Chapter 36
Mulch was a thief, a good one at that, but he had only gotten out of a slump of rotten luck thanks to Artemis Fowl. The dwarf had followed the masterminds instructions to a letter and it had kept the LEP furious at him, but he was a free dwarf and planned on remaining free.
It hadn't been to hard to convince the council to order the LEP to back off after he claimed, and had documented, twelve cases when they had paid more attention to him than anyone else, it was to the point where the council had called it harassment.
He held the disk that the boy genius had given him all so many months ago, he had made a promise to return it to the boy after the mind wipe and when all the hustle had died down. But with the LEP ordered to leave him alone, he would return it.
He had been headed to Fowl Manor in the most round about way from the apartment that he had acquired in America, the very one that Fowl had uncovered before the events in the artic circle.
His jaw was open wide as he came up in the flowerbed, there was wreckage everywhere. It was utter chaos strewn around. This was not how he had planned it, nor could he have predicted it in any manner he knew of. Mulch knew that the Fowls had enemies, but this, this was ridiculous!
He entered the building through the shattered front door, realizing that not even a bull troll could do that level of damage to something. It was an eerie feeling that things were worse than you ever imagined and what was lurking in the shadows.
He saw the television suddenly come on and Artemis' face appeared.
"I'm not sure how long I have, but I managed to evade my captors for at least enough time to say what I have to say," the pale boy said, "And this message is set to repeat every fifteen minutes when I am done."
"Artemis?" the dwarf stammered as he saw the screen.
"The fairies that mind wiped me a little over two years ago are in danger," the boy continued as the dwarf realized that it was a one way transmission, "Someone heard my name by a traitorous fairy who gave information to a psychopath bent on world domination, his name is Lucas Kabal, he is a dangerous man who seems to be capable of reading minds, but enough talk, Butler, Juliet, if you are still alive, I am in Haven, and I need your help if I, and those who began to trust me before I let them make me forget."
The mastermind sighed, "I hear them coming, so I must end this now or even this last hope will prove worthless, until we meet again."
With that the screen went black save for a timer in the corner.
"What on earth have I gotten myself into this time," Mulch muttered to himself as he leaned against the damaged wall.
Mulch was a thief, a good one at that, but he had only gotten out of a slump of rotten luck thanks to Artemis Fowl. The dwarf had followed the masterminds instructions to a letter and it had kept the LEP furious at him, but he was a free dwarf and planned on remaining free.
It hadn't been to hard to convince the council to order the LEP to back off after he claimed, and had documented, twelve cases when they had paid more attention to him than anyone else, it was to the point where the council had called it harassment.
He held the disk that the boy genius had given him all so many months ago, he had made a promise to return it to the boy after the mind wipe and when all the hustle had died down. But with the LEP ordered to leave him alone, he would return it.
He had been headed to Fowl Manor in the most round about way from the apartment that he had acquired in America, the very one that Fowl had uncovered before the events in the artic circle.
His jaw was open wide as he came up in the flowerbed, there was wreckage everywhere. It was utter chaos strewn around. This was not how he had planned it, nor could he have predicted it in any manner he knew of. Mulch knew that the Fowls had enemies, but this, this was ridiculous!
He entered the building through the shattered front door, realizing that not even a bull troll could do that level of damage to something. It was an eerie feeling that things were worse than you ever imagined and what was lurking in the shadows.
He saw the television suddenly come on and Artemis' face appeared.
"I'm not sure how long I have, but I managed to evade my captors for at least enough time to say what I have to say," the pale boy said, "And this message is set to repeat every fifteen minutes when I am done."
"Artemis?" the dwarf stammered as he saw the screen.
"The fairies that mind wiped me a little over two years ago are in danger," the boy continued as the dwarf realized that it was a one way transmission, "Someone heard my name by a traitorous fairy who gave information to a psychopath bent on world domination, his name is Lucas Kabal, he is a dangerous man who seems to be capable of reading minds, but enough talk, Butler, Juliet, if you are still alive, I am in Haven, and I need your help if I, and those who began to trust me before I let them make me forget."
The mastermind sighed, "I hear them coming, so I must end this now or even this last hope will prove worthless, until we meet again."
With that the screen went black save for a timer in the corner.
"What on earth have I gotten myself into this time," Mulch muttered to himself as he leaned against the damaged wall.