Author's note: Um, I'm boring. I get it. Try reading again; you'll see how boring I really am. This chapter sucks, I ran out of ideas. Thanks Dark Empress of Eternity for helping me get an idea for third chapter.
To my dear reviewers:
wanderingmind911- thanks. I'll try to keep it up.
Athleticsrulz- good to know you don't hate me :)
WackedOutPet13 and almostinsane- Thanks!
Schizophrenic squirrel- yep, I'm the girl who hates Hao. I wonder if I can get the characters of the box to kill Hao… and I'm updating, I don't want the gerbil to haunt me.
OtakuNekoGirl (aka Katrina) what did you do? You're the second speaker. That's all. You're a CHARACTER. Like you helped. Suuuure, you just stayed with me on the phone. That's it.
Yamapi- thanks! But I'll never have confidence. –hides behind bulletproof wall again-
Gavrilnagarian- um… I think you said "Update". So I did xD
The Dark Empress of Eternity- Thanks for the ideas, with the truth or dare. xD That'll be my next chapter. But I don't do pairings very well. Sorry XD
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Artemis Fowl characters. But I do partly own Katrina, and I fully own the first speaker, who's name I still haven't put. –pokes first speaker- All I can say is that she's more pwnful than Katrina (second speaker). And I do own Berus. Berus shall protect me from the mean reviewers. –hides behind Berus-
Artemis woke up. It was the second day in the box. He woke up earlier than usual just to check the surroundings. He did note that Mulch had fallen asleep on guard duty, but otherwise, everyone was okay.
It was five minutes before the alarm on the clock went off. Artemis spent those two minutes walking around the box, checking if Foaly had overlooked a crack in the walls.
Seven-thirty. The alarm was supposed to go off now. He was expecting a loud beeping noise, but instead of the usual alarm sounds, the First Speaker started yelling.
"WAKE UP SLEEPYHEADS! WE'VE ASSIGNED YOU ALL A SMALL JOB TODAY! "
All around the room, you could her everyone murmuring, and someone said "Five more minutes"
Fortunately, they had come up with a better way of waking them up than just shouting at them. The clock had been programmed to jump around the room, creating strange loud noises and vibrations.
"Ah!" Mulch, Foaly, Root, Butler and Holly all woke up, covering their ears.
"We have a task for you today!" The second speaker, Katrina, was shouting happily at them. "It involves dogs!"
"D-dogs?" Mulch asked. Mulch hated dogs.
"Yes, dogs." The first speaker replied. "Well, actually just 'dog'. Singular.. Meet Cerberus. Berus for short."
A huge chocolate Labrador appeared in the middle of the room, wagging his tail and running towards the individual closest to him, which in this case was Mulch.
"OUCH! GET OFF, YOU STUPID…" Mulch yelled. The dog's barking drowned the rest of his words out
"You have to look after him for the day, and the dog food is over there." A dog bowl and a sack of dog food appeared in the corner.
"There are also some newspapers, in case the dog has a few 'accidents'." Katrina said, giggling.
"You can have your breakfast now." She continued. "For reasons only known to my friend here, you're having mashed potatoes."
"Let me explain why the dog is here." The second speaker cut in. "We're supposed to look after him, but we have better thinks to do all day. Like Neopets." (A/n: I'm sorry, I love Neopets –laughs- It pwns.)
"We'll leave the dog with you until six o clock." She continued. "Good luck!"
And with those last few words, she tried and failed to suppress her laughter, so she turned off the speaker.
The room was nearly silent again; the dog's panting was the only thing anyone could hear.
"So…" Holly began. "Dogs."
"Yes, dogs." Root growled. "What do they expect us to do with this stupid creature?"
"I know!" Mulch yelled. " They expect you to GET IT OFF ME!" Mulch was trying to get the dog off him, because it appeared that the dog was curious about his beard.
Butler dragged the huge dog off Mulch, while Mulch cursed under his breath and tried to get the dog hair out of his beard.
"Mulch, you have the gift of tongues! Why didn't you talk to the dog? Tell him there was nothing to see?"
"I did, but he wouldn't believe me! That dog is stupid, no other explanation for it."
Their two captors started laughing. "Don't forget, you have to feed the dog."
"We have to feed the dog?" Holly asked
"Um, yes." Katrina was back to assist the box's prisoners with the dog. "With dog food. Over there. Don't worry, Berus doesn't bite."
She was right. The dog didn't bite, but he did drool, slobber, and make a complete mess. He was also stupid, which made everything a whole lot harder.
"I'm taking pity on you, so I'll help." The other one of their captors was back. "Here's a leash. Which of you can restrain the dog? There you go. That's my help." And with a laugh, she left them alone again.
Since Butler was the only one who could hold the dog's leash, the others were in charge of food and…. cleanup. Not surprisingly, no one wanted to go on cleanup.
"NO, YOU STUPID DOG, DON'T CLIMB THE WALL!" Root turned a wonderful shade of magenta.
"Cleanup in corner three!" Holly sighed, grabbing another of the newspapers.
Artemis was also having a hard time with the dog, who seemed to like him The dog smelled terrible, but always seemed to come near him.
The rest of the day went like this, total chaos. It was made harder by the fact that occasionally, weird noises were played that made the dog go crazy, running around to find the source, barking like crazy.
The dog howled piteously, annoyed by the beeping noises occasionally coming from the speakers. Some of the prisoners in the box almost joined him; they were that annoyed. It was a very maddening day.
A few more days like this, Holly thought, And we'll go insane.
After what seemed like an eternity, Katrina and her friend were back.
"Did you have a good time?" Katrina asked happily.
"NO!" the occupants of the box shouted.
"Fine, fine… It'll be hard-cough-I mean… more interesting tomorrow… It's going to be a Saturday. We'll be here all day tomorrow."
They all listened with blank looks on their face. They weren't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
The other of their captors suddenly spoke up. "Sorry we left you with the dog. We won't give you such a hard time tomorrow. We'll try not to, at least. See you tomorrow."
And with that, she turned off the lights.
Tomorrow… Artemis thought. We can find out more about our captors tomorrow. And when we know our enemy, we may know how to defeat them.
Meehee, that sucked, I know. –pokes story- I'll do better next chapter. I swear. Next chapter I actually have something to write about. An idea. This was just random thoughts I wrote down while half-asleep, and it's terrible. Yes, I deserve to be hit with a blunt heavy object. I'm not using all the characters. Must… use… all… characters… And, the next chapter will be Truth-or-Dare-like. Thanks again to Dark Empress of Eternity for helping me get an idea.
Press the review button :D And type.
xxx
Ona