Chapter 44
Artemis had been on the run for nearly thirty hours and had been without sleep for far longer. He had managed to get a signal out, but he had to evacuate the control room into the duct work before they could force the door.
He had managed to acquire a handgun from a room with piles of gear in crates, if it had been more organized, he would have called it an arsenal, but as it was just tossed in gear, there wasn't really a place for that term for the room.
Hearing the slight pattering of footsteps, he slipped away from the building, and crawled onto the rooftop. Now, Artemis Fowl had been to Haven before, but, even that hadn't prepared him, or gave him the slightest thought about the scene that greeted him.
Flashes of gunfire erupted every now and again from various places as small floating disks seemed to patrol the streets below. He also noticed black clad figures standing sentinel in various places, though the rooftops, for the most part were abandoned. Though, it had been a long time since he had last seen it, Haven, in its current state anyway, was something that filled his gold seeking heart fill with sorrow.
"Do you want to get out of here?" he heard a voice say from behind him.
"What?" he yelped as he spun around, bringing the pistol to bear on a figure standing there, "Who are you!"
"A shadow," came the reply, "I am here to evacuate anyone I can, didn't expect them to be holding a human hostage though, what's your story."
"They thought that I would have information to help them and nabbed me from my home, most likely before they came here."
"Fowl!" roared another voice, one he recognized as Root.
"So have you invented another shade of red yet?" he asked the shielded elf.
"So you two know each other," Torch commented, "Interesting, but cut the reunion short, we have to get out of here now or we'll be up to our necks in black armored shock troops."
"Bloody hell," Artemis groaned as he nodded in agreement.
"Also, I believe that some agents in my organization were working towards recruiting you though what happened to that is beyond me."
"How do you."
"I heard your last name, I am very good at putting two and two together and getting four."
"For some reason I'm not that amazed about that with everything else that's been happening recently."
"I bet few things do."
Artemis had been on the run for nearly thirty hours and had been without sleep for far longer. He had managed to get a signal out, but he had to evacuate the control room into the duct work before they could force the door.
He had managed to acquire a handgun from a room with piles of gear in crates, if it had been more organized, he would have called it an arsenal, but as it was just tossed in gear, there wasn't really a place for that term for the room.
Hearing the slight pattering of footsteps, he slipped away from the building, and crawled onto the rooftop. Now, Artemis Fowl had been to Haven before, but, even that hadn't prepared him, or gave him the slightest thought about the scene that greeted him.
Flashes of gunfire erupted every now and again from various places as small floating disks seemed to patrol the streets below. He also noticed black clad figures standing sentinel in various places, though the rooftops, for the most part were abandoned. Though, it had been a long time since he had last seen it, Haven, in its current state anyway, was something that filled his gold seeking heart fill with sorrow.
"Do you want to get out of here?" he heard a voice say from behind him.
"What?" he yelped as he spun around, bringing the pistol to bear on a figure standing there, "Who are you!"
"A shadow," came the reply, "I am here to evacuate anyone I can, didn't expect them to be holding a human hostage though, what's your story."
"They thought that I would have information to help them and nabbed me from my home, most likely before they came here."
"Fowl!" roared another voice, one he recognized as Root.
"So have you invented another shade of red yet?" he asked the shielded elf.
"So you two know each other," Torch commented, "Interesting, but cut the reunion short, we have to get out of here now or we'll be up to our necks in black armored shock troops."
"Bloody hell," Artemis groaned as he nodded in agreement.
"Also, I believe that some agents in my organization were working towards recruiting you though what happened to that is beyond me."
"How do you."
"I heard your last name, I am very good at putting two and two together and getting four."
"For some reason I'm not that amazed about that with everything else that's been happening recently."
"I bet few things do."