Sadako walked into Fowl Manor. She seemed to glide on the shadows.
Quickly, she was stopped by Butler, Artemis' manservant. He had a weapon, a Sig Suear.
Sadako smiled and wordlessly flicked her hand, the gun twisting impossibly and dropping from his hands.
The shadows rippled and bound him.
Butler clawed at his neck where the shadows held him. He tried to jerk free, but his strength was useless as shadow after shadow passed through him, weakening him in a way he did not understand.
"They are feeding." Sadako said. "Feeding on your soul. Eventually you will be nothing. Incidentally, I will kill your young charge with a much more fun meth—"
"Stop!" Ava stood in the doorway. "By the blood of the Hikawa, I order you to stand down!"
Sadako dropped the near dead manservant and walked over to Ava. "I am here to rescue you, foolish sprite."
"I return what I did not want to f—" Ava began.
Sadako struck her to the ground. "I did not say I would rescue you whole and healthy. Who do you think you are, as a diluted member of the clan, trying to control me?"
She was interrupted in her tirade by glimmering light joining together and banishing her shadows.
Reiko entered the room.
"In the name of our Goddess I pray
For the strength and power to seal you away!"
Sadako jerked and fell to the ground, her form melting away and becoming Kuri.
Xxx
Artemis sat in the office in shock. He watched as Ava healed Butler and the other girls carried Kuri from the Manor.
Kuri looked agonized.
Was their point that they could easily kill them and yet did not? Or were they trying to scare him? Well, Artemis Fowl II would not be scared so easily!