Have I ever mentioned that I hate writer's block? Because I do.

Ady (guest): Pretty good story, just the chapters are really (Holly) (ahah) (OK I'm getting out) short. :/ I like it anyway, your writing style is good ! :D

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Guest review from chapter 5: *Fangirl screaming* I completely agree! They do sorta resemble each other! I started laughing in the middle of the kitchen when Athena had her epiphany! I love this girl even more now that there's some anime aspects portrayed! This is actually one of the only non-manga/anime fanfics I'm reading! Thanks for writing a great story!

Me: Wow, seriously? I'm so honored! Thank you for reading my story, and for liking it so much!

Guest review from chapter 7: THE WINCHESTERSSSSSSS.

Me: I can't begin to tell you how hard I started laughing when I read this review. For some reason I found it incredibly funny.

Steph557: I loved how you incorporated the Hamilton lyrics! It's my favorite musical! Hehe I do see the similarities a bit in this chapter. I can't wait to see how this is gonna go!

Me: I agree, Hamilton is amazing. I hope this chapter was worth it!

Hlwing: Hamilton!

Me: I know right?

Jim: Too much song lyrics otherwise it was fine.

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Maeve Valor: Hi! I only started reading your Artemis Fowl fanfic today but I absolutely love it. I have tried to find a good Artemis Fowl X OC fanfics for while but I have disliked all of them. As much as I do agree with some of the other reviews you have stated that you are not as descriptive as you'd like to be I think you have written something that has set you apart from others I've read. Which is a realistic understanding for the kind of girl Artemis Fowl would fall for. In others fanfics, for some reason people like to write their OC as Artemis' polar opposites. But I don't think Artemis would fall for someone any less than a genius. Maybe not on his level, but a genius nonetheless. I see that you posted this two years ago so please continue! I am a writer myself so you better continue or else I'd have steal this to finish this for my own selfish satisfaction XD (Course I wouldn't post it anywhere. I would just have it all to myself) I love the idea of her being a previous source of magical information Artemis had. Well I better finish because I think I am rambling as well.

Maeve Review #2: Hello, this is same person that already just posted previously. I just made an official account cause of you which is long overdo since I've been reading stuff from here for a really long time. But anyways, chat me anytime on here if you want! Good luck with your writing!

Me: Omg, I can't believe I inspired you to make an account, that's amazing! I'm so glad you love the story, and you honestly almost made me cry when you said that my story is different from others like it, you're such a sweetheart! I'm pretty sure you just dragged me out of my writers block! (It doesn't help that the AF movie and a spin off series about Myles and Beckett was just announced recently either XD)

Shout out to Princess Poptart243 for helping me figure out a part of this chapter. Thank you very much!

Shall we continue?


Chapter Nine: The Key to Forgiveness

Fowl Manor, six years ago.

"Why do you stay at the manor so much?" Eight year old Artemis asked Athena.

The eight year old girl stood in front of a mirror trying to adjust the pigtails that Angeline had happily forced onto her. "Mother and father are away on business, probably hunting."

The boy tilted his head as he processed the explanation. "Hunting? Your parents hunt? They hardly seem like the type of people that would."

Athena paused her actions, and Artemis could have sworn she was holding her breath as she thought about it. Soon, she shrugged. "I don't know. All I know is that I'm not old enough to go, and I need to stay with someone."

"Why don't you just stay with Jaida?" He asked.

"I don't know, maybe they're just comfortable with me staying with more than one person," she said.

Artemis frowned. "That's not a very good reason…"

Athena turned to stick her tongue out at him. "Well it's my reason!"

Artemis opened his mouth to respond when the two had been called to the kitchen for lunch. He planned to ask her more after the meal, but it was soon forgotten.


Fowl Manor, present day.

It was the day after the argument, and fourteen year old Artemis Fowl now found himself standing before Artemis Senior, who was pleasantly reading a book in the library. "Father? May I ask you something?"

"Certainly, son, what do you need?" His father replied, marking the spot he left off on and closing the book with a smile.

"I'm assuming that you and mother have gotten into arguments before, so how did you apologize to her?" Artemis asked.

Artemis Senior raised an eyebrow at this. "Arty, did you and Athena start another fight?"

The younger Fowl gave a slight frown. "I'd hardly say that our past disputes have been worthy of being considered a fight, but yes, I suppose we did. Much larger… And louder, as I'm told by Jaida."

His father nodded, and chuckled softly. "Well, Arty, why don't you take her for a trip around Dublin tonight? I'm sure she'd enjoy that."

Artemis stared at his father in disbelief. "Are you insinuating that I take her on a date, father?"

"If that's how you interpret it, then sure, take her on a date," he grinned in a way that could make some people connect the dots on where his son had gotten it from.

Artemis sighed and did his best to hold back a blush. "Very well, thank you."

Artemis Senior nodded, and watched as his son left the library to go plan the night out. He grinned, and stood to leave as well. "Won't Angeline be delighted to hear this."


Athena felt like she was up to her elbows in all the files and papers she had scattered about her room. She was tired and angry, at more than one person now. Her stomach growled, reminding her that she had skipped breakfast and lunch for the past two days. It was starting to make Jaida paranoid, but Athena didn't want to waste a moment. She wanted her parents back.

"Athena." She frowned, she really needed to remember to lock the door.

"What do you want, Artemis?"

Artemis took a deep breath and took her hand. "Would you be willing to join me for a trip to the city tonight as an apology for what happened last night?"

Athena raised an eyebrow as she stared at their hands for a moment before looking at him. "A trip into the city? What time?"

"Five o'clock, dress nice," he said.

She cracked a small smile. "Alright…"


The rest of the afternoon passed by peacefully, and soon enough five o'clock rolled around.

Artemis stood by the front door with Butler, dressed in one of his more formal Armani suits, and waited for Athena and Jaida to meet with them. He checked his watch for about the twentieth time in the past minute. "She should have been here by now."

Butler couldn't help a small chuckle. "Relax Artemis, I'm sure she's on her way down right now."

"Well we're going to be late if she doesn't…" Artemis trailed off when he looked to the staircase and saw Athena and Jaida walking down.

Athena was wearing a Thom Browne paneled tweed jacquard dress that was contrasted with red, white and black ribbon trim that elongated the fitted bodice. Over that was a red Hervé Léger cropped bandage cardigan. For shoes she had red Christian Louboutin Pigalle Follies pumps. As for accessories she carried a silver ZAC Zac Posen Posen metallic leather clutch, and for earnings she had Georg Jensen sterling silver carnelian clip ons. Her hair was pulled back into a loose bun that let little waves fall to frame her face, and she wore a decent amount of makeup that brought out the emeralds that were her eyes. (AN: This entire outfit would cost $4,610 and that's without tax. The dress alone was $3,400! Damn polyvore.)

Athena looked to him and blushed. "Is this too much? You said dress nice, so I asked your mother for help."

Artemis blinked and cleared his throat. "No, not at all," he stuttered, cursing himself for doing so. "You look lovely." He stepped forward and offered his hand to help her down the last few steps. "Shall we?"

Athena smiled softly, and gently took his hand. "Where are we going first?"

Artemis grinned in a way that sent a shiver down her spine. "You will see…" With that he led her outside to where the Bentley waited for them.


The drive into the city was peaceful, Artemis and Athena made some small talk and soon began discussing more about the files that Athena had. When the vehicle came to a stop, Athena looked out the window and gasped softly. "Is that the Abbey Theatre?"

Artemis nodded. "Yes, we'll be seeing tonight's performance of Swan Lake and then we'll be going out to dinner."

Athena laughed softly. "You certainly know how to apologize to a girl, don't you Fowl Boy?"

"I simply know how to apologize to you," he said. "I know you've wanted to see this performance as well."

The girl squealed softly, and threw her arms around him in a quick hug. "You're the bestest friend I've had since Jaida!"

Artemis blinked and fidgeted, not used to having such close contact with Athena, or any girl for that matter. He cleared his throat and patted her back gently before getting out and offering his hand to her once again. When Athena took his hand, the group of four went inside to find their seats.

However, something had started to bother the genius.

"You're the bestest friend I've had since Jaida!"

He frowned. That. Surely she had other friends, correct? There was no way that there was someone out there with less friends than he had. Yet, there she was. It made sense though, the girl has been on the run for the past few years, and even before that she was homeschooled. The only time she ever seemed to make contact with peers her age was at parties or when she would stay at the manor.

The Ross's were a private family. Yes, it made sense now, he never truthfully understood before, but now he did. At least somewhat.

The dimming of the lights is what brought Artemis' attention back to the world around him and away from his thoughts.


After the show, Artemis found himself sitting beside Athena once more in the car on the way to dinner. The Ross girl couldn't hold in her excitement of having seen Swan Lake for the first time, and was happily chatting his ear off like she used to when they were younger. He almost sighed in relief when they pulled up to the restaurant.

Butler and Jaida got out of the car to open the door for their respective charges, except Jaida froze, looking around almost frantically. The former looked at her worriedly.

"What? What's wrong?" He asked, looking around as well.

"Do you smell that?" She replied. "It smells like sulfur."

Butler still looked around, trying to spot this potential danger that Jaida seemed to see. "Yeah, it does."

"I don't like that. It's usually a sign that a demon is near or has been here." Jaida reached into her jacket to check for her weapon, a knife designed to kill a demon.

"Are you saying there's a demon here?" Butler said, immediately reaching for his own weapon.

"I'm saying there might be."

Suddenly, one of the Bentley windows rolled down, revealing Athena's face. "Hey, everything ok?"

Jaida bent down to her level. "What do you have with you?"

The young girl blinked. "With me? I…" Then she caught on. "That's sulfur… Crap!"

Artemis watched as Athena started to frantically empty her clutch. "Sulfur, Athena?"

"Demons," she replied before opening her door. "Butler, you get Artemis away from here, Jaida and I will look into it."

Artemis frowned. "Absolutely not!"

"Artemis, please, we know how to handle these kinds of things, and I don't want to put you in harms way," Athena pleaded as she grabbed his hand and looked into his eyes. "Jaida and I will scope out the are to make sure it's all clear, if it's nothing we'll come back and we can have dinner like you obviously had planned."

"And if things aren't "all clear?"" He questioned, giving her hand a quick squeeze.

"Then Jaida and I kick butt and we have dinner like you so obviously had planned," she grinned.

Artemis groaned and let go of Athena's hand to pinch the space between his eyes. "That's not very reassuring."

Athena shook her head. "I've been at this for years now, Arty, we're going to be fine, I promise."

With a soft smile, Athena squeezed Artemis' hand and got out of the car where Jaida slipped her a small blade to keep hidden in her clutch while they investigated. Artemis and Butler watched as the two walked off in the direction of the smell, the two men not sure what to expect.

They waited a good thirty minutes after that. Athena and Artemis certainly had missed their reservation at this point in time, and Artemis was starting to get antsy with all this waiting. However, after a few more minutes his phone began to ring.

Checking the number, Artemis realized that it was Athena and quickly answered. "Where are you?"

"Have butler bring you to the back of the restaurant, I think we just found one of Naigus' henchmen," Athena said before quickly hanging up.

Artemis put his phone away and looked towards Butler. "Behind the restaurant, quickly! We may have gotten a step closer with this case."

And with that, Butler wasted no time in driving.


When they pulled up, the two men were greeted by the sight of a man dressed trapped in what looked like a star inside a circle. Jaida and Athena stood on either side of the man outside of the circle. Jaida had a gun pointed at him while Athena dusted off her now torn dress and picked up her journal.

Artemis quickly got out of the car and approached the three. "I do hope you're not making some sort of sacrifice, Athena…"

Athena laughed and shook her head. "It's a devil's trap, Fowl, it's meant to keep the demon from escaping or harming us."

"A demon, hmm?" Artemis stepped closer to examine the man trapped in the circle.

The man seemed like he was an average person that walked the streets of Dublin, that was, until you looked at his eyes. The entirety of the both of them were pitch black and glossy, certainly not human like at all.

"This is not how I imagined demons," Artemis stated, sending a glance at Athena.

The demon growled softly. "What? Were you expecting horns and a pitch fork?"

Jaida made a show of stepping closer with her gun. "That's enough out of you."

Athena looked at Artemis. "I understand what you mean, Fowl, there are many types of demons out there, this one just so happens to have the ability to possess a human." Suddenly her eyes got angry as she looked back at the demon. "However, there's no way the human will survive a possession…"

The demon smirked and crossed his arms. "What can I say? Humans are weak."

Jaida rolled her eyes. "Tell us what you know about Naigus' plans."

"Or what? You'll kill me? I'm not telling you anything unless you let me go," the demon smirked as he crossed his arms.

Athena hummed in thought. "Tell us what you know, and then we'll free you."

Jaida glanced over at her in question. "Are you sure?"

"I'll take what I can get," Athena sighed in annoyance.

The demon nodded. "I can work with that."

"Then start talking," Jaida snapped.

The demon held up his hands in surrender before he began to speak. "The ring, Naigus plans to use it to bring all the demons, ghosts, vampires, tricksters, you name it back to the surface and overrun all humans, angels, and fairies alike."

"Why?"

"Uh, probably because we hate all of you?"

Jaida doused the demon with a splash of holy water, making him hiss as it burned his skin. "Don't get cocky."

The demon examined the burns he now had with a slight frown. "Anyways, he's missing one last thing."

Artemis crosses his arms. "And do tell, what would that be?"

"Little Miss Athena Ross."

Athena's eyes widened ever so slightly. "Why does he need me."

The demon shrugged. "Something about the ring, he didn't exactly say. Look, that's all I got, so can I go now?"

Athena stared at the ground for a moment as she processed everything, before opening her journal to a specific page.

The demon noticed and tried to step forward, only to be blocked by some invisible barrier caused by the trap. "Hey, wait a minute! You said you'd let me go after I told you what I had."

Athena looked at the demon with a mischievous grin. "I never specified how I would let you go, now did I?"

"We had a deal!" Roared the demon.

The young girl simply ignored him as she began to read the incantation to exorcise the demon. "Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica. Ergo, omnis legio diabolica, adiuramus te...cessa decipere humanas creaturas, eisque æternæ perditionìs venenum propinare...Vade, satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciæ, hostis humanæ salutis...Humiliare sub potenti manu Dei; contremisce et effuge, invocato a nobis sancto et terribili nomine...quem inferi tremunt...Ab insidiis diaboli, libera nos, Domine. Ut Ecclesiam tuam secura tibi facias libertate servire, te rogamus, audi nos." (This is the spell used in Supernatural, so I figured I'd might as well use it for this scene.)

The demon stumbled back and began to groan before he threw his head back with a scream, a long cloud of black smoke erupting from his mouth as he did. The smoke lingered above their heads as the body of the former demon fell to the ground and the smoke disappeared.

Jaida checked the body as Athena closed her journal with a soft sigh. "No pulse."

Athena nodded, figuring as much. "Well, we have to clean up this mess…" She looked at Artemis, who was staring with wide eyes, and sighed again. "I'd understand if you weren't up for dinner after witnessing that. It's very hard to see that for the first time."

Artemis cleared his throat. "I can understand why." He looked Athena over and grabbed her hand, feeling it slightly tremble, he himself sighed. "Let's go back to the manor and relax a bit. Your dress is ripped and we've already missed our reservation. We can eat there."

"Yeah, that sounds good to me," she said.


Once everything had been cleaned up behind the restaurant, the four tiredly made their way back to Fowl manor where Artemis and Athena changed clothes and sat down for a moment to rest. They chatted for a bit and Butler brought out tea and some snacks since neither of the two teens had eaten anything.

"I'm sorry that had to happen," Athena said after taking a sip of her tea.

"I'm sorry that the night was ruined," Artemis said as he did the same. "I wanted to make it up to you for last night."

Athena giggled softly. "Don't worry about it Artemis, I've just been stressed and I snapped at you. If anything, I should apologize."

"Well, apology accepted," he smirked, making the girl laugh.

"Jerk."

"Brat."

Jaida and Butler watched the two and simply shook their heads. Fowl and Ross had a special type of friendship, that seemed to last no matter what happened. And no one would want to have it any other way.


Alright! After a very long wait I bring you a new chapter! Woohoo! I'm totally sorry about making you guys wait so long, I didn't even mean to, I have been halfway done with this chapter for so long too. Anyways, Arty and Athena made up! However, what could Naigus possibly need Athena for? Until next time!