Chapter 2
The People

Artemis could hardly believe it but here it was everything, everything he'd lost, at first he didn't believe it but it made sense really, then it started to come back to him first of all his past missions, then he defined all the main memories, he remembered Holly, Root, Foaly, Mulch and all the rest. "Butler, come here, read through these disks then get Juliet on the phone tell her to come here immediately. Watch out fairy world I'm back!"

Level 6, Briefing room 2.

"Right everyone, this is the fourth Fowl incident and I hope the last quite how has this has come about you are probably wondering well I'll tell you, a convict who is friends with the Fowl boy, has escaped now if we don't stop him from telling Fowl everything he shouldn't know it could cause a potentially fatal blow for the fairy world." Root said and took a long puff on his Cuban cigar, "Holly, take a squad and secure the fowl residence, I want to know if anyone or anything goes into or out of that house. Then leave the squad outside and raid the building as you are the only one who can go inside you must check the dwarf hasn't already got there. Foaly hack the computer system, see and if you can find any fairy related files or cd's that have anything that is to do with the people stored on the hard drive."
"Right."
"OK boss man."

Fowl manor, Ireland.

"Butler, secure the building I have a feeling that they will be coming for us. Mulch go to the airport and then turn round and head back to us." Artemis instructed.
"Why?" asked Mulch.
"Because if they find you here you'll be banged up in Howlers peak for life." Replied Artemis, "Butler secure the manor then set all cameras to 'fairy detect', then send my parents away for a six week holiday to Hawaii, after that you shall phone my boarding school and tell them I shall not be resuming my place after the holidays, you will think of a reason why. And do it quickly."
"Yes Artemis."
Artemis reached over and deleted all record of fairies on his computer system. "Go know Mulch old friend and actually don't come back, go into hiding you will be safer take this mobile I will ring you when I need you I can deal with things here."
"Goodbye I don't need a car I will dig it has been so long since I have done so." he shook hands with Artemis and left through the back door not a moment too soon just then Artemis' parents walked into the room.
"Guess what son, Butler just found some tickets in the post for a six week holiday to Hawaii, will you be fine here? We fly tonight." Said Mr. Fowl
"I shall be fine, Juliet just rang and said she is coming home and I'll have Butler to protect me. Have a nice trip." With that Mr and Mrs Fowl left for Hawaii.

Above sea, Nearby Greece,

Holly Short was annoyed, why hadn't she checked the medallion the mud boy had given the dwarf? It was so simple, so perfect. But if the medallion had been used to hide, say a mini disc why hadn't Artemis told her under the mesmer? Unless the mud boy had found a way to resist the mesmer, but surely, that was impossible, but he had done it before hadn't he. She flew low just skimming the waves, the squadron followed. She read the swell of the waves through her LEP helmet and flew accordingly, the rest of her squad were not quite so intelligent. Holly sighed as two smashed headlong into a particularly large wave, she circled back, and swooping low pulled them out by the collar of their LEP flying suits. "Honestly," she said, "If you two actually used your brains it would help, we give you the most sophisticated technology on the planet and you can't even use it to see that you are about to run into a wave, now get those wings started and do try and keep up"
"Sorry captain."
"Just try to keep up."

Level 6, Foaly's office.

"Any luck?" asked Commander Root.
"No, but I wasn't really expecting him to have left any files on if he had found out, then again it will take him at least three days, so maybe if he had heard, then he won't have remembered all our technology, meaning he would have loaded at least six files by now. So this could mean that he has or hasn't remembered." replied Foaly.
"Let's assume the worst, whatever that may be." said Root, "Holly, did you get all that?" he added into his headset.
"Every word sir."
"Where are your coordinates, commander?" Root asked.
"Just south of Borneo, sir."
"I could have told you that." snapped Foaly.
"Well I didn't ask you, did I?" yelled commander Root, pleased to have something to shout at.
"No need to get tetchy." replied the centaur.
"Oh, shut up."

Fowl Manor, Ireland.

Artemis was observing his security camera screen when he noticed a disturbance on screen thirty two, "Butler," he called, "I believe we have company.

Captain Holly Short and her squadron were sweeping over the main gates when camera thirty two picked them up, they of course had no clue that they had been seen but they had.