First Artemis Fowl fic, please review!
No Longer a Human
Fowl Manor, present
Artemis staggered into the main hall, looking and moving as though he were thoroughly drunk.
He then decided that with what he had just been through, he deserved to be.
Artemis sighed, recalling the events that had led to this.
Haven, three years ago
"DIE, MUD BOY! DIE AND STAY DEAD!"
Opal Kobai shot Artemis with the softnose rifle three more times before she was tackled by LEP officers.
Artemis had been going to visit Holly in a park when Kobai had charged around the corner with murder in her eyes, and a lethal looking rifle in her hands.
She no longer cared what happened to her, as long as she murder the one that had thrown her down time and again.
Every time, every time she tried to rise again, all her careful planning, all her schemes to get back into power… he was always there to reduce them to nothing yet again!
Well, now she only wanted one thing. And that was Artemis Fowl II, dead.
Artemis reeled back in shock, blood pouring down his front from the four large holes in his torso.
Holly ran up, drawn by the gunshots. She froze in disbelief as she saw Artemis, then picked him up with difficulty and lumbered off to Foaly's booth.
About halfway there, she met Butler, who, being a fiercely loyal bodyguard to the end, had been tailing Artemis. He immediately grabbed Artemis from her, and heaven help anyone in his way.
Haven medical center, emergency room, three minutes after Artemis was shot
Foaly was frantic, trying to think of a way to save Artemis. With a large amount of magic from No.1, his wounds had been closed, but it simply wasn't enough.
Butler was just as frantic, and trying to get Foaly to think faster.
"you claim to be the best inventor the people have ever had, don't you have anything that will work?"
"w-well, there is one way, b-but it's very dangerous, a-and he won't be the same-"
"DO IT NOW! HE'LL DIE ANYWAY IF YOU DON'T!"
Foaly flinched, paling. Domovai Butler, enraged and screaming at you, was truly terrifying.
"a-alright, I'll do it, I'll do it! Hey, useless, get over here and help me!"
A trembling sprite ran over, and helped heave Artemis into a strange tube.
Foaly ran off with a vial of Artemis's blood as the tube was filled with a strange gel-like substance.
Two hours later
"just what are you doing, Foaly?"
"making a new body for Artemis. He's been put in stasis for now."
"new body?"
"yes. His current one is too damaged to be used, and the process is possible due to us having No.1, but there is a catch. Several, actually."
"I'm listening…"
"for one thing, it will take three years to fully develop the body to Artemis's age in fairy years."
"wait, fairy years?"
"that's the second one. The only body we can grow quickly enough to save Artemis is an elf one. Anything else, and he'll die before it is complete. Stasis can only do so much. The third catch is that the brain transfer might not be successful."
"and this is his best option?"
"without a doubt."
"I guess I'm in for a wait, then."
Exactly three years later
Artemis woke slowly. He felt incredibly weak, and there were blurred shapes above him. He could barely make out what they were saying.
"…transplant…successful…hey…waking up…"
"Artemis…there…can…hear…Artemis?"
"…up…come on…awake?"
His eyes finally focused, revealing Foaly, Holly, No.1, and Butler standing above him.
Foaly spoke, Artemis's hearing restored.
"he's alive! It worked! It actually worked!"
Butler and Holly glanced at him.
"I'm a little worried at how relieved you sound, Foaly. Didn't you expect it to work?"
"not really. I'm giving him the sedative, he needs to rest."
One hour later
Artemis walked upstairs to his room, still not really believing what had happened.
He had been shot, put in stasis for three years, and now he was an elf.
He then groaned, realizing that the worst was yet to come.
He would have to explain it to his parents.
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