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The Council Meeting hall
Here, there was a huge circular table; in the middle were several plasma screens, one for each Council representative. Katerina 'Kent' Lim was told to sit at the side.
"You may now know why you are summoned to the Council table." Oboe Linege asked her as soon as they were settled down.
"I do think so. I suppose you are going to tell me about doing something to attain my Rights?"
Silence. She guessed it, they thought, good mind.
"Yes, correct." an elder said, Flash Doaman.
They told her their reasons, because she is a human, she had contact with Artemis Fowl and that they had to mind-wipe him. This time, she had to argue.
"What did Fowl do to you? He has nothing to do with it; therefore, he is clean and could not be mind-wiped once again."
"The boy still power-hungry. Even you must be very careful in his presence."
"Power-hungry, Milord? If ever he is, he would have exposed your existence and he would be swimming in luxury right at this hour."
"You seem to save the boy, what explanation do you give to us?" Gant asked, the only centaur in the Council.
"I wish to be brought to the Manor, this meeting is over." She stood up and the others followed. In their Book, it mentioned to respect an invited human guest with outmost respect, including the Council themselves.
"You would be brought back by our LEPretrieval team." Linege said waving an order to the guards.
"Yes, that would be good." They motioned her to the door.
As soon as she was gone, the elders resumed to their own meeting.
"She is like Artemis, stubborn, aggressive and both quite know everything," Linege sat down at his chair.
"Hmm… we must be careful, you don't know what they are up to. Anyway, did you see the heart with her?" Doaman said, wondering.
"No, I did not."
"The 'Heart of Telthea' is in grave danger."
"Why?"
Fowl Manor
"Butler, I would feel sorry if the council does not approve of her wish." Artemis told his bodyguard going back to their rooms.
"I do also feel for her, but I think the Council could not agree to someone so stubborn such as herself, that includes you too, Artemis." Butler said, this time, he was wide awake.
"Ah, yes she is-"
They both looked down at an unusual patch of soil. Butler had seen this before, when Mulch first came to the Manor. Artemis also saw something like this, back when they broke in the Koboi Labs. They ran towards Kent's room, when they arrived, they caught Mulch walking to the door with Kent's jewelry box.
"What are you doing here!" Butler strangled the dwarf by the neck.
"Butler, don't-" Artemis started but he was stopped at the feeling of a gun pointed by his back neck.
But Butler fell unconscious by a shot by his left shoulder.
Outside the Manor
"Thank you, Chix" Kent waved the sprite a good bye as he shielded.
She saw that the front doors were open and sensed something is not right. Quickly, she placed her hand at her pocket, no brooch.
This is not good. Artemis, I should hear you and Butler talking in your room, she repeated this while running to her room.
"Butler!" he saw her door wide opened, jewelry scattered and Butler lying with a dart by his shoulder.
Sleeping dart, she thought, there's only one idiot on earth whom I know uses these darts… Jason Grey. Kent had dragged that heavy body to her bed and also got time to clean up, if there's one thing that' missing, that would be the heart.
Butler woke up, on a bed and Juliet and Kent looking at him. He wondered why Artemis wasn't with them.
"Do worry, Butler. You might be shot by a simple sleeping dart, but Artemis is still in the gravest of dangers." Kent explained, helping him sit up straight.
"Artemis?" Butler asked, still bewildered.
"Jason Grey took him in custody."
"Grey?"
"A fairy, he heared that I took the heart with me and he came here to take it."
"But Mulch…"
"Mulch? Who is he?"
"A theif dwarf. Knows the ways around here, an old friend. I cant believe he's with Grey, you say?"
"A fairy, a philosopher of some kind."
Juliet showed him a small dart in the shape of a vitamin capsule, but with a pointed end. This must be the sleeping dart, he thought. He carefully studied the dart and stood up.
"There was a fingerprint, I checked twice. Apparently, it is our philosopher. By the looks of it, Jason wanted to be found." Juliet explained.
"Did you see what happened last night? Plus, where are Angeline and Artemis I?"
"We locked you in here, momentarily and then I waited outside and Juliet told them he was with me. Thay asked a few questions, but Juliet persuaded them to go on a relaxing trip. They would be out for four days, that's all we could get." Kent explained.
"They have to know, Artemis is still their son."
"You must remember, we are dealing with the underworld here, we keep the People hidden."
"How do we catch him?"
Artemis' operations room. later on---------
"I have tracked Grey's past philosophies. I also got a news from our sources." Kent said as she shows her lists on the computer.
"Sources?" Butler asked.
"I went back to the Seasons and got a copy of their newspaper, and just recently, Grey presented his work at the Museum of Parcae. He soon would give another lecture at the same place, by 8:15. That is fairy time."
She pulled out a communicator out of her pocket. A green plasma screen opened asking for a code.
"367 Detective Holly Short."
Then Holly's face appeared on the screen. Suddenly, she looked worried.
"Hello Holly, We have a problem. Artemis and Mulch are kidnapped." Kent explained in a rather hurried voice.
"Mulch is behind this."
"No, we had Butler on a sleeping dart, and I've already fingerprint test it. Jason Gray is our subject."
"Are you sure? The Grey's record had been a clean one starting from the Frond dynasty."
"I'm sure." Kent said with a grin, much alike to Artemis'.
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