Juliet ascended the stairs quietly, though with an unspoken urgency. She made her way through the long corridor, her heeled shoes clicking on the recently polished floor. Finally reaching her destination, she stepped up to a large mahogany door and rapped her knuckles against the hard surface. There was no answer to her persistent knocking so she moved the doorknob slowly and stepped into the dark room, heading in the direction of the large king size bed. Reaching the edge, she softly whispered to the beds occupant while lightly shaking him.

            " Artemis, it is time you woke up. Your mother and father wish to speak with you before you leave for school." She removed her hand when she felt him wake up, and proceeded to open the large floor to ceiling curtains. Artemis turned back over, covering his head with a pillow in protest to the sudden explosion of light in his bedroom.

            "Tell them I have no intention of leaving this bed until absolutely necessary." He mumbled from beneath the pillow and Juliet fought hard against the amused smile that was slowly working its way onto her face. She replaced her amusement with a stern frown as she stepped back over to the bed. She pulled the pillow from his hands and pulled his comforter and sheets from his form. He immediately sat up and she noticed with a blush that he was currently shirtless. He had certainly changed over he last couple years from a pale and rather thin twelve-year-old boy to an incredibly attractive and handsomely built 17- year- old. She walked to the other side of his room and opened the second set of curtains.

            " What could possibly be so important as to wake me up this early. You know I am starting to regret ever rescuing my father. He might as well be a completely different person. Not to mention their recent amusement in taking up excess amounts of my time." Artemis complained as he finally gave up on returning to peaceful slumber. He entered his closet and set out a set of clothes for the day.

            " Their just showing you that they love you Artemis. Besides, you had been searching for your father for years, can you honestly tell me all of that was pointless just because he decided to give up his old life? If you ask me I think your just frustrated because you cant live on your terms only anymore." Juliet chided as she made his bed. She turned to him, as he was getting ready to take a shower. He looked at her with a look of mild annoyance on his face but decided it was too early to argue with her. He stepped in the bathroom and Juliet exited the room and went down to the dining room to inform Mr. And Mrs. Fowl that their son was awake and on his way down.

            Artemis stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around his waist. He exited the steaming bathroom and sat down at his computer. He lifted the screen of the laptop and opened his most recent search files. There had been a few hits to his requests but not much that was worth note. He checked a few more recent files and with a satisfied sigh he stood up and went to get dressed. Today he was supposed to return to Bartleby's school and it went with ought saying that he wasn't to thrilled about the idea. He had always hated school. There was never anything even remotely exciting going on, just a monotonous routine that always left him with a hunger for a bit of action. This hunger had lead him to pursue a few relationships with some of the girls at school, even had gotten as far as a sexual relationship with a few but in the end his boredom was never satiated. He yearned for a challenge that he had yet to experience either at home or at school. Frankly he would rather return to his criminal activities at full swing but found himself unable to fully enter that world with ought his father watching his every move. It was really rather ridiculous how his father had been acting since being returned to his family. The once proud family reputation of less that legal activity his father had decided to leave that life behind. The Fowl name, which had once been feared by even the most dangerous of black market dealers, was not held up to mockery.

            They still held a greatly respected and proud image in high society though the fearful rumors that had once plagued their name had all but disappeared. There was nothing more infuriating for Artemis Fowl the second as he watched his father enter into honest business deals with many of the well- known and wealthy families that had once feared them before. Not to mention the sudden interest his mother held in his love life. She spent a good portion of her time introducing him to the daughters of some of the wealthiest men in the world, though their wealth always came second to the fortune of the fowl family. The girls would always smile and gaze seductively up at him, and he would occasionally take the bait only to find they had less personality than a brick wall. A few did manage to attract his interests so far as to the bedroom, but he was always left with an overly clingy girl who refused to allow him any peace, therefore forcing him to break it off.

            And so it continued and he consistently searched for some sort of great undertaking in order or relieve himself of his bored state. He had only committed a few large-scale cons over the past few years, as he spent most of his time developing software programs that his father's spies had no hope of hacking into. He had soon created one system that suited him perfectly and allowed no one to enter it in any way. He doubted if he could even hack into it if he didn't have the passwords. On this system he began laying out plans for one of the most elaborate plans he had ever created or executed. He considered it for a moment until he was jostled out of his thoughts by his mothers voice over the intercom, urging him to get down to the dining room. He pressed the button that allowed him to communicate down to the dining room assuring her that he would be down in a few moments. He rolled his eyes in frustration as he finished getting dressed. He tousled his hair a bit now that it had finished drying and exited his room to join his parents for breakfast.