Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ARTEMIS FOWL. THE GREAT EOIN COLFER DOES.
Chapter 1
When Artemis came into consciousness, the first thing he realized was that he wasn't at home. That and there was what he supposed was an elf standing over him. Her eyes widened seeing him awake. She smiled and said, "Finally awake I see, Mudboy." Something in her voice gave Artemis pause however. When he tried to move his hands, he found them tied and over his head, well more like handcuffed. His panic started to rise even though his face remained calm.
"What do want with me?" he said, his voice frigid, it could have frozen the ocean.
The little elf's smile turned devious before she said, "Master Fowl, I do believe a better question would be what do you want with us. You have been doing more than fair share of research on our kind and personally, I do believe that you are getting way to close for comfort. Hence, I was sent to… well… for a lack of a better word kidnap you." Then a frown creased her brow. "What I don't know is why the goblins are after you. I'm guessing that you did more that make a few of us fairies worried, didn't you?" Listening to that last part, Artemis really began to think about all his enemies and what he did to tick them off. Usually it was just some business- be it legal or not he wasn't saying- so usually it was done with quickly. Well at least it was supposed to be done quickly but with Artemis Fowl II, nothing ever goes the way it is planned. However. As far as he knew, he had never done anything to piss off " The People" so why was there goblins after him? Why was he abducted before he even did anything wrong? Why was the people so afraid of him finding out who they were? Then something he should have thought about before hit him. " Where is Butler?" he asked his panic actually revealing itself in his voice. "For Pete's sake don't start crying. I don't know why Commander Root had to give me the babysitting job. You're mountainously huge bodyguard is safe and that's all you need to know. It was almost impossible to get him to safety without almost getting killed but, like I said, the man is safe." A hint of suspicion crept into his eyes. "I never told you that Butler was my bodyguard. How did you know that. No wait. Let me guess; your people have been looking me up just about as much as I was looking you up, am I right?" he saw a hint of surprise in the elf's eyes just before it was masked. Strangely enough, instead of being insulted by the elf's obvious thought that he was stupid, he was amused. Extremely amused. The fairy nodded.
No better time than the present for introductions, she thought. "My name is Holly Short. Captain Holly Short. LEP Recon. My commander, Julius Root, sent me to get you. I don't know what he wants to do but I am personally guessing that it isn't going to be good, knowing his temper. Oh and Foaly wants to meet you. What about you?" Even though she knew she didn't need to ask because she already knew everything about , relieved to finally put a name to the face holding him captive said, " Artemis Fowl II, even though you already knew that, I presume. I am a human mastermind and I am next in line for the family… business."
"Well, Master Fowl, it is my duty to hand you up so we are going to have to leave soon, you know."
"Why do your people keep themselves a secret?" he asked, even though he had a pretty good idea why.
"We do it because if the Mudmen like you found us out, we would probably end up as prisoners because people like you would think us inferior. You would think that because we are not human that we are your property and that we would hate more than anything. We are a free people Master Fowl and we will not be your slaves," she said putting all of her feeling into her words as she spoke. Artemis looked at her with openly surprised eyes and he opened his to say something but before he could speak, Holly heard a beep and said, cutting him off, " And that, Mudboy, is our cue to leave." She took off the handcuffs on one side, hooked it to her and that they left to meet Commander Root and Foaly.
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