LEP Headquarters

In the lab that would remind any mud man of a horror or sci-fi movie, Foaly was working over time again. Much to his dismay he would first have to study the problem which the fairies had. He was a little scared of it anyway but who wouldn't be, a few centuries on earth wouldn't hurt Foaly a bit. Then he dropped his work and went on to completing his machine. The report on the sickness was written hastily, again.

Then the unthinkable happened, he was asked to call Artemis and Athena for a briefing the next day in the same room, what was the use of mind wiping them if you had to bring them to together again.

After preparing his slides, he learned what comforted him a little. Some fairies lost their powers much like Dirt and Rock and most fairies are asleep, so their powers could not be used. It was too late to send out the memo on not using powers.

About his machine, Artemis helped him with the blueprints and Athena helped him build some parts of it. Artemis knew what the machine was supposed to do but Athena didn't. Either way they won't know when it will work the next day.

The machine which was yet to be named was a body switcher or brain switcher, either way it did the same thing. It was one of Foaly's biggest projects, next to the iris cams. It wasn't as useful as his iris cams but it was worth working on. Haven may be chaotic in a moment but if he was going to die he was going to live it up.

Foaly smiled with satisfaction as he powered up the machine, he wasn't sure that it worked though. He would have to use Artemis and Athena to test it somehow. He smirked; he had an idea he was going to trick Artemis and Athena into testing it if it was even possible. They were the people who built it that couldn't possibly trash him. After careful calculation, he figured out that Athena in Artemis' body was helpless because he was kinda weak and Artemis in Athena's body was helpless because he didn't know how to hit.

He disguised the machine into just a couple of chairs and a desk. When the two mud men arrived for briefing about their new case they would have special seats. Special seats which will give out a dose of sleeping gas once Foaly pressed a special button.

Once again Foaly smiled, he sent an e-mail to Artemis and Athena as instructed by Root for a meeting on the next day because as another point the whole prophecy was discovered. The e-mails were separate and short. Foaly sent it quickly, grabbed some discs and continued on his way. His smile was from ear to ear thinking of the possibilities of his machine although it isn't so good to play with the people who could save Haven.

Root on the other hand was not having such a good time. He was still going over the reports about the mysterious deaths and the uncovered prophecy. The fairies that were hard at work quickly uncovered the full lost prophecy which was incredibly shocking. Commander Root could hardly glance at the screen without sweating.

"Artemis and Athena," Commander Julius Root said once more shaking his head. "Artemis and Athena," he repeated. He had been muttering the two names many times after a quick instruction was sent to Foaly. Any person or fairy would have thought he was an idiot, but he wasn't. He was just too shocked like the fairies who found the prophecy.

Fowl Manor

Artemis returned to his manor only to be greeted by over affectionate parents. His parents were curious about his activities. At the rate he was moving after school they could only suspect that he was up to no good again.

"Artemis where were you?" his father demanded.

"I was with a friend," Artemis said truthfully, although he hardly knew his temporary partner but he did know Holly and Grub.

"And what's the name of this friend?"

"Grub," Artemis said half truthfully. He wanted to tell the truth and he wanted to keep the secret, so he had to use Grub's name, if he used Holly's his parents would want to meet her because she's a female. Did I mention that his father now has a super sensitive lie detector? No? Well that was one of the reasons.

Juliet began to worry, "What if Artemis accidentally gives away the secret? Wait a minute, what am I thinking? This is Artemis Fowl, the super smart one." She nearly smacked herself for doubting her employer. She was hardly a bodyguard anymore, except she did accompany him during most of his missions. Today was simply and exception because she caught a cold at the time and because her TV show was on.

"You were with insects?" his father asked.

"Yes it is for a study I am doing," Artemis said, it was technically true because Butler has several insect venoms and he did study some of them.

"And you named it Grub?" his father asked again

"Yes," said Artemis, he was glad that his father had thought of an excuse for him. He had prepared another excuse but that was fine.

"Fascinating," Artemis the First said. reaching into his coat. Artemis hid a smirk, the soft beep could be heard with Foaly's hearing device which was far superior to a basic hearing device which old folks use.

"Is it poisonous?" said Angeline, her voice filled with concern.

"Of course not," Artemis said sarcastically.

His mother ignored the sarcasm in his voice and when she nodded with approval and went into the bedroom his father asked, "The insects are venomous, aren't they?"

Artemis smirked, "What would I be doing with non-venomous ones if I wanted to find a way to use the venom."

Artemis Sr. smiled, "I don't approve of lying but at least I know my son has been doing some good."

Again a tinge of guilt was felt in Artemis' heart. He forced a smile but he was firm on his idea to steal the impressionist painting in France. Germany shall be his next target if there was anything valuable in that country. The rule was that he was to target different countries per month. Greed was still one of the traits he inherited from the generations of criminal Fowls. His father may have changed because of his kidnapping or his healing by the fairies but Artemis was determined to stay on the dark side of the law as long as he could.

"I'll retire to my room father. I intend to have a good night's rest," Artemis said, yawning.

"Good idea son. Good night. Oh, by the way we have a meeting with the CEO of Hawk Enterprises in America tomorrow," Artemis Sr. smiled. "You can be excused from school. She wants to meet you and tomorrow is the only free date so far." Lowering his voice to a whisper, "I think it's mainly because your mother and her are good friends."

Artemis Jr. smiled a polite smile although he did not see his father's point.He walked upstairs quickly, in the security of his room he locked the door and turned on a special system to keep Juliet out of the room, it was a DNA scanner to permit who could come in, and turned on his laptop instead of sleeping. He viewed a few files about the bank and quickly planned the robbery; he opened his inbox and found an e-mail from Foaly about a briefing after his school hours.

As I have said a painting was going to be stolen by Artemis, now for the part I didn't mention, the delay of his plan going into action was due to the incompetence of the security during his first attempt. The security of the bank had delayed the arrival of the painting until a few weeks later. Artemis had spent many valuable hours on the earlier planning and yet he had to wait. The painting titled, 'The Flower' has never been available to public and even the picture was not available to the public. The new painting was just unearthed and was painted by an unknown artist who has been hailed as a genius.

France was a formidable target at all times, it had the world's most expensive paintings stored in it's, banks and museums although the most expensive were scattered around the whole world, France was still a very good target.

Artemis lay down in his bed, thinking of his possible escapades. He chuckled at his old memories when his thoughts of villainy drifted to the past. Soon he was asleep, dreaming of the strange girl he had to pair up with that day. He smiled all night during the dream. He seemed to know her and yet he didn't.

Artemis' Diary, Disc 3 (Encrypted)

I had a rather strange dream last night; in fact it is three in the morning as I type this. I am fortunate that my room is soundproofed, I found myself sweating in the morning and when I run the tapes I find myself whispering the names of the fairies, my plots and something about my temporary partner. I wiped my whispers off the tapes, after I enhanced the whispers of course, and I return to my diary to confide my theories, true or not.

I have viewed the blueprints of Foaly's new mind wiping machine and it has a minor flaw. The earlier version comprised of many flaws but I prefer things that are without a flaw. The mind wiping leaves something in your subconscious, meaning that once you have met a person, reminders from your subconscious will appear, the older version would retrigger memories but the newer version will just leave you reminders. However dreaming about this girl is not helping my memory.

The translation of the dream has a slight hint that I have experienced feelings for her. However I think it's mainly competitiveness that kept me intrigued. I never forget my competition though, so it's hardly possible if I forget. Of course, it is possible that the fairies have mind wiped me yet again there is no harm if they keep mind wiping me. Mesmer might be a problem because it can make you blind but mind wiping is not really any problem. The reason of my mind wiping is unknown but again I no longer wish to know what has happened. I stole old blueprints from Foaly in order to uncover the mystery because I do not wish to be clueless of my surroundings. My investigations are nearly similar to the investigations of my first mind wiping except the attempt before was considered more important

The blueprints, as I have studied, has a handwriting similar to mine which are the ones I wrote, the other handwriting which is on the paper is similar to both the new and old blueprints. There is only one conclusion to make and it was surprisingly simple, I know that girl. It's a theory that is now my conclusion. Why is it that I have never met this girl until now?

According to my theory, Argon and his team must have something to do with it. After all they are trusted by the Council. If they think something is wrong they write a report and the Council, as gullible as they are, will put whatever they want into action if it's not breaking any laws. This girl, must have been believed to be a bad influence and since I was believed to have feelings for her they must have imagined that I would attend to her every whim. Argon may mean no harm but as I said, I like being aware of my surroundings.

Repeating what I said before, the enhanced whispers were not helpful but I do know this girl's name. Athena Hawk. Similar to the Fowl name but not quite, perhaps she is related to Victoria Hawk of Hawk Industries. My father invested a lot in these Industries and has reaped profits unusual for a company that is legal. The shady side of the law is profitable I admit, but the chance of reaping huge profits as a perfectly legal company is delectable but not tempting enough.

I will not be attending school tomorrow which is a relief, Heather is a thorn in my side and not attending her party is a wonderful thing to wish for. She may be the popular as she says but she is definitely not an object of interest to me. After France, I shall have to meet Foaly for a briefing in headquarters at about two thirty in the afternoon.

Thanks to all those that reviewed :) even though it sounded like I demanded for it in my last chapter. I know this one is a little lame and I have no idea how long it takes from Ireland to the US. Oh well it's a small matter I suppose. By the way, just as a question what is Vinyanya's position? Once again REVIEW!

Liz