put it into her mouth.

Nothing happened. She waited a bit longer and still nothing happened. She took the lollipop out of her mouth and looked at it inquisitively.

It looks like a normal lollipop, so maybe I need to treat it like a normal lollipop, she thought whilst putting it back into her mouth.

She sucked it once and felt a weird sensation as the table next to her seemed to get much bigger. Before trying again she walked over to the door to ensure that she didn't make herself too small.

Then she shrank to the appropriate size and walked through the door. Knowing that Foaly had had a while to get away she rushed to the end of the first stretch of bush and turned in the direction that Foaly had gone. After rushing halfway along the next passage she stopped abruptly.

I still have my wings. Duh! she thought.

Shaking her head at her own stupidity she turned the wings on and hovered over the maze. It seemed to go on forever in most directions. She turned around and couldn't see the door that she had come through, only more of the maze. A forest grew on the outer fringes on the horizon giving the maze an even more enclosed feel. In the distance she could see a castle which she thought the maze must belong to.

That must be where Foaly went, she decided as there weren't any other buildings in sight.

She flew over the maze for a while, glad that she didn't have to actually negotiate her way through it. Eventually she reached the end of the maze and the start of the normal gardens. It was there she saw Foaly talking in hushed tones with what looked like Wing Commander Vinyaya. She flew down to see what was going on.

"…almost caught them all!" she heard Vinyaya say.

"But if the Queen were to come now she wouldn't be happy would she?" Foaly said indignantly.

"But we just…"

Holly flew up to them causing them both to stop and look at her.

"Is everything alright?" she asked.

"No! I'm late! And now you have made me even later!" Foaly said glaring at Vinyaya, before rushing off again towards the castle.

Vinyaya turned to look at Holly.

"He's going to get the Queen! We're in big trouble now!"

"What? Why?" Holly asked.

"We are supposed to be catching all of the swear toads and we haven't caught them all!" Vinyaya said running off to grab some more and put them in a nearby cage. Holly looked in the direction that Foaly had gone, but he had completely disappeared. She then looked around the enormous lawn and saw a ridiculous amount of toads with many members of the Council trying to cpature them. Cages were scattered around with some toads already caught, but only a small proportion of the whole amount.

"I'll help you if you want," she offered, feeling sympathetic that they had to catch so many. Vinyaya looked at her frantically.

"Quick then! Over there! Near Cahartez." Holly looked to where she was pointing.

Why are these Council members so anxious, she wondered, this makes no sense.

"Are you helping or not?" Vinyaya said passing her whilst chasing a toad, "Because if you aren't you're just in the way."

Holly looked around. The number of toads seemed to have increased since she last looked.

"I'm helping," she said grabbing one toad and putting it into the cage with the others.

She had just begun to chase the next one when she heard a booming voice.

"What is going on here?!"

She turned along with the Council members and looked up the lawn to where a woman Holly assumed must be the Queen stood with Foaly and a large group of goblin soldiers following behind her. She was wearing a puffy gown with hearts embroidered all over it and a long red robe held up by a tall man and a small boy with chocolate smeared around his face. As they got closer to the swear toad collection party the Council members bowed before the Queen.

Holly looked closely at her.

"Minerva?" she said.

"How dare you!" Minerva shouted, "You do not bow and then you have the nerve to talk to me as if you know me!"

"I'm sorry," Holly said evidently not sorry, but getting more and more confused by the moment as she angrily curtseyed in front of Minerva.

"You should be!" Minerva looked around at the toads everywhere, "Why are these toads still here!"

Is she only capable of shouting? Holly thought.

"We're so very sorry!" Vinyaya pleaded, "We are trying our hardest."

"Well it's not good enough!" Minerva shouted, "Off with their heads!"

She turned to face the goblins and pointed at the Council members and Holly. The goblins moved forward to drag all of them away. Before they had a chance to grab her, Holly activated her wings and wished she had grabbed a Neutrino earlier so that she could save the others.

"Get her!" Minerva shouted.

The goblins tried to get to Holly, but she was out of their reach.

"Get her down...NOW!" Minerva shouted.

The goblins started to hurl fireballs at Holly and she felt that it was probably best for her to leave and come back to rescue them later. She decided that it would be easiest to hide from the goblins in the forest she had spotted earlier. Due to her superior flying abilities she found it easy to weave between the fireballs and made it safely to the forest. In the distance she heard Minerva sobbing.

"I ALWAYS GET WHAT I WANT!" she screeched and stormed back into the castle, her father and brother trying in vain to calm her down.

Holly watched as the Council members were dragged away by the goblins and vowed that she would be back to save them. Deciding that she needed to find a weapon, Holly ventured further into the forest until she spotted a path below her. It was considerably darker in the forest and it took a while for her eyes to adjust. She flew down and began to walk down it. After a while she reached a split in the path.

"Which way am I meant to go?" she said, "I wonder where I can find a Neutrino."

She peered down one paths and it just seemed to disappear into darkness. Once she turned and looked down the other path it seemed to be just the same. She was about to head down the right-hand path when she heard a familiar voice.

"Are you sure that's the best way to go?"

"Artemis?" she turned around, but there was no one there.

"Who is Artemis?" the voice said.

"You are, aren't you?" Holly asked still looking around.

"Alas I am not," the voice said.

"But you sound like Artemis," Holly said starting to feel frustrated that she couldn't see him and slightly nervous without her Neutrino at her side.

"That may be so, but I am not him, as I have already told you."

"Where are you?!" Holly said finally throwing her hands up in exasperation and standing still.

"Up here." She looked up into the tree, but couldn't see anything.

"Where?!"

"Here," the voice said from a different tree.

Holly walked over to it and still couldn't see where it was coming from.

"Here," the voice said again sounding like it came from the tree she had just walked away from.

"Show yourself now or…" she trailed off

"Or, is not a sufficient threat."

"Or else!"

"Neither is that."

Holly looked like she was about to explode.

"Fine!" she said and stormed off down the path she had originally chosen.

"Are you sure that's the best way to go?" the voice repeated.

"I don't care anymore!" she said storming down it.

"But you should care, who knows where it will lead you." She stopped.

"If you show yourself now then I might listen to you otherwise leave me alone." She waited and there was no reply. "Fine!" she started walking off again.

"Here," came the voice.

She looked up at a low hanging branch and sitting there was a pale white cat. She raised an eyebrow.

"You're a cat?"

"Of course I'm a cat," he replied, "I'm the Cheshire-Cat."

"Cheshire-Cat?" she said confused, she looked at his eyes, one of them had previously belonged to her, "You have his eyes though! So are you Artemis or not?"

"Yes…and no," he replied vaguely.

"You're so infuriating," she said and began to storm off into the forest again.

"Are you sure that's the best way to go?" the Cat called from behind her.

Holly snapped.

"Yes! Yes I am! Now…leave…me…alone!"

"Alright," the Cat said from a branch in front of her causing her to stop after jumping with fright, because she was sure she had left him on the branch behind her "but don't say I didn't warn you."

Holly rolled her eyes. "Whatever."

The Cat suddenly began to fade away in front of her.

"How can you…?"

But before she could reach the end of her sentence all that remained of him was his snide smile.

"Good luck," the smile said. She couldn't tell whether it was sincere or not, but before she could say anything the cat disappeared completely.

"Artemis," she muttered, "helpful as always," once again she rolled her eyes and set off down the path.

A/N: Obviously it isn't exactly the same as Alice in Wonderland because it needed Artemis Fowl references. Please Review :D

Part two of three coming soon...