Foaly's log, Minutes after Holly and Artemis left to arrest Gage Koboi
Dearest Diary, my computers seem to have shut down in the tunnel. I hope Arty and Holly are ok… I got Trouble to go down there and check on it. The computers have never failed me before, something's up.
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"Holly!" Artemis looked into the eyes of the elf that he loved; but she was gone, something hit him like a rock in the stomach, knocking out every inch of his oxygen. Artemis was knocked to the ground from the force of it. He figured it was the blast from the Neutrino.
Just don't kill Holly was his last thought.
His head floated for a moment then he came to his senses. He wasn't dead, but as he looked down to wonder why the shot hadn't killed him, or at least put him in serious pain, he saw that Holly was laying on her back beside him, her shoulder was a mess of blood and charred skin and clothing and her eyes were closed. She had pushed him into the ground in one quick leap to block the Neutrino.
Artemis almost gagged.
Gage cocked an eyebrow
"Oh well, didn't matter who died first" He laughed and shot another unforgiving blast straight into Artemis's heart.
Artemis's system went into shock, his arm protectively reached over Holly, although it was too late to save her. By some miracle, he wasn't dead yet, numbness stretched around his torso, followed quickly by intense pain that constricted his lungs as his heart pumped blood from his body. He stretched his arm up and whispered one word
"Help"
Magic sprang from his fingers and enveloped Artemis and anything he touched. Another metallic haze settled around Holly and Fowl and then from that a thin layer of blue sparks. Artemis would have laughed with sheer joy that this idea had worked but he couldn't find any air to do it with. He passed out, magic jumped from his fingers to the wound in his chest and sealed it quickly. This allowed him to breathe again, clearing the fog in his head.
Gage stared in hate at the bubble surrounding the two.
He muttered quite a few swear words in Gnomish and shot a constant stream of Neutrino blasts in their direction.
The hits seamed to be smothered by the magic and cascaded off like water.
Artemis wasn't paying attention though. He carefully rolled Holly on her side, then, placing one hand gingerly on the wound Artemis muttered
"Heal" more blue sparks surrounded Holly's arm and stitched it back together. She coughed twice and slowly sat up. They were both eternally grateful that Fowl had stolen some of Holly's magic on the time tunnel.
"How-how the hell did you do that?" her eyes were wide. Artemis grunted, his magic was wearing out.
"Well as far I can figure, magic isn't only for healing." He bit his lip to cope with the strain from holding the magic "I tried levitating an apple awhile back by simply saying "up". It worked, so after that I attempted to add another story to the manor by giving detailed instructions, nothing happened. Magic isn't all that smart really, but one word commands seem to," He stopped for a moment focusing on keeping up the protecting bubble "seem to work" He managed. "Use your Neutrino."
Holly hurriedly grabbed the gun and shot a blast into Gage. The protecting bubble blocked the force field's effects on energy. Artemis broke the surrounding magic after that and sat on the ground recovering. In the mean time Holly grabbed the Koboi by his hands and took the Neutrino.
"You won't need this in jail" She said smugly to the beaten pixie. He gnashed his teeth at her and kicked like a little kid. The pixie snarled insults and threats at them both.
"Oh shut up!"
Holly's gun had started working again when Gage lost his concentration on the force field so she stunned him once more to keep him quiet.
Holly stepped over the convict to where Artemis was still crouched on the ground. She wrapped him in a hug as he said
"So are we even now?" he smirked
"No. We're not" Holly looked serious as she pulled him up, looked threateningly into his eyes. Artemis looked a little taken aback.
When Holly saw that on his face she laughed gently and kissed him.
"Now, Artemis Fowl, we are even"