A/N: This is the second chapter I promised you, here you get to meet the nine, yep the nine, if anyone can guess where I got all, but two of the nazgul's names from, then I'll update much sooner, possibly within a week or less after I receive the answers, otherwise you won't get a chapter until mid December.
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Ch. 10 The Nine
Artemis went to the door and looked out the peep hole, there were nine men dressed in black, who had evil looking red eyes. Each of these men carried a sword and the one in the middle had a of a white crown and a red eye on his shoulders. Artemis decided that they couldn't hurt him, so he let them in.
"Welcome gentlemen. How may I be of service?" Artemis asked giving them a grin and it looked like the nine men actually winced when he did it.
"Master. We humbly serve you." replied the supposed leader in a voice not unlike itself.
"Master? You think I'm your master? Who are you and what business do you have in my humble abode?" Artemis said beginning to think these were more followers of Sauron.
"We are the nazgul. Ringwaiths, we were men once before the great master Sauron lord of earth gave to us nine rings of power, which in the end made us almost immortal." One of the shorter men said. All nine of the men were in the mid twenties and were very skilled with the blade. "I used to be the mouth of Sauron, before the era of Sauron fell along with myself, but when I found I had been resurrected, I, one by one met these eight people and put two and two together. The original lord of the nazgul had been killed in the war of the ring, and I was chosen to take his place, hence the reason for the s that I was born with. These eight are the rest of the nazgul that never died, but they lost there memory and I had to remind them. There original names are way to hard to pronounce, so I'll start with myself. I am Aghan, the two shortest nazgul are Vince and Quint, the two tallest are Freddy and Jason, the two that look like twins are Korg and Zet, and the two normal ones who don't really have any differences are Sheik and Alastor (Al for short). We will humbly serve you forever more. We will command your armies, run errands, and search for the ring, along with anything else you may tell us."
"How do you know I am the one you seek? I could be a fraud, there could be no such thing as Sauron or you could just be crazy psychopaths trying to get me to believe in a thing that isn't real and you plan to kill me in my sleep. I see you have a tendency to act like a leader, yet you do not know what leading is actually about." Artemis heard Aghan almost growl in anger, but he kept himself in tact and Artemis continued. "Luckily for you, I am the one you seek, and yes I do indeed have the soul of Sauron in me at the moment. It seems that the ring that will bring him back to his former power will soon creep back into the world. I will need you to begin searching for it."
"Yes master. Your will shall be done." All nine of the nazgul said and bowed low to the ground.
"Good, I'll inform you of my plans shortly I first want to check on the prisoner I have in a room upstairs.' Artemis said and turned around to go check on the prisoner, when one of the nine, most likely Korg as he wasn't exactly the brightest of the nine asked him a question, that made his Sauron half snap.
"Master, what shall we do about the fellowship?"
"Fellowship? What are you talking about? What fellowship?" Artemis asked and then he received an answer from Sauron.
'The fellowship of the ring. The accursed fools who managed to actually destroy the ring. How they did it I do not know, but they were extremely clever. The heir to Isildur is one of them as is the wizard Gandalf, one of the most annoying of all middle earth's occupants. I am almost positive that they have probably been reincarnated and the whole process will begin again.'
"Well if that is the case, then I suppose, things will be quite different. After all last time you didn't have the smartest being alive on your side. Besides I have a loyal ally who shall be feeding us information directly from Haven, and my other spy is already in place, all we have to do next is rile up the goblins and trolls . Fortunately for us, from what I can tell none of the fellowship have awoken yet. So that is very good news indeed."
"Uh. Master Fowl, I believe you may be mistaken. You see I have a feeling that the one called Gandalf has already awoken." Saruman said hoping beyond hope he was doing the right thing.
"What! How do you know this? Gandalf is the one that we should have made sure never woke up. He's the one that foiled all my plans, and defeated me by using others. So tell me now, how do you know?" The Sauron part of Artemis said.
"Well we'll just see what this man Gandalf can do. After all nobody has ever been able to outsmart me, and the only one who even has an intellect close to mine is the centaur Foaly of the LEP. So I believe we are quite alright." Artemis said in his normally cool voice.
"That may be master, but don't you think you should be any somewhat worried? I mean he is a powerful wizard and has defeated lord Sauron before." Freddy asked.
"No I am not in the least bit worried. In fact I encourage this wizard Gandalf to challenge me, it will all be like a big chess game, and I've never lost in chess. I was the world champ, and have even made up my own maneuver. No I say let them try, the world will fall for challenging the intellect of Artemis Fowl and the power of Sauron." Artemis laughed in his evil-like voice and then turned to Aghan, "I need you to begin the hunt for the mithril ring, without it, Sauron will never get back to the power he once had, I have a feeling a few Leprecon operatives will be closely following all suspicious characters, so I will need you to split up, for the time being. Three groups should do, and remember if you see anyone, anyone at all who looked like any of the members of that so called fellowship, then , don't want to risk something like that happening again. So good luck I'll keep in touch. Now hurry, we musty get it, then Sauron will be able to release the ring that is hiding somewhere in this world so that we may find it. Then he can get back his former power, and we can rule this land of Earth." Artemis said and watched the nine leave paring up Aghan, Sheik, and Quint was one group, Freddy, Jason, and Vince was another, and the third group was Alastor, Korg, and Zet.
"And what of me your liege?" Saruman asked almost beginning to fear, for what he saw sparkle in the Fowl boy's eyes.
"You Saruman of many colours. You and I are going to be paying a visit to Haven, we need to get the goblins and trolls to follow us, and then we can try to take over the whole of Haven, then once that is done, above ground will be next. If you do this correctly, I will forgive you for your former trickery and deceit against Sauron, as well as give you a nice portion of the above ground to rule. But if you betray me again, then may find you quickly and suddenly." Artemis said with a glint of madness in his eyes, power it was all he needed, power and riches. He had already figured out that the two Butlers had escaped with Holly and were heading to Haven, which of course was part of his plan, and as all things come to pass no one in the world could stop him, once he had the ring in his possession. He went to go pack his bags and do what he does best; plot dastardly deeds.
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