I was in a writing mood yesterday so I started doing this chapter this soon! And I woke up this morning and was still in a writing mood so I finished it! I'm on a role :P he he. This chapter has a lot of talking in so sorry if it gets a bit boring. Believe me things WILL be picking up soon!!!! This chapter isnt quite as long as the last one im afraid!!!

CHAPTER 9!!!!!

Disclaimer: The only characters I own are Narela and Eaves and everything else ((except the weapon used by the Goblins which I STILL haven't thought of a name for)) is owned by Eoin Colfer!


Holly hovered over the fork in the road where Butler and Juliet had split off from them. She looked around for any left over Goblins but couldn't see any living thing at all. She skimmed along only inches from the ground, following the trail that the running Goblins had left. A worried feeling had planted itself in her stomach and would not go away no matter how much she tried to convince herself that they would be alright. She was also worried that something might happen to Artemis.

Sighing she picked up her speed. There was nothing she could do but hope.

A while later she came to another fork where the footprints of the Goblins were tangled together and confusing. The group had split into three parties it seemed. One went left, one went to the right and one smaller one had gone inside a building. The footprints led in, but none came out.

Drawing her weapon she lowered herself quietly to the ground and took a deep breath before entering the house. She looked around the room. There was just one window facing the street but it was smashed and the glass littered the floor. The room itself looked large but it was cast in shadows and Holly couldn't even tell if anyone was there. She walked carefully over to the door, being careful to make very little noise.

She reached out to the door and twisted the handle. She opened it a fraction and peered out. The hall was just as shadowy and she couldn't tell if anyone was there. She held her breath as she entered the hall and began to walk slowly down in. A sudden roar came and a huge someone came charging down the hall towards her with a gun pointing at her. She gasped and the huge figure cam to a stop.

"Holly?" Butler's voice asked.

Holly breathed a sigh of relief. "Yes it's me Butler. Is Juliet with you?"

"Yes. Three Goblins came in after us but I took care of them."

Another figure came into view next to Butler and Holly recognized it as Juliet.

"Well come on then. Lets go outside, I can't see a thing in here!" she said and led the way back outside.

Juliet came out before Butler and she looked around. "Where's Artemis?" she asked.

"Oh he's with an LEP officer looking for you. Let's go find him and then we'll head back to LEP headquarters." She said and then set off back towards where Artemis should be around.

After a while of walking she sighed. "I should really go ahead just to check up on him. I'll be no longer than 20 minutes. If any Goblins come your way, don't let them shoot you or you'll die," she told them and then flicked on her wings and rose upwards.

She began to fly back towards where she had left Artemis and then she could do like she did with the Goblins and follow his trail.

When she reached the end of the street where she had left them, she skimmed the ground yet again and followed their trail as fast as she could. She kept going like this for a while and as she turned a corner she thought she saw something ahead of her at the other end of the street. She flipped down her visor on her helmet and muttered "magnify times ten" and the something that she was looking at grew in size considerably. She gasped. It was officer Eaves! He looked injured.

She picked up her speed and was at his side within seconds. He was lying down with a look of pain on his face. His eyes were closed and he looked dead. His wound was slightly to the right of his heart and when Holly knelt down to examine it; she could see it was from a Neutrino 2000.

That was when she heard a moan coming from a few paces further up the street. She looked up quickly and her eyes widened to see Artemis lying down with his side soaked in blood.

With one last glance at Eaves, she knew she could do nothing for him. He was long dead. She got up and ran to Artemis. His face was paler than ever and his eyes were glazing over. She swore and lifted up his top to see how bad the injury was. Artemis blinked at her and seemed to focus a bit more.

"Holly?" he rasped.

"Hi Artemis. Don't you worry about a thing. I'm going to heal you and take you back to LEP. You'll be fine," she told him in a falsely cheerful voice. Deep down she was actually filled with worry.

"Eaves... attacked me... we shot... each... other," he said between gasps. She could tell he was in a lot of pain.

"Eaves did this?!" she asked in a horrified tone. "Don't worry about any of it Artemis. Just take deep breaths," she said whilst trying to stop the bleeding enough so she could see just how bad it was.

"Thanks Holly." He muttered and attempted a smile but it came out as more of a grimace.

"No problem. Oh and just so you know. Butler and Juliet are going to be fine. I found them." She still wasn't sure what was going to happen to Artemis and she knew that if something did happen to him, that he would be better off dying knowing that his friends would be alright.

A shadow of a smile flicked across his face and he passed out.

It was then that holly allowed a grim look to come on her face. She put her hands near the wound and was about to start healing when she noticed something. She couldn't say what it was. It might have been a slight change in Artemis's expression, or a shift in his position or something completely different but something made her look up at him. His breathing had stopped.

Holly began to panic but she knew she had to stay calm.

"Heal" she muttered and blue sparks began to leave her fingertips and started jumping around Artemis's wound. Artemis began to twitch, gently at first but then increasingly more violently and she had to sit on his legs to make sure he didn't kick her.

As she did this a part of her mind began to drift off from the rest of her. All the memories she shared with Artemis came rushing through her mind as if on a river. She lay there in a trance, one part of her mind fixed in healing Artemis, the other was in a sort of trance. The flow of memories began to slow down and came to a stop on the time only a couple of hours earlier when they had stared into one another's eyes. Then that memory too faded away and Holly was left with a strange feeling inside her. She looked down at Artemis and knew what she had to do to save him.

The sparks coming out of her fingertips began to work faster and had mostly healed the wound now. They began to dance away from the wound until they virtually covered his whole body. He began to shake hard and Holly could barely contain him. Eventually he began to calm down and Holly could get off him. She felt his wrist and a pulse greeted her. His face was looking a bit less pale and his breathing had evened out. She sighed and sat down heavily.

She didn't know what she had just done to heal Artemis but she had never done anything quiet like that before. It had left her feeling weak and tired though and she couldn't help but fall back and black out.
"Shouldn't Holly be back by now?"

Butler looked at Juliet and nodded. It was 40 minutes after she had left them to find Artemis. He was starting to worry that something might have happened to them.

They kept walking quickly, keeping an eye on the empty buildings and they kept scanning in the air for any sign of Holly. But there was nothing moving that they could see. No Goblins waiting to ambush them, no fairies patrolling the streets with weapons and no Holly flying towards them with news of Artemis and for some reason this aloneness was even more unnerving than being followed by Goblins.

Another 20 minutes passed. It had now been an hour since Holly had left them. Something had to have gone wrong. Juliet was looking worried and pale and Butler was about to ask if she wanted to have a rest when they turned a corner and there was Holly. She was lying on the ground unconscious and looked exhausted. Butler looked around for danger but found none. What he did fin was an unconscious Artemis with blood stained clothes.

Almost instantly Butler was by his side checking his pulse, temperature, breathing and looking at his wound. The wound was barely a scar now and everything about Artemis seemed to be fine. He looked as if he was just sleeping. Butler turned to Holly and knew that she was probably just exhausted from healing him but he checked her anyway.

When he was sure she was alright too he turned back to Artemis. Artemis's eyes were open and he was looking at Holly with a strange expression on his face. Butler moved towards him and Artemis blinked and looked up at Butler with a smile on his face.

"Hello Butler," he said hoarsely.

Butler smiled back at him and was about to ask what had happened but changed his mind. He could ask Artemis later when he had rested.

Juliet was kneeling next to Holly and Butler asked her "Would you be able to carry her back and I'll take Artemis?"

Juliet nodded. Holly was small and thin and Juliet should be able to carry her with almost no trouble at all.

They followed Artemis's muttered directions back to LEP Headquarters and were before too long standing outside the huge door. It opened and a wide fairy with huge muscles showed them in and a sprite came up to them.

He smiled at them and said "Welcome to LEP Headquarters. I am Chix Verbil and you of course are the Butlers!" He grinned and glanced first at Artemis then at Holly. His smile faded when he saw the unconscious fairy. "What happened to Holly?" he asked quickly and before they had time to answer he said "Follow me. I'll take you to the medical ward. It's almost full but I'm sure they have two beds to spare."

He led the way up some stairs and along a corridor and up some more stairs until eventually he stopped outside a pair of double doors which he opened and led them through. He spoke quickly to a nurse who immediately directed Butler and Juliet to two beds opposite each other. They were then told to sit down on some of the chairs in a waiting room and stay there while Holly and Artemis were seen to.

An hour later a nurse came out to see them. She sat down opposite them and smiled. "They are fine. Holly is just extremely exhausted from healing like that and Artemis just needs time to recover. They should both be up and about within a couple of days."

Butler sighed in relief and Juliet was beaming.

"However." The nurse said and a slightly confused look passed across her face. "Before Holly healed Artemis, it appears that his heart stopped. We don't know what happened next but Holly did something while she was healing that we have never seen the likes of before. It is a minor worry but we cannot work out what has happened. Perhaps when they awake we will be able to find out more and until then I suggest you do not bother yourselves over it. The only thing is that we are oblivious to what effects this could have on the two of them."

Juliet was looking stunned and after a moment of furious thinking she gave up trying to work out what could happen. Butler was also looking slightly confused but he just simply said "Can we see them?"

The nurse nodded and waved her hand towards the room they had been in previously.

When they walked in Holly was sitting up looking around. Artemis was asleep. Holly caught sight of them and smiled.

"I see you made it alright then. I was wondering how I got here," she said.

Juliet grinned and went to sit on a chair near her. "Yep that's right fairy girl. I carried you all the way back here!" she said cheerfully.

Butler walked over and sat next to her. "What happened back there Holly?" he asked.

Holly frowned thoughtfully. "I found Artemis with the wound so I don't know exactly what happened. Artemis said that Officer Eaves attacked him before he passed out. They must have shot each other but Artemis was the lucky one because I found Eaves dead nearby."

The door to the room opened and they all looked around just as Foaly walked in. He stood at the foot of Holly's bed holding a folder filled with papers.

Before they had a chance to speak Holly spoke. "Foaly I forgot to ask you this earlier. Where is everyone? Since I came to Haven the only fairies I have seen are LEP."

Foaly nodded as if he had expected that question. "By the time we found out about the Goblins there wasn't much we could do to save some of them. We got as many as we could to come to LEP Headquarters and most of them are in the emergency tunnels underneath this building. Not many people know about them and we thought they would be the safest places to keep the citizens of Haven. Although we did save many, we couldn't save everyone." He said sadly.

Holly nodded and Butler spoke up. "Where are the Goblins now?"

Foaly grimaced. "We aren't sure. Usually we have no idea as to where they are until they just suddenly all charge at once."

"Do you have any leads at all?" Butler asked.

"Well the abandoned shutes seem a likely place or some of the old abandoned buildings on the outside of Haven. We cannot send anyone to investigate though because of the weapons the Goblin's carry." Butlers blank look made Foaly add, "They have a 100% guarantee to kill anyone they hit. One hit from them and you die."

Juliet shifted slightly in her seat as if she was itching to ask something. Foaly raised an eyebrow at her.

"Did you find anything out about Officer Jannie?" she asked quickly.

Foaly's brow creased. "My computers came up with no results for an Officer Jannie. I did run through the description you gave me of her and there was a match." He rifled through the papers in his folder and pulled out a sheet. "This her?" he asked holding it up.

Juliet studied the picture for a moment and nodded. "I think so. Her hair wasn't tied up like that and she looked older but I'm almost definite that's her!" she said happily.

Foaly grimaced. "Officer Narela. She joined the LEP a while ago but has been off work for months now because of the death of her parents. She came back a week ago and seemed eager to be picked for the mission. Very talented girl. She passed all her fitness tests with amazing marks and she has proved to be intelligent and brave too. Not a very good person to have as your enemy." He said looking slightly smug that he could show off his knowledge about LEP officers.

Holly grimaced. She had certainly made an enemy of that girl. "One last question. What about Trouble?"

Foaly's face turned grim. "There is nothing we can do. We can hope he returns or hope we find something to indicate where he is but there is nothing more we can do I'm afraid."

Holly bit her lip and nodded sadly.

"Now I have a question for you Holly." Foaly said. Holly looked up and he asked "What did you do while you were healing Artemis to mystify the nurses so much?"

Holly looked confused. "I don't know. I was healing him and I started remembering a load of the stuff that we did together before. All the missions we did and then he got covered in my healing sparks and then I passed out."

Foaly nodded. "I'll check into it for you." He looked around at everyone and added "Until then Holly and Artemis need rest so I suggest you all hop off to get something to eat or something and leave them in peace!" he said and walked out.
Not the best of endings... but so.

Only one reviewer this time! But I suppose that's because the chapters only been up for less than a day! Lol

WackedOutPet13- I posted! You don't have to go beserk! Lol I'm glad the chapter length was ok. Anymore than that and my fingers would fall off!!! Hehe it doesn't matter. Sooner or later I'll have a brainwave and be able to think of what to name the "goblin shooter thingys" lol! Thanks for reviewing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you like this chapter!

I'll hopefully keep writing as fast as I did for this chapter because then I should get in at least 2 chapters by the time I go to France. READ AND REVIEW PLEEEASE!!!!