Artemis Fowl was confused. This is not a state of existence which he is partially fond of. Thus he tries not to be in it often, and due to all the facts in his brain which supplies him endlessly, he rarely does. But something about 3 teens calling him a demi-god and dragging him to Camp Half-Blood or some nonsense like that can make pretty much everyone in the globe a wee bit confused.
….
Now this whole mess got started with a trip. Artemis, the ever knowledge seeking boy he is has for some reason began a fascination with myths. First it was Asian myths, than the Americas, Africa, Australia, then on to Europe. What partially he liked was Greek myths. He liked them so he decided to visit Greece again. The first times were to conduct some, well lets say unlawful business.
So unlike the last times he actually went ahead and did what most people who go there do. Become tourists. But unlike most tourists he didn't get cheap hotels but rather rented a small villa outside Athens. So here was Artemis, a pale, azure-eyed near 14 year-old teen walking around Athens' Greek buildings, ALONE. Yes, Artemis Fowl the world's most important 13 year- old was walking around a big city, alone, much to the protests of his bodyguard.
"Artemis, you can't go alone, it's my job to protect you and going with you to Greece, a country no safer than New York counts as protection." Butler said while staring down at his small employer. Now I, the narrator, won't fully tell the following lecture from Artemis to Butler but I will say that Artemis was allowed to go and Butler's brain was on FIRE by the time he went to bed.
So here he was walking in the early spring morning going to visit some Greek thing when suddenly he felt a shiver running down his spine. He turned around in time to see, a THING, rushing towards him. He then goes and does something which no one would have thought a boy like that would do. He says,
"Hello there." He said it so causally that even the thing stopped. It blinked, and he blinked.
"What was…" it tried to say but then just so luckily 3 teens popped around the corner and began fighting it (but not the girl with the gray eyes, she hid behind the black-haired boy ). Now Artemis must have seemed so nonchalant that it was natural, in a way it was. But the teens with the hairy legs sensed the inner storm inside. The thing, which now that you could see it was a spider, knew that it had little chance of doing her mission fled. Now that the spider was gone the trio ran towards Artemis. Then the teens began talking about "Damn Arachne's kids" and "Are you okay?" then began pulling him and talking about demi-gods but soon it sounded to echo a little bit and his vision darkened. The last thing he heard was a man saying,
"Hello there, child of Chaos, me and you are going to have sooooo much fun."