CHAPTER 1:
Mulch Diggums
Fowl Manor, Ireland.
Artemis Fowl was very annoyed, even though he should be very happy. His father was home, and he had just returned from boarding school. He could not understand, (a very rare thing indeed for him a young genius) most of all he hated the blank part in his perfect memory almost two years had vanished, how? Why? He knew or rather suspected, that before that morning, when he woke up having lost two years of memories, he had known some seriously important information that someone or something, wanted him to on purposely forget. He wanted more than anything to find out three things. The first was how to make the mind wiping machine it could make him a fortune. The second was who wiped him. The last was quite simply why, and that was the most important of all. Why?
"Why though?" Artemis growled angrily. "Why?"
Fairy prison, Basement 6, Cell 127, Level F.
Mulch Diggums was very, very bored and just a little stressed, he found a grey hair in his beard, "Lack of tunnelling," he muttered to himself "Great." pulling at the grey hair in his beard. He rubbed his thumb across a gold medallion, it belonged to a Mister Artemis Fowl. "We will be unstoppable." He murmured. Just then a lock and scanner beeped and opened, the door swung foreword.
"Well hello again Mulch Diggums." said the visitor. Her name was Caption Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, "well Diggums I'm impressed now would you like to tell me just how you managed to get yourself out of this one?" asked the elf.
"I don't know what you mean." he said innocently.
"You know exactly what I mean Diggums," she snarled, "I will ask just once more. How did you manage to wipe your record cards?" she paused and then defeated added, "well as much as I hate to admit it, you are free to go, without the records we have nothing against you. But look out Diggums, I am watching you and if I find out how you managed to hack our computer system, and delete your files I will have you shipped off to Howler's Peak at the drop of a hat." Holly moved aside to let the dwarf go free.
Fowl manor, Ireland.
"It is strange, Butler, to think that Juliet is a professional wrestler now, shame she would have made a good bodyguard, and you, you seem to have aged at least fifteen years internally." Commented Artemis as he sipped Irish spring water from a crystal flute, "did Juliet ever get that blue diamond award?"
"No, she decided that being a bodyguard wasn't what she wanted to do with her life." replied Domovoi Butler.
"Shame." said Artemis again. Just then the doorbell rang.
"Would you like me to get that for you?" asked Butler.
"I suppose so." Artemis replied absentmindedly. After about five minutes Butler returned.
"A Mister 'Mulch Diggums' to see you."
"Bring him through." replied Artemis. Butler gestured to someone in the hallway and in walked in the shortest man Artemis had ever seen. "Mr. Diggums, have we met?"
"I believe so." the dwarf replied, "here, you asked me to bring this to you." He handed the medallion to Artemis.
"Where have I seen this before? How did you get this?" asked Artemis.
"You gave it to me," replied the dwarf, "right before they wiped your memory," Artemis' eyes widened, "you said, 'bring this to me when you get out of prison' so here I am."
"A medallion, what does this mean, unless it's not a medallion, unless it is some kind of. mini disc." muttered Artemis, "yes this is gold leaf, not solid. Butler bring me my laptop."
"Here Artemis." replied Butler when he had brought back the laptop.
"Well here goes." Said Artemis as he slotted the first of five mini disks he had found under the gold leaf into his computer.
Level 6, Foaly's office,
"Aha, got it," cried Foaly, "I have traced the system used to hack into our computer back to it's base it seems Master Artemis Fowl hacked our computer from the Phonetix lab during the Spiro incident. From there he must have deleted all files we have on Mulch Diggums, somehow he is in on some scheme with Fowl."
"D'arvit." swore Commander Julius Root, "so there is no hope of having anything on the convict?"
"Nope." Replied Foaly
"D'arvit."
"Now," said Foaly sarcastically, "if I was an escaped convict intent on causing as much trouble for his kind as possible, where would I go? Well I most certainly wouldn't go to my kind's worst enemy and my best friend Artemis Fowl, and tell him all our secrets making him remember all the memories his kind wiped from his head." added the centaur.
"D'arvit,"
Mulch Diggums
Fowl Manor, Ireland.
Artemis Fowl was very annoyed, even though he should be very happy. His father was home, and he had just returned from boarding school. He could not understand, (a very rare thing indeed for him a young genius) most of all he hated the blank part in his perfect memory almost two years had vanished, how? Why? He knew or rather suspected, that before that morning, when he woke up having lost two years of memories, he had known some seriously important information that someone or something, wanted him to on purposely forget. He wanted more than anything to find out three things. The first was how to make the mind wiping machine it could make him a fortune. The second was who wiped him. The last was quite simply why, and that was the most important of all. Why?
"Why though?" Artemis growled angrily. "Why?"
Fairy prison, Basement 6, Cell 127, Level F.
Mulch Diggums was very, very bored and just a little stressed, he found a grey hair in his beard, "Lack of tunnelling," he muttered to himself "Great." pulling at the grey hair in his beard. He rubbed his thumb across a gold medallion, it belonged to a Mister Artemis Fowl. "We will be unstoppable." He murmured. Just then a lock and scanner beeped and opened, the door swung foreword.
"Well hello again Mulch Diggums." said the visitor. Her name was Caption Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, "well Diggums I'm impressed now would you like to tell me just how you managed to get yourself out of this one?" asked the elf.
"I don't know what you mean." he said innocently.
"You know exactly what I mean Diggums," she snarled, "I will ask just once more. How did you manage to wipe your record cards?" she paused and then defeated added, "well as much as I hate to admit it, you are free to go, without the records we have nothing against you. But look out Diggums, I am watching you and if I find out how you managed to hack our computer system, and delete your files I will have you shipped off to Howler's Peak at the drop of a hat." Holly moved aside to let the dwarf go free.
Fowl manor, Ireland.
"It is strange, Butler, to think that Juliet is a professional wrestler now, shame she would have made a good bodyguard, and you, you seem to have aged at least fifteen years internally." Commented Artemis as he sipped Irish spring water from a crystal flute, "did Juliet ever get that blue diamond award?"
"No, she decided that being a bodyguard wasn't what she wanted to do with her life." replied Domovoi Butler.
"Shame." said Artemis again. Just then the doorbell rang.
"Would you like me to get that for you?" asked Butler.
"I suppose so." Artemis replied absentmindedly. After about five minutes Butler returned.
"A Mister 'Mulch Diggums' to see you."
"Bring him through." replied Artemis. Butler gestured to someone in the hallway and in walked in the shortest man Artemis had ever seen. "Mr. Diggums, have we met?"
"I believe so." the dwarf replied, "here, you asked me to bring this to you." He handed the medallion to Artemis.
"Where have I seen this before? How did you get this?" asked Artemis.
"You gave it to me," replied the dwarf, "right before they wiped your memory," Artemis' eyes widened, "you said, 'bring this to me when you get out of prison' so here I am."
"A medallion, what does this mean, unless it's not a medallion, unless it is some kind of. mini disc." muttered Artemis, "yes this is gold leaf, not solid. Butler bring me my laptop."
"Here Artemis." replied Butler when he had brought back the laptop.
"Well here goes." Said Artemis as he slotted the first of five mini disks he had found under the gold leaf into his computer.
Level 6, Foaly's office,
"Aha, got it," cried Foaly, "I have traced the system used to hack into our computer back to it's base it seems Master Artemis Fowl hacked our computer from the Phonetix lab during the Spiro incident. From there he must have deleted all files we have on Mulch Diggums, somehow he is in on some scheme with Fowl."
"D'arvit." swore Commander Julius Root, "so there is no hope of having anything on the convict?"
"Nope." Replied Foaly
"D'arvit."
"Now," said Foaly sarcastically, "if I was an escaped convict intent on causing as much trouble for his kind as possible, where would I go? Well I most certainly wouldn't go to my kind's worst enemy and my best friend Artemis Fowl, and tell him all our secrets making him remember all the memories his kind wiped from his head." added the centaur.
"D'arvit,"
