A/N: Ahh, the first chapter. Normally, I would wait until you reviewed for
the prologue, but I can't resist. You guys need to know more about the
plot. And so here it is. The Revealing of the Plot. At least, some of it.
Hehe. I'm still so evil.
Chapter 1: Hazel
Suburban Haven City, Captain Holly Short's Apartment
Holly knew she had been dreaming. How else could she have looked upon the face of Artemis Fowl, a face she hadn't seen in person for three years? He looked different, though, in her dream. He looked older, like he would look now if she went to visit him this very day, which she wouldn't, of course, and he looked colder. He looked like he did when she first met him, character wise.
In the beginning of her dream, Artemis had opened his mouth to say something; she had known by the look in his cold blue eyes that it was important, but before he could say anything, Holly was transported to a memory of hers. It was a memory she often dreamed about, when she was performing the Ritual 16 years ago in Ireland and she saw a little baby girl at the base of an oak tree. What struck Holly the most about the baby was her eyes. They were odd, but Holly could not remember why.
Instead of the baby at the base of the tree, there was a teenaged girl. The girl was tied to the tree and gagged, but not unconscious. Her eyes were darting around wildly and they stopped when she saw Holly. They had locked eyes, and by the color of the girl's, Holly knew that she was the infant she had seen, except she was 16 years older.
As soon as Holly had seen the girl's eyes, she woke up. Now Holly was in her bathroom, staring at herself in the mirror. This dream was important. Her fairy intuition told her so. But how it was important was beyond her.
Holly noticed the monometer as she mad her way to the kitchen for a snack. She groaned. It was three in the morning, Mud Man time. And by her standards, it was too early for her to be awake. She couldn't go back to sleep, though. Not after a dream like that.
While she was in the middle of drinking deeply, Holly's com-screen burst to life, she saw Commander Root's red face on it and she heard him shout, "Captain Short! Are you awake?"
Holly gulped down what was left of her nettle shake and coughed, "Yessir. Right here, sir," and picked up the com-screen.
Root raised an eyebrow. "Huh. I'm surprised you're awake at this hour. I thought I was going to have to shout until I was hoarse to wake you up. Why are you up so early?" he asked curiously.
"Bad dreams," Holly stammered, looking at the floor.
Root nodded. He knew the feeling. Every fairy had a nightmare at least once a week. "Ah," he said, "I see. Well, hurry and put your uniform on. We need you here at HQ."
"This early in the morning?" said Holly. "Who's out this time, Diggums?" It was a rhetorical question because Mulch Diggums wasn't even in prison, much to Root's dismay.
"Oh, it's not so much that somebody's out," said Root with a faint smile, "More like someone's in." And with that, he terminated the link.
Holly stared at the com-screen. What did Root mean by that? Who was in? Then Holly had a thought. A thought so crazy that it just might be true.
Lower Elements Police Headquarters
Holly ran into LEP HQ, nearly knocking over another captain and his perp. She breathed an apology and kept running to the Operations Booth. Foaly, a centaur and the LEP's technical genius, buzzed her in and chuckled. "That was quick, Short," he joked with a smile, "I expected we'd be waiting at least another fifteen minutes."
"Ha ha, very funny," Holly sneered. "Since I'm here earlier than you expected, don't I deserve to be told why I am here at three in the morning?"
"No, Holly. We're not going to tell you. We're going to send you back home. Then we're going to tell someone else."
Holly rolled her eyes and shook her head at the centaur's sarcasm. "Okay, I'll just be on my way, then," she said cynically, "See ya in a few hours." She waved and turned around to leave, but she was stopped from leaving by somebody practically crashing into her and hugging her mightily.
Holly looked down and saw bright green eyes looking back up at her. She only knew person with eyes like that, and she hugged her right back. "Hazel!" she gasped after a minute, "I can't breathe!"
"Oops, sorry!" Hazel said with a laugh and she let Holly go. Hazel Short was Holly's little sister, younger by twenty years. Hazel was the second female to be accepted into the LEP Reconnaissance Squad and the youngest person to ever become a captain. During the Artemis Fowl affairs, she had on a top secret mission in Italy and only Commander Root and Foaly knew the details about it. She came home for about a year to visit Holly after the C Cube incident, then left again for another top secret mission in India.
Hazel and Holly looked almost exactly alike. They had the same face and the same figure, and Hazel looked like Holly did twenty years ago. There were only a few differences in their appearances: Hazel was three inches shorter than Holly, her hair was a little more to the brown than Holly's red hair, and Hazel's green eyes were the exact opposite of Holly's hazel ones.
There were a few personality differences, too. While Holly was a bit reluctant to do grunt work, Hazel didn't mind terribly, as long as Holly knew. Hazel was very bossy. Holly wasn't. And, Holly didn't look up to an older sister like Hazel did, because Holly didn't have an older sister. If Hazel was in a hostile situation, she would think, What would Holly do, and then she would do just that. Hazel looked up to Holly, in more ways than one.
Commander Root entered the Operations Booth to greet Hazel. "Good to see you, Captain Short," he said, with a genuine smile, to Hazel, but Foaly couldn't resist saying, "Which one?"
Holly and Hazel both snorted. Typical Foaly.
"Which one do you think?" Root roared.
Foaly smile mischievously. "Holly?" he asked innocently.
"No, Madonna," Root said sarcastically (A/N: MADONNA!! HAHA, EMMA!). Hazel burst out laughing, and Holly soon followed. Foaly snickered, and even Root smiled. They were interrupted by a knock on the door.
It was Trouble Kelp. Foaly let him in, and Trouble said, looking around the small room, "There's a rumor going around that Hazel's back. Is she --"
Hazel jumped up and down behind Holly, saying with each jump, "I'm. right. here! Hi. Trouble!" Hazel waved on the last jump.
Trouble and Holly laughed, and Holly stepped out from in front of Hazel and Trouble waved back. "Well," he said, "I've only come to confirm the rumor. Glad you're back, Hazel." He smiled at Holly and said, "Don't get into too much trouble. See ya later." Captian Kelp left the room with another wave.
Holly smiled at Hazel, but Hazel narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "You're worried about something," she concluded.
Holly sighed. Hazel always could her like a book. "It's nothing," lied the captain.
"You said something about a bad dream earlier," said the Commander with a raised eyebrow.
Holly shot Root a piercing glare. Hazel, unfortunately, noticed it. "What about a bad dream?" she protested.
"It wasn't really bad. More like.odd," Holly said.
"Care to share?" Hazel said.
Holly sighed again and told her sister, the Commander and Foaly her dream. After she finished, Foaly turned around in his around in his chair and began typing like mad. Finally, after a few seconds, he clicked something and a video popped up. On the screen was the baby Holly had seen 16 years ago.
"Aww, she's so cute for a Mud Baby!" Hazel crooned.
"Shh!" Foaly hissed. He turned the volume up. "Listen!"
On the screen, the camera turned to a man who was walking toward the babe. He glanced in Holly's direction briefly, then picked up the little one. The camera followed the man, who walked over to another man and handed him the bundle. He gave him instructions that the mic didn't pick up, and he walked away. The mic picked up the second man's next sentence because he said it loudly: "What's her name?"
The first man stopped, and said, "Atlantis. Atlantis Audi Fowl."
Everybody in the cramped room gasped. Foaly hit paused.
"Fowl?" Hazel breathed. "As in, Artemis Fowl?"
"D'arvit," Holly and Root swore.
A/N: Oh, what a great cliffhanger. Well, when I wrote this chapter, it wasn't originally going to be a cliffhanger, but it just seemed to fit just then, dontcha think? Well, if you do think, then tell me about it and review!!!! Yes, I know, I'm crazy. Emma makes that clear to me all the time. @_@ But I'm not as crazy as she is!!!! Hahaha!!!
Oh dear. What did I have to eat today? Oh, yeah. Nothing. That explains a lot. When I don't eat, I go insane. Maybe I better take a brake and eat something. Yeah. Good idea. Well, review!!! ~Luv from Raven~
Chapter 1: Hazel
Suburban Haven City, Captain Holly Short's Apartment
Holly knew she had been dreaming. How else could she have looked upon the face of Artemis Fowl, a face she hadn't seen in person for three years? He looked different, though, in her dream. He looked older, like he would look now if she went to visit him this very day, which she wouldn't, of course, and he looked colder. He looked like he did when she first met him, character wise.
In the beginning of her dream, Artemis had opened his mouth to say something; she had known by the look in his cold blue eyes that it was important, but before he could say anything, Holly was transported to a memory of hers. It was a memory she often dreamed about, when she was performing the Ritual 16 years ago in Ireland and she saw a little baby girl at the base of an oak tree. What struck Holly the most about the baby was her eyes. They were odd, but Holly could not remember why.
Instead of the baby at the base of the tree, there was a teenaged girl. The girl was tied to the tree and gagged, but not unconscious. Her eyes were darting around wildly and they stopped when she saw Holly. They had locked eyes, and by the color of the girl's, Holly knew that she was the infant she had seen, except she was 16 years older.
As soon as Holly had seen the girl's eyes, she woke up. Now Holly was in her bathroom, staring at herself in the mirror. This dream was important. Her fairy intuition told her so. But how it was important was beyond her.
Holly noticed the monometer as she mad her way to the kitchen for a snack. She groaned. It was three in the morning, Mud Man time. And by her standards, it was too early for her to be awake. She couldn't go back to sleep, though. Not after a dream like that.
While she was in the middle of drinking deeply, Holly's com-screen burst to life, she saw Commander Root's red face on it and she heard him shout, "Captain Short! Are you awake?"
Holly gulped down what was left of her nettle shake and coughed, "Yessir. Right here, sir," and picked up the com-screen.
Root raised an eyebrow. "Huh. I'm surprised you're awake at this hour. I thought I was going to have to shout until I was hoarse to wake you up. Why are you up so early?" he asked curiously.
"Bad dreams," Holly stammered, looking at the floor.
Root nodded. He knew the feeling. Every fairy had a nightmare at least once a week. "Ah," he said, "I see. Well, hurry and put your uniform on. We need you here at HQ."
"This early in the morning?" said Holly. "Who's out this time, Diggums?" It was a rhetorical question because Mulch Diggums wasn't even in prison, much to Root's dismay.
"Oh, it's not so much that somebody's out," said Root with a faint smile, "More like someone's in." And with that, he terminated the link.
Holly stared at the com-screen. What did Root mean by that? Who was in? Then Holly had a thought. A thought so crazy that it just might be true.
Lower Elements Police Headquarters
Holly ran into LEP HQ, nearly knocking over another captain and his perp. She breathed an apology and kept running to the Operations Booth. Foaly, a centaur and the LEP's technical genius, buzzed her in and chuckled. "That was quick, Short," he joked with a smile, "I expected we'd be waiting at least another fifteen minutes."
"Ha ha, very funny," Holly sneered. "Since I'm here earlier than you expected, don't I deserve to be told why I am here at three in the morning?"
"No, Holly. We're not going to tell you. We're going to send you back home. Then we're going to tell someone else."
Holly rolled her eyes and shook her head at the centaur's sarcasm. "Okay, I'll just be on my way, then," she said cynically, "See ya in a few hours." She waved and turned around to leave, but she was stopped from leaving by somebody practically crashing into her and hugging her mightily.
Holly looked down and saw bright green eyes looking back up at her. She only knew person with eyes like that, and she hugged her right back. "Hazel!" she gasped after a minute, "I can't breathe!"
"Oops, sorry!" Hazel said with a laugh and she let Holly go. Hazel Short was Holly's little sister, younger by twenty years. Hazel was the second female to be accepted into the LEP Reconnaissance Squad and the youngest person to ever become a captain. During the Artemis Fowl affairs, she had on a top secret mission in Italy and only Commander Root and Foaly knew the details about it. She came home for about a year to visit Holly after the C Cube incident, then left again for another top secret mission in India.
Hazel and Holly looked almost exactly alike. They had the same face and the same figure, and Hazel looked like Holly did twenty years ago. There were only a few differences in their appearances: Hazel was three inches shorter than Holly, her hair was a little more to the brown than Holly's red hair, and Hazel's green eyes were the exact opposite of Holly's hazel ones.
There were a few personality differences, too. While Holly was a bit reluctant to do grunt work, Hazel didn't mind terribly, as long as Holly knew. Hazel was very bossy. Holly wasn't. And, Holly didn't look up to an older sister like Hazel did, because Holly didn't have an older sister. If Hazel was in a hostile situation, she would think, What would Holly do, and then she would do just that. Hazel looked up to Holly, in more ways than one.
Commander Root entered the Operations Booth to greet Hazel. "Good to see you, Captain Short," he said, with a genuine smile, to Hazel, but Foaly couldn't resist saying, "Which one?"
Holly and Hazel both snorted. Typical Foaly.
"Which one do you think?" Root roared.
Foaly smile mischievously. "Holly?" he asked innocently.
"No, Madonna," Root said sarcastically (A/N: MADONNA!! HAHA, EMMA!). Hazel burst out laughing, and Holly soon followed. Foaly snickered, and even Root smiled. They were interrupted by a knock on the door.
It was Trouble Kelp. Foaly let him in, and Trouble said, looking around the small room, "There's a rumor going around that Hazel's back. Is she --"
Hazel jumped up and down behind Holly, saying with each jump, "I'm. right. here! Hi. Trouble!" Hazel waved on the last jump.
Trouble and Holly laughed, and Holly stepped out from in front of Hazel and Trouble waved back. "Well," he said, "I've only come to confirm the rumor. Glad you're back, Hazel." He smiled at Holly and said, "Don't get into too much trouble. See ya later." Captian Kelp left the room with another wave.
Holly smiled at Hazel, but Hazel narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "You're worried about something," she concluded.
Holly sighed. Hazel always could her like a book. "It's nothing," lied the captain.
"You said something about a bad dream earlier," said the Commander with a raised eyebrow.
Holly shot Root a piercing glare. Hazel, unfortunately, noticed it. "What about a bad dream?" she protested.
"It wasn't really bad. More like.odd," Holly said.
"Care to share?" Hazel said.
Holly sighed again and told her sister, the Commander and Foaly her dream. After she finished, Foaly turned around in his around in his chair and began typing like mad. Finally, after a few seconds, he clicked something and a video popped up. On the screen was the baby Holly had seen 16 years ago.
"Aww, she's so cute for a Mud Baby!" Hazel crooned.
"Shh!" Foaly hissed. He turned the volume up. "Listen!"
On the screen, the camera turned to a man who was walking toward the babe. He glanced in Holly's direction briefly, then picked up the little one. The camera followed the man, who walked over to another man and handed him the bundle. He gave him instructions that the mic didn't pick up, and he walked away. The mic picked up the second man's next sentence because he said it loudly: "What's her name?"
The first man stopped, and said, "Atlantis. Atlantis Audi Fowl."
Everybody in the cramped room gasped. Foaly hit paused.
"Fowl?" Hazel breathed. "As in, Artemis Fowl?"
"D'arvit," Holly and Root swore.
A/N: Oh, what a great cliffhanger. Well, when I wrote this chapter, it wasn't originally going to be a cliffhanger, but it just seemed to fit just then, dontcha think? Well, if you do think, then tell me about it and review!!!! Yes, I know, I'm crazy. Emma makes that clear to me all the time. @_@ But I'm not as crazy as she is!!!! Hahaha!!!
Oh dear. What did I have to eat today? Oh, yeah. Nothing. That explains a lot. When I don't eat, I go insane. Maybe I better take a brake and eat something. Yeah. Good idea. Well, review!!! ~Luv from Raven~
