Holly Short pov

Ok, three men and one girl. It would be easy to take them. I could knock them out with my Neutrino, I was itching to free the poor demon. It would take mere seconds. The only thing stopping me was the voices in my head(Artemis and Foaly) telling me not to… and the other girl that just walked in. I zoomed my helmet in for a closer look.

She looked quiet like she walked in by accident, which was possible.

"Oh, sorry I was just looking for an empty compartment." she said in a dreamy voice.

"Oh, no. It's fine." said one of the males, sliding over to make room for the girl. The girl sitting gave him a look that could have cut through steel.

"No, no. It's fine, but if there aren't any other compartments may I come back?" she asked.

"Of course." the male who spoke before said, earning him another glare.

"Oh thank you" she said then left.

"Why did you do that?" asked the girl.

"Minerva, honey, I'm doing this all for you, my little genius. But there is no harm in being nice to people." he said.

"Father, I told you not to use names." sighed Minerva. "There are ears everywhere. If a single person uncovers a single detail of our plan, everything we have worked for could be ruined.

Too late, Mud Girl, I thought, from my luggage rack. Artemis Fowl already knows too much about you. Not to mention my little guardian angel, Foaly. I snapped a close-up of the girl's face.

"We have a mug shot and a first name, Foaly. Is that enough for you?"

"Should be, replied the centaur. "I got stills of the males too. Give me a while to run them through my database."

Below me, the second man from Barcelona unzipped the fake top of the bag. "I should…"

Just then the door opened and in came the girl from before. The man quickly shut the top of the golf bag and zipped it. He did this so fast that it looked like it had never been opened. Minerva gave her father a look that clearly said 'You see what almost just happened from being nice? Our whole plan would have backfired.'

"Well all the other compartments are full, so if it's still ok with you, could I sit here?" she asked. Minerva's father moved over to make room. "Thank you. My name is Luna. Luna Lovegood."

"I'm Minerva" said Minerva.

"And I am Gaspard Paradizo." said Minerva's father. I noticed that no one else gave their names.

"Did you get that?" I asked.

"Of course I got that." said Foaly. "Did I tell you about the new…"

"You probably did Foaly." said Artemis, who had been unusually quiet. "Holly, can you get some more information?"

"That has been what I have been doing. Did you think that I was sitting on this luggage rack for fun? Anyways, they aren't going to say anything in front of Luna." I asked irritated.

"Ok, sarcasm noted." he said. "But, have you been paying any attention to what they have been saying the last few minutes?"

"Yes, of course I've been paying attention." even though I hadn't. I hated it when he was right, and he normally was. I turned my attention to their conversation now.

"So why are you going to Rome?" asked Minerva's father.

"Rome? I'm not going to Rome. I'm going to Sweden." she said.

"Why are you taking the train to Rome then?" he asked.

"I am not exactly sure.", she said.

"Well, how did you get on this train?"

"Oh, I think we just apparated to the wrong station."

"Apparated?"

"Oh, we came to the wrong station." she said. Luna Lovegood didn't look fazed at all at being on a train to Rome when she was supposed to be in Sweden. It actually looked as if she did this every other day.

"So…" said Minerva's father, clearly trying to change the subject to something he understood. Even his daughter, the genius, looked a little bewildered at this strange girl. "Um…Are you traveling by yourself?"

"Oh, I wasn't supposed to be, but I guess my dad went on not noticing that I let go." she said, completely unfazed that her father forgot her on a train to Rome when she should be in Sweden. "He's probably in Sweden trying to figure out where we stopped…"

"Maybe you should try and call him? And if you need a place to stay you can stay with us." he said, earning yet another glare from his daughter.

" Oh, that is very kind of you, and how would I do that? I daresay he can't hear me from Rome."

"You don't have a cell phone?"

"Oh, no."

"Here, you can use mine." he said taking out his phone.

"I don't think he'll hear me through that. Whatever that is." said Luna, handing it back.

"You don't know what a cell phone is?" asked Minerva, astonished. Even I was astonished, all Mud People had cell phones.

"No, but if I had I thestral or maybe a broom I could easily get back, but a thestral would be better." she said the last bit to herself.

"Um…" Minerva's father said, clearly regretting his offer for Luna to sit with them.

"Would it be ok if I read this?" she asked, pulling out a magazine; The Quibbler.

"Of course." he said, clearly relived that he didn't have to talk anymore. With that she promptly turned it upside-down.

"Wait," said Minerva some minutes later. She had just caught sight of a word she didn't notice at first glance at the magazine, "May I see that?"

"Oh, I don't think you'd like it." she said.

"Well, it's just that the cover talks about a demon army." she said. This got all of their attention.

"Oh, this is just something my… classmates needed to make for a project."

"But, it says … Lovegood on the front."

"That's because my father edited it."

"Well, may I see it?"

"I still don't think you'd like it.'

Luna stopped noticing a scarlet stain that was starting to spread at her wrist.

"Hmmm… It looks as if I've been splinched ." She said rolling up her sleeve. Minerva, for all the world being a genius, but still a child, gasped with shock. There at Luna's wrist was a small hole in her skin. It was maybe an inch deep and bleeding freely.

"um…" everyone just sat there staring at her wrist. I don't know how this peculiar girl was still unfazed, when there was a hole in her wrist.

"Oh, don't worry." said Luna. She pulled her bag out from under the seat, and removed a small bottle of what I think is medicine. Minerva's father had the same thought.

"Now, I don't really think medicine will help that… cut." he said.

"Oh, yes it will." she said as she took a stopper and put two drops of the liquid on a Band-Aid. Everyone thought she was crazy, sitting there putting some type of liquid of on a Band-Aid and only that on a cut that was flowing freely and doing nothing else. Then she took it off, and the cut was gone, no scab, just unblemished skin.

Again everyone including me stared at the spot where the wound had been.

"How did you do that?" demanded Minerva.

"Do what?" asked Luna, rolling down her sleeve, but leaving a fold over the scarlet spot.

"Heal that cut so quickly, of course."

"I never had a cut." Minerva just looked at her, but didn't push the subject.

"Did you get that Foaly?" I asked.

"Yes, I got that, but I still don't believe it. I've been replaying it over and over

again." he said.

"Why, don't you look this Luna Lovegood up. Find out what you can about her."

"Holly," Foaly said after a few minutes. "I can't find one reference to Luna. There are no medical files. Not even a birth certificate. So, either that's a fake name or she wasn't born in a hospital. And I have never hear of a magazine nor has my computer called The Quibbler. No kids could make a fake magazine like that, unless they went to a school for writing."

"That makes Luna Lovegood a little more interesting." I said, " Can we get someone on the surface to tail her?"

" Um… not really…um…Ark Sool caught wind of the abduction. He's got a source somewhere in section eight. The blast walls are up and all aboveground missions canceled. No further action pending a council meeting. No ones coming in or going out,"

"Sool only cares about his precious job. You can't send me anyone?" I asked, muttering the first part.

"Not officially. And no one official. It would be impossible for anyone else to get past the blast walls though."

I understood exactly what he meant. "Ok, I'm on my own, officially, but what about Luna?"

"I guess we could have Mud Boy tail her. Even though I really am skeptical about that idea. We might need him."

"Can't the Mud Boy I question have a say in this? And firstly you should be looking up Minerva's companions, if you haven't already." said Artemis, "And I would be happy to tail this Luna when she gets to Nice. And if you need me I'll be I quick call away."

"I forgot you were there Mud Boy. Holly, the train station is coming up." said Foaly.

"Oh, didn't she accept the offer to stay with them? Then I could follow all of them."

"Good idea, Holly, I forgot about that. But, only because of that healing thing." Foaly added defensively.

I got up to follow them to the next train. Luna followed suit, it looked like she would be accompany us on this trip. Minerva looked at her skeptically, then at her father. He gave her a look that clearly said, "I can't take back that offer.", she sighed in defeat.