Chapter 2

At first Foaly was too shocked to see Artemis to react and stood gaping at his old friend. As he stared he took in the changes to Artemis' appearance. He was now defiantly too tall to pass as a fairy now. The other two things that Foaly noticed was that Artemis now had long hair that was pulled back into a ponytail and that he had what looked like a Japanese katana strapped to his hip slanted so that Foaly couldn't see its length this wasn't helped by the long black coat Artemis wore and hid most of the sword. Then his mind re-asserted its self and processed what Artemis had said.

"Are you saying that the two who came and warned us against the portal the ones who took Holly?"

"No, they are allies they were trying to prevent this entire situation. Where is the portal?"

"In one of the side tunnel's leading out of Haven. We set up a quarantine around the area and we still have contact."

"Be thankful for that. The dimensional tear leads to one our prisons on Hub. Not our greatest or most guarded prison. It doesn't even hold our most dangerous criminals. But... Sorry Artemis what did you say his name was again?" said Jace from under the hood that hid his face. As Jace said this Foaly finally turned to look at the stranger. He was slightly taller than Artemis and was wearing a dark blue cloak with his hood still hiding his face. There was one stand out feature on the cloak. A symbol that looked scarily like the Japanese kanji for the number 4, but it was just off. Another strange thing was that his eyes were glowing electric blue from under the hood.

"Jace be polite to Foaly he is our only lead at present. Added to that we can't find Holly without his advice. He knows this part of this world better than I do."

"I could just take that information straight from his head and we could be done here."

"True, however that might kill him. Your method can prove deadly to some you know that."

"Fine have it your way."

"Foaly take us to the site we have to close tear now, before more escape through it."

Three hours ago with Holly

Outside the van a shadow strode out from under the eyes of all the observers around the tear. It jumped from shadow to shadow within the shadows of those who were guarding and working on the sight. The strangest thing about the shadow was that every time it latched onto another's shadow it would always, no matter whether the host was male or not, take on the form of a well-endowed female. It took the shadow five minutes to get to the transport shuttle. Once there it transformed into a hooded form that was far too tall to be any of the families of the people but shorter than any human. She looked around then ducked into the shuttle. Once inside she walked almost directly to the cockpit where Holly was sleeping in the pilot's seat.

"So this is the one who he loves. I see why he would like her. This is going to be fun I like the shape of her body. Perhaps a few tweaks and it's will be perfect for me. I'll ask the Mistress if she can augment it perfectly for me." As she said that she stepped into Holly's shadow. As she did she sunk into the shadow and Holly started to convulse violently before her body relaxed and she opened her eyes, however instead of her hazel coloured eyes her eyes where now green. Bright luminescent green had replaced it.

"This is going to be fun." said the possessed Holly before fading into the surrounding shadows and re-appeared several miles away in small apartment in London. She arrived to hear someone in the shower.

"Mistress I have the girl."

"Good. I'll be out in twenty minutes."

"Mistress can you alter the body a bit please? I like this one."

"Are you sure? Doing that might weaken it a bit."

"Yes mistress I'm sure. I've been following her for months now."

"Alright then I'll do it after I've finished in the shower."

"Thank you mistress."

Back with Artemis in the present at the sight of the Tear.

"Wow that is a huge one Artemis." said Jace whistling. The Tear had enlarged to about five times its original size.

"Then let's close it as fast as we can. We don't have much time as it could grow about 90 times larger than this, you do remember what to do?"

"Aye. Let's do it." As Jace said this he walked to the edge of the Tear and reached out to grab the edge. As he did so his hand started to glow electric blue and he actually grabbed the edge of the tear and started to pull it across to Artemis who was doing the same thing only his hand was glowing white. It looked more like he was radiating light from his hand. The two walked to each other and when they met at the center Jace handed his half to Artemis before jumping up to the top of the tear, eight meters above the tunnel floor, and floating there. Artemis started to pinch the edges together. Starting at as high as he could reach and moving down towards the floor. Jace did the same thing from the top going down. Foaly watched in awe.

"Jace how are you staying in the air?" asked Foaly.

"Magic and some of the energy particles in the air."

"There is more to it Foaly however you can't copy it and it's against our laws to teach non Jumpers." As Artemis said this something on his wrist started to glow and play some music Foaly had never heard before. Artemis pulled up his sleeve revealing two things first was a strange tattoo on the back of his arm and the second was the glowing wrist watch. Artemis then angled his watch so that it was facing away from him and tapped a button on the side and a full sized hologram appeared, irritatingly the hologram was entirely blue colored for some reason. Of a tall man with long spiky hair. He was wearing a long cloak over a jacket with collar standing up. He was also wearing tall traveling boots and had a single strap backpack strapped over his shoulder.

"Hello Alex. Any news on the escapees?"

"Artemis I've found who the escapees were. And you are not going to like it. I'll send you and Jace the files." Five seconds later Jace pulled out what looked an old fashioned pocket watch clicked it and a small screen appeared above the watch.

"Oh shit. Artemis don't freak out. She escaped."

"I saw." said Atremis gripping his sword's hilt with a death grip.

"Who escaped?"

"Jace think about it who else might cause Artemis to blow a fuse? She's the one behind what happened five years ago."