Chapter six: Explaination

"B—Bryan! What are you…?" Lauryn stammered.

"You gotta be kidding. Demons? Mud Girl? Holly Short?" Bryan sneered.

"Why did you…I thought you were my friend."

"I am. I was worried. I don't like seeing a friend of mine like this. You're all suspicious about this phone call and you end up talking to this person who has something to do with demons. Demons, Lauryn? This some sort of code?"

"No." Lauryn couldn't hide it anymore. The cat was out of the bag. The secret was exposed. "Look, you can't tell anybody about this."

"What's keeping me from telling the principle about this?"

"I'll give you a bag of Pocky sticks."

"Nope."

"I'll tell you what's worrying me if you don't tell. Please. Just don't tell."

"Fine."

Lauryn pulled him around the corner. No one would look there this time of day.

"You see," Lauryn began in a whisper, "there's this…" she paused. "Do you believe in fairies?"

"What kind of question is that? Of course I don't."

"Well, fairies exist. They call themselves 'the People' and they live underground in a place called the Lower Elements. There are eight species of fairy. Elves, pixies, sprites, gnomes, dwarves, centaurs, goblins, and demons."

Bryan raised one eyebrow. He looked remarkably like Artemis. "demons?"

"Just shut up, Briey, and let me continue. Now where was I? Oh, right, there are eight species of fairy. My friend, Holly, who I was just talking to, is an elf. She's also a former leprechaun but that was just a job."

"Leprechaun?"

"I'll get to that! Now Holly, her partner Mulch Diggums the dwarf, Artemis Fowl and the LEP are in trouble. The demons, you see, are really, really mad because they think Artemis and Holly took their home away when it was really disintegrating at a really fast rate and they would all be blown to pieces or something like that. Now they want to kill everybody."

"Explain this leprechaun thing to me."

"It's not just recon, there's LEPretrieval and LEP internal affairs and stuff. Holly, however, used to be a LEPrecaun captain. LEP stands for Lower Elements Police."

"Fairy police, huh?"

"Yeah."

"Why do I find this hard to believe?"

"Look, at first I found it hard to believe, too. But then Holly and Artemis made me believe it when they took me to Haven City and I helped them with this whole thing about this fugitive dwarf and his sprite friend. Then I found this thing that prevented me from being wiped of all my memories which I later found was made my this evil pixie, I think, and so I wasn't wiped of my memories and then I helped Artemis and Holly again get their friend out of the hands of this gang who thought he took the money and then I got shot and I lost consciousness and then Holly's centaur friend saved me and now I'm not a genius but I'm kind of happy about that because now I'm not the classic Mary-Sue and so now Artemis is gone and he's probably going to help with this demon crap and now I'm stuck here with nothing to do while my friends are battling these angry demons hungry for revenge."

"So your cousin is involved?"

"Duh, weren't you listening?"

"How'd he get involved?"

"Well, he told me that his father had been lost in the arctic and so he needed money so he kidnapped a fairy, which just happened to be Holly, and held her for a ransom of one ton 24 carat gold. He got the money and gave Holly some so she would heal his crazy mom. Holly told me that she had brutally shot her unconscious and dragged her to his big mansion in Ireland and tortured her until the LEP came and rescued her. Then he goes and forces her to heal his mother.

"Well the story goes on and he gets Holly to help him rescue his dad and then save a piece of stolen fairy technology from some crazy American millionaire and then they mind-wipe him and then someone important dies or something (Holly didn't want to talk about it) and Holly goes and rescues Artemis from being dissolved into dust by an evil, mad pixie who had humanized herself and wanted to expose the fairies so the humans would put them in zoos and then Artemis and Holly are put in this closed down amusement park in Haven and are left to be eaten by a group of hungry trolls while the evil pixie watched and then Mulch Diggums and Artemis' bodyguard rescue them and they arrest the evil pixie and Holly quits LEP because the new commander, don't ask where the other commander went 'cause I don't know, is such a jerk and so she goes into business with Mulch, who used to be a criminal by the way, and then they save the demon world, called Hybras, from a twelve-year-old girl genius who had no idea what she's getting into and Artemis and she make friends and now the demons are mad and stuff and here I am sitting on my butt while my friends are fighting for their lives against a whole population of demons that want to kill them."

Bryan looked sideways at her appearing amused. After a while of silence he said, "You should really watch your run-on sentences."

"Yeah, well. That happens sometimes."

"You know, Lauryn. You didn't have to tell me the truth. If you lied I wouldn't have known."

"Who says what I told you was the truth?"
"It's too crazy for even you to think up."

"Now that's hard to do."

Now Bryan's in on the whole story! Sorry I haven't been updating too much lately. Been busy with all this school crap and stuff.