Chapter 2

The new and awful school

Artemis walked angrily to the cafeteria. He was just commented by Miss Liam in his class. He didn't know why. He only corrected the teacher's teaching method and his classmates' grammar.

Honestly, they would have embarrassed themselves if they had used those grammatical errors! Artemis thought.

Being Artemis Fowl, he never knew that his words might hurt people's feelings.

The cafeteria was very low comparing to Artemis's taste of food. Angeline had told Artemis about this and arranged a meal that would satisfy him. Unfortunately, due to Juliet's carelessness, he didn't bring it to school with him.

So, in order to loosen his anger a bit, he took out his laptop to continue drawing a tiger. He was just about to finish, when suddenly…SMACK! Somebody had shut his laptop tight. Artemis was very angry at that time because he didn't save the document.

He looked up and saw a muscled boy along with his two skinny friends.

"Well, well, well, look who's here? You're the new rich boy aren't you?" he said, grinning.

"Yes, you got a problem with that?" Artemis said with his vampire grin.

"Maybe I didn't introduce myself? I'm Harold Pole, people call me 'Big H'," said 'Big H'. "These are my assistant, Skinny G and Skinny F."

"Hello, all, " Artemis said as he stared at Harold, he was blonde boy with deep blue eyes while his two 'assistants' were brown haired and had black eyes. " If you please, I'm trying to concentrate, why don't you and your lovely assistants go and play somewhere else."

"Looks like mister rich here got some attitude problem," said 'Skinny G'. Artemis stared at him and sniggered. He was surprise that G here could even wear his clothes. He probably has to put on an extremely short belt to hang to his pants.

"Now, rich boy, you do know I give a 'welcoming ceremony' to each new student who comes to this school," said Harold. "I was hoping to do it for you."

Artemis's heart was racing. He knew what the bully meant. Artemis wasn't stupid. He spent his whole life learning about humans and their behavior. He was going to pound Artemis into pieces! Ah! Oh, why, why isn't Juliet here yet? He should have never ever entered this school. If there's anything Artemis wasn't, it would be an athlete or even a martial arts expert. He was about to beg for mercy until, the cafeteria door was knocked down by a tall and thin figure.

She was wearing a maroon jacket that suited with her pink top and her black jeans. Her hair was tied to the back and she was looking very angry. It was Juliet! Ah, he was saved.

"Harold, right?" Juliet said. The bully nodded. "Harold, you better not lie a finger on Master Fowl, or else…."

"Cool! You're the Jade Princess," exclaimed Skinny F.

"Not cool. I've seen her moves. Better not mess with her Big H, especially when you're mom loss a bet and loss her washing machine," said Skinny G.

"What does that have to do anything with her pounding me?" asked H.

"She can't clean your clothes. They're gonna get dirty, dude," replied the thing boy. There was an awkward pause for a moment.

Then Big H said 'oh, right." Juliet nearly cracked her head laughing but then stopped.

He turned his head to Artemis and said something about him being in his list. Artemis sniggered. What in the world was the bully talking about. He found it very weird. This school wasn't fit for him. The atmosphere was very uncomfortable for him.

"I am getting famous day by day, the Jade Princess, that's who I am," said Juliet. "Listen, Artemis, I'm very sorry I didn't come earlier. It's just that I didn't want to disturb your first day in class."

"You should have come," said Artemis. "At least it'll take me out of the bore."

"Guess you didn't have a nice day then," said Juliet handing Artemis his meal from the Mistress.

"It was horrific, I hate this school," Artemis muttered.

"Now, now. Don't jump into conclusions, Artemis. Y 'know, maybe there are some things that you don't know, things that make this school interesting," said Juliet.

Artemis said nothing but then, something caught his eye: a boy who was holding a laptop. Maybe even a genius: maybe.

"Artemis, I should tell you this. I knew Big H from someone else. He's my penpal. I just talked to him. He said Big H always bullied him. I wanted to avenge him and went into this canteen and found out you were going to get beaten, it's a small world isn't it?" Juliet blabbered.

"Who is this penpal of yours then?" asked Artemis.

'He's in your class. James Indigo, can you send him a message for me? Please, Artemis?" said Juliet as she hand Artemis a piece of note.

"Oh, alright, at least it's going to wake me up from the bore," said Artemis. He sighed as the school bell rang but went to his class as normal students. He was thinking of escaping from class but his parents wouldn't want their little Arty to be like that.

There was only two words that could describe Artemis's feelings; oh, bother.