Artemis~

Holly Short was waiting for Artemis when he entered the sitting room.

"Holly, why hello, what brings you here?" Artemis said.

"What can't I check up on my favorite mud boy?" Holly answered.

"Well it's good to see you Holly, just a surprise that's all." Butler said.

"I had some business nearby and I thought I'd stop in." Holly said. "Your mother let me in Artemis. She said she had an appointment but I that I could wait there for you."

Holly had meet Artemis's mother a few time now. After Artemis had been diagnosed with the Atlantis Complex was the first time the two had meet. Well the first time that Mrs. Fowl could really remember. The two had hit it off and now where friends. Holly was trying to hide how pleased she was at being trusted by Mrs. Fowl. Gods know that Mrs. Fowl had every reason not to trust her. She had lead Artemis in to countless life threatening experiences. Although Holly did note somewhat childishly that he did start it. When they first met instead of being mad at Holly she had thanked her for being a good influence on her son. This surprised Holly so much she could barely speak at the time.

"What business are you on?" Artemis asked.

"Sorry Artemis top secret. Besides I didn't come here to talk about my business. I can here to see how you're doing. Has Orin made any appearances lately?"

"No, for the most part I have been doing much better." As Artemis said this he noticed that Butlers tie wasn't strait.

Artemis was extremely bothered by this. He must fix it, he must. No he couldn't not in front of Holly.

"That's good if you keep following the doctors' orders you should get better and better."

"About that Holly I think Artemis is doing a secret project behind our backs." Butler voiced.

"It's nothing large Holly just a little research really it's just an insignificant, something to give me something to think about."

"Fine but just don't over work yourself." Holly said knowing that he would continue if she approved or not. "I have to get going, lots of work to be done."

"I understand you're very busy with your affairs that you won't tell me about." Artemis said.

"Sorry Artemis maybe later." She swung the Dragonfly over her shoulders. "Butler can you opened that window?" Butler opened the window and Holly put on her helmet.

"I'm at Fowl manner, I stopped by to see how Artemis was doing." Holly said into the helmet. "I'm not going to dignifying that with a response." She paused listening "Folly says hi."

"We say hello too." Butler said.

"Bye mudboys"

"Farwell"

"Good-bye Holly"

She jumped out of the window and soared in to the air. She shielded and then was out of sight.

"Butler your tie isn't strait." Artemis rushed towards Butler and straitened his tie. "That's better."

James~

James had been at the new "school" for a month now he was the only successes from his firm. From his yellow blond wild hair and deep brown eyes it wasn't hard to guess that he was part lion. He was fifteen and a smart kid. And although no one besides him knew it, he had a plan.

"Come this way." A man in a white coat led a bunch of them. "You, you, and you come here the rest of you go there."

James and the others that weren't picked were pressed into a small room. The man in the white coat shut the door leaving them.

"Well this is fun." James said, he got a couple of smiles and one laugh. He wasn't used to anyone laughing. Most of these kids had given up; the fact that he had gotten smiles was really good. He looked at the kid who had laughed. He was a little boy. He had black hair and green cat eyes.

"You laughed." James said taken a back.

"Yeah it was funny because this isn't fun at all." The little boy said, James could tell the boy was American by his accent.

"Yeah that's kind of what I was going for." James laughed himself.

"Why do you talk like that, Melody says the men in white coats here talk funny cause there Irish but you don't sound like they do."

"I'm from England, and I'm guessing you must be from America."

"Yep, me and Melody are both American."

Now really looking at the boy he noticed that he not only had cat eyes but had cat tail and ears too.

"What's your name?" James asked.

"It's Rio." Rio answered.

"Well Rio at break time you now where they have you walk around in that big room with everyone. I want to talk to you and your friend Melody."

"Okay".

"Come on every one time for today's tests" a man in a white coat said.

Rios eyes got wider fear as they were lead out.

Don't worry little guy, James thought. If you and your friend can help me with my plan none of us will ever have to be bloody tortured again.

Notes: Here is chapter two! Frist of all thank you for reading this it means a lot to me. Please please please please comment and tell me what you think. I should be able to update quickly now(not that anyone cares.) thanks to my handy dandy little sister. How, well I'm dyslexic so spelling and typos are a HUGE problem for me. So spell checking takes me the most time but my little sisters is not dyslexic and she is pretty good at spelling plus she is a fresh pair of eyes so she can see mistakes! Yes it does hurt my dignity asking my LITTLE sister for help but she likes my writing and wants to keep up with the story so everything works out. Any ways thank you thank you thank you for reading and please please please please please please comment!

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