Author's note:

I know it's bee a long time since my last update, but my computer had problems and my files were erased, so I had to start all over again, but anyways here's the next chappy, ENJOY!

Disclaimer: sniff I don't own Arty and his wittle friends....

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Artemis closed his eyes getting ready for the impact of hitting the ground, he could feel Cyrenela just a few feet away from him, but he did not open his eyes. He was sure broken bones would come after this.

For what seemed like seconds he still didn't feel the impact of the ground, he opened his eyes slowly, wondering the reason for this strange delay. He was surprised with what he saw.

Beside him was Cyrenela of course, her eyes closed, muttering what sounded like a prayer under her breath.

This wasn't what surprised him, actually, it was the fact that they were floating at about ten feet from the ground, so that was the reason of that strange delay.

Cyrenela seemed unaware by this, he could hear her voice trembling.

He slightly moved his limbs to see if this didn't disturb the strange phenomenon, he did not want to fall on the ground. He sighed inwardly, nothing happened.

"Madam? Could you please bring us down?"

Hearing his voice, Cyrenela assumed they're alright, she opened her eyes and yelped with surprise, with this, they plunged into the ground in a heap.

"Ow..." she moaned.

Artemis's head was spinning, he noted that he never wanted to experience that again. He slowly pulled himself up staggering slightly with the room spinning in his eyes.

Cyrenela didn't make a move to get up from the floor, she was too shaken by the whole incident.

"I think I require an explanation for what you just did," Artemis said coldly, although his usual steady voice was shaking.

"What?! I don't even know who I am and you expect me to explain what just happened?!" she cried as she pulled herself from the floor.

Artemis eyed her coldly, she glared at him.

Artemis felt himself grow a little squeamish, he ignored this and continued their little duel.

Cyrenela could feel some sort of energy in herself, she considered it as anger building up inside her for the ridiculous behavior of this pale boy, it was anger...but with something else, that something, proved to be harmful.

Artemis suddenly felt his knees give away, as if something extremely heavy was placed on his shoulders.

Cyrenela didn't break her gaze.

Artemis was on the floor, his body twitching madly, and still she didn't turn away.

He could feel something pushing him down, as if pressure was focusing on him, it was painful, he yelled in pain.

"STOP!"

As if coming out from a trance Cyrenela suddenly snapped her eyes shut, then she fell on the floor.

Artemis felt the heavy weight disappear immeadiately as Cyrenela fell down. His face was dripping with sweat, what had happened?

Butler suddenly came apperared, with Juliet behind him, he immeadiately checked Artemis's condition, while Juliet went over to Cyrenela.

"Artemis, what happened?" he asked as he helped the boy to get up.

Artemis held one hand over his head, "I...don't know, Butler...I'm not sure..."

"Tell me."

"We fell down the stairs," he explained.

Juliet looked at the staircase and said, with doubt, "You can't stop falling you know, why'd you yell stop?"

Artemis shook his head, "She did something...we stopped in mid-air."

Butler nodded, but Juliet, being practical and all, said, "Oookaaay."

Artemis continued, "She had her eyes closed at that time, and I said that she bring us down. She opened her eyes, I think she might've been startled of our state, because we fell."

"Then?"

"I asked her to give me an explanation of what she just previously did. We...had a kind of misunderstanding, and I started to feel weak under her glare, I ignored it. But...I suddenly, I can't explain it..." he paused. "I...fell, and then..I felt pain...so I yelled..."

Butler looked at the girl, unconscious, in Juliet's arms, and muttered, "Foaly should have an explanation for this." He turned to Artemis. "Should I escort you to your room?"

Artemis nodded weakly, "Yes, Butler, we'll delay our little chat later. I need rest."

"Uh, what am I gonna do with her?" Juliet asked, referring to Cyrenela.

"Bring her to the spare room, watch over her, Juliet," he said as he and Butler made their way up the stairs.

Juliet made her way to the other side of the mansion, there were many spare rooms, and since Artemis didn't exactly point a specific one, she decided the Cyrenela could have the room next to hers, she'll have an easier time in watching over her.

She hummed a tune to herself as she passed by numerous doors and hallways, finally she passed by her own room, she stopped infront of the room beside it, and remembered something, this room was where Artemis stayed way back, when he was about five years old. Meaning it hadn't been touched for some time.

She opened the door slowly, careful not to drop Cyrenela. She flicked on the light switch, and scanned the room. It was quite dusty, there were a few cobwebs that clinged to the ceiling, white sheets covered the bed.

She took these off, the bed looked okay, the dust was successfully held off by those sheets. She laid the smaller girl carefully on it.

She tiptoed out of the room, after a few seconds she came back, carrying a chair and a discman, she didn't want getting bored.

She placed the chair a few feet from the bed and sat on it, turning on the discman, she tuned on her favorite songs, tapping her foot at the beat.

LEP HEADQUARTERS (underground)

"Retimager, check. Neuro Encoder, check. Pastiflash, check...." and Foaly went on and on of the equipment he's to bring aboveground, almost all of the LEP's advance equipment were included, the commander wasn't pleased.

"Donkey! Why do you need all this? Are you having a trade with Fowl?"

"No."

"No? Then why on earth are you bringing all of these? Wouldn't the basic stuff be enough?" he said gruffly.

"Unfortunately, no. Fectnoperi doesn't seem to be human, JULIUS. It's gonna take a lot more than those to dig up some results from her," Foaly answered with an all-knowing attitude.

"W-what do you mean not human?" Root spluttered.

"I never knew you were this stupid commander," Foaly said innocently.

Root's fac glowed, "Answer me, PONY."

"The girl was already living before the Frond dynasty, Root. Isn't it impossible for her to be this young-wait let me rephrase that...isn't it impossible for her to be still alive?"

Root thought about it, "Oh...yeah." he said, a little embarrassed.

Foaly prevented a snicker, the commander, probably the most intelligent being in the LEP, besides him and Holly, didn't notice such an obvious detail?

"Yeah, yeah, stop holding your glee centaur, I can see right through you."

Foaly hastily made his face straight, but his mouth kept twitching.

Holly entered the room. "You ready yet Foaly?"

"As a matter a fact I am! Just having a little heart to heart talk with our commander here," he replied, smiling.

Holly stared at Root, heart to heart? Her expression said.

Root's face grew pinker, then turned into a violient shade of red. "I WAS NOT HAVING SUCH A TALK WITH THIS BLASTED CENTAUR!"

Holly glanced at Foaly who was sniggering, and sighed. And she thought it was true...

"Alright Foaly, I'll escort you to the shuttles, then your on your own," Holly said.

Foaly grabbed a silver case, about a foot wide and two feet long, Holly stared at it.

"That's all you're going to bring? I thought you said running a test on the girl will take more complications than usual?"

He patted the case fondly, "Just made it, anything you put in here is reduced to a third of it's original size, and it's weight is as light as a feather."

Holly didn't question him further, the last time she asked a question about his inventions, he ranted on and on for at least an hour.

"All right, commander," she saluted.

"Go, Short, and come back as fast as possible, I just got word that there's someone wreaking havoc downtown, you won't want to miss the fun."

Holly nodded and walked out the door, Foaly trotting behind her.

FOWL MANOR

Juliet had been keeping watch for more than an hour, and she was extremely bored, she had listened to the songs at least five times each already, she was becoming restless.

"Why would Artemis make me watch her? She's asleep! What kind of destruction can she do while sleeping?" she wondered outloud, frustrated.

"Uhn..." Cyrenela moaned in her sleep.

Juliet looked at her for a moment and shrugged, must be a nightmare or something.

"T-that's wrong...no...why must he die?" Cyrenela uttered, shifting on the bed. Juliet was listening now.

"B-but he's a friend...my friend...I remember, I think...why must he die?"

Who must die? Juliet thought as she edged closer.

Cyrenela was thrashing now, sweat brimming on her forehead, "No...no, d- don't, he's my friend, I remember, HE CAN"T DIE! NO!"

The whole room began to shake, Juliet jumped backward, staring at Cyrenela with shock.

Everything started to levitate; the vases, the drawers, the mirror, the chair...everything, Juliet was thoroughly spooked by now,and it takes a great deal to scare a Butler.

Still, Cyrenela continued to scream, louder and louder, "NO...NO! NO!!!"

Butler burst through the room, Artemis behind him.

When they saw the room's condition their faces showed confusion and shock.

"NO!" she yelled once more.

Butler broke of the state of wonder and immeadiately went for his little sister, Juliet was just standing there with a stricken face.

Cyrenela screamed one high pitched scream, they felt the floor vibrating.

"Butler! Wake her up!" Artemis yelled over all the commotion.

Butler heeded his employer's order and ran to the bed, avoiding the numerous objects floating around.

He grabbed Cyrenela's shoulder and started shaking her, while yelling at the top of his lungs, "WAKE UP!"

Cyrenela's eyes snapped open, her eyes, desperate, horrified and anguished, brimming with tears. The girl must'ce seen something horrible for her to look like this, Butler felt his heart soften, and it was rare for a Butlr to have pity.

"It's alright now, it was just a dream," he said softly, surprised y the gentleness of his own voice.

Cyrenela looked behind him, the objects have stopped moving, Butler looked behind too, and saw that his sister and charge was okay...for the meantime that is.

The mirror...which was circling the room before had stopped, right above Artemis and his sister (they were side by side), it would fall at any moment now, and Butler won't have time to do anything.

The full-length mirror fell in slow motion to his eyes, he saw his sister and Artemis look above them in shock, their flesh would be shredded, too much blood would certaintly be lost...what's about to happen would certaintly be painful. The mirror was only a distance of seven feet, six...five...four...three...two...one...and...

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Author's note:

Well? It's an evil cliffy ain't it? I actually have the continuation of this now, but I just decided to make this very evil thing (suspense, ain't it? ) Just wanted for the readers to look forward on me next update, it wouldn't be long, since I have a part of it done, this chapter is my shortest on, you know...less than two thousand words...

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Identity99

Yup, her friends are still in the custody of the devil, the devil's not dead, even though he disappeared and all (how can you kill the devil?) Glad you liked the title of the chapter! ()

Mad sam

I'd faint if I saw Butler and he's an enemy (maybe I'll kill myself to make it easier...) TNX for reviewing!

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