Hiya! So this is my Halloween Special! It will have 14 chapters, 13 of Story, and dedication at the end to reveal the winner of the Alternate Ending Contest.
You might have been snooping through the archives and saw some stories that had AEC on them. Those are the entries. If you didn't get the information, I am so sorry. I had been planning it for about half a year, ever since I started Fan Fiction.
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Now, without further ado...13 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN!
Holly looked at the clock, it was almost six. Almost time to go home and call Artemis. She had been talking to him regularly and she intended for it to stay that way. She had been anticipating this talk, since the weekend was right around the corner and she would have the weekend off. She rubbed her tense, sore shoulder. She needed a break.
She was about to pack up and leave when her desk phone rang, she picked it up to here Artemis.
"Hello Holly." He said simply. Like it was nothing.
"Uh, Hi Artemis. How did you-"
"Get your office phone? I know a person."
Holly narrowed her eyes, she would be killing a certain centaur later.
"So since you went to the trouble of finding my office number instead of waiting thirty minutes until I got home, I guess this is something important."
"Well, you do realize that Halloween is tomorrow, right?"
Holly gulped, of course she knew, everyone did. No one forgets Halloween in Haven.
"Yes Artemis. Why do you ask?" Gripping the phone so much she actually thought it would break. Artemis couldn't know.
"Well Butler, Juliet, and my family are going to a Halloween party in Washington. You know how much I despise those, and Butler suggested that I invite you over here for a few days while they are gone."
Holly let go of her death grip on the phone, this was not what she thought he was going to say, "Sure." She said. "But we're you really that excited as to call my office number right now?"
"Well, I have to show Myles and Beckett the proper way of packing a suitcase, and well...Beckett could take a while. I have a feeling Myles already read up on it."
"They make books for that? You mud people waste your time so much."
She could hear him chuckle through the phone, "True, but not the point."
"Ok, well what time do I come over?" Holly paced her office.
"They are leaving tonight, so as soon as you can get a visa, I suppose."
"Oook," she held out. "I just have to check with Trouble. See you later." She hung up.
Holly walked to the Ops Booth, ready to pound Foaly, then go and find Trouble. But instead she found Trouble in there with Foaly.
"What's going on?" She asked the two.
"I was coming by to see whose turn it was to take care of the book this year." Commander Kelp responded.
Holly nodded, she understood now. The computer in here randomly picked one LEP officer.
"Did Grub get it? I would probably stay with him Trouble, it's too dangerous to just leave it with him by himself." She started flipping through some open files Foaly had out.
"No Holly." Foaly said. Pausing and looking at his hooves.
"You got it." Trouble finished for the centaur.
Holly immediately stopped what she was doing, turning slowly to face them.
"What?" She asked, shocked.
Trouble shook his head sadly, "Sorry Captain, but yes, the computer chose you. Foaly will give you the run through-"
"B-but I'm going up to the surface to visit Artemis. I can't bring the book to the surface!"
Trouble shrugged, "Sure you can. It's either that or you don't go."
Holly stared at the commander as he left the room. Foaly put a hand on her shoulder and snapped her into awareness again.
"Here's the key to the vault. It hasn't been taken out for a century now, so good luck trying to get the dust off." He handed Holly a keycard.
She took it shakily, still trying to get the fact that she was chosen drawn into her head. She left the Ops Booth and to the dark, damp basement. Nobody was down there, nobody goes down there anymore except this one time a year.
She swiped the keycard into the slot next to the very back room. Keycards were of course the most out of date security in Haven, but nobody wanted what was beyond this door so nobody bothered with the security.
Holly entered the room. The walls were blank white, and The doomed smelled of wet leather. The air in the room was still, but cold. It was creepy, very eerie. There was just one piece of furniture in the room, a table. On the table was a big book. Yes, a big book. Holly gulped at just the sight of it, and looked behind her.
There was a dusty chair next to the vault, where the officer usually sat all day, protecting the book on its most vulnerable night. But Holly couldn't stay.
'Calm down!' She thought angrily to herself, 'it's just a damn book! You've taken down trolls, you can definitely take down a book!'
But this book...this book was ten times worse than a troll. And Holly knew that.
The elf took it off the table, trying to brush all the dust that had collected on to it. A hundred years worth, this book hadn't been touched in that many years. Holly shook her head.
Tucking the black leather bound book under her arm, she turned around. She shivered from the leather, it suited the book. It stripped a animal, making it inhumane. But the leather didn't matter, with or without it, the book was inhumane anyway.
She crept up the steps to get to the Ops Booth again. She grabbed the visa Foaly had gotten for her, and a pair of wings. She grabbed a pack from the supply unit as well, and put the book in that.
She flew to the manor, entering the study to find one Artemis Fowl the Second facing away from her sitting at his desk, elbows on the desk and fingers steepled.
Holly smirked. She put her wings down silently and creeping up behind him. She knew she had got him, until at the very last minute he turned around sharply.
"Boo!" Artemis said, putting his hands up in a menacing manner.
Holly kept back, falling down and scrambling backwards along the carpet. She was trying her best not scream, but it was hard since she was so surprised.
Artemis put his hands in lap, looking at her with an amused face and finally chuckling and turning around to face his light oak desk again.
Holly got up, brushing some imaginary dirt off and going up to him. He was on his computer of course, planning...
"I thought you were over these takeovers Artemis?" She said accusingly, turning to face him with her eyes narrowed.
"I am." He stated simply, typing away at the black keyboard.
"Then what is that?" She asked, pointing at the monitor and staring in disbelief at Artemis.
"What is what?" He responded innocently. Holly looked back at the monitor to find it pitch black. She rolled her eyes.
"You are impossible." She narrowed her eyes at him.
Artemis smiled, "What's in the pack?"
Holly's hand immediately went to the dark brown and green satchel on her shoulder, clutching it in a death grip. Her actions caused Artemis to raise an eyebrow.
"Sorry." She said, calming herself down and releasing her bag. But she didn't open it up and show what was in it.
"You seem on edge today." Artemis said, not sure what to say. What was in that pack?
"Yea, sorry about that. It's a...special night for the people today. She said, then muttering to herself. "Mostly me..."
But of course Artemis heard this, "Mostly you? Why?" He thought about it for a second. "Has Opal made a reappearance?" He asked, his stomach turning over in a nervousness.
Holly shook her head, much to Artemis's relief. "No, Opal hasn't come back. It's just the day."
"Halloween? I didn't read anything about that in the book..." He trailed off, he opened a screen on the computer, it was the book. Or the fairy bible. It held everything about the people, and it was the source Artemis used to kidnap her years ago.
"It's not in the book Artemis." Holly said, flopping into a dark red chair in the corner of the room.
Artemis sighed, leaving his desk chair and replacing it for the blood red chair next to Holly, identical to the one she was sitting in.
"What is it about Halloween, Holly?" He asked, "What's in the pack?"
Holly looked down at the bag next to her. She was deciding on whether or not to show it to Artemis. It was suppose to be a deathly secret to the people. That's why it wasn't written in the book.
Holly sighed and nodded. She grabbed the bag and took the book out, placing it on the on the black glass top table in the middle of the two chairs.
Immediately Artemis reached for the book, confused why Holly was acting so strange. It was just a book. But then Holly slapped his hand away.
"Don't touch it!" She hissed.
"Why not? It's just a book Holly." Artemis crossed his arms, leaning back into the armchair.
"It's not just a book...it's a prison."
Ok, so that is the first chapter. Tell me how you liked it! Or not...
I'll post the next chapter tomorrow!