To all my loyal reviewers and those other not so loyal ones (including those whom I forgot to give thanks to in other chapters, I did not forget about you that was just me being lazy).
almostinsane: Thank you! (Arty-kun: How can you stand that rubbish?)
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Lady bibliophile: Thanks again and sorry Ill try to make things more clear for you but they are all complex characters and it's hard to make them in character (not that I'm any good at that anyway) and still keep them simple easy to read. (Arty-kun: That was the first semi-intelligent thing to come from your mouth ever.)
Sorceress Sakura: No he can't! I'm holding him and Butler hostage! But thanks I'll try to get the chapters up quicker! (Arty-kun: No! No more fan girls/goes to hide behind Butler/.)
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Foaly: I'm sorry I'll try harder but a bit of constructive criticism might help me more than just telling me to write better.
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evilchibiduck: Yeah you are right but you are one to talk about psychos. Thank you for the constructive criticism. (Arty-kun: You are all a bunch of psychos!)
Ihatesool: No Arty-kun is having fun (arty-kun: like hell I am!) and this wont be an A/H fic it might not even turn into a romance I might just save that for my other Artemis Fowl fic.(Arty-kun: Someone help me before she puts herself in that romance fiction.)
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Artemis woke up to a blinding light and an aching head. He saw what looked like a fire standing over his head but realized that it was just Hiou, her hair giving the impression of fire. He inwardly laughed as he sat up holding his head. He felt a strong hand on his back and knew immediately that it was Butler.
"Are you all right Artemis?" He asked.
"Fine…" He said but was cut off by what sounded like a cat wailing in the distance.
"Of course he's fine!" Yelled Hiou (a.k.a. the cat like wailing in the distance.). "He's just a big baby-!" But she was cut off by a rock flying into her mouth. Terra sniggered quietly from the corner she claimed for herself near the computers.
Artemis looked around more than a little confused.
"You passed out a little over an hour ago." Said Butler sparing Artemis the embarrassment of having to ask. Artemis nodded his head dumbly for a few seconds, letting his head clear away the fuzziness from in front of his eyes and the aching from his head.
Foaly sighed in the background. "Well from what we can tell no one knows what happened to you to make you pass out all those years ago, or from just this instant. But…" Foaly said with a breath, he was going to unveil a recent invention that should solve all of their problems, "I have a way of finding out." He paused, waiting for someone to ask how.
"How?" Asked Holly who had just walked in with an ice pack which she dumped on Artemis' head.
"I'm so very glad you asked." Said Foaly. And he was. He went rummaging through a few boxes of hardware and pulled out two helmets the resembled what the L.E.P. recon officers wore above ground with a few slight changes in the design. "These should allow us a little peek inside the brain of Artemis Fowl."
Artemis had to try hard to suppress a laugh. Oh how his psychiatrist would kill for that.
"I think Holly should be the one to go and see what makes the boy tick." Said Foaly, volunteering Holly as the guinea pig.
"Why me!" Asked Holly.
"Because you are the only other person who can fit in the helmet other than I and I have to make sure everything runs smoothly."
Holly grumbled and put the helmet on. Instantly a tingling feeling started at the back of her head and worked its way to the temples. The other helmet was placed on Artemis' head (the ice pack falling off his head a while ago) and they both lost consciousness.
Holly woke up on the cold wet grass on an early misty morning. Or should that be mourning? She was in the middle of a cemetery where a funeral was taking place. There weren't that many people there. It looked like maybe five family members and some other people who must have gotten something out of the will. She saw three people standing next to where the whole was being dug. They were the younger Fowls. Angelina was crying into her hand while Artemis Sr. had his head bowed in respect. Artemis Jr. looked confused. He knew obviously what was going on because he had a few tears running down his face but he wasn't looking at the coffin. He was turned around looking at something behind a group of other people who were talking about how ruthless the dead person had been. With out his parents noticing Artemis slipped away and walked over to a blond girl about the age of sixteen with green eyes. She was holding a bottle of red and gold. Artemis looked up at her with big blue eyes.
"Are you here for the funeral?" He asked with an air of intelligence that did not suit a boy of six years old.
"Yes I am." She said. Her voice spooked Holly. It was calm and sweat like cream but it sounded like it was laced with a tiny bit of the fairies mesmeric power. And she was definitely no fairy. She smiled at Artemis with a sad look on her face and walked over to the grave. The coffin was already lowered into the grave and she uncorked the bottle and dipped it into the grave. When she pulled it out there was a glowing presence now inside the bottle that no one seemed to notice but Artemis. In fact he was the only one that seemed to notice HER.
Artemis walked over to the girl who was now holding the bottle close to her chest. "What is that?" Ask Artemis sounding now ever like the six year old that he was.
"This?" Asked the girl bending down low and holding the bottle out in front of her. Artemis nodded his cold blue eyes holding a curiosity that Holly had seen before when Artemis had disassembled the L.E.P. helmets. "It's a soul." She said.
"Whose is it?" Artemis asked.
"Her name is Artemis." Said the girl.
"But my grandfather was a guy and his name was William." Said Artemis. The girl just smiled and brushed a few stray strands of hair from in front of his eyes, then got up and went over to Artemis Sr. who had just now noticed her presence. After giving the bottle over to him she walked back over to the younger Artemis.
"What is your name?" She asked him, a sad smile played across her face.
"Artemis Fowl the Second." He said and then with a curious look on his face asked her, "What is your name?"
She smiled when she heard his name and then replied, "Just call me Anjo."
Artemis looked thoughtful for a second. "Isn't Anjo Portuguese for angel?" He asked.
She just gave him a sad smile and placed a hand on his forehead and the curious glow left his eyes as with someone under the mesmer. The hand left his head and the girl walked off into the mist. Then there was a flash and the scenery left and she was standing in Fowl Manor.
Artemis ran past her and paused. He looked right at her. Butler ran buy and nearly trampled her as he stopped next to Artemis.
"Is something wrong, sir?" Asked Butler. Artemis shook his head and continued on to the front door. He grabbed the door knob and swung the door open. It was lightly drizzling in fact it was more like a heavy mist. Artemis stepped on to the front porch guarded from the rain buy the archway and the tall form of Butler. He scanned the area looking for something in the horizon and spotted it. He jumped slightly and pointed into the distance.
"Look!" He sad excitedly, "Look over there!"
Butler shielded his eyes and looked; in the distance he saw a rainbow. Holly cracked a smile and tried not to laugh. The little genius getting worked up over a rainbow had to be the cutest thing she had ever seen.
"Let's go get that leprechaun's gold!" he said. Holly's smile vanished then.
Butler cracked a smile. "Maybe when it stops raining." He said bending down to rest a hand on Artemis' shoulder.
Artemis knew what that meant. But he didn't protest he just went inside looking down at his shoes.
Butler paused for a moment looking worried. Artemis turned around to ask what was wrong but Butler put a finger to his lips signaling to be quiet. And Artemis was quiet.
Butler heard a faint beeping that got faster and faster like a…count down!
Instantly Butler had Artemis on the ground and was shielding him with his body though he could tell that the blast was coming too soon and they were too close to do anything about it.
He heard the bombs go off and heard little Artemis cry out but never felt anything. He looked up and none of the dust of the blown up wall was coming anywhere near them.
'It must have been a light blast, like a scare tactic.' But he saw Artemis look up and say "Anjo." But all Holly could see was a slight light.
The light came toward them and Artemis closed his eyes and muttered "Anjo," again and then faint. There was another flash of light and Holly woke up in the Ops room again. On the other side of the room Artemis was waking up and Foaly took his helmet and went over to Holly and took her helmet.
"So how was it?" Asked Foaly. "Did you find anything interesting?"
"Yeah I did." Said Holly. Everyone looked at her, including Terra and Hiou who looked as thought they had been fighting the entire time.
"Well let's see then." He said as he pulled a disk out of the helmet Holly had worn and inserted it into the computer. It was the same as the disk that held the rest of his memories but this time there was one date put in between the two dates when he fainted and there appeared to be more data on the day he fainted and lost his memory. "Hm…." Pondered Foaly as he clicked on the first date, "Maybe Artemis should leave the room for this." He said, "I have a feeling he'll be collapsing if I click on the video image."
Butler began to escort Artemis out of the room when Terra spoke up, "I think that you should stay in here Butler. I'll go stay with him." And with that she took Artemis' hand and led him out of the room. (And as we all already know what they are going to see lets find out what Terra wanted to talk about with Arty-kun).
"So you don't remember anything in between those two dates? Nothing at all?" She asked him when they had left the room.
Artemis just shook his head.
"So it must have been something pretty powerful to make you forget. Not to mention they were able to put a code into your mind that makes it so you can't remember." She tapped a finger on her chin for a while and then looked up, "Well whatever it is it didn't want you to remember something and maybe it's for the best. But the real problem is you needing to learn how to use that power of yours. Come here," She said as she sat down on the floor. Artemis sat down in front of her. She put one of her hands on Artemis' forehead and a strange tan glow emitted from where her hand was connected to his head.
"Do you feel that?" She asked him.
Artemis closed his eyes and concentrated for a moment. A strange feeling was pushing through his body starting from his head and went down to the tips of his fingers and flowed like blood throughout his whole body. He opened his eyes and Terra knew he had felt it.
"There are two types of power," She began taking her hand away, "Mental and physical. Mental power is concentrated up here," She said poking Artemis in the head, "and is used buy feeding it threw the five senses. That's why when fairies use the mesmer they must have eye contact and must speak clearly. Holly helped you bind me in that warehouse through sight, and you bound Hiou by touch.
"Now you felt my power because I let you but your power has always been there so it will be difficult to identify it. But once you do that it's all down hill from there. Do you remember the feeling that you had when Holly forced you to use the power?"
Artemis nodded his head not wanting to speak incase he might miss something.
"You need to look for that feeling inside you. Then you can push that power out through your senses." She paused for a moment making sure Artemis was following.
"Now let me explain physical powers. That's what we elementals use. It's concentrated here." She said poking him in the stomach. "In your center of gravity. Everyone has it but it's not very strong in humans. Martial Artists though have very strong physical powers but they can't turn it into an energy form like us." She emphasized this buy bringing her hands up and emitting that same light that she had before. "Some humans have that ability but not most.
"Now you can feed physical powers through anywhere in your body. Hands and feet are the most common, mostly for attacking and dodging." She paused and looked at Artemis. He seemed to be getting it.
"So how do you control the elements?" Asked Artemis.
"Our physical powers are unique. They act like a magnet to the elements giving us complete control over them."
Artemis nodded his head.
Terra went onto explain how to use physical powers. It was basically the same as mental powers but more hard work was involved.
After maybe another half an hour of talking Butler walked out of the room. He looked at his young charge who was meditating which he seemed to be doing a lot of lately. But Terra was holding his head the same blue light as before emitting once again from her hands.
She looked up at Butler and smiled. Then she turned back to Artemis with a look of serious concentration on her face.
Then Holly walked out of the room, a look of pure hatred plastered on her face until she saw Artemis. She looked confused and ready to step in until she saw Butler who looked slightly amused. She gave him a questioning look and he looked down at her and smiled.
"Sh," He smiled and pressed a finger to his lips, "Artemis is meditating."
Suddenly as Hiou was walking out of the room a white light sent Terra across the hall and into the wall on the other side.
For a second everyone looked at Artemis stunned. Then the silence was broken when what sounded once again like a cat squealing erupted from the direction of Hiou.
"Oh my GAWD!" Hiou laughed. "That little kid sent big tough Terra crashing into a wall!"
"Holy SHIT Artemis!" Terra spat out as she caught her breath.
Hiou stopped laughing. Things had to be serious if TERRA cursed.
Terra got up and brushed herself off. She then ran over to Artemis who was looking more than a little confused. She checked him over a few times then put a hand to his forehead.
"Not a bead of sweat." She said in an almost whisper.
Terra and Hiou's faces suddenly lit up in shock.
O.k. guess what!
Artemis: The chapters over and you can untie us now? (The camera pans out and you can see Artemis and Butler tied up together.)
Me: You are half right.
Artemislooks annoyed)
Butler: What the hell are these ropes made of! (struggles a bit)
Artemis: Butler you're squishing my lungs!
Me: Don't forget to review! Love ya all!
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