Ok, so this chapter was confused and swapped with the 5th chapter, so if you didn't understand if that we'll, that's Becasue the fourth was really the fifth.

Here is the real fourth chapter.

Artemis Sat on the opposite side of the room, staring at Holly. She just sat there, her knees up to her chin and her arms wrapped around her legs. She stared back, but looked around the scarlet room as well, something she hadn't done in a while.

It was a dark red, complimenting the armchairs in the corner next to the dark wood book shelf and a mahogany desk with a computer on it. She wanted to get away from Artemis, but with him on the other side of the room closer to the door...She shivered, remembering what he did to her before she passed out.

Then she looked down at herself. Where were her cuts? Artemis had almost killed her. Had he performed the ritual on her? And how did he get her out of the basement without someone in the household noticing? She didn't remember them leaving for the Halloween party, just Beckett coming in and-

Frond! No wonder she was so confused. All the pieces seemed to fall into place and Artemis smiled, she finally had gotten herself together.

Artemis got up from the desk chair, going to the other ar

mchair and sitting down, Holly staring at him incredulously.

"I-it was all a dream?" She asked, even though she wanted it to form a statement.

Artemis nodded, pausing before speaking. "Yes, a nightmare to be specific."

Holly became confused, her eyebrows furrowing, "wait, nightmares are in the real world..." She trailed off, trying to figure it out.

Artemis nodded, taking in a deep breath before explaining his theory, "I believe that what we just experienced was a real life nightmare. The Beast in that room takes peoples fears-their worst fear-and makes it real."

Holly nodded, it made sense. She had felt real pain, real emotion. She shuddered involuntary.

Artemis noticed this, "you seem to have taken a big impact of it. And since you were terrified of me, I have to guess I was in it. What was your fear?"

Holly's eyes darted around and back to Artemis nervously, as though she was still dreaming. "It was nothing."

Artemis gave her a skeptical look. "It was obviously something Holly," He laid a hand over hers, "You can tell me."

Holly nodded weakly, "Tell you what..." She pulled her hand from his hand' s embrace, putting it in her lap, "I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours first."

Artemis paused, his was too personal. If he were to tell her, It would lead to Holly finding out his deep feelings for her. He shook his head in response.

Holly nodded, knowing she had proved a point. Anyway, why would she share something so personal with Artemis? Even if it was about him...

"So," she said, putting her hands on her knees and standing up. She crossed her arms and faced him, "how are we going to get out of here?"

"For once...I have no idea." Artemis answered truthfully.

They kept like that in silence both contemplating on how to get back to the real world. It was Artemis who spoke up first.

"There is a possibility that the answer of getting out of here in one of those rooms."

Holly's eyes, which were trained on her feet at the time, snapped up. "No." She answered.

"Why not Holly? It's the only chance we have at the moment."

"Can't we just stay here?l

"Forever? I think not. We can just go through the doors, checking if there is anything to help get us out."

Holly nodded, "Fine, we can go through another. But I don't know Artemis, it seems like a big risk."

"Would you like to stay here?" He replied, getting up and moving towards the door on the other side of the room.

"No!" She cried, but then realized her outburst and composed herself, "No, it would be better if we just stayed together."

"Ok, then," Artemis said, opening the door, "Let's go."

Holly nodded and followed after him, Artemis chose another door in the dimly lit, black hallway and opened the door. Holly was beside him and the only thing they saw was white before passing out completely.

Holly groaned and shook her head, trying to get the pounding headache out. All she saw was white. The blinding light making her blink repeatedly. Soon, she could see clearly and saw that she was strapped to a metal table. She struggled against her bonds, her eyes darting around to the right of her to see an unconscious Artemis strapped to a metal table as well.

The sight to her left made her scream. A hideous lanky creature with green skin and big black bulging eyes. It's long arms had three fingers at its end and when it noticed that Holly was awake, he called in a strange language that made other creatures just like it to come over.

Holly struggled against her bonds. She screamed again, hoping it would awaken Artemis. But all it did was have some of the creatures turn their heads to the side, looking at her somewhat curiously. Holly couldn't tell.

Soon, they had all crowded around the table Holly was lying on. She counted that there were five of them, and that they had very small, but very sharp teeth. She turned her head when she saw movement to the right of her. The one that was blocking her from seeing Artemis had picked something up from the small metal table attached to the large one she was on.

She gasped, the object was skinny and long, but very sharp at the end, resembling a scalpel. She screamed again, and this time some good came out of it.

"Wh-what?" She heard Artemis say groggily to her right. Then he was fully awake, "Holly?!" He said, grunting from struggling against his metal bonds, "What's going on?"

Holly couldn't see him, but she could hear the panic in his voice. The creature with the scalpel turned it so the point was facing her. He placed it on her arm, where her medium length brown blouse had been pulled up. He started to drag the tip of the blade down, emitting a deadly scream from Holly's mouth once again.

The creature stopped when it reached the end of her arm, Holly saw blood ooze from the long wound on her arm, and tried to yield magic to help her, but found she couldn't. Blood drained from the wound, going down her arm slowly and finally onto the metal slab. The red liquid then drained down, collecting into a single spot in the middle. One of the creatures drew out a tool in which it sucked up the blood, then closing the wound on Holly's arm with another, just leaving a small scar.

Holly still couldn't see Artemis, but she could hear him breathing heavily and she knew he could hear her screams. All of the creatures left Holly to go back to the white stations on the left, and they could finally see each other.

Holly was scared, her eyes wide and struggling weakly against her bonds that hadn't even budged.

"Artemis, what are those things?" She whispered, hoping the creatures wouldn't hear.

Artemis looked over Holly, so he could take another look before answering. "I...believe those are aliens. I came upon some tales of them while researching fairies."

"Aliens?!" Holly whispered nervously, "Are they dangerous?"

Artemis closed his eyes and again, looked at the creatures huddling in the labs to the left of them. "Sometimes. Most of the stories were about them abducting people, to experiment on them. But they forgot when the aliens brought them back to earth."

"So that's what they are doing?" Holly asked, looking at them, "experiments?"

"Possibly, what did they do to you? I couldn't see."

Holly shivered from the experience just minutes before. "I think they took blood. You said that they returned the people to earth, do you think that's what they will do? Maybe they will bring us home."

Artemis shook his head lightly, "I don't think so Holly. The myths of people thinking that they had been abducted then not being able to remember the experience is far fetched."

"True." She agreed, "the alien sightings-UFO's I think Foaly called them, wish I was listening-are usually just some elves or sprites idea of a quick buck or joke above ground."

"Holly, we have to at least try to get out of here," he said, struggling against his bonds. He saw that the aliens were coming back over to her. "And do not let them inject anything into to you Holly."

Holly nodded in agreement before she lost sight of Artemis again. She was still afraid of what they were going to do with her, but at least she now knew what they were. That rested her mind a bit...until the one next to the tray held up a syringe with a strange purple and silver mixture. She started struggling very hard once again, but the creatures paid no attention to that.

Artemis saw what that one alien picked up. Artemis's eyes widened as he saw a glimpse of the syringe. He struggled as hard as he could, but the metal bonds connecting his wrists and and ankles to the table wouldn't give. He had to figure out a way to stop them from injecting that fluid into her logically.

Meanwhile, Holly was trying her best to stay calm. But that's very hard when you have five so called aliens standing over you with at least 7 milliliters of strange purple liquid in a syringe. She was breathing hard, and closed her eyes tightly. Holly waited for the needle to pierce her skin. But it never came.

"Holly," the elf heard the whisper from her right, "Open your eyes."

Holly squinted through her eyelashes and soon opened her eyes altogether. The creatures weren't over her anymore, but to her left again. They were talking fast, and louder than usual. It looked as though they were fighting, but it was hard to tell because the language was unknown. Even with Holly's slight magic she had left, the gift of tongues couldn't help her with this strange language.

Holly was so transfixed on the creatures to the left, she jumped when she heard Artemis whisper sharply, "Holly."

Her head snapped to the side, barely missing hitting it on the hard metal beneath her. "What?"

Artemis looked at the tray with all the tools and supplies on it. "If you can move the table, the tools won't move with you. They will roll. Something on there should be hard and heavy enough to hit the release button, or at least smash the syringe."

Holly scoffed quietly, "Easier said than done, Artemis. How in the name of Frond am I supposed to move this table if I am bound to it?

Artemis sighed, "It's going to be hard, but if you put all your weight-"

"Why can't you do it then?" She argued, looking back nervously at the aliens to make sure they hadn't taken notice of their conversation.

"Well, first of all," Artemis started, "I don't have tools connected to my table, and secondly, what do you expect me to do after I free myself? We both know that I have no clue how to fight and we have no idea if they are violent or not."

Holly sighed in defeat, he had a point. But that didn't change the fact that she might not have enough strength to move the table a but. Still, she was a LEP officer. She was trained for situations like this.

Minus the alien part.

All Artemis did was nervously watch and wait as Holly struggled against her bonds. She tried to lush herself to move the table. But alas, nothing came from her efforts. She lay still after a while, the only sounds in the room were the bickering creatures and Holly's heavy breathing.

"I'm sorry Artemis." She panted, "I-I just can't. The table is too heavy and with-"

"So you are just giving up?!" Artemis asked incredulously. "You, Captain Holly Short, first female Captain of the LEP, are admitting defeat?"

"No, but-" Holly started, shocked by his outburst.

"Then try again," he said, "Before those things come back!"

Holly nodded quietly and looked at the metal bonds. She closed her eyes again and cleared her mind. She didn't think about the white tiled room, or the green bug-eyed aliens. Just about the cold metal beneath her, and that she needed to move it. Her life depended on it.

She struggled hard, pushing all her body weight to the right. Her efforts finally paid off as the table moved an inch, but it was enough for the velocity and gravity to kick in. The tools shattered and changed to the floor, but the syringe hit the button on the side of the metal table. Suddenly the metal bonds slid beck into the table below. Holly was free.

But as soon as Holly sat up, the aliens turned around from the noise. Their high-pitched voices went to a higher octave, turning into shrieks, screams, and squeals.

Holly got up, the creatures were tall, about three heads above hers, they were menacing, their mouths open wide to show off their sharp teeth. Holly took a step back to get some leverage. She then ran forward into the creatures, jumping and kicking off of the metal slab she was just on to reach the creatures head. She kicked it with as much force as she could muster and landed into a cat stance. She stood up to see the damage she had done more clearer.

The creature she had kicked was on the white tiled floor. Blue liquid-which Holly assumed was blood-oozed from the right side of its face. The creature was blinking his bug eyes slowly as he reached up to touch his face. When his green hand came back blue-covered, the dead quiet turned back into shrieking, higher than it was before. Holly covered her ears to try to stop the glass shattering shriek.

Then the rest of the aliens started squealing and running around the room. The hurt one got up, still screaming, and pressed a red button on the control panel, the only thing that wasn't white or metal in the room.

Suddenly all the white in the room turned red and an alarm rang out. A door opened to the side of the room and The creatures scurried to it. The door slid close as the last alien went in. Holly, who was temporarily stunned by the shrieks before, turned around and went quickly back to the table Artemis was still bound to.

Holly quickly found the release button and soon Artemis was standing next to her, rubbing circulation into his wrists. They were going to the only other door in the room when slots in the wall opened up. There was a strange humming noise added to the room's alarm ringing. The humming noise got stronger and stronger. Holly and Artemis were frozen in place.

Then all of the humming stopped along with the alarm. The world seemed silent and still for a moment.

Then all hell broke loose.

In the slots that had opened before, canons came out. But not the pirate type...

The laser type.

The humming started up again, and immediately Holly followed her instincts. She tackled Artemis to the ground the second a small beam entered the atmosphere. It zipped past Holly's pointed ear as she fell to the ground with Artemis. It landed on the floor, leaving a search mark.

They were panting hard from the rush when the pair heard the humming start up again, getting stronger and stronger like before. This time, Holly was ready. They were still lying on the ground so she pushed on a stunned Artemis with all her might. They slid across the smooth floor opposite ways, before Artemis hit the wall, taking him out of his temporary stupor.

Once Holly stopped sliding, she got up and narrowly missed another shot by doing a tumble roll forward. She got up once more.

Artemis on the other hand, was having a harder time dodging the beams. But, then again, he hadn't had years of officer training,

Suddenly, something grabbed his arm, and was leading him out of the red lit room quickly. He was surprised for a moment, struggling against the person. In his mind, a alien had come back and was dragging him back to the door they had gone to before. But as he looked back, he noticed that it was just Holly. His struggling ceased and went along with Holly.

They ran through the room together, narrowly missing quite a few red streams of light. They finally reached the door and Holly threw it open, both of them closing it behind them. They swapped glances and stood there for a moment before turning back and going to the study. Both to shocked and scared to speak to each other