Hey all,
I'm back and had help from a friend to help with some characters of this chapter. Interesting as they are.
But its all my work!!!! hahahahaha
Anyways to the lawyer issue.....

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I do not own Artemis and Co. They belong to Eion Cofier. Thorn and the rest of the crew are mine though.

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Hollys eyes widened and she was glad to be wearing the odd helmet. Thorn stared at the holder of the gun.
"Nathan, PUT THE GUN DOWN!!! Its just me and I have a visitor so be nice, three year old."
Nathan, a teen boy with red hair reluctantly put the gun down and goes over to a computer with a glass bowl of candy beside it. Holly was quite shaken. I deal with guns and all this everyday of my life and I'm freaked? But Thorn had not cared. She had yelled but it was a warning. Just to let them know it was her. She didn't care whether she get killed or not. Most people will put others in danger to save their own skins.
Thorn walked to the center of the room. The room was huge and had ancient tables. Computers were everywhere, up and running. The metallic hum was overwhelming.
"Might as well introduce you to these guys. Take off the helmet, wait don't."
Thorn walked over to a table that had a series of different guns on it. She counted them quickly.
"Nathan give me the gun, you too Dan."
She held her hands out. Nathan gave her the gun, frowning slightly. Dan handed it over and looked to Holly.
"Ok now take it off."
Holly pulled it off and set in on the table beside her. Gasps came from around the room.
"She's like so tiny and her ears are pointed! IWhere is she from?"
"Oh great" Thorn muttered.
A short guy swung around from a chair. He was wearing horrible black boots, with black tights and an odd black T-shirt. Earrings hung from both ears with horrible gold and black. A weird watch on his ankle. He had black fishnets on his arms and neck. And on his face was black make up spread across his face. Holly backed up slightly.
"This is WuDi, Holly. His a little different but don't worry about it." She leaned over and whispered to Holly. "We only let him come her because no one else would have helped him and he can be a good friend."
"Aren't you all only fourteen?"
A guy turned from the computer. "I'm Geoff and yes we are. Problem?"
"Its odd. In your country isn't it?"
"What owuld you know about our country and our lives?"
A another guy turned form the computer and scowled at Holly who shrugged. Thorn gave him a look and he turned back.
"Kyle be nice."
An alarm went off in Holly's head. They avoided the question. They purposely avoided it. Oh well, i'll know in the end.
"Thorn you said we'd hang out!" WuDi got up form the chair and faced Thorn.
"No, I didn't, I know better than to."
"You promised."
Thorn's face turned cold and hard. "I don't make promises because promises are never kept."
"Fine, don't be so touchee!" WuDi stalked out of the room.
Holly had to wonder. What's with Thorn's past with promises. She doesn't believe in them at all. They all are skinny too. Not fed.
"WuDi stay out of my closet!" Kyle called.
"Don't worry Kyle. He'll go to mine and if he messes up me T-shirts again, I'll so steal his jewelery."
"Why not now?" Nathan called.
"No time and I think I locked the door anyways."
Closets? Do they live here?
"I didn't introduce Holly. This is Holly, guys. Thats Nathan, Dan, Geoff, Kyle and well you met WuDi. You may meet Velatrix but not soon. Is she working guys?"
"Yeah she'll be back late." Dan called.
"Great. Oh and never call me Maria. Its Thorn."
Geoff faced Holly with a black eye. "And this is why. Don't even tease her."
"So now that I know your names, tell me how you found out about the people."
"OK then. WuDi was surfing the net and was looking up some jewelery and I happened to look at a pop up beside. A face with pointed ears. It was a blonde, blue eyed elf in an LEP suit."
"So what about the website?"
"Destroyed it. With all the pop ups and everything. Kyle had some fun redesigning it. *shudders* Pics of WuDi."
"Was the elf extremely pretty wth the baby blue eyes? Heavy on the make up?"
"Yep."
"D'Arvit. Lili Frond."
"Ya, the one that had a king for a great, great, great, great.. Well you get what I mean." Geoff turned back to the computer.
Dan was staring at Holly, who glared at him. He shrugged and turned away.
"Anyways so we researched and slowly found more and more information. We destroyed every site that had information after we documented it." Thorn brought out a Disk from her pack. "This disk is one of the six copies there are. We would never surrender. Destroy it if others find it. It has all sorts of info. But the greatest triumph is when we hacked into Haven's LEP."
"Hey look at this!" Kyle called out, they all gathered around the screen.
"If I am right to say Kyle, that is Wing Commander Vinyaya."
"What? How did you guys get a picture of her. She almost hates pictures as much as I do!" Holly yelled.
Kyle laughed and answered. "As Thorn said we hacked into LEP files. That Foaly centaur. All his passwords were carrots, or boiled, mashed or beetle juice. So hard. Actually many were Juluis."
Thorn walked over to another table and came back with papers. She handed them to Holly.
"These are about almost every officer in Haven, even some from Atlantis." Holly whispered.
"I know. See I have an odd group, but effective. Even WuDi will do work when he's not attempting make up or working. You should meet Vel soon or she may take you for authority. Well you are authority, but you're on our side." She paused. "For now."
Holly ignored the pause but made a mental note to remember it. "How did people as young as you, get guns?"
"Online and such. And we got caught by coppers but Nathan stole their guns while they questioned us. That was quite a proud moment for him."
"You live here?"
"We're all orphans here. Nobody would adopt us, so we set off on our own. What else could we do? We all have jobs but apart from that we work on the fairy project. Actually renamed the troll project. Only reason we have guns. Only reason I let you come here. We all know in the end you'll mind wipe us but we know reality. Its a harsh, truthful believable reality."

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Evil music. yes that was quite a chapter. I'm very speedy at typing yes yes...
You meet Velatrix soon. Till Thorn loses her spirit.
Elvenwolf