Seven Years Later

Dublin Academy

A pale boy looked up from his thick book. The dull brown cover shielded his face from the raging sun as he peeked at his little sister about ten metres in front of him. A frown appeared on his forehead as the bully raised his arm, he was hardly worried though, his sister was close to a black belt already. In fact it was the bully who he took pity on. Artemis Fowl III shook his head and turned back to his book of Archimedes' theories. Still his purplish eyes couldn't help but peek to see if his sister was alright.

"Don't you there call me o-oh-bee, whatever again," Bruiser Grate said in a soft and menacing tone.

Amethyst rolled her eyes. "Define obese," she said very simply.

"What?" Bruiser asked.

Amethyst cleared her throat and raised her voice, "Define obese."

"Uh-"

"Time's up," Amethyst proclaimed punching Bruiser on his nose.

Bruiser held his now broken nose he turned towards his comrades Ryan and Gus of whom began to back away. "What was that for?" It actually sounded more like, "Twat twas twat por?"

"For testing my patience and calling me a girl," Amethyst grinned blowing her fist.

Artemis Fowl the Third, or more fondly called Willy by his mother since calling her husband and her son at the same time made her head hurt, glanced up from his book in interest. Sighing he contacted his bodyguard who was always just around the corner. "Hello Butler."

"Wait, don't tell me," a frustrated voice came through the earpiece. Lionel Butler who was sitting in the Benz with his brother Frank when the call was received, continued his sentence in the same frustrated voice, "Amethyst is in another fight."

"Yes, Butler, Amethyst has anger problems again." The boy looked up at the sight, he continued, "Although it seems my little sister is winning."

Lyle snorted. "Of course she's winning but Master Fowl isn't going to be too happy about this."

"If father was pleased it wouldn't be father," Willy drawled. "Bruiser might need some help though."

Frank listened through the joint line refraining from a long, hard laugh. His principal was a feisty one. Perhaps the feistiest ever guarded by a Butler, it wasn't going to be easy. Lyle sighed after a brief moment of silence, "We're coming Artemis."

"Please," Willy interrupted. "Call me William as my mother calls me."

Lyle nodded, although it couldn't be seen by Willy, "Very well William."

Willy's face lighted up with a small smirk. His father would never call him William and was never a favourite among he and Amethyst. Okay so he was daddy's favourite but that was no excuse of boring him with thoughts of gold and such. Amethyst was the greedy one although it seemed he was mostly like his father.

His looks were clearly inherited from his father except his eyes and he clearly had the same determined attitude but he was more fun loving than Amethyst. His little baby sister on the other hand inherited Athena's looks besides her blue eyes and she clearly had Athena's anger management problem but she had her father's greed and tried her best not to be like her father although she hated to act 'perky' sometimes.

Miss Crowley pulled the blinds up to enjoy the sunny day but promptly pulled it down again as soon as she caught sight of the new Fowl heir with his phone, meaning that two six foot or more men will be arriving. She clapped her hand over her eyes, all she wanted to do was be a teacher teaching the next generation of future presidents but what did she get stuck with, Artemis Fowl the Third and his sister Amethyst Fowl. She already had bags under her eyes because of the two. Still she straightened herself up and checked her makeup, Frank Butler was quite a sight, he was probably the only reason she didn't suspend Amethyst…yet.

The colourfully painted door of her office flew open as the petite twenty-five year old stepped out. It was seconds from the arrival of the two Butler brothers. To her horror she now saw Amethyst who was going to be punched by Bruiser. "There goes chivalry, here comes equal rights which meant more fights," she thought to herself. "BRUISER!" she yelled. She had to do something before she was blamed for being ignorant. "Why are you bullying a girl?"

Amethyst smirked mentally; it was time for her dramatics. Once Butler saw this he would most definitely see that Bruiser was a threat meaning more attention from dad she supposed. "Miss Crowley," she said in a trembling voice. "He called me a weakling and he took my dolly away." Actually it was more of her CX984 her robot toy, but what the heck. An act was an act.

Bruiser was taken aback, "She called me o-oh-bee-"

Miss Crowley nearly rolled her eyes. Playing the perky teacher role she smiled and patted Bruiser on his shoulder and rubbed his head. "Well it isn't nice to pick on girls even though they call you obese."

"What's obese mean anyways?" Bruiser asked his tone returning to its normal tone although his nose was dripping with blood.

Amethyst herself had a bleeding nose but only a vessel broke, not the fine bones within it. She spotted her butler, Butler who was walking calmly towards her direction, while the other Butler was sitting next to William trying to understand his gibberish on his latest theories. "I'm so sorry," she sobbed, "but if you don't know obese means overweight meaning I thought you were big."

"Not other o word," Bruiser groaned. "Miss Crowley, what does overweight mean?"

"I'm sorry about the trouble miss," the Caucasian butler bowed deeply. I will take Amethyst back now if you wish.

"No, Amethyst does not need to return, after all there's only three more hours of school."

Butler gave a grateful smile; at least Amethyst wouldn't be in that much trouble. "Thank you, Miss Crowley."

Miss Henrietta Crowley smiled. "Would you like to join me for lunch or if you don't have that much time, some tea?"

"Only if my brother can join me. He has to take care of Artemis after all."

"Oh, very well then. Come in," the teacher smiled.

Frank nodded politely. "I hope this isn't a mistake," he thought to himself.

About Three Hours Later

Willy winced at the sight of his hard headed sister. It was finally the end of school and once again Bruiser had Amethyst cornered with the two Butler brothers no where in sight. Willy winced again and again, at first it was his sister he thought of since she was the vulnerable female, after all Bruiser will only raise his arm threateningly except reflexes always take the best of Amethyst who will punch Bruiser's lights out with a reaction of getting punched back.

Frank Butler bowed Japanese style again, "Thank you for that three hour, um, tea."

Lyle glanced towards the playground again. The white brick wall had drops of blood on it. Lyle closed his eyes wishing that this wasn't happening. Bruiser's bandaged nose was Amethyst's pride but the bruise on her arm was Bruiser's trophy. Frank was nudged sharply and for once he didn't complain, he was glad for the interruption until he saw his principal.

"Amethyst," he murmured. Her nose was bleeding once again but her eyes were cold and expressionless. Frank knew it was a mistake to leave Amethyst there with a dolt like Bruiser on the loose. However his job was assassins, not seven year old boys, there should have been a course like this at the Madam Ko academy.

With a large and heavy sigh he walked over to Bruiser picked him up and brought him towards Miss Crowley. He then returned for the little girl who picked up her backpack and followed him into the car. Willy and Lyle however had business with a junior Science fair, so they stayed behind.

"You my little principal," Frank began, "have an anger management problem."

Amethyst grinned. "Thanks."

"Why couldn't I have been assigned to your nice melancholic brother?" Frank joked.

Amethyst's grin faded. "Don't compare me to my brother. My father does that enough already."

Frank nodded gravely. This was not the answer he expected. "One last question though."

"Yeah?"

"Aren't boys the ones that are supposed to be involved in fights?"

What do you think:D I hope it's okay but I've waited for soooooo long to update since no one wanted to review except aperfectattitude and jjp91 (hope I spelled that correctly, I'm too lazy to check my reviews again since my connection is ultra slow although it's broadband). I'm true to my word, I am not updating until someone reviews. Hopefully more people review this time, or else I'm not updating. shakes head firmly