Sorry I didn't put this on chapter 1: I do not own Artemis Fowl or anyone associated with the Artemis Fowl books.

Millard's Home for Wayward Boys

Nick knew that no human was supposed to know about fairies, Haven, or Gnommish. He knew that if he ever told anybody about fairies then either the person he told would be mind wiped or he would be mind wiped. Nick didn't have any desire to lose his memories, especially those involving his mother, so he never told anyone about the fairies.

Nick wondered how this Artemis kid had gotten a coin with Gnommish written on it. No normal person should have one of these coins! But then again, Artemis didn't exactly seem normal.

Nick knew Artemis wasn't normal this idea made him curious. A simple Google search should help with some of the information. That's was if this Arty guy had a reputation. Nick was certain he did. But unfortunately for Nick, Millard's believed that the less boys knew about the world the less likely it was for them to go back to their evil ways.

In other words, Nick couldn't get to a computer. No computer meant no Google. No Google meant Nick would have to find another way to get information on his new "pal" Arty.

But there were other ways to get information.

The boy's at Millard's called him Wiki Pedia. Only a few knew his real name. But all of the boys had heard his story.

It was said that Wiki had been the best of the best. The king of the thieves. He was so good at covering his tracks that even his parents didn't suspect a thing. That was until his downfall.

Wiki had been visiting his cousin in Ireland when news came that the famous Lady Fei Fei Tiara was in town. He knew he had to have it, you know to complete his collection. But when he had tried to take it he had been too late. Someone else had already stolen it! The cops were all over the place. When they caught Wiki he had been sent to Millard's without any hesitation.

Rumor had it that Wiki was still in the crime biz. He had people on the outside of Millard's stealing for him. And that was how he came to know things from the outside.

Nick told himself that Wiki couldn't hurt him. He was only a kid, right? Nick told himself this, but he didn't believe a word of it.

When Nick had free time that day he went straight to the dorm that everyone stayed away from. It was the darkest, creepiest, most frightening dorm in the whole school. You only got in if you were willing to pay the price.

Nick had brought all of his desserts that he had been saving in case he needed to talk to Wiki. He'd been saving them since day one.

He hoped that three triple chocolate chunk cookies would be enough for the information he wanted.

When Nick got to Wiki's dorm room he saw Augustus standing outside. Augustus was the three hundred pound bodyguard of Wiki. There was not one person at Millard's who didn't fear the boy. Not even the warden would stand up to this monster.

Augustus was smiling at Nick; that wasn't a good thing.

"Mr. Pedia has been expecting you Johnson." Augustus smirked.

Nick shivered. If Wiki had been expecting him then Nick was late. If he was late then Wiki wouldn't give as much info. It also meant Wiki wanted higher pay, three cookies might not be enough.

"Can, can I," Nick cleared his throat, "Can I see Mr. Pedia now?"

Augustus opened the door with a grin. "Go right ahead."

Nick tentatively took a step in the gloomy dorm.

"Wiki? Err, Mr. Pedia? Are you here?" Nick whispered.

There was a "swish" next to Nick and suddenly it was completely dark. Someone had closed the door.

Nick let out a quick, high pitched squeak. There was chuckling.

"Ah, Nicholas. I've been expecting you." Said a low voice. Nick tried to figure out where it was coming from, but the voice sounded like it was coming from everywhere at once.

"Uh, Mr. Pedia I was wondering if I could ask you a question?" Nick asked, and then immediately regretted it, knowing exactly what Wiki was going to say.

"But you just did! But since I'm a reasonable fellow I'll let that one be free." Wiki chuckled.

"Thanks." Nick whispered.

"Of course. Now, what's your real question?" Wiki laughed.

"Uh, I need to know something about a boy who came to visit me." Nick started.

"Do you know anything about him?" Wiki asked, knowing that Nick probably didn't know a lot about this person if he had dared to come see Wiki.

"I'm pretty sure he's a criminal,"

"Wow, that narrows it down a lot." Wiki said sarcastically.

"He has a REALLY big guy following him around." Nick added.

"Then I'm going to assume he's rich." Wiki said thoughtfully, "The big guy is probably a bodyguard."

"I don't know his last name but his first," Nick attempted a laugh, "I'm pretty sure this is a girl name,"

"Wait! Does he have dark black hair?" Wiki interrupted.

"Yeah,"

"And mismatched eyes? One blue and one green?" Wiki was starting to look angry.

"I didn't really look at his eyes," Nick said hesitantly.

"Alright, well what's his first name?" Wiki said furiously.

"Uh, Artemis." Nick whispered.

"I knew it! I hate Artemis!" Wiki screeched.

"What's his last name?" Nick asked.

"I hate Artemis Fowl!" Wiki yelled. He took a minute to calm himself and then asked quietly, "What do you want to know?"

"Basically who he is and what crimes he's committed." Nick shrugged.

"He's the one who got the tiara I was after! He's the reason I'm in jail!" Wiki bellowed, "A while back I tried to be the youngest person ever to steal this one painting, The Fairy Thief, but Fowl beat my hired burglar to it. I know he's done a couple of other illegal things but I'm not sure how."

"Anything else?" Nick asked.

"I've heard he knows how to hypnotize people really well. He said something once about learning it from his fairy friends. That's how I know he's secretive. He probably has never told the truth in his life." Wiki spat.

"Great." Nick moaned.

"I've answered enough of your questions. You owe me three cookies." Wiki said, noticing the bulge in Nick's pocket.

Nick threw his three cookies onto an enormous heap and turned to go.

"Thanks Wiki. You've been a real help." Nick said politely.

"Whatever." Wiki grunted, sifting through his giant pile of cookies.

Nick walked silently to his dormitory and plunked down on the clean bed. What had Wiki meant when he said Artemis had "fairy friends"? Did this Arty guy actually know fairies?

Nick vaguely remembered hearing about an incident that the fairy police had to deal with. Some human had kidnapped a LEP officer and actually gotten the ransom gold. Could it be the same guy? If so was he trying to kidnap Nick?

I wonder if the LEP would even give gold for a half fairy's ransom. Nick thought glumly.

Nick surprised himself; he had actually forgotten he was part fairy in the past three days. He suddenly felt the urge to go outside and open his wings. He could almost imagine the wing blowing through his hair. Nick could almost taste it.

"Johnson!" Nick's eyes snapped open as the warden called him.

"Yes sir?" Nick sighed.

"We have to talk about your attitude boy!" The warden barked, "You was giving it to me earlier."

"Yes, sir. Right away, sir. Whatever you say, sir!" Nick snapped.

The warden was taken aback by the boy's rudeness.

"Whatever I say huh? Well then, let's go outside," Nick's heart lifted when the warden said this; but then was crushed, "You're going to give me twenty laps around the yard! Then if you're lucky you'll only have to do two hundred pushups!"

Nick groaned.

He hoped the Fowl kid wasn't lying when he said he'd get Nick out.

A van outside Millard's

"Butler?" Artemis asked.

"Yes Artemis?"

"Why are you helping me? I believe Mother and Father told you not to help me with any of my illegal schemes." Artemis inquired.

"I don't exactly think of this as illegal. The poor boy in there didn't actually steal the stuff, and even if he did, it was his parents forcing him to." Butler said, checking his watch.

"Hmm. So you think that freeing this boy would be more of a justice?"

"I think so. Besides, if he's a fairy then we should really talk to him. He might be freaked out if he doesn't know." Butler shrugged.

"Why would he be 'freaked out'? Oh I see, you mean about his wings." Artemis thought for a minute, "Yes he probably would be 'freaked out', but I'm ninety-nine percent sure he knows about his ancestry."

"And if he doesn't?" Butler asked.

"Then we have an extremely intelligent boy on our hands. Which I highly doubt." Artemis chuckled, something he rarely did, "But if that is the case, I don't think he would be inside the building over there any longer. He wouldn't have even gotten caught if he was that smart."

Butler nodded. His employer had an odd sense of humor.

Millard's Home for Wayward Boys, the Next Day

Nick woke up to see the warden standing over him.

"You ready for more attitude lessons boy?" The warden smirked.

"Ugh?" Nick's tongue seemed to be too tired to work properly.

"Oh, did I disturb your beauty sleep? I'm sorry! Now give me thirty laps!"

Nick moaned and went for the door, his foot dragging his school books all over the place. When he got to the door he found it locked. He pulled hard.

"Sir? The door won't open." Nick called to the warden.

"What?! Let me try!" The warden pulled on the door.

The door finally opened, dumping a bucket of glue all over the warden. But not just any glue, the fastest setting glue in the world. The warden was stuck to the spot he stood on.

After the bucket had emptied itself and fallen on the warden's head the warden let out a string of bad words. Thankfully all of them were muffled by the bucket.

In an instant Nick realized what was going on. So as all the other boys in Nick's dormitory laughed at the warden Nick sprinted over to the room's one window.

All the windows at Millard's were eight feet off the ground. They didn't open and they had bars on the outside. The wall surrounding it was made of cinder blocks. No one had ever escaped through a window.

Nick jumped as high as he could and held onto the window ledge. Outside he saw the big man that had been with Artemis. The big man was pouring something on the window bars that made it melt like chocolate on a hot day. The man put the same stuff on the window. When that was done melting the big fellow reached inside and pulled Nick out.

"Thanks!" Nick whispered.

The man nodded. He pulled Nick close to the wall and motioned for him to be quiet and follow him. Nick did so. They inched around the corner of the dormitory wall and ran for the front gate. It was locked but the big man just ran straight into them and they came off the large wall that surrounded Millard's.

The two ran for the van that was parked across the street. When they got there the man picked Nick up and threw him in the back seat. The man sat himself in the driver's seat and they sped away.

Nick looked around. The van had a ton of technology in it. Not to mention Artemis.

"Welcome Mr. Johnson. I trust your escape was pleasant?" The other teenager smirked.

"Uh, yeah. Here's your coin, Mr. Fowl." Nick said hesitantly.

"Thank you. Why don't you take a seat? It will be a long ride." Artemis said all this very pleasantly, which made Nick very suspicious.

"Sure," Nick took a seat and buckled himself in.

"I'm sure you have quite a few questions. I'll answer them on the plane."

"The plane? Where are we going?" Nick asked worriedly.

"Don't worry about it. You just sit back and enjoy the ride. Maybe take a nap." Artemis said, applying what little magic he had left to mesmerizing Nick.

Nick found that he very much wanted to take a nap. So he did. His last thought was: I wonder if I can mesmerize him.

Artemis smiled. He couldn't believe that had actually worked. He had thought he used all of his magic up on his mother when she was sick. Apparently not.