Well, hello. I'm Skyshift. This is clearly my first FanFic, so sorry if I break a few things. Constructive criticism accepted, put in a hamster cage, and made to work for its life to power a machine to make me a better write. Enjoy the short and sweet chapter.
Chapter 1: The Beginning
Artemis sat up, feeling electrified. Where was he? He had awaken in a bleak white room, with no bed, on the floor. N01 appeared out of thin air.
"Hi, Arty."
"N01! What is going on!"
"The LEP asked me to fix a few flukes with your thinking process. Unfortunately..."
Artemis was getting agitated. "What? Unfortunately what?!"
N01 rolled his eyes, and alighted softly on the ground from his previously occupied levitation spot.
"It was all going so well until... Well... We kind of lost a few vitals memories and things."
"What do you mean, 'flukes'? And what do you mean, 'vital memories and things'?!"
N01 winced. "Erm, Artemis, do you remember what happened before you woke up in here?"
"No, not a wink. First Butler was there, helping me try and enhance my incredibly meek physical ability, and I fell. And then..." Artemis' forehead wrinkled.
N01 injected "It all went black?".
"Yeah."
Artemis blinked at himself. Slang? He thought. What is that doing there? "Err. It's getting worse."
Artemis swore. "WHAT is getting worse?!"
N01 put on a serious face. "Remember that incident with Commander Kelp?"
Artemis groaned. "Yes, N01, thank you for painfully reminding me."
A few days prior, Artemis had gotten in a spot of trouble with a mercenary. No doubt left over from Spiro. Even in prison, he was still trying to kill him. Anyways, a mercenary shot him in the arm. The closest fairy available was Kelp. Holly was off getting her lunar pass approved (she had been assigned to retrieve N01). Artemis got a shot of Kelp, but Kelp was running on empty. Kelp had mostly healed the wound, but a partial strain of magic still festered there.
"Well, anyway, that partial strain has been wreaking havoc in your system for the past few months. You have been having magical seizures, and I'm sorry to say this, but if this continues, then you will turn into Commander Kelp."
"What?"
"Artemis. You. Are. Turning. Into. Kelp."
"Well I'd be."
"You'd be Kelp." Artemis actually made an attempt to punch N01.