Note: The Time Paradox Spoilers
Disclaimer: I do not own Artemis Fowl or any of the characters (especially not Minerva, thankfully) Eoin Colfer does. That leaves me the plot.
Dedication: For Suzuriin, thanks for directing me to this wonderful website, putting up with my AF based rants and constant questions regarding the location of the review button.
Prologue
Chix Verbil nervously glanced at a large cube, apparently hovering, in the centre of a white circular room for what must have been the eightieth time that minute. The hovering box was actually a high tech prison cell, designed by the centaur; Foaly.
It suspended itself using magnets placed in strategic positions in the circular room and, of course, on the cell itself. The cell has made of a toughened one-way glass, that allowed a fairy looking at the cube from outside to see the fugitive inside. Privacy was not a concern with this inmate, the pixie Opal Koboi, currently public enemies One and Two.
The one-way glass and the sleeping pixie it contained were half the reason Chix kept checking the box. The other half, not that he would ever admit it, was that he was scared.
Opal Koboi had attempted to take over the fairy city of Haven, and failing that killed Commander Julius Root. It was hard to think that this cell could hold her. She had then tried to start a war between the Mud-men and Fairy people only to be thwarted, at the last minute, by Artemis Fowl the Second and Captain Holly Short.
Chix was proud to have been on pod-duty with that elf, years ago that it was, and knew that deep down she was madly in love with him. She just needed a little prodding to realise it, although so far Chix's prodding had only amounted to a nearly broken nose. Magic was great and all but it still hurt.
Opal Koboi was lying on a sparse prison bed thinking pleasant thoughts. Most of them related to killing Artemis Fowl. How she loathed the human, always with that trigger-happy elf in tow. There was only one person whom she hated more: Foaly. The centaur had designed her blasted prison, unfurled her perfect plans and halted her bid to become Queen of the world; and he would pay. Opal wondered if the Eleven Wonders was still open…
Opal Koboi stared down at the LEP guards, one sprite in particular seemed to be glancing at a cube suspended in the centre of the room more then was necessary, when Opal looked at it she saw why. She saw her own beautiful self inside and understood why the sprite was looking. She was taller then she had been. Opal realised that she'd gone ahead with the Pituitary Gland operation.
Koboi gripped the human tear-gas launcher, her pixie hands tiny compared to the size of the weapon. Not that this gun shot tear gas. It was one of her own concoctions. Knockout gas with a bit of evaporated animal fat stirred in. The shells even had a thermal coil to stop the gas from liquidising. No fairy who inhaled a breath of this would have magic coming to their aid, she wished the humans had a gas that could do more then just cause unconsciousness, but such a weapon was outlawed and to acquire it was beyond the abilities of the mud-man she'd mesmerized. Opal raised the weapon to her shoulder and fired, honestly such work should be beneath her; was she not the empress of the world? Nonetheless, one generally had to break oneself out of prison before taking over the Earth. The shell spiralled as it came to rest on the prison floor, at the sprites feet…
Chix felt strangely dizzy, he could swear Lili Frond was swaying more so then usual as she walked… then, with a resounding thud, he hit the floor. The other LEP officers soon followed.
Opal Koboi swung herself down from an air vent, however the distance was further then she'd estimated and she landed awkwardly breaking one of her heels. Artemis Fowl would pay for that too. Koboi uttered a stream of gnomish curses around her gas mask as she hobbled towards her cell.
She kicked a few inert LEP officers on the way and found that helped a little.
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