I'm back! This chapter isn't very long, I have to say, but it should do. And, following PinkAngel30's suggestions, it's mostly to do with Artemis! Why do I follow her advice, you ask? 'cause she reviewed every single friggin' chapter, and an author who finds a reader that devoted will listen. I mean, I'd only written five chapters...

Chapter 5. – A Little Family Time

Fowl Manor

Artemis sat in the living room, cradling his brother in his arms. He still felt a little groggy from the dinner last night, but the feeling of amazement overwhelmed his tiredness. I have magic, thought Artemis, as he absent-mindedly rocked Myles back and forth. The fact had yet to sink in properly.

Myles gurgled and pinched his older brothers' nose, which brought the protégé back to reality. He smiled down at his younger sibling, and ran his fingers through the thin wisps of hair.

'You look adorable, Artemis,' said Minerva, who had been watching them while reading a book. Artemis smiled, and looked up towards her beautiful face. She closed her book, and walked over to where he was sitting.

'Artemis… I want to talk to you about the demons,' she said tentatively. 'From what I saw three years ago, it seems to me that there is more than one kind.' Artemis nodded, and motioned for her to sit down.

'Demons are a family of the fairies, but they were a mysterious bunch until recently. There are more common kinds; elves, gnomes, sprites, trolls, dwarfs, and goblins. Most of them get along, but the trolls and the goblins are a particularly nasty bunch. Here, come with me.' He stood up, and placed his baby brother into his cot, then walked out of the room. Minerva followed him up the stairs and into his study. He opened his laptop, disabled all of his extensive security measures (which Minerva subconsciously memorised), and briefly showed Minerva all his records of the fairies. He had managed to obtain photographs of some of his friends from the LEP intranet, and when Minerva saw Holly, she cried out, 'Mon dieu! The female demon!'

'No, no,' said Artemis, calming Minerva. 'She is an elf; you mistook for a demon when I let you capture her.' He immediately regretted saying it; he realized that area was still very sensitive.

Three years previously, Artemis had laid siege of Paradizo Manor with some help from Holly, Mulch, Foaly and Doodah. They had taken out every guard and vehicle in Paradizo Manor, and recovered the demon No1. One part of the plan had been to let Holly get captured by Minerva, and she appeared to be still sore about that particular incident.

'Minerva, I'm sorry…' muttered Artemis, but she had already stood up and left. Damn, he cursed to himself. Just when everything was going so well.

To cheer himself up, he decided to hack into the LEP mainframe. Bypassing Foaly's sophisticated firewalls and anti-hacker programs always cheered Artemis up (he usually left a little message so that when Foaly logged on, he would know exactly who had hacked in). It didn't take long; he was quite used to it, and because Foaly had retired from the LEP, the security hadn't been upgraded. As Artemis randomly flicked through the numerous folders that controlled Haven, he stumbled upon the City Emergency Systems program.

'What on…' said Artemis, as he watched the folder slowly fade away. A second later, he got to work. He began tracing the virus to see who was trying to delete the folder, but Artemis was amazed to find that his trace was suddenly flung off course into cyberspace. The hacker behind this is no doubt very good, thought Artemis as he typed away furiously at the keyboard. But nothing he did was able to stop the virus, and the folder eventually disappeared.

Artemis slumped in his chair, stunned. He had never been beaten before, and yet a hacker had simply brushed off all his attempts to stop the virus. He relaxed his breathing, calmed down, and then tried to remember what exactly the City Emergency Systems were. They were to be used for three purposes, thought Artemis. Flood, disease, or humans. If there were no security walls to block off the main routes into Haven, they would be open to attack. But who?

It is a feeling we all hate: being in the dark about something, and no one hated it more than Artemis Fowl the Second. He began searching various databases for any possible candidates who would be capable of such computer wizardry, and also what they would possibly want with the gates open. Opal Koboi had already tried to reveal Haven to the humans; could someone else be following in her footsteps?

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LEP Ops Booth, Haven

Captain Lily Frond, sitting in the Ops Room, watched as Artemis scanned through all the LEP databases he could get into as well as his own.

'You won't find anything, Mud Boy,' giggled Lily, as she leaned back in her chair. 'Everything that might point you in the right direction has been deleted!' She spun round in the chair, then dialed in a number into the communicator.

'Hello, Noah? It's done. Nothing can stop us now,' she said into the mouthpiece.

'Good work, my dear,' replied a grave voice. 'We are almost ready to begin.'

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Fowl Manor

Artemis walked out of his room, exhausted, after around an hour and a half of fruitless searching. He had found nothing, a first for the young prodigy. He suddenly remembered the previous fallout between him and Minerva, and so hurried to her room to apologize. He also wanted to tell her about his magic.

He walked down the corridor, and arrived at her room. He knocked, quietly, and without waiting for a reply, he walked in. He found her crying by her desk, and when she saw him come in, she just turned her head and ignored him. It's strange how such a subtle act can break a boy's heart, even that of a criminal mastermind.

'I… I just wanted to… um… apologize,' stuttered Artemis, looking at the floor. 'I should've… um… realized that you were still… hurt.' He looked up, and although she was still facing away from him, he could tell that she was wondering what to do. One half of her wanted to forgive him, and begin to love him again; the other half told her to scream at him to get out. Without thinking, she suddenly grabbed a hairbrush, and threw it at him.

Artemis instinctively shielded himself with his hands, but what happened next made both of them forget everything they had been arguing about.

Artemis stood there, with his hands in front of his face, for over ten seconds, and yet he didn't feel the brush hit him. He slowly moved his hands away, as if the brush would somehow hit him the moment his face was uncovered. He saw Minerva, staring with a mixture of shock and fascination, at the hairbrush, which was floating in mid-air in front of Artemis. It was covered in blue sparks, and when Artemis reached forward to take the brush, it floated towards him, and placed itself gently in his hand. Artemis looked at the brush with awe, as if it were a new creature that no one had ever seen before. The blue sparks sank back into his hand, and the room was still.

'Mon dieu...' said Minerva shakily. 'How… how did you that?' For the first time in her life as a criminal mastermind, she was speechless. She watched, her mouth gaping open, as Artemis slowly levitated the hairbrush once again, and let it drift towards Minerva. It landed safely on Minerva's desk, and she stared at it for a long, long time. Artemis walked up to her until she was standing behind her chair.

'When I went through the time tunnel, I gained magic,' whispered Artemis, as Minerva slowly turned to face him. 'However, I think the magic is far stronger than that of normal fairies. I can do everything they can, and more...'

Finally, the fact had sunk in; Artemis Fowl II was a magical creature, with powers beyond anyone's imagination, even his own.

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