Disclaimer: I don't own Artemis Fowl *sigh*. I will just have to live with it.

A/N Sorry it took soooooo long for me to update *ducks as people throw rotten food at her*. I know I haven't done this before so I'm sorry if you wanted me to earlier but here is review answers for chapter seven:

Princess Arwen Evenstar 77: I'm glad I did Michelle right.

Karina: You'll see soon where the disaster is from.

ShnazzySpazzy: Thank you for telling me all that, and no, it did not sound like a flame. I'll fix the made in the US thing in this chapter. I do have a beta reader now so I hope you're happy.

Sorden: Sorry to keep you in suspense for so long.

Moonteller: I'm glad that you liked Michelle, I think I might add more guests *thinks*.

Kandice: I don't really know ether how someone could buy a pyramid, but it does say in the first book that Artemis sold them so I guess it can be done.

Sweetdeath04: You'll see what the disaster is. Hope you like it.

Hex:21: OK, I've updated, I try never to take to long.

SpikeTV58: I'm happy that you like it.

Chaotic pink chocobo: I've updated. I hope you like this chapter too.

Starry Eyes12: The disaster is reveled in this chapter.

Now back to the story. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Chapter Eight: Abandoned Island

The front of the plane went up in a tower of fire. The captain and the flight attendant came running out with their arms over their heads.

"Everybody grab a parachute!" yelled the captain while the attendant burst into hysterical sobs.

Butler reached into the overhead compartment and threw one to Holly, Artemis and a very surprised Michelle. Then plane started to do a nosedive into the ocean that they had just started to cross.

Everyone scrambled into the aisle as fast as they could; no one wanted to be stuck on the plane when it hit the ground. (A/N I have never been in a plane when it crashed so I don't know what would exactly happen.) As Holly stood up her bootlace caught on something under the chair. She fell, unable to free herself. She tried to untie it but she couldn't reach under the seat far enough.

"What happened?" Artemis shouted over the roar of the wind.

"My foot is stuck," she yelled back. The last of the people had left now; only Holly, Butler, and Artemis were still aboard. As the plane got to the point where it was almost vertical Holly felt something on her foot.

"Keep your foot still for a moment," it was Michelle; she had somehow sneaked under the seat and was untangling the bootlace.

Time seemed to creep by at an impossibly slow rate. Finally Holly's foot was free; she got up quickly and staggered over to where Artemis stood. Butler and Michelle followed suit and they left the plane.

Far below them they could see the tops of parachutes floating down into the water. The shore was not far away and swimming to it should not prove difficult. As the foursome opened their parachutes the plane fell below them.

Michelle felt dizzy looking down from this height; the wind sent her black, red streaked hair flaying like a banner behind her. When she pulled the cord of the parachute she got a jerk that felt hard enough to break her spine. It looked like they were going to land right with the other people in the water but nature always has to throw in something to complicit things. A strong gust of wind came and blew them further away from shore. Groans could be heard from almost everyone in the group.

"Holly, do you have your wings with you?" Artemis shouted as loud as he could, but to everyone else it sounded faint and far away.

"There're on the plane," she shouted back.

To Michelle this sounded very weird to have some one talking about having wings. But then again after her father had bought the pyramids he had told her that if Artemis wanted to do something he would have no trouble doing so, so building a set of wings would probably not be hard for him.

The wind continued to blow them further away from land as if it was seeing how far it could go before they hit the water.

"It's not funny!" Michelle shouted to the wind as if it might listen and take them back. Of course it did no such thing for all her shouting. Michelle was starting to really get a headache now and her fear that they were all going to drown wasn't helping.

"There's a little piece of land down there! Aim for that if you can," Butler yelled to them all. They looked and sure enough by the time they reached the water they should be near it.

When they were maybe 15 feet above the ground that they were aiming for all of them got a bit scared. Even trained experts like Holly and Butler couldn't help be a scared when they were coming out of the sky faster then they should and trying to land on a very small, rocky place. Out of all of them Michelle and Butler were the only ones who landed directly on the island. The others came down a bit to the sides where they could easily climb on. It really wasn't much of an island, more of a pile of rock that would be covered when the tide came in.

For a few minutes they all just lay there, glad to be alive and not wanting to have to think about the future. In the end it was Holly who spoke first, "Foaly is going to kill me when I get back, I just lost the most equipment in one mission, it must be a record."

"Right now you might want to worry more about getting back then what will happen when you get there," Artemis told her. "I wonder who made the plane crash and why."

"It could have just been some kind of technical failure," Michelle replied.

"No, it wasn't. One, I checked before I got on the plane and two, planes don't explode like that when then have a technical failure. Someone made that crash happen," Artemis responded.

"Whatever made it happen is not our immediate problem, when the tide comes in, this rock is going to disappear and we don't want to be here when it happens," Michelle said.

"You know, for the most hyper person I have ever met you are quite sensible," Holly told her. "And Artemis, on that neutrino wouldn't Foaly or I have seen that it was made in the US?"

"You might have, but it was written about as small as can be."

"Then how did you find it?"

"I was looking for it."

"Why do I have the feeling that there is something I don't know?" Michelle asked.

"Because there is probably a lot of things you don't know and I don't feel like taking the time to tell you," Artemis informed her coldly.

Holly chuckled; it was just like Artemis to find one of the rudest ways to get someone to change the topic. Michelle seemed to have noticed Holly's laugh because she asked; "Has he always been like this?"

"Oh, he used to be much worse."

"Then I pity all who knew him."

"Your father is worse then me if my memory serves me," Artemis told her.

"True, I pity all who know him too."

"Do you pity yourself then?" Holly asked.

"No, I don't think I could say that I know him."

Holly felt a sudden surge of pity for his girl who could calmly say that she didn't know her father well enough for it to mean anything. Her own father had died some 20 years ago, it had been hard for her when it happened, and she doubted that if Michelle's father died it would be that hard for anybody.

"Does anybody here happen to have a cell phone?" Michelle asked.

"I do, but unless you can call someone who can get a helicopter over here it won't be much use," Artemis said.

"That's exactly what I plan to do," Michelle said with a grin.

A/N how did you like that chapter? I'm sorry it took so long to update. I've been really busy preparing for a flute concert (as in some kind a rehearsal almost every day). Well anyway, REVIEW!