Artemis Fowl II. Boy genius and honorary fairy. Wondering how I know this? I suppose before I begin my story I should introduce myself. My name is Persephone, nicknamed Phoenix by my friends because of my fiery temper. A couple of years ago when I was but a girl in my fifth year of high school, I was introduced to the boy everyone knows of but nobody knows.

Well it all began when I stepped into my new form room on the first day of a fresh new school year at Damon's School for Gifted and Talented Children. I was curious to meet my new form tutor and hurried into form room 68A, my mind buzzing with start of term thoughts. Not concentrating, I didn't notice that someone was sitting at my usual desk which was halfway down the classroom and slightly to the left. (Not too close to the front, but not far enough away to be watched constantly) It was then that I nearly sat on the raven haired boy already sat there. He had the palest skin I had ever seen and the most piercing blue eyes. I jumped back in horror realising I had nearly sat on the new kid. Stepping forward again and regaining my composure I noticed that those intense blue eyes were watching my every move like a cat watches a mouse. Overcome by a strange sensation almost as though this boy was looking into my soul, I fought the urge to step back again. Instead I stuck my hand out. "Hey welcome to the Damon School for the gifted are you new here?"

Standing with a grace I could never achieve a lazy hand was produced and with a light lilting Irish accent he replied "Yes I am new here. My name is Artemis Fowl II and who might you be?"

"Oh, how rude of me, my name's Phoenix. I can help you out if you like?" One fine eyebrow raised in suspicion as he accepted my offer of a hand around the school. To be honest at the time I thought that Artemis was quite scary. He seemed out of place in a school and kept looking around as if expecting someone to be there…..I wondered who he was looking for but didn't want to ask as he looked like the type who would explode if asked a personal question.

Shortly our new form tutor arrived as our old one had moved schools, he strode in with a nervous smile on his face and looked around at us all sat patiently waiting, with small conversations happening here and there. Calling for quiet all eyes were immediately upon him standing at the front. He introduced himself as Mr Lyle and asked us all for a brief introduction about ourselves and how long we had been at the school 'so we can all learn a bit about each other' was the official reason Mr Lyle gave.

Being the only one in the room to have been at the school from the first year until this year; a lot of the students not being able to take the pace or the workload set in the prestigious school, I stood up and began my introduction.

"Hi my name is Phoenix. Okay, okay, Persephone; but don't you dare call me that because I promise I will not reply to it! I have been at this school for five years now and it's a pretty cool place, I enjoy playing on my computer, spending time with my friends and just doing the normal things we 16 year olds do and that's about it really, thanks." I bounced back to my seat and fell into a daydream as my friends and classmates introduced themselves for the benefit of the new form tutor and the new kid, what eventually jerked me out of my dreaming was when Artemis Fowl stood to introduce himself.

"Hello I am Artemis Fowl the second and I come from Ireland. I have been at this school approximately two hours,. I am a boy genius and I have the third highest IQ in Europe. I like playing chess and am interested in technology. That is all I have to say!" After this short and tightly spoken speech Mr Lyle seemed to relax almost as if he were thinking he wasn't the only one that was new to the school and then suddenly came to the conclusion that Artemis would need a partner to be assigned to help him learn his way around the sprawling campus.

"Excuse me sir but I already volunteered"

"Ahh, very good, err miss, umm; Phoenix"

"Just Phoenix will be fine sir"

As the bell sounded for the end of the first form period of the year I approached Artemis and asked him what his first class was, he looked at his timetable; the white sheet of paper the exact same colour as his hand and said in his clear, precise voice that he had Electronics first with Professor Oakley. Exactly the same as me and from what I could see of his timetable nearly all of my classes were with him. This was going to be one very different year I could tell.

Electronics class was fascinating; it was a new class I had picked up this year. The Gifted and Talented Programme allowed the students to choose their main subjects of study and each year they could pick an extra course that they could take for a year and carry that lesson through or pick another the next year. The year before I had chosen a Shakespeare class, but all the 'thee's' and 'thou's' confused me too much. So here we were in an Electronics class and as I mentioned it was fascinating. Not because the lesson itself was interesting but watching Artemis working was like watching a master silversmith turn a blob of metal into a beautiful piece of jewellery. Artemis' fingers flew over the electronic pieces to create small masterpieces of all kinds, robots, computers, and even a little motor he said could power wings that lifted you off the floor, if you so wished it, before shaking his head as if what he has said was a stray thought and he hadn't meant to say it aloud.

After the class was over we walked on towards the grounds heading for P.E., with me nattering on about the amazing things Artemis had done in Electronics.

'Hey, how did you know all of that stuff about electronics, Artemis?'

'I don't really know to be honest it all just appeared in my head out of nowhere and I knew how to do it.'

For a moment he looked confused before his perfectly smooth calm mask fell into place. I noticed however that as we crossed the wide sweeping lawns to the rear of the main school building Artemis was looking nervously around him as if afraid of attack from all sides. I tried to hold in my curiosity I really tried but it just burst out of me without my brain telling my mouth to move!

'Why do you keep looking around like that? I can tell you're not admiring the scenery.'

'Umm, no reason, just trying to familiarise myself with the area is all.'

Knowing he was lying but not wanting to push him away on his first day I stored the memory away for later reference, being a naturally nosy person I vowed to find out why Artemis was so jittery in the wide field, he had seemed ok in Electronics.

P.E. was another shock as underneath the regulation black blazer and white shirt was a well toned body, to look at Artemis he seemed to be a fairly scrawny fourteen year old boy but with the regulation P.E. t-shirt fitting closely against his body his toned chest and abdomen were obvious to all. All of the girls pretended like they hadn't noticed except me of course whose mouth was touching the floor when he first emerged out of the male changing rooms. It seemed all of the boys were enviously eyeing Artemis not entirely sure what to make of the contradiction that was Artemis Fowl.

6 months later

"Oh come on Artemis, I saw you looking at her. You like her don't you? Go on admit it"

Artemis' cool reply was

"I don't know what you are talking about"

Being his closest friend, well his only friend, (that I knew of) I could hear the slight trace of happiness in his voice, but what he said next I wasn't prepared for. In an almost warm voice he said "She reminds me of someone…… but I don't remember who, I see a girl in my dreams and she is calling out to me, she has long auburn hair but I can't recall her name" then as fast as it had happened Artemis was back to his normal self.

I however was not satisfied with this, in six months I had become a close friend to Artemis but I still hadn't worked out why he had a fear of large spaces or where his amazing knowledge of electronic equipment came from now to add to the mystery Artemis dreamt of a girl whom he couldn't remember. To me, it seemed like Artemis was missing memories, may be he had been in an accident and bumped his head and given him amnesia and the loss of a few memories.

After the days classes Artemis went back up to his dormitory, which was shared by three other boys, no-one was there because it was a Friday evening and everyone was allowed down to the local village to attend the youth centre or visit the sweet shop or take a date to the cinema. Seeing the room was empty Artemis went straight to his bed and pulled out his diary, thoughts running through his head about the mysterious girl that was always in his dreams. He was so deeply lost in thought that he didn't hear the door open as a small LEPrecon officer slipped through it and into the room.

Holly Short officer in the LEP and one time friend of Artemis Fowl shielded and flew quietly into the high ceiling of the room, she stayed there for a while until she was sure that nobody was going to come back and see her. As she waited she wondered what Artemis was doing; he seemed to be mumbling quietly to himself and drawing something in a note book, skimming low until she was hovering nearly directly over Artemis' shoulder she saw an almost perfect drawing of herself, gasping loudly in shock Holly nearly unshielded from the pure disbelief of what she was seeing, he wasn't supposed to remember her!

Hearing her intake of breath he jumped up startled, slamming his diary shut.

"Wh….who….who's there?"

Holly floated to earth directly in front of Artemis and unshielded. The memories flooded back to Artemis upon seeing her standing there and silent tears slid down his face as he moved over to embrace her in a brotherly hug and began rambling about missing her, Foaly and Mulch Diggums, asking about Haven and if she had been promoted yet….

"ARTEMIS WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET FOR TWO MINUTES!"

Shutting his mouth; his eyes widening at Holly who, come to think of it looked rather stressed, it suddenly dawned on him that something had to be terribly wrong for the LEP and Haven to have revealed themselves to him again after mind wiping him for the second time something serious must have happened and they obviously needed his help.

"Holly…….what happened?"

Updated 13/12/07 Life is stressing me out right now so I thought I would take some peace and relaxation in a little bit of writing, remembered this fic and thought 'what the hey, lets give it a re-vamp and see if we can get this going again.' I am planning to try and finish this off so any reviews with HELPFUL comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.