To the-dragon-of-darkness-17: I know my wording is sometimes a bit of, but I write down what ever is in my head and sometimes I forget to reword thing. I'll try harder from now on
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Chapter 4 Explanations and Strange Discoveries.
Sacha stomped up the stairs. 'Now go answer the door', she wasn't his bloody servant for God sake! She thought she'd gotten past the 'do this' stage with Artemis now. How did That Holly girl get into the T/M lab anyway? It should be unbreakable without the right code and handprint. She should know, she designed and made the bloody security system.
She walked to the door and opened it.
"SACHA!!!!" she got squished between Sarah, Jason Cass and Chris.
"Hey, it's only been a coupe of weeks," she protested, her bad mood forgotten.
"Hey Sacha, where's Artemis," Juliet said behind Sarah holding all the luggage.
"Oh, for Goodness Sake will you get off me and help Juliet bring in the luggage," Sacha said, aspirated and prised them all off of her.
"Artemis is down in the T/M lab with a house guest I'm sure you'll find interesting," Sacha said to Juliet as they all walked in and dumped the bags by the stairs as they decided that Chris should take them (on account of him being a stupid twit and breaking Cassie's car on the way to the Manor). They walked into the kitchen, various languages being spoken by everyone, and started making breakfast.
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Holly followed Artemis' back up the steps and wondered how she was going to tell Fowl about the situation in Haven. As they walked into the 'Ops Booth' she asked, "what IS all this stuff, up here?"
"It' s the T/M, training and mission, lab where Sacha, Sarah and the others to their work with the government and so forth, which is why I had the CCTV system moved down here as Sacha created a security system- how exactly DID you get in here?" Artemis asked mid sentence.
"The door was ajar," Holly said vaguely.
They got to the top of the stairs and they headed towards the kitchen. Holly stopped as she heard Juliet's voice among others she hadn't heard before. Artemis stopped and said, "she'll have to remember sooner or later."
"I know it's just that Root will kill me if..." Holly stopped herself, before she said anything else.
Artemis continued to walk into the kitchen and they were both greeted with shouts from everyone. Juliet turned round and stopped, as she noticed Holly. She opened her mouth, as if to say something, but she fell to the ground unconscious.
Holly, as well as Jason, Cass, Chris and Sarah, ran towards her, but Sacha and Artemis stood where they were.
"This happened to me too, when I first laid eyes on you,2 Artemis said to the crowd gathered around Juliet.
"What's happened to her?" holly asked, concerned.
"I think that the pressure on our minds when we remember everything to do with the People is so great that we fall into a state of comatose," Artemis replied, to a very confused Holly
"In Gnommish please," she said.
"She's fallen unconscious," Sacha said to her.
"Wait a second, number one, who's she?" Chris said pointing to Holly. " Number two who's the People, number three, what has she and the People got to do with us?"
"Well the people are a society of magical creatures living underground, consisting of mainly elves, sprites, dwarves and goblins, not to mention some centaurs, who have been driven into becoming subterranean creatures and Captain Holly Short is part of the Lower Element Police, LEP, and she was going to tell us what she's doing here over breakfast," Artemis explained.
Everyone looked at him while taking all of this in.
"Well breakfast does sound like a good idea," Jason said, still looking at Artemis.
"Is all ever think about is your stomach," Cassie complained.
"What are we going to do with Juliet?" Sarah asked.
"Well it took Artemis about an hour, maybe two, to regain consciousness, so let's put her on the sofa," Sacha said and walked to Juliet's feet. Chris picked up her upper body and together they put her on the sofa.
"Well I don't know what elves eat, but we eat full English's here so what to you think?" Sacha said, walking up to holly and looked down at her, as Holly was a good two feet smaller than Sacha.
"That'll be fine," Holly said and looked back at Juliet. The boy, Chris, was still by Juliet, holding her hand. Sacha, noticing her face, turned.
"Chris, you OK?" he said, bring him out of his own world and into theirs.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he said, dropping her hand and walked over the them. All of them then proceeded to walk to the Kitchen.
"So, Holly, What bring you here to Fowl Manor?" Artemis asked, a question they'd all been wondering. Juliet had awoken and had joined them at the table to eat breakfast.
"Well Artemis," Holly Stopped. Now that it came to it she wondered whether Haven would do better without his help, NO! She couldn't turn back now that she had gotten this far. She had to tell him.
"Yes?" he prompted.
"Well," Holly said regaining her composure. "It's Haven. We've been experiencing a lot of criminal activity, but it's not just that. It's the citizens as well. They've become," she paused, searching for the right word.
"Crazed. They are doing thing not even the most criminally insane would not do. They are trying to return to the surface. They are actually interacting with Mud Men. The LEP are doing all they can, but there is simply to many of them. It isn't usual and because none of us in the force are being affected, we suspect foul play. Council Thirteen have asked Foaly to do a suspect list, but all of them are either dead or locked up so tight, not even a stink worm would be able to crawl in. Their was one exception, you. So Commander Root sent me up here to assess you, but as you quite clearly had no idea who we were, so Council Thirteen had no alternative, but to enrol your help, against my better judgement might I add."
She halted and then added, "A number of elves have gone missing as well."
"Has there been an uprising with the Goblin's again," Juliet asked.
" Surprisingly no. The goblin's are just as dim witted as they were before," Holly said bitterly.
Sacha, Sarah, Jason Cass and Chris were talking quietly to each other in a different language that neither Artemis nor Holly could understand, which surprised Holly as she was gifted with all tongues.
"corith nac bar?" Artemis asked them.
" elmendo remindrrer cosithnic lerre, erana acweta necmerala, Sacha replied to him.
Artemis looked over at his bodyguards, consulting to each other.
"Got any theories?" he asked them.
"A few, but nothing substantial, as we know hardly anything about them," sacha replied.
"Excuse me, but would you mind talking in English please," moaned Juliet.
"Well Juliet, I did offer to teach you eagna while we were in Mexico," Chris said and she hit him round the head, with a smile on her face.
"Holly do you mind if we discuss this on our on, please," Artemis said.
"But," Holly protested.
"We shall be in the library if you need us," Artemis told her swiftly, stood up and walked of with everyone in tow.
(Hey people, by the way in case your wondering, eagna was the language they were speaking and is completely made up by me. Hehe. Anyway is the plot ok so far, I hope the crisis isn't to crappy. - R&R )