(A/N: Hey guys, this is just a short side project that I'm doing along the side of Foaly's Diary, it's sorta like a songfic but without the song. R&R!)
When you're chasing after something, it's good to know what you're looking for.
For example, if you know that you're looking for an average height, raven haired and pale skinned teenage genius, who also happens to have mismatched eyes, then you are likely to have found him almost immediately.
Yes, Butler and Holly were looking for the aforementioned Artemis Fowl. But there were two problems with my statement.
One, they were not looking for him in Ireland, or even in Haven, they were tracking him down in unknown territory to either of them, the Amazon rainforest, to be precise.
And two, they did not know who they were looking for. He could be a bird, a tiger, an insect, even a bacterium.
That pretty much smashes my logic to shambles.
Let's back up a bit, shall we? Why is Artemis Fowl the Second running from his bodyguard and his closest friend? Why could he be any animal, insect or organism at all? Why is he in the Amazon rainforest?
Well, guess what? I'm not going to tell you. (Ner ner de ner ner).
Oh, fine, I'll tell you. But you'll have to wait a bit, so I can have some coffee.
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Dum de dum...
Would you like a cookie? Okay. Here's one. (::)
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And a doughnut? I'll leave it out for you... (0)
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Okay. Now I'm ready.
It all began in Fowl Manor a couple of weeks ago. Artemis was on his computer(as expected) and he was typing a message to his 'enemy' Foaly the centaur.
TheBigGeniusRocks TO horsesense
Ready for a bit of hacking?
Foaly replied right away.
'Kay. I've got some advanced firewalls just waiting to kick you backwards off the computer.
Thousands of miles underground Foaly sat back smugly. There was a beep from his computer. He smiled. Probably Arty admitting defeat. He opened the message. There was no words, just an old-fashioned JPEG picture. Curious, Foaly opened it...
...to reveal a picture of Artemis with a printout of his own file- from the LEP records.
Artemis swore he could hear the scream from belowground. He opened a message to send to Foaly...
Another ding from Foaly's computer. Fuming, he opened the message.
" aZdfd jugfFGHJKFTRCKJHGBVERFH7grnk uygf67ujhelpdtrghopalkoboigh "
WHAT?
Foaly reviewed the message again. The only legible words in it were 'jug' 'kuyg' 'help' and 'opalkoboi'.
Okay, maybe 'jug' wasn't part of it. But 'kuyg' meant 'dwarf' in Gnommish, so maybe he was being captured by a dwarf.
So why was Opal Koboi mentioned? He experimentally dragged his hand across the keyboard.
" thmlkoijhgfdergb kihgfrtdarvithjokihjgcvx "
Nope. Nothing recognizable.
He opened up his video feed to Fowl Manor, to be precise, Artemis Fowl's computer room.
He unconciously whistled.
The glass was smashed, there were evident signs of a struggle, and the keyboard was upended.
Foaly opened another screen. This one was Artemis's shoe tracker, the one the Butler had sprayed on during the Atlantis Complex incident. That was odd. There were signs of Artemis all over the globe. One in Africa, one in Ireland and one in Asia, not to mention a whole lot more sprinkled all over the place.
So, Foaly did what he could do.
He called up the most feisty female police officer above or below the globe. Captain Holly Short.