A/N: Hi again! Sheesh! It is HOT today!!! Well... hot for Washington
weather... Anyway! I'm feeling better now:) Thank heavens...
Ok, answers to stuff...
Litobookworm: "i love your stories! I keep looking for something to read until the next artemis fowl comes out (you wouldn't happen to know when, would you? ^_^), preferably something that talks about what happens after the eternity code. Your stories are perfect! Keep on writing!"
I think I got that question a couple of times... Well I'll reply to this one. Anyway, I've heard that Artemis Fowl 4 comes out next year ::shrugs:: I also heard it was going to be called The Opal Deception. Ya know, Eoin was going to only write 3 stories but I guess he changed his mind (thank god...) I've also heard that the Artemis Fowl movie comes out next year too... Well maybe you guys could tell me if you've heard anything about that. And you know what I'd really like to know? WHO'S PLAYING ARTEMIS FOWL??? Everyone keeps asking who's playing Holly... but nothing is being said about Artemis. Why not? Artemis is more of a main character so why no info? Stupidness...
HellFenix: this was an interesting chapter. i like reading review responses! question: how did you get the idea for this story because it's quite original. okay, very original actually... looking foward to your next update!!
Ok, first of all, whenever I get totally into something (or obsessed as my friends say... meh.) I always make up these little fantasies in my head with a plot and kinda tell a story to myself in my free time... So whenever I'm really bored and have nothing to do I start where I left off and keep making it up as I go along. Well this actual story all started at 1:00 in the morning when I was laying on the couch watching my Dad play Quantum Redshift on the Xbox. And then I thought of this little scene where Root is briefing the LEP and Artemis who had come to help them with something on the upcoming mission but he had run late into the night and Artemis falls asleep on a bench at the back of the room. (yes... this part IS coming up...) and then I thought "hmm.. that would be cool if the LEP needed Artemis' help with something... especially since they just mind wiped him. What a bummer that would be." And anyway, I decided to start a story about that. So I had to think of a reason why the LEP needed his help. My first idea was that bombs were being dropped around but that would be stupid because as if they would actually need help dealing with that. So then I was thinking if they were trapped and they needed to get out then that would work. So, duh, Time Stop! Only Artemis knows how to get out of those! And then I went to Blue Rinse instead of bombs but I still wanted Artemis to get beat up a bit cuz its kinda heart wrenching (although I didn't make it as big of a deal as I had intended... this is because its too early in the story and I plan on hurting him later. Mwahahaha... So I can't get you too used to the Angst.) so I threw in the whole earthquake thing. But yah... I wasn't actually gonna put this story up but I was looking around for some good Artemis Fowl fanfiction when I noticed that that stories of that classification are in a painfully low supply... and where good ideas stood, writing skills were lacking. So I decided to try my hand at it. And I know that I am not THE best writer or anything but I have a pretty good imagination so where skill lacks I have creativity to make up for it. Or so I hope. Glad you like my idea though^-^
Ok, now just for a few quick answers:
Benten: I don't see any errors in your English at all! Also that is awesome that you are learning a second language. I would like to learn Japanese. Right now I speak French and English.
Night: I think that night sounds like a girl's name anyway... but maybe that's just me.
Ok, now, people keep telling me to bring Mulch back. Well I am! No worries!
No, I don't really know what D'Arvit actually means... I had imagined that Eoin Colfer had made it up to sound similar to the English saying 'Darn It' but if you know otherwise I would be interested in knowing!
About Artemis and the flower thing: people seem to be really surprised about this. I was going for elaborating on the idea that he had been affected by the fairies... but if you REALLY want me to I can make him a criminal again... or kinda both or something... I can make him develop poisons or something... How bout you vote in your review?
Well Anyway, I have a feeling I might have scared some people by those replies to the Masked Avenger's reviews... Because it seems like a few of you are spending a little extra time in your reviews to sound nice and unthreatening^-^ lol. Don't worry- I don't enjoy insulting, criticizing, begrudging, or embarrassing people so I won't do it to you unless you send me 3 smart-aleck reviews (like the Masked Avenger did... although I only posted 2) telling me I suck or I don't know what I'm doing etc. I don't mind constructive criticism, I don't even mind if you tell me you think my story isn't very good so long as you have a reason and don't go making an idiot of yourself in the process- in which case I just wouldn't be able to contain myself and would have no choice but to point out your error seeing as you were so intent on pointing out mine. But I just thought I'd tell you that so you won't all think I'm evil or anything.
Anyway:
-HAVEN; SURFACE SIMULATOR-
The onlooker watched as the 16 year old who lay sprawled upon artificial grass stirred in his sleep.
Artemis breathed in deeply and brought his arm up to rest upon his brow. A nagging suspicion of being watched forced him to open his eyes. White hot light glared down on him and he instinctively closed his eyes once more. A shadow passed before him and he cracked an eye open to find a figure standing over him. Opening both eyes he could make out the form of a girl looking about 6 years older than him self.
Artemis cocked his head to the side as if waiting for the girl to speak.
"Foaly told me to stick you in here so you could adjust to the pressure," said the girl. She spoke with an accent that seemed to have been comprised of a little of everything. "Otherwise you'd end up hyperventilating due to lack of air. He also said I should warn you of some minor head aches you might experience in the near future." She said all of this rather passively with an expression of I'd-rather-be-anywhere-else-in-the-world-right-now- instead-of-being-stuck-with-you written in her features.
Artemis' brow furrowed in confusion.
"I'm sorry... but I don't..." He said but he didn't know how to finish his sentence without admitting that he didn't understand what was going on. He had never not been able to understand something.
The girl rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Foaly is the smartest, nicest and most talented creature on earth." She said as though she were reading something.
Artemis blinked, wondering what she was talking about, when suddenly the world around him seemed to change as if it was emerging from a fog that had been too thick for him to see through. Everything became clear and began to make sense; it was like waking up from a long slumber.
Artemis sat bolt upright then winced as a sharp pain shot through his head. He moaned and cradled his head in his hands.
"Oh don't be such a baby, Fowl." The girl taunted, "It's just a little headache. Honestly, I thought you might have grown up a little in the last 2 years."
"Nice to see you too, Holly." Artemis said through his hands.
-LEP HEADQUARTERS; DEBREIFING ROOM-
Commander Root puffed on one of his fungus cigars at the head of a long table. Foaly sat in his swivel chair nearby, typing on a portable computer.
"How long did you say this would take?" Root asked for the third time in the last half hour.
Foaly sighed and closed the lid on his computer.
"Three hours, Julius." The centaur replied coolly, "It will only take one hour for his body to adjust to the pressure level in Haven, another hour for his mind to process the newly implanted memory triggers and about an hour for Holly to spend some quote-on-quote quality time with him and bring him back here."
Root grunted.
"What about plan B?" Root asked.
"There is no plan B." Foaly replied.
"What do you mean 'no plan B'?" Root said, "There's always plan B! What will we do if this doesn't work?"
"It'll work." Foaly said nonchalantly, going back to his typing.
"And what makes you so sure?" Root demanded.
Foaly looked up and grinned, "Because I'm the smartest, nicest and most talented creature on earth."
-LEP HEADQUARTERS; HALWAY-
Holly and Artemis approached the entrance to the elevator on the main floor that would carry them up to the top floor of the LEP skyscraper- or rather roof scraper as there was no sky beneath the earth's surface- where the Debriefing room was located. Holly pressed the button on the wall and the sliding doors opened immediately.
Holly gestured for Artemis to enter. He did, she followed and situated herself on the side of the elevator opposite to him.
Artemis looked at his hand as he traced his finger back and forth across the stainless steel railing. Holly crossed her arms and looked around as though she were interested in everything in the room except for the adolescent in front of her.
Artemis broke the silence.
"A lot of chrome." He observed.
Holly shrugged.
Artemis chewed his bottom lip absently and tapped his foot.
"I do believe this is the longest time I've ever spent in an elevator."
"Head Quarters has 146 floors." Holly stated matter-of-factly. "And I would normally take the shoots but Foaly didn't want me introducing you to anymore pressure levels for another two days."
The shoots were plexi-glass tubes that ran from the bottom floor of HQ to the very top. You stood inside the tube, pushed the button corresponding to the floor you wished to visit-much like an elevator- and a concentrated amount of pressurized air pushed you up the tube at a speed of 100mph.
Artemis nodded and looked at the floor.
The door chimed indicating their arrival to the top floor at long last and the two individuals emerged from the little room into a large hallway. No chrome this time, the walls were covered with wood from the surface- a very rare and expensive material to attain in Haven- and the floor was covered with a rich red carpet. The hall reminded Artemis of the interior of a hotel.
Several corridors, a hand full of left turns and four locked doors later they arrived at two metal sliding doors. Holly placed her hand on a jelly pad on the outside wall. The doors buzzed and opened.
Root looked up as the two figures entered the room.
"Short!" Root said, "You're late!"
"Sorry, sir." Holly replied, "We had to go around to the side entrance of the building. Some officers conveniently had a situation right outside the front door."
Foaly walked over.
"How nice of you to join us again, Fowl." He said.
"Nice to see you again, Foaly," Artemis replied. Then he smirked, "Or are you going by 'the smartest, nicest and most talented creature on earth' now?"
Foaly grinned.
"My memory activation code," he remarked, "A subliminal message of sorts."
"Clever. They've passed a law to make that illegal now, or haven't you heard?" Artemis countered, although he knew that it would make no difference.
"We follow different laws here, Mud Boy." Foaly said. "Or haven't you heard? And since when has the law had any importance to you?"
"This is no time for small talk," Root intervened. "We've got a serious situation on our hands."
"Is that why you've brought me here?" Artemis asked, "The LEP, a force of unparalleled power, needs the help of Artemis Fowl II."
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A/N: SUP PEOPLE!?!? Do you like that chapter? ::nudges you:: I think you do! ^-^ Somebody asked me if there would be fluff soon... What is fluff? Is that like when the people start getting all cuddly and stuff? Or is it like corny mushy stuff that would never actually happen in actual life? I've always been a little confused about that... well, yes, Artemis and Holly are going to get 'cuddly and stuff' pretty soon but I'm gonna make it believable! Anyway though, sorry I took so long to come up with this chapter but I after I got over my flu I had serious writer's block and I couldn't think of how to continue... but yah, it came to me last night and here it is!! WHOOHOO! Now I can keep going.
Ok, answers to stuff...
Litobookworm: "i love your stories! I keep looking for something to read until the next artemis fowl comes out (you wouldn't happen to know when, would you? ^_^), preferably something that talks about what happens after the eternity code. Your stories are perfect! Keep on writing!"
I think I got that question a couple of times... Well I'll reply to this one. Anyway, I've heard that Artemis Fowl 4 comes out next year ::shrugs:: I also heard it was going to be called The Opal Deception. Ya know, Eoin was going to only write 3 stories but I guess he changed his mind (thank god...) I've also heard that the Artemis Fowl movie comes out next year too... Well maybe you guys could tell me if you've heard anything about that. And you know what I'd really like to know? WHO'S PLAYING ARTEMIS FOWL??? Everyone keeps asking who's playing Holly... but nothing is being said about Artemis. Why not? Artemis is more of a main character so why no info? Stupidness...
HellFenix: this was an interesting chapter. i like reading review responses! question: how did you get the idea for this story because it's quite original. okay, very original actually... looking foward to your next update!!
Ok, first of all, whenever I get totally into something (or obsessed as my friends say... meh.) I always make up these little fantasies in my head with a plot and kinda tell a story to myself in my free time... So whenever I'm really bored and have nothing to do I start where I left off and keep making it up as I go along. Well this actual story all started at 1:00 in the morning when I was laying on the couch watching my Dad play Quantum Redshift on the Xbox. And then I thought of this little scene where Root is briefing the LEP and Artemis who had come to help them with something on the upcoming mission but he had run late into the night and Artemis falls asleep on a bench at the back of the room. (yes... this part IS coming up...) and then I thought "hmm.. that would be cool if the LEP needed Artemis' help with something... especially since they just mind wiped him. What a bummer that would be." And anyway, I decided to start a story about that. So I had to think of a reason why the LEP needed his help. My first idea was that bombs were being dropped around but that would be stupid because as if they would actually need help dealing with that. So then I was thinking if they were trapped and they needed to get out then that would work. So, duh, Time Stop! Only Artemis knows how to get out of those! And then I went to Blue Rinse instead of bombs but I still wanted Artemis to get beat up a bit cuz its kinda heart wrenching (although I didn't make it as big of a deal as I had intended... this is because its too early in the story and I plan on hurting him later. Mwahahaha... So I can't get you too used to the Angst.) so I threw in the whole earthquake thing. But yah... I wasn't actually gonna put this story up but I was looking around for some good Artemis Fowl fanfiction when I noticed that that stories of that classification are in a painfully low supply... and where good ideas stood, writing skills were lacking. So I decided to try my hand at it. And I know that I am not THE best writer or anything but I have a pretty good imagination so where skill lacks I have creativity to make up for it. Or so I hope. Glad you like my idea though^-^
Ok, now just for a few quick answers:
Benten: I don't see any errors in your English at all! Also that is awesome that you are learning a second language. I would like to learn Japanese. Right now I speak French and English.
Night: I think that night sounds like a girl's name anyway... but maybe that's just me.
Ok, now, people keep telling me to bring Mulch back. Well I am! No worries!
No, I don't really know what D'Arvit actually means... I had imagined that Eoin Colfer had made it up to sound similar to the English saying 'Darn It' but if you know otherwise I would be interested in knowing!
About Artemis and the flower thing: people seem to be really surprised about this. I was going for elaborating on the idea that he had been affected by the fairies... but if you REALLY want me to I can make him a criminal again... or kinda both or something... I can make him develop poisons or something... How bout you vote in your review?
Well Anyway, I have a feeling I might have scared some people by those replies to the Masked Avenger's reviews... Because it seems like a few of you are spending a little extra time in your reviews to sound nice and unthreatening^-^ lol. Don't worry- I don't enjoy insulting, criticizing, begrudging, or embarrassing people so I won't do it to you unless you send me 3 smart-aleck reviews (like the Masked Avenger did... although I only posted 2) telling me I suck or I don't know what I'm doing etc. I don't mind constructive criticism, I don't even mind if you tell me you think my story isn't very good so long as you have a reason and don't go making an idiot of yourself in the process- in which case I just wouldn't be able to contain myself and would have no choice but to point out your error seeing as you were so intent on pointing out mine. But I just thought I'd tell you that so you won't all think I'm evil or anything.
Anyway:
-HAVEN; SURFACE SIMULATOR-
The onlooker watched as the 16 year old who lay sprawled upon artificial grass stirred in his sleep.
Artemis breathed in deeply and brought his arm up to rest upon his brow. A nagging suspicion of being watched forced him to open his eyes. White hot light glared down on him and he instinctively closed his eyes once more. A shadow passed before him and he cracked an eye open to find a figure standing over him. Opening both eyes he could make out the form of a girl looking about 6 years older than him self.
Artemis cocked his head to the side as if waiting for the girl to speak.
"Foaly told me to stick you in here so you could adjust to the pressure," said the girl. She spoke with an accent that seemed to have been comprised of a little of everything. "Otherwise you'd end up hyperventilating due to lack of air. He also said I should warn you of some minor head aches you might experience in the near future." She said all of this rather passively with an expression of I'd-rather-be-anywhere-else-in-the-world-right-now- instead-of-being-stuck-with-you written in her features.
Artemis' brow furrowed in confusion.
"I'm sorry... but I don't..." He said but he didn't know how to finish his sentence without admitting that he didn't understand what was going on. He had never not been able to understand something.
The girl rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Foaly is the smartest, nicest and most talented creature on earth." She said as though she were reading something.
Artemis blinked, wondering what she was talking about, when suddenly the world around him seemed to change as if it was emerging from a fog that had been too thick for him to see through. Everything became clear and began to make sense; it was like waking up from a long slumber.
Artemis sat bolt upright then winced as a sharp pain shot through his head. He moaned and cradled his head in his hands.
"Oh don't be such a baby, Fowl." The girl taunted, "It's just a little headache. Honestly, I thought you might have grown up a little in the last 2 years."
"Nice to see you too, Holly." Artemis said through his hands.
-LEP HEADQUARTERS; DEBREIFING ROOM-
Commander Root puffed on one of his fungus cigars at the head of a long table. Foaly sat in his swivel chair nearby, typing on a portable computer.
"How long did you say this would take?" Root asked for the third time in the last half hour.
Foaly sighed and closed the lid on his computer.
"Three hours, Julius." The centaur replied coolly, "It will only take one hour for his body to adjust to the pressure level in Haven, another hour for his mind to process the newly implanted memory triggers and about an hour for Holly to spend some quote-on-quote quality time with him and bring him back here."
Root grunted.
"What about plan B?" Root asked.
"There is no plan B." Foaly replied.
"What do you mean 'no plan B'?" Root said, "There's always plan B! What will we do if this doesn't work?"
"It'll work." Foaly said nonchalantly, going back to his typing.
"And what makes you so sure?" Root demanded.
Foaly looked up and grinned, "Because I'm the smartest, nicest and most talented creature on earth."
-LEP HEADQUARTERS; HALWAY-
Holly and Artemis approached the entrance to the elevator on the main floor that would carry them up to the top floor of the LEP skyscraper- or rather roof scraper as there was no sky beneath the earth's surface- where the Debriefing room was located. Holly pressed the button on the wall and the sliding doors opened immediately.
Holly gestured for Artemis to enter. He did, she followed and situated herself on the side of the elevator opposite to him.
Artemis looked at his hand as he traced his finger back and forth across the stainless steel railing. Holly crossed her arms and looked around as though she were interested in everything in the room except for the adolescent in front of her.
Artemis broke the silence.
"A lot of chrome." He observed.
Holly shrugged.
Artemis chewed his bottom lip absently and tapped his foot.
"I do believe this is the longest time I've ever spent in an elevator."
"Head Quarters has 146 floors." Holly stated matter-of-factly. "And I would normally take the shoots but Foaly didn't want me introducing you to anymore pressure levels for another two days."
The shoots were plexi-glass tubes that ran from the bottom floor of HQ to the very top. You stood inside the tube, pushed the button corresponding to the floor you wished to visit-much like an elevator- and a concentrated amount of pressurized air pushed you up the tube at a speed of 100mph.
Artemis nodded and looked at the floor.
The door chimed indicating their arrival to the top floor at long last and the two individuals emerged from the little room into a large hallway. No chrome this time, the walls were covered with wood from the surface- a very rare and expensive material to attain in Haven- and the floor was covered with a rich red carpet. The hall reminded Artemis of the interior of a hotel.
Several corridors, a hand full of left turns and four locked doors later they arrived at two metal sliding doors. Holly placed her hand on a jelly pad on the outside wall. The doors buzzed and opened.
Root looked up as the two figures entered the room.
"Short!" Root said, "You're late!"
"Sorry, sir." Holly replied, "We had to go around to the side entrance of the building. Some officers conveniently had a situation right outside the front door."
Foaly walked over.
"How nice of you to join us again, Fowl." He said.
"Nice to see you again, Foaly," Artemis replied. Then he smirked, "Or are you going by 'the smartest, nicest and most talented creature on earth' now?"
Foaly grinned.
"My memory activation code," he remarked, "A subliminal message of sorts."
"Clever. They've passed a law to make that illegal now, or haven't you heard?" Artemis countered, although he knew that it would make no difference.
"We follow different laws here, Mud Boy." Foaly said. "Or haven't you heard? And since when has the law had any importance to you?"
"This is no time for small talk," Root intervened. "We've got a serious situation on our hands."
"Is that why you've brought me here?" Artemis asked, "The LEP, a force of unparalleled power, needs the help of Artemis Fowl II."
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A/N: SUP PEOPLE!?!? Do you like that chapter? ::nudges you:: I think you do! ^-^ Somebody asked me if there would be fluff soon... What is fluff? Is that like when the people start getting all cuddly and stuff? Or is it like corny mushy stuff that would never actually happen in actual life? I've always been a little confused about that... well, yes, Artemis and Holly are going to get 'cuddly and stuff' pretty soon but I'm gonna make it believable! Anyway though, sorry I took so long to come up with this chapter but I after I got over my flu I had serious writer's block and I couldn't think of how to continue... but yah, it came to me last night and here it is!! WHOOHOO! Now I can keep going.