A/N: Sorry this took me so long to even get started. I got into a bunch of other fandoms, and then I had another Artemis Fowl plot bunny, and this totally took the back burner. Sorry about that. Anyway, here it is. It's a bit different than my other stories, but it's the group finding the other gods. Enjoy. (The updates will be super-slow this time, because school . . . I have SO many AP classes, which means tons of homework, and then 3+ hours of play practice, and we have a huge garden at home so those chores . . . and yeah. So, these updates will be sporatic. Sorry.)

The Twins

The first ones found were archers. Ethan and Erica were twins from Midwestern America. The brother had a blog, which was how Athena found them. They lived with their aunt in a rural area outside Dublin, since their parents had had a bad split and neither of the parents had been mentally stable enough to take the kids.

Ever since coming back from the other world, Artemis, Athena, and Trevor had been scouring the web, looking for images of the necklaces similar to the ones that hung around their necks. Trevor had found the pink glass pendant with the impression of the heart in one of the back pockets of his jeans, and Artemis had found the light blue glass with the flying shoe impression on the top of his dresser. Since then, some odd things had been happening. Not just Athena and Trevor's relationship and Trevor's uncanny ability to know who people would fall in love with. Artemis himself had suddenly found himself able to run without tripping over his own feet; he also found that he had maps in his head, even of places he had only been once. They were also apparently immortal as well now.

In any case, they had been searching for the other gods, using a list given to Athena by her namesake that gave them the names of the gods to be found in their dimension. Of course, they neglected to give their names, only that they would be wearing these glass medallions with an imprint to do with the divinity they were as a necklace. To start, Artemis had taken pictures of his, his sister's, and his sister's boyfriend's necklaces and used those to search the internet for pictures of similar pictures. Athena didn't mind following the links that such a broad search brought up, and while Trevor searched under other parameters and Artemis tried to use his fairy connections without letting them know exactly what it was he was looking for.

When Athena called him with the words "Found the archers", he had to leave as quickly as possible without sprinting to the nearest shuttle dock, which would possibly cause awkward questions about his sudden agility and knowledge of Haven streets.

"Give me the low-down," he said the second he walked through the doors. It had been two months since they got home, and in that time, his vocabulary had been changing a little bit. Athena said that some of it might be due to the 'need for speed' that Hermes' job instilled in him, though she also thought it might be something to do with trying to hang on to what mortality he could now that he . . . was immortal. Which his parents and friends still did not know.

"Twins, Ethan and Erica Carmichael, born in Viroqua Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern USA. It's a town with lots of folk stuff, archery is even a unit in public school physical education. When they were thirteen, their parents split; it was bad and neither parent was considered good for the kids after that, so they now live with an Aunt, Cherri Carmichael, in a rural area a bit north of Dublin." Athena was standing at the top of the grand staircase, holding a touchpad balanced on her left fingertips. She brought it to rest a bit against her side, canting a hip out so that Artemis could see the screen as she dragged a slim finger down the page, scrolling down an amateur blog. She double tapped on a certain pic, one of a girl and boy standing holding compound bows. The caption read 'my sis and I both use 30 pounders'. Pushing her fingers out diagonally, she enlarged the picture so that he could see the pendants glittering in the sunlight on their chests. The girl's was silvery, with a crescent moon, and the boy's was yellow with a flaring sun.

"So we found Artemis and Apollo. How are we gonna convince them of anything?"

"Trev and I'll go talk with 'em if we can get a chauffeur," Athena said. "Butler already said okay to driving us out there."

"I want all of you on comms, and I want you wearing an iris-cam." Then Artemis had a thought. "Isn't Hermes the messenger god?"

"I think you're more on the slyness side of things, brother," Athena said with a smirk, tapping away from the picture and minimizing the blog. "Besides, Trevor thinks he may know something about the necklaces that might help."

"Let get you two geared up then," Artemis said and, nodding to Trevor, who had just come into his line of sight on the landing, made his way to his study. Trevor was still in awe of the tech in Artemis' office, despite the number of times he had been in there. He couldn't handle an iris cam though, due to an eye condition called 'blepharitis' (chronically dry, sensitive eyes) putting anything like a contact lense in Trevor's eye was near enough impossible.

Holding Athena's lids open gently, Artemis placed a brown iris cam over the real iris, and let go for Athena to blink the thing into place. Booting up the laptop, he connected it to the cam's signal. A live feed of Artemis' study materialized on the screen.

"Are we gonna announce ourselves before we go?" Trevor asked, placing the ear bud into his ear.

"Don't think so. I mean, personally, I'd feel really super weirded out if someone called me and said 'Hey, you don't know me, and I don't really know you, but I'm coming to your house.'" Athena said.

Artemis wondered how having a stranger just show up at your house would be better, but at the same time, had to remember that Athena wasn't actually human.

. . .

The meeting had gone surprisingly well. Apparently, the Apollo had had a dream the night before about Athena coming to tell them something. Which was a bit disconcerting, certainly, but a bit . . . nice. If all of the others had had dreams, this had just gotten quite a bit easier.

The first thing that had happened when Athena and Trevor had gotten out of the car in the gravel driveway had been a girl coming out of the big red barn with a bow clutched in her hand, arrow loosely knocked. "You need directions anywhere?" she asked kindly, voice at odds with the bow held down next to her leg.

"My . . . my name is Athena Fowl. Are you Erica Carmichael?"

Erica had looked surprised, and then squeaked out a 'Just a minute' and ran back to the barn and called for her brother. "Ethan!"

Ethan had looked gobsmacked. Then he had pulled himself together and looked to Trevor. Athena was blinking rapidly at that point, which meant that Artemis' screen seemed to be blacking out. This was extremely annoying, and he said so.

"Sorry," Athena had whispered. "I'm nervous."

"Most people don't blink that rapidly when they're nervous."

"Aeri do."

Artemis had given an annoyed shrug, despite the fact that Athena couldn't see him, and leaned back into his leather chair. Butler had exited the car as well, though Erica and Ethan seemed to largely ignore him, which was unusual.

Ethan nodded to the necklace around Trevor's neck. "We ah . . . have something similar to that. Um . . . Athena, you're supposed to hold them. Or something." He and his sister both tugged their necklaces off over their heads and held them out to Artemis' sister.

"Go ahead," Artemis said when Athena hesitated. "At this point, we're just going where we're taken. We have no freaking idea what we're doing, we might as well try whatever comes in front of us. Besides, those necklaces have to do something."

So Athena took the necklaces into her hand, along with her own. The three pendants glowed briefly, then went back to the slightly reflective glass pendants. Only now, there was something different. The colors seemed different, Artemis caught glimpses of light blue and yellow swirling through the grey of Athena's pendant like the colors half-glimpsed in an oil patch in a parking lot.

"Trev, give me yours," Athena said, holding out her empty left hand. The pendants glowed a second time when they came into contact with Trevors, and his color mingled with the others. There was still a single predominant color, but you could see the other colors out of the corner of your eye.

Athena handed the necklaces back, and they all put them on. Then the visual was gone. "Athena!?"

"Sorry, just closed my eyes," came the quiet reply a few moments later. "And . . . I think . . . I have no idea what just happened."

"Can you let me see please?" Artemis requested, a tad irritated. Slowly, the black on his screen went away, to be replaced with an interesting and frankly slightly terrifying image. Terrifying mostly because Artemis, like Athena had no idea what had just happened.

The three people he could see had changed. Erica, who had been in the right side of the screen, was taller, and her dark brown hair was somehow now in a high ponytail where before it had been loose. Also, her outfit of tan cargo pants and a white tank top covered by an open leather jacket, had changed to a kind of ancient Greek dress. And her bow had become silver. Ethan, in the middle of Athena's iris cam area, had also become taller, and his skin tanner. His golden hair was curlier, and he was in a toga with a golden bow in his left hand, blinking blue eyes in a confused manner. And Trevor . . . well, Trevor looked like the god of love, which, of course, he was. Literally. Then something flickered, and they were normal again.

"Um . . . yeah. We need to figure out what the heck that was." Athena sounded distinctly disconcerted.

"Come back to the manor, try to bring the twins as well," Artemis said. "We need to run some tests on those pendants."

The tests showed nothing odd about the pendants, until Artemis tested his own. The mass of the other pendants were higher, as if they contained more. Their weight was the same, but somehow the mass was greater. None of this made any sense. Still, two down. Only ten to go.

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