Artemis Fowl and A Partner in Crime
Chapter 1: Suspicion
It was a very wet February afternoon, where 14 year old Artemis Fowl found himself crouched behind a car with a pair of high tech binoculars pressed to his eyes, next to him was Juliet Butler visiting her brother, from the states where she was currently trying to break through into professional wrestling world. Juliet to had binoculars pressed to her eyes jabbering endlessly, to Artemis's great annoyance, constantly complaining about the weather and that it was wrecking her hair. Artemis's patience was wearing very thin, they were supposed to be on a stake out mission and Juliet could not shut up for one minute despite several complaints from him but the young girl took next to no notice of his wishes, neither was he enjoying the rain pounding down on his waterproof jacket. He was cold and wet and there mission was yielding no results as of yet, they had been there and hour and they had acquired no more knowledge than they had started with, staring through this rain streaked restaurant window from across the road using the old car as coverage. If he weren't Artemis Fowl and what he said was determination and most other said was the stubbornness and arrogance of a troll he would have given up long ago, warming himself by the fire at Fowl Manor with a hot chocolate in his hand. Juliet had already suggested this to him many a time, telling him that we could come back another day but her willingness to give up made him even more determined to see this assignment through to the very end.
Now you may be wondering why our criminal prodigy is spending his valuable time staring into a restaurant window in the middle of a torrential downpour. If not than you have clearly you have no idea who Artemis Fowl is and therefore do not find it at all strange that he would so such a thing at all unless it involved huge riches and especially not without the aid of his loyal body guard Butler. If this is the case then you probably don't want to carry on reading as you will have very little idea of what is going on.
Well it started a little less than a month ago, for Artemis anyway. He had noticed strange behaviour in Butler and had been shrewdly observing it for a couple of weeks before taking action. Butler had been more distracted than normal, less vigilant. He sometimes caught him staring off into the distance and Artemis had to repeat him sentence several time for an answer. Now he was quite accustomed to Butler not understanding a word he was saying when he was on a scientific rant and he was very aware that he was mostly talking to himself at these times. But his friend always pretended to listen even if he wasn't and would answer immediately when a when a question was asked of him afterwards, now it was like he was not all there, although his work standards did not falter greatly Artemis noticed the difference in behaviour. Of course he did, he was Artemis Fowl he saw everything. It would be ridiculous for him not to see changes in the man he had been with since birth.
It was not just the distractedness that was odd Butler had been taking a lot of time of recently, Artemis did not mind. He agreed that Butler was entitled to time off every once and a while and usually it was his body guard who refused to take it, believing that Artemis could not survive on his own for more than an our. This may be true as there was always someone trying to get revenge on the boy genius, but now it seemed odd that he felt capable to leave his principal by himself for a couple of hours a week to go off to who knows where? This is what he and Juliet were trying to figure out, when Juliet had come back from America to take a break from her wrestling career to visit her brother Artemis had informed her immediately about her siblings strange behaviour who agreed that this was unusual in Bulter. Although this was not before Juliet managed to give him a welcome hug until he could barely breathe, needless to say anyone else had done that they would have found themselves regretting it instantly. Artemis may have changed a lot recently but he was still not a huggy person and probably never would be. Juliet and Artemis started plotting then trying to find out what Butler was up to, well at least Artemis plotted whereas Juliet just wanted to black mail it out of him and confront him head on. But our prodigy insisted on acquiring more knowledge first in case it was some kind of trap, or plot to harm butler or Artemis himself for that matter.
And this was why Artemis and Juliet were staking out a restaurant they had followed butler there using a tracker our devious youth had placed on him. They had been very confused on why Butler would be here of all places, the Italian Restaurant really wasn't his scene, no guns, no fights, no megalomaniac to protect his principal from. Although they could not actually see Butler from the window since he was sitting behind a large pillar completely obscuring his table from view. After another half an hour of patiently waiting, or impatiently in Juliet's case until anything of significance happened, until Artemis kicked Juliet to shut her up but before she could complain she saw butler reappearing (finally) from the door way, he seemed to be with someone, a woman by the looks of it but before either of them could get a good look at who the person Butler drew a big black umbrella, opening it so it covered the persons face and as he was putting it up a large delivery truck parked itself right in front of the restaurant obscuring either of them from view, and next time the body guard appeared he was getting back into the sleek black Land Rover, alone.
"D' Arvit" Cried Juliet throwing her binoculars down in frustration, she had waited all this time for nothing.
"Language please Juliet." Artemis said calmly for someone who had just waited an hour and a half in a heavy downpour for next to no results.
"So what do we do now Arty?" Asked Juliet stretching and getting back to her feet.
" We go back and confront Butler directly." Artemis too got to his feet and they walked over to the car.
" Yeah 'cause I never would have thought of that." She said voice dripping with sarcasm shaking her head slightly annoyed that the genius could not come up with anything better than her original suggestion, she thought as she climbed into the drivers seat with the young delinquent next to her.
"Juliet." He addressed her, turning round to stare at her.
" Yes." she replied
"Shut up and drive." Artemis put bluntly in rely to her sarcasm. Juliet just laughed at him and started to drive back to Fowl Manor
Thank You For reading please review else how can it get better,promise it's more exciting in the second chapter
ARTEMIS: Can't get any worse this story sucks
ME(ROSE): Don't say that or else no one will want to read it :(
ARTEMIS: I don't blame them
ROSE: Shall I force feed you lollipops?
ARTEMIS: I'll be good