Ava Nicolae was in trouble.
She was part of the LEP Retrieval team and had been working to get a troll back underground when she had gotten a desperate communication from her human family.
Though more than a little ashamed of them, Ava wasn't about to abandon them when they were in trouble. She had manufactured an excuse—the need to complete the Ritual, and headed toward Britain, where her relative, Billie Jenkins, lived.
She decided to stop over in Ireland and complete the Ritual after all, and that's when things had gone to hell.
But luckily she had just enough time and magic to utter a very special spell that might save her from her captor.
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Kuri Hikawa awoke in a cold sweat. She had just seen the most terrifying image of a man and a boy and it had felt like she was being kidnapped. Even now, she felt as if she was trapped in a cold dark room...
"Sister, do you feel claustrophobic?" Reiko, her elder sister said.
"Extremely." Kuri said, gripping her head.
Every few seconds her eyes flashed silver and she saw things, a cot in a corner, a concrete room.
"This isn't possible," Reiko said. "We've always been a close family, but this is ridiculous."
"Not exactly impossible." Kuri groaned. "Someone with greater access to magic could do this."
"Don't look at me!" Reiko said. "I may be a kitsune, but I don't mess with magic to this level. In fact, you're the one who'd do something like this."
"Not this time. It's a cry for help." Kuri said. "Our fairy cousin has been kidnapped, by Artemis Fowl II. I think it's time we get her back."
"Well one things for sure, he messed with the wrong family." Reiko's eyes glinted gold.