A/N this is the fourth instalment in my series that I have now named! It is called
'The Fairy Project' how cool!
Lol well this one is a separate part of cancer because cancer is meant to be a stand alone story and if I put this as an additional chapter it will tie in too much of the first and second part to make it stand alone. So this is the fourth instalment and maybe the last… or I might enjoy writing these too much to stop! Seriously this is like crack to me :) (Not really, I'm not an addict, honestly).
I don't own arty or Holly or this story would have happened sooner and I would have finished making the freaking movie!!
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Of Morphine and Not Morphine…
Artemis looked down at his hands again, once the clean, manicured hands of a rich person, now the slim hands of an elf. Pointed ears, slim frame, it all added up.
Well, this was unexpected.
And it was, one minute Artemis had been on top of the world, the youngest genius in Europe and most probably in the world. He had started by kidnapping a fairy and then progressed to become her friend. Then they saved the world a couple of times. This resulted in him receiving one of the fairies eyes, and some magic. This had unlocked the part of his brain that dealt with magic and left him with bundles of the stuff. However it had thought it was still in Holly. The magic, thinking its owner was a fairy, tried to change Artemis physiology to turn him back into a fairy. This lead to him having a form of cancer. Terminal cancer. But he hadn't died when he changes.
So here I am. Brain the size of a planet and they ask me… wait, wrong book. Here I am, smartest human on earth, know a fairy under the earth. I do believe I am still the smartest though. Modest is for people who aren't perfect.
Artemis chuckled at his joke. This lead the medical warlock to give him a funny look. People laughing to themselves rarely have all their sanity. But it was understandable for the poor kid. Turned into a fairy, forcibly taken underground and kept in a small room for a week whilst they are tested on. Not how anybody would like to spend their vacations.
"Well that's the last test we can actually administer, thank you for you cooperation Artemis." The warlock said, rather nervously it had to be said.
"I didn't have much of a choice doctor, you drugged me into submission!" Artemis replied, dreamily. After his interruptions and corrections on anatomy the warlocks had become annoyed and given Artemis a small amount of refined morphine.
"Well, yes sir, that was for the pain!" the warlock invented, quickly trying to cover his tracks.
"What pain?" Artemis asked.
"Exactly!" the warlock replied, as if moving the final piece to capture the king (chess remark).
Half an Hour later--
"Hello Artemis, how are you feeling?" Holly asked. She had only been admitted to his 'cell' because Butler threatened to sit on someone if she wasn't.
"Well, the morphine seems to have worn off…" Artemis started.
"Not morphine, we found out later it dampens magic, that's called SP-002, made from quartz and is twice as effective. Unfortunately it's about twelve times as expensive so it's quite an honour to have it! Only private clinic fairies are allowed this stuff and seeing as how the Argon clinic owed sector eight a favour…"
"Why am I here Holly?" Artemis said, looking her straight in the eyes. One blue, one green. The relic of an old adventure.
"Well, you're the first person this has ever happened to…" she started
"It's good to be unique" Artemis interrupted.
"Don't interrupt" now, you are the first person who has ever turned into a fairy and lived, two other people stole magic but it didn't go well for them. We want to know why you survived and, if possible, how to turn you back." Holly finished.
"Maybe I should stay a fairy. It could be fun!" Artemis pointed out.
"Not up to you I'm afraid, its up to the fairy council." Holly pointed out, glumly. She didn't know how she felt about Artemis. After the events with Turnball she had been getting closer to him but still… well, he could always join sector eight…
"Mr. Fowl?" a voice came from the wall. Upon inspection a small speaker and microphone would present themselves but Artemis and Holly didn't need to look to know they were there.
"Yes, Dr. Argon?" Artemis enquired.
"This may be a problem. The circumstances of you change were somewhat, unusual I think. You had fairy magic that was given, not taken. You have had contact with us before and you have experienced many healings. This all may seem trivial but it has an impact. You are a fairy permanently as far as I can tell. But there is a problem. An unidentified protein has been made in you left leg, we didn't know what it was so we have cross referenced it with our entire database witch includes some sixteen million illnesses."
"Yes, what is it then?" asked Holly.
"It's the selenium pentothadrin, more commonly known as…"
"Deathbug…" Holly finished.
"You know about it?" Artemis asked.
"About two hundred years ago there was a massive outbreak. It only travels through healing magic, backwards and forwards, so weather you are giving the healing, or receiving it, you get the bug. It's not actually a bug, but it manifests itself as a sort of spider shape when it leaves the body. But the worst part is, it will gradually take over you body, without you knowing it, until it gets to the brain. Then it makes you a puppet and all you magic explodes out. This kills you and infects anyone in you vicinity. It even goes through walls."
"Well that doesn't sound good, if you can't heal it, how do we get rid of it? Surgery? Chemo or radio therapy?" Artemis asked, sounding completely calm despite the fact he had just been told he had a terminal illness.
"No, the therapies just enlarge it because it feeds on energy and surgery just removes part, you can't get all of it and by know it's moved into you hip. The only way to get rid of it would be to remove your torso." Argon said.
"So we can't get rid of it?" Artemis asked, still completely calm.
"We can't… but I know someone who can…" a new voice broke over the speakers.
"Mulch? What are you doing there?" Holly asked.
"Don't worry Dr. Argon, Foaly hasn't bugged the entire hospital… just you parts… well this bloke I met when I was breaking into Buckingham palace, well he told me that there was a dwarf who sought enlightenment, after thousands of years he found it and gained the power over everything, the earth, the air, plants… even people. Dwarfs worshipped him as a God, at first he didn't mind, things were peaceful and their nation flourished. After a hundred years his people started to wage war on their neighbours. They thought their God was better than any other. The dwarf noticed this and decided to vanish and stop the wars. So the legend says he built himself a palace out of stone and fire, then he used his power over air to move it to the jungle, and his power over plants to cover it and turn it to just another ruined temple." Mulch paused for effect. "I propose we find him!"
30 Seconds Silence
"Mulch, I don't think that there is such thing as an enlightened dwarf, dwarfs prefer to lighten other people in the pocket department." Holly said, slowly as if talking to a child.
"No, he is real. This guy told me he had met him. A giant dwarf who can control the elements!" mulch protested.
"He may be right. There was a dwarf about two thousand years ago who claimed to have learnt enlightenment and then vanished. Because back then every fairy had a tracer we tracked him to the Amazon but then he must have removed it somehow." Foaly come over the intercom.
"Foaly as well? And what are you talking about, enlightened dwarf?!" Dr. Argons voice cam over.
"Everything you have just heard is covered by the undernational secrets act, a sector eight operative will be round later for you to sign it, and breaking this act will result in high treason and a life sentence in Howler's peak." Foaly said, automatically.
"Yes, yes I know about the secrets act. You can't seriously believe there is a dwarf who can cure deathbug!"
"Well, I think we have had out fill of weird things. Besides I don't have any other option." Artemis said quietly. Nobody said anything. Then Foaly's voice crackled over the intercom.
"If you're sure, ill get the stuff ready for you. Who's going?"
"I am." Holly said, quickly. Artemis smiled at her and held her hand.
"Me too I suppose. The mud boy's helped me out of some tight spots, my turn to return the favour." Mulch said.
"Butler says he is as well, and Juliet says if she can probably keep Mrs Fowl and Mr. Fowl busy for a week, if you phone ahead." Foaly said
"I'll do that now then." Artemis said, taking the fairy coin out of his hand and voice dialling home.
"Arty? Is that you?" his mothers voice came out of him thumb. "We thought you had run away? You shouldn't be out of bed in you condition." Her voice was layered with tears. She hadn't taken the new about his cancer well.
"Mother, I am fine. I just have one more thing to try and sort out. I think it may help me with the cancer. I am fine, honestly. Butler is here and you know what he's like."
Angeline gave a sad chuckle.
"Okay, I know you aren't happy staying in bed but don't do anything rash."
"I won't mother."
"Always so formal arty, remember to lighten up!" she said.
"Yes mother, good bye."
"Bye arty." And she sadly hung up.
"You do realise that you may never see her again right?" argon said.
"Way to be nice supposed Doctor! Get of that communications channel now before I come and turn it off with your face!" Holly shouted.
"Sorry Julius." And he turned off his link.
"Julius? Wat did he mean?" Holly asked.
"Well you did sort of sound like him." Foaly said, "I just hope you don't turn into him, he had his strengths but tact was defiantly not one of them."
"No, but who needs tact when you have a police force at your disposal!" and with that plans were made, equipment gathered and Artemis' given special medicine to slow the Deathbug's effects.
To The Amazon Rainforest!
A/N well, there it is. It took me two day to write, if I continue at that rate it should be finished within the month! Review if you want me to continue and look at my poll to help chose then ending of my entire series:
THE FAIRY PROJECT
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