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Chapter 2

Look Into My Eyes

Fowl Manor was built by Lord De Foule to be a fortress. It had everything a castle would need for defense: highest ground, large stone walls, and if you looked closely you could even see remnants of gun ports on the east wall. But since mid evil times the Castle had been renovated many times. Expanding it to almost double it's original size. It's youngest inhabitant even put in a new set of marble doors, which, amazingly enough, never showed up on the construction records.

The drive to the manor was almost as awe inspiring as the manor itself. Giant cypress trees surrounded the grounds, and once you cleared the forest, you would see a large maze made out of rose bushes. On the other side of the driveway, there was a large meadow with a sakura tree in the middle of it. Under which, a certain boy genius and a certain female member of the LEPrecon would sit and talk, the only female member of the LEPrecon actually.

Constantine stepped out of the Fowl Bentley and looked up at the manor. "Dang," he stated, looking up at the manor. "You know, I've never actually seen this place." he looked at Artemis. "Kinda hard to believe I missed it."

Artemis laughed as he punched in the access code "Yes, it has that effect on most people."

"Then again, some people were knocked out by a hypodermic dart when they first came here." the voice was feminine and quiet, barely a whisper, but Artemis heard it clearly. He froze, and any color that was in his face to begin with drained out of it.

Butler noticed this and looked at his charge, his trained eyes actually saw the slight shimmer just above Artemis' head. The Section 8 suits were good, but they weren't perfect. Not yet.

Constantine noticed too. "Something wrong Artemis?"

"No, I just remembered someone I was supposed to call." It wasn't entirely untrue either. He was supposed to call Holly a half hour ago, but was to caught up in the chess game to remember. Oops.

Constantine smiled "Girl problems?"

"You have no idea." Artemis felt a light punch in the shoulder. He reached out to open the door and pulled it open.

Constantine saw it first. A small fist flying through the open doorway. He moved faster than anyone else could see, and caught the fist an inch away from Artemis' face. The boy genius barely had time to flinch.

Constantine looked up the arm he was holding at the face of the attacker. His eyes were no longer soft as they had been for the last few hours that Artemis had known him. He raised his other palm to counter strike but paused when Butler put an arm on his shoulder. He looked up at the behemoth of a man confused. Then he looked at Artemis, amazingly, his face was relaxed and composed.

"Ah, Juliet."

Constantine looked again at the attacker, and noticing it was a girl, let go of the arm. "You know her?" he asked him.

"Yes, Constantine, I would like you to meet Juliet, my personal fitness trainer, part time bodyguard, and Butler's sister. "

Constantine looked up at Butler, and saw that his eye's were full of pride for the girl. "And she attacked you, why?"

Artemis laughed, "Our little game, we both try to get the better of each other, And if it was not for your expertly executed defense, she would've won."

Constantine stood up straight and brushed some dirt off his jacket, "Hell of a game."

"I like to think so."

"Umm, not to be rude," interceded Juliet, "but who the hell are you?" She was still amazed to see that someone could block her punch so easily.

"Oh, my apologies." Said Constantine, back in his usual demeanor. "I am Constantine, at your service."

"Oh really?" Constantine nodded. Butler rolled his eyes, his sister could be quite flirtatious. "Well I-" she was cut off by Butler ushering them inside. They dallied too long outside the manor, they would've been easy targets for any hit men.

Constantine was awed by the inside of the manor, the paintings and portraits were amazing. Holly still wanted to put a couple of holes in them.

"Constantine, in here." Artemis said, showing the way to the living room. Constantine followed him in, Butler and Juliet went to the kitchen to prepare dinner, and Constantine almost noticed the slight shimmer following them into the living room. Almost.

The Fowl family living room was just as elaborate as the entrance hall, if a bit more modern. It had one large screen laser television on one side. With two large leather couches facing each other on the other. The walls were littered with impressionist paintings, even one that looked like it was done by Pascal Herve.

Constantine and Artemis sat down on either couches and faced each other. Artemis' position, was more business like and Constantine was more relaxed. Holly noted this as she sat down on the arm rest of Constantine's couch. Then, Artemis pulled out what looked like a pyramid made out of solid puzzle pieces and a stopwatch from under the coffee table that separated the two couches. He placed it on the table.

Constantine looked at it for a moment, then said, "An I.Q. Test Artemis? Surely you could have come up with something a bit more orthodox?"

Artemis smiled, a truly vampire-like smile, "I could have, but this is more fun. Plus, It's of my own design."

"Ah. So tell me, how does this test of yours work?." Constantine asked, mirroring Artemis' smile perfectly.

"Surely you've figured it out already?"

"I have." conceded Constantine. "But I like to be told that I'm right."

Holly groaned as silently as she could. Now there were three of them!

"Well, this pyramid can be made into a cube, if you put the pieces in the right place. I have a calculation with the time that will show your I.Q. You will find that it is more accurate then most conventional tests." Artemis explained. "Is that close to what you thought?"

"No." Said Constantine, still staring at the pyramid. Then he looked up at Artemis, "it's exactly what I thought."

"Let's get started." It was at that exact moment that Artemis' phone rang. He reached into his pocket and pulled it out. "Oh God." he whispered as he looked at who it was. Constantine arched an eyebrow. Artemis looked at him "I'm sorry I have to take this. Do you mind timing yourself?" He asked.

"No not at all." replied Constantine.

"Thank you." Artemis stood up and flipped the phone open. "Hello? Hi Minerva. Yes I know. I know! Look I-" the rest of the conversation was shut off by the closing of the living room door.

Constantine stared at the door for a second before he said. "Yeah, she's a keeper."

Holly laughed silently as she watched him. He pressed the "start" button on the stopwatch and started working on the pyramid. Taking it apart and putting it back together again. It was amazing, Holly watched as his fingers flew over the pieces with a dexterity and precision that she wasn't even sure that Artemis could match. And suddenly, he was done.

Constantine put down the cube and stopped the watch. Then he started looking around the room. Eventually, his eyes came to rest on her. Holly started to sweat, unsure if he could see her or not. He shouldn't be able to, but those eyes... Suddenly they twitched, he didn't blink, but his eyeballs actually twitched. Then they moved a gain, back and forth, gaining speed until, they were vibrating! Suddenly, his pupils disappeared,swallowed by the retinas which became jagged. He narrowed his eyes, as if that wasn't enough. Then, the blue retinas started enlarging, swallowing the rest of his eyes up, no white was showing, just a steady blue.

Holly was sweating profusely now. She closed her eyes and shook her head, thinking it all a dream. And when she opened them again, everything was normal, maybe it had been a dream, maybe she was going mad.

After a few minutes of awkward silence Artemis walked back into the room. "I'm sorry about that." He said. Then he looked at the cube sitting on the coffee table. "Your finished."

"Yeah," stated Constantine, "check it out." He tossed Artemis the stopwatch, but the toss was too low, Artemis had to bend down a bit to catch it, putting his right eye right in the path of a light beam. Artemis stood up and looked at the time on the watch, did some calculations in his head, and deleted the data. "Well?"

Artemis looked at him, "242," he stated, "one higher than mine."

Constantine smiled, "Knew it was something like that." He said, then he paused. "Say Artemis?"

"Yes?"

"What color is your right eye? Really."

Artemis smiled. "You noticed?"

"Yeah." Artemis reached into his eye and pulled out a blue contact.

"Hazel." Said Artemis looking at Constantine, showing his hazel right eye.

"That is interesting." said Constantine, leaning back into the couch.

"Why?" asked Artemis. "Besides the obvious." Holly gulped from where she was. She knew exactly where this was going.

"Because there is a curious little creature sitting on my armrest that has a blue left eye, and a hazel right one."

All eyes in the room focused on a small blur on the armchair. Then, one Holly Short appeared, and blew a strand of auburn hair out of her eyes.

"Darvit."

Look, to all those who complain about Artemis' growth spurt. He has finished growing and went to the chess park because there were rumors of a chess master who couldn't be beat.

please review. I'll try to answer all of your questions.

here are some answers.

1) no I'm not going to quit writing

2) This story has nothing to do with the movie Constantine. I came up with the story first

3) Artemis has not become a saint and has taken artemis in out of the goodness of his heart, but more of that in the next chapter.

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