A/N: I shall have Haven and the fairies added in by probably chapter seven or eight. The first fellowship member will be in Ch. 4.

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Chapter 2 Business

The jet landed at the airport. They had exactly two hours to grab the artifacts and leave. One of

Butler's old associates worked as an airport navigator and since it was such a small place on

the coast of the dead sea with hardly no citizens aside from the constant archeologists that

plagued the area hoping to find more buildings and possible revelations of another ancient

society. They landed the jet and stepped out into the daylight. Artemis's skin as white as it was

met his assistants and it spooked them. They had no idea they were working for a kid they

thought it would Artemis senior not junior. Artemis's associates were known as Hob and Nob

Spelding and Ziek Thomson. They were Artemis's thieves and they would be paid 10,000

American dollars each if they got what he wanted.

"Hob and Nob I presume. And you must be Mr. Thomson. Pleasure to meet you." Artemis said

sarcastically.

The thieves were so shocked to see a kid they were speechless. Finally Hob spoke up. "Are

you Artemis Fowl?"

"Yes, I am you incompetent morons. You really think my now criminal free father would be the

one to contact you. I am much more powerful than him and by the way you are the best in the

business are you not? Because your mothers could dress you in a dress nicer than what you're

wearing now."

"What did you say Fowl? It better not be what I think you said. You better add a 1,000 dollars

to your price. You think we'll let you get away with that? You have the money do you not?"

Ziek said gritting his teeth and trying not to strangle the boy.

"Yes I did say what you thought I said. And I will not pay you one dime more than we have

agreed or there will be consequences."

"You pay more or we'll go to the cops or refuse to do your bidding. Or we could always do

away with you." Nob said not realizing that that would mean they would go to jail as well.

"To let you know if you did go to the cops you would be putting yourself in jail as well. Also if

you try to back out or kill me you can be sure Butler will hunt you down. Butler can kill you by

any of the weapons at his disposal and if I told you how many he had you would cringe in fear.

Besides the point he could kill you with his hands with just as many ways you could be killed by

an automatic."

"Then where is this man you call Butler?" sneered Ziek.

"I'm right behind you gentlemen and Artemis is right I could kill you right now and you wouldn't

even be able to turn around."

"You see if you refuse you will be most displeased, however if you do this job for me then you

will each leave with ten grand in your pocket and I will never have to see your pitiful faces again.

What will it be gentlemen?" Artemis said with the coldest smile any one could ever imagine.

"I-I-think we'll help you." replied Hob who was apparently the leader.

"Good choice gentlemen. Now this is what I want you to do. You've heard of the ancient ruin

that was discovered correct?" The men nodded and Artemis continued. "Well I want you to

recover as many of the books still in the ruins as you can and return to me within the next hour.

The books have to be the ones that no one can understand. Preferably from the hidden room

that they discovered. You want me to repeat that to your degrading brains?"

"No need for that. We'll have your books, but you better have our money ready when we come

back." The thieves left to accomplish the mission. It ended up being a quick way to earn ten

grand and then afterwards they could retire and get as far away from Fowl as they could.

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